u/Aurondarklord

I am sick of going on lore boards for whatever franchises, seeing somebody ask a lore question because they're trying to understand the setting they're about to create Their Dudes in, and the top comments all starting with "actually you can do anything you want because they're Your Dudes!" before, maybe, actually answering the question.

Obviously everyone understands that you physically CAN do this. Nobody is going to bust through the wall of your house like the Kool-Aid Man and arrest you for violating canon. The company that owns the IP is not going to copyright claim you because Your Dudes broke the lore (YET. The way things are going with digital ownership this might eventually happen...). Everyone knows that no one can actually STOP you from making Your Dudes however you like. Nobody needs to be told it.

But just because you CAN doesn't mean that you SHOULD.

A creative person can find for themselves an enormous amount of wiggle room within most settings to do Their Dudes mostly their way. But not INFINITE wiggle room.

If I want to make Hello Kitty Space Marines, I can do this, and make them 100% canon compliant.

All the pink and white is because their world got hit with a Warp storm and corrupted by Slaanesh, they fought a 500 year secret war to take it back, became experts on fighting Slaanesh, and those are actually appropriate camo colors for fighting in Slaanesh-corrupted areas.

They have the "giant cat head" silhouette because they make their aspirants fight and skin huge white tigers and wear the pelts as capes and headdresses.

All the cat motifs are justified because their Primarch is Lion.

They wear their purity seals tied into bows for some esoteric theological reason I made up.

An Inquisitor named Maru Badtz is investigating them for heresy because their planet got corrupted, they fought a 500 year secret war to take it back, and then they killed everyone who knew and lied about it. Because they're Dark Angels and institutional gaslighting is second nature.

They live in the Sanrio System.

Everyone who sees My Dudes or reads My Dudes' lore would immediately understand the joke. But nobody in the setting would have any reason to think there's a joke going on at all or that these are anything other than normal Space Marines.

Or, I can just give My Dudes literal giant cat heads and cutesy aesthetics and still have other Imperial characters react to them like nothing is wrong when obviously none of this could happen in Warhammer and nobody would act like that. I CAN. But it's stupid if I actually do.

And if you plan to do that, why write in an existing setting at all? What's the point of using it as window dressing if you're going to completely ignore how it works? And why are people encouraging that? It just makes people lazier and less creative, waters down the uniqueness of gaming/RPing/fanficing/whatever in various universes, and makes everyone's writing worse.

You are offered all of the typical powers...and weaknesses...of a Kryptonian, at roughly the level of power commonly shown in TV and movie depictions (not a collection of the most insane feats from 90 years of comics).

However, if you take the deal, one of the world's centibillionaires will suddenly become obsessively dedicated to causing you as much suffering as they possibly can and ultimately murdering you, and you don't know which one has become your arch-nemesis.

A meteor shower will also deposit 1000 pieces of kryptonite, ranging in size from a few ounces to over a ton, randomly around the world at locations unknown to you.

If you kill your arch-nemesis, or any other ultra-wealthy people in an attempt to get rid of them by process of elimination, in any situation that would not legally qualify as justifiable homicide (IE, protecting yourself or others from imminent mortal danger you can prove is real), the US, Russia, and China will all decide you are a danger to the world that must be gotten rid of militarily.

Would you take this deal?

For the last few days my characters have periodically aimed down their gun sights for no reason without any input from me to do so, sometimes in the middle of other actions like jumps where it's really inconvenient. Once this happens they will not stop doing so until I click the aim button again, even though I have it set to hold instead of toggle.

I'm on PC, and I have not recently changed any settings that could cause this. Anybody else having the same problem?

If Elgin was the one to discover a picture with the real Sophia in it at random, then what was the point of what Acosta's been doing?

Shouldn't she have been the one to sort through all that old shit in the basement, find such a picture, and (in a sane universe) out the Man in Yellow to the others or (because From characters are stupid) hotheadedly attempt to confront him on her own and die?

MiY brought Tabitha out to the trailer just to put doubt in her mind that recovering the bones of the children is a good idea.

Why would he do that if doing so will in fact "unleash untold suffering" and work to his advantage?

We can obviously assume that the MiY is smart, because he's succeeded so many times, he's won so many cycles. We can presume that he doesn't jump the gun and make foolish supervillain mistakes like gloating about his plans before he's won.

So if digging up the children's bones really would work in his favor, he wouldn't warn Tabitha of that possibility and plant doubt in her mind. The only reason he would do that is if digging up the bones works to the humans' advantage and he is growing increasingly concerned that he won't be able to stop them from doing it, and needs to trick them into stopping themselves.

It's a good day to be a Harris, Bunny, or Luna main, they got AMAZING skins!

It's a good day to be an Ines main, she's stronger than Serena now!

It's a good day to be a Valby main, she's finally viable again!

It's a good day to be an Esiemo main, he got his ultimate!

It's a good day to be a gooner, Viessa let the intrusive thoughts win!

It's a good day to love these waifus, Harris and Serena got adorable scenes!

It's a good day to want more challenging content, we finally got some!

It's a good day to root for an underdog game, our biggest competitor just EoSed!

Damn...it's just a good day to play TFD. W Nexon.

I'm a PC player, relatively high end machine, AMD 7900XTX graphics card. TFD used to run smooth as butter for me. But in like the last week it's suddenly sucked. Can't maintain 60fps in Albion, game turns into a slideshow when a ton of Vulgus and effects are on screen.

I don't THINK it's my hardware. Other games that should be more demanding run fine. I'm not hearing my fans roaring and my temperatures aren't unusual so it's not thermal throttling. I dusted my case just to be sure and nothing changed.

Is anybody else having the same problem suddenly or should I go back to trying to figure out if something is wrong on my end?

Maxxine was a perennial midcard champion and occasional main event player. Mostly remembered as a beloved underdog face, she also had a heel run that is highly regarded in hindsight but was very controversial at the time.

In her career, she won the Intercontinental Championship four times, the United States championship seven times, the Tag Team championship six times (once with Natalya, once with Nikki Blackheart, once with Blake Monroe, and three times with Tatum Paxley as Nevermore (yes, it was a very, VERY obvious Wednesday joke but people loved it), and the Chyna Memorial Battle Royal once. She also had two world title reigns, once with the Women's World Championship and once with the WWE Women's Championship. She's also a three time divas champion (bear with me, that's where this story gets weird), one time Royal Rumble winner and one time Money In The Bank winner.

Maxxine spent the rest of the 2020s floating around between Raw and Smackdown periodically winning midcard championships. In 2029, she won Money In The Bank and became the first person ever to cash in during a War Games match, scaling the cage and ending Saya Kamitani's 587 day reign of terror to win the Women's World Championship.

Her heel turn the next year led into the most controversial storyline of her career. Chelsea Green, who was at this point an established main event star, had turned heel by cutting an internet-breaking pipebomb on the Women's Revolution itself and formed a stable called the Diva Mafia initially consisting of herself, Tiffany Stratton, and Blake Monroe, dedicated to bringing back the Divas era. Maxxine initially fought against them, but ultimately joined the faction, turning on Tatum Paxley.

The storyline was highly divisive, online opinion largely split between the belief that even doing this was antifeminist and a cynical effort to roll back the clock on progress for ratings, others rolling their eyes and essentially going "they're the heels you dummies", and a large number of people who unironically agreed with them and supported bringing back divas era shenanigans, particularly boosted by nostalgia due to the recent retirements of AJ Lee and the Bella Twins. Charlotte Flair got herself in trouble when she went off script (in hindsight it's generally believed this was a work) in a promo battle with Tiffany Stratton in which she accepted Tiffany's challenge to a bra and panties match only to insist she had won by default as that was what Tiffany's gear amounted to anyway. The Divas defeated the Horsewomen (with Alexa Bliss taking the fourth spot) in a traditional survivor series match at Evolution 3 with Maxxine as the sole survivor, winning a wager on the match that allowed Chelsea Green to rebrand the WWE Women's Championship back to the Divas Championship and resurrect all Diva-specific match types. The Diva Mafia ultimately fell however when Charlotte dethroned Chelsea and restored the WWE Women's Championship, her 18th world title and the final of her illustrious career, bringing the record back to the Flair family (in an absurd moment, Ric revealed he had only been pretending to be on his deathbed to motivate her, in actuality he lived another five years after seeing his daughter recapture the record).

Blake Monroe betraying Maxxine to steal her US title shortly after this caused the Diva Mafia to implode and Maxxine to turn face again, however a compromise was reached in which the Divas Championship was reactivated permanently but kept a separate title, competed for in Diva-specific match types that were generally more fanservicey in nature, for those women on the roster who were willing to do that.

However, the biggest moment of Maxxine's career came later, when she returned from a serious shoulder injury at the 2034 Royal Rumble and won. In the main event of WrestleMania 50, she won the WWE Women's Championship on the grandest stage of them all when 10 time world champion Becky Lynch tapped out in Maxxine's sharpshooter, leaving her boots in the ring and ending her hall of fame career. Seth Rollins would follow her into retirement the next night after losing his own main event to Avery Styles.

Maxxine's second world title reign lasted a full year, culminating in a feud with Sol Ruca, who had revived the Shang Tsung-inspired "Soul Snatcher" heel gimmick she hadn't used since the late 2020s and made her Wrestlemania entrance in full Shang Tsung gear as part of a promotion with Mortal Kombat 15, that is remembered as possibly the best feud of both of their careers and saw Maxxine take a Super Sol Snatcher off the titantron and through the entrance ramp.

Maxxine's career came full circle at Madison Square Garden, where she lost her last intercontinental championship in the place where she won her first, leaving her boots, and her straps, in the ring after being pinned by The American Icon, Liberty Rhodes. A few years after retiring, she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.