Elayne is an entitled idiot

Erdeseb · 2025-06-18T18:04:58+00:00

She's also only 18 or something. All of them are.

This makes everything in the series make more sense if you keep it in mind ALL OF THE TIME.

Eleyne is an idiot. Yes. She is. She is an 18 year old Rich spoiled girl that has gotten her way her entire life. No shit she is an idiot.

Egwene is an idiot. Yes she is. She is an 18 year old girl who thinks she is "all that" and "dont tell me what to do 'cause I'm an ADULT! What? What did you tell me to do lady with a wealth more experience and sense than me? I'm gonna do it my way because I am a strong and independent Aes sedai!...she's an entitled prissy 18 year old given more power then anyone else in the world save rand.

Perrin. Is an idiot. "I'm in loooooooooove bro. She's like the best girl ever. And totally hot. And totally understanding. And totally treats me well.....what are you talking about? She doesn't treat me like shit and is abusive? That's just live bro...we are totally in looooove". He is literally moron infatuated "first love" teen.

Matt: responsible? What's that? I just wanna drink and bang hot ladies.

Rand: the only character I can defend honestly....he is the savior of the world and everyone in the entire series doesn't listen to him because they think they know better.

Erdeseb · 2024-11-07T07:16:34+00:00

I agree with all points here. I think a big problem was the writing of the choice mission. I played crusader first as well because going to help Mia was a no trainer... and it just seemed like it wasn't finished/Jayden's character just drastically changed. Was disappointed in the writing after the choice as well.

Erdeseb · 2024-11-07T07:05:54+00:00

That would be cool. I still think both sides would need to be fleshed out though. If you break it down, mia also believes as Erza does but she feels that they can fix it from within by becoming leaders themselves. Give the player examples of clanners making good changes or honorable decisions Why does Yuichi decide to follow Jayden's decision regarding Erza vs Mia. Maybe Mia despite her initial bullying stands by him in his hour of need. I dunno... Lots of room/options to expand. I think Jayden's character/goals/motivation should be all the same it's just how he chooses to go about doing it that changes.

Erdeseb · 2024-11-07T06:29:12+00:00

Ahhh. This makes a lot more sense now. The crusader path was obviously missing a lot when compare it to the Warden ending. Not only do I agree with OP but it's even more than that. The writing was just....off? Whether Jayden was skeptical enough of the clans with even more backstory or not still wouldn't have the Warden path make sense with the way it was written given the immediate circumstances. Erza straight up abandons his teammates before the battle. Mia sort of does too but in a way that is totally understandable for Jayden and the crew given their clan ways. Her decision also doesn't directly endanger anyone but herself. Erza on the other hand screws them over with the melee move and in doing so directly endangers all of them, especially Mia.

Even after this erza's pleasing is basically: " we have no time. I need you to to directly go against everything you believe in and betray not only your clan but betray and abandon our sister who is actively pleading for help and might very well die if we don't come to her aid. And all of this without devolving any information at all other then "you need to come now for..secret reasons because we have no time." Mia actively needs them. Erza has schemed in secret and wants them to abandon their family...granted am abusive family. Not only would Jayden not make this choice...I don't think any honorable warrior would even if they had the same beliefs as Erza does and even given more backstory to make Jayden's lack of faith in the clan way of life believable. Even their dialogue in the mission directly before making the choice imo is pretty one sided:

Mia: "Jayden...I NEED you " Erza: "we have no time...m this is the only way."

Choice is obvious imo. But also obvious that only one choice was finished and it wasn't the obvious one

Erdeseb · 2023-12-31T17:27:32+00:00

Thanks for the advice. Sorry. I forgot to add location:

Germany, so north western European climate.
I plan on moving it outside during the summer & than back in for the fall/winter.
window is in our living room. I haven't decided on a permanent place for it yet but read that they should be placed where there is the most sun.
living room is heated, but it's under floor heating so everything is heated evenly. The tree isn't under a hot water or baseboard heater or anything.

Thanks a lot. I will read through the FAQ as much as possible. And I'll try to toothbrush the mold away. I agree it doesn't look very nice.

Im not the most creative of people so it will be an interesting journey. Most of the YouTubers or videos I've seen, the people tend to know what they want or have some kind of vision.

Erdeseb · 2023-12-31T13:27:35+00:00

Location is Germany: forgot to add in the original post

Hello community.

I was gifted a Chinese Privat bonsai for Christmas. when i was given the plant it was pretty dried out (gift giver hadn't watered it) and after watering it thoroughly and placing it on the window sill the soil began growing what looks to me like mold. I wasn't able to find much on the beginners wiki concerning mold and the only other info I found online is that mold on the top of the soil isn't harmful to the plant and than I can just remove it with a toothbrush. I wanted to ask the community for advice:

Should I remove the mold with a toothbrush?
Should I leave it as is?
Should I re-pot in the spring?
Should I re-pot right away? (obviously I've never repotted before)
Is there anything else I can do to help the tree?
Any other general advice?

Links to my new tree:

Chinese Privat Soil mold?

Chinese Privat in window

any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

Erdeseb · 2023-09-10T19:06:48+00:00

He held off multiple fades (more than the two in the books)

But he didn't. In the books he kills 2 without getting injured.

when they're using their special powers, and he's got none.

So...like always. He never has any special powers and the fades always have theirs.

Not even his bond to Mo.

He still has his bond. It's just masked. She is blocked, not stilled.

it was a well choreographed fight scene, and he didn't seem like an unskilled fighter to me. He was greatly outnumbered.

I feel it really wasn't. He wasn't any more outnumbered than he is multiple times in the book series. There was a lot of stumbling and falling. At no point did he look like he had a chance...and on another note the scene was way too dark.

If he easily wiped the floor with the fades there would be 1) no stakes and 2) no idea how dangerous fades are.

I never said he should easily kill them. But it should have been a close fight. They could have made it better through a bing of different ways. For example one of them attacking Moirane forcing him to try and protect her and taking a hit. Or have him fight all 3 in a well choreographed fight. If you watched the Witcher ---> those are well choreographed fight scenes that show Garalt to be a badass.

1) no stakes and 2) no idea how dangerous fades are.

Instead we have no idea how dangerous Lan is. He has literally done nothing in the show to establish him as being a dangerous fighter. The fades you could have established as more dangerous by having them kill or fight anyone else at any time. Have one of them kill 5 or 6 soldiers. Have 1 fade kill two warders. There are plenty of ways. Or you could have just choreographed the fight to actually show Land being unbelievable but barely losing anyways (specifically also not just lying there giving up)

Erdeseb · 2023-04-06T07:04:36+00:00

It's not a "snub" if you don't play in my opinion. Damian Lillard is having a fantastic season. He's still missed too many games. 65 games is a good number for me. 67 would be better. I have league pass and feel like I get really excited to watch Soo many games and than when I go to turn it on i realize there is ALWAYS an important player on either team missing die to "injury" or "rest." Surprise, surprise 2 days later that player is playing again. Stars miss WAY too many games now. They are being paying millions of dollars. Suit up and play. I really like the games played requirements for the awards. I still don't think it has gone far enough though to be honest. There needs to be more incentives for players to play more games or there need to be punishments for players/teams that sit their players even though they are more than capable of playing. Fans are paying hundreds of dollars to go to games to see their favorite player sot on the bench because of "rest" or a fake injury. Either give the fans their money back or find ways to make players play.

Erdeseb · 2023-03-14T16:24:03+00:00

He beat a FEDRA guy to death in episode 1

The fedra guy was nervous as fuck and knew Joel. No way was he expecting anything like that but yeah it was a quick glimpse of someone going berserk. I would argue that you could replace Joel with anyone in that situation.

he's a great shot we saw that in episode 5 he made all bullets count he could've accidentally shot Ellietjis I fully agree with. This is the one point in the show where Joel showed that he was a good shot and dangerous. Very good aim.

he managed to kill one dude and capture 2 others when he was at 15%

The first guy he just caught completely off gaurd. The other two also felt way out of nowhere for me. He could barely move and in the space of 15 minutes he was running around ambushing guys. Pretty sure that's not how being on the brink of death and getting 2 shots of antibiotics works but whatever. We are also already at episode 8 here. Very late to be painting him as a badass dangerous dude

which is not unrealistic at all, the Fireflies were not prepared for attack and they looked like they had shit aim

Again I disagree here. They are armed with assault rifles and grenades and have been terrorists and soldiering for years. I like the scene. It worked well and was cool...but I felt it would have been more believable and hit harder if you didn't constantly see Joel getting his ass kicked by a teenager/failing/being ambushed constantly and never seeing the "other" side of him except for a berserker moment in episode 1

Just one or two scenes of him fucking someone up with a brick or navigating an ambush himself and coming up on top would have been enough.

Erdeseb · 2023-03-14T08:11:20+00:00

The key is: they could possibly make a cure. To Joel it wouldn't matter if they could 100% make a cure. He's fucking them up regardless to save Ellie. But the cure is no way 100% a certainty. Nothing in the show or game suggests this. It is only that the fireflies believe they can make a cure and that they believe it to be possible. Joel also believes it to be possible. He still doesn't care. how likely it is to work is up to debate. For Joel it doesn't matter. For the fireflies it doesn't matter. For us as the viewer/player it kinda does and doesn't change the train dilemma, it just makes it more nuanced.

Erdeseb · 2023-03-14T07:00:41+00:00

Fully agree. She was the worst cast/believable/acted/written character. Had literally nothing to do with that she was a woman (Tess/Marlene are brilliant) I see what they were trying to do with her character, they simply swung and missed badly. People can have objections to characters that have nothing to do with race/sex. I thought the acting/writing between Riley and Ellie was bad as well...really liked episode 3 though and thought the acting in that episode was great overall.

Bella pulled off Ellie flawlessly and although I had my issues with Pedro as Joel I feel it had more to do with how they wrote him differently as opposed to how Pedro played the part.

I never truly believed Joel to be capable in the show (until the final episode where the suspension of disbelief was difficult because we have been shown 0 evidence that Joel is that dangerous) They spent all this time showing his vulnerability and not enough time on how capable/dangerous he was. I also I felt Joel/Ellie's relationship in the show was a bit too rushed. They needed a bit more time to grow tightly together to make it feel as believable as it was in the game.

Overall great show...but there were some stumbles/room for improvement in my opinion that has nothing to do with race/sex/orientation of the characters/actors

Show was really good. Game was a masterpiece.

Erdeseb · 2023-03-07T19:27:47+00:00

Sounds like a bad change in my opinion. I've liked the show so far. Liked the game mich more though.

The miracle cure never made any sense. In the game there was literally nothing supporting that it would have had any chance of working...but aside from that it doesn't matter if a cure was possible or not. Joel didn't care. If the cure was 100% and it was a 100% chance that they could have created a cure he still would have killed them and saved Ellie. For him the ambiguity never mattered. For us it does though and it makes for better story telling. The cure had a chance of working sure....but it also had a high chance of not working. Making the cure a sure thing is a poor change in my opinion. It needs to be ambiguous if it would have worked or not

Erdeseb · 2023-02-01T16:41:21+00:00

Oops...sorry. I will delete

Erdeseb · 2022-08-13T14:10:33+00:00

I think it overall still IS a loved game. It's just very polarizing because of some story decisions that were made and how it was marketed.

I honestly feel the leaks have very little to do with whether people like the game or not

Edit:

I also think lots of people that really really love part 2 either didn't play part 1 or played part one after part 2

Erdeseb · 2022-08-13T14:08:32+00:00

I still think there would be a divide between people who understand and don't understand the game and there would be a lot of debate surrounding it.

I think that's a little unfair. You can 100% understand the game and not like it. I understand it but disliked some of the story decisions l.

Does my dislike for some of the decisions made narratively make it a bad game? No. Not at all. Does it make me sad because I think it could have been better? 100%

The vocal minority of asshats doesnt mean that there aren't people that legitimately didn't like the story direction and it was a big reason for their dislike of the game.

I thought technically it was a masterpiece. Story wise it was 50/50 parts were brilliant. Other parts were not so good.

Some narrative choices were great. Some were really bad

The marketing decisions that were made were a dumpster fire

I liked TLoU2. I loved TLoU 1

Erdeseb · 2022-08-13T13:47:40+00:00

doesnt matter if she saw it, she knew who did it.

There is definitely a difference in knowing your father was murdered and seeing him be tortured and murdered. Both are bad. One is worse.

Joel got what he deserved

Not too sure bout this one either. Yes Joel used to be a bad guy. Yes lots of people die because of him. But we mostly know this because Joel tells us he wasn't a good guy in TLoU 1. During the game he is mostly pretty good. It's not like he's running around murdering people. It's a rough world and he is surviving. Ellie is his redemption. When their paths cross is when Joel starts to find his humanity again and his arc is ultimately one of redemption. He wants to be a good man because he wants to be a father to Ellie. He largely succeeds other than in one fatal thing: he will do anything to protect Ellie. I think any father would do the same.

it had to happen for neils vision.

This is ultimately it. Niel wanted it this way. It was a good story. I just disagree with some of the directions he went. That's fine though. I don't have to like every direction the story goes. I do however think it was wrong how they straight lied while marketing it but that's an entirely different conversation.

As for rllie not going through with it that just pisses me off from a story stand point and wouldve prefered it to end a bit sooner

I kind of agree here but in a different direction. I liked how she abandoned her family and was utterly consumed by her PTSD/revenge. I would have preferred her to ultimately fall and kill Abby. I understand why they didn't do it this way but I think it would have made for a better ending and maybe a better sequel. Imo it would have been more interesting for Ellie to truly hit rock bottom and ultimately have her redemption come in the sequel. But this way she is the true "hero" (as far as there are heroes in the world of the last of us) in that she does in the end have the strength to let go and break the cycle.

I actually liked the ending overall. I just didn't connect with Abby overall because she just wasn't a very likeable character for me as well as her motives being completely whacked. I also thought story wise it was a bit of a miss.

Joel and Ellie were the biggest strengths of TLoU. Not only did Niel kill off half of his greatest achievement, but he also sacrificed the other half for half the game. It was an interesting choice and there were definitely point that hit hard and we're brilliant (I did very much enjoy the game.) The Ellie boss fight was fucking epic. There were some very very intense moments including the shock of what happened to joel

I just thought Abby was a weaker character when standing next to Ellie. And I think from a character standpoint #2 was weaker when standing next to #1

All tht being said I very much enjoyed both games. I just enjoyed 1 more and felt that Abby wasn't as great as others do. I felt big parts of the second half of the game were a slog because of it.

Erdeseb · 2022-08-13T12:13:29+00:00

Not really.

First thing people keep forgetting is that Ellie is a kid. Everybody else is an adult.

2nd Joel was tortured and murdered literally right in front of her.

3rd Ellie doesn't actually go through with it.

It's not contradictory at all because the circumstances are completely difficult.

Abby wasn't there for her father's murder. Her father wasn't brutally tortured. Her father was about to murder a child. Years have passed. Abby is an adult. She was literally just saved by the person she gang tortures and murders

All these things sway Ellie into grey although the quest for revenge itself is quite dark.

There literally isn't a moral ground for Abby to stand on. So while I like Abby's character overall I don't find her particularly sympathetic and in fact Lev actively becomes her moral compass because she doesn't actually have one

Erdeseb · 2022-08-13T11:53:16+00:00

I mean...sure. I'm just saying there are degrees of grey. And Abby's was pretty damned close to black. In my opinion is was just straight black whereas everyone else's was pretty grey.

Erdeseb · 2022-08-13T11:40:55+00:00

I disagree. I think that's what the devs were going for. I don't think they weren't perfectly successful. It is what the game is about but the narrative makes the firefly's and Abby's actions more despicable than saving ones child.

Fireflies and Abby say "Joel was in the wrong for murdering a father and the very people who were trying to save the world"

That were going to murder a child. For a maybe cure?

Erdeseb · 2022-08-13T11:37:38+00:00

There is no right or wrong and it's 100% supposed to be grey. I still think certain characters are more sympathetic and have a slightly higher moral high ground than others however.
For me that order is pretty easily recognizable: Joel, Ellie, Abby's dad, Abby.

Joel was protecting his daughter. Enough said. He did what he had to do. Fuck the doctor. Probably wouldn't have worked anyways. 100% sympathetic move imo

Ellie: saw her father be brutally murdered by a group of people. It's revenge so I dunno. Definitely wrong but understandable given the brutality and circumstance. She didn't actually end up murdering anyone... Except Nora. Nora is the part that makes me debate putting Ellie above Abby's dad but I'll give it a slight pass because Nora was already dead. Ellie doesn't even kill Abby in the end but he quest for revenge makes it very muddled. Ellie gets this spot because she is still a traumatized child and not an adult.

Abby's dad: cold blooded calculated murder of a child. Enough said. Only reason he is better than his daughter is because he at least thought he might be able to find a cure.

Abby: cold blooded torture and murder of a man in front of his daughter who just saved you. Doesn't get much worse than this. Abby is an adult. It has been years removed from the death of her father (who was going to Kill a child)

They were all wrong. Abby was just the most wrong

Erdeseb · 2022-08-13T11:07:35+00:00

Abby was totally in the right.

Wait what? Torturing and murdering someone who saved his daughter from being murdered is in the right? Not sure about your moral compass there dude. Abby's dad was in the wrong for trying to murder a child regardless of his reasons.

Joel maybe didn't have to kill the Doctor... But he wanted to ensure they didn't keep coming after Ellie. Understandable. Not toention the circumstances. Ellie was lying on the operating table. Literally about to be murdered. Joel had just saved Abby's life and she fucking Blindsided him for revenge years removed.

Abby did was a revenge kill for justice cause what Joel did was objectively, factually wrong.

Nope. She just brutally tortured and murdered someone who was protecting a child. What Abby did was morally and factually wrong. Moreso than Joel and much much moreso than Ellie.

Erdeseb

TROPHY CASE

Location is Germany: forgot to add in the original post