#nitro deck

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Switch Nitro Deck Unboxing, Programming, Setting Zero Dead Zone, Thoughts

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Absolution and Mistborn

Absolution and Mistborn - Mixed bag of topics including Vaal Absolution Necromancer, finishing book two of Mistborn trilogy, and trying out the Switch Nitro Deck.

Good Morning Folks! On Tuesday night I started a brand new character and last night I got it into maps. This has been one of the faster leveling characters I have played, but that was in part because for most of it I was using a bunch of uniques to speed up the process. As I talked about yesterday, I created a Necromancer and started working towards a Vaal Absolution build. Last night I did my…

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Oh, hey, look! I reviewed a new Switch thing! It looks cool, but it's really not.

[brutalgamer]

One of the coolest looking Switch control-options yet, CRKD's Nitro Deck is now shipping

The Nitro Deck is a joy-con replacement for on the go Switch gaming, and one that looks to offer a full slate of bespoke features.

[themightyandre]

The Nitro Deck actually looks very appealing and with a starting price of 59.99$ or 89.99$ with also a carry case it‘s not really so much more than new joy cons. But it is unfortunately just announced for the US and Canada for now.

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Joining a discord server for the dnd group in my town with my main account that has all my neos and silly statuses feels like two separate worlds colliding lmfao

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

An observation:

In Swansea, when you get on a bus, the driver will literally sit at that bus stop and block the traffic if need be to watch you, hawk-like, on the bus cameras as you make your way to a seat. This is normal service. We must all be seated before the bus takes off. Very occasionally they might start driving while you're still standing in front of your seat, having reached it but not quite sat down, and the sudden inertia makes you instantly hinge 90 degrees at the hips and collapse into the chair like a doll in Toy Story when a human enters. We all have a good laugh. "Quick off the mark, isn't he?" an old lady will say. "Not even sitting, you weren't!" she will cackle. This is high entertainment. Her week is made. Your forced seating is a rare treat, a moment of human connection. You still thank the driver as you get off the bus.

In Edinburgh, the bus drivers have never heard of the very concept of waiting until the passengers are seated. Half a picosecond after your card is tapped the bus driver punches a nitro injection button and stamps on the accelerator. You are instantly hurled to the back of the bus, where you are thinly laminated to the back window. Time unspools into the traffic behind you. A local tuts at you, because you should have known to hold the handrail. After several seconds you manage to unpeel yourself, only for the driver to slam on the brakes for the next stop, flinging you at speed through the windscreen and onto the road in front of the bus. Ashamed, you get up and re-board. It costs nothing extra, because Scottish public transport is cheap and convenient. The driver actually pauses, because a woman with a cane has boarded. You seize your chance. You try to run up the stairs to a seat before she sits and the bus moves again. You are out of luck - at the top step the driver spins out into oncoming traffic at 87 miles an hour from a standstill, and you tumble like a house of cards impacted by a bowling ball, thrown down from the Olympus of the upper deck that you, in your hubris, thought you could reach. You rattle around in the aisle like a discarded can. The woman with the cane laughs at you. Some children kick you towards the back. You lodge under a seat, and cling on until your stop like a terrestrial limpet.

You still thank the driver as you get off the bus.

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Folie à Deux: An 18+ Hannibal & HEU Creators' Server

Are you a Hannibal or HEU creator who misses the way fandom used to be? Want to join an active community of creatives? Check out Folie à Deux, an 18+ creators' discord server focused on positivity and inclusivity!

For more information, you can check out our blog pages, carrd, or hop into our discord.

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Folie à Deux: An 18+ Hannibal & HEU Creators' Server

Active, welcoming, and supportive community with a focus on positivity

Locked Dead Dove channels only accessible to vetted members

Server-hosted events and streams (e.g., body doubling, writing sprints, movie streams, game nights, fic club, and more!)

All Hannibal and HEU creators welcome

Custom Stickers & Emojis, plus the @NQN Discord bot—even members who don't have nitro can use our animated emojis!

Discord Bots & Server Games

Name color and other roles, custom starboards, a birthday message, server calendar and event feed.

Server-hosted Frantic Fanfic, Gartic Phone, Cards Against Humanity with custom decks.

Why Folie à Deux?

Strict Don't-Like-Don't-Discuss protocol. We don't tolerate kinkshaming, ship or character bashing, or speaking negatively about tropes, portrayals, or fanworks.

A community for creators by creators. All members are Hannibal/HEU creators; you'll be surrounded and inspired by your peers.

Sex positivity, body positivity, and queer fellowship. Our trans, queer, and sex-positive member base celebrates trans experiences and queer love in all forms.

[jennyandvastraflint]

What the Doctors are doing on the Ides of March.

(please feel free to add to this list, I wanted to make one but don't feel confident speaking on the Classic Who Doctors I haven't seen yet)

Third Doctor: man is always up for some violence. Might deck Caesar with some Venusian karate.

Fourth Doctor: He probably disguised himself as the soothsayer. Which might be why Caesar was not inclined to believe him. May or may not join the senators later.

Seventh Doctor: Little angry Scotsman who commits war crimes regularly probably is the reason for the whole thing. Went around the senate mumbling "Are you really going to let him treat you like that? Maybe you should unionise to teach him... A lesson." Considered throwing some Nitro-9 at Caesar.

War Doctor: Is too busy with the Time War. (feel free to add) Wouldn't stab Caesar because he's got enough blood on his hands.

Ninth Doctor: Totally down for stabbing Caesar. History has to happen that way, might as well give it a little nudge to make sure... *stabs Caesar* When a blonde woman and a man with no eyebrows wish him Happy Ides, he says the same.

Tenth Doctor: Would deliver a "Make the foundation of this society a man who never would" speech 15 minutes before Caesar's arrival. Then he'd leave and pat himself on the back for having saved a man's life.

Eleventh Doctor: Can see this go one of two ways... 1) He defends Caesar and is besties with him (y'know to add to the list of very questionable historical figures Eleven is friends with) or 2) he'd wish people Happy Ides of March before Caesar gets stabbed. Might wish it to Caesar too which causes him to be even more positive about his day.

Twelfth Doctor: Feels similar to Seven... They might rile up people together. Alternatively, he disguised himself as a Senator to get his turn stabbing Caesar. Also brings popcorn to the stabbing.

Thirteenth Doctor: Probably doesn't show up in person but watches from the distance. She sent all the conspirators prettily wrapped matching knives. With a note that wishes everyone happy stabbing. Full on celebrates the Ides of March, she is a Child of Tumblr.

Fugitive Doctor: Probably on a forced mission for Division over the Ides. Would stab Caesar without the senate present and deliver 23 wounds on her own. But unfortunately she has work to do. Does watch tho, and wonders who these two colourful clowns are that wish everyone Happy Ides. Probably plays with the thought of Ceasar-ing the leaders of Division.

Please feel free to add the Doctors I've missed! And happy Ides of March!!

[wildboystudios]

Our retro 80′s inspired rogue-lite deck-builder; Nitro Kid is out now on steam!!! Try it out!!! Steam Link Trailer

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-red wine in a nearly comically oversized glass, rounded, with a long stem. Buttery and dark and rich. Smells earthen, heady, dank, heats up your belly upon first sip. I still have not learned the name of my favorite type of red and some waiters get it right and some get it wrong, but it’s on me for never remembering.

-a vino verde very crisp and cold. The glass is sweating even without ice in it. Smells like summer, sharp, a little sour, but drinks smooth and dry w no burn.

-margarita on the rocks, not too sweet, not sour, made w a nice enough tequila that you can feel the burn but it doesn’t make your eyes water. The rim is salty and spicy. in an oversized rocks glass w a flat bottom, not one of those terrible flanged margarita ones. There’s a fat juicy lime wedge on the lip that i bite into and the bar is so nice i know they washed the limes. If it’s flavored, it’s coconut.

-a dark porter ale, mid-ABV. Made w lactose for that silky smooth mouth feel. Smells dark and rich and tastes like a stout w some sort of dessert undertone: chocolate, coffee, peanut butter, etc. Probably a left hand brewing nitro, because the cookies and cream cask-conditioned ale from the wharf rat is a beautiful, never again attainable memory. Just shy of room temp w a buttery white head in an ale glass w a slight lip.

-a blue moon with a big fat slice of orange, preferably while out eating outside on a warm but not humid summer’s night, or on our roof deck w a beautiful breeze

-a cuba libre. Mexican coke or a very carbonated syrupy fountain coke, spiced rum (sailor jaja preferred), fresh lime juice. Good crunchy ice.

-orange crush. Freshly squeezed orange from one of those hand presses. The bartender who squeezes my orange is an incredibly buff lady with gorgeous arms. There’s some pulp. good crunchy ice.

-a natty boh, heavily sweating, the rim tasting of old bay from picking crabs

-verde’s aperol shandy: orange duckpin, fresh orange juice, aperol, over a pizza that is delicious but too expensive for how little ricotta they give me, but i forgive them bc the shandy is so good

-a sip of my husbands old fashioned. He says it is either good, which means I’ll hate it, or that I’ll like it, and it’s passable. I never order them. I dont really like them. I just want to take a sip.

-an IPA, citra & mosaic hops, 8% abv, some sort of citrus fruit undertones that you only notice when you exhale

-the first pumpkin beer of fall. IPA or a non-sweet wheat. cinnamon, clove, not too heavily seasoned so it’s still crisp and refreshing, gorgeous autumn color with a nice throat burn

[belghast]

AggroChat #452 - Cyberpunk Redemption Arc

AggroChat #452 - Cyberpunk Redemption Arc - This week we talk about GeekGirlCon 2023, CRKD Nitro Deck, Cyberpunk 2077 2.0, and the "Bel League" idea gaining momentum in Path of Exile.

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Tamrielo Hey Folks! We are down a Grace and a Thalen this weekend so we floundered a bit on the topics we were going to talk about.  While we questioned if we had enough for a show, we still wound up going over by about fourteen minutes. We start off with some discussion about GeekGirlCon 2023 which all of our Seattle contingency attended this…

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Peace in the Ukraine 🇺🇦

Hey, Dirty

I'll drown you for not catching

I'll bend you like a prima donna for being straight, Maxon

Who's in top 100 form here?

Poisonous clown, tighten your hollow into a blood clot

Kneeling out, we dance the foxtrot

Don't try to throw me into the tarmac with two legs

After all, I'm modified, like a whole hot rod

You're so stupid that you tried to blow out the cake

And when you went to zero, you stuffed your dick in your mouth, yay

Does God stink of me in there?

You thought I was on macchiato - I'm on ammonia

Teeth flew into the membrane, I toasted like the devil

You told everyone that you were a drug addict, but you yourself injected yourself with a blanket

Unscrew your oakum, leave in a moment Vidadi

I methodically dived into your team in a package

You imitated libido, ahead of fagots

While you were moving the stamina, we were moving the boots

Yarn over again, drain

Yarn over the spliff again (get lost!)

How many are like Crispus?

Dogs don't like toxin (risk!)

Yarn over again, drain

Yarn over the spliff again (get lost!)

How many are like Crispus?

Dogs don't like toxin (risk!)

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Dogs don't like toxin

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Dogs don't like toxin

I don't want to dive into a quiet pool

I was told there are devils there

I have a hundred reasons to turn you around, like Pinnochet you

Why do you think I learned to think with my dick?

Why are there passive trannies on the fucker?

I read into the plastid and achieved mutations?

I made the chick rush around like Chakvetadze

If I need fire, the bitch will strike her pelvis

Like blacks on nitro, I fly into the plantations

Your drunk kinder swallowed insulation

Leaving no chance, like Tyson at 20

I'll just fuck you like a castration victim, yay

We were let down, we sucked

My dogs ate the robot Chappie (Chappie!)

How fucked up are you with your eras of uprisings?

I'm Flight 11, I don't give a fuck who's in the building!

Yarn over again, drain

Yarn over the spliff again (get lost!)

How many are like Crispus?

Dogs don't like toxin (risk!)

Yarn over again, drain

Yarn over the spliff again (get lost!)

How many are like Crispus?

Dogs don't like toxin (risk!)

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Dogs don't like toxin

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop banger!

Flow on the decks, stop!

Toxin by RAM

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Lenovo legion go vs rog ally vs CRKD nitro deck: Handheld consoles

Portable consoles have unlocked AAA-level gaming on the go. But which handheld comes out the best, hands down? Read our Lenovo legion go vs rog ally vs CRKD nitro deck. Words: Josh Russell, Rik Henderson, Sam Cross Photography: Phil Barker Once upon a time, AAA gaming was the preserve of living-room consoles and hulking PCs. No gamer worth their salt would buy a laptop for playing computer…

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Announcing: Nitro/Carbon

Just in time to ring in the new year, my latest game, Nitro/Carbon, is now published and available on Itch.io (link for all games here) and DriveThruRPG (link for all games here).

Yes, that's my artwork there. No, it's not good, but I never claimed to be an artist. (On the other hand, I think the logo came out well.)

Nitro/Carbon is a card game. This is a bit of a departure from what I've been releasing, but new can be good. You won't need any roleplaying skills or acting, desire and patience to look up character powers in some table, or gauging odds with dice. What you will need is the ability to accept an absurd premise -- cut-throat composting in the apocalypse -- along with decision making and utilization of limited resources.

A standard 52-card deck is required in order to play the game. If your house doesn't have one of these, you should stop reading this post immediately and rectify that issue before continuing on with life.

This is a rules-light entry, with the actual guidelines for play coming in at only 5 pages. It's intended to be easy enough for casual players to pick up quickly while allowing for some strategy and tactics. Quick reference sheets are also included for usage during gameplay.

As with all of my other releases, it is free, so at worst you're out the amount of time needed to download and look through it. But I hope that you will get a bit more out of it than that. Enjoy.

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Transformers More Than Meets The Eye Retrospective: Annual #1: Ultra Magnus, What A Joke (Patreon Review For Brotoman.EXE)

Hello all you happy autobots and after a long side trip for beetlemania, we're back on the lost light!

In full too as for the next few months at least, we're back to the main story. Kinda. This story takes place BEFORE Shadowplay, our last covered one, but was put here so it could be paired with avengers annual #10 patreon review wise, but other than Rung still being headless it's not so out of synch that it coudln't be moved around.

Thankfully after this it's a straight shot to the end of season 1 with just three arcs to go, which teneatively will be covered in novemeber and december, with another break for a specail halloween suprise in october. After that we have the big crossover Dark Cybertron, which while serving as the end of Season 1 of this era of transformers, feels more like a big finale movie. It still has ramificatoins for both.. but both sides also had a proper finale before this.

So before things get explosive we have a character piece here.. and like with Shadowplay my general view was

The art didn't help. . As I said in another review of a great comic's less than well done annual, I TRY to be positive and for the most part the art on this book is great, but the art for this annual is pretty bleh. It's this weird mix of very 90's faces and very bland coloring that just dosen't not work.

The story itself however is pure setup for the finale, setting up a mystery to be solved there, some character growth with dire consequences for Magnus, while also, as tends to be standard for Roberts, setting up a plot point for much later in the story. So let's take a close look at MTMTE Annual #1 under the cut and see some smiles, some beaurcary and a giant robot man.

We open with an action set piece that dosen't do a lot for me. The art just isn't fluid enough and it's especially a downgrade from the regular artists, making it even more noticeable. It dosen't help the microcons their fighting look more like live action transformers,

And you can see the dullness I mean too. Our heroes still have their designs.. but the colors try to make them more realistic. Concidentally this scene is set in ultra magnus' mouth as some nanocons a decpitcon shot him with long ago have awakened and threaten to combine and kill him and then the ship, so our heroes have been shrunk down to deal with it. The only way to stop this realistic scenario that happens to everyone all the time is for Magnus to smile, destroying the generators in the pistons he uses for that.

This opening is a great example of just.. how much fun James Roberts has with MTMTE. While at it's core MTMTE is the kind of high concept sci fi you'd find in say Star Trek or Fantastic Four, he also doesn't forget he's writing giant colorful merchandisable battle robots that can turn into those nitro burning funny cars, vroom vroom! Besides the various jokes on the toys, he's not afraid to just go balls out silly.. while still having lots of nice genuinely deep sci fi couched within. It's essentially what i've heard Star Trek Lower Decks is before that existed: taking the piss out of a stored decades long franchise.. while still staying UTTERLY loyal to that franchise and why people love it.

Magnus tries to do his normal grumbly telling people ot straighten their badges and such , but everyone mocks him, something he takes with grace dignity and plans to resign as soon as possible.

First we get some smaller character stuff as everyone prepares for Tailgate's cermony, but it's all good: Rewind worries about Chromedome who is having a flash of ptsd... someone else's ptsd from the memories he's absorbed, Tailgate tries to get Cyclonus to attend but he's still being a mopey puss about it and Swerve passes by shock and or ore.. only for them to speak.

We'll table that problem for now as Drift's forced to have an invtervention for Hot Rod. He's been wearing a giant foam cowboy hat for 8 months now. He can take it off any time he wants he just dosen't want to, so they instead pivot to another problem: He's been saying "Till All Are One" every five minutes. Rodimus deflects it.. and i've noticed as i've re-read season 1 that it's a pattern with him, and one that carries till the final arc of the series: Rodimus prefers to dance a little side step instead of face most of his problems. Just put it off to the side and let it sort itself out or let someone else handle it. And when he does tackle an issue, he usually handles it recklessly, impuslviely and half assedly

It's not that he's lacking any talent, his improvisations often work as seen with the very first issue, or that he's a terrible person: he loves his crew, as seen both with the red alert incident during shadow play and in this issue as when Magnus comes barging in demanding a new crew.. he explains that it's their way of showing affection. I mean granted i'm sure some of those are just jabs at his humilation, Magnus is a fun character but not exactly someone people like and he liked it that way, but his point is clear: it's okay for Magnus to be a person and not just the duly appointed enforcer of the tyrest accord. It's that humanity, for lack of a better term, that makes Rodimus likeable even when he's being a whinybabyasshatbot. He simply wants to be loved and respected, and this quest is more about personal validation by the universe than it is real enlightnment. He just wanted to do something big and showy to show he really earned having the matrix for a time and he really is worthy of being a prime. He just wants to be loved and can't accept that maybe.. he's just not the big sweeping hero go. A big sweeing hero guy sure, but he's not optimus and that's okay.

While Magnus stews on this advice, we also find out our heroes next stop: The Crystal City, home of the circle of light. Something that confused me as whlie this book is good at expositoin normally they kinda dropped the ball explaning these guys in a way that made sense if you hadn't read the drift mini.

The Circle of Light is a group of cybertroninan ninja monks who preach non violence and live in a walled off city, having largely skipped the war. They took in Drift at his lowest and the kind treatment and mentorship of their leader, Dai Atlas, convinced Drift to turn face and the circle in turn backed him when he needed their help.

This series recontecutlaizes them as having been avid followers of the knights of cybertron, a nice little addition, and thus seeing them, while also a homecoming of sorts for Drift, is important as if they can get them to join, they have all the help they'll need. The only problem is... Magnus can't raise them on coms and while Drift is assured given their badassery their fine.. as we'll soon see Magnus was right to be worried.

The ceremony itself goes off the rails: not only does Hot Rod fail to not use some form of till all are one, but Tailgate dosen't get to do his speech.. and his autobrand turns out as anceient cybertronian. Something is channeling through Hot Rod, and the bots who fell out of the airlock as we find out via an expesition dump during the ceremony.

Our heroes have even better concerns as the galactic council shows up.

While they explain it after this scene, i'll go ahead and filll any newcomers in, as Magnus does for Tailgate. It's a great part of having tailgate around: it allows Roberts to do worldbuilding without having to work too hard for it , as most of the cast would know this. Their essentially this universe's federation, a group of higher order plaents bound together to protect each other. They've recently taken on more policing, a red flag if their ever was one, and aren't fans of the cybertronians due to their war, having blacklisted them and being right dicks to Rodimus, having anxexed this territory as the Crystal City is abandoned. That itself.. is a dick move as they didn't bother informing cybertron, and the war's been long over enough, of any of this so they could investigate, instaed scavanging. It's some nice show don't tell: it shows that while these guys DO do some good and claim to be benevloent.. their really beucractic wankphesants who blame a whole race for the war.

Luckily the Lost Light has a secret weapon...

After Mags has finished hermes conradding this guy into a corner, in part because he's the only person here M Bison IN SPACE respects, we find out the deal: one hour to investigate for "religious reasons", which both sides know is basically bullshit but they need to look into this.

We get a brief interlude with Swerve, who has a heart to heart wtih Shock.. and also lies that he's pipe as like most people Swerve didn't make the best first impression. He confesses about the shooting of rung if from a third person and agrees with Shock's assetment he's a scumbag. It also explains WHY Swerve's so willing to help the next arc: he feels deep guilt for it and while it was on orders.. that makes it worse. Swerve admit she was more scared about loosing his bar than doing what's right. Later on drift further muses about feeling... a lack of purpose. That the war ending was supposed to be awesome and everything resolved.. but it really isn't. There's no real ending to life after all and as Shock puts it he's lucky to be alive if nothing else.

On the surface we get an away team consisting of most of our main cast but notably lacking Magnus, who we'll get to in a moment. They find the crystal city but..

Drift naturally mentally wigs out a bit: his people are missing, the city is ransacked and their biggest lead is now a massive dead end. It's only Rewind suggesting that he uses his sword to try and commune with the city that snaps him out of it... and only punching a mocking Whirl that fully gets him on mission. Instead of getting any graet message stabbing his sword into the city instead makes autobots go down the holeeeeeeee

We then find out where Magnus is: turns out the Council abducted him.. so they could ask thim to join him, having found him just over these decades of wars and never wavering. Essentially it's everything UM could ask for: defined rules, structure, order and respect. and metro titans are their ancient cousins, apparently created by the knights of cybertron, they can touch into other realms and such. So they decide to learn more about this thing to go on a BRAIN QUEST!

Six minutes later the brainquest is over and they found it. Great joke. And at the center... Cyclonus is in reverent awe as he used to worship at th efeet of metrotitans and gives his own version of the cybertronian creation myth, with Rewind naturally recording it since he dosen't have this version in his archives.

So once upon a time there was primus

Who found cybertron and some sparks and wanting to give it life, split himself into five gods

But like most media portrays mythical death gods, Mortilus eventually rebelled, wanting to conquer and war were declared. While our heroes won they were left in bad straights, each dying but becoming part of cybertron itself: Primus became Vector Sigma, the computer at the heart of cybertron and the source of sparks, Solmus became the Matrix of Leadership, and Epistemus and Adaptus the model for brain moduels and transformation cogs. And out of them came a new generation of Cybertronians to spread peace: The Knights of Cybertron. All of this will naturally be very important later.

For now though Ratchet is doing his usual over the top athetist schtick and Drift calls him out for being a dick: Being an Athiest? Fine. Mocking someone else's beliefs simply because he doesn't think their true. Not okay. Ratchet further digs himself deeper by outright stating Drift is so religious because he wants absolution for everyone he killed as a decpticon.. and nearly gets a sword in him for it. Not the best way of showing your not a murderer anymore, but well warranted. It's okay not to be religious, especially given how much harm some religions do. But it's not okay to mock someone when their beliefs aren't harming anyone.

So naturally Rodimus' next move .. is to have Chromedome try to braintap the giant... and it goes as well as you'd expect.. heavy feedback.. and the titan waking up screaming, rumbling the planet and leading M. Bison IN SPACE to assume this was all a trap.

So he plans to burn the lost light and EVERYONE on board in retaliation, and is leeching off their warp drive so they can't escape

Magnus has rejoined them, having turned down the offer , we'll find out why later and giving Rodimus a fond farewell, telling him to say hi to the knights of cybertron for him while Rodimus ORDERS him not to die, begging him. Their one hope is activating the drive.. but that involves swerve telling Shock the truth.. and he simply.. can't. And while this could come off as dickish.. the why is as heartbreaking as it is glorious

It's a hard choice.. but it was his. And inspired by this... Rodimus chooses to set the titan free instead of having him shrunk for his knoweldge. And it calls back to something Drift said earlier I glossed over: that when the right time came, Rodimus would save them all. And.. he does. By doing the right thing, the Titan warped everyone out of there and since he was linked up to Ore, it also freed the lost light.. and Ore is gone. Why? No one knows. But our heroes are safe and for once Rodimus has an actual plan, having relalized from this experince his winging it... has consequences.

So with our course for the next arc set, we end on the Council.. and just WHY Mags turned down his dream job

Naturally for this comic, M. Bison IN SPACE will be back. For now though it's the last part that's important: that despite not wanting to change, despite his inflexiblity.. magnus sees that .. maybe inflexiblity isn't a strength. That not accepting any change, not changing will only make him tyrants like the council. It's being faced with everything he could want and everything he could become.. that gets him to evolve past what he's been... and smile.

This issue, as you can probably wager is excellent. The art is.. not good and I won't slag it further, and it does drag the issue down slightly.. but the character work, from Swerve's chats with Shock and or ore, to Rodimus' desperation at the end, to Magnus growth is phenominal and this one issue spotlights the series at it's best: introspective, engaging and reallyf ucking weird

Next time: Tick tick tick....