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While casually researching the military equipments of southeast asian countries, I find that thailand produces almost no any weapons domestically beside a little jeep; even the most basic rifles are imported from the united states. (and they had two completely different rifles: one is the HK33, known as the Type 51, infamous for their crapy, yet inexplicably still in production and limited to use only for those freshy rookies.once they enter service, they use a completely different rifle the american M16—what a weird practice, isn't it?).

I remember in the 1980s, Thailand had a pretty decent industry, being a big car producer in southeast asia countries, so why couldn't it even manufacture rifles? what happened to this country?

some weapon are difficult to determine which mutators suit their traits and could make them effective.

aphelion/corrupted aphelion

rupture cannon

corrupted cubegun

and,of course,that incredible inefficient and awkward trinity crossbow,I almost never use it, and whenever I do, it always disappoints me.

so which mutators are suitable for these weapons?

On a ordinary day in 1999, nearly one million of people around the world suddenly fund they had geted various superpowers. their backgrounds, classes, races, countries,and cultural backgrounds completely random————but none of them have IQ below 100, which is their only commonality (a fortunate thing for both the world and themselves).

 

Everyone of them have different abilities,and how strong their power vary greatly, and some of them are incredible powerful. even the weakest individual of them can easily kill at least one squad well-armed soldiers. and more powerful individuals can confront and destroy a squadron or even more tanks and attack helicopters, while the most powerful individuals (about 0.5%) can even detect, target, and attack stratospheric bombers and even incoming ICBMs from the ground and destroy them————yes, even the most powerful individuals among those supers are just at such level, they are never powerful as superman and far from reaching the level of nuclear weapons, but can be unstopable light infantry units or special force.

the only units who can stand against those supers units is another supers units.who can protect your president being secretely mind-controlled or replaced?only another group of supers……or himself is a super and outstanding powerful one.

 

Due to their incredible military value,all countries in the world are make a superpower arms race, how to effectively organize these supers, who are so diverse in ability and strength, and give them an advantage in battles against other group of supers combat nits? this is an extremely critical question.

 

(Of course,these supers are quickly realizing their true weight. although they are usually loyal and obedience at the first years, they soon, especially as they become increasingly stronger and more organized, start to pursue political power. the way they rise and hold power is pretty similar to the Ottoman Türkiye Janissaries.but this is not the focus of this topic.)

  

They have a concept of maximum energy reserves, and when these reserves are depleted, they cannot use any of their superpower and must rest for at least 8 hours to recover—————however,they just need normal food and sleep.

a typical super's maximum energy reserve is approximately 30 MJ.

 

they also have a concept of maximum energy output, which cannot be exceeded per second or per instance of manifesting their superpower (with a few exceptions).

a typical super's maximum energy output is 2 MJ. this is equivalent to the power of a 75mm shell

 

regardless of their form—whether it's a tungsten carbide arrow thrown by telekinetic force, a fist enhanced with superpower, or a laser beam

defensive requires at least the same amount of energy. to defend against an incoming75mmshell,whether it's stopping with telekinetic force, using superpower to enhance muscles, or creating an electromagnetic field to deflect, it's all the same.

 

regardless of their specific power, Supers can easily slaughter any mundane light infantry. small firearms are completely useless against them (although mass concentrated fire MAY weaken or even deplete their energy reserves). in other words, don't expect any light infantry to stand against them; no matter how elite these mundane soldiers are, they will simply be eaten by Supers as breakfast.

 

however, on the other hand, the Supers' offensive capabilities still can never match to most heavy weapons. their most powerful attack wouldn't exceed the power of an 88mmcannon and it will consume about 1/15 of their energy reserves.——————but remember—they don't need to carry any weapons; a few tungsten carbide arrows are enough to do so.

attack helicopters(such as AH-64 Longbow) and aerial firepower (such as the retired but dirty badass  F-111) are the bane of almost all supers. their mobility, attack range, and firepower far surpass those of most supers, and supers have virtually no means of attacking them.

however the problem is: when they are stationary on the ground, they are completely helpless targets.furthermore, most countries do not possess these expensive weapons.

 for most countries, the only heavy weapons capable of threatening Supers are heavy artillery and missiles. their power far surpasses that of most Supers, but explosive weapons are extremely difficult to penetrate their defenses. AP shell such as 120mm APFSDS can ignore anykind of their defensive measures……if they can hit their target.

 

In this setting, Superpowers are divided into six categories: Biomency, Chronowarp, Divination, Physicality, Telekinesis, and Telepathy.

 

Biomancy

specializes in healing wounds, physical mutation and enhancement (both for oneself and others), and biochemical attacks (such as creating viruses that cannot exist in reality, or making ordinary pathogens extremely deadly).

 

It involves healing wounds of oneself or others, treating diseases, and even regenerating lost limbs or organs (requiring significant time, protein, and other nutrients).it also involves extracting protein, water, minerals, and even directly absorbing the cellular tissue of other organisms for self-healing.

 

It involves dissolving other organisms, boiling their blood, turning it into incredible corrosive acid, causing countless bone spurs to grow instantly on the target's bones, not only piercing one's own flesh and organs but also harming surrounding targets like bone shards grenade, or turning the target into a biological bomb that explodes into a cloud of horrible acid or hail of venom bone fragments.

 

controlling the rapid mutation of oneself or other organisms, transforming oneself or other creatures into terrifying monsters, growing claws, fangs, tentacles, or organs capable of firing chemical lasers, enhancing physical abilities to levels impossible for mundane flesh; transforming blood into a potent acid capable of dissolving even gold yet harmless to oneself; using skin and muscles to withstand bullets, extreme temperatures, and acids.

 

limited stealth capabilities, functioning similarly to chameleons, however,it only effective when completely naked.

 

the ability to mimic and disguise oneself as any specific human individual.

 

the ability to create various dangerous pathogens, or mutate ordinary pathogens into desired forms, exhibiting terrifying effects that are biologically impossible. The same ability can also be used to counter this ability or create beneficial effects.

 

 

 

Chronowarp

 focuses on teleportation to oneself or others in different way, distances, cooldown times, and with varying precision. It can also be used as an attack method.

 

Teleportation is subject to error, both spatially (to the specific destination) and temporally. while the teleporter appears at the destination for a mere instant, they are not actually present immediately after disappearing; there is a delay of seconds, minutes, hours, days, or even years. note: Time flow is irreversible; it can only jump to the future, can never back to the past.

 

time Hoop, by intentionally increasing the teleportation error, allows the user to disappear immediately and reappear in the same or another location after a certain time, thus avoiding danger. It can only jump to the future, can never back to the past. for example, if a bomb is about to explode after one second, a Supers can teleport themselves to the same location five seconds later, disappearing and reappearing five seconds later to avoid this explode.

 

It can be used as an attack method to forcibly teleport a part of a target (such as their head or heart), causing fatal damage.

 

increase or decrease the flow of time at a specific target or area, accelerating themselves or slowing down enemies. the magnitude and range depend on the strength of the Supers; acceleration means increased energy consumption, and factors such as air friction must also be considered.

 

Static field: Completely stops the flow of time at a target or designated area, halting enemy movement or stopping the deterioration of a critically injured or dying target. Extremely energy-intensive.

 

Detect, interfere with, or prevent other people's teleportation.

 

 

 

Divination

focuses on enhancing reconnaissance capabilities, predicting the future, perceiving the past, intelligence analysis efficency, and the ability to seize subtle opportunities.

usually don't deployed as the frontline combatants. however, they are extremely deadly as sniper. a sniper with precognitive can achieve near-perfect accuracy and it ignores the effects of all random errors,unless their target can also evade using the same precognitive superpower

 

Clairvoyance and clairaudience,Seeing, hearing, and smelling things in distant or even completely enclosed spaces, such as eavesdropping on conversations in a secret room from kilometers away, or seeing documents in a safe.

 

predicting the future and adjusting actions based on the predictions, the degree and accuracy depending on individual strength of supers. when actions are taken based on the predictions, the predicted future also changes, requiring a new prediction. If the enemy also possesses same ability to predict the future and adjusts their actions accordingly, the previous predictions will become invalid or altered.

 

Tracing and understanding the past of a person, object, or place, or events that have occurred, without investigation.

 

Knowing things that were otherwise impossible to know, obtaining useful clues even there were none.

 

the ability to seize opportunities with unparalleled precision such as timing of pull the trigger of  gun.

 

 

 

Physicamancy

Manipulation of Matter and Energy, focuses on the attack and defense of various energies, as well as the shaping and alteration of matter. beyond pure energy attacks, many abilities in this category can instantly kill any living being. destroy any machine, or render it inoperable. however, these abilities have a small range, making it difficult to approach the target or requiring a long time to take effect.

 

Manipulating energy for attack and defense includes creating various forms of high and low temperatures, electric shocks, arc-current,corrosion (breaking molecular bonds not through chemical means but by controlling electromagnetic forces or rapid matter decay.), plasma, focused microwaves, lasers, etc.

 

energy attack(such as laser,plasma and electric-discharging current) usually need be charging before firing.

 

Altering the state and properties of matter, such as raising or lowering the temperature of an object, detonating ammunition on an enemy, turning lead into gold, and turning iron ore into pure iron blocks.

 

Changing the shape of matter; powerful individuals can even directly create finished products from materials. for example, a powerful super could turning iron blocks directly into gears, or even into precision clocks (they must be intimately familiar with the structure of clocks and the materials required for their components, meaning they must possess ample knowledge of mechanics and metallurgy).

 

Transforming any matter into ectoplasma, a supernatural substance, room-temperature plasma, which can be freely shaped or transformed into other substances.

 

Matter deconstruction breaks down objects directly into atoms. this process releases no energy; the target simply vanish into thin air or seemingly corroded by some invisible acid.

 

Invisibility by manipulating electromagnetic waves.

 

 

 

 

Telekinesis

focuses on the projection and manipulation of various physical forces based on telekinesis. Its essence is the control of gravity, the purest and most powerful physical force.

 

It has a wide range of applications, especially in gunfights where it can play a significant role.

 

It provides near-complete immunity to firearms and even artillery shells, deflecting or blocking enemy bullets and shells with telekinesis, requiring at least half of its energy reserves. For example, completely blocking 10 incoming7.62mmbullets requires 35,000 joules of energy reserves, while simply deflecting them only requires 17,500 joules.

 

It allows users to move objects, even themselves, or throw them for attacks.

 

It may  requires no medium or object; it can directly tear, smash, penetrate, cut, whip, and crush objects with invisible pure telekinetic force, even directly crushing an enemy's heart, but such attack method only at melee range.

 

It allows supers to perform various complex actions with their minds, such as pulling the pin on an enemy's grenade, stealing specific items from an enemy's pocket, open a locked door, or assembling a bunch of parts into a clock.

 

Creates powerful air currents to disperse flames and poisonous gases, and to block hail of arrows.

creates air-filled bubbles in water that move with them.

Creates larger-scale telekinetic barriers to protect not only oneself but also others.

manipulates gravity at will, altering the weight of specific objects within the ability's influence, and even changing the weight of different parts of the same object; can crush objects by controlling gravity.

 

 

 

Telepathy

focuses on mind control, memory manipulation, telepathy, and psychological damage. It is effective against all organisms with nervous systems (therefore, it cannot effectively control microorganisms without nervous systems), but only works fully on hominids.

usually don't deployed as the frontline combatants.

 

Detects thoughts and surface emotions.

Reads the target's memories.

Modifies the target's thoughts and emotions, the degree of modification depending on how powerful these supers are.

modifies the target's memories.

Telepathy at different distances, also in the form of dreams. Can be used for encrypted communication or broadcasting to groups.

Psychological attacks at different distances and intensities can cause the target to die physically but due to nervous system collapse, or become insane or mentally unstable. It can also be used for the opposite purpose: resisting and treating enemy psychological attacks.

Erases the target's awareness of themselves, thus achieving invisibility. It can only target a limited number of targets and cannot deceive cameras.

 

The Mi-24 was originally designed as a flying IFV, but practice has proven that is a bad idea. one major reason is that helicopters are sitting ducks when deploying soldiers.

but what if the Mi24 were used as a armed flying drones carrier? a Mi24 carried with two operators and their drones for offensive or recon. the drones can flight and can be deployed simply by dropping them out of its cabin.

the Mi24 itself possesses considerable firepower, while the drones can make some more sophisticated jobs or serve as scouts.

I'm not sure if this would work. have russia and ukraine used similar methods?

this has happened from time to time before, and usually re-entering the game resolves it.

but now it's been happening all day. what's happened?

Let's see what the supposedly merciful and omnipotent God has done to the humanity:

It banished its said to be finest creations from its garden and cursed them and their descendants to eternal torment simply because they ate apples—though it was said to be all-knowing, it could not know that a snake was about to tempt them.

Its method of punishing the world's first murderer was to banish him and punish anyone who dared to harm that murderer sevenfold. what kind of dementia sadist came up with this ridiculous punishment? Cain must be thanking God profusely: "Thank you, you old dementia bastard, now I'm invincible and will fully enjoy my life!"

used a great flood to kill all of humanity on the world, including countless absolutely innocent infants and babies.this supposedly all-mercy and omnipotent being did not use its supreme power to reform humanity but instead brutally slaughtered them all.

nah,clearly Lucifer/Satan had ample and legitimate reasons to rebel. anyone with a conscience would try to eliminate this hypocritical dementia old devil who called itself God.

the LB of "Brutality"make all damage +100% but all enemy damage also incresed 100%——————regardless how much tanky you are,every single hit from any enemy in apocalypse difficulty can kill you instantly.

so do such prism really practical and give you the thrill of slaughter without actually being killed by any single hit from any enemy? in the Boss rush mode, this would be a very anoy and terrible experience.

ADD：

Another question is: s it necessary to invest in defensive elements for such a prism (after all, any enemy attack can kill you instantly), or to put everything into offensive elements or increasing attack efficiency (such as fire rate + reload speed)?

Generally, believers of gods typically hope to earn a reward in afterlife through service or even martyrdom, usually such reward is to enjoy eternal happiness in their god's realm. the most outstanding mortal servants of their gods are expected to become somekind of high-ranking immortal servants of their gods, such as angels and devils/demons————whether or not this is true, that is at least what mortal believers expect.this is a very serious and vital matter to the people of fantasy world which have literally heaven and hell.

then let's talk about Lolth and her Yochlol. as Lolth's handmaids, Yochlol have no relation to the Lolth's drow priestesses; they are captured succubi converted and transformed through a special ritual.

When they spoke on behalf of Lolth and her mortal drow priestesses, these priestesses were as humble as dogs, even though they may theoretically far more powerful than average Yochlol.

So here are two questions:

1. Did the drow priestesses know that Yochlol were converted and created from captured succubi, and not transcedent from died drow priestesses?

2. Did the drow priestesses expect their services and flattery (such as murdering their sisters, abusing their brothers, and betraying their allies) to earn them a reward after they died? ————in particular, did they believe or expect that their services would allow them to become a Yochlol in afterlife?

Could we consider this is Lolth's ultimate scam and malice to her worshipers? those foolish mortals, who spend their lives killing, deceiving, and betraying each other to please their goddess, but their expected reward in afterlife is merely a scam,all their struggle,services and sacrifices could win nothing but eternal torment.they will never become Yochlols who ruling and bullying in Lolth's name, but will instead suffer eternal torment in some kind of hell in their goddess's realm————this approach is very much in line with Lolth's consistent style of doing things..

In the first novel of Drizzt's adventures, one of Drizzt's sisters said something like this.

I was shocked when reading: "hey, even though Yochlol is your mistress's messenger, it's just a CR8 nobody. do you really need to be so afraid of it? your attitude should stem from fear of it (and your) mistress, not from fear of it itself."

In Salvador's mind, is Yochlol a kind of powerful creature with a CR20 or higher, comparable to Balor? (I seem to recall seeing Yochlol's stats in 2E somewhere, where it was also a very weak creature).

by the way,in the latest storyline, readers are told that Lolth has fallen in love with Drizzt, even back in the Menzoberranzan era—WTF? Is this true?

Humans do not think solely through the meat CPU inside their skull; its operation is influenced by their entire body—endocrine changes, sensory signals from various body parts, or abnormalities in the working state of certain components, etc.

When you change your body state, even a very subtle change such as installing a minor cyber implants which dont even touch your brain, it may cause some degree of personality change. maybe such change is usually very subtle, such as suddenly disliking certain people or things you used to like, or having a particular liking or dislike for a certain color or shape.

but what about even more radical changes? if you were to remove your brain and place it into a robotic body to become a cyborg, even if the technology at that cyberpunk era could solve the terrible problem of systemic phantom pain, and your meat nerve signals were suddenly disconnected and connected by inorganic interface to control a robotic body———I believe personality change would be inevitable and extremely drastic.

I'm not saying you'll become a Cyberpsycho like in Cyberpunk 2077, but your personality could change rapidly and become completely different from before, you might become a completely different person in the eyes of others (although you yourself might not even realize it).

This is a technical question that suddenly came to my mind; I'm not implying anything and this is just my opinion; what do you think?

here an Explode build,

Archon/Summoner,

primatic driver+big bang mod spam attack style

prism with mod damage+crit damage+damage reduction(for Wrecking Ball)

or

mod damage+mod crit+Damage reduction(for Jack all Trade)

probability cord+shard band+burden of destroyer+some defensive ring

I have two prisms that can be used for explode build: they are largely same and differing only in their legendary bonuses: one is Wrecking Ball (100% critical chance for explode damage), and the other is Jack All Trade (all damage +40%).

I did some testing, and with all other variables being the same except for the LB, Jack All Trade's output is slightly higher around 3000.

so can anyone analyze the application scenarios, differences in combat styles, and the pros and cons of these two different LBs?

For bullets with large taper, such as 7.62x39, curved magazines are usually necessary; otherwise feeding problems may easily happen.

but for bullets with smaller taper such as 5.56x45, both straight and curved magazines exist. is there a difference in reliability between these two types of magazines?

In the various stuffs of Warhammer 40,000, I often see war cries "show no mercy!"

It makes me very curious: in the grimdark of the 41st millennium, what kind of idiots would show mercy to their enemy?what kind of idiots would expect mercy from their enemy of any kind?

does this kind of common sense in the universe of warhammer 40k really need to be reminded of as a war cry to anyone smart enough to use even a merely rock to fight?

the war cry "show no mercy" would simply doesn't exist at all at that age, because nobody with basic IQ would give and expects mercy from their enemy———the only mercy they can expect is the Emperor's mercy from their friends when they're lay in battlefield or any nightmarish situations, enjoy unspeakable pain and hope them already died.

In short, the T-3000 model is a edge-advanced Terminator model created by infecting humans with nanomachines, and it's the most powerful model ever (perhaps besides the T-X?).

it has great potential in terms of plot development—for example, in the next Terminator movie, we might see:

A human being transformed into a T-3000 but not fully controlled by Skynet.

The human resistance steals the technology to create their own T-3000 model, significantly weakened but freewilled—this is an extremely dangerous gamble; most candidate died horribly and only a few survive.the protagonist is one of the next movie.

his enemy must be even more powerful—perhaps the T-5000 or some special terminator with onboard one of Skynet's main servers.

I want to see a plot like this:

a powerful T-5000 or similar powerful terminator transported to Earth in the 2020s, secretly transforming world leaders into terminators under its control, while the protagonist (a weakened but free-willed T-3000) must stop him at all costs. both of them virtually as powerful as Alex mercer but being robotic.

Perhaps we can imagine something even wilder: an aging, dying and dementia president actively seeks cooperation with that T-5000, hoping to transform into a terminator and escape Death's pursuit and crown himself as king and could forever be the king. although he is a ridiculous dementia old idiot and laughing stock of entire world, he still has the authority to command the world's most powerful army and nuclear weapons. without doubt he would be the protagonist's most dangerous enemy.

more importantly: I'm really tired of the T-800. old Arnold really should retire.

First, his method of stealing the medicine was far from the obvious and overly plot armored in the movies. he created an explosion and then took the opportunity to steal the medis he need—but he didn't have time to find the ideal med; he only needed to find "not the most effective but passable" medic in the shortest possible time.

Secondly, unlike in the movie, he treated his wounds without any anesthesia—he used tweezers and cotton swabs to remove fragments and fibers from his wound. no any anesthesia.

Third, he watched tv for five consecutive days, on the same channel. but that wasn't the problem; the real problem is————he ate in restaurants every day instead of buying a ton of food and taking it back to his room to quietly recover—every second he walked around caused his nascent wounds to experience a tiny tearing and reopening. (I can't understand why a shrewd killer wouldn't buy a lot of food to his room and stay there for recover, instead of eating in public every day; it just doesn't seem like a good idea.)

Every time I try to play Engineer archetype, especially in Boss Rush mode, I'm utterly disappointed every time.

The Engineer's strength lies in their heavy weapons skill, but these heavy weapons are undeniably weak in damage and have ridiculously limited ammo.even with full load of rings and Legendary bonus (such as Jack all trade+skill damage bonus),they alway feel like weak as airsoft.

I usually don't hold heavy weapons because they are so weak and clumsy, and they prevent you from dodge,using melee weapon and mods and other skills.

The problem is with the heavy weapons—they're too weak and come with many irreparable disadvantages, making them completely inferior and simply incomparable to your normal guns.

Soldiers have to empty their intestines and bladders before work, but no one can predict when your body part will rebel.

just Imagine such a scenario: you're about to engage the enemy in next 60 seconds, and suddenly your stomach starts sending you terrifying warnings.

so what do you do? you're full loaded of gear and strips; taking off your pants for an emergency isn't easy. and if you choose to ignore it and simply dump in your pants, it will undoubtedly have a huge impact on your morale and combat effectiveness—even if you can't afford to worry about that under extreme tension of combat.

So how do soldiers deal with this problem in practice?