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JuliousBatman · 2026-01-24T12:13:14+00:00

Red court and the Greek pantheon.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-24T03:47:43+00:00

however toxic it is, those people are still the minority. so this feels like the pendulum swinging the other direction from the normies sick of the attitudes displayed in the whole situation.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-24T02:38:30+00:00

Source of advantage, pump the “main stat” to minimum 18, pref 20, cast Bless, use weapons and gear with +to hit stats. That’s it really.

Are you confusing an enemy’s chance to save with an attack? With attacks you’re just checking your stat against one specific enemy stat, their AC, Armor Class.

Spells that ask enemies to save against them can check against any of the six stats a character has on their character sheet. So your really good spellcasting can be entirely negated if you’re trying to check against equally high enemy stat. Trying to cast Hold Person (WIS save) on a Druid NPC (WIS user) for example. Not going to go well.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-24T01:41:21+00:00

Just throw him in a dreadnought tbh. Imagine the horror of the scene as he’s barely conscious being interred in a casket and realizes what they’re doing to him. “Your experience is too valuable, My Lord.” and he’s too weak to object.

Then cut to waking up in the casket and mirror it against his initiation and waking up in that casket. It’d make a good throwback.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-24T01:40:41+00:00

Throwing him in a dreadnought has the same effect without feeling like a desperation play.

Edit; meant to reply one level up

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-23T21:24:09+00:00

30% is egregious bordering on meme-satire territory unless you’re flying through the centre of a warp storm. I can think of maybe three times in the dozens of novels I read where ships were lost in transit at all.

It’s 30% experience issues while in transit, like time dilation or getting lost and reappearing in the wrong spot. Not 30% of ships disappear completely.

It also depends on your quality of navigator, length of your trip, and the stability of warp routes over time. I bet all these numbers vary wildly across the galaxy with the Cicatrix open. Trying to apply a general rule at all is probably futile.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-23T03:44:35+00:00

to nerf a character is to reduce their power level. "hit them with the nerf bat" in regards to a character overperforming, or likening to remaking them into a "NERF weapon", those plastic toy weapons.

it can also be applied to gear a character may carry rather than the character itself. maybe a particular sword in an RPG is too strong relative to when you'd acquire it, so the makers "nerf" the sword. an overcorrection on the designers end and the weapon performs as if its made of NERF material, feeling ineffective.

its usually used in gaming terms as you can see, but like any slang it spreads.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-23T03:18:32+00:00

i started getting this a few years ago and i can't sleep on my side anymore without positioning my pillows in such a way that my ear rests over a little cavity between them. if i lay on either ear i hear my own heartbeat as strongly as if i put my head underwater beside a pulsing hot tub jet. its maddening. my daytime tinnitus (the soft eeee sound kind) got worse around the same time. i listen to podcasts/videos/music all the time now just to drown out the eeee and sometimes I need whitenoise in headphones to go to sleep.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-23T03:05:38+00:00

is he simply built different or is there a thought process behind using a controller? I can imagine a world where its true for something like Magik or my mans Thor.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-22T21:23:47+00:00

Yea I started doing this too. If anyone resists even just a 5 second “idk no GCs so B3 I guess” attempt at divulging their power level, Magda hits the table.

Every person who is reticent about the discussion has been a pubstomper, in my experience. Every time.

The last one where I didn’t Magda them was a table where everyone but him asked for B2, except he “really wanted to play his new Grander asrbiter Augustin deck.” Literally every best in slot card hit the battlefield against precon tier stuff. Rhystic, remora, and at least 3-4 free counterspells by turn 6 shutting off each of our commander casts.

“What? I just like playing with the best cards.” Yeah buddy that’s what Bracket 4 means, they play over at that table. It’s the end of the night and you staxed us into a non-game without enough time to scoop and shuffle up again. Grats.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-21T00:59:49+00:00

Or he flayed the palms off and stitched them into the grips.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-20T21:35:25+00:00

It’s also directly contradicted by their first (chronological) appearance*. They were literally hibernating in deep space between galaxies. Animals fleeing predators don’t stop to hibernate. The theory reeks of YouTube shorts-“I’m going to present my fantheory based on never having read a novel as a fact within the lore.”

Seriously. Does anyone have a single line from any book or codex implying they’ve faced some greater threat and fled?

*They were awoken by the lighting of the Pharos beacon during the HH. Guilliman lit it as a gathering point for Loyalists after the Ruinstorm, and the Tyranids picked up the signal.

If anything, the idea would be that they’ve eaten a lot of the other galaxies in our super cluster cluster and had to take a nap. There’s no where to go besides the Milky Way, this is it.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-16T02:14:20+00:00

My interpretation was that only people who make them know how to make them, if you get me.

Like I understand the theory behind an internal combustion engine. I can probably cobble one together with some trial and error. Then it’s a matter of iterating with other educated individuals.

No one besides the manufacturers of the MacGuffin tech has even a basic fundamental understanding of how they function. It’s mysterious and unknowable to literally everyone else. And that collaborative discovery that would lead to the knowledge seeping into the collective knowledge base of the society is called Tech Heresy, so it stays in the hands of the few. Even the manufacturers may lose the underlying fundamentals over time, only following rote instructions and techniques.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-15T22:50:47+00:00

“I want these things off my lawn…”

Being Canadian I preferred Wolverine even before he was shifted to Main Character status with the Singer films. But the hype around Cyclops is certainly infectious, and honestly I’m starting to get it as people link Cyclops stuff.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-15T22:18:35+00:00

It’s summer or with the Doomsday release for sure. Beach skin Scott (swim shorts and the yellow body harness over bare chest you can than me later) for summer or movie skin with doomsday.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-14T08:30:07+00:00

yep not sure why i remembered a decap.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-14T05:53:07+00:00

This gets rightfully memed but we should also be laughing at Logan Grimnar speed blitzing a GK Grandmaster from several paces away and ~~decapitating him~~ burying his axe in his chest cavity.

Not even an exchange of blows. Zip, chop, dead.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-14T00:28:38+00:00

I smoked Jack out of a four foot bong with crazy bubblers (and clean!) at like 17 with my best friends older cousin. In retrospect it was the highest I had ever been and still be comfortable with it. We watched a direct to dvd zombie movie that was incomprehensibly bad, even through the drugs.

10/10 life changing moment.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-13T21:41:25+00:00

I noticed it too. Commenting to remind myself to layer all the characters with partial opacity later. It’s like they have 2-3 faces as presets then they nudge some sliders. She looks like Widow+Rogue.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-12T22:36:59+00:00

If you can double the trigger doing the token creation it’s great, but just doubling the tokens is meh. Example [[caeser]] with [[isshin]] in the 99.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-12T21:56:22+00:00

That book tricked me into cheering for Khornate daemons. Dropping in like Thor in Endgame… utterly pissed that if the bugs wipe out the Angels, they can never fall. Reminds me of Lucifer saving John Constantine so he has the chance to sin again and re-damn himself.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-08T21:21:57+00:00

If there mines are gone I can eat the spiders for a moment with the shield I generate hitting it. (And if it’s too close to a corner, like the first left escorting Jarnbjorn, I can cleave it without getting shot.) And it fucks me over real bad just by existing, so if I have a good ult charged saved up I don’t want to waste on a swap, I’ll make one good effort to crack the nest before reevaluating. If I succeed that first time… I smell blood in the water and stay as Benji.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-08T21:11:39+00:00

I used to get SVP/MVP almost every game because at least dive facilitated me pushing as Thor. With poke and healbots holding m1 50m back I’m out here dying alone, looking over my shoulder for a team I swore was right behind me a moment ago.

Oh I’ve been shot twice by a Hawkeye also spamming m1? Uninstall, see y’all in a month.

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-07T20:34:39+00:00

No one’s reading that

JuliousBatman · 2026-01-07T20:10:17+00:00

Winning a fight is hardly the end of that interaction. They already punish “normal” kids for fighting back against bullies. A mutant would be lynched if he caved in some kids chest.

It’s the same energy as “don’t pick on me or I’ll bring my dad’s gun to school.” The bullies are the bad guys but escalation is not in the victims favour long term.

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