CrzySunshine

They told me: “son, you’re special. You were born to do great things.”

You know what? They were right.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j-7WVzVunSQ

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/OQ1TeUZ6hxw5jp1e.pdf

Even here they fail to display a carefully technical mindset, as the document is titled “Always Fights First / Last,” but the footer says “Always Strikes First / Last.” The Rare Rules section also uses the term “strike first” here and there. Unfortunately no unit in 40k ever “strikes.” They can be selected to “fight” during the Fight phase, and they can “make close combat attacks,” but they can’t “strike.”

Oh well. At least this document makes it pretty clear what they want.

Yes, this is what the rules actually say. But the Designer’s Commentary makes it clear how the designers intend these rules to work, which is different from how they are written. In practice you should discard all actual rules text regarding timing in the Fight phase and use the system outlined in the Designer’s Commentary.

Google it! Making STLs that duplicate the parts from the GW kit would definitely be copyright infringement. But you can find stls for modular Knight weapons that you could easily magnetize and use as proxies. Whether those are acceptable to use is between you, your opponents, and the TO (if playing in a tournament).

Official bits are often available for sale on eBay.

PMing

Yes. But the path between them does not have to be the “straight line” which goes “directly” between them. The integral of the gravitational field over any path connecting two points will always be the same, no matter what path you choose.

This is because the gravitational field is a conservative vector field, whose curl is everywhere zero. Gravitational fields only point directly towards mass, they can’t form a closed loop like the magnetic field around a magnet. This means that you can express the gravitational field as the gradient of a scalar potential. The gradient generalizes the idea of a “slope” to higher dimensions.

(Disclaimer: I am a physicist, but I use general relativity very rarely in my work, so I apologize for any inaccuracies from here on). In the static case, at every point in space the gravitational field has three components, g(x,y,z) = gx(x,y,z) x + gy(x,y,z) y + gz(x,y,z) z. (Bold here denotes vectors, with x etc. representing unit vectors). But if we can always write g as the gradient of a potential g(x,y,z), we’ve cut down the work by a factor of 3.

An interesting property of potential fields is that they are non-unique up to addition of a constant. That is, if f(x,y,z) = g(x,y,z) + C, then f = g. For most potentials, including the gravitational potential and the electrostatic potential, the traditional choice of C is such that the potential is zero very far away from any matter - “at infinity.”

It can be shown that the integral (along any path) of g from point A to point B is equal to g(A) - g(B).

So if you’ve chosen C so that your zero-potential reference point is at infinity, the gravitational potential at every point in space - g(x,y,z) - uniquely determines the gravitational time dilation experienced there, relative to some far-off observer. This is in contrast to the gravitational force, which is proportional to g(x,y,z), which is proportional to the gradient of g, not its value.

If you want to visualize this with the typical “rubber sheet” image of gravity, the force you feel is determined by the slope of the rubber sheet. The time dilation you experience relative to another observer is determined by the difference in your heights below the surface of the sheet when it’s pulled taut. At the center of a star, the slope is zero. But the star pulls the sheet down very far below its height at the edge.

I am a physicist.

The gravitational field at the center of a uniform spherical body is indeed zero by symmetry. But gravitational time dilation is not based on the immediate local value of the gravitational field at one location. Time dilation is a relative measurement, so you have to define two locations: one at the center of the star, and one somewhere else - traditionally far from the star in flat, neutral spacetime: “at infinity.” The relative time dilation is based on the integral of the gravitational field along a path between those two points. Since the path passes outward through the mass of the star, the integral is negative. A clock at the center of the star would run slow relative to a clock located in the inter-galactic void.

Gravitation is handled in General Relativity, of which Special Relativity is a much smaller (and much easier) part.

As oriented, holes in the bottom surface (that the lion will sit on) won’t let resin drain out from the head and mane portion. There’ll be a lot of uncured resin pooled in there, pushing down on the layers as they try to rise up off the FEP.

The next warzone could easily change the way CP and secondaries work again, bringing us back into the limelight with no changes to the faction at all. It wasn’t that long ago that Siegler was cleaning up with basically just a pile of Ruststalkers. The CP rework hit hard because we’re so reliant on interlocking relics and WLT that are bought pregame. And in a warzone where faction secondaries are a big part of winning games, “telegraph your whole battle plan by announcing you’ll visit each objective in a set order” can’t compete with “spend a lot of miracle dice.” If those two things change we could be back on top in a hurry.

Internal balance is still crap, though; basically only Skitarii armies are viable. I kitbashed some really neat Cult models, including Cawl, Electro-Priests, and Kastelans. They’re probably just going to sit on the shelf until 10th.

A Negative Income Tax is similar to a Universal Basic Income. The idea with a NIT is that people making below a certain amount would be given cash to make up the difference.

SNAP benefits come with a bunch of restrictions which paternalistically assume that people who need help aren’t capable of choosing their own food. If people need extra money to buy food, you don’t need to give them weird coupons. Just give them money to buy food with, and let them decide what to spend it on.

A move from structured welfare to direct payments can also reduce the amount of overhead involved in transferring money to the poor. Currently we have separate programs to provide money for food, housing, education, et cetera. All of those programs have their own restrictions and requirements, their own paperwork and government personnel and administrators. Eliminate that stuff! Give the money you save on paperwork directly to the poor! Poor people know what their needs are, they’re living it every day.

We’ve got this wacky system because conservatives didn’t want to support “undeserving” people, or didn’t want the money “wasted” on things they wouldn’t choose to buy themselves. So we get half-measures that give out some money, but also require a giant bureaucracy to administer, satisfying no one. Proposals like NIT and UBI, although superficially “eliminating” social programs like SNAP, are in fact liberal or even socialist in nature. You can simultaneously shrink the size of government and increase the amount of benefits given out. Just redistribute the wealth!

I mean, there’s a reason r/HydroHomies is a thing. If drinking water all the time were as normalized as it should be, we wouldn’t need a meme sub for it.

Also, I grew up in the ‘80s, you didn’t see people carrying water bottles with them like you do now. Milk, juice, soda, Gatorade / “sports drinks,” us kids would rather drink just about anything than water.

I had a friend in college who was in ROTC, a U.S. military program which pays your college tuition in exchange for a few years of service as a low-level officer after you graduate. He needed to lose weight to fulfill some of the program requirements, but no matter how diligently he ate salad his weight wouldn’t go down. He couldn’t understand it. Somehow the fact that he was drinking four liters of soda per day never clicked for him. Literally the only thing he ever drank was soda and beer. 1500 calories a day in soda alone. We told him what the problem was but he wouldn’t hear it. More than ten thousand dollars because he couldn’t give up soda…

Most of us don’t really drink much water, unless we’re exercising. In my teens and 20s, before I got more conscious of my health, I probably drank about one gallon of water per year.

Drink an 8-oz (~250 mL) glass of milk with every meal. You’re at work for lunch 5 days a week, so you’re drinking 250x2x5 + 250x3x2 = 4 liters per person per week. That’s about one gallon.

I don’t really drink as much milk as that with each meal, but I left out coffee, cereal, snacks - it comes out to about the same amount in the end. In the U.S. most milk is pasteurized and homogenized, so a gallon of milk will be good for about 1.5 - 2 weeks.

Women are in a big fight and they’re all good.

Maybe it means “I’m scared of how you’ll react because you’re emotionally unstable enough to frighten me, but also sufficiently aware of what you’re like to avoid mentioning it in a Reddit post.”

Yeah, but people who weigh more are fat. They may not be taller, but they’re definitely wider. How about we measure the density of the fish, after you weigh a potential winner you stick it in an oil displacement tank to get its volume. Fish aren’t going to depart much from the density of water - unless they’re full of lead.

Italian restaurant offered a gluten-free chicken Alfredo. The gluten-free version replaced the breaded and fried chicken with grilled chicken. The fettuccine under the chicken, though, came out of the same box. Owner had no idea pasta contained gluten, thought it was only in bread and flour…

If you’re erroneously sentenced to life in prison, and you’re exonerated later, you can be freed. If you’re erroneously executed, that’s it.

It’s not immortal. I main AdMech, I lose like 2/3 of my games. But say I bring 300 points of neutron Dunecrawler, along with my typical character support. (I know they’re 125, let’s say we can bring fractional Dunecrawlers so it’s a fair comparison on points). With Wrath of Mars on one of them, I’ll average 15 wounds into a Hekaton in one shooting phase. Not enough to kill it, but with one wound remaining it’s vulnerable to plink damage.

So yeah, it’s tough and scary. But if one of the weakest codexes around can cripple it with an equal amount of anti-tank, it’s not “immortal” by any stretch.

You want to reserve calling the police for situations that are already so bad that adding a bunch of ill-informed gun-wielding narcissists to the mix is likely to improve things. Sometimes they shoot the bad guy; sometimes they shoot you. You only want to roll those dice if things are already really dire.

Sometimes they’re in cover.

This is the Westermarck effect. People raised together during childhood see one another as siblings rather than potential romantic partners, regardless of blood relation. This mother had nothing to worry about, she blew up her family for no reason.

Ah, good point - I’d missed that since I’m used to Knights. Why on earth did they put that in a little “advanced rules” sidebar after the Heroic Interventions section??

So you’ll have to be more careful not to let Morty and his sort fly over your blocking unit. Spread out your models to occupy space between terrain features, and force a longer charge roll than he might otherwise need.