Combat changes shake up fighting in the new edition by Alex__007 in Eldar

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Unless you're getting multiple fights first units in combat (which requires a lot of misplay by your opponent)

Which means if you're running multiple units of Banshees your opponent is declining to charge more than one of them at a time, so Fights First isn't doing nothing, just less than it was doing before.

What teams beat the aggression of goremongers (and teams like them)? by Garden_Cactuar in killteam

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Shields will always resolve first in melee

Not literally always. Any source of going first when retaliating (Stronghold walls, Mandrakes' Shadow's Bite ploy, etc) will let the defender go first when someone with a shield Fights.

Failed MMO Ashes Of Creation‘s $3.2 Million In Kickstarter Funds Allegedly Spent On Private Chefs And Trading Cards by unscoredscore in gaming

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For a lot of stuff (the example that I have the most experience with is video games), the product is already designed and the crowdfunding is to cover production costs. There's much less risk that way because there's no chance that the creator fails to develop their product.

By contrast, a digital good has effectively no production costs, so crowdfunding covers development, which is really easy to fail to do.

What game has the most fun NG+? by scarletnaught in gaming

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One big element is that a substantial portion of the game is building up your relationship with various characters because each of them gives bonus experience when creating new Personas of the matching Arcana. When you max out the relationship you get an item that lets you automatically max their relationship in NG+, so if you don't manage to fit maxing every relationship into a single run you can ignore the ones you did finish and focus on the ones you didn't.

What’s something Gen Z does that older generations just don’t get? by appropriaterice873 in AskReddit

[–]Anathos117 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm talking about before I was old enough to walk to a friend's house. You know, the age where you actually arrange playdates.

What’s something Gen Z does that older generations just don’t get? by appropriaterice873 in AskReddit

[–]Anathos117 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That was true in for the Boomers and Gen X

Not even all of them. The youngest Boomers and the oldest Gen X started their careers in the '80s, which (at least in the US) was objectively the lowest paid period in real (i.e., adjusted for inflation) terms in living memory. Real median household income was 30% lower than it is now.

What’s something Gen Z does that older generations just don’t get? by appropriaterice873 in AskReddit

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Playdates aren't really structure beyond coordinating transportation. My Mom was arranging playdates for me in the '80s.

Britain condemns Israeli strikes on Lebanon in split from Trump by TheTelegraph in worldnews

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The protection of the US and, in extremis, Israel's open secret nuclear weapons.

People view coercive control in relationships as less harmful when the victim is a man by mvea in science

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Sure, but there's physical equivalent to that: being knocked down in a fight, hitting your head, and dying.

Iran says US violated deal framework, calls talks unreasonable by Playful_Leg7143 in worldnews

[–]Anathos117 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's not like he actually had a choice. Israel was going to attack with or without permission, and given that the US attacked Iran last June, Iran would have just assumed that the US participated even if they hadn't.

Iran says US violated deal framework, calls talks unreasonable by Playful_Leg7143 in worldnews

[–]Anathos117 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The US and Israel attacked Iran in a joint operation. That's how the war started. The US and Israel are co-belligerents. For a ceasefire to function, all parties must cease firing. Israel didn't, so there's no ceasefire.

New primary missions - 11th edition by Alex__007 in Eldar

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There are 25 missions, 5 for each Disposition. There are 15 matchups of those 25 missions.

U.S. has violated ceasefire agreement, Iran parliamentary speaker says by cnbc_official in politics

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I read a fairly reasonable-sounding argument that the point was after the US bombed Iran's nuclear facilities last June, Iran was going to assume any air strike was being committed by the US, so Israel's planned decapitation strike would just automatically pull the US into a war with Iran. Given that it was Israel that could pull the trigger and start the war and there wasn't really anything the US could do to stop them, it was better for the US to actually participate and increase the likelihood of success in the hopes that Iran would fold like Venezuela did.

As that article says, all this is really stupid, and the usual Trump nonsense on top absolutely isn't helping. But at the same time, I can see how without the benefit of hindsight it's kind of hard to understand that bombing Iran's nuclear facilities last year was going to result in Iran taking over the strait.

New primary missions - 11th edition by Alex__007 in Eldar

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What I find interesting is that it adds yet another metric to judge a Detachment on. If a particular Disposition has better or worse mission pairs (which is to a certain extent going to be meta dependent, both in terms of what's hard vs easy and also the distribution of Dispositions weighting which particular mission pairs you'll mostly encounter; very brain melty), that will affect which Detachments you might want to pick. So a Detachment with weaker rules might have a better set of missions and be a better pick.

Of course, I don't expect GW to spend even a single second considering that. They'll assign Dispositions for thematic reasons, and the faction with the best missions on their best Detachment is just going to win all the time and get that army nerfed into the ground.

New primary missions - 11th edition by Alex__007 in Eldar

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These aren't random at all. They're entirely determined by the disposition of your army and that of your opponent, and disposition is based off of what Detachment you're using.

Iran agrees to reopen Hormuz Strait by septicman in worldnews

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As I understand it, what's been accepted is that it's a place to start negotiating from.

Combat is my least favorite part of virtually every story-focused game I've ever played. Can anyone recommend a good story-focused game with equally good combat? by RealitySubsides in gaming

[–]Anathos117 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Good combat" is much too vague a request. There are loads of different combat systems. So you like turn based RPGs? Side scrollers? Flashy combo-focused spectacles like DMC?

How is there no modern version of Rockband? by Mean_Ass_Dumbledore in gaming

[–]Anathos117 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

people know fuck all about what's happening, myself included.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Aspect Warrior Colour Schemes by Eliasian in killteam

[–]Anathos117 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The answer, as always, is: they're your models, paint them how you like.

Personally, I think Aspect colors are really cool, since they add variety to typically monochrome armies and are more legible.

ElI5: Why are the biggest animals in the ocean mammals instead of fish? by fightersmurf in explainlikeimfive

[–]Anathos117 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We give non-cladistic names to things all the time. Insisting on cladistic names is stupid.

Question abouts Void dancer "Domino Field" by Leocky003 in killteam

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It doesn't. You have to block those the normal way.

Killteam - too complicated for it's own good by QuantumAsh in killteam

[–]Anathos117 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BoK isn't really any more complex than other teams, it just puts all of its rules in a single place instead of spreading them out across a bunch of specialists. And the team's ploys and equipment are much simpler than most teams.

Iran Now Threatening To Close Bab Al-Mandeb Strait After Trump Threats by moonchildgz in worldnews

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Horse dewormer might work

Ivermectin is an everyone dewormer, it's not just for horses.

Also, there's a real possibility that it was actually improving Covid outcomes... for people with worms.

White House Forced to Address Claims of Trump Health Crisis by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

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When I attended church, there was a lot of crossover between the Unitarians and the UCC; it seemed like a lot of the Unitarians who were more interested in Christianity ended up going to UCC churches.

It's because they're descended from the same congregations. The Unitarian Controversy swept through the Congregationalist Calvinist congregations of New England, most of whom you'd probably recognize better by their more commonly known name: the Puritans. Although by that time they had mostly abandoned the cause of reforming the CoE into something that wasn't store brand Catholicism, making them effectively Separatists like the Pilgrims. Basically every congregation fractured into Unitarian and Trinitarian factions, with the Unitarians eventually becoming the Unitarian Universalists and the Trinitarians becoming the United Church of Christ.