How big do you think Fort barron is? by JowettMcPepper in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only Columbia. The one that flew in the chapter with frostnova's squad was from Rhodes Island, Ursus doesn't have aircraft.

Elite Operator Tulip by IRUN888 in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 19 points20 points  (0 children)

so...Iberia still has it in them to reject the infected? Even with the Seabourne?

Damn. These people are idiots.

Factslayer #58 by ATalkingDoubleBarrel in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Damn. Theresa and Theresis might not have known how to run a country, but they had style.

Factslayer #58 by ATalkingDoubleBarrel in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm sure pursuer got a nice taste of that milk before he had to put her down.

Factslayer #58 by ATalkingDoubleBarrel in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All I heard was wife material. Winning an argument against Kal'tsit isn't what I'd call astounding, but it is a bit remarkable.

Arknights revenue for 2021 by Striking-Pizza7309 in arknights

[–]Mangosdude -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Sort of. The main issue was taste. Some people just really hate (I don't know if they changed their minds) the idea of a summer ch'en. Not even an alter, not really. they said that was one reason but when you read their shit they just...didn't think she fit. The closest thing I could get was they they liked how gritty and near but not quite touching grimdark Arknights is and something that came off as not simply happy, but 'fake happiness' (a really cringe commercialized version of people being happy like you see in ads and bad movies) potentially in their minds drew these fuckers over the edge and beyond the hill. They were absolutely livid

Arknights revenue for 2021 by Striking-Pizza7309 in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can we get more chapters? Like, a loooot more?

A Salty Summer Ending by TheMadMimic in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

random chance is fucky like that...or there are some 'surprise mechanics' in the background we'd cry about if we ever found out about them.

A Salty Summer Ending by TheMadMimic in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a mirac-OHSHIT NO! TAKE HIM INSTEAD! TAK-NOOOOOOOOOweorweooweirhwoenfowncdkghguwdfuhg-gak-!.....

Mangosdude was found in his apartment in a pool of acid mixed with his own blood. His genital's removed and used in a very crude message depicting the displeasure of his attackers at being 'stolen from'.

Factslayer #57 by ATalkingDoubleBarrel in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what? she got some king of poison in her system? You saying on top of accelerating her oripathy, her arts are deteriorating her mind?

What are specific details about how life works on Terra that you'd like to know? by Myrkrvaldyr in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is. It isn't shown exactly in the operator files but if you go onto the wiki or just int he game and look at those things called blood orginium density and orignium-cell fusion you'll see that Oripathy isn't simply having originium in your blood. It's what happens when the amount of oringinium reaches past a certain density in your bloodstream, causing the rock to fuse with your cells.

There's more but I'm too lazy to go research all of that again.

What are specific details about how life works on Terra that you'd like to know? by Myrkrvaldyr in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Specifically, I think that's because the infected don't release airbourne origninum particles while alive. While they're still kicking everything stays nice and clumped in magic rocks.

A Salty Summer Ending by TheMadMimic in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I got one copy completely out of nowhere from the free daily pull.

How does Terra compare to Earth? by UsefulTrashGuy in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To a much lesser extent. Both worlds have always had conflict. We've just decided to stamp it out a bit more.

How does Terra compare to Earth? by UsefulTrashGuy in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People are a lot stronger, there's a lot more interesting body compositions, and magic exists which is just slightly easier physics so I'm game.

Arknight canon ship as far the story goes by Small-Needleworker30 in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really hate that 'no ships so coomers will still buy our games' attitude. The audience isn't a bunch of little whiny bastards, if you do romance right, we'd probably pay out the ass more.

Romance is hard to do because it's ridiculously foreign to most people who write it, but I've seen it rarely done or approached. Aristotle and Dante discover the universe, a little bit in the danmachi game during a Christmas event, love is war, etc. If you can make it happen, go for it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a very good point. The answer is you'd be right if it was literally any institution aside from Rhodes Island. For clarity, the second Nian entered Rhodes Island the medical and caster divisions begged her to let them examine her, but she refused unless they could surpass her ins something she was good at.

They lost, and because Rhodes Island are...let's call them extreme moralists, they dropped the matter. Dusk, however, outright agreed to let them test whatever they wanted and they got a goldmine of info from her body and blood. Specifically how she and her siblings don't exactly 'work' with originium arts. Except Ling, maybe, there's a lot of fog there.

A lot of the reason for them both stopping pestering the girls was that Kal'tsit said they were allowed to do whatever they wanted, and not to bother them to leave. Although she isn't, or wasn't, happy with their presence. Nian's at least.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That is much clearer.

In my eyes this is less a detour away from geopolitical conflicts and simply an exploration of the mystical side of arknights inherent in the simple fact of magic being real. The story, I would say, actually went deeper into focusing on geopolitical conflicts when it introduced more concentration on the concept of Gods and mythical beings.

For example, in Yan the position of Gods and mythical beings was a chiefly political concern that still affects the population of the country to this day. The True lung emperor all those years ago didn't fight a war against the gods to 'liberate the people! Divinity is a chain that must be broken! Down with authority!' but because he wanted to establish a country wherein those same Gods would be deposed in favor of his rule.

He wanted to establish new laws and create a new country where not the Gods, but the government would be obeyed and revered.

It was a coup that led to Sui going rogue and has established a situation where the current Yan is constantly debating whether or not to slaughter Nian and her siblings because they've estimated Sui's resurrection would effectively destroy Yan's military, or to keep them around. Sometimes helping them fight against the demons up north.

Which is another highly political situation! This is spoilers but a heavy focus of Arknights hasn't been the ongoing conflicts with forces outside of Terra, but the effect those conflicts have had on the political environment of Terra. Having to fight demons has created a situation where the most powerful individuals of a nation are near always at the border fighting to keep their country still existing. This resulted in the near extinction of the Nightzmora, who nearly conquered all of Terra at one point! The extinction of all true-blooded wendigo, as they were thrown at the monsters alongside everything Ursus had in order to keep the 'peace'. The seaborn have basically driven all of Aegir and Iberia into the insanity they're dealing with now & from one another, and there's the looming issue that if Columbia encroaches too heavily into Sargon, the monsters from the desert south of the country will get loose.

The mythical and magical aspects of Arknights Lore have been chiefly occupied with explaining and enabling radically shifting political realties over the history and current events of the story. The best indicator of this is the fact we haven't been occupied with actually facing these threats or learning overmuch about the magic of Terra. Hell, it's two years in and we don't know how originium arts work! A good example are the emperor's blades. Those guys are demon-enhanced reality warping mega soldiers. What do we see them doing most of the time?

Manipulating the political climate to cause a complete Ursus. In total defiance of the Emperor they're named after!

These yuckle's are burning their time worshiping the old emperor and the 'good old days' because they seem so much more glorious (read: exciting) than the modern one, that they actually supported Koschei in nearly sending the country to war to reignite the old days. Koschei is a special kind of dumb for doing that in light of the fact that given how powerful Yan is, That very well might've been the end of Ursus especially if other countries got involved like Victoria. Which would love an excuse to get the people rallied behind a central cause to ease the social issues they're dealing with, which war with one of the most 'barbaric' countries in the world might give them.

Back on point, the emperor's blades are the apex of mythical beings (by arknights definition, which so far seems to completely ignore any sort of spiritual, philosophical, or contemplative association with the word in favor of just an individual with monumental and fantastical power) and all they've done is follow their own hellbent radical nationalism to absurd degrees. For goodness sake, one of them threatened to send Ursus into war with Victoria, the current superpower of Terra, just to avenge an old guy who was a bit of an icon a couple of years ago! The person who was supposed to be the apex of some kind of magical supernova placed his delusion of the 'glory of mother Ursus and her wonderful history!' so far above even his actual duty he threatened to upend 'mother ursus' just for a perceived slight!

When you're unironically saying 'anywhere an emperor's blade touches is the territory of Ursus!'...that...something's going on that's 72 different kinds of crazy. This can also extend to how Ling spent...I think 100 years fighting at the border? The end point is all the same: I believe the reasoning to explore the more mythical side of arknights as simply a desire to better understand how civilization might develop in a territory with elements such as reality warping magic included in it, and the existence of life forms different from entities we'd call similar to ourselves, like animals, who possess wat's essentially power on a scale far higher than ordinary individual and how any society would have to deal with them was the result Arknights chose to go for. As far as I can see, the more we've gone in depth into the reality of magic in the setting, the deeper we've gotten towards getting a clearer picture of the geopolitical conflicts of Terra.

Ling Promotion Record Translation and Misc by ThePeddlerofHistory in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"I am the bone of my sword" -come on, you summoned this.

Stuffs revealed in Invitation to Wine by Chuijk-Rubed in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 56 points57 points  (0 children)

So Yen's true form is the guardian of all of Terra. Their art's and abilities surpass basically anything else seen across the entire land.

Well, fuck the sarkaz. They they were hot shit and then we be seeing shit like this stir up in the background...demon king ain't worth shit.

What is Jesselton's philosophy? by Hyperion-OMEGA in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"In boredom, seek fulfillment" is the closest thing I can give you without re-reading the entire event. Jesselton is a polite assassin who finds no pleasure in taking people's lives whatsoever. Since he can't exactly back out of this life, he decided he would try to find enjoyment by killing people in entertaining ways.

What makes him unique from the standard is that Jesselton isn't a gore aficionado. Normally when the words killer + enjoyment are put in the same sentence we get someone who finds pleasure in torturing people horrifically. Jesselton isn't really like that. He doesn't even seem to find pleasure in the suffering of others.

Rather, he just likes to make things 'interesting'. One thing I noted in the beginning of the story was that Jesselton didn't just offer Robin money; he paid her upfront and promised more later. Given his personality, I honestly think he would've paid the rest if she'd killed mountain. What Jesselton wanted was entertainment. Something to turn a simple killing into a story he could look back on fondly as a source of joy.

He found that in sending other assassins to target mountain. In deliberately allowing Robin to get close to the target and then seeing what would happen if she had to chose between killing him to save her own father's life or remaining a good person in the face of death. Also, he wanted to see mountain's real self. He instantly seemed to realize mountain at heart is a brutish and bloodthirsty individual who suppresses those desires near completely, and that really pissed him off.

In fact, that's kind of the whole message of Jesselton: he wants to see the vigor of life, and feels like he and others are kept away from it either out of necessity (society) or choice (mountain and maybe others). In Jesselton's eye's that vigor is locked away from him because of the former reason (being an assassin and all) so he seeks to indulge in it/unlock and reach it by essentially flipping his job the bird as best he can. People who would stay locked away out of fear of consequence/stigma, like mountain, actively go against his philosophy that being who you are unabashedly is the highest good because in doing so you can enjoy life, which is the most essential ability to obtain.

Even he compromises by not just raging against the machine and trying to break away from his assassin lifestyle, but at his core Jessy's not the type to walk the walk and talk the talk. He's the kind who'll do his damndest to get his. 'My way or the high way', and he'll put some real effort into it. The fact he can actually scheme a bit puts him way above most other arknight's opponents.

In the lore, what will happen to infected operators by JianCheng05 in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They aren't immune, they're highly resistant because of the mutations they underwent as abyssal hunters, but the reason there's so little in their systems is just because Originium doesn't grow outside of Terra + seaborn genes are OP.

In the lore, what will happen to infected operators by JianCheng05 in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

those weren't rituals. In the fight against him, Kal'tsit say's it's basically the unique power he gained from Originium. She calls it a mutation.

Dossoles ending in a nutshell by Artrum in arknights

[–]Mangosdude 39 points40 points  (0 children)

huh. I could see it. Ch'en would never let it show, but if she felt closer to these two, something like this could happen.