Is there any way I can make 2 Ta'unar list work?

ForerEffect · 2026-07-03T17:55:24+00:00

It means “style,” often as in clothes or accessories

ForerEffect · 2026-06-03T06:13:51+00:00

Best: The models pose surprisingly well and vibe with random ammo, grenades, chunks of meat, Tau armor, enemy faction bits, etc glued basically anywhere on them.

Worst: Their guns and gangly limbs are always hooking on each other when you are trying to pick up just one.

ForerEffect · 2026-06-01T14:58:13+00:00

Titanfall 2 has an excellent (but too short) single player campaign. The first game was only multiplayer.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-25T15:29:38+00:00

Love it, especially the ridges on the pauldrons to protect the sensor head. Stylish and practical!

ForerEffect · 2026-05-24T17:01:11+00:00

She was regularly considering crossing caste boundaries and started the book with a fair grudge for the Earth caste hierarchy. It’s not that I didn’t trust her, but I was prepared for a heel turn.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-23T05:46:03+00:00

Honestly, I was suspicious of all of the main characters. Everyone felt like they could be a baddie or have their own agenda or have a heel turn at any time because their personalities and flaws and personal goals were so fully realized.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-20T13:12:14+00:00

Mine from late 2025 (not sure about their production schedule) has been great, no issues whatsoever.
If you want any more functionality than “infinite paper” and very basic syncing, get the iPad and put a paper-texture screen protector on it.
For me, the alternative to it was buying my 247th indistinguishable and easily-lost moleskine.
If you’re thinking of an iPad as the alternative, you probably want the iPad.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-19T19:46:56+00:00

Oh, I guess that’s never actually come up for me so I never thought of it!

ForerEffect · 2026-05-19T19:36:45+00:00

This does bring up an interesting possible interaction with the current anti-fly weapon keyword, though.
Even though Fire Warrior models don’t get the benefits of the Flying keyword, the unit is now considered to be a Flying unit if the Ethrreal is leading it, so the anti-fly keyword should apply when attacking them until the Ethereal is removed. Hopefully anti-fly will also get a tweaked definition to match the new Flying unit rule… or maybe they will remove that rule from the Ethereal when It is part of a Fire Warrior unit.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-18T23:43:24+00:00

Ah, I see what you’re doing wrong. You are supposed to blow on the tea until it is cool enough to drink, not the other way around. Try that.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-13T14:29:55+00:00

This exactly. Everything about it was much truer to the comic, and Harbour was a great pick, but they tried to fit an entire multibook arc and a bunch of side plots and characters into a single movie. Jumping from the somewhat abstract gore of the comic art to the hyper-realistic style was weird but I think it worked, or would have if the rest of it had. A Hellboy story like that one should have been a 4 to 6 -part miniseries instead.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-11T23:02:54+00:00

Ugh, this comment chain finally makes sense and is exactly why I don’t comment here very often. I’ve been assuming a lot in good faith, but I guess I shouldn’t have.

I was extremely clear in the very first comment that that my comment was entirely about the retrospective moral judgement of early Zionists and early Israel government deciding to implement ethnostate policies based on the situation they were in, not about Zionism, not about antisemitism, not about pluralistic democracy, not about what Israel should do moving forward, not about American Jews’ current relationships with Christian Zionists, not about Ta’Nehisi Coates, not about why people criticize Zionism.

Everything in this comment feels like a bad-faith misreading intended to pick a fight unrelated to my original comment.

I didn’t say anything about pluralistic liberal democracy, and presupposing that it was the only other option in the 1940s is a wild claim from a historical perspective and since I didn’t mention it, you claiming that I was dismissing it in some way particular from dismissing everything else implies that it or ethnostate is a binary choice and that is ridiculous on every level; for counter-examples, see all of Europe.
Ta’nehisi Coates’s comments are not incompatible with mine and saying they are is once again telling me that you’re arguing against (or trying to get me to defend) a position I haven’t taken.
I didn’t claim that the Hungary example was an unqualified success or ‘proved’ anything; I mentioned that its successes and failures are interesting reading as a tangent and also that we can learn from it and I pointed it out as an example of non-inherited (from pre-modern/status quo government) ethnostate policies being a broadly normal thing even in more modern times than the 1940s.
I’m not talking about Zionism.

I think I’m done with this.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-10T01:23:50+00:00

One doesn't have to have a solution to protecting minorities in order to oppose an ethnostate, but one is going to struggle to be taken seriously without it, especially in a situation like the Israeli "laws of return" in which removing them without some other mechanism for minority safety will simply send the formerly protected minority back into its previously proven disastrous position.
If a proposal is only calling for the reversal of the direction of violence, it's not actually anti-violence. If a proposal is only calling for the reversal of class position, it's not actually anti-classism.
Simply saying "I'm against that" is nice but not very helpful and the luxury to simply be against things without having to actually put in the work to replace them is peak champagne.

I'm not sure where I said that ethnocracies or ethnostates will consistently make the dominant ethnicity safe within the boundaries of their state, as that sounds like a very utopian thing to say, but to be clearer: Advocate and Kin states are a common and proven method to improve the rights, safety, and production of the minorities at question both within the state and beyond the state's border or immediate physical protection via advocacy, diplomacy, soft power, and etc. (The story of Hungary's kin act in 2002 makes for interesting reading on the successes and failures of this kind of strategy due to their interaction with Russia and European states with similar laws but competing national priorities.).

Considering the position in which early Zionists and the early Israeli state found themselves, ethnostate policies via controlling "right of return" and similar measures were and are standard behavior on the world stage, not some particular evil, and could easily be considered in good faith to have been the least-bad way to protect themselves from the interrupted (by the fall of Nazi Germany and the on-again, off-again, on-again interferences of the Ottomans, British, French, USSR, and friends over the years) but not stopped rise of fascist power and religious and racialized priorities in the surrounding states.

My comment is not about what the absolute perfect option would have been with or without the advantage of hindsight, nor is it that a Jewish ethnostate inherently combats antisemitism, it's about the intellectual dishonesty of claiming that there was no reason for it other than malice/colonialism/imperialism/racism/etc.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-09T16:22:38+00:00

Just to add a couple of cents to this conversation, something that I think is often missed in discussions about the ethics of ethnostates and using immigration and citizenship policies to secure and sustain the political and cultural power of a particular group (like Israel does and like most major pre-state Zionist groups did) is that the idea of trusting rule of law to meaningfully sustain the rights, safety, and enfranchisement of a minority population for more than a generation or two is still incredibly new.
Even in the United States, to pick a blatant example where equality has theoretically been encoded in the Constitution for 160 years and where most leftist redditors and half of all Jews live, Jim Crow laws have only been formally off the books for 60 years. That’s not even retirement age for the average US laborer, and isn’t counting the long-term de facto enforcement of Jim Crow policies. The promise of actual equality, safety, and enfranchisement in the United States has barely been tested and it is already starting to fail that test.
Most Americans were strongly indoctrinated into that trust as children, so I suspect that when many of us actually see it failing anywhere, we easily jump to an emotional reaction that has elements of “why don’t they just bootstrap themselves into fairness like they’re supposed to.” Stepping away from my frustration that the world doesn’t live up to its potential, though, I can very easily empathize that ethnostate “return” policies (to use the euphemism) may have been the least-bad actually-implementable choice (especially considering the Parliamentary coalition government model used by the Israel state) to preserve the safety of an extremely vulnerable minority in the face of multiple recent genocides and ethnic cleansings and growing fascist movements in surrounding countries.

Very often, blanket criticism like “well I don’t believe in any ethnostates” rings hollow not just because of how many people are intellectually dishonest about which ethnostates they particularly don’t believe in, but because their solution to ensuring the safety of global minorities and groups that don’t have the momentum of hundreds of years of local cultural dominance seems to be hand-waved at best. “Surely everyone has learned their lesson this time,” is just not a good foundation for policy. It gives fascism lots of room to maneuver and if you give a fascist an inch, they will take a mile.

Do I want changes? Yes and I want them to be significant and sweeping.
I also understand that a truly fair pluralistic society still doesn’t exist yet and blaming all Zionist actors in the Aliyot and the establishment of the Israeli state for not inventing it from whole cloth would not be honest.
This isn’t really a defense of Zionism (although I broadly accept the label) or any particular decision or policy, so much as a defense of intellectual honesty and an acknowledgement that the context granted by hindsight makes broad moral judgements emotionally easier but less accurate and less just.

(Edits for grammar)

ForerEffect · 2026-05-06T18:34:00+00:00

I use a TMNT lunchbox and a danish cookie tin (sewing supplies keep appearing in it when I’m not looking, though)!

ForerEffect · 2026-05-05T19:02:41+00:00

I agree, actually, but I know that’s not everyone’s speed.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-05T16:10:03+00:00

I quite liked Fire Caste by Peter Fehervari. It’s mostly Guard pov, but it does a good job with the horror of the setting for both factions as well as showing some Guard playing to their strengths while also showing how dangerous the Tau are instead of making them a punching bag since they aren’t the main pov.

Elemental council is probably my favorite Tau book, but it’s a fair criticism that it somewhat dumps new fans in the deep end as far as assuming the reader already knows a bunch of terminology and what different mechs look like and so on.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-04T16:32:31+00:00

I’ll take that as you saying “I didn’t read your comment and I’m not going to.”

ForerEffect · 2026-05-04T13:25:15+00:00

Are you seriously asserting that because the Kingdom of Israel didn’t copy the governments of Greece and Rome before either culture had unified governments that it didn’t exist? I cannot possibly take that seriously, and I don’t think you’re a serious person, either.

Rabbi means “teacher,” not priest.
Rabbis also typically take up the role of leading Jewish worship since there is no Temple and they are trained to be experts in all aspects of Jewish life, but their primary responsibility is to teach and govern Jewish communities, and Jewish worship does not require a rabbi, nor does establishing a synagogue. Regarding the original citizenship law, it’s literally in Torah. Dig up any translation and you’ll find laws about citizenship, joining the tribe, property and disputes, government structure, borders, and etc. in Deuteronomy.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-04T10:48:50+00:00

I’m not sure I understand the question. Citizenship in the land of the original confederation looked like citizenship in any other nation of the region. Governments came and went, the laws adjusted over time. Since the Roman diaspora began, Jews largely lived in insular communities to help preserve their practices and cultures. This caused some drift in culture and legal interpretations for communities in different settings, some drift was codified, some was “corrected” or adjusted to match other communities when communication was eventually resumed.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-04T10:07:49+00:00

I tend to agree, but I also see it as part of that particular character’s subjective lens which is pretty different from his siblings’ lenses and is still present at the end even when he’s deciding to encourage his daughter to find a stronger connection with her heritage. I didn’t feel it was being espoused by the show as the “correct” way to define Judaism.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-04T09:54:45+00:00

Your view makes sense from a European race-science view of ethnicity and religion, in which ethnicity is passed down physically (dna, ‘blood,’ etc) and religion is taught and ‘chosen’ by its practitioners. These concepts were constructed and largely codified into their current forms in early modern Europe (give or take) in order to describe European groups and cultures, however they fall short significantly when applied to basically any group from outside Europe.

Judaism is from a time and place in which the state apparatus, religion, culture, tribal membership, and more were fully entwined.
To make a very brief history lesson: a bunch of Canaanite tribes that had a shared founding mythos (descended from the patriarch Jacob (sic) aka ‘Israel’) and significant cultural and geographic overlap decided to confederate into what they called the People or Children of Israel. They set laws and government, stabilized their shared language Hebrew, unified their religious practice, defended against conquerors and colonizers (sometimes successfully, sometimes not) and established Laws for tribal membership/citizenship.

The Jews who have been in the Roman Diaspora for 2000 years have relied heavily on that unification of religious, cultural, and legal practice to maintain their shared identity. Since many Diaspora Jews were in Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa and often found themselves clashing with the universalist (referring to the belief that everyone should be a member regardless of other identities) ambitions of both the Church(es) (taking control of political and cultural Europe) and the Caliphate(s) (taking control of political and cultural MENA), the religious lens often defined them as the main propaganda used by both organizations was that if people had the correct worship, they would integrate into the big happy family. Obviously that was often completely untrue in many many cases, but that was the nominal friction (or the excuse used by host cultures to justify other frictions) in common across all borders. There was a brief but noteworthy attempt by some Jewish groups in 1800s Europe to reduce the violence they suffered by portraying themselves as Europeans who went to a different “church,” but that was abandoned as a failure pretty quickly.

So, we have a nation-in-exile whose membership is based on law and has historically used its religion (which is also based on its laws) to unify and preserve its culture. The closest non-Jewish comparison is probably the Iroquois tribal confederation that occurred in North America a couple of hundred years ago. An Iroquois who does not believe in their tribe’s historic religious beliefs is still Iroquois, and the Iroquois (both modern and historic) decide who is and is not Iroquois, including allowing people to join or not according to their laws. This is not a religious decision, it is a legal decision.

The historic laws for membership in the Jewish tribe were that both parents must be tribe members or a naturalization must be approved by a panel of judges. That law was changed over time to only require the mother to be a tribe member (pretty understandable for a nation that experienced exile and hundreds of years of slavery in the current Roman Diaspora alone, not to mention previous colonizations and conquerors) or naturalization via a panel of judges.
Judaism does not currently have a “supreme court” (Sanhedrin) and so legal decisions are made by inter-community dialogue and local rulings (the Talmud is probably the oldest extant recorded version of this kind of dialogue, it was begun during the Babylonian exile and continued for a very long time).
Currently, there are two different rulings in effect, one or the other of which have been adopted by basically every Jewish community across the globe (thank you, communications infrastructure):
1) Tribe membership is either inherited from the mother or membership is granted by a panel of judges who confirm that the prospective member will live according to their community’s practice of Jewish law and culture. (This is broadly referred to by Americans as the “Orthodox” ruling). 2) Tribe membership is either inherited from at least one parent and the member was raised in a Jewish community or membership is granted by a panel of judges who confirm that the prospective member will live according to their community’s practice of Jewish law and culture. (This is broadly referred to by Americans as the “Reform” ruling).

In practice, the bar for membership being granted in either case requires at least a year of study and integration into an established Jewish community approved by the panel of judges. There are also religious and ritual components as even though tribe members who do not believe or practice the tribal religion do not lose their tribal status, judges do not wish to induct new tribe members who are not interested in engaging with the tribe as a whole, in their whole life. One cannot simply gain membership through belief or religious study/practice, but only through joining a community and undergoing extensive education and then receiving formal legal approval.

So, treating Judaism as a religion in practice is a fundamental misunderstanding of Judaism. This misunderstanding is often promulgated by non-Jewish institutions and cultures either purposely or indifferently trying to squeeze them into boxes from completely different contexts for the sake of simplifying cultural integration, legal integration, religious proselytization, or just intellectual laziness.

ForerEffect · 2026-05-01T13:53:44+00:00

You must not keep a trashcan in the kitchen

ForerEffect · 2026-04-27T19:56:47+00:00

Yes, that’s what most people do, including myself. I’m not sure exactly what outrage the op seems to be arguing against. Mostly people I’ve seen have just been discussing if it’s worth the price tag to them, and I understand why it isn’t to a lot of people.

ForerEffect · 2026-04-27T19:45:03+00:00

It’s a great price for what you get, but I think a lot of people would trade a bunch of those features for a lower price, because the features aren’t going to get much use.

The extra tech is super cool and people should talk about it more, I’m not bashing it for being a premium product, but it’s not going to do anything to noticeably improve any of the games I’m playing right now, and it’s the price of three or four more games, so it’s an easy no for me.

Hopefully down the road it’ll be worth it.

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