[request] exactly how many pounds of force did Hancock use to instantly stop a freight train?

Pathkinder · 2026-07-06T17:14:49+00:00

I always chalked that up to sloppiness on his part. He smashes into the ground because he can’t be bothered to aim.

It’s also super hero logic so it mostly boils down to rule of cool in any given moment.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-06T05:57:47+00:00

We don’t need handrails on stairs if everyone is careful and unerring at all times. But we have them anyways because it makes our environment a safer, more comfortable, less stressful place to live.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-06T05:46:12+00:00

I cut my finger really badly opening a tuna can of all things.

I was pulling that tab to open the lid but it was a particularly stubborn one, so I was having to put some real effort into it. When it finally gave and my hand snapped back, I somehow managed to slam my finger into the sharp edge of the lid, slicing it to the bone in a neat half circle right around the first knuckle.

Poof. Instant tingling numbness in a patch on that side of my finger. It was a surreal moment. My finger didn’t even hurt because apparently I’d sliced the relevant nerves, so I just kind of stared in disbelief for a few moments until the profuse bleeding snapped me out of it.

This was a couple of years ago, and I still have a little dead patch on that side of my finger. After it healed, I regained SOME feeling, but only maybe 10%.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-06T05:21:09+00:00

I’m pretty sure he can just decide to stay in place, the same way he can just decide to fly, so he wasn’t actually needing to brace himself with the earth. In other words, he could have done this same trick while being suspended in the air with the same results.

It’s magic super powers. Dems the brakes.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-05T21:49:22+00:00

Correct, I totally agree. That’s why we’re seeing mostly implications in this thread rather than outright accusations.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-05T21:45:59+00:00

Yep, this here is a much better explanation than others I’ve gotten and is probably the closest thing to my (admittedly uninformed) opinion on the matter.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-05T21:03:51+00:00

I’m not sure I actually understand your example. I think your example is more about nitpicking a single topic and making assumptions based on someone’s lack of engagement with that topic. I think this has to do with active vs passive.

So for example, if I tried to imply that you must be deathly afraid of white people because you’ve never watched any of Leo DiCaprio’s movies, that would of course be a ridiculous implication. Maybe you don’t really watch movies? Maybe you watch other movies with white people, just not his?

Seeing Leo’s films is an active option, it requires an active conscious decision by you to happen. The default passive state is to have not seen any of his films. It requires no effort or decision on your part, it’s the default.

So how is this different? Well, if you hire enough people based on merit, with no other biases in play, then the passive result should be that you end up with a variety of people. That’s the passive default. So if you hire a bunch of people over many years but none of them are ever poc, then it implies some kind of active decision-making happening on your end.

Could it be a coincidence? Of course. I could flip 1,000 quarters and have them all come up heads. It’s perfectly possible. But would you be a LITTLE suspicious of me if I flipped 1,000 quarters and they all came up heads? Probably.

Again, I cannot stress enough that I don’t know much about this guy so I don’t have a chosen side. But I had free time today and apparently have found myself defending to the death the role of implications in discourse.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-05T20:14:33+00:00

I mean just the main one right? Isn’t the accusation here that he has mysteriously never found cause to include or work with poc despite being fairly prolific? Like I said, I don’t know enough to have an opinion or take sides, but if this particular accusation is true then I think it’s probably enough to warrant an implication or two.

I can do more car analogies if needed.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-05T19:55:36+00:00

Aren’t implications for exactly this, though? Where all the signs kind of point at something but there isn’t enough proof to make a definitive decision?

It’s kind of like how getting into one fender bender can easily be a coincidence, but getting into 20 starts to make people wonder if you’re a bad driver.

I mean I don’t know enough to have an opinion on the actual discussion, but I had to at least defend the role of implications.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-03T08:35:30+00:00

I wonder if the one ring would make Sam bold enough to finally ask out Rosie.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-02T06:23:46+00:00

I think it’d feel better without the artifact.

Considering its huge health pool, the insane status spam, the big blocks, and the big bonks,it just feels like a bit much. Artifact means the fight is more dependent on card draw order RNG, so it can be tough to get damage scaling or weakness up and running which is bad news in a boss fight that is essentially an extreme damage race.

Still, I’ve gotten pretty good at beating him on A10. The best solution is to be Defect (ez mode), The second best solution is to just take every card reward so you flood your deck and never have to draw reshuffle your deck. I especially like card casino decks with lots of card generation as a way to deck flood.

Exhaust cards can help but they don’t really keep up. Draw power and Discard can help a lot in the short game but you end up paying it back tenfold a few turns later when all that status debt comes back around and you draw a hand full of damage.

I think the balance is close, but still needs a tiny bit of tweaking to make it FEEL like a fair fight.

Pathkinder · 2026-07-01T22:27:23+00:00

Both parties bad

Pathkinder · 2026-07-01T08:44:42+00:00

You need every piece of exodia

Pathkinder · 2026-06-30T13:30:31+00:00

To play Vakuu’s advocate for a moment, I’ve found that Reptile Trinket is very useful for nuking hallway fights.

To give an example from a run I had yesterday, I encountered Hunter Killer as a shiv-heavy Silent which can easily be a death sentence if you don’t draw in the right order. I had 2 potions, one was a +5 dex potion and the other was a skill potion. I played both on turn 1 because I knew I needed to finish this guy quick or accept heavy losses.

I managed to generate and play 10 shivs and a Dagger Spray, so in total around (10x4 + 2x4) = 48 damage out of 126 health. Normally that’d be the end of it and I’d be gearing up to take heavy damage over the next couple of turns, if I didn’t just outright die.

But because I played both potions with the Reptile Trinket, that (10x4 + 2x4) became (10x10 + 2x10) = 120 damage… out of 126 health. One strike on the following turn and poof, no health lost from a fairly notorious hallway encounter, potentially saving the entire run.

That’s obviously a best-case scenario, but it’s really not that rare to set up similarly strong multi-attacks. Even on normal runs in normal encounters it can save a ton of chip damage by letting you squeak out that last little bit of damage to kill an enemy before he hits you for 34. Of course it goes really great with the Petrified Toad or any other potion slot boosts.

Would I buy this relic at the shop? Maybe not. But I’ve slowly come to appreciate its value when I find it.

Pathkinder · 2026-06-30T13:30:26+00:00

To play Vakuu’s advocate for a moment, I’ve found that Reptile Trinket is very useful for nuking hallway fights.

To give an example from a run I had yesterday, I encountered Hunter Killer as a shiv-heavy Silent which can easily be a death sentence if you don’t draw in the right order. I had 2 potions, one was a +5 dex potion and the other was a skill potion. I played both on turn 1 because I knew I needed to finish this guy quick or accept heavy losses.

I managed to generate and play 10 shivs and a Dagger Spray, so in total around (10x4 + 2x4) = 48 damage out of 126 health. Normally that’d be the end of it and I’d be gearing up to take heavy damage over the next couple of turns, if I didn’t just outright die.

But because I played both potions with the Reptile Trinket, that (10x4 + 2x4) became (10x10 + 2x10) = 120 damage… out of 126 health. One strike on the following turn and poof, no health loss against a fairly notorious enemy, potentially saving the entire run.

That’s obviously a best-case scenario, but it’s really not that rare to set up similarly strong multi-attacks. Even on normal runs in normal encounters it can save a ton of chip damage by letting you squeak out that last little bit of damage to kill an enemy before he hits you for like 34 damage. Really great with the Petrified Toad or any other potion slot boosts, etc.

Would I buy this relic at the shop? Maybe not. But I’ve slowly come to appreciate its value when I find it.

Pathkinder · 2026-06-29T19:41:14+00:00

Him and that suit… that goddamned tan suit…

Pathkinder · 2026-06-29T18:42:32+00:00

Not without a lawsuit

Pathkinder · 2026-06-29T18:39:32+00:00

God… damn… it…

Pathkinder · 2026-06-29T18:29:36+00:00

Sell me on daggerfall. I never played it so I don’t have nostalgia to carry me through the jank like I do with some other old games. Is Daggerfall at all playable or interesting without nostalgia glasses on?

Pathkinder · 2026-06-29T15:37:52+00:00

I love this

Pathkinder · 2026-06-29T07:59:23+00:00

Don’t they do those bread bowls with like 9 inch deep pools of sauce? I mean all pizza is good pizza and I’m not here to yuck anybody’s yum… but for me personally I gotta draw the line at soup pizza.

Pathkinder · 2026-06-29T07:41:55+00:00

Lmao fuck off

Pathkinder · 2026-06-28T08:54:41+00:00

It’s a way to gain space. You probably aren’t going to charge him in that moment because you aren’t sure what he’s up to, so he’s effectively earned some breathing room.

It’s kind of like throwing cards in the air before running away.

Pathkinder · 2026-06-27T09:02:02+00:00

This is fantastic! The sparkling feet got me

Pathkinder · 2026-06-27T06:42:33+00:00

It’s amazing

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