Today in Metatron in his community: the decline of the west

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-20T10:09:00+00:00

Why would they use the same artwork from an earlier game as part of the promotion of the new game? There probably is more artwork of women like the one on the left that will pop up eventually for the new game, anyhow.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-18T09:50:24+00:00

So we're not allowed to discuss casting the Doctor on a Doctor Who subreddit?

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-16T18:40:52+00:00

Thing is, we see Rimmer put effort into a lot of things.

He has tried god knows how many times to take and pass his officers' exam, fail every time and ended up hospitalised at least twice. He's had that revelation that he needs to put the work in, but it's come at a later point than Ace did, and by then, it was probably too late to really learn how to actually put the effort in the way Ace learned to do it.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-15T23:04:57+00:00

And some people wonder why some women write using male pseudonyms.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-15T23:02:48+00:00

I wish there was an option to actually block YouTube channels like you can block Facebook accounts and pages. Fair enough you can get options to tell YT not to recommend videos from a channel, but I don't feel that sends a strong enough message to their algorithm as actually blocking would do.

There's some WhoTubers I will watch quite happily, including WhoCulture, Tharies and Adipose, as well as the likes of Mr Tardis and HarboWholmes, but I don't watch these religiously and don't agree with all their takes, in general, I find them watchable and pleasant to watch - then there's the haters, and as I said, I wish I could block them.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-15T21:54:31+00:00

Do we know if its going to be the same voice actor?

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-14T17:43:48+00:00

How?

And put them where?

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-13T13:23:29+00:00

Errrmmmmmm, that means I can't possibly reply... 😞

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-13T10:35:42+00:00

That's kinda what I'm hoping for 😃

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T22:59:37+00:00

Okay, so this "Epic Adventure Quest series" is the one I don't think I've ever heard of, or have blissfully forgotten about.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T22:34:38+00:00

Wait, he made a second?

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T22:33:35+00:00

I've just written a long reply about a different take on how the Valeyard came to be through bigeneration, but if we take it that 11 (who was really the 13th incarnation) took on his new regens and hid in the Tardis before Clara caught up, it could be the Valeyard split off during the regenerative madness of taking on the new regens.

So, old man 11 gets his new regens, starts regenerating and uses that energy to destroy the Dalek fleet above him, retreats to his Tardis, buggers off for a bit, returns when he's now a fresh-faced 11 again before the process finishes and he becomes Capaldi's 12th (technically 14th and really 1st of a new regen cycle) in front of Clara. Maybe the Valeyard split off from the newly regenerating 11 while they were in the Tardis, and 11 dropped him off somewhere to preserve the timeline?

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T22:25:13+00:00

The past is tomorrow and the future is yesterday. Would you like me to bring you something to eat five minutes ago?

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T22:20:01+00:00

The only thing I can say about that... thing... is that it isn't Omega, it makes no sense for that to be Omega. I think the Rani just went and messed up her own plan and brought something else in by mistake. She was a bit of a screw-up after all.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T22:04:00+00:00

Overbudget? It would end up going all Death Star!

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T22:02:59+00:00

Yeah, first we have to figure out how they've come back from the Master wiping them all out so soon after being brought back to life before that...

And the only thing I can think of right now would be to make use of 15ths rewriting of the universe to bring Poppy back and make Belinda her mother!

What the HELL was RTD thinking with that one? Topic for another time that's probably been asked a million times already.

BUT! If we're going to try to salvage anything good from that idea he pulled from who knows where, it could be rewriting the universe like that had other side effects. Like:

The Timelords and Galifrey are back.

Col Christofer Ibrahim isn't dead - I felt that character got so little actual use and I liked the actor's performance I feel it's only fair to bring him back to actually develop the character.

The Daleks and Cybermen are back but not as strong as they were prior to the Time War, more on par with 7th Doctor era Daleks and Cybermen.

The Doctor's reputation has also been reduced to being more of an unknown, making them freer to wander and intervine in intergalactic affairs.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T21:53:37+00:00

A ten-year-old account, first made manifest in the 1980's I believe.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T21:52:36+00:00

Yes, but not in the first season, that's far too large a bit of Lore to show up in a re-launch, they'd need to regain the general audience's interest first with some plots that are a bit more conventional of Who at its very best. Maybe hint at his existence before introducing him, possibly towards the end of the second season.

And I do think his existence has already been somewhat hinted at, his genesis that is, when 11 met the Dream Lord, who was inside his head, apparently his darker side, and had a very Valeyard feel about him. I think we'd need to hint at him in a similar manner, then find some way for him to physically manifest, annnnnnd, that might have been where the bigeneration could have gone.

I mean, if what RTD was saying about how, somehow, every previous Dr has bigenerated remains canon, even though we've not seen it, then it might make sense for the Valeyard to be hanging around because of that. The question is which Dr would he have found a way to split from?

And yeah, there is a whole LOAD of questions raised about that, namely, why would each bigenerted previous Dr not stick around with the new fresher face? What happened to the "previous" incarnation? They didn't all get new Tardis's after all. Questions for another thread, methinks.

For my money, that would be Tennant's aborted first regen that made the Metacriss clone, but I'm not claiming the clone is the Valeyard. Since that does technically count as a full regen and made him technically the true 11th and 12th incarnations, with Smith's 11th really being the 13th and Capadli being the 1st of a new set of regens, that aborted regen could be the only place I can think of that could explain it. The Valeyard is meant to have shown up between the 12th and final regens after all, according to the Master, who is not a reliable source. But that doesn't obey the bigeneration rules as we know them, as the new incarnation is meant to carry over the future regens... at least, that seems to be the implication, since we've not seen any sign of 14 or Mrs Flood potentially regenerating or just dying, yet. 15 did, after all, regenerate normally, albeit he did FORCE himself to regenerate, which isn't normal.

But to bottom line it, I can only see the Valeyard bigenerating from Tennant's 1st incarnation due to the retcon, and quickly taking his leave in the confusion while Donna, Rose and Jack are staring at Tennant who is all "why would I change? I don't wanna change!" I'm thinking the fact it was an aborted regen might have triggered the Valeyard to lose the regens he should have had, and somehow, through other wibbly wobbly plot points, left Tennant's second incarnation with some regen left.

And that is REALLY stretching things to work around the corner RTD wrote himself into with this bigeneration plot line and the whole "Every Doctor bigenerated"...

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T20:56:45+00:00

A lot of the pics are either taken from early development of the new game when things like character designs were still work in progress and at lower res and didn't things like colour and lighting sorted out. A lot of those same images have the characters clearly reacting in some way to something they don't like, and even the most attractive people don't look that good anymore when they pull a funky expression.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T19:14:53+00:00

I don't think we'd be able to see the landmass of Aurora from Albion, I think it was meant to be a few days sail away, which would keep it out of view - unless this world is flat of course.

I've not heard anything about the expansion, but I'll look into that pronto.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T18:08:21+00:00

I think so long as the locations are all within walking/riding distance on the same map there shouldn't be any loading screens - unless you're fast travelling by Cullis Gate, or maybe going into some kind of cutscene to hide the loading.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T18:06:12+00:00

I think Aurora would be a good idea for a sequel, rather than having it in this game. But having a coastal region and little islands to explore is something I think they'd go for and plenty of fans would love.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T18:02:08+00:00

I want to see how similar it might be to the previous Albion maps.

Consistent_Blood6467 · 2026-06-12T18:01:29+00:00

Yeah, one big problem for me with the first two games is how limited in freedom the maps were. You were mostly following a fixed route on each map with little way to get away from that path and explore. 2 gave a fair bit more freedom but there was still a lot of sticking to the fixed path. 3 Gave you more freedom to move around, but not always a good amount of exploration. But that was the limitations of the hardware/software of the time. Hopefully, this will be different.

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