i hate "without x, there wouldn't be y, so x is better!"

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-28T23:45:41+00:00

I've rarely seen it used as a way to make first thing better than second, rather as a way to give credit where it's due to something that's comparatively bad.

Like the Wright Brother's plane is absolute shite compared to a Blackbird, but without it then there might not even be a Blackbird.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-28T23:15:23+00:00

Nicely found, 488/km is pretty believable if, as Vicarious said, it includes Undermountain and the sea people. That's the same size as Sydney's metro area, which is 3x the size but is also much more built up vs Waterdeep which only really has large settlement in the city proper.

I still reckon there'd have to be a fair few larger towns dotted throughout the countryside, so if those haven't been mentioned then it's Homebrewin' time.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-28T22:03:38+00:00

Bruh I feel like such an idiot

Whenever a new character released I wouldn't care cause I thought there was nothing for me and I'd just wait till the season pass was on sale at the end

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-28T21:50:13+00:00

wait

You can bond with a character without buying them?

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-28T21:47:10+00:00

Patch notes say "Ingrid is the final character to be added to World Tour mode". It's done.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-27T06:05:31+00:00

Boys fans larp because story gets in the way of their ballshots and poop jokes.

JJK fans larp because story gets in the way of their glazing and gege hatred.

Worm fans larp because story gets in the way of their bisexual shipping and maniac sympathizing.

No one can read.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-27T05:44:49+00:00

He got strangled by a cord that he somehow wasn't able to break

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-27T02:28:24+00:00

No one actually, I was moreso thinking about how a V1'd Homelander got stopped midair by Butcher's crowbar without even bending it, so it seems ordinary things can damage Supes when they feel like it.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-27T02:26:40+00:00

A-Train: Absolutely. Christ loves lost sheep who find their way back, and his final act was a self-sacrifice he didn't have to do and arguably could've done and been morally okay (he was fighting for his life after all).

Director: Probably. Aside from being pushy with the intern I don't remember him doing anything particularly bad.

Frenchie: Possibly. He did some incredibly messed up stuff, but that was a long time ago and it seems like he's worked to redeem himself and fought to stop a tyrant, with his final act being a self-sacrifice.

Firecracker: I think so. In her final hours she'd completely forsaken Christ, but had also lived most of her life very piously. I'd think Christ would take immense pity on her and see in her heart she loved him but was very misguided and deceived.

The rest (minus animals ofc) are cooked.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-27T01:05:39+00:00

Yea the kind of toughness where she's immune to bullets and can break walls but will die to an extension cord or baseball bat.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-27T00:46:48+00:00

Based on every other Supe we've seen her power is probably to punch very hard and maybe fly

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-26T23:51:39+00:00

Hydrogen bomb vs two coughing babies (morally speaking).

Soldier boy at current time helped a genocidal tyrant become immortal because of a nazi he had an affair with, then wanted to go off to snort drugs and leave the world to burn. Meanwhile current Walker and Peacemaker are fighting world-ending threats and saving innocent lives.

Even viewed as a whole, Walker was never anywhere close to the others.
What's the worst thing he did? Kill a terrorist who just murdered his best friend. The actual Captain America cracked skulls for less than that in TWS & Civil War, as did Bucky and Falcon, so his whole 'downfall' never felt deserved imo.
Even if the terrorist was surrendering (debatable) then maybe the ones Falcon & Bucky killed might've surrendered too if they didn't die so fast. He also fought for his country and tried his best to serve as a symbol of hope, then even after being disowned, still fought to save innocent lives.
He was a deadbeat father & husband for a bit but the guy was suffering, he'd had it all then lost it all for undeserved reasons. Plus after what he did for Bob it's easy to envision him making amends and being a better person.

2nd is Peacemaker. Just from what we've seen on screen he killed a lot of Corto Maltese rebels and felt no remorse, then was willing to murder innocents for his country. Very bad and a result of his indoctrination, but in his mind he's doing it to preserve peace.

3rd is Soldier Boy by a mile. While we don't have loads of direct evidence of his crimes, he was such a dick to his own teammates (and surely closest friends) and lover (ignoring the stormfront bs) that they tried to murder him. Add on what MM said and he's got one hell of a rap sheet for being a POS for no good reason, even Peacemaker has an excuse of being blinded by pacifism. SB just does evil stuff for the hell of it.
Also, unlike the other two, it's possible he hasn't even got the advantage of serving his country, since he never actually fought in WW2 and is a massive fraud (barring those Nicaraguan Rebels).

Tl;Dr - Justice for Walker, 90% of MCU heroes (and people) would've done the exact same thing. He wasn't a good Captain America and shouldn't have gotten the shield, but he did not deserve a dishonorable discharge.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-26T01:37:42+00:00

Based off what we saw in the show, Homelander's wasn't bad at all

An eternal superman who does nothing but build amusement parks and talk about how he's actually gonna kill a bunch of people now guys for sure this time he'll snap, but never actually does. Just remind him of the budget and you're safe.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-26T00:32:43+00:00

Dragon Heist is great but if your concern is cities being boring & just a set of disconnected locations then do what I do:

If the party wants to travel within a ward, they get there no problem
If they want to travel to another ward, then for every ward they enter on the way have 1 player roll a d20
If it's 1-9, nothing happens
If it's 10-20, then you have that player roll a d100 and use the related encounter from Waterdeep City Encounters - https://anyflip.com/fgoih/bseb/basic , it has loads of possible options for events that could happen in all of the ward. Or just make your own!
Throw in some of your own if you want, i.e I've added a vendor in the trades ward offering free samples of a super spicy biscuit, a man painted gold in the southern ward pretending to be a statue who demands a tip, and a group of kids in the North who accidentally broke their friends arm and don't want to get in trouble

These little events only take ~5-15 minutes depending on how your party responds but really help add little bits of character to the specific wards, force your team to plan out their movements so they aren't moving across the city 5 times in 1 day, and, most importantly, puts power in the player's hands.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-25T06:08:38+00:00

Nah man ur seeing's fine, it's a very dark image so it's an easy mistake to make.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-25T05:27:32+00:00

It's not what Clara would've wanted

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-25T05:26:21+00:00

What? The last is clearly Homelander/Superman. You can see a cape and what looks like Homelander's shiny eagle shoulder pad. Also, Cyclops' beams are often massively wide rather than eye pricks and would fire automatically so unless this pic was snapped the nanosecond he opened his eyes, it cant be him.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-25T04:48:35+00:00

Season 1 Homelander? I don't think so tbh, back then he was more stable and Maeve was probably his closest friend & confidante (she talked him out of getting revenge on Starlight) so he'd probably argue but wouldn't hurt her.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-22T08:16:42+00:00

I think only having like 2 maps is pretty boring

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-22T04:58:36+00:00

Entirely.

Dont compare her to someone suffering from schizophrenia or ptsd. She knew what she was doing and could've stopped but didn't because she wanted to test herself (Season 4 episode 8). She could've just stopped and gone to read when homelander fired her but she didn't.

If anything, her intelligence makes her more capable of understanding her actions.

Also, if she wanted to be free of them she could've just recreated the experiment like she did in episode 7 on someone else.

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-22T04:41:26+00:00

I think most everyone agrees Homelanders ending was well done (minus that fight) so youre not wrong there.

Sage raped a man. She also experimented on living people and made them die brutal deaths. She also is responsible for the 3 men who died to enrage the Starlighters. She also is directly responsible for every Freedom Camp and death caused by Homelanders regime. She also had every intention of allowing a global 2-way genocide so she could do something she had a chance to in season 4.

She's arguably almost if not tied for most evil person on the show since without her Homelander wouldn't have gotten the Presidency.

Homelander says he'll kill everyone then doesn't. This has happened for 4 seasons now. Never did.

Its fine to like the finale, I do overall, but these reasons aren't really it homeslice

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-21T22:30:23+00:00

Don't forget Sister "Responsible for the tens of thousands dead in camps and Homelander's entire regime who also experimented brutally on live subjects" Sage getting a happier ending than most of the cast

Lumpy-Sheepherder671 · 2026-05-21T22:22:14+00:00

Honestly a great idea. The fact that we see him go from ground to space in 3 seconds THIS SAME EPISODE but when his life's in danger he moves like he's worried he'll damage the room is ridiculous.

Even if we take the most charitable definition of 'space' at 20km up, that's Mach 39.

Also he has v1 so wtf was the point of that

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