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Hey maybe you guys should stop writing for the Addams family cause you don't get them at all.

And when she's given good material to work with I love Catherine Zeta Jones as Morticia

Part of that is being the opposite of the shitty sitcom family where the wife is a nag, the husband is an idiot, the mother-in-law sucks, and no one seems to like each other very much. The Addamses actually love each other. There's no 'take my wife' bs. If Gomez calls Morticia a battle-axe or the ol' ball and chain he means it to be highly complimentary. There's none of the nonsense like in the pics OP posted. Gomez or Morticia lives with their mother in law (it depends on which version whose mother she is) who is literally a witch (geddit, 'my mother-in-law is such a witch...') and get on great. They genuinely and openly support, love, and care for each other through thick and thin.

But the biggest problem that Netflix's Wednesday has is that to make a really good Addams show rn would mean scrapping the Sabrina the Darksided Witch/boarding school Monster High concept, going back to basics, and having them live next to an upper-middle class, conservative values, MAGA family and letting their differences fuel the plot.

A really good Addams Family show would have Morticia fighting against book bans at the school and having hilarious misunderstandings about what her neighbour means about "Liberal witch hunts." It would celebrate queerness, and gender (and species) non-conformity because the Addamses are queer and gender non-conforming, and not always definitely human (Cousin Itt, for example). You know Fester's gender identity is probably something like 'an abomination.' If one of them gets asked, "What are you?" the answer is a prompt, "An Addams."

They would be fighting for co-ed sports so Wednesday can trounce a boy at fencing, and would find out her chromosomes are just 'spooky' or something.

There'd be an episode about immigration and being targeted by ICE. OFC several Addamses come from somewhere weird and arrived in the USA via broomstick, or tunneling from some underground community of cryptids, or other hilarious misadventure. Gomez would desperately want to be blackbagged and treated like a dangerous animal (cue a major flirting moment between him and Morticia). They would permanently scare ICE out of the town.

Wednesday would fiercely support Landback. Pugsley would get redpilled and learn a lesson real quick. Gomez would get into (and out of) Crypto, and Morticia would have run-ins with MLM 'huns.' They would advocate for freedom of religion. Granny would rally alongside Evangelicals to have religion in school, only to reveal she meant witchcraft. They would support UBI, and be anti-landlord. Easy episode idea: Gomez is a landlord and goes on a spiral about it ("But, Gomez, you love leeches and scum" "Not this kind! Morticia, they've painted everything white, in my name!!!" "No!") and they wind up in a battle with the town because he wants to unburden himself of this shame and the town wants to stop free community-owned housing.

The point is that Netflix isn't going to touch any of that with a ten foot pole. They don't want to; that's way too political for them. Instead, they made this wildly unrelated supernatural teen drama that has nothing to do with the original concept or world that the Addams Family exists in (they're outsiders in the real world, that's the point).

And, worse, Netflix's Wednesday actively goes against the original themes by being vaguely conservative in its values.

Netflix's Wednesday fails the assignment so bad I'd laugh, if it wasn't so disappointing and enraging. Just take a look at what the Mary Sue had to say about the whole "werewolf conversion camp" debacle for a microcosm of the many things wrong with this show.

"It wants to use hot-button topics like conversion therapy and colonization but it doesn’t understand how to work them into the metaphor. In fact, it barely knows how to work with the basic metaphor of “monsters” and how they function in the horror genre in general. In storytelling, the monster or the freak has always been the stand-in for the societal outcast. For the person who can’t be controlled by the dictates of polite society. They are the subtext for the outcast. But Wednesday makes the subtext text by literally splitting the characters into “outcasts” and “normies.” And yet the outcasts, the monsters and freaks who live on the fringe, are also the privileged and elite."

The joke there is that Gomez wants to be a failed businessman, and since Cryptocurrency ventures always collapse he wants to give it a go.

The end result is that the venture doesn't end up collapsing precisely because he keeps pumping money into it on the grounds that he wants someone to rug pull him for it.

Everyone talks about "Muppets Journey To The West." but no one talks about the Muppets Epic Musical starring Kermit as Odysseus.

Okay, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are special files in Linux that act as a pseudorandom number generators. Linux usually uses them for generating cryptographically secure random numbers. It does this by cultivating an "entropy pool" using inputs from stuff like electrical noise on your computer's device drivers, which is sufficiently random and impossible to monitor unless you already have access to the parts of the machine that would render cryptographic security moot in any case. The entropy pool is finite and can be exhausted if a lot of random numbers are requested very quickly.

/dev/urandom is distinct from /dev/random in that /dev/random is "blocked" - that is, if the entropy pool is empty, it will stop generating random numbers until the entropy pool fills up again. /dev/urandom is "unblocked" - begin generating numbers by either reusing existing bits of entropy or via algorithmic means. This is less cryptographically secure in theory, but there's no practical way to exploit it. For our purposes, /dev/urandom is important because there is no reason it will stop producing random numbers. It will not ever return End Of File, because it can always create new ones.

cat is a standard POSIX terminal command that reads a file and then writes its contents to somewhere - if no destination is specified, it writes it straight into the terminal. For example, cat readme will display the entire contents of the readme file. This is useful, for example, when you have a reasonably small file that you don't want to open a separate text editor to check.

The important thing about cat is that it reads an entire file, and won't stop until it reaches the end of a file. Keep that in mind.

/dev/null is a device file on Linux and other POSIX systems that will immediately destroy any data written to it, then report that the write operation was successful. Attempting to cat /dev/null will immediately read End Of File because it contains (and can contain) no data. There are all sorts of useful reasons why it exists but I won't get into them here.

When you cat /dev/urandom > dev/null, something very funny happens: cat attempts to read the entirety of /dev/urandom. But /dev/urandom, because it's unblocked, doesn't have an "entirety" - it can just make new numbers to satisfy demand, and the demand is "all of them!" There will never be an End Of File to tell cat to stop reading. Now, in any other circumstances, this would eventually terminate due to storage limitations - it would either fill up the computer's memory and run out, or if it's writing straight to a file, run out of hard drive space.

... but we're writing all the data we read to /dev/null, which immediately destroys it. The data isn't being stored. It's just being fed directly into the digital equivalent of an industrial shredder. This means that the limitations of our machine's memory and hard drive no longer matter.

The process that /dev/urandom uses to convert its entropy pool into random numbers requires CPU cycles to execute, as does the process of cat reading numbers from it and feeding them into /dev/null. Both of these processes are not in equilibrium - cat will ask for more numbers to read, and /dev/urandom will have to generate them. Eventually, they'll occupy 100% of the CPU's resources, which will put it under full load and generate a lot of heat, causing the BIOS to spin up the cooling fans. Unless some sort of safeguard has been implemented, this process will not terminate on its own - outside action from the user (or, say, a power cut) will be necessary.

You are now consuming electricity to dump the raw electromagnetic chaos of the universe straight into a black hole, and as a side product of the various mechanical inefficiencies inherent in computing equipment, generating a whole lot of waste heat.

Okay, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are special files in Linux that act as a pseudorandom number generators. Linux usually uses them for generating cryptographically secure random numbers. It does this by cultivating an "entropy pool" using inputs from stuff like electrical noise on your computer's device drivers, which is sufficiently random and impossible to monitor unless you already have access to the parts of the machine that would render cryptographic security moot in any case. The entropy pool is finite and can be exhausted if a lot of random numbers are requested very quickly.

/dev/urandom is distinct from /dev/random in that /dev/random is "blocked" - that is, if the entropy pool is empty, it will stop generating random numbers until the entropy pool fills up again. /dev/urandom is "unblocked" - begin generating numbers by either reusing existing bits of entropy or via algorithmic means. This is less cryptographically secure in theory, but there's no practical way to exploit it. For our purposes, /dev/urandom is important because there is no reason it will stop producing random numbers. It will not ever return End Of File, because it can always create new ones.

cat is a standard POSIX terminal command that reads a file and then writes its contents to somewhere - if no destination is specified, it writes it straight into the terminal. For example, cat readme will display the entire contents of the readme file. This is useful, for example, when you have a reasonably small file that you don't want to open a separate text editor to check.

The important thing about cat is that it reads an entire file, and won't stop until it reaches the end of a file. Keep that in mind.

/dev/null is a device file on Linux and other POSIX systems that will immediately destroy any data written to it, then report that the write operation was successful. Attempting to cat /dev/null will immediately read End Of File because it contains (and can contain) no data. There are all sorts of useful reasons why it exists but I won't get into them here.

When you cat /dev/urandom > dev/null, something very funny happens: cat attempts to read the entirety of /dev/urandom. But /dev/urandom, because it's unblocked, doesn't have an "entirety" - it can just make new numbers to satisfy demand, and the demand is "all of them!" There will never be an End Of File to tell cat to stop reading. Now, in any other circumstances, this would eventually terminate due to storage limitations - it would either fill up the computer's memory and run out, or if it's writing straight to a file, run out of hard drive space.

... but we're writing all the data we read to /dev/null, which immediately destroys it. The data isn't being stored. It's just being fed directly into the digital equivalent of an industrial shredder. This means that the limitations of our machine's memory and hard drive no longer matter.

The process that /dev/urandom uses to convert its entropy pool into random numbers requires CPU cycles to execute, as does the process of cat reading numbers from it and feeding them into /dev/null. Both of these processes are not in equilibrium - cat will ask for more numbers to read, and /dev/urandom will have to generate them. Eventually, they'll occupy 100% of the CPU's resources, which will put it under full load and generate a lot of heat, causing the BIOS to spin up the cooling fans. Unless some sort of safeguard has been implemented, this process will not terminate on its own - outside action from the user (or, say, a power cut) will be necessary.

You are now consuming electricity to dump the raw electromagnetic chaos of the universe straight into a black hole, and as a side product of the various mechanical inefficiencies inherent in computing equipment, generating a whole lot of waste heat.

Gag-a-day strip with the art and writing of a forgettable newspaper comic, but which inexplicably has 25 years worth of intricate setting lore and requires a day-long archive binge to fully understand the context of a grade-school pun.

Self-proclaimed deconstruction of superhero comics or giant robot anime or magical girls or something that has the exact same plot beats as every other self-proclaimed deconstruction of superhero comics or giant robot anime or magical girls or something. If you support the artist's Patreon you can download alternate versions of selected pages where the protagonist has their tits out.

Webtoon that sprang into existence complete with a hundred thousand followers at some point in the last week; the art displays immense technical mastery of figure drawing, but absolutely no grasp of panel layout, and the writing's gender politics are weirdly reactionary for something whose official synopsis manages to use the word "queer" three times in the space of two paragraphs.

Long-form narrative which hasn't received regular updates in several years due to the author's incredibly demanding real-life obligations, but instead of cancelling the comic or going on hiatus, they continue to publish one page roughly every four months with the kind of grim determination normally associated with historical anecdotes about the Battle of Stalingrad.

Fantasy adventure comic which you strongly suspect, but cannot prove, is a direct adaptation of somebody's high school GURPS campaign. The story is so elaborately and discursively plotted that you need to keep the fandom wiki open in a separate tab simply to remember who the fuck any of these people are.

Chicken-scratch parody comic about, like, Rainbow Brite fighting the Care Bears or some shit that somehow has better writing than anything on Netflix.

What I should have actually asked is "Are there any builds with Tortuga3/Viceroy3 where using the Viceroys Trait of converting Launchers to CQB Weapons in conjunction with the Throughbolt Rounds Mod are viable?"

I'd still require rolls for calculating the right approach trajectory to intercept the satellite at the correct speed, actually clamping onto it, and sabotage it before Impact Dynamics marines can get to them.

Grammaton Mantle could be also abused to get into Impact Plaza and accomplish some objective like stealing Steele's Terashima Blade. I could go on about how to structure such a break-in, but I'll just note that the only frame aside from the Calendula that can become Intangible is the Mourning Cloak. They're rare and expensive, but someone as loaded and vain as Steele definitely has at least a couple among his security forces or for himself.

I also don't think there's much risk of a player derailing the story too much by killing Steele: that would be made extremely hard by needing to actually locate him in the station before he can surround himself with too many bodyguards to take out, and it's easily pointed out that if he dies, Impact Dynamics won't be any less alive and exploitative, but his successor might be actually competent.

Am I speaking nonsense or does this sound plausible? Did it cross your mind before?

Okay so this post sent me down a rabbit hole at the intersection of Lancer's lore and mechanics.

My first question was "wait, wouldn't they notice the Calendula coming and fire the laser?" But that actually reminded me that I didn't know whether or not an Intangible character can actually be seen by characters in the regular universe.

So, I went to the tireless heroes in #rules-questions, and the consensus is that an Intangible character can't be seen by tangible characters, at least not in any way that's "mechanically meaningful." Based on this sentence in Field Guide to the Karrakin Trade Baronies:

Tangible characters can move through INTANGIBLE characters and objects but not end their turns inside their spaces and can’t affect them in any way.

It is the understanding of #rules-questions that a tangible character could not, for example, reveal an Intangible character who was also Hidden, even if they would otherwise be in line of sight, because this would count as "affecting" that character. The only interaction tangible characters can have with Intangible characters is that they block each other from ending movement in each others' spaces, although this is likely a mechanical failsafe to make life easier for battlefield tracking on VTTs.

Cable's robot arm has met multiple marvel Devils and is good friends with one of them. Cable is not.

They're not all gonna be stuck in Everests. Off the top of my head:

Tavros: Nelson

Sollux: Goblin with Black Witch systems

Karkat: Manticore

Nepeta: Enkidu

Kanaya: Dusk Wing

Terezi: Mourning Cloak

Vriska: Everest, as already stated

Equius: Zheng with Blackbeard systems, although he'd take a really hard, longing look at the Minotaur

Gamzee: CALIBAN

Eridan: Sherman

Feferi: Balor

You do this.

(Yes, this has fully replaced the Gamzee conversation. Eridan fit way better)

And then John is the HA pilot, because at this point he doesn't have the self-awareness to really parse past the propaganda and see the issues underneath, in addition to the fact that HA mechs are baseline GOOD and reliable, while at the same time not boring.

But then who would sign up for SCC-Dave. It has to be Dave. Man is getting a Terashima Blade. Even if he's aware of the things that SCC does and disapproves of them, early Dave cannot resist the siren song of being the coolest most backflipping thing in space.

Which leaves Jade... with IPSN

Which

I don't have a citation for

But those parts of me that were once lost and buried say that it's true.

John "TRICKSTER" Egbert pilots an IPS-N Tortuga called Prankster's Gambit. It has the ISP-N Raleigh's Kinetic Hammer. I chose this mech largely because John has absurd levels of MANGRIT and is very protective of his friends.

Rose "THERAPIST" Lalonde pilots a HORUS Pegasus called Thorn of Oglogoth. It is the only one currently installed with an NHP, a SISYPHUS-class named Jasper. I chose this mech for largely the same reasons you did.

Dave "GODHEAD" Strider pilots a HA Tokugawa called Ill Beats To Study To. This is my least favourite choice, but it was basically the default choice after all the others I'd chosen. I'll go into more detail down the page.

Jade "GNOSTIC" Harley pilots an SSC Death's Head called Dreaming Dark. I chose this largely because Jade's Strife Specibus for the vast majority of Homestuck is RIFLEKIND and it makes sense as a pure sniper build.

So Homestuck is very heavy on 2-fold and 4-fold fold numeric categorization of sburb session players.

There's 2-fold numeric categorizations - male/female, Prospit/Derse, red/blue (troll session), red/green (Cherub session), active class/passive class etc. and also dualisms such as Time/Space, Light/Void, Heart/Mind etc.

There's additionally what I would pretentiously describe as dualistic parallelism between scratched timelines: John (GT) and Jade (GG) become Jane (GG) and Jake (GT), exchanging both abbreviations and genders, while Rose (TT) and Dave (TG) become Roxy (TG) and Dirk (TT), exchanging abbreviations but not genders. We can speculate a similar thing may have happened with the pre-Scratch trolls but Hussie never bothered to tell us what their trollhandles were.

There's 4-fold numeric categorizations, such as classical element (Earth/Air/Fire/Water), noble gas (Helium/Neon/Xenon/Krypton), exile (WV/AR/PM/WQ and CD/HB/SS/DD), consort type (turtle, salamander, crocodile, iguana, etc.)

(The trolls also had 12-fold numeric categorizations but fuck that it's too complicated to categorize and not relevant right now)

Lancer conveniently has a couple of very useful 4-fold numeric categorizations: manufacturer and HASE (and it's nested, because the manufacturers themselves divided by HASE). It follows that I should divide the four original Homestuck kids one-per-manufacturer.

I had to give John the giant hammer and a big strong mech. If we're assuming that he's LL6, I reckon he has two levels in Tortuga, three in the Raleigh and a single LL-splash in Blackbeard for Synthetic Muscle Netting, to make his Tortuga e%tra STRONG. For core bonuses, I'm pretty sure he has Gyges Frame (more Threat with his hammer!) and Improved Armament.

Rose has all three levels of Pegasus, a level of Swallowtail for Lotus Projector and I'm not sure where her other two levels are. Her Core Bonuses are Lesson of the Held Image and Universal Compatibility, which she uses SISYPHUS dice-manipulation to rig so she always gets her Core Power back.

Jade has all three levels of Death's Head, two levels of Mourning Cloak for Singularity Motivator and one level in the Sunzi for obvious reasons. Her core bonuses are Auto-Stabilizing Hardpoints (on her Railgun) and Overpower Caliber (also on her Railgun).

Dave got stuck with a Harrison Armory mech mostly to maintain Homestuck's numerology. While the Blackbeard, the Atlas and the Metalmark all fit him, it would not be in keeping with Homestuckian numerology to give him a mech from a manufacturer that someone else had. Also, giving him the Tokugawa and making Engineering his highest stat at least let me keep his fire motif intact.

I reckon Dave has all three ranks in Tokugawa and three ranks in the Sherman for Redundant Systems Upgrade and potentially ASURA. His core bonuses are Superior by Design and Heatfall Coolant System because he stays chill 24/7.