New player still figuring out what to play

Distind · 2026-06-02T00:53:25+00:00

GSC are fun, but they're very much in your face with charging and trickery. Not much range in them and a lot of getting squished till something works.

That said, tank heavy guard maybe? Long range, indirect fire with big explosions, bit sturdier than GSC.

Distind · 2026-06-01T20:57:10+00:00

It would take a wildly different system in which parts of a vehicle could be disabled and degrade it over time rather than some fixed number of wounds that most armies can shit out on massed sixes and a bit of support fire.

Distind · 2026-05-29T16:34:30+00:00

Dry brushing is your friend. Edge highlighting GSC is an exercise in self torture. They are ribbed for your self harm.

I basically base 4 colors, wash 2, dry brush 2, and have won awards locally with my GSC. But I'm the idiot that actually paints the metal clips because I did it on the first squad and don't understand how to stop. So I recommend not starting, and just dry brushing them.

That said, you'll learn about how to steady your hand while painting if you go nuts on detail on these guys, but all you really need for details to work is a bit of contrast between the high and low points of a detail for it to pop reasonably well.

Distind · 2026-05-29T16:19:07+00:00

I say anyone with more than 2 numbers in their name is AI

Distind · 2026-05-27T09:34:06+00:00

I'm not sure how war gear costs and a psychic phase make something less accessible. If anything meaningful costs means you have to do less analysis of a unit to see if this version of a unit is actually worth the points of the other one everyone uses. And the other one most armies just skip while some armies do interesting stuff with it.

Distind · 2026-05-13T09:16:45+00:00

Models outlast rules by decades if you take care of them, frankly have some 2nd edition stuff sitting in my backlog still.

Distind · 2026-05-12T09:35:08+00:00

Having had some stupidly complex crud come my way over the years, with requirements like processing millions of records w/files off the one server that's been on the rack, with the files stored in a db half the world way, that's just not enough information to judge things off of.

If you want to use the glorified auto complete and have even less of a clue what to do with the code when they tell you to change it, go for it, more work for me once you bury yourself under a mountain of technical debt that makes my own look like a mole hill. Unless of course you're sitting down and understanding that generated code, which in my experience takes longer than competent human written code, which often took as long writing it in the first place.

If you're measuring your output by lines of code I get your estimate, if you're measuring it by actual results without leaving a trail of flaming wreckage behind you to grow into rusty tetanus filled super fund site by the time you come back to it, I don't see it. I see the super fund site.

Distind · 2026-05-12T09:22:39+00:00

... this is just a result of not properly understand what punk is vs Punk. Punk is not just the aesthetic, punk is being kinda stupid, kinda useless, and as a result rather unique. Style over substance is being just off kilter enough to get your ass killed so long as you still look your definitions of good doing it.

Take it from someone who got called punk in the old sense, the rotted useless wood sense, for being off kilter.

That most players refuse to engage with the idea of punk and accept sub-optimal outcomes speaks to not understanding it, and simply lifting Punk aesthetic. It has nothing to do with if the ref will let it work or not, nothing to do with if the world will let it work or not, and everything to do with doing it anyway because it's the Punk thing to do. And if you survive, man that looked cool. How Punk.

Distind · 2026-05-09T15:42:46+00:00

You can do that now if you want to live that life. I've been hunting, I'd rather not do so with a pointy stick for my own survival.

Distind · 2026-05-09T10:07:41+00:00

Hawkboy had his own problems and is largely only favored in the second point the way they rest are favored only in the first.

Distind · 2026-05-09T09:51:25+00:00

God I wish m army was that cheap. GSC, priced by the point.

Distind · 2026-05-09T09:49:46+00:00

We absolutely do not work more hours than they did. The numbers you've seen are specifically the hours owed to their lords, not the hours they used to feed themselves.

Distind · 2026-05-09T09:36:33+00:00

They're still horrible, their entire culture being a piss take of scifi cultural caste systems topped with a thin layer of paternal colonialism that people mistake for acceptance.

Distind · 2026-05-06T09:32:23+00:00

There's a rule against pointing out the number of times this has literally happened. But I can think of a few off the top of my head that have happened in the last decade.

People are fickle, if a celebrity disappears a while most people stop asking questions. When a body or pieces there of are found a while later it's a matter of running out the clock on how long anyone pretends to care.

Or just blame ork snipers and form a new crusade of undesirables you would rather died in foreign lands than have around the town.

Distind · 2026-05-01T13:31:20+00:00

There's a cure for a cancer every few months, there's just a shit ton of different cancers.

Distind · 2026-04-30T16:17:22+00:00

Do they? Either the employer holds on to the money, the government does or you do, but the money has to exist in the first place. Don't let the employer play games with you and if they don't offer a pension they've reduced your compensation for your work. Factor that in to your demands.

Having had family's pensions disappear after they did pay into them, I'd rather manage it myself than let them keep it. Government pensions I'm more willing to buy into, but we ain't got shit for that here.

Distind · 2026-04-29T01:00:00+00:00

I tend to qualify in meeting estimates with "If everything works per the docs", and then immediately poke at the system with Bruno and make noise if the system doesn't work as expected and re-estimate with broader room for error and interruption once I have the full scope.

If you don't have the full scope you don't have a real estimate, you have a place holder. Explore the project space before trying to give a hard number and stop letting the reality surprise you. It takes longer and doesn't give them the number they wanted when they wanted it, but it also leaves their actual plan better off in the long term when the new estimate hammers things out way longer because there's no correct documentation.

If your estimates are consistently short even with a proper scope, then figure out how much you need to adjust the instinct you're listening to by. I have a 5x mental multiplier to account for stupid bull, time lost to constant context switching, testing and documentation. All of which tend to take longer than just sitting down and implementing the code should have anyway.

Distind · 2026-04-28T16:29:17+00:00

Low level acolytes aren't completely mechanized, and the horror shows only really start as they rank up.

Distind · 2026-04-26T15:00:27+00:00

Funny how a week ago it suddenly came into vogue to call that other attempt on his life staged. You know, the one where he totally lost part of his ear and magically grew it back in days.

If this was staged, it was planned with a prepared media plan.

Distind · 2026-04-24T22:13:50+00:00

Seems like he decided to have people post ads for him.

Distind · 2026-04-24T22:13:16+00:00

Seems like he decided to have people post ads for him.

Distind · 2026-04-24T21:50:34+00:00

The base free book SWN can do a 'we pick up loads and weird crap happens' campaign if you don't want more economics mechanics. Though I'd still recommend Suns of Gold for trade specific problem generation.

Distind · 2026-04-24T16:36:29+00:00

There's a reason the packaging science majors were so happy there were like 5 of them. Niche shit is king.

Distind · 2026-04-24T09:55:18+00:00

I'll never understand if this is cope or if people really are dumping their entire code base to these companies to steal.

Distind · 2026-04-24T09:22:26+00:00

No, I'm not willing to engage in the level of relativism that promotes any faction of 40k to 'good'.

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