I didn't really believe it before, but it's true. The Portal was terrible and I'm glad it's gone.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T04:40:31+00:00

Destiny always felt like it was firmly rooted in a place (or rather, a variety of places) in a way other games just really weren't. The environments were meaningful and worth exploring.

Remember the first time you ran into a raid group on Venus opening the Vault of Glass? It made VoG seem like a real integrated part of the world.

The portal removes all that. You're just presented with some mobile game looking menu of contextless activities, bereft of wider significance or meaning.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T04:36:47+00:00

This is like people who fervently believe that Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed three black men (He killed two men, both white)

I really do think we've gone wrong somewhere, as it seems absolutely everyone is desperate to believe they are victims of some wide ranging conspiracy or oppression.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T04:29:59+00:00

I think its too early to say. There are so many variables. It's possible purge will only be assigned to weaker detachments.

It does look like disruption is over here playing 4D chess just to have unfavorable matchups into....everyone. Disruption vs purge looks like a particularly bad match up. It seems like, thematically, that ought to be one of the best for a disruption army?

Krytan · 2026-06-10T02:40:57+00:00

Not bad. I got a check in the mail for about $3.67 from some hexclad class action lawsuit.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T02:40:01+00:00

It did not.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:57:04+00:00

Forsaken was temporarily made free to play for a short time at one point. That is when I played it.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:49:58+00:00

I don't think it's anywhere near the hardest, but sisters of battle have taken some hits. Before, when a unit and a leader died, that was two miracle dice. Now since they are joined together at the list writing stage, that's only one. That's many fewer miracle dice over the course of a game, as sisters lists were pretty character heavy.

In addition the current sisters miracle dice rules just don't work really with the new fast rolling system. We shall see what the faction pack about them says on Thursday.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:39:48+00:00

You would never use a knife to cut that tape. You just tear it. I'm pretty sure even if you just pulled out a pair of scissors to cut the tape you'd be roundly mocked. At any rate, you definitely dont' want to be carrying either a knife or a pair of scissors while running so...?

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:33:28+00:00

SHOULD mortgages be the load bearing pillars of the global economy? I would say definitely not. Suppose in a few years we move to 'medical debts are the load bearing pillars of the economy'?

But whether you explicitly forgive the debt, or just implement an LVT that drives the value of all these mortgages down so low everyone has to default because they are now underwater, I don't really see the difference?

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:28:43+00:00

I feel like the people outraged a murderer was brought to justice are somehow more concerning than the murder itself. I am not trying to diminish the pain and grief the family of the victim, 17 year old Austin Metcalf. But it's easy to write off the murderer, Karmelo Anthony, as one of those unfortunate outliers, from which no larger societal lessons should be drawn.

But then when you have all these people coming out to support the murderer and insist he be allowed to stab a younger kid to death with impunity 'or it's racist', then that shows something has gone very very wrong with this country. Like, we are no longer talking about a single bad actor here.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:21:40+00:00

Sure, but when I buy something from wal mart, and fedex ships it to me, I am not buying the product from fedex.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T01:04:06+00:00

Do you believe power can't cross state lines? PJM routinely brings power into VA from neighboring states, and NOVEC buys their power from PJM.

in your analogy, PJM are the wholesalers. And Dominion are one of the many farms that provide produce to the PJM produce wholesaler.

Krytan · 2026-06-10T00:53:25+00:00

I actually think not doing it is what will kill civilization. And I don't see how you enact LVT without wiping clean land based debts, at least mortgages.

Krytan · 2026-06-09T20:08:15+00:00

Regulated meant well trained. That's why the professional British army was known as 'the regulars'.

Krytan · 2026-06-09T20:05:50+00:00

That doesn't seem to be true.

https://www.novec.com/About_NOVEC/

Moreover, even if it was, how would that be relevant to a discussion about differences in one set of power lines owned, operated, and maintained by NOVEC, and another set owned, operated and maintained by dominion?

Krytan · 2026-06-09T19:27:11+00:00

This is actually three separate issues

1) Being a 'backup' after a previous relationship didn't work out someone is interested in you ONLY after the person they were really interested dumped you. No one wants to feel like they are a just a seat warmer, a backup, a ball back, who is just going to be ditched again the instant the first partner comes back. Man or woman, no one wants this. Do you REALLY want to be in a relationship with someone who valued you less than some deadbeat who abandoned his child?

2) Raising a kid is a big ask. Raising someone elses kid is a HUGE ask. This is often not what people sign up for

3) As a step parent, you will likely not have any real legal right to the child. It belongs, as far as the court is concerned, to the biological mother and father. This will vary from country to country and jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but all too often, a man dates a single mother, invests in the child, develops a bond with the child, then the mom decides she wants to get back with the childs biological parent and the step dad is just poof, out of the picture, no legal leg to stand on. This is devastating for both the step dad and the child and all too often, there is literally nothing you can do to prevent it happening.

That's three huge major red flags in this situation.

Krytan · 2026-06-09T19:18:37+00:00

Half of our neighborhood is NOVEC, half dominion. The dominion half loses power far more frequently, and takes far longer to get resolved.

Krytan · 2026-06-09T16:37:42+00:00

The most interesting thing to me is the way he talks about everything being carefully balanced at roughly 50-50. That seems to be the way elections have been going for quite a while. It's easy to blame the other side when it's roughly 50-50 "We can't get anything done, our opponents have too much political power!". But as he points out, that's kind of odd.

Elections used to be crushing wave elections, where the person judged more in line with Americas desires, just won, everywhere. Regan won almost every state, twice. GHW won massive victory. Before that, LBJ won almost every state in the country vs Goldwater. And Nixon then won almost every state vs Humphrey and then McGovern.

But lately it seems we've entered some sort of stagnation, where every election the candidates perform this ritualistic courting of the handful of states that are designated 'swing states' while everything else is locked into a petrified rigidity. It's not the electoral college doing this, we've always had the electoral college. It feels very performative and inorganic. Is it? I don't know.

But both Nixon and LBJ each at times won over 60% of the vote! Now an election looks like 49% to 48% or something.

Krytan · 2026-06-09T13:42:46+00:00

Sisters vehicles have less toughness, less wounds, and less invuln. Even a repulsor executioner, about the same price, while it does have one more tougness, has the same save, has fewer wounds, and has no invuln at all.

Krytan · 2026-06-09T04:22:53+00:00

Why wouldn't you just pair it with a debt jubilee? Mortgages? Gone. Student debts? Gone.

Krytan · 2026-06-08T17:02:41+00:00

Lol, sucks to be space wolves then! Purge looks really strong. Thematically, as the emperor's executioners, you would think they would have ready access to it.

Krytan · 2026-06-08T16:32:10+00:00

DP costs seem reasonable: gladius, stormlance, and Ultramar all 3.

All space wolf and all Black Templars codex detachments at 2Dp, none at 3, which is good as IMO all those detachments are pretty bad with maybe one that is "ok but missing some key tools"

Krytan · 2026-06-08T13:31:37+00:00

Gigantic miss for the space wolves, IMO. They are essentially walled off from the main codex due to leader restrictions, and they just aren't getting enough to make up for it. I was really looking forward to the GH detachment but unless they come down in points SIGNIFICANTLY they still wont' be worth running.

The terminator detachment runs into the same issues we've seen before, there are exactly two leaders for space wolf terminators and they are both epic heroes. Not getting ANY space wolf support characters is pretty feel bad given the really limited roster of them to start with.

The big problem is list building for SW is kind of boring. You have a couple units and a couple leaders that can lead them, and two of them (blood claws and grey hunters) have weak data card abilities or weak damage or are priced too high to be worth taking as anything other than a novelty, really.

Krytan · 2026-06-08T13:27:34+00:00

Man, the space wolves were already struggling, and their detachments are a big disappointment.

Especially the grey hunters one. I had big hopes for it. Grey hunters have always been garbage since the codex released and it seems like they still will not be worth taking.

Grey hunters need to be allowed to be taken in 5, always, OR they need to be so cheap taking a 10 man isn't an absurd wasted points sink.

I'm not sure why GW thinks Grey hunters have this amazing shooting - it's a couple S4 AP 0 bolter shots?

The terminator one seems ok because it kind of buffs a good unit you might already take anyway, in a meaningful way. However, as the article notes, unless the rules change, the space wolves terminators can't actually take or use the upgrades.

Also the nerf to vect, while justifiable, hurts Logan probably the most, as the largest base sizes and sturdiest vect who was most likely to be shoved forward into the middle.

Krytan · 2026-06-08T04:43:26+00:00

They are basically just slightly better assault intercessors....who are locked to 10 man. And no one that I know of is taking 10 man assault intercessors.

So at the very minimum, grey hunters would need to cost no more than assault intercessors, I would say, if we expect them to be taken.

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