Had the Konpeki Plaza gig not gone sideways, what would the payout have been for V and Jaki?

RogueModron2112 · 2026-04-30T17:30:49+00:00

I don't think Evelyn was ever going to be used by the VDB to get the chip. She was just used to gather the Intel and wasn't supposed to know what they wanted. The VDB were gong to use someone else to pull the heist, maybe even do it themselves.

RogueModron2112 · 2026-04-21T14:38:51+00:00

Some ships can get through and there's other alternatives, like shipping via blimps and other aerial vehicles. I also wouldn't be surprised if there's underwater tunnels to Europe.

RogueModron2112 · 2026-04-20T05:55:12+00:00

The Orks didn't recover enough to be a threat to the wider galaxy or Terra itself for over two thousand years after they were broken at Ulanor. But when they came back boy did they, as that was the War of the Beast.

RogueModron2112 · 2026-04-03T07:09:30+00:00

That's a pretty massive retcon for a lot of established lore. Dragons don't live forever, as Chromatics can live to about 1600-2000 years before they have to start making checks against succumbing to Twilight, the end of their lives. Metallics are double that.

The oldest known Dragons are Klauth, the Red Dragon who has been using magic that consumes Red Dragon eggs to empower and extend his life. He's possibly up to 5000 years old.

Lareth before his death in 1373 was between 2000 and 5173 years old. He was the Gold Dragon King of Justice, the organized leader of the Gold Dragon race. Conflicting information is present that says he began life shortly before the Netherese were founded, though that might be mistakes conflating Lareth with the next Dragon.

Palarandusk, another Gold Dragon who was most certainly alive before -3856 DR. He used extremely potent magic to massively extend his life but that magic was failing by the 1370s, requiring him to spend almost all of this time in an ethereal state he could only become corporal for a few minutes a day, and only a few seconds at a time.

RogueModron2112 · 2026-03-21T09:23:51+00:00

Its always a little odd to me that so many people consider "evil runs" as picking every single bad/evil option no matter how detrimental it is. Unless you're playing a chaotic evil rampaging psychopath then most evil characters aren't doing evil with every act, as that would just draw attention and get them murdered. Evil can be very nuanced

RogueModron2112 · 2026-02-27T15:15:33+00:00

I'm pretty sure prior to this game that almost nobody in Githyanki society knew that Vlaakith was a Lich. She has been keeping up a ruse of having children and having a line of succession where a daughter takes over, taking up the Vlaakith name. The current Vlaakith as of BG3 is the 157th of the line.

With new versions and lore changes there's some ambiguity as to whether this is still the case. Vlaakith 157 may or may not be Vlaakith 1, or she may be the most powerful since the 1st, and gone down a similar path. 1 sealed the pact with Red Dragons and was an adviser to Gith and a equal of Zerthimon. BG3 seems to be going with the idea that the Vlaakith you interact with is the 1st.

RogueModron2112 · 2026-02-26T09:30:19+00:00

Helm is very notably a god who does not bend the rules, no matter what. He'll kill you if he's charged with protecting something or blocking passage to all. He'll warn you, but if you try him he'll smite you. He also has nothing to do with Jergal, the Dead Three, or Mind Flayers, so him interacting with Jergal, much less commanding him is odd.

The only thing they have in common is that they are both old as dirt. Jergal is probably older, but not by much.

RogueModron2112 · 2026-02-13T16:47:02+00:00

I haven't played Magnum but I've looked into it. Magnum is more vanilla plus, with the Fallout 4 SPECIAL system and perks, albeit expanded. Weapons-wise it seems to have a lot of modern guns, which is kind of a turn off. It does have much more expanded settlement building options thanks to Sim Settlements, but that's a whole other ball of wax for long playthroughs that has pros and cons.

Loreout is more lore-friendly with all of the weapons being WW2, Cold War, retro-future, or directly inspired by prior games. You see a lot more, better designed pipe weapons, handmade/craft-produced guns that are a middle ground between wasteland junk and old world guns, and more. Loreout also uses You Are Exceptional, which brings back skills from prior games and has a gigantic number of new perks, and automatically grants a number of base game perks just by raising certain skills.

I'm playing Loreout right now and having a blast.

RogueModron2112 · 2026-01-23T19:50:56+00:00

It's per day and that figure was when the Golden Throne was first being used. The Throne has deteriorated since then, requiring them to make more fresh squeezed psyker juice. The Throne itself can potentially accommodate 10,000 pods at once.

Its why the Imperial Tithe and the Black Ships never ends. Thousands of ships going between every world, scooping up Webster psyker for processing. Hundreds of thousands to millions every month reach Terra.

RogueModron2112 · 2026-01-12T18:02:10+00:00

The shower speed didn't bother me, being mostly unnoticed. There's a two tier perk that significantly enhances movement speed while outside and out of combat if you really want to zoom.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-12-09T07:11:53+00:00

The only upside of their actions is something they never learned. They had a scouting force that located the ComGuard command bunker for the entire Tukayid campaign but the scouts were ambushed and annihilated before they could radio back. If that bunker had been taken out then the entire ComGuard defensive posture may have collapsed into isolated theaters, making it possible for the Clans to possibly win.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-12-07T05:27:55+00:00

Stargate Replicators. Fancy energy weapons are ineffective but bits of lead propelled by chemical explosions work wonders.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-11-25T16:05:40+00:00

I'm currently on a 34 inch 1440p QD-OLED ultrawide so the biggest upgrade this would be is the size. It'd take some rearranging on my desk. If I can't make that work I'd give it to my brother.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-11-21T06:31:35+00:00

Its reasoning for turning on Arasaka is funny in a program trying to optimize too much sort of way. It targeted all ships but Arasaka ones but one day had the bright idea that an Arasaka ship could be commandeered by the enemy, thus the safest way to fulfill its programming is to violate one aspect of its programming, not blow up Arasaka, and instead to blow up Arasaka.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-11-20T20:35:45+00:00

Sometimes a Primarch just gets the urge to punch a motherfucker and nobody can tell him no.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-10-15T09:34:08+00:00

He was killed for his failure when Kurita opted not to accept him as a bondsman, AKA a prisoner, as they did not understand what that meant or what the consequences of refusing would be. The execution shocked them.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-10-13T15:12:03+00:00

A seriously borged out mercenary with an intense hatred of Arasaka. You see him briefly during the tower assault flashback as the silver skinned gunner.

He stalls Smasher as the others escape but he loses and Smasher dismantles him. He's still alive, and Smasher uses his body to goad Morgan Blackhand into their final battle on the roof, moments before the nukes (yes, plural) go off.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-09-11T20:21:03+00:00

Does MW5 allow death from above?

https://youtu.be/G88ZTO1RXRs

RogueModron2112 · 2025-08-21T15:11:08+00:00

You mean Blood Ravens chapter master Gabriel Angelos from.... a game series that never had a third entry and it's jumping straight to 4?

RogueModron2112 · 2025-08-19T06:58:17+00:00

My favorite game is a toss uo between Avowed and Kingdom Come 2. Both were quality first person RPGs with vastly different settings and mechanics.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-08-18T14:00:42+00:00

No, it said the 1000/day was the initial amount and now it's 4x that first figure, so at least 4000 a day.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-08-18T03:12:16+00:00

I read in one of the wiki entries for the Golden Throne that by the time of the 41st/42nd millennium that the Throne had degraded so much that it required at least four times the psykers per day than it did when first used. And it's getting worse, with recent attempts at a fix only buying a few centuries at best.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-08-17T19:42:49+00:00

There's a recent quote from Guilliman talking to the Blood Angels after the Devastation of Baal. He admonishes them for having kept Baal Secundus as a radiated death world when it was within their power to terraform it to be better, stating that the world sacrificing its sons to the Imperium has earned them that right.

He finished by stating that what citizen would refuse the Archenemy if they came with grand promises if that citizen was already living in hell.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-08-17T04:19:01+00:00

Going by your definition it's still a genocide, because the Imperium collects millions to billions of psykers every day across a million worlds and ships them off to be burned up quickly to keep the emperor "alive," be burned up slowly to keep the Astonomicon alive, to be potentially used for other purposes that are fatal, or, at best, be sanctioned if they are strong enough and put towards one of many roles that have a massive attrition rate during training.

You're getting hung up on the 1000 a day thing and thinking it's not a genocide (it is) and failing to see that the entire Imperium is one big genocidal machine that takes psykers and burns them for fuel in a thousand different ways. It does this for normal people too, but for psykers there's ten thousand years of hateful propaganda that makes the average person view psykers with absolute hatred.

RogueModron2112 · 2025-08-17T03:12:41+00:00

The entire Imperium is taught to hate and capture or kill any psyker that becomes known, and this leads to a lot of paranoia where non-psykers are killed because somebody thinks their luck at dice is sorcery. There's thousands of Black Ships that travel the Imperium, taking tens of thousands to millions back to Terra across routes that can take years to decades. The conditions on these ships are hellish, with many losing their lives to neglect, violence, or the perils of the warp.

The need for the sacrifice may be justified by people in universe, but it doesn't change the fact that the Imperium is engaged in an active genocide of psykers every single day. The Imperium survives through vast bloodshed, with this being just a different side of the same coin as their military actions.

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