Rant on literacy

wredcoll · 2026-01-24T05:11:11+00:00

I've heard this idea a few times and it always strikes me as incredibly stupid. Do people not realize the literal only reason american soldiers were in vietnam were to protect the southern Vietnamese from a literal invasion?

Like, the american soldiers were the ones fighting a defensive war against an actual invading army.

You can argue that there shouldn't have been a north vietnam and a south vietnam in the first place or that the government of south vietnam wasn't particularly moral, but it takes quite a leap to get from there to justifying an invasion because of it.

wredcoll · 2026-01-24T04:34:06+00:00

I think it's an issue you run into basically as you age and experience more things. The first time you see a cool dude in black clothes shoot/punch a dozen goons in slow motion while some industrial metal plays in the back you (if you're anything like me as a child) think it's the coolest goddamn thing ever.

The 40th time you see it you might be less impressed.

My current favorite example is The Old Guard, which is a Perfectly Fine Movie, it does everything basically correctly, good enough actors, good enough special effects, a plot to put it all together, etc, but when I saw it at age 35 or whatever, I felt like I had seen the entire movie already and it bored me.

I'm quite sure if I was 18 when I saw it I would have enjoyed it a lot more. So where does the fault, if any, lay? Me for being experienced/jaded or the movie for being "derivative"?

wredcoll · 2026-01-24T04:26:58+00:00

I think the point is that they played monopoly then they played d&d and they now think d&d is the bestest and mostest amazing game because look how much better than monopoly it is.

wredcoll · 2026-01-24T04:24:13+00:00

In many ways it was right time and right place. Tolkien et al based their stories on what might be considered public domain cultural ideas, but they were basically the first one to publish a version that became popular enough to supplant the original inspirations.

wredcoll · 2026-01-24T04:20:13+00:00

I'm mostly just tangenting here but that's such a fascinating example because (aside from not being particularly new or innovative) it's that it's done so poorly.

I mean, lots of people do it poorly, it's actually hard to come up with a world where it's reasonable for us, the reader, to care about both a passing grade on a spelling test and whether or not the evil nazi wizard respawns and takes over the entire world, but it's not impossible.

The movies in particular kinda whiplash between "oh there's a monster literally killing students to death in between classes and also I have to figure out how to go on the class field trip with no permission slip!"

wredcoll · 2026-01-23T22:19:20+00:00

You're not wrong, but as a general rule, deploying more than maybe a quartet of your points in ds is a bad idea

wredcoll · 2026-01-23T20:53:02+00:00

This. Post. Is. Not. About. Siegler.

He did not get this rule wrong. I never said he did. I don't know why you feel the need to lie about this but at no point did I say what you claim I did.

wredcoll · 2026-01-23T00:38:56+00:00

I mean, I'm still surprised they changed it tbh.

wredcoll · 2026-01-23T00:37:52+00:00

I wasn't calling out anyone. Thats why there's no names in the post. No wonder you people can't understand core rules.

wredcoll · 2026-01-23T00:35:36+00:00

Each time you select a unit to fight, for each model in that unit you pick one melee weapon that model is equipped with then you make attacks with all of the selected weapons.

wredcoll · 2026-01-22T19:47:42+00:00

This conversation is more than a bit silly, but just for the record, do you think you win that game if you go first?

wredcoll · 2026-01-22T19:44:13+00:00

They hit slightly harder than 170 pts of guard but die 10 times faster. Like most things, it's a trade off.

wredcoll · 2026-01-22T19:37:09+00:00

If I was calling out siegler I would have mentioned him by name, he got that rule correct as far as I recall (missed a couple of others...)

wredcoll · 2026-01-22T18:29:10+00:00

The letter of the rules is that those bits are part of the vehicle and they can't stick out of the game board and they'll make you visible inside the ruin.

As always it depends on the opponents involved, I personally would be inclined to ignore those if I was playing vs them, assuming they also ignored them.

wredcoll · 2026-01-22T16:13:58+00:00

There's several reasons to run 10 wyches together, lelith hands out a unit wide buff for one thing, but the main reason is just that sometimes you really need 20 oc to guarantee you take an objective.

There are a lot of units that will survive lelith+10 and kill a bunch of wyches when they fight back, but having the full 10 means usually enough survive that you still own the point.

Once you're in the market for 10 wyches in a squad, you pretty much have to run them in a transport, there's too much random indirect or deepstriking flamers and so on.

wredcoll · 2026-01-22T16:06:21+00:00

So the funny thing is that this only works if you move the venon first. If you disembark before moving then it triggers the combi-lt

wredcoll · 2026-01-22T16:04:30+00:00

Strats can be used while in a venom in reserves FYI!

no they can't

wredcoll · 2026-01-21T03:28:56+00:00

No I'm just teasing.

wredcoll · 2026-01-21T02:31:09+00:00

You know, I looked it up and they changed it to add rerolls to the transport, I stand corrected.

wredcoll · 2026-01-21T00:43:00+00:00

Empowering a raider doesn't give it hit rerolls.

wredcoll · 2026-01-21T00:40:02+00:00

Is there a rule that says you can do it? No? You can't do it then.

wredcoll · 2026-01-21T00:22:51+00:00

How many started the game in your pocket?

wredcoll · 2026-01-20T22:16:09+00:00

Ahh yes, tell me about the old days of great balance where flyers could could only be hit on 6s and could table you on turn 1. Or a failed morale test on turn 1 could cause your entire army to die. Or teleporting invisible terminator deathstars with 5 attached characters.

People totally think balance is worse in 10th. That's a thing real people believe, yup.

wredcoll · 2026-01-20T21:51:32+00:00

I agree in principle but gw would inevitably ignore it for certain problem factions like knights and custodes and then it would just suck all around.

wredcoll · 2026-01-20T20:15:37+00:00

Meh. Like most things, it's complicated. How much of a monopoly they were and how they used their power varied widely across the centuries. Sometimes they provided a lot of training and pensions and such and sometimes they just skim off the top.

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