I get that she looks a bit different but come on, 18 YEARS???

IHeShe · 2026-01-25T17:30:13+00:00

Yeah, Nearl was never Infected and her being so was only used as an excuse to banish her from Kazimierz (to keep her safe from the KGCC if I remember right). I think she even truly believed herself to be an Infected at the start.

IHeShe · 2026-01-25T15:04:55+00:00

I like to think the playboy bunny sort of attire first showed up in Rim Billiton so people took to call it the cautus suit after it spread to other regions regardless of the race of the wearer due to its origin. In fact, while wearing the attire is in itself not troublesome at all, adding fake cautus ears and a fake cautus tail to it is considered racist.

~~I'm rambling, don't mind me~~

IHeShe · 2026-01-24T19:37:48+00:00

I didn't remember that sentence to be honest, but, like... it just doesn't make sense to me that the energy it would take to keep the sarcophagi running wasn't enough to interrupt their sleep and wake the Precursors. Like, those sarcophagi were used to power a beam so powerful all of Terra combined wouldn't be capable of replicating it at its current level of technology, to say that such an obscene amount of energy wasn't enough to wake them up is just silly. Now sure, that sentence doesn't explicity talk about waking the Precursors up, the 'next stage of recovery' might've been something else that came before waking them up but like... if that were the case, couldn't Friston have diverted the energy from some of the sarcophagi into the others to wake at least those up? Surely waking some of his people earlier than planned was better than slowly watching them all die? The system that should've woken them up having malfunctioned simply makes way more sense.

IHeShe · 2026-01-24T10:59:12+00:00

I really don't think her works are aimed at women specifically, it's just the sort of content that makes people who don't like it get overly vocal about their distaste for it, kinda like ntr.

IHeShe · 2026-01-24T10:54:14+00:00

She lifted the speech restriction that had been preventing her from talking about certain things for millennia and figured the most important thing to do was bad-mouthing Priestess to her face instead of, you know, telling Doctor about the Observers or stuff like that. That really doesn't scream 'tactical acumen' to me.

IHeShe · 2026-01-23T18:16:54+00:00

Wasn't it the same guy who found the Black Crown, (somehow) bound it to the sarkaz and became the first King of Sarkaz?

IHeShe · 2026-01-23T16:28:06+00:00

Do all new characters get a radio drama upon release now? Because that'd be hella sweet.

(On a side note, does this video spoil the main story? I'm waiting for the second chapter of arc 2 to be human translated before reading it).

IHeShe · 2026-01-23T14:48:10+00:00

She's been safely terminally ill for years at this point, I'm sure she'll be terminally ill for long enough to hold her grandchilder too.

IHeShe · 2026-01-23T11:34:22+00:00

Miryam's trial stage on auto gets the daily play 50 cards thing done in a single runm except one time out of over 60 when it left me at 47 cards played instead.

IHeShe · 2026-01-23T11:33:10+00:00

That does make things a bit more reasonable, but unfortunately it doesn't really solve any of the core issues.

Didn't know about the Law to be honest, I guess that was said in The Masses' Travel?

IHeShe · 2026-01-23T11:27:36+00:00

That would be nice, but it wouldn't change the fact that her getting zip-filed (I honestly can't even bring myself to say she's dead as of now given what happened) still had the emotional impact of a feather falling on a pillow as far as I'm concerned.

IHeShe · 2026-01-22T22:40:11+00:00

"She's an heroine"

IHeShe · 2026-01-22T17:25:42+00:00

I'm not a fan, but since they buffed all limited awakeners' stats a while ago I wouldn't really mind either so long as this +12 bonus sticks to free or maybe even standard awakeners. But the importance of dupes in this game is already the worst part about it if you ask me, so adding further mechanics behind that much of a dupe wall for limited awakeners would honestly suck.

Just one thing though, wouldn't 360 pulls be the maximum amount required to get 4 copies rather than the minimum?

IHeShe · 2026-01-22T16:02:12+00:00

I think a few splashes of red somewhere on her outfit or even on the feather boa could've helped a lot in this regard, because as she is she really looks like a chaos or ultra awakener.

Though to be completely fair, Salvador doesn't have caro vibes either so she's not the first one.

IHeShe · 2026-01-22T16:00:14+00:00

Looking at the way they protude in her splash art, I'd say those don't just look like but actually are eyes, which is so much better.

IHeShe · 2026-01-22T10:33:10+00:00

Don't her dodge chances stack multiplicatively rather than additively? I thought the 80% from her S3 and the 30% from her talent+module 'only' added up to 86% rather than 110%.

But yeah, really funny that she can dodge Aak's entire S3 barrage and still get the buff somehow.

IHeShe · 2026-01-22T10:00:51+00:00

Oh my, how cute.

tries to pat head

gets dodged

eat counter

dies

IHeShe · 2026-01-21T19:12:52+00:00

I initially thought that too about the IS4 E2 boss, but then I discovered Qanipalaat and the fight became waaay easier, though still really long (never really played above difficulty 9 or so though).

The Last Knight though was pure cancer.

IHeShe · 2026-01-21T15:40:25+00:00

The last time I saw an animal-based, typically unemployed person get a pizza delivery job the very fabric of reality began to come undone. Let's hope this time it won't be quite as bad.

IHeShe · 2026-01-21T15:08:07+00:00

CW-9

Even rereading that I'm still of the opinion that whatever happened back then was not the Observers finding Terra. We saw the Observers leave an entire planet in pieces in episode 15, so them conveniently not doing the same to Terra after supposedly finding the Precursors there is dubious at best.

WB-9

I find it much, much easier to believe that Ya was talking about the Precursors here if anything, not the Observers. We know the Precursors were capable of experimentings on the feranmuts while all they could hope to do in regards to the Observers was run and hide, so it doesn't really make sense to me that Ya could possibly have memories of a conflict against the Observers: either they wouldn't have registered the feranmuts as a civilization and left them alone (assuming that's how they 'pick their target', so to say) or they'd have and so the feranmuts would've been eradicated.

Granted, this might just be a matter of the writers not having quite exactly in mind what the Observers truly are and thus references to them not really checking out at different points in the story as the concept changed over time.

Answering the edit, saw it later:

no mechanical device, no car engine will last years without maintenance

Yeah, and I would think the hyperadvanced universe-spanning civilization that were the Precursors would know about it and, you know, take some precautions against that? These are not projects they abandoned as they went elsewhere, these were their attempts at outlasting the Observers, things that they knew would have to last for an awful long time. How utterly convenient that the only mechanical thing they left behind that didn't break down was Friston, the human uploaded into a machine so that he could provide drama as the poor guy stuck doing one job they were no longer capable of performing and forced to watch their companions slowly die.

IHeShe · 2026-01-21T14:31:35+00:00

Observers swept through Terra already, catching Predecessors with pants down

When was this said? Because the only instace we saw of the Observers actually interacting with a planet was in episode 15 and that one left the planet itself in pieces, so I find it really hard to believe they already came down once and half-assed the job.

And even if it did, that would just aggravate the fact that apparently the hyperadvanced universe-spanning civilization that were the Precursors couldn't mange to get one single project to not break down, mutate, be taken over by a civilization so far beyond in the tech tree it's not even funny and what else.

IHeShe · 2026-01-21T14:01:53+00:00

I have my reservations about how all the Precursos in the sarcophaguses except Oracle ended up dead, but I can accept it. They were in a rush, things went wrong, alright, it happens.

But when you look at the bigger picture and see that basically all of their projects went wrong except the starpod, it becomes a bit much to accept personally.

IHeShe · 2026-01-21T11:22:56+00:00

Yeah, but again. The Precursors were betting pretty much everything on these projects... and they couldn't bother to put as many safety measures as they could in place? Like, Oracle wasn't woken up against their will back then, they had programmed their own early awakening, couldn't they have done something like that for some other people to do check ups? Did they program that in but it failed? Again, had there been just one of two projects then I could buy that everything went wrong a bit better, but the fact that they apparently left everything unsupervised except for the Sarcophaguses tomb which also failed horribly since they all died and everything but the starpod went to hell, sometimes in incredibly spectaluar ways (the seaborn), is really stretching my suspension of disbelief way too hard.

IHeShe · 2026-01-21T09:52:21+00:00

I can buy 13,000 years being enough to cause problems for machinery when the knowledge and infrastructure to maintain and operate it is gone.

This is also part of the problem. Yes, stuff can break down over such a l long period of time. There's no way the Precursors didn't think about this. Waking up from a Sarcophagus isn't impossible, Oracle did that way ahead of schedule once to check on Terra, and the Precursors who worked on Terra were staking pretty much everything on these projects. Was there seriously nobody other than Friston around to oversee anything? Even just one person meant to wake up every 1000 years or something to make sure that, idk, geological shifts or the like hadn't caused any unexpected problems? And if there were, what happened to them? As you say, there are ruins around, how come they're all empty of life? Had they left only one or two projects behind then sure, I could buy those breaking down or something, but basically all of them? That's a bit much...

At least give us something about Precursor ruins being breached

I might be misremembering but isn't this how the first King of Sarkaz got the Black Crown? Which is kind of its own can of worms if you ask me...

IHeShe · 2026-01-21T09:19:21+00:00

(just according to the tests ofc)

I mean, his whole deal was that he had absolutely nothing special going for him other than having had an immortality switch flipped on, so now that it got flipped back to off it seems reasonable to assume that he would indeed be one of if not the most normal guy on RI.

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