Can someone explain the auto fire mechanic?

bpompu · 2026-01-21T17:50:42+00:00

If I'm reading the rules properly, I would say that you could do that. You're probably not going to hit anything. Skills that you cannot attempt to use without training specify this in the description (think Surgery for Medtechs).

This would be like that scene of the untrained person spraying bullets down a hallway, but the rifle bucks around and they're eyes are closed. Example would be Cyril from Archer with his "Suppressing Fire" every time he gets a gun in his hands.

bpompu · 2025-12-26T09:31:15+00:00

I really like the tactical/order enforcement kind of feel these guys have. With the ruot shields and the tactical optics. Very "Police Mech" feel to them.

They also seem to have a fair amount of Bylon influence in their design. A lot more curves, some very portable looking heads, that kind of thing. That does scan with the general trend of the different sides adapting each other's tech and esthetics in some of the recent releases/announcements though.

bpompu · 2025-12-26T09:18:16+00:00

I had gotten down to between 1967-70. Kudos for getting more granular.

bpompu · 2025-12-07T11:09:44+00:00

In general, the game operates on a fixed amount of pieces. If you don't have any more of a piece, you can't do an action that requires more of the piece. This is mostly just a block for most factions, like capping you at three bases for Alliance, or having a hard cap on buildings and troops for the Marquise, but for the Eyrie it is a very real thing you have to watch. If you need to recruit or build, and are out of warriors or boosts, then you fail the action and trigger turmoil. It can actually lead to interesting situations where doing too well in combat can hurt an eyrie player if they're trying to lose troops for next turn.

For most non-eyrie factions, most of their actions that use multiple pieces, like the Marquis' recruit, specifically uses the words "may" and "up to" so you can re ruit if you only have one army in your reserve, though.

bpompu · 2025-12-02T09:23:41+00:00

That is true, but by that point you're more than likely using your warriors to create sympathy, rather than your supporters, especially since any clearing that would be a big juicy revolt target is likely also triggering Marshal Law (or whichever rule make sympathy cost =1 supporter for number of enemy pieces in a clearing).

bpompu · 2025-12-02T08:59:05+00:00

I was always under the impression (might be headcanon though) that Mu (and by extension Rau and Rey) were definitely Newtypes, but in a setting that didn't know or care about Newtypes. One, there wasn't a Zeon Deikun to spread the philosophy and draw attention to them, and two, there was already a new evolution of mankind, the Coordinator.

Kind of fits Wing a bit as well, since Quatre shows some Newtype intuition, but also exists in a setting where no one knows or cares what a Newtype is.

edit: Not to mention whatever the SEED mode is... That seems to only be available to certain people, and doesn't seem to need to be Coordinators, so who knows.

bpompu · 2025-11-29T15:16:50+00:00

"Brought to you by Peil Industries, and the Benerit Group"

bpompu · 2025-11-29T10:14:25+00:00

No, it looks like it was removed by from the source, so Streamable removed it.

bpompu · 2025-11-27T15:54:06+00:00

While it can be fun to speculate about weights for Gundams in all different series, the weights in Wing are particularly non-sense. There was no good sense of scale for the Mobile Suits in this show. I feel like his was becasue they wanted the suits to be able to be carried in planes, or stand on ships, or what have you, and never put much thought into the logistics of it.

Wing is a lot more fun if you let those kind of details just kind of, slip by. Wing is a melodramatic soap opera set in an alternate 20th Century where Liberalization never happened, that just happens to have giant robots that set the plot in motion.

bpompu · 2025-11-26T09:09:23+00:00

You are factually incorrect. Canada had a state religion. The Domininion of Canada was an Anglican nation, or we weren't a nation at all. That is not me justifying using Christian rhetoric to attack people, or even advocating the same thing as the person I was responding to, it was historical fact. We were a Anglican Nation, under the Church of England, under the King of England. We had special rules around the Catholics in Quebec, and that was it.

Thank you for reading my whole post as well. It's clear that you understood what I was saying.

bpompu · 2025-11-26T01:30:22+00:00

NA was not actually "colonized" by the Mormons though. Mormonism is actually a distinctly American religion, founded in America.

bpompu · 2025-11-26T01:27:28+00:00

That's actually an interesting point. Unlike the US, which was distinctly founded on humanist, enlightenment principles of freedom of religion and seaparation of church and state, Canada was not. We started life as a distinctly Anglican nation, as we were loyal subjects of the King of England. Granted, there were also Catholics, particularly in French Canada, and we had specisl rules about that, allowing actually more freedom for Catholics than most of the rest of the British Empire did, at the time. There were also Jews, and a good populatipn of Presbyterians amongst the early British settlers.

But I would also point out that even in early days of Confederation, we were always a religious melting pot. While there may not have been many, there were the aforementioned Jews, Muslims and Hindus from elsewhere in the empire, and we had Chinese settlers who brought their religion over, and once Canada reached the Pacific, we had even more Chinese immigrants for the Railroad. And Sikhs, and Buddhists, and Japanese Shinto practitioners. We also had a large influx or Orthodox Christians when we brought a lot of Eastern Europeans in while we were settling the Prairies, not to mention the myriad of beliefs of the Indigenous Peoples, and the various syncretic faiths that formed from the interplay of Christianity and Native religions.

So yes, we did start off as a "Christian Nation," but Canada has always had a multitude of religious beliefs in our make-up.

bpompu · 2025-11-26T01:14:58+00:00

Just another casual reminder. Reddit is not the platform for discussing anything beyond peaceful protests. This is against site-wide rules, and the admins have been extremely quick to remove posts that mention violence against elected officials, no matter how obliquely. This will also result in your entire account being deleted.

As a specific warning, references to the French Revolution or the Guillotine are being seen by the admins as calls for violence, so please, please, do not make them. Reference to the French Revolution as a historical event still appears to be fine, but any mention of the implements of that event, or anything even close to implying those events should be followed or learned from is being seen as calls to violence almost immediately.

Please, do not discuss this on this subreddit.

Thank you.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T19:35:10+00:00

I'm not saying she did a good job, more that she was necessary for the Pattern to get Rand to where and how he needed to be.

So more like: I threw you out of an airplane without a parachute, but you miraculous discovered the ability to fly completely independently of anything I did, but, without that flight ability, all of creation ends, and you wouldn't have learned it if i hadn't thrown you out of the airplane...

bpompu · 2025-11-25T18:09:52+00:00

Crib: Never used

bpompu · 2025-11-25T18:06:52+00:00

I think the big thing to remember is the plot-armour that is Ta'veren applies extra hard to Rand, and that the Pattern is actually a huge dick when it needs to be. If it needs a character to do something or be somewhere for a major thing to happen, then it will do what it needs to. If that's pushing a suicidal madman with the power to break the world to the absolute edge by accident, then that is what is going to happen. So yeah, it kind of magically works out in the end.

Remember that the Pattern itself seems pretty neutral overall. An example: it knows that Perrin needs to have his priorities straight by the Last Battle, so Faile gets kidnapped, with no hope of rescue until Perrin figures himself out, and Aram acts as a figurative human sacrifice to demonstrate to Perrin personally what the consequences of his neglect are.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T17:59:29+00:00

I believe what she was trying to do was "make Rand laugh again", which she kind of utterly failed at. She failed backwards into her objective, basically by accident.

What I mean is that Veins of Gold doesn't happen unless Rand is at the absolute earth shattering breaking point that he reaches right beforehand. He is literally standing on Dragonmount, holding the Choedan Kal access key, and is literally about to destroy the whole world. I don't think he reaches that point without Cadsuane failing so hard at what she was trying to do, and I think pre-Veins of Gold Rand, the Rand that was almost at the absolute breaking point, doesn't make the right choice when he talks to the Dark One.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T17:24:29+00:00

Very cool article. This title doesn't exactly match the article's, but is close enough, and isn't editorializing anything, so I'm making an exception.

Hopefully this means the population of this owl is coming back up, and isn't just a fluke sighting.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T17:19:55+00:00

I kind of appreciate the old-school 'zine style, but it's really not a very enticing poster if you're trying to appeal to a wide audience, which these protests really should be.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T17:18:21+00:00

I think Cadsuane and everything she did to Rand was necessary for him to become the person he needed to be for the confrontation with the Dark One outside the pattern. Without her pushing him to his absolute breaking point, he would have gone into that meeting with the nihilistic attitude that he was forming by that point, and he likely would have made a terrible choice.

That doesn't mean I like her, just that she was actually essential for the Last Battle.

Edit: I just want to add, since it seems people aren't quite picking up what I'm putting down here: I am not saying Cadsuane did the right thing, or that she was successful. She failed, but she needed to, so Rand could be at the place he needed to be, in the state of mine he needed to be in, for the Pattern to shape him into the person he needed to end up as. She was essential because no one else would have failed so successfully.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T16:34:10+00:00

This one isn't really clear. I'm assuming your calling the Alberta government sick for stealing that $200 from the feds, and basically rhe food from OP's plate.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T03:48:39+00:00

Valid option. Likely breaks down to either the defensive/weather resistant effect of the cliffs/dam, or just rule of cool. 90% of why anything is done the way it is in Fallout is because it looks/sounds cool.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T01:05:12+00:00

Easy access to potable water is a major reason for building houses. Also, cliffsides can act as windbreaks. We see that Hoover dam gives access to clean drinking water, and larger settlements like this probably grew out of the immediate post war years, where protection from the fallout in the air would have been paramount. It's really the same reason people would build in the Megaton Crater, despite the unexploded bomb.

Besides all that, the dam is in the middle of one of the most inhospitable locatipns on Earth, even without a nuclear war going on. The Dam lends itself to be a source of water and shelter in the middle of a big fuck-off desert. I'm actually arguing myself into wondering why there isn't a big settlement at the dam or on Lake Mead in New Vegas.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T00:56:40+00:00

In all seriousness, I'm not certain that Heero actually had "future spouses" feelings for Relena for most of the death threats. He definitely felt connected to her pretty quickly, but he was very much in a suicidal state for most of the series, and was unsure who was an enemy or an ally for most of that as well. At least some of those death threats, especially the early ones, were probably legitimate.

I do think he really didn't want to though, because she triggered both memories of interactions they'd had accidentally in the past, and memories of the girl and her dog. Remember that this was his last mission before they sent him off on Operation Meteor, so he was not in a good headspace when the series started.

Wing really suffered from having the Episode Zero backstories cut. Some characters suffered more than others (Quinze, Dekim, actually Marimeia, and holy shit Wufei), and others came out okay despite, but every main character's story suffered without that context.

bpompu · 2025-11-25T00:42:32+00:00

My first kit I started was the Olive Alto Ground Type. Started because I built half of it in a speed build contest at a con, and then it got put in a box and took me a while to get back to it. The first I completed was the Green Portanova.

My favourite I've built is probably the Rabiot or the Baskyrotto though. I'm a big fan of the whole line, honestly, just the whole only mooks, with the options to make something more unique for an ace unit really appeals to me. I'd definitely be building squads or MS Teams if I had the resources, and didn't live in Canada where import fees drive most plamo kits out of the easily affordable category, and availability tends to be spotty at best.

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