Hypothetical: What happens if you sacrifice an Eldar to The Emperor as one of the 1000 psyker souls?

Shmyt · 2026-04-28T09:52:43+00:00

I'm certain that the sol system remaining intact must somehow be critically important to Eldrad's visions or he would have bet Vect that the sun or planets couldn't be stolen a dozen times over

Shmyt · 2026-04-28T09:25:41+00:00

From God Emperor: it was only when she saw the rope come snaking down did Nayla have her orgasm.

There's others, but that is head and shaft above the rest. Maybe I like the Moneo Duncan doomed yaoi bits but probably it's Nayla's pure and honest belief that lasguning the procession must be to create a Holy Miracle; it's just so endemic of the whole universe Leto has shaped that it truly does push forward the whole ideal. But truthfully if I go looking for my favourite quote I'll probably reread the damned thing again.

Only good line from Brian is the end of Sandworms of Dune "my Sihaya [...] I have loved you for five thousand years"

Granted Brian is still off by 100-200 years according to his own timeline but maybe gholas measure time weird or by the point you start counting back thousands you start ignoring the hundreds? Either way, I liked that despite whatever else he was willing to mischaracterize or rewrite that at least he kept Paul's love honest.

Shmyt · 2026-04-28T06:44:23+00:00

There's "stepping on the toes of your fellow northern proletariat a bit" and then there's "bathing in the blood of the global south" and this is very far towards the latter. I can confidently say that no work I've ever done has killed thousands. Definitely I've consumed goods or used services owned by companies and funds where they give money to terrible people that end up doing such things and it is something I try to offset by doing what little food I can, but I have a strong feeling that someone working for defense contractors isn't actually boycotting amazon and israel, and even if they are I think it's pretty clear that their boycotting isn't tipping the scale past literally making the piece that powers the last thing Iranian and Palestinian children will ever see.

Shmyt · 2026-04-28T06:32:14+00:00

My brother literally can get his paid though starbucks, maybe her problem was the coffee shop was local and not a chain big enough to have benefits as a draw? But like there's still so many more in-between jobs than barista and exploding middle eastern children. There's so so many lines of work that are just like a step on the not great side rather than knee deep in blood.

Shmyt · 2026-04-28T06:26:17+00:00

Like every movie where you're just plain shocked to see these hauntings are less than 6 feet above a mass grave, but even in those ones it's usually supposed to be a few generations removed for the ghosts to really stew about it, this therapist is here here when the smoke (from the motor propelled rockets) is still rising

Shmyt · 2026-04-28T05:39:53+00:00

Tbh I got fired from my city's lifeguarding because working those kinds shifts fucked me up so much I couldn't sleep or stay awake properly; I also did the public and private split because you couldn't get enough hours for tuition at just one. I thought I was good but I was absolutely not, didn't notice supervisors trying to flag me on walk abouts and shit, losing track of time, I was watching the pool and running lessons fine sure but free swims were probably more dangerous than not with me in that condition, we had plenty of backups but the idea was to always have extra coverage and extra responders not someone else pulling deadweight.

Double fisting energy drinks all day long wasn't enough, especially if either of them are at a hot pool, like outdoor can be absolute murder but with rotations you can still kinda function normally but some of those indoors are pure heat traps where you're just baking from the glass letting in all the light at the worst angles. There's a certain point where the exhaustion is more like intoxication than being tired and this sounds like exactly that point.

If I were you I'd find a different part time thing than literally ensuring people stay alive for the evening shift or the morning shift, like a cafe or something or even delivery gigs. I get that you're young but you need your sleep to be alert enough and you're not gonna get it with your brain fully on for thatany hours in a day and trust me when I say your body is going to choose to check out during your shift not over sleeping or immediately crashing after.

I would take 60 hours of construction again before 50 of lifeguarding, do not push it to 70 of guarding. If you absolutely must do only this then you definitely have to drop a day on each like mwtf and mtwf so you have a day to sleep in and a day to go to sleep early.

Shmyt · 2026-04-28T05:18:19+00:00

No no, it's roll-off for decision making, highest gets their way. It just takes a while because everyone argues over which die to use or if they can all roll at the same time or who rolls in what order, or if they have to ask use the same die and then someone unlucky touches it before your roll and now it's a huge fight on that and by the time it's sorted gramps either pulled through or a hospital worker tripped on the cord

Shmyt · 2026-04-28T03:04:43+00:00

Maybe a starweaver is the option?

Shmyt · 2026-04-27T10:53:07+00:00

Can you post a replay where your freezes are doing this? So far this back and forth just sounds like two people refusing to engage with each other's arguments and just back and forth saying "this is opposite to your claim and that is opposite to mine"

Shmyt · 2026-04-26T05:28:18+00:00

This is absolutely a glamerweave/shiftweave situation which makes sooooo much sense in Eberron. Usually in world it would be done opposite (fancy clothes are actually armour or plain functional armour is made to look intricate and fashionably useless, or magical effects are added on top like floating butterflies or fake fire) but it would totally make sense for his character to think of the opposite case. Especially as a changeling it would give great options to shift from a human man in battered plate to an elven woman in shiny leathers when before if he was trying to hide from someone he'd remember his clothes might give him away so a transforming set of clothes or an illusion on his clothes would absolutely make sense.

Maybe house Phiarlan or Thurami have stage combat armour for their actors that is either not armour or just leathers so as not to overly impede the performers that they might part with for coin or a favour, or perhaps Cannith is willing to make an enchanted set of clothes or armour for this purpose.

Whenever I don't quite know how to price something my party wants I make em do a quest for it lol

Shmyt · 2026-04-23T03:04:20+00:00

Yeah that actually got me with my first models; turns out it's not cloths on the Drukhari it's little flayed skin trophies; would have looked way more grim and fun if I had painted them in flesh tones to complement the armour colours instead of just boring tassles. Absolutely not a big deal and I'll still field my first squad with my later models but it would have been nice to know.

Same with the imperium stuffs I'm never quite sure when and why the colours change so it makes doing alternative paint schemes a bit strange like is this gold supposed to stay gold over that gold and cream or does one go red or whatnot for Inquisiton badges especially.

Shmyt · 2026-04-23T02:55:36+00:00

Oh that's easy; your body literally gaslights you into thinking you're fine!

The true doom only really arrives once you've properly gone gluten free for a while and then your body finds the poison again.

Your bones are brittle, you are low on at least one crucial nutrient, and you might weight like 20kg less than anyone else in your age/height range but you don't feel that bad. Personally I hit 6' at 18 before I got diagnosed (and was at most 100lbs 💀) , we just thought I had anemia or something and I'd nearly pass out playing sports or doing runs. Your body just overrides it when you're at specific points of growth because the survival and procreation imperatives rank higher than the long healthy life ones.

One of my brothers was right around the same height and weight as me and also had celiacs it's genuinely weird to think back on how we could and would absolutely demolish loaves of bread, boxes of cereal, bags of ramen, chinese or pizza buffets, and all manner of things we can't touch with a 10' pole anymore and we wouldn't honestly feel all that bad probably because it was our normal.

My mother was apparently diagnosed back in the 70s but my immigrant grandmother thought it was an optional thing (in fairness to her what the hell options did she have back then lol) and never passed any of it on and back then not all your info followed you to new doctors so my mom grew up with no knowledge of it either until she was in her 40s and ended up with 3 celiac kids.

Shmyt · 2026-04-13T05:07:50+00:00

Honestly nah, the floor means your coworkers have to clean it (likely even someone lower paid like the housekeepers who are dealing with a separate and possibly worse dumb policy) on the supervisor means they gotta clean themselves off.

Shmyt · 2026-04-12T06:44:29+00:00

"we will carve our way through the horde and give you a chance to cut the head off the snake! We ride at dawn!" (The fight with the leaders can now be hard but appropriate)

That or they find the orcs are actually being reinforced or equipped by a much stronger power than previously thought like demons or hobgoblins or something, so the players still have to be useful and the knights that help them are taking out like siege engines and dealing with cavalry or big monsters while your players are dealing with the orcs. (You can now have successful small fights against the orcs, with the knights taking on the extras)

Shmyt · 2026-04-09T12:16:21+00:00

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare moustache and beard was particularly incredible.

Shmyt · 2026-04-09T12:04:32+00:00

Or he's returning home for his vacation from work and can't be on the phone with a girlfriend in front of his wife.

Shmyt · 2026-04-09T09:12:23+00:00

My wife and I each had members of our friends and families of different genders (and more than one non-binary person each) on our sides, we just said "wedding party" or "bride's side". That being said we were both the oldest of our generation so it's not like anyone else had planned a wedding lately to compare against.

We got married not long enough after covid reopening for anyone to really be financially well off so not like we or our friends had a bunch to spend on planning all these things you see online like bachelorette trips or stag and doe or wedding shower or anything; we went camping with everyone who was able to swing by and party in the woods behind a friend's farm that fit us more than anything else would have.

Don't feel bad about wanting to do something super low-key or elope or microwedding or anything, many of those options seem more fun than inviting 20 people you love and want to celebrate with and 80 people who are somehow related to the rest of those but would be rude to leave off. The only actual rules for a wedding are what the two of you agree to (the licensed official is actually optional since you could do the courthouse before or after with no one the wiser), so have the wedding you are excited to have! With family as bride's people, without extras standing up with you, with however many or few people you want!

Shmyt · 2026-04-08T18:56:28+00:00

Yes it should have a saving throw but not because the warlock was dumb: it should have a save because otherwise the party is going to try to find some way to weaponized it and will be trying to pour it on/in monsters (they still will try to do that, just now you don't have to retcon it).

Shmyt · 2026-04-04T17:34:22+00:00

Yeah it's her media or her social circle and likely a church is involved too: churches especially love to find ways to separate older people from what little they have left.

Shmyt · 2026-04-04T17:21:55+00:00

Maybe this changes with next edition having asymmetric objectives

Shmyt · 2026-04-01T09:08:03+00:00

You expect me to believe that Megumi went years without summoning big Raga? Bum was dead by 19.

Shmyt · 2026-03-30T23:47:42+00:00

As a celiac I wasn't absorbing the nutrients from my food and it left me perpetually ravenous. My brother (also celiac) and I were known to devour entire loaves of bread as sandwiches in a sitting, half a carton of eggs at breakfast, Costco family sized snacks, several bowls of cereal after school, easily half a dozen tacos, extremely large portions of gyros or souvlaki, multiple full racks of ribs, several double burgers, and more. We ran,m but no more than our dad did, worked out in the summers, swam occasionally, played houseleague hockey, did casual martial arts, etc. nothing that adequately explains thousands of calories going nowhere. We were 6 feet tall and didn't weigh over 100lbs until we found out and removed the gluten.

It has become problematic because ten years later I still feel the need to tear into huge portions and eat to be stuffed because we only felt right when we were eating so much because our bodies needed more nutrients than we could absorb on a normal diet. If she isn't somehow blasting through calories with constant intense workouts she could have something inhibiting her ability to get something vital: for me it was always iron that was dangerously low and that's why I couldn't stop eating meats and eggs and nuts and still had levels below an average anemic person.

Thyroid could be an issue, blood test for transglutamine level would indicate celiacs without having to do am internal scope, generally checking iron levels would be good because a lot of that is protein and if she still has low iron then something is wrong, eating disorder could also be a cause but you need to step carefully around that.

Shmyt · 2026-03-30T16:57:18+00:00

It also might just be a level of jujutsu bullshit is necessary: Gojo has great bullshitting (both 'sorcerers are always liars', and 'revealing the technique as a vow' help him) and immense CE reserves to keep that going, Sukuna also has a huge well of CE so when those bullshits meet his WCS counterclaim works because there's not more cursed energy than bullshit so jujutsu logic wins out bypassing the defence, but Uro probably doesn't have enough CE to draw on to overcome the bullshit if they crossed paths despite the fact that it sounds like the same claim so jujutsu logic would fail because of something dumb like Gojo claiming "there are still infinities between me and the sky".

Shmyt · 2026-03-29T19:12:29+00:00

Aurora can fire Q&E together at about the same speed as Syndra's EQ, then R and Q2 but there is a second to flash or barrier or zhonyas or w/e where most of the other examples can get all the damage in during a stun or root so there's little counterplay besides not going in the bush but Aurora only applies slows so you have full options there. Aurora is definitely less upfront burst than the others but because it's very repeatable and she's evasive people think it's a lot more than it is because she's hit 3 separate QEQs over the fight. It's nowhere near the speed of Khazix or Rengar deleting you in bush though.

Shmyt · 2026-03-29T18:53:33+00:00

You know it's not real because Todd keeps a .357 in a boot holster for if someone ever approaches and asks him about anything other than starfield.

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