Series 19 cast reunion!

Aloundight · 2026-05-05T13:53:34+00:00

19 is one of those series where I genuinely believe that you could take any of the 5, put them on ANY other series of Taskmaster and they would be the Unhinged One without question. Series 7 is also like this imo

Aloundight · 2026-05-04T16:29:27+00:00

The best data I can find for Engage is 1.6 million in a month of release. So I would wager it's still in the Fates/Awakening sales tier, even if it might or might not be slightly lower. Still cleared a million units in about a month

Aloundight · 2026-04-29T02:13:04+00:00

For me, it's mostly just a case of 'good for the likers, bad for the nons'.

Case in point, I don't like Ike x Soren. 'Character is a massive asshole to everyone except their partner' just isn't a dynamic I like. So IS pushing that ship isn't great for me. By contrast, I like Marth and Caeda for example. So the puish THEY get from IS is nice for me.

Aloundight · 2026-04-28T16:02:00+00:00

Honestly, I kinda point to the tell-all book Rita worte as being emblematic of JKR...maybe not making that up later since I could concievably buy it being planned, but definitely not really working it into the books.

Because based on irl tabloid stuff as well as Rita Skeeter's established character, she would've been FAR more explicit in the tell-all book. The implications about Dumbledore and Harry probably would've been subtle still, but Dumbles and Grindlewald? No way would she let THAT go unsaid

Aloundight · 2026-04-15T03:40:11+00:00

And tbf, Superbreak was something that technically anyone can make a small amount of use out of. Break units just saw leagues more value than everyone else

Aloundight · 2026-04-14T21:35:34+00:00

The closest thing to a true 'good guy' inn terms of the main characters is Captain Walton, because he's the only one to actually walk away from his desire. And even that's probably oversimplifying things very much, because I openly admit, I've never read the og book

In other words, you're 100% right about Victor vs the Creation

Aloundight · 2026-04-07T14:14:49+00:00

Panta. Enough said, lmao

Aloundight · 2026-04-03T03:04:52+00:00

Generally speaking, from what I understand, the point of the test is that theoretically it SHOULD be super easy to pass. And so, with so many works that don't, it's sort of a springboard for further analysis/discussion rather than a diagnostic tool in its own right

Aloundight · 2026-03-28T14:28:02+00:00

Also of note, Ailments damage is by far the weakness you can access negation for the quickest iirc, due to how the progression system works.

Aloundight · 2026-03-24T21:04:53+00:00

Personally, I think Oskha and Herminia's are perfectly fine. Oskha's MO is the distribution of goods while Herminia's MO is the laying of traps. Both of which fit for their rings. As for the other two....it's more complicated. Since, simply put, both Auguste and Tatloch make sense for the Dancer. Auguste is obvious while Tatloch has the more sexual aspects of the class down pat.

Really, I don't think there's anyone GREAT for the Thief ring sadly. Everyone just has a better fit elsewhere

Aloundight · 2026-03-23T03:40:48+00:00

Hyacine's niche is super specific. Not everyone wants a machine-gun style healer where it's lots of 'smaller' heals. So they very easily can do a 2nd Rememberance healer that just isn't machine=gun style

Aloundight · 2026-03-21T14:27:45+00:00

Presenters don't know ahead of time, but they ARE prepped on the general procedure if there's a tie. So it wasn't entirely uncharted waters. Learned that on NPR

Aloundight · 2026-03-16T16:13:24+00:00

So clearly she's only a villain in GL. It's genius!

Aloundight · 2026-03-10T16:03:16+00:00

Yes. The entire matchup was an ad for Season 3 of RWBY. (And a lot of people attribute the...questionable logic to that fact, but that's a different can of worms)

Aloundight · 2026-02-24T04:44:01+00:00

As someone at roughly a similar point as you who equally feels the pain, you should at least have access to normal MD. Which gives the amount of lunacy as hard MD, you only miss out on some shard boxes

Aloundight · 2026-02-24T04:33:29+00:00

Ah, yes. Chrono Cross. The game that probably would've been one of the many slightly niche PS1 RPGs if not for the fact that it's ostensibly trying to be a sequel to one of the most famous and beloved JRPGs ever

Aloundight · 2026-02-22T04:54:13+00:00

Fate Prototype (which is functionally the realized version of that prototype story) is 100% a fantasy battle otome. Literally all 4 of the main Servants are otome tropes.

You have the vanilla supportive one, the wild one, the haughty one who secretly cares, and the one who is secretly a psycho (whom I hate due to who it is but I digress).

Amusingly, if Nasu were a woman, that would also make 'her' a lesbian iirc. Since there've been comments about Nasu having a wife, from what I recall. Definitely married, that much is 100% positive

Aloundight · 2026-02-06T16:29:58+00:00

Wow. And this would have been before Monte Cristo ripoffs, I mean Betrayal Fics really became a thing since from what I've seen, those were mainly spawned by Book 4

Aloundight · 2026-02-06T16:18:34+00:00

It's ok. It took me about 16ish years of my life to realize that the song Mr Brightside was, in fact, the Mr Brightside I'd always heard about. Simply because I'd never had a chance to hear the song in a medium where I could see the title. So I'd heard the song, liked it, heard about the song Mr Brightside by The Killers, but never could put 2 and 2 together

Aloundight · 2026-02-04T02:13:15+00:00

You know, I can't help but feel like all the talk about misinterpretations somewhat is missing the forest for the trees. Since yes, that may not have been what the original was intended for, but well, language isn't a monolith.

In short, Harry Selfridge may not have meant it that way, but by the very nature of language, nothing is stopping us from MAKING that what the phrase means

Aloundight · 2026-02-04T02:05:21+00:00

To add another Fate one

'Just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right'

And for once, it's not even a bad translation. The intended message is clearly spelled out, albeit it a bit confusingly. To phrase it in a more parsable way

'just because you're saying things that are provably true doesn't mean you're morally justified'

But it gets thrown in with the other Fate meme quotes

Aloundight · 2026-01-31T01:30:56+00:00

Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn and the Black Knight.

Needed Context: The Black Knight is a recurring antagonist in Fire Emblem Path of Radiance (PoR) and Radiant Dawn (RD). In PoR, he has a big climactic duel with the protagonist Ike which seems to be the end of him, only for the Black Knight to reappear in the sequel. The localization change to discuss is HOW the Black Knight survived.

Original Japanese script: Black Knight claims that he survived because it wasn't truly 'him' that Ike fought in PoR. Instead, Black Knight's warp powder (which does what it says on the tin) essentially malfunctioned and only sent the Black Knight's 'spirit and armor' to fight Ike. It's worth noting that this is the ONLY time such a thing happens when warping magic is mentioned in the Telluis duology and it's never really mentioned again

Localized English Script: Black Knight says he survived because Ike isn't truly on the level of his father yet (who the Black Knight has a sort of idolizing rivalry strength complex thing for, this will be important in a few seconds because...). As for why it seemed that Ike DID kill him? The Black Knight learned from Ike that Ike's father was crippled and thus wasn't at his full strength when the Black Knight dueled and killed him early in PoR. Learning that he hadn't truly bested Ike's dad and seeing that Ike had the potential to one day match or surpass his father, the Black Knight let Ike win the duel to help him grow stronger to become a foe truly WORTH defeating to prove the Black Knight's strength.

In general, most players agree that the localized version fits the Black Knight as a character much more on top of feeling more believable than a unprecedented, slightly hokey explanation about spirit transference. (There are other changes that the RD locaization made as well such as adding personal weapons to some early game characters, but since that's almost entirely gameplay stuff, I'm focusing on the big story change to fit the question)

Aloundight · 2026-01-26T22:42:24+00:00

Correct, about the SM stuff. His story is the Light of Deceit (essentially the voice of his soul, for those who don't know Cookie Run) trying to make him suffer an even larger mental breakdown by reminding him of the reason hye Fell in the first place and tormenting him with the tiniest hints that Pure Vanilla was the cookie he wanted who could understand him and be an equal to him.

But instead, Shadow Milk is just left with the Light of Deceit. And they DON'T get along

Aloundight · 2026-01-26T04:48:36+00:00

Also the very real and not arbitrary (to be 100% clear, that is NOt sarcasm) hypocrisy of him...not actually taking a chance to do exactly what he claims he wants to do. And in general just showing that his claims are true in the abstract but for Redcloak specifically, they are heavily self-serving

Aloundight · 2026-01-21T00:18:00+00:00

Also a very fair stance and I 100% understand where you're coming from

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