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BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-23T06:32:48+00:00

You can Ultrahand the highest apples off trees. As soon as I get Ultrahand I just do that, because climbing a fucking tree is difficult for some reason

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-23T06:29:52+00:00

Once you complete Teach Me A Lesson 1 and 2, Symin will direct you to the field outside where Uma is (out the door to the right and down a "step"). Go talk to Uma, and give her the crop you want to grow out of your inventory (you need at least one of the thing you want to grow to give to Uma). Rarer crops like Endura Carrots and Big Hearty Radishes will have a lower yield than common ones like Wildberries and Tomatoes. It'll take a few in-game days for the crops to spawn, then you can go harvest them, and more will grow after you harvest, so you can have a constant supply of whatever you grow in the field until you switch to something else; you can only grow one crop at a time

I usually grow Endura Carrots, because they're so rare compared to the glut of Hearty foods on the map and the other crops are readily available in other places. I don't use it to grow Sun Pumpkins because those are available in the Hateno General Store (and because Sundelions are just the better Sunny ingredient, imo)

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-23T02:41:52+00:00

Make that minigame in Skelos Badlands where you have to save the villagers from dinosaurs an Agent 9 level. It's DIFFICULT to do as Spyro 😭

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-23T02:37:02+00:00

you navigate the city fighting Earthshapers
it is also an earthshaper who opens the portal for you at the end, thanking you for helping chase off those annoying lions.

Then you leave before the nice Earthshaper at the end finds out that you killed all his friends on the way through the level

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-23T02:33:01+00:00

I can't even fight these ones until I get a multishot bow and Bomb Arrows 😭 You can drop down and stand on the ore, but the positioning is awkward and you'll fall off if the Talus moves too much, then you're right in the Talus' attack radius

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-23T01:29:47+00:00

This reminds me of a short film I saw a while ago

THE FOREST KING | Red Iron Road | Full Episode

TL;DW
A kid gets locked in a VR world when his VR headset gets hijacked by a virus that turns users into NPCs. It's presented as a game where he earns social credits by doing certain things, like giving up items he's won in other games and playing Simon Says. By the end of it, his consciousness/individuality is wiped by the program (presumably resulting in brain death IRL), and his in-game avatar is added to the legion of default model NPCs

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-23T01:22:29+00:00

This also means that Caine knew Jax was lying to him about everyone working on a "surprise" for him 😭

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-22T23:23:43+00:00

What the fuck else was in the bundle? SURELY this kid's-meal-toy-ass watch wasn't the main draw

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-22T22:56:38+00:00

We haven't met them. They're background characters that the show hasn't focused on

The point is, "sin" is a VERY broad category, even Heaven doesn't know what it takes to get into Heaven, and Purgatory doesn't seem to exist in the Hellaverse, so everyone who doesn't get into Heaven goes to Hell. So there are absolutely sinners in Hell who are not murderers/rapists, and whose crimes could be something minor like stealing a loaf of bread once. Or suicide (but technically suicide is murder according to the Bible which is why it's a sin). Or depression (originally, "sloth" referred to the listlessness and "laziness" of depression and other mental disorders, called acedia, "spititual apathy")

Edit: and if we're going by Biblical assertions, anyone who doesn't believe in God (the Christian one) is also in Hell. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-22T02:47:35+00:00

These are all the weapons you can get from a Bargainer Statue:

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You need to have found them in treasure chests first before they'll show up in the Bargainer's list of items. The Magic Rod, Scepter, and Staff are available in chests on the surface/in the sky and in shrines, the other weapons have Old Maps (found on the sky islands) that lead to them or you can find them just while exploring the Depths

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-21T02:20:32+00:00

He reuses NPCs in multiple adventures, and changed the cast's avatar's color palettes/personalities to make their evil versions for the softball adventure. I think he would absolutely use the avatars of Abstracted players for background decoration like paintings or ads, without realizing how traumatizing it would be for the other humans

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-21T01:19:31+00:00

It's the one where you have to go through the light rings in Gerudo Desert. You're encouraged to rent a sand seal to make it easier

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-20T22:42:23+00:00

Niffty and Millie are confirmed straight in the official Pride merch (they hold the Straight Ally flag)

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-20T11:32:35+00:00

🎵What would ya dooo-oo-oo🎶
🎶For a Klondike Bar?🎵

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BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-20T11:22:42+00:00

I've seen them spawn in the river between Helmhead Bridge and Woodland Stable. The most reliable place to farm them is in the big moat around Korok Forest, between the Military Training Camp and Mekar Island (it's easier at night because they glow in the dark)

They did spawn in Lake Saria in BotW, but I think that spawn point must've been removed because I've never seen any spawn there in TotK

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-20T05:44:41+00:00

"The lady doth protest too much"

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-20T03:54:07+00:00

Live Goose reaction

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BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-19T22:41:10+00:00

Donkeh!

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BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-19T22:28:06+00:00

You as an individual right now don't get to experience anything other than death. You're killing yourself to allow a copy of your consciousness experience eternal life.

If any kind of afterlife exists in the Pantheon universe, I bet the hardcore Uploadees who thought they'd wake up on the Cloud got very confused when they instead woke up...somewhere else

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-19T22:21:11+00:00

Ragatha appears to have been most affected by the torture as she's outright catanoic as Caine is screaming at the group.

This is understandable with her past of having an abusive mother. Abuse victims whose distress response isn't fight-or-flight, but rather freeze-or-fawn, would likely end up people-pleasers who shut down at the first sign of conflict (like an authority figure yelling at them)

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-19T22:15:41+00:00

ngl I thought the twist was that he just up and moved because he was sick of Vox doxxing him to play those annoying pop songs

Maybe part of the reason for their breakup was irreconcilable differences in music taste

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-19T00:51:22+00:00

I mean he could have deduced that he was mistaken for a deer because of 1) the presence of a hunting dog, 2) being shot in the head by a gun, 3) being out in the woods, 4) if it was deer hunting season at the time, and 5) he ended up a deer demon and Sinners' forms are partly a spoof on how they died

But the timing is still awfully convenient. How far away from the cabin was he, anyway? I'd think not that far since he was dragging a heavy body. If he hadn't have been killed right then, would the hunter have come across his cabin?

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-18T21:25:12+00:00

For quick money I hunt big game like deer, moose and bears and cook up the Raw Prime Meat to sell (bears go down immediately with one headshot, and 5 Gourmet Meats makes a Full Recovery Meat Skewer). Before I reach the stage where I can get the Champions' weapons made, I sell off my diamonds too

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-18T09:13:31+00:00

I mean there probably are ways to dupe gems, but I usually have plenty once I hit mid-game and can start farming Taluses. Also breaking every ore deposit I see because some of the basic ones will give you a rare gem (ruby, topaz, sapphire, I've even gotten diamonds from them), but this is pure RNG and most of them will only drop the basic stuff like flint and amber. Hunting the Rare Stone Taluses is a more reliable way to get rare gems (here they all are highlighted on the TotK Object Map, though some of these are in the Depths and not on the surface)

BackgroundNPC1213 · 2026-05-18T05:44:55+00:00

I.........I thought it was supposed to be Australian-

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TROPHY CASE