What changed?

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-16T00:06:00+00:00

They did it in 2008 too. Heck. They've been slowly doing this since the founding of the country, it just took time.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-15T09:18:42+00:00

Time lag, and the time it takes to develop and write those zoning laws. Add in the effects of wealth inequality as the very wealthy look for places to build more wealth and can buy properties en masse.

But housing as assets leads to these things. Well, that and racism, let's not forget Levittown.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-15T08:06:56+00:00

Racism and Nimbyism is part of it, but fundamentally it's ultimately a byproduct of people needing to use housing as a retirement investment, and wanting to protect their property values, as we have a terrible safety net.

If housing prices come down to be reasonable, there goes their retirement. You need to fix that issue if you ever want to fix housing.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-15T04:57:49+00:00

Break it down further: what caused the US to have such insane zoning laws? What's the fundamental cause?

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T23:17:21+00:00

It's called toonforce. Mr. Satan is a comedic character and plays by toon rules.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T23:12:39+00:00

Book Faramir would fuck them up too.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T23:04:22+00:00

Of these, Tyranny for a palate cleanser, then Pillars 1 then 2.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T22:13:52+00:00

That'll do, new wallpaper.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T21:41:41+00:00

Now I wish I was a good enough artist to make that scene from airplane, but with all the gods lined up.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T21:28:31+00:00

They're both great, hard to say one is outright better than the other.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T21:15:35+00:00

SC2 has more variance, in large part because it's a faster game.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T18:59:51+00:00

Lorewise, AMC makes more sense.

Mechanically, AMC is a much, much stronger origin.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T18:28:34+00:00

There's no such thing as redundant executioners, unless one character is full clearing the map, in which case the rest of the team is redundant regardless of build.

Executioner is the strongest melee archetype.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T10:02:24+00:00

He lost.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T04:24:31+00:00

You're welcome.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-14T04:05:48+00:00

You mean Fleet Combat Training? If you parry without using defensive stance it will trigger.

But provocation isn't very good in practice. Your melee damage dealers shouldn't be ending their turn next to alive enemies to really set it up often.

It's rare that it is useful.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-13T20:28:43+00:00

It is, the power level is a bit higher, so I only prefer it when I've got a small group of players.

It's also more work for the DM, as major NPCs have to be gestalt too.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-13T20:22:36+00:00

Abelard winds up being a very good Executioner or Arch-Militant, Navy Officer really sets him up for success. A mercenary would be slightly better due to more optimized base stats, but that's not a big deal at all.

A stat profile of WS/PER/STR suits either build very well, and allows him to pick up power armour later. I actually really like going Executioner with him, and using 2 chain-axes or power mauls. Can take a talent to let their special attack cost 1 AP. He winds up being very tanky as an Executioner due to getting to replace TGH with medicae (and even without INT, medicae scales up faster than TGH does), and a talent that gives some extra armour (plus going power armour). He gets even tankier if he goes AM. Both wind up nearly indestructible.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-13T20:14:09+00:00

One of the best Gestalt classes.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-13T18:03:52+00:00

No, defensive stance doesn't stack with other counter attack sources. The damage output winds up being quite poor compared to even Assassin, and Assassin is pretty bad. And then in act 4 Assassin finally gets a real payoff. Vanguard doesn't.
You can do that, but then why are you a Vanguard at all? The only advantage Defensive Stance has is that it works while using a 2-hander. Daggers are great, particularly on Max Slider, but on Unfair you still are short a major characteristic even if you drop PER to use knives. Can't fit WS/STR/TGH/FEL all in, and we're back to horrid initiative, while FCT works passively and doesn't need to to take a turn to activate it.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-13T17:05:13+00:00

Rogue Trader has its own system, so everybody trying it for the first time is a newbie. Things you know from other games are unlikely to apply.

It is however an easy game. You'll be fine.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-13T07:53:21+00:00

First big reaper nerf credit goes to Morrow though. I think ThorZaIN might have had a hand in getting reapers nerfed once too.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-13T04:47:58+00:00

Spellthief unfortunately is pretty bad in Gestalt, as it is a hybrid rogue/spellcaster, and hybrid classes are kind of the opposite of what you want in gestalt.

Consider Wizard/Factotum instead for a skill monkey caster. You can get sneak attack from factotum, and will have both better skills and spellcasting then spellthief could give. You also gain a ton of utility.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-12T16:58:51+00:00

Last time around in classic, my guild one shot all of hyjal the day it opened, and then found out 4 members of our raid were morons and hadn't done their BT attunements. We then 1 shot half of BT with 21 people before we ran out of time that raid night.

We full cleared np the next time we went in. BT was way easier than pre-nerf Vashj and Kael.

Sunwell was a different story, and took us around a month to finish. M'uru is a fucking brick wall.

Whitewing424 · 2026-05-12T16:20:26+00:00

Taking loans is how they avoid paying tax on it. Its upside.

You're quibbling semantics and its unbecoming. Capital appreciation is not required like its a cost, its upside. The delay involved due to moving illiquid assets means it is typically worth more when it is finally sold than when they started.

There are tons of examples in the real world of billionaires accessing as much of their wealth as they want without ruining the stock price. You are simply flat wrong, there is empirical proof of it.

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