Life Before Death

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

i do not subscribe to the idea of being available 24/7 just because i have a smartphone. i left the family computer, someones on the phone i cant use the internet, leave a message after the beep I'm busy bye

I want this so bad

I think Skitarii are honestly the best choice for a Mechanicus character within the Darktide character environment. You already have Guard (veteran and Ogryn), Astra Telepathica (psyker), Ministorum (zealot), and obv the DLC characters of the Hive Scum and Arbites. So long as the player characters stay on the axis of non-power armored humans, i don't think the Skitarii are that out of place, the designers even said it was one of the first archetypes they wanted in the game but it needed more time to cook and see what kind of combat niche it could occupy. As the story of Darktide expands, other imperial bodies like the Arbites, hive gangers, and Mechanicus are likely to get drawn in, but i think the devs know that adding in Sororitas or Astartes would be far too overpowered compared to the other characters.

Finally, some one agrees that SoB are to op for this game.

Oh absolutely. Darktide is supposed to replicate the feeling of being various fairly common ranks of baseline humans handling a relatively contained group of mostly human heretics. Adding in Astartes as bosses or players, or doing the same with Sororitas, would risk warping the power dynamics of the game around them. Most of the game’s bosses are heretic captains or mutants, they’re meant to be on equal or slightly higher footing than the players. If players can be running around in power armor going full auto with a bolter it really neuters the threat of the existing roster of enemies. Also I’ve seen ppl bring up the idea of Repentia as a way to add SoB elements but i feel like even that’s already filled by the Zealot option picking up an Eviscerator.

Yeah, we need like a Sister Novitiate or something, definitely not a character in power armour though

pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

It also has a scene where the robot uses a boat as a baseball bat. That also fucks tremendously.

It is quite literally the greatest movie ever made.

I do think some of the "why does this mech have a scarf/sword/shield" comments I get are really funny. Buddy it's cuz they're cool as fuck. You can accept giant mechs as acceptable military vehicles but you draw the line at accessorizing? Same vibes as when someone complains about boobs on snake anthros

for anyone who's willing to switch, theres an open-source alternative called Waterfox that has all the AI stuff disabled.

Knight who seeks to get injured in combat so she can be tenderly held by her Lady but she keeps absolutely killing it out there and she's too honorable to throw a fight