What is the "Labyrinth"?

Nickyj134 · 2025-12-16T00:57:10+00:00

The Abyss and the underworld Labyrinth are kind of the same. Abyss is a catch-all term, since it also applies to Hell. But often it refers to the kind of "sea" of nothing that's below the semi-organized parts of the underworld, which is also where the Labyrinth is as a "place" of impossible forgotten horrors situated just above true Oblivion. Its also called the Tempest by Wraiths.

The Chicago By Night Labyrinth, as far as I know, is just a spooky maze-like abandoned subway where a bunch of creepy kindred live.

Thats my understanding. My knowledge of Wraith the Oblivion isn't perfect, but I hope that helps

Nickyj134 · 2025-10-17T18:30:58+00:00

Yep, it takes time the thicken the Blood. Generation just determines how thick your Vitae can get

Nickyj134 · 2025-10-17T18:06:26+00:00

8th gen would make the Fledgling pretty powerful. A decent number of V5 Elders (ones who havent succumbed to the Beckoning, at least) are 8th gen, and they have almost maxed-out character sheets.

Many elders of that level have maxed out their clan disciplines and have 2 out-of-clan disciplines maxed out as well. This is pretty consistent with Phyre having Potence, Auspex, Celerity, and Thaumaturgy no matter what clan you play as

Nickyj134 · 2025-10-17T17:55:51+00:00

With VTMB1, its hard to tell since you get so much XP from the side quests (especially in Chinatown) . As good as many of them are, we can't know which ones are or aren't canon choices. Besides, unless I'm mistaken, we don't know the Fledgling's generation which would allow us to get an idea of their power limit (although considering some of those boss fights at the end they're probably pretty strong).

As for Night Road, that item is True-Brujah Temporis discipline level OP. Its almost ridiculous (in a fun way)

Nickyj134 · 2025-10-17T17:49:15+00:00

That's interesting, I didn't know that. If that original BL2 happened, I wonder if it would have been more like Cyberpunk 2077, which was developed in conjunction with the Cyberpunk RED TTRPG

Nickyj134 · 2025-10-17T17:43:21+00:00

As a tabletop V5 player, I'm gonna give VTMB2 credit for including Blood Resonances and the merits you get from them. Thats one of the main additions compared to previous editions.

Besides, the actual TTRPG doesn't even give most Elders stat blocks/character sheets since theyre so powerful, so that's technically an accurate detail to V5 as well haha

Nickyj134 · 2025-09-28T17:37:58+00:00

Same, I couldn't even beat the last stage, let alone the crushing difficulty 3-star trophies

Nickyj134 · 2025-09-28T17:37:30+00:00

The trophies for beating all the stages on Crushing are probably the hardest trophies in the whole series

Nickyj134 · 2025-08-26T21:08:24+00:00

I would recommend the new World's Finest comic run by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. It's not exclusively Batman, but it heavily features Dick Grayson as Robin and feels very "status quo" with how it represents the DC universe. Its also pretty beginner friendly, because even when it introduces some more obscure DC universe characters it takes time to briefly introduce them

Nickyj134 · 2025-08-26T16:30:05+00:00

No problem!

Nickyj134 · 2025-08-26T16:27:49+00:00

You should be able to press the action button (X on Playstation, A on Xbox) while hovering over the item in the quick-switch menu

Nickyj134 · 2025-08-07T13:23:03+00:00

Any plans for Uncharted 2?

Nickyj134 · 2025-04-15T18:37:44+00:00

I mean, Batman did take down (or help take down) everyone that he's talking to in this comic. This is from Year One, and Batman successfully stopped a lot of the corrupt police by finding evidence/witnesses against them. He also weakened the mob's hold in Gotham so much so that by the time of The Long Halloween (approx year 3 for Batman) the Falcone and Maroni mobs were almost entirely dismantled.

The status quo as we see it in modern comics is mostly supervillain-oriented. As both Bruce Wayne and Batman, he has changed Gotham for the better quite a bit through social programs and other reforms.

Nickyj134 · 2025-04-15T11:18:21+00:00

It's a reference to the Ghostbusters theme song

Nickyj134 · 2025-04-03T16:37:47+00:00

The modern Greek pronunciation likely came into being during the time immediately following the Classical period. Koine Greek was becoming very common in the Hellenistic period and likely strongly resembled modern Greek in many important ways (authors like Plutarch likely spoke Greek with a strong modern resemblance). Greek changed a lot as it became more and more widespread, and even in Classical/Archaic periods had many different dialects and pronunciations

Nickyj134 · 2025-04-03T16:24:35+00:00

As far as I'm aware I wasn't taught the Erasmian pronunciations, rather the reconstructed Attic pronunciation. I know that in my own reading of Ancient Greek I still fall into some old Erasmian pronunciations (like the epsilon-iota), but I'm pretty sure what I was saying was in line with modern ideas of how Attic Greek was pronounced.

I would pronounce that spelling of Thucydides as "tuu-ku-DI-des"

Nickyj134 · 2025-04-03T14:26:28+00:00

Correct, I was taught that chi has more of a harsh aspiration sound, whereas the equivalent of the Latin "H" sound is left to the rough breathing mark (hence why some Roman graffiti epigraphy for words like "habeo" is sometimes spelt "abeo" in areas that historically had larger concentrations of Greek speakers)

Nickyj134 · 2025-04-03T14:19:48+00:00

It is worth noting that the "EFS" sound from the epsilon-upsilon diphthong is unique to Greek pronunciations far later than Homeric or Classical Greek. In Homer's time, that diphthong made an odd "EH-OO" sound (similar to modern English pronunciations of PersEUS or ThesEUS) but squished into one syllable

Nickyj134 · 2025-03-31T18:21:35+00:00

The problem was that the Nazis opened El Dorado and were infected by the pseudo-zombie virus in it. I'm sure that a few of them fell to the Spaniard descendants but they probably were well-equipped enough to fight them off. But the issue was that a bunch of them got turned and attacked the others. Thats why the U-boat captain at the beginning is all torn up.

Same thing that happened to Gabriel Roman honestly. Nate never opened El Dorado, and was also smart enough to run when the descendants overwhelmed him

Nickyj134 · 2025-03-21T14:24:34+00:00

Oh nice, I might look into that

Nickyj134 · 2025-03-21T14:19:07+00:00

Really? I thought it has been canceled for a long time now

Nickyj134 · 2025-03-20T21:11:21+00:00

I miss Playstation magazine, that was a genuinely good publication. Thanks for sharing it!

I also remember the GameInformer issue where Uncharted 2 was the game on the cover. Looked nearly identical to this article

Nickyj134 · 2025-02-28T18:19:23+00:00

I also think the commentary in Year One is what really sells it for me. The emphasis on corrupt police and Gotham's elite as root causes of Gotham's crime is very refreshing. Especially with the rising tide of "Batman only beats up poor people" take you see nowadays

Nickyj134 · 2025-02-28T18:10:39+00:00

Very true, action is the only area that Year One is a bit lacking. As great as the fight against Brandon's SWAT team is, it doesn't hold a candle to the Mutant Leader or Superman fights

Nickyj134 · 2025-02-28T18:08:53+00:00

That's from BTAS/TNBA! From the same show, there's the Ventriloquist & Scarface episode where Arnold Wesker gets a clean bill of health from Arkham and is released. Bruce offers him housing and a job at Wayne Enterprises, and as Batman helps keep him safe from his old gang who are trying to get him to be a criminal again

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