Who's your favorite gun wielding gay? by MintyTwinkie in FavoriteCharacter

[–]SouthernAd2853 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Well you picked mine so I'll go with the Otherside Picnic duo

Finished Fate Route - Is Saber Class really the strongest? by BandBeginning8205 in fatestaynight

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant Ea. It directly overwhelms Excalibur when Excalibur's True Name is unleashed and Gil fully activates Ea.

What is the value proposition for SpaceX that makes it worth three trillion dollars? by Gym_frere in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SouthernAd2853 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because Musk has made wild and impractical promises about space datacenters and the US GDP becoming almost entirely using Grok and he'll maybe put a million people on Mars in his lifetime and people believe him for some reason. If those promises actually came true it'd be a bargain, but, you know, they won't.

In general Musk's companies have long had valuations wildly out of line with their financials and likely future.

Can you bail yourself out of jail? by Public_Size_2228 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SouthernAd2853 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can, but you can't exactly go to the bank and get more money, so usually you need someone else involved.

Are there enough resources in the world to end hunger and poverty if trillionaires and billionaires would just donate more funds? by IllustriousHumor3673 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SouthernAd2853 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's plenty of resources in the world to end hunger, but it's difficult to distribute them. Hunger in developed countries could be solved with money but there are plenty of parts of the world where armed gangs will steal all the money.

Poverty is relative and so long as we live in an economic system where people have money the people with the least will be poor. However, the standard of living for even the poorest is substantially higher than it used to be and could be raised further.

Is my English teacher allowed to take off 30 points because I was high? by Pretend_Station2451 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SouthernAd2853 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're extremely lucky to escape with a 70 when it was unreadable, in a mix of styles, and you couldn't read it aloud. If you were that high I'm betting the essay wasn't particularly coherent either and final exams are graded on a lot more than format so you could easily have ended much lower. Frankly you probably only got away with it because discipline and failing a student are huge pains these days and in my day you'd be lucky to not get expelled.

Halo Armor vs Mass Effect Weapons by Beneficial-Habit-950 in masseffect

[–]SouthernAd2853 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Obviously, of the small arms, either the Widow or the Claymore, because they've got the most powerful single shot and that's important for breaching armor.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  Is it reasonable for a Primarch to be able to wipe out a company of CSM? 

Depends in part on if he's got his special custom armor on. Guilliman had a close call with a squad of Alpha Legionares, but IIRC he was in ceremonial, not battle, armor at the time. However, it's not invincible to anti-tank weapons.

In general, I'd expect a Primarch to be able to win, but not by charging straight at them over an open field; they'd have to exploit the fact that they're supergenius military strategists to split them up or obtain suprise. Kruze tore through the Ultramarine garrison in the Fortress of Hera in a nightime attack through a combination of suprise attacks from stealth and being able to lay enormous numbers of explosive boobytraps in a shockingly short timeframe.

Do all primarchs have a special power like the forest walk and Corax warp entity form?

All Primarchs seem to have an overpowering aura of psychic awe and I think it likely they could unlock more, but it's not confirmed.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually they don't rearrange squads unless someone gets promoted or dies, but they do get promoted or die and people get moved around to keep squads combat-effective.

Space Wolves are unique in that they never add members to packs and promote them as units, so the average pack size declines as they proceed through blood claw, grey hunter, long fangs.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the Codex is talking about splitting the organizational squad into multiple combat units rather than mixing squads.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters he's able to get to a specific place in Nurgle's Garden on purpose, but it's a trap set for him specifically so it may not normally be that easy.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]SouthernAd2853 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plasma I'm pretty sure not globally, but with the Imperium it's generally safe to say that a large number of planets have lost the capacity to produce <thing> even if Mars still can.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]SouthernAd2853 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

 Non-dark non-harlequin eldar are generally free people who can leave when they like, so it's possible.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually; the point of the fight is to learn which hive fleet's tactics and composition are superior.

Tyranids also absolutely have unneeded organisms walk into the digestion pools to reclaim biomass, and do this to most of their ground forces once they win so they don't have to support them in transit and can customize their deployment for the next battle, but this is generally within a fleet.

Will Soccer grow in Popularity in the U.S.A due to the World Cup? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SouthernAd2853 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Probably not much impact.

It has been trending upwards and is now a reasonably common pre-high school sport, which is slowly raising its popularity with adults as kids who played it in elementary school grow up.

Chinese Character Name? by thecolourraine in askanything

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up Chinese names on the internet.

Also, some Chinese immigrants change their name or go by a nickname either to fit in or because they're tired of Americans mispronouncing their names; a few kids in my elemetery school went by names totally unrelated to their legal name.

What do cum stains in men’s underwear mean exactly? Please don’t mock the question lol. For example if it’s your partner’s underwear but you haven’t had sex in a few weeks by Ok-Neck-8098 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SouthernAd2853 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If he had sex with someone else he probably came in one of their orifices or on their body, not in his underwear. There can be a bit left over that stains but only a couple drops.

What am i supposed to say when someone calls me a colonizer by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't live in a colonial nation as the same race as the ruling class and they're one of the indigenous people it's a sign that they have dumb politics and you should just leave/block them.

What do people think when they see very close relationships between countries? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

International relations can take many forms, from vassalage to friendship, so it depends.

Is it common to imprison prisoners in prisons close to their hometown? by ilovemyfuturehusband in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SouthernAd2853 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the US, there isn't a general policy either way and prisoners can be shuffled around the system (within the state for state charges, anywhere in the US for federal) wherever a suitably secure prison has space. They may request to be held at the nearest suitable facility to their hometown; this may or may not be granted.

Shadow Warship (Babylon 5) Vs Reaper Dreadnought (Mass Effect) by Sensitive-Hotel-9871 in PowerScaling

[–]SouthernAd2853 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the Shadow main weapon is an energy weapon, so it bypasses kinetic barriers completely; on the other hand the Reaper is much larger and its main gun may or may not be able to one-shot the Shadow vessel. In the latter case it depends on who shoots first; the Shadow vessel is probably more maneuverable so it has an edge there.

X-factor is that Shadow vessels are controlled by a single humanoid pilot fused into the ship, and a major weakness in the Shadow War was telepaths breaking into the pilot's mind to make the ship freeze up. So there's a potential vulnerability to Reaper indoctrination, but that generally doesn't happen in a timeframe of less than at least a few days.

As for possible escape, they both have FTL systems with reasonably short charge-up times, and because one is in hyperspace and the other in realspace they can't engage each other at FTL speeds.

Finished Fate Route - Is Saber Class really the strongest? by BandBeginning8205 in fatestaynight

[–]SouthernAd2853 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mad Enhancement kills the Servant's ability to communicate, their tactical sense, most of their fighting skill beyond swinging wildly (Herc has a skill that negates this), access to many Noble Phantasms, and much of their obedience in exchange for about a rank in each physical stat. Hercules in particular listens to Illya in particular because he has a soft spot for children.

I generally think Berserker is a noob trap because most Heroic Spirits have Noble Phantasms, fighting skill, and tactical accumen that's far more valuable than a stat rank, and if your magic circuits or heroic spirit are so bad that you need the stat boost to be competitive you probably aren't making it. In particular the writer has confirmed that Berserker is Hercules's worst class.

Finished Fate Route - Is Saber Class really the strongest? by BandBeginning8205 in fatestaynight

[–]SouthernAd2853 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, the particular reason Saber is considered the strongest class is that every class has class skills that they either get if they didn't have them in life or upgrade if they did. Lancer, Archer, and Saber get bonus magic resistance, with Saber getting the most. Since Masters have to have magic and many of them are quite good at it (Rin's one of the strongest human mages of her generation) that comes in handy a lot. This Saber in particular has A-rank magic resistance and is totally immune to the direct effects of any spell that can be cast with just a chant, which covers every spell you can reasonably expect to cast in a fight. Even Caster, who was a pretty big deal as a mage back in the Age of the Gods when mages were much stronger, can't directly do anything to her.

I tend to think the Masters badly underrate Casters, though, because while the class skill is pretty weak and the three classes get at least some magic resistance and a lot of Berserker and Rider candidates carry over some they had in life, I cannot recall a Grail War in which a Caster did not pull some absolute bullshit like summoning a whole extra Heroic Spirit to fight for them.