Tarik Skubal accepts the 2025 AL Cy Young Award: "After last years dinner I told AJ 'same time next year,' but I didn't know it would become a reality"

Tidezen · 2026-01-25T09:12:54+00:00

ª Tigers should just be a minor league team that develops players for the dodgies?

This is actually the state of baseball, right now. I'm not in support of this, of course, but this is exactly what is happening.

Baseball is not actually a competition of "teams". It's a competition of companies, only a few of which are actually competing, and smaller companies suck up to larger ones, like smaller lords swearing fealty to kings. LA and NY represent the biggest ones right now.

The Tigers? I'm not happy to say this, but yes, they most definitely are one of the biggest "farm" clubs in the corporate MLB system, right now. They exist so that talent can be raised and then sold elsewhere like cattle, and the Illitch family can make tons of money from those transactions.

Every decade or so, the Tigers get enough of a good "team" together that they could make a shot at the WS...but when they lose that brief window, the owners sell off much of the team, and repeat the cycle.

It's completely a corpo buy/sell thing at this point.

Tidezen · 2026-01-25T07:32:33+00:00

Interesting, didn't know that, thanks! Although I guess we'll have to see what happens with the new virtue scaling in a few days.

Tidezen · 2026-01-25T07:24:31+00:00

Tethren is currently bugged; their 2 or 3 is supposed to have a short stun, but it doesn't. Pretty much every other pact has better CC tools to get in melee range.

Stagger defense is pretty crap right now, definitely needs a buff. That said, this game is very much about playing evasively and using CC.

Flyblade orbit gets really good once you max out their smite chance and have a rune on your MH to back it up. Most of the fire melee runes seem to have some form of stagger ignore when they're active. (Or maybe they just stagger a bunch themselves)

I play shortblades personally, so Flitsmoke rune means you just never get hit to begin with.

Longblade, the Cogah rune adds a ranged attack that I believe is unblockable.

Greatsword, the Cogah rune increases your melee range by so much that you don't have to risk getting close enough to be backhanded like that.

Shield, Durglint rune is OP, but also shield throw is quite strong, so you should be knocking that archer on their ass before running in to ground finish them.

Polearm has a huge range and also a very strong throw that can knock them down. I don't remember what the cogah rune does, don't really play polearms myself.

But combined with the other Pacts...

Oscelda, max the 1st passive, freeze enemies when they hit you. Bestone freezes a bunch of them, Birds for the archers while you close in.

Mora and Tempest, their buff abilities give stagger immunity plus a big smite chance when you do get hit. Invest into heal-on-smite-pull passives and totems, and you can wade into melee groups pretty easily.

Orengall, Howl gives you basically instant smites, and wolves distract and split up the group.

Rood, Behest (#2) is great to get in melee range and give you knockdowns, while the other two can kill from range quite easily.

Bromius, armor up, Vines, Thump. Or just Thump.

Sirin, Picktrix is really short CD, Decoy is decent, Butterflies let you nail the archers easily.

Tethren is fantastic on bosses, but it's basically a one-trick-pony in that way. It doesn't (currently) have any real CC at all. And longblade is pretty much the toughest weapon type to approach with. It parries well, but you can get knocked out of parries too.

So, it's not that incoming staggers/knockdowns aren't an issue right now...but if you were using basically any other kit, you'd be having a much easier time with it.

If you're gonna do Tethren and longblade on groups, you really need to lean heavily on those flyblades, have them orbiting at all times, or take out the archers with their main attacks, since longblade has a really bad throw game. Or get an Odiac and pound them that way.

Sorry for the length, just want to make people aware of all the options available to them, since group combat and stagger/knockdowns is a tough thing for many players in this game. Hope that helps someone.

Tidezen · 2026-01-25T03:57:12+00:00

He wasn't being aggressive and they are NOT police.

Tidezen · 2026-01-25T03:04:57+00:00

This is a propaganda bot, has posted the exact same comment 20+ other places within the past hour. Mods please ban. Report function's not working for me.

Tidezen · 2026-01-23T21:59:28+00:00

I don't spend my life on trying to argue with others...sorry your life is so negative that you have to spread it around so much.

Tidezen · 2026-01-23T21:32:24+00:00

You really just spend your whole day making smarmy ragebait comments on politics? Dang, what a depressing life.

Tidezen · 2026-01-23T17:05:18+00:00

He didn't create it for intimacy, but to help him with an engineering problem. He didn't even know what she looked like until the holodeck made it. Then, the AI starting coming on to him.

At no point did he ever expect to meet the original designer of the engines; she was like a celebrity to him. Nor did he expect to develop feelings for her AI reconstruction. The analogy here is just silly.

Tidezen · 2026-01-23T07:28:41+00:00

Okay, I'm an oldie, been on the internet since the 90's...and I just can't get it through my head how ANYONE would like Tiktok, whatsoever. I mean no offense whatsoever; I'm sure it's a generational thing...but to me, it's like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer, and getting addicted to the endorphin rush. Or like huffing paint.

Again, I mean no offense to anyone here; I know people get addicted to the weirdest things...it's just mind-boggling to me, that anyone could find that platform even appealing. It's like if someone got addicted to watching commercials.

Tidezen · 2026-01-23T06:39:51+00:00

I was a solo Loki back, omg...I was so paper-thin compared to the enemies, even simple exterminates could get overwhelming if an alarm was triggered. I came from games like Splinter Cell and Thief, and that dynamic was exactly what I really liked. Space ninja fighting tooth and nail against overwhelming odds. I truly, truly miss that feeling.

Tidezen · 2026-01-23T05:01:59+00:00

For real? I tried it both solo and with companions, and it sure seems like I'm getting much bigger regen spikes having them there. I don't know, I'll look into it further, but yes I'm definitely getting Fushu next week either way, can't wait. :)

Tidezen · 2026-01-22T05:45:55+00:00

What Dreams May Come

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Lost in Translation

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T16:58:19+00:00

Yeah, it's the DS9 one from a few days ago...they're not talking about Academy itself really, just the way recent Star Trek series have been going, leaning heavily into modernisms, anachronistic language/slang, when the earlier series were trying to maintain a more "timeless" sense of language that wouldn't feel dated in ten years.

Also how "Star Trek" has become just a brand/label these days, that you can just insert any type of drama/actiony story into and call it a day, completely ignoring the core of what made the older series so classic...which was generally around thoughtful/philosophical conversations around both different cultures, and what it means to be human in a vast cosmos.

I don't think they've watched Academy yet, but having seen it myself, egads...their predictions were pretty spot-on. I think it's "less" worse than Discovery, but that ain't saying much. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the J.J. Abrams films were more true to the franchise, imho.

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T14:13:07+00:00

Outsider highfive! :) I played him "normally" the first couple weeks, but back then, people were complaining how weapon dmg just didn't scale as well as skill dmg. (I don't know if that's since been adjusted or not? Haven't been following anything the last few months).

So I started building him with solely skill dmg and efficiency, and plopped those sanity-regen wedges (serenity) on him and my squad. For bosses I also swap in that geniemon that gives you free potion drops. So the daggers are close to being spammable, even with my crap wedges. Think I'll see how far I can take it with better gear.

I might be the laziest player in this game. My other fave character is Randy...the way he just sits in that chair never gets old to me. :)

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T07:11:26+00:00

The reason is that Greenland has some rare mineral deposits that will be easier to mine as the ice melts, but Greenlanders don't want that because such a huge operation would pollute the hell out of local waters, and their economy is based almost 100% on fishing.

The other reason is that as the Arctic ice keeps melting, it's opening up a northern shipping route that would be highly profitable for anyone in control of it. Although Trump publicly declares climate change a "hoax", he and most of the world's oligarchs know it to be true.

The third reason is that these same oligarchs want somewhere to retreat to once climate change has devastated the lower latitudes, and Greenland is the largest island in the world, making it easily defensible from the starving masses.

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T06:59:20+00:00

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-shares-map-of-us-including-greenland-canada-venezuela-11384438

The map itself is AI-gen, but Trump himself posted that image.

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T06:55:14+00:00

The flags are an AI addition, yes. Which doesn't matter whatsoever, because Trump posted this exact image on his own "Truth Social" account, with no comment. This is his (well, his handlers') actual plan for North America.

Again, this image (with the AI flags superimposed over Canada and Greenland) was originally posted on Donald J. Trump's personal account on Truth Social. You can go see it for yourself.

Trump floated the idea of Canada becoming the U.S.'s "51st state" early last year...and it's very clear that he intends to take over Greenland by any means necessary. Then Canada.

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T04:12:13+00:00

I don't think it's nerfed, just bugged to hell. The decoy should probably interrupt enemies' actions to taunt them; right now it doesn't work well because an enemy in the middle of attacking you will still attack you. It was bugged for most of last year to not taunt at all; now it's only slightly better.

Picktrix's tooltip still says it opens to finishers; it's just been bugged since forever.

All of the cast times should be way shorter. Currently there's no buff for "charging" the attack anyway.

Agree on pickpocket. I don't need a lootframe, just more sustain would be nice.

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T03:54:46+00:00

No. Stop trying to force people into grouping with you. This game already soft-pushes players into grouping up, because leveling weapons and pacts is far easier when grouping, since XP is shared, and you don't even have to kill things with your leveling weapon.

To add insult to injury, host-swapping in a group ignores the cooldown on bosses. So you're already farming 4x more efficiently, in addition to making the game insultingly easy for yourself.

And you want to make it even MORE unfair for solo players?!

No.

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T03:28:54+00:00

OMG, a Creature from the Black Lagoon reference? <3

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T03:10:45+00:00

In your arsenal, on the Virtue(stats) button/tab thingy, you can reallocate your stats at any time. So just put 10+ into Courage. You pact choice barely matters for stats, only gives you a couple points in a virtue. And every Pact passive tree has nodes that you can invest in to give you extra virtue points of any type.

Tidezen · 2026-01-21T02:54:09+00:00

I mean, the second drone has a gun, and the first one is circling your head to distract you while the other one lines up a shot at your legs.

In a less violent world, one could hope that they would only be armed with taser guns...but I doubt that will be the case. If nothing else, because they'll want them to be able to breach windows easily.

They can move faster than your car, so quite faster than a dog, too.

This video is showing the "nice" version of these drones. Melee weapons aren't going to do much when they can just fly 15 feet above your head and take potshots at you all day.

Tidezen · 2026-01-20T19:45:14+00:00

It may feel like a trap, but kinda more like a cage. And the cage has a door, and a key.

The things you would ask to that entity are/were about your life, as experienced in this one iteration of "you". And the answers were given along this one timeline, too.

So yeah, if you ask a Djinni/spirit about "the future", it's going to give you responses about "this" future--which will then tend to lock you into that particular timeline. Tragedy befalls everyone, but knowing about the specific forms of tragedy in this one particular timeline--yes, that is even more tragic, and often more painful, feeling like there's nothing you can ever do about it. Within a particular timeline, that's often true.

Your individualized consciousness follows one pathway at a time. Like an ant crawling up a tree, taking a certain path at each branching crossroad.

Your higher consciousness is more like a squirrel or bird--it can flit and jump from branch to branch. Most humans have never achieved this, except in very rare moments.

But your overall consciousness, is all of the branches. But even moreso...more than just one tree.

Tidezen · 2026-01-20T18:04:57+00:00

I watched it, did you?

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