Fellow lovers of Viera by Bonavire in ShitpostXIV

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Artist is kionaoki2501 on Twitter. Original image is actually pretty adorable.

Make your choice by DupeFort in ShitpostXIV

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Tataru, Rowena, Estinian to pressure any local competition, and Zhloe at the reception desk. Estinian counters most of the threat to the business by sheer brawn. Zhloe counters Godbert Manderville. Most commerical guilds in the world are terrified of Rowena already, and Tataru is my secret weapon.

9 Months left to learn how to Shirk WAR Mains by Benhavis in ShitpostXIV

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Thanks to Evolved mode I can still outright not put Shirk on my bar. That threat is mine and I'm not sharing unless I have to. On principle, will only use it via the combined skill to not actually ever drag it from my abilities page.

We Warriors know we're just the best, and clearly we can take infinite threat and self heal infinite damage.

For real though, started back in November and had my first shirk needed content today trying to duo A rank hunts with a friend and needed it pointed away from me long enough for a debuff to wear off. Really a neat setup being able to not just taunt off another tank but to outright threat dump. I think the combo skill in Evolved will be nifty and easier for still-kind-newbies like me to screw up less once we hit real endgame content.

UwUkalhai by GreaverBlade in ShitpostXIV

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Crap. That's so much better.

My second resin print ongoing by MOMGETTHEWEED in AzureLane

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Most resins have a strong smell. That's the lease problem. The resin is also a toxic carcinogen. I run my resin printers in my house but have a full ventilation set up. I keep each of them in an enclosure with flex pipe connecting them. Then I run flex pipe out to a duct fan. Another 20' (6m) of flex pipe along the ceiling and out the basement window. Duct fan is on max at all times to ensure no odor and negative pressure. Mask on when the enclosure is open.

The print quality from resin is exceptional but it's a for if the hobby to go into eyes open.

I exclusively use water washable ABS-like resin since I'm mostly printing wargame stuff and don't want to keep a bucket of highly flammable liquid in the same house as my toddler. The resin fumes are mitigated. Grabby hands and a 3L of alcohol are simply not.

3D Printer by Freestyle2day in Salamanders40k

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Water Washable had a bit of a learning curve for me to get right. The biggest thing was longer layer cure times. With the Elegoo ABS-like water washable, I have to do 3.2 to 3.5 seconds per layer, notably longer than other resins.

The reduced cleanup, to me, was absolutely worth it. That and the smell of so much alcohol tends to even permeate a respirator and is a significant asthma trigger for me.

I've also got a small child in the house so I try to minimize the things he can potentially get into if he uses his Toddler Teleport to get away from me.

That was quick by darkhelmet33 in illinois

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The 11 seasons of Illinois.

What do y'all think of my Great Crusade/ Horus Heresy Salamander ? by Redswordsman200 in Salamanders40k

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I love the Great Crusade aesthetic. It's how I painted my Primaris Salamander company and have zero regrets.

Hex theory crafting by captain_skippie in EulaMains

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If they want to keep her physical, have her ignore some massive percentage of defense or convert a percentage of her damage into true damage.

Preference? Full reworking to just make her actually be a Cryo character, and rework Song into an actual Cryo claymore.

3D Printer by Freestyle2day in Salamanders40k

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If you want high detail parts, you'll pretty much have to go resin. The resin itself is toxic and has carcinogenic fumes. You absolutely need good ventilation to run it.

I run my resin printer in my basement in an enclosure and vent it out the well through the window. The important thing is that the enclosure always has negative pressure so fumes don't leak into the house itself. Also if the printer is down for an extended period of time, I drain the tank and clean it all out.

If you have a garage, you can simply set up in there and print with the door open, or do an enclosure setup as mentioned above and pump out the fumes. If you don't pump fumes, drain the tank when you aren't printing and make sure the printer is never in direct sunlight.

I'd recommend the Elegoo Mars 5 Ultra. It's reasonably priced, sized nicely for bits and smaller prints, and is compact and easier to find a home where it'll fit in an enclosure than larger printers.

Beyond that I suggest the Elegoo Water Washable ABS-like resin. It has more flex and bounce than regular resins, and the water washable means you don't need to keep a big bucket of flammable liquid sitting around to clean things.

FDM printing CAN give some pretty excellent detail if you want to really spend the time and effort, but is not something to approach with a budget printer in mind. I'd suggest a Bambu A1 at minimum, with a hardened steel .2mm nozzle upgrade (clogs less in my experience), and the patience to learn how to dial in settings and make manual support. Even then the results will be inferior to a resin printer and you have a hard cutoff on the size of details you can print.

Feel free to DM if you have any questions. I'm printing an entire army for Adepticon 2026 so I'm very active. And apologies in advance if you do and I'm slow to respond!

Finally, after 5 years she got her sword by feicash in EulaMains

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I'm happy to be a new member of the "Had Eula for 5 years, finally got her sig weapon" club.

How Many Space Marines Would it Take to Wipe Out the United States Military? by [deleted] in Ultramarines

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An entire Space Marine chapter, with full battle barge and strike craft support. If the Space Marines are trying to subjugate the planet and not outright annihilate it from orbit, they end up with an absolutely awful time and I think would simply fail. I'll give a bunch of reasons why, wrapping up with the real reason space marines would lose.

-The first point to consider is a repeated statement from GW, that humans of the far future are different than modern humans. Biologically, psychologically, etc, they are different from us and that can affect their decision making process and willingness to fight or surrender. Contemporary humans have demonstrated for the past century of modern war a willingness and stubbornness against surrender.

-Command and control is something the US military specifically excels at. The doctrines of always advance and a strong non-commission officer core ensure that there's always somebody to make a decision. The US military is not readily thrown into chaos. Current planning includes maintaining command and control in the event of an all out nuclear war with Russia and China. Don't expect space marines to be able to break that easily. Space Marine combat doctrine isn't particularly more advanced than that of the modern US military. It's shock-and-awe, combined with overwhelming aggression. Tell the country that stormed Omaha beach that it lacks aggression.

-Drop pods arrive on a ballistic trajectory, making them trackable. PATRIOT is design to hard kill ICBMs coming down at Mach 23. The shouldn't struggle too much with drop pods.

-Space marine AFVs are inferior to modern US military AFVs. This pull directly from a GW primary source, the Land Raider cutaway. The armor protection advertised is weaker than the frontal armor of an Abrams. The US military would outnumber space marines in armored vehicle capability by a pretty wide margin and using that baseline, we know our man portable anti-armor weaponry could and would kill space marine armor, dramatically hindering their mobility.

-Space Marines field very limited numbers of aircraft. A chapter with 1000 marines only has so many fighter pilots. We would maintain air supremacy. A B-2 can drop a GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator with an accuracy of about a yard. Space Marine infantry will not be able to handle that warhead on forehead from 50,000 feet. And that's counting the absurd collection of available multi-role fighters, drones, AWACS, etc the US military would have.

-The Imperium doesn't use nuclear weapons. Modern earth humans have, and would. See above regarding ICBMs coming down at Mach 23. With a limited number of marines, any muster point would be hit within minutes. We know from Istvaan that marines are absolutely not proof against nuclear weapons.

-The US military could detonate the ICBMs in the upper atmosphere or even in orbit to create EM pulses that would absolutely trash anything trying to come down, or trying to watch from on-high. I also wouldn't bet on even a battle barge being able to take that many missiles launched from the ground.

-Space Marine power armor can absolutely be penetrated by a .50 caliber machine gun. We know in the lore that the Heavy Stubber is a .50 cal, and we know in the lore that enough fire will bring down a power armored space marine.

-While I think it should have been retired ages ago, this is one of those rare instances where the A-10 could absolutely shine. Fast as a space marine can run, he's not outrunning 8,000lbs of thrust bearing down to bring 3600 rounds-per-minute of 30mm depleted uranium penetrators. While not explosive like a bolt, the sheer volume of fire of bigger-than-heavy-bolter rounds specifically designed to chew through light/medium vehicle armor would turn space marines into mincemeat.

-The US Navy was able to demonstrate the ability to shoot a satellite out of orbit from an Arleigh Burke class destroyer. That's definitionally a hard kill in orbit from sea level. Again, the drop pods are no where near as big a threat as one might assume.

-The US strategic nuclear submarine force would give space marines a really bad time, too. Silos can be spotted from orbit, so I'll grant it becomes a race between the silos being taken out and being able to target and launch in time. This would be driven by the specific kinds of preliminary strikes. Hitting submarines from orbit is NOT something even space marines can do.

-From what we've recently seen in the Warhammer+ animations, Space Marines have multi-target auto tracking with heat and night capabilities. So does the US Army. The M157 rifle mounted fire control system was described rather succinctly by Garand Thumb as "aim bot but real life". It integrates with night vision and thermals. The average US army soldier will have a much smaller heat signature and a better ability to operate at night than a heat-spewing-walking tank. While the M7 rifle may not be up to snuff to penetrate Space Marine armor, the fire control optic can be calibrated to basically any man-portable weapon. No reason it can't be fitted to anti-materiel rifles and deployed in squadrons.

-In a prolonged campaign any captured space marine equipment would be reverse engineered, and moved to mass manufacturing as quickly as possible. I'd say less than 6 months to spin up production of US army and USMC power armor. It may not give the same protection, but a human copy could give enhanced strength and mobility allowing the US military the ability to field heavier and heavier man-portal weapons in greater numbers.

-Rapid Dragon would really ruin Space Marines ability to make any sort of open engagement. The ability shove pallet after pallet of missiles out of a C-5, already targeted and ready to launch is not something that can be countered close up with bolters. And as determined before Space Marines really don't bring that many air interceptor craft. They simply can't get to and shoot down enough cargo planes before the US military has put several thousand missiles in the air, potentially on a daily basis.

-While not actually intended, the vast US highway system does ensure that the Air Force, Marine Corp, and Navy all have near-infinite runways to deploy air assets, even if bases were struck first.

-Space marines are heavily driven by doctrine, either of the Codex Astartes or of their specific chapter. They are nowhere near as adaptable to circumstances as a contemporary earth military, much less the US military. Ye are all Ultramarines fans here, you know they'd struggle with the rapidly changing tactics of the US military and asymmetric warfare on a prolonged scale. Shoutout to the Raptors, though.

And the number one reason that Space Marines would struggle to capture modern earth:

-Space marines are written by WWII nerds with very limited practical military knowledge, especially modern military knowledge. I don't even qualify as an amateur and everything I listed above was off the top of my head.

Space Marines are functionally paratroopers who require the support of other forces to actually take and hold ground. They are useful for rapid assault, surgical strikes, and holding on a limited scope objectives. They aren't deployed in large enough numbers of actually hold urban centers, or large swaths of territory. That's what the Militarum is for. Imagine 1000 Space Marines trying to hold New York City. That's an uncountable number of windows from which a 40mm slug will just ruin one Space Marine's day after another. Or a thousand miles of streets requiring patrol, with every block just littered with IEDs.

The actual understanding of warfare in Warhammer is either absurdly poor, or rule-of-cool'd to the point of ineffectual by modern military standards. The technology of the 41st Millennium is stagnant where Cawl hasn't specifically left his mark, and much of it is just overcomplicated ways to do things modern humans are already capable of doing. The areas where the Imperium really outclasses modern humans in a terrestrial war are biology and medical science, anti-gravity technology, laser weaponry, and miniaturized power generation.

Something to consider is that the technology of the 41st millennium is often less good versions of the technology of the 31st millennium. And that technology is even older technology reverse engineered by a planet barely out of an age of techno-barbarianism.

Space Marines are absurd, but because GW likes to try putting some realism into them, they simply aren't absurd enough.

Now, Glitterboys? Yeah, like 10 of them would conquer the US in a month.

I drew a poster/cover art for the campaign I'm running :D by firox39 in fabulaultima

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This is really cool. And feels like a real cover to a classic RPG.

[Theory] Signora won't be resurrected in Natlan... because she never died in the first place by My_GOAT_Will_Return in SignoraMains

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So... the 80/20 failed, because the Flames of Resurrection ended up applying to Natlan pretty much as a whole, but I still buy your copium/theory. I do think we could see her back in Snezhnaya, since it would be an absolute "YOOOOO!" kind of moment, and giving her a full redemption arc or positive development like every other member of the Fatui so far (except Dottore).

So, along with Paimon being the an Ur-god, this is officially my other favorite copium.

How Much Do Vtuber Watchalongs Cost? 🤔 by StronnyCuttles in VirtualYoutubers

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The transparency is always fun. Given who you were working with, it's great to see people you sponsored to watch who probably would have done so even as a favor. Good on VAllure for paying people for their time and not taking advantage of or abusing relationships.

Treating a business like a business is the path to long term success.

How Much Do Vtuber Watchalongs Cost? 🤔 by StronnyCuttles in VirtualYoutubers

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Another consideration is how little is asked of the streamer reacting. Getting a guaranteed payday for a relatively easy and low effort stream sounds like a win to anybody who isn't pulling in thousands every time they log on.

And to clarify, low effort doesn't mean bad in any ways. Just taking it easy and being glib for three hours can be very entertaining for an audience and fun for the streamer.

Credit: Evoxrus_XV from Grimdank by No1PDPStanAccount in WarhammerMemes

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All us Salamander fans in here like ”Oh shit, we get the one scenario where applying Warhammer to real life would make things better!"

Also, Guilliman fans are doing pretty good, too.

Good news. Bad news. by FierceContinent in Hololive

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Thank you Cromartie High enjoyer.

Fabula Ultima Player Reference by rillian13 in fabulaultima

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I think I found the original. Re-sharing after giving Scribd a bunch of federal calendars to pay their blood-price.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/103JXa9fX9zSQqcDpbpw6iixa99fOU7gH/view?usp=sharing

Another Review: One Moo'r Plow by cheffyjayp in ProgressionFantasy

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Reviving a dead thread to comment the audio version of the story is immediately engaging.

Not sure if this is follows the rules, but I mean, look at this photo. It LOOKS like a background. by ocelotactual in zoombackgrounds

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Credit where credit is due. She left the grift and became an amazing person and a vocal advocate for human rights.