barrbaric 3 minutes ago • 100%
Eh, I kinda doubt it. Pokemon fans are like Harry Potter fans or Blizzard fans: they'll keep buying that slop no matter what, and then get pissed when you tell them about how shitty the people behind their slop are.
barrbaric 15 minutes ago • 100%
They have very thin, sharp noses, as they can only be seen in profile.
barrbaric 16 minutes ago • 100%
Every time a coworker brings up "immunity debt" I want to strangle them as I patiently explain that the concept just isn't real. And of course I sound like a conspiracy nut because it's the dominant ideology.
The Dredge Tank
NonCredibleDefense praising the pager attack
barrbaric 6 hours ago • 100%
Well that depends on who one considers to be people, and as always liberals can use the handy chart 
Games Workshop
Games Workshop suffers shareholder revolt over top boss bonuses
barrbaric 18 hours ago • 100%
This is for the period ending June 2024, so it wouldn't have been out yet. I do wonder what kind of cut GW gets from the licensee, though, as there were certainly a lot of other games out in that period. I don't imagine something like Rogue Trader or Darktide were bringing in that much money, though.
mainbarrbaric 20 hours ago • 100%
100 Girls vs 100 Boys invade Iraq! First to take Baghdad wins an Abrams tank!
Games Workshop
Games Workshop suffers shareholder revolt over top boss bonuses
barrbaric 20 hours ago • 100%
Well it takes quite the big-brain genius to say "hey what if we raised prices another 10%?" every year so they both clearly earned that money.
I'm kinda surprised revenue is up 11%, I thought they dropped off a bit after the big surge of new customers during lockdowns. Guess they recovered? Maybe it was money from the 10e launch and Leviathan sales last year?
urbanism
barrbaric 1 day ago • 100%
N95 every time I leave the apartment, block around/under the door with insulation foam, try to do errands first thing in the morning or late at night so there's less chance of the aerosols being in the hallway and getting sucked into my apartment when I open the door. I also have an air purifier that I'll set to max for a few hours when I get home but it's just a normal one so I doubt it makes enough difference.
There's only so much you can do tbh.
barrbaric 1 day ago • 100%
You better believe it
chapotraphouse
lizard people
barrbaric 2 days ago • 100%
I don't know why, but middle guy's obviously fake smile pisses me off every time I see it. You're telling me you do this for a living and that's the best "smile" you can do? Come on.
games
Are gamers really that much of a baby that they need to be told to not pre order games from trash studios lol
barrbaric 2 days ago • 100%
I would like to clarify to the jury that I pirated Starfield on launch day and have not given Todd Howard money since 2011.
barrbaric 3 days ago • 100%
The japanese video says winter 2025 apparently.
games
Back at it again with another top 3 hexbear favorites: this time your favorite top 3 D&D games.
barrbaric 3 days ago • 100%
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Lords of Waterdeep (the boardgame)
- Baldur's Gate 1
BG3 is an all around solid game with a decent amount of polish, and while the main story is pretty boring and predictable, as with most Bioware-style games the real story is in the companions, and they're a good enough selection that most players will be able to pick out a party without having to use anyone they really hate. I would still say that I had more fun talking about the game than actually playing it.
I played Lords of Waterdeep with the Skullport expansion exactly once at a friend's house and it was alright. It's a worker placement boardgame and tbh the branding didn't really do much for me because I don't know or care about anything in the Forgotten Realms, much less Waterdeep specifically.
BG1 is a boring game with a simple and uninteresting story, and really does a great job of instilling a hatred of the Vancian casting system in the player. Turns out a 1:1 implementation of AD&D's rules makes for a bad game, who knew. The only reason this takes #3 is because I actually finished it.
Also started but never finished BG2 and NWN2 (didn't get far in either), and played a little of the Neverwinter MMO and DDO but stopped quickly because neither were good. I actually own Planescape Torment but have never actually brought myself to play it. EDIT: saw someone mention BG Dark Alliance and I did also play that for several hours at a friend's house once. It should probably be in third but the fact that I forgot means it obviously didn't make much of an impact.
I will close by saying that WOTC should canonically blow up the Sword Coast so that they can set games elsewhere for once.
barrbaric 4 days ago • 100%
Kim's dead partner IIRC
Shit Reactionaries Say
The grift is insane
barrbaric 4 days ago • 100%
Looks like an AI image that he then photoshopped himself (and the gun he's "holding") into.
news
Trump is ‘safe following gunshots in his vicinity,’ campaign says in statement | CNN Politics
barrbaric 4 days ago • 100%
Could also be an old-timey prospector firing his guns off in the air in celebration when he gets the ball in the hole.
news
Trump is ‘safe following gunshots in his vicinity,’ campaign says in statement | CNN Politics
barrbaric 4 days ago • 100%
Cops always say to aim for center mass, when you really should be aiming for center ass.
news
Trump is ‘safe following gunshots in his vicinity,’ campaign says in statement | CNN Politics
barrbaric 4 days ago • 100%
Better than going and shooting up a Walmart, that's for sure.
barrbaric 4 days ago • 92%
Those dastardly russians keep putting sticks in the spokes of my bikes. They even make it look like I'm the one doing it!
The Dredge Tank
I am sure he actually has some actual good arguments to... oh.
barrbaric 4 days ago • 100%
Monarchists should do what their idols did and die.
The Dredge Tank
Ronald Reagan would vote blue. So should you!
barrbaric 4 days ago • 100%
"Adolf Hitler would have voted for Kamala, and so should you".
I'm curious to see the numbers that justify this constant sucking-off of never-Trump republicans vs the third of the country that doesn't vote.
barrbaric 4 days ago • 100%
Kill Team is getting Inquisition retinues as an option that can take a variety of henchmen.
They're already out and I have one, lol. It's not a very good kit, though. You get five acolytes, a servitor, and a servo-skull token, but the team you'd play needs ten so you'd have to buy the kit twice. I'm just glad I got it recasted (plus I got two kasrkin teams at the same time and they fucking SLAP).
I think there's also a new codex coming out that will be more like the 3.5 Inquisition books, letting you mix and match.
If you're talking about the imperial agents codex for 40k, it's out and probably the worst one they've ever released. The henchmen are T3, 1W, BS3+ with one bolt pistol each (one can take a plasma pistol and another can take an eviscerator), lost an option to take an agent that could deny deep strikes within 12", and cost nearly twice as much as guardsmen. Jokaero went to legends, cost 20 points more, can only join henchmen if there's already an inquisitor leading them, and their buff got worse ("+1 to wound" changed to "6s to hit auto-wound").
Also Deathwatch got squatted except for a character (plus a named version of the same character), one infantry choice, and a flyer.
RIP to the like 5 AOS armies that got squatted because of some internal power struggle bullshit. It is BLEAK out here.
barrbaric 5 days ago • 100%
Cadian voxcaster is one of them! Cut it in half and glued the back sides together. But no HK, no gauss. As a bonus clue, two other parts are from GW kits, and two parts aren't (not counting the crab).
What was this originally gonna be? Did AdMech have an actual cyber crab unit?
It was going to be a Jokaero (hence the orange) because as much as I like the funny monkey I'm not going to spend $20 on one finecast model, but they were banished to legends (and also got huge nerfs at the same time) 😔 I have like 600 points of assassins and inquisitorial weirdos and James Workshop refuses to let me play with my toys.
the_dunk_tank
The enslaved peoples of St. Domingue broke their chains so hard that their revolution has lived rent-free in the heads of brittle crackers for the past 220 years. Respect
barrbaric 5 days ago • 100%
It's quite clear, actually, simply look at this chart:
TFW you're halfway through converting and painting a miniature when its rules are removed from the game . Oh well, now it's a tech priest proxy. It has parts from 5 minis, bonus points to anyone who can guess them.
music
My guilty secret is that I like to listen to Journey when working out. But then I see the music videos and this image always ruins it for me
barrbaric 5 days ago • 100%
We need to return to realistic beauty standards like this.
barrbaric 5 days ago • 100%
It's basically "what if instead of collapsing, the USSR was killed in an invasion". Devs are Estonian, it's definitely inspired by Post-Soviet countries.
The Dredge Tank
What stage of copium is this?
barrbaric 5 days ago • 100%
You've described reddit overall.
the_dunk_tank
Mao 🤝 Kamala Harris
barrbaric 5 days ago • 100%
Specifically it was the Lenin segment on whether communists should participate in bourgeois elections, where Lenin argues that communists should participate by organizing as a communist party. They will have no expectation of winning, because bourgeois democracy is a myth, but it will be useful to spread propaganda and explicitly to show that bourgeois democracy is rigged.
Saying this means "LENIN WOULD HAVE VOOTED FOR BIDEN" was one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen, and the bar for liberal politics streamers is already in hell.
the_dunk_tank
Mao 🤝 Kamala Harris
barrbaric 5 days ago • 100%
Is that really the shit that republicans froth at the mouth over?
Yes. They froth at literally anything, then the dems attempt to "triangulate" (IE attract fascist voters, which doesn't work anymore) and move further right to compensate, which then lets the GOP go even furtherer to the right in reaction. This is fairly common knowledge even among liberals, but they don't think a better world is possible.
The Dredge Tank
What stage of copium is this?
barrbaric 6 days ago • 100%
The modern concept of GDP was first developed by Simon Kuznets for a 1934 U.S. Congress report, where he warned against its use as a measure of welfare
the_dunk_tank
Mao 🤝 Kamala Harris
barrbaric 6 days ago • 100%
Will no one rid me of this troublesome streamer?
moviesbarrbaric 6 days ago • 100%
Monster Hunter 
barrbaric 6 days ago • 100%
Holy shit, Tyranny is woke because men own ships???
chapotraphouse
On tankies and online discourse about them
barrbaric 7 days ago • 100%
why don't these people notice that their talking points, left-oriented as they may seem, always end up supporting US allies or attacking US enemies?
A combination of the american civic religion, american exceptionalism, their own material conditions, recognition of their position as the secondary (or perhaps tertiary) benefactors of imperialism, and a century of anti-communist propaganda have left them believing the following:
- The US may SOMETIMES do evil, but that is either by mistake or the cost of doing business, and it is ultimately a net progressive force for "democracy" and "freedom" aka "good"
- No matter how bad the US is, every AES is/was worse
- Every enemy of the US cannot be trusted, so they can only consume
propagandamedia produced by the US and its allies - The US is actually a democracy, and policy can be influenced by voters
Whenever you bring up things that force them to address the dissonance between one of these and reality, they use the the other three to deflect. If you continue to press further, they either disengage, call you a tankie, or start the long slow path to tankiedom themselves.
barrbaric 1 week ago • 100%
In Reagan's memoirs, he drew a direct line from the film to the signing.
I'm pretty sure those were ghostwritten because Reagan would've been way too far down the path of dementia by then, no?
barrbaric 1 week ago • 100%
It's worth noting that Fidel couldn't have pressed the button even if he wanted to, because the nukes were under the direct control of the USSR. At one point he did sendt a telegram to Khrushchev saying to launch the nukes if the US invaded Cuba, and IIRC Robert MacNamara later recounted that Fidel told him he would have approved of the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
games
Hasbro CEO says all his mates are using AI for their D&D games, which is apparently 'a clear signal that we need to be embracing it'
barrbaric 1 week ago • 100%
So that the ForeverGM can take a break. 
Interesting video, sadly the presenter is a frustrating liberal who refuses, whether out of sincere belief or optics concerns, to condemn NATO. Also uses fun phrases like "when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct 7th". Edit: also the "call to action" at the end is laughable liberal claptrap. There is no stopping the military from doing something so long as the games industry exists under capitalism, because the military has _INFINITE MONEY_ to tempt people into working for them.
ALL MY EARS, GONE 
www.youtube.com
A 2 hour long video on the themes of Khorne and Chaos as false consciousness opposed to revolutionary violence? Yes, I think I _will_ watch this while eating leftover pizza for breakfast.
Seems like there aren't a lot of typical Elden Ring dungeons, just overworld stuff and then bigger dungeons for the more important bosses. Performance is _really_ bad so far. Died to the Parade Lion while it was at 1HP, Freja secured the kill just before I timed out, hell yeah, I'll take it.
Slowly working my way through a _BUNCH_ of vehicles and finally decided to bite the bullet and do the camo. Still a lot of work to go, but this is a huge jump in terms of _looking_ done. Masking tape took 8x longer to put on than actually painting did. As someone new to an airbrush, I must say that it's definitely faster and smoother than using a brush, but I really need to improve my aim. There's some nasty overspray in various places which is going to have to be touched up by hand, but I'm generally very happy with this.
Slowly working my way through a _BUNCH_ of vehicles and finally decided to bite the bullet and do the camo. Still a lot of work to go, but this is a huge jump in terms of _looking_ done. Masking tape took 8x longer to put on than actually painting did. As someone new to an airbrush, I must say that it's definitely faster and smoother than using a brush, but I really need to improve my aim. There's some nasty overspray in various places which is going to have to be touched up by hand, but I'm generally very happy with this.
Inspired by that Dune post.
RIP to a real one 
and uninstalled immediately. Did all the faction quests + main storyline. None are worth playing. I almost regret pirating it at all. Thank you todd.
 Also Chainsaw Man chapter 149 thread I guess. So Nayuta turned out pretty much as expected given the circumstances.
You can be a: - Cop - Cop - Undercover Cop - Corporate Dog Thank you todd
Title. Just for walking around. Looking for something waterproof so I can wear them in rain or maybe light snow. Last time I bought some new balance sneakers and they're full of cracks and tearing apart at the seams after a little over a year. I hate that everything is designed to fail immediately 
Hasn't been one of these in a while.  Really gotta wonder why they were lying about the fire devil being the justice devil if public safety has the devil namer. How many chapters can Fujimoto stretch the Yoshida/Asa fight? My money's on another five.
And had a pretty good time! Definitely seemed shorter than our games of 40k at around 2.5 hours, even though it was our first game. Tried using 9e Tempest of War missions which was probably a mistake as most of them don't make sense with alternating activations lol (and my opponent was guaranteed victory when he drew Raise Banner, Secure No Man's Land, and Tempting Target _all on the same turn_). Most of the proxies made sense, though there's the odd weirdness like primaris units having 2+ saves but still only one wound. Other thoughts: Tanks felt super tough but otherwise weak unless you spend tons of points on upgrading the main guns, which was disappointing. 2k points definitely felt low. Psykers were more complex but pretty fun. The decision of whether to activate what you wanted or something that would probably die if you didn't activate it _right now_ really added some extra pressure that I enjoyed. RIP my Manticore that died first activation to a Scouted ATV with a Deadly (6) multimelta. Final Score: Imperial Guard 65 - Space Marines 78
Thank u brandon 
Saw a new 20-story development is going up nearby and checked out prices. Mao should have killed more landlords.
When did we even get pikmin emojis?
My Guard vs buddy's AdMech, still playing 9th because 10th fucked both our factions, doing Tempest because fixed objectives suck. Also only 1k points. I brought a bit of a meme list because my guard have been undefeated in our play group (vanquisher russ w/ the reroll tank ace, deathstrike, ogryn instead of bullgryn, triple scout sentinels in a single unit with plasma cannons that I intended to charge with). The weird thing is that this _objectively worse_ version of my list costs more points, thank you James Workshop. Highlights: - A deathstrike doing literally nothing all game because it's so easy to avoid (I _could_ have taken the lame missiles but it's godslayer or nothing) - The Vanquisher Russ needing to command reroll 2 wound rolls to do anything (though it did one-shot an onager and kill two breachers) - The Datasmith just charging a plasma Russ and living the rest of his days in melee because I had nothing to charge him with and nothing with good enough shooting to justify falling back - 3 sentinels living in melee with a tech priest all game while holding his deployment objective - Only living models at end of game: deathstrike, 2 tech priests, 3 skitarii rangers Final Score: Guard 67-AdMech 37
Only 4p, sadly, because one guy dropped out to go on a date (valid, but incorrect). Rather short game, ending on turn 5, after ~6 hours (with meal break). Disregard the flipped over objective cards, we just wanted to see what they were post-game. HS1 is Sol, HS2 is Xxcha, HS3 is Hacan, HS4 is Ghosts of Creuss:  Winner was the Federation of Sol, played by yours truly, because the others more or less forced me onto Mecatol Rex and once in position my ability to drop in infantry squads made me impossible to shift. Also got very lucky with my secret objectives lining up with the publics (2 unit upgrades + 2 faction upgrades, which are the same for Sol, and own 4 planets of any color + own 4 Blue). They let me score Imperial _twice_ which is way too many. Nobody made an attempt to dislodge me until Turn 5, too worried they'd be backstabbed, which, in fairness, was probably accurate for every player but the Xxcha. EDIT: Sol has a rep as being overpowered, so we nerfed it by reducing its starting fleet by 1 carrier. This did not seem to be enough, and it is now on the ban list, along with Jol-Nar. Ghosts in second with 7 points because both other players gave him Support points in exchange for him suiciding into my invincible army on Mec Rex (not knowing that the game was already over unless they took my home system). This player is generally the weakest in the group, and failed to secure their slice until way too late, leaving them with little to do. Hacan and Xxcha in third with 4 apiece. Hacan didn't really do much interesting, just spent infinite money to build up a giant fleet but that was no help with invasions, and was too late anyway. Xxcha built a fucking wall of PDS (6 total in a ring around Mec Rex, plus the flagship for 8), which prevented me from reinforcing with ships, but I think made taking it too dangerous for anyone else to consider. He also really fucked over Hacan early, blocking his movement with a cruiser move T1 onto tile 27.
This zoomed, in it's pretty easy to tell that all the fabric needs more blending, but this was a nice break from the rest of my army's usual white and grey-blue color scheme. Sadly some of her fingers on the right hand snapped off in transit and I was never able to reattach them. Even so, I'm generally proud of this one. Base is transparent crackle paint over a blue basecoat, then drybrushed with grey->white grey->white to get an icy look. RIP Astropaths ever being used in 10th, Nightshroud was too funny against Custodes. Mini is Astro Witch, by Victoria Miniatures. 
Meatball Ron should be [actionable threat]
Technically it was done a while ago, but now there's a comm for it! The hull gun on the front is magnetized and can be swapped out for a laser, and the sides are magnetized as well so I can put sponsons on if I ever get around to having some 3d printed. The turret-hull connection is just a giant circular hole so it pops off real easy and I have taken to blu-tacking it in place for transport/games. The actual name for the model is "Mars Alpha Leman Russ Incinerator", and I run it as an Executioner in 40k. Behold, the warm glowing warming glow of the turret gun (which I'm still not really happy with even after like 10 revisions):  The last thing space fascists see before being run over: 
Technically it was done a while ago, but now there's a comm for it! The hull gun on the front is magnetized and can be swapped out for a laser, and the sides are magnetized as well so I can put sponsons on if I ever get around to having some 3d printed. The turret-hull connection is just a giant circular hole so it pops off real easy and I have taken to blu-tacking it in place for transport/games. The actual name for the model is "Mars Alpha Leman Russ Incinerator", and I run it as an Executioner in 40k. Behold, the warm glowing warming glow of the turret gun (which I'm still not really happy with even after like 10 revisions):  The last thing space fascists see before being run over: 
Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run _much_ slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access. I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?
Someone tell me what it was about. In particular, what does all the various symbolism mean, what are we supposed to take away from Mikage's arc, what's the deal with Kozue, and why did Nanami turn into a cow that one time. Impossible difficulty: explain Miki's stopwatch.