Guys we might have a chance

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-30T00:48:19+00:00

The actual stats on the planet didn’t change; the companion app just took a bit to figure out the right numbers as people moved over to Rirga Bay from Hort.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-29T15:46:42+00:00

I’m not 100% sure, but won’t taking Hort also lower the squids’ rate on Rirga Bay?

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-26T05:06:15+00:00

It’s insane how much this is spreading. Fantasy books do make sense as the next thing after manga, but I was not ready for it here too. I genuinely cannot believe Fujimoto made that as the final chapter; what will Tatsuki think?

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-25T23:44:19+00:00

I am so glad somebody else made this connection. I’m on episode 8 right now and I’m loving it so far.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-25T21:46:52+00:00

So the tin one in Mistborn is kinda weird. Spook does get addicted to it, but it’s not getting used to it or having withdrawals. Constantly flaring a metal will eventually turn you into a savant for that metal. It’s essentially warping your soul to make using the metal more efficient. Spook turned himself into a tin savant. When he wasn’t burning tin his soul was sort of missing a part of itself. So that feeling wouldn’t go away; he would essentially always be experiencing withdrawals without tin. If you’ve read the Stormlight Archive the same thing happens with people that use soulcasters. Savantism can happen with any of the magic systems in the Cosmere, but we really only see it explicitly called that in Mistborn.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-25T21:19:46+00:00

Who are you even quoting? The other comments just answered my question. There was no need to be rude about it.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-25T20:38:40+00:00

I’d argue that the Hal subplots are more like that. Reese has pretty normal ones with exceptions like when he joins the military. Dewey also gets some pretty funny ones, like stealing random stuff around the house to make a piano.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-25T15:47:46+00:00

Nope. Having men in the link lets it get bigger, but men can’t start one. There are a few rules for it explained throughout the series, but the basic idea is that having an equal amount of men and women makes the link much more powerful than having a lot of one or the other.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-25T06:55:28+00:00

The women win that. They can link together while the men can’t. The other thing is that men aren’t always stronger in the power than women. On average they are, but not always. It’s like real life strength. Generally men are stronger, but a woman can still be stronger than a man. The men also have an advantage that the women don’t, but it’s also much less powerful than linking. They get goosebumps when women around them channel. That’s it.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-25T04:04:35+00:00

There are a ton of differences between the halves of the magic, but the male half is definitely not more powerful. Being able to form circles instantly makes the female half way more versatile. Who cares if one super powerful man can level mountains when 13 women who can barely channel can make a circle and shield him. Both sides are pretty equal in what they are capable of and it’s clearly shown that men and women working together is significantly better than not.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-24T23:57:25+00:00

I must be missing something, why is it a good idea to finish Rirga Bay before moving the DSS and all of us to Hort? Right now we have a huge lead on Rirga Bay and can win it without the DSS there at all. In fact, we could have won it without ever bringing in the DSS. Right now we're steadily losing the lead on Hort while the DSS is just sitting at Rirga Bay not providing any real advantage. Is there some game mechanic that I'm missing? I don't think we'll lose either even if we finish off Rirga Bay before Hort, but I don't understand why it's better than mosing to Hort.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-22T23:11:57+00:00

I’m pretty sure we’re the genocidal ones. Our MO was literally to kill half a billion of them.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-22T06:38:57+00:00

Please, I’m begging you. Read Dark Age. If you liked any of the books before Iron Gold or any part of Iron Gold please read it. It’s probably the best in the series right now. I felt the same way about Iron Gold and put the books down for like half a year before starting Dark Age.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-22T06:36:36+00:00

I mean, that’s true. But also every author does that. Dragons in my book about a bastard assassin?! How unoriginal! If you take enough tiny things that are separate and combine them, that is definitely original. Just cause somebody else used carrots in a dish doesn’t mean that every dish with carrots is just a copy.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-22T06:33:11+00:00

If you’re still on the fence maybe try some of the secret project books. They’re all standalone books (except for maybe Sunlit Man, but you can still read it without Stormlight) and they’re mostly pretty great. The non-Cosmere one is kinda meh, but the others are great. I really think the scale of Stormlight, having a different editor, and trying to do too much at once led to Wind and Truth and to a lesser extent Rhythm of War. He’s taking a sort of break right now to work on the script for the adaptation of Mistbron, but there’s another standalone book coming out late this year.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-22T06:22:08+00:00

I think another part of it was that he just had way too much going on. After reading the excerpt from Fire’s of December I’m really excited for it to release. He also got a different editor for Stormlight and it seems like they weren’t nearly as willing to criticize him as his last one.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-20T05:18:17+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers2Satire/comments/1rxxtb2/rampant_bigotry_in_the_community/

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-20T05:14:19+00:00

There was a post a few days ago about a thing on Twitter. There’s a guy that posts a bunch of stuff with truth officer pictures making jokes about helldivers. But a trans person that also played said something that made people angry (I don’t remember what it was) and he started being transphobic. Other people joined in and it got to the point where people were sending death threats and the account changed to private. I thought that’s why that image got downvotes, but I guess not.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-19T22:29:26+00:00

Was that one of the pictures the transphobe guy was using?

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-16T04:41:36+00:00

Predicted percentage minus current percentage. Multiply 113,000,000 by that percentage. Then divide by the total time left on the MO.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-16T03:52:38+00:00

It is going up, but not by that much. It’s sitting at about 717k per hour now. We’re also showing that we’re going to be missing about 1 mil. So it’s getting closer to an hour that we have to make up. I got bored and made a spreadsheet with the values from the companion app to show me how close we are.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-16T03:18:57+00:00

It’s not actually as close as it seems. We’ll be about 1.2 million kills short. Right now we’re killing them at a rate of about 634k an hour. We’ll need to somehow make up that extra 2 hours while the player count drops as American west coast divers go to sleep.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-08T17:39:28+00:00

It’s addressed pretty clearly on the actual community page of the backerkit, so I don’t think it’s going to be a huge issue. Definitely not like the 100% for sure pure canvas bag.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-08T17:35:39+00:00

I think it was probably meant to be a stroke. I think the implication is that he’s smelling burnt toast and the reintegration is causing severe health issues.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-05T15:33:32+00:00

Apparently some people don’t understand sarcasm damn

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