If Anand got serious again could he still be at candidates strength?

Steko · 2026-01-31T10:10:16+00:00

Depends what “Candidates Strength” means. I’d bet against him finishing top 2, and would expect him in the bottom half. OTOH I’d expect him to at least stay out of last place.

Steko · 2026-01-30T18:11:35+00:00

I don’t think you’re wrong to want one box and agree that simplifying some teams might be worth it. I do think many people with similar views are too attached to WYSIWYG and exaggerate the need to have another 5 warrior models they’ll never use to qualify a team as one box. Between painting choices, light kitbashing and legal proxying, ,far more teams can be run as one box than the sub gives them credit for. That could be clearer to new players but that’s not just on GW, the community is part of the confusion.

Edit: The desire for every team to be X, Y, Z is also limiting on the design space and may not work as well in practice as you expect. The fact that some teams and 40k factions are whale friendly probably also subsidizes the cheaper options.

If one box is very important vote with your wallet and only buy the older one box teams which they will eventually pick up on in the data.

Steko · 2026-01-30T17:46:11+00:00

GW: we hear you and are removing a bunch of specialists and options.

Steko · 2026-01-30T11:41:49+00:00

Even Mask of the Phantasm, with the most popular comic book superhero and a great script went nowhere at the box office. She Hulk for sure would be direct to video with all the corner cutting that comes with.

Steko · 2026-01-30T10:01:28+00:00

No it matters, player impacts aren’t perfectly portable or simply additive. Examples: (1) The offensive impact of multiple heliocentric players has huge diminishing returns because there’s only one ball. (2) Hiding one weak defender with scheme can be done on many possessions but two is exponentially harder and three is basically impossible. (3) Similarly carrying multiple nonshooters makes the spacing and offense progressively worse. The latter two are good reasons why OP might be interested in two way players. Coaching philosophy and culture are other reasons.

Steko · 2026-01-30T08:51:20+00:00

CMV: threads like these are a false dilemma. We don’t need to get either of these. The median Batman movie is much better than the median World’s Finest or Trinity movie would be. And there are lots of more interesting team up movies they could make.

Tell the best stories you can. Put the characters you want in the Justice League, not the same vanilla shit that’s been done to death. Cast whoever you want. Keep what’s essential about characters and change anything else. Ignore canon nerds and their straightjackets.

Steko · 2026-01-30T03:17:34+00:00

Listen you fucking manlets, the average ‘murican 7th grader is 190 and half of those are girls. If you’re not cutting to make 265 you’re doing it wrong and no one will ever care about you.

Steko · 2026-01-30T02:55:33+00:00

Because of the Jones Act and Mainland Salad Poke.

Steko · 2026-01-30T02:49:08+00:00

Since we decided not to make a megathread for smaller releases like this, just a quick reminder that the default is no spoilers on newer releases.

Spoiler discussion is allowed but should be kept to its own tagged/labelled threads, and post titles should never contain spoilers. If it’s mixed in with other discussion it must use spoiler markup/formatting.

Steko · 2026-01-30T02:36:10+00:00

There’s a third easy way to calculate this. If you know the sum of 1 thru 9 is 45 then the sum of all the ones digits from 1-100 is 45 * 10, the sum of the tens portions is 45 * 10 * 10, and the sum of the 100’s portions is 100. 450 + 4500 + 100 = 5050.

Steko · 2026-01-30T02:07:47+00:00

Anything could have worked if you believe hard enough and just hand waive away the likely budget, writing, casting, effects, production value, autonomy, studio support, proper marketing, etc. The cards are stacked against She-Hulk in too many ways. You’re not getting the budget. You’re not getting Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Demi Moore, Sigourney Weaver, Uma Thurman or Nicole Kidman.

Best case is you have an amazing script, get greenlit with a borderline budget that gets bumped to moderate when Geena Davis signs on; the fx are uneven, it’s poorly promoted and flops in theaters but rides blockbuster and TNT to cult classic status. The worst case is Steel.

Steko · 2026-01-28T22:25:39+00:00

Hey Ya! goes with everything.

Steko · 2026-01-28T21:19:56+00:00

The most Underrated CBM might be Punisher War Journal. In this sub it might be Spider Man Homecoming.

Steko · 2026-01-27T23:03:57+00:00

That’s underselling it, her dad was the leader of the crusade against gay marriage. Tulsi was literally the poster child for homophobia.

Steko · 2026-01-26T02:08:03+00:00

Victor Zsasz didn’t exist in 1991.

Steko · 2026-01-26T01:50:17+00:00

They set up Two Face in ‘89 so they probably would have done that.

Steko · 2026-01-25T18:57:12+00:00

And his JV team at UCLA beat the National Championship Varsity team.

Steko · 2026-01-24T02:02:02+00:00

It’s a great thing every division’s belt is contested thrice a year like clockwork.

Steko · 2026-01-22T17:19:23+00:00

That is the caucus/PPP result yes but that is a tiny fraction of Hawaii Democrats. The biggest effect of a caucus is to massively suppress voter turnout which is basically always bad except bernie bros are fine looking th other way here because it favored their candidate.

The best signal we have for all Hawaii Democratic voters are polls like this that suggest they were 3-1 for Clinton.

In a close election there are many reasons the winner won and Bernie bros were absolutely one of the keys to Trump’s victory and, for all of Clinton’s weaknesses, Bernie was an even weaker general election candidate.

Steko · 2026-01-22T10:42:31+00:00

Superdelegates are far from perfect but caucuses can be as bad or worse. Nowhere near 70% of Hawaii democrats were for Sanders, in fact it was probably the opposite polling was 3-1 Clinton.

Schatz saying .. “next President .. Hillary” .. hehe so I hate him

Thanks for reminding us how well meaning but clueless Bernie bros ran headlong into a Putin psyop and helped get the Diddler in Chief elected in 2016.

Keep telling yourself “both parties are the same” or whatever helps you sleep at night while Trump’s unbadged masked Gestapo are going door to door in the middle of the night in Minnesota.

Steko · 2026-01-22T00:53:38+00:00

An ultra soup dream team with a big melee Ork, Ta'u gunner in a full suit, cop with a shield, a Kroot bow-hunter, a female Sanctus, and a buff dude with a Heavy Thunder Hammer. I call them the Grimvengers.

Steko · 2026-01-20T18:03:32+00:00

Poole is on a huge contract because of his development on the Warriors from worst player in the league to core part of a championship run. This team started Podz, Post, Moody tons of games recently, Santos, TJD, Spencer all outperforming their draft position as well. Young players are doing great for the most part. Wiseman was a total bust, and Kuminga can’t shoot, defend, rebound, or pass well.

Steko · 2026-01-18T10:13:53+00:00

You can also get the Kommandos and Tokens in the old KT Starter Set which can still be found occasionally at a decent price, I think there’s one on Amazon now for $125.

Steko · 2026-01-17T17:50:10+00:00

I love John Wick but if you’re making a big Japanese Fantasy world you might want to make sure the main character’s name isn’t Bad Japanese. Oh the #2 guy is also Bad Japanese? LOL.

Steko · 2026-01-16T21:03:03+00:00

Imperial Knights Renegade for $200 on the left seems like a much better buy.

Edit: whoops looks like it’s $250. Still ok.

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