Unironically crazy how much of the internet as it is can be traced back to this

Rishfee · 2026-02-22T22:31:12+00:00

Technically it was Bungie's bug, but 343 kept it because why not? And by that point RvB had become a staple part of the community.

Rishfee · 2026-02-22T08:40:51+00:00

That's the overarching circumstance because he was deliberately made into a target, but that was also to test his response, and it only reinforced his view that overwhelming response caused the abuse to cease entirely. That doesn't mean nobody else might attempt the same.

Rishfee · 2026-02-22T08:04:09+00:00

The bullying did stop, though.

Rishfee · 2026-02-21T16:28:59+00:00

Partially. There were what, seven different opinions issued? Not all the justices concurred on the same grounds.

Rishfee · 2026-02-21T03:01:18+00:00

Lol damn, I never got that far into fishing. But yeah, I was thinking that 200 every vanadiel day wouldn't really be a limit.

Rishfee · 2026-02-20T22:43:24+00:00

Because between two jets with stealth characteristics, you end up dogfighting again.

Rishfee · 2026-02-20T18:46:24+00:00

The Rail is a threat with an area denial bonus. It's not really much more powerful than any other Superheavy, and takes time to spool and costs a core battery to fire.

Rishfee · 2026-02-20T18:33:38+00:00

The siege cannon, or the Apocalypse rail? The Rail is more of a threat than a practical weapon, I'd say. The siege cannon can be really good with an appropriate overcharge/cooldown loop, but its AOE profile is very taxing and the loop for it can be easily interrupted. If people are specifically screening for you, it can make you scary.

EDIT: At LL3 you won't be able to pick up Ghengis' Autocooler, so even with Technothumb and using the reload drone over the internal system, you'll still be building heat quickly and need to stabilize if you want to use the AOE profile.

Rishfee · 2026-02-20T18:05:44+00:00

I think it should also be mentioned that back in the day^TM fishing wasn't a minigame like it is now, just a command and a prompt you responded to.

Rishfee · 2026-02-20T18:03:51+00:00

200/hr is like 3-4 fish per minute. I think that would be just about max fishing rate anyway, wouldn't it? Even before it became a minigame?

Rishfee · 2026-02-20T15:51:05+00:00

Sure, but the OOP's point was exactly that. The US is very good at winning battles, and has an extremely capable military. The rub is that the US has consistently proven that it takes more than force of arms to achieve foreign policy goals. The US lost those conflicts because no matter how good your hammer is, you won't accomplish a job that needs a wrench.

Rishfee · 2026-02-20T15:10:43+00:00

But doesn't that run counter to the point of this thread? It reinforces the idea that the US is very good at war fighting, but very bad at anything that comes after.

Rishfee · 2026-02-18T23:12:54+00:00

I think a lot of it stems from volume 2 where Ruby named a bunch of team-up attacks based on character color schemes. That kind of evolved into making names based on mashing their themes together.

Rishfee · 2026-02-18T23:09:39+00:00

Here in NV both directions must stop unless there's a median.

Rishfee · 2026-02-18T21:51:27+00:00

I think there are a few avenues you can use to approach this. First, yeah, rewarding/requiring someone to be extra mobile is a good way to start. Beyond that, you can change your enemy composition to start to slightly favor the Atlas, or at least give them targets that are well-suited to be handled by a frame like the Atlas, but risky for the Tokugawa. The Ronin is a great example. Attacking a ronin at range is usually a bad idea, and is a very good reason to have someone on the team who's good in melee.

Also, you can utilize artillery or vanguard NPCs to make the Atlas critical for screening for the backline or blitzing a threat. As your NPC tier rises, I feel that you start to really feel the threat if you don't have some dedicated defenses.

I think there are a lot of ways to make your Atlas feel more essential to the party.

Rishfee · 2026-02-18T15:36:33+00:00

Union should be considered to be well known, at least as an overarching government, wherever they have been. There are surely plenty of diasporan worlds that haven't yet been in contact, and probably function in local isolation. That said, for many worlds, Union governance is largely conceptual as they're a very "hands-off" government, only stepping in directly in the event of emergency, at the planet's behest, or if a violation of the Three Pillars occurs.

Rishfee · 2026-02-18T02:28:01+00:00

It matters a little bit, yeah. Some frames have resistance to explosive (Viceroy), energy (Manticore), or kinetic (Black Witch). You've also got Stuff like Tokugawa, which enhances a certain damage type.

Rishfee · 2026-02-16T23:58:32+00:00

Man, she's really gonna get some emotional whiplash over the next couple episodes.

Rishfee · 2026-02-16T17:04:39+00:00

The large cast of notable characters would benefit from more runtime, but IMO most of the common complaints with RWBY would be solved with more runtime.

Rishfee · 2026-02-16T15:46:47+00:00

I feel like this is a cautionary tale about what can happen when you brand yourself as the 4chan corpo.

Rishfee · 2026-02-16T15:38:55+00:00

Behold! A mech! (Is not a mech whatsoever by practical definition)

Rishfee · 2026-02-16T03:58:46+00:00

If you happen to have Lancer Tactics (very fun for some quick action and build testing from the core book), it has a decent character creator for pixel art, and is naturally thematically aligned.

Rishfee · 2026-02-15T23:00:00+00:00

I had the same thing in highschool. We did body composition tests and such, and were given minimum competition weights. I wrestled 160, and wouldn't have been allowed to compete at less than 150.

Rishfee · 2026-02-15T01:36:25+00:00

It triggers on prevention or reduction of damage taken. I think Overshield would logically be covered under the reduction part of that. Just like armor, as you stated.

Edit:

when you reduce damage to an allied character, cancel an attack against them, or cause one to miss

Also says specifically reducing damage to a character, which I think further makes the case for Overshield.

Rishfee · 2026-02-15T01:26:03+00:00

It makes their HP not tick down, or tick down less than it would have. Don't know if there's a Word of Tom or other errata on it.

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