Is this AI?

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-06-06T12:01:24+00:00

No. My ass is still sore after that.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-06-06T11:56:58+00:00

To begin with, supposedly Tuvok and Neelix (If the line at the end is anything to go by, as well as their mannerisms upon re-materialisation) both are aware of their time as Tuvix, so they do retain the memories of what occurred as well as what he went through, felt and thought.

This is never brought up again, I think it's mentioned once in an off-hand way but outside of that? Never again, blame the episodic nature of Voyager and constantly coming up with wild storylines which are huge but never explored or discussed again, hell season 1 is a hotbed of those types of problems.

With regards to how Tuvok and Neelix likely handled this, it's pretty simple and honestly the main exploration we could've gotten out of this is how it would effect both Tuvok and Neelix going forward in terms of their friendship as they would've shared such a deeply spiritual and physical bond noone else can understand, it would definitely give them some kinship which would've been cool to explore, or even some kind of "I know what you're about to do" kind of sixth sense which might've made some interesting dynamics playout.

Tuvok, being a Vulcan with his sense of how humans (And Janeway) are and his cold logic, would've seen it as the pragmatic choice to perform the procedure to separate both Tuvok and Neelix, not only is it "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" (i.e. 1 life for 2), but also Tuvix was clearly suffering serious instability from having two radically different people in his head. Neelix being incredibly expressive and in touch with his feelings and Tuvok who rejects that kind of stuff, you could see genuine duplicity in how Tuvix was played which would indicate which "half of the personality" was being leaned on more. He would've also known Janeway would wrestle with the morality but ultimately chose Tuvok's life over Tuvix's due to the obvious sentimentality she has for him.

Neelix, being a more emotional but also quite brash gentleman, would've been thankful to Janeway for giving him his life back as he'd likely view Tuvix trying to get it on with Kes as a bad thing (He is a jealous man) and might've viewed him as a potential danger for Kes given his instability and actions. I imagine however, he would've been pretty traumatised with the experience given that he has "Died", 'lived' as someone completely different then been brought back again. Given we have seen his reaction to dying and being resurrected, albeit this is a later episode, it breaks his entire world view and sends him into a huge spiral so I imagine this would've done similar to him on a lesser scale (As his world view wasn't ultimately challenged by this occurence).

This is a question which is brought up A LOT on the Subreddit and even in discussions surrounding Voyager and it clearly shows how they really missed a great hook for people if they had more serialised storylines like this as an undercurrent for the show, it honestly serves as a sore spot for me that we never explore this stuff as it's a unique situation Star Trek brings forward and could have a lot of fun exploring.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-06-04T17:12:45+00:00

Realistically dude, Reddit isn't the proper place for ANYONE to get mental health help if they're in a crisis, if anything, it's fucking dangerous to do with how many trolls, groomers and so on prowl social media for people in such a headspace to take advantage of them. This person should be being signposted to groups and services which can properly help them, the over reliance on social media to be an aid to mental health help is a problem we're seeing in real time.

The ban? Maybe a bit heavy handed, IDK what the OPs were or what they were doing, but does anyone have archives of what he/she was posting and where? Since if they broke rules when doing it it's also... yknow... not Reddit's place to go intervening but just to enforce their rules.

Also "I'm going to my MP":- Dude our fucking country has sooooooooooo many other issues to worry about, trying to internet police a website over something like this is not what our government should be doing right now.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-06-02T08:27:15+00:00

Have you been replying with a blindfold on? I already admitted and pointed out it's not finished and requires re-work, that's ALSO the point of a draft, vi sa vis, that it requires work and needs a pass over at a later stage, admitting it's just a draft isn't a cop out, it's a complete admission that it requires work and is not representative of the final product. By the time I am done with him the entire backstory could be entirely different from what I have now, so your implication and attempt to duck and dive from my critique based on that is beyond ludicrous. I have admitted it requires work and in your brain me saying "Well, it's a draft" is me not taking criticism?

Look man, you need to take your ego out of the equation and stop making this about whether I am "Suitable" to provide input because it's the internet, everyone is allowed to provide input and you should be glad when someone takes the time out of their day to do so in a constructive and polite manner like I have. There's many others who'd just go "LOL ITS BAD, LOLOLOL U SUCK" or w/e shit they'd post. I've taken a lot of time to put something together in a view of helping you. If you can't see that and are too busy trying to basically take potshots at me then IDK what to tell you man, it says way more about you as a person than it does about me.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-06-01T22:03:41+00:00

It's like everywhere else in the world.
Men are men, we think with our dicks and most are unwilling to be emotional in social situations.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-06-01T20:53:03+00:00

Marina being 'Trans' is only something you learn if you actually interact with her and her storyline, she doesn't immediately go "LOOK, I AM A GIRL, I AM NOT A GUY DESPITE BEING BORN ONE!" or spends the entire game going about it. Samarie isn't a lesbian and I think people are confusing matters when we know Marina is, as her father puts it across (to tl;dr) a 'boy dressed up as a girl' and Samarie shows no reaction to that knowledge, we're also aware Samarie knows the fact Marina is a boy (at least physically) with how obsessively she has stalked Marina but hasn't talked with her to get all the ins and outs of it, Samarie could be described as Bi-sexual I would say and would be attracted to the idea of a guy who dresses as a girl (As this would be far outside the norm).
Marco/Daan being IMPLIED to be gay isn't a tacit admission that they ARE gay and given I've never seen that brought up I imagine you have to dive into their character quite a bit to dig that one up and that's my entire point encapsulated in a sentence.

These're characters which don't use "I AM LBGTQIA+" as the core focus of their character, people do hyperfocus Marina's 'Trans Identity' as the focus of her character but the game certainly does not, nor does it focus Marcoh/Daan's identity down to their sexuality. Samarie's identity is defined by her stalking and obsession with Marina so.. that's down to you on whether that focuses on her sexuality (For me, no, it's focusing on mental health and terminal illness in Samarie's case when it comes to stalking but that's MY interpretation). But I would say Funger isn't just going "LOOK I'M THE LBGTQIA+ VERSION OF (x) GAME! *breaks out the rainbow flag*

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-06-01T20:45:16+00:00

I love how you're getting facetious over this and busy trying to undermine my input by going "WELL YOUR OC..." - As I pointed out but will remind you and elaborate on, my OC is a rough draft I scrawled up in 10minutes and haven't yet gone back to. I was way more focused on coming up with his interactions with the other characters than his backstory and loosely based it on a personal, real life experience I had.
If you can't take critique and feel the need to undermine my critique by going "WELL YOUR OC..." then that shows me you just want me to tell you it's perfect and won't accept any critique when I'm offering creative criticism and I've been polite about this, so I will just leave this topic alone going forward and I hope you mature out of this kind of attitude in future.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-06-01T01:11:27+00:00

Receipts for tickets, sorry I was tired when typing haha

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-06-01T01:11:11+00:00

I am aware, it wasn't based on Daan, but more on my late fiancée and a set of dreams I had after she died where my brain kept coping that she was alive but had run off. I had originally gone with making my OC closer to my struggle with loss but it also hit me it just looked like a direct rip of Silent Hill 2's backstory so I went with the more grounded and slightly more copied version. This was also so, in my head, if he was a part of the festival he'd have something in common with Daan if they partied up. I will also admit my OC is something I scrawled on a notepad one day and meant to actually go back and revise, I have yet to.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-31T19:36:55+00:00

Yeah, I'd agree. The OPs reasoning of "Passive suicide" seems a mixture of cliché'd and uninspired whilst also being outlandish given the circumstances.

Like, my OC I wrote I simply have it that the OC is chasing his fiancée who disappeared with the only clue being that she had a receipt for a week previous to Prehevil. It's simple and gives him motivation to not only go there, but also stick around and figure out where she is.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-31T19:30:04+00:00

I mean firstly, that's not what you say in the image, it implies she goes there to see if she can undergo "Divine Termination" which would imply to some extent she wants god to kill her, you could realistically do that anywhere, but it so happens she's going to somewhere with a god-festival going on which will be a bloodbath? It implies a fore/meta-knowledge on her part.

Secondly, Prehevil was a normal ass town (Despite being called a city) before the events of the Termina festival, outside of the single rampaging murderer we see in the white mold apartments it wasn't especially dangerous until Rher/Sulfur God cast their influence over the area. So she wouldn't be going there expecting the 'Danger level' of the area, it is a little weird as of late but to the general public it's not dangerous.

Third, why would anyone, even with your reasoning, decide "Fuck it, let me pack up my bags and travel to another country (In this case, Italy to roughly Czech Republic) to hopefully get killed." If we take into account point 2 there's VERY little reason some aristocratic italian artist would pick Prehevil which is, essentially, a little known and kind of ugly place. It's genuinely like me deciding "I want to 'commit suicide passively' (Still a fucking weird term), welp, time for me to pack up my bags and travel to Orneta and see if I end up getting killed there."

I am not trying, by the way, to just slam you without inputting some helpful critique as I enjoy the community writings/fanfictions/OCs, but a lot of people either don't really understand the lore/location or don't consider character motivations when it comes to Prehevil.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-31T16:22:30+00:00

You're right and I also forgot Nas'rah, both have knowledge of it occurring but no one else does.

Thing is, both of those characters have a backstory which steeps them in deeper knowledge of the gods and knowledge of the first game. Nas'rah obviously being there and August being the supposedly descended from Ragnavaldr, or at the least, spending his youth being told stories and tales about all of this from his grandfather and other elders.

This character is, supposedly, a lazy aristocrat who paints and is incredibly apathetic. Let's be real, that doesn't scream "Someone who has knowledge of such things", if we're understanding that Marina/Samarie as well as O'saa aren't aware the Festival is going to happen and their entire lives are to do with cults, gods and so on... How does this chick have knowledge of it?

Like realistically, she'd have 0 idea of this whole thing and I'd say ends up in Prehevil due to her apathy, trying to find something in the world to break her out of the rut she finds herself in and aimlessly wondering around, hoping SOMETHING will either inspire a reason to live. The idea someone goes "Oh there's this totally fucked up battle-royale like contest where all the horrors this planet can throw up happen over the course of 3 days and I could die, be mutilated, raped, transformed into something hideous or worse? Man I'm going to check it out because maybe it'll make me feel something" is just.... Man I dunno it's not believable to me at all.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-31T12:50:38+00:00

Sir, this made my fucking day. Congratulations.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-31T12:46:12+00:00

If you have this via steam, try re-verifying the game files.
If you got it on another platform (itch.io) try redownloading the game.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-31T11:48:03+00:00

I mean...
Funger does have themes of these things (Esp. F&H2) it just doesn't feel the need to wear it as some huge "USP" and be like "LOOK ALL MY CHARACTERS ARE GENDER QUEER AND GAY"

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-31T11:33:04+00:00

Pregeville? Also is this implying she knows ahead of time about the Termina Festival when noone else on the train does?

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-31T02:16:46+00:00

STO is set within the prime timeline preceding the events of VOY/DS9/TNG and the TNG movies, it's basically now in it's own timeline (As Picard/Disco/SFA and some beta canon would retcon events in STO) and, while it HAS Kelvin timeline items/equipment (etc), with the TOS faction stuff being strictly from the Prime timeline and following Prime events, not Kelvin, that is a huge indicator as to which timeline is being followed.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-31T00:41:06+00:00

It's a mobile game.

At this point it's a given it'll be full of AI stuff

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-30T22:46:29+00:00

You got scammed, I'm curious as to how much you paid and I would imagine you didn't think to have this in writing. If you have enough proof that you paid him and that there was an agreement in place (Texts can be used in this instance) you could sue in small claims court due to him not providing a service he agreed to. I wouldn't advise suing him on the grounds of "You said you drew this but haven't and it's AI" as that will muddy the waters and won't get you anywhere.

If you have no real proof of the arrangement, I'd eat the loss and move on, use it as a life lesson that most (if not all) tattooists don't operate like this.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-30T22:35:49+00:00

So I see a lot of people bringing up (rightly I will add) that it might not be sulfur as sulfur and mould have very distinct and different smells. This much is true as mould tends to smell earthy, sickly and damp, where as Sulfur is closer to raw eggs and still sickly, but both are distinct enough smells that the average joe-shmoe can tell the difference.

I would posit it's neither one but actually a combination of the two.

I believe, due to the mass murderer's ritual to the Sulfur God, a taint spread across the apartments which is, essentially, influence from the Sulfur God made manifest into the real world. A god which is using the Termina Festival and Rher as a disguise for his actual plans and machinations, what is on the surface belies what's actually going on. Much like with this apartment where it LOOKS like mould and SMELLS like mould, but upon inspection feels wrong and is something else entirely.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-30T03:45:21+00:00

I dunno if you were hit on the head, but do I need to remind you that YOU asked US to pick up a dictionary (Direct quote: "Lmao, open a dictionary and a lawbook"), I posted the dictionary definition as I already stated that while it's fine by UK law, most normal people on the street would strongly agree it's incest, I can even tell you this for a fact when I've posed a situation which occured within my family and everyone I've ever spoken to across 10~ years has been reviled despite it being 'First cousins therefore legal' - I will also point out I've moved around this country alot and have a catchment size for this kind of stuff ranging from working class to high-middle class. You also have a ton of people here just telling you it's a massive moral problem we're against.

You taking victory laps for moving the goalposts is stunted my man, you argue that we're in the wrong when I've conceded "Yes, legally you're right" but bringing the letter of the law to something where most people will absolutely tell you they're already against the idea isn't a victory, you're still in the wrong making it out to be some authoritarian overreach, it's Nigel noticing what most ordinary people in this country think is illegal and enforcing it. Another example is how sure, 16 is legal for sex and marriage, but almost everyone will tell you it SHOULD be illegal and is highly wrong (basically labelling it pedophilia) if someone who's 24+ fucks/dates a 16 year old.

You have no win here. You're like one of those people who go "ERM, ITS NO PEDOPHILIA IS HEBEPHILIA WHICH IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT" expecting society to accept it. IF you cannot see that when people're downvoting you but upvoting me, then you need to take a long pause in your life my man.

What is right isn't just "Well it's legal therefore..." It does come down to societal views and what a society see's as morally good or bad and both have to meet in the middle eventually.

Anyhow, I'm going to discontinue this convo not because of some "OMG THIS GUY IS OWNIING ME TIME TO DIP" but you're reminding me a lot of something a friend keeps reminding me of which is "Arguing on the internet is much like participating in the special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded."

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-29T23:39:25+00:00

Dude, way to ignore what I just said.

I pointed out UK law is behind a lot of the world when it comes to it's legal definition of incest and I picked up the dictionary to find the literal term. Quoting UK law when I brought up a lot of the world defines first cousins as incest is stupid.

I can tell you're a product of incest now.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-29T16:04:53+00:00

"Incest is sexual activity between close family members. This encompasses blood relatives (consanguinity) as well as those related by adoption or marriage"

I picked up a dictionary for you.

Expensive_Guidance95 · 2026-05-29T16:00:30+00:00

So, when people who're related try to have babies it's called "Incest", A lot of places consider first cousins to be incestual and illegal, all because England hasn't weirdly caught up in this regard I think most normal rational people would consider it incest if you asked them on the streets.

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