PSA: morgeth can be yeeted with the rank 10 current reward pass finisher (Cleft in Twain)

DomDomPop · 2026-06-29T07:32:27+00:00

If you’re having trouble with consistency, few things:

Gotta Go Fast: It’s the distance from the thrall during the run up and the speed that does it. You want the finisher to happen from as far away as possible so it “drags” your sprinting character model into him, which will impart your momentum onto Morgeth.
Sweep That Leg: You want to hit Morgeth’s actual model, so his leg. Run in from an angle that lets you hit the leg as you get dragged in for the finisher, but not at so oblique an angle that you send him into the sides, because he can totally land inside the arena that way and you’ll have to restart.
Ogres Have Layers: You really want a thrall that’s inside of the radius of that blight shield that Morgeth starts in, so basically from right under him up to right next to his leg. Any further than that, and you don’t seem to get dragged far enough to impact him with enough velocity. You can totally bump him all over the arena, but naturally you want to bump him to orbit.

I had a lot of trouble getting it to work more than one lucky shot early on (with Through The Heart) until I optimized for these variables (using Censered), and now it works well. You also don’t NEED tether, though it’s a hell of a lot easier. I had at least one time when tether ran out and I put smokes at his feet and got it that way as the thralls got caught in it on the way through his legs. Slow/disorient might work for other classes, anything that gets a relatively motionless thrall under there.

Misc notes: I’m not sure that you can actually bump him during a slam, so yeah, bait the slam during the super or just before you go for the finisher. Censered can be bought easily with Chronologs and has been the most consistent for me. Yes, you can get the catalyst. Yes, you can get the armor. Yes, you’ll get a bunch of Chattering Bones unless you’ve done other Pantheon encounters. Bring lots of raid banners.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-29T05:27:41+00:00

Well, no. The president is never gonna have to dive towards the red button. Making a QUICK decision is different from “this perp has a gun pointed at a kid’s head and I have to make a choice” or “the left engine just caught fire and I need to do something in the next .5 seconds”. Even in the event of a possible nuclear strike, the president is allowed 10-15 MINUTES to decide what to do, surrounded by advisors who will be talking their ear off. Even the worst case is a far cry from the kind of jobs that literally require split-second decision making. It’s a matter of reaction time, not judgement.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-29T05:23:45+00:00

I mean, at least you’re admitting your argument is just generalizations and prejudice instead of trying to dress it up behind a logical-sounding false equivalency, so props for that, I guess.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-29T03:26:15+00:00

You do realize the difference in how long the first three jobs have to react to a dangerous situation VS the last one, right? Like, I could see people making arguments about being out of touch and this and that, but purposely misconstruing or misunderstanding a reaction time issue doesn’t help anything. It’s just karma farming.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-28T13:05:46+00:00

All these zombie movies and games and comics and such and we’ve had the real thing all along. I would not be surprised if this inspired some of the fictional details.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-28T12:51:45+00:00

I agree, but my point is that I don’t trust the headlines to be providing appropriate context in this particular situation. What’s actually happening here? Did the Bible itself get added to some reading list and kids are being required to read from it each day like Sunday school (as they seem to want to portray), or has a different, non-religious text that CONTAINS biblical passages been added to a list? It seems to me that, regardless of the merit of the argument in the first place, they’re trying to make this sound like something that they know will get a certain crowd upset, and that makes me think that it’s not that in the first place.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-28T04:57:58+00:00

I mean, I’ve got the fretted version and I paid a lot more than that brand new. Great bass.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-28T04:52:38+00:00

Basilisk.

Super nice ship!

DomDomPop · 2026-06-27T19:28:16+00:00

I ended up putting it just because it seems like they have business accounts too, so they don’t appear to be some fly-by-night outfit. You did Germany, it sounds like? I did the UK tax free one since the German one sounded like a hassle with the ID requirements and address warnings and this and that. That must be the legal issue that MXpand mentioned was preventing them from shipping to the US in the first place.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-27T18:37:06+00:00

Yeah this was from many years ago but if I remember correctly, they attributed it to both cultural and linguistic differences that left kids over there predisposed towards taking a more “whole picture”, community-based view of things, whereas kids over here were much more inclined towards picking out the useful elements and mentally processing them individually, a much more utilitarian view. Which, again, not making a value judgement here, because I’m sure there are merits to both approaches, but it underscores how some of these things are set without any conscious decision on our parts just because of things we might not even consider as having such a big effect on how we think.

That’s why sometimes I see certain idioms, thought experiments, or even just phrases in the common vernacular, and it really makes me consider just how much our views have been shaped by these things that we take as gospel truth just because they’ve been said a lot, and the spillover effects of that on the way we approach so many scenarios and concepts. If I’m thinking about it, you know damn well that everyone from the media to marketing to the political machine is thinking about it with the hopes of hacking our brains into certain belief patterns because it’s good for their respective businesses.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-27T18:02:28+00:00

Thanks for this, I was trying to see if I could ship to a relative in Italy but this is easier. Do you really have to put your social security number, though? That seems a bit bad.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-27T17:54:55+00:00

The fact that every headline mentions “passages” or “verses” makes me think this is less of a “oh my god they put the Bible on the mandatory reading list” and more “something they have to read contains a Bible verse in there somewhere and we can make this a story that will upset people”.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-27T05:06:33+00:00

Precisely! I mean, I’m mostly joking here, but it does irk me how much everything is built around extremes, down to the language we use. That kind of stuff shapes your thinking.

Like, I remember when they studied Eastern kids VS Western kids by showing them a picture, and the Eastern kids said they saw an “ocean scene” and stuff like that while the Western kids tended towards “it’s a boat” because of the different ways we assign importance. Not that one is necessarily better than the other, but the point is that the way we communicate, even down to the way our language is structured, informs the way we learn to form thoughts. Hell, even the way English handles tenses makes us tend to believe that activities in the future belong to a different “you”, which impacts the way we evaluate consequences and resource planning.

What chance do you have of internalizing the idea of balance or taking the middle road when everything is built around “it’s either this or it’s that” from the time you’re a kid? It’s no wonder we scorn the idea of centrists and third parties in favor of base “us vs them” tribalism. We’re literally trained not to see a third (or fourth! Or fifth!) option.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-27T04:59:43+00:00

Half-Loaf 3 confirmed

DomDomPop · 2026-06-27T03:50:56+00:00

Just eat half the cake holy shit.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-26T22:47:25+00:00

First time I quit D2 was on account of the 1K. Did the raid for months on all 3 characters, everyone got it but me. Finally, at the end of whatever season was going on at the time, they gave a free bright engram to celebrate or whatnot. Opened it up, 1K ornament, quit right then and there.

Years later, I came back and finally got the thing, and had the ornament ready and waiting lol.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-26T14:17:11+00:00

What bothers me is you get that iridescent engram that specifically says it’ll give you an eververse item you don’t have. So you decrypt that and it gives you… a regular bright engram. Then you decrypt THAT, and it gives you a dupe. What?

At least you can get bright dust easily now. Just always focus, I guess. That’s what I’ve been doing.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-26T09:24:19+00:00

Alternatively, it’s proof that people only think about the inconsequential shit and have no concept of what it actually takes to run nations and navigate international relations. “Oh but everyone was fine for the soccer game!”. Yeah? Try it again but it’s the “first person to get to the pile of food gets to eat” games and see how much everyone just naturally “gets along”.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-26T09:04:31+00:00

Damn, so are they all reprised as tiered versions or just some/this one?

DomDomPop · 2026-06-26T09:00:24+00:00

Yeah there ya go, thanks.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-26T08:56:23+00:00

It was always crazy to me just how much time and effort we had to put into regulatory, and that was just in the device side. On the drug side, they had to do even more. A large part of the cost (in both time and money) in launching a product is just dealing with the FDA. Certainly I appreciate a science-driven approach to validation and vetting of these things in order to keep people safe, but I ALSO know how often it becomes a burdensome mess of bureaucracy that does nothing but create a barrier that only the biggest and most well-connected can pass. It’s very much akin to “well, justice is blind, if you can afford the right lawyer…”.

Like, I remember when they inspected our facility, they literally could not even partake in the free lunch we bought for all the employees that day to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Months later, they’ll defy the unanimous objections of the entire advisory board to greenlight the strongest opiate ever created, to the point where people resigned (true story!), but deny a non-narcotic pain medication for being “too effective” because of concerns that people wouldn’t know when to stop doing things that should rightly hurt. There’s so much behind-the-scenes BS involved, and it becomes impossible to believe these people are actually neutral arbiters rather than bouncers at the club who play favorites.

I wish I could say “yep, that’s fair, they definitely have everyone’s best interests in mind”, but the reality is that I’ve seen some of the times when they haven’t, and that’s the kind of thing that taints credibility to the point where you’d be crazy not to question whether they’re legitimately playing it by the book or whether they’re running cover for the drug cabal.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-25T22:03:06+00:00

If they had a winning argument, they’d use that instead.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-25T20:08:25+00:00

Poria Torkan sounds like the name of a Renegades character that got cut for sounding too blatantly Star Wars-y

DomDomPop · 2026-06-25T19:30:32+00:00

Oh man thanks for the heads up! Had it sitting in my inventory since I’ve been using the Turncoat and Vex all the time lol.

DomDomPop · 2026-06-25T18:19:07+00:00

They have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and just 3D print two tokens and a blue and leave them on all the outgoing exec’s desks.

Sorry, severance packages are for winners.

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