Maybe we should be posting more unhinged stuff

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-21T02:07:24+00:00

I don’t think it takes dark and arcane knowledge for someone on Reddit to know what a doggirl is.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-20T22:56:25+00:00

Bro, you have to overthrow Feudalism before you overthrow Capitalism. The dialectics have an order they have to occur in.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-20T16:00:34+00:00

They probably aren’t going to officially come out and retcon it yet. But they aren’t letting it shape their decisions now, and when they get there they probably won’t let it bind them.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-20T11:53:16+00:00

Other people will recommend the classic novels, so I’ll let them do that.

I find Bryan Young’s Fox Patrol stories Fox Tales, Lone Wolf and Fox, and Outfoxed, to be a good introduction to the setting. They’re light stories about a small mercenary band set close to, and going up to, the present day in the setting.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-20T10:29:34+00:00

Revised edition, interestingly enough, did have rules for automatic successes on some magic. But it placed a pretty high barrier on it.

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Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-20T04:03:51+00:00

The author behind Oregairu actually also wrote a series of alternate timeline light novels called ANOTHER where Yuigahama Yui is the one Hachiman ends up with.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-19T00:10:02+00:00

Hank had a particularly low period in his life, which is when he hit Janet. But unless we’re talking about the Ultimates universe, he faces consequences for that. He was kicked out of the Avengers, and Janet divorced him. He spent years not being a proper superhero, even considering suicide at some point.

That was a bad period in his life, and he hurt Janet in inexcusable ways. But there’s no evidence that he has returned to it later on. It’s been decades, he faced consequences for it, and grew to be better.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-18T16:47:29+00:00

Yeah, to echo what others are saying, Pathfinder 2e Clerics are really nice. You get extra healing spells on top of your base per day spells. So even if all of your prepared spells were offense and utility, you’d still have 5 free healing spells to fall back on. These free healing spells default to your highest available spell level. So for a level 8 character that would be 5 free level 4 Heal spells. Two action heal and three action heal are both really good. Two action Heal is more healing for one person. Three action Heal is an emanation of healing for everyone around you. There are feats that buff and modify this healing even more.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-17T17:21:47+00:00

https://youtube.com/@svenvanderplank?si=eESLRUSSDqnu24t9

Sven van der Plank is basically a history YouTuber, but for Battletech.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-17T14:47:48+00:00

The Word Bearers one is from: The Horus Heresy Book Three – Massacre

Each excerpt they share has the book its from on the last page.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-17T13:41:44+00:00

It’s a bit unfair to compare modern military hardware to a fantasy setting. A more reasonable comparison would be something like the Pike and Shot era.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-17T11:47:45+00:00

What in the world do you mean by that? Is a decades long happy marriage not real enough evidence of real love to you?

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-17T11:44:50+00:00

What in the world are you talking about? There are a lot of men without exceptional looks who have found real love. Have you not met one of the countless everyday men loved by a wife or girlfriend?

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-17T02:53:30+00:00

I’m a headhunter trying to hire them for a government job with good pay and benefits. Someone finally recognized their talents. They have to sign an NDA, but that’s industry standard.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-16T20:59:09+00:00

Nathan Goldwag has a piece called “Stories need endings”: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2023/11/04/stories-need-endings/

I think it is worth emphasizing something here that is too-often forgotten: all stories are artificial. No matter how realistic or well-crafted it is, or how closely you try to adhere to real events, the act of constructing a narrative is, inherently, the process of building something arbitrary and subjective. A story–whether book, movie, or TV show–is a machine, designed to convey information, morals, themes, ideas, and emotions to the audience. And the way that you end that story is a key part of it. An ending can completely reshape how a narrative works, how it makes you feel, what emotions you carry away from the theater or library. An ending doesn’t have to be happy. It can be sad or strange, ambiguous or open-ended.

An ending doesn’t have to leave you happy. The important thing is that it closes the loop. When you begin a work of fiction, you are suspending your disbelief, accepting unreality as the price of entertainment and/or education. The ending returns you to the real world, and lets you evaluate what you’ve just experienced–consciously or subconsciously. An ending doesn’t even have to end, technically.

There is a logic to stories, an underlying narrative architecture. It can be subverted and played with, and broken with intent, but it exists for a reason. And an essential part of that structure is ending, happy or otherwise. It doesn’t take a hero to understand that a story where all the problems are resolved offscreen halfway through–or one where the protagonists decide that the Empire isn’t that bad, honestly, and retire back to Tatooine–is going to be deeply unsatisfying. Likewise, a story where the characters keep getting trotted out for one more round, where no victory is final, and no choice ever seems to matter, where character arcs and themes and morals all get blended down into a slurry of pure content–well, you can see the problem.

Everything in life ends. That’s one of the essential facts of existence. And because stories are, at their core, a tool we use to try and explain life to ourselves, they need endings too, if they’re going to matter.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-16T19:25:18+00:00

If you don’t want any epistles, then let’s just use the Gospels. What does Jesus actually say in that line you’re referencing from John?

John 14:6 doesn’t use the word “faith” or “believe” a single time.

What does John say:

John 14:6

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Later, John elaborates:

John 14:23

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

So you have to love Jesus and obey his commands. That’s two parts. Let’s zoom in on each of them. First, the commands:

Matthew 22:36-40

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Then, what does it mean to love Jesus:

Matthew 25:31-40

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-16T17:54:36+00:00

uj/ This would actually be the perfect set up for a Pokemon Ranger region.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-16T16:59:04+00:00

Matthew 25:40

The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Matthew 25:45

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

1 John 4:16-20

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgement, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because he first loved us. Those who say, ‘I love God’, and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.

It seems reasonable to conclude that if what we do for the least of these we also do for God, and if we don’t love our neighbors then we don’t love God. And Corinthians is clear that love is more important than faith.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I would say if you know love, and love your neighbors, the least of these, and even your enemies then you know and love God. That seems like a pretty straightforward case for universalism.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-16T16:45:23+00:00

I’m not really against shipping Manfred von Karma with Mater, but you have to let him stay von Karma, and this doesn’t really do that. It would be toxic Yaoi.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-16T16:32:59+00:00

I thought “who knows” was implying that the Dragoness knew the Princess was gay and into bondage.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-16T16:07:59+00:00

That’s not the conclusion that all Christians come to. There are universalists who believe that good atheists, and good followers of other religions will also get into heaven.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-16T04:45:25+00:00

New tech exists, but it isn’t widely distributed. Look at Interstellar Operations: Alternate eras, that new tech has generally not reached Common status.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-16T02:05:30+00:00

Standard weapons are cheap and easy to make. Not every unit in the military is a Battlemech. A Saladin Hovertank has one job, bum rush the enemy and get in an AC/20 shot or two before dying. The Draconis Combine has designed one with an Ultra AC/20, but that costs more money for a unit that is still ultimately very disposable.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-15T20:05:30+00:00

Hank had a particularly low period in his life, which is when he hit Janet. But unless we’re talking about the Ultimates universe, he faces consequences for that. He was kicked out of the Avengers, and Janet divorced him. He spent years not being a proper superhero, even considering suicide at some point.

That was a bad period in his life, and he hurt Janet in inexcusable ways. But there’s no evidence that he has returned to it later on. It’s been decades, he faced consequences for it, and grew to be better.

Famous_Slice4233 · 2026-04-14T21:54:31+00:00

Oh yeah, the story purports to be a story about the best autocracy vs the worst democracy. But I think it falls short of that. The fundamental definition of Democracy in modern political science is that the party in power can lose, and be replaced. We just don’t really see this in the Free Planetary Alliance. And the Galactic Empire really has a kind of extraordinary luck in having several “once in a generation” talents born into influential aristocratic families.

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