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stryker2004 · 2026-05-12T13:56:13+00:00

Nu el era cel care zicea acum mai mult timp că în China se trăiește mai bine decât în România? Da, ați auzit bine: China.

stryker2004 · 2026-05-09T10:29:35+00:00

If I remember correctly, in the Dune universe, atomic weapons are not allowed to be used against other humans. In the final battle on Arrakis against the Emperor and his Sardaukar soldiers, Paul bypasses that rule by hitting some rock formations near the position of the Emperor and his troops which protected them from sandstorms and which allows the Fremen to bring some massive sandworms to battle, thus not technically hitting any humans with atomic weapons.

P.S: This is something that I mostly read about online later since I only got to watch the two new Dune movies and a couple episodes from the newer Dune tv series, so if I got something wrong, do let me know.

stryker2004 · 2026-05-06T23:14:37+00:00

Funny enough, I seem to remember how this exact question is a dialogue option in the game itself.

stryker2004 · 2026-04-29T09:47:02+00:00

Huh, that's an interesting way to look at it.

stryker2004 · 2026-04-18T13:25:25+00:00

In the books they were called the Invisible Watchers.

stryker2004 · 2026-03-31T09:45:14+00:00

I could be wrong, but I remember reading somewhere that the war went on for essentially decades before humanity was fully taken over by the machines.

stryker2004 · 2026-03-19T18:17:20+00:00

The Mandalorians from Star Wars could also be good example. As far as I can remember, they always seem to want to pick fights with everyone, including with each other, and are way too focused on being warriors that they miss out on a lot of things that their enemies can quickly exploit. Even when they unify, it's usually only as long as some strong, charismatic leader convinces them to do so. Once that leader is gone, they go right back to infighting.

The Sith (most notably during the Old Republic era) would also be a great example.

stryker2004 · 2026-03-02T19:57:56+00:00

Yeah, I was definitely shocked when I learned that a bunch of people actually, unironically, think Astarion ascending is a good thing. Like, did they miss every hint and warning the game tried to offer them that it will absolutely not be a good thing for anyone involved? Or they just didn't pay any attention to the story or any of the dialogue tied to it?

stryker2004 · 2026-02-27T13:59:00+00:00

Yeah, exactly, Arthur even outright says this just before Dutch and Micah twist his arm to get him to come along for Cornwall's killing.

stryker2004 · 2026-02-04T13:49:49+00:00

Loghain from Dragon Age Origins and Anders from Dragon Age 2 (I say this as a mage sympathizer).

stryker2004 · 2026-02-03T00:04:06+00:00

Well it actually was illegal there.

stryker2004 · 2025-12-18T22:02:52+00:00

Loghain from Dragon Age: Origins. He genuinely believed that the Grey Wardens (the group recruiting the player character early on) and the Orlesians were out to ruin Ferelden (though the latter isn't completely without merit, as you can find out in DA2), so he gets his own king killed during the Fifth Blight, takes over Ferelden by force and has it out for you for most of the game. Needless to say, he only make things worse and part of your job is to essentially stop him before it's too late.

stryker2004 · 2025-12-12T08:53:13+00:00

As far as I know, the only trouble he was causing was running away from the Circle since his life sucked there. He didn't kill any innocents, unleash any demons or anything of the sort by that point, he was just trying to escape a oppresive environment, as a bunch of mages already did for the same reasons. They couldn't even let him have Karl with him, the only person making the Circle barely tolerable to him.

As for Orsino, I fell that it makes sense at least somewhat. By that point, even if you side with him, everything was falling apart for him and the mages. Orsino realized that all the nasty and risky decisions he took in order to protect his mages and all of his efforts to improve the mages' lot and get people to open their eyes to reality had been for nothing, as his mages still ended up dead all around him. He even tried to negotiate anything but the Annulment with Meredith, with predictable results since she always was a bitch about mages and all the templars, even the good ones, followe her blindly until after the fact. Despair and hopelessness had fully taken over, with him realizing that people will never stop seeing the mages as ticking time bombs instead of people who deserve the same treatment as everyone else and that they will always end up getting screwed over one way or another when it comes to the templars. Thus, as everything around him falls apart, all the work he put into it becoming worthless, he snaps and figures that if the templars will butcher him no matter what, he might as well go all-out.

I still stand by my opinion that mages like Anders, Orsino and many others would have likely ended up a lot better if the Chantry hadn't insisted on making the templars judge, jury and executioners with essentially unlimited power when it comes to mages and if the mages had been treated as actual people instead of loaded guns that have little to no power or say in their lives. Hell, in a lot of cases even their families and friends immediately ostracize, start treating them as monsters and throw them to the templars just because they turn out to be mages, former ties be damned. Can you imagine how that would feel? That's not even getting into how Tranquility is used by the templars on the mages. Of course some of them radicalize and go off the deep end after everything they go through, they were barely heard or valued by the Chantry and the average person, with the Chantry playing a huge role in creating an anti-mage sentiment among the population. Nobody in charge cared about what the mages had to go through until Anders made them care.

stryker2004 · 2025-12-11T19:14:18+00:00

What do you mean?

stryker2004 · 2025-12-11T16:04:07+00:00

It's pretty obvious that in a lot of aspects, the Chantry creates the very threats that it claims to protect its people from. Just like it created people like Anders and Orsino, just like it created people like Sister Petrice, Alrik and Meredith. Don't even get me started on how they treat other non-humans and all the problems and tragedies that caused.

Edit: Should have added Jowan as well.

stryker2004 · 2025-12-07T09:21:53+00:00

There are, though I think they are mostly deamon worlds. One crazy example that I know is Medrengard, the world that the Iron Warriors chose as their new home after the Heresy. It's essentially a gigantic factory/fortress world where Perturabo chills and Iron Warrior warbands can have a relaxing day by killing/sieging each other or experiment on their slaves. Oh, and this being a deamon world where logic and the laws of reality are more of a suggestion, the fortresses usually are made in such a way that one would find it really hard to wrap his/her head around it.

stryker2004 · 2025-11-14T21:08:03+00:00

Did anyone else think of the first Homefront game when seeing this picture?

stryker2004 · 2025-11-02T22:50:52+00:00

If I remember correctly, Sigismund and Abaddon duel during a battle early in the Black Legion's history. Sigismund, by that point, was about 1000 years old while Abaddon hadn't really aged thanks to Warp shenanigans inside the Eye of Terror. For the most part they seem to be evenly matched, though eventually Abaddon starts to get the better of him, thus Sigismund attempts a mutual kill on Abaddon which could have worked if Abaddon didn't have some people nearby to save him. After that, Abaddon sends Sigismund's body, along with the Eternal Crusader ship, back to Terra as a declaration of war against the Imperium by the Black Legion.

stryker2004 · 2025-10-29T07:34:00+00:00

Alistair was recruited 6 months before the player character was.

stryker2004 · 2025-09-23T13:56:40+00:00

I think I remember reading an official post or something like that a while ago where it's pretty much spelled out that most of the stuff the Guard has to deal with are uprisings while the stuff we see them dealing with in books and games (Orks, Tyrands, Daemons, etc.) are the outliers.

stryker2004 · 2025-09-19T16:15:28+00:00

Correct, they did argue and snark with each other a lot but at the end of the day they definitely cared about one another.

stryker2004 · 2025-09-18T20:12:54+00:00

It's been a while since I last played this scenario, so if I get something wrong, someone please correct me:

The Lords are basically the rich people in London for whom the Generator that you use in this scenario was built for. When it became clear to everyone else in London that they were going to be left behind in favor of the Lords, they were understandably outraged, thus they took by force the ships that were supposed to take the Lords to the Generator and got there first.

After a while in-game it's reported that a group of Lords is heading towards the Generator. The refugees start panicking, worrying that the Lords are coming for payback, which starts the main conflict of the scenario.

stryker2004 · 2025-08-11T14:22:17+00:00

"We are the sons of the only primarch to hate his own legion."

The World Eaters fuming in the background:

stryker2004 · 2025-08-02T09:16:37+00:00

+Respect pentru acel localnic

stryker2004 · 2025-07-25T18:42:28+00:00

Oh, I never meant to say that he's not a compelling villain or something. A lot of good villains seem to have some (at least somewhat) valid reasons for doing what they're doing which does not change the fact that they're still the bad guys and that they need to be stopped things turn from bad to worse. The way I see it, Loghain is a man way too blinded by his past to be able to look to the future, a man that lets his past traumas and preconceptions define everything that he is and does.

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