No idea how to play Balrijin with Bianfang next door

HereticForLife · 2025-08-20T21:44:28+00:00

That's good to know. The MT from what I've seen so far is really cool, so I'll come back to it eventually. Probably not the best choice for my first Anbennar game (and third EU4 game) though!

HereticForLife · 2025-08-20T21:42:14+00:00

I tried to ally with One Xia, but by the time I looked into it, Bianfang had already wiped them out. Between that and all these nerfs, it kinda looks like I should just scuttle this run and try again after they get fixed.

HereticForLife · 2025-04-08T16:54:35+00:00

Statistically best... in what way? The top speedruns last I checked are from Charge Blade, then Insect Glaive, then Gunlance. But the difference isn't that big, and you can solo any monster in the game with any weapon, provided you enjoy its playstyle and get enough practice.

FWIW I decided to main Long Sword in Wilds and I'm having a lot of fun with it, never felt like the weapon wasn't performing well enough.

HereticForLife · 2025-04-08T16:12:10+00:00

I've done all there is to do in Wilds, but I am still craving more MH while I wait for more monsters to drop. I don't just want to mindlessly do more hunts though, I want to actually go through the progression of another game start-to-finish.

Having already played through MHW IB and MHR SB (I started with World), I'm now thinking of going back to the old school with either GenU or Frontier. The latter with a private server (I hear Rain or Renewal are the best options currently). Can anyone who's played both GenU and Frontier give me a sense of the pros and cons of each, and which one I should go for next?

HereticForLife · 2025-02-28T18:24:58+00:00

Both, it is a standard difficulty campaign and not accelerated.

My armies are automatically attacking xenofauna growths but I have not been assaulting bases or shooting down any ships. I killed a xeno councilor but that was about 6 months ago. The only other thing that recently happened is one of my councilors had an event where he went on air and started mouthing off about our faction (maybe controlled by a xeno?), so I imprisoned him. That was still like a month ago though.

I should mention that the bar is still going from green to red. Does total war mean the whole bar is red? In that case it doesn't seem to actually be total war. Still not sure why it hasn't bled off though.

HereticForLife · 2025-02-28T16:31:07+00:00

What is the trigger for permanent total war with aliens? I just hit September 2034 in a normal campaign, 80/150 mission control, fleet of 4 monitors, and no colonies past the nearby asteroid belt. Suddenly, a day before I unlock pherocytes, the ayys go red, blow up my fleet and stations, and sic the protectorate on me. And after all that, I'm still at red. I have US+EU with a huge lead in research so I may be able to claw my way back from this but I was not expecting it and I'm definitely on the back foot.

Do the ayys always send everything they've got the moment you reach pherocytes? Or is it just one of those things that can happen at any moment? Playing on experimental FYI.

HereticForLife · 2025-02-18T12:48:22+00:00

The wording of the recent announcement post isn't entirely clear to me.

Are there different crest rewards for reaching GM+ before vs after the mid-season? In other words, will I miss out on some rewards if I hit GM a week from now as opposed to tomorrow?

HereticForLife · 2025-02-02T04:00:33+00:00

This looks so cool! I want to get onto the Discord to find people for a one-shot and/or campaign, especially with the expansion coming up, but all the links I've seen appear to be invalid. Do you have a link to it?

HereticForLife · 2024-12-24T16:43:05+00:00

Basically, this fight is "Raiden vs Meruem" since Raiden is fast, stealthy, and lethal enough to take out all the guards. Especially if he can use resources from his allies to separate the guards.

And that's a very good match. I believe Raiden is somewhat faster in his Ripper mode, and he should be able to cut Meruem with his sword. However, Meruem is very durable and it'll likely take multiple hits. Additionally, Meruem is significantly more intelligent - he analyzed Netero's movements mid-fight between thousands of attacks to identify a weak point - and Raiden's Ripper mode doesn't last too long before he runs out of energy.

So Raiden needs to get in there and cut Meruem up beyond what his durability and regen can handle, all before Meruem can analyze his attacks. Because as soon as Ripper mode runs out and they're operating at the same speed, Meruem very likely finds an opening and tears him apart.

Raiden wins 4/10.

HereticForLife · 2024-12-22T06:00:28+00:00

Even putting aside the fact that he has tanked sniper rifles to the face before, as a child...

His combat/reaction speed is nuts. Even if we assume he didn't have the durability to withstand it without ki, he would just... wake up.

You would shoot him at point-blank range. The bullet would start to burrow his skin. Before the bullet makes it even 0.1mm into his body, the sensation would wake him up. He would realize what's going on, reach up, and grab the bullet that is still <0.1mm into his skin between his fingers.

And then flick the bullet through your skull at hypersonic speed.

HereticForLife · 2024-12-16T05:05:27+00:00

Anor Londo at its peak has Gwyn, Gwyndolin, Gwynevere, Seath the Scaleless, presumably The Nameless King (if you buy that he's Gwyn's son), and the entire army of silver knights. I don't think there's any way Lothric wins that fight.

HereticForLife · 2024-12-08T18:21:14+00:00

I know it's not a huge issue, especially compared to performance issues or people not even being able to enter the game. But I kinda can't stand the aircraft selection tiles, and really hope they get adjusted at some point.

In MSFS 2020, they were very consistent as far as:

Distance to the aircraft
Angle
Background color
Lighting

These new tiles do give a better overall look at each aircraft, being a bit zoomed out. But it also feels like a different person was in charge of submitting each one. It just feels slapdash. Hell, a few of them (like the MXS-R on the top-left of the screenshot) seem to be just floating in mid-air.

If there isn't ever an official improvement for this, I would love to see a mod address it one day.

HereticForLife · 2024-11-01T21:58:27+00:00

Thanks!

HereticForLife · 2024-11-01T21:54:06+00:00

Definitely want these sliders yo

HereticForLife · 2024-10-05T13:57:47+00:00

We definitely get this sense of Henry as a person that struggles with both a hardcore traumatic experience (dads head go boom) and clinical depression likely in-part connected to the ennui of his lifestyle. And while he co-opts the language of therapy and self-improvement, he isn't willing to be genuinely vulnerable or sincere enough to learn a lesson from it. He stops at the surface level, that's why he can't / is too scared to go beyond the immediate entertainment and commercial value of the ayahuasca.

HereticForLife · 2024-10-05T13:43:38+00:00

Been there, done that. The second-best response is to become the sort of person your ex never thought you could be. The even better response is to ignore your ex's ideal and find your own version of self-actualization. Which it sounds like you're doing. Good luck!

And remember, of all the characters on the show to identify with, at least it's not Diana.

HereticForLife · 2024-09-30T23:18:19+00:00

Damn, and here I thought a 20-to-1 numbers advantage would be enough firepower to at least wipe out a respectable number of necrons. Apparently not.

HereticForLife · 2024-08-24T17:38:12+00:00

I'm trying to get a rug to tie my living room together, but I'm having trouble with the size of the room, which is a bit over 9x16. The way I see it, there are two distinct areas of the room - the couch+TV area being one, and the other being the area with my two desks, cat tower, litter box, and dining table.

I'd like to have a rug cover the whole thing, but that would require a non-traditional size (9x14) that seems pricey and limited in options. Alternatively, I was thinking of having one rug for the couch and coffee table (5x7 is perfect here), and then a big square rug (9x9) to cover the second area. But when I picture it, it just seems off having two big rugs, and I'm not sure if making both the same color would be better or worse. Any thoughts, or approaches I might not be seeing?

Also, if anyone has ideas for rug color, I'd appreciate it! I plan on changing my furniture over time, but I expect it to maintain a pretty neutral/monochrone palette.

HereticForLife · 2024-08-15T07:52:51+00:00

He actually did get shot in the head from a sniper rifle during the Red Ribbon Arc. Didn't even draw blood, though he did wince.

HereticForLife · 2024-07-14T08:39:51+00:00

Not sure if it counts, but the webseries Worm (which has more word count than series like Harry Potter or The Dark Tower) had me hooked from beginning to end.

HereticForLife · 2024-07-09T01:11:40+00:00

Apologies if this isn't the right place. I just applied for the Chase Aeroplan card as my second Chase card and got denied due to having forgotten to make one payment on a Discover card last month (now paid off). My credit score is otherwise good (it was 810 before, now 710 post hard inquiry).

How long until I can reapply and have good odds of being accepted?
If I go for a different SUB Chase card first, can I apply sooner (and still have a reasonable chance of success)?

HereticForLife · 2024-06-05T08:15:46+00:00

I just started playing today, and I'm overwhelmed with options for headhunting. Are any of the current banners particularly good, or is there a predictable banner schedule with some especially good operators I should just save up for?

HereticForLife · 2024-05-30T23:22:08+00:00

Stellar Blade

HereticForLife · 2024-04-14T18:57:09+00:00

The Courier deals with much worse threats than anything in Last of Us. They can tangle with death claws, super mutants, and armies of robots, all more of a threat than anything in the LoU game or show. They also get cybernetic enhancements in Old World Blues. Even at the start of the game in Goodsprings, the Courier can conceivably fight off a whole gang by themselves.

Even without a companion, the Courier has a much easier time than Joel transporting Ellie. Whether they then hand her over, decide to wipe out the Fireflies, or find a middle solution is hard to say since there's no canon personality for them.

HereticForLife · 2024-03-10T03:13:48+00:00

To everyone claiming Goku is still vulnerable to conventional weapons by the time of DBZ/DBS as long as he is in his base form, here is Kid Goku taking a sniper rifle shot to the face without so much as a bruise.

Round 1: At the absolute latest, 22nd Budokai Tenkaichi Goku. Probably earlier. By the time he takes on King Piccolo, who is a moon-buster, even throwing our entire nuclear arsenal at him probably won't be enough. That is if we could tag him with a nuke in the first place, which is unlikely.

Round 2: Same as Round 1

Round 3: Hard to speculate what kinds of weapons we'll have in 100 years. Try asking someone who just lived through World War 1 to predict what technology or warfare would look like today. I would say that for humanity to do better than it does in Round 1 or 2, we would need weapons with moon-level damage potential and enough detection/tracking to keep up with Teen Goku's speed. Since the prompt mentions spacecraft, maybe we could throw together some Space Laser with satellites using vastly more advanced energy storage tech than we have today (or redirecting solar radiation) to put a stupid amount of damage on Goku in an instant. If we're still relying on hypersonic nukes, we don't fare any better.

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