Hyperstrike

For 13th & 14th generation CPU, if you are buying new? AVOID At all costs. Aside from other issues, there is a microcode issue that gradually degrades the stability of the CPU because it's causing a state where the CPU is essentially running in a badly/uncontrollable power stat that gradually burns the chip out. If you are ALREADY running one, YOU ARE ON BORROWED TIME! Because the device is ALREADY affected (to a greater or lesser degree). And the eventual microcode update WILL NOT "fix" it.

Not saying that if you have 7th-12th gen CPU, you should trash it all and buy NEWNEWNEWNEWNEW of the most expensive thing available. Something like your 8000 series Intel chip is fine. Just saying that 13th and 14th gen stuff are ALMOST as useful as self-trepanation to get smarter, or using a saws-all to lose weight.

Recently enthusiast forums have been tracking a problem specific to INTEL based CPUs. The most severe BURNING OUT A CHIP PERMANENTLY. In SOME cases people are able to restore function by lowering voltage and other things. But these methods ARE TEMPORARY FIXES. Once a chip begins presenting the behavior, there is NO SOLUTION. It seems to be a microcode error that allows an uncontrolled/badly controlled state. At some point there will be microcode updates on newer chips that will stop this abnormal behavior. But it is out several weeks/months in the future. And it will NOT repair already affected chips. SO you're kinda screwed with the hardware you have now. Though one MAY be eligible for RMA replacement (in time). DO NOT DEPEND ON THIS! And if you are buying RIGHT NOW, DO NOT even purchase new! Not even at slashed clearance "deal" prices. There is NOTHING that makes it a deal. You may as well bring the chip home, and toss it into a fire. (NOT A JOKE.) If you're looking to get yourself a new system , look at AMD. The Ryzen 7000 series is fine. The Ryzen 9000 has been delayed until August (if you gotta have the latest and greatest) because the scare the Intel problem tossed into the market and additional testing is being done to make SURE their parts are solid.

"I can see my girlfriend from here!" Falls under the heading of "Vast tracts..."

I've been told the 8 foot tall guys, that jamming a foot up someone's butt is painful, distracting and generally makes movement impossible... 😃

So? You had one extremely elderly, ruinously debuffed Tank who cut off both legs and an arm? And someone was under the mistaken assumption that it'd be a "fair" fight? Starry eyes optimist eh?

You're welcome! I love making it easier for GMs to work on the platform without wasting their efforts.

So you're wanting something that's VISIBLY similar to Force Field? That's a cosmetic change.

But the boots of a butt-kicker is like tree rings. Count them to measure longevity and endurance...

There are no "newbie tankers". There is only a numerical value for "Butts Kicked"

Sounds like you'd need a mohel for this...

Of COURSE not! I am, in general, a TANK! My job is to get people to shoot ME in the face! It generally causes them to lose bowel and bladder control when the smoke clears and I'm crunching down on the bullet and spitting it back at them! Even MORE fun when I do it with 30mm ammunition at point blank range!

Yes. I know it's not the same character. But Double-W, loomed bg in my childhood.

Hey BaBs. I heard you have a Samoan cousin. He's moonlighting as security at a nearby Krasnovian Embassy!

AND AWAY WE GO!

Here's a brute force stab at it. The Electric Snowman - Tanker (Electric Armor - Ice Melee).mbd

Pretty much this. Sure, some of them aren't the unkillable "machines" that some sets aren't. But, with a bit of attention to detail and planning, just about anything is perfectly acceptable.

There is no "better" Defense is basically "All or nothing". If they can overcome your numbers, it's "All" If they cannot, it's "nothing" Resist just says "Take a specific amount of the overall damage" So if you have 40% resist, and take 100 poiints of damage, you make 40% go away and only take 60 damage. In both cases, you can still take damage, it just makes dropping dead take LONGER. IDEALLY, you want lots of BOTH. If you're NORMALLY a "squishy", Defense tends to return more value in the long run. However, you can still be subjected to "drop dead" and cascading defense failures. With Resistance, you'll still have problems with accepting damage inflicted, especially if you have heavy Resist debuffs stacking on you as well. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

C'mon man! That should be EASY to find! You've only got 20 YEARS of historical posts to sift through on multiple different (possibly DEFUNCT sites! NOW HOP TO IT! 😷

Yeah, it's the blown out proportions in the game. You see someone that tall (and wide, and deep) in real life, and you're looking at someone who'd probably 500 lbs, soaking wet, in their boxers. The scale maxes out around 8'2" Basically at full shoulder spread, that make a max character around 4+ feet wide and about 3 feet deep. For comparison, Robert Wadlow was 8'11" So slightly taller. But less than half the mass, since he was a (relative) string bean. Here he is next to his own father, who was 5'11"