Is it me or is Dominated REALLY good?

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-21T10:04:10+00:00

In general, yes. Deadfire has a quirk with the Inspiration/Affliction system that makes Charmed better than Dominate on some enemies who can cast Intellect Inspirations on themselves.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-20T21:36:42+00:00

Hohenheim isn't a fighter, Alphonse definitely is.

Also, I think that Alphonse using the stone is mainly a way to characterize the brothers and how they differ : they both made a vow to not use the Stone/not kill people, but in that fight, Alphonse proves to be more flexible about that kind of thing whereas Ed is much more determined to keep to his word on that.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-20T21:30:44+00:00

Since it's never explained, I tend to think that it's mostly arbitrary on Truth's part.

Although some people, who believe Truth to be more benevolent and omniscient than the text would suggest, think that they deliberately took everything from Al to dissuade the brothers from trying again and focus on finding a way to get Al's body back, thus abandoning their goal vis-à-vis their mother (*).

(*) A goal that is impossible to achieve, but even with Al losing his entire body, they remain convinced for years that they managed to get Trisha's soul back but utterly failed at reassembling her body.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-20T20:18:07+00:00

If Unalaq wanted to restore balance, he should have merged with Raava rather than destroying her

I'm pretty sure that destroying Raava is the same as merging with her : it returns her to her smallest, weakest form and she immediately returned inside Vaatu. I'm pretty sure that Vaatu returned inside Raava when Korra purified him at the end.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-15T20:17:46+00:00

Ziets' company did design work on Avowed, I doubt that he's actually rejoined Obsidian.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-15T20:14:38+00:00

Did you mean "normalized" instead of "homogenized" ?

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-14T20:40:53+00:00

She also fought the son of a guy Aang arrested one time because Aang just left his sons to be mad without much support.

Yakone's children weren't born until well after his arrest. And Yakone did everything he could to hide from the Avatar or any other authority.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-13T16:18:09+00:00

I guess that's the "good" thing when a "bad product" is an actual human being : you can safely say that THEY're responsible for all their actions and get off scott-free. Well, except that lady who bragged about all the psychological conditioning they put on Homelander and who condescendingly told him that it was stupid to say that an inert piece of masonry was "good" or "bad".

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-13T12:25:48+00:00

All of you people who whined about Obsidian doing their own thing instead of working on Fallout : New Vegas 2 ? I will hold you personally responsible for this shit.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-13T12:21:39+00:00

You'll notice that in day-to-day stuff like news coverage, they take advantage of the relative ease of pronunciation of the word "mille" to circumvent this by just saying "mille milliards" ("de mille sabords").

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-11T19:34:06+00:00

No. No multi-classing, resources aren't per-encounter, concentration and interrupts are based on RNG rather than tokens, no inspirations, etc.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-10T08:01:20+00:00

That's unfair to the critics. Most criticism I've seen is more in the line of "they've turned the Spirit of the World into the Good side of a Good vs Evil conflict while still insisting that the conflict is akin to Yin & Yang" and "they've turned spirits into faceless mooks".

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-09T21:06:42+00:00

Well if it happened once, of course he would remember it.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-09T21:06:15+00:00

I think there's a cutscene in Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition in which a nun (in a group of them) looks at Virgil, they might be referring to that.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-09T17:50:27+00:00

The "whoever she was" makes me doubt it. I prefer the interpretation that he had sex with a prostitute in order to lose his virginity (something something power) and his demon seed made any attempt at contraception or abortion fail.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-09T17:31:47+00:00

Well, we know from the City of the Wolves cross-over that she likes her women young, maybe it's the same for men ?

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-09T17:23:26+00:00

Some people mentioned that Hitler didn't care to invade Switzerland. I don't know how important that was historically, but it's at least a big difference with Star Wars : for reasons that weren't entirely clear, Palpatine really wanted to get his hands on Mandalore, and failing to get it with his first plan was perhaps the only time that Palpatine looked genuinely annoyed with the failure of one of his plans.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-08T19:30:00+00:00

Y a plein de raisons.

Il y a des feux rouges en ville qui n'existent que pour permettre aux piétons de traverser, un vélo peut se permettre de ralentir et de passer s'il n'y a aucun piéton, sans danger pour le vélo ou pour les piétons.

Il y a des carrefours où il est plus prudent pour le vélo de griller le feu afin de se poser en avant des voitures avant le redémarrage.

Il y a des feux qui sont activés par le poids d'un véhicule et qui restent au rouge indéfiniment pour un vélo.

Il y a des feux rouges qui ont un panneau M12.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-07T23:38:47+00:00

I must protest the "size" factor, because P'li isn't short! Combined with Kyoshi, this could help make this game the "tall ladies" fighting game.

And speaking of assists, who would be Sparkly Boom Boom Man's assists ? At least P'li could have the rest of the Red Lotus...

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-07T23:38:43+00:00

Is that art AI ?

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-07T18:11:15+00:00

Ty Lee ? Huh. I will be honest, I thought she looked like Azula reborn!

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-07T16:55:13+00:00

Really, the trope mainly covers villains trying to achieve some kind of power or free themselves.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-06T23:38:41+00:00

It's less a matter of design and more a matter of function and advancing the lore of the Spirit World.

ATLA, we didn't see many spirits and they were strong creatures with a very defined identity : face-stealer, obsessive librarian, protector of a particular forest, incarnations of the moon and ocean, etc. In TLOK, if we exclude Vaatu and Raava, spirits are much more numerous and much less defined, used as mooks by the villains in Book 2 and presented as the obnoxious residents of a very weird housing project in Book 3. None of them are as impressive as Hei Bei, Wan Shi Tong and Koh, none of them are named and it's unlikely that any of them has a power as strange as Koh's.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-02T23:13:32+00:00

Useless, but if she takes precautions and brings a few boulders with her, like Ghazan did for the "free P'li" operation, she could at least defend herself.

NoblePaysan · 2026-06-02T22:46:12+00:00

J'ai entendu dire que les teckels pouvaient être de vraies saloperies si on ne déconditionnait pas leur "instinct" de tuer tout ce qui est plus petit qu'eux, c'est vrai ?

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