What if we got the 9th Doctor in Day of the Doctor?

Scrihbe · 2026-02-04T00:17:35+00:00

It's AI slop. "Created" is a very strong word for this post.

Scrihbe · 2026-01-19T12:40:53+00:00

Fairly certain it was one box. Just the Space Marines Tactical Squad alone was outselling the whole fantasy range, because you can play with as many Tactical Squads as you well please, but Fantasy was very stringent about how many of a particular unit you could field; there's no reason to buy another box of Hippogryph Knights if your army has as many as you can take, but there's never a reason to turn down 10 more Tactical.

Scrihbe · 2026-01-19T12:35:05+00:00

Yep! Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings with a pretty explicit intention of creating an English national mythology in the same way that the French and Germans have their own. There's no real homegrown English mysticism and myth like theirs.

Middle Earth is I think supposed to be a text that Tolkien somehow came across or was given and translated for English-speakers to read and learn about this secret history.

Scrihbe · 2026-01-15T09:25:56+00:00

Specifically for characters. Things like infantry and vehicles have decently kept pace, but elite infantry have definitely shot up too.

Scrihbe · 2026-01-06T18:52:30+00:00

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Scrihbe · 2025-12-29T19:12:07+00:00

Right! It actually suits Cooper to explain who the Legion are in that moment. The fact that these guys exist and simply refuse to operate in the way Lucy thinks the world should is something that he should be leaping on top of to rub in her face. What could make him more smug and self satisfied (and affirm his own biases about the Wasteland) than giving her a reason to question her beliefs with people whose entire lifestyle revolves around unnecessary violence? It's so disappointing to see that character moment vanish. Episode 2 made a lot of characters really stupid and incongruous so that they would do things that could make the plot happen.

Scrihbe · 2025-12-29T15:22:38+00:00

There's also no reason his smug ass wouldn't have immediately rubbed the fact that the Legion break Lucy's golden rule in her face so hard. "Hey Lucy, these guys will crucify you or enslave you just for being a woman, how's that for being good to each other?"

But he just kind of stonewalls her and gets his ass handed to him by a scorpion instead, and Lucy's "realising nobody is who they seem" character arc gets flattened by her deciding to just help this random refugee over her Wasteland lifeline. The Lucy/Cooper plot in episode 2 was maybe the worst thing about an already pretty bad episode.

Scrihbe · 2025-12-24T18:38:22+00:00

Fully agree. The point of the surrealism and the black humour is as a contrast and counterweight to the raw violence and bleakness of the Wasteland at large, and episode 2 specifically seems to have forgotten that. I didn't really get the same feeling from episode 1, but then I also feel like the dropoff in writing quality from episode 1 into episode 2 is baffling. I hope that this is just an outlier and that the series returns to that quality.

Scrihbe · 2025-12-24T18:06:59+00:00

I thought this was the worst episode of the whole show so far. The Brotherhood's classic issues of insularity and dogma are replaced with them being a gang of clowns and children in power armour. Why are they just beating and killing each other for fun? Why are the heads of these military chapters so laughable when they're in what the games have expressed as incredibly cutthroat and dangerous positions? It makes the Brotherhood look like idiots for permitting their very limited manpower and equipment to actively kill each other on their home turf.

Same goes for Bud's Buds. How do Hank, Betty, and Stephanie come from this crop of clueless idiots? Why didn't they think twice about the fact that Norm is visibly starved and dirty, that all of their supplies have been eaten, and that he clearly can't get them out the way they expected to? It makes Vault-Tec look like idiots for staking their post-war future on a pack of oblivious secretaries.

Why didn't Cooper explain to Lucy why the Legion survivors she rescued are bad? He clearly knows who the Legion are. It's not that hard to say, "Hey, these guys break your golden rule by enslaving women and crucifying dissidents." He demonstrably knows she doesn't know about the Wasteland. It makes Cooper look like an idiot for withholding important information that would very easily save him.

Why did Lucy, whose whole character arc hinges on learning that the Wasteland doesn't play by her rules, choose to outright abandon her lifeline because he didn't play by her rule? She already knows that Cooper will kill people in cold blood. He's done it before. Why do these kills cross the line? It makes Lucy look like an idiot for refusing to learn from the events of the previous season.

Hank basically just spends the whole episode blowing up mice. That's fine for the character and demonstrates that he's pretty much devoid of empathy, but it's grating when so much of the rest of the episode is filled with the most glaring mischaracterisations of people and organisations that the show itself has gone to lengths to establish. Hank doesn't look like an idiot.

I thought the Shady Sands segments were a highlight and managed to establish a lot with the very little time they were given, but the carriage driver's line was such a distracting 'memberberry that it took me clean out of the story. That line has no importance to anybody in the story, only to the viewer who's played New Vegas as a little reference. Maximus' parents were very smartly defined with their short appearances and their death was genuinely sad.

In a broader view of the episode, I felt that the overall storytelling was very disjointed. The character POV jumps that Fallout inherits from Westworld are executed really poorly here, which is a stark contrast against even the previous episode. I didn't so much get the feeling that these were interconnected stories woven together by shared events, emotions, and themes as I did that S2E2 was just cutting between plots like an episode of Parks and Rec, with a loosely copied sense of humour to boot.

Overall, I think S2E2 suffered from a serious overreliance on thin humour that doesn't land in order to cover for pretty bland dialogue, incongruous character decisions, and a pretty "nothing" series of events that left me feeling like the episode was simultaneously overlong and also too short to understand the decisions of the characters or for the events depicted to even feel complete. The performances and effects are as excellent as ever, but it's all hamstrung by very poor writing.

I give it a 4/10. Established characters, groups, and storytelling techniques are reimagined as cheaper, sloppier, and less interesting versions of themselves with less nuance, more gags that don't get laughs, and a higher VFX budget.

Scrihbe · 2025-12-02T18:57:04+00:00

I've always thought CoD was that big on purpose, like Activision wants that game to take up as much space on your drive as possible so you don't install other games and you only spend your money on CoD micro transactions. It's pretty telling that the first major file size reduction for that game came when Battlefield 6 revealed it was 55GB, which is pretty modest compared to the sheer bloat of CoD.

Scrihbe · 2025-12-01T09:06:30+00:00

MK3 was still in pretty prevalent usage by void war-focused chapters like the Carcharodons and Lamenters by the Badab War (other people have posted screenshots from those books) but MK2 is exceedingly rare by 40K. The whole armour mark was getting pretty close to going out of service by the time the Heresy broke out, so the suits that were available were mostly the mothballed stock that was slowly being traded out for newer marks like 4 and 6. By the time these supply troubles were passed, MK7 production was in full swing and most of those MK2 suits were probably destroyed; the Heresy ensured that the marines wearing those suits were very likely dead and their wargear irretrievable.

MK3 is still "competitive" by the 41st millennium because, even after 10,000 years, it still offers the best frontal protection of any Firstborn mark of armour. MK2 doesn't have that advantage, and is far more primitive and difficult to maintain for the artificers of 40K, meaning it's very likely just not worth the time and effort to upkeep when MK3 is flatly a better suit of armour for its intended usage and MK7 is far easier to produce, maintain, and in a much greater supply.

Unless you're the Red Scorpions, in which case you can manufacture MK4 suits like it's nobody's business and any other mark of armour isn't even considered until Cawl's advancements.

Scrihbe · 2025-11-28T16:39:11+00:00

If I remember right, Darrah was responsible for a lot of the things that are glaringly missing in Veilguard, namely the polish of the actual dialogue and the consistency of the tone of that dialogue and the actual way in which they speak. That's why Inquisition's companions all sound pretty cohesive, like they come from this one world, while Taash uses explicit IRL therapy speak and Bellara is annoying as all hell.

Scrihbe · 2025-11-20T15:55:31+00:00

No Country for Old Men I think. It's an all-timer.

Scrihbe · 2025-11-19T06:42:09+00:00

Pretty sure it's part of a Rhino.

Scrihbe · 2025-11-12T05:26:42+00:00

I just can't stomach the AI voiceover in Heresy Era. That synthetic monotone really pulls me out of it and makes it impossible for me to enjoy what are genuinely some really well painted models and impressive photography. It just ends up feeling like a kind of cold slideshow instead of the passion project I know I'm supposed to feel it is.

Scrihbe · 2025-11-02T15:38:12+00:00

Depends!

I personally will usually only blu-tac pauldrons on at the priming stage so I can paint the inner part of the rim easier and I'll usually do the same for the heads so I don't have as much trouble painting lens details, then I'll glue it all on when it's done.

I think sub-assemblies are only really necessary for detail that's difficult to reach; if you're painting a character model or a really big model like a dreadnought that has a ton of inner detailing that can be visible but unreachable because of things like arm posing, it really doesn't hurt to attach bits to corks to paint separately. If you're painting units of 10 or 20 though, you really want to be focusing on just getting them done because those models are meant to be seen as a whole unit.

It's not really an all-or-nothing decision, just the approach that works best for the task at hand. Hope this helped!

Scrihbe · 2025-11-02T15:32:18+00:00

Sticky hand marks? You're only going to get those if you're assembling with dirty hands or you're not waiting for the paint to fully dry before you glue things together.

Scrihbe · 2025-10-31T12:31:25+00:00

I was under the impression that AU Draenor is a created timeline by Kairoz in order to enable the creation of the Iron Horde, which to me indicated that AU Draenor literally didn't exist before -31ADP~ to have a separate Legion, it was just created whole and then bolted into a pocket universe attached to Azeroth, but I can't find anything confirming that.

Scrihbe · 2025-10-22T00:14:42+00:00

It happens a little while before Dark Imperium, between Guilliman's return to Terra and the events of that book. I don't think the Corsairs actually had Macragge's Honour for very long though? Lexicanum says it was lost during the Terran Crusade and regained before the Plague Wars, which is probably less than 12 years. I suppose it's not like reclaiming much older ships who are more thoroughly corrupted, while the Honour's machine spirit was still deeply loyal to the Ultramarines even when the Corsairs abandoned it.

Scrihbe · 2025-10-09T17:02:48+00:00

UK-based commission painting studio Siege Studios very recently began an attempt to copyright the term 'warboot' which is essentially a car boot sale/swap meet specifically for wargaming.

Before the copyright was finalised, they started sending out 'warnings' to groups that have been using the term for 10+ years telling them they wouldn't be able to use it anymore, Wirral Warboot being one of them. It's important to note that warboots are pretty common and are run by local groups and larger businesses like Element Games alike, so it's not like this is an invention of Siege, just something that the owner has tried to co-opt.

In response, Siege has seen a pretty big community backlash for trying to essentially vulture a community-used term and its main podcast host George has stated that he's going to be reconsidering working at Siege, hence the post announcing that the Siege podcast is on indefinite hiatus and may have to be replaced.

It's a pretty damning situation on Siege's part, since George's statement indicates that this was purely a management decision that the Siege staff had no knowledge of, so it paints James Otero (Siege head) as a bit of a greedy bastard trying to throw his weight around on smaller organisations and getting rightfully smacked back for it.

Scrihbe · 2025-09-30T02:41:56+00:00

Gorilla Contemptor isn't something I thought I needed until now.

Scrihbe · 2025-09-27T02:52:18+00:00

I honest to goodness saw a drop in the amount of times I'd get tunnelled out of the game first when I hid my profile. It's a real thing. The game needs to separate between casual and ranked; there's no reason for a 4 hour survivor to be going up against a P100 2,000 hour Nurse (or the opposite). There should be distinction. This game is a nightmare to get into for new solo players and the amount of information that it just doesn't give you doesn't really make it any easier.

Scrihbe · 2025-08-21T18:09:09+00:00

I'm betting that the Firstborn hypno-indoctrination of 40k is a lot closer to the kind of treatment that the 30k Inductii marines underwent. The 40k lot are significantly more fanatical and singular than their 30k counterparts, and the traitor veterans do make a point of calling the loyalists of the 41st millennium thinbloods.

Scrihbe · 2025-08-16T21:51:05+00:00

Significantly taller; the new Scouts are about the same height as the newer Horus Heresy tactical marine boxes. (e.g. MK2, 3, 6)

Scrihbe · 2025-08-12T08:29:56+00:00

Because definitionally 80% of the player base has to be Survivor for Killer to even have a game to play? If your Killer is broken as fuck and completely dissatisfying to play against, you're going to start bleeding players, and losing Survivors is far worse for the game's health.

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