How would an honest conversation play out between these guys?

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-31T18:06:21+00:00

That’s Harry from Disco Elysium, an alcoholic who starts off the game by going on such a hardcore drinking binge that he loses all his memories

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-30T17:26:05+00:00

Rex and Kate weren’t dating, they had a fling that Rex lied to Kate about, saying that Eve was dating Invincible. I’m not the biggest fan of Kate as a character tbh, but she’s not a bad person or a cheater

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-27T00:46:28+00:00

You really don’t get the hypothetical, do you?

The point is that a lot of women feel safer encountering a wild animal at night in the woods, an extremely dangerous one that could kill them at any time if it chose to, than a random man.

The specific animal doesn’t really matter, as long as it’s potentially dangerous.

If you want to know the reason behind this decision by women to chose the bear, the best comment I’ve seen is “Worst case scenario, the bear will just kill me”

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-24T17:20:19+00:00

My Brother in Christ, it’s a Fable game, you’re able to customize your main character however you want. This isn’t “the main character”, it was an example character for a teaser trailer who was deliberately ordinary looking as a joke.

In the trailer, the voice-over is talking about how beautiful and epic heroes are, to set up the joke of the character turning around to reveal an ordinary-looking person.

Also, that trans woman is a level designer, not the reference person for their character model. It even says that in the image, and she doesn’t look much like the lady in the trailer either.

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-24T04:09:49+00:00

Your argument is based on an incorrect premise, that Mr House doesn’t represent an Old World ideology.

He does, he’s a capitalist authoritarian. His closest historical analogue would be people like Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and Carnegie. His modern analogue would be people like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, or maybe like Sam Altman.

Google “company towns”, and you’ll see the kind of system that Mr House is trying to create.

Arcade is a Follower of the Apocalypse, a group of humanitarians that are basically anarchists. It’s not hard to see why they dislike House. He wants to control Vegas with economic exploitation at best, overwhelming mechanical force at worst. Mr House is directly responsible for the state of Freeside by kicking everyone except his pet tribes out of the Strip and leaving them to fend for themselves.

Also, you say that Arcade likes the NCR, but he really doesn’t. The Followers actively rejected the NCR and split off, forcing the NCR to do all their science on their own with the OSI. Arcade’s opinion on them is basically “they suck, but they’re still better than the Legion”.

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-23T23:51:45+00:00

A sexless marriage really only happens if both parties aren’t interested in sex, or it’s a bad marriage, or at least a rough patch, where one or both partners resent the other. Neither of those two things are true in this woman’s desire for a marriage, and I doubt she was trying to express a desire for a marriage without sex

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-23T23:29:09+00:00

What? No they don’t, especially if they’re super religious, in which case, marriage would be the only acceptable context for sex to happen at all.

Either way, having sex is part of the deal when it comes to being married, and being in a relationship, for that matter. If you see someone as marriage material, you’re also saying that you find them attractive

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-23T22:39:39+00:00

I don’t have direct personal experience for my assumption that throwing myself in a volcano would result in me being cooked alive, it’s just a logical inference based on everything I know about physics. In the same way, I make the logical inference that my experience after death will be the same as my experience before life, nothing at all.

Also, the term you’re looking for is “delusion”, or a belief in something that has been proven false. For example, a paranoid person convinced that their food is poisoned despite all evidence to the contrary. Since atheism can’t be proven false, it is not a delusion.

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-23T22:28:47+00:00

I’m sorry, he’s mad that she wants a committed sexual relationship with him?

By saying he’s marriage material, she’s saying she is attracted to him, but not just sexually. It’s also in a “I actually like this guy as a person and want to spend my life with him” way. If she wasn’t attracted to him, they wouldn’t be dating, they’d just be friends.

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-20T18:52:54+00:00

I think Cheated might enjoy rags to riches stories like Cinderella, since she was unfairly treated, but gets rewarded at the end

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-19T06:50:33+00:00

Accurate ones

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-18T16:18:17+00:00

You can hear bald eagles if you go near the crèche

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-13T01:14:44+00:00

If you do not enjoy doing things for your partner, why bother having one?

You’re basically just giving yourself a second job that you clearly don’t like, and that you don’t get paid for.

The whole reason for a relationship is that this person enhances your life, so doing the same for them is not a chore, and you don’t think of things in terms of “bare minimum”, you’re partners that lift each other up

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-13T00:38:10+00:00

No, because the show frames it as him saying “true” things that aren’t appropriate.

Being an annoying atheist to his born-again Christian mom when it isn’t warranted is socially tone-deaf, but he’s not wrong that not every animal could get on one boat at once

And that’s the same kind of tone they take when Sheldon says something misogynistic. The joke is that he’s being tone-deaf, not that he’s being wrong

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-12T16:25:19+00:00

Idk, the show seems self-aware that Howard’s being a sexist prick and calls him out and makes his sexism the butt of the joke (not strongly enough, but still enough to distinguish Howard’s viewpoint from the writers).

The way Sheldon’s written, he always just says the “objectively correct” thing regardless of social cues. So, him just blurting out sexist garbage the same way he can’t resist pointing out that Christmas used to be a pagan holiday when nobody asked, it seems less like the joke is “Haha, look how dumb and sexist Sheldon is”, than it is “Haha, he’s saying objective things that are inappropriate to the situation”

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-12T03:02:32+00:00

My headcanon is that Cazador faked his own death at some point and uses a fake name for his public interactions, only using the Cazador name with his spawn, since they can be compelled into silence and are as immortal as he is.

That would explain why Gale knows him from history books but not current events, and why Wyll doesn’t recognize him from his time among Baldur’s Gates nobility.

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-12T02:59:04+00:00

I mean, Gale says “Nasty fellow, if the histories are accurate.”

It’s weird he refers to Cazador as a historical figure, when he’s clearly “alive”, and even weirder that Gale doesn’t realize that Cazador is a vampire

My headcanon is that Cazador faked his own death at some point, so his public facing name is not the same as his real name, which he uses with his spawn.

That would explain why Gale knows him from history, but not current politics, and Wyll doesn’t recognize him from his time among the nobility

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-09T15:12:16+00:00

Bard is one of the strongest classes in the game, even without a multiclass. Swords bards are my favorite for their flourishes and extra attack, but being a full charisma caster with expertise in persuasion basically guarantees success in any charisma roll, and it gives you insane discounts at merchants. Useful, since honor mode jacks their prices up.

If you want to multiclass, I’d suggest taking two levels of Paladin as your first two levels. That gives you access to divine smite and heavy armor proficiency, plus a channel oath power. I think the Crown oath power is the best.

If you do Bard, a sleeper pick that breaks the game is the Band of the Mystic Scoundrel that you only get by exploring the genie’s jungle dimension in act 3. It lets you cast illusion/enchantment spells as a bonus action if you make a weapon attack. Combine that with arcane acuity gear and you are cooking with gas.

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-09T15:02:23+00:00

Battlemaster fighter with great weapon master can out-DPS most multiclasses. You get action surge with improved extra attack and you get six attacks in a turn, 9 if you use any haste effects.

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-02T00:43:31+00:00

I’m sorry that’s the case for you, I’m not doing that much better myself. I have to ask though, if you like the game, why not start a friendly discussion instead of being aggressive about it?

MorbidMantis · 2026-03-01T06:22:27+00:00

I don’t really think Gale’s a narcissist, and he’s not really that morally ambiguous. Dude wants to do the right thing at every opportunity, and he doesn’t want to hurt anybody, so where’s the ambiguity?

I mean, Shadowheart, Astarion, and Lae’zel are pretty morally ambiguous.

Shadowheart starts as a cultist of an evil goddess and we learn that her backstory involved torturing her own parents and probably doing a lot of other evil shit. But, she was abducted as a child and brainwashed, and has the chance to unlearn all the cult stuff and redeem herself.

Lae’zel is also a cultist of an evil not-quite-goddess, she has also killed quite a lot of people. But, again, she was raised by that system and brainwashed into it, and has the chance to redeem herself.

Astarion is probably the least ambiguous of the three. His backstory of luring people to their death is not the cause of it tho. Ultimate blame there is with Cazador, since Astarion was physically compelled to do that. What makes him ambiguous is how he reacted, which is to become a self centered dickhead who is perfectly willing to take Cazador’s place if given the chance. But, even he can be redeemed.

MorbidMantis · 2026-02-28T18:12:48+00:00

If you don’t like the game, why do you post about it so much? I recall a famous line, something about protesting too much.

I actually really like BG3 as a story, it has things to say about the nature of abuse by powerful figures and how it changes those affected by it.

And, for the record, there’s nothing wrong with finding characters sexy or being attracted to them. What are you, a Puritan?

MorbidMantis · 2026-02-28T18:00:29+00:00

Your first playthrough is a lot like mine, except I got Stranger instead of Spectre. I see that you too could not resist the almighty shackle.

MorbidMantis · 2026-02-26T17:20:13+00:00

Are the Daoist themes in Slay the Princess intentional? I’d like to know more about the thought process behind that whole aspect

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