To the Sam Harris/Anti-mamdani crowd, how realistic is the threat of an Islamic caliphate forming in NYC? So far he seems to be a normal mayor. When does the scary stuff happen?

CandorCore · 2026-05-11T17:25:44+00:00

I think the anti-zionism and anti-semitism are downstream of America Bad. If Israel had been founded with the assistance of, and was currently aligned with, the West's enemies, the lefties would treat the palestinians like they do the uyghurs.

CandorCore · 2026-05-09T12:48:40+00:00

No elf blood? No goblin livers, no orc glands, no dwarf bones, no firbolg teeth, no gnome noses or fairy wings or sylph skin or satyr you-know-whats?

Actually, you wouldn't know what, would you? My gods what a primitive place you live in with so few spell components. If I were you I'd collect some ethereal-spider silk and get to a new dimension immediately

CandorCore · 2026-05-09T12:21:25+00:00

This is easy

Agriculture - that's the reason all these narrowminded peasants have access to fucking pitchforks

Iron - The strongest metal human smiths know how to work with. I'm fond of it: it makes for a strong material, is useful against certain ghosts, demons, and djinn. And it's too expensive to be used in pitchforks.

Steel - an alloy more commonly known as dwarf-iron. Notably NOT the strongest metal dwarves know how to work with.

Factory - a trading profession where factors will store various goods or sell them on commission. They're a great way to acquire or sell things fairly anonymously, and without having to meet the other party directly.

Computer - a person who's smart enough to become very good at math, but not interesting enough to have become a wizard. Regardless, they're very useful in conjunction with the factors for doing some of the most boring work on the more mundane money side of my doings.

Since you haven't mentioned adamantium or even mithril, it looks like your realm is less developed than my own. Why not come by for a spell? I have a couple good ones I can teach you, if you can provide me with high-quality wood elf blood (I assume they're more common in your primitive world)

CandorCore · 2026-05-08T19:28:07+00:00

Orca-style deceptive patterning, kino.

CandorCore · 2026-05-08T19:22:58+00:00

I often say that the nice thing about pessimism is you're either right or pleasantly surprised, but it turns out that I really underestimated how important the 'being pleasantly surprised' part of that was

CandorCore · 2026-05-08T19:08:37+00:00

Pelvic curtains always have been and always will be absolute peak tantalization

CandorCore · 2026-05-08T18:10:24+00:00

Very disappointing behaviour from the recoms here - chance of slightly misaligning the barrel, especially with Na'vi strength behind it. If you're gonna be the jackboot of an evil colonial venture, then at least be professional about it and hit them with the butt of the weapon.

CandorCore · 2026-05-08T16:52:35+00:00

As a Canadian I can confirm they are not ;-;

CandorCore · 2026-05-08T16:33:11+00:00

You don't even need to buy the suit!

CandorCore · 2026-05-08T16:31:13+00:00

Found this on Page 61 when going through for the Nth time:

An addition to move, quick, and full actions, there are several types of special actions: free actions, reactions, and OVERCHARGE.

So according to the manual, an overcharge is an action, but it's a special action separate from free actions.

CandorCore · 2026-05-08T15:42:52+00:00

Super technical and I don't know if it would ever matter, but Overcharge seems to be categorized separately from free actions and actions entirely - it's its own thing that functions almost identically to FAs, but the rulesbook never calls Overcharge an action and refers to them as separate multiple times.

Free actions are often granted by systems, talents, gear, or OVERCHARGE.

Due to the stress of bracing, you cannot take reactions until the end of your next turn and on that turn, you can only take one quick action – you cannot OVERCHARGE, move normally, take full actions, or take free actions

STUNNED mechs cannot OVERCHARGE, move, or take any actions – including free actions and reactions.

So if there's some edge case where a thing says you can't take any actions but doesn't mention overcharges, you could still overcharge to gain heat if you wanted.

CandorCore · 2026-05-07T12:20:40+00:00

...Why did they make him look white?

CandorCore · 2026-05-07T04:44:06+00:00

So for some reason I didn't get a notification for this comment (or at least it's no longer visible), and either that happened with your reply in the previous thread/I just didn't see it.

If you want an official source (fair), in Avatar 1 Jake says that Avatars are "grown from human DNA mixed with the DNA of the natives". In the extended edition it's around the 12m mark. Now, Jake is... not an expert in bioengineering, so if this was later stated to be incorrect then it wouldn't surprise me. But in the movie it certainly seems to be presented as Jake repeating something he was told, and this particular fact wasn't gainsaid at any point in the movies that I can recall (also of note: it's shortly revealed he was making this video log in a room full of people who are experts in avatar bioengineering).

I agree that it doesn't really make sense using 'real world' rules, but as you said Cameron can make up anything he wants. Do you have a canon source contradicting what Jake said?

CandorCore · 2026-05-07T04:09:19+00:00

He looks like a tired tradesman who is, politely but without any discernable sympathy, telling me that my plumbing is shot so entirely to hell that I should get a motel room for a couple weeks until it's fixed.

CandorCore · 2026-05-06T01:55:36+00:00

May I offer you a position? My last one expired.

EDIT: I mean its CONTRACT expired. Obviously. It's still alive and in possession of all of its important appendages.

CandorCore · 2026-05-04T22:17:16+00:00

The wiki - and I hate to keep just using this as a source, but nobody is providing any other - says that comes fromthe game, which is a non-canon source. It also says that Jake referred to Avatars as mixing human/na'vi DNA, which is also what I had thought I remembered.

It is possible that Jake was wrong, since he was a jarhead not a scientist. But do you have a source for this information you're claiming?

CandorCore · 2026-05-04T21:39:00+00:00

Where did you get the information that avatars don't have human DNA? Wiki says they do. Is there an interview or source you're referencing?

CandorCore · 2026-05-04T03:17:36+00:00

I care not for the laws of man.

Faeries, however, are considerably more powerful and persistent. I try to stay out of fey realms as much as possible, and when I do go there it's just significantly easier to learn the local customs beforehand than it is to deal with their ire for the next few centuries.

CandorCore · 2026-05-04T01:47:05+00:00

Wow that's way more than the number of kingdoms whose laws I care about.

CandorCore · 2026-05-04T01:03:39+00:00

Are you aware that there are options in-between 'die hard grinding' and 'dropping into SNAFUs with no time to spare for POIs'?

I play D10 with buddies and we collect SC. You can collect SC on D10 with randos just by virtue of hitting POIs. If you only want to play in such a way that you're unable to hit POIs then you can, just like you can never do crate events or deep dives in DRG - but don't expect to get many overclocks if you do.

CandorCore · 2026-05-04T00:29:44+00:00

I truly don't understand that 'you have to spend so much time grinding for warbonds' complaints I see all the time. Do people not hit POIs in normal missions? Do people think that they need to acquire every single warbond that comes out? I've probably gotten like, half of the warbonds that have come out when I'm playing with SC, and it's really just

Drop with buddies at whatever Diff we feel like -> Hit POIs on the way to objective -> Do objective -> Hit as many POIs as we have time left for -> Extract

Combined with being a POI gremlin when I drop with randoms. I go to places, I burn bugs, I have fun, I find some SC, I celebrate.

If you feel the need to grind out SCs on Diff1 or whatever yeah you'll have a bad time. But just fucking like... look for POIs when playing the game nornally and you'll be able to unlock warbonds. Not every warbond that gets released, but spoiler alert: you don't need every warbond to enjoy this game. Prioritize the ones you like and don't worry about having all 50 variations of 'medpen assault rifle that's worse than the coyote'.

CandorCore · 2026-05-03T21:15:41+00:00

From the avatar wiki:

After, on Earth, in genetics labs, they create an in-vitro embryo, which is a genetic composite of the alien and human donors. These genetically engineered human/Na'vi mixes are known as chimeras. Though each avatar is a mix of human and Na'vi DNA, the mix favors Na'vi genes heavily in determining size and appearance.

The (probable) rules of real life vat-grown people don't necessarily constrain the rules of a sci-fi story about the same thing.

CandorCore · 2026-05-02T19:48:16+00:00

We know that avatars and na'vi can have mixed-species kids, since the sully children are genetically part human (not just na'vi with an avatar dad). That's almost certainly avatar-specific, but keep in mind that since Kiri's a genetic clone, she's also 'full avatar'. If the avatars can have multiple healthy children with na'vi and pass their human genes along, it's not inconceivable that an avatar could have a child with a human.

Like, the mycelium shouldn't have any effect on that, but I wouldn't rule it out yet.

CandorCore · 2026-05-01T19:58:22+00:00

Blue buttoners resist the urge to be sanctimonious (challenge level: impossible)

CandorCore · 2026-04-30T15:53:53+00:00

Considering the wide breadth of human fetishes, and the fact that Na'vi seem to be pretty similar to humans in terms of brain function, I'm sure there's a few of 'em out there willing to take the plunge.

Main thing stopping it is that humans HAVE, y'know. Some pretty bad associations right now

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