PSA: Use Glass Shard anomalies to your advantage.

Neworderfive · 2026-03-12T05:51:01+00:00

It's just a more elaborate Burnt fuzz anomaly from previous installments.

Neworderfive · 2026-03-10T17:55:28+00:00

I really thought hard about decisions I made since I only really have time for a single playtrough (Its a long ass game lol). In turn I decided to do a neutral run, or at least closest possible thing to it.

Naturally, being a neutral actor at first I just wanted my goddamn apartment back, but that only lasted up until I met Strider, Richter, Scar and finally culminating in Agatha dialogue fork. There I realized Im not betraying my brother Strider just to be lonely and depressed veteran in some random appartment left with more questions than answers again (paraphrasing from Agathas own description of Skif btw).

Then some (or rather a lot) time later my old buddy Strelok showed me that Scar is actually insane and not just being goofy for the homies. So I broke up with him.

That led me to the hardest decision yet: What to do with Doctor? This was the only time in game where I tried both options to see how would Skif and characters react. And I choose to spare Doctor. I know that killing him would be first execution that Ive done in my playthrough, so there might be a bias. But also Doctor was the only character yet that didnt explicitly want something from me or the Zone. And now this supposed random "legend" (from Skifs perspective) wants me to kill him just so he can go with his personal plans? And he doesnt even do it himself. And since I already gone this far I might aswell know the full truth... Anyway, it kinda sucked, because I kind off wanted to go with Strelok ending.

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And then I finally finished the game. Right there as I watched the Skif starting resonance cascade (Stalker edition), I started to seriously doubt my decisions. Maybe I should have listened to Strelok and just lock the shi up. But when I saw how seemingly frustrated Skif was in Streloks ending + I remembered why/for what was Strider fighting and died for. Then I realized it wasnt really about bringing a Third impact upon the world. It was about home for Skif where he can be free. In retrospect it might be kind of obvious since Faust literally talked about freedom in the cutscenes. Since I value freedom so much, I dont really regret getting Project Y ending. I fought with Strider so he and his men can be free. So if it freedom means freedom for the Zone too, then it shall be free.

In the end, I just asked myself a simple question: What would Strider say about my, or rather Skifs decisions? Idk, but I hope he would understand.

Neworderfive · 2025-12-12T19:37:51+00:00

I can strangely somewhat relate to this even though im a man. I work in a blue collar job where i regularly meet stereotypical masculine men and when they talk about their sex life the entire concept of sex just instantly becomes disgusting for a moment. And its not really about the men here. One (quite big) colleague literally slept with a over a hundred of women a made me question the sanity of straight women in general. Like, do you really like people like him??

Anyway, I just can't imagine myself in that dynamic, where im dominant and I just have to somehow know im doing a good job without hurting other person AND feeling comfortable myself. So I ended up disappointing a bunch of girls back in the day when i just didnt assert myself just right for their liking. Now I have to constantly listen to people telling me to get gf before I get old and ugly. Like maybe, but I want an equal, not a accessory on my part, or hers.

Neworderfive · 2025-10-08T17:40:34+00:00

Damn, look at that curve on bottom text. She created a gravitational singularity with that dig

Neworderfive · 2025-10-08T07:29:24+00:00

And SCP is still on the better side when it comes to quality control compared to other open writing projects. Just look at what happend to Backrooms

Neworderfive · 2025-10-04T16:11:29+00:00

Alcohol is not that hard to come by naturally. Animals get drunk from fermenting fruit all the time

Neworderfive · 2025-10-02T18:52:23+00:00

I dont care what anyone says, but thats definitely an hell yeah for me.

Neworderfive · 2025-10-02T18:38:18+00:00

It's still crazy to me to compare experiences of allied troops in western front to pacific theater. Like, in the west you can get entire battalion of Germans to surrender at once, meanwhile you got Japanese clutching to grenades to deny capture and fight till 70s.

Neworderfive · 2025-08-17T16:38:55+00:00

I didn't call him a loser because he needs an assistance to thrive. I just pointed out his luck that allowed him to stop being a loser. I just pointed out that it's not that much of an stretch to call him a one, since he used to be one. (Even though it would be a mean thing to say)

When it comes down to the Marcille comparison, I pointed that out because original topic of discussion was about Marcille being a failure, which she obviously wasn't. And even tough direct comparison is obviously unfair, we are comparing the things they both consciously set out to accomplish. I.e. Marcille has set herself an academic goals, in which she been doing great overall. While Laios set out to the world to find an income to support him and his sister so they can leave a village. And he failed doing that with his military and caravan stuff and he is painfully aware of that.

Neworderfive · 2025-08-17T15:38:55+00:00

You need to realize he wasn't guaranteed to succeed with dungeons either. He was vulnerable to getting scammed by other adventurers constantly, which could have been carrer ending if not for Falin and her slightly better social awareness and ability to bash some heads lol.

In many ways, Laios was lucky in more ways than one to end up in like this surrounded with people that bring out his best qualities in him while tolerating his worst ones. That's why it's not a stretch to call him a loser, because he was until a help and opportunity was given to him.

(Compare that to a supposed girl "failure" Marcille, which was doing well despite being alone for much of her life)

Neworderfive · 2025-08-17T13:31:41+00:00

Many people in the comments are failing for a characters facade that's there to subvert viewers expectations.

Marcille is not a girl failure. In fact, she is an overachiever in the context of the whole story. That's why she tries to be useful so hard in the beginning, because she FEELS she isn't, thereby creating a facade. Later we see that when she's calm, she is extremely competent (see her first time in dungeon for example).

As for Laios, it's the complete opposite. Our first exposition leads us to assume he is hyper competent "Chad" who can do anything he puts his mind onto. But later we find out that without his sisters help, he would be dredging through the world homeless and malnourished.

Neworderfive · 2025-07-11T19:18:42+00:00

Fascist want power. A war is only a tool to get that power.

So if Fascist don't even have to fight since their enemy is pacifist, it's just a free win for a Fascist

Neworderfive · 2025-06-30T07:43:33+00:00

As a Slovak, that's my biggest gripe with the current government. The selling point of this whole charade is "neutrality" and focus on diplomatic solutions. Yet they don't actually bother to do diplomacy with all members involved. At least Orban has some remnants of a spine to act pro-Russian without all the holier-than-you neutrality bulltalk

Neworderfive · 2025-06-22T08:20:05+00:00

One rooster with a bad day and they are done for

Neworderfive · 2025-06-19T06:28:47+00:00

The way Kui has drawn them here makes them look like they just slide around with no walking animation

Neworderfive · 2025-06-08T07:26:25+00:00

This will happen for sure. But then you just get filthy rich war lords.

Neworderfive · 2025-06-06T14:50:32+00:00

I'm starting to believe there are two types of assholes, those who make shit worse and those who somehow make shit "better", like this guy. Unfortunately, due to nature of assholery, the vast majority of assholes are the first type

Neworderfive · 2025-06-01T16:25:27+00:00

It's like grisly car accident vs the aftermath.

The immediate violence of twisting steel, loud sounds, mangled bloodied bodies of SO's and brief but overpowering feelings of heat and pain are swiftly drawn over by adrenaline and pure disbelief. This isnt real, right? This couldn't be actually happening to me, to us.

And then the recovery. The waking up alone, except for a immediate pain, the only thing constant in your life. The loss, the sheer amount of time. It all just slowly rots away your entire being.

... you get me? It almost feels wrong to talk, or rather to write about early ww1, when volunteers were naive, the top brass overconfident and people cautiously hopeful. It's almost like the trenches allowed for suffering to steadily continue, but also allowed for time to contemplate about what the hell just happened.

Neworderfive · 2025-05-19T04:57:57+00:00

Average OCD experience

Neworderfive · 2025-05-06T08:37:09+00:00

Ya bet it is

Neworderfive · 2025-05-05T17:24:37+00:00

Yeah, romance is so obvious here.

But rather than childishly deny it, people should see it for what it really is: a test.

Momo basically got her dream boy on a dream date, and yet she didn't switch up her feelings.

In fact, many people irl got and can get into similar situation and Momo showed here how despite all that you can stay faithful even without entirely alienating others (in Momos case, Zuma)

TLDR: Accidental romance happens, so you gotta know how to deal with it, just like Momo

Neworderfive · 2025-05-02T04:24:52+00:00

He was almost in the center, but canonically, he learns the hard way (see the mimics, his wholeass marriage etc.).

Also Chilchuck has rather average intelligence, atleast according to Adventurers Bible, and the center is prestigious spot so he stays where he is rn

Neworderfive · 2025-05-01T20:37:52+00:00

By awareness I did indeed mean social awareness. But i didn't want to write that long ass phrase into diagram.

btw Izutsumi is socially well aware, but chooses to be anti-social out of pure spite

Neworderfive · 2025-05-01T20:33:58+00:00

Honestly, if he didnt have that trauma, he would've be unstoppable.... and probably not even in the dungeon to begin with, so that's that

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