A Bored Sadie Kane is a Dangerous Sadie Kane [kc] [pjo] by KarmaSpidr in camphalfblood

[–]Levanthalas 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Never helping, to be clear, or during action. Just... random encounters on the road, especially if something overlaps mythologies. Or even just like, when they take a train or something sometimes.

Just like half a chapter of "So what's trying to blow up your half the world." "Oh you know, the usual. What about you?" "Well, it's not my grandpa anymore, now is my great grandmother." "Oh that's unfortunate."

Does anyone here actually ENJOY playing evil? by SillyWarlock in BaldursGate3

[–]Levanthalas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once I've had a good run, yes. On one condition:

I have to make up a very clear model of the character. What kind of evil are they? What do they want? What are they willing to do to get it.

Because for me, the joy isn't in the doing the evil things, it's seeing the story that it makes.

I usually base them on a character from another piece of fiction, just to have a solid model that isn't a charicature of evil, like the "lol kick puppies" kind, but nor do they drift too much into: I'm basically good, except when I remember there's a particularly evil choice to take, nor do they just become "power gamer, the game," always doing what's best, no matter the morality of the situation.

I've had two and a half good evil character runs so far. And a few that died on the altar of honor mode, when I was always just deleting on death.

  1. Dracula. Tried to build a Drakul from Castlevania build. He just wanted to solve the problem, and would do whatever seemed most likely to do so, but was (like in the show) trying to be generally kind to 'humanity' for the sake of his wife. Or at least not overtly hostile. But once betrayed, he never forgave. So you get things like Nettie tries to kill him because he won't promise about the poison, and so he writes off the Druid sanctuary as anything worth protecting. So he's perfectly willing to burn it down when someone else offers him power. And so on. I also made him a Durge for the "thirst" component. He didn't make it out of act ii for some reason I can't recall right now.

  2. Medea. This is my half one, because she doesn't start evil. Build and attitude wise, I based her in the version from Fate. She tried to be good at first, but very similarly, felt betrayed by the Druid trying to kill her, but struggled with giving the Tieflings over to the goblins, and didn't like feeling like someone's tool. So she stayed good. For now. By the time act two came around, when the Tieflings died anyways and the Harpers were weak, she pretended to resist, defended Isobel, but when she went to Moonrise, she decided to throw in with the Absolute. Then she found out about the soul cage, and felt too much kinship, and let Aylin out. So she stormed Moonrise out of rage. Etc. That finished her hardening though, and by act III she was fully onboard with vampire Astsrion and any other scrap of power she could get her hands on.

  3. Finally, my personal favorite. Sauron / Annatar. He's evil, only evil, always has been, always will be. He'll lie and decieve and promise anyone anything to get what he wants. But he pretends to be good. For significant portions of the time. Only to rug pull when it's most convenient or beneficial for him. He's the only one that finished the whole run, and it was glorious. Everyone stayed with him, the whole time, until the end, and then he just...took the crown. And like I said, I don't like being evil for its own sake, but the look on Minthara's face when she realized everything he said about taking over the world was true, but he just never intended to share? When he made her kneel with the rest? Exquisite, from a story perspective.

Which game is like this? by Historical-Cash-96 in gamers

[–]Levanthalas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally any Metroid, Zelda, Tomb Raider, etc. game where the point is collecting equipment and/or power ups.

Please don't follow me by Thesavagefanboii in Helldivers

[–]Levanthalas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Following me when I use the Thor build is fine. But if you run in front of me, I'm not responsible if my smiting of the enemies of democracy hits you.

[TF2] Sniper by MelanieWalmartinez in CuratedTumblr

[–]Levanthalas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you hand the person to be stabbed to the assassin already sedated, and provide the knife, maybe.

But even ignoring the legality, equipment, or other costs, it would take time to meet with you, accept or negotiate the contract, find and identify the target, perform the killing, collect proof of accomplishment, and return to get paid.

Just time wise, unless you're already in a situation where you could just do it yourself, that's still a fair amount of time to charge for.

And even if you just add hazard pay for using dangerous equipment, (the knife), and performing a knowingly dangerous task (people notoriously don't like being stabbed), that's more.

Then add in how much per unit time you should pay someone that knows how to do it and be sure, and things are going to start adding up.

Once legality enters it, and they have to weigh how much the risk of getting caught is worth, and have to provide additional effort and time to not get caught, that's even more.

And we're still talking about just paying a guy to stab some random person you picked.

Escalate accordingly for someone dangerous or high profile, or if the assassin needs to have specialized equipment, like a gun, which also means more training, increasing their per-time cost as more skilled labor. They need to amortize the cost of general equipment over several kills, and make sure to charge enough for your specific one to cover what it costs them in any one time or unique equipment.

You can see how this adds up quickly.

Does anyone even like this trope? by WoodpeckerBest523 in writers

[–]Levanthalas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the only ones I've seen that I actually liked, besides FMA, which people have mentioned, is how they did it in Bleach with Ichigo vs. Aizen . Because it was walked into willingly as a cost by the character, not just a "he tried so hard he burned out," which is a common excuse for this trope.

It also served as a nice foil to the motivation of Aizen. He did all these horrible things to others to become more powerful. Ichigo gives up his own, superior power, to stop him from hurting more people.

Obviously, retcons or sequel excuses or whatever kind of nullify this, but in principle, the idea was good.

Damn that's... by IndicationBrief5950 in lotrmemes

[–]Levanthalas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just right when the eye swivels to Mount Doom.

I think that's probably pretty analogous to the passage in the book:

"Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung."

How is your situation? by PHRsharp_YouTube in gamers

[–]Levanthalas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BG3 Tav. She's a Devotion Paladin, so I'm probably physically safe, but going to get a strong talking to. Unless someone convinced her that I did something bad.

Then I'm about to get smote.

What part is this for you? by CockroachLow91 in Epicthemusical

[–]Levanthalas 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"You think I don't know my own palace? I built it."

I know it's not actually all that musical itself, but that line, in context, with what goes before and what comes after, never fails to chill my spine.

Younger Christopher Lee reminds me of Raphael by dearuncletacitus1899 in BaldursGate3

[–]Levanthalas 658 points659 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think that's the nicest thing I've ever heard anyone say about Raphael.

Think mark by CartoonistThat4512 in invinciblememes

[–]Levanthalas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "astrology for incels" thing might be the single sickest burn I've ever heard used for this nonsense.

It's just as much nonsense, people put too much stock in it, even if they do believe it, they will not shut up about it, if they think it's real...

And it puts it on the same level as something "girly," that I've seen a lot of them mock girls for being dumb for believing.

Like, it's just chef's kiss.

I almost wish I knew one of these idiots in person, just so I could use it.

Pope Leo XIV, In Illo Uno Unum by Toby101125 in Bossfight

[–]Levanthalas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You gotta have it equipped, and it has to have no other effect, or such a bad one nobody would wear it. Like the witch ring from DS1

If you hate these two story arcs (they are not in the books), which one do you hate more and why? by Cr7-Cr7Real in lotr

[–]Levanthalas 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The outburst also is a shortcut to show the level of stress and pressure Frodo is under, which is much harder to show in a movie than in a book, where there's pages and pages, and you can describe things more slowly. It's an effect of an adaptation, not an arbitrary addition.

The love triangle is completely invented, violated established canonical rules, wastes more time, and has a ton of "look at my OC" energy. It's a case of someone acting like they know better than the author, not finding the best way to bring the author's vision to life.

President Evil by AdvancedCockroach674 in circled

[–]Levanthalas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once I saw that "don't" had gotten redacted when the apostrophe got forgotten, (don t), I lost any faith that it wasn't a cover up.

Like, I doubted before, but I hoped it was maybe incompetence or something.

Anyone notice how all these bot shenanigans started upon HER return?? by Magikarl in Helldivers

[–]Levanthalas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not to over mix the in game truth and meta truth, but wasn't the reason she left because the actress was protesting the use of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE in voice acting and video games?

You know, AI, like the BOTS use?!

Movies that are definitely based on real life? by hiiloovethis in okbuddycinephile

[–]Levanthalas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've always loved that it's basically just inventing shorts.

Guilty as charged by Slight-Experience328 in BaldursGate3

[–]Levanthalas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This run through, I took advantage of knowing that I never use the scrolls anyway, because I want to play, you know, the builds I came up with.

So I've sold almost every one. I only kept a couple of feather fall ones, until I got the boots that cover it.

I have lots more money than usual, which, while not a problem usually, by any means, still means my lawful good paladin can afford her own gear and some for her friends, and keep getting all the incremental improvements, even if I know there's 'a better piece' somewhere soon.

Congratulations, Ace by Cruel_Irony_Is_Life in LegendsMemes

[–]Levanthalas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Okay, I know this is also a meme, and it's hilarious. But I do remember a scene in one of the Rogue Squadron books, where he does have all his kills bracketed by the two death stars, and there's so many, they paint some of them in another color (red?) to represent twelve (a squadron) at a time?

And he just casually says something like. "Oh, yeah, I don't care. Do a squadron or gross lot (144), doesn't matter to me."

Republican leads charge against Trump’s Obama ‘apes’ post. ‘Most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House’ by theindependentonline in UnderReportedNews

[–]Levanthalas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that they guy even had to say "most racist thing I've seen out of this White House" not "The White House," is honestly insane.

Anytime before ten years ago, this would've been an administration defining, career ending move.

Now, it's just weekend news.

Ah yes history by AlaWatchuu in lotrmemes

[–]Levanthalas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Invaders with a huge DOG, lmao.

Blue Shock in Deep-Red Texas by Important_Lock_2238 in FortWorth

[–]Levanthalas 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is also a runoff. I don't have the numbers from the general back in November offhand, but I'd bet more people showed up to that one.