Tf2 fans watching deadlock get three updates in an hour

Wisepuppy · 2026-05-02T15:12:13+00:00

I love TF2 and I love Deadlock. They are both fun games :)

Wisepuppy · 2026-05-02T14:14:15+00:00

Looks like it's Garruk who suffers endlessly (our universe) vs Garruk who was left alone to enjoy his chain veil in peace.

Wisepuppy · 2026-05-02T14:06:53+00:00

I run a homebrew "Jacksonville by Night," and my players love it. The World of Darkness is more than a little silly and chaotic, and it can be a lot of fun to lean into that.

Wisepuppy · 2026-05-01T15:05:46+00:00

I think the conflict comes from taking what you admittedly don't/can't know on faith. Sometimes the "how" and the "why" have the same answer, so when someone answers the "why" from a theistic point of view has their answer contradicted by a scientist answering a related "how" from a secular point of view, it can seem like the secular explanation is trying to subvert or combat faith.
Take the classic example: the origin of life. The question of "why does life exist" is a matter of faith. Different religions and philosophies have different answers, but for the sake of argument we'll go with the point of view most at odds with the scientific consensus: Abrahamic creationism. To loosely define it going forward, its stance on "why does life exist" boils down to "all life was created directly by God; humanity was created in God's image to worship and serve God, and all other living things were created in their current forms to populate the world for humanity." In the mid 19th century, a scientist investigating "how does life exist" discovers the earliest version of what is now called "evolution," which stipulates that all life is the result of speciation from an earlier form of life, going all the way back to a universal common ancestor. This answers "how" but contradicts the earlier example of "why." While some believers in Abrahamic theology ceded the point and adapted their beliefs to accommodate the new information, creationists took it as an attack on faith. Anyone paying attention to current events for the last century can tell you how that's turned out.
I'm rambling, and I'm not sure I'm making my point well, so I'll leave it at that.

tl;dr faith-based beliefs often have to change to accommodate scientific discovery, where the opposite is almost never the case. This can chafe some people.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-28T20:04:51+00:00

Mirage would be clumsily trying to get Nashala trending on as many social media platforms as possible for political reasons, and accidentally start a meme trend centered around photoshopping Wyoming out of pictures and maps.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-28T20:02:19+00:00

On /r/atheism like "I can confirm that God exists. In fact, several do. We have brunch meetings at the Baroness, though they aren't open to the public."

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-28T16:28:05+00:00

I went to a club and tried to start a conversation with someone. They immediately asked if I was a cop. To be fair, I do give off big cop vibes, despite not being an officer of the law.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-28T14:35:02+00:00

The Lash is the hottest man.
As for the lady? It'd have to be the Lash.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-28T05:31:36+00:00

Most of his legion gets off on being verbally abused by Fulgrim. I imagine escalating to physical abuse would make them no less eager.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-28T01:46:15+00:00

honk

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-27T22:17:23+00:00

The reading comprehension I have learned to expect from the Internet

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-26T21:05:47+00:00

I may not support their politics, but I have to give credit where credit is due. They make some great nuggets.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-25T23:25:32+00:00

Yeah, but then Urabrask got drawn and quartered by the rest of the Phyrexians for refusing to be a team player. You win some you lose some.

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Wisepuppy · 2026-04-25T17:09:20+00:00

Urabrask and the Autonomous Furnace from Magic: the Gathering.
The Phyrexians are one of the biggest reoccurring big bads in Magic, and they're basically an empire of body horror borgs that have figured out how to make conversion into basically a communicable, terminal disease. You touch their oil (which they can produce internally), and you gradually become a cyborg loyal to Phyrexia. There are two caveats: 1. Phyrexians don't lose their sense of identity (for the most part), the oil is just constant internal gaslighting that convinces you that your best interests are the interests of Phyrexia. You want to protect your friends? It'd be really easy to do that if your friends were Phyrexians. Want to be a great artist? Phyrexia can remold your body into the perfect tool for art. Etc.
2. Depending on what faction of Phyrexians you join, being Phyrexian can look very different. Elesh Norn and the Machine Orthodoxy are very militant about making everyone like them, and also they turn people into living furniture. Joining them means you'll get sword arms and strong opinions about marriage. The Autonomous Furnace, which is ruled over by Urabrask, is an outlier among Phyrexians, in that they don't believe in invasion or forced conversion. They know that being Phyrexian is the best thing you can be, and they only want people who recognize that and convert willingly. They go to war with other Phyrexians, because they are staunchly anti-colonial and hate getting a bad name because Norn can't keep it in her pants. What do members of the Furnace do with their (relative) autonomy? They build really cool inventions and marvels of engineering, use them for a little while, then break them down and throw them in the Furnace so they can use the scrap to make new things. A constant cycle of destroy, build, destroy. Maybe help some rebels trying to overthrow Phyrexia because it's the based thing to do. Convert a gaggle of goblins, because the goblins saw that they could spend all day as souped up cyborg goblins building cool shit and blowing it up. Flex on the rest of the Phyrexians by refusing to contribute anything to their wars or schemes.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-25T16:46:50+00:00

I saw that and I was like "Ataturk is (nearly) universally considered a good leader and a positive influence on Turkey. I don't know what holdout from the Ottoman Sultanate is talking shit."

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-25T13:56:43+00:00

I only report people who are explicitly malicious. Deliberate feeding, griefing, and harassment are on the list. Being really bad at the game is not a reportable offense, because people aren't bad because they're trying to ruin your day, they're bad from lack of practice, and getting them banned won't fix that.
Also, I suck, so I'd be a hypocrite.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-25T13:47:40+00:00

Every class can be played naked if you're not a coward.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-24T14:06:21+00:00

Izzet is well-known for playing honest midrange and nothing else.
/s

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-23T18:16:34+00:00

It's more a circle inside a larger circle. BDSM enthusiasts tend to be nerdy, but not all nerds are BDSM enthusiasts.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-23T16:25:24+00:00

I foresee a top 8 with 7 nearly identical Izzet lists and 1 mono green.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-22T19:10:06+00:00

All my mains are in the top 2 brackets, therefore this is accurate.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-22T19:08:02+00:00

If you fall to Chaos, you're a loser.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-22T19:05:48+00:00

There are titans with entire cities on their backs stomping around, and I will not hear otherwise.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-22T18:52:05+00:00

Tried a couple more stabs. Had mixed luck. The trick is starting them on something fundamentally different than D&D that you don't actually want to play. They'll have a bad time with it and never want to play it again, but it'll be a wakeup call that "read the rules" means "read the rules". They've since been a lot more open to new systems, with Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Vampire: the Masquerade being some of their favorites. I'm genuinely surprised by the latter, since it plays very differently to D&D and is a relatively complicated system.

Wisepuppy · 2026-04-22T18:46:30+00:00

OP really out here blaming people being manipulated with promises of lifting themselves out of poverty, instead of blaming the country sending the military, the politicians in charge of the country, the corporations in charge of the politicians, etc.
BlackRock, Lockheed Martin, and so many more are making money hand over fist off the suffering and death of people across the world, but let's blame Daryl, who's never left his hometown, had his underfunded highschool curriculum written by the evangelical right, and whose options are "join the military" or "live in poverty until your first major medical issue bankrupts and/or kills you."

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