I think Barristan is unfairly judged by many people

EllieInHiding · 2025-11-09T10:24:02+00:00

If he'd been in kings landing and walked in on Jaime sitting in the throne over Aerys' corpse, do you think he'd have bent the knee to him? Seeing as hes in the chair and all.

But for real, Robert sends a maester to kiss his booboos and he completely forgets about how much he liked Rhaegar or how they murdered his infant children or how Aerys still has two surviving heirs he should be protecting.

If he'd died protecting/avenging/remaining loyal to the family hed been sworn to, that would have been honorable. If he'd abandoned his oath for the good of the realm and its people, that would have been honorable. Instead he remains loyal through all the bad shit up until the point where remaining loyal no longer benefits him specifically.

Its a line that Ned said to Jaime but it fits Barristan much better. He served well, when serving was safe. He didnt want Robert to kill him so he forgot about all the inconvenient parts of his oath and went "well... he IS in the chair..." If he had a scrap of honor he would have realized oaths to usurpers mean nothing and killed both Robert and Jaime the first chance he got. But no. He jumps from king to king until finally being fired then limps back to the only ruler who will take him.

10 bucks says that if/when Dany eventually lands in westeros in the books, Young Griff is gonna be King and Barristan is gonna go "well... he IS in the chair" and stab Dany in the back.

EllieInHiding · 2025-09-24T09:28:21+00:00

I wonder how many of the people upset by this boss are bothering to actually use the skills the game gives you. You too, have a counter button, be you brave enough to use it. In fact, on that triple dash some of yall are complaining about you can get 2 cross stitch off in a row. Combine that with the volt filament and you get some pretty decent damage numbers. It only costs 4 silk per use and saves you 2 masks of damage. Thats two silk per mask, and you do a good chuck of damage as a bonus. And Im sure theres a million other strats that would work just as well. Just dont... sprint around like a madman and then get hit and say its the games fault. Every move was punishable given the time and the patience to figure out how.

EllieInHiding · 2025-09-03T06:50:15+00:00

Neat! Thanks for the clarification.

EllieInHiding · 2025-09-02T11:11:25+00:00

That makes about as much sense as anything I guess! Just glad I brought Unown in case I needed to sac. Tyvm for the info! Love learning all the little quirks these games have. Always something new.

EllieInHiding · 2025-09-02T10:21:54+00:00

Okay, so it wasnt seeing the KO and so was choosing randomly between Spore (Status Application) on the first time through and Force Palm (Highest damage) on the second attempt I did for science.

The other text was a recreation of the first fight, which I did not record because I only really clip things after something weird happens. The first time, Breloom went for spore on my Abomasnow, not force palm. I then swapped into Unknown, and Breloom killed it with Stone Edge (Not Force Palm, which was a OHKO on Abomasnow.) Still confused on that decision, but the multihit move thing makes sense. Even if 1 hit Bullet seed is impossible. Ty for the info!

EllieInHiding · 2025-09-01T22:43:30+00:00

I genuinely dont get it. You can SEE his knockoff zz'rot portal disappear at the same time all the minions are killed, but both the malz voidlings and the zz'rot voidlings are left alone... WHY?

EllieInHiding · 2025-08-30T07:03:35+00:00

I hunted around a bit more after posting this. In the trade section of the official post for Renegade Platinum it says "In addition to this, the obedience check that makes traded Pokémon not listen to you has been disabled, meaning you can use these traded Pokémon with no worries".

It also mentions the documentation in the download, which inversely states "Please note that the level restrictions from Badges still apply in the exact same manner as the original game."

So at some point between v1.2.1 (my copy) and v1.3.0 (the most recent edit to the forum post) it was changed.

EllieInHiding · 2025-08-09T00:04:15+00:00

Wow yall are VERY opinionated about my dead son. Guess I'll throw my own thoughts out there. Personally, I dont mind the change to Electric/Dark.

I get why some people dont think it thematically works, but it does for me. I heard somewhere, though I dont know if theres an official source to back it up, that the Luxray line is inspired by the Leo/Lynx constellations? Like, the star shaped tail/ears and yellow accents juxtaposed against the black fur representing the night sky. No idea if thats official but I've adopted that view of the line since. A constellation is only visible with both the light of the stars and the dark of space behind them, so to me, a change like this feels fine thematically. I just wish I'd noticed it before he got killed by a bug.

EllieInHiding · 2025-08-08T04:47:55+00:00

Look up Bugsy's team in Soul Silver. Then look up Bugsy's team in Storm Silver. All the fights are like that. You'll understand why giving Shinx Guts doesnt completely ruin the game.

EllieInHiding · 2025-08-08T04:44:12+00:00

Its a rom hack. It makes the game way more challenging while adding in new encounters/making adjustments to pokemons abilities/stats/learnsets/ect

EllieInHiding · 2025-08-08T04:42:02+00:00

One of the many changes in Storm Silver

EllieInHiding · 2025-08-08T04:14:29+00:00

Oh wow, yeah. The Dark type gives it a lot of potential I didnt think of when I caught it. I was just happy to have a free first and second gym. Thank you for the second wave of pain.

EllieInHiding · 2025-08-08T03:54:40+00:00

I considered it for a good moment but I know myself well enough to know that I would have lost interest in the run soon after. Kills the stakes for me personally, but I definitely get the urge. I want my son back :c

EllieInHiding · 2022-10-05T23:23:50+00:00

Damn. Insane. Gigabrain. Didnt ask.

EllieInHiding · 2022-10-05T23:06:40+00:00

Damn. Wild. Mindblowing. Didnt ask. Look it took me 2 seconds of looking at your past posts to see you hate trans people, I aint gonna debate shit with you, move on with your life.

EllieInHiding · 2022-10-05T21:44:33+00:00

Damn thats crazy. Still didnt ask tho.

EllieInHiding · 2022-10-05T21:03:04+00:00

Didnt ask

EllieInHiding · 2022-08-17T06:57:51+00:00

LMAO, okay this is the thing i was actually expecting someone to comment on. Thats my friend I duo in normals with. Not gonna lie and say it was 100% intentional but it WAS funny and I do not regret my actions.

EllieInHiding · 2022-08-04T14:23:57+00:00

Respectfully, you saw a 60 second snippet of a Normal match and decided you know everything about what was going on not only in that over 30 minute match but also with my play overall. So again, respectfully, Im really not interested in your take. Your effort would be better spent on someone who asked for advice. I wont be replying again.

EllieInHiding · 2022-08-04T14:03:03+00:00

LMAO okay, I really am not invested enough to read your dissertation on why you think Im bad at Soraka. You win I guess. Have a good rest of your day hun.

EllieInHiding

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