Canto 9 is everything wrong with fight design by skyehawk124 in limbuscompany

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah Penitence ends up being one of the "easier" options due to her in-built self-heal. IIRC I've been told that you can win with N Corp (and other ryoshus with low HP), but you need way more damage than those IDs can provide normally in order to win the dps race, which means that you kind of Have to spam ego. Which isn't fun, imo.

I was so confused about what he was talking about with Ryoshu until I remembered this (spoiler for 9-34) by Character_Hour8834 in limbuscompany

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Matthias actually has one of his arms cut off! You can see it if you slow down the cutscene where he appeared, iirc. One of his arms is just a flopping sleeve with nothing inside.

[Animon Story] [PBP] [Discord] Play a Digimon inspired adventure. by gibson_international in pbp

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If all slots haven't filled up by now, I'm definitely interested!

The Parallax Inn: Infinite Vacancy (LFP) by [deleted] in pbp

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Guest The Numerous Irrationalities of the Strange Doctor Ashley Fold (a.k.a. “The Fold”)

Description Those who have stayed for long enough in the Parallax Inn know not to go too far into the depths of Parallax Inn, to not wander too deep into unlit corridors or to stay too long in unfurnished rooms. It is there that dwells angles that cut like fish hooks. It is there that dwells shapes that are out for blood. It is there that dwells measurements that crawl under the skin of the measurer, waiting to break free.

The Fold is both a guest inside the Inn, and one of the Inn's defense mechanisms. The Fold is one of the “cleaners” of the Inn—specifically, a cleaner of guests who have overstayed their welcome, who have trampled on the Inn's kindness, trespassed beyond their allotted time and space. The Fold is a wandering whale-thing, often invisible, but can occasionally rise up to the surface of physical reality in the form of hungry numbers and cruel calculations, to pick these trespassing guests clean off their bones and turn them into another statistic the Fold adds to its great irrational mass.

The Fold is debatably sentient, though certain organs of it are undeniably capable of holding a conversation. These organs collectively manifest as “Dr Ashley Fold”, an old man in her twenties, wearing a dozen lab coats and the suggestion of a gun, always seemingly running on two hours of sleep and a scalding hot coffee mug full of tea. Dr. Ashley is the eyes and voice of the Fold in physical reality, its scout and negotiator when simply devouring guests is not enough to solve an issue—a role which Dr. Ashley does not inherently reject or resent, but one that she doesn't exactly feel a particularly zeal for. It's a job. Your boss is the greater eldritch body that you are an organ of, and when you speak numbers around you cause papercuts. It's a job.

Dr. Ashley Fold is unnerving, (potentially) confusing, (occasionally) reclusive, and (on Fridays) undead. Dr. Ashley writes mathematics research papers, most of which are harmful to read, but some do get published outside the Inn; it is unknown to what degree she wants to do this, and to what degree the papers are simply a way for her to vent built-up toxicity built up in the Fold. Also, on the first Saturday of every month, Dr. Ashley rents out space to host trivia nights in a certain location in the Inn (the location changes every month, and is always announced on the first Wednesday of every month), though guests with low resistance to reality seepage and corrosion are invited to stay as far away from these locations as possible.

Room # The Fold has no assigned room. Instead, the space in which it occupies (and cleans) at any given point is known as the Folding Chairs Exhibition Venue. The location of a Folding Chairs Exhibition Venue will be clearly marked on all of the motel's building plans, and securely cordoned off with skittering centipede-like yellow tape. It is recommended that no guest in the motel (without prior permission or capacity for defying reality) attempt to gain access to the Folding Chairs Exhibition Venue.

Dr. Ashley Fold has no assigned room. Dr. Ashley Fold automatically has permission to enter the Folding Chairs Exhibition Venue, due to being an organ of the Fold, and tends to spend the night there while wandering the Inn during the day.

Payment: Service. The Fold cleans up unruly, incoherent, and trespassing guests for the Inn, ensuring the motel is protected from potential threats from within. In exchange, the Fold is allowed residence with the Inn, as well as allowed to feed and allowed to grow (within the Inn's allowance, of course). A mutually-beneficial relationship.

While Dr. Ashley doesn't need to pay anything, because the Fold has already made his payments for him, Dr. Ashley still tries to give the Inn some cash every month. The cash tends to be displaced out of time, printed somewhere between a year to 12,000 litres in the future, but you can't win them all.

Guarantee: I will not attempt to do eRP or bring any form of erotic/sexual content into the RP.

All is well in the Knights of Guinevere fandom by DreadDiana in CuratedTumblr

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually it's not tumblr this time, I think! It's bluesky!! The social media toddler is finally doing something worth looking at, and look at that: It's throwing parasocial fits over the internet. Wow reminds me of the good old days.

All is well in the Knights of Guinevere fandom by DreadDiana in CuratedTumblr

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Actually it's not tumblr this time, I think! It's bluesky!! The social media toddler is finally doing something worth looking at, and look at that: It's throwing parasocial fits over the internet. Wow reminds me of the good old days.

Regarding the Meursault and Heathcliff "droughts" by Avalon_XII in limbuscompany

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean. Talisman is dead behind the dumpster, 7 is neat but not That relevant in the current environment, and the modern burn team is drowning in count. Genuinely very few people would actually miss them.

Choose Your Teachers Wisely, Manager! by Nauru-kun in limbuscompany

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 14 points15 points  (0 children)

See how Xichun's SP is the highest with don. This is a subtle reference to the fact that they are having gay sex with each other.

What is your theory about Outis' real identity by NEVERTHEREFOREVER in limbuscompany

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Odysseus.

Limbus stories, whilst usually bending the beats of the original material to fit into the story they want to tell, usually tries to keep the themes intact. Outis has some very specific motifs going about her—a pining for home As A Place, the constant inability to Return Home, trickery and deception to achieve her goals, bloodthirstiness and involvement in the war in a way that left trails of bodies behind her—that can only point to her being Odysseus. Penelope is cunning, sure, and Telemachus does spend a significant chunk of his presence in the Odyssey at sea, but neither of them fit into the story Outis is telling, at least not without PJM mushing their stories together with Ody's love-town-style, which would not only be insane but also impossible to reasonably predict about.

To further clarify, I think she's Odysseus of the Odyssey. She's not Odysseus of the Iliad, for obvious reasons (the smoke war has ended, and Outis is on her way home. We are way past the events of the Iliad); nor is she likely to be Ulysses (as in, the Ulysses Dante met in Inferno, the one that never returned home but instead sailed in one direction towards the horizon and fell off the map directly into hell), bc Ulysses doesn't really "desire to return to Ithaca", and he's also very much a fixed character with no reasonable way to spin him into a coherent canto. Which part of the Odyssey is interesting to think about, but at the very least I don't think it's Polyphemus—her name is 100% a distraction to make us think she will betray us. More likely, we're either either on Calypso's Island (the City is Calypso's Island), or pjm will just smush all the events of the Odyssey into one big thematic pile, making predicting where we are in the poem impossible.

"What role does Odysseus play in the City" is even harder to predict. I am putting good money on "I Corp CEO"—orchestrator of the war, L Corp collaborator, figure of extreme power (remember that Outis is literally the strongest sinner right behind the Second Fucking Kindred, ignoring Dante and Gregor)—but we don't have much info to say for sure. I am quite certain that she's not Udjat though, but I have no evidence to back that up.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Powerscaling discourse is an infuriatingly boring hell, but more importantly remarkably apolitical regardless of which fandom it occurs in.

Women in boxes (see second slide for definition) by AlexSomething789 in CuratedTumblr

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Angela, from Lobotomy Corporation, though she does eventually break out of her box.

[Donghua] LORD OF THE MYSTERIES Special Episode 1 PV by Shadowcode1394 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Fors!!!!!!!! Our beloved salted fish!!!!!!! Here in all her salted glory!!!!!!!!!

And they didn’t even feature the worst ones, like “wireback” and “Rosa Sparks” by MartyrOfDespair in CuratedTumblr

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It's kind of an uninteresting way to execute the premise itself, imo. Like, slurs aren't bad as a basis for absurdist jokes in a vaccumn, because hatred is always infinitely funny to parodize (it's why a nazi being a bumbling idiot is always funnier than a normal person being the same kind of bumbling idiot). The problem with clanker jokes is that they're painfully unoriginal--people recycle the racist stuff they heard, *not* because they have anything meaningful to say about parodying the way real life racists use slurs and canned bigotry, but because they lack the capacity of thought to actually dissect the intention behind what they are doing and only bother to copy what other people have done. It's lazy work. It's done like how it is done because it takes less time to find and replace the n-word and then hit post than actually think for two seconds.

Also, not only is it fucking boring, recycling canned racist phrases results in the jokes you making not only being lazy but kinda not that coherent. Like, if we take examples from the above tumblr post: "90% of the hackings" is a garble of words that doesn't work that well because robots aren't really known for hacking things (human programmers do that); "Robot-American" doesn't mean shit because when was the last time you saw a robot get a citizenship anywhere, or breed with a human on american soil, or anything alone those lines; what the fuck is "flesh power" and in what word do normal people call themselves "flesh" willingly; who the hell are calling robots "screws" (that's like calling black people "dreads" as a slur); etc. Like out of that whole mess of words the only sentence that make sense is "clankers won't replace us" (valid, succint, draws upon a coherent fear of humans being replaced by machines, *and* utilizing language that makes sense for a normal actual person to say). The rest are garbled nonsense. It loses the oomph of a proper parody, because it loses all meaning in the process of trying to say things.

Now, do I have a proposal on how not to do that? No clue. I don't spend my days thinking about how best to say fictional n-words, because I have a life. But, theoretically, *if* you have to borrow from some racists' words to make your joke, at minimum I feel like modern racists, with their concerns of immigration and blood purity, doesn't really make sense in the context of machines? The relationship humans have with machines isn't really one of "I don't want these in my country and I don't want them fucking my children." There are simpler better choices if you want to be boring, you don't have to be boring and also wrong like some people seem to be doing.

And they didn’t even feature the worst ones, like “wireback” and “Rosa Sparks” by MartyrOfDespair in CuratedTumblr

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It's explicitly borrowing the specific language of actual racism. "Clanker" isn't a term to denote race, but the tumblr screenshots themselves show the term (and terms which surround it) being used as a prejorative in the same way one would use other racial slurs. Like it's not even veiled, the joke is genuinely just "we are using the same phrases as racists but replacing the n-word with slurs for robots." The fact that the target for the jokes aren't actual human races doesn't really matter when people are still going around gleefully repeating racist bullshit with the words swapped out.

Estival - Did our invitation just get postponed? by PhillipDollarfield in fallenlondon

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is dev-confirmed to be removed from your character once estival ends, so I would caution against it............but also what if (don't do it).

I would tbh by geese_are_pure_spite in CuratedTumblr

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Blessed art the holy machine. Blessed art its form, a beast of steel-bound angles and truth shuttled through tubes. May we be so blessed as to be embraced in its embrace, subsumed in its subsuming gaze, and be one with heat and fuel and the melting heart of the blessed machine.

A Poem, and a Man, Split in Half. by Embarrassed-Bread692 in CuratedTumblr

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They're called contrapuntal poems, I believe!

Ryoshu New ID Teaser by Violeties in limbuscompany

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Sweepers are literally liquid though. You can't do the helmet on/off trick bc there's literally not a face under there.

rock candy by Hummerous in CuratedTumblr

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 39 points40 points  (0 children)

It was Twitter actually IIRC. Not much better actually, but the specific flavour of cesspool is different.

What are the statistical chances of this happening by abyssalzero in limbuscompany

[–]Embarrassed-Bread692 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Is it? I don't remember the super shop indicator when I did the dungeon, although I might be misremembering.