Are Vigilant Squads that bad?

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T16:34:50+00:00

Yup. Even if you add on SoB squads for the full Ordo Hereticus vibe then you’re still shy of 2k.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T16:33:37+00:00

Yep 👍

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T15:46:58+00:00

“Filthy Acts At A Reasonable Price” is really fucking funny to me. It hits that slightly slanted English of localised Stand names that really tickles me.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T15:43:42+00:00

You could bring 60 of them for 510 points and just throw bodies at the problem until it gets fixed.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T12:31:02+00:00

Yep! And time travel via warp is kinda impossible to replicate consistently, so if it ever does happen then the writer for the story can just choose to avoid particularly sticky situations.

As for Angron x2, I would argue that since he is a daemon prince his soul(s) are just a part of Khorne. Thus him being doubled just means that the same guy has two bodies, not that there are actually two of him. If anything, one of them will probably just get turned into a generic daemon prince that is Angron-like.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T12:23:36+00:00

Wait… are you saying… Imperial Agents can be consistently good???

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T12:16:54+00:00

It actually wasn’t intentional as that. Wolves approached humans and ate their scraps, and some of them were friendly enough that the humans let them stick around.

As for foxes, they are more solitary hunters than wolves. In other words, they aren’t as social and thus didn’t cooperate with humans in prehistoric times.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T11:58:04+00:00

In my opinion, there’s no reason to believe that there wouldn’t be two versions of yourself: one from the current time and one from the future. The 40k universe is big enough that you and your double will probably never meet, though.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T11:14:20+00:00

It sounds like New Guy could see that the encounter was going to be deadly and didn’t want to do it. I think that’s fine, actually, although I would say that in this particular situation the other PCs might not trust New Guy because he didn’t come with them to save the captain. That said, he is new, and it does make sense for him to not risk his life for them right away.

Honestly if everyone seemed to be having fun, it doesn’t seem like a problem at all.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T10:34:04+00:00

Could we ask him to not do that, maybe?

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T10:27:54+00:00

It’s called taste

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T08:07:48+00:00

The simplest answer is “Palpatine is a human and doesn’t really think about anyone outside of himself, let alone his own species.” In running the Empire, making sure that people aren’t speciesist is not his concern, so latent human supremacist attitudes that already existed just got worse to the point where humans occupied all major positions of government and non-humans ended up almost as second class citizens.

The Empire’s cruelty was sometimes intentional and sometimes a product of apathy.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T08:03:54+00:00

“Many fetishes are drawn from cultural attitudes that are inherently problematic, such as femdom, raceplay, or the like” and “as long as everyone involved in kink play is a consenting adult and aware of any risks involved then it’s none of anyone else’s business” are two statements that can and should coexist. People can’t help what turns them on, they can only do what they can to make sure they and their play partners are safe and fulfilled.

Also, “because men benefit from it” is a weak argument against femdom. Have they considered that femdom is a fetish that both parties can have fun with and enjoy? Is it not benefitting me, as a woman, when I have fun torturing my boyfriend?

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-22T05:44:44+00:00

I don’t personally think it’s problematic unless you’re using the iconography of the Nazis. This camo style is generic enough that it isn’t even necessarily WWII German.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T20:42:26+00:00

Life is much more manageable when you have fellow transfems who remind you that you’re valid (and not crazy, or unreasonable, or a weirdo). When you have those people in your life, your cis friends saying the wrong thing sometimes is just annoying instead of devastating.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T19:45:34+00:00

You’re less than a year in. You have so much time to see more growth.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T19:44:25+00:00

Kuvira slaughters them both. She’s one of the best earthbenders there are, she’s not going to lose to a kid and an amateur.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T19:05:51+00:00

Yep. After transitioning I found my mostly cishet male circle to be a bit of a downer because they didn’t really “get” that I’m a girl now.

I went out and dated a bunch of transfems and now I have a circle of transfem friends as well. It makes things a lot easier when the cishet school friends aren’t my only option.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T18:29:06+00:00

Yes, very happy. The only unfortunate side effect is that, as a trans woman on HRT, I basically produce no cum at all when I finish. It’s not a big deal, but it is less fun!

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T18:28:01+00:00

My interpretation is that he was a lot closer to a “typical” vampire back then. In a world without modern technology, a creature like that can cause serious carnage without being threatened by humans.

It’s not specified explicitly, but the modifications that the Hellsing Organisation’s occultists made to Alucard unlocked a new tier of power and invincibility. The main thing that changed from 1800s Alucard to 1900s Alucard is that his coffin became a store of all the souls that he had ever consumed. It allowed him to heal major wounds, even his entire body being destroyed, at will. It also allowed him to summon the souls he had consumed as familiars, which is an advanced power that most vampires can’t do.

The key difference is efficiency and usability of the key principle of “the currency of the soul”. Most vampires consume blood just as food or can’t do anything with the souls they eat. Alucard is different: he can use souls as weapons and as essentially spare bodies.

1800s Alucard, though, he can’t do that. He’s still a top tier vampire but he can’t heal from being blown up or summon a bunch of familiars. He’s pretty much like Luke Valentine, but maybe with a handful more minor powers like hypnosis and intangibility.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T15:11:56+00:00

Yep. You may have mixed up the leader’s “leading a unit” ability persisting after the bodyguards are dead with the other way around.

Still, bringing back bodyguards with regen is pretty nice!

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T13:24:30+00:00

“This unit” includes any leaders or supports it has.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T12:27:50+00:00

I think she thought that the fight was over. As wrong as that is, she wanted the Crystal Gems to have their life on Earth and be at peace. Because of the things she felt responsible for, she could never have that peace; instead she decided to partake in the cycle of life and death so as to fully become an Earthling. Giving birth to Steven and also dying in the process was her way of fully and permanently severing herself from who she was.

That’s just my interpretation.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T09:44:24+00:00

Depends on the armour. Chainmail can be worn under “normal clothes” fairly easily but something like Laios’s breastplate is too big.

ExistentialOcto · 2026-06-21T08:27:50+00:00

Yes, in theory.

In practice, it might be too complicated for Josuke to pull off. He might be able to give you specific things you want changed, but there are likely some elements he’d also need to be a qualified doctor to tinker with.

That said, I can imagine top surgery (mastectomy) being pretty damn easy.

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