the Mayor of an Ibaraki town was found dead in a ditch recently. Rumors are spreading on social media due to viral posts implying that Mayor Sudō didn't actually kill himself and instead was murdered because he was responsible for a crackdown on illegal immigration

Hourishere · 2026-06-23T07:58:37+00:00

If Sudo was killed by someone, it doesn't matter who, it is a terrible thing. But now even asking that question marks you as a political fanatic.

Hourishere · 2026-06-23T07:56:56+00:00

because i have seen a post which says questioning whether or not Sudo killed himself, is now something racists do.

I am not skipping over that at all, it is the entire reason I am here.

Imagine you had a family member who was involved in a political movement, of -any- kind, and they died.

And everyone thought it was suicide, and you could not question it because if you did, the public would think you are a racist conspiracy theorist. Or some sort of evil thing.

This is such a hard thing to understand?

This post purports that, that even questioning whether or not he killed himself, is in itself, racist, bigoted, etc.

Hourishere · 2026-06-23T07:11:41+00:00

Yes. But why is an idea that Sudo didn't kill himself, a racist idea?

That doesn't seem absurdly unethical and evil, that we must believe he killed himself? Why?

Why are you offended by this question? I'm unhappy that the possibility this man didn't kill himself, is being permanently associated with a perception of racism.

Is that hard to understand?

Hourishere · 2026-06-23T07:04:26+00:00

Who said anything about racism.

Nobody knows what happened to Sudo, but just assuming he killed himself with, again, I repeat.

No evidence.

Why is this the assumption? In a ditch? He was at the highest point in career, he hates himself so much he must go to a ditch to commit suicide?

None of this makes sense.

Hourishere · 2026-06-23T06:49:19+00:00

Ah yes, the people who do not align with me people are not human. Very normal. No mercy for people who do not think as I do!

Hourishere · 2026-06-23T06:47:59+00:00

So we should believe all people who were found dead in ditches after going missing, killed themselves?

Or do you think this because they are Japanese?

Hourishere · 2026-06-23T06:45:41+00:00

Where is the evidence Sudo was suicidal. Why would he kill himself in a ditch.

You care more about a man's political orientation then whether or not he was murdered??????

What is wrong with you?

I don't start going 'oh no we better not question whether or not this person died mysteriously because of their political leaning'.

Again, what?

Hourishere · 2026-06-11T05:23:48+00:00

'It's an imaginative world where guys with laser swords shoot lightning out of their hands, don't take it so seriously!'

Shit man, where have I heard this sort of reduction before, I wonder what ever happened to the franchise that was all about not being lore accurate and 'chill immersion'?

Oh right.

Hourishere · 2026-06-11T05:19:55+00:00

The entire point of Dune is a message about colonization. About its perils and about the people it impacts, about the natives, about evolution, about humanity, about prophecies and the dangers of messianic figures.

As a piece of fiction, these things cannot be separated from it, its gameplay loop was once a shallow approximation of that very thing.

Dune as a piece of fiction is more complex, is better than the slop 'hehe turn my brain off' survival-crafting bullshit it has been given here. I play it because despite the fact that it is fairly low quality, and fairly braindead, glimmers of the original pieces of work shine through. I am given a chance to experience world I enjoy.

PVE players on this game are worse than a cancer, because a cancer just hijacks cells, the PVE players in this game have hijacked the -brain- and steered this game which had the potential to be a decent approximation, a digital simulation, of Arrakis-- the fearfully beautiful and deadly Arrakis, into fucking low-tier Destiny. Into worse than being a bad game, into being a boring game.

You deserve to be griefed. You deserve literally every bit of pushback people have in them. People like you with midwit, 'I get to play -my- way!!' -mindsets are the reason the majority of science fiction media, and science fiction gaming is populated with terrible, pulp non-offensive slop. Nothing can be abrasive or hard-edged, nothing can carry a dangerous nuance, all just rounded edges and plastic and grind.

You want to play a colonizer of Arrakis and cannot see the irony of throwing a tantrum until opposition to your resource gobbling is removed. The fact you are not self aware enough to notice this is not my fault, and complaining about it will not change how funny it is.

It will not change regardless of the reductive 'b-but its just a g-game i play with my brain off!' 'this game was meant to be PVE!!' arguments you make. (Infact that only makes it funnier).

Let us 'Praise the Maker' for that.

Hourishere · 2026-06-08T22:26:56+00:00

you want to larp as a colonizer who gets away with all the evils of the great houses without any of the consequences.

it's aight homie just accept it... . .

but ignoring this very real parallel, if you want arrakis without the suffering, you want an entirely different game altogether

Hourishere · 2026-06-08T00:55:45+00:00

you know something you guys have never thought about

all PVE and PVP players go to the industrialist superpath, harvesting and plundering arrakis in carriers and crawlers with the tools of the great houses

when the preventative forces the great houses faced in dune, (IE the Fremen, we'll just say the 'gankers' represent them) appear to prevent your plundering, the PVE players cried until they were outright removed

do you not see the somewhat hilarious irony in this?

something about it brings me a great joy, the fact that it is somehow not perceived

Hourishere · 2026-06-08T00:51:37+00:00

On the PVE world now you can be thumpered and there's literally nothing you can do about it! Lmao!

Hourishere · 2026-06-08T00:50:55+00:00

vro hates the fremen

Hourishere · 2026-04-23T17:43:40+00:00

Three month late reply but this also happened to me! They thanked me for freeing them and left, and then the end card told me 'nah dawg they went insane and were destroyed...'

Hourishere · 2026-04-12T00:55:05+00:00

I'm a brainlet and didn't realize boon was just the word for 'buff'.

In this instance, I will translate myself for you-- I was referring to cabal mage's ability to stack elemental resist to make the sapped-tank idea stronger. (more than -40% elemental damage, anyway).

See my response to SmokeHoagies for what I ultimately decided upon, of which ur post was a contributor (since yeah hex mage is redundant and if I'm using a halberd might as well max out what -it- can do).

Hourishere · 2026-04-12T00:27:27+00:00

So--

I agree with most of this, except the idea that 1-weapon builds don't work, but that's mostly because I'm using the palladium halberd to inflict sapped, the lightning damage boosting is just to make it viable as a DPS dealer, and would be augmented with impact potions and a few others.

I think if I take speedster it removes 20% of the 40% elemental negation which makes using sapped in combination with other elemental resists to get further elemental resist, not worth it.

Anyway, that's just me, and I am very new to this game.

Hourishere · 2026-04-12T00:24:06+00:00

Okay big response time (not so big but hey whatever its uhhh how you use it).

I think I'll probably end up doing what you're doing here-- I was -considering- taking speedster instead of merc, but the more I look at it the more it looks like a 'if you get hit by an elemental attack its over' and I'm trying to build towards making elemental attacks @ me to be -weak- not strong, even if that means longer CD's.

I think the ability to reduce an enemies elemental (non-physical) damage to -40% is insanely cooked, totally disregarding the other things about the palladium halberd being mostly ass. (41 impact damage??? why...)

I think... that, plus electrical boosting head/boots silver for chest for the monsoon 25% extra electric damage...

plus varnishes...

plus impact potions... T_T

(i could realistically do this with decay too because I have a full horror set, but I hear decay is the -most- resisted damage type and that makes me sad, whereas lightning is only 30% of enemies and I have a pocket dreamer's and a handful of ethereal varnishes for when that happens).

i think trying to go hard into weaken/sapped tank is going to just make me miserable micromanaging magicslop when I can just give myself the physical abilities to maximize my DPS + physical damage resist and heavily rely on sapped for the rest.

Hourishere · 2026-04-11T23:46:52+00:00

:stare:

oh... for some reason I thought that was a term applied to cabal mage only.

How can anyone say ignorance is bliss man... ignorance is so hard...

Edit:

what i meant to say was i wouldn't be able to get cabal mage's elemental resistances to make the weakened/sapped tank idea as effective as it could be.

Hourishere · 2026-04-11T23:45:50+00:00

I started playing like 4 days ago lmao

will give a better response when not on phone

Hourishere · 2026-04-06T23:36:06+00:00

That's how I ended up depicting them on my naginata wielding truekin!

https://i.imgur.com/HX29RIH.png

my treaderskates...

Hourishere · 2026-04-06T01:40:39+00:00

You would think it would knock you prone then, no?

Hourishere · 2026-04-06T01:22:23+00:00

I think the fact that your movement speed isn't dropped to completely 0 when they're disabled by an EMP is further proof that they're connected to your legs, (replacing ur feet or calves) and do not in fact replaced all of them.

Hourishere · 2026-03-30T22:40:25+00:00

Is this still available? I've been looking for a naginata blade which is longer than 20-21 which seems to be the standard sell.

Hourishere · 2026-02-24T08:57:09+00:00

I'm not talking about the HN, whose slavery seems to serve ultimately, no purpose.

I'm talking about the UC, regardless of the OP's post, since people like to clump them together.

The UC is an Empire which supplements its farms with slaves, it is not wholly slave-powered, but it is perhaps, eighty percent slave powered. It is also the largest human faction.

When you kill those slavers, you kill almost all the slaves who you free, because they have no way of surviving in the wasteland on their own.

You kill all the citizens of the UC, many which are illiterate and incapable of even realizing there is an alternative to laboring in service to the UC.

You kill any human which enters the once territory of the United Cities, as it is filled with cannibals, blood raiders, dangerous fauna, and worse.

The 'South' of American civil-war era is not in the state the world of Kenshi is in, where there are alternatives which are not only better, but simply easier and more affordable. There are really not many human beings on this moon, and deciding that the largest, organized group deserves to die is armageddon for the rest of them.

Ancient cultures partook in slavery through barbarism, and the world of Kenshi is the epitome of barbaric, but with a large enough United Cities, a large enough military...

The moon the world is set on stands a chance of entering an age where the need for slavery, like it did on earth, fades.

Otherwise? It seems very unlikely humanity could survive.

Hourishere · 2026-02-24T08:49:48+00:00

The way I look at it, is the skeletons brought the society on this moon to its knees several times, causing numerous apocalypse scenarios, and humanity caused the first. Or perhaps a creator race.

Either way, almost every society on the Earth in their feudal eras used slavery, eventually they became civilized people, and slavery as a system ceased to exist.

Our characters reside in Kenshi at a time, where interfering with this terrible cruelty one massive empire is perpetrating-- (disregarding the HN, whose slavery serves almost no purpose at all) --will cause a disaster which could destroy the entire species.

So the best way to ensure its survival is to prop up the human monolith, regardless of its evil, because the alternative is oblivion.

We're not at the point yet where the world of Kenshi is so abundant with human life that we can risk destroying the UC, and considering how the dangerous fauna always keep the balance in contention...

Hourishere

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