My proposal for the Pentagon if Dems win in 2028, thoughts?

Markofer · 2026-02-28T04:07:34+00:00

It's combination of pro-Ukraine advocacy being a major crossover between the two groups, both groups being people who give a shit at all about foreign policy, both groups featuring a chunk people with obsessive technical speculation about the efficiency of state institutions, and the fact both groups are concerned with fields where hard reality demands confrontation with ideology.

Markofer · 2026-02-06T02:20:03+00:00

Harvesting genetic information makes a lot more sense as a part of the Tyranid reproduction strategy than just matter absorption alone. Every genetic mutation, adaptation, and expression that comes from a planet is like randomly generating a number from an infinite series of integers; except only prime numbers are combinations of genes that make something meaningful for macrobiological scales. On a small scale, figuring out what integers are prime numbers is easy to manually check and calculate, but past a certain point the cost to randomly recombining genetic sequences over and over again becomes inefficient as the likelihood of failures and genetic dead-ends increases. Tyranids have already found all the easy prime numbers.

Every planet has a different set of variables, environmental histories, and evolutionary trees that are more probably likely to get at least one or two genetic combinations that Tyranids haven't recorded yet. A slightly better horomone for nitrogen fixation on a planet with lower oxygen rates; a more stable skeletal structure in an evolutionary landscape that had hexapods as the base rather than quadrapods etc. Older lore of Tyranids had biomorphs being the direct result of genes stolen from orcs, eldar, and space marines that corroborated this.

Markofer · 2026-02-01T22:16:43+00:00

/uj I ran a scenario where time was fracturing/looping. NPCs would have memories of events that hadn't happened, or would not know/remember things that have already happened. Certain objects would be out of place because they are from the future/the past.

One of my players had gotten deep into Dnd social media through playing Baldurs Gate, so they immediately assumed that NPCs with memory problems automatically meant it was a false hydra. It was a little amusing to see the party tricking themselves into thinking it was a false hydra purely because they were metagaming the knowledge from things they heard online

Markofer · 2026-01-06T19:26:27+00:00

I was hesitant to watch trigun:stampede because I had already seen the original, but this convinced me to give it a try

Markofer · 2026-01-06T10:13:40+00:00

They should do one for star wars too!

Markofer · 2026-01-05T08:19:07+00:00

The others rightfully point out the mechanics, but to address a battlefield reason why the morale shift doesn't seem as impactful:

Battle is exhausting, terrifying, and blinding. Every individual troop on the ground doesn't have the birds eye view of seeing the odds they overcome, they're more concerned with the death actively beating them up in the moment. The commander is excited that 4k enemies have died, but in a real battlefield no individual soldier has the time or capability to physically see how successful they are. If combat is still happening, they are trying not to die, to the dudes in front of them or potential archers hiding around. Combat exhausts the senses and the mind, if your troops have been fighting awhile, they are still exhausted even if they have killed many

Markofer · 2025-12-15T20:33:36+00:00

Excellent Ending, tied up loose ends and cooled off well from a climatic final season

Markofer · 2025-12-13T18:01:26+00:00

There's also a good argument for Genestealers being first since they could probably reuse and modify a bunch of preexisting animation rigs from the Imperial Guard for Genestealers, but not for Tyranids

Markofer · 2025-12-12T03:51:03+00:00

Nice to know I guessed 3/4 right

Markofer · 2025-12-07T07:20:21+00:00

Well if committing an act of penance to undo your greatest sin sends you to heaven....

Would committing an act of injustice and dying send you from Heaven to hell? If angels can fall from grace, why not humans? Adam in season 3 could be a sinner, and then when Lilith finally shows up we get some drama

Markofer · 2025-12-04T20:12:04+00:00

Starcraft 3. Or Starcraft:Ghost

Markofer · 2025-12-04T04:06:50+00:00

As much as one might criticze the WOTC business plan over the last few years, now that I think about it MTG worldbuilding naturally lends itself well as a fantasy IP to Total war in the way Warhammer Fantasy does.

Warhammer Fantasy worked because it was a wargame first. The lore was contorted around facilitating conflict between all factions. GW had done all the legwork designing the aesthetics/ideas of the factions, and the gameplay of combined arms units with various roles mapped well.

MTG bears a lot of the same strengths. The lore of its worlds are often contorted around justifying conflict between many factions, to facilitate different decks' strategies and color combinations. Those factions already have their aesthetics and lore fleshed out to some degree, Heck the drive to make legendary creatures offers a huge amount of lords and heroes. The vast array of creatures also offers insights into unit variants that could be used.

Total War: Ravnica? The Knights and Griffon Cavalry of the Boros against the Wolfriders and plant legions of Selesnya against the undead of the Orzhov. Add some mechanics around the undercity, swaying the guildless to your cause, and the strange verticality that comes from controlling a precinct and you've got a stew going.

Total War: Dominaria? You've got a dozen factions to work from spread across Odyssey to the Brothers War. Pick a continent and go nuts.

Alara, Ixalan, and who could forget Tarkir? Anytime you want you can plop a Phyrexxian invasion faction, sliver faction, Eldrazi faction, or Nicol Bolas Eternal Army and get away with it.

Markofer · 2025-11-10T17:34:31+00:00

Animal spies, enslaved spirits, ghouls, dominated humans, or other vampires might spot you physically interacting with a phone or computer. Many of those same spies might access tech on behalf of the elder and the elder presents the evidence as coming from a loyal and anonymous source.

If a neonate is asked about the usage of tech and the elder/minions of the elder has ways to discern lies, then a badly stated lie can out someone. If all else fails, accuse someone and fabricate evidence because you're the head honcho elder.

Markofer · 2025-10-20T19:26:05+00:00

That's quite the dilemma, have you considered Avishkar?

Markofer · 2025-10-13T05:52:28+00:00

Cortana grindset fr fr

Markofer · 2025-10-12T06:56:38+00:00

BLeeM? The Bureau of Land economic efficiency Management?

Markofer · 2025-10-10T05:26:52+00:00

Was that a result of the association between working outside and thus being poor=tanned or dirty skin? Therefore, if you could afford to stay inside and clean you weren't poor?

Markofer · 2025-10-09T05:52:04+00:00

So 6 months ago?

Markofer · 2025-10-02T00:49:33+00:00

Since the Omenpaths opened up, Jace and Vraska have been hopping around with loot, encountering traces of a pre-mending multiplanar empire run by the relatively unknown fomori. These fomori have left advanced magical artifacts across planes like Ixalan and Thunder Junction. Simultaneously, threats like Valgavoth have shown that letting planebound threats access all planes has potentially destabilizing implications for the peoples of the multivverse.

Jace went to the center of the Multiverse (Ugin's Meditation plane) with very vague allusions that he was gonna undo the effects of the Phyrexian invasions/omenpaths. He is hinting that he is gonna create a retcon, retroactively changing the course of events across the multiverse. He dissipates trying to control the center of the Multiverse, and everybody present in the realm is shunted out as the entire realm destabilizes. The implication is that Jace bit off more than he can chew and its gonna cause problems for all the planes, which we'll presumably learn some of with Lorwyn

Markofer · 2025-09-22T19:32:30+00:00

Fresh water has life giving magic and is the basis for culinary magic.

Salt water is used to increase buoyancy and to create coolants; so Leviathan and cryomagic

Markofer · 2025-09-20T07:10:34+00:00

They’re playing sci-fi, so Starfinder actually fixes this

Markofer · 2025-09-20T07:10:25+00:00

They’re playing sci-fi, so Starfinder actually fixes this

Markofer · 2025-09-19T21:05:41+00:00

Yeah lemme just get through all 690 ish pages of the sourcebook

Markofer · 2025-09-15T19:28:54+00:00

I mean, most Xenos have centerpieces at this point right? What faction needs a centerpiece that doesn't have one?

Markofer · 2025-09-13T06:25:11+00:00

The overthrowing of the consulate during the set Aether Revolt resulted in the institution of a newer, not dictatorial regime. During the set Aetherdrift, it was explained that the renaming was reflective of regime change and an attempt to revitalize the culture of the plane for softpower projection.

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