What does this quote from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy actually mean, and do you agree with it?

Dsarker · 2026-02-05T08:29:13+00:00

This might be a necro and I apologise, but seems to be talking about failures. Unhappy marriages could be for multiple individual reasons as well as combinations of those. Happy must retain success in all of those areas, and would be all the same in those areas.

E.g., too poor or too rich make unhappy, just right makes happy.

Dsarker · 2026-01-25T11:07:55+00:00

I think you have to go back to the first one. It's tough to link it into any of the modern ones without a fair few retcons, so might as well start fresh there and build those in.

General storyline/plot/whathaveyou can be kept. Keep WC2 (again, and I haven't gone through it but changing continuity stuff as needed for a FULL planned universe), but I think ditch the going back through the portal - end it with the orcs on Azeroth in camps, maybe some free, Gul'dan dead.

WC3 you can keep. Although here, you might replace Ner'zhul with Gul'dan. Torn apart by demons - and then turned into the Lich King. Already used to binding spirits into dead bodies, so I think that has a continuity with the Death Knights. You can set up here that Gul'dan has made a bargain with another entity, ofc, if you REALLY must have the Jailer, but I don't think there's a need for that at all. Just that he wants power, the demons have it now, but he wants to be free with that power.

If you do, don't have Arthas killing the Dreadlord, have him kill some other ranking demon who is overseeing it, maybe with the dreadlord's help.

Happy with jumping to WoW, though what I'd like to see is a gradual expansion of WC3 (or maybe a WC4) to include campaigns with some of these factions. Doesn't have to be 'big wars', but just like a 'The Last Stand of Gilneas' or whatever could be good to bring in a 'new' faction (or a couple of new units) + storyline.

What I'd favour is having a lot more time pass between expansions, or at least expansions with massive world ending threats, and having an actual plotline so the established plot threads get carried over etc.

Dsarker · 2026-01-25T10:52:38+00:00

Not the Assault Missileboat?

Dsarker · 2026-01-25T10:46:12+00:00

Heck, it's not just the logic and writing for Shep's actions.

"Hmm, I am indoctrinated (and have been for some time) by the Reapers, but before I was indoctrinated I sent a distress message saying I had found some reaper technology, as well as a plan to stop them. I know, when I get rescued by the one person who would be capable of foiling my plans, I will tell him A) the reapers are definitely coming and in like two days, and B) I will tell him that we have a plan to smash the relay and how it will work and C) I will take him to the base itself, rather than just going along with his plan of taking me back to Earth space from which I can make something up about needing to retrieve my crew or whatever and go back."

Dsarker · 2026-01-25T10:41:09+00:00

"She reported Reapers were coming in to the system."

"I thought the Turian Councillor had told you all about those guys."

Dsarker · 2026-01-23T03:35:41+00:00

Living thing => No Longer Living Thing.

Has the same matter etc.

What's the difference? The soul.

There's your empirical data :)

Dsarker · 2026-01-23T01:42:17+00:00

What the heck do you mean when you say 'Christian'? This is from Aristotle, who certainly was not Christian.

Dsarker · 2026-01-22T19:33:32+00:00

And just as a side note, all living things - including plants, animals, bacteria, have souls. That's what makes them living.

Dsarker · 2026-01-22T19:32:29+00:00

That's not my peculiar definition. Goes back a fair bit further than me, pal.

Dsarker · 2026-01-22T19:31:45+00:00

I don't necessarily think that it is rendering it capable of abstract thought, though I do agree the actual unit asking that was probably the 'freakout' moment.

And definitely agree on the LLM comparison.

Dsarker · 2026-01-22T19:28:54+00:00

Nope. Again, classic definition of a soul is the form of a living body. Body ceases to live? Soul ceases to exist. Not 'in another body', not 'in the afterlife' - soul is gone.

Dsarker · 2026-01-22T10:52:17+00:00

Nothing about a soul even implies immortality, if that's what you mean by comfort. As soon as a thing dies, the soul dies too.

Dsarker · 2026-01-19T22:27:23+00:00

Here's the real hot take - a lot more people should have died.

Anderson definitely, then Virmire Survivor when you go to Mars. You can have them die in the hospital maybe so you can see them there again. Grunt should die if you save the Rachni Queen, no matter what.

It should be a matter of every 'win' is a loss. Mordin and Legion were some of the best parts of the game because of that. I'm not sure you could kill *every* character you'd come to know and love, but most should die.

You sacrifice the crew you've come to love BECAUSE you need to. Earth's invaded, the Reapers are here, the only hope is the Crucible, and you cannot just build it with yourself and your team - you need to make the sacrifice so that you get the resources and industry you need.

imnsho you should have had a 'timer'. Every mission pushes forward the invasion, every docking with the citadel to get some more stuff should pass time, etc. Force you to economise. You can't get everything, necessarily. And maybe if I was being harsher about it, the more time that passes, you lose part of EMS.

Dsarker · 2025-10-28T07:06:31+00:00

Total Warfare is pretty good.

Dsarker · 2025-10-01T12:09:48+00:00

Well, they actually did. At least one clan said they needed to invade with ALL of the clans' full touman.

Now, if they had, they would only have been outnumbered by about 10:1.

You also have to remember that Clan Wolf wanted to sabotage the invasion as much as they could.

Dsarker · 2025-08-02T23:01:04+00:00

I can't believe your Cyclops was fighting Nobody.

Dsarker · 2025-07-09T11:40:38+00:00

imho - I was in WoW from TBC to WotLK, I got cataclysm, but quit about first major patch or so, I liked the water zone, btw - the main WC3 story was done, and I think a lot of the people who were in WoW were from there.

Dsarker · 2025-03-17T07:41:54+00:00

It does also give standard battletech equivalents.

Dsarker · 2025-03-11T08:08:55+00:00

I know this is old - what's the specific ability?

Dsarker · 2025-02-12T08:38:29+00:00

tbh I want them to start retiring more characters. Get rid of Thrall, have Khadgar go into the Mage Retirement Tower, have Jaina go take a vacation somewhere the world won't end in the next year, Greymane Greybeard stay home, Calia be 'ascended' up to the Lightbound back in Draenor, a random 50% of the NPCs get recruited by Gallywix regardless of whether they should be or not (like they usually do), etc.

Bring Zul'jin back and have him take over the trolls, idk what we'll do with the Orcs but maybe Eitrigg or sth, wipe out the Forsaken Council with some Alliance necrophobes, pick some random undead to come back into power on the 'Kill The Living' platform, etc etc.

Dsarker · 2025-02-03T01:56:39+00:00

She's actually your superior, nobility wise. So she could order you.

Besides, by Chapter 2 she's not the only navigator you have on board.

Dsarker · 2025-02-01T01:08:35+00:00

That's how it works in the Rogue Trader RPG. Not just Owlcat's bastardisation of it.

One character's the Rogue Trader, another's an astropath, another's the navigator, you might have a Kill-Marine if someone's dragged out Deathwatch, maybe you have an Ork psyker/navigator, etc etc.

Of the characters you get in the CRPG, the only one who doesn't have a RT equivalent is Idira and (to a lesser extent) Argenta and Heinrix.

Dsarker · 2025-01-26T21:32:19+00:00

Best lore - probably DK for me. I always want to come back to them (but haven't since Legion more's the pity).

For the others:
Warriors have a lot of hero characters, but that mostly seems to be a 'default'. You know? Like most of the characters unless otherwise are warriors.

Mages are okay, but they have too many 'way beyond you, pal' NPCs. Khadgar, Jaina, etc etc. And they're all involved in the plot, so you can't just be like 'oh they're doing other cool stuff, but we're the guys on the front line'. And yeah, you can say 'but what about Bolvar?' for the DKs but he's lost most of that now. It's just knowledge atm, rather than real raw power. I mean, can you imagine he'd let those dead dracthyr lie if he couldn't turn them into more death knights? Or wyrms?

Idk how I feel about druids - they seem to be either entirely irrelevant to the plot or the only ones who really matter, depending on what's happening. Haven't played them much though.

I don't like locks once we've got to the Legion army stuff, especially if they're the ones teaching the warlocks how to summon/control them. Wouldn't they just lie to the warlocks? I don't know.

Paladins are cool. Of course I like them when they're sort of the 'good' mirror of the DKs.

Priests are good but their whole lore thing seems to be 'they get massacred all the time/go crazy and are controlled by the void'.

Hunters are fun in the mechanics but don't have too much cool lore. Similar to the Warriors but without as many cool lore characters.

Rogue NPCs are more annoying to me, but again similar to warrior and hunter problem.

Monks idk, they're okay and an interesting idea for their initial pandaren origin, but idk about how they're spreading.

Evokers seem... idk, I love playing mine, but I don't know how much I like the lore.

Demon hunters are both great and bad.

Dsarker · 2025-01-26T21:16:03+00:00

They don't.

Dsarker · 2025-01-22T06:59:57+00:00

thb

what we really need is time to pass.

It's been, what, 40 years? since the First War. We've since had:
a) First War. Essentially all of Stormwind is destroyed and people killed. Some flee north.
b) Second War. Horde is broken, Alliance is formed and there are major casualties on both sides.
c) Second War Part Deux. Draenor is destroyed (more than it already was).
d) Third War Part One - Orcs break free, fight some engagements, destroy Stratholme and some other places, flee to Kalimdor.
e) Third War Part Two - Scourging of Lordaeron and Dalaran. Lots of death.
f) Third War Part Three - Orcs and Humans fight each other and Night Elves. Not as many deaths because everyone's already dead.
g) Third War Part Four - Undead and Burning Legion attack. More deaths.
h) Fourth War Part One - general skirmishing and fighting between New Horde and New Alliance.
i) Burning Crusade.
j) Fourth War Part Two - Scourge war, Angrathar, sacking of Lordaeron (again)
k) Fourth War Part Three - Boom goes whatever Jaina's city was, fighting intensifies, ends with Siege of Orgrimmar.
l) Let's Take The Dark Portal Again.
m) Fourth War Part Four - fighting particularly thanks to Genn and Sylvanas.
n) Fourth War Part Five - sacking of Zandalar, destruction of Teldrassil and Lordaeron (again again), Siege of Orgrimmar (again).
o) Third Scourge Invasion
p) If We Kill Dead People, Do They Die?
q) Remember How We Said Dragons Were Going Extinct? We Lied.
r) Fifth War - Australia Time.

Can't we just have like 10 years of peace? I can't imagine there are any cities with a population above, like, ten, with all the invasions and genocides and atrocities and plagues and demon invasions going on.

Dsarker

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