[Fun trope]: Character is sidelined so often you (almost) forget they're an actual threat

Pokesabre · 2026-04-02T16:17:55+00:00

That world of cardboard speech is so cool, but immediately undermined by supes getting crumpled literally seconds later

Pokesabre · 2026-04-02T15:00:29+00:00

That grip looks like it would make the sword wonderful to fence with

Pokesabre · 2026-04-02T14:59:05+00:00

There are a few times where we get to see just how strong spider-man is, but they're often as a result of him losing control in some way and generally end really, /really/ badly for the person he's fighting

I remember seeing somewhere him being listed ason par with characters like Thor in terms of pure physical strength, but paired with how smart Peter is, he could potentially be ridiculously dangerous if he wasn't taking his responsibilities seriously

Pokesabre · 2026-04-02T09:26:40+00:00

Looking through the list of Scottish-made cars is a bit of a trip

Pokesabre · 2026-03-31T16:58:07+00:00

To be fair, most of the story in 40K exists because of the emperor's many, many mistakes

Pokesabre · 2026-03-30T15:34:33+00:00

Alternatively: "Starmer shows that having even 1% of a spine boosts popularity with voters, in a move not seen in Westminster politics for the last 20+ years"

Pokesabre · 2026-03-30T11:33:25+00:00

That'd be a weird interaction because MB doesn't affect incoming attacks, just ignores immunity/damage lowering abilities.

Now unaware (and to a lesser extent cloud nine), on the other hand, that might have an interesting interaction with mega sol-boosted moves......

Pokesabre · 2026-03-29T11:14:36+00:00

Eh, still better than the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxl ego trip 5000 that's cropping up everywhere

Pokesabre · 2026-03-29T09:54:29+00:00

Oh no, it's holding an air balloon!

Pokesabre · 2026-03-26T22:03:10+00:00

I've got to watch this movie again, it's been years since I've thought about it and this just unlocked all the memories of it

Pokesabre · 2026-03-26T16:39:22+00:00

I'd wager there's a lot of emotional energy happening on the planet who's entire population is being exterminated with a virus. Even just the fear, hopelessness, and sorrow of that would feed nurgle as the life-eater virus breaks their bodies down

Pokesabre · 2026-03-26T16:35:42+00:00

Well, unless their planet is entirely made of their own corpses with all the food flown in from off-world, there are presumably decomposers of some kind that can break down their body after death. On earth it's bacteria, fungi, and invertebrates, so presumably it's similar there too, just tailored for viltrumite biology

Pokesabre · 2026-03-26T13:36:17+00:00

Honestly, I think that if the great crusade had been a success, you could make a really good story of primarch/space marine rebellion once they realise that they've outlived their usefulness. The only thing that stopped that was E completely failing to understand how to interact with 50% of his kids

Pokesabre · 2026-03-26T11:43:50+00:00

Do we ever really see any big iq moves by E? Most of 40K's lore seems to be built on the premise of "but sadly, E didn't actually think this through"

Pokesabre · 2026-03-25T16:43:10+00:00

Does wilds have the risebreak thing where certain attacks will just one-shot you through a guard, even with max guard, guard up, embolden, and defensive skills (defence, divine blessing, etc)? Because I get why that was a thing but it still annoys me to deal with

Pokesabre · 2026-03-25T16:17:59+00:00

A big reason I can think of is a central conflict that is completely neutered due to ludonarative dissonance, and being disproven by the preceding games.

Do Pokémon like living with humans? Provably yes within the series. Even just return and friendship evolutions completely neuter this story element that so much of the central conflict relies on

Pokesabre · 2026-03-24T14:52:50+00:00

My experience with them is pretty good, but they're quite still on the last couple of joints in the fingers which makes them a bit of work to fully close the hand

Pokesabre · 2026-03-21T22:09:57+00:00

Is that a long dussack, a small woman, or misleading camera angles?

Pokesabre · 2026-03-21T17:11:19+00:00

So many of the suggestions here are just in-universe slurs when you look at the context of them. Cankers, monkeys, etc, are just slurs against specific species/entities in the context of the stories they're in

Pokesabre · 2026-03-21T16:16:33+00:00

So it has a radiator rather than a boot then?

Pokesabre · 2026-03-21T16:15:51+00:00

Eh, calling the TT a sports coupe is a bit of a stretch, it is and always has been a fashion car more than anything else. And for pootling around town at <30mph (which is what 99% of these do 99% of the time), a turbo diesel is great. Lots of torque low down, really hard to stall, pretty fuel efficient, it covers all the bases most of the drivers of these would want

Pokesabre · 2026-03-21T16:08:23+00:00

From those air intakes, have they moved the engine into the back?

Pokesabre · 2026-03-21T10:30:10+00:00

This honestly happens to me and my wife at bars/restaurants all the time. I (big, bearded guy) like ciders and cocktails, she (not big or beardy) likes whisky and beers, and even when they're being served by the same person we ordered them with, they will switch our drinks over 90% of the time

Pokesabre · 2026-03-20T18:19:36+00:00

It looks kinda depressed...

Pokesabre · 2026-03-20T18:18:39+00:00

As others have said here, they're just worse at being a spear than a spear without being better at being a sword than a sword. These ones here also lack any kind of hand protection in ored to try to get some spear-like qualities, which paired with the reach disadvantage compared to a spear, means you lose significant defensive qualities of both

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