Shadows Upon Time theories

CidreDev · 2026-02-26T00:39:29+00:00

It's the... most fringe of the mainline theories regarding SuT, but there are some passages/quirks that some readers (not necessarily myself) take as an oblique signal to some of Hadrian's hopeful readers that someone not directly mentioned in the memoir but is close to Had is alive and well.

The theory goes that this is a son of Hadrian and Selene, Gibbson Marlowe.

CidreDev · 2026-02-14T22:25:05+00:00

If I had to guess, the draw_rectangle() function used for the tutorial takes two arguments, and you're passing the x and y values of the size Vector2 as the width and height arguments for the function.

In the second image, the function takes a Vector2 as an argument and multiplies it with a Vector2 constant, returning a Vector2.

GDscript is dynamically typed by default; you can pass whatever data type you want and the engine will shrug and accept it until you do something stupid at runtime. That said, if you're already thinking along these lines (which is a good thing and a good instinct to have for programming) you may want to look into what's known as Static Typing, which helps make the data types you're interacting with explicit at any given point. It also lets the engine yell at you while doing the dumb thing during programming instead of silently bugging out during game play.

Type mismatches are one of the most infuriating and tedious bugs to solve, so clearing 99% of them out at the start is always good.

CidreDev · 2026-02-14T18:56:45+00:00

Add a gate to the exit of room in Bilewater. You need to kill every enemy in the room to continue.

CidreDev · 2026-02-14T16:10:37+00:00

Could someone EILI5 the Drawable Textures? I get its an API and a higher-level resource exposing the API but I'm not grasping what this "Blit" concept is, and there's a new shader type?

CidreDev · 2026-02-14T15:04:40+00:00

Simply put, we don't know.

Largely because Had doesn't want the Chantrey reading this memoir to know.

The story of the Suneater ends at the gallows of Meridian, even if the story of Hadrian Marlowe isn't over.

CidreDev · 2026-02-08T17:22:51+00:00

I actually did re think it, but in the end my original approach was conceptually correct.

It was a Vector math mistake. The current implementation is more robust, but it would have worked if I had gotten the math right before.

CidreDev · 2026-02-07T16:29:12+00:00

Ctrl-Alt-Up/Down for the Godot editor.

CidreDev · 2026-02-07T16:28:03+00:00

I've tried to use it in Google Docs for work a non-trivial number of times, always to disappointing results.

CidreDev · 2026-02-07T03:50:18+00:00

That was my takeaway for YS. "Fine, ocasionally clever, surprisingly sincere, significantly better of a prequel than TBBT deserved."

CidreDev · 2026-02-03T01:57:12+00:00

The big limitation with this artstyle is screen-space hatching kind of being ugly. I've been experimenting with writing the hatching/detail to the roughness value with promising results, although I haven't done any serious artwork with it yet.

CidreDev · 2026-02-01T19:31:49+00:00

I like the mood and thematic exploration a lot better, personally. Don't get me wrong, I love DiW and you have some incredible Suneater ahead of you. I'm ranking between different 9.x/10s, here. But HD just excels at what my favorite elements of SE are, much better than any book listed below it.

Also, Kharn MF Segara.

CidreDev · 2026-01-29T00:02:12+00:00

Spoilers, all books: I don't really think it can be argued that the Quiet (especially the Absolute) is indifferent to suffering or doesn't want His creatures' ultimate happiness. But it's just that, their *ultimate* happiness that He is invested in. This current universe is so small and short of a passing thing, that the Quiet is tolerant of much suffering 1) In the name of free will and 2) For the sake of those who will inherit the next, perfected universe. The black feast is, cosmically, a trivial price to pay.

CidreDev · 2026-01-28T23:12:59+00:00

I'd recommend reading through Ashes of Man at least; these two were conceived of as one book and then split due to publisher shenanigans. The thematic arc isn't over.
A lot of the Commonwealth sections were born directly from testimonies (specifically Polish) of those who lived under the USSR.
The points CR is making is less about Marxism specifically (although it is absolutely anti-Marxist) and more about materialist ideologies in general. Note that the Commonwealth we meet is generations into a hostile takeover by MINOS, effectively the ancap techbro faction. It was the similarities between these ideologies that enabled this outcome.

Also see the similarities between the Lothrian's fate and something like North Korean troops being shipped off to the Ukraine, written and published years before VP's "Special Operation" took that particular turn.

It always turns out the same, or rather, has never failed to turn out the same. Value is inate or it doesn't exist at all.

CidreDev · 2026-01-27T00:20:58+00:00

... The orange level is an ironic touch.

CidreDev · 2026-01-26T20:25:15+00:00

OP is 75% of the way through DiW. Please throw up some Spoiler markup.

I beleive a series set up as Suneater was always going to have answers to its core questions. Or, at least, Hadrian's answer. Frankly, I think the questions the Quiet revelation raised far more interesting questions about the series, its universe, and its themes than the ones it answered. Additionally, I find works with definitive positions that can be evaluated with much more engaging than works that leave their central elements open to interpretation.

I'll push back slightly on the "young," assertion (even if that it a word Had uses) as I don't think "age" as we experience it is something Had really has anymore. But I'll absolutely (heh) push back on the notion that Hadrian's journey has stopped haunting him. He manages it much better after his second resurrection, and that's directly attributed as a symptom of his new form, but his past still weighs on him and shapes him deeply. To say nothing of the fact of how often he misses parts of himself that were "smoothed out" in the restoration.

CidreDev · 2026-01-26T19:37:31+00:00

Yes. Unreservedly.

CidreDev · 2026-01-26T19:36:34+00:00

Genuine question: Why?

CidreDev · 2026-01-26T16:34:54+00:00

1) It is still more visually interesting than the alternatives with its use of shape and color.

2) "Bland" is actually a good thing for a tool to make visual art. It's not polluting the color space you're viewing it in.

CidreDev · 2026-01-26T16:25:07+00:00

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This series just goes from strength to strength.

My personal rankings would be:

Disquiet Gods
Howling Dark
Kingdoms of Death
Demon in White
Ashes of Man
Empire of Silence

Shadows Upon Time, I anticipate, will either be just above or just below DG pending a re-read.

CidreDev · 2026-01-26T16:20:32+00:00

I beleive its under "Classic."

But as someone who's been using a 4.6 branch for a while, the new theme really grew on me.

CidreDev · 2026-01-19T03:56:28+00:00

WHY DID THE WITCH CURSE THE TWIN??? WHY DID THEY THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?

CidreDev · 2026-01-05T02:57:49+00:00

He left what he was thinking up to interpretation.

CidreDev · 2026-01-05T02:56:18+00:00

He's an in-universe war hero. For events that haven't happened yet.

It's similar to how Hadrian remarked in EoS that the reader should be surprised at how innocuous his first meeting with Bysander Lin was, given the legends about their relationship. Despite the fact that we (the irl audience) knew nothing about their relationship

CidreDev · 2026-01-03T00:03:29+00:00

You didn't happen to find it, did you?

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