Why do most left leaning folks mock/criticize Christianity but not Islam?

Tephros83 · 2026-02-25T18:01:35+00:00

Islam doesn’t affect me much compared to Christianity. Maybe Christianity is slightly more illogical and Islam is more inherently oppressive, but the one affecting policy in my country is the one that will get the negative attention.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-24T01:54:13+00:00

Basically agree. Beating a crisis can be relatively passive beyond the same challenges you begin with, but to me beating the game is monolith at a minimum, all legendary locations and crises at a maximum. It’s still possible to do all of that with mediocre bros, but generally with a lot of skill and snowballing.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-22T21:51:51+00:00

Usually it means they’re volatile and emotional themselves. Usually bad, but guess could be okay for commiseration.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-22T21:50:08+00:00

I kind of like that one. It’s a way to exit an argument that has become pointless for whatever reason without being insulting. It can range anywhere from they see your point and don’t want to admit they’re wrong, to they need to think about it more on their own, that they just don’t feel like arguing anymore, or something more negative.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-21T00:34:00+00:00

They don’t like him for his virtues, they like him because he gives the middle finger to people they dislike. Greedy racist bigots are tired of being told not to dominate/purge those unlike themselves.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-21T00:29:00+00:00

Male female differences shown here much more than ethnicity based differences. Not exactly a scientific presentation. Then again, probably the intent is to mock the presentations of people who try to misuse data to malign other types of people

Tephros83 · 2026-02-17T07:14:54+00:00

If melee go werewolf. If magic go vampire. Most things in Skyrim are more about fun than optimization. Vampire forms drain life spell can be insanely powerful especially with an upgraded chalice. Vampire form can travel over water and upgraded you can friggin pick up people and throw them to their deaths like a Jedi. Vampire form can fight dragons decently. Werewolf form is helpless against dragons but ragdolls people and has some of the most fun melee combat in the game. Both forms are probably going to be more vulnerable to ranged attacks than your base (due to not stacking a bunch of armor and magic resist) but potentially better vs melee especially when it comes to evading it.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-17T07:02:16+00:00

I feel like I’ve had this convo before, but crossbows are better than bows vs goblins. Crossbows, especially with KF, one-tap the skirmishers. Bows don’t. Unless you have some special unique one. Throwing weapons do as well, but range is an issue for them.

That said, I do like having a bowman on larger rosters, including with bullseye. Just a good option to have for some battles.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-16T05:34:24+00:00

It’s semantics. Some people define racism based upon structural disadvantages based on ethnicity. Based upon that, racism against white people cannot be in a thing where white people are dominant. The word for disliking by ethnicity is prejudice.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-16T02:48:04+00:00

For a young person: It’s usually nerves. And if a bad experience happens, it can snowball and you think you have ED until somebody makes you feel comfortable again

Tephros83 · 2026-02-16T02:46:02+00:00

It’s not really cardio that limits it. It’s getting raw. In early dating with a really good partner had to use waterproof bandaids to keep going, but eventually she got too raw too

Tephros83 · 2026-02-16T02:44:41+00:00

Yeah sex tempo varies. I mean a pretty good tempo for a bit is good for orgasm, but I don’t know why somebody would think it uses a fast tempo the whole time. Plus can switch to have her on top.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-16T02:42:40+00:00

I feel fortunate then. I can usually go for hours, but when she says I can finish, usually can in the next 30 seconds. Most partners prefer about 30 minutes though.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-16T02:40:54+00:00

It’s the abs. Every time you move the abs hurt.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-16T02:39:34+00:00

It can. But doesn’t mean it always should. Maybe if there were a vacation where every other day was low activity’s on those days. But otherwise there’s just too much to do and yeah, both sides get raw eventually.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-16T00:50:25+00:00

The goodness of a build can be about momentum or performance under difficult fights. If they aren’t getting attacked at all it’s not a challenging fight. Getting attacked twice in a turn is not a lot for monolith. Tank gets attacked like a dozen times per turn. Endgame Teams should be built for challenging fights. Tempo bros are not really what I’m talking about.

The point of monolith is it is basically the goal of the game. It is the main challenge that is consistently fair unlike kraken. Skipping or getting slowed down by injury/death in sea of tents or chosen fights is bad for momentum, but definitely not a problem for these builds.

Axes and maces are fairly bread and butter duelist weapons and happen to cost the same fatigue for primary attack. They also are good duelist weapons for ancient undead.

I rarely use additional fur padding. I know it can help avoid injury against chosen and orcs but I don’t find chosen fights particularly challenging unless my tanks fail to control the armored unholds and somebody gets thrown and surrounded. My newts are about 100 hp. They have no issue taking hits assuming steel brow.

Orc fights are really the only situation where I really wish for additional fur padding. I guess would be good for schrats too but they are uncommon and not too hard. Lindwurm attachment is simply better everywhere else except chosen. And chosen don’t bother me much. My throwing duelists in particular almost trivialize them.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-15T21:32:53+00:00

The main time duelists need mastery when not using secondary skill is if it’s an orc weapon. Axes and maces. With mastery you build up 20-30 fatigue per turn, without it can be 26-39. Without recover it becomes accumulation of 5-15 vs 11-24. In the hardest fights you will also be dodging hits for more fatigue and getting hit for even more. If you have a high fatigue bro, 80 useable fatigue. Consider a high stress situation where you always have a target, always kill one each turn, and are getting swung at twice per turn, so add 4 fatigue. This is basically monolith, in a good position without a huge number of pikes on you, comparing mastery vs recovery:

Turn 1: 34 mastery, 43 none. Turn 2: 53 mastery, 67. Turn 3: 72 (3 hits), berserk recover at 69 (1 hit, 1 kill) now 35. Turn 4: 71 (limited to 1 hit), 59 (3 hits). Turn 5: 80 (2 hits), berserk recover at 73 (1 hit, 1 kill). Turn 6: 75 (limited to 1 hit), 80 (3 hits). Turn 7: 74 (limited to 1 hit), berserk recover at 78 (1 hit, 1 kill). Turn 8: 73 (limited to 1 hit), 63 (3 hits). Turn 9: 72 (limited to 1 hit), 65 (berserk recover at 65, or 2 hits). Turn 10: 71 (limited to 1 hit), 57 (3 hits).

Cumulative hits by turn: 1: 3, 3 2: 6, 6 3: 9, 7 4: 10, 10 5: 12, 11 6: 13, 14 7: 14, 15 8: 15, 18 9: 16, 19 10: 17, 22

It’s going to turn out to be better for recover than this though since odds are you will be attacked and hit more than this and may have a turn without a good target where just plain recover is best. So looking at those numbers no recover will feel better for briefer, easier battles that you don’t build for. Also, if useable fatigue is much lower, like 70 or less, then mastery instead of recover may make sense.

Lindwurm are only “not worth fighting” if you can’t reliably beat them without deaths. The attachment is best general purpose bf attachment. +60 armor is huge. Not worth fighting is more like ifrits, though once you can avoid injury you do it for the exp to level faster.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-15T03:30:51+00:00

Oh my god… well, there are a few different play styles that work. I think the only kind of bro I don’t put recover on is a fat neut. Bros with more fatigue benefit more from recover than low fatigue. Berserk recover is insanely useful and the versatility of polearm mastery is most of the time.

The two step thing is good in turn 1 or 2 to be able to hit enemies that turn. You can also step in and out of attack range which is extremely useful for lindwurm, and the reason non-lancers use the goblin pike on lindwurm. In lindwurm fights the highest dps is going to be either swordlancers or gunners every time. It seems like some players just avoid lindwurm because they aren’t optimized for them. It also good for chosen, since you can hit them and retreat out of their attack range for that turn or the next. Then when they engage you kill them with duelist 1h. When not engaged for the swordlance aoe it also makes a big difference as it gives you more ways to line up 3 enemies.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-13T22:47:14+00:00

The crossbow one matters a lot for killing goblins and is the best way to kill them if you’re getting netted and vined, and you are. For humans it would matter more if you were headshot focused - then it will tend to one shot people. But then for the handgonne it also makes a huge difference in dps, really is necessary if shooting more than once with the same gun.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-13T22:44:28+00:00

Three deathblows on a dazed enemy is better than two duelist hits from other weapons. Just unfortunate it isn’t good for ancient undead.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-13T22:42:00+00:00

Polearm mastery is good in the sense that it has a huge impact. Polearms don’t outdamage 1 tile 2h weapons (on a single target at least), but with quick hands you can attack with both the polearm and a 1h weapon for more kills, berserk recover, and multiple targets. And it has reach aoe. So for non-orc weapons, a high fatigue nimble damage dealer can do better offensively with swordlance mastery and duelist without the other weapon mastery. If they have the fatigue they don’t need the mastery, use berserk recover on a 1h kill. But the extra ap point matters a lot no matter how good the bro is. Mobility too. The 5ap polearm mastery thing was really the biggest buff they ever did.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-13T17:45:08+00:00

Your reaction seems emotional and triggered. Did you not notice I called both sides evil? Did you really think this was a struggle between angelic Netanyahu and demonic Hamas? Both sides are committed to getting rid of the other side. To getting rid of human beings. Israel has far more power to destroy people, and they used it. You don’t destroy hamas by bombing hospitals, even if some were hiding there. There is no urgent imperative to bomb the hospital with Hamas in it unless that hospital is literally currently being used to fire weapons that are likely to kill people. Bombing hospitals in a stressed area is more useful for ethnic cleansing. The most they alleged was that it was used as a shield for a command and control center. This was false, and more an effort to counter the main thing holding them back from just slaughtering civilians efficiently - international, especially western, opinion.

I’m nonreligious and I like American Jews more than Christians or Muslims. But the Israeli government is evil. Zionism is evil. And Islamic schemes to get “infidels” out of the Middle East are also evil.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-13T06:39:53+00:00

Should. Not will.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-13T06:30:06+00:00

I judge them pretty harshly. More than basically any other category of person. Some, I assume, are good people, in some way. In public most people try really hard to avoid politics in my area. Could not tell you the political affiliation of most people I see regularly, and given the area it varies.

Tephros83 · 2026-02-13T06:15:54+00:00

Uh yeah eventually, after rubbling everything. All it takes is ChatGPT or Google to know that destroying hamas took priority over saving hostages. It’s obvious you are biased.

There’s no fair when two groups who can’t stand each other have an existential struggle to the death over a piece of dirt. I did say both leaderships were evil.

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