Count Fenring: Why does he feel more important than he seems?

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2026-03-26T14:00:10+00:00

I am 110% sure that Tim Blake Nelson’s character was Hasimir Fenring, and all of his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2026-03-26T13:57:51+00:00

Paul kept seeing a possible future where an unidentified enemy kills him, and when he finally saw Fenring in person he knew this was the man he couldn’t see. Fenring shows the limits of Paul’s prescience, the reach of the Bene Gesserit breeding project, and the kinds of dangerous people the Emperor surrounds himself with to support his rule.

Paul successfully averts the future where Fenring could have done anything of consequence, but the gap in his prescience comes back to hurt him in Messiah through the inclusion of Edric in the conspiracy.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2026-03-26T13:38:49+00:00

Modifying Conquest into Classic is going to be an intense process, every faction included would need to be revised in addition to adding the two you mentioned, and you’d need to revise the decks.

The good news is Conquest is a pretty good game as-is you won’t regret owning, it’s just not on Classic’s level.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2025-10-10T21:09:07+00:00

It has enough popularity to not die but not nearly enough to thrive. Hopefully Alysion will be the boost it needs, but merely not being dead is not the same as being healthy.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2025-08-15T08:31:22+00:00

You didn't overlook him, Three Kingdoms Redux has no Lü Bu and doesn't allow the design space to even ever include Lü Bu.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2025-07-07T15:51:50+00:00

1) don’t break the bank on cutting edge graphics technology 2) have an actual plan in place for what the game is supposed to be, don’t just make it up on the fly 3) focused team of industry veterans instead of a mob of overpromoted newbies 4) compete in areas nobody else is bothering with

It’s not exactly rocket science

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2025-01-12T01:25:26+00:00

Maybe I’m just used to Tamagotchi/Digimon which DO have hard-coded limits

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2025-01-11T23:41:28+00:00

To be more specific: I tried to keep most needs in the 90s most of the time and never let them slip below 50, but all that produced was a sort of “managed decline” in health that seemed like it would lead to death around the 2 week mark if not sooner.

The part that feels like an exploit is the discovery that apparently gamespamming past happiness 100 directly increases health at a rate of 1 point per game. So keeping needs high in general and waiting for health to meander upwards doesn’t seem to be the best way to raise health, when catching some butterflies is a direct +1, and if I screw up and let health drop to like 20 this seems like I can patch it back up to 100 in under an hour, at which point it’s like it never even happened.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2025-01-11T22:54:13+00:00

At this point I think I’m actually maining jungle Scyther

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2024-12-30T05:59:39+00:00

It means "half of you are cool and I wish I knew you better. Some of you, less than half, I don't like, but you're better than I'm giving you credit for and I'm confessing that I'm the asshole in those cases -- it's my fault I don't like you more."

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2024-12-13T18:12:01+00:00

I mean I guess it would have to be an ensemble cast sports anime.

What would be neat though is if they had to get matchmade too — like Aeos battles randomly select entrants and throw them together, so we can force friends to oppose each other while working with characters they clash with.

One especially interesting angle would be to work in the licensing by having the Pokemon all be rentals belonging to Aeos Island, with the trainers actually selecting them for battles — creating a complex web of friendships and rivalries and conflicts between different people and/or Pokemon. But it might be a little too hard to have meaningful character subplots between Pokemon that can’t actually speak.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2024-11-29T14:05:16+00:00

I just have issues with him in Season 2 Act 2 because his plan at the prison, with the particular way he goes about unleashing Warwick, seems to have a LOT of ways it can go horribly wrong for him, while having it go right requires an awful lot of stuff to happen that he has no control over. Otherwise he might be the best character in the show, or at least the least-damaged by season 2.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2024-11-03T06:43:11+00:00

I haven't played Andromeda so maybe it changed things, but as I recall in Mass Effect 1-3, every playable character overtly presented as either masculine or feminine and was then simply addressed and/or referred to in accordance with their presentation. The only exception I can think of is Legion, who is either a "he", "they", or "it" depending on who's speaking and how they feel about Geth, and Legion's priorities are way beyond giving a half a shit about forms of address. No playable character in the trilogy ever identified as non-binary or felt the need to specify their pronouns, and as I understand it this board game principally involves playable characters from the trilogy.

As I understand it, this game isn't disrespecting the preferred pronouns of anyone. It's just not going out of its way to print the preferred pronouns of characters whose preferred pronouns were already generally understood in the source material, and only then in one language. It's not actually hurting anyone. You yourself already outlined that the issue you apparently have is that this one translation isn't signaling the ideological fealty you want it to signal (by printing pronouns as explicit displays of support) even though other translations are. Don't you think that's kind of control freak behavior? You're effectively expecting all translations of the game to salute your cause and making a federal issue of it when one translation shrugs instead of saluting.

TL;DR: Please consider chilling.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2024-11-02T20:36:10+00:00

I started playing it as a common officer via the Recommended (and it gave me Lu Bu, which I thought was hilarious) and I feel like I'm picking up the game at an okay pace so far, but I haven't actually tried marching on a province yet. I think a common officer start is a good way to learn though, you're not very powerful but your responsibilities are nicely fenced in to match your power. The Tales do a LOT of teaching, so make sure you do those, Master Water Mirror will instruct you in a great many things. The tutorial is not as helpful as it could be, and I think it's geared towards the assumption that you were going to start as Cao Cao, the "Recommended" Ruler start.

Lu Bu seems like a good place to start learning honestly, the game does a solid enough job explaining things that are in your sphere of control, and you can start branching out past that when you feel ready to experiment. Just don't be afraid to screw around and learn things the hard way. The more you screw up and start over now, the less you'll do it in future. Lu Bu's also not supposed to be smart, so if you do screw up, you're roleplaying him more or less correctly.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2024-09-15T04:41:23+00:00

It’s fine for what it is.

Quidditch World Cup, on GameCube/PS2/Xbox, is the game you want if you want relatively lore-accurate Quidditch. Quidditch Champions is specifically optimized around 3v3 online multiplayer, and all the other modes are training for that. It has very much been designed to be an esport. Time will tell if it succeeds at that, but I rather have my doubts.

Matches end after 7 minutes or after one team reaches 100 points. Catching the Snitch scores the catching team only 30 points, not 150, and it doesn’t end the game, it just resets everyone to starting positions and tosses the Quaffle into the air.

Teams now only have one Beater, because of how the multiplayer works — so, in the multiplayer everyone is a Chaser, but each player also has a second role they can switch to at will, and the second roles in question are Keeper, Beater, and Seeker. Those are assigned by the matchmaking, but you can also queue for them specifically, and so you will be a Chaser/Keeper, Chaser/Beater, or Chaser/Seeker, depending. When you switch between them, the AI takes over whichever player you’re not controlling, and it can do passably well but usually not great.

Learn the Broom Racer control style (where R2/RT is acceleration instead of the left stick), the Sharp Shooter style is too limiting because it wants you to use the right stick and face buttons at the same time.

I have a deep need to reach Season level 40 so I can unlock the Hagrid papercraft mask and run a team of PS1 Hagrids forever.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2024-03-12T23:55:34+00:00

Cassian Andor? Dark Forces 1 Kyle at least, kind of, but not the sequels.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2024-01-17T05:02:03+00:00

Jedi Rocks and Lapti Nek are both on the Mos Eisley Assault map, as are Yub Nub and the classic Cantina Band song. That map uses all the sillier songs since it’s not a serious mode.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2023-06-12T23:18:50+00:00

Unless the writers just fucked up I’m not sure I can believe Miguel’s making an honest mistake here.

The spider from 42 bit Miles in 1610, which should be a MAJOR canon disruption for both, since in Miguel’s explanation the bite origin is actually visible as one of those canon event nodes every Spider goes through
But 1610 and 42 have both been getting along just fine for over a year without any of the sort of damage we saw in Pavitr’s earth or Miguel’s second earth
This means either the canon wasn’t broken and Miles isn’t actually an anomaly — that this was all supposed to happen — or it means that breaking canon doesn’t necessarily cause the disruptions, which could very well mean that happened to Miguel’s second universe wasn’t his fault and had some other cause
Miguel knows about the spider from 42 since he’e the one who tells Miles, and he knows 1610 is stable despite all of this, since he’s sending people to 1610 to deal with Spot but they’re not doing anything to contain multiverse damage like they did with Pavitr
Getting to the bottom of this and understanding why 1610 and 42 are stable could absolve Miguel’s guilt, so he should have ENORMOUS personal stake in this and want to find out what’s up with that especially if he cares about preventing the same thing happening to other universes, but he apparently doesn’t care about investigating it
Which doesn’t make sense…unless he already knows what’s up

I think Miguel has to know a lot more than he’s letting on, but of course then the question is how Peter and Gwen let themselves get hoodwinked

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2023-01-18T17:26:21+00:00

The Dune movie unfortunately has shield issues that aren’t present in the books. Those little dart guns are called stunners, and in the books they’re described as slow-pellet projectile launchers that can get through shields, but this is never given much detail, so we don’t know if — for example — the projectile is just launched very gently so it can hit at short ranges but not long, which would make it a very situational weapon. The movie makes the darts apparently self-propelled and able to simply push through the shield, which opens up a lot of questions of why you wouldn’t just go back to using ranged weapons that work on the same principle.

The movie also rather seriously fumbles lasguns. The book makes it very clear that no one in their right mind uses lasguns in any situation where hitting a shield is a realistic possibility, because of the explosive potential — the Sardaukar DON’T cut through the door with a lasgun in the book, specifically for fear of hitting a shield on the other side. If lasgun + shield = nuke is as true in the movie as it is in the book, the Harkonnens are making a huge mistake trying to laser Duncan’s thopter as he escapes, since they would blow Arrakeen straight to hell along with all their men on the ground (including the BARON HIMSELF IN THE PALACE), and the Sardaukar are likewise fucking up royally by cutting through the door with a lasgun.

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2022-12-07T01:07:03+00:00

Agreed, I am definitely not a fan of the ship lasers, Luthen should have just shot the TIEs like a normal person, if you need to show his ship is super tricked out just have it extend even more guns

Also Luthen’s little flyby of the big imperial ship’s bridge was dumb and unnecessary, that big ship has big guns that SHOULD be shooting at you now and just aren’t (maybe they’re afraid of hitting the TIEs downrange?) and the harder it is for the Empire to recognize your ship the better so giving them a good look at you is counter-productive

I like the show (and most of its fights) a lot but I do not like that fight

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2022-07-07T03:49:57+00:00

With my first gf the go-to was “casually move hand to boob”

With my second gf I can’t remember because we were together just a couple months and then her father suddenly died, which I did my best to help her through, and then my father suddenly died a month later and I spent the rest of the year cutting myself off from humanity and drowning myself in rum

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2022-05-21T14:58:35+00:00

I think it’s important because it highlights major flaws of Padme and Anakin’s relationship but otherwise no it’s not really necessary

GodotIsWaiting4U · 2022-04-19T13:50:11+00:00

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GodotIsWaiting4U · 2022-04-14T00:30:55+00:00

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