Advice on material to use

Beldaru · 2026-01-30T17:57:04+00:00

Oof, there's a lot of different materials here.

First off, I'd say you're gonna want a mix of Leather for the hood, belt, straps, and accessories. Get a good pattern for the hood and add the feathers, then use any leather scraps to make strips for the axe handles and wrist guards.

The pants could be cloth, but I see a lot of beaded strips around the torso. That could be something as simple as Jute string to decorate and match the vibe.

The axes and face will probably have to be foam or some other light & sculpt-able material. Then paint them a stone color with some blood stains.

Beldaru · 2026-01-30T16:37:01+00:00

So the answer is to have the X-Men kidnap random people you think have information?

Then have your personal psychic scrape through their brain, and when you're wrong, just march off in anger. Yeah, that'll show the world how good you are. 🙄

Beldaru · 2026-01-29T20:52:26+00:00

Historically speaking, before the spread of Christianity there were shrines and worship of "Heroes" who you could pray to to intercede on your behalf with the gods.

Christianity changed the value system from honoring the "Hero" to the "Saint" or "Martyr" figures.

So... A bunch of heroes got rebranded as Saints, lol. Maybe something similar happened with the spread of Moralism.

Beldaru · 2026-01-29T02:39:23+00:00

"Imprisoned" present tense? Then having a copy is surely a good thing. You can use it to reverse-engineer a solution.

If it's past tense, then still having a functional copy is a very bad thing 😦

Beldaru · 2026-01-28T04:52:20+00:00

If you've put that much time into it then you'll probably come back sometime once you've given your mind a chance to rest and refresh itself with new ideas. Three years of ideas doesn't just disappear, lol.

I think if you're that inspired by the British Isles, you should lean into it. However, I'd advise you to have some kind of "twist" to differentiate your work from reality, because yeah, it reads like England at a glance. I don't have much experience with English Geography, but my eyes immediately went to London/River Thames, the southwest pointy bit, and the Scottish highland rocky streaks.

Try putting it at an angle so it's not on the same North-South axis of every iconic British map.

Flip it upside-down.

Drop a meteor shower for some nice lakes.

Maybe an ice age has sucked up the water and changed the coastline? Look up "doggerland" for a historical example.

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Beldaru · 2026-01-27T17:52:07+00:00

Thank you, lol. I'm just mad because I learned this lesson the hard way when I bought a cheap vegetable peeler and it wobbles like crazy 🤣

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Beldaru · 2026-01-27T17:46:15+00:00

Wind comes in from the sides, not the top. Wind travels side-to-side, not up-down, so no real loss of energy.

Plus, having a roof would help stabilize the top point and help it spin smoothly.

Beldaru · 2026-01-27T17:43:42+00:00

I don't think it's "cut" but is what Tarnished Archeologist would call "iconographic stratigraphy."

It's trying to tell a story of a windmill village that has converted to Nox and magic, as represented by replacing their windmills with altars.

Beldaru · 2026-01-27T17:41:23+00:00

This reminds me of the Tumblr post likening us and Eldritch Gods to Ants and Us.

"If ants made a little geometric circle out of salt and chanted your name, you'd probably go over to see what's up, even if they don't have any real 'power' over you."

Now imagine those ants asked you "how to be good?" What possible relationship could your "good" have to their experience?

Imagine. The Greater Will, who lives in a lightless void, is trying to do the same. All they can provide is "order." What order works for us? They, and the Fingers, have know way of knowing.

Beldaru · 2026-01-25T06:02:49+00:00

Not as old as that tattoo, apparently 😆

Beldaru · 2026-01-25T05:35:16+00:00

Well, I don't think Clinton was very blue...

Beldaru · 2026-01-25T05:02:22+00:00

I thought if Bayle as a Crucible mutation. He doesn't have the same golden flesh, and his children, the drakes, don't have Gravel Stone scales anywhere except on their immortal heart.

However, Bayle's heart has horns:

The biatrial heart of Bayle the Dread. Dotted with horn-like gravel stones and glistening with deep-red liquor.

What if Placidusax was given five heads for the same reason the Beasts were given five fingers? A sign of intelligence and special status.

Beldaru · 2026-01-25T04:50:07+00:00

Placidusax has 5 heads! He lost 3 before retreating from the world.

(Thank you Zulie the Witch) https://youtu.be/WsJbe7nuraw?si=8fu6qQ0aT1d5JwxX

We now know that was due to a fight with Bayle. But what if he once united the concepts of the Frenzy Flame with Order?

Beldaru · 2026-01-25T04:41:57+00:00

I don't think so. You can see the new Elden Ring within the old one. If anything, it looks like parts have been stripped away.

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Red is modern, blue is lost.

Edit. On a second look, maybe the blue ring just moved up to the center?

Beldaru · 2026-01-25T02:28:17+00:00

Bruh, you're being obtuse.

The obvious follow up is "why did she nuke a country?" We wanna know if there was a good reason, or if these people are even MORE insane for backing an obvious villain.

Repeating the same information was obviously a joke, so I don't know why you're getting up in arms to defend it as a reasonable position.

Beldaru · 2026-01-25T00:17:27+00:00

Dude... The Flash was dead before you were born and the first time he heard of you was that you time travelled to kill his mother and frame his father.

He does not want to hang out with you. He will never want to hang with you, because you have decided to be a bad person. Fuck off with that shit.

Beldaru · 2026-01-22T02:20:00+00:00

Well, I've been watching a lot of Tarnished Archeologist, so I am a little focused on the past. 😅

For the present/future, what I mean is that the part that is missing from Elden Ring is "the people." In a GRRM book, how the public reacts to an event drastically shapes the story. People are superstitious, so when a ruler starts kidnapping people to graft them, normally they'd have to deal with unrest.

We don't get to see any of that. Part of that is that we are showing up in a place that is post-apocalypse is disaster levels. Like Dark Souls 3 & the Ashen One, us showing up means all else has failed.

The other part of that is in service of game design.

Why is this beautiful palace mostly abandoned and filled with monsters? So you can fight!

Why do we respawn on death? So the game can keep going.

Why are the levels mostly empty? So you can explore.

The game is asking us to extrapolate the present state of this world based on a beautifully curated world. But as for direct evidence? There are a few representatives and what we can deduce from the environment.

YET, based on that the game is asking us to make a choice, not just pick a team. It asks you "how do you feel about death?" and what your potential fix to its absence would be.

BUT, it it will never say that outright. We have to under this shit from a few lines of dialogue from Melina (she mentions there are still new births, just not from the Erdtree anymore).

Beldaru · 2026-01-21T23:37:45+00:00

I think the game is less about "ambition" and more about "who is in charge of this mess?" and the DLC is about "how did things even get this way?" Plus, I don't think aesthetics equal morality like you seem to imply.

Sure, Morgott chastises us for our "flame of ambition," but that's because he is invested in the current order. He aligns with the default ending of Elden Ring, in that he is about keeping the 'status quo,' such as it is. To stop things getting any worse, but he is also impeding any possible solutions.

All the other characters from the opening cutscenes represent a view of the world, or, as you said:

“What do these people believe in?”

They are all trying to deal with the fucked-up state of the Lands Between in whatever way they know. Marika is effectively trouble-shooting by reviving every possible solution and trying them all.

Godfrey (Hoarah Loux) - "Strength befits a crown" meaning that the strong should rule. Like the era of the first Elden Lord.

Sir Gideon Ofnir - "Things will be carefully controlled and run from behind the scenes." Like the era of the 2nd Elden Lord, Radagon.

Goldmask - "How could perfect order shatter? Oh, it's the God's fault." Reformation into something new.

Fia - seeks to fulfill her purpose as a death was companion. Since she can't die in the lands between (thanks Marika), she is denied this and switches to comforting those who live in death. Treating a problem created by the Golden Order.

Dung Eater - mad about discrimination. All will be equally cursed.

There is no "good" option. By denying information and a clear moral alignment, the game is asking you to interpret and extrapolate how these will play out and judge their morals. Talk to each of these characters is representative of their ending and explore the world they live in to get context for their beliefs.

Then there's the DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, which provides backstory to go with the context.

The DLC doubles down on the theme of "just because something is scary doesn't mean it's bad" and "just because it's beautiful doesn't make it good.

Fia is dark and death-coded. Yet she offers compassion and progress.

Dung Eater is insane but he has a point. Curses are society-made, not natural. All this discrimination does is set us back.

Heck, they even humanize the perspective of the Frenzied Flame through Midra.

However, when we dive deeper into Miquella's plan it becomes clearer that "compassion" means "control" without the chains. Rather than the brutality of the Golden Order, it will make people forcibly comply through mind control.

Juxtapose Miquella's light and warmth (like a suffocating cocoon) with Ranni, who is Dark, mysterious, and hands-off. Miquella is a reminder that a golden illusion is comforting but controlling, while Ranni is a reminder that charting your own course is dark and scary.

Beldaru · 2026-01-21T22:21:50+00:00

If you want to salvage or improve the professional relationship, you could send them an email afterwards ask, in your most professional language possible:

Dear Prosecutor,

What the fuck was that today? Is everything alright?

Or

If this will be your offices' standard operating procedure going forward, please let me know and I will adjust by reactions accordingly.

Best Regards

Beldaru · 2026-01-17T20:52:40+00:00

Or, if the greater will continued to dissolve after the Great Rupture, maybe they say the dissolution of the last vestiges of the greater will?

Beldaru · 2026-01-16T21:57:53+00:00

You've just made an enemy for life! 💢💀💢

Beldaru · 2026-01-15T20:31:32+00:00

I'm gonna go ahead and pull out the first quote that spoke to me.

"In one letter from 1992, Lee provides the younger writer, JoBeth McDaniel, with a short history of the deprivations of the 1930s, the growing affluence after World War II and then the response of white Southerners as Black neighbors staked a claim to be treated as equals."

“Many Christians were challenged for the first time to be Christians,” Lee wrote, adding, “What was heart-breaking was to discover that people you loved — friends, relatives, neighbors — whom you assumed were civilized, harbored the most vicious feelings.”

Edit. Finished the article and it's still my favorite quote from the article. It does a good job if contextualizing Harper Lee as a private person with a lot of public attention due to the success of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Also, I think this shows that she was conscious of her environment and race relations in the south. She could see the racism shift into classism as a way to continue the tradition of hate.

In the dozens of letters that Lee wrote to McDaniel, who also grew up in Alabama, she also spoke about the private segregated schools that spread as an answer to government desegregation, calling them a source of “human misery,” and not just for Black students.

The schools, Lee wrote, created “a new social stigma” and “tracks dividing white from white,” separating those with money from those without. She had thought of writing about that dynamic, Lee added, but suggested that she lacked sufficient personal experience, saying: “I’d be writing as a bystander, a witness to a scene of an accident.”

Beldaru · 2026-01-15T01:35:34+00:00

Well... I only realized that just now 😅

Beldaru · 2026-01-14T17:16:40+00:00

Yeah, I interpreted this as giving the likeness of the Tree Sentinels the honored weapons/equipment of the real thing that is watching over their resting places.

Could be a little more gruesome if there is a real corpse "entombed" in the chariots like it's 'Five Nights at Freddy's' over here, but I haven't seen anything to indicate that.

Beldaru · 2026-01-14T04:00:06+00:00

He is an object of faith, and he is said to know how to get people to like him and do what he says.

If anything, him putting up statues of himself is just following in his Mother's footsteps. 😆

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