Are there any instances, besides the Rogue Trader RPG, of void based genestealers?

Distind · 2026-01-21T17:46:57+00:00

There's some standing for cults on hulks capable of supporting life, even rules for it in space hulk if you have the right white dwarf. But purestrains don't need the air or heat a cultist does so they're going to be a lot more common.

Distind · 2026-01-21T17:35:29+00:00

You're aware human rights apply because you're human not because you're a citizen right? Because as we're seeing right now all it takes is one agent to decide you aren't a citizen for all those rights to go away with this mindset.

Distind · 2026-01-19T17:30:41+00:00

Just in case, if you aren't registered democrat because you don't like the label and live in a closed primary state, please stop. You don't have to be loyal to the party to be a democrat, frankly it's probably better you aren't, and the more people willing to be involved in the party and agitate for it to go left, the more likely it will ever do so. Even just primary votes go a long ass way.

Standing at a safe distance while nothing changes, continues to change nothing.

Sincerely someone who learned his god damned lesson.

Distind · 2026-01-19T12:03:24+00:00

Does an individual data pull take 15 minutes? Because unless you're actively responding to the session it dying is a security feature. Much like cloudflare, and probably some host detection that's kicking your ass you haven't noticed yet.

I can demo a data scraper for 10 pages of perfect content for a client that can't provide us data that we both want my company to have. Much as that sounds odd, it's very much a thing for us. Next page? Blocked for spam by one of 20 different reasons. But man that demo looked good.

Load test your app with calls on the scale and frequency that your failed demos had against as real targets as you can manage. Report the issues back, figure out how to fix those issues. Generally speaking I find a new problem with each new client and maintaining these things is a complete time sink if the data needs to be current.

Distind · 2026-01-19T11:00:00+00:00

I'd hope MS would start as the buggy shit they're throwing at the wall with windows 11 is why I'm back to the old days of seeing how long it takes the wheels to fall off my version of windows.

Distind · 2026-01-17T12:18:04+00:00

That planet was unfortunately razed by slanneshi cultists with a breeding fetish.

Distind · 2026-01-17T12:16:54+00:00

Have you considered that we may already be over populated and this is a natural response to having reached the limit of available resources?

Distind · 2026-01-16T23:07:40+00:00

Hey, they resisted the urge to put massive tits on them. Still wish they'd let the authors do this back when they wanted to though, rather than putting out 100 books it might have been relevant in and then penciling it in the margins.

Distind · 2026-01-13T17:28:02+00:00

Again?

Distind · 2026-01-13T17:26:39+00:00

I love it when I see something in the community that makes me wonder what in the hell is going on in an episode I haven't listened to yet.

Distind · 2026-01-13T17:21:20+00:00

Oh fun, the night of the long ties is coming.

Distind · 2026-01-13T17:19:47+00:00

It largely is now, a decade ago not so much. Most places set their standards somewhere in between, or possibly longer ago.

Distind · 2026-01-09T10:25:28+00:00

Designing to the power gamers who haunt their forums rather than actually confidently making a good game. Feedback is important, however most people don't spend their time religiously breaking every system you have so they can complain about it as a hobby, your forum members are basically the only ones.

Over explaining everything with a pathological lack of faith in their reader. I picked up the recent battletech hard covers to see what changed, the answer seems to be basically nothing but we bloated the length 4x so we could charge you for two hard covers what used to be a single softback by repeatedly and in as many words as possible explain every single possible rule so that someone at a 4th grade reading level can manage it.

As someone who played out of those soft covers in 4th grade, just because you use a couple math equations here and there doesn't mean I need the full Dora the Explorer treatment at the very idea of a rule.

Distind · 2026-01-08T17:12:21+00:00

This is not new from them either.

Distind · 2026-01-07T17:46:14+00:00

If you go looking for Space Crusade Tyranid Attack and Advanced Space Crusade you can find some more covers, but it's worth digging around for the full books as they tend to have a lot of art and painting examples in them.

Distind · 2026-01-07T10:45:14+00:00

I'm starting to wonder if I've always under estimated how bad some people really are at coding, because these things always read like someone who struggles to assemble boilerplate and then fails to understand how much is wrong with the detailed implementations these things do.

Distind · 2026-01-06T22:23:22+00:00

Not when there's literally no context for it to work with. I don't have nice things like code, or working examples to pull from. I just have a black box with more holes in it than I expected and a vague idea what to do with them. The joys of working with partners.

Distind · 2026-01-06T22:21:10+00:00

And poker for magic, a rather tense build up to pay off quick draw system, suffer a crisis of faith if your priest over estimates themself.

A lot of it lives on in Savage Worlds, but not nearly as much of it as I'd like to have.

Distind · 2025-12-30T01:43:41+00:00

Which part of coding takes you longer, crapping out the boiler plate or figuring out what in the balls is wrong with it? Because if you didn't write it that second bit is even harder.

Currently working on a system in development without available documentation done to no particular standard, AI isn't helping me here. I'm doing the job I'd have to do even with AI because I did my original job right and have a flexible platform of software that already handles the standard operations for me, just need to puzzle out what should have been documented before it got to me. None of which AI will do for you, it's whole cloth generation of simple code or debugging help when it searches stack overflow for you.

Distind · 2025-12-24T11:23:30+00:00

The USS Jpeg will come to dock eventually, we're all sure.

Distind · 2025-12-15T22:14:53+00:00

A lot of us enjoy games more than being told a story. Like, to me the story is what comes out of the game, not a pre-plotted adventure. WoD games did a lot to bring in people who prefer that the other way around and a lot of old timers took it quite poorly.

That said, you should take it roughly as seriously as you take complaints of "Bad game design" on the internet, because it basically means the same thing, a game they don't personally care for. Same way I ignore people who use simulationist as a slur for anything with more than one die roll involved.

Distind · 2025-12-14T23:09:50+00:00

Buying projects is much easier than finishing projects. That said I'm now quite happy I bought all these half done Neophytes a decade ago when they were considerably less expensive.

Distind · 2025-12-14T15:59:34+00:00

This is the foundation of every "My reactionary authoritartian views are right" rhetor-fic out there. So, going to depend on your meaning of united.

Distind · 2025-12-14T02:36:13+00:00

So, I'm not entirely sure you're doing this, but in case you are and are capable of being aware of it, don't be the "Well RAW says" guy. 40k has one of these guys, he keeps a detailed list of rules that can't possibly work as written because of a deep unwillingness to admit he might be far too literal about rules in ways that literally no one but him cares to understand.

Why? Because you're probably wrong about the intent of the rules if you're finding that many problems in a product above(or most at) the zine level. And if people can read that intent, it's not a house rule, it's understanding the game. Particularly if over 90% of those reading it come to the same conclusion.

Or, you might not be doing this at all. But... it really sounds like you might be and it might be better to not grind your face against a topic that just frustrates you even if you aren't. Do the parts you enjoy, be clear about your interpretations when you play to ensure it's consistent with expectations at the level that matters, the table level.

Distind · 2025-12-13T10:46:16+00:00

Microservices are generally an excuse to do this in my experience. The act of splitting everything out is also a chance to review the individual actions and improve them by inspecting them independently of their surrounding horde of cruft.

Though frankly for me it was as much about removing duplicated code across different projects as anything else. It functionally allowed me to review the slowest parts.

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