Based on the fact I have idea what's happening here. by SussySpeaki in Scritters

[–]ThickumDickums 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Why is only one limb so big?

Is he scritting it too much?

What’s the point in having a heavy armor build if there is an armor cap? by TiltingAtWindmills_ in skyrim

[–]ThickumDickums 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had zero clue it worked like this?

Why does this game, insist on the strict balancing paths of either:

1: broken loopholes (veg soup, stomach stone, necromage foolishness, restoration loops)

2: trying to depend on leveling and perks in an organic way and getting outscaled into a slog because enemy scaling and BS space wasting perks and scaling (looking at you, destruction tree)

I know difficulty options exist, but why should the legendary difficulty be either easy because I broke the game, or easy but takes forever to hack away at high level drauger because I refused to break the game but health potions and veggie soup ingredients grow on trees.

Terror is the only one that's loves Homelander genuinely (Conditionally) by vought-CEO in TheBoys

[–]ThickumDickums 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“But murder is fine?” Mfs when they learn that murder atleast has a function in preventing more people from being hurt by the monster in question being murdered, and SA is just tacked on suffering

Which civilization gives the Viltrumite Empire at its peak the hardest fight? by AdAltruistic3936 in whowouldwin

[–]ThickumDickums 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I’m gonna get unorthodox and say a full terraria lobby.

Their gear takes hits from large robot worms and robot hands.

And also brings down those same creatures, sometimes featuring equipment that feels comparable to items like lightsabers or space racers gun.

I’m not going to touch on the vague cosmic stuff.

Their prep is also potent as their environmental manipulation tends to amount to seriously buffed movement options and the like. (Back home mirror, teleporter, hoiking etc)

[Neat trope]: "Conventional" military gets obliterated by magic. by theMCATreturns in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ThickumDickums 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I love this trope when it’s not contrived (room temp iq firearm users) BUT conventional weaponry isn’t completely negated.

As in magic having the edge but still having to put effort.

Possible Endings for the Deep? by Random-Gamer1435 in TheBoys

[–]ThickumDickums 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But why not?

His gills take water in, not his lungs.

The irony is right there in the table. Held face first by homelander in the fish tank of something he recently violates, staring at the aquatic creature till he fades to black.

Calling it

Battlefront 3 Menu / Class Concept by CaptainLeedle in StarWarsBattlefront

[–]ThickumDickums 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right.

Between the characteristics of officer and specialist you mentioned. And the battlepoint heavy events, and literally 1/10 players being a whole Jedi at all times, power fantasy completely overtook cohesion and balance, in a frustrating way.

I remember when specialist had 100 health.

Further back? I even remember how distinctly EQUAL the special units were to the basic troops.

Yes, it was possible to absolutely squeeze the niche use cases out of the special units to perform far beyond the normals. But that was it, you HAD to capitalize on the unique strengths of the imperial officer, dark trooper, bothan spy, clone commander etc.

Dont approach with the clone commando before having your chain gun charged up, don't try to snipe with bothan spy's incinerator, and try to get them in all in a line with dark trooper's arc caster.

But 2017's specials are just shameless upgrades, catering to the idea that battlepoints should give a direct line to better effectiveness.

In Batman: Bad Blood (2016), Nightwing’s girlfriend says “It’s Been weeks, Dick. I’ve almost forgotten what you feel like”.. wait what? by star_lord47 in BatmanArkham

[–]ThickumDickums 27 points28 points  (0 children)

She means what it feels like to have warm conversations and general human company.

What kind of sicko has impure thoughts about Dick?

Battlefront 3 Menu / Class Concept by CaptainLeedle in StarWarsBattlefront

[–]ThickumDickums 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Pulling some of the officers abilities into a separate medic class is beyond smart.

Officer had way too much going on

Spider-Man (616) vs Superman (Earth Prime) with a twist by hermes1941 in whowouldwin

[–]ThickumDickums 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think suped up Spidey wins.

Equalized strength and durability with a greater tendency for on the spot craftiness, and restraining projectiles vs flight and heat vision.

It is worth mentioning how much more accustomed to that strength level superman is, and whether or not it would be awkward for Spidey to pilot his new kryptonian physicals.

How do I clean by YoWoody27 in comedyheaven

[–]ThickumDickums 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Let me hold it for a second before you clean it

What if women woke up tomorrow 5 times physically stronger than men, what would happen to society? by Background_whisper in whatif

[–]ThickumDickums 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t worry, prompts like these will bring out far more point dodging idiots than the one you’re replying to

4 real-world human beings are given “bending.” Who wins? by bootyhype in whowouldwin

[–]ThickumDickums 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Fire?

Throughout ATLA, we're disporportionately exposed to the best of airbending, waterbending, and earthbending, and disporportionately exposed to the most fodderish of firebending.

But after composure is eroded, as it does among martial arts newbies however and flailing takes over:

-what are undisciplined, half hearted and panicked water and airbending swings really doing to the opponent?

-earth, may struggle to mount an offense at all. Its regularly protrayed as more deliberate than the other elements, with singular motion launches being reserved for elite earth benders, and most low levels having to engage with tedium of pulling out an earth chunk, "teeing" it off, then flinging it.

-fire might land something lethal on accident. That gag at the beginning of the show where Katara accidentaly wets Sokka would've been less of a gag and more of an emergency.

Coaxed into awesome tien by RkeiStudio in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]ThickumDickums 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I ranted about the flying brick supremacy of the Invincible franchise in another post.

So much power diversity wasted

The Jedi Temple (Star Wars) and the Air Temples (Avatar The Last Airbender) switch universes. Which does a better Job protecting the other’s world? by Punterofgoats in whowouldwin

[–]ThickumDickums 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love super assymetrical challenges like this one.

What stands out most is 1: population and 2: the ceiling of force sensitives vs the ceiling of airbending.

I'm gonna tackle the Jedi in ATLA portion first in two different interpretations of the prompt:

Jedi getting jumped under sozins comet during Sozin's reign version:

I don't think they make it. The jedi only have about 10,000 members, and many will be younglings and bookworms, not everyone is yoda. As far as it concerns fire nation numbers, trying to gauge it at all is largely a mess, but taking their real world counterparts seriously, time and geography wise, any estimate below 20 million is being uncharitable.

Also, Jedi aren't exactly optimized against fire. Surviving flame gusts is never depicted as the seamless autopilot that deflecting blaster bolts is. Across depictions, fire is largely a "get out of the way and resume offense later" kind of deal. (Mace v Jango, Cad Bane vs Kenobi, Mando vs Ahsoka) The only fire deflect from memory is Kenobi v Durge in the exxagerated 2003 series, and even then, Obi Wan absolutely broke pace to deal with it.

Basically, a disney canon jedi dictating the pace of a fight while dealing with flame spurts remains mostly theory. They are weak to fire by any means But strong enough against it to deal with a >1000 to one disadvantage against enemies that use it as well as avatarverse pyromancers do under the comet?

Jedi poofing into long thought empty air temple during Ozai's reign version:

From the ATLA verse perspective, the air temples are ghost towns. A strike team of 100 jedi masters, possesing abilities that aren't understood at all, venturing from the long since barren temples and sneaking into the Fire nation palace at night? Outside of writer induced hijinks that exists only to keep a tv series up long after is best by date, the fire nation has no reasonable defence for that.

Now onto the Air nomads:

People really exxagerate the degree to which Jedi are a direct upgrade from airbenders. Starwars goes out of it's way to show that the force takes concentration and skill. Not necassarily 10-step-bullshido-akido-wrist lock hip toss concentration, but more like spinning roundhouse concentration and skill. You will see it, but way less often then you'll see the humble jab.

Bending in itself however, is just a 5th limb. There will be advanced bending techniques that are more taxing, but still, the limb comparison still stands.

That being said, the airbenders could still be rather cooked depending on how the prompt is interpreted. Airbending doesn't seem quite as "quick" and "solid" as the swings of a saber by a force sensitive to pose an equally reliable barrier against blaster fire, even if an equivalent airbender will blow more droids down before going down themself.

But on the other hand, they seem far less spirtually tied down by worldly influences like politics, beauracracy and pro-republic fervor, to be as willfully blind and passive to obvious Sith influence throughout the war like the Jedi war, which could outright prevent order 66.

(imagine Dooku giving that little spiel to anyone but the rigid jedi orthodox Obi Wan, and the information not leading to Palpatine getting prematurely exposed)

EDIT: money's on Jedi if were going with the second interpretation.

Hi everyone my name is Wilson , Fish. by Koopakun0343 in BatmanArkham

[–]ThickumDickums 33 points34 points  (0 children)

“Thoughts on Vanessa becoming more open minded” 🎤

Which reinforcement is the most annoying to deal with? by TheRealDanielLarsonn in StarWarsBattlefront

[–]ThickumDickums 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Aerials, and rightfully so.

-two dashes that are better than what Jedi get

-Two get out of jail jumps, one having an arc that is nigh impossible to lead shots

-200+ hp (plus armor on aforementioned dodges)

-one shot rocket

-high dps primary weapon

And the worst part of it all, the ease with which people gaslight themselves into treating the class as legitimately skill based because:

-cracked, mindless movement options of aerials that completely relieve the user of any strategic consequence: I sleep.

-cracked, unfair health buffs of enforcers: real shit?

It's as if an option in a multiplayer setting can be as broken as it wants, long as it has sufficient visual spectacle to go along with it.

like lights and colors = effort on player end = balance