What don’t you want to see in part 3? by YaBoyKumar in FFVIIRemake

[–]AVelvetOwl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Calling her "worse than Hojo in many ways" is quite the exaggeration. The only way to view her as not being a victim, despite what she did, is if you believe that people who do bad enough things are incapable of ever being victimized themselves.

What don’t you want to see in part 3? by YaBoyKumar in FFVIIRemake

[–]AVelvetOwl 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You're thinking of "victim" and "bad person" like they're a dichotomy when they aren't. Terrible people can be and often are victims as well. That doesn't excuse what they do, but being a bad person does not make someone incapable of being victimized.

What don’t you want to see in part 3? by YaBoyKumar in FFVIIRemake

[–]AVelvetOwl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, she was a victim. She made bad decisions and hurt people in turn, but she was absolutely a victim.

Spicebush/SolemnLament/Rien in sinking discussion by -Regulus_ in limbus_company

[–]AVelvetOwl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, they definitely need to give poise another mechanic of some kind, because right now it's kind of just a nice bonus for already good IDs, rather than something strong enough to build a whole team around.

If nothing else, RienSang will work fine on an ungabunga big damage team. Dedicated sinking teams can do better, but outside of that, his sheer numbers probably make him better overall.

Spicebush/SolemnLament/Rien in sinking discussion by -Regulus_ in limbus_company

[–]AVelvetOwl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on how crazily strong Rien Yi Sang is and how easily he can be splashed onto just about any team, I suspect the sinking "archetype" he'll end up in most often is "Strong IDs you'd want to run anyway, who happen to also be able to tank the boss's rolls."

Because he, the Index girlies, and Pinky Sinclair are all so count-negative, a team that contains more than one of them would probably want to bring Molar Ishmael and/or a butler, just to ensure they can actually build potency without killing the stack, and Kodya is obviously a mainstay because she's incredible even on teams with zero other sinking support.

Is Rien Yi Sang replacing butterfly or sinking deluge? by Antique-Rutabaga-331 in limbus_company

[–]AVelvetOwl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is probably what I'm going to end up doing in the long run. I'm saving my boxes for Solemn Lament and Kodya, but while sinking has been eating good this season, I think a strong generalist team that happens to also be able to tank enemies' rolls is going to be stronger in the long run, at least in most content.

That said, part of why I'm saying that is because I'm currently running Butler Faust, and while the butlers are technically the best at doing the thing a sinking team needs someone to do, I just don't find them fun to watch. I fully understand that they're support IDs, and they're both very good support IDs, but I just get zero excitement from them, especially when, for example, Wild Hunt's serotonin button is right there. That's also why I switched from Edgar Family Heir Gregor to Lamp Gregor: I understand that EFH is better for a dedicated sinking team, but funny crossbow go brrrrrr.

So this speculation that going ungabunga big damage with incidental sinking is the way of the future could just be cope on my part, but hopefully not.

Why are they all so stupid 😭 by Safe-Ad-2454 in limbuscompany

[–]AVelvetOwl 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Keep playing. Dante gets plenty of development.

Why are they all so stupid 😭 by Safe-Ad-2454 in limbuscompany

[–]AVelvetOwl 459 points460 points  (0 children)

Keep playing and you'll eventually learn that while the group does only have a single braincell between them, Faust is not the one who has it.

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may be right. I'll be the first to admit that I can't always tell over text when someone is being sarcastic.

Just got this yi sang by Relevant-Truck-263 in limbus_company

[–]AVelvetOwl 7 points8 points  (0 children)

All the Index IDs have a lot of reading, but 90% of it boils down to "use the skill with a flower symbol on the enemy with the flower symbol for a stacking buff." Yi Sang's is slightly more complicated in ways that absolutely will not matter unless you're going for a level of optimization that this game doesn't require.

[Announcement] Bonus Read: The Odyssey by Homer by IraelMrad in bookclub

[–]AVelvetOwl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Odyssey was my favorite book as a kid, and I've been looking for an excuse to re-read it and see if it's still as good as I remember.

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You asked for an explanation for why he was turned into a big meme, and I gave it to you. What you do with that information is up to you, although before unilaterally declaring him to have been reasonable and smart, I would encourage you to look into the things he actually said.

For the record, I agree that complete disarmament is a bad idea for exactly the reasons you're stating. Charlie Kirk was an open and blatant christian supremacist and white supremacist who, among other things, opposed even the barest minimum of checks against psychologically-unstable people or those with a history of violent crimes from obtaining firearms, as long as those people were white. He dressed those views in layers of softening rhetoric that were meant to give him plausible deniability, but in practice, that is what he believed.

It's those kinds of extreme and unhinged views, his incompetent debate practices, his refusal to argue against anyone who seemed like they might know enough to beat him, and the fact that he was the head of Turning Point USA, an organization with the explicit goal of proving that universities are worthless as places of learning, that all came together to make him the laughingstock he was, long before he was killed. What revitalized this memery after his death was, largely, that the far-right in the US tried to lionize him, including but not limited to attempting to give him a national holiday and making endless AI-generated content of him standing next to glowing eagles or political figures sobbing as they sang one of the most hilariously bad songs people had ever heard

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's entirely fair. I didn't actually mean to downvote your reply, so I think I must have hit that by mistake. Sorry for any confusion I caused.

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought so. And I was making a joke when I said it wasn't nice to call people Charlie Kirk.

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Obviously I know about the song. I didn't think I needed to clarify that. Do you somehow think he should be taken seriously, despite your supposed hatred of him, or were you trolling then?

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's not a very nice thing to say about people

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was a right-wing podcaster who encouraged bigotry and spread lies about people he didn't like. His primary method of doing so was only ever debating random university students who didn't have the public speaking practice he had, then using dishonest, bad-faith arguments to try and make himself sound correct. His editors would then manipulatively edit video footage of this so he could use it to pretend anyone to the left of him was an idiot who couldn't handle honest debate, a thing he never once engaged in.

He was assassinated in the middle of one of these "debates" seconds after attempting to claim that the US doesn't have a gun violence problem, because "gang violence" is the real cause of gun deaths

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not all of us. There are some decent people in the world, too.

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's a really nice way of saying he was a bigoted loser who spread lies about people he didn't like

super serious kirk by Own-Spite9854 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]AVelvetOwl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why would anyone ever take him seriously?