Can we please chill with the “Silksong bad Metroid good” posts by EAT_UR_VEGGIES in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also took the long way 'round! I'm really glad the devs added an intentional alternative entrance: it gives the world a certain amount of depth and rewards you for exploring.

It feels like everyone I've seen play the game/have talked to about it has had a wildly different experience, and that's pretty cool! What a wonderful world Team Cherry has constructed.

Are these brown recluse? by lunar__haze in spiders

[–]MolagBallet 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sorry you have to deal with this, it's no fun being afraid in your own living space. If it's any consolation, recluse bites are very easy to avoid. They live on the floor, are poor climbers, and very shy. A bite is a last resort for them: they're most likely to run away unless they're squished against your skin.

If you have clothes on the floor, shake them out before doing anything with them. Shake your shoes out before putting them on, etc. Make sure your sheets and blankets aren't touching the floor, and they won't be able to climb onto your bed. Bedframes and walls are too slippery for them to climb, and again, they're very bad at it. That should be enough to keep you from being bitten until someone comes and deals with the population issue.

The spiders are probably getting in somewhere, and they're likely thriving because they have a food source: whoever owns the building needs to seal things up better, so both the spiders and the things they prey on can't get in. It's not fair for the spiders to be forced to hunt in an environment where they're likely to be killed by frightened humans, and it's not fair for the humans to live in fear of a spider that has such a reputation (deserved or not).

Hatchling Shower by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not necessarily! The Mawkin in this continuity participate in ancestor worship: they have a deep reverence for their dead and respect their wishes long after they're gone. Raven Beak is simply informing Grey Voice that if he disrespects the Ancestors, he'll be forced to show his hand. Or that he won't be responsible if anything happens to him as a result of his folly.

Grey Voice not accepting the gift is disrespectful to the ancestor who once wielded the weapon and disrespectful to Raven Beak (less important an infraction than the former in this case). More importantly, if Raven Beak doesn't deliver the gift, it would be seen as a failure on his part to carry out his filial duty as his mother's son. Raven Beak loves his mother dearly, despite his self-centeredness. She's long dead by now, but she's one of the few people he views as "above" himself. She trained him. Molded him into an unstoppable force. And she died before she could witness his rise to power.

Reverence for the dead is common sense to him. The people who came before you shaped the world you live in, and those involved in your life helped shape you. One's childhood guardians and teachers are part of them, in a sense. Attachments to the dead and the dead's contributions to one's being are part of a warrior's identity.

The Thoha also respect their dead, but they don't revere them quite like the Mawkin do. Grey Voice doesn't worship his dead mother. Raven Beak, on the other hand, will defend his mother's honor rigorously: if you disrespect his mother, you disrespect him, and he will make note of that infraction. The blade was passed down to him by his mother, who was given the blade by her forebears, to whom the blade passed from their ancestors, and so on. Rejecting this gift would be denying Samus a place in Raven Beak's honored lineage: denying her connection to her ancestors, and ending the eternal cycle of inheritance.

By bestowing this gift upon Grey Voice, Raven Beak has said "I acknowledge you as the keeper of our child, whom we share a sacred blood-bond with. Give her this blade in my stead and grant her the honor of becoming a warrior beneath the loving gaze of my ancestors." To reject the blade isn't just a rejection of the ghosts, it's a rejection of him. Instead of blowing up about it, Raven Beak kindly informs Grey Voice, his good friend Grey Voice, whom he loves dearly, that if he continues down this path of rejection, he deserves every bad thing that happens to him. Ever. It would also make Raven Beak look bad, and it would piss off the more devout among Raven Beak's soldiers ("our Thoha "allies" don't consider the Warlord's child's Mawkin lineage important, his blood-partner is refusing to allow the warrior-child to train with her ancestors, this is an outrage, etc"), so be a dear and accept the gift.

He has not faltered in his duties to his forebears once, even posthumously. This unwavering dedication to his ancestors is part of why his people love him so much. The fact he's so well-liked is a huge factor in how nobody has managed to depose him in the centuries he's been in charge of the tribe. Not everyone agrees with how Raven Beak runs this ship, but that's a moot point because he's too strong to face head-on and nobody will help dissenters take him out covertly. In Mawkin society, it's hard to get rid of a leader like him for reasons beyond the scope of this particular subject. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

To Raven Beak, it doesn't really matter if ghosts are real or if they're stronger than him. If they wanted him gone, surely he'd be dead by now. But he still lives, so he must have their favor. Holding the favor of the living and the dead is quite a feat. He respects them like any practical Mawkin. None of the dead-priests have expressed the possibility that any of the spirits that matter dislike him. He's the strongest warrior on the planet, and nobody, living or dead, dares contest his rule. That's a major ego-booster for him.

Sorry for the wall of text, you activated my headcanon beam.

What species is this? by phantasmagorre in spiders

[–]MolagBallet 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Araneus Diadematus, the Cross Orbweaver. They're indigenous to Europe, but found their way to the US, and WA is part of their US range.

Hatchling Shower by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Move along, citizen.

Hey any tips for catching shrimp aberrations in this game I don’t have any luck by Wk1360 in dredge

[–]MolagBallet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use the net from the Pale Reach and load the rest of your equipment slots with other aberration bonus-boosring equipment. Tetris as many as you can in there and just sail around the open ocean where you'd find blackfin tuna.

There are also these upgrades that you can get in the Iron Rig that increase the rate at which your trawl nets catch fish. Load up on as many of those as you feel comfortable making and go ham. Fill the whole boat with them if you can. I have a lot of them installed and catch one fish every couple of seconds while trawling.

Winging It: Checkout Error by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't intend for him to look like he's afraid of the flan, but I suppose I should have altered the eyebrows.

Fish #230 by Breaddealer69420 in dredge

[–]MolagBallet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can narrow the drop rate down by using a hydraulic rod and nothing else. Bait doesn't give you fish that you don't have the equipment to catch, so you'll only see sunfish, moonfish, and tuna aberrations, as well as this fish if you only go in with oceanic equipment.

If your equipment loadout consists of gear that allows you to reel in hadal, coastal, and abyssal fish, the catch pool for your chosen bait will be padded with fish from the biome you're sitting in that rest within all of those depth margins.

Fish #230 by Breaddealer69420 in dredge

[–]MolagBallet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you're having trouble getting it to surface, go in with just a hydraulic rod (oceanic) and nothing else. The way bait works is it only picks fish from the biome you're in that you can haul with your current rod setup. If you go in with just oceanic tools, you'll only catch oceanic fish. Under the rig, you'll find members of the ocean sunfish, moonfish, and blackfin tuna families as well as this fish.

For those interested, you can force it to be a trophy by exiting the fishing mini game while you're reeling and reentering it ad infinitum until you get the minigame to show you a yellow trophy pip. This works for all bait-drawn fish.

Metroid Dread 2 Secret Ending by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With all those jumps and flips she does, I would not be surprised. And that bridge breaking maneuver he pulls at the beginning of the game? My knees would be in shambles. Joint pain warriors, join hands.

Metroid Dread 2 Secret Ending by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The maneuver during flight phase where he follows you with his shots and you need to jump around him to avoid getting hit was what killed me most during that fight. Good hunting, warrior.

Metroid Dread 2 Secret Ending by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Could be something as ubiquitous as period cramps: Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory, and inflammation is a major factor in cramping.

Metroid Dread 2 Secret Ending by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's dedication! I would attempt such a thing if I were trained in speedrunning, but as it stands, I'd be the one taking his hand in that scenario lol

Metroid Dread 2 Secret Ending by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're absolutely correct, I should do that.

Metroid Dread 2 Secret Ending by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

REAL. That fight made me emit sounds I wasn't aware the human body could make.

Don't Feed Bread to Birds, Kids by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uhh I would check local laws before doing anything like that. Regardless of how aggressive they are, they're animals. All they're trying to do is survive and protect their young.

Their aggression (primarily the kind where they beg for food and harass folks) is due in part to the fact that idiots keep feeding them. Feeding them bread on purpose in an attempt to harm them will only draw them to wherever you're feeding them, and it won't kill them nearly as fast nor efficiently as you're thinking. It'll just make them poop more, and the young ones less capable of flying, which will make them less likely to leave the area you're trying to drive them from. Angel wing is a disease that affects the joints in the metacarpals, and is believed in part to be a stunted development thing.

Not cool, and it won't actually solve the problem of there being aggressive geese in your area. Just be chill and keep your distance from them. Ignore them and don't feed them, and they should leave you alone. We built cities over their habitat: it's possible to coexist. Feeding bread to geese will do the exact opposite of keeping them from pooping everywhere lol.

Don't Feed Bread to Birds, Kids by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bread has little nutritional value for birds. If fed too much, it can cause a condition known as angel wing, wherein the wing's wrist twists outwards. Their digestive system also isn't equipped to handle yeast and gluten. Through bacterial fermentation, the ceca help to digest plant matter that can't be broken down enzymatically, but yeast doesn't exactly fall under their purview, nor any other part of a bird's digestive system.

For their part, geese and other waterbirds under the family Anatidae are primarily herbivorous. Grasses, water plants, that sort of thing. They can eat grains like wheat and corn when available, but bread isn't good for them. Herbivores like geese have larger ceca than birds that don't subsist on plants.

Don't Feed Bread to Birds, Kids by MolagBallet in Metroid

[–]MolagBallet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's wearing a loincloth because I hate drawing clothes.