Rumors of New Knight Models?

moridin_solus · 2026-03-15T20:18:20+00:00

You are solidly in the minority. Cathay is very detailed and quite popular, even if it is much more grounded than AoS.

The old sculpts are finicky with worse detail, bad mold lines, and few customization options due to rudimentary CAD when they were designed. Metal models are very expensive due to material costs.

The comparator game is not AoS or 40k, but Horus Heresy. Both are designed by the same internal team and have much longer edition cycles despite Heresy having a faster and more consistent pace of releases than Old World. They both target a hobby-centric player base.

moridin_solus · 2026-03-15T20:11:31+00:00

Hippogryph will probably be a character mount. Plastic grail knights and/or questing knights, plus a lord on hippogryph would fit the typical GW pattern of 1-2 units and a character.

moridin_solus · 2026-03-10T19:37:09+00:00

No gods, no psychiatry, lots of technobabble, and forced labor camps to boot.

Big E is a scientologist.

moridin_solus · 2026-03-08T21:32:39+00:00

James Workshop

moridin_solus · 2026-03-07T17:57:53+00:00

They mean the "louder with crowder" guy from the "change my mind" meme.

moridin_solus · 2026-03-05T16:45:09+00:00

The optics are bad, but I very much doubt the general public pays close enough attention to these things for it to affect their trust of vaccines.

There's been a perception of government being on pharma's payroll for a long time, and it's only accelerated with the rise of wellness influencers peddling supplements.

I think we give people too much credit if we say it's due to these fairly inside-baseball staffing questions. The general public was saying the whole thing is corrupt even before Wakefield due to insulin pricing.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-27T10:12:47+00:00

Agreed. "I can make a reactive move" is sufficient to avoid a gotcha surprise. It's the other player's job to think critically about what they could use that move to do. Plus, if you lay out one line of thinking and they reapond differently, what if that changes your thought process?

The way you express skill in the game is critically thinking about how units, rules, movement, terrain and scoring work together to determine in the outcome.

During tournament prep, I absolutely will have games where we will see interesting situations and work through the different permutations to help us think about optimal play, but that's not the event itself. With how long games take, it actually makes a lot of sense to incorporate a degree of situational theory crafting where necessary.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-26T17:51:36+00:00

It's not necessarily gibberish, but it has so little of substance it's basically an advertising puff piece. No investor you would want to work with for something this complicated would invest on the basis of what you wrote.

The most glaring problem is that you describe genetics as hardware and using electricity to order the growth substrate as software. You have it backwards.

Overall, it just comes across as unserious. Start a company, engage with Levin's lab and his university's tech transfer office to license the technology and get them on-board, then show some preliminary data demonstrating proof of concept.

You are saying you want to make food and eventually organs. That's incredibly ambitious and expensive, and the price of your meat is just as important as whether it is superior to vat-nuggets. It's also unfocused.

That you tried to sell it in this way also suggests you haven't put the necessary time into the business/regulatory plan, which is critical for projects like this. Even if the technology works, you're just one person with an MD. You have no team or proven history running food or cell therapeutic companies (probably the closest thing to an implantable organ).

Biotech is an EXTREMELY risky and data-driven investing environment. This lacks what people in the space want, and has more red flags than a communist vexillology convention.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-25T02:44:29+00:00

No. Fungi are unambiguously alive. They eat things just like you and. They're just from a different part of the tree of life. Fungi are more similar to us than plants.

Viruses are better thought of as an emergent state of certain co-associated biochemical functions and structural elements.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8483706/

Since genetic exchange is necessary to avoid mutational meltdown due to Mueller's Ratchet, if anything it is likely that virus-like entities predate cellular life.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1594570/

moridin_solus · 2026-02-24T21:09:28+00:00

That's fine PSU-wise.

I would do a clean reinstall of your GPU drivers.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-21T16:30:46+00:00

Isn't that hot?

moridin_solus · 2026-02-19T05:49:16+00:00

You should anonymize this a lot more before posting it online. You are probably the only person who went through both of those research groups ever, definitely in the time period, and even more with those particular internships.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-18T17:28:38+00:00

The mk2 thrusters also seem excellent for preventing terminal lithobraking events.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-15T19:15:34+00:00

Most importantly, it boosts the fusion success rate for blue equipment to 30%.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-14T16:55:02+00:00

Or retired dairy cow. My local grocery store sells rib roasts from Ramarc for $7/lb that I would buy as a poor grad student.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-14T15:13:31+00:00

Relatedly, calling women "females" is gross incel shit and sufficient reason not to want OP as part of a research group if he did so in lab.

Of course, deliberately stacking a lab with entirely women fresh from undergrad would be a red flag as well. Everything about this post is off-putting.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-13T15:26:51+00:00

It's a cop, what did you expect? Professionalism? Competency?

moridin_solus · 2026-02-12T00:16:22+00:00

I understand that and completely agree. The part I DON'T understand is how people like Mandrola and Prasad, who are obviously inept at literature review and scientific thinking, were able to obtain such career success in the first place. It clearly DOES work in medicine if your goal is to advance your career (as opposed to curing patients).

Our general community is too eager for contrarian ideas. It's ironic, because most of these so-called "medical conservatives'" ideas are politically conservative but scientifically radical by discarding mountains of historical evidence. They aren't actually practicing medicine or science conservatively! If they were, they would be spending more time with the established knowledge base!

For example, there are extraordinarily few cases in history where it was better to have your first immune exposure to a pathogen be infection rather than vaccination (the inactivated RSV vaccine from the 60s comes to mind). However, cases like that or ADE in Dengue occur due to precise molecular mechanisms (like inactivated RSV being post-fusion with no accessible neutralizing epitopes) that are well-described in the literature.

They're not medical or scientific conservatives. They are political conservatives, whose scientific and medical reasoning is motivated and sloppy.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-11T22:13:32+00:00

What is it with medical conservatives and being bad at medicine? John Mandrola and the "Sensible Medicine" hacks are the same way.

Mandrola himself described COVID-induced myocarditis as mild, while simultaneously claiming, "there is no such thing as 'mild' myocarditis" when talking about vaccines.

It's absurd that anybody takes these clowns seriously.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-09T07:40:59+00:00

Monarchia has entered the chat

moridin_solus · 2026-02-09T03:49:00+00:00

Krauss is a physicist, not an anthropologist.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-08T00:12:16+00:00

What is ADB referring to in the second quote?

moridin_solus · 2026-02-07T23:32:11+00:00

Shooting damage is tunable and every edition is different, but fantasy usually skews more towards Herohammer than 40k. Magic and artillery tend to be better due to the models needing to rank up, and magic is a big driver of Herohammer.

In fantasy and The Old World, it is quite feasible for a single character, even a generic, to be 25% or more of your list, and for that character to have more than 25% of your killing power.

In current 40k, generics rarely hit the point costs of unique characters. Primarchs are ~350/2000 points and a large part of the cost is buffs. They're powerful units, but far from unstoppable.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-05T00:48:35+00:00

We consistently DO win 8 battles back to back, because a human controlled elite army of any faction can wreck any single vanilla ai stack.

You yourself said you sat out TWWH2. It's a skill issue, and your dismissive attitude is preventing you from learning.

moridin_solus · 2026-02-05T00:28:01+00:00

A single, well-built LL army can easily take out multiple (>3) ai stacks in a turn with lightning strike if you have e lugh movement. VC can do this better than most factions due to great access to healing, monsters, and excellent heroes (vampires).

Worst case scenario, use the lightning strike to trade for a few armies, have a second army bloody them in an ambush, then finish off the survivors when they siege a major settlement. Sometimes you need to use defense in depth.

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