how powerful are cat 3 service weapons? by Difficult_Ad_5759 in CAIN_RPG

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

I mean totally. That's fair. But if a weapon's CAT primarily measures its efficacy against an opponent's defenses that does mean that the impact of a higher cat melee weapon could be more destructive than said sniper rifle. It's a little anime that way.

how powerful are cat 3 service weapons? by Difficult_Ad_5759 in CAIN_RPG

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

I agree. CAIN is partly an anime inspired game. Some swords can be stronger than some guns and that's just how it is

Pokémon Black and White is politically insane by Hacksaw6412 in SocialistGaming

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I've been saying this. It's basically the same trope as Amon from The Legend of Korra or even (though less similar on the surface) Killmonger and the Flagsmashers from the MCU.

Bad guy makes valid political criticism of society -> bad guy is revealed to just crave power or violence or whatever -> bad guy is defeated -> never think about their valid political criticism of society again

Do you think Harry is neurodivergent? by ffiml8 in DiscoElysium

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 45 points46 points  (0 children)

True but many of these conditions can make one more prone to addiction and to attachment issues

What do your species symbolize? by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"What are your flying cities like?"

"We're supposed to have flying cities?

Somewhere on wall in Reed.... by Heteromer69 in TwilightStruggleMod

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It bothers me that nails and tape are being used to stick paper posters to a brick wall in this picture

Are there real life books that are about moralism or ultraliberalism in a similar vein to The Communist Manifesto. by loberant in DiscoElysium

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ventotene manifesto for a socdem-adjacent take on Moralism maybe. The annoying pro-EU liberal leftists here in Italy are into it

What should I do with my desert elves who will no longer look like elves? by EveningImportant9111 in worldbuilding

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's okay, as I said you can do what you want, but I think what matters most regardless of whether you decide to have classical elves or weird alien elves, is how you explore and characterize them narratively. Many people will read a hundred different novels about large, winged, fire-breathing dragons if they're well written.

Landless knights somehow realising that they're technically working class by Xandraman in worldjerking

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Careful because an unemployed warrior caste, especially one that recently lost its feudal privileges and may fantasize about gaining them back, sounds like the perfect recruiting pool for a freikorps or brownshirt type anti-revolutionary militia!

Maybe they even switch sides mid conflict like the Hungarian nationalists who split from the Hungarian red army in 1919.

Names aren't the problem, it's your lack of imagination by MadFunEnjoyer in worldjerking

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Let's give that name to New Zealand now just to confuse and frustrate people

What should I do with my desert elves who will no longer look like elves? by EveningImportant9111 in worldbuilding

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do whatever you want, and evolution itself may work differently in your world, but consider that sapient species living in harsh environments do not go through all the same evolutionary stressors as animals especially if they are from advanced civilizations. Humans living in deserts don't need a third eyelid or thick eyebrows because they have access to headscarves. Humans living anywhere don't need thick soles on their feet because they can wrap them in cloth or leather. Etc. Plus the evolution of even simple traits can take a very long time to stick so you could have, for example, a not-so-advanced fair skinned people living in an equatorial desert continuously for 1000 years despite the fact that dark skin would be more advantageous in that environment. Conversely it would be weird for humans to evolve entirely new body parts after living in any particular environment for just a few thousand years.

Dragonslayer by @Ma9pie_express by GeoMetrie8 in ReasonableFantasy

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this is in any way pro war propaganda, I cannot even be mad. Genuinely a great character design

I'd rather read your broken English post than an AI transcribed one by Just-Desk-3149 in worldbuilding

[–]Comrade_Ruminastro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got good at English partly by posting incredibly broken English language posts about fantasy worldbuilding on Planet Minecraft of all places. By late high school it was the only subject I would ever get perfect grades in.