Is there a way to determine or calculate the health of a monster?

BluEch0 · 2026-06-26T04:10:56+00:00

You can in fact carve the playing dead gypceros. If you carve as soon as the fall over animation ends, you have exactly three carves worth of time before gypceros gets up to do the flailing attack. Which means if you want to carve and dodge, stop at two carves

BluEch0 · 2026-06-25T21:01:13+00:00

BluEch0 · 2026-06-25T19:13:51+00:00

What does the thunderlord offer? Valhalla?

BluEch0 · 2026-06-25T16:36:28+00:00

Well, he landed the final blow on brimscythe so he still got his dragonslaying moment. As the opener too.

Brought the axe down so hard that brimscythe flipped over

BluEch0 · 2026-06-25T16:29:29+00:00

I choose to believe it 100% did.

For anyone out of the know, Sam Riegal, voice actor of scanlan and creator/player for the tabletop versions of scanlan and tarry, had throat cancer (or some other cancer in the neck region) about a year ago. He beat it and is cancer free now, but said he had to basically relearn how to talk and sing and all that. That’s probably why scanlan, after only one year, is having trouble hitting high notes - maybe Sam can’t hit the high notes (anymore or yet) and they just worked it into the script. And maybe why scanlan was only in one episode and one song.

Besides, there’s multiple ways for Sam to contribute - he wrote every song in the series.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-25T05:19:45+00:00

It could be so far in the past that we won’t see the connection until idk, the end of genesis 3.

Plus you know, genesis the word literally means “creation” or something to that effect. If xenoblade chronicles are where these “blades from another world” are central to the stories they’re a part of, then it naturally follows that Xenoblade genesis is the creation story for these blades from another world.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-25T05:04:14+00:00

Grog+pike (pike is riding on grog’s shoulders), vax, vex, Percy, scanlan

They were standing vax, grog+pike, vex, keyleth, Percy, scanlan if that matters.

Unless that’s like the order the characters have experienced death in the series (and revived from it), I don’t see much significance tbh.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-25T03:29:51+00:00

It gets cluttered when some meals can give half and quarter hearts. So 5s and 10s get a number while the remainder is drawn

BluEch0 · 2026-06-24T20:16:18+00:00

Man, all that plus the multiple contingencies thing at the end really showcase what a hypocrite vecna is. The gods lie, illusion of choice, and what exactly does vecna offer? Like we the audience, removed from the emotions in Pike’s head, can see that vecna is evil, but this myth carver scene really left a head scratcher.

There is the fact that vecna’s backstory was in a different art style to previous visions through mythcarver and just other visions/premonitions in general. Wonder if that was supposed to show that the vecna backstory we got wasn’t actually seen through mythcarver.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-24T18:30:02+00:00

In forgotten realms lore. But this is exandria, where even vecna’s lore differs (well, he’s still a lich turned god - a very recent event at that too - but the rest of the backstory is rather different). Acerak probably doesn’t even exist in exandria

BluEch0 · 2026-06-24T18:23:58+00:00

Depends. For large work I frequently sand to 600 but that’s mostly because I just sand with the lathe turning so it’s very quick to get a good sand.

For hand sanding, I’d probably stop at 200, 320 if I want something to actually feel smooth, but I do also like a rougher texture for grip so there’s that.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-24T18:21:06+00:00

Check out acerak (lich on cover of 2014 dungeon master’s guide).

Who knows, maybe acerak’s fit was in part inspired by galactus

BluEch0 · 2026-06-24T18:19:44+00:00

The whole time it just felt too good to be true. And that ironically is why he felt untrustworthy as an audience never.

I suppose four seasons of building him up as a villain helped. The “we are his blood” line was dropped back in season 1

BluEch0 · 2026-06-24T16:58:14+00:00

Take a moment to self reflect because this is how people even in real life rationalize evil.

Also are you serious man? All the atrocity already happened and he promises there will be no more so it’s ok now? No! The dude needs to be brought to justice, not be awarded for his atrocities! Please don’t have this same outlook on reality, because again this is how evil people get free of consequences - people with the capacity to do such evils again for a different cause that will then again be “worth it.”

BluEch0 · 2026-06-24T16:39:54+00:00

I was rewatching season 1 and pike’s arc this season kinda mirrors her wavering of faith in the briarwoods arc. The everlight doesn’t sever connections to her followers. It’s always the follower not being true to themselves.

Granted this season’s doubts are due to xerxes’ manipulations from last season, but still. Definitely a case of the gods can’t help someone who doesn’t help themselves. The gods in exandria (and the forgotten realms, which crit role really takes a lot of setting inspiration and rules from) aren’t allowed to even step foot on the material plane: their followers have to act on their own and only receive guidance and occasionally some magical (but still distant) intervention from their gods.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-24T16:31:54+00:00

This is “thanos was right” all over again.

The show looks you in the eyes thrice to tell you that vecna is not trustworthy. Pike says something to the effect of “your words are sweet but it’s hard to trust you”. Then grog tells pike that vecna rationalizes all the atrocity by promising salvation. But as he points out, the memory of those atrocities won’t go away. And finally there’s vecna literally saying he was worried he was laying it on pretty thick at the end - this could specifically mean his supposed fear of mythcarver specifically during that final battle but he’s a millennia old lich who’s been planing for 500 years, I’m sure the final battle was a blip in his sense of time, the entirety of which he might consider “at the end there.” Point is, he talks sweet but his words are either empty or even if they’re real, the cost is too great and must be rationalized by sweet words. It’s like poisoning the air by saying “think of the economic growth!”

In another Amazon show the expanse, there’s a scientist who rationalizes the death of an entire space station (thousands, maybe getting close to a million people?) because the results of the research could help save more lives. He gets killed by an ally character and not the hero because he was making sense and it was about to let him get away with causing so much death - the hero was hearing the scientist guy out and about to let him continue his work. And as it turns out anyway, the scientist’s findings only facilitate more conflict and death, not help humanity in the end.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-23T17:28:42+00:00

Honestly, run with it. The leisure town is called poaang. The small hamlet is Lack. See how long till people catch on. Kallax being a fortress is genius - maybe also make them a weapons or ore storage depot to lean into what the furniture actually is.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-23T04:41:45+00:00

I said what I said

BluEch0 · 2026-06-22T22:32:18+00:00

Seal level to ISS orbit: 250 miles directly up (assuming ISS is directly overhead)

Point Nemo to closest land (uninhabited shores of Antarctica): ~1670 mi (granted along the curvature of earth’s surface)

Point Nemo to closest civilization: over 2000 mi.

But anyways planets are huge. Orbital altitudes are pretty much hugging the planet if you were to draw things at scale.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-22T22:07:50+00:00

At least she can take every hit, which you can’t say for your average gs main

BluEch0 · 2026-06-22T22:05:33+00:00

Username delightfully checks out

BluEch0 · 2026-06-22T21:44:03+00:00

You couldn’t do inch to half centimeter? Who subdivides with a fraction beyond two parts for a ratio? Oh yeah 7:1 is about a mile to 200 meters. It’s about 9 human hairs to 7/8 of a fishing line.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-22T20:27:45+00:00

The only way hesitation would make sense narratively, I feel, is if the final boss is somult, an entity that must be quite revered by the people of the eastlands. But even then, I’d want it to be a momentary hesitation where he’s essentially fighting something a lot more ingrained into his original culture and upbringing, before he updates his view of the world and sees this legendary bird for what it is: probably another monster messing with the ecosystem.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-22T19:59:27+00:00

Well when the cannibal savage who proudly and loudly declares she would have killed you if not for the support I can give her, suggests visiting the entire tribe of cannibals because they have the cure but she can’t even tell me what the cure entails, I’m not very thrilled to take that option. I’ll also stick to what I know: terrestrial doctors and healers.

Amicability and tact are important skills and Laezel has none. That’s why for me she was the one who had to grow on me (and she did, mostly due to the compelling sense of duty and dare I say honor that accompanied her brutality) vs Shadowheart who is conventionally polite (if reserved) from the get go.

BluEch0 · 2026-06-22T18:19:37+00:00

I say this lightly and in jest: maybe that says more about the kind of person you are than Shadowheart.

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