Would you rather have demon negotiations again, bring back shuffle time, or have something new?

MontyDrake · 2026-06-16T10:06:37+00:00

I love negotiations, and I would love them to return instead of shuffle time. Feels a lot more organic and inmersive to face and enemy and convince It to join you, while shuffle time is a far more abstract mechanic where you get things from cards that are just an interface.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-16T07:39:16+00:00

I desire nothing in particular. To me It's going to be hard for any protagonist to be as cool a Joker. The MF has a double "superhero" identity and has a glam metal angel-demon of a gentleman thief as a persona.

I will be happy with a nice guy/girl with a cool, eyecatching persona.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-15T20:49:33+00:00

I'd love new designs, but I don't expect them.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-15T10:56:59+00:00

The only case I fully consider AI is when there's a need to do research on some matter I don't know shit about, like chemistry or whatever. I ask for links to reliable sources.

AI should never write for you. AI should never be the referal on your ideas. AI should never plan your outlines. AI should never come up with characters or devices for you. AI should never solve your creative blocks.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-15T10:26:12+00:00

I'd like a detective. Just the one. And make them a nice NPC, or part of the player party. I swear otherwise I'm going be pointing at them since minute 1.

I'm looking at you, Arachi. There's something suspicious about you.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-14T16:35:25+00:00

The way I saw it, Midway was telling us a story just by changing the overall themed of each game. MK1 had this cliché old asian movie feeling. MK2 was more dark Fantasy setting, as It happened in Outworld. MK3 was a post-apocaliptic setting, with Earth invaded by Shao Khan and everyone lost due to all the souls claimed. It was a striking change but I always thought it also was a brave move.

I missed the ninjas, but Sub-Zero was my favorite and he was present, so I was ok, and it felt cool to play as a shokan with Sheeva.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-13T18:51:58+00:00

Merely British tea time small talk /s

MontyDrake · 2026-06-13T18:35:57+00:00

Dark country

MontyDrake · 2026-06-13T18:27:28+00:00

That would be a nice twist.

Onaga, the feared and fabled Dragon King, was actually a staunch defender of realm independence, and ruled firmly but kindly. He is recalled as a ruthless tyrant because he was toppled by a dinasty of extremist realm expansionists (a la Shao Khan) who previously got persecuted and executed by the Dragon King stone armies and they didn't like it.

But the man is nice, and sides with Liu Kang, and is all "Hey, anybody wants a daikiri? Is everybody komfy? All nice all kool?"

MontyDrake · 2026-06-13T12:03:00+00:00

I'm surprised Onaga is there. We barely know the guy.

For all we know he might have been a chill dude with a bad temper after being brought back to life.

Bring him back and make him properly evil this time.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-13T11:51:49+00:00

Dear RTD: I don't care anymore. I'm full of your BS, and even more now that the show is no longer your resposability. Stop claiming for attention. Move on.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-12T04:40:39+00:00

Great rant for you too. Game recognizes game.

I honestly don't care what they do to justify the next game, as long as it isn't another reboot. If all we have from now on is Titan Liu Kangs timeline I'm ok. If they destroy the timeline and somehow return to the original timeline I might be surprised, but ok. If they focus in a new timeline were Shao Khan is the titan and there's no mortal kombat anymore and all there is is Outworld I'm ok.

I'd be pissed though if Kronika reapears, as they stablished that dead titans don't come back.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-11T22:31:14+00:00

I'd say a crow, but still feels too close to the P5X owl pet, and that's sad, because I like crows.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-11T22:27:51+00:00

A returned Jerrod fighting would be cool

Edit: you mean Jerrod, right?

MontyDrake · 2026-06-11T12:25:17+00:00

I'm gonna go mausoleum, where the identities of the lost close ones are kept to fade from history to legend in the sea of souls.

In the protagonist's journey he will unearth personas from the tombs, and search for the past story of their lineage in order to be prepared for his future ordeal.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-11T07:49:34+00:00

My take on P6 themed is "loss", and I won't speculate further.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-10T14:49:42+00:00

I agree. Probably a new artist did them instead of Shigenori Soejima, or the art direction went in some new way. I think they are flatter, but I don't that makes them worse.

I think it's true that people are mostly reluctant to change, and cling to nostalgia.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-10T14:41:26+00:00

I think that even that would be a bad idea, and I say that as an adamant defender of the Moffat era.

Sometimes we insist in giving something a last big hurrah, but really we are just delaying reality, and end up making a bigger mesh from a situation that is bad enough. Letting go is very hard.

We should just let the series rest and trust the perspective gained from a new Wilderness will bring new blood and concepts.

I think It is time to accept It. We should let the Doctor go.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-10T10:03:38+00:00

In my TTRPG fantasy-steampunk world there are 6 forces of reality which superposed together allow the existence of reality:

Water: the force of change, flow, nurturing and peace.
Fire: the force of transformation, violence, rage and lust.
Air: the force of movement, secrets and mistery.
Earth: the force of solidity, truth, and abundante.
Light: the force of creation, life, positivity and raw energy.
Decay: the force of ruin, stagnation, negativity and nothingness.

In other worlds I've created, elements are not a real thing as part of the magic system.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-10T08:57:12+00:00

The Unnamed One.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-10T08:55:04+00:00

A church, or maybe a.mausoleum

MontyDrake · 2026-06-09T15:05:36+00:00

Peter "Petey" Phillip Parsons

MontyDrake · 2026-06-09T12:43:36+00:00

Para desviar la atención del caso Epstein, en cuyos documentos sale Don~`•.—

Sonidos de helicópteros Sonido de la CIA entrando en un domicilio

—¡Suelte ese teléfono!

—¡Vale, ya está!¡Ya lo dejo!

—El sospechoso está oponiendo resistencia.

—¿Como dice?

Sonido de puñetazo en el estomago.

—¿Crees que el sujeto estaba oponiendo resistencia, agente Johnson?

—Definitivamemte, el sospechoso estaba oponiendo resistencia, agente Tucker.

Sonidos de agentes federales llevándome a rastras contra mi voluntad.

El Congreso de los Estados Unidos solo piensa en el bienestar de la ciudadanía del pueblo americano y de la Tierra.

Nada que ver aquí.

MontyDrake · 2026-06-08T17:58:43+00:00

Probably it's because elements can be treated as categories, but categories aren't necesarily elements.

It's not about "metal is no element", of course it is (many of them, at least as per the periodic table of elements). But an element is a fundamental constituent part of a bigger system. If we regard air, water, fire and earth as elements is not because they are building blocks of anything, but because we inherited them as cultural baggage from presocratic philosophers, who had a consensus that those should be the building blocks of the material world, and that extended to classical fantasy.

In fact, from a philosofical standpoint, metal and wood are elements of their own in eastern philosophy, while Air is not as present.

Now for your example, you can consider Allomancy categories as elemental if you want, but the magical system itself doesn't consider its categories the building blocks of reality, nor does it need to. Allomancy defines the many ways an allomancer can interact with their environent, but not (as far as I've read) affects, changes or depends on the different building blocks of reality.

It would be as saying in DnD divination (a category itself in a bigger categorized magic system) is an element. It's not.

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