Quote from: yosemitemike on Today at 01:07:32 AMI have had to quit every 40k group I am in on Facebook.  Discussion has been entirely consumed by people talking about female Custodes and another push by the woke types for female Space Marines.  That's the actual end goal here.  Custodes aren't prominent enough.  They weren't even an army you could play until 2018.  They want to make GW and the fandom accept female Space Marines when all of the existing lore says they can't exist.  They don't actually care about female Space Marines or anything else in 40k.  They care about making people comply.

Of course. The rubes belive it's about diversity and inclusion and making women feel "welcome", while the activists want to twist 40k so it fits their agenda to chog the thing up with horrible girlboss characters who fight the patriarchy. And fuck the people, men and women who actually like 40k for what it is.

I personally find Custodes leaving Terra to fight battles across the glaxy far more bothersome to the established setting than the idea of there being females among them.

I wouldn't use it for normal skill progression but there are two ways I think it might be useful.

First is getting a new skill.  IRL, there are several skills that have a first success barrier that can frustrate novices.  A good example is learning to ride a bike.

The second is overcoming a developmental plateau.  In your example of 0-100, what if 70 is the normal max someone can obtain through the usual skill development but you can break through this ceiling through intense training and pushing yourself to the limit until you finally overcome the limit. 

I would also add that even a failure shouldn't result in no positive results.  If a player rolls and fails to achieve attainment, then perhaps a point could be added to attempt counter that accumulates until the success happens.  Maybe this can be a roll modifier that makes the next attempt a little easier or maybe it can give an automatic success once a player has made 10 or so attempts.

And less than 10 hours and we've already hit Copper Bestseller.

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I have had to quit every 40k group I am in on Facebook.  Discussion has been entirely consumed by people talking about female Custodes and another push by the woke types for female Space Marines.  That's the actual end goal here.  Custodes aren't prominent enough.  They weren't even an army you could play until 2018.  They want to make GW and the fandom accept female Space Marines when all of the existing lore says they can't exist.  They don't actually care about female Space Marines or anything else in 40k.  They care about making people comply.

Boy, the cover is great!

Quote from: SHARK on April 23, 2024, 05:32:16 PM

Quote from: Brad on April 23, 2024, 12:35:52 PMAs I am wont to say whenever these sorts of situations manifest, "It's nothing a shotgun wouldn't fix." Kill all the communists and you fix 99% of the problem. Tolkien isn't to blame for anything other than being an excellent writer who just so happened to write a British-inspired myth.

Greetings!

Damn right, Brad! I have been saying this forever. Gradually, more and more Americans are coming around to embracing this conclusion. Still, though, there are far too many people that naively believe that somehow, it is better and good to tolerate these terrible people within our communities. As one aspect of culture after another becomes corrupted and destroyed by the Communists, people are beginning to cry and worry about it. These nice, naive sheep though seem to be too stupid to realise that it might be too late, and America is fucked. The Communists have a chance to achieve total victory because too many Americans were passive, naive, and weak. More eager to hold onto cherished fantasies from days long gone than to actually face the truth and grapple with the reality that is destroying everything that they value right in front of them.

The Communists and other PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL morons have declared that Tolkien is racist, and Misogynist. Ergo, he must also then be a Hu-White Supremacist. *Rolls eyes* I wish I was making this up, but it is very real. I've read that these Liberal morons actually have said this kind of stuff about Tolkien.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

SHARK, the problem the Wokists exploit here is that seeing one's kind reflected on the Screen or in Print is a Good Thing. Tolkien presents his Secondary World drawing on principles from European (British) civilization, tradition, religion and myth. His story is (implicitly) Christian, and White and Male, because such is the main and traditional driver of European history.

Because the latter-day West's primary commandment is "ontological security!" wherein freedom from harm is the greatest good, the Wokists seize on the idea that all groups not prominently represented (or represented at all) in Tolkien are thus being deprived of their own Good, and so harmed.

Since the West is the best civilization ever created, in principle, faults and warts aside, it behooves us to preserve that which has traditionally driven its history. Preserving Tolkien is part of this, as it puts Christians-before-Christ, European racial stock, and heroic Masculinity into center stage.

Without this, the West, including America as its best and last defense against all external (Chinese) and internal (Islam, Wokism) threats, will crumple into multicultural confusion and demoralization, which the Oligarchal Blob seeks as a method of control.

It's true that Tolkien's viewpoint deprives Blacks, Women, Homosexuals, etc. of representational Goods. University-trained Leftists/Wokists therefore can't help but perceive Tolkien as racist and misogynist, when he is writing about White Traditionalist societies where racial mixtures are vanishingly rare, homosexuals unmentioned, and traditional sex roles are almost universal.

But this is a necessary feature of the West. The Wokists want to deface 20,000 years of European history and replace it with a Communist Year Zero. Anyone with a good heart can enjoy and even treasure Tolkien, but it takes a resentful, envious, and destructive heart to try to tear Tolkien down because he wrote a European myth.

The stumbling block for us, is that the Wokists want everything to be political, and so long as we play like it's not,  they win. Not just traditional representation on the Screen and Print is a Good, but the essence of Middle Earth is itself a Good, a sublime Good, and that means that Government Policies that move the West further from the traditions and axioms embedded in authors such as Tolkien, are destroying "all that is green and good in the world" by replacing it with the Wokist slag and rubble that you and I see and warn others about.

Tell a man he is something long enough, he starts to believe it. At this point in the West's intended and ongoing decline, if your heroes aren't called White Supremacists and Sexists, you're not trying hard enough. And if you're not trying to be like your heroes, then they aren't really your heroes. Tolkien wouldn't like being called what the Wokists call him, but Tolkien didn't live to see what we have lived to see, with much worse to come if we spend our energies peeling off labels rather than fighting for the Western tradition.

Neoplatonist1

Quote from: SHARK on April 24, 2024, 01:28:10 AMI hope that I have encouraged you, brother!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

I find your response and exhortation heartening, SHARK, and thank you for it.

Without giving us the right to defend ourselves and our loved ones God becomes a moral monster, and I'm happy to meet someone who sees a Christian way to avoid that horrible conclusion.

What Bible version do you use? Whom do you consult for Scriptural advice?

Neoplatonist1