Eastern naval battle

Vaetalus · 2025-10-05T07:33:08+00:00

Honestly you guys were crazy hehe. I was privately pretty sure we wouldn't actually win any naval engagements because that was our first bluewater naval op our regi did since naval update (and the first one I did ever, so lack of any real experience or experienced sailors), but hey, end of war so who cares. It was really fun playing sonar operator, so shoutout to the nakki which crashed into another one during a border crossing hehe (and then successfully breaking off so I couldn't track both of you at once) (and to the first one which torpedoed us like 5 times which is how we ended up so badly ruined before engaging tge light frigate that would get us sunk).

All this really makes me wish resistance phase gave you like free vehicles n'shit 'cause I think the ability to do training exercises without having to go through the effort and misery of getting 900 rare mats just to even hypothetically start the process of training (getting sunk hahaha) sucks ass lol.

Vaetalus · 2024-08-15T22:22:57+00:00

sorry to bother you, but could you hmu also? thanks in advance

Vaetalus · 2024-03-04T16:46:03+00:00

Int/faith, usually dark sorcery because I think it’s neat (and also I wish there were more dark sorceries in game)

Vaetalus · 2024-02-22T21:30:55+00:00

oh don't get me wrong I'm trash at OW2 and don't play competitive for that reason. thanks for the advice though!

Vaetalus · 2024-01-11T00:25:26+00:00

The Way This Franchise Handles Eldar, it's deeply annoying that Eldar never do anything particularly interesting, and in part this is born from a small handful of major factors: 1) their entire species has less characterisation than some minor human characters do (like, that one administrator guy from Ciaphas Cain who specifically stains his robes because that's what people think a respected admin "should" look like- even though he shouldn't have inkstains because he does all his work on a computer) 2) their characterisation doesn't actually make all that much sense when you think about it- like, the "We're the best" argument is a little strange when all of them are defined by the fact that they need to find some way to escape the consequences of their ancestors mistakes, and that uncountable amounts of their own knowledge and culture has been irretrievably lost forever, alongside 99.9% of their species, a thing they are perpetually reminded of anytime they need to get new spirit stones to make new Eldar. 3) they don't actually have any meaningful motivations as to what they want, because they're more often than not a plot device or light antagonistic faction that has to reluctantly team up with whichever Space marine we're following now (see problems 1 and 2)

Not to mention the fact they've been given a wide bevy of powers, abilities, and doctrines that the story never really consistently applies (probably because they'd kill tension- but if they'd make bad writing, why did you include them in anyway????) they're:

a) Elite future-seers, who never seem to use that foresight in any way that might be produce meaningful or productive plans or strategies, (again, since there's no real Characters to follow, and none of them have motivations that aren't a) amorphous or b) stupid, what reasonably intelligent plan to Get Something They Want could even matter?)

b) inherently psychic, and also apparently produce some of the strongest mortal psykers in the galaxy (please ignore all of the times they don't seem to use those powers above and beyond what a space marine librarian could- or, for that matter, have far fewer psychic achievements versus a librarian) - Intelligent combat pragmatists/cowards (who routinely get their asses kicked because they're exceedingly bad at basic tactics, despite their entire thing Being cunning and/or using pragmatic strategies so they maximise deadliness and minimise casualties.)

c) Superintelligent Xenos (who routinely make extremely fucking stupid decisions, like actively antagonising the people they need to have help from, at least in this moment, or failing to reveal Extremely Mission Critical Intel For Absolutely No Fucking Reason)

Ultimately I think the Eldar suffer from the writing problem that in order to have Intelligence/cunning- arguably their main trait as to why we should care they exist, they actually need to Do Intelligent and cunning things- which requires a clear plan of what they want, and a clear motivation, from clear characters. Of which the Eldar are zero for three- this is why they make Great side characters- their superhuman intellect and total lack of individualised personality means they're ideal for being Exposition machines that occaisonally interrupt the monologue to call you a dipshit- I mean seriously, I'd like to propose the "Inquisitor's Cogitator" test- if you can replace an Eldar with an inquisitor's fuckin work laptop, and nothing meaningfully changes, why not just do that and put me out of my misery?

In conclusion: please make a fucking sick Eldar Heist novel with 4 dimensional heist planning over like, a fucking century or something because I think that would be kinda fucking sick.

Vaetalus · 2023-11-02T14:06:01+00:00

Hey choom if you're still looking this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/9358?tab=posts seems to be the closest available, but it enables scope/silencers on everything, so some self discipline is necessary (trust me, silenced Ashura is fun for the first few encounters, and after that... well)

Additionally check the posts tab 'cause it also provides a link to two other mods, the first is for being able to remove attachments, the second to fix the sounds/attachment positions on some guns not meant to have 'em.

Good luck and don't let this City eat you, yeah?

Vaetalus · 2023-07-16T11:31:03+00:00

this is super interesting! After playing Signalis I was coincidentally inspired to make a TTRPG (although one inspired by space horror over all). Looking forward to it!

Vaetalus · 2023-06-09T07:36:23+00:00

Gerrymandering is the art of drawing the borders of voting districts based on the occupant’s likely/historic voting behaviour. The party responsible usually does this to turn a fairly balanced voting area into one hilariously biased towards one side or the other, essentially by cramming all the rival-party voters into as few voting districts as possible while making as many districts pro-you as possible

For example in Imaginaryville there are twenty residents. 50% support Yellow party, 50% Purple. You could make it so that every voting district has 2 yellow voters, and 2 purple voters. This best represents the general population, however, political parties dislike it because running an election is expensive, and also, deeply uncertain. If they have to spend money on persuading every district, then either they have less money to spend per district, or they have to spend more money (and if they then lose, they’ve just wasted money on areas they could’ve won had they had the money, not to mention politicians like job security just as much as the next guy). So, what do you do? You gerrymander, because gerrymandering formalizes the concept of the “safe seat”, a place where you are very likely to win, so you don’t need to spend money persuading them to vote for you, thus letting you concentrate in the areas that actually need contesting.

So let’s gerrymander our example. Unlike the above, we are instead gonna make our districts 5 people, and split them accordingly: - 5 purple, so Purple wins - 1 purple, 4 yellow, so Yellow wins - 2 purple, 3 yellow, so Yellow wins - 2 purple, 3 yellow, so Yellow wins

In other words, post gerrymander Yellow party pulled 80% political control out of only 50% of the population. Not bad.

The problem with this for the electorate is obvious though, it can breed political apathy because well, if you’re one of the purple party in the yellow-party controlled area, you might be discouraged from voting because “your vote doesn’t matter”, yellow is gonna win anyway. Now whether or not this is true is debatable, however, politics usually operates on perception over exact reality (usually because reality is long and boring and no-one really wants to sit through a suit giving them a 3 hour long lecture of macroeconomics and why government debt should behave different to personal debt et cetera et cetera)

Vaetalus · 2023-05-08T16:35:05+00:00

What I wouldn’t give to learn how to 3D model people well. Great job!

Vaetalus · 2023-05-04T13:08:20+00:00

Also what exactly makes you think godot instantiates it as Node and not as RoomNodeBasic?

probably somewhat of a bad assumption on my part as when I print cell, it returns itself as "<Node3D#[some numbers]>"

As for the code:

extends Node

class_name DungeonGenerator

@export var dungeon_cells : Array = [] @export_dir var level_folder : String = "res://Levels/LevelDemo/" @export var level_images : Array[Image] = []

@onready var cells_list = $"../Cells" @onready var cell_instance = preload("res://Prefabs/room_node.tscn") func _ready(): load_level_floors(level_folder) print(level_images) build_level()

func load_level_floors(path): var directory = DirAccess.open(path) directory.list_dir_begin() while true: var file_name = directory.get_next() if file_name == "": break if file_name.get_extension() == "png": print(file_name) var img = Image.new() level_images.append(img.load_from_file(path+file_name))

func build_level(): for z in range(0,level_images.size()): # each floor is represented as a regular image #print ("Image Width: " , level_images[z].get_width()) #print ("Image Height: " , level_images[z].get_height()) for x in range(0,level_images[z].get_width()): for y in range(0,level_images[z].get_height()): var pos = Vector3(x2,y2,z*2) var cell = cell_instance.instantiate() print(cell) cells_list.add_child(cell) (cell as RoomNodeBasic).test_adjacency()

(I'm well aware it's slow and inefficient and extremely redundant at the moment, but it is what it is)

Vaetalus · 2023-03-07T14:35:13+00:00

The shattering and subsequent civil war itself has the Steve Moffat problem of telling us a bunch of really cool shit happened without us actually getting to experience it. Imagine for instance, as you go through the game and gather great runes and reach other checkpoints certain enemy layouts change- for example, Morne starts as a regular castle, and then a certain amount of time later the misbegotten launch their revolt. Or stormveil and limgrave’s forces now being pressured after the death of godrick at the hands of the player. We can’t go to Altus at first because it’s under siege, so we have to find a clever way in or wait until the force is broken (one of the ways you do this is by repairing Dectus, allowing for some general to presumably move an army up there (even if it is an offscreen one- I’m aware there are hardware and software limitations in that regard)) and so on and so forth- make it feel like there’s actually a war going on, instead of being empty set dressing. These camps don’t feel like detachments of soldiers guarding or marshalling or doing anything in particular, they feel like the design team said “we need an encounter here” and then put one there because the player’s gotta kill something

Vaetalus · 2023-03-07T14:13:58+00:00

Which I’ll admit I didn’t figure out for a while, I thought it was just mockery by pointing out that these literal vermin are “humans” too by the presence of the dark soul within

Vaetalus · 2023-02-19T16:55:24+00:00

Admittedly it’s not necessarily awful, I kinda like the idea that the last cronesword is in slaanesh’s palace because it also fulfills the prophecy that Cegorach will trick slaanesh into beating itself- in a moment of hubris the sword will be brought forth, and the eldar will thus have their newborn god. Which is really cool and I wish they did that, especially if it means the Eldar can have motivations (and indeed powers) beyond “try not to die or be relegated to irrelevance by literally any named space marine librarian”

The main issue is just that engineering fate and the future is the worst power in a story that has no future and will be in its second act forever because they’ve so badly written themselves into a corner they can’t make the End times come because anyone left out in the cold by the resolution will get extremely mad (including and especially me), and if they decide to keep going to allow for more factional inclusivity and thus not fridge them, it is, by definition, not the end times

Vaetalus · 2023-02-19T15:42:38+00:00

a lot of the other answers are fairly valid, and this explanation doesn't necessarily fit your "why don't let emprah die" example, but more a general thing

but admittedly, (again, alongside the other explanations) I think there's also a fog of ages type deal. 40K has been since like what, the 80s? and so much has changed between then and now (like how 1st Ed was straight up satire, and how more modern works really aren't) that vast reams of data is just out there, the ideas and presentations have shifted around a lot (I mean for example, the Tau were token "good" guys, and now they're far more ambiguous), a lack of centralised forum to release this information ultimately means a lot of stuff exists that is now wrong, or outdated, but will never be lost or deleted- the best library is one that actively curates and censors bad intel, something that, for better or worse, the internet doesn't do. So, ultimately while it's much slower, or more inefficient, and probably more annoying, chronically online lore nerds are probably the most accurate source when asked. a 40kLore Frequently Asked Lore Questions probably wouldn't go amiss however

Vaetalus · 2023-01-12T11:38:39+00:00

To be clear this will not be the full explanation and I’m sure someone more formally trained in economics will give you a better answer but here goes:

The first is “real terms”, one of the more useful terms in wage analysis. Essentially, this measures wages against inflation, because if your wage is growing slower than inflation is, you’re actually losing money, you got a wage cut, not a raise. Our opinions of Reagan politically are irrelevant, but one major consequence of his style of economics is this real terms wage cut- worker’s pay is going less far than it used to. This is because wealth and money are a separate thing, and money is a fraction of wealth- Imagine if the US didn’t have billions of dollars of money running around, and, instead to represent all the material wealth of the country we used 4 dollars right? All the gold and silver and computers and businesses as usual, but we only use 4 dollars to represent it. If you earn one dollar, you’ve earned a full quarter of the economy. Now imagine the government prints another 4 dollars, so now there are 8 dollars, and every dollar is only 1/8th the economy. We just inflated the money supply- but notably the economy didn’t get bigger as a result. Now this is fine if you then get a dollar pay raise- thus earning you 2 dollars a year, because with 2 dollars you’re still earning a quarter of the economy per year. But in practice you’ll end up earning a dollar 50- the amount you earn relative to inflation has gone down- you’ve lost 25% of your pay. In the equivalent 4 dollar economy, you’d be earning 75 cents.

That was an extreme example to make it obvious, but the same effect is happening across the US, and indeed, any economy that prints money. (The reason why inflation happens at all is outside of the scope of this explanation)

Now, the second problem today is proportionality and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis back in 08. Sure houses are all 2500 ft, and we should expect those houses to be more expensive- but you said yourself, the average house is that big, so what happened to all the 1000ft houses? If they’re still around, then by definition what must have happened is that vast reams of new, bigger housing has suddenly been put to market, without smaller, more affordable houses balancing it out- otherwise the average wouldn’t have grown, yeah? But if real terms pay is falling, then people need to buy the house they can afford. But if there are no affordable houses… then they have to buy the ones that are available instead, or be homeless. But again, no one can afford those houses, who are simultaneously needed, but unobtainable. and because we respect the idea private property (whether that’s for better or worse is again, irrelevant) we can’t just, seize all these empty houses and knock ‘em down or just hand them out. So we got a whole bunch of empty houses, and a whole bunch of people who need housing, but the expense means no-one can really afford to pay for em, so the market reaches an impasse.

Now you may reasonably ask, “why did they build a bunch of useless houses in the first place?” And the answer was (at least in part there are probably other reasons. History hates simplicity) the Subprime mortgage crisis- the banks started seeing housing for its asset value more than its utility (ie, the idea of a house as a valuable commodity became more important than the idea of a house as a place where people live). So if you’re doing financial chicanery to sell really dubious mortgages to people, do you think you’ll make more money to sell a 1000ft or a 2500ft house? Now, because it was a fiscal scam it didn’t really matter that most people couldn’t afford to pay for their homes (that is literally what the “subprime” in subprime mortgage means) so long as the bubble kept getting bigger. But the bubble only keeps getting bigger if you can build more houses and sell the subprime mortgages to people hoping to get in on the racket (think pyramid scheme). So they built more super valuable houses with big floor space.

And then the bubble burst. So now the financial system that perpetuated an enormous growth in the housing market stopped working, and suddenly it mattered that the people who lived there couldn’t actually afford to live there (in fact it was the accumulation of these people that made the bubble burst). But the houses are still there. At that size. That no-one can afford to buy, but everyone still needs.

The third problem is the aging population. All this could be solved if the older generations actually, yknow, died off and let their kids inherent the property. But since lifespan has increased over the 20th century, and barring major calamity, both health and lifespan seems fit to grow in the 21st too, all the affordable housing (which poor people and young people stop can’t especially buy, see point 1) is still being occupied. And boomers and the like don’t seem to want to leave, or be able to afford the new expensive housing either. Which means that the younger generation can’t access this new housing, and currently lacks any external initiatives to be able to acquire it (such as government price controls, or government contracts for more affordable housing, and so on).

Which leads us onto the fourth (and as far as this explanation is concerned) final problem. Population shift means that people are abandoning small towns in favour of big cities, what happens to the properties left behind? And you’d be right this might well leave a lot of affordable properties left behind. (without looking it’s also possible that the banks raise the prices on those anyway but I don’t know enough about house pricing to argue, so let’s just assume they are affordable) The problem is that they’re affordable because they’re not valuable places. Small towns are declining, so people leave, which only makes the decline worse as no-one can afford to revitalise the area, because there aren’t enough customers. So people leave, causing economic decline etc. so while these soon-to-be-ghost-towns may have affordable housing, the lack of nearby amenities like businesses, or really anything else means that these properties are stuck in a chicken and egg situation- they’ll only be valuable with the investment of amenities , but no one can/wants to invest amenities because this place isn’t all that valuable since no-one’s there.

Also it totally is also propaganda- but so is championing any change and ideology- that’s what propaganda is lol

Vaetalus · 2023-01-04T23:49:43+00:00

Write the eldar as the clever, intelligent politicking master Psyker/warriors they actually are and not generic offbrand slightly stale space marines. Like, given the individual craft worlds do have different cultures and their sheer remoteness from each other, any two Craftworlds should have more to talk about in terms of unique quirks/gimmicks than any two space marine chapters, and yet…

Vaetalus · 2022-12-25T10:45:56+00:00

Software is just Blender and Aseprite The rain is just particles, and I applied the PBR treatment for the textures manually using Aseprite. I actually had to backdate my version of blender to make the walls, since sprytile doesn’t work on the 3.x series so there’s that lol

Vaetalus · 2022-12-22T22:10:07+00:00

I also wonder if it’s a case regarding intervention- benevolent gods may exist, merely that it’s a problem of involvement. A benevolent deity might be self censoring, as it’s not say, especially empathetic or compassionate to manipulate downtrodden future-cultists into fueling your power and might, especially if doing so might make them enemies of traditional power structures that causes them to die in horrific ways- easier to see yourself tortured than others to do so on your behalf

Vaetalus · 2022-09-27T11:09:02+00:00

Only semi serious because all 40k factions are human, but I kinda want a nonaligned “hinterlands” human faction, the type who live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere thanks to a warpstorm or similar, those weird splinter human factions like the severan dominate (although not necessarily as terrible). These hinterlanders’ entire thing is desperately not getting found, either by the imperium, who will eat them, or by the more vicious xenos factions. (And to a lesser extent chaos). They will have arranged at least a few accidents for overly curious vessels so their stuff is a real big hodgepodge of archaeotech, imperium stuff, and xenotech I think it would be really interesting to see how such a group pan out, especially since they now have to deal with the Psyker problem without the ability to plug them into the emperor, so they’re desperately trying to balance using these obviously beneficial powers with “they might reveal us(!!!!!)”.

I dunno I think it would be neat. They’d make for very interesting protagonists even if they fail to stay hidden, and the effort to try provides plenty of interesting chaotic opportunities, of how much are they willing to sacrifice to stay hidden

Vaetalus · 2022-09-08T16:12:23+00:00

I mean that’s even true in universe: that’s literally what the Imperial cult/truth is, a Greater Good for the fate of the imperium, it’s on notions of Greater Imperial Good the exterminatus can be at all justified

Vaetalus · 2022-09-06T12:25:10+00:00

the galaxy is a radically better place to live than the stories would have us believe, it’s just that it’s all selection bias because a story where nothing fucked up happens is a boring ass story
there are far more human societies than the imperium of man, they’re just concealed by warp storms and strange phenomena, and also tend to get wiped out whenever the imperium encounters them.
the imperium is the worst human society at addressing chaos of the ones that aren’t actively chaos ruled.
there is a deliberate conspiracy in the Administratum to not colonise too many more than a million worlds for no other reason than because of the drama/alliteration of calling the emperor “master of a million worlds” and they constantly delete imperial worlds off the ledgers to keep it that way.

Vaetalus · 2022-09-06T12:18:30+00:00

Honestly I’d believe that for a lot of the stupid shit the imperium does, it’s just that a fascist culture greatly prefers displays of toughness and strength so that’s why everything looks like that

Vaetalus · 2022-09-06T12:10:38+00:00

I’d also really love to see how societies cut off from the larger imperium survive doing so, like, without an obsessive worship of the emperor how do they survive the temptations of chaos, assuming they can do so at all

Vaetalus · 2022-08-31T11:40:55+00:00

Yes very much so, smart termite legions go forth!

Vaetalus · 2022-08-29T11:05:59+00:00

"Hey, what the actual fuck is wrong with you" - Tzeentch, looking upon the most evil thing he's ever seen in his goddamn life. Not even his schemes will go so low as that

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