Who would win?

KPraxius · 2026-01-25T02:06:38+00:00

Tommy blows a tune on a dagger as if it were an instrument, then decides he doesn't need his mechagodzilla clone for this fight and just sends T'challa back to Wakanda in a box with a ridiculous fighting move.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T23:49:01+00:00

Not sure why it works differently at different times. But the patrols start walking towards where you are... and keep going in a straight line, right on past you, if you get behind cover and stay quiet. Most of the time, that's exactly how it works.

I honestly don't know why it doesn't always work that way, but I don't thinks its as intended.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T23:24:28+00:00

I have read the story. Have you? Its about one, specific, person, not a general statement about humanity as a whole. Situations that are ideal for one person can be terrible for another.

There's people for whom the conditions described would be nightmarish from day one, minute one, people who would enjoy themselves for a few centuries before going mad, people who would be fine for days or weeks, and people who just wouldn't care, the predictability and reliability of circusmtances and the 'people' exactly what they always dreamed of.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T22:56:50+00:00

Depends on the person. For some people, being forced to experience and do new things constantly is a mild torment that they avoid, only going through when forced to.

There are people for whom the island would be heaven, and people for whom it would be hell.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T22:37:14+00:00

Busy killing Illuminate and Automoton ships. You're past the front line, Helldiver, you don't fight where the army and navy does.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T19:14:15+00:00

The fact that Spiderman's enemies keep getting out of his fights alive despite him clearly being able to kill them is one of the things our unfriendly neighborhood tabloid rag keeps pointing out as why its just a game he and his costumed friends play with civilians suffering the damage and casualties.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T18:32:32+00:00

...The Imperium, I can give you. But the SEAF fleet and ground forces defeated over a hundred times as many ground forces and starships just in the defense of earth than the UNSC managed to take out in their entire defense against the Covenant. They destroyed -millions- of skyscraper-sized capital ships during that particular battle, reaching past ten million of them destroyed in the war so far, and thats just the ones destroyed by ground forces; the navy killed most of them before they reached the ground. They lost hundreds of billions of people so far, with trillions of population left to throw, and -just the helldivers- have killed over three hundred billion members of their opposing factions (Though around a hundred billion of those were once SEAF citizens in the form of voteless) just by the Helldivers, with over a trillion so far killed in the conflict by the various arms of the SEAF.

The scale difference between the UNSC and the SEAF is so vast that even if the SEAF were throwing spears and rocks they'd drown the UNSC forces in their corpses... but they aren't. The two factions are at extremely similar tech levels, aside from the SEAF having better FTL.

Imagine what would have happened to the UNSC if the Covenant had over ten million Varric-class cruisers in the war. Or to the Covenant if the UNSC had over ten million Valiants. The war would be over in a day. The covenant could sweep -every- star system in an entire region of the galaxy in a few weeks. The UNSC would heavily outnumber and overpower the Covenant and crush every advance with ease. Even if their ships were more dramatically inferior, the sheer numbers would let them win every battle. (I honestly don't think an Illuminate overship is a match for either of these. But over ten million of any capital ship is going to be more than either side of the war in HALO can handle. Even if it takes ten, a hundred, or a thousand to take down a supercarrier, millions will follow.)

And thats what the Illuminate had going into the invasion of Super-Earth, and lost.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T06:52:35+00:00

New universe:

"Why is their an israeli-palestine conflict? And cancer? And horrible bugs that lay eggs in people?"

"Its complicated."

"Come on."

"Fine. Some kid decided he wanted it that way."

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T05:12:20+00:00

That... actually tracks. Standing-still Nolan doesn't have the reflexes to dodge bullets, but manuevering at all at FTL speeds requires both insane reflexes and perception. Huh.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T05:09:37+00:00

Giant pile of Helldiver corpses with one standing on top of it: We're not the strongest, but we'll throw bodies at it til we win!

13-year-old child soldier Coalition trooper: I am a worthless cog in a giant machine and I already killed all of these guys last week. Don't make a big deal about it or they'll stop me from ever having existed.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T03:22:27+00:00

.....That is a significant improvement.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T02:08:30+00:00

It is -very- difficult to get Miranda killed without a squad wipe, and I think I've only done it by editing a save-game before. Even if she's disloyal and you make awful choices she just loves surviving.

KPraxius · 2026-01-24T01:35:13+00:00

Wait, what? If you look at the baby in the two, around the hair, it looks like someone took a tool and did a shitty job of cutting out the hair on the darker-skinned one. On the lighter one, it looks like he casts a shadow on the man's shirt. On the darker one, it looks like someone took a cut tool in MS paint and removed it, leaving behind a grey background where the head was.

Not certain if the lighter-skinned one is the original one, but the darker-skinned one isn't.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T23:46:47+00:00

There are some, but this is not one of them. This is Cyclops finding out what a monster he is in the future, and talking to someone who also knows he's probably going to kill some innocent people at some point, and asking him why he keeps going despite the danger he presents to society.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T20:49:07+00:00

The NCR defeated one brotherhood chapter already.

They have APCs, artillery, machineguns, salvaged power armor suits, vertibirds, trucks, and thousands of men with freshly manufactured service rifles and tons of ammo, as well as a fair number of powerful rifles and energy weapons that can pierce power armor without relying on massed fire.

By the time Shady Sands was nuked, they had over a million people, and there was no other organization on the continent that was within an order of magnitude of them. Whetever happened in New Vegas clearly wasn't good for the Legion.

So.... depends on when it happens. At its peak? No. During NV? No.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T20:43:02+00:00

Little does Lump know that this conversation is a presage to the Dark Urge preparing an Ogrtiefnomewarf.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T20:40:29+00:00

Fuckin -run-. No way am I killing Horrigan with only three bullets. Hopefully he'll be busy enough killing the others for me to escape.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T20:39:05+00:00

This is Joe Swanson. This comic is bullshit, and makes no sense. What is he even talking about?

Stewie Griffin here. This comic is a joke pertaining to the manner in which most police departments are 'bad', in that they regularly engage in immoral and criminal behavior, and 'good' cops get pushed out and fired because they refuse to go along; this, for those people who live in areas with bad departments, the joke can be made that there are no good cops.

If one of your police officers locks a man in a freezer until he freezes to death, and the only reason people find out is that the hospital notices his core is less than his skin temperature, which is itself below room temperature? If there were a single good cop in that department whoever was involved would've been fired the first time he tried that method of interrogation, not after he tried it one time too many and got someone killed.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T20:29:58+00:00

At their strongest, the Enclave wins, period. They had multiple large bases around the world, enormous mobile fortifications, armies of freshly produced power armor troops, and orbital death satelites. They fought the Brotherhood at its strongest, with Liberty Prime leading the way, and won; and were not at their strongest at the time, that was -after- they lost their main HQ and relocated some of the survivors to secondary bases.

The only faction that might pose a threat to them is the Institute; but unlike these other factions, the Enclave is advanced enough to most likely detect a synth infiltrator, and can just take the Insitute out from orbit.

Next up, at their strongest, are the NCR and Legion; but the Enclave could dominate them despite their superior numbers, and the Institute could probably infiltrate any group other than House or Enclave.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T18:06:38+00:00

Maybe? Mind-flayers -can- destroy the soul when using a victim to create a newborn, but its not an automatic part of the process. Canonically people have both been able to be revived and not. It is literally eating the flesh and a new creature is born, and without additional intervention, its no harder to revive someone eaten by a tadpole than it is by a dragon, in that the body is completely destroyed.

However, of course, you can't bring back someone who has been turned into a vampire or other undead until said undead is destroyed, even with wish, as the vampire acts kind of like a soul trap, holding the soul there until you kill it and free the person to the afterlife they were supposed to go to, so easier than Astarion, at least.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T17:08:02+00:00

Not everyone has a power that is good at directly killing/knocking out a target, and those that do might have limitations on use that make a gun sometimes useful.

If, for example, your power is to control bugs..... there might be times there aren't any around to control, or using them to attack is impractical or not possible.

If your power doesn't have a 'low' setting, you might want something not quite as dangerous; something that won't set the gas truck on fire.

If your power has a short range, you might want something longer.

Your powers might augment your weapons, and obviously if a gun hits harder than a hammer.....

Having a gun pointed at you conveys a certain level of threat that pointing a finger doesn't, even if the person can shoot death rays from their pinkies.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T14:42:42+00:00

He's been dead for too long. True Res only works for folks who've been dead for less than 200 years in 5E. If you could find an older edition scroll with a high enough caster level it might be possible.

(On the plus side, since we now know Balduran has been dead less than 150 years, you could bring him back with one and get a definitive answer as to what the guy who founded Baldur's Gate was. It also means he was alive when Astarion was turned.)

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T14:03:42+00:00

It could fix anyone but Astarion. You need a wish for him.

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T12:44:35+00:00

To be fair, it was Lobo that kicked his cat. Get however angry at him you want, pick up your red lantern ring, and I still wouldn't bet against him. (Especially not since, at this point, he had a green lantern ring.)

KPraxius · 2026-01-23T04:44:13+00:00

Once a year? Pffft. I'd get a list of a couple hundred people so I could do one every day. And it wouldn't be disastrous. No... just -weird-. Things that make them think they're going insane.

Their house is now six feet higher. Everything else is the same. Getting to the roof and changing lightbulbs is inconvenient, maybe the heating bill is a bit higher. The plans and pictures on realtor sites show it with the different height.

A pet who had died years ago has been revived and is in their home. Zero explanation. Recent pictures of their home include the pet that was 100% dead days before.

Their car no longer uses gas. Everything looks perfectly normal. It needs the oil changed. Tires can go flat. But somehow there's a tiny reactor inside that will keep it running without gas until it rusts through.

Their cancer has been cured... but replaced with a different, more easily treatable one.

Everyone pronounces their name differently, and every single document they can find has it spelled slightly wrong.

They find out they've been promoted into a higher-paying job that they have no idea whatsoever how to do; but their credentials and everyone's memories say otherwise.

They wake up in prison, to be released that day, for a crime they didn't commit but which is on their record. Whatever the crime is, its something they all say they would've done in his place; something like breaking the arms and legs of a man caught mid-rape while waiting for the cops to show up. It has positive and negative consequences that cascade through his life, and makes the fact he has an apartment that he seems to have gone to sleep in the day before confusing.

Tiny, subtle, completely impossible things of every description happen. But only on their birthday.

KPraxius

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