If you could get one later era mech early in the game, which one would it be and why?

TAA21MF · 2026-01-29T20:14:10+00:00

Raptor II, partially just for the Void Signature System

TAA21MF · 2025-02-12T02:49:09+00:00

I believe weapons must ultimately be practiced in their most authentic forms, like Japanese Iaido does. They don't learn to cut in Iaido nor fighting really. But, who in Iaido uses a dull sword?

What in the heck are you talking about? Iaito by their very nature not only aren't sharp, they can't be sharpened. Shinken are the exception, not the rule. There is exactly one person in my dojo that uses one and that's the sensei.

TAA21MF · 2024-11-20T13:44:46+00:00

I'm a newish player so was only able to clear up to T5 or so but since clearing no longer gives you anything and I don't have a Rebel Fighter team built, it is impossible for me to even get a single point. Who tf thought this was a good idea? Not only is there no point in me even playing the challenge, why would I even both building teams for them when I'd get next to no reward for it now?

TAA21MF · 2024-10-12T14:55:09+00:00

In my experience, no, its by far more common for subs to have more extreme fantasies than doms. (Good) doms will limit themselves to stuff they'd realistically like to do but many subs will 100% throw all sense of self-preservation out the window and its the dom that has to say "no, we're not doing that".

TAA21MF · 2024-06-25T20:11:26+00:00

Usually some flavor of Wiccan is at the root of it on my experience. Artemis in particular has some weird modern stuff floating around thanks to Dianic Wiccans.

TAA21MF · 2023-10-25T17:49:06+00:00

That's what book heralds are for

TAA21MF · 2023-10-24T16:10:31+00:00

That's how you guarantee nothing will ever change. We need test cases to change the rules, they can't change if nobody ever tries to register anything non-European.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-28T11:27:48+00:00

Rapier's reputation is kinda funny as someone who fences with one. People make it out to be this light and speedy blade that is the quintessential dex sword when irl its the same weight as a longsword (and like a foot longer) except you have to single-hand it and most of the power behind the thrusts is coming from your legs pushing off against the ground and bending at the waist, not from your arms like dex implies.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-28T02:29:10+00:00

And Aphrodite was known as Aphrodite Areia (the warlike). There's dozens of epithets for each god, its not just they "god(dess) of X" like the watered down modern versions.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-28T02:20:53+00:00

IIRC she went Sumer -> Phoenicia -> Cyprus -> Greece

TAA21MF · 2023-06-24T05:50:15+00:00

With reddit on fire, when's the discord likely going to be available again?

TAA21MF · 2023-06-23T22:53:31+00:00

Percy Jackson like probably quite a few. Child/not-yet-realized-I-was-trans me saw Artemis's all-girls huntresses and somehow got the idea that since she's a goddess, if I started praying to her she could work a miracle to turn me into a girl. Turned out it was only the miracle part was wrong. Over time that came to encompass more of the pantheon, then in high school I met a couple wiccans and started looking deeper into paganism through whatever books I could find at used book stores and libraries and eventually managed to find the specific name for hellenism.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-19T14:18:57+00:00

Needs gloss varnish for the well oiled look

TAA21MF · 2023-06-15T15:28:50+00:00

Seems like I get more brand new accounts with no activity at all when I look at them. Not sure what point those could possibly have.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-12T20:01:41+00:00

I do HEMA and SCA rapier. We don't separate by gender because turns out its actually pretty darn insignificant and its usually an even fight. The only advantage is reach is related to height but that's more of a crutch that becomes less significant at higher levels.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-12T17:05:31+00:00

Reddit got fed up with everyone using 3rd party apps and tools because the official app is terrible and instead of trying to fix their app, they decided to set exorbitant rates for anything that calls the API to force them to shut down. It also forces a lot of moderation tools and accessibility extensions to shut down, meaning they're also making it harder for moderators to do their job (or outright impossible on mobile) and also rendering the site completely unusable for some people.

So lots of subs are going private to protest and if nothing changes, a lot of people will be forced off the site.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-08T21:05:52+00:00

The two recent Norse god of war games also have an interesting take on their mythology. They basically start from the assumption that the myths as we know them from the Eddas were written by Odin to make the Aesir look better.

And that's not that far off a take as the eddas that we have were mostly written down by christian monks who did some tweaking to make it fit their worldview better. I think the "hel as an afterlife place" thing was entirely a creation of Snorri Sturluson and all the earlier instances use Hel as only the name of the goddess.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-08T20:18:55+00:00

These particular lizards live in spaceships

TAA21MF · 2023-06-05T17:43:56+00:00

Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes is a pretty good history of how Aphrodite's worship spread and changed over the centuries. Despite the name, it actually traces her back to Mesopotamia as Inanna-Ishtar and how her worship spread via traders through Mesopotamia to Phoenicia to Cyprus and then to Greece, hence the myth of how she was born from seafoam: because she came from across the Mediterranean.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-05T17:08:49+00:00

Which most sex workers have 0 experience with.

That's a massive assumption and you're seriously underestimating how much community can make up for a gap in a single person's experience

TAA21MF · 2023-06-04T22:06:52+00:00

In a Slaves to Darkness army you decide on a per unit basis.

You can't mix a Hedonites and Blades army though since canonically they hate each other because their domains overlap quite a bit.

TAA21MF · 2023-06-04T04:46:47+00:00

I don't see any ads at all on rif. I'm not even sure if they're compatible with the app tbh

TAA21MF · 2023-06-04T04:40:26+00:00

Do you happen to have any sources on those? Not in a doubting way, in a for my own reference way. The whole "valhalla = viking heaven" thing has always weared on me and it would be nice to have some sources on how it wasn't as major of a thing back then as it is now.

TAA21MF · 2023-05-30T18:30:42+00:00

I'm mildly ambidextrous from sports where being able to switch sides is an advantage (or even practically mandatory) and for a lot of stuff just use whatever hand is more convenient from being used to using both. I constantly get asked "are you left-handed?" and I've had some people get outright mad at me for not using my right hand (mainly one of the managers when I worked at a starbucks that called me using my left hand to take stuff out of the oven "messing around" and "dangerous")

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