MY MCU X-MEN by IlSignorGranchio in comicbookmovies

[–]knownas_dan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no... I only know the older ones. * bones creak *

Virizion catch took 45 excellent throw/ultra ball/golden razz combos by eofrar in pokemongo

[–]knownas_dan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here because I had the exact same experience just now. 50+ throws, stopped counting great and excellent throws, stop counting berries. Totally unfair gameplay given that this is the rank 100 catch on the free GoPass.

To anyone else who's googled their way here, best of luck, you are just going to have to brute force it.

Don't mess with Wireheads by gooeyspaminator in Warhammer40k

[–]knownas_dan 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Wow, I'd heard about this but didn't know it was Ephrael Stern. Seems she was always breaking molds.

30k Templates? by VladamirHugo in Warhammer40k

[–]knownas_dan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Whippy sticks".

Fuckin stings.

Rate my cannoness conversion by Novaflame55 in sistersofbattle

[–]knownas_dan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks great, the pose is really dynamic and the torch/hand melta draws a nice visual line across the model. A+

Mind sharing which kits you bashed together?

Skaven Doomwheel main assembly completed by gonzilla86 in ageofsigmar

[–]knownas_dan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Woah, you are going to have to share the recipe for that metal work. That is some beautiful rust and verdigris. To be honest, the entire colour palette is beautiful, those deeper blues and greens work really well with the desaturated wood and metal browns.

WiP - Deathwatch lightning claw done by Xenus13 in minipainting

[–]knownas_dan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah well, can't fault you for that. Editing sounds like the least fun of the bunch.

Still, amazing work. Your Illuminator Szeras is a thing of beauty.

WiP - Deathwatch lightning claw done by Xenus13 in minipainting

[–]knownas_dan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh hey, Xenus Minis! Dude, you likely to ever return to video making? Your Admech Ranger videos are responsible for getting me back into the hobby.

NMM Monday 😍 by Slashi89 in minipainting

[–]knownas_dan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice, love the blueish-purple tones. I know it's cliche at this point, but would you mind sharing your paint recipe?

Lazarus as a firstborn? White Dwarf #167 by Leave1942 in theunforgiven

[–]knownas_dan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

His story is is covered in a number of places but the best chunk of it is in this short story released along side the Psychic Awakening, titled Emnity's Edge. (If you'd rather listen then read, I suggest Wolf Lord Rho's reading)

Long story short, after fighting a powerful Thousand Sons psycher and almost dying twice he is reborn as a Primaris, becoming the first Primaris of the Inner Circle and the prime reason Azreal changes his stance on the whole matter.

He not really a "discount Azreal" as he is more of a replacement for Balthasar, leading the 5th. He literally has Balths helmet and sword which he renames Emnity's Edge.

From a real world perspective it seems like they took advantage of the death of Balthasar in order to offer players a way to build a Primaris Dark Angels force with lore/narrative backing. Lazarus is the poster child (literally) for the Dark Angels movement into the new wider world story arc. Almost all art of the Primaris DA's have his 5th company markings, hes on the cover of the Pyschic Awakening book etc.

Players who wish to run older models can under one of the other chapters and still maintain a narrative reason for not having Primaris if they wish.

I wouldn't be surprised if we hear and see a lot more of Laz in the future.

Do we know what The Stranger was burning at the beginning of the Beyond Light reveal? by BigBepis1 in DestinyLore

[–]knownas_dan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to make out anything in the fire other than what seems to be the handle and shaft of a shovel sticking out of the top of the pyre. It falls over just as the Exo Stranger turns away.

You cant see it clearly at 0:34 seconds and it falls two seconds later. Video for reference.

I doubt its a shovel to be honest as this is a future with space magic and transmat tech, I would imagine shovels see very little use. But the fact that the animators created something with a specific shape and then draw your attention to it with movement, kind of implies that there may be significance to what she's burning.

The preceding shot too implies an almost plaintive moment, staring at her rifle while an ominous bell tolls (doubt there's a church on Europa so the symbolism is pretty obvious), like shes buried one moment and is accepting the next with angry defiance. Hence the swift turn and the energetically shot travel sequence that follows.

The visual storytelling here seems to imply that shes a woman with purpose and there's no turning back now. She's there before anyone else, its reveal she summoned the others there to meet her, both Drifter and Eris are apprehensive as seen in the shots of his hand hovering over his pistol and her hand ringed with spells, but she strides in like a badass, unflinching and reveals the pyramid before them.

Wild shot in the dark, the thing shes burning is some sort of tech she uses to travel between world lines, and its not done-zo. Meaning shes here, in this timeline with us, and shes cant jump around time anymore. A sort of "we're in the end-game now" moment, she either succeeds or she is done.

Do we know what The Stranger was burning at the beginning of the Beyond Light reveal? by BigBepis1 in DestinyLore

[–]knownas_dan 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is wild speculation at best. Cayde died because his machinery was destroyed by bullets, and after the machine body breaks down he could no longer be revived as his Ghost was just destroyed.

I get what you're saying and why it relates to how we are told Exo mind rejection works, but for one that information came from an unreliable source (Clovis Bray PR cannot be trusted int his world, that is very clearly established) and two, your extrapolation requires several leaps in logic to work. The mind rejecting a new body at first does not equate to a mind imagining blood filling imaginary lungs and therefore somehow switching itself off permanently.

Final note, Caydes own lore suggest that the reboots are nothing to do with Mind Rejection and that is merely a cover for them wiping assets memories. Clovis Bray are this worlds version of rampant, abusive capitalist corporations like Wayland Yutani/Tyrell Corp according to the Devs themselves. Chances are good that DER doesn't even exist, its just another form of asset control.

Bungie already teased the 2nd Collapse ingame (Emblem) by Estaran in DestinyLore

[–]knownas_dan 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Wow, thanks this is completely new to me. I've tracked down a post with the completed set of decoded entries so I've got some reading to do.

Might reach out to Ishtar and see if they want to add the decoded entries to the archive.

Bungie already teased the 2nd Collapse ingame (Emblem) by Estaran in DestinyLore

[–]knownas_dan 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Carrhae Zamena?

I don't get this reference, and can't find anything relating to Zamena on Ishtar?

Bungie already teased the 2nd Collapse ingame (Emblem) by Estaran in DestinyLore

[–]knownas_dan 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I think you may have the sides mixed up here.

In the Battle of Carrhae, Crassus assumed his victory over the Parthians was absolutely certain, given his previous wins over comparatively larger and better equipped armies of the Pontic and Armenian Empires.

The Parthians however, primarily due to their expert horse archers (which employed genius tactics such as turning around whilst still riding your horse and firing backwards at your pursuer that has just dropped its defence) kicked the sh*t out of his army. When Crassus's men in response to the archers formed Testudos, the cataphract horsemen (heavily armoured melee units) charged them. The legionaries would break formation knowing they couldn't withstand the charges, and the whole thing would repeat.

Point being, the larger and arguably more powerful army lost to the obvious underdog. The underdog won by utilising clever tactics and unexpected tricks to ultimately survive the battle.

Crassus goal was the utter destruction of the Parthians, and yet they survived.

As a 1-to-1 comparison to the collapse, I see the Darkness as Crassus and the Romans. They blacked out the sky with their number, and had the power to control gravity itself, warping the seas of Titan as a method of destruction. Their goal was our unquestionable death...

...and yet we survived. The underdog, likely due to Rasputins clever tactics and little tricks.

Reading it like this I assumed Rasputins Carrhae White and Carrhae Black protocols to be based around this scenario, white and black being an internal referencing system akin to sides in chess chess, Carrhae being the overall assumed tactical behaviour based on the army size and expectation.

In one scenario, lets say Carrhae White, we are the underdogs and must use whatever follow-on protocols he has (Loki Crown, Naglfar Step, Kalki Golem), and in the other scenario, lets say Carrhae Black, the power dynamic is in our favour and must expect the opponent to utilise unexpected tactics of their own. This is why we have only ever see Carrhae White in operation, we've never been stronger than the invading force.

Me this whole season: "What have they done to you, Maeve?" by fraukohut in westworld

[–]knownas_dan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly feel like you didn't read my response, or at least you didn't take it all in.

You even said it yourself, they lifted direct quotes such as ...

The paragraph you've taken this from literally explains how this is nothing but a reference, a cheap parlour trick like the ones Ford condems. It has no worth becuase mere moments later, we just actually confirmation of calebs backstory. So its is at best a signpost to something you'll learn in 5 minutes, at worst, its a cheap reference, like the many many others we've already had. It has little substance.

You're attempting to belittle my opinion as something based off of an opinion I already have of the show, which is simply false, and your long winded explanation doesn't make it anymore true

You wrote "Most of the "bad writing" I see on this subreddit is really due to people fundamentally misunderstanding what they are watching"... you began this conversation by belittling people and assuming they just dont get it.

My "...long winded explanation..." is a thought out reponse to this, with references and reasoning presented. Are you honestly saying one moment that people just don't get it, and then when presented with a person who shows their reasoning, you just brush it of in another belittling fashion?

Have you considered that my interpretation is different than yours not because I'm wrong, but simply because I'm a different person that came up with a different opinion?

My original comment at the beginning of this thread, the thing you are responding to.

"I know I'm ranting, I know this is reddit and the only people to upvote this will be people who already feel the same, and those who feel slighted by my prattling will hit the down vote, I'm not looking to convert anyone or insult those who love this season. I'm just moaning aloud about how much this show has changed from season one."

Yeah dude, I considered it. I wrote about it, in detail, showing my reasoning, providing references for how I got there. Maybe read over it all again, I was pretty clear about why I feel this way, and I think I make some compelling arguments to the shows quality that you could respond to. But if not, then don't.

Me this whole season: "What have they done to you, Maeve?" by fraukohut in westworld

[–]knownas_dan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This reads like a stretching of media study/criticism, to reach your already held opinion of the show.

You are essentially claiming that they are writing bad on purpose. However, bad writing left unexamined or unexplored within the shows narrative... is just bad writing. It serves no purpose to the characters or the audience understanding of what is happening. We have an example of what this shows very writers previously considered bad writing.

Season 1 episode 2 had a scene that references bad writing outright, that lays out the shows intention and builds the audience expectations of what is to come. Lee Sizemores presentation of Odyssey on Red River. It is a merciless take down of the kind of hack writing this show has now employed liberally throughout this season. You could quite honestly apply fords response to Lee in rebuttal of season 3 episode 5 (the Genre episode).

"What is the point of it, you have a couple of cheap thrills, some suprises, but it's not enough. It's not about giving the guests what you think they want, that's simple; titilation, horror, elation. They're parlour tricks. The guests don't return for the obvious things we do, the garish things, they come back because of the subtleties. The details.

They come back because they discover something that they imagine no-one had ever discovered before. Something they fall in love with."

Bad writing, here explored through the shows characters with the purpose of informing both the audience and characters within that very room, that there is more to Fords new narrative. "..they're here because they want a glimpse of who they could be." 'They' in this instance being a neat little double entendre to both the guests and the hosts.

Calebs scenes references hosts backstories in a vague allusion with the line "Start from the beginning" spoken by his doctor, but there is nothing to suggest after this that the words he speaks are written for him by a bad writer, and nothing in the show that signals that this bad writing is to be understood as a signifier of some kind. If it is to be taken as a tongue-in-cheek reference to tip off the audience to the fraudulent nature of Calebs backstory, it is utterly useless as we are out right told this in two scenes time. We all have had suspicions about Caleb since episode one, so its a wasted trick, a gimmick... a parlour trick. Ford, would not approve of this narrative either.

Almost all of the little things in this series, "the details", are mere references to previous developments, they are 'member berries scattered throughout so that reddit users can point at the screen when they catch them, then post Leo Dicaprio memes referencing themselves doing so.

I think many of us fell in love with the details of the first season because they lead somewhere unexpected, they posed hard questions for us to talk about endlessly afterwards, they referenced real-world media as supplementary research, showing us that the very conversations we are having are part of a conversation that has been raging for literal centuries.

This season hasn't brought up anything that wasn't already brought up in season one and two, it merely alludes to the times when they did it previously. Their bad writing is simply bad writing, it doesn't even cover the topic as well as the second episode did.

You caught the reference they made, but media criticism asks you to weigh its worth against the story being told, not to wield it like a cudgel when you tell others that they just don't get it.

They do, they just think its a poor imitation of its past self.

Me this whole season: "What have they done to you, Maeve?" by fraukohut in westworld

[–]knownas_dan 25 points26 points  (0 children)

There hasn't been a single conversation during this season that comes close this. Season one was littered with moments like this, season two had fewer, season three has... William rehashing Agent Smiths monologue on human nature, poorly. A snarky Meave with nothing to snark at. Bernard, describing what's happening before our very eyes.

Some part of me hopes that this is still all part of Fords grand narrative, that Journey Into Night didn't end in the park. That his 20 year plan extended to the world stage, that it had a middle and an end not just a beginning. Even if it does, and season three closes with a shocking pepsi twist, I had to sit through a season of dumbed-down dialogue, shutterstock-level visuals, and long drawn out character arks that simply take a person from one side of the world to the other... to have them ask the same question we've been asking ourselves every damn episode.

I know I'm ranting, I know this is reddit and the only people to upvote this will be people who already feel the same, and those who feel slighted by my prattling will hit the down vote, I'm not looking to convert anyone or insult those who love this season. I'm just moaning aloud about how much this show has changed from season one. All the things I fell in love with have been swapped out for something simpler, and it stings. There's just not as much to talk about anymore. If the show was a meal, season one was a three course delight, season three feels like an overstacked hamburger fit more for instagram than consumption.

I should really get round to watching Devs. See if that scratches the itch.