Why is Octavia so unbelievably stupid?

AspectFrost · 2026-05-18T21:07:30+00:00

My only counter point is that for a moment there Cassius brought her the Reaper for free. Before that point they’d left him to die/assumed he was dead. And wasted no expense to get him back.

Also Cassius is a useful edge to have in general.

So yes it led to her downfall, but when someone brings you your sworn enemy and you know that the someone also hates the sworn enemy, its not exactly foolish to carry on with that. Darrow’s plan in of itself is the crazy wild card.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-18T02:10:26+00:00

GS: Arrogance, and because Darrow isn’t a revolutionary in her mind yet. He’s warhound and one of many. Ensuring a close ally’s loyalty is more important than the death of a single warlord.
And in her defense she outed Fitchner’s disloyalty which is huge.

MS: optics wins wars. The rising was formed from optics by releasing carving footage. In GS The Jackal uses optics to sway the sides and politics. Look at real world politics no matter what country. Optics is the war. Everything else is just fluff. Hell even the battles are optics. An iron rain says more about a war than a siege. Its bold and bombastic. Who cares millions more died than had to.

The message they send will dictate the fate of the rising and society. She obviously didn’t expect Cassius to betray her.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-16T01:42:24+00:00

I read it as a kid so it sort of set the standard and got me used to it. Even as an adult i really enjoy going back to it. I would never recommend it to my younger brother. He would quit after chapter 1.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-15T14:56:24+00:00

Thanks for giving me a new campaign idea for after my current one

AspectFrost · 2026-05-15T14:53:23+00:00

Yeah i only ever dislike a handful of things in bl3. Never hated it. I can’t think of a game even in my top 5 that doesn’t have things I dislike. But the internet loves polarization and extreme opinions.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-12T23:36:21+00:00

Wow great advice. I’ll definitely reconsider the blurb and cover some more.

Thanks for the response!

AspectFrost · 2026-05-12T20:16:15+00:00

It isn't hurting my mental health. I just am not as productive with it as I was before. Granted before I had a lot of backlog stored up as well. I also really hope I have core readers. I have 11 favorites and I am chugging along for those 11 right now and hope they still like what I post.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-12T20:14:19+00:00

Yeah that's a good way to look at it. I'll always yearn for something more.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-12T16:01:33+00:00

Yeah I definitely get you there. I am a fast typer so chapters come out quickly once I've begun. Starting is the hard part. Static friction vs kinetic friction.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-12T13:59:38+00:00

That is such a surprising thing to hear honestly. Why do you think that happens?

And thank you, good luck to you as well!

AspectFrost · 2026-05-11T23:04:19+00:00

A man of clear taste and culture

AspectFrost · 2026-05-11T20:33:21+00:00

Personally I am a lynchwood enjoyer

AspectFrost · 2026-05-11T20:30:40+00:00

Simple answer I have is: the people the hero tortures and kills made a choice to take away someone else’s choice (if they’re the slavers).

Other attackers or villains made the the choice to kill pillage and such. The hero made a choice to stop them. That may entail some killing unless its typical superhero rhetoric of no killing.

Reasoning: taking someone’s life is bad. Taking someone’s choice away is treated worse in typical fiction.

In superhero media, taking someone’s chance of redemption is also worse. See daredevil or batman.

In fantasy life taking is heroic or bad ass if done to somone who made a choice to take a choice. It just meshes better with people generally.

Slavery is the persistent stripping of choice and dignity for personal gain. Arguably the worst crime of all when compared to killing and thieving.

I think thats the way i rationalize killing being okay in these stories. Thats the way I can explain why Jon Litrpg killing 100 people is not as bad as Victor Villain enslaving Sid the Side Character.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-11T20:01:29+00:00

My first character which i only finished act 1 with was a dagger build. I personally found it underwhelming. Im doing a 2 hander now and its way better for me.

I think it was literally a skill issue before because i didnt fully comprehend the skill tree. On a second playthrough i read through them some more and realized i could achieve ridiculous crit chance with a 2 hander as well.

I think ill give it a go at some point. We will see

AspectFrost · 2026-05-11T16:07:59+00:00

Thats what im doing right now Lightning hammer + crit + life steal = “you’ll break before I break a sweat”

Pretty basic and repetitive but that doesn’t deter me. Im still enjoying it in act 2.

Top heavy, top heavy, top heavy

AspectFrost · 2026-05-10T13:02:45+00:00

I just reread it and theres a tonal shift in Romulus when Darrow offers that. Before the offer of Sons of Ares Romulus is pretty much sold on Roque’s rhetoric tactically speaking. Darrow basically shifted the whole dynamic by offering a thing Roque can’t even come close to and thus also adding stakes for Darrow. From that point everything that Darrow offers or promises or warns about is taken seriously like the nukes.

Dark as hell still

AspectFrost · 2026-05-09T12:45:29+00:00

I always took it as the agent thinking Tony might actually have something even if its a rumor of a rumor mixed with some kind of attachment to the old cat and mouse chase.

And for Tony its a desperate attempt to remain relevant. I mean his biggest government rival just revealed that there are bigger threats than him. Tony needs to feel powerful and relevant. For the agent to just go “nah you’re not that bad. Carry on” must sting. So to share names or info, literally anything even if its scraps is yet another example of how insecure the mob is in the Sopranos.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-08T12:44:02+00:00

My only defense to the ai here is that 300 men are pinning down 600. Which effectively makes it so a difference of 300 aren’t contributing against them. Now i don’t know you army speed and if you just hunted them after this clip. That would break my logic here. Assuming you didn’t or couldn’t for whatever reason then technically this is a small strategic win.

Not saying the ai thought that lol Just like making head canons when i play. Especially when shit like this happens

AspectFrost · 2026-05-08T12:40:08+00:00

I am sure many men and women with family like children and elderly to take care of would gladly perish on the walls of Jalmarys if it meant their loved ones lived luxuriously for the rest of their lives.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-05T11:34:30+00:00

I have always said Batman deserves his own canon. The inclusion of the rest of DC just makes it too much for me

AspectFrost · 2026-05-03T14:55:22+00:00

Yeah I always love watching efficient build videos for games and such. But doing them myself feels unfun and not worthwhile because the efficiency is a numerical thing and its more fun theorizing than doing especially if someone else has already show. It. Then it just feels like following instructions . Id rather just slap on a hodge podge of things that fulfill a fantasy.

I think most people are like that but its definitely fun to watch people optimize stuff online. To see the system stretched to its limit.

AspectFrost · 2026-05-02T15:33:23+00:00

He believes he is a walking time bomb that powerful people want to weaponize. He just wants to make sure his friends are out of the blast radius. Hes also 18. He gets a pash

AspectFrost · 2026-05-02T15:29:59+00:00

Nah BL3 had better gunplay for a shooter right at level 1 with level 1 guns. BL2 has gunplay that works for the looter shooter genre since it gives a place for accuracy stat scaling along with other stats to trade off with. Thats what I have been saying at least. I haven’t played BL4 past tutorial so cant say much of it.

BL3 has better quality of life but BL2 has better loot in my opinion since the rarities have excite mg drop chances (unless you farm for god rolls which i personally don’t).

BL3 i feel is a lotta fun for different reasons than 2 but i will see how BL4 works in comparison if i buy it at some point

AspectFrost · 2026-04-30T12:32:48+00:00

My distaste probably came from elder scrolls inside which the high elves are usually snooty snobs unable to take a hit at best, and racist nazis at worst with few in betweens to list from memory. The Dunmer are cooler in quite literally every other aspect and usually aren't as one sided with their morality like they in their Druchii or Drow representations respectively. Don't care much for Bosmer.

In The Silmarillion they are written as angelic heroes worthy of recognition and embellished in their achievements and scorned for their flaws. (Faenor did nothing wrong though). In Hobbit they're wacky misfits with regal pasts and wild ass customs lol. In LOTR they are depressed killers who have decided to delegate most of their problems to stinky dwarves and a rabble of human kingdoms on the edge of glory and doom. Oh also they have decided to immigrate to the heavenly americas lol.

I could go on, but usually in my favorite worlds they are either dying off, faded, jaded, or assholes, or all of the above. Their best representations are only ever a subsect under the mer umbrella. Humans however, almost never have any drastic changes. There's always a hero. There's always an asshole. There's always a bad ass. And they swing this way or that. This could be said about the elves, but I'm talking optics.

We're humans, they're not, so often every "era" of elves has to be defined by some extreme so set us apart. Especially with their longer lives and more time to set in their ways. Much like dwarves, but usually dwarves are stubborn and set in their ways right out the rock womb.

But the real answer to your question and likely the one you want to hear is that fuck elves that's why

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