>>97361744
>atheist doesn't care about truth
and water is wet

>>97361745
atheists trust whatever scientists say not based on fact checking but solely on the fact that the guy saying it is a scientist
for example, the vax was deemed absolutely harmless because the scientists said so
when some joe schmoe read about it how it's produced and what how it affects the human body and how the whole thing was rushed to meet the quotas, he was shot down because he was "fearmongering" and "not a scientist"
then healthy people started dropping dead and/or getting their faces twisted and suddenly the vax "may" have some drawbacks on "some" people but now it's a fact because the scientists said it
then the pharmaceutical companies admitted it was rushed but it was ok because the science agreed with the joe schmoe but you should never listen to the joe schmoe who did his research without bias and using his own brain. He commited atheistic scientist heresy and should be burned at the proverbial stake

>>97360557
Ah yes, it was called "historical inevitability" I believe.

>>97361806
Again, you're projecting your own way of thinking onto people you deemed your enemies for some reason.
You can do double-slit experiment in your own garage, btw.

>>97361857
>I don't agree with you so you can kill yourself
why are atheists so morally evil?

>>97357368
Being English, I find it most useful when they fight one another, and have no desire for them to stop.
It's the only thing that distracts them from gang-rape and shystery.

>>97357174
They are but I feel OP's questions. Wanna run a Bronze Age game? So what? Just... use another game/system, but take a buncha stuff out that doesn't fit? That sucks and isn't fun. It's what we've been talking about solutions to.

>>97357286
There are more jeets that learn English as a first language than Europeans (excl. colonials). ESL means nothing ever since India got hooked up to the internet.

>>97355098
Based on what, anon? Be specific, offer sources.

>>97355118
Alright, I'll remember that. Indus Valley Civilization was just what I remembered from my high school history lessons.

>>97350722
>For example, lowering AC across the board to simulate the lack of general armour
You should really run something that isn't D&D instead of repurposing it for something it isn't meant for. But if you're going to do it anyway remove the ahistorical items but don't nerf the ones that stay, there isn't better gear for it to be worse in relation to and it's not like martials need to be shittier.

>>97361333
>>97361540
cont.

>factions
7 in the base game: 6 aliums with one generic hoo-man faction on the flipside of each alium. I would say they all have a pretty good niche in their playstyle which is based in the core concepts of the game. These are good at expanding, these are good at research, these are good at fighting, these are good at building type of thing.

I have 4 expansion races, and kind of similar to Dune's expansions, they are interesting but trend in a more weird direction that doesn't flow quite as naturally from the core design or have as strong an identity. Unlike Dune at least, all factions are not inherently interlinked or balanced around each other being present, so it doesn't really matter as long as you like it. Just a small observation.

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*final ahem*
Last call for anon to participate in this years
/BGG/S TOP NINE

Use Pub Meeple's Top Nine generator and post your top nine games

https://www.pubmeeple.com/top-nine

Newbies and the forgetful can check out /bgg/s previous 'Top Nine' results in the OP survey results

Sometime after this thread dies, I will finish the "scientific analysis", post the compiled data, and we can compare to where the generals darlings lay a year ago.

VENERATE THE COUNT

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>>97360931
>new kitty for the collection
BUENO

>>97361540
So its a little like building up your forces and upgrades before you go closer to the middle?

Is there any comeback mechanic if someone else is just luckier with their draws?

I believe theres no trading with other players or alliances or that sort of thing?

>>97361551
Ah, so everyone can play as humans, which have no special abilities if they wanted?

>>97361796
>So its a little like building up your forces and upgrades before you go closer to the middle?
Kind of. Most systems in sector 1 have NPCs but you can get lucky and find an empty space to expand in which will have solid planets. Then in the galactic center there's an extremely lucrative system that's always protected by a stronger NPC. Generally it will take at least a couple of turns of building up and improving your ships before you can properly engage the NPCs without having a 50-50 chance of just losing your small starter ships, but some factions are better at early combat than others. I took the galactic center on turn 1 once as the Eridani, which start with loads of money and decent starting tech.

>comeback
None whatsoever. If you play particularly stupidly, you can be outright eliminated from the game. But generally, if you play smart, you can find opportunities to come back.

>trading or alliances
Nope, nothing of the sort. There's only a small resource incime bonus you can get by trading ambassadors with your neighbour, but that goes away once someone gets too big for their britches and attacks.

Like I said, everything in the game leads to combat.

>everyone can play as humans
Yes. They have no special ability as such, but humans have better fleet logistics so they are not entirely without advantages either.

>>97361089
>Why can't Druids wield bows?
Training

>>97361089
Since 5e all equipment restrictions have been dropped iirc. Authough they should be enforced for balance, since druid is a power class

>>97361200
>the creatures can barely speak
Thank goodness for freal speech

Druids can get proficiency with bows, not only do you think there's only one game you don't even know the rules of that one.

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>>97361089
It implies he couldnt invest time in his profession.
I guess he would become avranger who knows a little bit of nature magic?

>>97358481
weirdly, VtM. I played him as a Toreador who uses Celerity for slow-mo, Auspex to boost gunplay, and he wouldn't stop fucking monologuing about his cynical dreary life.

>>97358481
Play either Wushu, Feng Shui or Outgunned, while being after a glass of hard liquor and some oxy

Max Payne is one of those shooters like the original DOOMs that will always be fun to play no matter how many years pass. Also, it's one of the comfiest vidya around

>>97358589
I don't remember Max fusing metal to metal at any point.

>>97360911
>Outgunned
I've seen it suggested a few times, what's it like? Can it handle fast-paced combat well?

>>97359520
You can use dice just fine. You can't use the faces to represent counters, but you can use the individual dice for that ie 2 counters = 2 dice. It's far better like this since most fancy deck boxes have a compartment for dice, meaning there's a lower chance of cheating since you can just pull them out/store them as needed.

>>97360891
>You can use dice just fine. You just cannot use them the way that you were using them

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what rarity is this jauzah? the whole card is shiny not only the art, but it's not starlight

it's insane that ygo doesn't have colored rarity symbols like mtg. I've seen stores not even notice cards are QCR

>>97361757
Ultra Rare

>>97361757
It's an Ultra. Collector's rares are similar but have textured borders that in my opinion look kinda like fingerprints.

>>97359863
yeah, thats who I thought you were.

historically bandits often came from military deserters, so you could run with that. Maybe instead of a ragtag band of shitters with bad equipment, they're a highly trained unit with Fighter Levels. Alternatively maybe they're raiders from a neighboring kingdom who are hired to disrupt supply lines on purpose.

>>97349486
Try playing traditional games for starters.

>puckee spamming his commission again
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/v9he6h/calloway_pierce_highwayman_art_by_indigo_jenar_art/
https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/oYACxsqx5QYwSnNxrb1AcQ/
>43 times

>>97360175
Done. Now engage with the thread topic.

>>97305962
Traditional games?

Bumpfag thread

>>97305962
SEXO AWOOGA

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>>97305962
>highly intelligent to become a wizard

>>97356831
That falls under slovenly genius. "Quirky" people are always unwashed autists.

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>>97353846
https://youtu.be/bywBEuitbtQ?si=UBpWH3CG6u8SF_i3

>>97360398
>>97360401
quick rundown?

Funny emoug, in his early drafts, Tolkiactually used the word "Gnome" to describe Elves, not Dwarves.

The "Wise" Gnomes: Tolkien liked the word because it sounds like the Greek gnome (intelligence/wisdom). In his early Book of Lost Tales, the Noldor (the most intellectual and craft-oriented Elves) were called "Gnomes." He eventually stopped using the word because popular folklore (influenced by 16th-century alchemy and Victorian garden gnomes) had turned "Gnomes" into small, earth-dwelling, often comical spirits.

In general folklore, the lines between dwarves, gnomes, and kobolds were very blurry. Both were earth-spirits who lived underground. However, Tolkien specifically moved his Dwarves away from the "gnome" archetype.


Almost every dwarf name in The Hobbit (Thorin, Fili, Kili, etc.) and even the name "Gandalf" was taken directly from a list called the Dvergatal (Catalogue of Dwarves) in the Old Norse poem Vöouspa. The idea of dwarves as master smiths living underground, associated with stone and mining, comes straight from the Norse dvergar.The "Greed", The "dragon-sickness" or obsession with gold mirrors the Norse dwarf Andvari, who guarded a cursed hoard.

What he invented (The "Modern" Dwarf):

Tolkien gave them a secret language (Khuzdul) and a deep internal history. He famously compared the Dwarves' history dispossessed of their homeland and wandering among other nations to that of the Jewish people, which added a layer of solemnity and tragedy not found in most folklore. Before Tolkien, dwarves were often portrayed as ugly, maggot-like, or purely mischievous. Tolkien made them brawny, honorable, and formidable warriors. He intentionally used "Dwarves" (plural) and "Dwarvish" instead of the then-standard "Dwarfs" to distinguish his "elder race" from the "dwarfs" of nursery tales and Snow White.

>>97353846
>What would a "Dark" equivalent to gnomes be like?
A normal gnome?

>>97353846
I mean, D&D already has Deep Gnomes, svirfneblin. They're paranoid, greedy and solitary master-trappers.

Maybe explain why you're looking for something else?

>>97360698
>Dude, Nu-Lorwyn limited looks straight up fucking terrible.
That was my experience with test drafts. Goblins felt playable too.
The amount of recursion is just vomit-inducing. Half the games you literally can't get even a single fucking thing off the board, no matter how hard you try. And the games where recursion isn't a problem just devolved into stagnant boards, where all the high-toughness creatures made to absorb Blight costs can't do anything, and you can't Blight anything to break through because that would lower the toughness of your creatures and let them kill you.

It's fucking AWFUL. Like straight up abysmal shit and might be one of the worst limited formats ever.

>>97353999
>chaperone
>makes kithkins
At least the art is good

>>97361626
I've never seen this card before.

>>97361657
wonder how hard people like this mald about The One Ring

also always wondered if they get 4 of each card or if they're nogames status

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>>97361837
Chris is honestly pretty cool about it. He's remarkably level-headed for a guy known as "Bald Fucking Retard" by the playerbase of his game.

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>>97361334
I can fix her.

>>97361561
>but don't know what game is it from
Based on the Z/X in the top left corner, I would hazard a guess that it might be from Z/X.

>>97361641
I can make her worse.

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>>97361716
She can make me worse.

>>97361711
oh yeah its zillion, didn't see the z/x, thanks anon haha

>>97361541
Your friend is a disrespectful imbecile and that had nothing to do with him being a NEET or doing nothing all day probably due to crippling depression. Ditch that mf.

>>97361680
I mean it works for me
If you are really critical about the close up quality yeah it will not work.
As i said, from a table perpesective its almost unnoticeable

>>97360617
More fun? Less fun?

>>97361541
Did you ask him why he couldn't do it himself and explain that you have little time?
Also, why do you like this person? Sounds like they're a bum and a flake, but what do you like about them to keep them around?

>>97360370
I'm playing my first game soon and am super stoked. What scenario or armies did you play?
Also, good videos or resources that you used to learn the game?

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I have no fucking idea what is going on, this is a S4U, I have checked it is leveled to the tabe, default settings (lychee) for my resin, all screws are tight, nothing is moving during print time.
Is my printer just fucking cursed and trying to print a demon?

>>97360898

First, did you only print that one model? If yes, your leveling and everything with burn in layers is fine. If some stuff did not get printed, try the manual level app in the printer.
This looks like it could be the anti alias bug.

The motherboard has a problem with too many grey pixels in the same line, and moving from 9k to 16k enlarged the danger of that.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bNkAoa0_l2c

Ok bois, I need advice.
Good friend of mine's birthday is coming up.

He recently got a decent resin 3d printer and he's going nuts over it, printing 24/7, his girlfriend is starting to complain about the sudden appearance of resin minia of dubious taste in the house, etc.

I was thinking of maybe gifting him something "hobby related" but I am a total ignorant noob on 3d printing (all my minia comes from China recasters) so here it comes:

What the fuck can I give him as gift that it is 3d printing related?
Is UV curing station a trap?
Is there something fancy an aficionados would love?

>>97361759
An curing station is nice, but most often not that necessary. If you go that route, watch out for what size of printer your mate has, because the best thing is if you can just take the printed plate and put it directly into the cleaner, but some plates are larger than others.

I would maybe go with more resin. Maybe some interesting colors or those fancy engineering materials. There is one that cures almost like ceramics. Or some are like wax so you can cast it in metal afterwards. Maybe using those to make something for his girlfriend will mend the problems.

>>97361759
get him a new girlfriend because the current one is obviously defective

>>97360336
How tf a movie can cost 1 billion?

>>97361788
>2026
>Anon just discovered Hollywood's accounting
Are you Amish or something?

>>97361791
Explain
Money laundering?

>>97361788
A movie, to be profitable, needs to earn about 2.5 of its production budget
Outside of filming and editing, you need to also distribute it. If it's outside of the US, you need to pay foreign taxes. You also split income from tickets between the cinema, the distributor and the studio. There is also marketing involved, which in case of Avatar is basically a 2nd production budget.
So in the end, a movie that cost half 400 mil (already absurd sum) needs to earn a billion to even start being profitable.
Which is also why for past few years the blockbusters were all flops or near-flops, because when your movie costs 250 mil to make and you are making back 200 in box office, this means you are effectively half a billion in red, even if on paper it's "only" 50 mil missing.

>>97361800
>Muh money laundering
>Retard goes full retard
Just consult >>97361809
On top of what that anon already covered, there is also a matter of how each party involved is getting paid. If they are paid % of the profits, no matter how worded, it is utmost priority of the studio to pretend the movie either earned less or was a complete bomb, allowing them to weasel out of paying someone few dozen millions.
The most famous case is Stallone being paid squat for Demolition Man, because the studio pretended it was a flop (despite 160 in box office and another 80 in rentals). When he decided to finally take them to court and thus expose their crooked books, the studio instead paid him 20 mil (which is about thrice what he would earn from that contract) just to keep it company secret how much the books are cooked.

>>97356728
You should stick a handgun in your mouth and pull the trigger, puckee.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1qbz73q/artcommcelevor_arazumin_high_elf_wizard/
This looks like shit, btw.

>>97361478
Because that's when your elven parents start trusting you to do shit outside the village. <100 elves are still "treated" like kids so they have no real responsibilities besides learning and playing. No game I know limits you to playing >100 year old elves, just be prepared to be treated differently by older elves and you can't do the wise elf with disdain for younger races schtick anymore.

>>97361659
> just be prepared to be treated differently by older elves
How would an older elf even know wheter or not some stranger elf is 30 years old or 110 year old. Visually, there shouldnt be any difference. And its a stranger, from a different town, different kingdom, different place.

>>97361688
Brother I'm not a scholar on the ageing physical characterstics of fictional non-existent species. Nowhere is it mentioned that there are no observable physical changes after the stated "physical maturity". Maybe the changes are more subtle and takes an elven eye trained over centuries to see, or maybe they're invisible. All depends on how your GM takes it. Now stop asking stupid shit.

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>puckee thread