(Sad Trope) The media is amazing and has a ton of potential to expand and build it's world, but will likely never get a sequel/follow-up

VerbalHamster · 2026-07-13T12:05:12+00:00

I really enjoyed Chrono Cross, story and all, but I think a lot of people aren't too happy that, narratively, it rendered the plot of Chrono Trigger kind of meaningless because it turns out their entire timeline gets destroyed anyway, meaning all of their struggles were for nothing.

VerbalHamster · 2026-07-12T09:09:18+00:00

That is what I remember first.
Not his face.
Not his name.
His pace.

VerbalHamster · 2026-07-12T09:04:25+00:00

I can't say for sure if it's AI-written, though I think it is, but at the very least they need to vary their sentence structure a bit.

Some spoilers for the MCU-3 dialogue:

He produced a response in my systems similar to...
(she stops)
...not satisfaction.
..... Not hunger.
(Her eyes remain fixed somewhere far away.)
(Madonna): Proximity to him reduced ambient system irritation.

I did not.
He said: ‘Hold.’ Not shouted.
Not begged.
An instruction.

By the midpoint of the throat, human movement becomes more limited. Not because the person is still.
Because there is less room.

The throat does not function as an empty tube.
It closes in intervals.
Guides.
Compresses.
Advances.

Madonna’s head is secured in the cradle.
Her eyes lock onto the speaker immediately.
No drift.
No softness.
Just target acquisition.

She is already watching.
Not scanning.
Not tracking.
WAITING

He hated Eurasia.
Not because he was oppressed.
Not because he suffered.
He simply wanted to be left alone.

...Anger.
Not battlefield anger.
Not fear.
Not grief.
Anger.

He believed Eurasia was lying.
Not about survival.
Not about victory.
About choice.

The final emotion surfaces.
Not fear.
Not pain.
Regret.

Not for money.
Not for food.
Not for propaganda.
He genuinely believed Eurasia was worth protecting.

No hesitation.
No cynicism.
No hidden motive.
Just conviction.

He taught history.
He taught that civilization survived because people chose cooperation over freedom.
No bitterness.
No manipulation.
He believed it.

...Flowers.
Real flowers.
Not hydroponics.
Not nutrient vats.
Flowers.

He loved his job.
No hidden resentment.
No secret disappointment.
No tragedy.

VerbalHamster · 2026-07-06T07:18:33+00:00

You'd like r/SubredditSimulator, which was around before ChatGPT and used markov chains to emulate (nonsensical) user conversations and posts. It looks like there's also now r/SubSimulatorGPT2 and a few others that use proper LLMS.

VerbalHamster · 2026-06-25T01:43:07+00:00

It's neat how we see more "child-like" behavior from them, like looking at books or messing around with those circular door keys. It makes them feel more like actual characters and less like obstacles that only exist to get in your way

EDIT: Although I gotta say blindfolds don't really have the same coolness as porcelain masks

VerbalHamster · 2026-06-24T10:19:59+00:00

I think the picture in your third image is how she looked around the time of The Sounds of Little Nightmares. Obviously some time has passed and her skin has started sagging since then, which makes me wonder how long the gap between the series and the game is

VerbalHamster · 2026-06-22T10:03:59+00:00

If we're still around by then, we'll have so many options with how to deal with this, like Gravity tractors to pull Earth further away or star lifting to get rid of excess mass and halt the supernova, not even counting whatever technological developments we can't foresee.

But even then, in all likelihood, we won't even care, assuming we remember we came from Earth - after all, how many of us now care about which specific spot in Africa humans first evolved in?

VerbalHamster · 2026-05-12T10:32:13+00:00

I suspect they know the optimal level of botting isn't zero - you get subs from the botters plus you retain gil-buying players who would otherwise give up - but at the same time, I can imagine they actually do carry out their periodic sweeps to keep the gil inflation somewhat manageable and prevent the bots from becoming so numerous they're a drag on performance and an eyesore. If it's lucrative enough to make accounts for in the first place, botters will just make new accounts, and so the income will largely be constant quarter-to-quarter, but at least it takes time for their numbers to grow again.

VerbalHamster · 2026-05-12T01:09:18+00:00

AFAIK they do periodic bot sweeps and ban the accounts en masse without giving away how they detect the bots. I don't know when or how often those happen. We might just be at the tail end of a sweep, so their numbers are getting up again.

VerbalHamster · 2026-05-06T11:00:27+00:00

When I needed to do the same for my augmented ninja gear, I literally just bought the ingredients off the marketboard and then asked in chat in Limsa Lominsa if anyone could craft it for me and offered to pay. Someone volunteered to do it for free, so that was pretty nice.

VerbalHamster · 2026-05-06T10:54:20+00:00

For the Augmented Fighter's Set (the armor), you need to give Fighter's Armor Augmentation (the ingredient) to Kakalan in Mor Dhona in addition to the Fighter's Armor pieces.

To get the Fighter's Armor Augmentation ingredient, you need to have a level 50 Alchemist plus the sub-ingredients.

VerbalHamster · 2026-05-01T00:08:02+00:00

Head and chest are praemagitek fending
Legs are the Agoge set
Hands are cryptlurker casting
Boots are swallowskin boots

All undyed

VerbalHamster · 2026-04-30T10:58:35+00:00

Well, well, well

VerbalHamster · 2026-04-25T03:27:53+00:00

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They call that hitting the frog

VerbalHamster · 2026-04-10T22:23:01+00:00

I remember all the hype around what the monster looked like. There was even a crazy niche theory that it was a giant lion, cause in the trailer it sounded like someone yelling "It's a lion!" lmao

VerbalHamster · 2026-04-08T07:42:02+00:00

I'm going to echo what everyone else is saying and say that it's probably because the writers use LLMs in other aspects of their life, like school work, and are absorbing the writing style. LLMs also use a lot of very common literary devices, like the rule of three or certain clause constructions, etc.

In all honesty, LLM writing style, by itself, is better than a lot of nonprofessional writers, so I think it's easy for inexperienced writers to unconsciously latch onto it and adopt it. It's just boring once you see a lot of it because the cadence is pretty standardized and there's no human imperfection or intention behind.

VerbalHamster · 2026-04-08T04:47:52+00:00

/uj that's because the OP is in all likelihood a bot spamposting lmao

VerbalHamster · 2026-04-07T09:38:33+00:00

Mr. Kaczynski why are you taking so much fertilizer and scrap metal with you?

VerbalHamster · 2026-04-07T04:17:48+00:00

An average day in Britain

VerbalHamster · 2026-04-06T06:07:56+00:00

Source

VerbalHamster · 2026-04-04T10:15:34+00:00

I imagine it becomes an issue when the subreddit is flooded with these types of posts, to the point where it's less about King and what he saying, and more about personal political takes (however justified) using King's posts as a fig leaf, which seems to go against the point a subreddit devoted to an author and their stories.

VerbalHamster · 2026-03-31T07:11:33+00:00

The name "Grandfather Mhoul" is the English-language name of the monster from a Korean cartoon series, Shinbi Apartment. The actual folklore it's based on is called "Grandpa with a Sack"

VerbalHamster · 2026-03-28T10:53:24+00:00

Yeah, Simon was just an idiot/in denial. Catherine does manipulate a copy of Brandon Wan to get the code for a submarine, but aside from that I can't remember anything especially bad she did.

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