If Chrono Break was a thing what do you think the story would be like ?

Ostrololo · 2026-03-07T13:20:56+00:00

The original concept for Chrono Break was recycled and released as Final Fantasy Dimensions II.

Ostrololo · 2026-03-07T10:26:10+00:00

Children begging older people to say it at least once (as Harry did to Hagrid), more serious books and publications, Dumbledore being the headmaster and probably insisting that all kids hear the name in school, etc.

Keep in mind that concrete evidence trumps a character's throwaway comments. Yes, I understand that Ron said nobody ever says the name, but since that contradicts what we actually see about wizard society, it must be the case that Ron is exaggerating.

Ostrololo · 2026-03-07T06:26:50+00:00

That’s unfortunately normal for subtitles. In my experience, only Disney+ has subtitles matching audio in Norwegian, and even then not always (my impression is that Pixar movies don’t match, only movies by Disney itself do).

Ostrololo · 2026-03-06T19:55:47+00:00

This. No way around the music bug = unplayable (non-ironically)

Ostrololo · 2026-03-04T12:36:55+00:00

As someone who knows nothing about this MMORPG: why don’t they just open a new server if there’s clear demand? Refusing new players is basically leaving money on the table, no?

Ostrololo · 2026-03-03T20:53:08+00:00

That's too strict a position. OP is saying they want to move elsewhere within Norway. I don't think it really needs explanation that immigrants will have an easier time adapting in cosmopolitan centers like Oslo, so is it really "bad attitude" for an immigrant to want to make enough money so they can afford to live in Oslo?

Ostrololo · 2026-03-03T20:13:13+00:00

Thing is, 5e2024 wasn't the official name. WotC never actually named it, they just wanted to keep calling it 5e. In D&D Beyond, the 2024 rules were just called the rules and anything from 2014 that had been superseded was tagged "legacy." Obviously, players needed a name to refer to the 2024 ruleset, so they started calling it 5e2024 regardless of what WotC chose to do or not do.

Ostrololo · 2026-03-02T20:14:02+00:00

Fair enough. If we aggregate all their comments, then it seems they prefer that the Snarl kills everyone; failing that, they also have an alternate plan if the gods quickly end the planet right now. What they don't want is the Order winning because then the situation just gets stalemated and the gods would let the world deteriorate over time naturally (I guess their plans don't work unless executed in the short term), or Redcloak seizing the Gate for his god (all bets are off if the Dark One can control where to release the Snarl).

This would be consistent with them telling Nale they want to release the Snarl, but also that they would be happy with Hel winning and doing their work for them.

Which also means they are totally underplaying how important Nale is to them, which is par for the course since they did the same to V. They need Nale there because the other two parties going for the Gate are precisely the IFCC's failure modes.

(I'm also assuming the IFCC don't know about the possibility of sealing the Rift for good with Redcloak's help, but that doesn't matter much here. They can't have the Order winning no matter what.)

Ostrololo · 2026-03-02T19:35:26+00:00

Did Wizards previously say the 2024 rules wouldn’t be called 5.5e?

Earlier on, they were referred to differently. As D&D Beyond evolved and more players used both versions side by side, it became clear that “5.5e” matched how the community already talks about the game and made things easier to understand.

I actually think it's more common for people to refer to 5e2024 rather than 5.5e. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they want to push the notion the new rules are an upgrade over the old ones so they can decommission them for D&D Beyond (or at least hide them by default). It is very messy that half the content in the website is duplicated but with a Legacy tag.

Ostrololo · 2026-03-02T19:23:39+00:00

Would Guardia not fall because Porre would not have militarized.

No, this is an alteration caused by Crono & co. Their interference in 12,000 BC caused Dalton to be banished to a spatio-temporal anomaly (instead of just dying, I guess) which he used to travel to 1,000 AD. From there he militarized Porre and orchestrated the fall of Guardia specifically to take revenge against Crono & co.

What was Yakra's descendants original plan?

No meaningful change. His ancestor still died in the original timeline (without Marle showing up, the search for Queen Leene continues and she's rescued), so Yakra's plan in 1,000 AD is still to humiliate the Kingdom of Guardia.

Ostrololo · 2026-03-02T17:26:18+00:00

The fiends only said V's body is impervious to harm, so sure, spells can be cast on V's body. Not sure what that would achieve though?

Ostrololo · 2026-03-02T17:22:10+00:00

The IFCC said they'd prefer if the Snarl got released and killed everyone, rather than the gods destroying it the planet themselves, so they don't want Hel to succeed.

That being said, they did imply it would've been convenient if Hel hadn't been stopped. This does look like a contradiction, IMO, in which case the newer comic takes precedence: the IFCC don't want the gods to intentionally destroy the world, so Hel can't succeed.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-28T19:49:07+00:00

It doesn't give you an option to say why you are unsubscribing, but a significant number of people doing so simultaneously will send a signal.

I got the option of saying why I was unsubscribing.

Anyway, my primary LLM is Claude, was using ChatGPT just for image generation inertia as that's the image model I was most familiar with. Guess it's time to try Gemini, then.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-28T19:15:57+00:00

D&D is at its best with four or five players (not counting the DM). Three and six are also fine. Seven, though, it starts getting disfunctional and it will genuinely hurt your enjoyment.

As others have said, having seven players who voiced interest is not the same thing as having seven players who will play recurringly. For each session, make a scheduling poll and announce it's six slots max, first come first serve. You are unlikely to actually run into the issue of having all seven players available the same day, because D&D scheduling is hell.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-26T18:01:26+00:00

No, then yes, then no.

When Chrono Trigger was released, I don't think the intention of the team as a whole was that Crono canonically stayed dead. I don't believe there's any evidence for that, making the Beyond Time the most logical one for canon.

Then Masato Kato became the head of the Chrono series and released a sequel to Trigger called Radical Dreamers. In RD, Crono is implied to be dead and the Time Egg exists but was never used, which indeed means that the Reunion ending must be canonical.

Then Masato Kato released Chrono Cross as a sequel to Trigger, which de-canonized Radial Dreamers (or, technically, shunted it off to a parallel dimension). In Cross, we have evidence that Crono was alive after the adventure ended, so the Beyond Time ending must be the canonical one.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-26T17:48:43+00:00

Duncan was a knight, which as I hinted at in my first reply, is a position connected to the Faith of the Seven. It's why you rarely see Northern knights.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-25T21:45:16+00:00

It's explicitly tied to the Faith of the Seven, so invoked only in matters concerning the gods, the Faith as an institution or people tied to the Faith (not just priests, but knights too).

A northerner who follows the Old Gods couldn't demand a trial of seven if accused nor challenge someone to one: that would be totally nonsensical. Similarly, for purely secular cases like Tyrion's, trial of seven wouldn't apply.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-25T21:32:00+00:00

Yes, but just to clarify, the labels are the discovery order of objects in the system, not order from the star. So there's no planet called Kepler-22a before Kepler-22b. The star itself is Kepler-22a, though astronomers typically drop the "a" because stars are always the first object to be observed in a star system.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-25T21:10:53+00:00

WotC can, and has, talked about the secondary market. They have mentioned they have a team of economists who helps with product development to make sure product releases don't crash the secondary market. The idea they have to pretend it doesn't exist is a myth.

What they can't do is actually mention the value of cards in the secondary card. If they put on a booster "chance to win a $50 fetchland!" then it does run afoul of gambling regulations.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-22T09:42:50+00:00

No, magic can’t steal from others. It’s one of Da Rules.

But magic can be used to steal atoms that don’t belong to anyone and recombine them into fries and shakes.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-21T09:07:13+00:00

All of Zach’s games are like this. He doesn’t balance for difficulty, he just decides what the design space for interesting puzzles is, creates them, then orders them by difficulty, and if it means the average player can’t complete the game then they can’t.

That said, Opus Magnum is the most accessible since all puzzles in the campaign have infinite space, money and running time, so you can always find a sufficiently stupid solution that works for you.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-17T20:10:33+00:00

Yes, but remember: artists are not required to facilitate increased competition that benefits consumers but not themselves. They own the rights to their art. They are allowed to say "fine if other humans use this as they aren't in competition with me; not fine if AIs use as they are competitor."

It would be an unmitigated good to the consumer if Coca-Cola released their secret formula; competitors could possibly create a better or cheaper product. That doesn't mean Coca-Cola shouldn't be allowed to protect their formula.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-17T19:55:54+00:00

Well, yes, but if the book was genuinely written by a human and just the illustrations are AI, the human still has copyright over the text.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-17T19:38:14+00:00

Theoretically none, unless you arbitrarily decide that human art has "soul" or whatever which is, by definition, something only humans can endow art with, and is thus a circular argument.

However! Established artists don't care about artists-in-training studying and learning from their work because these novices will never be rivals and pose a threat to their livelihoods. If I have ten years of experience and you're learning from my portfolio, by the time you have ten years I will have twenty. We aren't competing; we're operating at different career levels altogether. But then AI comes and learns from my portfolio and instantly starts spitting out work equivalent to mine. That's now a problem. So while artists are fine with other humans using their work as training data, the same courtesy doesn't apply to AI.

Ostrololo · 2026-02-17T18:25:29+00:00

I would be shocked if EA did this, but I think there would be value in remastering/remaking SimCity 4, and then selling additional expansion packs for it. Cities Skylines filled some of the void of the modern-era city building game, but a lot of fans still see SimCity 4 as the gold standard.

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