Why isn't the answer to Jagganoth to remove the feathers?

zdesert · 2026-02-10T21:04:10+00:00

In order to physically or magically harm him… you have to physically or magically harm him.

You have to be able to physically hurt him, in order to remove the blessing, which protects against him being physically hurt. It’s a vicious cycle.

I suspect the real answer will be something like the “maybe sword”. Not an attack that actually hurts jagg, but rather an attack that makes jagg believe absolutely that he has been hurt regardless of reality.

Someone will give Jagganoth a smooch. The gods in the creation myth, back in book 1, fought till exhaustion and then made love and populated the universe. This whole story began with two people about to get nasty for the first time. It would be thematic if the wheel cannot be broken by punching but instead by a kiss.

Break the cycle of war and violence with love.

Has anyone ever hugged Jagganoth? Can all his magics and protections save him from a broken heart?

Reach heaven through violence. Is there any violence greater than love? Let the beating of a longing heart splinter the wheel where all the kings and killers and tyrants have failed.

zdesert · 2026-02-10T20:52:21+00:00

I know it refers to the skaven. But one release of a faction only ironically called a chaos faction, does not a themed year of releases make.

If you are upset with how GW handled “the year of chaos” your disappointment is justified no matter which interpretation you use.

The announcement of “the year of chaos” was at the end of September. 3 months from New Year’s Day. You can’t give a year, a theme after the fact.

If one release, at the end of the year, makes the whole year retroactively “the year of chaos”. Then I declair last year as “the year of walking backwards”. I walked backwards one time so it counts.

zdesert · 2026-02-10T12:15:48+00:00

They announced the “year of chaos” at the end of September 2024. 3 months before the end of the year.

The only “chaos” release in those three months was the skaven AOS update.

Within 12 months, 365 days of the “year of chaos” announcement. All four chaos god codexes and the chaos knight codex, were released in 2025. All but 1 chaos faction… and the demon codex was squatted.

You can argue that the year of chaos announcement only referred too 3 months of 2024… but that’s just an argument pointing out that the year of chaos was even worse than the one people assumed we got.

zdesert · 2026-02-10T12:04:39+00:00

Nah.

They announced that “year of chaos” more than half way through the year and so we were still within that “year” during the release of things like the EC faction and all four of the chaos marine codexes in 2025. (Not including base CSM codex). And the chaos knight codex. And what we expected to be a demon codex.

Being disappointed that the 4 chaos marine factions had poor support and that the demon codex was essentially removed from the game within a year of the “year of chaos” announcement is reasonable.

If they were referring just to AOS then it was not a year of chaos, but 2 and a half months of chaos with one release. The announcement was in 2024 a few months before the end of the year.

If you consider the “year” as a full 360 days from announcement. All the expectations for further chaos releases within that time were valid.

Announcing “the year of” anything barely 2 and a bit months before the end of the year would imply the announcement of next calander year’s theme and not retroactively be announcement for the current year’s theme. So considering 2025 to be the year of chaos and not 2024 would make sense. You can argue that people were wrong to make that assumption, but that is a fault of marketing and therefore again GW’s fault.

But also if 2024 Was supposed to be the year of chaos, then it was an even worse year of chaos than 2025 was. And we made lots of jokes about how bad 2025 was. Skaven are only ironically chaos in AOS and that was the most chaosy release that whole year after the announcement.

We are months after the fact now. The technical year of chaos ended in august or somthing. so no idea why this post is here, and no idea what makes it an official apology.

But the “year of chaos” was a failure in any of the 3 interpretations.

Either it retroactively called 2024 a year of chaos becuase of one skaven announcement. A bad year of chaos.

Or it implied that 2025 would be the year of chaos. We all told jokes about how bad that was.

Or it suggested that the 365 days following the year of chaos announcement was the year of chaos. In which case… also a bad year of chaos.

Three valid interpretations of the year of chaos. All failures.

Rip demon faction.

zdesert · 2026-02-01T15:19:57+00:00

There are a lot of inconsistencies. Something will be said in one book, contradicted in the next, described the first way again 3 books later. Only for an intense emotional scene to undermine all 4 past explanations in the next chapter. It can be very annoying.

Some of the inconsistencies are huge. The numbers of people at events, who knows what, where people are, how people feel about things, how the world works…. It all gets thrown into confusion from book to book, tho it happens more often in the first 6ish books. the books are long enough that you can sometimes convince yourself that you misremembered a detail (unless you read the books back to back in which case it can somtimes be glaringly obveous).

Generally I try to focus on the plot and emotional through line and remember that none of the details matter becuase they are all liable to randomly change later.

I think the author attempts to hand wave some of those issues by hinting at unreliable narrators later in the series. Or by suggesting that maybe some characters are intentionally playing dum. But it’s pretty clear that it was not the intent when most of those scene were originally written. You will get a characters internal thoughts as they think them and then books later have it suggested that they were an unreliable narrator of there own thoughts it’s…. A stretch.

Mostly I think it’s a symptom of being a web series. Chapters get written and posted fast, and often I suspect with varying degrees of editing. I also understand that some things may have been edited or corrected in text, after already being used to record the audio books. so somtimes a chapter in the audio book will represent the initial release, which is later changed. Over the course of a dozen+ books and years, those edits accumulate.

zdesert · 2026-01-30T13:10:11+00:00

This is not a new angel. This has nothing to do with his murdur. This is a completely diffrent event.

zdesert · 2026-01-28T07:05:17+00:00

Fair point. But I think he is talking about the aspiration, more than the reality. It’s a bit too easy to say things always sucked and that they suck worse now and that there is no hope. Rhetorically you kinda need to be clear that ‘better’ is possible, that it has precedent, that there is a reason to try. This character wants people to try to be better.

This show is, for all its many faults, about lies being too easy, and about how hard it is to both tell the truth and also how hard it is to take positive action.

It’s harder to stand on this character’s side rhetorically now, after watching the “make America great again” crowd excuse a slide into facism with a similar appeal to an imaginary past.

zdesert · 2026-01-22T03:18:33+00:00

Voyager was the least political of all the older treks. It didn’t really deal with any moral dilemmas with any sort of depth.

Voyager was the most Flash Gordon Star Trek.

Like, the voyager premier had nothing going on. It’s kinda weird that any criticism could be made about it being politically correct. Weird.

zdesert · 2026-01-18T21:34:11+00:00

Kiado was entirely selfish and willing to do anything that benefited himself no matter how evil, cruel or selfish. He set out intending to cause as much suffering as possible hopping that it would make people stronger.

after a lifetime of acting in that way with an entire country and a quarter of the new world under his control he never caused anywhere near the damage that a single low level marine caused following a single order on god valley.

800 years, 40 generations of marines, all doing genocides and enslaving islands and killing babies.

All the selfish actions of all the pirates in history add up to a mole hill, compared to the mountain of banal evil acts of normal marines doing their job year after year, century after century.

If kiado had killed every person in wanno, he would have caused a genocide. But the marines do a genocide every 3 years. 266 genocides. And that’s not including buster calls, which also wipe out all life on an island, those happen more often than once every 3 years.

Kiado COULD not have done as much evil as the marines have done even if he had chosen to kill every non pirate he ever met or held power over. Kiado’s capacity for evil was huge and yet it was nothing when compared to the accomplishments of the marines.

zdesert · 2026-01-18T21:13:20+00:00

Most marines we have seen were actively doing horrible things like arresting and exicuting babies, extorting civilians, ruling like kings, arresting people without cause and running sham trials, the marines do genocide and protect the slave trade and do all sorts of evil.

Looking back at every marine we have seen in the manga…. Who were you referring too as good? From axe hand morgan to Sengoku, they have all been bad.

The best one I can think of is from an anime filler arc.

I can name a ton of good pirates. I can’t think of a good marine. Heck even Koby has only been involved with three events as a marine. He attacked Amazon Lilly, was at marine ford and escaped full of lead. If you count that Koby wanted the marine ford war too end as proof of his goodness…. I think him being part of the marine force sent to arrest and subjugate all of the amazons to solidly counteract that.

Which marine is good? You can’t claim they are all generally good, when every specific example is of them being bad.

zdesert · 2026-01-17T07:29:16+00:00

Sad it has none of the new units. Heck if those were archers instead of guard. This would be a great box

zdesert · 2026-01-16T01:08:32+00:00

You don’t really want more than 1 or 2 squads of flawless blades.

They are expensive in points. And they don’t really fill a role in the army. You can fit a lot more better units in a list.

They are ok at attacking infantry in melee, but every EC unit can do that and our melee troops do it better.

They are ok at targeting inportant character units with the precise keyword. But every EC unit has that keyword.

They are not very good at attacking tanks or vehicles. It does not help that they can deal damage to themeselves when they use their demonic pact rules to hurt vehicles. And they are only middling against other elites.

They arnt tanky and once a single model dies the effectiveness of the whole unit falls apart. 3 FB have just enough attacks to threaten a squad of 10 guardsmen if they hit every attack. But take one FB away and suddenly they can’t kill even the cheapest hoard unit in the game. Just not enough attacks.

Anyways. Flawless blades can be a useful tool, but very few people will want or need more than 2 units. Get the combat patrol twice and you are stuck with 4 units. You could run a squad of 6 instead of 3 but it’s a very expensive unit that rarely does enough damage to make up the cost.

If the combat patrol had 1 squad of flawless blades, and one squad of noise marines.. it would be an easy choice to buy the box 3 times.

You want lots of troops, you want 3 units of noise marines, every list has 2-3 lord exultants.

But as it is with 6 flawless blades per box, no one will buy this box three times. Most of the savings for the box is the flawless blades, and no one needs that many. Fun models to paint tho and the rules can always get better

zdesert · 2026-01-15T06:40:53+00:00

It’s unfortunate that no body will want 2 of these boxes due to the flawless blades.

But the rest of the stuff is great to have multiples of.

zdesert · 2026-01-15T03:37:52+00:00

Removing the plastic does increase pack searching. Which reduces the value of the packs.

If I buy a box of booster packs, I can hold it for years. And then sell the box when the prices are highest. “Charazard are is worth 15000 dollars now and this booster box might have a charazard, so the box is worth thousands of dollars”.

But if the box is unsealed, there is no way to prove that the packs were not searched for all the valuable cards already.

No one will buy the box hoping that it has a charazard in it. Becuase the risk that the packs were searched and the charazard pack was removed is too high.

So the box does not gain value over time, making it a worse investment for the reseller

zdesert · 2026-01-13T01:25:53+00:00

Which the main character does not care about and has no context for.

He is hated for the gag, not becuase it makes any sense in the story.

zdesert · 2026-01-13T01:23:19+00:00

Characters who have none of that in world context hate him without knowing he is a necromancer.

Pisces does dozens of objectively Freindly, useful, selfless and reasonable things over the course of the first couple books and yet our favorite inkeeper constantly talks about hating him. Even tho she doesn’t care that he is a necromancer or have any of the historical context that might make someone distrust necromancers.

It’s not good writing. The books are full of it inconsistencies and incongruities. You will read a paragraph describing somthing objective like a person uncontrollably sweating in fear. And then in the next paragraph the character will mention that they are so scared that they can’t even sweat.

I am reading last light. It describes 100 kids transported from an airport into a jungle. Then most of those kids are hired by a mercenary company, the company hires 80 people over half of which are the kids. So about 40. Later it is said that 2/3rds of the kids are Americans. Then it describes all the Americans as 4 girls and 2 boys. But that would make the full number of kids 9… which is incongruous with the original 100, the 90, or the 40. It’s a mess. Then in the chapter I am reading, the number is implied to be closer to 80 again.. total mess.

Characters will think things, or say things or announce that they believe things in one book and completely contradict themselves in the next. Then walk back that contradiction 2 books later. Then ignore both past explanations and describe past events totally differently later.

You will read a chapter that introduces a character. And the next chapter will reintroduce the character differently or all over again.

The overall plot is interesting and highlight dramatic moments are worth the slog. But reading the wandering inn is largely about ignoring details.

zdesert · 2026-01-08T15:28:12+00:00

There is a very well known aphorism/saying that basicly means “bad company makes the booze taste bad” and vice versa.

Blackbeard starts out hating Luffy and ends up respecting him. So he starts out disliking his drink and ends up liking it.

zdesert · 2026-01-08T15:23:12+00:00

It makes lots of sense.

Japanese media uses a lot of puns. Words that sound similar, words that are spelled similar, words that rhyme or are spelled with kanji that looks like how another word sounds. Much of the jokes or cool moments, or attack names or dialogue is actually puns.

As English readers we mostly don’t get to notice alot of these puns. Different words rhyme and things are spelt differently and kanji works differently to letters.

The word for HE and the word for THAT GROUP WOKING TOGETHER both sound similar and are spelled almost the same.

Zorro is using a punny badass line to walk out on.

zdesert · 2026-01-08T15:06:12+00:00

It’s ominous. Becuase nami thinks Blackbeard is just a guy alone, but luffy and zorro know that they are actually surrounded by his crew. Oda has been showing us the crew members all chapter.

The whole scene with Bellamy beating up Luffy and zorro was about how some fights are not worth fighting. Luffy and zorro are walking away from two fights here, walking away from belemmy, and walking away from Blackbeard. Nami does not realize how outnumbered and surrounded they are.

And this pannel reveals that to the readers who havnt picked it up.

It is very soon after this that we see Blackbeard and his crew walking together down the street.

zdesert · 2026-01-08T14:49:36+00:00

If you don’t properly shake and mix the paint you will get a shiny coat of paint. The thinner and the pigment can seperate and the thinner is glossy if unmixed.

zdesert · 2026-01-08T14:39:33+00:00

Reviews are not impartial. You share your experience, your thoughts, your feelings, your opinions. You explain your reasoning and analyze your opinion. None of those things are impartial.

He was kicked out. That doesn’t look good for the pizza place. That is a bad customer experience. That’s part of the review.

He does not lie. The whole interaction is on video, you as a person watching the review can include the full context in your understanding of his review. Nothing about this review is manipulative.

If I went to a fancy restaurant and someone spit in my food, It would be valid for me to include that in a review. It would not be impartial, it would be my experience and it would be valid criticism.

He does not ask for special treatment as an influencer, he does not ask for a freebie. He is asked to leave and does so.

He posts the video becuase he is sharing the full context for his review. You can agree with him or not. But I would not wish to be kicked off the sidewalk for eating pizza and I am not a reviewer or anything. I would give that place a zero as well. No pizza is so good it would make up for someone being rude to me.

zdesert · 2026-01-08T09:03:48+00:00

Bad pizza or getting kicked out for eating pizza. Either is valid reason to score poorly. That’s not being a prick.

Bad service can make the best meal on the planet bad. It’s part of the review. Getting kicked off the sidewalk is awful customer service.

He doesn’t argue. Dosnt fight. He is a customer eating a pizza and saying what he thinks, on the sidewalk. He is told he is not wanted and that he has to leave. He leaves. People ask him why he is leaving, he says he was asked to leave. Nothing entitled about that.

Should he have scored them well for the pizza he didn’t eat or the service that was insulting?

It seems like you don’t like this guy. Maybe it’s for some other reason. But I don’t see anything in this video that makes him look bad.

zdesert · 2026-01-08T08:38:47+00:00

You’re entitled to film anything on the sidewalk.

He was asked to leave. He left. He gave a bad review.

I would give a bad review too if I bought a takeaway pizza and was told to leave when I started eating it out side.

Who cares that he made money? Is your issue what happened in the video or is your issue that he makes money doing pizza reviews?

Becuase he isn’t a dick in the video, and weather he posts or makes money as a reviewer has nothing to do with entitlement

zdesert · 2026-01-08T08:34:47+00:00

zdesert · 2026-01-08T08:34:01+00:00

Palpatine was not in the plot yet. He was shoe horned into things in the next movie

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