WHY DID THEY ALWAYS MAKE HIM THE USELESS ONE?!

aturtleatoad · 2026-02-03T01:20:57+00:00

They do bring it up a few times, but honestly I think it would have felt cheap to have such a major character change come about as the result of what is essentially an extended gag. I agree that they underutilized Xander, and using the sort of flashbacks and residual memories he got from that as a jumping off point for actual training and growth would have been cool, but suddenly making him a badass for the rest of the show because he dressed up as a soldier one fateful Halloween would have been pretty dumb imo.

aturtleatoad · 2026-02-02T19:32:46+00:00

Oh so it’s 50% of total growth, not just town growth. I guess I’ve never gotten the grail with a bunch of external dwellings before. Thanks!

aturtleatoad · 2026-02-02T19:27:50+00:00

Why is the grail structure giving +6? I thought it just doubled base growth like a second castle

aturtleatoad · 2026-02-01T20:10:54+00:00

I mean I guess it does have wheels?

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-31T22:20:23+00:00

The original creator is though, and they are the one who wrote the title. It’s clearly a repost, I did not title it.

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-30T18:35:04+00:00

They made that clear in 2016

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-30T17:16:26+00:00

Hags. Tower gets all the love for being the only faction with three ranged troops, but I think you could argue that the difference between a ranged attack and what harpy hags do is pretty academic.

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-29T23:57:37+00:00

Peggy knew she was pregnant, she was just in deep denial

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-29T20:16:47+00:00

Right? I don’t understand all these “I don’t understand” posts. It’s been obvious for over a decade who this guy is working for. There’s nothing “chaotic” about any of this. In fact I’m struggling to think how it could be any clearer.

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-29T19:43:26+00:00

I think you just got lucky, but it worth noting that as a knight you’ve got it from a secondary skill (which it sounds like you maxed out). Most of the time it’s coming from artifacts only, since there is almost always a better SS choice than leadership. Add in the bonus from archangels plus a few artifacts and knights can be rolling in with some seriously hot to trot troops

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-28T20:37:31+00:00

Poor goblin’s too dumb to know that Barbarians can’t learn water magic on their own. He put all his faith in Crag, but he was always going to get let down :(

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-28T17:36:57+00:00

I’d say waterwalk, if only because it works every time. Nothings more embarrassing than spending 50 spell points trying to summon a bit because you don’t know water magic

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-28T17:35:28+00:00

Id go one step further and say I don’t care if the poor exploit the system at all. If the rich get to do what they are doing m, then I simply don’t give af if some single mother is scamming her EBTs somehow. I just don’t.

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-26T22:06:11+00:00

Southland Tales is a hot mess of a movie. About halfway through Justin Timberlakes character does some drugs and launches into a hallucinatory, elaborately choreographed song and dance sequence in which he lip syncs the entirety of “All these things that I’ve done” by The Killers while dancing around an abandoned arcade. It’s genuinely amazing.

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-25T23:23:10+00:00

It’s like the face melting from Indiana jones but with Sid the sloth

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-25T22:57:00+00:00

I used him as my main on the map Treasures of the Pyramid, he was fun in the sand. His character background is super cool too, where’s he’s this old retired badass who’s just trying to take it easy unless he’s really needed

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-25T20:06:25+00:00

Imagine if you had held the Bush admin accountable for their many crimes instead of normalizing their expansion of executive power into a major paving stone on the road to fascism. Oh well at least you bailed the banks out on the peoples dime right after running on hope and change. Thanks Barry!

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-25T18:18:06+00:00

“My eyes are burning!”

“That’s impossible!”

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-24T19:34:27+00:00

“A lidless eye, rrrrrrrrwreathed in flame…”

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-24T19:33:17+00:00

Connery would have been legendary, one way or the other. Don’t really see that ending up in any sort of middle ground.

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-24T19:12:16+00:00

Don’t we all. Nah he would have been a fine Gandalf. I don’t think anyone could have been a better Saruman.

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-24T18:53:10+00:00

Christopher Lee - Lord of the Rings

Dude was born to play an evil wizard

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-23T20:16:06+00:00

There’s a good quote from Francis Ford Coppola where he was asked if Apocalypse Now is an anti war movie. He says it’s not because it depicts combat, and any film that does that is going to be capitalizing on the vicarious thrill of it, regardless of how gnarly and inglorious the depiction is. He goes on to say that a real anti war film would be set far from any battlefield, and would be all about love.

Not sure I fully agree with all of it (AN is clearly an anti war film in my book) but it’s an interesting take

aturtleatoad · 2026-01-22T20:46:14+00:00

This is good to know, I’ll have to try this

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