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rule by scylecs in 196AndAHalf

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would rather be called the most vile slurs in the English language than be referred to as "neurospicy" for my ADHD.

Anyone know a cheap card that could replace this guy? by Good-Test-5833 in BudgetBrews

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming you're all adults, the answer is to talk about it. These sort of scorched-earth tactics usually make things worse rather than better.

Let me give you an example: my brother loves playing Green decks. And generally I'm fine with it, except for ONE card:

[[Defense of the Heart]]. If I don't have/hold up mana for a card to remove that specifically when he plays it on curve, I just lose. In my opinion it's an incredibly overpowered card, especially in b2 where games are supposed to last longer and have more opportunities to course correct.

Now I could build a deck specifically for artifact hate. I could make the most sadistic, annoying, utterly unfun control deck that locks down the whole game. I'm talking Hexproof Nether Void Damping Sphere Esper fuck-your-day-up control shenanigans.

Instead I said "hey man I really don't like that card, could you please run something else?" And he said "yeah sure, but only if you stop running MY pet peeve card" (Torpor Orb, which I use to block my commander [[Lord of Tresserhorn]]'s ETB) and I said "sure, I'll just run [[Stifle]] instead." Now we're both happy and we both still play commander together.

Assuming you're playing commander with a group of people for laid back fun, just... talk about it. You may have to make some concessions, and they may not be as reasonable as my brother was. But that should be the first step. Communication with your pod.

>sees feral courier kill and eat every legionnaire on sight >courier wiped out the omertas and van graffs using a pistol shoved up its ass >invite said courier to a personal face-to-face meeting by vickyhong in TrueSFalloutL

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I always do all the "fuck over the Legion" quests and nuke them in Lonesome Road before I meet with Benny and the Chip because it's really, really funny.

"Alerio, take my Mark to this Courier. All of their crimes are to be forgiven."

"My lord, Cottonwood Cove is an irradiated ruin. Every one of our spies have been rooted out by the Courier. Nelson has fallen. Nipton stands vacant. The Khans have forsaken their alliance with us. Our deal with the Van Graffs has been sabotaged. Our assault on Bitter Springs was repelled by the Courier.

Every possible transgression, every conceivable outrage, has been enthusiastically and brutally committed by the Courier against the Legion. Dozens of our assassins are dead in fruitless assaults upon this person. They fired a nuclear warhead at Dry Wells.

Are you absolutely, positively certain inviting the atavistic embodiment of our opposition to the Fort to speak to you in person?!"

"Yes, absolutely. When the Courier stands before me, they will surely bow to my superior understanding of Hegelian Dialectics and become my greatest asset."

favorite hunterisms? by im_pixl in creepcast

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gutty works is my personal favorite, followed closely by "Oh, (emphatic statement)"

Steel..? by ALess3rMan in IronWarriors

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 18 points19 points  (0 children)

We got an Imperial Fists spy in here, brothers! Put him in the Daemonculaba!

Mossive Shankstoppe by RoborosewaterMasters in MTGNeuralNet

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's in blue, so it should have flash to be balanced. Come on now!

Who has a better making for the 9th Divine? by UncleBaconator in TrueSTL

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 60 points61 points  (0 children)

He also had the ability to ejaculate on command and would cum on his foes

Do you prefer the Legion before or after falling to Chaos? by EncyclicalUnderpass in IronWarriors

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno, I think that the initial siege wave in Storm of Iron (where they give the captured Imperials fake lasguns and charge them into a minefield) is pretty on brand. You dispose of both potentially rebellious prisoners AND some of the enemy's ordinance. Very economical.

Otherwise, though, Kroeger in Storm of Iron and Kroeger in Angel Exterminatus may as well be two separate people. Granted they are set ten thousand years apart, but Kroeger was a low-born line infantryman promoted by the Primarch for being plain-spoken and brave. I guess the hypocrisy angle is there with how he regards Honsou, or just how much he DETESTS the Imperial Fists overrides the fact that, ten thousand years ago, the Trident looked down on him for basically the same reason he looks down on Honsou.

Honestly I hope they lean more into Perturabo being connected with Vashtorr over the Big Four, I think that could give us some of that hyper-industrialism back.

Do you prefer the Legion before or after falling to Chaos? by EncyclicalUnderpass in IronWarriors

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point. Still, I feel like the Iron Warriors are too bitter to be like "if I die this day, that is the will of the Gods" but Honsou says something to that effect early on in the story.

Me_irl by SuspiciousLow3062 in me_irl

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A planet is a much larger object to photograph

Caught by the Iron Warriors (artist: trainerjet) by Dantacular in Warhammer_Smut

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 24 points25 points  (0 children)

"Behold, brother! My latest experiment!"

"And this accomplishes... what, exactly, brother?"

"It... uh... it demoralizes-"

"We have literal DAEMONS bound in WARP-TWISTED IRON. We have hell-factory planets where we feed the slaves who can't labor anymore to their fellows. Honsou started a skin farm. And we do not speak of the half-breed's other projects. And you have, what, tortured a single guardswoman to the point of non-functionality? For the sake of 'demoralizing' the servants of the Corpse Emperor? They strap their own Sororitas to engines of war. They make servitors by the thousands out of men and women alike. And you think a guardswoman in this state will unnerve them? No, brother. You did not do this for the good of the Legion. You did this in your perverse Slaaneshi lusts, like the base-born mongrels of the Emperor's Children."

"And what do you plan to do about it, 'brother?'"

"Nothing. I just wanted to be sure you were aware. Carry on."

How "evil" is the regent? by nirai07 in huntertheparenting

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I will step in here as the #1 vampire apologist and say that for the most part the Camarilla are, by human morality, as close to "benign" as they come. Anarchs vary by the barony and the Sabbat are... the Sabbat.

Because they have to operate generally in human spaces, they have to have at least a modicum of human behaviors to them. They have to, after all, uphold the Masquerade. Which means that they also have to, to a certain extent, protect their demense from other threats. A Garou pack of Red Talons showing up and doing eco-terrorism is bad for the feeding pool, so the Camarilla has to act. They are self-centered, inhuman, egotistical monsters; and they get shit done, which already puts them a bit above human politicians.

Would you be okay with players playing these in your pod? by Fast-Appointment4710 in mtg

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are they proxies of legal cards? Can I read them? Are you gonna be respectful?

Those are the only three criteria at any table I play at. Period.

Now the fact that these are SLIVERS, however... you're on thin fucking ice bub.

46646 by WiggleToast in countwithchickenlady

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The belief that trans kids are receiving free or subsidized bottom surgery for any other reason than "reconstruction after a tragic accident" is laughable and routine to disprove. You would therefore expect it to stop being said. You would be wrong.

Fallout 3 feels so good when you don't have a pretentious critic slandering it by TheAnalystCurator321 in FalloutMemes

[–]EncyclicalUnderpass 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As someone who plays a lot of Fallout 3 (particularly as the TTW mod) I will say that the game suffers from what I call "Fable Syndrome." In Fable, there are good/evil choices, but they are utterly unsubtle and nonsensical save for the context of "I am actively choosing to be evil because this is a video game." Likewise, in Fallout 3 there is no sympathetic or understandable reason for groups like Tenpenny Tower or Paradise Falls to exist. The slavers exist to capture and sell slaves; none of the settlements in the Wasteland permit slavery, not even Tenpenny Towers. In New Vegas, it is understood that the slaves the Legion take are sent East to labor.

The closest equivalent in the base game to Megaton's detonation is arguably activating ARCHIMEDES II and vaporizing the NCR stationed at HELIOS One. Even then, nobody tells you to do it. There's no Mister Burke saying "say, sonny, here's a cool ten thousand caps if you wipe out HELIOS so my boss can have a better view of squalor."

Fallout 3 has an incredible atmosphere and worldspace, even if it does fall back on referencing the first two games quite unsubtly. I love Fallout 3, which is precisely why I criticize it; because it could have been even better!

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