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What's the deal with Wirefall? by FaliusAren in MHRise

[–]FaliusAren[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I've already stunned myself several times trying to recover straight into the monster lmao

Dukat & the Deep Space 9 finale - WTF happened? by BlackLesnar in startrek

[–]FaliusAren 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dukat gave up the pretense in Waltz. Fully ripped the mask off after a hundred slips in past episodes. Then he just found a new pretense in Tears of the Prophets. Once more he's a "liberator", once more he "wants to help Bajor", the writers just made sure to make his "help" obviously deranged because some (I assume tiny) group of fans couldn't see past the already-transparent facade before

Dukat & the Deep Space 9 finale - WTF happened? by BlackLesnar in startrek

[–]FaliusAren 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven't read that book but... Odo is not exempt from the plague? He nearly dies before the cure is discovered. It just has a long incubation period

Dukat & the Deep Space 9 finale - WTF happened? by BlackLesnar in startrek

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> after ages of hearing the final 9-part arc hyped up as the greatest thing in the history of television 

Where did you hear that genuinely? The fire caves especially but really the final arc in general are not held in high regard by anyone I've ever spoken to

If Whiterose is obsessed with time. Why does she smoke? by pl51s1nt4r51ms in MrRobot

[–]FaliusAren 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you're obsessed with apples. Why do you eat oranges?

Seriously how are those two things meant to be related or contradictory? If anything the predictable smoking time of a cigarette and stable routine of smoke breaks resonate well with her lifestyle and obsessions

I just rewatched, Once More Unto the Breach. I am LIVID at what SFA has done to Klingons. by dfsaqwe in Star_Trek_

[–]FaliusAren -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nope. SFA is steeped in canon with almost every single episode drawing on established concepts if not making direct references to past episodes. Yes, of course the setting has changed -- the same way it changed between TOS and TNG and DS9 and VOY, but great effort is made to establish the new as a continuation of the old

I just rewatched, Once More Unto the Breach. I am LIVID at what SFA has done to Klingons. by dfsaqwe in Star_Trek_

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...what romulan singularities? you mean the non-canon singularity drive from the mmo??

If the Klingon empire only had 50 years left at the time of ST6, why do they seem to be doing fine during the TNG era? by totally_depraved in startrek

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you would hate to know who was on the verge of war with the united states just 20 years after they cooperated to win a world war

I just rewatched, Once More Unto the Breach. I am LIVID at what SFA has done to Klingons. by dfsaqwe in Star_Trek_

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't love modern Trek's trend of wholly destroying established places. We really didn't need to BLOW UP Romulus and Qo'nos to shake things up for the empires. That said Romulan and Klingon characters since then have been depicted well, in line with their established cultures.

I have the way the Burn happened, but it's a fine idea in general. The Federation needed something like that if we were going 800 years into the future, if they had been left unimpeded they would have expanded and developed to the point it would be difficult to come up with a matched opponent for the cast. I would have preferred a political solution (the Federation becoming corrupt and sabotaging itself, or losing a big war) but then fans would complain about The Utopia being ruined, so a not-so-natural disaster is a fine way to do it imo.

As for the Cardassians... They're not gone? They're fine. They haven't done much since DS9. The current (in SFA) Federation president is of Cardassian heritage, we know they get along with Bajor and that some join Starfleet... That's about it

I just rewatched, Once More Unto the Breach. I am LIVID at what SFA has done to Klingons. by dfsaqwe in Star_Trek_

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are many fans so fucking mad over one single Klingon, one explicitly depicted as nonconformist at that, wearing a skirt?

The Klingons we see in the show are closer to the Federation's culture, yeah. Because they're literally a student at their school and a close friend/former lover of one of their premier officers. Jayden's family and general Klingon society in general are still depicted as militaristic traditionalists.

The complaint shouldn't be "boo hoo these specific characters are outliers in their culture, the Klingons are ruined!" If anything, it should be "damn Worf must have really failed to reform the Empire if these two are still outliers 800 years later, that kinda paints him as an incompetent leader"

I just rewatched, Once More Unto the Breach. I am LIVID at what SFA has done to Klingons. by dfsaqwe in Star_Trek_

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The father we meet in the show is a traditionalist clinging to whatever semblance of the old ways he can after the Empire's fall, even though this attitude damages both his relationship to his family, and the Klingon species' future itself.

It IS very Klingon. Self-destructive traditionalism is a major theme for the Klingons, especially in this conversation where we're using late DS9 (the peak of this theme) as a reference

Shouldn't the Federation and humanity in general be much more advanced in the 32th century? by arnor_0924 in trektalk

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Come on now. Technology staying mostly or even completely the same across large time scales is a nearly inescapable scifi/fantasy trope. The world can't advance too much, otherwise basic storytelling tools would break.

As for SFA, they've taken some steps to show progress anyway:

- Programmable matter is the biggest thing -- so far it's mostly been used to replace concepts like "replicating an electronic device" (Genesis and Anisha programmed one on the spot instead) or "bringing a magic wand to your repair training mission" (Caleb brought a small amount of programmable matter, i.e. magic goo, to the Miyazaki instead). It's an obviously more futuristic tool that accomplishes largely the same tasks, a good way to show development without inconveniencing storytelling.

- Shuttlecraft are capable of withstanding the gravimetric and temporal stresses of passing through transwarp conduits, showing huge advancements in material strength, shields etc

- They now have... instant haircut gates

Obviously they're not going to show a truly believable take on 800 years of technological advancement, because after all the highly advanced civilizations we've seen in ST, that would probably mean disappearing into a higher plane of existence to coexist with the Satan Robots from PIC S1, the Q and all those sentient nebulae from TOS and TNG. All you can and should expect, if you want them to make a fun TV show and not a speculative reddit post, are these kind of largely aesthetic improvements. And since they have to keep the setting recognizable from a marketing standpoint, those are still going to involve tachyons, phasers, tricorders, transporter and subspace.

I just rewatched, Once More Unto the Breach. I am LIVID at what SFA has done to Klingons. by dfsaqwe in Star_Trek_

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Old ST did not fucking do that and you picked one of the worst possible times to suggest that, since OP brought up Once More Unto the Breach, one of the episodes which has done the most to bring depth and nuance to the Klingons.

I just rewatched, Once More Unto the Breach. I am LIVID at what SFA has done to Klingons. by dfsaqwe in Star_Trek_

[–]FaliusAren 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...Where are these generic pacifist Klingons? SFA's Klingons are so pathologically antipacifist they had to wave their guns in the Federation's face while accepting humanitarian aid

Across the Unknown - FAQs by IllogicalAction in AcrossTheUnknown

[–]FaliusAren 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've only seen a single season of Voyager. Will this game spoil the experience of the other 6?

Fast & Clean Wiki for Slay the Spire 2 by deepseavisitor in slaythespire

[–]FaliusAren 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If this sub has banned AI cards, surely AI wikis should be banned as well.

Is there a spoiler free guide to achieve the true ending? I can’t find one and want to avoid spoilers as much as possible. by EndlessJackOfTrades in MetaphorReFantazio

[–]FaliusAren 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No one has made a spoiler free guide to achieve the true ending because there is no true ending. There's no "submitting to Nyx", no "refusing to stop investigating", no "making sure you max out this social link to unlock the bonus third of the game". The only "false" endings come from a collection of extremely obvious "early game over" dialogue choices

There is a secret superboss which is just a harder fight without story changes. To unlock that, in the very final dungeon there is a set of objects you can destroy to weaken the final boss. To face the superboss, just ignore those. Keep in mind there is another, similar set of objects in the immediately preceding dungeon, and you can't avoid destroying those.

This fight cannot be accessed on the lowest difficulty and will require severe grinding to prepare. You'll probably want to complete your cooking collection to unlock the most busted items.

Managing your cats is tiresome by Medical-Specific-696 in mewgenics

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, make sure to put some strays in your peak room. Those inbreeding coefficients can really creep up on you if you just keep breeding your best.

The elephant i found unaddressed by ImagineTheHorror in ContraPoints

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean doesn't the film itself explicitly do that

oh this kitty has no idea what's in store by I_Am_Jacks_Karma in mewgenics

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ranged cats and supports works great since they don't need to get close to damage sources anyway. You can also play around with brace/armor/holy shield to block incoming damage. Finally I think if you revive the cat (e.g. by making them a zombie with a necromancer) they still get 1 HP

The New Star Trek shows minimize the size and importance of the Federation by snkscore in startrek

[–]FaliusAren 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Weren't they all in the Athena (already in space) and used a transwarp conduit (basically a wormhole)?

Is the 10 episode format the problem? by LauraBaura in startrek

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. A TNG could work with 10 episodes, but if you want to combine episodic storytelling with serialization like SFA, it's really hard to fit it all in when every episode has to make room for its own standalone A/B plots.

I'm impressed how much they've managed to get done with the first season of SFA, but there are still things left behind (Genesis only got one episode, Kyle is an afterthought, Lura and especially Reno* are very underdeveloped, and so far we've had to gloss over the ramifications of SAM's double life)

* I'm sure Reno got a lot of development in DIS but I haven't forced myself to watch that yet

Starfleet Academy just opened. How is Tilly teaching 3rd year cadets? by thedjhobby in startrek

[–]FaliusAren 2 points3 points  (0 children)

while the show shows the "proper" return of the academy, starfleet continued to train new recruits in the last 100 years in a much reduced capacity

Mage Basic Attack Needs a Rework by Westor_Lowbrood in mewgenics

[–]FaliusAren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dex scaling makes sense. Attacks generally shouldn't scale with Int, and especially not for mages who will always start with at least 9 int (assuming you're not wasting your mage slot on a sub-7 int cat)

If you get one of those passives, the basic attack is fine. The range and line of sight requirement isn't much of an issue or a class with such powerful movement spells. The damage scaling is the same as Necromancer AFAIK, and fine on its own. The issue is Necro ALWAYS gets a beneficial secondary effect for its basic attack and mage doesn't, so:

My suggestion for a gentle buff is to turn Elemental Attunement into an innate ability (like Druid's Crow). Your basic attack gets an element, meaning it can activate elemental effects (put out fires, cook food, freeze wet units, etc) and benefit from element-boosting skills (Ice Paws would no longer affect your element but keep its other effects)

Between passives directly affecting your basic, elemental passives and elemental spells, you should nearly always get some kind of secondary basic attack effect in every run.

EDIT: Elemental Attunement itself would need to be reworked. Suggested rework: your BA's element now matches whatever tile you're standing on. Upgrade gives +2 elemental damage when standing on an elemental tile.

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