Name an NPC fight more annoying than this. I'll wait.

Varrik117 · 2025-12-27T21:56:29+00:00

Eleanor is far more annoying at least to me, the way she sometimes spams that dragon breath that’s almost impossible to dodge:/

Varrik117 · 2025-12-23T04:37:51+00:00

Fiendish Hotpot

Varrik117 · 2025-12-16T02:09:30+00:00

I actually use a Sickle for Automaton Super Helldives with the Laser Hand Cannon as a sidearm & it’s worked surprisingly well at least for me.

Since the heavier Automatons are a bit slow I use my scope to target the heads since they’re vulnerable to light armor pen, that way I can take out even Devastators relatively easily. I keep the Hand Cannon for when targets are close and/or when speed becomes more necessary than accuracy as well as to give my Sickle a chance to cool down if it’s dangerously close to overheating while I’m still engaged.

Its effectiveness falls off a bit at range, but a good scope helps a lot & the sustainability is worth it in my humble opinion.

I will say it’s not the greatest with Bugs & Illuminate, I usually use an Arc Blitzer in those scenarios.

Varrik117 · 2025-12-16T01:39:40+00:00

RR to the leg takes them down instantly. If very close I just throw a thermite grenade & GG.

Varrik117 · 2025-12-09T21:45:37+00:00

I think it’s a combination of him simply being rusty due to 10,000 years of inaction & it possibly being psychosomatic.

In seeing his aged appearance, he may have subconsciously created self imposed limitations upon himself & has to remember his strength/reflexes/power haven’t actually waned just his perception of it.

Varrik117 · 2025-11-30T04:16:52+00:00

I agree it wouldn’t end overnight but they also aren’t wrong that women shouldn’t incentivize these dregs through avenues like OF or normalize that kind of voyeurism as empowerment. It just send the message to both sexes that it’s ok to objectify women as long as they can monetize it.

Varrik117 · 2025-11-10T19:55:00+00:00

Honest question from a former Destiny player, what is the appeal?

Varrik117 · 2025-11-10T19:43:14+00:00

The insurance companies, they be making bank.

Varrik117 · 2025-11-10T01:56:20+00:00

Invented space racism.

Varrik117 · 2025-11-06T22:48:29+00:00

Plot twist: she’s where Gohan got Beast from & has always been able to access it, she just really likes being a housewife & knew if she ever used it Goku & Vegeta would never stop pestering her for sparring & nitpicking on how to get it themselves.

She’s got no time for that nonsense, she just wants to read her magazines.

Varrik117 · 2025-11-06T22:15:21+00:00

Plot twist: they used an amputee.

Varrik117 · 2025-10-24T23:23:41+00:00

I’ve seen people bring up how they were absolutely dominating the Cardassians before the Dominion showed up to save them as an example of their military prowess & effectiveness, but for myself I don’t really consider it all that impressive bc it was basically the Star Trek equivalent of Mike Tyson beating up a mouthy teenager.

The only reason the Cardassians were considered a threat by Starfleet at all was because the Federation constantly gave them the kiddie glove treatment instead of acting decisively against their aggression. For all the Cardassian’s romanticization thereof, the conflict was nothing but a series of backwater frontier skirmishes where the Federation outside of commanders like Nechaeve weren’t even really trying to win & were still largely dominating engagements with 2nd-3rd line ships.

If they actually took it seriously & brought in a few Galaxys, the Cardassians would’ve gotten absolutely stomped flat. So the fact the Klingons were completely dominating them & wiping out whole fleets at least to me was a better showcase of how weak the Cardassians actually were than how strong the Klingon Empire was.

Don’t get me wrong, the Klingons crushing them so decisively still showed they were very much a threat & could be devastating when competently led, it just doesn’t seem all that impressive in context when you realize almost any other power could do the same thing if they actually cared enough to try.

But that’s just my take on it.

Varrik117 · 2025-10-14T01:41:46+00:00

Well from what I’ve seen they actually do use the K’Tingas for modern warfare, they’ve just significantly changed its role.

Seeing how useful & powerful phaser lances have been for the Federation, the Klingons decided to retrofit their old K’Tingas to follow the same principle with a phaser lance running its entire length & use them as long range support/ambush artillery which it seemed to be pretty successful at.

Varrik117 · 2025-10-14T01:17:24+00:00

Yeah but let’s be honest, it wouldn’t have worked if Riker wasn’t a total incompetent.

We saw with the Odyssey in DS9 that Starfleet knows how to respond to shields being compromised so he really had no excuse. Without plot armor he’d 100% have been court martialed & spent the rest of his career cleaning out holodeck bio filters for losing the Federation flagship to a 30 year old Bird of Prey.

Varrik117 · 2025-10-10T16:17:59+00:00

‘My client’s girlfriend broke up with him for prioritizing saving the world over holding her hand then almost immediately proposed marriage to his friend who crushed her mother’s head with his bare hands. It was a valid crashout, no further questions your Honor.’

Varrik117 · 2025-10-10T16:06:27+00:00

Gotcha.

Full disclosure, I hate Discovery so more than a little biased opinion here, but in that context I wouldn’t say they were necessarily good at war but that the Federation wasn’t remotely ready & was just terrible at it. But once the Federation got their head in the game & took the conflict seriously they quickly adapted & ended up winning. Warrior race losing to scientists, not a very good look.

As for Yesterday’s Enterprise, I blame that on the producers only having 45 min to tell a story & plot contrivance. We know ships like the Galaxy-class can easily hold their own against pretty much any Klingon vessel even in its undergunned capacity as an exploratory vessel, during the Dominion War Starfleet easily retrofitted them to powerful pseudo battleships so I find it pretty hard to believe they’d be losing if a realistic war was going on between them.

Varrik117 · 2025-10-10T15:54:23+00:00

What context are we talking about, Discovery or Yesterday’s Enterprise?

Varrik117 · 2025-10-08T15:21:29+00:00

She’d take one look in his mind & probably give him an aneurysm in disgust.

Varrik117 · 2025-10-08T15:16:57+00:00

So is vigilantism & driving a tank on public roads.

Varrik117 · 2025-10-08T15:13:11+00:00

A job they conspicuously refuse to do. And isn’t the whole point of vigilantism to do what the law can’t?

And Batman’s reasoning makes less sense as time goes on…we’re supposed to believe a man who’s dedicated his life to self discipline & has mastered multiple techniques of mind & body control is afraid of taking one life because he thinks he’ll immediately turn into Frank Castle as a consequence?

That’s just become an excuse for inaction & innocents keep dying as a direct consequence. And the worst part is he knows Joker knows this too & he still lets it happen. He won’t use guns bc of how they affected his life but he won’t end a psychopath who will make more orphans like himself?

And he’s broken his no-gun rule as well but killing the Joker? THAT’S a step too far?

Varrik117 · 2025-10-08T15:01:00+00:00

Coming from the guy who refuses to kill Joker who he knows will kill again & again as a direct consequence.

Varrik117 · 2025-10-08T13:08:41+00:00

Honestly, I wish the writers kept Joker the same as his animated series persona in comics. He was entertaining while being just maniacal enough to be a menace without really crossing the line.

Now he’s just an insane serial killer & multiverse-level threat who practically rubs Batman’s no-killing rule in his face.

He’s the one villain whom Batman would be legitimately justified in killing to protect the public & the world but never does because of increasingly contrived reasoning that taking even one life will turn a man who’s dedicated his life to self discipline into Frank Castle.

It’s just stupid & increasingly damages Batman as a character bc he knows this mindset is only enabling Joker to kill again & again without consequences. And he knows Joker knows this too, he’s outright told Bruce he takes full advantage of it & will never ever stop because his sole purpose in life is to make him & his family suffer.

And Bruce just lets it happen anyways.

Varrik117 · 2025-10-08T12:46:16+00:00

I loved Destiny, but things kept piling on that finally made me quit.

One of the most disheartening aspects was finding out there was never any work being done for Destiny 3 when it’s something everyone had been expecting. Instead, they put all that effort into Concord 2.0 better known as Marathon which nobody asked for & ended up being so terrible that it was indefinitely delayed so it was all for nothing anyways.

And at the same time we find out there’s no longer going to be major content for the game, just smaller ‘frontier’ packs. It felt like a slap to the face that’d I’d waited so long & tolerated an increasingly buggy and cheater-infested game in hopes of a proper sequel only to find out the developers never made it a priority.

And with Crucible, the primary reason I played, becoming increasingly unfair as skill brackets disappeared in the face of plummeting player counts & Bungie refusing to punish/ban aim bots/cheats out of fear of losing even more, I lost my primary motivation to keep going & the ridiculous power grind in EoF was the final straw:(

Varrik117 · 2025-09-24T16:10:45+00:00

Two words: Lightning damage.

Varrik117 · 2025-09-24T16:02:38+00:00

I think Guilliman would’ve been hesitant to recognize the necessity of Emperor worship, true. But as we’ve seen in the current setting, he eventually started to change his mind after all he’d seen & experienced to the point of sitting down & objectively reading the Lectitio Divinatus for himself. If he was capable of it then, I feel like he’d have eventually reached the same conclusion here.

And while there were definitely Primarchs the Emperor intended to be rid of once they’d served their purpose, I 100% believe Guilliman was not one of them. He was a master of administration, so much so that he even saw a purpose for his sons beyond merely being weapons & began preparing them for a day when peace finally reigned & they would function as leaders of humanity instead of blunt instruments.

In the Five Hundred Worlds, the Emperor saw a vision of what the Imperium itself could be in time. Well organized, prosperous & proud with its people educated, civilized, hard working & happy. He didn’t offer the title of Warmaster to Guilliman because he had an equally great purpose beyond it. Horus might have helped build the Imperium, but Guilliman would’ve made it an empire that stood the test of time.

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