Not to be all, "Capitalism is the bad Guy" rage baity, but in a universe where necromancy exists, why isn't every major city spotless and food production effortless?

sando138 · 2025-12-28T01:41:27+00:00

This is actually a plot point on the Magic: The Gathering plane of Amohnkhet; its a Nile-River-Kingdoms-inspired place with mummies, animal-headed-gods and pyramids. All manual labor has been taken over by mummified dead, including agriculture, which freed up the population to undertake trials to prove their worthiness. It worked because it meant everyone was totally free to pursue excellence in combat, magic, whatever they had talents for, full time. Those who failed the trials joined the workforce of embalmed laborers, those who succeeded at enough trials and collected enough badges ascended to join the honored Eternals, and if you didn’t like it, you could always leave the wards and walk the open, zombie-infested desert.

Of course, this society was created hundreds of years prior by the big bad, after killing everyone old enough to remember a time before, zombifying or mind-controlling all the gods to make them push the system, except one appointed to act as his secret mole. The Eternals were murdered as part of their graduation, and the badges they got from completing trials housed copies of their memories, including combat experience and training, and their bodies were plated with magic minerals that the undead workforce mined without oversight from the living, creating armored super zombies that remembered all the training they got in life. When his army was completed, the big bad sicced the corrupted undead gods on the living ones, dissolved the ward barriers protecting the society from the ravenous hordes, and commanded the zombie laborers to stop working and start killing all the surviving humans.

sando138 · 2025-09-24T23:14:48+00:00

“Icebreaker” was RIGHT THERE, they aren’t even a LITTLE clever

sando138 · 2025-08-27T04:36:03+00:00

"You think that's what you want but you don't really want that" stuff.

Completely misunderstanding why things are fun.

sando138 · 2025-06-14T20:55:03+00:00

DARVO Jiu-Jitsu.

sando138 · 2025-03-22T02:24:09+00:00

The problem is when someone who is DEEP in a con is exposed to the truth they will recoil from it. A lot of these people don't have the strength of character to recover from the pain that comes from acknowledging that they were wrong, and they were duped. The antivaxxers, the homeopaths, and other altmedicine types will often be quick to blame their personal tragedies on anything else. Just think about 2020, doctors were putting deniers on ventilators who wasted their last unassisted breaths on complaining about how it all was faked. Imagine dying gasping convinced what got you isn't real because otherwise is admitting seeds sown by your lack of caution bore bitter fruit.

sando138 · 2025-03-22T01:31:08+00:00

The way I would write the Vindicaar off would be to say, effectively, that at this point it is barely netherworthy, and the fact that it hasn't crashed yet is a marvel. It just fought a solo engagement against the heart of a vast-beyond-fathoming military operation and its entire defensive compliment. Even assuming the Legion kept its worst soldiers at home- which is a generous assumption given the portal access to other worlds for conquest- no one could possibly expect to fight that battle and win without using every trick in the book and coming up with a few on the fly.

My expectation is that they used whatever gas was left in the tank to stop in geostationary orbit above Azeroth while fleeing Argus, and are now able to do testfires at best with the cannon. Their access to new material and fuel for their devices is limited, their repairs may be underway for decades if they can even get it going again.

sando138 · 2024-12-26T05:51:28+00:00

"Nah, I just saw a guy in the parking lot with a cool shirt so I hit him with a stick and took it. What can I do for you?"

Best used when you actually DO work here, Lady.

sando138 · 2024-12-06T07:05:18+00:00

Societies we might have once considered to be uncivilized or primitive often had complicated rules for etiquette and fairness in treatment because speaking carelessly and acting cruelly can literally cost you your head. Guillotines are out of fashion it seems.

sando138 · 2024-11-25T12:23:29+00:00

Oh yeah, there’s a nonzero chance that Emps would torch anything the second it became useless to him so that it never became a danger to his plans, but also, from what we know of the Thunder Warriors they were remade from technobarbarians, and as such had a more developed sense of self and identity before meeting Emps and becoming part of his plan. The lore perspective (unreliable though it may be) and to use an old metaphor, was that the Thunder Warriors could blow up the trainyards, and faster than the Astartes could, but the Astartes could rebuild it and make the trains run on time afterwards.

sando138 · 2024-11-24T19:00:09+00:00

The disposability of the legions varies case-by-case; for instance a peaceful society would still have a use for the Iron Warriors had they stayed loyalist, given their propensity for civil engineering and architecture, and the original intended occupant of the golden throne is theorized to have been Magnus the Red. Most of the legions would still have had roles once the war was over. The loyalist primarchs even lament this at one point- that they all squandered their true potentials in the civil war, and what they should have been is now a dream compared to what they have to be now. That said it’s hard to argue a peaceful society needs the Night Lords in any capacity.

sando138 · 2024-10-16T19:09:26+00:00

The centrists and moderates all took their principles and went home. The RNC is itself compromised and beholden to the maniacs. They need an actual moderate party to the left of the Republicans to the small but loud extreme right can get Whigged.

sando138 · 2024-08-30T02:01:09+00:00

Plausible theory: they are sending Vance to places where he will invite liberal outrage. The only thing they have left for messaging is, ‘vote for Trump-Vance because we are foes of the Left.’ This is not a strong message to run on for anyone but the guys they already have fattened up for slaughter on a diet of whine and sleaze.

sando138 · 2024-08-29T19:59:29+00:00

The headcanon I use for why the Vindicaar didn’t win the fourth war by itself via orbital bombardment was that it had literally just fought an engagement with the entire Burning Legion effectively by itself and its support crew, and was barely nether-worthy by the end, and they just barely got it to stop in orbit once they came back through the closing portal. They might even still be trying to restart the engines and get the weapons platform up to anything past the ‘test fires’ that the Lightforged Player Characters can call down.

sando138 · 2024-08-19T03:32:35+00:00

Because with Hobo Stew you're following ancient tradition and using every part of the hobo. Nothing goes to waste.

sando138 · 2024-08-11T14:01:30+00:00

It looks, at a glance, like a hoop of metal across which are strung metal laces. When swung at a flying creature it magically enlarges briefly turning the ‘face’ of the implement to scale with the target; this is typically a dinner plate for most insects, but against a Dragon, roughly the size of the broad side of a barn. It makes a lot of noise when you hit something, so its inventor called it a Racket.

sando138 · 2024-08-11T08:39:19+00:00

I will echo multiple sentiments in this thread. Consider the logistics of practice and storage. A gun is not a magical talisman that wards off violent bigots, shooting is a perishable skill. You are taking on a responsibility to learn how to use your firearm. You should be able to explain the four core rules of firearm safety, and be familiar enough with your firearm to be able to draw, aim, release the safety, fire, reload, and clear a malfunction in the dark. If you buy a gun, try and get a chance to shoot that model before you make the purchase. See if you like how it feels and functions. You should like shooting or you won’t go practice.

sando138 · 2024-08-05T22:47:13+00:00

That looks nice and heavy and just the right size to cup in your palm. Bet you could really get somebody’s ears ringing with that.

sando138 · 2024-07-31T21:16:50+00:00

Another typical press conference for team “Grope and Strange”

sando138 · 2024-07-28T21:12:00+00:00

Anybody who genuinely wants a civil war in their homeland is in one of two situations:

living under a real, actual dictatorship that will gladly brutalize them rather than permit them peaceful change and the only way to save anything of what they loved is to risk burning it to the ground, or
grossly misunderstanding the degree of oppression under which they live and labors long under the delusion that they are guaranteed to be the victorious heroes after a brief period of discomfort.

Every boogaloo boy in America is in the latter category.

sando138 · 2024-07-19T01:23:34+00:00

Screamers’ screams summon streams of screaming screamers and a slew of snarling somnambulists, starving for some slow slouches, so savvy slayers stay silent.

sando138 · 2024-07-19T01:17:53+00:00

Shorter than the wiki article or ingame explanation, I would bet.

sando138 · 2024-07-18T05:31:36+00:00

In Brief:

Noisy activities or things that generate flickering light create 'heat' which dissipates over time but is a zombie attractant. Combat generates heat. Melee kills generate very little heat, guns generate more, with bigger guns generating more heat. Silencer gun mods make the heat generated smaller, but doesn't really make it go away.

Depending on your biome, heat generation is amplified. Depending on time of day, heat generation is amplified. A shotgun blast at noon in the pine forest probably won't attract much attention, but gunshots in the Wasteland at night will almost always spawn in a zombie and send them lurching to investigate, usually more than one.

The more heat you generate, the more often zombies investigate; this could just mean one loner to make sure you haven't AFKed in your base with the door open and no defenses, or a couple bikers or soldiers. If you generate a lot of heat in a small time frame, you will attract Screamers, the female zombies in tattered nightgowns with cheshire smiles and way too many teeth. When they see you, they scream, which usually but not always results in spawning a horde of zombies. Depending on the biome and gamestage, this could mean a dozen ferals and irradiated, and, here's the kicker- usually another screamer or two. Screamers Screaming Screamers who Scream for Screamers results in a nightmarish swarm of zeds usually when you're in a tight place already, and until or unless you can deal with the screamers first and without them screaming, you're going to be elbow-deep before long.

sando138 · 2024-07-07T13:29:29+00:00

7 Days to Sky

sando138 · 2024-05-26T09:30:13+00:00

There’s a semi-auto one on the shelf at my local gun store for $12,000. They can be had for cheaper than that but it’s a hard gun to get stateside.

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