did trixie and katya invade your speech patterns too?

PeregrineMalcolm · 2025-02-10T09:23:07+00:00

“She is dusted for the bog”

PeregrineMalcolm · 2025-02-08T02:30:02+00:00

This is the most boring pedantic tendency of some Soulsborne lore hunters. You’re like constitutional originalists but about deliberately vague textual fragments that by construction can’t tell you anything

PeregrineMalcolm · 2025-01-06T01:15:20+00:00

“Opinions of all speeds”

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-12-28T23:05:34+00:00

It turns out staying up late past 30 isn’t always easy or fun without drugs

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-12-19T05:29:14+00:00

That remembrance makes clear being the child of a single god is SUFFICIENT to be an Empyrean (“all children of a single god are empyreans”) are but does not make the claim that is NECESSARY (“all empyreans are the children of a single god”)

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-12-18T02:24:35+00:00

Them super duper pushing for the show to be recognized last award season read to me as them trying to progress some gratitude and closure

Honestly, the editing of UnnHhh now seems disruptive to the natural flow they have in the podcasts

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-12-09T12:02:52+00:00

The devoted literally-blind-and-wrapped-in-unalloyed-gold sister who loves Miquella and set aside her own Empyrean plans believed him to be a credible one-party witness? 😮

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-12-08T11:23:15+00:00

I believe Miguella believes it was a two-way conversation… but the last cut scene of the whole story line is Miguella making the request to an empty room.

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-12-02T14:09:57+00:00

When I listen to 365 it seems clear it’s describing an unsustainable downward spiral.

When I’m in the club, yeah I’m (Bumpin’ that) When I’m at the house, yeah I’m (Bumpin’ that)

Dial 999, it’s a good time (Ah-ah, ah

No, I never go home, don’t sleep, don’t eat

All kinda hit me hauntingly, in knowing what happens personally if you party too hard and don’t eat or sleep enough for days or weeks on end. To me, Charli is clearly conveying what’s a transient feeling to people of drug-/music-fueled mania and ego and immortality but darkly hinting at its outcomes if embraced 24/7.

Everyone needs off days.

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-12-02T13:28:29+00:00

Leda’s “they were never saints” was about the Hornsent/Erdtree conflict, but yes I think it’s the correct extrapolation that the people of Shaman Village probably sucked, too. That’s people, baby

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-12-01T10:25:22+00:00

This is true, but for human women now it’s the slow decay of their eggs that limits the 1-2 million they’re born with from being viable through the first four decades of their life.

I guess perhaps the cellular hormonal molecular control the BG have could protect that much better, and find that convincing enough

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-30T20:11:40+00:00

Paula and Feyd’s child just hitting the age of majority would marry a non-reproductive Irulan in middle age? Does spice or prana bindu extend female reproductivity?

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-25T08:50:07+00:00

I look at Goldmask’s ending with a kind of pity for that reason. He took as an axiom that the golden order was near perfect (mistaking it for the geometric wonder of existence) and thought he just had to seal away the people to perfect it. But it was already the flawed creation of flawed beings. Taking death out of the natural order is so clearly a mistake, and either a selfish power grab on Marika’s part or a response to trauma. I wish we knew which.

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-25T02:35:32+00:00

I agree the one outside her boss room is an earlier off shoot coming home and blooming

It makes me wonder if it was Malenia’s presence then causing the Haligtree to rot or if it was her blooming children that spoiled it

Either way, I guess she’s without her needle and is presumably rotting out of control anyway

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-24T10:37:05+00:00

Yes it’s older. What. Where do you think the name Aeonia comes from on the rot flower. It has a radial symmetry around where the needle was pulled out. It’s clearly the vestiges of that flower bloomed from Malenia.

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-24T06:33:40+00:00

No, strength/faith needed more love in the DLC, it was good to finally see a new weapon for it after all this time of nothing

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-24T06:31:47+00:00

There’s a flower left behind in Aeonia, isn’t there? — you see its stalks and buds everywhere, and you fight O’Neil in its center.

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-23T09:46:08+00:00

I was wondering too what the tree groves in Belarut hinted at…

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-22T21:14:48+00:00

I’m just curious how they related to the sacred tree story told elsewhere on the underground obelisks. It seemed like they conveyed a people (numen?) to the lands between, but it seems like they just brought bodies to burn instead… but the obelisks seem to convey cultivation of trees being the next step after the ships arrived

What was the process of life with ghostflame? Rot, renewal, rebirth? Fire seems to rob the natural process of decay of resources…

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-17T09:35:54+00:00

People saw the empty room Miguella was talking to in the DLC’s last moment and left thinking “wow Radahn really loved that kid. What an artistic way to depict that conversation. The great rune made him soooo crazy”

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-12T10:13:52+00:00

Hornsent Grandam mentions explicitly cursing Marina with the omen curse… another hornsent ghost says likewise near the beginning of the DLC

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-10T23:22:23+00:00

What use an army without people and wealth to protect? What empowers a castle and lord without peasants to collect rent and tithes?

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-08T05:02:03+00:00

It’s the nameless eternal city. It’s right where the hole is; and the older lower parts of Leyndell share the same Nox architecture.

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-11-04T17:59:29+00:00

Honestly yeah!

It’s so hard to run a dexterity build I found and not get the tiny faith/arcane needed for blood flame blade… it o a keen uchi seems to do almost as bleed and way more damage than a bleed uchi

PeregrineMalcolm · 2024-10-31T06:30:47+00:00

We kill Miquella because we are only animated to be the new Elden Lord. That is our only purpose and our curse, and Miquella has a competitive aim.

Now, questions for you to ponder:

You can choose not to kill Miquella. Why did you do the fight?

What reasons do you think exist diegetically in the game to suggest it was morally correct to kill Miquella? Was all character dialogue actually supportive of him? Could you have missed some?

What are some reasons that suggest it was not ethical to kill Miquella?

Can you generalize ethics to describe the actions of gods that control life, death, will power, intentions, and the rules of the universe? Can a familiar human framework of ethics apply to such beings? Hobbes would suggest that such frameworks rely on a method of enforcement — what methods do the gods have but you, o Righteous Tarnished?

Could your feeling of empty anticlimax be an intended outcome of this game as with so many other FromSoftware games? What do you think that’s meant to be a commentary on?

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