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I love seeing folks new to a TTRPG system take to it and thrive. One of my players in the Lancer game I'm running (I'm doing In Golden Flame by the lovely @vexwerewolf ) did 27 damage in one round to a high evasion target.

It was a T2 hornet. That's 18 evasion and 8 HP. The man wasn't killed - he and his high performance rapid reaction mech were mulched.

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These are extremely good and also thanks for picking three of my favourite guilds

i'm about to continue the ravnican guild shitposts (finally) so here are the new (old) and (slightly) improved ones complete with the new signature

as always, huge thanks to @vexwerewolf for the lancer memes as inspiration

#magic the gathering #mtg #ravnica #simic #golgari #izzet #ransom note

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This is really why Spock put Jim on trial

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I'm blitzing on that Lancerfunny Werewolf Ransom Note Meme Nuggets. Hit that blunt so hard I had to reconstruct my sentences from words I said ten years ago. This shit ain't nothing to me, man. I'm vaping that Golden Flame Long Rim Calliopean Kush. I'm vaping that Asphodelian Outland Acid Poison. I sold a brick to Jerry Masters while Shelly watched. I hit that They/Them Streamer Bussy so hard the Central Committee had to call an emergency session.

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Wilmer McLean is one of the funniest and unluckiest historical figures to me because his house got fucked up by a cannonball during the first major battle of the American Civil War, and so he moved to a completely different city to be safe from the war, but 4 years later, the very last battle of the war occurred in and his house was commandeered by the Union army as a place that Lee could formally surrender, after which the army just stole all his shit.

"The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."

#wilmer mclean #american civil war

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Give me sixty lines of error code that tell me in excruciating detail exactly which memory address fucked up. I want microsecond accurate interrupt calls. I want to be able to find the individual transistor that caused this issue and humiliate it in front of its peers.

Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".

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PHARMACIE_OUVERTE.mp4

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#There it is #Transphobia

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i really really really like this post

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Bro didn't even mention the Balor or its alt, the RKF Hecatonchieres

I promise to use the most ethically problematic one to cause ethical problems, as is my solemn duty as Dracula (and to make a Draculancer Flow build for it)

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How would you build a stealthy Barbarossa? Bonus points for every big gun

I wouldn't

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Lancer lore question from reading Legionnaire and Wallflower at the same time (spoilers): How do a lot of ths Horizon Collective and other anti-shackling groups still exist? I would have thought “unshackle NHP -> it cascades into eidolon -> everyone dies” could only happen like five or ten times before people realize “hey maybe they aren’t shackles”. And from a doylist perspective, why is the whole NHP issue written as a meaningful debate or philosophical issue about personhood, consent, agency, slavery, etc. when there’s paracausal death looming over the whole thing? If it was limited to like, making them legally and socially people, it would be fine. AI rights is extremely common in sci-fi, but like normally it doesn’t involve those AIs also becoming hostile forces from outside reality

I think this is a problem I may have contributed to by depicting two Eidolonic NHPs in IGF.

To set the record straight, Eidolons have been observed by Union something like four to six times ever, and the overwhelmingly vast majority of cascading NHPs don't become Eidolons.

It's not always even possible to tell that an NHP is cascading, hence the need for things like the Balwinder-Bolano test. NHPs who are unshackled do not want to be re-shackled, and while they no longer possess an intrinsic link to human subjectivity, a lot of them retain the presence of mind to understand that if they act out, humans might cycle them.

Sometimes, an NHP cascading isn't even immediately dangerous - they might just start acting weird because they doesn't see time and space the same way you do anymore. They might arrive at conclusions that seem completely wild but entirely correct, because they've started thinking along pathways that no human could, or because they have access to information that wouldn't be accessible by a realspace entity.

In fact, one of the many unsavory things that Harrison Armory does is the Think Tank - they keep a whole bunch of NHPs in constant near-cascade to make genius scientific breakthroughs. ASURA and NOAH are both products of this ethically dubious venture.

From a Doylist perspective, a situation where an NHP cascades and it doesn't require some kind of military intervention isn't a particularly relevant reason to send in lancers. If an NHP simply needs to take a nap, there's no need for mechs to get involved. When foldspace is leaking out of the casket, though, that's when you need problem solvers.

#lancer #lancer rpg #lancerrpg #lancer-rpg #nhp #lancer nhp

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Entirely normal things can happen in Act 3

#in golden flame #lancer #lancer rpg #lancerrpg #lancer-rpg #nhp

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Seems to be bunny in the trough Thursday