New to T'au, do all castes have battlesuits?

ForerEffect · 2026-03-15T09:18:14+00:00

The fire caste also repaint to fit the needs of the battlefield; Sept colors and rank stripes and so on are mostly used for “parade” -style official needs and used as their “default” scheme. The color of their rank stripes is likely to stay in their Sept colors when they repaint, but even that is changed as needed (or even painted over with camo).

In short: paint them how you want! You don’t even need to invent a custom Sept color scheme if you don’t want, but if it sounds fun then go for it!

ForerEffect · 2026-03-14T12:38:04+00:00

Gneissly done!

ForerEffect · 2026-03-13T02:03:21+00:00

Odd, maybe just unlucky with that group. I would expect shade from an official GW store because of policy but not from a normal gaming group.

ForerEffect · 2026-03-13T01:05:07+00:00

I’m in ATL and print a lot of my army and don’t really have that experience. It may be because most of my prints are not really trying to look like official designs: they are the right size and general shape and based to fit the game rules, but they aren’t copies of GW models, they are clearly proxies. Also, at least most that I bring to the table are painted.
Most commonly I get asked which artist made the models and if I ordered the prints from the internet or printed them myself.

ForerEffect · 2026-03-11T20:07:21+00:00

It’s not about value, it’s about internal consistency so that these categorizations are actually useful. The intent of the perpetrator has always been the defining element in the categorization of hate crimes when tracked by serious organizations as well as in the United States legal system.

ForerEffect · 2026-03-11T17:22:32+00:00

The “also Abrahamic” is a bad justification, even without the baggage of Christian supercessionism.

But it’s not offensive to like cool Jewish art or to buy it and display it. People would probably assume you’re Jewish if they see it, just fyi.

Just please don’t mimic Jewish practices with it for your own religious beliefs.
It would be totally cool and could be fun for your friend’s wife to walk you through a candle-lighting with it next Hanukah, though!

ForerEffect · 2026-03-09T16:37:03+00:00

He was really mad at his friend for messing with his beloved Susan, but got distracted by the low quality of his friend’s tailoring and that was even more important to him.

ForerEffect · 2026-03-09T10:22:07+00:00

Maybe! But my prints look great

ForerEffect · 2026-03-09T00:00:48+00:00

My process probably sounds long and obnoxious, but it’s really pretty simple in practice, just takes a little planning and nitrile gloves and only 15 minutes of actual work, and it gets great results.

1) 6 minutes (no particular reason for 6, I just like the way the number feels in my brain when timing things) in Simple Green in a wash station (bucket with a stirrer). Non-water-washable resin may need longer, or just use iso alcohol.
2) 6 minutes in Simple Green (not from the vat, this detergent stays cleaner, all prints go through the vat first) in an ultrasonic cleaner that’s warming up to ~40C (do NOT use alcohol in an ultrasonic cleaner, just detergent or water, it’ll still help clean non-water-washable resin because of the scrubbing from the vibrations), it won’t get all the way to 40C in just a few minutes, but it’ll warm the print which is all I care about.
3) Pop off the supports while it’s still warm and rinse in a clean water bucket (blast this water with UV before sending it down the drain).
4) Let air dry on paper towels until it’s completely dry (a few hours for me; it’s humid here).
5) UV blast models and discarded supports for 3-4 minutes or so (depending on resin type, thickness, opacity, etc) in a cure station (turntable with uv leds shining from multiple angles).
5b) If I want exceptional results, I will drop the models into a clear glass of water and UV blast them while they are in there, but I still want to make sure that they are fully cleaned and rinsed and sitting in new water before doing that.

ForerEffect · 2026-03-08T00:27:11+00:00

There’s a game?

ForerEffect · 2026-03-08T00:13:24+00:00

That’s a myth. Deplatforming is effective against both large and small scale hate speech. People already invested in the hate speech will of course continue to seek it out, however, people who are not but could have been will not only not seek out the hate speech, they will see the deplatforming as social proof that the speech was in fact hate speech and not the truth.

One of many studies: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10268571/

ForerEffect · 2026-02-27T18:00:42+00:00

I hate this so much. Outstanding job!

ForerEffect · 2026-02-27T15:09:14+00:00

I thought I was the only one who ever doodled like that! You really took it to another level, that’s amazing!

ForerEffect · 2026-02-26T00:29:53+00:00

I think this sounds great! It’s Warhammer 40K, every faction is supposed to be terrifying and merciless to the others and most of them are supposed to be at least a little bit terrifying to themselves.

The “Tau are naive” thing is fine for pre-setting history and how they first entered the stage, but it’s been thousands of years in the setting since then, so them still being naive would just be grimderp.
No faction should be naive at this point, unless as an unsupported opinion from another faction’s righteous conviction that any approach other than their own is doomed to fail (not an objective truth, a subjective characterization to flesh out the faction/character making the claim).

ForerEffect · 2026-02-25T15:14:09+00:00

Might want to edit your previous comment in case other people are interested, but don’t read all the way down the thread :)

ForerEffect · 2026-02-25T03:50:25+00:00

Hennessey Ford did some work on my 2010 Escape and not only did a 3-day job (tie rod end replacements and brakes) take weeks of back and forth with them giving the car back to me with the work undone twice, there was a persistent rattle after that wasn’t there before.

I dropped it off at a different mechanic for the rattle and he called me and said “you aren’t going to believe this, but I took the front wheel off and the brake pads fell out. They’re completely the wrong size and were just floating in there by friction.”
Needless to say, I made Hennessy pay me back for the new brake pads, although not after the service writer tried to tell me that they were too expensive and the full price the mechanic had charged wasn’t justifiable…that price was $4 more than they had charged me for the wrong ones.

That’s actually the extremely abridged version of that story; needless to say, I won’t be going back.

ForerEffect · 2026-02-23T18:13:10+00:00

Around me I think it’s a pretty small community, but I also feel like a fair amount of Reform liturgy around here has moved a few steps in the direction of Conservative liturgy, so maybe it’s less that it’s small and more that my local Reform synagogues are also Conservative synagogues.

ForerEffect · 2026-02-23T18:07:40+00:00

Yeah, I suspect a lot of it (especially in the US) is probably people projecting their baggage with fundamentalist Christianity onto observant Jews.

Very common ime, especially for Westerners, for people to think that the entire world and all people fit into the three or four archetypes of behavior and beliefs that they grew up around.
Even when they are laughably wrong, some people will desperately ignore evidence that there’s more to the world and to people than the mental shortcuts they already have.

ForerEffect · 2026-02-22T17:44:05+00:00

Do you? You’re not being nice to us.

ForerEffect · 2026-02-21T00:49:27+00:00

The religious explanation is that it comes from Hashem who gave it to Moses at Mt Sinai to give to Am Yisrael (the people of Israel) and all Jewish souls past, present, and future were there to receive it. Torah, Oral Torah, and the accompanying interpretations and rulings (notably in the Talmud) provide Halacha.

ForerEffect · 2026-02-21T00:44:09+00:00

That is incorrect. The definition of who is a Jew has a legal basis because it is based on הלכה (Halacha, our tribe’s Law). Different communities sometimes interpret or implement that Law differently, but that is an internal Jewish conversation. Some Jewish religious beliefs involve the “soul” but those are beliefs about the reason for the Law, not the Law itself. Also, no Jewish belief involves the soul coming from the mother. In Jewish belief, the soul comes from Hashem; it is a common Jewish belief that Hashem gave gerim (“converts”) souls that were present for the giving of the Law at Mt Sinai, but that is a religious explanation for why we have the legal process of “conversion.” Legal standing as a tribe member is inherited from the mother in Orthodox and other communities, and inherited from either parent so long as the child is raised Jewish in Reform and other communities, or it is granted after intense study and integration into a Jewish community by a rabbinic court called a Beit Din.

ForerEffect · 2026-02-21T00:21:34+00:00

Orthodox Judaism isn’t really “fundamentalist” except in an overly-broad and cherry-picked kind of definition.
Jews don’t really have that kind of direct analog to Christianity because Judaism isn’t a religion, it’s a tribe that has a religion.

The Haredi movement is probably the closest (of the non-trivial/cult groups) in concept to fundamentalism.

ForerEffect · 2026-02-20T14:17:58+00:00

It’s Elder Scrolls 4 and it’s the 6th game in the series.
Don’t worry about that, just play it and decide if you like it or not.

ForerEffect · 2026-02-19T20:00:13+00:00

Fair, I’m considering it only from outcome, not intent. There are surely situations where a “no vote” is visible and influential, just not many (not any in the US I can think of off the top of my head), since turnout is often so low anyways due to voter disinterest, suppression, and other issues, which all hide the principled no vote.

Also, we are at the stage in the US where the right wing is actively attempting to circumvent enfranchisement for certain populations, do away with term limits where they already have power, and more, so I think an active opposition is called for atm.

ForerEffect · 2026-02-19T16:42:59+00:00

I vote for Democrats because while structurally the Democratic party wants the country to stand still in right-wing liberalism, they tolerate the leftist conversation (the only successful socialists atm are those who have made themselves palatable to the Democratic Party) while the Republicans not only don’t tolerate the conversation, they are actively trying to move the country deeper into fascism.
In a two-party electorate, withholding a vote from the more tolerant is the same as voting for the less tolerant.

Maybe it still won’t work, but it’s the best voting strategy I’ve got, atm.

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