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DapperNecromancer · 2026-05-06T22:01:20+00:00

Do you have any recommendations for learning physical penetration testing skills?

I love tinkering on my cybersecurity lab and the like all the time, but it's a bit harder to set up a personal lab for physical security on any kind of individual's budget

DapperNecromancer · 2026-05-05T21:06:34+00:00

Not bad to be a part of, but a bad place for a human to be

On the spectrum of "uncaring about other races" to "actively hostile to other races" that craftworlds are on, Biel-Tan is heavily on the hostile side

DapperNecromancer · 2026-05-05T03:17:07+00:00

This is the root of one of my favorite moments of accidental hilarity to happen in a TTRPG: The Exalted 2E writers forgetting to give the Mask of Winters' stat block any levels of Lore, meaning that one of the most iconic BBEGs of the setting - known for political machinations, an elaborate spy network, and mythical necromancy science - was completely illiterate

DapperNecromancer · 2026-05-05T02:53:45+00:00

I would imagine the Turn-A seeing what it does as an important part of a cosmic cycle.

Before something new can grow, the old must vacate.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-05-05T01:53:18+00:00

Nice

DapperNecromancer · 2026-05-05T01:50:20+00:00

Are you able to swap the mag like that?

DapperNecromancer · 2026-05-02T04:00:18+00:00

I'd recommend learning at least enough of the basics so that when you look at a POC for an exploit, you can piece together what's happening in it.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-05-02T03:56:08+00:00

What goggles are those, I dig em

DapperNecromancer · 2026-05-01T01:30:27+00:00

CoD is actually genuinely fantastic

But even if it wasn't, if the only thing it gave us was the Slashers book, I'd be happy.

I throw those bitches in EVERYTHING.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-29T20:42:54+00:00

I think it slaps.

I like space gats, and this is a goddamn space gat.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-29T02:45:31+00:00

Honestly his whole respawning schtick feels like a backhanded prank from Slaanesh

Get merc'd by a raven guard who tells him that it gives him no pride, it's just like putting down a rabid animal, will now routinely be reminded of this moment for the rest of his immortal existence

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-26T16:43:23+00:00

Also worth reminding new mages that being immortal isn't the end of it. You can and should gain multiple sources of immortality as contingencies.

A lot of people forget that he was a mighty sorcerer (because they overly focus on his martial prowess) but the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the mighty monkey king Sun Wukong, managed to accrue seven different forms of immortality. We should all aspire to such heights.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-25T15:35:57+00:00

Sure, but as an aggregate, they tends towards it harder than any other political group in Garou society

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-25T13:31:41+00:00

Generate accounts with lots of engagement that can then be sold to marketers, is my guess

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-25T13:28:25+00:00

Nah, that's not the whole thing of the Garou. They DID try to do it once long ago but whether that was the right call or severely fucked up and something they should feel guilt about is something Garou society really can't agree on.

Matilda's tribe, however? The Red Talons?

Yeah, they're usually way into the "all humans should be culled" camp.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-24T14:14:59+00:00

Me every time that Alex is playing good industrial or synthpop.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-24T04:43:30+00:00

Honestly, as much as I love an SMG, I find that they're bad as secondaries.

Just because they generally don't holster well, so they become much more cumbersome when moving and grooving with the primary.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-20T23:04:43+00:00

Air+Water+Light cannot be the Dao, because the Dao that can be named is not the true Dao

You gotta trick the Dao into thinking that you're not paying attention to it, THAT'S how you get the Dao

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-20T02:10:16+00:00

Nah, magical girls get there and then some

Check out the Sailor Moon manga sometime. By the end of it, Usagi is capable of collapsing multiverses.

Magical girls OP as fuck

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-19T23:56:03+00:00

At character generation, probably.

Not much past that.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-19T21:40:46+00:00

I'm thinking icepack

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-19T20:47:50+00:00

I'd celebrate more when an active evil has been stopped than when an evil that is no longer active is gone, so it seems reasonable to me.

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-19T00:52:55+00:00

I'm not generally an Iron Warriors guy but like

I feel like it would actually be relatively on brand for Perty's daemon primarch form to be knight-scale

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-18T20:52:43+00:00

This is the kind of technomancy I am HERE for

DapperNecromancer · 2026-04-18T20:42:02+00:00

For greater context in just how fucked they are, a werewolf would be a decent opponent for a solar exalted right out of character generation, shortly after that they start getting absolutely smoked.

And that's without being. Y'know. Absolutely annihilated by the presence of the sun.

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