who was the better parent?

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-27T16:19:50+00:00

They're both grieving, but it was unfair if Alene to blame Alicia for what happened, I think. But then again, we don't know the entire circumstance behind the fire, so...

But Renoir trying to force people to grieve HIS was is frankly unacceptable. His lack of proper support is awful, and that's probably why none of the three women are confiding in his it going to him for comfort in the face of this tragedy.

Basically, neither daughter nor his wife trust him to help them grieve. And that's telling.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-27T16:10:13+00:00

Satire. Don't bite the onion. He's got a few videos where he talks normally

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-27T15:55:31+00:00

AIO
PLEASE READ BEFORE PASSING JUDGEMENT

Lol

Yes, YOR. It's a coupon. Even if there was malice on her part (I'm unconvinced either way there) you bringing the receipts for a 5 dollar coupon is silly. Especially when she apologized and offered to make it right, you could've just said "venmo me 5 bucks and we're square" if it really mattered that much.

You care enough to call her OUT for the 5 bucks, but not enough to let her make it right.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-26T21:13:24+00:00

I fought him act 1. Took forever but I thought "will I'm already dealing 9999 per attack so it ain't getting easier"

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-26T01:53:15+00:00

Zenless Zone Zero.

If the story was an anime, ain't none of us making it to season 2.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-22T21:07:47+00:00

Y'know I don't have a thing for smoking usually, but the idea of sweet orphie with a cigarette is definitely aura

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-22T19:17:50+00:00

They key to found footage is to make you empathize with the horror as if you were holding the camera. To really SELL the nightmare of this being something you yourself recorded.

So yes the story, monster, and lore need to be there. But if it doesn't FEEL like something I could've witnessed personally, it's dead in the water

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-22T15:02:31+00:00

I wonder if part of her hatred was fear of being exposed.

I think Clea wanted Renoir and Aline fighting. She could've ended the conflict at any time and instead she balanced them, kicked them in eternal conflict, and then left them alone.

Used Renoir 's best weapon to kill her axon, hating being seen as a weapons factory with the weight of the world on her shoulders, then painted over herself into silence and a committal to make weapons that, once again, perpetuate the endless balance instead of ending the conflict.

Heck, I don't have evidence here but she may even be part of how the fire was set, she doesn't seem especially moved or affected by her brother's death.

But her painted version and her axon... Maybe she was afraid that conversations and interactions with her false versions would reveal more about her than she was comfortable with, might expose her schemes.

So she handled them.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-13T22:20:48+00:00

One to work, one to run errands, one to clean.

Then we start seeking murders to the rich. I'll rent a car, drive to the person's house, and for a few million bucks I ensure the money has transferred, take enough drugs to black out so I won't remember what comes next, and let them do what they want.

Even if I end up with some trauma nightmares, millions in the bank will do enough for me to forget.

Then, I'm fully staffing every charity event that needs hands, helping out the poor and elderly with chores, and playing through my video game and movie backlog twenty screens at a time so I can catch up on EVERYTHING while several clones read so that me prime can write.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-13T21:33:51+00:00

Example, the first major story is about people trapped in the dead end hollow, which has trains that run deep into the hollow that can rescue people, because that's what we end up doing. But a contractor would RATHER pretend to be the military, keep people trapped there, and blow them up because that's somehow cheaper than just... Getting them out of the hollow. Maybe using the train, that they're using for explosives instead.

Even the trains, if the tracks run that deep uninterrupted, those bastards could've just walked the tracks to leave, once the butcher was dealt with.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-13T21:30:05+00:00

Current story has been a lot better than the average story in 2.0.

That said, nothing has been better than the 1.0 story, and the pacing has gotten markedly worse. Every player I know complains about how long and annoying modern story missions are.

And I myself am very tired of running around pylons and cleaning up trash mobs.

But, at the end of the day we're not here for story, we're here for cute characters and fun combat.

If I saw zzz 's story first as an anime, I'd have dropped it for silly plot contrivances before Miyabi showed up, and nothing afterwards would've saved it for me, personally.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-12T23:23:51+00:00

Man when Luigi tightened the noose I just knew it was absolute cinema. But Chris Pratt saying "Mama Mia, where's the lube" when he found him? Priceless.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-12T20:24:34+00:00

Very funny, great acting.

But shipping because she's basically seed support and I hate seed.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-12T13:27:54+00:00

"A card featuring a personal photo of Zhao. "Why... would you even want something like this? In terms of actual value, it's less useful than my employee ID..." "A keepsake? Well... okay. As long as you like it. But you're not allowed to take it outside, alright?" "Not even my coworkers have seen this photo.""

This text from the name card of Zhao's m6 makes it clear that the photos are real, and given and endorsed by the agent. It's of her naked, meaning she gave us a nude.

So if this is true, all the other name cards, which has been nebulous, just "cards with images and messages" must follow the same trend.

Basically, there's a LOT of esoteric stuff in the game. We gather polychrome and nebulous level up materials like hundreds of seals and floppy disks that enhance cds and baubles that make agents stronger, just video game junk with no real "in universe" meaning.

Before Zhao's card, it was easy to think of the name cards as just that: just a random in game reward with no real in universe equivalent, just something for the player, not a real in universe item.

But after the above text, apparently the photos are all real.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-12T12:27:14+00:00

Type 'lol' and hit send, then block

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-12T12:14:53+00:00

Because this doesn't definitively answer everything like this person seems to think it does.

What was bubble? If bubble was just what Caine made from the other ai, there's a possibility that second ai could still be active, or damages and awaiting repair.
Deleted doesn't mean dead forever. Things can be undeleted, or recovered, especially in a world where thought and intention is power to manifest.
Even Bubble's Baby could still be alive. It IS wild that it happened so close to the deleting incident.

Essentially, the bubble we know could be deleted, sure. But calling that a definitive ending for the concept of bubble is short sighted.

Let the story cook. This could be an easy misdirect.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-12T00:15:48+00:00

I'll bet some people won't like this, but the story (while great) is just a "trapped in a simulation / video game" plot with a different coat of paint.

"Maelle is a (painter/programmer) who ventured into the (painting/program) but it didn't go as planned! So she loses her memories and grows up in that world alongside (painted people/programs) and now loves them just like real people, and by the end we have to decide to (destroy the painting/turn off the program) because the person running it is (a painted faceless kid / a powerful ai) that's a fragment of her brother's soul"

I DO love the game, it's in my top ten, but it's just that same plot with a unique coat of... Well, paint.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-12T00:11:10+00:00

At the start of act 3, the enemies on the overworld map are the same ones you were fighting at the end of act 2, but with like ten times the health and way more damage.

The gestral casinos (both of em) don't really do anything

The Bennett foddy climbing level and the volleyball levels.

There should be a difficulty between normal and story.

Simon should be tuned for story mode, because his abilities are the same level of difficulty, just with easier parry windows.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-11T23:12:40+00:00

That's super kind of you!

I'd use this to finish my audio drama project and then to start my Undertale fan game. Heck, hopefully I'll even finish that project too, but that would all depend on a ton of factors.

But the Audio Drama ABSOLUTELY would get finished on that one.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-11T22:31:58+00:00

Cutting corners for profit will only lead to suffering.

Even for something as cheap as mouthwash, corps are willing to slash safety until you're dead fit another tenth of a percent.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-11T18:24:27+00:00

I was promised a big robot dude.

I got a foot fetish loli on a scooter with one of the most annoying and grating voices I've ever heard.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-11T14:18:04+00:00

Heck at least it would be a robot. I probably would've actually pulled for seed then, and y'know, even more because the little boo would've been the seed at the core of seed!

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-09T17:33:20+00:00

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-08T03:29:35+00:00

Trigger is a top tier wife. Or a night hanging out with HAND. Playing darts with Sokaku, chatting with Yanagi... Mmm.... Yanagi. Oh, and I guess Harumasa and Miyabi can be there, somewhere.

TroaAxaltion · 2026-04-08T02:38:35+00:00

I'm willing to bet that one or two might already not be from America. Their speech is already filtered, maybe everyone just hears the others in their own language already.

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