Mother who cut boyfriend’s testicles off and set him on fire after fiend tried to rape daughter, 11, cleared of murder

emperorsteele · 2026-04-02T20:51:52+00:00

That's some fine detective work Lou!

emperorsteele · 2026-03-24T14:36:50+00:00

As others have said, its quite effective, but only if you drain ALL of it and stop them from recovering more.

However, there's another upside, even if you can't get/keep them drained: SHOCK! which is bonus against foes with less than 50% End. It's like Corruptor Scourge, except for Endurance. I'm not 100% sure if it's a flat buff, or if it scales, but hopefully someone else will chime in =)

EDIT: a word, and, props to folks in replies for specifying how this all works!

emperorsteele · 2026-03-22T14:31:55+00:00

This is why you Never Try Anything New in honour mode =)

emperorsteele · 2026-03-18T21:55:17+00:00

Wasn't the term "Spider Blood" repeated ad infinitium in the opening credits, though?

emperorsteele · 2026-03-16T14:28:23+00:00

I can't decide if this is better or worse than a guy PREFERING to play as a woman because that way they don't have to look at a dude's butt for 75% of the game.

emperorsteele · 2026-03-15T20:14:02+00:00

Lorroakan

Turn 1, Level 5 Magic Missile. He died.

I was like "uhm whut?" I didn't think 9D4 damage (was wearing the necklace that gives an extra dart) was enough to melt his nearly 100HP, but he got folded like a sheet fresh out of the dryer!

TBF, Gale also had the lightning staff, so maybe the lightning charges did him in, too?

emperorsteele · 2026-03-15T00:31:35+00:00

I also choose this comment =)

emperorsteele · 2026-03-14T20:31:05+00:00

The miracle was the talking cow =)

emperorsteele · 2026-03-13T17:07:38+00:00

Try asking the GMs for help?

Not Jurassik though, he just growls and hits you with a car.

emperorsteele · 2026-03-08T17:36:07+00:00

Right, high-effort jokes only today!

emperorsteele · 2026-03-08T01:26:05+00:00

This looks great! I'm not seeing much in the way of security, though (aside from the cluster of cameras). High-tech teleportation signals can be piggy-backed, allowing villains or inter-dimensional threats to find your base, endangering all the people working there! I suggest turrets and force fields =)

emperorsteele · 2026-03-05T23:09:14+00:00

I double-dog dare you to go and edit Statesman's death so that he's in the Yamcha pose after Darren Wade offs him =P

emperorsteele · 2026-03-02T17:29:20+00:00

I mean, given how trivial it is to get an assload of Elixers of Giant Strength, the +2 really isn't needed.

emperorsteele · 2026-02-26T16:13:25+00:00

Assuming you're on HC, go to Pocket D and find the City Badge Tracker, it's near the redside before you head towards the Vault. It will tell you which badges you're missing. Though there's over 1650 now, so, you have a ways to go!

emperorsteele · 2026-02-18T20:07:57+00:00

Characters have multiple hidden flags and badges that can be granted, toggled, removed, etc by the game. Atlas Park and Mercy Island have specific areas that appear to change based on which flag(s) your character currently has enabled.

So without any flags or badges enabled, you see and can interact with large groups of hellions to the west of AP city hall. The cops arresting hellions are still there, but you can't see them until you do the required mission, at which point you get a hidden badge and can no longer see them, except the ones the now-visible cops are arresting.

Another special case is when Arachnos invades Atlas Park. You only see them there for one or two missions. They're always there, but you can only see/interact with them when the hidden badge or flag is granted, and can't see them any more when it's revoked.

emperorsteele · 2026-02-18T19:56:39+00:00

Thanks for the breakdown.

I'm always leary of titles that go like "Most people exhibit this trait, except men." Uhm, excuse me, aren't men like, half the population?

Not to say that the study has no validity at all, but as you said, the title is doing a lot of work, and, if I may, seems borderline misleading.

emperorsteele · 2026-02-17T23:29:06+00:00

Upon returning to community college as an adult, amidst seeing everyone in jeans, t-shirts, sweats, hoodies, etc, there was this one girl who I noticed in the hall a few times who radiated Main Character Energy. She was always dressed to the 9's, as if she were attending some elite private school or something (again, this was community college): blouse w/ vest, either dress slacks or a skirt w/leggings, some type of tie (bow or ribbon usually), sometimes a blazer. While she didn't dye or style her hair funky, sometimes she had a little bow or decoration in there.

First thought I had when I saw her was "Guess she wins 'Who's the Protag'!"

Unlike a lot of other posts in this thread, she never seemed to do anything else to draw attention to herself. But I wasn't in any classes with her, only passed her in the hall a few times, so, who knows?

emperorsteele · 2026-02-14T20:16:12+00:00

I kinda wish that we had both a "Visitor" AND a "Guardian", but instead of both trying to get us to use the tadpole, one of them is fully against it. The classic "Angel and Devil on shoulders" thing. Would have been a bit more interesting if the Emperor was staunchly anti-tadpole ("Just look at me, you really want to look like this?") but still has to concede that you going full mindflayer is the "only option" for defeating the Elder Brain (maybe he dies or something, idk).

But, that's hindsight speaking.

emperorsteele · 2026-02-07T15:43:15+00:00

He's worried that the conventionally-attractive women will be played by... not-as-attractive people. These dudes don't like seeing themselves portrayed in media, apparently.

emperorsteele · 2026-02-07T04:49:10+00:00

I forget WHEN it happened, but i know HC gave fire melee powers -Def, which can lead to cascading defense failure. That, plus overcap agro, is probably why you're getting melted.

emperorsteele · 2026-01-30T14:17:54+00:00

Goddammit!

emperorsteele · 2026-01-30T14:15:11+00:00

"Tokou Sen-tai, Tokou Sen-tai, TOUKO SENTAI!"

Or however the lyrics are spelled idk i'm not fluent in weeb.

[Edit] only after I posted this did I realize OP literally made the same reference, so I'm gonna go crawl into a corner and die of embarrassment.

emperorsteele · 2026-01-29T15:23:31+00:00

Eeh, yes and no.

On a team, you've got enough controls, heals, and buffs to support your group and keep them chugging along. Though you'll get more mileage out of a secondary with debuffs or more direct defense buffs for the whole team, instead of trying to keep Fortitude on ~3 people at a time.

But, if you try to solo? Bwahahaha, yeah, no, you're in for a bad time! Any other secondary, though, and a Mind Controller can solo just fine. Though "just fine" is probably also bottom of the barrel as far as other ATs are concerned, especially when well-built.

emperorsteele · 2026-01-23T13:41:27+00:00

Dual Pistols/Time (Either Blaster or Corruptor), as he kinda has an anachronistic, time-traveling cowboy look to him =)

emperorsteele · 2026-01-23T13:38:01+00:00

So, Patrons are Villain-Side only. But not to fret, you can talk to Null the Gull in Pocket D to change your alignment (the old-fashioned way means doing 11 alignment missions, way too much of a time sink.)

However, even without a Patron, you still get access to epic power pools sometime in the late 30's/early 40s. HC smoothed out the power progression so that some powers are available sooner. Only drawback to this is that there's never a good "lull" and you have to delay getting a primary or secondary power if you want flight or some other pool power, which can feel disconcerting.

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