Munkie

I sold off the 2k of necrons I had inherited from a friend back during the dark days of 40k. Recently I thought it would look super cool to cut a monolith along every panel line then re-assemble it with a tiny gap 1/32"ish between all panels. Then make a bundle of LEDs in the middle that would seep out from the gaps--rather than doing the typical edge lining/pin washing process that sane but patient people would do. But I done sold 'em all...

Yeah I decided to embark on installing LEDs in lightsabers for Star Wars: Legion. Ended up finding 60 feet of various colors of acrylic rod for $10 online. That's enough to do about 720 lightsabers (which is slightly more than I intend to do). Never been more tempted to snatch up cheap Necrons and do each squad with different color rod.

Agreed. The new one has cool details, but doesn't cut the same imposing figure. It would be fun to kitbash those two though. Use the old hull, but use the center section of the new one for the portal. The new weapon emplacements too. Then hide LEDs all over it....mmmm...t'would be fun.

I've never seen Ginger Snaps 2, but I remember the first movie being absolutely awful. If you want a movie that compares werewolves to ovulation and offers nothing else, then that's the movie for you!

My sister is absolutely hilarious. She wants to learn Mandarin, she knows some but wants to get fluent so she was looking to hire a tutor. Due to some miscommunication, he thought he was going on a blind date. He didn't nail it... 1) He saw a bug on her head, smacked her, evidently missed and asked if he could try again. She told him if he touched her again, she'd scream. 2) He told her he wished he could be stupid like her. Stupid people can afford to be optimistic, smart people feel the weight of the world, and even sometimes kill themselves over it. 3) He told her he felt she was "the one" but "that's crazy because I don't even think you're pretty, just nice to talk to." 4) When (not "if") they meet next time, don’t wear heels, he doesn't like girls that wear heels. I was crying laughing. It's like he was dared to put up the worst date there ever was. If there's bad date bingo, he scored a blackout. ... She ended up not hiring him to tutor her.

Earlier this year I ordered a take-out burger from a joint I used to frequent. The patty was broken in half and there was what looked like a bite taken out of it. It was probably just a chunk that broke off when they accidentally split the patty, but it gave me pause. When I inspected closer, I found a hair sticking out too. At that point I was grossed out and I immediately called them to tell them what's up. They told me to expect a call from their manager later (it was during the Friday dinner rush). I still hadn't got a call on Monday, so I went in to talk about it. The server went to the office, came back, and told me the manager was out of town, but they'd call when they got back. Suuuure.... I still got no call by Friday, so I went in again. The server again told the manager was still out of town, and they didn't know when he'd be back. Now I knew he was dodging me and just forcing his employees to lie on his behalf. No GM goes out of town for unspecified amounts of time, is unreachable, and without some temporary transfer of authority. So I called the HQ. Surprise! The GM was magically back in town on Monday and called me. And he [big bad swear word]ing laughed about it and all but called me a liar. He asked me what color the hair was and I told him blonde. He said "Nope, sorry. My cook has brown hair." I kept my cool, despite my urge to let him have it. I've got plenty of years of food service experience, and arguing with a customer over a $15 burger is always stupid. It's a no-win scenario, but he was going full jackass. When he realized he wasn't going to bully me into dropping the complaint he interrupted me to ask "What's your address?" I told him I'm not giving him my address, and he asked how he's supposed to refund my money if he can't mail me check...??? I told him he can refund the charge on my card, or I'll stop in after work to pick up cash. When I got there, he had left the money in an envelope with the hostess. While I was picking it up, I saw him come out of the office, he saw me see him, and darted down a hallway to avoid me. He looked every bit like the bro-ey douche he sounded like on the phone. So if anyone is ever in Bellingham, don't go to Bob's Burgers and Brew. [big bad swear word] that place.

Drukhari got the updated power sword and nothing else. Our only melta weapon did not get the increased damage. Our only "flamer" weapon is now the shortest ranged in the game. So that's pretty sweet...

To pour extra salt in the new Reanimation Protocols wound, space marines are getting a 1CP strat to bring one biker model back to life with full wounds. Those derpy looking ATVs are 8 wound bikes. So basically don't even try to kill them unless you're positive you can wipe the whole unit, because that's the only way to stop them from recycling every turn. What you absolutely cannot do is give them 5 free ATVs by only killing 1 a turn.

If Dark Eldar skimmers lose Fly, I will riot. They've already taken away their shoot on the move playstyle by giving it to everyone else, they're no longer faster than other armies, and open-topped is all but useless these days. They have been removing the flavor and options of Dark Eldar with each successive book for nearly a decade now. The absolute LAST thing GW needs to do is subtract more from them. It also makes no sense from a lore perspective. Vehicles that hover a foot or two off the ground would still have to navigate around an intervening wall or building. A ship that is designed to navigate through another dimension where there is no ground to repulse from and is propelled, in part, with a space-magic sail should probably retain the ability to fly, methinks. That said, I would have no problem with Talos and Chronos losing fly. They are hovering creatures and having a flight stand shouldn't automatically grant fly.

Yes. This. The same way the federal government hires convicted hackers. Pay people smarter than you to work for you. Otherwise, you'll be pay anyway. There is no value added to your company in a legal battle, just money spent punishing people who are better than you at what you wish you were good at. Spend the same money to offer a better product.

Rather than throw a bunch of money at a lawsuit to shut down a competitor, why not just buy Battlescribe and have a functional app? GW is a model company first, a rules creater second, and a software developer...uhh...somewhere way down the line. Stick to what you're good at, and pay someone else to do the stuff you're not good at.

Where do I sign up for this?? Venus can't be any more toxic than this planet!

This is definitely a great change for the direction of the game. If Crisis Suits are made to be core, but not riptides (or equivalent), then we might see a Tau army have a movement phase for the first time in 3 years!

Yeah, some friends and I are starting a friendly Crusade campaign which I think will be a lot of fun. Although Drukhari also don't function at small points levels since each of their subfactions have gaping holes that are designed to be plugged with multiple detachments. So I'm using my unpainted harlequins. We've got 2 ork, and a tau player, too. Shockingly, our white scars player took a loss in week 1 to orks. That 3 CP strategem to replenish a unit of 30 boyz is so good at 25PL! I just have no interest in "competitive" 9th.

I agree that it's part of why they're going this direction, the problem is it makes fragile things even extra more fragile. As a drukhari player, the extra damage makes our paltry defenses ever more useless. A 5++ on our vehicles is handy against high quality, low quantity attacks like lascannons and meltaguns. But if people are pouring damage 3 weapons into them, they're dead unless I roll hot. Having FNP 6+ across all my infantry is functionally useless against damage 2 weapons. 1/36 chance for it to matter. This edition is designed specifically to make glass-cannon armies bad since it's about board presence and not killing power. Drukhari are designed to be a glass cannon. Except the glass is getting more fragile, and the cannon compares less and less favorably to the cannons of much, much more durable armies. When the new heavy incursor troops squads can shoot harder than your shootiest heavy support option, you know you're [big bad swear word]ed. And considering GW fundamentally does not understand how the army functions and has written each DE codex since 5th during a single lunch break, I have little hope that they'll haul us out of the basement whenever we get our codex. We'll still have 1 wound, pointless FNP, and wildly overpriced 1 damage poison attacks. I'm looking forward to 10th edition though!

My apartment smells like a homeless cat's pooping space: Litter-alley

I charged a razorback the other day with some mandrakes. Shock assault! Because space marine tanks are highly trained in hand-to-hand combat or something...who cares, have free bonuses!!

Bolter drill was the first, army-wide attempt to make space marines feel trained in a way nobody else was, and it was pretty good. Then they came out with the doctrine system and it was so broken that they had to to re-write it and remove an entire stratagem just to try to keep it from continuing to ruin the game, as it had clearly done. Between auras, more auras, ridiculous stratagems, combat doctrines, chapter tactics, shock assault (IMO, the dumbest space marine rule), and bolter drill, the combo-stacking is fankly game deciding. You don't have to be good to win. Just play space marines.

Two?! Lucky!!

I don't see why they're mutually exclusive...

Thanks for the link! It confirmed that all my baseline assumptions were all pretty spot on and I understood the concept in theory, but the conclusive math was (and still is) out of my reach. Turns out if you can do the math, it's probably possible to get a Jaeger to break the sound barrier! However, they were probably off by exactly where it would have occured, but who cares about that. Supersonic robots: 1, Munkie's gut-math: 0

So this was supposed to be a comment in Rate the Last movie you saw, but then I started fixating on the math of a question, and I'm in over my head. Subject: Pacific Rim Uprising To get the preamble put of the way, it's a pretty good movie, I'd say definitely better than the first movie which I was VERY underwhelmed by. Pacific Rim had a boring plot, bland characters, and its action sequences were sparse and unimaginative. Way too much hype for an uninspired film. Uprising isn't going to blow your socks off, but the plot was better, the characters were better, and they had a variety of action sequences--as opposed the half submerged and partially illuminated sequences of the first. Now, for the question at hand. At one point, one of the Jaegers (giant mechs) needs to take a rocket to the upper atmosphere and then free fall. Jaegin' ain't easy. Its knuckles turn red hot as it re-enters and then it emits a sonic boom. My immediate reaction was "hey! That's not how physics work!" (Let's ignore how absurd it is to focus on what was assuredly only there because the sonic boom effect looks and sounds cool). First of all, the sound barrier is not a fixed speed, it depends on temperature, humidity, and air density. But 343 meters per second is the listed speed for 20°C in dry air. In the upper atmosphere, it stands to reason that speed would be higher given how much thinner the air is. The sonic boom is an effect based on drag which you will have less of higher up. But even so, let's go with 343. Gravity on earth produces a downforce of 9.8m/s² so it would take approximately 6 seconds to reach 343 m/s. In the upper atmosphere it would take longer, but it's not staying up there, it's falling into denser and denser air--which means the sound barrier would be a moving target as far as speed required to achieve it. Now, the big question is whether or not terminal velocity would prevent it from reaching the required speed to break the barrier. To calculate the terminal velocity, we'd need to know the drag coefficient, mass, and buoyancy of the jaegar, which we do not. So I cannot say definitively whether or not it's possible, but my gut says no. The reason, math that is beyond me, aside, is that a sonic boom is generated by a "sudden" increase in velocity to push past the barrier. Maybe think of it like a roll of duct tape. You can slowly pull the tape off the roll and hear quiet snaps and crackles as the adhesive releases its hold. Or you can pull it off quickly with that signature, barking rip sound. While acceleration is exponential in growth, it isn't "suddenly" increasing. Just constantly and increasing by ever larger amounts (until terminal velocity). Perhaps suddenly adjusting into a more aerodynamic position would drop the drag coefficient sharply enough that the requisite burst would produce it? Anyone smarter wanna do the math on giant robots falling from the heavens? Or make somewhat mathematically inspired assumptions like me? It might just save your life someday.

I love it because ironclad make basically no difference to me. Levi is scary though!

Sweet. Dark Technomancer Talos with 2 haywire blasters and a double liquifier gun would be brutal for this. Granted, they can deal up to 3 mortal wounds to themselves, but he also might just one shot a dread with the ability to deal up to 54 wounds to a vehicle in the shooting phase.

It's like Heat, but with a bunch of yoked bros. They tried the "blur the line that separates cops and criminals" theme a little too hard to the point that I was genuinely disappointed at the end that Gerard Buttler didn't die. Just an absolutely reprehensible character from start to finish. Also, that shoot-off at the gun range was such a weird scene. It makes you think there's foreshadowing there, but nope, the exact opposite. It sets it up like his incredible accuracy is going to come into play. In fact, he runs out of ammo after missing with every bullet in 3 or 4 pistol magazines. Their badass squad was pretty feeble once the flexing was over and shooting started. Fun movie, but very, very stupid.