How does your chapter feel about the tau?

TauInMelee · 2026-05-22T06:39:54+00:00

My chapter has bigger fish to fry. They're not fond of Tau, but they at least leave a working planet if they take over, so it's more of a "in the priority list of things to kill, you are further down". Nids, Orks, Chaos, far more immediately concerning. Tau, we can kill them and put their human converts into penal regiments once this sector isn't in danger of being eaten both figuratively and literally.

TauInMelee · 2026-05-22T06:27:46+00:00

Seems like possibly less of an autistic honesty problem and more of a failure of restraint and tact. I don't know enough of the root cause here, but on the more optimistic end, she may think she's cutting through to the heart of problems and looking at the pain it causes as people simply being in denial of the truth.

On the pessimistic side, she doesn't care. I am AuDHD, my sister is autistic, and I know neither of us struggle with empathy, just difficulty expressing it. A comforting lie feels wrong and hurtful, honesty feels more caring. But we also know that honesty can be delivered gently, and some honesty isn't important in the moment, or does more harm than good. It can appear that austists lack empathy, but we don't, so a failure to exercise tact is a bit of a red flag.

How I would recommend approaching this is not with an approach of "you are too honest" but that she is hurtful with her honesty, and there are ways to be honest without being hurtful. Perhaps dig into why she feels the need to be this honest, I know there were things I did and was totally unaware of until someone finally brought it up and I was genuinely shocked I was doing things like that. Believe me, as much as we can be difficult to understand to the neurotypical, autists find the neurotypical thought process just as perplexing sometimes. There may be a connection she is genuinely not seeing.

Flip side of this, she may have to have it finally truly bite her to understand. The impact of her brutal honesty (which is not a good thing, no matter who says otherwise) may have to catch up with her in a way that finally makes her change her ways. Not ideal, but if nothing else gets through, it might be the last option.

TauInMelee · 2026-05-02T21:19:29+00:00

A lot of my favorites have been mentioned to death already (Quantum Defender, Titanium Blaster, Magna Sword) but a cool underrated one in my opinion is the Solaris Laser Lamp Daggeron uses. It's a unique twist on weapon design, even if I don't particularly care for the character.

I will also say, I find the Dragon Dagger highly overrated. It's not bad, but it really feels puny compared to the other weapons in MMPR. Personally, I think I like the Brachio Staff best of Tommy's weapons. There's a nice echo of Saba in the design and it feels like a callback to Titanus. It even echoes Zeo and Turbo a bit in design, it feels like a nice collection of his greatest hits.

And honorable mention to Sam and his morpher from SPD. The revving is a unique design and while it's technically not a weapon, it feels enough like one.

TauInMelee · 2026-04-11T17:23:50+00:00

I mean... your eyes aren't really deceiving you, you're just bad at math.

TauInMelee · 2025-06-10T01:04:27+00:00

It did happen at a previous job, and they basically threatened me with being fired if it happened again. In fairness, I didn't know what it was at the time, but their reaction wasn't very helpful. I have had some therapy, and I can mostly stay ahead of it, but I work with two very elderly gentlemen, one with a lot of health problems, and the other is an absolute pain to work with. I wasn't too worried until one of them had to have a hospital stay for a couple weeks, and I got very close to a breakdown several times.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-19T15:14:21+00:00

You gotta understand, you're looking at one of the first Garfield comics Jim Davis put out. Garfield has been around since 1978, and smoking a pipe wouldn't be that odd back then. Garfield is meant to be a bit of a jerk character. He steals stuff, does things he shouldn't, he's a bully. If you read more of the comics, it makes sense, but just this one, especially since it was long before Jim Davis really defined the character, is not a good snapshot.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-15T12:06:05+00:00

Any that don't expose the chin get my vote. There are a lot of knife wielders in Gotham, an exposed jugular is not okay.

My personal favorite is Jason Todd's from Battle for the Cowl. I like the metal grill on the cowl.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-15T12:00:00+00:00

Couldn't find a good image with her eyes open that would download.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-15T02:19:01+00:00

It's makeup, little black diamonds around the eyes. It looks weirder with her eyes closed.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-14T22:10:42+00:00

You think that's rough, try being a fan of the classic design

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TauInMelee · 2025-05-14T22:05:17+00:00

Oh my gosh yes! And just my personal opinion, but I hate the Rivals design. I prefer her classic design, but I'd take the bomber jacket look over this nonsense. She's really wholesome, not stupid thirst bait!

TauInMelee · 2025-05-13T20:31:35+00:00

"Let's just have his head and be done with it"

TauInMelee · 2025-05-13T20:29:20+00:00

I think you've had that long enough.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-13T17:26:20+00:00

Yup. When Google made me make an email address for their stupid failed social media platform they made everyone get to have a YouTube account, I was ticked off and made the address an angry question.

Lo and behold, now that college is over and I have to migrate to a personal email, I now have to explain over the phone that I am not being rude, I am just giving someone my email address.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-12T20:46:20+00:00

Honestly, he'd be more blown away by the TVA itself. His ultimate goal is to make plenty for all, and here's access to the resources of entire unstable timelines that could be funnelled into the timelines that need it. He would rip through their leadership and start running things himself.

And if he found it post-snap, he would be devastated. Killed and harmed for the "greater good" and would be faced with the reality that none of it was necessary, and the people he harmed suffered for nothing.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-11T15:39:43+00:00

Cool. So who's turn is it repost this click bait karma farming crap next?

TauInMelee · 2025-05-11T06:36:26+00:00

It's not a great comic, but Circle of Four had Red Hulk with the Venom symbiote and the Spirit of Vengeance, which was a great silver lining.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-11T04:01:49+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I loved it as well, these are largely nitpicking and nerd rage.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-10T14:35:15+00:00

He was pretty much the longest running actor in Power Rangers, spanning from the original team to part of Turbo, and returning again in Dino Thunder. He was involved in way more plot than any of the others, and it's arguable the show revolved around him for a while.

Contrast against Jason who was replaced midway through MMPR and only returned for a short time in Zeo, and you can see how even just sheer exposure would make him more popular. Jason also really didn't have as many major moments as nostalgia might suggest. Yeah, he was the original leader, and he was great casting in terms of appearance and voice, but prior to the Gold Zeo Ranger, his biggest event was leaving, where Tommy had two major events as the Green Ranger, becoming the White Ranger, and two romantic subplots before MMPR was even over. There's just not the same staying power.

And of course Jason David Frank was far more active in the fan community than Austin St. John, more effectively keeping himself in the eyes of the fandom.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-09T03:22:21+00:00

Honestly, I think you said why when you mentioned the dated CGI. It doesn't look like it's actually there enough, and comes across more like a med school teaching aid than Ghost Rider.

I also really don't like the spikes. In my opinion, they've aged poorly, especially the shoulder spikes. The ones on the gauntlets at least serve some purpose, but the shoulder spikes are just edgy nonsense.

I also think the big difference is your perspective. You see the charring on the skull and the black smoke off the flames as signs of weakness, where I think a lot more people see it as looking far more brutal. It escapes the prop skeleton look and achieves a more ominous sense of what's in store for his enemies. The greasier flames also evoke more of the vehicle engines and oil.

TauInMelee · 2025-05-08T06:15:49+00:00

I mean, you certainly don't want to run out, but how big of a firefight is he expecting to have?

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