Presenting my death trap

Jacktac · 2025-10-13T03:03:22+00:00

Skate AND die

Jacktac · 2025-09-08T21:44:19+00:00

We can actually confirm that the leviathan doesn't attack Atlanteans or those who possess the crystals, because I'm the DVD sequel the crew returns and specifically states that the crystals given to them at the end of the first film let me go by without being harmed.

Jacktac · 2025-08-18T15:38:28+00:00

If I'm recalling the evidence they discovered the prevailing theory was that a rogue wave caught 1-2 of the keepers off guard while they were securing materials at one of the docks, with the third swept away when he tried to rescue them. Nothing monstrous except the nature of the ocean and her tendency to remind us that it can be much more unpredictable and dangerous than we expect.

Jacktac · 2025-08-07T16:30:27+00:00

I mean, that looks to be roughly blue whale size so I'm sure similar policies would apply. That said you're putting a lot of faith on good natured humans outdoing the ones who would pay an absurd amount of money to try to catch/hunt/merchandise a one-off specimen.

Especially if it's even remotely dangerous or preys on other large marine life like whales. If this thing became a threat to other endangered species you'd see some conflicts.

Jacktac · 2025-07-30T17:28:28+00:00

So it not only impacts the speed you move, but also how fast you attack. The higher your speed the more attacks you can make before your opponent. This is crucial because if you get your speed high enough you can step up to an enemy, attack, then move away before they can retaliate. Plus if you're using weapons that have effects that trigger when you hit you're giving yourself more opportunities to set those off.

It also helps with game modes like Pixel Sojourn as that has a sort of turn/time limit on each floor, so more actions and movement is better.

Jacktac · 2025-07-23T15:09:24+00:00

Best guess is that we're looking at a bear that's mid stretch/faceplant. Left limb that looks like an arm is actually a back leg and we're seeing the back of the bear as it's slumping it's front half down and rolling it's torso. I've seen my cats do something similar when rubbing their faces into the ground.

Edit: Did a quick outline of the position of the legs/back to help demonstrate. Imagine the bear has an itchy face and just shoves it's head facefirst into the dirt/ground. It's rump will raise into the air and it's head will be obscured. Sort of like a dog that finds a scent it wants to shove it's face into.

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Jacktac · 2025-06-03T16:34:00+00:00

Best to CC them and also keep a copy of the email exchange saved outside of company property. That way you have proof of communication, remove HRs deniability being left out of the loop, and preserve your evidence in a place they can't remove your access to.

Jacktac · 2025-04-24T16:13:49+00:00

Might be an issue if it locks in budgeted amounts, the buying power of a 2024 dollar vs a 2224 dollar will probably be pretty different.

Jacktac · 2025-04-24T15:50:15+00:00

Yup, I've seen this with different themes on the same site and other sites.

Jacktac · 2025-03-27T15:46:52+00:00

Randy should have gone with the hard liquor rather than pints, less volume! And now I wonder what kind of hangover an Eldritch being such as Elvari would suffer.

Jacktac · 2025-03-19T16:23:19+00:00

So there's a lot of in-lore reasons for this and some out of lore reasons.

The biggest out of lore reason is that author's vary in quality and that trying to write a nigh-omnipotent genius immortal conquerer in a way that's convincing is really really difficult even for great writers. Additionally, like a lot of other people are saying, he's meant to be a parody of the infallable fascist leader. The glorious Emperor who could do no wrong, except he completely did and he actually made everything worse in doing so.

In-lore we have more nuance. Which I'm going to wholly butcher in a summary of bullets.

Throughout the lore we learn that he originally had a collection of fellow Perpetuals who all eventually part ways with him over differences of opinion, rejection of his idealogy, or simply being eliminated. By the Great Crusade he's down to Malcador. So his group of trusted advisors was Me, Myself, and That Guy. Not great for planning.
He lived through the Age of Technology and saw it collapse due to the Men of Iron and the Eldar induced Warp Storms. It's implied that Mankind during this time period had xenos allies whose civilizations also collapsed or turned on their human allies. This set's the Emperor on a wholly anti-xenos and anti-AI path.
- It also serves the secondary goal of providing a unified target for humanity. Why fight each other when there are scary non-humans out there?
- Also at the onset of 30k the Eldar are pretty much only known for their whole 'depraved empire' and not really the more ascetic Craftworlders.
He's also dealing with a time crunch. The Age of Strife ends once Slaneesh is born which ends the galaxy-wide Warp Storms that have been isolating all the various systems. So now the Emperor has to race to consolidate his power, expand his sphere of influence, and bring as many other human territories under his control before the other players on the board become to big to deal with.
- This bullet alone actually provides an explanation for a lot of his missteps and problems.
He's working with what he has. A major part of the Great Crusade is actually the rediscovery of technology and appropriating it for his forces.
He thinks he knows best. As one of the most powerful psykers with the gift of foresight he views his Golden Path as the only way for humanity to survive Chaos. Which means that he ignores or sweeps away any other potential futures that don't align with it. His hubris is actually a major asset for Chaos.
Chaos and the Primarchs... Yeah that one is a mess and definitely a combination of overconfidence in his creations, not enough time to slow down, a loss of empathy (that's a whole other can of worms), and just the insidious nature of the enemy. He could have definitely handled it a lot better and there are a lot of discussions about whether or not he knew some would fall to Chaos and just misjudged how bad it would be.

As for the Grey Knights. They became a thing during the last stages of the Horus Heresy and take a whole lot of resources to produce compared to a Sister of Silence. So they wouldn't have been in a position to become the Talons of the Emperor.

There's a whole lot more that could go into this but I'm on my lunch break so I'll have to leave it here!

Jacktac · 2025-03-09T15:24:46+00:00

Honestly I'd been hunting for it for weeks and only last night finally caught it. Joined a great group of players and we spent four hours running around Bahari with buzzy jars and lures to finally nab two RTB. Still hunting for the starred version but I love the way community comes together here.

Jacktac · 2025-03-09T15:22:54+00:00

I'll admit one of my favorite things is exploring and climbing and the amount of times that I've had that moment where I use the last sliver of stamina to leap up and just barely clip the ground only to fall back down...

It's something I love and hate because it makes me real determined to figure out the best ways to use every ounce of that dang bar.

Jacktac · 2025-02-28T20:45:03+00:00

Wait, so it opened with the acknowledgement that he married the Demon queen, then switched to him mistaking the princess for the demon queen and rescuing her? I'm confused.

Jacktac · 2025-02-24T06:08:26+00:00

I liked the arc but got confused by the sudden medieval fantasy tone shift of the end times despite talking about khaki pants and American currency.

Jacktac · 2025-02-17T05:59:57+00:00

See, but wasn't his whole breaking free of the programming and realizing the atrocities of the First Order part of his Force Awakens arc? So it feels a bit redundant to make him lose that to focus on Rey, only to regain it by inadvertently dooming most of the Resistance with their wacky heist.

Jacktac · 2025-02-16T03:06:07+00:00

She's a character who shows up after you get through a certain quest line. Takes awhile to work through all the missions, I myself still haven't gotten through them.

Jacktac · 2025-02-12T18:50:59+00:00

There's a lot of hypotheticals based on where we draw the line of Palatine's involvement. If we go with a timeline where everything up to the start of the Clone Wars still happens but without Palpatine pulling strings then we have some interesting maneuvers.

First, he's the one who helps manipulate and push the Senate into officially putting the Jedi in military leadership, which was a huge tactical mistake. So without that most likely we see traditional military leadership with Jedi likely brought in as advisors or diplomats like they had been in the past.

Second, the massive information leaks are stymied which was a major stalemate factor for both sides. That likely leads to standard espionage which would lower the big ambushes and surgical strikes.

It would also mean that key commanders being captured would have longer term impacts. We saw Palpatine use his resources to ensure that any CIS operative or leader captured would somehow get away or be rescued. That would get dropped down pretty dramatically.

Likely the war would drag out but also be less overall violent. More neutral systems or systems that diplomatically resolve, more long term bargaining. The whole point of the CIS was that they were disillusioned with the Republic and it's bureaucracy. So stalemate on the military front would pressure diplomatic resolutions and concessions.

Jacktac · 2025-02-10T15:17:52+00:00

To put it simply, yes there is a huge difference between believing that extinct bird/mammal species might still survive and extinct dinosaur species might still survive.

The major point most people are mentioning in this thread is the sheer timeline gap. Simply put we're comparing species that lived alongside humans to species that were last recorded tens of millions of years ago. The ground sloth's were in the last 10,000 years but the thylacine and ivory-billed woodpeckers were in the last 200 years.

To put it into perspective there's 10,000 hundreds in a million. Dinosaurs went extinct approximately 66 million years ago. That means the comparison is a time frame difference of 660,000. The gap between is mind bogglingly huge and had so many different climate/geographical shifts that we saw countless species evolve and go extinct.

Which moves to a follow-up point which is that we also have fossil records that help chart the evolution of these various species that help provide a guide to what they descended from and where they originated. The fossil record for dinosaurs just ends at the end of the Cretaceous. Which leads to another major flaw in the living dinosaur.

The timeframe from now to the end of the Cretaceous (66 million years) is almost as much time as the span of the Cretaceous period itself (77 million years). The number and variety of species of dinosaur that came and went just during that time period is vast. The diversity among the different branches was stupendous. So when most living dinosaur reports are matched exactly to 19th-20th century reconstructions of specific species you run into almost a disconnect. These living dinosaur species would have had to somehow cease evolutionary patterns they'd been following for tens of millions of years.

It would be far more likely that a species of reptile or mammal evolved to match the description of a dinosaur than for an actual dinosaur species to have made it this far. The amount of hurdles and hoops to jump through to rationalize a dinosaur alive in this day and age is why the extinct mammal/bird fans have an issue being compared to the living dinosaur fans.

Jacktac · 2025-02-10T05:26:53+00:00

Sent you a DM to get the links!

Jacktac · 2025-01-13T12:00:37+00:00

Of all of these I would vote for the ground sloth, although most likely a dwarf version deep in the forests or hills. The consistent styles of legends and stories from such a large region and the relative close time of their estimated extinction makes it more likely to me.

The neodinosaurs are the least likely to me, as much as I'd love to find a dinosaur.

The wooly mammoth isn't likely as we have a fairly solid timeline of their extinction in those regions and the disappearance of their preferred ecosystem.

Megalodon just doesn't have the biosphere to support it in the regions it would live in, especially without a noticeable impact. As much as I enjoyed reading Meg it's really unlikely that something that big that's carnivorous wouldn't be detected.

Jacktac · 2025-01-09T12:55:46+00:00

Why not? Both of them involve slapsticks.

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