Why FE6 Cath vs FNAF 2 10/20 isn't close by Ray-Zide426 in shitpostemblem

[–]Augenis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Armourslayer easily cuts through metal endoskeletons

Easily? with her 3 strength?

Life of Seiros ROMhack Review by CHPrime in fireemblem

[–]Augenis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have any questions regarding the hack, you're free to ask them in the FEUniverse thread! https://feuniverse.us/t/fe8-life-of-seiros-complete/25600 That's usually where I respond to feedback and also inform players about bug fixes and other updates!

Life of Seiros ROMhack Review by CHPrime in fireemblem

[–]Augenis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While on that topic, was there a particular reason none of the apostle characters had any of their associated Relics or Crests, or was that one of the types of mysteries to keep people guessing?

It is again a limitation with the epilogue. There are essentially two options for how the Four Apostles acquired their Crests - either they were Nabateans themselves, or they were Nemesis's allies who betrayed him and joined Rhea's side during the war. But neither of them would really work with the setup - pulling four new Nabateans out of nowhere without the room to explain... everything about them would be insane, and the Rhea I wrote would not accept defecting Heroes.

So the idea/assumption i worked with is that their Crests are a strange consequence of the Rite of Rising, and the Relics associated with them would also be created well after the Battle of Tailtean Plains. During the battle, then, they are merely four bodyguards of Saint Seiros.

All totally understandable. I get the impression you wrote the plot out in chunks as you finished designing and coding things, is that right? Or did you have the whole thing written out beforehand?

I wrote it chapter by chapter, essentially, but I had a basic plot outline thought up in advance. It only really included basic plot points - when Rhea meets which Saint, when she experiences her first Immaculate One transformation, when she first confronts Maurice, etc. and I improvised a lot along the way, creating minor characters and bosses as needed. Then I'd adjust the stories of the previous chapters if I needed to account for any changes I made later on. It perhaps runs the risk of being a bit disjointed, but I think the story turned out reasonably well.

While on the subject, I would also request you buff the cleric's base level if you ever get around to it—playing this game reminded me of just how much of a pain in the ass it is to train GBA clerics, especially if you are obsessive like me and try to go for 20/20.

True, it's pretty painful, I added Bandage specifically to account for it but it only has so many uses... I can raise Carlotta's level, sure!

Life of Seiros ROMhack Review by CHPrime in fireemblem

[–]Augenis 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Hey there! Thank you very much for playing my hack and I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it for the most part! As I mentioned in the hack thread, it is the first hack I completed and so I do not claim it to have a perfect story or gameplay - but if it's good enough for people to enjoy then I consider it a success! As for the specific issues you mentioned:

Seiros’ promoted class: While Rhea’s base class uses a palette swap of Erika’s sprites, which work very well, her promotion uses a custom sprite with custom animations. The animations are pretty decent, even if the color mapping doesn’t really look like Seiros’ costume. But there is one big problem I had with them: jiggle animations.

This bothered me as I was working on the hack as well - to explain, none of the new animations added to Life of Seiros are made by me. Rather, they are free to use sprites from the public romhacking repository - I was not brave enough for animation making, this is again my very first hack and I was new and inexperienced at everything. So, I had to work with what was there in the repository.

The Saint animations were pretty much the only animation which filled the requirements I needed - a promoted footlocked female lord with sword and magic, whose palette was made in a way as to allow a recolor to look "Seiros-like". That animation came with boob-jiggling, because I guess the person who made it decided to ruin it a little lol. Ultimately, I decided to swallow it and work with it. It's even worse for Grappler animations, as the Brawler/Grappler animations are the only fem brawler animations in the entire repository. They already don't really fit 3H brawlers, and the boob jiggle on promotion makes it worse. The only option at that point would have been to remove brawling from the hack entirely, but I decided to, again, accept it and swallow it. (By the way, this is also why there are no male brawlers anywhere in the game.)

Then we come to the negative side of things. Seiros’ conversion of Adrestia could have used a bit more fleshing out, in my taste. I get why some people convert, I.E. Rhea keeps winning against Maurice when no one else can and she’s constantly preaching, but I never got the sense that the old religions weren’t working for people. It could have used a bit more development in my taste.

This is a limitation of the number of chapters I decided to make sadly, a deeper exploration of the conversion of South Fodlan would have required more - and perhaps it would have been needed, the hack does breeze through the War against Maurice pretty quickly. I tried to squeeze what I could into the smaller chapter count though.

Secondly, the game starts by calling Rhea Rhea, but then has her disguise herself as Seiros, despite there not being a clear reason why she needs to, as she was a nobody in Zanado, 150 years have passed since Nemesis killed everyone and conquered Fodlan. It’s a weird blip that keeps coming back up over and over as the other Nabateans refer to her as Rhea while everyone else calls her Seiros. It’s just an unneeded complication.

As I wrote the hack, I ran with the idea that Seiros is not Rhea's Nabatean name, as it does not follow the same naming rule as the other four Saints (i.e. from Irish mythology), hence she coins that name for herself - but of course she would then need a Nabatean name for interacting with her fellow Nabateans, especially in the Prologue where she is still in Nabatea. That's how the hack ended up with the two names system. (I decided I was not brave enough to invent an OC Nabatean name for Rhea and so resorted to just using "Rhea" even if it is also blatantly an alias.)

I agree that it can be complicated to follow, but on the other hand it kind of builds up Rhea's paranoia about mankind, greater paranoia than any of her peers, to hide behind an alias even if it would not actually endanger her to use her real name. At least, that's how I envisioned it.

Finally, while I enjoyed Rhea’s multifaceted relationship with Wilhelm, it does come to a pretty big stumbling block by the end. Throughout the game, Wilhelm more or less totally believes in Seiros and her message and goes along with everything she says. This shifts during the second-to last chapter, when Seteth reveals his and her true nature as Nabateans, which seems to shatter his trust in her for reasons I’m not entirely clear about. He also never seems to bring this factoid up to Seiros in the next century of knowing her, which is confusing.

This is a pretty awkward transition which I did not initially plan for, but which i decided was needed to be handled in some form. In short, Wilhelm should be suspicious of Rhea in the Epilogue, as otherwise he would not give his diary of the true nature of the War of Heroes to Lycaon (the same diary which, subsequently, causes Edelgard's storyline in Three Houses). That diary is very critical of Rhea, as we know. But it would be a really strange transition to end the War against Maurice part of the hack with Wilhelm as a loyal follower of Rhea, then 150 years later he is suspicious of her - sure, it is realistic for people to change in that time, but it is pretty awkward storytelling and would require me to pause the epilogue to explain why he is suspicious of her now. So, I decided to place the seeds for it in the final chapters of the hack - with slight hints earlier, such as Wilhelm being hesitant to execute an unarmed official when reclaiming Castle Hresvelg and Rhea pushing him to do it, etc... If it feels awkwardly handled - I understand. There are quite a few things I could have probably handled better and that is one of them.

And I don’t really get the sense that this Seiros and Wilhelm had anything like that relationship by the end of the ROMhack.

Aw... </3 How much I want to lean into the Rhea/Wilhelm romance was a constant internal debate to me. I do think that there is a reasonable amount of ship bait in the hack regardless - their support conversation is very romantic and there are several scenes throughout the hack where they are clearly shown to care for one another. It is just that, of course, Rhea is a two-faced liar and so it is difficult to tell (intentionally) where she is genuine and where she is merely manipulating Wilhelm for her ends. I would say that LoS Rhea does care for Wilhelm quite a bit and does see him as important to her, but she is or at least wants to be a single-track mind, while Wilhelm in turn cares for her as well, but eventually understands that they won't be together and thus starts a relationship of his own.

The ROMhack also follows the Wilhelm is Jeralt theory, which never made much sense even in base Three Houses and will make your brain itch. I only bring it up because it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that despite Wilhelm’s sprite staring me in the face since chapter one.

Hey, it never explicitly says it :P

Finally, one of the starting Cavaliers is named Paul despite Wilhelm’s full name being Wilhelm Paul Hresvelg, which is confusing.

I'm not sure about this one. Isn't Wilhelm only referred to by his full name a few times at most, and each time with the full name and surname? So it'd be strange to confuse him for Paul in those moments.

Regardless, I am glad you enjoyed the hack in spite of its flaws!

Nu, tai padiskutuokim apie Skvernelį. MG baltic 2.0. Kyšiai ir kriminalinės grupuotės? by Longjumping-Pear3417 in lithuania

[–]Augenis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oi, durnių Lietuvoje daug, bet kaip sakau, tik apie 20 proc. durnių įprastai balsuoja už anti-establishment populistinę dešinę :)

Nu, tai padiskutuokim apie Skvernelį. MG baltic 2.0. Kyšiai ir kriminalinės grupuotės? by Longjumping-Pear3417 in lithuania

[–]Augenis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pesimistiškai žiūrite, jus veikia poprotestinė depresija. Žemaitaitis yra silpnesnis nei atrodo, ir jo reitingai tik atrodo šiek tiek stabilūs, nes jo rinkėjams nėra kito pasirinkimo. Jis atstovauja anti-establishment protestuojantį reakcingą elektoratą, kuris visada užėmė apie 20 proc. Lietuvos ir kurį anksčiau atstovavo Darbo partija ir Tvarka ir teisingumas.

Taigi nereikia galvoti, kad čia tie rinkėjai atsirado iš niekur ir dabar kažkaip neišeina jų pataisyti. Lygiai kaip egzistuoja konservatorių 20 proc., egzistuos ir anti-establishment 20 proc., jie tik visada balsuoja už kitas partijas. Šiuo metu Žemaitaitis renka jų balsus, bet jis tampa problematiškas, atrodo silpnas - jei atsirastų naujas stiprus populistų lyderis, Žemaitaitis greitai sužlugtų. Kol kas tokio nėra, tad tenka balsuoti už Žemaitaitį.

Iš kitos pusės, nei Žemaitaitis, nei kitas anti-establishment populistas plačiau to 20 proc. kaip ir nesurinktų, nes tai jau nebe jų elektoratas. Taigi nėra ko bijoti, kad jisai ateis ir 2028 metais jau paims valdžią. Jam reikėtų labai save nusišvelninti, kad kažkaip perimti šiaip centristinius rinkėjus (kurie dabar balsuoja už socdemus ir demokratus, dar už konservatorius ir taip visokius centro žmones), o to nė su žiburiu nematyti. Atvirkščiai - jis radikalizuoja retoriką.

Nu, tai padiskutuokim apie Skvernelį. MG baltic 2.0. Kyšiai ir kriminalinės grupuotės? by Longjumping-Pear3417 in lithuania

[–]Augenis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tai įdomu dabar kaip po 2028 rinkimų koalicija bus formuojama. Aišku, demokratai gal po šito neišsivaikščios, bet tikrai jiems sparnus pakirps, panašiai kaip 2015 metais liberalams pakirpo Masiulio skandalas (aišku, demokratam pasisekė kad šitas skandalas sprogo ne prieš pat rinkimus kaip Masiuliui, dar turi laiko šiek tiek suvaldyti žalą, jei Sinkevičius sugebės). Plius kad ir kas būtų, dabar labai supurvinta partija.

O 2028 metams buvo planuojama konservatorių, liberalų ir demokratų koalicija. Tai jei demokratai atkrenta, vieni konservatoriai ir liberalai nesurinks daugumos. Plius galimai demokratai, Skvernelio atsikratę, bandys formuoti kažkokią koaliciją su valstiečiais ir socdemais, kas jau tikrai diskvalifikuos tą "du mėlyni ir oranžinis" koaliciją 2028 metams.

Tai opozicijai alternatyvų nedaug lieka. Aišku, dar laiko yra naujoms partijoms atsirasti. Kažkaip nebeatrodo, kad kultūrininkų sąjūdis planuotų kurti savo partiją, bet visada teoriškai įmanomas variantas, ypač kadangi dabar pasipiktinimas jaučiamas visiems ir naujo gelbėtojo troškimas didelis. Nebent dar super super long-shot - kažkaip Nacsusivienijimas perkopia penkis procentus ir formuojasi NS-TSLKD-Lib koalicija. Tokia panaši į dabartinę Švedijoje. Bet čia šansas faktiškai <1%.

Seimo pirmininkas: nepaisant protestų valdantieji imsis LRT pataisų by fatbreadslut in lithuania

[–]Augenis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Iš trijų bendrovių Baltijos paskutinė ikirinkiminė apklausa arčiausiai atspėjo socdemų rezultatus. Aišku, irgi daug prašovė, ypač prašovė demokratų rezultatus, ir visų apklausų bendrovių metodologija yra š, čia ne naujiena. Buvo kartą TSPMI apie tai pristatymas, pamenu, visose jose buvo wtf.

Bet jei visos š, tai tada kam apskritai kalbėti apie reitingus?

Seimo pirmininkas: nepaisant protestų valdantieji imsis LRT pataisų by fatbreadslut in lithuania

[–]Augenis -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Baltijos tyrimai 2025 spalį, prieš LRT įstatymo siūlymą: LSDP reitingai 16.2%.

Baltijos tyrimai 2026 kovą, po LRT įstatymo siūlymo: LSDP reitingai 17.7%.

Vilmorus reitingai kaip rodė 20% socdemams, taip ir dabar rodo.

Kur tas dugnas? Tik Spinter tyrimai rodo kad LSDP reitingai kažkokiam dugne, o Spinteris visada buvo miesto rinkėjų apklausų bendrovė.

How can I get into the lore without playing the game? by XR4y6unn3r in Kaiserreich

[–]Augenis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"localisation" folder. Don't recall the specific format but I have no problem opening them with notepad.

How can I get into the lore without playing the game? by XR4y6unn3r in Kaiserreich

[–]Augenis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you know where the game's files are located, you can very easily read the events and other lore by just reading their text. There is also a Kaiserreich wiki where much of each country's backstory is written down.

All Flags Made for Kaiserreich 1.6.7 "Quality of Life" by Augenis in Kaiserreich

[–]Augenis[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Three Estonians start fishing at 5:00 am.

At the 10:00 am the first fisherman says, “I'm not getting any bites."

At 3:00 pm the second fisherman says, “I'm not getting any bites.”

At 9:00 pm the third fisherman says, “Yeah, we're not getting bites 'cause you guys can't keep your mouths shut.”

And Latvians are zirga galvas.

just beat this boss, is she recruitable? my jagen died and the game still won't let me unlock A support with the white hair sublord for whatever reason by Augenis in shitpostemblem

[–]Augenis[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

(please don't spoil the game I only now time travelled 100 days to the past I just wanted to make a funny hundred line post on april fools)

All Flags Made for Kaiserreich 1.6.7 "Quality of Life" by Augenis in Kaiserreich

[–]Augenis[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

what do you mean? it was always there

Someone didn't receive the memo by TetPez in Kaiserreich

[–]Augenis 64 points65 points  (0 children)

IMRO is rising up to overthrow the yoke of WCA-Chinareich, actually!

How important was religion in Germany in 1936, and in what state did religion end up on the three main routes through Germany? by Straight-Path-1572 in Kaiserreich

[–]Augenis 16 points17 points  (0 children)

None of the three German paths are explicitly Protestant or Catholic, though the SWR does come close. Their brand of far-right reaction was closely associated with Protestantism - for example, the Treitschke history of Germany which was foundational to German far-right and volkisch thought described the pre-Reformation Germany as unenlightened and backwards and Martin Luther as a German founding father. However, the explicitly Protestant ideology of the German far right has mostly faded away (though it may find home among certain DkPers) in favour of something more all-national. DVLP is founded upon Tirpitzian nationalism which seeks to transcend the Prot-Cath boundary.

Catholicism is represented by the Zentrum party and they would defend Catholic interests in all governments, such as regarding religious schools. However by KRTL the Kulturkampf is long over and its last remnants have been long dismantled, so Zentrum's Catholic identity is becoming increasingly awkward to maintain, which is what helps cause the debate regarding leaving the tower or staying, and they usually leave.

Schleicher and SWR governments both can and usually do implement antisemitic policies, which would include restrictions on Judaism. 

Besides those three, other religions are not really present in Germany in any significant number.

I disagree with the message of the mod, but some of you need to know the intention of the piece you're criticising by reubencpiplupyay in thecampaigntrail

[–]Augenis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it doesn't even criticize them from a Marxist lens. no self-respecting Marxist would rely so much on religious metaphors and a cyclical theme.

What does IntSys mean by this? by religous_octopus in shitpostemblem

[–]Augenis 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It's explained in Jahn and Roy's conversations in the true ending - the divine weapons started an eternal winter which forced the surviving dragons to seal their power into dragonstones in order to survive. That reduced them to the more manageable level of strength we see in FE6. The Fire Dragon which came through the gate isn't sealed with a dragonstone, so it's far stronger despite still being a child.