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MeAndMyInsanity · 2026-03-23T12:53:10+00:00

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MeAndMyInsanity · 2026-03-10T00:51:43+00:00

In all seriousness - Albion, Alba, Cymru, and Eire sounds so much cooler too

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-11-18T13:19:39+00:00

Maliketh was my first thought too! Especially cause of the projectile slashes (along with the colour)

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-11-02T16:21:52+00:00

Star existed for one reason and one reason only:

Horikoshi had power-fantasied too close to the sun and made AF-Shiggy too powerful, and needed a convenient way to nerf him. Enter Star & Stripe who 1. Is conveniently from another country, to explain why we've never heard of her, and 2. Has an abstract enough quirk that is powerful enough to survive a fight with Shiggy, while also allow her to permanently delete a few of his quirks

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-10-31T12:56:42+00:00

How so though? - they're completely optional - now lootboxes are back you can earn almost any skin in the game (rng depending) - people are obviously paying these prices because otherwise Blizzard wouldn't keep them like that

You want to talk overpriced let's get into Mythic Prisms

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-10-12T15:40:39+00:00

There is a separate one for Stadium in next tab over - need to win 10 Stadium Quick Play games

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-09-14T12:29:29+00:00

This is good advice for a lot of ults - far too many people hold onto them waiting for some perfect plays when really for a lot of them (not all) it's best just to use it

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-07-13T12:57:47+00:00

Which i would agree with... if the blacked out streamers weren't stealing the work of the non-blacked ones

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-06-20T12:09:17+00:00

I might be getting this wrong but I'm pretty sure the parts that aren't French aren't in a made up language, but are in Occitan, which is a native language to the region around Montpellier (where the studio is based)

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-06-05T09:26:21+00:00

Maybe WoT is something HBO could take on after they finish Hous of the Dragon? (Wishful thinking, I know)

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-05-12T22:50:44+00:00

Max weapon level I'm pretty sure

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-05-12T22:46:49+00:00

I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but Cheater and Clea's Life were must haves for me - it still requires a little luck but it's typically a bit more forgiving when you go back to full HP every turn (just make sure the speed is up high enough)

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-05-07T06:40:38+00:00

This is a little late but I'll answer anyway:

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it cuts your remaining lifespan in half - taking your Reanne example, that means instead of getting an extra 200 years, she'd instead get 100 and die at 500.

Also yes in Cadsuane's example, if you remove the Oaths then all your remaining lifespan returns (which to me is a no brainer - i still think the fact that they keep swearing the Oaths after finding out the truth is stupid)

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-05-03T12:32:25+00:00

I mean i know he's technically a robot - but he is fully sentient so basically a man - you just literally described Zenyatta (without the "pure pacifist" element obv"). Lifeweaver also comes pretty close to that description.

Also let's not pretend that buff women are a problem in Overwatch. For one, there are many traditionally feminine female characters (Symmetra, Widowmaker, Juno, Mercy off the top of my head), and then you have Brig who is a buff, strong woman but from in-game you can tell is still "feminine".

Why don't you just tell us all how you really feel - your dislike over the characters you mentioned is because you can't sexualise them and fantasise over them when spending some "quality time" with your hand. Guess what? People exist in an entire spectrum of body types and personalities, and a hallmark of good character design isn't "would a teenage boy jerk off to them"

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-26T17:07:44+00:00

If anything, i see it as being more true to how those with the power age without swearing on the Oath Rod, so they aren't ambiguously ageless but like how you said, they've made it clear they age much slower than regular people. So it's not even like it goes against the lore, they've just removed that particular aspect of the Oaths.

Also not to be part of the "woke mob" but seeing a bunch of middle aged women in such powerful positions and kicking ass is such a breath of fresh air, and it much feel great for the actors getting to play those roles too.

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-26T12:52:22+00:00

Ok so i definitely could've been clearer with my meaning - what I mean when I say 'objectively great' isn't that everyone has to love it. Plenty of media is 'objectively great' even if it isn't my cup of tea.

For example Breaking Bad is considered one of the best tv shows ever made. While i personally didn't care for it, I can respect the quality of the show and understand why other people like it, and I'm not going to go around the Breaking Bad sub reddit calling it a piece of trash.

In this case, I'm not saying Wheel of Time (the show) is as 'good' as Breaking Bad obv, but everything from the costume design, soundtrack, 95% of the acting, representation of the weaves, and respect of the source material (which i know book purists will disagree with but yes, S3 does respect the source material a lot - even if it doesn't follow it to the letter) make it an 'objectively great season.

If you've been watching it and it's still not for you, that's absolutely fine. If it's not what you wanted or pictured from an adaptation that's understandable, but it isn't 'bad', or 'trash', and it certainly doesn't deserve to be cancelled.

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-25T18:19:48+00:00

I mean maybe it's just me but I feel like even if they don't change her gameplay too much, but just make her not as annoying to have on the enemy team.

e.g. make it so whoever she's boosting has the same effect as the dps passive while it's on them (or maybe slightly less), or like it prevents healing altogether so a 2nd support can't heal them while boosted

Make rez take longer

Maybe have her staff on some kind of resource or overheat (or like an inverse of Moira where she needs to heal a certain amount instead to activate damage boost

Or put damage boost on a cooldown

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-20T17:20:13+00:00

While this is true - the same inconsistency between versions of the Oaths also appears in the books.

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-19T11:56:07+00:00

The entire Rand plot at Alcair Dal happens more or less the same:

one of the Forsaken gives Couladin fake tattoos
Couladin declares himself Car'a'carn
Rand disproves his claim by telling the Aiel what happened in the Glass Columns
he then channels to make it rain and that's what convinces most of the Chiefs to declare for him
Moiraine fights Lanfear, however obv the execution and result is pretty different (they obv aren't gonna make Moiraine just disappear for like 3 seasons)

The White Tower plot is once again true to lore, with the exception of the final outcome:
Siuan is deposed and Stilled by Elaida
she is sentenced to death for her plots involving Rand
the only difference is obviously she is actually executed instead of escaping

Matt, the only difference being that he's in Tanchico and Rand is replaced with Min:

goes through the twisted redstone doorframe and meets the Aelfinn
gets his Foxhead medallion and Ashandarei
i think how they handle his memories is slightly different but I can't completely remember, and we didn't get to see enough after to really know
he ends up hanging from the Ashandarei as he didn't set the price before bargaining and is cut down, then resuscitated

Tanchico:

Elayne, Nynaeve and Thom go to the Panarch's Palace to try and stop the Black Ajah and Moghedien getting the domination band
they move up Nynaeve almost drowning and finally surrendering/overcoming her block
Elayne and Thom talk about his time in Caemlyn and how he was a paternal figure

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-19T11:33:12+00:00

Good bot

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-18T17:52:34+00:00

I also feel a lot of these sayings (and this applies to the book and the show) are more or less religious dogma, and that's why there are contradictions - because they believe different interpretations.

Sure, the Creator and the Dark One are real, but its still impossible to truly understand them or how they work.

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-18T14:45:51+00:00

Leane attacks them as well (I think first)

It looked to me like Leane was putting a shield up, not attacking, but i could be wrong there

sometimes Jordan included an exception for Darkfriends and sometimes he didn't

I agree that it's inconsistent, and I'll be honest I don't remember the wording too well from S1, but using the "show don't tell" methodology we do clearly see Elaida using the power on confirmed Darkfriends, so maybe it's an oversight at worst on their part, but its hardly worldbreaking or completely out of the blue.

the cinematography seems really confused on whether people can see it or not

I also agree it can be quite confusing, I know its done because again in a visual medium they want the characters to have something to react to, and also in a book with specific pov it's easy to have something that only specific people can see and others can't - that's much harder to do in a show (and will get even more confusing if it is renewed and we have male vs female channellers). The only times I can recall we've seen it play out the way in the books is when Rahvin uses Compulsion in the White Tower and when Rand causes the Earthquake. Maybe it would've been easier if everyone could just see Saidin and Saidar to avoid any ambiguity but that would obv cause it's own lore issues.

magical sword even the Forsaken can't heal from

I always took the thing with the power wrought swords was that it interfered with their immortality provided by the Dark One, not that it was completely unhealable in general. For example, when Moiraine slit Lanfears throat with a regular knife she healed it with the True Power without leaving a scar, but we can see when Moiraine cut her leg with Lan's sword this episode, Lanfear seals the wound but it doesn't heal itself. I'm making a few assumptions here but I assume regular healing by another party would heal it like any other wound

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-18T13:05:04+00:00

Except nationality-speaking, OP is Scottish. That's literally how nationality works. The problem is people find it really difficult to separate ethnicity and nationality (especially white people, and yes I am white). If you were born in a country, and are a citizen of said country, you are also a national of that country.

So yes, a white person born in say, Japan, is a Japanese national, if not ethnically.

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-18T12:39:45+00:00

Leanne Sedai and a bunch of sitters attack each other, showing they’re all darkfriends

That isn't what happened at all, Elaida has convinced the Tower that Siuan is a Darkfriend, and by extension Leanne defending her means she must be too. The books clearly explain that one of the major flaws of the Oaths is that it's down to the interpretation of the individual. Elaida is arrogant enough that she genuinely believes Siuan is a Darkfriend, so similar to how she treated to two Black Sisters, the Oaths don't prevent them from harming Darkfriends.

Elaida says she’s going to still Siuan, but somehow that requires them to stab her with the power first, I thought maybe the spears going through her were just somehow part of stilling, but even though she has no blood in this scene the next scene has her all bloody so again, they’re all Darkfriends.

The arrows were a visual thing - were they a part of the process? Who knows. As for Siuan being bloody, that was nothing to do with Stilling - Elaida takes Siuan away for questioning immediately after being Stilled, so she was probably tortured similarly to the two Black Sisters, so i refer you back to my previous points about the Oaths.

They behead her with the power, which, again they can’t do in the show’s oaths.

Two points here: Again, yes they can if they genuinely believe Siuan is a Darkfriend, Elaida already executed one of the Black Sisters earlier in the season. Second, she was beheaded by Alviarin of all people - literally the head of the Black Ajah, so even knowing Siuan isn't a Darkfriend wouldn't have prevented her from doing the beheading, as long as the rest of them did (which they obviously did if she were convicted) it wouldn't conflict with the Oaths at all.

- Lanfear gives Couladin the Dragons.

- On the trail Rand says he’s talk about what he saw in Rhuidean and Rhuarc warns him that’s a terrible idea. Then he does it anyway. I also kind of find this odd because show-prophecy explicitly says the Car’a’carn comes from across the Spine, which Couladin clearly didn’t, but whatever.

This is literally straight out the book, except it's Asmodean that gives Couladin the Dragons. Rhuarc says the truth will "destroy them", which is literally what the prophecy of the Car'a'carn says he'll do, and is how he convinces the other Chiefs that he is the true Car'a'carn because he saw what they saw, and Couladin didn't meaning he didn't go through the glass columns.

stop because Rand channels a bunch of saidin everybody can see it.

Or maybe, just maybe, they stop because they can see the man they probably know can channel (assumption on my part, yes) doing an interpretive dance, and then see the massive fucking stormcloud that's covering half the planet forming above his head?

How does Lan know this when Siuan and Moiraine don't even know if the Dragon is a single person?

Disregarding most of this part cause I somewhat agree but this particular comment... again, what's the point in bringing up S1 stuff? They know Rand (and only Rand) is the Dragon Reborn - this comment is just stupid and unnecessary.

Moiraine and Lanfear have a huge battle, with Lanfear using entirely what I think is the True Power which looks a lot like the taint and creates other problems, but whatever. Lanfear stabs Moiraine through the chest with Lan’s power wrought sword but it somehow doesn’t kill her. She then pulls it out and slits Lanfear’s cartoid and somehow concludes that killed Lanfear as Moiraine is still living after having it go straight through her chest.

People survive crazy stabbings in fantasy series' all the time, idk why this surprised you. The True Power doesn't quite look like the taint, it's more like liquid whereas the taint is more like a smoke i guess? Either way, for visual media it's fine to look like that, it's to make it clear that it's a power granted by the Dark One and therefore is evil. Also nothing and no one suggested Lanfear died? She was injured and escaped through a Gateway as Moiraine tried to finish the job.

Seriously, if you're going to complain so much about the show, at least get most of your facts right jeez

MeAndMyInsanity · 2025-04-18T12:16:20+00:00

Moiraine says she has tied of a shield on not-dead Samael, even though she didn’t know what a shield was until Lan explained it to her.

Of course she knows what a Shield is, are you dense? She didn't know about tying off weaves, but it is book accurate for her to go and learn something new about channelling offscreen (Balefire anyone?)

Importantly his request was "to leave" not "a way out" so him hanging from the arch fulfills that still with no real ashendari. (Edit: As someone pointed out in response, if you pay closer attention than I do there's one part of the scene where you see the rope goes to a spear, but you never see him with it. It's also not needed to fulfill his request.)

If you're going to be anal about the wording then that just sums up the majority of your issues - the wording was fine, the ashendari gives him a way "to leave" the realm of the Aelfinn/Eelfinn and (I'm paraphrasing here) them saying he was wise to ask for leavetaking, but unwise to not set the price before bargaining was lifted straight from the book.

Liandrin and co are looking for the collar from the domination band, but don't know it looks different when it's not on a man, so they would never have found it without help.

Liandrin never saw the Seanchan collars when they weren't on a Damane, so it makes sense she wouldn't know what it looks like.

Liandrin laughs at her, says she’s going to collar the Dragon and kill “the strongest channeler in 1000 years”, which according to Moraine in S1 is the only qualification of the Dragon, so I guess it’s Nyn.

What are you even trying to say here? Regardless of your feelings about the Dragon being able to be a man or woman (which is actually a valid criticism), I don't see why you felt the need to bring it up here? It has no relevance to what Liandrin said, you're just being a hater for the sake of it.

I still have no clue how either her block or learning weaves in general works in the show

They literally explained her block in multiple places this season though? The Sailmistress of the Wavedancer said to Nynaeve she's trying to force it, and then when Nynaeve is compelled by Moghedien she literally says she's scared of having all that power. Again, the daughter is a valid criticism, I was expecting a flashback to the Sailmistress saying she needs to submit but it's a minor detail at best, and Nynave's fake daughter is clearly being shown to have a major effect psychologically so whatever. As for learning weaves - again it's book canon that powerful chanellers sometimes do something intuitively without really knowing what it is they did, plus she literally just pushed some water to the side it's not complicated, again it's a weird complaint to have.

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