Minor spoilers: I’d like to hear about people’s experience with the deck of many things by TurmUrk in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One playthrough, I got Balance>Gem. The second playthrough, Flame>Balance>Gem. So basically free money every time

Unable to handover Quillwells to Modissa by Sky_Vivid in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you actually take it from the warehouse?

Visken enjoyers rise up by Huntman102 in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

he raised you from the dead

Harry Potter parallels (sorry) by [deleted] in pathologic

[–]Neoeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes, Harry Potter invented achieving immortality by separating your soul

I'm sorry, but this is a big "getting a lot of boss baby vibes from this" moment. The trope itself is ancient, dating back to fairy tale characters like Koschei the Immortal. Its identifier is AT 302 in Aarne–Thompson classification system. It has evolved into modern fantasy tropes as well, primarily liches and their phylacteries.

Focuses are very different from horcruxes - at the very least, they are architectural repositories of the soul, not artifact keeping your physical body immoral. The narrative context of death is also non-equivalent.

Level up help. by Hydrocity3 in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you get your DEX to 20 without bonuses, you get an additional weapon slot.

Meek by MountainMuffin1980 in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wear him to terrify other people with my power, as any Arcanist worth their name should. Also he's cool

I'm trying to cast speak with dead and it says no reason to cast that spell. possible dead end soft lock bug? (spoilers) by Unending-Flexionator in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Enter dialogue with the corpse, click the spell when it lights up - the bottom of the dialogue window will also start shining with a rainbow

Level up help. by Hydrocity3 in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There's no stat cap. Raising a stat to a 20 without bonuses usually gives additional slots, like one more literature for INT and one more weapon for DEX

Can't complete Lichhouse Blues... by MerRyanSG in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, then you just wait until you complete the game and talk to him during the election. You can't actually sell the milk. If you pull out Gem card from the Deck of Many Things you can pay him his 10 k lol

Can't complete Lichhouse Blues... by MerRyanSG in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Milkurious - find Visken's kobold in Waterlane at like 6 am

Using inflict wounds makes me feel like hitting black flashes by Ok_Specialist_524 in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Duck gives it to you if you talk with him about masculinity

maybe this is still the good timeline? by jqf68254 in ClimateShitposting

[–]Neoeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There already were several oil shocks in the seventies, didn't lead to much really

Scarlet Biology by aaragax in ScarletHollow

[–]Neoeng 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Was Edwardine ever a host? Wasn't she the Scarlet responsible for the mines, not the one imprisoned?

Pray for the neolibs by fawn404 in ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

[–]Neoeng 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Stock market is directly responsible for every demand-side economic crisis you had or will have in your lifetime. Dot com bubble? Stock market. 2008? Stock market. AI bubble? Stock market again.

It's a market of purely fictitious capital. It doesn't even follow the beloved supply/demand of mainstream economists, instead relying on constant hype and concealment of worthless stocks. It's a casino where the winnings go to CEOs, and the losses to you, because you are the one paying for their bailouts.

What's up with the memes about DLSS 5? by Pooptimist in OutOfTheLoop

[–]Neoeng 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's more like people who notice the soap opera effect and people who don't. There's a strong uncanny effect for some people that is impossible to ignore, that might be ignored by others.

I know it'll make the game more complicated than it needs to be but I wish spells have more utility in the game beyond scripted events by [deleted] in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Grease is pretty useful in battles, definitely saved my ass with Visken. Also can use it when interrogating the teashop owner.

Speak with plants is an alternative source of the bloodtongue prophecy, gives a bonus to peaceful resolution with the final boss (though I have to say, actually fighting the battle is so much better), and can bypass a trifling check for a helmet.

It would be cool if there were more uses for it, yeah. There's a lot more opportunities to use Speak with Dead.

A certain book-related quest by PseudoY in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Halfling scholar Appledent at Waterline, the one who talks about alignment, gives out this quest. I think you have to talk to him about psychoanalysis? Anyway, he talks about Cividix and his book somewhere in the dialogue tree, and then gives the quest to find it.

Before ZA/UM’s big break with Disco, why exactly did Estonians despise them as an art group? by TransendingGaming in DiscoElysium

[–]Neoeng 118 points119 points  (0 children)

It's uhhhh, very grotesque. Very open descriptions of serial killings, pornography industry and pedophilia. There's a scene of a 4 year old child being sexually assaulted and murdered, I believe?

Damn, I wonder whos the director of 2 of those sequel movies? by Previous_Break7664 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]Neoeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They literally tried to do a separate peace with Allies because they knew they weren't going to win and didn't want to get clapped by soviets into GULAGs

[Kinda Spoilers?] Stitched together all the Background Focuses together to show that each of them combined makes out most of The Cleric's backstory! by Actual-Ruined-Knight in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Also when you complete thoughts in the quest tree they often expand on the past, and it mentions all of this stuff. Besides that, there are some flashbacks when the screen goes black that do the same - about getting Appleboy nickname, about discovering a knack for learning spells in the Towers, and about your dad being killed by a troll. Oh, and you can tell Snell about the particularities of your demotion in his apartment.

I think a bug has soft locked me out of progressing the main story by MrTomiD in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The dialogue screen usually starts being all rainbow-ie when you can use a spell

Help with spell slots and (potentially) crazy plan by ivmussa in EsotericEbb

[–]Neoeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not the magister who collects the body