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I'm finally starting to get my sea-legs in terms of 11th and am ready to move back to my favorite faction. When we weren't playing the game correctly I was having a really hard time and felt like admech kinda sucked using the same big body type lists (dunecrawlers, kastelon robots, kataphrons, etc.) When I was told that that's actually meta now apparently? I was also told that Cawl and Thulia were basically needed or at least used in every list. Cawl i get, getting fake oath of moment is pretty dang good and ensuring we get good shooting when I do a lot of shooting makes sense.

Thulia I understand less. I know that being able to get some really flexible movement on her or any nearby unit with the skitarii keyword (like dunecrawlers) can be good but with me basically only bringing dunecrawlers for nuetron laser and maybe a unit of rangers I don't have many skit targets for that. Is she just that good at killing stuff that she's worth taking? Or is she a must grab for different lists? I just kinda don't get it

(Also I run primarily Radzone-Lords and run it as Take and Hold)

[Numerous images as attached. Multiple shots showing off painted Warroller 40k models as well as top down views of various states if the game, in one of them, Gina is seen staring at her phone very confused and puzzled. Notably, there are no selfies or any pictures that include the picture taker in them.]

Got to play a game with Gina here yesterday over at Very Ono Games in Arowana Mall! It was Gina's first game so she had a bit of trouble wrapping her head around all the rules at once (it does get very complicated, it's a lot to dive head first into) I did both the armies here, Gina is just borrowing my Octobots :)

I won at the end of the day, she did get pretty close to tabling me at the end but unfortunately for her (my) I blew up her over extended Octobot Gauntletier and was able to get some pretty gnarly board essence and outscore her. Points are how you win the game after all! I kinda scuttled out of there really quick so forgot to ask but I'm pretty sure she had fun! If anyone else is near Arowana and wants a game, let me know!

I've been playing for a long time but my local games store (Very Ono Games) is basically only full of tableturf players now a days. Which, no shade onto them or anything, they aren't a problem, I just don't have anyone to play with.

I run a pretty good InkTech list if I do say so myself but I also sometimes run Great Octobots

My old Cephalo Pods finally bit it and don't work anymore. As such I need new earbuds but ngl these things were kinda trash right out the gate. Does anyone have any different brand or model recommendations? Preferably a non-gear type set. I don't go turfing much but when I do there's a headgear I already like using so if I could wear these under that without getting called out by refs for gear stacking that'd be great.

Ooc: I really think things escalated way too hard here and kinda ruined what we had going. Sure it might not have been as active before but everything felt normal? Like how things would go in general day to day for the lives of our various inklings, octolings, and various other sea creatures. Talking about weapon tune ups, good snack spots or asking if their fits were fresh.

Now everything is so much grander in a way that I at least didn't ask for. Agent related stuff is everywhere despite the NSS not really being common knowledge in world, with raiders having just dropped there's understandably a lot of people playing mechanic and I literally saw a post talking about how the very tineline might be getting messed up. Like that's so not what this was about, at least it my eyes.

Maybe I'm just being a grumpy old fart and no one else really thinks that the old slice of life kinda thing we had going was any good , but idk. I prefer picrew "selfies" and locker checks over whatever the hell is going on now and I don't like how it's changed. Would it be possible if we just took a step back and recentered maybe?

Okay so me and a few friends are going through the smash ultimate roster and grabbing THE WORST representative of a game we can find for each series, characters with NO notoriety, NO staying power, and VERY LITTLE to represent the series as a whole.

For example instead of Mario we have Thwimp! (Not thwomp, thwimp is a different guy) as our pokemon rep, Stojurner! (My apologies to the stojurner fans) and Zelda is still a little up in the air but I like the pick of Like-Like.

The issue is, as a splatoon fan, nothing I can come up with isn't popular enough OR would actually be sick as shell. For example, Cipher has basically nothing to thir character, however being near on the cover for side order gives them at least some notoriety. Any salmonid is right out with raiders being salmon run on crack, and if Crusty Sean got a moveset that would actually be awesome, and rad.

It's gotta be a character, no "Marie's umbrella" type thing, we gotta get real with it

Edit: thanks to suggestions, Marigold is kinda the perfect pick, thanks!

BEFORE YOU LIGHT ME ON FIRE!!!! I don't dislike the raiders soundtrack, I just think every other splatoon game has a better one. I think this primarily comes from all the music being salmon run music which like, duh, and don't get me wrong it can be very atmospheric, but none of these songs are ones I'd listen to on my day to day.

"This is so weird, why does my deserted spirilite islands not have a Chirpy Chips"

Don't get me wrong, splatoon has always taken a very diagetic approach to its design, and I love that, so for there to basically only be salmon music makes sense, I just think the person who listens to exclusively salmon run music in their free time needs a therapist.

((OOC: I've got nothing agaisnt the storyline or anything this IS in character 👍))

There's something going on here that we aren't being told. I really think this is a ploy of some kind. I'm not sure the end goal but this all seems way too... convenient, wouldn't you say?

Think about it! There was a surge of posts from Octolings who had left the underground, typically ex soldiers. And then out of the blue, a hyper elite task force shows up hunting these people down?

What's more is at least as far as I know they haven't truly done anything? I personally know multiple "prime targets" for this group and none of the "sightings" have been anywhere near them, pretty incompetent for an elite team don't you think?

And last the really big one, they're the octarian *10*

10!? I want everyone from the domes to think back woth me. When, have you EVER heard of an offical group with a number in it that WASNT A MULTIPLE OF 8

It's always been 8s 16s and 64s!!! And even then it basically all just 8!! Offical squad sizes have been 8 since before ANY of us were born and you think they STOPPED holding onto thay practice NOW!? Or missed it by 2!?!?!?

This is a farce made to incite fear and harm our community, while again, I don't know ow an exact end goal this is all, CLEARLY completely phoney!!!

I mean not really because I got writers block and only did half of chapter 4 but that's next and then it's 1]]% complete.

It has taken me

4 years.

2 houses.

2 cats.

3 jobs.

5 visits to different churches.

And one baptism.

Today, I wrote the words "The end." It's crazy to me. What's next is publishing. What started as an AU of a fanfic I myself had made for a game I don't even play anymore, has become one of the most meaningful things I've ever done. I've put so much of myself into this to the point where even after knowing the ending for 3 and a half years I was still tearing up while typing it. This has legitimately taken me across the highest highs and lowest lows of my life so far, and I truly never thought this day would come! Not because I didn't think I would be able to finish it, but that it was simply so far out that I need not worry about it. The end is so far away, what would planning do? So much is going to change in my life between then and now. And after all this time, so much of my life HAS changed from then and now.

I share the common issue of starting too many things and finishing none of them. But this one time, this one story, has become everything to me.

If you ask me. Art is made for the artist, media is made for the audience. When art is shared however it is one of the most buetiful things, because it need not be shared, everyone who needs to experience it already has by the time you do. And this book was art. It was made for me, and since I knew it all already, I had a hard time writing it, because I already knew it fully and completely. I can now share it. I'll have to get mailing addresses for the fans that have help support me along the say so I can give them signed copies. Something I always said I would do, but now I can.

Okay so PI says (among other things) increase the BS of weapons by 1.

The penalty of cover is your BS gets reduced by one. This cancels out, no?

Additionally, if we look at the second part of PI, granting heavy. If no model in that moved more than 3 inches, and a model say, had a weapon with a printed 3+ BS. Would that mean that with PI we could fire straight through cover at 2+?

3+ printed, 2+ PI, 3+ cover, adding 1 to the hit roll from heavy (effective 2+)

The math is sound, no?

This is the most personal information I'm ever gonna post on here but I'm looking for my older brother.

He had made a break for it after that first dj Octavio concert with the squid sisters back in like 2015. He basically had to cut all communications and really anything that could connect back home since defectors were still getting hunted down (I know I sure as shell got crab load of questioning out him doing that.)

I've since left myself as part of the mass exodus in 2018 after that second concert. The last message I got from him before he went dark completely was that he had made it to inkoplis and that he was safe. But again that was back in 2015 so he could reasonably be anywhere now.

I'm looking to see if there are any familiar faces who grew up in the same dome we did who would be willing to meet up in person and help me look, because I'm definitely not putting our names out on the internet.

Seriously. Every day I'm seeming people post pictures of their faces just randomly out into the internet- which like- sure, that's a common enough thing, still very irresponsible since that let's anyone with an editing software do anything they want with your likeness.

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BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE POSTING LIKE LICSENSES AND WORK IDS ON HERE!!!!

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Are you TRYING to get your identity stolen? Like sometimes there's some info that really should not be posted for strangers to see on the internet!

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"But I work for grizzco and they're unethical, so I don't care that people are using my info to steal files"

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Hey dumbass that dataleak is still coming from YOUR work account and you're still out of a job!

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Anonymity is your friend on the internet please for your own sake don't be posting your work IDs or licenses on the internet, even if you edit the image to block out the important bits

Hey all. I don't really turf often... like ever. But I do on the rare occasion!

My friends have offered to front the chunks to get the comfy gear I like using kitted out but I have no clue what to tell them and I already give them enough grief anyways, I really don't want to force them to decide on this too, they're already paying for it.

The thing is I just dont know what would be good or I should go for, I don't really even know what all the powers are. I'd also prefer if it didn't change the feeling of the gear itself too much? I know that if you go crazy on swim speed ups it makes the material CRAZY breathable and I'd prefer if my stuff stayed generally how it is now.

Anybody got any suggestions?

Okay so brief run down here is RZC has an effect where after the initial bombardment the opponent's deployment zone become irradiated and from rounds 2-5 enemy units in their deployment zone have a 5+ to take 1 mortal wound for each unit, hereby referred to as "cancer town"

There's an Enhancement, radial suffusion, that increases the size of this area to be six inches beyond the deployment zone and not just the deployment zone. The bearer of this Enhancement will be hereby referred to as "The Mayor of Cancer Town" or "The Mayor"

I have been playing it where once the Mayor of Cancer Town dies cancer town returns to just the deployment zone, since the mayor was the only one really pushing for cancer town redistricting.

I'm more than happy continuing to run it like that but I became curious after a game today: does it really work like that? Or does cancer town stay big the whole game, even after the mayor dies, do we definitively know? Has this been conclusively determined?

So before I am set on fire for being a heretic, I want to open with I love my dunecrawlers, I call them my dogs. My Enginseers do not "give the blessing of the omnissiah to my onager dunecralwer" they "pet the dog"

However I only ever use the nuetron laser and 2 cognis heavy stubbers wargear options. I know that they have a lot if other options but... I don't know how to put this nicely... why would I ever use any of them?

Yes I know one stubber is always free. But like- the nuetron laser is strength 16. MASSIVE!!!! This can get 3+ on KNIGHTS this is EXACTLY the type of artillery I want, perfect for firing into any tank or beefy thing my opponent can throw at me.

While the eradication beamer can still punch reasonably hard at strength 10 when focused, it can only focus at 18" whereas the nuetron laser has 4 whole feet of range.

Are any of these profiles ever worth taking in perhaps haloscreed or SHC??? I only play Radzone Corps as it's my favorite and I am proud to say I have a 62.5% win rate according my game and stats tracking app. So I'm less of asking "how can I win here?" And more of "when would these be used?" I just kinda don't get it? It might be because I'm too "big strength, big toughness" coded but idk why I'd use anything besides that. Help me out fellow acolytes of the machine cult.

I swear it's like every day they find a way to message me over ever possible interface asking if I want to go turfing. They'll send texts to my phone, they'll @ me in Shello servers. Shell, yesterday they sent me a message on the Seas of Conquest launcher. NOT a message in game, THE ACTUAL LAUNCHER ITSELF, WHY IS THAT EVEN A FEATURE!?!?

And it's always somewhere so far away! "Let's go to hammerhead bridge! There's a game there!"

"We have a round set up in the Mako mart across town and we could really use you, it starts in 15 minutes."

"Hey you should come turfing over in scortch gorge, you know? That place in the middle of the desert, in the middle of the freaking splatlands"

"You should join in on this tower control game tomorrow AT THE TOP OF A FREAKING SKY SCRAPER"

Like- No! I don't want to! Thats insane!! I swear one of the guys in the friend group tried to put together a game ON THE HIGHWAY like ON it, where the cars go! I don't care if we have respawners I don't want to get hit by a semi truck!?!?

And don't even get me started on the splatfests! "Oh you HAVE to come to this ramen place thats like a 3 hour train ride away from your place, we need you to fight for the honor of popcorn in the war agaisnt pretzels and waffles!!" OH MY COD I DONT CARE!!!! Like don't get me wrong some of the splatfests are about something that actually matters but half the time they're over the most benign things and they're always on raid nights!! Like- hello? Me and my guild have been planning this dungeon raid for weeks, I'm not just gonna ditch last second leaving them down a healer just so I can watch Ben drink so much soda he pukes and we have to call it two and a half hours early!!

Sorry for venting there I just got frustrated. How can I get my friends to leave me alone about this? Telling them bluntly that I just don't like turf wars has not worked.

(And before you suggest it these people are good people who are nice to me and I care about I'm not gonna ditch em over this.)

Okay so I like admech a lot (don't we all?) And I really like ttrpgs! I want to run a game in the 40k universe where all the players are a part of the machine cult, getting all up in stuff they should not be getting up in! It's a very loose idea right now since I'm still deciding on a system, I've heard Dark Heresy has a tech priest class that is modular enough that you could have a full party of tech priests and not have everyone feel too same-y but at the same time I want to offer the players the ability to be skits or sicarians and other parts of the machine cult (I also know nothing on how the system works)

I've also though maybe using one of the cyberpunks but I also know nothing on how THOSE systems work, but I'm willing to run and learn just about system. I promise I'm an experienced gm I just have most my hours in dnd 5e and Lancer with some dabbling into the street fighter ttrpg, everything else I've only been able to read rule books for.

But at my table fluff is free so if that means being a dark heresy tech Priest while actually being a skit, that's fine. If that means using dnd and reworking the fluff of every spell and ability to match the mechanicus so be it.

If you'd be interested in this kind of game or have any suggestions for systems or hell even little plot ideas if'n you wanted to share em please let me know! I'm leaning towards dark heresy from what little unfortunately I've gathered so far but it'll still be a long way out before I'm actually ready to run this. But yeah, who here thinks that would be neat?

I find myself, as a big fan of admech in all forms and settings, I really want to run a game focused around them completely! With a party of players playing as various skitarii, sciarians, datasmiths, low level techpriests, etc.

I am an experienced gm at this point with many many games in dnd 5e and Lancer primarily but also a fan of the street fighter ttrpg. I haven't gotten to play many more but I've read through a lot of other books!

Now at my table fluff is free. So in fine using any system, I feel 5e can be pretty well adapted to any setting but I want to know if there are any good systems that need little adaptation. I will say despite being mechs and robots I feel lancer is a bad pick because it's a very Gundam "do everything at once" type of game and admech is not that quick. Despite it being my favorite ttrpg!

Are there any good ttrpgs for being in the machine cult?

EDIT: SOLVED!!!! No longer an issue. A very kind inkling was able to help me out

Okay so I know this is a kinda dumb idea to be posting where you love on the internet but I don't really know anyone and I'd prefer to not die.

I can't open my door to leave my apartment! I think there's like a box or something in front of the door and it's too heavy for me to push it away with the door.

And before anyone asks, yes the door is unlocked. Yes, I called the front office, no one ever picks up. The windows don't open and I'd lose my security deposit if I broke one. And no I am not going through any drains.

So yeah that's where I'm at. If anyone could like... go to the fourth floor of the apartment complex about 2 blocks away from Arowana Mall and see if there's like any obstacle in front of someone's door... and also remove it, I'd greatly appreciate it an can buy you lunch.

(I'm not saying the apartment complex's name or my exact room number so that this post doesn't just have my address on it for forever.)