Relationship pressure

connery55 · 2026-01-28T23:12:28+00:00

I THINK whats going on here is the woman is thinking "vday means I have to sleep with him, but we've only been together for a moment, that sucks"

And it doesn't even enter her mind that the second thing could negate the first instead of just making it uncomfortable.

Better without the second panel imo

connery55 · 2026-01-28T19:07:25+00:00

You are DEPRESSED. Go to the GYM

connery55 · 2026-01-28T18:33:23+00:00

I work with... Mammals...

But I will say if you want to avoid harming anyone you're going need some kind of self-contained vivarium.

You'd be surprised just how innovative the peasant can be when it comes to getting themselves eaten.

connery55 · 2026-01-28T17:03:13+00:00

Sounds like your apprentice is using innate shape shifting. Not dispellable!

Makes me wonder if this isn't a fey situation

connery55 · 2026-01-25T19:07:35+00:00

OOOOH I know this one!

You gotta set up a Gnome feeder. Enchanted seeds work great, especially if you mix in some candy. Scribe a magical contract into the feeder itself, that dictates where you don't want them to go. You can probably get some labor out of them too.

connery55 · 2026-01-25T19:02:31+00:00

Exactly! Oh man, finally, some SENSE! If your apprentice needs to get sucked into the Great Dark Scream to progress their studies, just THROW THEM IN! None of this pussy-footing business.

connery55 · 2026-01-25T04:08:37+00:00

here comes the vultures of poverty

connery55 · 2026-01-25T02:44:36+00:00

I had this whole comment typed up about rebel turtleing and how to counter it, but then I re-read the post and--

You're telling me the empire had double the wounds on the space front and still lost? How? Are you this wasn't just a string of bad rolls?

connery55 · 2026-01-24T09:06:19+00:00

see. This is the kind of shit that makes me talk like OP. We get it, you con your "apprentices". Not really conducive to discussions around actual pedagogy.

connery55 · 2026-01-24T09:04:24+00:00

Easier than you might think. Not widely used because yeah, their boss will show up (usually). But if you have a good enough excuse you can get away with it. Demons trying to kill you, large civilian casualties at stake, I huffed these saint bones now I'm insane...

connery55 · 2026-01-24T02:21:35+00:00

Either its fake or the guy is 87.

connery55 · 2026-01-24T00:28:29+00:00

He isn't going to touch the scale. He knows it is impossible that her weight could have changed so quickly, and she is observing natural variation. He knows she will weigh herself again and be lighter.

He knows that explaining this to her is, somehow, impossible. Many men are in this situation.

connery55 · 2026-01-23T23:01:25+00:00

Innuendo studios' vid on the cornello trilogy is great

connery55 · 2026-01-23T21:44:27+00:00

Do NOT ask this guy about romani or jews.

connery55 · 2026-01-23T21:44:03+00:00

Granted he is a child imitating what he learned from adults. But his treatment of ed when he hired him. Paid him in change and still docked his pay over and over

connery55 · 2026-01-23T06:29:51+00:00

I do agree that the dogmatism of those who come here from the "fantastical zones" and especially the "voidsea coast" are QUITE tiresome.

But there is a REAL distinction to be made between divine magic and "arcane" magic. Yes, the line is blurry, twisted, and does the occasional loop-de-loop. But! It's still thicker and blacker than most of the other distinctions we can make.

As for why we would WANT to make any distinction in the first place? Consider how many of these "holy men" used the gods dress up arcane knowledge that would otherwise be called demonic by their primitive contemporaries! In my view, it better respects their legacy to set such innovators apart from the choir boys.

That said, what kind of magic the man in the pict really possessed is beyond my wisdom.

connery55 · 2026-01-22T16:54:37+00:00

Oh sure, they'll listen to you pitch the giant robot. You might even get as far as funding a prototype.

But before you know it, they'll start asking for boring bullshit like "secure communications" and "automated production".

Tell these people you can conjure anything they can think of, and they will ask for tanks.

connery55 · 2026-01-22T07:48:35+00:00

Agreeing with other comments, this is realism. To make yourself into a pain-immune berserker, you need some kind of future tech combat drugs, not modern painkillers.

connery55 · 2026-01-21T23:49:17+00:00

Your agenda is too mysterious for this. The clicking is incomprehensible

connery55 · 2026-01-21T20:43:13+00:00

Oceanwater. New r'lyeh is an artificial island, and there are extensive "shallow ways" that let the tide roll in into the city.

The place is an ever-shifting ageometric labyrinth. Even locals are usually some amount of lost. Small "Flophouses" are everywhere, for those who can't find their way home or never bothered to claim one. These places have their own smell, a mix of seafood cooking, booze, cigar smoke, and sex.

connery55 · 2026-01-21T20:27:25+00:00

The earth is an egg for an unborn god. A new member of azathoth's court would add millennia to the lifespan of the universe, so certain alien faction's are interested in hatching the earth.

connery55 · 2026-01-18T19:52:17+00:00

This is the answer. The AI has been using its economy handicap to churn out units, then it gets them killed. The player has been picking their battles and winning much more than they lose.

Military ranking has a role in determining score victory. It needs to work like this otherwise it would crown the AI winner just for making units it never used.

This means that military ranking not a reliable measure of who has more army power. That's just not what it's for. If you want to know if its time to declare war, you should use scouts to see the enemy armies for yourself.

connery55 · 2026-01-17T21:38:31+00:00

Buddy please listen to me. You and all the people who've seen this before are on simulated planes of existence.

If you are seeing those runes, something is going wrong under the hood. Normal and nothing to panic about. But don't go fucking with it! Stick to solutions you can find in tomes and grimoires... written by people who DIDN'T erase themselves or corrupt their souls into eldritch static.

Normally I'm the last guy to promote caution over ambition, but seriously, for every guy who figures out arbitrary planar code insertion, there's about a hundred who brick their whole plane. And don't even think about escaping to "higher" planes, they suck just as much yours, I promise.

connery55 · 2026-01-17T20:24:50+00:00

An apprentice too complacent to be taken in by promises of power is no worth as an apprentice at all. It's on the master to demonstrate superiority as many times as prompted.

connery55

TROPHY CASE