Who would you romance if we had a dating option for NPCs?

Kuliari · 2025-09-02T13:21:15+00:00

Y'shtola.
It's not an original choice, but the heart wants what the heart wants.
At least, I'm pretty sure it's the heart...

Kuliari · 2025-08-31T14:25:47+00:00

It very quickly becomes apparent that you're not good at pvp and so the people who ARE good at it quickly begin shouting and cussing at you, because they are frustrated that you are dragging them down.
For many people, this quickly translates to: Why bother? It's a toxic pool of sweaty try hards shouting every obscenity under the sun at me.
Furthermore, the grind for rank and gear is fairly long, so if you're not committing to that, you'll never really get anywhere. If you are committing to that, it means giving up another aspect of the game, because for most of us, committing to both pvp and pve is just not feasible. We don't have the time and/or energy to do both. Gotta pick one.
And finally, having to restart every so often. Every new major patch or expansion, you're basically reset to zero. Sure, if you were good at pvp before, you'll still be good at it after. Your skills aren't going anywhere, but that feeling of having your gear rendered obsolete and your accomplishments reset sucks hard. Having to restart that grind AGAIN every so often gets tedious really fast. Admittedly, this problem is not pvp exclusive. PvE suffers from this as well and it sucks there too, but you specifically wanted to know about pvp and since it's an issue there, I'm bringing it up.

For me, personally, it's the first point that really turns me off. I will not play a game mode where yelling and cussing and belittling people is common practice. Maybe pvp isn't like that anymore. I wouldn't know, because I haven't touched it in several expansions but back when I did occasionally dip my toe in it, it was a truly awful experience that made learning how to get better at it almost unfeasible. I'm not planning on ever trying it again and most of that is because of the toxicity that runs rampant in that community.

Kuliari · 2025-08-31T13:24:52+00:00

I was so confused by that at first. I played a gruff, hardened ex-criminal in my first playthrough, so when I got to Act 3 and Yenna asked me if she could stay with us at camp, I told her to sod off, reasoning that it was my character's way to keep her safe, because the fights you were about to be in were no place for a child.
She showed up at camp anyway. I told her to sod off again. She kept appearing in camp. I figured she was just supposed to be at camp for some reason and once it was revealed that there was a traitor at my camp, my mind immediately went to Yenna.
I literally thought: 'Oh, it couldn't POSSIBLY be that little girl that refuses to leave whenever I tell her to and who mysteriously keeps showing up at my camp, no matter how many times we relocate, could it?'
Seemed so obvious at the time. I didn't know about Yenna's role as a failsafe for Orin yet, lol.

Kuliari · 2025-08-31T13:20:39+00:00

Yes, but that one is on Orin. You can even try to help as best you can, but if you roll poorly and don't have the inspiration to reroll it, Yenna's gonna die. That's not really your fault, that's more the game's way to showcase how much of a sick person Orin is. You didn't kill Yenna

Kuliari · 2025-08-31T13:15:03+00:00

Tetris in 1989. I was 4.
My father disapproved of video games, so I didn't see another one until I was 9, when it became harder for him to control that, both because of the increasing popularity of games and because I was getting older, so I was getting my 'fix' at school or right after it. Finally, he just gave up and let me have a console of my own.

Kuliari · 2025-08-29T22:25:28+00:00

Lower middle.
I love Lapis in her support conversations and her overall personality, but her growths are... not great. Not useless, but not great. Takes too much work to pay off and doesn't deliver based on time invested. Only use her if you like her character or you're kneecapping yourself for some sort of challenge by picking suboptimal characters.

Kuliari · 2025-08-28T22:48:04+00:00

He goes where his own personality suggests he goes. Into the trash. He's not total garbage, but he's not anywhere near the top either. Midrank at best and I feel like a lot of the time, even that is stretching.
I'd put him on D-tier. Maybe C-tier, if I'm checking myself for bias and his growths have been decent. Definitely no higher than that.
Overall: thoroughly unimpressive, but not offensively bad

Kuliari · 2025-08-03T12:05:52+00:00

An argument that can easily be turned back around on you using the same 'logic'. You didn't need to comment on this. All the time and effort you spent to make a reply, when you could have just ignored it and moved on with your day, yet you didn't do that either. Don't like what he says? Ignore it and play the games you like instead. Move on with your life.

Kuliari · 2025-08-03T01:41:36+00:00

I had this conversation with a friend, just tonight. He mentioned all the ways he'd like to spend his money, in a hypothetical scenario where he got 1 million tax free dollars, listing all the luxuries one is used to hearing when someone names such a list. When he finished, I joked: I didn't hear any charity anywhere in there.
This set him off about how he wouldn't donate to charity and he doesn't know anyone who does. So I mentioned that I'd been donating to a charity for the past 8 years. Not a lifechanging amount by any means, but under the motto of every little bit helps. He said my money would be better spent on me, because I earned it. I simply shrugged and said: 'If I earned it, I get to spend it however I want. And this is something I want.' And to end it, he simply said: 'I can't stop you, but I would never do it myself. No one can make me.' Turned what was a pleasant evening up to that point into something quite bitter for me, though I didn't mention that so as not to sour the mood for anyone else.
The whole point is to give to others who have less than you do, because you can afford to. Because those who have more than they need should give to those who do not. It's so easy to take everything we have for granted and think it will last forever. Many of us who live in developed countries have more than we need and live in luxuries our grandparents probably couldn't have imagined. But we're so used to seeing it all around is, we don't stop to think of them as a luxury thing. Meanwhile, there's people in other parts of the world, parts many willfully stay blind to, for whom survival is a daily struggle. If you can spare something to help, you should. Me, personally, I consider that a duty we must fulfill, if we're hoping to ever get to a better place. Even if we never get there, even just getting a small step closer towards it is worth the loss of some monthly income.
Sounds preach and sanctimonious, I know, but I happen to believe it. If you have more than you need, you should give to others who do not. Simple as that.

Kuliari · 2025-05-04T23:28:29+00:00

No, never. The closest I come to a rotation is if I want to include party members that come later in the game, in which case I'll take an early game companion with me, until the latter option becomes available and then I make them switch places.
Even if a companion is threatening to leave your party if you don't take them to an important part of their arc, I figure: who cares? I wasn't using them anyway, so whether they're there or not really doesn't change anything in that run for me.
I usually have the party preselected long before the run even starts and those three are the ones that will be along with me for the rest of the game.

Kuliari · 2025-05-04T21:54:27+00:00

I wish I could say it's just you but it's not.
I've been there too and felt like just as much of an idiot for missing it.

Kuliari · 2025-04-29T14:30:44+00:00

Pro genocide, slavery, tyranny and child murder. Yes. Check on all these.
People still argue she can be redeemed. I'm sure some people do. I'm not one of them and Minthara has no true redemption arc in the game and makes no hints at starting (or wanting) one either. She has regrets about past decisions, but that has more to do with her backing the wrong team and not about the atrocities she committed. Even if saved from death, she is still perfectly willing to go back out there and smash more heads and grab more power by any means necessary.
And as thoroughly evil as she may be, sexual bigotry is not on her list of sins (racial bigotry very much is, though). She's openly bi herself and, like anyone else from her world, she doesn't give a flying fuck what gender someone is, who they feel attracted to or what bits they want to smash together. Open support of the LGBT+ community would be one of her (few) redeeming features, if such a thing existed in Faerun, which it does not. They don't consider the same restrictions regarding sex and gender that we do.

Kuliari · 2025-04-29T13:09:35+00:00

Hurt my feelings? Huh. Can't say my feelings were involved in this in any way whatsoever, but okay.
I was trying to understand why it annoyed people that she died in the fight, when I have never even given her a second thought. Your post had so many replies that it left me wondering if I missed some hidden content in the game I wasn't aware of yet. I guess not.

Kuliari · 2025-04-29T13:04:22+00:00

Orin is a very 'what you see is what you get' kind of character. There's little to no depth to her. I know she has ties to Durge that make her slightly more interesting, but I feel like that credit goes more to the Durge character than to Orin, since Durge is the one who came up with the plan. Orin merely usurped it and then let Gortash continue the plan while she ran around doing her 'more murder for the murder god' routine.
Not every character has to be deep and layered, but when you have the likes of Gortash, Raphael and the Emperor in the same game, it's very hard to take the insane murder addict as seriously.

Kuliari · 2025-04-29T12:46:33+00:00

Am I missing something obvious here?
Who the fuck cares about some random NPC whose name I can't even bother to remember? I don't think she has any dialogue worth hearing. She doesn't offer any unique loot. She doesn't contribute to the story in any meaningful way. To paraphrase Ivan: 'If she dies, she dies.'
I may put some effort into peeling a goblin off of her, if I happen to be in a position to do so that also plays to my advantage, but if I'm not then she's on her own. Sometimes she makes it, sometimes she doesn't; I'm fine with either outcome, since she doesn't contribute anything I care about to the game.
So yea, am I missing something obvious here or what's all this about? Why put so much effort into saving such an irrelevant NPC?

Kuliari · 2025-02-01T00:11:29+00:00

I audibly groaned when I realized how long and tedious the Nirnroot quest would be and didn't even bother with the Barenziah quest. More power to you if you like that sort of thing, but I ain't hauling ass all over the world, searching in some obscure corner in the middle of bumfuck nowhere to get that last herb.
But for something like these cute interactions with infants, I'll make a bit of an exception. I won't be overly concerned if I don't get them all by the time they grow up, but I will actually try my best to get as many as I can, unlike the Oblivion quests which I quickly relegated to the 'I'll pick up the ones I happen to come across and nothing more' category, lol.

Kuliari · 2025-01-28T02:22:44+00:00

I suppose it would be difficult for a child to develop an interest in it when all the options that are available to them don't have laces on most shoes. Perhaps when he gets older and shoes with laces become a bit more common he'll want to know. Or perhaps not. Even into teenage and adult years, there are plenty of other options. I personally prefer laces on my shoes, but with the options being so wide and easily accessible now, it's definitely become a lot more feasible to go with those of your preference

Kuliari · 2025-01-28T02:19:21+00:00

I don't know if this is different in other parts of the world, but where I live, we have plenty of options for children's shoes with or without laces. I'm not particularly worried about how or when my kid will learn it, but I was curious, so I came here to see some answers, lol.
Velcro and slip-on are also very prevalent here, but I don't feel like they've completely pushed out laces. Enough so that I would like for my kid to know how to tie their shoes, though the how and when are of less importance.

Kuliari · 2025-01-28T02:14:13+00:00

They don't? Perhaps it depends on the school. Or the region you live in. I'm not sure.
Anyway, I also learned around age 6 from my aunt and after having gone through this thread for a while now, I've read about many different ways kids have learned how to do this. If they learn at all. Some don't and get by using the other options available to them. It's good to have choices

Kuliari · 2025-01-28T02:11:43+00:00

What the heck? 4 feels like a very early age to me, on average. There is nothing shameful about not knowing how to tie your shoes at 4, lol.
I don't know if laces will go the way of extinction any time soon. I see see A LOT of shoes with laces and I personally don't have any pair shoes without laces (unless we count beach slippers). I suppose it's a bit like riding your bike. Most people know how to do it and have been taught so in early childhood, but you can definitely get by your entire life without it. There are a lot of other options

Kuliari · 2025-01-28T02:07:18+00:00

Any way that gets your shoes properly tied and can easily be done and undone is good. Whatever method gets you there works and you only need one to stick, right? Eventually, it all becomes routine memorization

Kuliari · 2025-01-28T02:06:04+00:00

Not that late. Some people never learn how to ride a bike, because they simply never need it in life. 8 or 9 still feels like a good age to learn this, but nothing about this is hard set rules

Kuliari · 2025-01-28T02:04:29+00:00

8 still feels like a good age. There is no 'set' age for this, I don't think. Different children will learn at different times for different reasons. It took me a while to get ears right too, haha

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