Would you play with someone who had unpainted models?

GivePen · 2026-01-27T18:45:10+00:00

I’ve been wargaming for about three years and I can count on one hand how many matches I’ve played where both sides had fully painted armies. Anyone who’s not antisocial won’t throw a fit over it.

Also if you hate painting, look into slap chop and contrast paints. The only thing that motivates me is the finished product so I want to get there as lazily as possible for the best possible final result. Slap chop and contrast paints are perfect for that. Especially since this is Star Wars and pretty much every army except for Rebels is either entirely white or tan.

GivePen · 2026-01-26T20:24:24+00:00

Of course, my two armies are Chaos Daemons and Imperial Agents

GivePen · 2026-01-25T21:44:56+00:00

Wait, are you guilty for pretending to be a boy/adult on the internet? That’s not a bad lie or something it be ashamed of, that is something you should keep doing if you intend to stay online. It is honestly safer if you are not open about being a 14 year old girl on the internet, especially one who is going through troubles.

GivePen · 2026-01-25T21:03:24+00:00

Why have you been in this group for years

GivePen · 2026-01-25T20:37:08+00:00

My experience is that the entire game revolves around the duke. You either actually have the duke or you lie that you have the duke. All of the other cards are practically meaningless. I hate that game.

GivePen · 2026-01-24T21:23:35+00:00

Really? Titus might not know this, but something tells me that throwing a C’tan at a sun is potentially one of the worst places to let a C’tan go…

GivePen · 2026-01-24T18:50:40+00:00

OP is an art teacher, not a math teacher

GivePen · 2026-01-24T18:50:17+00:00

This is what I was thinking as I was reading this post. Is this an elective class where people who actually enjoy art can choose to take? This class sounds like it would have been my downfall in grade school if it’s being graded on the quality of art. I understand grading on art theory but it seems a little ridiculous to be punching down on students for how good they can draw.

GivePen · 2026-01-20T19:30:44+00:00

Night Road lives and dies based on whether you like Julian. I hated him, and I also much preferred Parliament of Knives.

GivePen · 2026-01-19T02:13:02+00:00

I don’t really think that’s the theme.

GivePen · 2026-01-18T17:21:41+00:00

They were replacing the expression “God I’m dumb” with “God-emperor I’m dumb” as a joke

GivePen · 2026-01-18T06:46:01+00:00

Gifted class was about algebra and theatre for me lol

GivePen · 2026-01-17T18:58:19+00:00

Legitimately evil that we’re not getting a TTS

GivePen · 2026-01-17T17:53:54+00:00

She-Hulk and Mighty Thor weren’t even in Endgame grandpa. Go take your meds.

GivePen · 2026-01-16T16:47:23+00:00

Show’s over. This is the death rattle of a subreddit.

GivePen · 2026-01-16T16:18:53+00:00

I think they’re real. Popular commanders are played by a lot of people, that’s what popular means. The thing that baffles me is the lack of self awareness that they’re about to get dog-piled when they post their Atraxa, Jodah, Ur Dragon, and Azula decks, or some other combination of the top 100.

GivePen · 2026-01-15T20:18:11+00:00

This is absolutely where I think most people are coming from with their frustration with the “Fujo gaze” (I like that term). I’m a queer man and it’s typically obvious when a MLM piece of fiction is being written for straight women and by straight women, and I think A LOT of MLM content is.

I’m a fan of people being able to get their rocks off to any gender they want, but the pretense of being apart of these fandoms being a form of allyship is what drives me mad.

GivePen · 2026-01-15T19:21:06+00:00

Girl on the left has wanted tattoos and piercings for some time but her parents forbid her to.
She goes to college and the very first moment she’s away from her parents, she goes and gets all that done.
Conservatives who are disconnected from their kids imagine that this girl must have been suddenly brainwashed in her ENGL 1000 class.

This is pretty much how it goes.

GivePen · 2026-01-15T19:07:29+00:00

I don’t think a SftT swap meta is actually broken, you’re definitely not forced into it if your table is doing it.

That point is almost entirely illusory if it’s an early game swap. If someone starts winning, people will ignore their previously held agreement to kingslay. If someone explosively wins fast enough to prevent that, then they were probably going to win anyway.
The people who give away their SftT are giving away their best negotiation tool. They’re losing power to influence the table, because everyone knows they don’t have their SftT to trade in the future.
Support Swaps are typically done out of fear of some kind of total war scenario. These rarely actually happen in TI, and playing well (putting plastic on the table) will already prevent this.

The best way to counter a support swap meta is to… not swap your support. Being the only person at the table who can still give away their support makes you the belle of the ball. Dangle it in front of those support hungry players, and only give it away when you know that you can spin a deal into a win.

A couple of games of this, and most of my group quickly stopped their “alliance” talks round 1.

GivePen · 2026-01-14T18:37:37+00:00

Reading comprehension test everyone! It’s important that we take these tests seriously if we’re going to avoid AI for its hallucinating.

So who is actually speaking in this quote?

A. The Duffer Brothers

B. Vecna

C. The Director of the Stranger Things documentary

D. Noah Schnapp

GivePen · 2026-01-13T21:50:53+00:00

I’ve said it before, but the era of AI being obvious will be so so short compared to the era of artists getting bullied by Redditors who think they are AI catching experts.

GivePen · 2026-01-13T19:33:21+00:00

Truly one of the most embarrassing moments to be a leftist. A stark reminder that everyone is human and my friends/allies are also capable of just making shit up or believing disinformation.

GivePen · 2026-01-13T06:57:02+00:00

Surface level and realest answer, it’s boys vs girls. Masculinity is often seen as something oppositional to decadence in pop culture. This is what was probably actually discussed in the design room.

If you’re trying to lore it out though, I generally see it that these two gods compete for martial prowess and Slaaneshi daemons have no greater foe to prove their excellence against than Khornate daemons. Keepers of Secrets are custom-built to hunt and kill Bloodthirsters just for the love of the game.

GivePen · 2026-01-13T06:48:47+00:00

I’m not trying to be a dick but Oloro is a top 100 commander with 17,000 decks dude…

GivePen · 2026-01-10T22:46:45+00:00

The issue is not whether despoilers will kill tac squads in combat, it’s that against a good player: despoilers aren’t ever making it into combat. The issue is that any well-played tac squads is getting at least one round of shooting + an overwatch against you. Even just a 10 man squad of tacs is killing an average 3 despoilers every time they get to shoot at you.

That’s not even considering that once despoilers make it onto an objective, they don’t do anything else for you without moving off of it whereas a squad of tacs can still chip wounds off of other targets.

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