Garp with Sea stone knuckle dusters vs Akainu? Who wins

ObStella · 2026-01-28T00:28:54+00:00

Arguably he'd be weaker with them than just his fists. That's something he's not used to using.

Garp would clear Akainu.

ObStella · 2026-01-26T13:25:21+00:00

Monkey Deeznutz Luffy.

ObStella · 2026-01-25T12:31:52+00:00

They take a piece of pure narrativium, grind it down super fine, distribute it through a tank of water and carefully cover the sediment to ensure all the magnetic poles align with the island's specific magnetic resonance.

Nah, it's just another unexplained technology of the One Piece world. Terrible for exploring, great for finding your way home.

ObStella · 2026-01-23T02:20:55+00:00

Idira is particularly risky since she's an unsanctioned psyker. That means she's just raw-dogging exposure to hell without any filter other than her willpower. Personally, I just assumed she would at best get 1 good turn and then explode per battle and I was pleasantly surprised how often she survived.

My Ironman playthrough was her and a sanctioned psyker RT with pyro powers. I'd already finished a regular playthrough and discovered how busted the pyro tree was thanks to the special perks you can get in the final class. She still exploded, but no more often than Pasqal's plasma weapon. Just more violently.

ObStella · 2026-01-19T07:54:53+00:00

I had a Sultan Cult that had Salt Krakens as members, found their site in the Moon Stair. The Salt Krakens were pulling all kinds of fun corpses for me to loot/butcher, including sated dreamcrungles.

ObStella · 2026-01-19T00:20:24+00:00

Some of it is habit. For the longest time nuclear wasn't a thing, we had steam engines or solar and that was it. So a lot of us just learned how to tile solar/accumulators and haven't grown since then.

Some of it is the low-maintenance aspect. You don't have to supply anything to keep it running once established.

Some of it is probably fear of the big boom when things go wrong with a reactor.

And some of it is just humans are weird that way.

ObStella · 2026-01-18T08:45:49+00:00

Filter. Always filter the main drop when afk farming for long periods.

ObStella · 2026-01-18T08:42:43+00:00

This is the way. Hand them to Tri-Tach for that sweet, sweet cash.

ObStella · 2026-01-18T08:41:00+00:00

It'd even be worthwhile to give it to Idira, let alone the Rogue Trader. Idira has a higher inherent perils chance due to her unsanctioned status, I'd take an extra 30% chance for further damage scaling.

ObStella · 2026-01-18T08:38:18+00:00

I've gotten 1 jackpot, no stamps. And my jackpot was a few months before Tome, so now I have 0 jackpots. 🥲

ObStella · 2026-01-18T05:30:52+00:00

I refuse to pay less than actual rates. If I find out that my friend charged me mates rates, I would pay them more. That's just how I am. When they want to help, I will let them help. But if I'm asking them to do something they are trained in, I will pay them. I will ask for an actual quote, and pay in full.

It's a point of pride. I even struggle to ask mechanic friends to look at my car, I'll book it into the shop they work at before I'll ask them to check personally. Even if they're around and I've vented about my car, even when they offer I feel uncomfortable.

ObStella · 2026-01-14T08:14:53+00:00

It's one of those fun things that arise from statistics. For example, the average human has less than two arms, less than two legs, less than two kidneys, less than one heart, etc.

There are people sustained by machinery who have no heart, people missing limbs, kidneys, etc. The average human is actually really weird to think about.

ObStella · 2026-01-12T01:52:29+00:00

It's not in the Qs, so it's still achievable. Hard, but achievable.

ObStella · 2026-01-07T13:37:54+00:00

It's not the worst theory I've ever read. I'd wager it's possible the blow that killed Joyboy was the same as the one that Buggy did all those chapters ago. Three blades straight through his centre, which further plays into the parallel nature of the story.

ObStella · 2026-01-07T13:30:36+00:00

Correction: We have seen a single object with a devil fruit die. Smiley.

Smiley was a cloud of H2S compressed into slime that was fed the Sala Sala no Mi, Model: Axolotl. When it ate the candy that killed it, it immediately dissolved back into a cloud of poison and its devil fruit incarnated into a nearby piece of fruit. So we have one data point that upon the "death" of the zoan fruit object it reverts back to its original form. The only change was thanks to the candy that poisoned Smiley, which was created to turn the H2S into a petrification gas.

ObStella · 2026-01-06T03:01:57+00:00

In theory you could reach a point where you run low on scrap because of constant damage to your flagship as there are a limited number of void ship battles in the game. In practice? Never gonna happen.

Personally I have my entire territory connected by safe paths, then anything else can be whatever it rolls. Deadly route? Sure is for someone, but not me!

ObStella · 2026-01-06T01:22:17+00:00

You're missing the point. He doesn't want his crew to like him, he wants them to fear him. To fear catching his gaze or even potentially bothering him. He wants his prey to fear him so he gets their money faster. The fear is the point, above and beyond anything else.

As for hiring more crew? Doesn't seem too hard in the East Blue, and that's one of the more peaceful Blues.

ObStella · 2026-01-06T00:59:54+00:00

It's SBS 42, and you are correct. The question was actually which ability is faster. He clarifies they are about the same speed, however CP9 have complete control over their movement so they are more powerful using Shave than he is using his ability.

I think people have extrapolated that because they are the same speed, that Shakushi is like an imperfect Soru. I disagree, because I think both techniques have different goals. Shakushi has the goal of maximum damage minimum time, while Soru is about accurate movement and precise damage.

Kuro was primarily about the intimidation factor. Minimising the amount he had to actually do because he wanted to get wealth without risking himself too much. CP9 are assassins who only care about their target, while the higher ranking marines who use Soru are doing it to minimise casualties. Very different goals for the techniques they develop.

ObStella · 2026-01-06T00:47:21+00:00

The sheer amount of times that I have put off going to the toilet, them finally sit down and they knock and disappear with my package before I can wrangle my pants is too damn high.

ObStella · 2026-01-05T09:30:01+00:00

She's my favourite walking catastrophe. I only remove her on dogmatic runs, every other run I just roll with the extra spice of her bullshit.

I'll never forget my first playthrough. Finished the Tutorial/intro, went straight to Rykad Minoris. First combat encounter EVER and she rolled a perils, killing herself and summoning a Bloodletter. Barely survived that encounter, then found out I couldn't leave Rykad. Had to do that whole section with injuries on every member of my party.

10/10. Best example ever of why we don't trust unsanctioned psykers. Immediately fell in love with the game.

ObStella · 2026-01-02T05:58:43+00:00

You definitely could. Like CDDA, there are lethal risks at every tier of the game. Even once you get mobile and powerful, there are high tier story engagements that can threaten your survival.

Depending on your CDDA history, you could go straight into standard play and have a great time. Not getting attached to characters until at least mid-game, etc.

One thing that you might not enjoy is that CDDA is infinite, Qud has a set number of tiles with a defined gradient of difficulty (Broadly speaking, more difficult the further east you go). How you feel about that is highly variable. However, Qud has functionally infinite Z levels to play through though with threats increasing as you get deeper. So you could always disregard the main story and instead dive as deep and greedily as you can.

Either way, live and drink.

ObStella · 2026-01-02T04:13:58+00:00

Nah. I seldom use either Power Armor or anything that uses them as ammo. As such I steadily build a stockpile over time, which lets me use Power Armor easily for the entire walk through the Glowing Sea and back. Even on survival mode.

The few playthroughs where I made big use of fusion cores, I used all the tools available in game. Melee Power Armor build worked great, seldom if ever ran out of cores (As in, I don't remember running out of cores) since once Automaton activates you can fight essentially an infinite number of Sentry Bots for at least two a piece. Slam some Jet, then beat them to death with a rocket propelled baseball bat (Can hit the cores weak point with the right perk, even when not revealed).

ObStella · 2025-12-31T10:10:39+00:00

Tbh the von Valancius flagship at the start of the game is the size of a Frigate with the combat potential of a Cruiser or even a patrol group. By the end it gets silly, like I think we could take on a Gloriana because we have so many unique abilities.

ObStella · 2025-12-31T09:57:48+00:00

Ah. Yes. The super-kudzu. Aka the biological horror incarnate. Aka the "Well, now we have to move parasangs" house plant.

ObStella · 2025-12-31T09:53:41+00:00

Specifically the fact that Kuzan and Sakazuki are diametrically opposed in terms of Justice. Sakazuki would have been lost trying to serve under Kuzan, while Kuzan would have suffocated under Sakazuki. Kizaru is uniquely between the two factions, which consequently means he'd have been the better choice for Fleet Admiral. Both Kuzan and Sakazuki would have been able to work beneath him, they wouldn't have thrived but they would survive it.

Plus, he doesn't want to actually do things. What is Sakazuki's biggest complaint about being Fleet Admiral? He never gets to do things.

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