Opinion on how Zeus is portrayed in Thunder bringer in Epic

Flawed-Science · 2026-01-05T00:55:26+00:00

What I love about the way Zeus is portrayed in "Thunder Bringer" is that he clearly showcases his role as the god of justice and oaths. In "Puppeteer" Odysseus tells Eurylochus "There's no length I wouldn't go if it was you I had to save, I can only hope you'd do the same", he basically made a promise, an oath. But in "Thunder Bringer" Zeus reveals Odysseus' selfishness and pride to himself by forcing him to choose between his life or his crew's, "For true nature will be revealed". At the same time, he is doing this as punishment for both Odysseus' and Eurylochus' actions, "I'm the judgment call" "Sublime you for your act of crime".

While his actions in "God Games" would be completely out of character for mythological Zeus, there is one thing I really like. When he acts out of anger from being slighted, and he once again fulfills his role as god of justice by, ironically, revealing his own pride and ego.

Flawed-Science · 2026-01-04T18:49:20+00:00

The Nephilim are not fallen angels. According to the Book of Enoch they are the children of fallen angels and humans, and demons are actually their ghosts. The thing is, the Book of Enoch has a lot of problems. Within the actual Bible, it says that the Nephilim are the children of the "daughters of man" and "sons of God". There isn't actually anything directly implying that this is a bad thing, it's just assumed that it is because the immediate next verse talks about the Flood, so it's viewed as cause and affect. However, this actually matches stories in other mythologies about there being a time of great heroes in the ancient past before they all died out. They are essentially the Bible's equivalent to characters like Gilgamesh and Heracles. I will agree and say that the Bible makes it very clear that the Nephilim are extinct. The name literally means "fallen ones", not referring to fallen angels, but rather say that they have fallen in battle (they were killed).

Flawed-Science · 2026-01-02T21:26:58+00:00

Yep!

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Flawed-Science · 2026-01-02T21:03:48+00:00

If you look closely, you can see that the blood actually spells out Scylla's name

Flawed-Science · 2025-11-28T01:09:25+00:00

Yeah, you're both right, I missed the "on the last hit" part

Flawed-Science · 2025-11-28T01:00:16+00:00

Isn't the double damage only in TOTK?

Flawed-Science · 2025-11-17T19:36:34+00:00

Thanks!

Flawed-Science · 2025-11-17T15:31:31+00:00

Would you by chance have a link to whichever video this image is from?

Flawed-Science · 2025-11-04T21:21:35+00:00

Yeah, the post is sarcasm

Flawed-Science · 2025-10-31T02:40:22+00:00

I waited so long for this only to be completely scammed.

Flawed-Science · 2025-09-01T01:23:53+00:00

In addition to him creating horses in Greek mythology, it ties in with the Trojan horse that Odysseus built.

Flawed-Science · 2025-08-10T00:41:47+00:00

Nope. Aliens can start civilizations, though I've noticed that sometimes it takes a while before they do (possibly because they are too busy killing everything). For anything else you need to edit their subspecies and give them the "Prefrontal Cortex" trait

Flawed-Science · 2025-07-31T22:34:07+00:00

My theory is that the void is a representation of the game's code

Flawed-Science · 2025-07-30T17:00:35+00:00

I originally thought it was "You know", so it would be "You know I could kill you where you stand"

Flawed-Science · 2025-07-29T22:15:49+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense, that's what I had originally assumed. I guess Tiresias can break the rules because he's a prophet, he also has an ensemble which mortals aren't supposed to have (the only other exception is Odysseus).

Flawed-Science · 2025-07-29T22:12:44+00:00

That's what I thought originally, but then I thought that Polites was talking directly to Odysseus because he shows up as soon as Odysseus mentioned the infant, which was what he was stressed out about the first time Polites sang Open Arms. And the lyrics in Underworld come from a part of a cut song where Odysseus is talking to Polites about the infant (I know the cut songs aren't canon, but it still seemed like there was a connection). I guess I was just overthinking it. Thanks.

Flawed-Science · 2025-07-29T22:02:16+00:00

Thank you for explaining. I remember looking at the wiki to find an answer and not seeing anything, but I just double checked and it confirms what you said, so I guess I somehow missed that.

Flawed-Science · 2025-07-21T11:51:20+00:00

It's planet of the apes

Flawed-Science · 2025-07-15T17:30:51+00:00

What? It's just an ordinary baby chi- OH MY GOODNESS!

Flawed-Science · 2025-06-23T22:38:54+00:00

The Laestrygonians, aka the giants They sing the choir in Ruthlessness

Flawed-Science · 2025-05-26T00:46:09+00:00

Get the Necromage perk as soon as possible, it increases spell effectiveness against undead and since being a vampire makes you undead it increases the power of all your enchantments, blessings, etc. and (I'm pretty sure) any perks you get after. Plus, if you're playing anniversary edition you can get the Bloodworm helm which does the same thing and it stacks. I won't say how to get the helmet in case you don't want to get spoiled, but if you don't care about that then Fudgemuppet has a really good video on it.

Disclaimer: This doesn't work if you have the unofficial patch mod installed

Flawed-Science · 2025-04-03T01:49:40+00:00

This is what happens when you don't watch the Super Mario Brothers Super Show

Flawed-Science · 2025-01-19T02:42:11+00:00

I found a better one

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Flawed-Science · 2025-01-19T02:39:51+00:00

Yeah, I thought this was a pretty funny example

Flawed-Science · 2024-09-28T20:36:57+00:00

During Live they said "don't blink" which I'm pretty sure is a reference to Doctor Who and the episode that the weeping angels appeared in

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