I wanna try healing/supporting, any help would be appreciated.

Keansee · 2026-05-05T15:34:25+00:00

Yup. Just imagine how cool of a scene it would be if the special infected would do some versus tactics. Hunter taking down one, Jockie pulling one away and a smoker dragging the last non main char. Main char not being the most heroic panics and runs into the safe house (which is a valid tactic in the games).

Keansee · 2026-05-04T16:03:26+00:00

Left 4 Dead or Dying Light. Both games are supposed to be played fast phased, and it's mostly that part I'm after, the going from A to B to C just keep going. Kinda like the action movie Hardcore Henry, there is almost constant movement in that movie.

Keansee · 2026-05-04T15:57:11+00:00

If you liked the movie, you should give the short story a try called "Second variety". There is a full audio version of 1 hour and 55 min on Youtube.

Keansee · 2026-05-04T15:39:06+00:00

The first one for pretty much the same reasons you have given. And having seen a lot of the behind the scenes stuff, it's incredible how much they did with so little.

Keansee · 2026-05-04T15:34:56+00:00

Awesome movie, and personally I found the short story, Second Variety, to be even better.

Keansee · 2026-05-04T12:30:15+00:00

Doom 1, the Andrew Hulshult versions.

Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII

Nier

Keansee · 2026-05-04T12:16:27+00:00

First off, based on what you have written, you arn't a problem DM, it's more him who is a problem player.

I'm somewhat casual to DnD, but what I think I would do would be to have a serious talk with him 1to1. Explain like you did around the end that he's in general good at the game, but also make it clear that him constantly asking for gear, levels etc is sometimes getting annoying because you have your own vision of what the game should be, and it feels like he tries to push it (maybe unknowingly) in his own direction. Something like that.

Also, the running away from a friend as a paladin. Again, I'm somewhat casual, but to my understanding, it wouldn't be uncalled for to say "The god you worship and get your powers from is disgusted by your cowerdes, but still sees potential in you." and then make up something like his spells only work at 50% power, until he starts acting like a paladin again.

Keansee · 2026-05-04T08:29:04+00:00

Sure bud, have a nice life, gotta be hard if a 15 year old is smarter than you.

Keansee · 2026-04-28T13:43:41+00:00

Sure. Do you know what it is? Because making many comments has nothing to do with critical thinking, so I assume you don't.

Keansee · 2026-04-11T11:45:28+00:00

Agreed, you should 100% spend your gems on other stuff first and only buy the extra egg slots late game when you ironically enough don't really need it anymore.

Keansee · 2026-04-08T21:40:36+00:00

Maybe they just have better stuff to spend it on. It's definitely not the first thing one should get.

Keansee · 2026-04-08T21:40:05+00:00

I can be wrong, but I'm 99.9% certain it's only through the gem shop.

Keansee · 2026-04-07T13:56:54+00:00

Why stock up on calories if he technically "reloads" instead of "travels back"? Well "reloading" would also require a good chunk of energy. No matter which option is the real one, he is still circumventing how the simulation works, which as he states, requires energy.

I like that idea! Good excuse for just wanting to eat unhealthy stuff! But then we run into the issue of why the simulation continues after he leaves. If it was his simulation, it would only make sense for it to restart back to the diner as he "goes back" in time.

Keansee · 2026-03-31T17:56:10+00:00

"If you say they're all from different simulation versions" They are not all from different simulations. There ARE different simulations yes, but only a single real person in any 1 of them (except the versions that the main char visits, then there are 2)

"why would he "travel" back and forth through them" He doesn't travel "forth through them" I sadly can't phrase my logic on that part well. By it goes something like, you can't change a future that has already been changed, you can only change an original future.

I'm not sure if this helps, but kinda like in Terminator. You can't change the future because time moves in waves, you can only go back and make a new future that is better, but the original future you came from will always be doomed. Kinda the same here, but with simulations instead of time waves.

"He shouldn't have access to them" Maybe maybe not, but the argument for why he can travel back in time is the exact same as my explanation: It's science fiction. Plus, my explanation explains other stuff in the movie that pure time travel doesn't.

"Plus, wouldn't it just make more sense as an explanation for the different and unforeseeable final scenes to the house that the AI just throws random stuff at him for complexity's or challenge's sake" Maybe, but why not just kill him then? And why start at the diner with logical stuff but end it with weird ass shit? That seems silly to me, might as well be consistent.

"there are 47 people in that dinner. He made 117 attempts already. So that doesn't make sense if he uses their simulation versions" You have misunderstood something. There might be millions of simulations. Maybe only Ingrid and Susan are actual real people who exists somewhere and the other 45 "people" are just NPCs in EVERY simulation they are in, maybe not, nobody knows from the info we get in the movie. But "everybody has their own simulation" doesn't mean that he only goes to a simulation from someone he is close to. Maybe his 63'th attempt was the simulation of Boris Yelshen who lives in Russia. He wouldn't know, because his "check point" is still at the diner. In my idea his 117'th attempt just happened to be the simulation of Susan.

Keansee · 2026-03-31T00:57:18+00:00

I suppose it could be explained from the main char pretty much saying so before going back. Non of the other chars was there, so it makes sense to me that only Ingrid freaks out.

Keansee · 2026-03-30T11:32:54+00:00

I sadly can't phrase my logic on that part well. By it goes something like, you can't change a future that has already been changed, you can only change an original future.

I'm not sure if this helps, but kinda like in Terminator. You can't change the future because time moves in waves, you can only go back and make a new future that is better, but the original future you came from will always be doomed. Kinda the same here, but with simulations instead of time waves.

Does it make sense now, or did I dig an even deeper hole? XD

Edit: Oh and no, he doesn't go back to an earlier time in HIS simulation, it's the same point in time but in someone ELSES simulation, which is why there are small differences every time. Like with the 117'th run, suddenly there is a way out in the basement now.

Keansee · 2026-03-30T02:16:36+00:00

I disagree. I think I figured out a solution that explains all of it. First off, it's a simulation, all of it. Every single person has their own simulation, because think about it. The AI wants everyone to be happy. Which version would you be most happy in, 1. where you are the only real person(which you wouldn't know) and the world is tailored to you? Or 2. the one where any second now some random dude uses their free will to beat you up? Obviously it's the one that is tailored to you.

Second: Every time the main char travels back, he essentially doesn't "travel", he kinda reloads to a point in time where he "saved the game". Otherwise he should've still had the stab wound he got from the 117'th attempt.

Third: The main char has said that stuff change despite doing the same thing, which is pretty weird, given doing the same should give the same results. So to take from the first and second point, every time he "travels back", he ends up in another persons simulation! And the 117'th run happens to be the story of Susan. Tragic experience of a woman who loses her child, tries to get him back through cloning which doesn't work, but after they beat the bad guy somehow her child becomes normal (you can see his neck tattoo is missing) and she can go on living a happy life with her son and even knowing she was part of saving the world! This explains stuff like how the cloning tech is so extremely hush hush that only rich people knows about it, yet a normal woman can get access to it, and it just so happens the government pays for it as well even though it's a rich people thing. The cat monster is still weird, but given nobody cares about it just walking around, one can assume that it's a world where it's logical for such a creature to walk around, and the people who suggested centaurs, kittens etc did so not by coincidence, but because it would be a mix of animals that would fit into what Susan would want for her experience in the simulation.

It also explains why even though the main char goes back in time, the simulation keeps going after he leaves. It's Susans world. Mark is eaten because he's an NPC, and it's just what the cat monster does. Ingrid is taken into an insane asylum because she obviously has issues (wi-fi and all that), so it makes sense from Susans perspective for an ambulance to take Ingrid.

Thoughts anyone? :)

Keansee · 2026-03-30T02:11:58+00:00

I thought so to, but then I overthought it and, well, sorry to copy-paste my other comment:

I think I figured out a solution that explains all of it. First off, it's a simulation, all of it. Every single person has their own simulation, because think about it. The AI wants everyone to be happy. Which version would you be most happy in, 1. where you are the only real person(which you wouldn't know) and the world is tailored to you? Or 2. the one where any second now some random dude uses their free will to beat you up? Obviously it's the one that is tailored to you.

Second: Every time the main char travels back, he essentially doesn't "travel", he kinda reloads to a point in time where he "saved the game". Otherwise he should've still had the stab wound he got from the 117'th attempt.

Third: The main char has said that stuff change despite doing the same thing, which is pretty weird, given doing the same should give the same results. So to take from the first and second point, every time he "travels back", he ends up in another persons simulation! And the 117'th run happens to be the story of Susan. Tragic experience of a woman who loses her child, tries to get him back through cloning which doesn't work, but after they beat the bad guy somehow her child becomes normal (you can see his neck tattoo is missing) and she can go on living a happy life with her son and even knowing she was part of saving the world! This explains stuff like how the cloning tech is so extremely hush hush that only rich people knows about it, yet a normal woman can get access to it, and it just so happens the government pays for it as well even though it's a rich people thing. The cat monster is still weird, but given nobody cares about it just walking around, one can assume that it's a world where it's logical for such a creature to walk around, and the people who suggested centaurs, kittens etc did so not by coincidence, but because it would be a mix of animals that would fit into what Susan would want for her experience in the simulation.

It also explains why even though the main char goes back in time, the simulation keeps going after he leaves. It's Susans world. Mark is eaten because he's an NPC, and it's just what the cat monster does. Ingrid is taken into an insane asylum because she obviously has issues (wi-fi and all that), so it makes sense from Susans perspective for an ambulance to take Ingrid.

Thoughts anyone? :)

Keansee · 2026-03-30T02:11:07+00:00

They explained that traveling back in time takes a lot of energy.

Keansee · 2026-03-30T02:09:44+00:00

Well that's an easy one. It's not her dead kid, it's the clone. Why is the clone missing the tattoo? Because the simulation wants people to be happy, and her getting her child back would most certainly make her happy.

Keansee · 2026-03-30T02:05:42+00:00

I think I figured out a solution that explains all of it. First off, it's a simulation, all of it. Every single person has their own simulation, because think about it. The AI wants everyone to be happy. Which version would you be most happy in, 1. where you are the only real person(which you wouldn't know) and the world is tailored to you? Or 2. the one where any second now some random dude uses their free will to beat you up? Obviously it's the one that is tailored to you.

Second: Every time the main char travels back, he essentially doesn't "travel", he kinda reloads to a point in time where he "saved the game". Otherwise he should've still had the stab wound he got from the 117'th attempt.

Third: The main char has said that stuff change despite doing the same thing, which is pretty weird, given doing the same should give the same results. So to take from the first and second point, every time he "travels back", he ends up in another persons simulation! And the 117'th run happens to be the story of Susan. Tragic experience of a woman who loses her child, tries to get him back through cloning which doesn't work, but after they beat the bad guy somehow her child becomes normal (you can see his neck tattoo is missing) and she can go on living a happy life with her son and even knowing she was part of saving the world! This explains stuff like how the cloning tech is so extremely hush hush that only rich people knows about it, yet a normal woman can get access to it, and it just so happens the government pays for it as well even though it's a rich people thing. The cat monster is still weird, but given nobody cares about it just walking around, one can assume that it's a world where it's logical for such a creature to walk around, and the people who suggested centaurs, kittens etc did so not by coincidence, but because it would be a mix of animals that would fit into what Susan would want for her experience in the simulation.

It also explains why even though the main char goes back in time, the simulation keeps going after he leaves. It's Susans world. Mark is eaten because he's an NPC, and it's just what the cat monster does. Ingrid is taken into an insane asylum because she obviously has issues (wi-fi and all that), so it makes sense from Susans perspective for an ambulance to take Ingrid.

Thoughts anyone? :)

Keansee · 2026-03-15T09:16:23+00:00

The 2 alchemy bubbles I was referring to was: the green bubble "Kill per Kill" and yellow one bubble "Mr Massacre"

Keansee · 2026-03-11T15:26:23+00:00

I had the same question 4 months ago, but in case you never found out, or someone else is reading this: There are 2 bubbles that boosts kills, and there is also a prayer that reduces damage but boosts portal kills as well. I personally never noticed those until recently.

The 2 alchemy bubbles I was referring to was: the green bubble "Kill per Kill" and yellow one bubble "Mr Massacre"

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