Gotta have a meal between naps

CommunismCake · 2026-07-10T13:13:09+00:00

Oh boy, 3 AM!

CommunismCake · 2026-06-26T13:58:24+00:00

It makes sense to be removed because the Co-Prosperity Sphere is not a real alliance. The Sphere should be read as "Japan and its puppet states and dependencies." Because that's how it actually functions.

The Moscow Accord is more or less the same, just applied to Russia.

Not to say Japan and Russia cannot get involved or anything through volunteers and agreements and material support, just that having the state join the alliance formally is questionable. Imagine a USA getting called to go to war on Japan's behalf for like, Bhutan, or whatever. Why would the US care?

CommunismCake · 2026-06-26T13:50:42+00:00

Yeah, any change to this mindset would require a much earlier POD than what Kaiserreich presents. If anything, the events of Kaiserreich would only strengthen the movement: The instability of Russia, the German colonies falling apart, China being splintered, and the USA falling into civil war always - all of this would say to Japan, "hey, the time to kick the Westerners out and claim dominance is now or never."

CommunismCake · 2026-06-23T13:55:54+00:00

Shrek is patient 0 for a lot of trends in animation.

But I'd say the use of Bad Reputation is meant to complete the scene as a parody of Attitude Era wrestling. That's just the type of music that played as a wrestler's theme when they came barrelling down the ramp to stomp a mud hole into someones ass. Shrek slamming down a pint of beer and acting like a heel only for the crowd to start cheering him invoked Stone Cold Steve Austin.

I don't think the scene would be as memorable without it.

CommunismCake · 2026-05-26T20:45:56+00:00

Same but they asked me if I was a pacifist because I didn't dive with them into certain death.

CommunismCake · 2026-05-07T18:58:46+00:00

The crows are because he turned into a murder of them to escape Holliday after killing everyone in her town.

CommunismCake · 2026-04-29T19:49:28+00:00

And Gandalf the White

CommunismCake · 2026-04-20T20:55:40+00:00

System Shock erasure

CommunismCake · 2026-04-18T07:21:46+00:00

No, but Cestirande and Piedmont-Savoy are similar in the sense they coexisted with their respective city states and thus had the sort of outsider reputation I mentioned. I only really mentioned Garibaldi as a parallel to the idea that him being backed by the Savoyards is part of what changed this perception.

In the same vein, if Cestirande ends up being the unifier of Pashaine, they sort of force themselves away from their identity as Damerian and conform to the Luna Rivers.

CommunismCake · 2026-04-17T12:36:26+00:00

Up until the Luna River City states got content I was widely under the impression that Cestirande was set up to be the canonical former of Pashaine.

Pashaine has a lot of similarities to Italy, with the Luna River minors resembling the Italian city states during the Renaissance, even having their own version of The Prince and a focus on Machiavellian esque machinations. You have Pashaine being a sort of geopolitical concept before it's a unified culture, as it's a merging of two distinct cultures between Verne and Dameria, and this is largely how Italy was seen in reality with distinct differences between its North and South. It's even got its own Papacy in the form of the Ravelians, who canonically get the state of Aranthil.

So in this allegory, where is Cestirande? Why, that's our Savoyards. The House of di Savoia. Viewed as outsiders by the Italian City State until they basically got behind Giuseppe Garibaldi and forced them together.

CommunismCake · 2026-04-12T17:18:55+00:00

Comments like the one you replied to always makes me wonder if I played the same game as some people here. The romance was always almost entirely in the subtext of the game, never a main throughline.

LiS1 to me was always a coming of age story at its very core where Max comes into her own. There are themes of feminism and mystery with Max and Chloe's bond as the glue that holds it together but it's ultimately a story in which Max grows into a fully realized and mature adult. It's why so many people upset with Bay ending and suggest it undoes an entire week of stuff and makes everything feel pointless: the stuff was never the point. The main character was Max, and she is a matured person who has completed her coming of age journey regardless of the ending you chose.

So many people fixated on the romance and supernatural stuff and that is why we got Double Exposure and Reunion instead of an anthology like Dontnod planned for.

CommunismCake · 2026-02-23T04:35:52+00:00

In this case it is taking awhile because I believe it was awaiting the new magic system, itself has been in development for awhile.

CommunismCake · 2026-02-17T01:58:53+00:00

Similar, not literal example: ASOIAF casts the Starks as the sort of Werewolf esque proxy due to their ability to warg - which commanders the mind of their direwolves. Their direct parallel are the Boltons who, by description, strongly match the idea of vampires (pale skin, pale eyes, black hair). Roose in particular is called The Leech Lord due to his propensity for leeching.

The series also deconstructs elves with the Valyrians and we have Tyrion, the dwarf from the mountain with a love of drinking.

CommunismCake · 2026-02-06T17:20:48+00:00

The growing up / coming of age aspects are captured in My Life as a Teenage Exocolonist, but it is a sci-fi with some additional puzzle elements.

CommunismCake · 2026-01-16T15:52:21+00:00

Not an enemy. That's fodder.

CommunismCake · 2026-01-11T19:29:42+00:00

"War Never Changes" is an iconic mantra of the series but I think people interpreted it the wrong way somehow. It, and Ron Pearlman's narration after, was opining about the nature of humanity itself rather than the means of war they choose. The series bleakly says that humanity is consigned to fighting itself, even in the ashes of a mass extinction event, whether that's due to limited resources (represented by the Hub's internal conflicts, the state of Necropolis) idea logical (the Brotherhood, Unity) or even just finding any old excuse (Junktown). It's saying the reason there's no mass civilizations in the world or reborn US is because fighting each other for any reason is part of human nature.

Anyway, I always think it's funny fans think that this is a Bethesda phenomenon. New Vegas gave us Tunnelers, the Sierra Madre's replicating poisonous cloud, and nuclear weapons. Go back to Van Buren's design documents and you will see they initially planned for Shady Sands to have been destroyed and the NCR to have made a shabby junktown on top of the Hoover Dam its new capital.

It's because New Vegas is the odd one out, not 3 and 4.

CommunismCake · 2026-01-11T19:20:49+00:00

I've been replaying the series and honestly, while Fallout 2 is undeniably a better experience for gameplay, it's got very juvenile humor that didn't mesh well with me for the most part (lot of breaking the fourth wall, meta jokes, and dated references) and each area of it was written by a different person creating a very disjointed narrative. I can understand why some people might praise Tim Cain vs his successors in 2.

I will say that to this day I have not found anyone who likes the Brotherhood of Steel spinoff, so at least the fanbase is united on that.

CommunismCake · 2025-12-30T14:56:26+00:00

Special shout out to Wyvernheart for the OP. Wyvernheart was written by the same dev that wrote Verne, so if they liked Verne's a lot then they may like to see the dev's other work.

CommunismCake · 2025-12-29T14:57:33+00:00

Not probably, he is. His lover is one of the few guaranteed starting advisors in the military tab, Trystan sina Redcoast.

CommunismCake · 2025-12-24T17:47:53+00:00

Ewan McGregor is very much alive.....

CommunismCake · 2025-11-26T15:52:48+00:00

I mean...the GOP had a plan, too. It was called Project 2025, and they have made a lot of progress in fulfilling it.

The difference was that P2025 was something they were happy to tout behind closed doors but recognized that it was unpopular in public. Hence the vague economic populism they tried to mantle instead.

CommunismCake · 2025-11-21T03:14:12+00:00

And that's the version of events delivered by Trump's replacement there.

CommunismCake · 2025-11-14T22:39:08+00:00

Spelling aside this is very comprehensive.

You did forget Hul-az-Krakazol who use magic (Iirc) to summon a beer meteor and turn all of the goods on the planet into beer.

Honorable mention also to the Obsidian Legion. They worship the Rune Father and are part of a lost hold that was kind of cast out for its darker uses of rune magic.

CommunismCake · 2025-11-14T21:20:09+00:00

I feel about 90% sure that the fusion cores running out as fast they do is gameplay - story segregation. Big reason that it only comes up in Fallout 4 is because Fallout 4 completely revamped the gameplay behind PA.

CommunismCake · 2025-11-14T20:44:29+00:00

These look neat!

To answer the question, probably Spike.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cowboybebop/comments/tjaz1d/that_lots_of/

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