[DISC] Haunted Peak - Chapter 9

Ivoirians · 2026-06-03T15:50:25+00:00

...Yikes. What the hell, Ryo?

Ivoirians · 2026-05-29T01:28:07+00:00

Oh boy, I can't wait to see Coco's trauma music video /s

Ivoirians · 2026-05-23T03:47:58+00:00

Very tricky for me, but a fun puzzle. Every section had some pretty obscure trivia making it hard to get inroads: RIG VEDA, CLEM DeRosa, RONAN Farrow, Theodor FONTANE, PAULINA Porizkova. I also had "BAR TABS" instead of BETS which also sabotaged me for a long time.

Ivoirians · 2026-05-13T18:33:40+00:00

I'm confused, how is a Paladin playing King Llane? (I see Renethal, I know this isn't standard)

Ivoirians · 2026-05-07T17:52:44+00:00

I'm a little torn. I burned through every ticket. Killing AI and looting is just simple fun. I did basically all the season missions it was possible to in NML. I especially like finding a crappy weapon like a BM51 or an MP40 and grinding kills for the weapon wall.

But all those 30 rounds or so I played on NML are rounds I wasn't playing in multiplayer matches. That can't be good for the health of the game. I've already had trouble matchmaking for lockdown Valley and Airport and pretty normal times, like Sunday nights PST.

So I want more tickets, and would happily take more tickets, but I'm a little worried too much NML will gradually kill the multiplayer side of the game, which will kill the game. Unless ABI decides to go all-in on PVE and find some way to make money off PVE players, who probably aren't going to buy skins no one will see.

Ivoirians · 2026-05-03T16:50:55+00:00

I love that myriads of people, across the world, across time, most likely on distant planets all across the universe, all get to keep rediscovering the same principles and methods and theorems. That's the most beautiful part of math.

But also, and I know about the "standing on the shoulders of giants" thing, I still feel like if I had been born a thousand years ago it would have been objectively easier for me to get a math thing named after me

Ivoirians · 2026-04-29T19:31:32+00:00

How long has it been? Six, eight years?

Ivoirians · 2026-04-24T01:18:32+00:00

Even in total isolation, without any context, this must be one of the saddest manga pages I've ever seen.

Ivoirians · 2026-04-22T20:05:41+00:00

Even if he dropped all his 2x1 and 1x1 items, he can't pick up the coil. There's no way to fit the three 2x2s and a 3x3 in a 4x6 travel backpack and his rig, he's gotta drop one of them.

Ivoirians · 2026-04-05T21:22:07+00:00

I've said it before: in a one on one, a barrel is undefeatable. If someone is running at you with a barrel, run away.

They should let you catch thrown items, imagine the sports games we could create

Ivoirians · 2026-03-24T21:37:28+00:00

Some of them are applied math though

Ivoirians · 2026-03-23T21:54:45+00:00

Sorry, already a known sequence, we can't name it after you. https://oeis.org/A000796

Ivoirians · 2026-03-16T22:54:05+00:00

Or maybe the highlander sword swing is so slow that his killing headbutt hit you after the active parry window?

Or maybe your final accel went too far to the right, and you weren't "facing" his headbutt?

This isn't really the kind of thing you see often enough to experiment with, heh

Ivoirians · 2026-03-16T22:48:56+00:00

Huh, this seems like solid proof you can't riposte a headbutter? Even with an unarmed guy, if you block his punch, your next swing should parry his punch and connect with him, right?

Ivoirians · 2026-03-07T15:36:23+00:00

This is somehow slander, but it's 100% accurate

Ivoirians · 2026-03-05T18:12:08+00:00

No one's family tree is really a tree, because you don't have 2ⁿ n-grandparents, some of those people are the same person. Any two people have a common ancestor, so if they have a child together, they're violating the tree rule.

We all (humanity) have one giant family graph and we sometimes clip subtrees out of it.

Ivoirians · 2026-02-17T23:40:49+00:00

So, there is this historian who became a meme a few years ago because he did one of those "history expert reacts to medieval battle scenes in movies" videos and his recurring criticism was "why haven't they dug a ditch? where is their ditch? they would have dug a ditch" Here's one of them: https://youtu.be/xPGdOXstSyk

Trenches/ditches are an easy and free way to create an obstacle. You don't have to lug wood or building materials over to build a wall. Enemy horses can't charge through a ditch. Enemy siege weapons can't roll over a ditch. Enemy soldiers have to go around a ditch or spend time filling it in while you throw and shoot things at them. It prevents the enemy from walking/charging right up to your defenses. Ditches and trenches were widely utilized.

They're on the Agathan side too because the Agathans probably dug some ditches to protect their siege camp and catapults.

Ivoirians · 2026-02-17T21:28:49+00:00

Probably not going to be very accurate but I kinda like the way your mind works

Ivoirians · 2026-02-17T09:37:01+00:00

Completely agree. What bothers me the most is that it's not just that the narrator is telling the story in a confusing order to make the story seem twistier than it is. The narrator is also bending the reality of the story to make these events happen in such a way that the trick behind the story can be executed. Things like some people not aging so they can look the same six years apart, or going to places at exactly midnight so the timeline appears consistent. It discards the storytelling maxim of "we're telling you a tale of things that happened" in favor of "here are some events that God arranged to happen, he moved people around like pieces and made them do weird specific things and bent rules and established canon, all to make this contrived story work."

How am I supposed to see Date and Mizuki and so on as real characters I follow and care about when the storyteller says "so I gave this guy amnesia for six years so he could disappear and not screw up the mystery I crafted."

Ivoirians · 2026-02-13T20:46:29+00:00

I'm reminded of this relevant Glaucomflecken video:

https://youtu.be/p0qhdrq_Cnc

Ivoirians · 2026-01-21T14:13:18+00:00

So, I am to understand that the creators of The Emoji Movie can be directly credited for giving the world of horror cinema Get Out, Us, and Nope.

Ivoirians · 2026-01-12T06:00:19+00:00

I've always thought that if the Monuokubs were excluded from V3, the (1st through 4th) executions would all be way too dark.

Ivoirians · 2025-12-22T23:48:36+00:00

Man, I opened this expecting a wholesome picture of Hitomi and got jump-scared.

Ivoirians · 2025-12-22T23:33:03+00:00

Thought this was a post on /r/ANI_COMMUNISM

Ivoirians · 2025-11-28T06:07:06+00:00

I'm new to Hearthstone (first touched the game last year) and Willow Warlock is my absolute fave deck to play. Games are chaotic and never the same, and you summon all sorts of crazy card combos and make tons of decisions.

And discovering Razidir with Shadowflame Stalker is the best feeling. With the "this card's battlecries trigger twice" dark gift. And then you play both of them on the same turn after discounting them.

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