Non-native English speaker here. I will try my best to make my question clear. However, do ask for clarifications if you don't understand anything.

Anyways, I have always wondered, during a war why do belligerents have to kill each other. I mean during a firefight, one belligerent can use incapacitating agents to defeat their opponents without the need to kill them.

An example would be to use long-acting tranquilizer rounds at the enemy to make them sleep and then overtaking their place and jailing them or getting them to surrender.

Although very luck-dependent, we can do it one day if SCP-682 is kept under control.

Excelsior, true be-leakers. In continuation of holiday “Tales from the Mod Queue” series, we bring you a very strange installment we think you’ll enjoy. But be warned - the mods are not responsible for any side effects you might encounter as a result of reading.

We have two holiday tales to share in the final installment of our Holiday edition - this first leak comes in the form of plot points / details that were passed to us by an unknown leaker of reasonable that has our attention and a direct line to Kevin Feige’s office by way of the ethereal plane.

• Wong is incapacitated really early into the film. Strange portals in Emil to protect him. Both are not seen for the rest of the movie.
• There are multiple Wanda’s, Mordo’s, and Stranges (which we know from the trailer).
• Strange teams up with a “good” Sorcerer Supreme version of Kaecillius for a while until that character is killed by regular Wanda.
• Mads Mikkelson returns to the role.
• The majority of the film takes place in different universes.
• Kang appears, but unsure for how long

Finally, our coup de gras was submitted anonymously to the sub by a first time leaker. We weren’t able to confirm any significant details on its source. Is it authentic? You decide!

Note: this is was originally submitted as a post. The text below is unedited in its entirety. —- DOC9A15_MarvelStudios_BartlettRevisedDraft7

Still on a mission to end needless magic, Baron Mordo comes across Wanda Maximoff in the remote countryside. Despite Mordo’s warnings, Wanda refuses to submit. In the ensuing battle, Wanda uses the power of the Darkhold to kill Mordo.

In the Sanctum Sanctorum, Strange reminisces over his strained relationship to Christine Palmer with Wong, calling her “the one that got away”. Later, they attend her wedding where Strange tries to feign happiness.

The proceedings are interrupted by the appearance of a demonic creature called “Shuma-Gorath”, hunting a young girl. Strange and Wong intervene to defend the girl and are successful in making the creature retreat into the Multiverse.

The girl, named America Chavez, is revealed to have the power to travel the Multiverse. She tells Strange and Wong that the very fabric of the Multiverse in under threat and space-time seems to be destabilizing.

Wong takes Chavez to Kamar-Taj while Strange, after apologizing to Christine and almost confessing his true feelings for her, heads to the Sanctorum to study the Multiverse. Later, at Kamar-Taj, Strange re

“No, I am not sending off five of our gate guards and escorts out to go after a local predator without any kind of replacements on hand.”

Captain Vii’a Maa’trix stood her ground firmly before the small gathering of her subordinate Red Tempest Mercenaries forming a semi-circle around her, refusing to go along with their last minute plan to avenge a fallen podmate.

“Captain, that thing is still out there, who knows who else it will try to turn into a meal!” a pair of umber skinned Nighkru twins, Krella and Belka, interjected. “This isn’t just about Tenka, but everyone of us who guards the outer wall or works the night shift is in danger!”

“I know," Vii'a sighed. "But I don’t have enough mercenaries to send off at the last minute to either take your places, or go after it for you. I need to make sure that this base is secured at all times, especially now that we have a brig full of angry protestors all demanding to see their lawyers!”

The older cyborg scoffed as she ran her silver robotic hands through her snow white hair before looking to the crew before her. “I mean, do any of you know the first thing about hunting large predators?”

“I do, and I’m very proficient in doing so too.” Ara the lone Rakiri stated, to no one’s surprise.

“I’ve gone on trips with Ara before.” Miztana shrugged, also not much of a surprise considering how close the two were.

“I’ve done some here and there when on leave.” Haelga shrugged, brushing her bangs out of her eyes.

“Well, that’s just three out of five, so I don’t think that’s going to work with just-”

“Four out of six.” Gray called out, “I’m still here, Vii’a.”

The group split down the middle and turned towards the voice of the sole male on base, Vii’a staring in a mix of disbelief and alarm.

“Oh, I am absolutely not allowing this!”

“Why?” Gray challenged, stepping through the group to stand off against his ex. “I have experience in hunting big game and large predators since I was big enough to hold a rifle.”

“I don’t care, you’re not going, and that’s an order!” Vii’a snapped, squaring up to the slightly larger Human male.

“With all due respect, Captain, I think this has less to do with needing all hands on deck, and more a conflict of interest.” Gray said cooly, staring down at the gray elf alien, “It’s not because I’m unqualified, you have my file. It’s not because I’m on duty, because today is my scheduled on-base leave. So it just leaves three options: Either because I’m a male, because I’m your ex-boyf

Hello folks!

Sharing a build today that has quickly become one of my favorites for anything up to Heroic.

I should warn you that if you're the type that is solely interested in efficiency and metas and whatnot, this probably won't interest you, and that is fine. But if you are the type of player who is always looking for stuff to try, then maybe this will be more up your alley.

The Build:

4p Eclipse Protocol (including Backpack). HZP on all pieces and either Blue Cores or Red depending on your preference

Yahl Mask with CHD/HZP

Ridgeway's Pride Chest Piece.

And because a picture is worth a thousand words, here:

https://i.imgur.com/2dwuubY.png

Build Breakdown

At this point, you're probably thinking "This is some weird shit". And you're not wrong, but let me explain how and why this works and the synergies between the moving parts.

Let's start with Eclipse Protocol. We all have played it with Burn Stickies and all manner of War Criminal builds. But what are the core gameplay elements of it? Status Effects and on kill spreading, right? So what if instead of killing with a skill you could kill with your gun and spread status around?

Then you look at the Gearset Bonuses and there's a sizable HZP Bonus there too. If you do some quick math, rolling HZP on all of your pieces puts you at 60% and if you add up the Gearset Bonus, that's 90% and if your watch is maxed, that's Full Immunity against all Status Effects.

Now, because this build doesn't have HZP rolled everywhere because it uses Ridgway's Pride, recouping that will require using either a mod or a Yahl piece. In this case, I go with the Yahl route, but curiously if you don't have a Yahl mask, using the Chill Out Seasonal Mask would get you to the bleed immunity threshold.

Finally, it's very important to use the Eclipse Protocol Backpack, because it has Symptom Aggravator, which amplifies damage dealt to Status Effects Afflicted enemies and since with Ridgeway's you will always be bleeding enemies in short range, this will be your sole damaging talent.

Playing it

This is a CQB Build. Going to the enemy's face with the Backfire and building it up is key. But you know what else is key? Using incapacitating stuff like burn, ensnare or blind, so carry a CC skill as a secondary tool for your build and once you kill someone, everyone will suffer.

Build in action at Jefferson Plaza Invaded, Jammer Section:

https://imgur.com/a/aq1QChR

Some closing notes

I've also done this build wi

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George casually rolled his shoulder as he walked back through the carnage towards what the Yxebasebians had told him was the galactic equivalent of the UN. Tossing alien cars into alien mother ships was surprisingly easy when the cars were completely weightless! He couldn’t help but grin at the rush of victory he felt, it was almost like being Superman, he thought before turning his mind to the peculiarities that had allowed such a situation.

Freakin’ anti-gravity devices that can render me and anything I touch weightless, FTLdrives and teleporters, and they’ve never even thought of armor, melee or projectile weapons because they had natural defenses and fire did the trick when those wouldn’t. Don’t even understand the concept of a dogfight so none of their ships are equipped for combat with other ships! And here I thought humans would’ve gotten the short end of the stick compared to them…

He strolled back up to the Council Guard’s barricade and was surprised to find dozens of people in armor like his helping move the wounded. A lot of them had shed their helmets, so he was able to tell that they were Yxebasebians, but it still surprised him. Did !^!^ have them copy my armor en masse to come help me? He smiled, That’s really sweet of her!

Then a dozen of the armored Yxebasebians ringed him imposingly, forming a wall of bodies facing him.

George sighed at the clear attempt at containment as he subtly slid his foot back into a shallow combat stance. They’re aliens, maybe they’re being friendly, the optimistic voice in his head supplied as he asked politely, “Is this an honor guard or an attempted arrest?”

Fighting them while they were wearing weightless iron armor would be a bit more difficult than the bug people (Atxeirtenem was it?) horde. It wouldn’t be enough to stop him from winning given that the concussion from his hits would still be enough to thoroughly incapacitate them. Without the weight of the armor, which !^!^ and the captain of her guard had revealed was far more than even the strongest Yxebasebians could normally ever hope to move around in, he’d be able to corral, fling and dismantle them as easily as he had the Atxeirtenem. Them having armor would make it a little harder…not a lot.

Luckily before any of them could reply and escalate the situation, a familiar voice snapped out, “*What are you idiots doi

Important note: the UN employs over 100,000 people to tackle COVID “misinformation”. The British Army’s 77 Brigade combats convid “misinformation online”. Bots are things. Expect this thread to be destroyed by down-votes and “trolls” (if not simply deleted like the past several attempts to get this truth out).

Key note: in order to keep this post active for longer, two words will be altered throughout (even in quoted text); the nonce words will be: Vais and Zines. I trust you’re able to figure them out.

Where people like Dr. Stefan Lanka would give you a technical – i.e. “scientific” perspective – I’m going to give you one based purely on logic.

Before we go further, here are two very important matters to consider:

1. When studying, would-be doctors repeat dogmas in order to get their certificates, to get their careers. Opposing a key dogma is to risk failing the course, which means no certificate and no career.
2. If a man gifted the title of Authority tells you that the green wall you’re looking at is blue, then no matter what your eyes see, the wall is blue. The way the human eye interprets colour is based on the amount of light going into the eye; colours cannot be proven since many of us may see things slightly differently (https://hyperallergic.com/187012/how-many-colors-can-most-of-us-actually-see/). What’s important here is that when the Authority tells you the wall is blue, the wall must be blue, because this is what becomes dogma.

Flu

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm

“People with flu can spread it to others up to about 6 feet away. Most experts think that flu vais spread mainly by droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk.”

The underlined word is important. Think indicates that their entire dogma is based on theory. This means that there is no concrete evidence. Perhaps then, we should study the basics of vaisology ourselves…?

Vaisology 101

“Vais lacks independent metabolism and they can only replicate inside host cells, so vais cannot be cultured in non-living medium as bacteria and fungi. Vais can only be cultured in embryonated egg, cell line culture and animal inoculation.”

Before breaking that down, let’s have a logic attack:

*If I got food poisoning, I’d be sick and/or crapping my guts out. But, unless y

So first off Daniel Craig had an incredible run as the character. I loved pretty much all of his movies but I do think there were some subpar creative decisions in Spectre (a movie which I really liked except for Brofeld and the final act) and NTTD (which imo would've largely benefitted from Blofeld being the main villain).

Here's my ideal Craig run

So Casino Royale, QoS, and Skyfall remain the same. However, I'd change Spectre's origin, how Blofeld connects to past villains, and large parts of NTTD.

Spectre:

I'd have Spectre be a more violent and depraved successor to Quantum rather than Quantum being a subsidiary of Spectre. I'd remove the whole Blofeld step brother thing and have him be a former Quantum leader who wanted to start his own organization with him at the top. To do that he manipulated MI6 into going after Le Chiffre and Mr. White in CR while he secretly began building Spectre. Blofeld could've also been revealed to be the one who put the highly incapable Greene as the head of the Tierra Project as he knew unlike White, Greene would've spilled Quantum's secrets when caught. With Greene's confession Quantum is crippled and Blofeld established Spectre, took over Quantum's assets and made White his subordinate. However, White would soon leave when Spectre quickly began expanding into human trafficking, something Quantum never did. M (Judi Dench) would begin looking into Spectre leading Blofeld to free Raoul Silva from the Chinese and give him the resources to kill M and distract MI6 from Spectre. I think this way Blofeld could seem much more threatening as he took down a powerful criminal organization to build a much more dangerous one. He'd also have a personal connection to Bond, by essentially manipulating him throughout the series. To rub it in Bond's face, Blofeld could even call Bond the reason Spectre exists.

I'd change the 3rd act from the weird art project thing in the abandoned MI6 building to something more action packed, maybe Bond fighting through a bunch of Spectre agents and Mr. Hinx who survives to the final act to stop the Nine Eyes initiative from being implemented. I'd keep the part where Blofeld goads Bond to kill him but Bond refuses as he is no longer willing to be manipulated by Blofeld.

NTTD:

Instead of having Bond leave Madeline because he doesn't trust her, Bond would get attacked by Spectre agents and leave her because he fears for her safety and can't go through another Vesper/M situation. For the next 5 years

>“I can tell the wrong sort for myself.”
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>– Harry Potter to Draco Malfoy, ‘Philosopher’s Stone’, on the Hogwarts Express

Draco Malfoy is a catalyst, a source of information, a bellwether and a lesson: the boy who made all the wrong choices. He is Harry Potter's rival and spurs Harry on. Draco is the best mate who wasn't, the un-friend. Despite himself, despite Harry, Draco guides the Trio. He is the ferret in the enemy camp. The poisoned grapevine. He is Radio Slytherin. Death Eater TV.

As an antagonist, Draco hits each of the Trio at their weak points, but pushes them to greater heights. They all quarrel with him. They all punch him. He niggles and upsets them in similar and disparate ways. He provokes Harry’s fear of not belonging, poor-boy Ron Weasley’s feelings of being second best and Hermione Granger’s status as an outsider, a Muggleborn. He illuminates their ignorance (despite his own). He brings them society’s harshest criticisms, which turn out to be a prediction. He fires up the Trio’s sense of injustice. Draco is the original and most constant of a series of bullies produced by the magical world. He is the first clue that wizardkind have the same problems as Dursleyland. He prepares the Trio for the challenges to come.

THE FINGERPOST

>“You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.”
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>– Draco Malfoy to Harry Potter, ‘Philosopher’s Stone’, on the Hogwarts Express

Draco is the first character to mention the school Houses, Quidditch, duelling and Azkaban. He introduces the word Mudblood and the concept of class. His dickery with the Remembrall makes Harry the youngest Seeker in a century. He encourages Harry’s debut Hogwarts sneakabout in Book One’s “The Midnight Duel” and is first to engage Harry in a wand fight, in Book Two’s “The Duelling Club". He is the first tyrant that Neville Longbottom challenges, another whisper of the future: “I’m worth twelve of you, Malfoy.” The persecution of Buckbeak launches Hermione’s career as a defender of magical creatures.

Draco correctly identifies Ginny Weasley as Harry’s would-be girlfriend and, ironically, Ron as the king of Keepers. Indiscrete, he drops gossip on Hagrid and his own father. His disregard for Dobby, so much like Sirius Black, contributes to the House-elf’s shift of loyalty to Mr Potter. Draco drives Harry and the Weasleys to sporting triumph. He reignites Ron’s dormant brain: the escape from the Inquisitorial Sq

Free Families Conflict Plot Walkthrough

Manoeuvring with Difficulty

G’day again, I’m back again with another guide, this one is roughly twice as long as my last walkthrough, if you didn’t see the first one on the Hatikvah plot, it may be worth looking into before reading this one if you haven’t done the Hatikvah plot before. This guide is also available as a wiki page. It may be preferable to read it on the Wiki because the guide has a table of contents in that format and it has more images because of reddit's 20 image limit.

Description

Context

The Free Families Conflict plot (also known as the "Split plot") in conjunction with the Hatikvah Trade Revolution plot and Paranid Civil War plot is one of the 3 main story missions introduced in the 3.0 “Lever to Move a World” update and the first to require a DLC (Split Vendetta). Along with the Paranid Civil War plot this mission chain has an opening linear plot chain before a player-made decision picks a path towards two different outcomes. In this guide the full range of outcomes will be outlined at the conclusion of each of the two branches. As this is a walkthrough spoilers are inevitable and expected, however, scope of spoliers is limited to the understanding required for this plot and its completion.

Difficulty

With regards to difficulty, the first half of the plot is similar to that of the Hatikvah Trade revolution and Player Headquarters plots. The second half is far more involved and is more suited to intermediate players who have significant sums of money available (over a billion is a good target).

Themes

Thematically the plot centres on the control of the Free Families with forces of the Zyarth Patriarchy and the Court of Curbs both vying for control of the fractured feudal families.

Achievements

Two of the achievements in this plot require specific actions on multiple occasions, guidance and prompts from NPCs will not help in getting them so they have been made more obvious in this guide. These achievements are the “Yes, Yes, Very Interesting” which requires 4 correct dialogue choices and “In Authority We Trust” which requires certain conversations and flight behaviours as well as choosing to side with Zyarth.

General Recommendations

Without giving away the content of the plot too early, m

Do your worst!