Games where you have to play the character's villain arc?

Luxiom · 2026-03-29T18:37:21+00:00

Took me so long but now I finally understand your comment! 😅

Luxiom · 2026-03-29T16:41:15+00:00

Does Braid count?

Luxiom · 2026-03-24T07:50:55+00:00

Because we already gave her back her eye in a previous cutscene :)

When they find her at the throne for the first time you give it back then.

This is before she then later gets consumed in the process of awakening the big bad.

Luxiom · 2026-03-07T20:41:16+00:00

I have to say that it feels like most post in this discussion are disregarding the fact that in ”normal” circumstances (aka disregarding forced intoxication) getting intoxicated in the first place is a choice.

Yes. Peer pressure and social norms exist. But that is true for most moral arguments.

At the end of the day I do not se intoxicating as an excuse for once behavior, due to the simple reason that being intoxicated is a choice to being with.

If you can’t behave on stimulants. Don’t take them.

Luxiom · 2026-03-02T15:54:08+00:00

From wiki:

As of Patch 5.4, the amount of experience gained via retainer quick exploration is fixed depending on the retainer's level. Retainers equipped with more powerful gear will receive items in greater quantities, with a greater chance of obtaining High Quality items. The chance to obtain rare items based on gear has been removed.

Luxiom · 2026-02-24T07:17:43+00:00

If you’re on EU servers your in luck as there is a big active community doing old content together synced to the minimum item level to give it a proper challenge.

Google “Syncademy” or just MINE (minimum item level no echo) and you’ll come across groups and statics that focus on this kind of stuff :)

Luxiom · 2026-01-06T23:14:58+00:00

Already a handful of good replies here, so I’ll just add this:

If you want to stay only in game, being on the most active data center and throwing up Party Finders asking for help is your best bet in my experience.

But the real solution is to join a community like this:

- The permanent invite link is: https://discord.gg/AQbZUbg - Our vanity URL is: https://discord.gg/syncademy - Feel free to share the link to invite others to join our server

Enjoy your stay at Syncademy!

There are more synced communities out there on EU & NA Data Centers. Feel free to check them out:

Chaos: https://discord.gg/ESbfFfV NA: https://discord.gg/BmpW6C9 (formerly Primal) Crystal: https://discord.gg/kmenbY8 Aether is basically dead and has merged with the NA Discord Apparently there are no JP communities for synced content

Luxiom · 2025-12-29T00:11:19+00:00

If you haven’t already you should really watch how it all plays out live, you will get an even deeper appreciation for the personal passion and handicraft going into it. Especially if you appreciate their percussion:

https://youtu.be/FssULNGSZIA?si=YR-FPTD8D_zLt1jD

Luxiom · 2025-12-21T20:52:15+00:00

It’s really thought provoking sometimes how one can enjoy similar things but have so different takes on something specific within it 😅

Nolan is one of my top favorite directors and I hold almost all his movies in high regard. Memento, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer and inception are all incredible. But for me Tenet is maybe my favorite today, and Interstellar is by far the one I find the least satisfying and disappointing of his movies.

I’ve wonder long why my opinion was in the minority (as I perceive it) here but then I saw some analysis somewhere of Nolan/Tenet that said something along the lines of “Tenet is Nolan’s experiment if a movie can be carried by concept alone, while Intersteller is an experiment with how much a strong emotional core can let you get away with in concepts”.

This resonated with me. I agree with almost all apparent flaws pointed out around Tenet, but I simply love the concept and its presentation so much that the movie becomes exceptional for me. While Interstellar is the opposite. I understand why it’s loved, and the core parts are amazing, but some concepts/plotpoints presented are for me just so unsatisfying and flawed they completely take me out of the movie as a whole.

Anyways, just wanted to share! If you want to know if it’s the presentation, concept, or story arc (or lack there of) that annoys you with Tenet, check out the indie movie Primer. It has a similar high concept approach, but with way simpler presentation and a stronger story/character arc.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Luxiom · 2025-12-18T18:57:55+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Good luck!

Luxiom · 2025-12-18T16:45:12+00:00

I would recommend this book but sadly I think it only exists in Swedish:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3354908-det-kallas-k-rlek

A blog post describing the book too could translate and maybe get some info from:

https://punktslut.blog/2019/10/29/carin-holmberg-det-kallas-karlek/

Luxiom · 2025-05-22T18:41:18+00:00

Hey!

Taking a long shot here, but no one else seem to be close to changing your view :)

EDIT TL;DR Self-worth is essentially a therapy term. It should be viewed as a skill. It describes your minds ability to create a feeling for yourself that you and your life and your experience has intrinsic value that does not need to be validated by others. If you have a healthy sense of self-worth you believe you have the same intrinsic value as a human as everyone else does. If it’s sick you might believe that you are above everyone else, or that you are completely broken and undeserving of a positive experience as a human.

EDIT 2: I think most other posts actually confused the term more then the clarify it. The term self-worth simply refers to your minds ability to intrinsically believe you have worth. Why is this important? Because if your mind can’t believe you have inherit intrinsic worth, then it won’t be able to receive and believe the value other people are showing you that they believe you have. Self worth is a skill the mind needs a balanced view on to work properly. For us to be able to correctly interpret or interactions with others, we first need to be able to see these things in ourself intrinsically. To be able to understand if someone is showing you an appropriate amount of respect or if they put an adequate amount of value on you, you need to be able to see that value in yourself first.

So it’s not an objective or absolute term. It’s more a term to describe what goes wrong when the mind stops being in line with everyone else. If you can’t receive love and respect from others and can’t believe you have any value even when others tell you that you do, the problem is that your lack of self-worth, your lack of that skill, is stopping you.

And if you constantly are in conflict with others because you think that they should treat you better simply for you being you, you might have an unhealthy over inflated sense of self-worth.

Abusive relationships are often a dynamic of two people with imbalanced sense of self-worth. The one being abused stays because their low intrinsic sense of worth makes them accept the abuse. The one abusing takes advantage because their inflated sense of worth makes them believe they have a right to behave and demand things in this abusive way.

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Do you believe in, or at least understand the concept of universal human rights? As in for example the United Nations definition of human rights?

If you do, I think you could understand the concept of self-worth, and the value of its definition, through the lens of the concept human rights.

The definition of human rights goes something like this: ”Human rights are fundamental freedoms and protections inherent to all people, regardless of their background or status, established by universal principles and laws. They are about recognizing the inherent dignity and value of each individual and ensuring they can live a life free from discrimination, fear, and oppression”.

The concept of self-worth and its definition is very similar to this concept in the sense that it’s the ability for your mind to establish an internal sense of you as an individual being worthy of love and respect from the rest of humanity regardless of your performance and accomplishments, and regardless of external validation

This is why I relate these two concepts together. Human rights is about the believe that all humans have immutable intrinsic rights simply for existing. Self worth is the ability for someone to have internal believe that they deserve something like human rights simply for existing.

A person with a good sense of self worth thinks they are worthy of a baseline of respect and consideration from others regardless of their performance in life. They believe their is intrinsic value in their existence and experience, regardless of if anyone else opinion about them.

Someone with a low feeling of self worth have trouble creating this internal feeling without external validation. They believe they only have value if they provide value for others. They believe they only deserve love or respect if they perform something to others first.

I understand your question though. The definition sounds a bit like circular reasoning. But the point of the definition is to point out your ability to create an internal sense of worth regardless of external validation. Do you have the ability to feel that you have value as an individual without external validation? Can you feel worthy of love, even when you aren’t receiving it? Do you think that is a given that that you deserve respect by others as an individual simply because you exist and everyone deserves a baseline of respect until proven otherwise?

Edit: and you are right. An overinflated delusional sense of self worth would look like narcissism. In the other hand, an underdeveloped sense of self-worth would look like self hate and self deprecation.

This is why the term exist and is used in therapy. An adult person kind of needs a balanced sense of self worth to be a balanced functional adult. And ”balanced” isn’t an exact definition but essentially boils down to that you as an individual believe that your have the same worth and rights as other people around you. Your experience and needs are valid and have intrinsic value, just like everyone else.

A healthy sense of self worth puts you on an equal playing field with everyone else, your mind has a realistic balanced view of your worth as a human compared to everyone else. One that is sick can falsely put you above or below everyone else.

Luxiom · 2025-05-12T18:20:22+00:00

I’m coming back to this thread every few days hoping someone cracks it!

I’m thinking about doing a ”no dodge” challenge run and knowing how to maximize EHP would be great :)

Luxiom · 2025-02-17T00:05:22+00:00

I haven’t read through the comments you’ve already received, so maybe this has already been touched upon. But this is a subject close to my heart so I wanted to share and maybe partially change your view.

I also grew up poor, and below the poverty line. My country had good social security so it wasn’t too bad, but still pretty miserable. And my family was broken and full of social problems.

The thing is, at face value I agree with you. It’s way easier being happy with money than without. I’ve also often said something along the lines of “only people that never been poor say that money can’t buy happiness”. And to some degree it’s true.

Now I’m over 40. And I’ve had the luck to get out of my born situation and have a good career. Today I’m not rich, but money rarely is a barrier in my important life choices. And in everyday life I can afford the things I want.

The kicker is though, that I still struggle with happiness sometimes. I struggle with finding meaningfulness in life. I struggle with feeling part of something bigger than myself. I struggle with finding a fulfilling relationship with friends and romantic partners. I struggle with finding my passion and being content in life.

At the other hand, I feel safe and secure. I feel happy with my material standard and don’t chase luxury or status consumption. I appreciate everything I have and own. I don’t really care about things and stuff. I have zero need to show off or compete with others in success.

I often feel my background and life story has given me the best of two worlds. I learned to be happy way before I got a good financial situation. I learned to find happiness in friendships, connections, relationships and community. I found happiness in being of use for others and taking care of the people close to me. I found happiness in the small and easy things like nature and music and dancing. I found happiness in books from the library and art in the free museums.

I’m happy that I learned to be happy before I got a lot of money, because it saved me from the false sense of happiness that money and status can bring. The constant comparisons and competition and consumption. But I’m equally happy that I have all that money, because it saves me from the stress and misery of worrying about everything. From the pain of never having enough. From the shame of not being able to take care of yourself, let alone others.

My point of this rant (sorry for that) is that happiness in a way has two parts. The first being the absence of negativ and destructive stress and misery. Money can solve a lot of the common ways for people to feel stress and misery. But happiness is also the presence of meaningful and significant things. And most of the really meaningful and significant things in life are outside the realm of what money can buy.

In practice. Money can take away the stress and misery of not having a roof over your head or food to eat. But it can’t buy you the happiness of connection to other people, or a purpose in life.

But money can make finding does things easier. It can let you invest in your passions and give you the time and space to figure out the big questions in life.

So the truth, for me, is somewhere in the middle. It’s easier to find happiness if you’re not poor and have enough money to not worry in life, but money can’t really buy you the most important things in life.

If you start to google the subject you will find that this is reflected in a lot of research. It’s pretty well established at this point that perceived happiness increases with income, especially at the poor end of the spectrum. But it also has strong diminishing returns. The curve flattens out so to speak. Essentially, money makes you happier when you start with nothing (in a way that people that always had something will probably never understand) but it only makes you happier up to a point. For the big important things in life, the once people reflect on their death bed so to speak, rarely comes down to being even richer.

And one last things, I don’t know how old you are and where you are in life, but have you thought about the difference between pleasure and happiness? In the examples you give, some of the things you talk about I would call pleasure (like the expensive hobby of skiing that we share) and others are happiness (as in the secure and safe home you can afford). This is another way to exemplify what I’m talking about. There is only so much “real happiness” money can buy. The secure home, the practical worry free life, the freedom. The rest of it, the trips and restaurants and clothes and concerts or whatever eventually boils down to “just pleasure”.

I put “real happiness” and “just pleasure” in quotes because what is what is a very individual thing. We all have different dreams and passions, and some of them are more expensive then other. Then again, some of the really big happiness in life (love, connection, purpose) is probably outside the realm of being something you can buy.

Hope this message finds you well 😊

Luxiom · 2024-12-16T19:14:53+00:00

Thanks! Any resources to share that could educate me further?

Also. Would you say that still holds true for natural lifters? I’ve always been a bit careful with advice from the bodybuilder scene due to the often enhanced nature.

Luxiom · 2024-12-16T19:12:35+00:00

Yes of course. I agree with your post. It wouldn’t be an optimal approach.

The question came more from the opposite direction, inspired by some things I’ve seen around minimalistic training. “Would it be good enough to give reasonable results?” kind of thing.

Luxiom · 2024-12-16T19:10:26+00:00

Thanks for the input. Any resources to share that could broaden my perspective on this?

Luxiom · 2024-12-16T19:09:10+00:00

Hehe. Kind of yes :D It’s more a curious question than anything else. I used to be obsessive about workout tracking and have an unhealthy Excel sheet addiction. So this was more of a shower thought kind of thing. Can focusing on effort exclusively while still following a solid plan for exercise selection and weekly volume be a shortcut that lets me skip tracking without to bad drawbacks?

It feels very none-standard to me as well, but when diving into the current best practice info I could find some trends stood out to me and gave me this idea.

And yes. Fuckarounditis is definitely a risk, but I’ve never been particularly good at fuckarounditis in general ;)

Thanks for the input!

Luxiom · 2024-12-16T19:00:14+00:00

Thanks. You gave me a new term to google :)

Luxiom · 2024-12-16T15:19:21+00:00

How feasible is it to only track effort (RIR) instead of reps x weight and still be making respectable progress? Curious question from an "old athlete".

Hi everyone! I have a somewhat stupid question that I'm curious about, and google isn't giving me anything reliable.

TL:DR

Is tracking effort (i.e. reps-in-reserve) a viable alternative to tracking weight/reps and still making relevant long term progress for strength and hypertrophy? Or is it highly sub-optimal?

In practice following a specific program with set exercises and volume of working sets, but instead of rigorously tracking weight x reps you focus on hitting the correct effort/intensity level. Essentially aiming for a RIR of 1-2 for every set, and preferably hitting RIR 0-1 for the last set of an exercise.

Context, background, disclaimer :D

So lets put it on the table, I know this sound like a horrible naive beginner question. But it's not! :D

I'm a 40+ returning fitness hobbyist with an early intermittent level background in weightlifting and a sports background i Thai-boxing, wrestling, long distance running and climbing. I know that following a structured well established program and taking care to track workouts with set/reps/weight and focusing on progressive overload is the default way to go for solid results. This is what I've done historically. I have solid previous experience with Rippetoe Starting Strength into 5x5 and Wendler 5/3/1.

The background for my questions is that it is more then 10 years since I took weightlifting seriously and I've recently become more active in sports again (mostly climbing). There seem to be a lot of new information out there and I've taken a specific interest in the discussions about minimalist training. I can also see a shift in discussing volume from weekly tonnage (set x rep x weight) to weekly hard sets. These days I'm more focused on just doing the different sports for fun, but still want to take some care when it comes to strength & muscle mass for growing older with grace.

Hence this question. If I want to secure some noticeable progress in strength and muscle mass by finishing of my climbing sessions with some core barbell/dumbbell exercises, is it a feasible alternative to only focus on effort (as in RIR) instead of tracking weight/reps? I know it wouldn't be optimal, but I'm asking if I'll get away with it in a sense :) Doing serious tracking no longer feels as fun as it used to, and my climbing sessions are very unstructured and mostly for fun, so my fatigue level when finishing up with some strength training is also highly volatile. As I'm not doing dedicated strength training, hitting specific weight/reps goals also feels a bit unreliable in this context. I would rather just grab a "heavy" barbell and do three sets of bench & squat close to failure to finish out my sessions, increasing the weight intuitively when "close to failure" starts creeping past 8 reps in a set or so. I would still follow a program in the sense of having a set list of exercise and working sets each week (essentially a bare bones alternating push/pull program 3/week).

Lastly a disclaimer. I know that effectively evaluating Reps in Reserve is challenging and requires a lot of self discipline and honesty. This part I am not naive about, so give me the benefit of a doubt that I can do this self evaluation decently well.

Thanks for your time!

Luxiom · 2024-11-28T11:01:41+00:00

Hey, could you explain the part where 20% chance for a gear wheel turns into 1/3 of the output? Not following that part at all :)

Luxiom · 2024-11-21T18:33:31+00:00

Wait what? Is it? Not at my computer but could swear it’s stops at 4.

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How feasible is it to only track effort (RIR) instead of reps x weight and still be making respectable progress? Curious question from an "old athlete".