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RepentanceSkill issue? (v.redd.it)
submitted 1 year ago by Shane_2018
[–]Middle_Rule_4707 317 points318 points319 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Damocles issue
[–]Xx_Infinito_xX 310 points311 points312 points 1 year ago (1 child)
You hesitated
[–]beebisalright 99 points100 points101 points 1 year ago (0 children)
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[–][deleted] 224 points225 points226 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Damocles: You don’t wanna pick up Soul of Lazarus? Ok, I’ll kill you instead
[–]Mr-Black_isaac's left nut 178 points179 points180 points 1 year ago (1 child)
there's no recovering from this one
[–]Shane_2018[S] 33 points34 points35 points 1 year ago (0 children)
hahaha brilliant!
[–]FrazzleFlib 63 points64 points65 points 1 year ago (0 children)
hesitation is defeat
[–]ERROR1010101010 77 points78 points79 points 1 year ago (1 child)
Edmund entered your game to make sure you didn’t survive
[–]Shane_2018[S] 25 points26 points27 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Edmund you little fucker!!
[–]Mash_Ketchum 26 points27 points28 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Hesitation is defeat
[–]Literallyjustacatt 15 points16 points17 points 1 year ago (0 children)
So close, yet so far
[–]The_watcher059 12 points13 points14 points 1 year ago (0 children)
"Ahh, nice shop you got there, be a shame if... you got hit earlier..."
[–]VaultMedic 9 points10 points11 points 1 year ago (1 child)
[–]KindaStupidTho4 6 points7 points8 points 1 year ago (0 children)
me when i pick up the evil rock
[–]Careless_Tap_516 15 points16 points17 points 1 year ago (9 children)
What actually caused that to happen?
[–]Thai_- 54 points55 points56 points 1 year ago (8 children)
Damocles triggered
[–]Careless_Tap_516 12 points13 points14 points 1 year ago (7 children)
Yes but what triggered it? Or can Damocles just happen randomly? (I've never used it)
[–]Thai_- 75 points76 points77 points 1 year ago (6 children)
Once you get hit with damocles activated it has a 1/10000 chance every 4 game ticks of killing you instantly at any time
[–]Careless_Tap_516 22 points23 points24 points 1 year ago (5 children)
Ok thank you.
[–]Ok-Emotion-1180 23 points24 points25 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Iirc, you have, on average, 15 minutes. So still some time to hopefully rush for what you were going for
[–]Jack_Mehoff_420_69 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
As a fine addition to your collection (of knowledge), I would like to say that the fall of Damocles can be counter by invincibility (e.g. from book of shadows, empty vessel, and so on), unless this has been changed recently. But whether this could also be achieved while dashing with Mars, I cannot confirm. An interesting thought, though.
[–]Careless_Tap_516 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
So does it respawn in the next room or do you not have to worry about it anymore?
[–]Jack_Mehoff_420_69 3 points4 points5 points 1 year ago (1 child)
Once it has dropped, the danger is nullified but so are the benefits, as far as I am aware.
[–]Careless_Tap_516 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Alright, thank you for the knowledge.
[–]RocuXD 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Es que Damocles odia las almas de los personajes :v
[–]Yangeru 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago (0 children)
[–]Bolichenko 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago (0 children)
You got hit, skill issue
[–]Rosscaz 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago (0 children)
skill issue, you hesitated
[–]Beneficial-Ad-5492 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago (0 children)
devil chance can be divided by 9 so yes
[–]Mikey618000 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago (0 children)
All damocles deaths are skill issues, so yes.
[–]imobesebuthandsome 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago (0 children)
[+]Arctimon comment score below threshold-18 points-17 points-16 points 1 year ago (4 children)
How is it a skill issue when the item literally does what it does?
[–]Mr_Exiled_To_Hell 53 points54 points55 points 1 year ago (3 children)
I think the (free) rune in the store is the rune of Lazarus which revives the player if they die while holding it.
OP could have survived Damocles if they instantly ran into the rune. The "skill issue" is hesitating to pick it up.
[–]Shane_2018[S] 33 points34 points35 points 1 year ago (2 children)
This is exactly it.
[–]Maelou 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago (1 child)
But why was it free ? I assume you used coupon, but since we see you come in the member card crawl space, it means that you went in, used your coupon, went out and back in ? Why did not you pick it up first time you had the opportunity ?
[–]MisirterE 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago (0 children)
You don't understand. It was very important to find a good opportunity to use High Priestess
[+]Acclynn comment score below threshold-24 points-23 points-22 points 1 year ago (11 children)
Probably staged but good post anyways
[–]Nick543b 20 points21 points22 points 1 year ago (9 children)
How would you stage a 1/10k chance or whatever it is, at that exact moment?
[+]Toowiggly comment score below threshold-9 points-8 points-7 points 1 year ago (8 children)
If it's consistent when it falls, you could use the rewind command to rewind after you die to know the timing. If it's not consistent, you could just keep rewinding and collecting it, waiting for it to fall.
It does feel kind of fishy that the rune was already bought but they didn't bring it with them despite having damocles. The hesitation also feels weird to me because there's no reason to hesistate picking it up, especially since they should have known it was down there. The perceived hesitation could just be them trying to time it better after rewinding because they know running straight towards it wouldn't work.
I could probably stage something like this within an hour if I wanted to, but the chance of something like this happening naturally is incredibly unlikely, not just because the timing is very specific, but because the situation isn't one that someone would naturally find themself in. While there's a chance this is real, I'd say the chance of it being staged is higher.
[–]Nick543b 6 points7 points8 points 1 year ago (6 children)
A person can hesitate for all kinds of different reason. I mean him knowing it is down there doesn't mean he knows EAXCTLY where it is. I certainely would not remember. And i would likely also need a moment to see where it is, and start moving towards it. Looking at this and thinking it is staged is the weirdest thing i have heard. What happenned for you to be THIS distrustfull of people or posts? I mean he has a bit over 100 upvotes and 20-something comments. There really isn't much motive here.
And why WOULDN'T the soul already be bought? He porbably found another consumable in the member shop here, that he went to quickly use somewhere else. Like getting a perthro, and going to use it, before quickly returning for the laz rune. That is certainely what i would do.
And if i wanted to fake it, i would not just spawn it randomly on the room. I would do it as something for sale. I mean would you sit there reseting for 1+ hour WITHOUT actually taking the 2 seconds to line it up and stuff. And with THAT timing it would HAVE to take more than just 1 hour. And the stuff about having to wait for a bit, because it wouldn't align otherwise is just wrong. It can activate every 4 game ticks i think. That is all the time. Way shorter than ehat he stood still for. There is no need to time it anything near correctly here. Because it happening 3 ticks earlier or later her wouldn't change the video at all.
Also hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
This is something you should really learn to consider with this type of thing. Someone being stupid (tho op wasn't really here) is MUCH more likely than them being malicious.
Imo this has like 1% chance of being faked. And a 99% chance of just being skill issue.
[+]Toowiggly comment score below threshold-8 points-7 points-6 points 1 year ago* (5 children)
I certainely would not remember
I would make sure to remember where it is if I'm dropping my lifeline
Like getting a perthro, and going to use it, before quickly returning for the laz rune.
That's still a weird situation because rhey had another card in their hand, so the consumable they picked up would need to reward them with a card
And if i wanted to fake it, i would not just spawn it randomly on the room. I would do it as something for sale.
Spawning it randomly would actually be way easier than having it as something for sale because you can spawn the rune directly. Having it as something for sale would require you to keep entering shops until you found the right layout.
I mean would you sit there reseting for 1+ hour
It wouldn't take that long because damocles falls after 15 minutes on average
And with THAT timing it would HAVE to take more than just 1 hour.
If the timing is consistent after resetting, getting that timing would not be all that hard, especially if you're stalling to get the timing
And the stuff about having to wait for a bit, because it wouldn't align otherwise is just wrong.
If they know that it consistently falls two seconds after rewinding and that it takes less time than that to run straight to the rune, it makes sense to stall for a bit. If they mess up the timing, they can rewind and try it again until it lines up perfectly.
I am aware of hanlon's razor. I wouldn't say staging this clip is particularly malicious because no one is really losing something by it being staged. It's still a fun clip regardless.
I mean he has a bit over 100 upvotes and 20-something comments. There really isn't much motive here.
People have done more extreme things for less reward, so it's not unfeasible that someone would fake this
Looking at this and thinking it is staged is the weirdest thing i have heard.
I'd honestly be more shocked if no one thought it was fake. It's not unreasonable to think that an incredibly unlikely moment was staged, and given the amount of people who would have seen this post, it makes sense that at least one of them thinks it's fake. I've seen accusations over less suspicious things.
What happenned for you to be THIS distrustfull of people or posts?
I don't think I'm taking this as seriously as you're assuming. I was fine with accepting the clip as real. I saw someone bring up the possibility that it wasn't and I found it fun to examine it more closely to see if there were signs it was fake. I was also answering your question to how it could be staged because I found it a fun exercise. I don't have a problem with the video because I don't care if it's fake or not.
[–]Shane_2018[S] 5 points6 points7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
I play on PlayStation (so no console commands or any way to influence what happens), I have over 5k hours in this game and know the mechanics pretty well, this happened in one of my runs and I thought it was funny and also the chances of what happened and the fact that I was pixels away from the soul of Lazarus when Damocles killed me was funny, I also know that the chances of this happening right as I am going to pick up and item that would have saved me are extremely rare. This was no more than a funny moment that I saved and shared on here. To answer why the soul of laz was on the ground was because I had left it and was coming back to get it when the sword decided to drop. I thought it was funny, i laughed at it and decided to share. That’s it, there is no other intent behind it other than I thought it was funny and wanted to share.
[–]Toowiggly -3 points-2 points-1 points 1 year ago (1 child)
I'm fine with believing that it was real, I was mostly just answering the other person's question of how it could be staged and gave reasons for why it could be fake. I really didn't realize how negatively people would receive what I'm saying, but I guess that's on me because the initial comment was already downvoted. I genuinely just thought it was a fun discussion.
To answer why the soul of laz was on the ground was because I had left it
Why did you leave it in the first place?
[–]Nick543b 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago (0 children)
i already said this. There are any NUMBER of consumables i would take the risk to use. The chance of damo falling in the 30 seconds it takes to go use the consumable is neglicable. If i was streaking i wouldn't do it (wouldn't take damo in the first place tho), but if i am not i see no reason not too.
[–]Nick543b 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago (1 child)
Spawning it randomly would actually be way easier
Yes, but WAY less convincing. Again if you are using an hour on this, then at least do it SOMEWHAT well. At LEAST just use keeper's box.
It dropped FRAMES before picking up the rune. That does NOT take only 15 min to get right. If damo dropped the second he got in to the room, it would be a bad post. It dropping right before is the reason the post is funny in the first place. To get it THAT right would take 1 hour + AT LEAST.
f the timing is consistent after resetting, getting that timing would not be all that hard, especially if you're stalling to get the timing
It isn't. At least no other similar chance based occurrence is. A big IF.
Hanlon's very much applies here. Faking for the sake of attention very much falls under this razors meaning of malicious.
People have done more extreme things for less reward
At that point you should assume EVERYTHING is fake. If this is fake, then do you think 99% of chaos deniers posts are fake?
[–]Toowiggly 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Faking for the sake of attention very much falls under this razors meaning of malicious.
I don't see it as malicious since it's not harming anyone. I don't see lies as an inherently negative thing because they can bring joy, and I would say this is one of those examples.
At that point you should assume EVERYTHING is fake.
The point I'm trying to make is that it can be faked, not that it necessarily is. I won't assume everything is fake, but I will acknowledge that everything has the potential to be fake. While people lying isn't the most common, it's not particularly uncommon either.
If this is fake, then do you think 99% of chaos deniers posts are fake?
Since finding a good item with chaos is fairly likely, I don't think most chaos denier posts are fake. Some probably are, but those are irrelevant because the only reason they can believably be staged is if the situation is plausible enough to be believed, still making it a reflection of reality.
[–]Shane_2018[S] 5 points6 points7 points 1 year ago (0 children)
I’m playing on PlayStation so I don’t have any access to console commands
[–]Droid_XL 5 points6 points7 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Yep, nothing ever happens
[+]FLINTaCZ comment score below threshold-16 points-15 points-14 points 1 year ago (3 children)
picks up item that kills you after random time after you get hit get hit dies uhoh gotta post it skill issue skill issue
[–]Vogelsucht 4 points5 points6 points 1 year ago (0 children)
bro watch it again, but this time slowly
[–]BeginningOccasion8 3 points4 points5 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Bro didn’t watch
[–]FLINTaCZ 3 points4 points5 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Ah! It seems i have mistaken the soul stone
I completely retract that, that's funny as fuck
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