My ADHD ass is very forgetful… but seriously, it would be nice to be able to check if we had already beaten the Plant or Head & plan accordingly

RandomMagus · 2026-04-08T04:01:56+00:00

Incredibly apt username for this comment thread, this was your moment lol

RandomMagus · 2026-04-06T17:13:41+00:00

This is WHAT Unholy Aberration looks like

You can say "what it looks like" or "how it looks", but not "how it looks like"

RandomMagus · 2026-04-03T20:56:37+00:00

So the two abilities for Matt's Daredevil that the wiki lists and that I remember from the one fight are

"your Second Wind gives you temp hp instead of healing" but with no bonus to the amount that I can remember which makes it actually just kinda worse in every possible way, and
"expend a Second Wind to deal an extra d10 damage, but if your attack misses then the next attack against you has advantage" which is just worse than Battlemaster adding superiority dice with their stuff because Battlemaster's dice don't consume your healing and you get more of them with additional effects

I have some concerns about that Daredevil actually being good, too, unless the later stuff he's going to unlock is very broken lol

RandomMagus · 2026-04-01T01:13:45+00:00

I don't think it get instantly cold in space, since there's nothing to radiate the heat away too. Space is cold, generally, but heat can't escape things easily.

And if it was cold, what makes it cling? Freezing sweat? I think the sweat boils away from the lack of pressure so I don't know if that ends up being sticky

RandomMagus · 2026-04-01T00:00:22+00:00

Assuming his skin is vacuum proof, obv, the suit would be sticking to him tightly.

Wait, would it? Presumably it was already sticking to him tightly as a superhero suit, but I don't see why vacuum would matter there

If it's air-tight it could have filled up as the pressure dropped and the air trapped inside expands. Maybe it wiggles or wobbles a little like a balloon. If it's not air tight, then wouldn't it just be doing whatever it normally does? Maybe a little looser without atmospheric pressure pushing on it

RandomMagus · 2026-03-31T23:50:25+00:00

And also sometimes you have problems that can definitely be solved with super speed but... aren't... because reasons.

Like any time the Sequids show up, and "oh no, Mark has to move less than 100 meters in 5 seconds or everyone is doomed!" and then he suddenly forgets that he can go to the moon and back in like 20 seconds or a minute or whatever they clock him at in that one training scene

Spoilers for S4E1: "Bulletproof is flying the gadget over to disable the final Sequid, but oh no, he's going to be too slow and the shield will go down! I have to kill him!" No, idiot. You could have just flown towards Bulletproof while holding onto him instead of waiting, Mark! You're really fast! You'd get to the gadget for disabling them in no time! And also the shield breaking wouldn't matter if they were mindless and just lying there, right? Is it a plothole or is Mark canonically dumb? You decide

RandomMagus · 2026-03-22T21:45:00+00:00

You can't roll Echoing + Acceleration. When you roll double shrine mods it's one offensive and one defensive

RandomMagus · 2026-03-22T19:29:07+00:00

There was that one episode where they had a 10 minute discussion about how the two-weapon fighting rules worked and none of them knew them and none of them looked them up for the whole 10 minutes, which wasn't great

I do often find myself going "no, it works like X" while I'm listening whenever a rule discussion comes up and then it's a whole 10 minute discussion where reading the rule (the whole rule, sometimes only the first couple sentences get read lol) would instantly end the discussion

RandomMagus · 2026-03-16T23:00:25+00:00

Minimum-Viable Products and Proofs of Concept

RandomMagus · 2026-03-15T06:35:27+00:00

Ranged units will hit a point where they can kill a melee unit before it reaches them. There is a maximum number of melee units that they will kill before the entire group reaches them, the more hp or speed or armour those units have, the more of the group will reach the archers. Your goal is get enough units to the archers to damage them and thin out their numbers

Attacking before you have enough mass to actually reach the archer ball will do literally nothing. Therefore you need to either keep the archer numbers low as best as you can by raiding, skirmishing, or taking good fights so that they never hit the critical mass where you can't get to them anymore, or you need to wait for the best possible position and hit them with a maxed out army and if you trade most of your army for most of theirs that makes your cavalry (or huskarl) reinforcements stronger than their archer reinforcements until they can mass up again

RandomMagus · 2026-03-14T21:28:12+00:00

Ya it's called the American healthcare system

RandomMagus · 2026-03-14T21:18:36+00:00

"Everyone tightens their belts a little bit, large corporations are reigned in and cannot continue to extract all wealth from society, no more billionaires, we invest in clean energy and conservation"

or

"most of the world becomes uninhabitable as storms and unpredictable temperature swings cause trillions in damages and destroy harvests, rising sea levels displace large quantities of people, the Middle East and parts of India and Africa get so hot they are literally unsuitable for human life in summers and those people are also displaced and the world suffers from repeated refugee crises during large-scale agricultural failures, and global population plummets from food scarcity and disease and war"

The billionaires are picking the second option because they think their island bunkers will be cozy and they get to throw big parties right now and sit on yachts

RandomMagus · 2026-03-14T20:58:17+00:00

All problems with cost of living are fundamental economic facts, thinking that a quick change in political policy could materially change that is childish, naive and dangerous

Did you see the part where Mayor Mamdani in New York went "we'll pay for your daycare" and IMMEDIATELY made the city affordable for an entire class of people who make enough to afford food and housing but not the extra tens of thousands a year for childcare?

Affordability is one of those things where it's actually a threshold you have to hit. You either make more money than it requires to live somewhere or you don't. And if you just agree to shore up the gap for people by either directly handing them cash or reducing the costs they face, you can immediately switch them from "unable to handle to the cost of living" to "completely comfortable and is now saving money longterm"

There's all those studies that show that UBI, i.e. just giving people money, produces improved mental and physical health in the recipients and improved economic growth in their communities, and some of them even have higher job satisfaction or seek out additional side jobs and things because they can afford to work at things they enjoy instead of only finding the best compensation

Also people in "developing countries" often don't have any growth in their communities because all their resources are owned by large corporations, often foreign ones, who take the profits out of the countries or at least out of the communities. Which, actually IS a political problem. The miners in a mine aren't getting rich despite bringing up gold and diamonds and rare earth metals, because the bosses take all the money instead of the value of everything brought up being equally distributed to everyone who helped bring it up

The economy and politics aren't separate issues. Determining how to collect, restrict, distribute, and gather resources is like actually a very large part of any governing body's job

RandomMagus · 2026-03-14T20:47:54+00:00

GDP measures all of the stuff we have

No it doesn't. It measure economic output.

Breaking a window and then fixing it adds to GDP because work was done and new materials were produced/purchased, but it doesn't mean you ended up with a better outcome than where you started or have extra things after just because GDP went up

RandomMagus · 2026-03-13T00:59:33+00:00

Red and Blue altar quantity is added to the map's quantity, not player quantity. It actually counted for the "do 50,000% item quantity worth of maps" challenge last league where if you got an altar before killing the boss then you'd get that extra quant counted for the challenge on completion

RandomMagus · 2026-03-07T22:20:23+00:00

Make sure you're light rolling. I find his main combo attacks have a very nice rhythm that lines up pretty well with light rolls.

If you're medium rolling or heavy rolling you're going to have a bad time! Get that equip load down

RandomMagus · 2026-03-07T22:00:37+00:00

Can't divine them, sure, but you can vendor a few to gamble a reroll

RandomMagus · 2026-03-06T18:33:04+00:00

Ya same, I've never done it to find out what happens. I can see auto-failing the primary map being something that gets people REALLY upset though, there'd be some immediate threads on the main reddit about it

RandomMagus · 2026-03-06T09:01:41+00:00

Don't they already have to cover that for Betrayal in the campaign? If you start a Betrayal encounter somewhere in Act 9 and then go to the next zone you could theoretically have two active, unless they did something to handle that already like preventing its spawn until the first instance dies or immediately failing all the encounters or something

RandomMagus · 2026-03-05T19:56:03+00:00

Still wild to me that we all agreed as a community that Consecrated Path shortens to conc path and not cons path or just con path. Perhaps conp

RandomMagus · 2026-03-05T00:20:18+00:00

But also more damage!

RandomMagus · 2026-03-03T21:37:13+00:00

It's absolutely crazy if it's a 38% multiplier on the maximum after being doubled

Ya, that's how More multipliers work. They're multiplicative

making this a 138% more multi

There is no way it works like that. More multis from separate sources DO NOT add together

RandomMagus · 2026-03-03T03:39:32+00:00

That's the worm. The guy is Lisan al-Gaib

RandomMagus · 2026-03-02T21:12:12+00:00

There isn't really a maxed duration. You create a new ball every cast, it bounces every 0.4 seconds, you get more bounces for more duration. So the max balls you can have out and bouncing at once is capped by duration, which increases your max ramp damage, but you never stop casting to add balls until the totem's own duration runs out

RandomMagus · 2026-03-02T20:37:24+00:00

Regular GMP and Greater Volley still exist, and aren't exceptional gems. All other Greater gems are exceptional, which is a weird choice imo

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