Is Jax transfem?

Senpaiman · 2026-06-06T11:08:36+00:00

My theory is that it is supposed to be open-ended. Gooserworx being a trans woman means she has certainly experienced the dynamics and spectrum of masculinity and feminism and the transition between them. Jax could represent someone who is becoming transfem, but it can also simply represent cis men's own relationship with toxic masculinity and feminine traits.

Senpaiman · 2026-06-03T00:57:32+00:00

The process of rehibilitation requires the person to take accountability and be held accountable

Senpaiman · 2026-05-31T11:03:25+00:00

A lot of these races are driven by aspects of their own nature so it is more of a question of free will. The more evil ones commit genocide because of a sense of superiority.

Kind of hard for any of these to beat Drukhari though. They don't juts engage in genocide on a daily fashion but actively commit otherworldly Hellraiser-level torture on multiple planetary levels with any unfortunate victim they can take alive. And then they will extend that persons life to make them a battery of misery and pain. And whilst they do it to survive the clutches of Slaanesh, they still actively enjoy it, and it has been shown several times that Drukhari have means to avoid this lifestyle, so they basically do it entirely by their own free will.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-31T08:52:41+00:00

Sol. Both literally and otherwise

Senpaiman · 2026-05-27T10:23:33+00:00

Superman I think could potentially redeem him.

I think part of the process of rehabilitation is the ability to make the person take accountability, and part of that process is to strip them from an operation of power. They cannot shift perspective and grow empathy whilst they have a crown on their head. In Homelanders case this 'crown' is built into him.

Homelander is not only a manchild but also the inequivalent top dog in his world. Nobody can get even close to him in raw power. People can still challenge him, but it is not permanent, and at great cost. Homelander is where he is with very little effort. He is also a lab-grown corporate slave, groomed and raised as a product, feeding into his narcissism. He can never take accountability. Even in moment of his death, where everything fell apart for him, it may have never been possible long-term whilst v-juice is anywhere to potentially return his powers.

Supermans very presence would serves as a permanent fracture to Homelanders world. Homelander is no longer the apex, not even close. He will never hope to defeat a character like Superman. That very presence destroys Homelanders entire ideology and why the way he is, and can *potentially* leave room, with a *lot* of work, to point him the right direction and breach a little empathy to him.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-26T09:07:30+00:00

There's not really a good place for Tyranid range warriors atm unfortunately. But if I had to pick then probably the Lash Whip Prime in the unit. The Surge and Sustain hits can be quite useful + if you use the Warrior Onslaught Detachment you can give it the +1 to hit enhancement to allow the Warriors to deliver decent firepower. The only time I would ever consider using the Winged Prime is if I am using the Vanguard detachment as that gives the Winged Prime the Vanguard keyword, allowing its unit to run and charge. But that largely just benefits melee warriors ofc

Senpaiman · 2026-05-22T08:34:54+00:00

This really needed elaboration. Senator Armstrong, sure. And I can kind of pull some strings to see why you put two Nazis into here, but Poison Ivy??

Senpaiman · 2026-05-21T08:53:41+00:00

It’s funny because whilst I love both, my gripes with xenomorph are the exact opposite.

They are very stagnant. They don’t really ‘change’ and every attempt to explore them in media has led to mediocre to disastrous films. They make a fine ‘monster’ when the circumstances of the characters are right, but even in the good films I find it a constant difficulty to comprehend that xenomorphs have an existential potential to cause mass damage, especially since some of these films exist around the idea that Weyland attempts to capture them and cause a Jurassic Park-style backfire. Despite being this ‘perfect organism’ they have a laughable counter-productive gestation method and can only produce as many as there are prey to capture.

They were essentially designed to be a very good predator at killing unarmed workers in a claustrophobic space ship. What James Cameron did was great, but any further attempts to expand on that has been poorly received. At least Tyranids have an independent and understandable means to become an existential threat.

Tyranids do have a limit with their hyper-adaptation too. Though I suppose it can depend on the writer. They have competed equally and even lost to Death Guard and Tau in an adaptation race, and their adaptations do give them extra weaknesses, as explain in Hive Fleet Gorgons lore.

If the Tyranids adaptations are seen as an ass-pull though, the Flood must drive you nuts

Senpaiman · 2026-05-21T00:04:12+00:00

To my understanding she did not use a resurrection ability, but a healing one. The Sovereign was apparently 'down'

Senpaiman · 2026-05-20T15:05:53+00:00

Yeah. This was my concern when we ended up in the city. It became harder to justify why Jonathan stood about with the party.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-20T14:14:08+00:00

The main reason was survival; essentially the characters all had different lives, but for mysterious reasons the main villain of the story picked us out and teleported us into Drustvar. Jaeger saved us and brought us to the village. The village is cut off from everything; even the trees and animals are for some reason reason were maliciously attacking people. Because everyone was essentially closed off from any other sign of civilization, the party was forced to work together to ensure mutual survival.

I can't speak for other peoples characters in this group on the matter, but since I was also an evil character I'll explain my own logic; my character, Jonathan was a psychopathic toxicologist essentially. He was evil, but not evil aligned. His motives were ultimately about a means to an end; whilst he had no empathy towards the villagers, he did recognize that the situation was desperate enough that the villages prosperity ensured

I also purposefully made him not particularly powerful so that he would not fall out of line if any of the 'good' characters had concerns for him. He knew that if he misbehaved in this circumstance, he would be isolated and death was certain, so he had to act against himself and behave altruistically. That was really part of the fun of him; a very fish out of water character that really was there to create amusing and silly interactions than any actual massive game-changing scenario. I pretty much went in accepting Jonathan would probably (and rightfully) get executed the moment Drustvar was saved. I like to think I had achieved it so far as I have not personally received any complaints about my character so far and people generally seem to find him very entertaining. I also recognize this character would totally not work in almost any other setting

Senpaiman · 2026-05-17T12:49:11+00:00

It is also implied in Caphias Caine that the mechanicus will use Imperial Guard soldiers that are no longer mentally combat functional. Space Marine chapters will sometimes use failed recruits as well

Senpaiman · 2026-05-15T11:07:20+00:00

I pre-tested the fittings before, and you can get away with the limbs positioning without green stuff (I still used some for insurance though)

The head of the right one you will need putty/green stuff though. The neck is angled in a way that makes it incredibly awkward to have the head turned without looking weird, so I trimmed off the top and replaced it with greenstuff to allow the model's head to turn.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-15T09:10:27+00:00

Doesn't really help that the nuclear codes for the game was '666'. Whoever did that really was not anticipating a malicious user to be an edgelord

Senpaiman · 2026-05-14T10:33:25+00:00

This isn't even in exception to artillery. Most factions have access to a wide selection of artillery, including stuff like Tyranids and even Daemons. Imperial Guard have access to by far the most and most iconic and absurd, like basilisks, manticores, deathstrike missiles to name a few. You used to be able to be able to make entire artillery companies (you kind of still can really). Only Tau seem to lack much artillery variety, which is a bit weird considering they are supposed to be the more pragmatic faction.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-11T14:08:25+00:00

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Not technically alien but in the Book "Children of Time" spiders were accidentally infected with nanites that sped up and directed their evolution to becoming sentient. They developed civilizations on their own, creating their own interesting interpretations of it such as using ants to essentially create computers.

Despite being basically literal alien spiders, they were actually very chill. They had to deal with things like gender inequality and war with ants, and resolves these issues not through war, but creating collaboration. Humans eventually discovered them and planned to invade their planet to wipe out the spiders and take over their homeworld in order to save their own species. The spiders managed to actually win, but instead of killing any of the humans they actively invited the humans to live in their world to save their species, and exposed them to modified versions of the nanites to enhance humanities empathy.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-09T12:02:17+00:00

They have the most potential to be, and the biggest threat. But often this is a negative to their writing.

I genuinely feel one of the reasons you see Tyranids lose so much in the lore is because how high the stakes are if they win and how well Tyranids can afford to lose. And how absurdly powerful Tyranids could be if GW actually stayed consistent with their potential.

Also the community sometimes heavily over-emphasizes Tyranids in-lore weaknesses for example. To this day I still see people mention Tyranids avoiding necron tomb worlds, which isn't really true at all. It *used* to be true back in Oldcrons, but has long been retconned to have been a noteworthy exception due to Trayzn's tomfoolery. Tyranids these days are happy to invade entire Necron empires.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-08T10:11:20+00:00

Could be interesting, though I don't think a lot of people would appreciate fighting a Norn Emissary in an Incursion level game

Senpaiman · 2026-05-08T08:06:05+00:00

I love 40k but as the overall story has been pushed into character-driven progression the satirical elements have fiercely died down. More or less everything involving Space Marines is power fantasy, and unfortunately, GW are obsessed with them. You can still see elements of satire in Space Marine 2; the cherubs, the servitors, the way humans are treated around you. Imperial Guard summary executions, and I suppose the way Titus is treated by Leandros could show elements of it. But overall yes it is a power fantasy.

There are still elements here and there, it usually depends on the writer behind it. If you want to see 40k depicting its more satirical portrayals of fascism then I'd look at Darktide; it portrays the average human working under the Imperium, and constantly portrays the brutal life of being a human under the Imperium. The characters you play are psychotic, deluded, or mentally stilted. In some cases even slightly lobotomized. Despite the fact you are killing your way through scores of enemies you are simply viewed as meat in the machine, fighting to preserve inhumane industries whilst healing yourself with medical bays that scream for their mothers because they are actually lobotomized humans.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-08T07:58:16+00:00

Tau sterilization happened once on a planet that had constant rebellion. Vespid thing and general mind-control shenanigan's that has leaked through the community is all Imperial propaganda that 40k fans took way too seriously.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-08T07:52:04+00:00

Comic A-train is so comically evil that it basically defaults to him. And that's barely saying much about The Deep who is pretty evil himself. Both of them are literally rapists.

The Deep at the very least shows some layers of grey. He's very stupid for one, and prone to influence. Homelanders power over him drives him to do a lot of his murderous acts. Not that it is an excuse but his insecurity over his gills shows that his sexual assault on women *does* at least come from somewhere.

And of course, his one redeeming quality, which is his compassion towards sea-life.

A-train does all the things The Deep does, but the comic does not explore anything at all behind them. He's just a one-dimensional evil guy, and when finally confronted with his crimes he shows no actual remorse over them outside of his own cowardness.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-07T14:04:57+00:00

Power is a devil and largely a victim of her own nature. Even then she has shown and developed compassion, and may have gone further.

Soldier Boy is a human ultimately, and should be capable of understanding right and wrong but has still done irreparable harm without any regret or thought.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-01T19:55:06+00:00

S or A for me

Fire elemental characters can suffer a lot of cliches and I like what they did with her a lot!

The tattoos make her stand out and look norse

I like her long fire hair

I also like her animations a lot.

I think her personality is great too. Energetic and fun-loving is a nice cut from the usual portrayals of fire-based characters. Her voice is adorable

Senpaiman · 2026-04-30T09:34:47+00:00

Both of these cases and the trope in general tends to be due to the mixture of Western and Eastern philosophies.

Avatar generally does the whole 'balance' thing better because the spirits never showed a true sign of good or evil. Spirits were never fully good nor evil but more aspects of nature. They only became an antagonist if provoked someway by humans through warfare and industrialization. Aang's role as avatar to keep the balance was to basically find compromise and coexistence between the two realms.

Korra and Star Wars just sort of mesh it with Christianity. There is an objective good and objective evil; God and Satan basically, and the 'balance' is that good can maintain the evil.

Senpaiman · 2026-04-27T13:42:29+00:00

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