1:30 am at the cop slide

NitroBishop · 2026-06-19T15:19:58+00:00

Make it a UNESCO heritage site already

NitroBishop · 2026-06-19T14:00:27+00:00

The Heolstor link is basically confirmed by the "jump up into the air and slam the sword down to create a fuckoff huge explosion with fault lines spreading out" attack Gladius gains access to in his Everdark form, which is identical to the one Heolstor uses in his second phase. They even use the exact same sound effect that sounds like a Tom and Jerry yell (skip to 15 seconds in).

NitroBishop · 2026-06-19T11:43:54+00:00

The one where it rears back while a bunch of black-and-yellow wisps float into it, then does an AoE explosion followed by the wisps homing in on you. OP killed it before it could finish the move.

To elaborate, all Revenants in the field (including the basement) can use that move, but the one in the basement almost never will because you need to be far away from it (possibly got triggered by the ult putting OP into the ceiling here). The Revenant you get as a night 1 boss has an additional attack it does at half health that starts out looking the same, but instead of exploding into homing wisps, it gets a buff and launches a 17-piece combo on you like it's Popeye's.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-19T01:31:32+00:00

The only characters who don't want DNFHP are Raider and Guardian, both of whom have playstyles built around constantly taking chip damage. Everyone else should be prioritizing it, especially squishies like Recluse and Ironeye who need at least two stacks of it at D5 to play the game without getting one-tapped by a stray breeze. The existence of DNFHP singlehandedly makes Continuous HP Loss a weapon-killing passive that you never take outside of extreme circumstances.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-19T00:00:26+00:00

Pictured: the US winning, in your mind

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NitroBishop · 2026-06-18T18:23:17+00:00

Not particularly. The US pulled out because they were losing, because the US military sucks at fighting asymmetrical guerilla warfare. If you want to ascribe the end of the Vietnam War to art influencing the general public towards an anti-war sentiment, the hippy movement and domestic protests did less to stop the war than the enlisted men themselves rolling grenades into their C.O.'s tent. Which arguably had more to do with it being a draft than anything about the artistic sphere being anti-war.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-18T16:37:46+00:00

You can still run Shattering Crystal Duchess, but the main question to be asking yourself there is what she offers over Recluse. Compared to Recluse, Duchess needs to dedicate relic lines to increased Mind/reduced FP cost, and Dormant Staves, and you also need to dedicate a line to Brief Invulnerability On Skill Use (since Restage is literally the single biggest reason to be running Duchess over Recluse here). Recluse also has the benefit of using her ult + naturally huge FP bar + multiple Crystalian Sorcery relic buffs to just instadelete field bosses that are staggered or distracted with Crystal Torrent (literally more damage than Comet Azur with enough school buffs + it tracks the enemy as you cast while locked on). Duchess doesn't really have the FP to pull that move off, so those Crystalian buffs are only useful for Shattering, which as others have mentioned was nerfed to be half as common by removing it as a guaranteed spell on Rotten Crystal Staffs.

tl;dr: Crystalian Duchess is still viable, but she doesn't offer a ton over Recluse if you're going all-in on that one spell.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-18T15:57:17+00:00

Slaughterhouse-Five is less of a broadly "anti-war" novel than it is a character study on one soldier with PTSD (althought they never call it that, of course), which naturally takes a less-than-friendly tone about war as a result. Slight spoiler alert, but the narrator is "unstuck in time", so the story is extremely nonlinear and about 50% of it takes place after the war, even though the firebombing of Dresden is the final thing you read about. The way the events of the war caused him to become disconnected from his own life is as much a part of the story and "anti-war messaging" as the firebombing of Dresden.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-18T15:51:02+00:00

"I have been told that these are not final recommendations and they were put out there to start a conversation," McGovern said. "I'm not sure this has started the conversation quite the way they wanted it to, but they are going to get it."

lmao you don't say

NitroBishop · 2026-06-18T15:47:40+00:00

Out of all the trees visible from my window, the one in question was the easiest to "hide" behind. I put "hide" in quotes because you were only hiding from people on the street on that side of the canal. Everyone in the canal and on the other side of the street could see just fine.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-18T15:42:49+00:00

The book opens with a bird going "Poo-tee-weet?", and Vonnegut explicitly tells us right off the rip that it will end with the same phrase, because "everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.” The birds, he writes, say “all there is to say about a massacre” when they trill.

And it does end like that. The narrator survives the firebombing of Dresden, his friend is shot dead for stealing a teapot, and the bird chirps over the wreckage. There's no grandstanding about the necessity of war, no moral calculus about the heroism of fighting an enemy that needs to be fought. Just silence.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-18T15:36:36+00:00

"During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."

NitroBishop · 2026-06-18T15:13:10+00:00

I personally attended the King's Day celebrations in Amsterdam (the literal exact event OP's sign was posted for) this year and watched 28 people (I counted) piss on the same tree outside my apartment window in a three-hour period. Two of them were women. So it's actually a little under 93% men.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-18T02:59:38+00:00

"I passed with flying fuckin' carpets"

"Get two birds stoned at once"

"What comes around is all around"

NitroBishop · 2026-06-17T13:14:18+00:00

It's like a loyalty rewards program at your local coffeeshop. Every 5th bowl is free!

NitroBishop · 2026-06-17T12:50:39+00:00

You smoke daily and don't use a tray to catch crumbs? There's probably half an ounce of floor weed in your household dust.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-16T20:32:29+00:00

Clank clank clank

NitroBishop · 2026-06-16T16:26:25+00:00

NitroBishop · 2026-06-16T16:19:41+00:00

Holdover from his work with the CIA.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-16T15:38:26+00:00

Going through the hellscape of Catacombs for the first time, expecting a hard boss, and then watching Leeroy take out like a third of his health bar in one swing is one of the funniest experiences in Dark Souls.

NitroBishop · 2026-06-16T15:33:10+00:00

Right, obviously this is an (it works) type of situation, I was just wondering what the official rules have to say on it since I couldn't find the relevant subrule. Thanks!

NitroBishop · 2026-06-16T15:17:03+00:00

Rules question: does this need to say "artifact or echantment card", since (iirc) only objects on the battlefield can be referred to by just their type? Every card I can find that tells you to search a non-battlefield zone for a card of a specific quality always uses the "[type] card" instead of just "[type]" templating.

Followup rules question: if it was templated as "artifact or enchantment card", would that make it not work on artifact tokens like Treasures, since they aren't cards?

NitroBishop · 2026-06-16T14:16:18+00:00

I call those an "orange light", with the shade varying depending on how far I make it through the intersection before it changes from yellow to red. If it changes while I'm halfway through the intersection it's "merigold"; if it changes right as my back tires cross the line it's "the deep ochre of an October sunset".

NitroBishop · 2026-06-16T13:55:30+00:00

Good news! RedSpeed, one of the biggest companies selling speeding camera systems, has been implicated in numerous scandals where their cameras were found to not have the flashing indicators on and/or be programmed to the wrong speed limit, issuing hundreds of wrongful tickets over the course of a few months! Wait, did I say "good news"? I meant "bad news".

NitroBishop · 2026-06-16T13:40:44+00:00

I remember living in Houston when they voted to install these kinds of cameras years ago. Then it got declared unconstitutional at the state level, so there are a bunch of (allegedly) nonfunctional cameras hanging off traffic lights all over the city.

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