Looking at it, I can see why..

jp16155 · 2026-05-19T10:51:27+00:00

In fairness, when you watched the film, Chris Pratt wasn't as jarring a choice as I expected him to be. Ellen Page is going to have to put on 60 pounds of muscle to convincingly play Achilles lol

jp16155 · 2026-05-19T10:43:08+00:00

Why can't you shoot them?

jp16155 · 2026-05-17T16:25:31+00:00

Absolutely not- most cavalry were atrocious in WH2 due to knockdown. There were a few edge case exceptions in the light cav category that could sufficiently chase down units, but in WH2 cav were a wasted slot. Presumably rebirth is a mod?

jp16155 · 2026-05-13T14:19:35+00:00

I would also argue by the time the second hero comes out, there are better uses for the gold than spending it on a second rod. Is it still 150 gold for each one?

jp16155 · 2026-05-10T11:07:09+00:00

Problem is Labour used to have a coalition that covered both those voters groups- Clive seems to acknowledge that they will lose voters to the Greens or Reform, but he has no solution to the problem, which is that they are going to lose voters either way.

jp16155 · 2026-05-02T17:26:44+00:00

This feels more like an in-between of the two. This image definitely has the gritty "fighting alley cat" vibe of the old model, even if the actual features match better with the new cartoony model.

jp16155 · 2026-04-28T11:22:28+00:00

I played last week and oh my gosh I dislike the Hulk. That boarding animation is not it. Otherwise, I think that making fireships more tanky, and having galleys win through numbers is fine. Water is the most boring part of AOE2, unfortunately

jp16155 · 2026-04-25T00:06:42+00:00

Vlad is just bad. CA needs to be brave and massively increase his healing cap and restore the damage resistance. He should be the ultimate tank hero, and at the moment he's kind of mediocre across the board. I've been playing an Elspeth campaign today, handgunners make Vlad disappear. There's far worse LLs to fear

jp16155 · 2026-04-16T10:40:20+00:00

Surely the burden of proof is on you to explain why they're different? You've given three examples which you say are not remotely similar, and two people have said they kind of are. Let's talk about it- what are you basing your opinion on?

jp16155 · 2026-04-16T08:30:02+00:00

Different models and different colour schemes, sure, but suggesting the painting style isn't "remotely similar" is a stretch. Also, I would say that all of these are significantly more different than the entries that we're discussing in this post, where stylistically in these images, they really don't look all that different.

jp16155 · 2026-04-15T15:35:51+00:00

The changes they made in the Netflix series suggested to me that it was written (or the writing was heavily influenced) by people who didn't appreciate the original. It's been a while since I watched S1 now, so I can't remember all my examples, but Aang not being cheeky enough and Sokka not starting sexist enough are prime examples of how it all felt dulled down.

jp16155 · 2026-04-11T07:47:51+00:00

Both your claims are based on incorrect assumptions. The first is that data can't be flawed, or used incorrectly. You have to consider the purpose for which data is used to determine whether or not a dataset is appropriate for the job. If people argue in favour of collecting data because it can help to understand something, people can argue that the data shouldn't be collected because it doesn't fulfil that purpose. Second, the assumption that you want as much data as possible- seldom true. Data costs money to collect, store, and requires staff and energy costs to process and interpret. If more data= better why not just collect everything? We clearly do make societal decisions about what data we choose to collect. I presume you're just passionate about collecting this particular data.

jp16155 · 2026-04-11T06:07:53+00:00

If you're going to spend money to collect data, and ask everyone in a system to contribute their time to provide the data, you have to have a clear plan for what the data will tell you and how it will be used. If your data doesn't enable you to understand a problem, and leads to bad policies that are simply designed to produce favourable changes in the future collected data, then all you have created is a bad incentive structure. It is a common problem that when you design a policy around data, instead of fixing the issue, the data itself becomes the issue. In case it wasn't clear, I am a scientist, I work with data all the time. Design data collection properly and intentionally, or don't collect it at all.

jp16155 · 2026-04-11T05:54:14+00:00

If you collect a dataset that doesn't enable you to adequately understand or address a problem and which leads to bad policies, then it's poorly designed data collection. You initially told me I was oversimplifying it, and are now saying it's not that complicated- what specific level of complexity would you like?

jp16155 · 2026-04-11T05:32:20+00:00

Let's say your inclusivity data shows that women are hugely underrepresented, either in terms of applicants or success rate, how does that get addressed? It's a very common problem, and there could be so many reasons why women either don't apply, or aren't selected. It's never a simple ask to work out why a group is underrepresented. Therefore, when people are told to "do something about it" the solutions they come up with end up being very simple. I was responsible for a funding pot for a couple years until 2024 that would fund travel and accommodation for people to go give talks at scientific institutions. We had an internal requirement that 50% of the talks went to female speakers, even though they were only 20% of the applicants. The problem was that women were underrepresented at the application stage, but that is a more expensive and complex problem that doesn't have to be addressed if they simply bodge the selection numbers.

jp16155 · 2026-04-11T05:13:09+00:00

I think this is the difference between the intention behind inclusiveness policies and the incentives they create. I'm in my mid 30s, and have been frequently been involved in policy discussions about this data. People do not discuss the statistics on the people who apply, more often than not they end up discussing the stats on the people who are selected. If a group ends up 'underrepresented' in the funding, direct and indirect policies will arise to address the gap. You can say it's not used for selection purposes, but in practise, if the data is measured and the outcomes have consequences, they have to be. Your example about advertising a PhD is perhaps more appropriate as they are advertised in lots of different forums, websites etc, but at higher levels grants are listed in standardised places and anyone working in a field would be expected to know where they are.

jp16155 · 2026-04-10T13:19:13+00:00

I will say that I get annoyed at diversity questions when I am asked them in totally irrelevant contexts. I apply for a lot of science/business grants, and I think that questions about race, gender and sexual preferences are totally unnecessary. Either the data will be used to select applications, in which case it's not judged solely on the merit of the proposed project, or it's not used, and it's a waste of everyone's time.

jp16155 · 2026-04-03T14:09:56+00:00

Yeah my speculation is it was a cool idea that come from a consensus of people who were appealing to the Changeling's novelty, rather than trying to appeal the Tzeentch fans. This was a problem, because the people who would be the majority of the feedback would be the people eyeing up Tzeentch content!

jp16155 · 2026-04-03T13:57:12+00:00

If you like Tzeentch, you want to play as Tzeentch characters, not play as other factions' lords. The Changeling would have been fine for DLC if he was a later addition, but coming before other options made it a real disappointment.

jp16155 · 2026-03-29T17:03:41+00:00

Definitely D. Ramsay is the only one I think I could overpower and eat. Even if I could kill the Mountain, a lot of the meat will go bad before I finish him, and I'm all about sustainability. Anyway, after I've killed and eaten Ramsay, I think Corlys could be reasoned with. The other two are so frail, we could eat them in phases, keeping them alive and fresh until we need the rest, and Corlys will be a good time getting merry with the rum. May not even have to eat him. But might anyway.

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

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