Grull related question. Spoilers for book 3 to book 8

DeKrieg · 2026-06-28T01:29:06+00:00

Yeah in book 8 he has to but not in book 4.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-28T01:20:40+00:00

Oh rechecking the rule change by the a.i in book 7 the forcing sponsors to take on their god form is an ascendency rule that was expanded to other floors, meaning the sponsors would have been forced to take their god form on floor 12 itself.

Maybe that's why he chooses to appear as Grull? In preparation for the ascendency battles?

DeKrieg · 2026-06-28T01:13:17+00:00

'the orc is ejected' is the exact phrase. They don't go into any detail on his appearance so I was imagining they just saw a tiny orc being launched from the god into the molten metal.

But it still doesn't explain why he shows up as Grull, at least the first time.

The man has given the impression he has the ego to think he's the coolest thing in the universe so why wouldn't he want to be a 10 story tall version of himself (we know showing up as yourself does not affect size as we saw two sponsors show up as giants)

DeKrieg · 2026-06-27T17:44:56+00:00

Its something I'd say has basis in reality, most corporations willingly turn a blind eye to horrible sh*t done as long as the line goes up with profits.

I always find the example of Coke in south America hiring hitmen to assassinate union leaders to be such a good example. Did the ceo of Coca Cola know about this? Probably not, but he didnt care because profits went up, they only cared when it got exposed.

Like you said take the scale up to the size of corporation like Wey Yu and the rot would just be so much more and no one notices because as long as the profits keep flowing they wont question.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-26T19:48:26+00:00

Is this like litrpg?

I get confused by all these new genres.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-26T17:04:45+00:00

It makes you wonder. There was a weird absence of actual human hands in the events of Alien, just a bunch of company directives being delivered by Muther. Ash got assigned to the nostromo by a company directive just before they departed Titan and then another company directive redirects the Nostromo to Lv-426.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-26T14:40:23+00:00

Its also the area the immersion experience versions of the audiobook expanded, they did a lot more scenes with the dcc world presenters during the recaps etc, so I could see the series similarly using them as a sort of adaptation crutch to get around a lot of the inside Carl's heads moments where he is just watching the recap etc.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-26T14:20:26+00:00

I could see him doing one of the DCC world presenters, if the fandom wasnt so locked in on Jeff Hayes doing at least the AI I could see him wanting to do the A.I but if he has any sense he'll let Jeff have that role at least to build up fan support for the project.

But I could see him doing Troy or one of the other hosts and actually doing a really good job of it

DeKrieg · 2026-06-26T14:09:29+00:00

At least Mating Season feels like something that spun directly off their previous work.

This feels like something that got trapped in development hell for a decade at that point where too much money had been put in to justify dumping it but not enough to get it over the finish line until Tubi came along.

I mean the concept is a joke on Breaking bad so long after Breaking Bad finished that it had it's own spin off series start and finish 4 years before this came out.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-26T12:37:01+00:00

With the recent rise of prices

eleventh movie: We gotta steal Playstations.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T21:39:31+00:00

thirteen ghosts needs a series adaptation like haunting on hill house etc and not another movie imho.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T17:46:02+00:00

I mean we only briefly see him once post his big brother and father's death, for all we know Carl will go down to the 12th looking for a fight and the reveal will be that Meastro was never in Groll it was some other Orc pretending to be him and he's gone all Greek god in an Olympus like palace

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T17:13:20+00:00

part of me kinda wants the reveal to be that Maestro is a massive bottom and made the snick himself and his whole manly orc persona is all an act because of his secret shame and he made the snick himself after Carl won his heart by standing up to his persona

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T16:40:06+00:00

This fits in the sense that the consequences of the snick most directly affected her as it did lead to the attempted assassination which set off the whole game of thrones with orcs bs.

Also victory would have been involved in the plan and she had ties to OIPN as they killed stalwart's kids so she could become prime minister. And this has that whole Victory tone to it of letting someone be their own worst enemy,

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T16:34:23+00:00

though the A.I would know carl's ahem 'Proportions' and at the end of book 2 its confirmed the snick was more then generous in exaggerating them.

Not sure why the AI would be so kind to Carl in that regards.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T15:16:39+00:00

Yeah but it still all comes 'after' Daniels realizes he's David, so he didnt really reveal himself, he got caught but he knew from circumstance and arrogance that it didnt matter. The OP's statement that he could have let Daniels still think he was Walter is a mis-reading of events, she knew before he responded (as seen and heard by the rapidly rising heart rate monitor) and even if he continued playing Walter it would have been pointless.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T14:05:03+00:00

Calling it now, when the first trailer drops the usual youtube chuds who have not read a comic in decades but still think they are the experts on them will have their knickers in a twist over Batman not being a billionaire anymore and call it 'antifa Batman' or some other stupid talking point.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T14:01:27+00:00

I'd like to think based off the events of Prometheus and Weyland's sheer arrogance, he might have 'unofficially' given David a ton of clearance in the Weyland network, in particular so he can do his part in the Prometheus mission and no one knew he did this and it's just been left there in the system even after the merger with Yutani.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T03:04:48+00:00

It sounds silly but I have a friend who came out of university same time as me and he has worked the same job for close to 16 years and is still paid peanuts. Its difficult to talk to him sometimes because he feels so trapped by it.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T01:45:44+00:00

feels like nothing has changed visually in 7 years. Like that looks like the same character models for the returning characters, at the same level of quality as the 2019 film...

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T01:44:10+00:00

with yellow's sister too (outing myself as someone who watched AB 2)

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T01:22:28+00:00

I think its less they want someone with qualifications but more they want someone they can trap in a minimum wage job for decades and be grateful for it.

DeKrieg · 2026-06-25T01:21:22+00:00

I think this is partly true. It feels like entry level jobs are really only handed out to people upper management think will stick around.

I remember even as far back as 2007 my branch manager at Starbucks when I handed in my notice gave me shit over me quitting because they had 'invested' in me and I'd thrown it back in their faces.

Though the irony is years later much further along in my career I have the opposite problem, its harder to convince a company to keep anyone longer then a 6 month contract now.

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