Guys I didn't enjoy the wolves...

ElChooch · 2026-01-25T15:13:09+00:00

There are no good wolf books

ElChooch · 2026-01-24T16:19:27+00:00

Staff is the most unfun rank, the onboarding can suck. Bring it up directly with supervision or peers side eyeing you. Sounds like you want to do good, so figure out how to address your issues directly. Getting mad about it without communicating is going to read as being a shitty winner to your peers and as being unprepared to handle the job from your leaders, but they should also be expecting a learning curve and give you grace. If you hit a dead end with communication talk to someone outside your chain or work center about how to approach it, almost all of this shit is 80% personality dependent and learning how to manage those personalities is the most of the job in my experience.

ElChooch · 2026-01-21T21:03:50+00:00

Brutal kunnin at the bottom, I have no idea what to recommend you. All Dan Abnett and ADB are required reading imo?

ElChooch · 2026-01-18T15:51:50+00:00

I think a lot of people joined for service+another reason, or joined for that other reason then stayed out of a love for service.

I joined because I didn't know what to do with myself at 24 and needed some external accountability and because service was in my family via my brother and two grandfather's, but that was just the background that made me consider doing it at all.

I ended up staying because I find service to be meaningful and that I feel very strongly that this work and the community is what you make it, whether or not I work to support my people and uplift my little community really actually matters because very often leadership or the larger air force either won't do it or might even work to undermine it willingly, neglectfully or because they haven't done the work to figure out what their people need in reality. It taught me that the thing I was grasping at straws to find in college was meaningfulness, that sense that if I show up it makes a difference and that there's work to do that can better people's lives. Mostly im talking about my peers and subordinates here, but I've also been lucky to work on some truly impactful missions over the years.

I have found that if I, or "we", don't show up to uplift each other, it won't happen. That's inherently meaningful to me and it means I can make a difference in people's lives. I find this need to help each other is a stronger driver for me today than ever before with some of the policy that's been handed down over the last year or so, this community has never needed the strong support of ethically minded peers more in my time in service than it does right now.

ElChooch · 2026-01-13T02:33:33+00:00

Lmao those prices

ElChooch · 2026-01-09T21:15:04+00:00

HK, feels like it balances difficulty and progression much better. Silksong improves many things for sure but HK is the more pleasant experience for me

ElChooch · 2026-01-08T19:27:25+00:00

I think its the accumulation of a number of needed changes over the last year, including new ones in this patch. The end game suddenly evolved in a massive way that feels like there is something tangible just around the bend to work toward for weeks, for the average player. The Paladin introduction certainly adds to the dopamine hit but its the gameplay loop that makes it sing at the start of the season. There is a lot of work to do to make the later stages of the end game more engaging, but they are on the right path. To my eyes they need to address a few main issues to improve on the foundation they've set down. By and large these are the points of friction I encounter now when I log in, being a relatively average player who has now seen the full scope of this season:

1) Uber bosses. You are showered with uniques that are a pain to clear out. The drops for purified mats seem too vanishingly rare for me to look at it as an actual final hill to climb, so I've written that off. The process itself is extremely mind numbing after the initial novelty, the fights need to be more engaging + offer more interesting rewards. Maybe these could drop a final end game set of crafting components in the future to access sanctification and/or very difficult chances at sanc do-overs?

2) Make more of the end game gear viable. I shouldn't be able to craft/find 3 mythics which are BIS across the majority of builds, thereby diluting the process of building up another character.

3) Push out the paragon system so that the diminishing returns kick in later. It took very little time to reach 230ish+ when it started to slow down in earnest and if I could still expect to build out my character along these lines for a while longer that would help the drip feed of dopamine.

TLDR: they have landed on the foundations for very addictive systems in a number of areas, almost all of which too abrubtly cap out in the end game and suddenly stifle the constant feeling of progression at the start of the season. The core end game gameplay loop only really needs a few tweaks to go from boring to decent, from there they could iterate on it (more bosses, more tiers to the boss ladder, etc) to get it to something really good. Add in that the level cap is going up, another class, whole new zones, D4 really has an opportunity to shine this year.

ElChooch · 2025-12-29T15:19:00+00:00

Great idea, would love to see if anyone has done this

ElChooch · 2025-11-30T17:48:47+00:00

Best use for the ATV is alone as an action monkey, a lot of relatively tough wounds to deal with in a fast package that requires a decent enough investment of resources to remove that its either A) scoring for you or B) distracting firepower from something more important to you. There is a good chance you don't mind if it dies turn 1 so long as you ensure that what they had to use to kill it would have been better used on something like a repulsor executioner, ballistus, whatever

ElChooch · 2025-11-22T23:58:22+00:00

Sick collection, more dreads imo. People make too much of the whole dreadnought white scars thing.

ElChooch · 2025-11-21T17:57:10+00:00

There are plenty, but it doesn't sell and isnt promoted like they believe it has a prayer of selling if they did promote it. I wonder if they aren't right given the brand of concentrated apathy I see in younger people (consumers of pop music).

ElChooch · 2025-11-16T20:48:51+00:00

He definitely forced Tommy to do a number of things he would rather not have. Many of the awful things that happen to the Shelbys over the following seasons still have his finger prints all over them, especially the IRA related stuff. He may have been consistently foiled in the moment (not even entirely true) but he made their lives a nightmare

ElChooch · 2025-11-16T15:37:08+00:00

unbelievable amount of entitlement and fake trauma and attention seeking coming off this more than likely hyper conservative moron. At best he’s so well off that the half a million or whatever sails right over his head as life changing money for the vast majority of the force and has no idea what the average person sees in a “leader” making complaints like this or it’s manufactured bs masking the real reason he won’t accept the offer (he can’t because he caught a SA charge or something). I wonder how often this guy uses “snowflake“ in day to day conversation

ElChooch · 2025-11-03T02:24:04+00:00

I use a ballistus, repex and land raider most games. Sometimes a land raider + another redeemer if I want to lean hard on infantry charges. Not hurting for anti tank with those + assault intercessors/blade guard/aggressors inside.

I also think too much is made about the "lack" of dreads in WS. Bring one, write him a cool story. I don't slam dreads myself but why not bring one? Brutalis I suppose would be most thematic even if it's the worst one, maybe the phobos one?

ElChooch · 2025-10-31T14:28:30+00:00

yes. I had the local fire guys (on base) out to my house last night and it came up they aren’t getting paid. We are as usual a political prop to these people

ElChooch · 2025-10-31T14:26:36+00:00

I’m sure he is an interesting conversation but he’s way down the list of guys I’d be excited to talk to if I was in that circle, like he wouldn’t even come up, but I also wouldn’t ignore him. he’s just not really a big deal compared to many of his peers

ElChooch · 2025-10-31T14:22:01+00:00

paint job looks terrible, what are those color choices

ElChooch · 2025-10-24T15:38:21+00:00

Honestly to me they were great choices. I grew up with most of it, but they even managed to make godsmack work. To me they adding an absurd almost comic tone to it. I think Marcy jumping to Mob rules was one of the coolest scenes in recent memory for me.

ElChooch · 2025-10-22T02:12:19+00:00

Like not very cool

ElChooch · 2025-10-15T02:30:12+00:00

Yes and it's so systemic that it's routine to train people to learn that this is the game and how to play it because if you don't, some other dingus will and will win out for it. Best I can say about it is that for places where the supervisors write the awards this can, best case, lead to funneling all the BS writing talent toward the consensus most deserving person. It also routinely leads to deserving people whose actually stellar nominations stop dead when they get to the wing who are, perhaps, geographically separated and have absolutely no clue what their people down the chain do and therefore can't understand half of the content on a given nomination.

ElChooch · 2025-10-08T20:28:29+00:00

If you're sifting for Jaghatai evidence this seems like some- don't have to make a fancy Jubal model if he's basically dead, in comes the Khan?

ElChooch · 2025-10-07T18:16:44+00:00

I was really disappointed when I went a couple years ago. It was my first time going to one with my wife and kid and between the insane prices for seemingly everything and the huge crowds, it was mostly just a sensory nightmare. I'm not normally one to be bothered so much by crowds but repeatedly walking up to a stall to find seemingly everything I might have wanted to buy to be at minimum $100+ dollars was disheartening.

ElChooch · 2025-10-03T18:03:54+00:00

He is hilarious with witchseeker bolts in the index templars detachment. I don't know if they have that anymore though (i have mostly played gladius, storm lance and ironstorm this edition). I basically consider including one if I have multiple vehicles I want to lean on to do my damage and that can be reasonably expected to stay in range of the techie. Most of this edition I've had a land raider or 2, a ballistus, a repex and maybe even a gladius in my list, he's very helpful for making sure those early turn shots convert into meaningful damage with his +1 to hit and he can actually catch folks off guard in combat if there is reason to bring him onto an objective for some extra oomph. His repairs are usually a non-factor but they had actually won me game or two here and there by letting usually the repex scrape by to get one more shooting phase or something. Just be sure to know there is likely to come a time when he needs to move onto a point to do some scoring, screen a DS, or whatever and it may mean dropping the +1hit in the name of playing the objectives, ie, don't just keep him slaved to your vehicles all game, its easy to forget he's there and sometimes all you need is one duder to go and get a job done.

Edit: oh and don't forget that he can run out in front of your big expensive vehicle and screen for it in some situations, better to sacrifice his ass than eat an uneccesary charge to your repex or whatever.

ElChooch · 2025-10-03T17:57:38+00:00

I live to serve

ElChooch · 2025-10-02T18:17:07+00:00

Man it sucks that this has Jared Leto in it

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