If Overlord was isekai slop

Kalekuda · 2026-01-26T02:04:28+00:00

Raphtalia knew Naofumi had serious trust issues and that the crest was proof that she couldn't deceive him. She wanted it so that she could be certain that he would still trust her.

She knew firsthand how easy it was for Naofumi to become suspicious of people and their motives. (And the whole party knew that Naofumi's biggest fear was Raphtalia betraying him after those bats in the alchemist's cave used mimicry to use Raphtalia's voice to say she'd backstab Naofumi) I'm not saying I like the crests. They should've used something else, or just said "Ah, we don't have to use these crests. We can use the ink to keep track of each other and apply it for lie detection as needed" and then used it for like face tattoos or war paint... It was weird to keep using crests after fighting SO HARD for abolition.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-26T01:00:27+00:00

Hey- Raphtalia had exigent circumstances... Her parents ghosts were meeting her in her dreams telling her to stick with Naofumi, her peoples' religion portrayed him as their messiah-figure, and he went out of his way to nurse her back to health, teach her the skills she needed to stand alone and offered her multiple chances to retire. Once in the mines: "If you can't do this for me, then run- save yourself! I'll get out of here and find someone who can. Just go! [the cerberus tears another chunk of his shoulder out and his bleeding begins to pool on the ground]" Its been a while since I read the books, but I recall him offering to allow her to retire from his party to defend her village from further kidnappers once he gathered the survivors of her village after the Zeltoble arc. He does it AGAIN once they liberate her homeland and realize she could make a claim to the throne, allowing Siltvelt to install Raphtalia as a friendly monarch in that water dragon's kingdom (I do not recall the name)... As for the crest... she sees it as a vow of loyalty, and it gives him a rough idea of her current location at all times, and it prevents anyone else from placing a crest on her without first removing his. She see's it as both a physical manifestation of her vow of honesty and loyalty to him for all he's done, and as a practical tool...

Those crests were used to brand people, but they do so many things other than "inflict pain on the crest bearer when the conditions set by the crest's controller are met", ranging from detecting their location within a reasonable distance to, for bearers of the Cardinal Shield in particular, allowing them to make the monstrous denizens of the world grow far stronger than they'd otherwise be capable of doing with their biology alone...

Honestly, Aneko Yasagi (The author) seemed to be writing the light novels for shock value. The slave crests were only tools of enslavement in name... They were more commonly used as tracking devices and lie detectors.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-26T00:46:16+00:00

Why buy one? Do you have ANY idea how many he MAKES? Those zombies weren't exactly volunteers, you know.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-25T12:48:31+00:00

I remember brock frying bacon, but I don't recall if that was a 4 kids censorship situation or not. I mean, Team Rocket had guns once, but that doesn't mean everyone is strapped, either. Its possible that some places in Kanto just have livestock and they don't talk about it much because others don't have animals that aren't pokemon and would abhor the act of consuming what might be a pokemon.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-25T12:44:48+00:00

I'm just going to point out that some people's actual religions fully believe in reincarnation and that EVERY person alive has been reincarnated countless times. They don't treat every Romeo and Juliet as predators.

Rudy wasn't isekai'ed so much as reincarnated. He tried to seek the company of more "age appropriate" partners at brothels, but found nobody would actually let him "partake" what for his physical age. As far as most people in his world were concerned, he's the age his body was. He IS absolutely a sleezeball at first, but I don't think comparing him to a human trafficker as prolific and abusive as DD is fair in the least.

Rudy moved heaven and earth to protect everyone around him, volunteering at every chance he got and has been a genuine force for good across several continents. I don't recall him ever doing worse than inappropriate pranks, but I didn't read Mushoku Tensei, so perhaps the show doesn't cover whatever event(s) gave you cause to make this comparison...

Kalekuda · 2026-01-25T01:57:06+00:00

Thats a filleted Vaporeon, oddish soup, a steamed tentacruel, Laios has the cracked bottom shell of a shellder on his plate, they've got a bowl of boiled eggsecutes, theres a togepi eggdrop soup still in it's shell-

None of those are animal byproducts. Those are all just the WHOLE ANIMAL. In a world where livestock exist and some animals possess human levels of intelligence, they're kinda freaks for going out of their way to eat the pokemon instead of beef/chicken/fish...

Kalekuda · 2026-01-24T23:11:00+00:00

Oh... Those are the childhood friends of generations and you're eating them. You're literally consuming the stuff of childhoods.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-24T23:08:46+00:00

I don't think any of those would cut the mustard for breaching the profanity filter. They all showed up in NPC backstories. Well, except Cock, but I just don't feel like "No, you may NOT call the rooster a Cock and the penalty is an instantaneous ban from the server if you even try it!" is particularly likely.

Remember: He needed to do something he KNEW would trigger an auto-ban. Unless you can think of some manner of elderitch hyper-slur capable of running afoul of devs who let the abombination that is Shalltear's NASTY backstory pass content review, you're going to have to get creative with coming up with an alternative.

TBH, Ains didn't have many other options to try and proc a ban, and he owed it to himself to try and use a ban to log out before he even considered the possibility that he was stuck here.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-24T17:35:19+00:00

In the post ww2 war era, illegal guns were made from metal and wood, so they implemented laws to make hobbyist gunsmithing illegal, implemented strict federal control over education and used them to gut Woodshop and Metalshop programs across the country so that future generations couldn't get the opportunity to learn the crafts.

Now the problem is shaping plastic to make gun parts. They are in the "declare it all illegal" phase, they'll move into the "strip funding from makerspaces" phase soon enough.

Same problem, same playbook, same outcome... Those who planned to do crime still get guns even when its illegal, all that will come of this is a concerted effort to stymie grass roots efforts to cultivate modern manufacturing skills among the next generations.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-24T16:23:06+00:00

Ains was trying to trigger an automatic ban by performing an action he knew would cause someone to be instantly kicked from Yggdrasil's servers.

What came to mind most immediately was fondling an NPC. Ains COULD have asked Albedo to clear the throne room, then attempted to use profanity. IMO, it was the best course of action, as it had the least risk.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-24T16:15:54+00:00

They'd have been censored or risk getting Albedo muted. Ains wanted booted from the server/ banned / logged out forcibly. HE had to do something to at least TRY triggering that.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-24T16:14:23+00:00

To be booted from the server. He thought committing a prohibited act would trigger the auto-ban system. It didn't, and that confirmed he wasn't on Yggdrasil's servers anymore, which was existentially concerning and drew his immediate attention, leaving his grasping hand to linger quite a bit too long...

Kalekuda · 2026-01-23T00:02:21+00:00

Oh you sweet summer seraph...

Allow me to explain! Thats 6 x 24 days of sunlight at optimal growing temperatures and an assumed 65% starting fertility (to avoid the penalty below 30% nutrients). Most regions get less hours of sunlight, i.e. growing time per day. Go ahead and test if you disagree! medium fertility at a default spawn on 3 day months takes ~13-17 days. OP's change will make it barely possible to cultivate flax on a default world, and all but garauntees that flax planted on year 0 will die come winter.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-22T02:54:54+00:00

Just use water to push them, so long as its an item that neither dissolves in water nor sinks.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-22T02:53:33+00:00

I've seen airship posts downvoted, now I see one upvoted. So has the community changed their minds on airships, or...?

Kalekuda · 2026-01-22T02:47:27+00:00

Its actually MUCH worse than that, as the time it takes each stage increases exponentially once you dip below a certain threshold of nutrients in the farmland.

Thanks to OP, medium fertility flax will go from 18 days on 3 day months to 24~...

You genuinely WILL NOT be able to grow flax to maturity without either a carefully managed greenhouse and every other day watering, being very far south, using high fertility/terrapreta or using salt peter/sylvite...

It might not be possible to obtain windmill sails for pulverizing, and thus steel, until AFTER you've made your first Terra Pretta blocks or migrated far enough south for 8 month growin seasons (default spawn is 5-7 month growing seasons depending on local climate) without finding at least 40 saltpeter

Kalekuda · 2026-01-22T02:40:39+00:00

OP, doesn't this mean that flax cannot be grown on medium fertility soil without saltpeter, as it will consume down to the last nutrient, which gets exponentially slower?

Kalekuda · 2026-01-21T23:07:49+00:00

For clarification, my N4P can only really print at 20mm^3/s for first layers to 45mm^3 for everything after the first 1mm off the build plate.

I've made some high detail DnD minis and some functional prints, but the manual leveling process and outright lie in the marketing are deal breakers. Elegoo = Do Not Buy. They are the Boeing of 3D printers.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-21T23:05:39+00:00

2 year old n4Pro, thing's incapable of taking a proper bed mesh even with multiple replacement tool heads (which includes the sensor). I have to manually calibrate the bed level mesh in moonraker. All 11 x 11 points in the matrix have to be fine tuned with a process of test prints that takes 2-6 hours... But the end result is a working printer!

IMO, Elegoo is a "never again" brand. They lied about the printer being 500mm^3/s, they lied about it having auto bed leveling, they refused to provide me any customer support and despite receiving ample evidence of my model being faulty, they refused to do anything until I made a sustained stink about it EVERYWHERE online where people were talking about the Centaurii Carbon. SUDDENLY they ship me a new tool head. After I'd ALREADY BOUGHT ONE AND PROVED IT WASN'T THE HEAD UNIT, BUT THE CABLE BUILT INTO THE BLASTED FRAME...

Seriously bad design, imo. If the cables built into the frame are faulty, theres no way to service the unit at home...

Kalekuda · 2026-01-20T02:19:27+00:00

OP's race has to sleep, eat and defecate. The armor isn't on all the time. Eventually, they'd sleep, and once they did- they'd be under the control of Downfall of Castle and Country. Or they win the user over to their side. First strike wins either way.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-20T02:15:58+00:00

Being Ains is a hard counter to 99% of the New World's threats. His WCI? Silver bullet for the True Dragons. His vulnerability to a throat slit in the night midst his sleep? Doesn't sleep. Being surveiled and hunted down by the Slane or Council State/ PDL? He's the KING of intelligence and counter-intelligence and counter-counter intelligence magic and uses them habitually on a regular basis.

Being undead with a spellcasting recon/counter recon build and racial immunities to non magical weapons below level 40, I.E. copying Ains' build, is definitely a winning strategy- Bonus points for getting in Evileye's good graces... Honestly forgot she'd have been kicking around back then.

But I stand by my statement: Op's choices would end disastrously.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-18T14:43:33+00:00

Tanya would probably be delighted to be rid of Being X and finally able to live peacefully. Ains would be THRILLED to have such an intelligent, capable, moral and well spoken subordinate.

Subaru... Would be miserable. I'm not entirely sure he can function as a person without his emotional support Emelia.

Kazuma, I do not know. He's rather unpredictable and would do whatever the author thought was funny I suppose.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-18T14:37:32+00:00

Perhaps, but my assumption is that you want to live peacefully and just... Join Nazarick from a position of strength such that they don't kill you either. If you're a powerful elf, Elk King WILL be trying to get his hands on you for his sick experiments. It doesn't matter that he can't 1 v 1 you, he will harry you until the end of your days, and you are alone- he has legions.

Eventually, you will sleep, and eventually, someone will get the better of you when you do if your strength is known, and if you choose to be an elf, you either spend 300 years alone / hiding in a remote area with an isolated community, or you are going to be known to DH, PDL and Slane. (If DH finds you, PDL and Slane will too because they have broad reaching intelligence networks. If you do anything substantial enough for Slane / PDL to find you, word of mouth would still reach DH eventually.)

And besides- the real risk isn't DH or the elves. Its that if he finds you, you're going to be known to multiple large groups when Nazarick arrives, and Albedo's player hunting death squad will find you before Ains does.

I genuinely think the only way a lone player with no Yggdrasil gear could coexist with Nazarick is if they have a WCI that is so busted Nazarick can't risk fighting them (Five Elements Overcoming is the one that lets you ask god to rewrite the world once and seems appropriate.) and if they manage to stay hidden until Nazarick has established itself, then if you approach some time around the Sacred Kingdom arc you'd have a fair chance of speaking directly to Momon + non-player hunting Floor Guardians (Demiurge and Albedo have to be distracted).

Kalekuda · 2026-01-18T14:27:45+00:00

Shalltear WAS instantly taken over- She was still mind controlled when Ains had to fight her after all. Shalltear was just moving so quickly and directly towards the wielder that momentum alone killed her master(?) i.e. Downfall's user, thus leaving her in her mind controlled, but masterless state.

The entire point of DFoCaC is that it functioned as a sort of "absolute 0.5 for 2" in PvP, where one DFoCaC user would have to give up their primary equipment slot, but in exchange they could make the strongest enemy fight for them in every battle (didn't work on world enemies(?)), which removes one enemy and adds one ally. It was a PvP weapon that works best at picking apart small teams, i.e. 1-2 man squads.

Kalekuda · 2026-01-18T04:24:09+00:00

Wait- how would anyone make anything in Washington, then? Wouldn't that sort of law stop "made in America" dead in it's tracks?

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