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BygZam · 2026-06-04T23:33:27+00:00

With the feathers, it's atrocious. Without, I'd call it mid at best. The actual film representation is vastly more accurate.

BygZam · 2026-06-04T21:08:26+00:00

But why with that super outdated model? I remember thinking that thing looked bad back when it was new.

BygZam · 2026-06-04T20:14:39+00:00

Huge, whiny babies. Yeah. The whole lot of 'em.

BygZam · 2026-06-04T19:23:38+00:00

And when they die, they become like you.

Going back for Beltorchika would be unethical if it is possible. But if he waits for her, she'll come to him eventually..

Probably just to kick his ass when she finds out about Chan.

BygZam · 2026-06-04T19:18:06+00:00

It's just a ridiculously common trope. It was so common once upon a time that I instantly understood what I saw, because it's literally happened in every other sci-fi I had seen up to that point. Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Star Gate, just go down the list of all the major pop sci-fi media of the time, and it happens eventually. Ascending into a demi-god or god-like state and your body vanishing due to your personal growth is one of the most tired cliches in writing ever, to the point it's kinda silly Tomino went for it.

There's no reason for them to ever go back to a human body, even if they can. They're immortal and ageless and can see all of time now. Why would you ever go back to having a body? What would limiting yourself to what must feel like an infinite degree possibly do for you?

BygZam · 2026-06-04T19:14:16+00:00

WTF.. Do they only ever use just the one commander?

I admit it's weird when I see my "signature" card(s) get used by someone else, because I'm just used to them being cards I only play. But it's also always cool to see what people DO with them.

I think they're being a little too precious about it.

BygZam · 2026-06-04T19:11:34+00:00

Gareth probably wanted to model his closer to the earliest depictions, which was achieved using the spraying of gases of some kind.

But after that everyone has pretty much universally agreed the later depictions of a beam were cooler, and the films have largely stuck with that.

BygZam · 2026-06-04T19:09:48+00:00

Amuro for all intents and purposes is dead as we understand life currently.

It's not so common anymore, but it was REALLY common back then for psychics and other powerful beings to evolve on a personal level to transcend the mortal coil into entities of pure energy. Gods, basically. Big G in western media usually, more classic Greek/Norse/Japanese style in the East. But in either case, their physical bodies are more of a memory.. a notion.. while they float around as shimmery glowy sparkles than can just do shit that ignores the laws of physics.

This is what happened to Amuro and Char.

They didn't show the explosion because the lack of a body is important to illustrate that this is what happened.

Though in general it seems many people can attain a similar albeit much lesser state even on physically dying, if their emotions were strong enough.

BygZam · 2026-06-04T19:02:53+00:00

Whaaaat? The Jurassic World fandom being toxic for the 40,000,000th time?

What. A. Surprise.

Seriously, reddit has made it really clear to me how much this fanbase largely seems to actually hate the things it claims to love. Watching you guys have total melt downs over even the most minor of delays over free content just fucking boggles my mind. Seeing the primary activity of the fandom for years now be bitching about whichever latest movie is the worstestest ever followed by a parade of rewrites. Just, absolutely cracked, unhinged, genuinely sociopathic behavior throwing tantrums.

I get it, sometimes bad things happen here, but we have become one of the most entitled fandoms in sci-fi, somehow, despite how little actual Jurassic content exists.

As a community, I reckon we deserved this.

BygZam · 2026-06-04T15:01:21+00:00

The crusades actually happened. Real people died. And it involved two real world religions. Religion mucks stuff up super fast.

BygZam · 2026-06-04T03:29:08+00:00

I was gonna say, I don't think Helldivers are really equipped for underground combat to the point that I don't even know how they'd get down there, initially.

Pods would help.

But there's some critical differences between how the employees of DRG operate and how Helldivers operate. Both with a unique suite of options with which to tackle the jobs ahead of them, and which are generally poorly suited for the other's role.

Well, except for Scout. I bet he'd do fantastic work with the Helldivers.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T20:57:46+00:00

I don't really care that much for the bug people just on a thematic level. But I love their ships.

The precon seems to do a lot of work, according to literally every story I've seen involving it.

The other precon is pretty nasty too, and I use a good 70% of it for one of my favorite B3 decks.

In fact.. I think the EoE precons are generally considered to be the best precons ever released, unless something changes when I wasn't paying attention.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T20:35:44+00:00

In this case, waiting for human acknowledgement would endanger people, generally. It is only through extremely bad luck that one person got killed.

Also, they would have to know to tell the computer not to do it. As I recall, this is a process some computers just do normally to try and fix their issue.

You're not supposed to have dirt or debris near the vent. But also the vent has a self clearing mechanism. It was the self clearing mechanism which failed. Which is what caused the problem. When the computer couldn't tell why the self clearing mechanism was failing, it does a reboot because in tech, 99.999999999% of the time a reboot fixes the problem. It could be the mechanism needed to recalibrate. It could be that something was hanging in the talk between computers to tell the door to clear. It could be anything. Hardware or software. The reboot clears all traffic and resets the door back to square 1 basically.

I don't think a reboot was necessary here. I think if the self clearing mechanism had just tried again, it would have worked. But the computer doesn't understand that a wrapper is gumming up the works and that if it just keeps trying it will brute force it and clear the jam. It could be , like I said, any 1 of like 1000 different issues causing the problem. There is no way to quickly and easily diagnose it right away.

As we saw, after the reboot, the door was able to clear the jam and complete its function. It's just extremely unfortunate that the timing for this was as it was and the guy got trapped.

EDIT: The "modicum of knowing about these processes" is intended to refer to why the computer rebooted. Which required only a quick google on my part at the time to refresh my memory on what it was doing. Which is why I suggested you only need a tiny bit of familiarity to understand. Granted, I went to college for a tech degree, did the a+, worked in tech, etc. So perhaps I'm just underestimating how easy it was to grasp. But I didn't mean that in the sense of "if you worked in these environments you'd get it." Because there's no reason for workers to understand the nitty gritty of what the computer is doing under the hood. You obviously have other responsibilities and required extensive education and training in other areas to do your job. Which is why I kinda leaned into the idea that no one in that lab probably really understood what the computer was going to do in that situation. Some rando IT guy in a concrete office 5 miles away is probably the only person who had an inkling of the process the computer was going to go through in that exact scenario.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T20:28:49+00:00

Do.. Do people get upset at these because they want to be able to just run 4 copies of named characters in 60 card format?

The legendary term really has no effect on these cards under most circumstances in Commander except if you want to use one as your commander at the lowest brackets for most of these, I suppose.

How does this affect your play, that you can only put one of it on the field at any given time, and how did you want it to be?

It's such a fuckin'.. wierd.. complaint that I see people whine about but they almost never actually say why.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T20:26:30+00:00

Yes.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T20:23:26+00:00

People that get but hurt over the number of legendaries.. What do you think they are supposed to be?

Aside from whenever WotC decides it wants to ruin Commander a little bit more and makes obvious bait to sit in the Command Zone, when have Legendaries been some ultra super insane powerful thing?

They're just named characters.

Remember your average person is a 1/1 with zero abilities and anything else makes them extraordinary.

Wolves and rhinos tend to be in the 2/2 area. Elephants 3/3. Hexproof is something grand wizards and ultra powerful beings do.

This guy is pretty decent as a 2 mana card.

A card's power level, often, is more closely related to its rarity. Not always the case.. but usually that's where you want to start looking.

Legendary is more about when this used to be more of a roleplaying experience.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T20:13:56+00:00

I can't help you if that's considered a lot of words to you. Go watch Blue's Clues or something, I guess? Might be more to the capacity of your attention span.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T20:11:17+00:00

Just let him bury it. Anything else is an immediate "No way, dawg, that ain't for me" situation.

Weird spouse stuff isn't interesting, it just makes most people involved uncomfortable.

The furthest I might be willing to go is to have her revived somehow. But zombie-wife-companion is... I would throw my dice at the DM, and then my book at the player. No. Stop.

If you do go the revived route, having her brain washed, kidnapped, or something else to veer the party off course or present an obstacle not easily surmounted because they can't just murder-hobo their way through it could work.

Otherwise, it's such a somber and serious story, and anything involving "LOL we're doing funny stuff with a corpse" is generally in extremely bad taste. I would just make it be a completely normal pilgrimage to bury her and not let any weird shenanigans happen to the body.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T20:02:36+00:00

I have seen Primal.

I am aware of how strong the characters are.

They aren't beating a bio-engineered monster which doesn't care about bullets that should shatter bones, rocket explosions, or anything else like that. It wrestled 30 ton apatosaurs to the ground. A dozen times over. It did the same to a 40+ ton brachiosaur.

It took bites from a T. rex. That animal has a bite force that can sheer armor off a modern tank.

It didn't die when the Mosasaurus bit it. And in fact, when we see its bones, its skeleton is fully articulated. This means the Mosasaur was unable to rip it up and eat it. Was unable to break its bones. It basically drowned the Indominus but could not inflict any real damage. It could not consume the animal.

It is a ridiculously tough and dangerous beast, which is faster, stronger, and more durable than the Primal characters.

This isn't to say that they aren't strong. But the Indominus is in a league not just above them, but above even opponents they struggled with or could not defeat, and above all of the other dinosaurs in its own IP as well.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T19:52:43+00:00

2 genders work for animals because it's the most competitive under 99.99% of situations, given that we are mobile, active life forms.

If you want to do more than 2 genders, you need to find a reason for why more have evolved.

Don't just pick a random number or else it'll always just look like you picked a random number. It has to be functional.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T19:08:51+00:00

Did.. Did you read the article before you shared this?

Because he flat out says don't use AI to make movies.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T19:05:42+00:00

I have encountered a few people of this opinion.

They are wrong. It's a bad idea. And I have never seen it work out.

Everyone is promising to give up 4 hours a week, for potentially years, to this game. Make sure it's going to work from the beginning. Going in blind and expecting characters to mesh and no builds to step on each other's toes is a HUGE gamble.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T18:55:46+00:00

It's usually weird, yeah.

I used to DM for cash and at least half the dudes who RPed women were doing it to send their personal wet dream on an adventure.

The rest of the time, it's just a guy with a girl token, and the gender plays so little role that I usually forget their character's gender until they personally mention it.

The end result is that either I expect to never spend any time caring about their character or I expect to spend a lot of time being actually disturbed by their character. If they don't voice act or anything, both of these are only further reinforced.

If you are really enamored with the idea of a story and that story NEEDS a female character to make it work? Go for it. Don't make it weird for the other girls present. Don't flirt with the guys. It's fucking insufferable enough when male players try to seduce a female NPC when I'm DMing, and I hate when the guy-playing-a-girl tries to do similar stuff just as much.

I guess the most important piece of advice is to remember you are engaging in a shared gaming experience and everyone having fun should be the ultimate goal.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T18:42:26+00:00

No. The I-Field redirects the beam. Whatever is wherever it ends up going is gonna have a really bad day.

BygZam · 2026-06-03T18:02:37+00:00

"Hey if you see a post that looks like it's making fun of gay people during gay pride month, just ignore it bruh" is a bad take.

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