#but more ppl need to know it is an option

[transmechanicus]

I know all of 5 ppl on this website play Helldivers or are intimately familiar with game mechanics but i hate reddit and wanna complain. I think the distinction between Flame, Gas, and Arc weaponry as crowd control options could stand to be made more discrete.

Flame should be arguably the lowest direct fire damage, instead applying the burn effect and tick damage to enemies and the ground. The point being to turn an area of ground into a death zone for light-medium enemies even when you’re not shooting.

Gas from grenades, sterilizer, and guard dog should leave no cloud, but rapidly apply the confusion debuff from direct fire in addition to middling corrosion damage. It would require more continuous spray and application to kill, but the fact that enemies start killing each other is an advantage over fire compared to still being chased by burning bugs and voteless.

Arc should have the highest direct fire damage, and should bounce between 5-6 targets per initial impact point, each shot killing clusters of scavengers or voteless immediately and building up Stun on more medium and some heavy enemies. It sacrifices the area denial of flame and aggro cancel of gas for rapid crowd clearing per discrete shot. The Arc Thrower could stand to get a generous buff in this regard considering every time i pick it up it arcs to a secondary target like once and can’t even consistently kill more than 1-2 troopers or scavengers per shot.

Generally this seems to be what Arrowhead is going for, but the consistency of execution and level of support for each damage type varies wildly. Arc damage especially is not at all competitive rn, its related stratagems fire too slowly at too low damage and too little spread. The recent implementation of a gas/flame nerf for non-solos is arguably unnecessary, i think it’s a failed implementation to make gas/flame viable as solo weapons on high difficulties when i would argue they are intended as chaff clearing in a more support leaning role. Flame and gas don’t need to be able to rapidly kill giant enemies like Bile Titans and Tanks, that’s not what they’re for. Not everything needs to be a swiss army knife, it just needs an intentional role and the necessary mechanics to fill it effectively

[p2ii]

been seeing alot of info abt DIY hrt since the election results (albeit underneath layers upon layers of discource) but I urge ppl to start doing their research if that's something you want for yourself.

[kristiliqua]

some ultrakill fans flaming people for playing on lenient/harmless is so funny to me because here i am in my little corner playing on harmless with Also 100% damage reduction (in major assist settings) because my severe anxiety cannot handle the idea of me taking any damage at all . i am wearing my propeller hat and eating my lollipop and i am having fun :3 (and maybe one day i can ease that anxiety and play without major assists)

[poppyseed-cookie]

Me normally: here’s all the reasons I think that, despite the issues, Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla could work out

Me when I’m thinking about a different ship involving either one of them: here’s all the reasons I think that, despite the potential, Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla could NOT work out-

[sallykie]

I've decided. I don't like the HTTYD movie sequels' xenophobia era. I don't think the themes should have gone that way.

[soggy-fishsticks]

guys ive been drawing so much lately I've been starting to actually hate it 🙁

[sieglinde-freud]

ok i think im done i think ive finally done it. i have completed the awakening ship chart with the second gen. except for nah sorry nah. yes i do love rarepair hell thanks for asking im never leaving

[necrotic-nephilim]

do you ship helena bertinelli with anyone? if yes, then which characters and why? what's your favorite helena ship? do you have any helena rarepairs? (i know you've talked about helena/steph and you're so right about it, it's a very interesting ship)

!!!! i have so many ships for my best girl ever yes oh my god thank you for asking.

my top pairing is probably Vic Sage/the Question. Vic is the basic answer, but man. i love them so much. no couple has matched each other's freak like that have. Justice League Unlimited is a great adaptation of Helena in general, but it also did a great adaptation of Helena and Vic's relationship. how he just dedicates himself to helping her with no expected return, but also wants to make sure she doesn't go too far in a hunt for vengeance that never ends for her. i think a lot of characters often want to change Helena or expect things out of her for their own needs, like the Batfam and the BoP. but Vic is one of the few people who just wants her to be better for her own good. when he tries to stop her from killing it's not because of his morals, it's because he doesn't want this crusade to consume her. and i just. man i think about them a lot. Helena rlly likes weird little men who give themselves wholly to her.

Zinda Blake/Lady Blackhawk is also a top ship for me. tbh i just like Zinda. but i do love how Helena and Zinda interact, being the more rough and tumble members of the BoP. they're both outsiders, in different ways. Helena is an outsider of the Batfam and Zinda is literally from a different time and an outsider to the current world. their friendship is so genuine and i think if Babs and Dinah can have. whatever homoerotic nonsense going on during BoP, then Zinda and Helena deserve some homoerotic nonsense too. as a treat.

if we're willing to count New-52 Helena, then i enjoy Helena/Dick/Tiger. i think Helena and Dick being a past relationship is really important in pre-Flashpoint for Helena's development, though i don't ship them as a serious couple beyond a fling. but in the New-52, i think this throuple be fun. Helena and Tiger respect each other as two very driven, no-nonsense agents and then well. they both clearly have some kind of thing for Dick. so it's fun finding the balance of how they could all work together romantically.

and ofc. it's a crime to mention Helena ships and not mention Renee Montoya/the Question. every time they interact it's really fucking gay. it's so gay that Kate Kane, Renee's own ex, assumed Helena and Renee were gay. i cannot be convinced against this ship. i genuinely think this ship should be canon. i mean. DC did tease us with this moment from an alternate universe and it's lived rent for me since. fucking criminal for us to only get one panel of what we could have if DC let Helena be a fruit in the main universe. being in love with Helena Bertinelli should be a right of passage for the Question mantle, i personally believe. if you asked me like. genuinely who i want to see Helena date in the current comics, Renee is my top pick. (i would say Vic but he's fucking dead and the New-52 butchered him so rip my mans-)

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besides those ships, just about every ship for Helena probably falls into the category of rarepair. like you said i've talked about my love for Helena/Steph before bc god. i think it should be a thing more people ship. once i finish the fic i'm writing about them i will convince others to like it.

i also think Helena/Cass could be fun. in a *lot* of ways Helena and Cass are narrative parallels to each other. Helena was a victim of her family being murdered at about the same age Cass was forced to be a murderer. Helena grows up to believe in lethal justice because of this, and Cass grows up to be staunchly against it. Cass' Batgirl suit was made *by* Helena. they both want to be protectors of the most vulnerable people. they balance each other out in a lot of ways and i think they should kiss about it.

also probably a rarepair, i think Helena/Lady Shiva is fun. their fight during Birds of Prey (2010) had... questionable moments for Helena's characterization, but i do love so much that Helena knocks Shiva off her feet and gains a deep respect from Shiva. like. Shiva gives her a nickname and shows her admiration. i would like to see fanfic where Shiva continues to be weirdly admirable of Helena and bothering her non-stop. they could be a fun fucked up toxic yuri moment. this is just. so gay to me.

birds of prey (2010) #6

my most rare Helena pair would probably be Helena Wayne, actually. but specifically Helena Wayne of JSA (2022). ever since, for some reason, it was made canon that the current Helena Wayne was named after Helena Bertinelli and took the name Huntress to honor her i *cannot* stop thinking about them meeting. because in-universe it makes *no* fucking sense for Bruce to name his kid after *Helena Bertinelli*, someone he's regularly at odds with and doesn't like. it's clearly an awkward explanation to try to make the whole two Huntress situation make sense. (it's almost as bad as Helena Wayne in the New-52 using Helena Bertinelli as an alias.) but because it's such an odd choice, i do think it could be fun for Helena Wayne, when she's back in time to see Bruce, to find Helena Bertinelli to get to know the woman she was named after and Helena Bertinelli just being. baffled by the idea of *Batman* naming his kid after her. it could be a fun fucked up moment.

my other super rarepair is Kara Zor-L/Power Girl. they had like. one meaningful interaction of JSA Classified and it's been PLAGUING me. something about when Power Girl doesn't remember her past and she's seeking a friend, she instinctively goes to find Huntress? but it's wrong bc this isn't *her* Huntress and neither of them understand why Power Girl would seek Helena out? god it's so good. i'm always a big fan of ships where one person in the ship is *so* obviously using the other person as a replacement for someone they lost and they both know it. it's such a doomed angsty thing where you could play with Helena actually really liking Kara, but knowing that she's just a replacement for Kara's Helena Wayne. good fucked up shit man.

and lastly: i really ship her with Dawn Granger/Dove. there's no canon basis for this, they didn't have a ton of interactions even when they were both on the BoP. but there's a very kind innocence to Dawn that contrasts Helena's violence really well. and i do love a ship with a corruption kink vibe to it. let Helena corrupt Dawn. i could write such fucked up porn about these two.

[dorkot]

anyways im stressing abt the future bc nothing is set in stone but everything honestly will be okay but

[mikafan]

why can beastzai comfortably kill himself permanently where canon dazai doesn’t?

beastzai just makes me sad but i like the implications it leaves about canonverse dazai tho those implications can also just be drawn out from canon itself

- (canon) dazai knows how to kill himself in a meaningful way but avoids doing so; if he’s had previous, sincere attempts, theyve consistently been foiled

- tho dazai might seem like a grey character he sees the world through binary opposites/black and white, which is applicable to beast in the sense that dazai’s search for a purpose in life has two possible outcomes: fulfillment and lack of fulfillment. in his own eyes, dazai’s life is useless or useful - if useful, and his purpose is carried out and seen through, then dazai’s life has no meaning anymore, leaving him to die in peace. dazai is successful killing himself in beast when he isnt in canon verse because he has fulfilled his purpose and believes he extricated himself thoroughly enough from the lives of ppl he cares about that his death will have no long lasting emotional impact. said reason for living was to save oda and ensure the world was fit for him to survive in

- then, maybe in his earlier years his desire to find a reason to live could be considered a survival tactic, unknown to even himself. without a distinct purpose to fulfill dazai can’t truly feel that he is “done” or “finished”, and oda’s wish for him to live on the side of light has no real end. where dazai would otherwise see desire to live as a scale with two distinct sides (fulfillment/lack of fulfillment) oda’s wish bypasses the scale altogether and has no discernible end, thus dazai cant be fully fulfilled and feel comfortable enough to successfully kill himself.

to 16 year old dazai, young and extreme in the way teenagers are (i dont say that in a mocking way or one that makes light of the teenage experience) he had finally found a goal when he received the onslaught of memories of canon dazai, a goal he was so desperate to see through that it both countered his apathy while exacerbating his self sacrificial mindset and behaviors. dazai sees himself as a vehicle of action rather than a human, which persists in canon verse too. dazai is less the person moving the pawns and more of a pawn moving the other pawns in the “right” direction - he wants to make it so that his removal from the chess board will not impact his side’s victory, that things are done the way they need to be that his broad goal, whatever that may be, is reached with or without him. but that vehicle is all he is (in his mind) - where other people are distinctly human, he will only ever be a pawn, entirely depersonalized, and thats only exacerbated in beast

thing is canon dazai doesn’t really counter this extreme way of viewing things but at the stage he’s at now he can’t simply remove himself from the lives of everybody he knows. people rely on him, they need him, they like him, and he can’t just pull away without consequence. even if his personality is greatly exaggerated and his amenability to expressing vulnerability is still extremely low he does not have the choice of being a mere vehicle of action anymore because of his awareness that people care for him

so, wary as he is of not having that control over his life, of not feeling like he can comfortably die whenever he wants, dazai’s always wanted to feel human and be perceived as human, and he likes having people to protect. even if hes scared that theyll face the consequences of being associated with him dazai will ensure theyre safe which is.. a really broad and almost endless goal to take on !and he is aware its a group effort instead of a scheme that can be seen through by a mastermind. he needs to communicate with the people he cares about (ADA), needs to have faith theyll protect each other just like theyll protect him, even if his instinct fights against it and hes scared to leave things, tasks, etc in hands other than his own

im not saying dazais particularly good at being vulnerable or relying on other people and i think his mindset is still unhealthy and self sacrificial but canon dazai is so embedded in the ADA in a way beastzai wasnt in the PM at age 16. beastzai had the option to “[erase] himself from the narrative” (i love this phrase i stole it from hamilton) but canon dazai quite literally does not. hes in too deep!

[sun-marie]

preferring the first poe1 game to Deadfire is perfectly valid but preferring it bc it has better pacing is wild to me ngl

[jrueships]

This is lowkey a stupid ass question but is your username jrue ships like different ships involving jrue or is it jrue’s hips 😭😭😭

yes !

[phagodyke]

wanted to go to the gym social tn but as I was getting my stuff together to go out, a friend said smth that rly pissed me off and now I'm too fucking angry to go out. fucks sake man

[gifti3]

I actually kinda liked when mammon came up with that "fundraising" idea in the beginning of his curse

I would genuinely like to see more of that....