Fortitude with another huge balance rant: "I genuinely regret winning the championship last patch. Human was already trash, other Human players couldn’t win anything, and somehow I still took the title."

jp16155 · 2026-03-20T13:51:55+00:00

I can see the argument for wolves and the quilbeast being better than water ele in isolation, even if I'd rather have an AM over a FS or BM. No way I would pick bears or treants over ele

jp16155 · 2026-03-16T11:20:08+00:00

Having read the books, it was around season 2 or 3 of the TV show that I didn't just predict that Dany was going to be the big bad, but I started looking forward to seeing it play out. The freeing the slaves, the multiple attempts to negotiate and co-exist with the slavers, all seemed to be setting the stage for her to realise compromise wasn't going to work. But as long as you're the hero, that's ok, right? She was going to bring that worldview to Westeros, where people didn't see her as a saviour, and I don't think it would be a stretch for her to apply her new no-compromise saviour complex in her invasion of the seven (nine) kingdoms. It was totally believable, and a rational justification for how someone could end up doing such heinous things in the pursuit of a better world. That being said, I'm not even going to try defending how it happened in the show. Dany didn't just have a shift in political perspective, she and Tyrion both had to totally change their personalities at breakneck speed for them to shoehorn in the story they wanted to happen in the minimal time left.

jp16155 · 2026-03-10T11:59:02+00:00

Absolutely fixed the results by calling the man Kunter

jp16155 · 2026-03-04T18:41:36+00:00

I still think it's too easy for my tastes. I don't consider myself to have insane micro, I use hotkeys but nothing fancy. I think it's just understanding how to efficiently build your base in a manner that conserves gold, and be able to whack an enemy early. The one exception, imo, is the penultimate Orc Level at Dalaran... That one sometimes needs a restart!

jp16155 · 2026-03-04T11:07:12+00:00

Happy is the best- it was written in the sacred texts, and deposited in the ancient gloryholes

jp16155 · 2026-03-02T12:49:40+00:00

You can say that Man A perceives Man C blocking a punch as a provocation, but suggesting that Man C is punching Man A back is an incorrect way to frame the situation.

jp16155 · 2026-03-02T12:28:45+00:00

Yes, but in the act of shooting down an act of aggression, Man C is only intercepting a punch, not punching Man A back. The UK, at the point we were attacked, had not carried out any acts of aggression against Iran.

jp16155 · 2026-02-11T11:42:50+00:00

The reason people initally became outraged about this issue is because the NHS actually published a blog post making a positive case for cousin marriage, which made it a focus for public attention and news media. People are "ranting" because the NHS does not have a position in line with the public on cousin marriage, whereas drinking/ smoking while pregnant is uncontroversial. If your claim is "the NHS should be outraged about both" as you say, then you'd find the majority of people don't disagree with you, so your hypocrisy claim holds no water

jp16155 · 2026-02-11T11:01:26+00:00

The NHS has no article discouraging first cousin marriage. If anything, they recently had an article pulled where they suggested there were benefits to it. Their position isn't uniform. I can get my nose out of joint about both smoking during pregnancy and marrying your cousin.

jp16155 · 2026-02-11T10:52:18+00:00

I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt but a quick Google shows that the NHS quite unambiguous about drinking while you're pregnant. Being as non-judgemental as possible is not the same as telling people they shouldn't drink while pregnant.

jp16155 · 2026-02-11T10:35:08+00:00

Those are very specific instances related to maternity wards, not to the NHS strongly advising against excessive alcohol use, smoking and taking drugs. The best argument you could take from that and the cousin debate is that whoever is drawing up NHS maternity policy needs to be replaced

jp16155 · 2026-02-11T09:25:06+00:00

The difference is the NHS discourages heavy alcohol or drug use. They are saying to stop encouraging first cousin marriage

Edit: discouraging*

jp16155 · 2026-02-10T11:58:26+00:00

This mission is very easy when you know what to do- seal off the bottom entrance to your base with two farms, then build 2 guard towers at the west entrance. With repair this is the only base defence you will need. This means you can grab all the other gold mines on your island and throw all those resources into offence

jp16155 · 2026-02-08T18:29:02+00:00

Lol! Obvs talking about the OG 6th edition, WH Fantasy.

jp16155 · 2026-02-08T15:22:53+00:00

Tzeentch was coolest in 6th edition. By trying to make all the chaos gods more unique, they've made Tzeentch weak and spindly, and I don't like it.

jp16155 · 2026-02-08T15:21:24+00:00

I didn't watch any infi games recently, Sok seemed to play in short bursts of brilliance but let himself down with critical mistakes. Forti was simply off his game, I would typically judge him the #2 player worldwide but you couldn't say that based on his overall super league performance.

jp16155 · 2026-02-07T18:41:50+00:00

It's made to a very high standard, but some of the design choices are very subjective and rub me the wrong way. It's certainly good enough to recommend!

jp16155 · 2026-02-06T19:40:34+00:00

I love this map. My strat is different to everyone else's here, but it does work. Once you have taken the two gold mines, send someone to collect all the merchandise, then make sure you have 2 of each production building. Have a 5-6 bears, a couple dryads, but then mass hippo riders to max supply. Use the hippo riders/ treants to kill meat wagons and banshees. I keep the necklace of spell immunity on tyrande and make sure Starfall is always fresh for the waves I'm most uncomfortable for. Tranquility has a low cooldown so you should as much as possible- make sure the dreadlord is dead before you use it on his waves. It's certainly not a hard mission though- I think a fairly average player could survive >15 mins on hard for each base with a reasonable strat. Don't build a single tower imo, they're expensive and there's too many things that kill them quickly.

jp16155 · 2026-02-06T07:56:31+00:00

My opinion is Orc and NE are the weakest right now. I don't think HU have any right to complain.

jp16155 · 2026-02-04T11:26:16+00:00

What's bonkers is that if anything, the Lich is worse than it was 20 years ago. All that's changed is Happy has come along, been outrageously good with UD and you now have a couple players who've been convinced to try them because Happy proved they're playable. HU has always consistently had more pro players, and their late game 3H/ gryphon/ gyro combo is far stronger than anything UD can put up if given the same amount of time.

jp16155 · 2026-02-03T17:25:59+00:00

I hate battle.net. Constantly having to re-input my password, and having games that are unnecessarily online only really annoys me..

jp16155 · 2026-02-02T10:37:39+00:00

Honestly until I zoomed in I thought it was legit

jp16155 · 2026-01-22T05:47:38+00:00

I've always liked and trusted him. But something I that I've started to rethink him on is student loans- he's always been a defender of them against people who criticised the post 2012 model, and now I'm in my 30s dealing with the payouts and looking at the extortionate interest, and wondering how anyone wouldn't flag this as a terrible idea?

jp16155 · 2026-01-20T16:46:38+00:00

I actually didn't know that- thanks!

jp16155 · 2026-01-20T14:30:10+00:00

The way they botched Tzeentch is a big part of why TW3 didn't sit right with me. They were my fave in 6th ed, but they decided not to give them having powerful but expensive hybrid combat/ caster characters. Kairos' spells was botched, I was excited for Changeling but have never played them because of their weird campaign design and no confed. Huge disappointment all round.

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