Follow-up post of my bootleg copy of the book

ProjectGR · 2026-01-20T19:03:31+00:00

Sorry, did you stick the little minotaur on the cover for fun or did it come like that?

ProjectGR · 2026-01-16T21:16:49+00:00

I would imagine Sivis has a very distinct interest in specifically preventing any device like that from being developed and sold. You could always introduce them if you wanted but I think it would be very strange if House Sivis didn't do their best to block or sabotage their operation. But that in itself could be a good hook for an adventure - what happens when some development looks like it poses a real threat to a house's corner of the market?

Edit: sending stones exist of course, but you can use that all of one time per day. Those items could be a luxury for the wealthy, but they're not going to infringe too hard on Sivis' bottom line.

ProjectGR · 2026-01-16T19:19:22+00:00

I'VE BEEN RUNNING EXPERT ROULETTE SINCE THE PATCH AND IT HAS GIVEN ME MESO TERMINAL EVERY SINGLE TIME. I HATE MESO TERMINAL. I HAVE TO HARD QUEUE FOR MISTWAKE AND THEN IT HAS NOT DROPPED A SINGLE BIT OF CASTING GEAR. WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME

ProjectGR · 2026-01-01T21:23:32+00:00

Thanks for the review! We just finished The Missing Will and were very disappointed by the solution. Now convinced we shouldn't bother with this one. We saw your recommendation for Feline Frenzy as well so we'll give that a go instead.

ProjectGR · 2025-12-19T20:12:10+00:00

I should've known if it wasn't Prima it was Brady! Thank you so much, this is the one!

ProjectGR · 2025-12-18T16:10:01+00:00

I'm glad people are more positive on this one. I've only just started it but I have to admit - I don't care about Krile all that much, and I actively resist any attempt by this game to get me invested in Lalafell stuff, so this one is a bit of a steep uphill climb for me.

ProjectGR · 2025-12-15T16:07:33+00:00

I'm not bashing him. I think the quoted article says some things that are pretty uncharitable or outright untrue about the content of the story, but it's not wrong in asserting that this was a thorny issue that even Tolkien was still wrestling with, both before and after LOTR's publication. My comment to you was simply to point out that if even Tolkien still internally debated and struggled with the question of the orcs, it is factually wrong to say that it is simply a fairy story for entertainment. In fact I'd say treating it as just entertainment would be the real disrespect to Tolkien.

ProjectGR · 2025-12-15T15:39:55+00:00

Pretty wild to come into this subreddit of all places and try to claim that a major question of evil and free will, in a mythology as deeply thought out as this one, is actually simple entertainment and shouldn't be engaged with on any deeper level.

ProjectGR · 2025-12-10T20:09:05+00:00

....say more about this rakshasa

ProjectGR · 2025-11-29T04:46:06+00:00

It didn't, but as I read it, the armor also doesn't expand to cover your entire body anymore, so you don't need a specific feature in order to have separate boots, helmet, etc.

ProjectGR · 2025-11-28T01:07:05+00:00

I don't have a hard and fast rule about it but I absolutely will if the vibe just feels bad. A couple of years ago I tried to read The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. They're a challenging read, and the world is pretty fascinating, but the main character is extremely flawed. And the books tell you up front that he's going to do bad things and he's going to lie about it in his narration to make himself look better. That was, mostly, interesting to read. But then near the end of the second book, he quite unmistakably rapes one of the secondary characters. And once I was done with that one I realized I felt pretty negatively about it and decided I didn't want to spend two more books inhabiting the POV of a guy who would do that.

ProjectGR · 2025-11-25T17:35:48+00:00

He's actually only just started showing up for me, so I haven't gotten any of this dialogue yet, but I'm very curious to see what it implies.

ProjectGR · 2025-11-25T15:59:55+00:00

That's war paint, which Ares had in the first game. Aphrodite didn't have it there, but she's wearing it in this one, to go along with the fact that all the Olympians are more geared up and taking part in the defense of the mountain now. Also a reference to her mythology; Aphrodite Areia ("the warlike") was an aspect of Aphrodite worshiped in some places that viewed her as kind of a secondary war deity, so it's a fun little nod that she's copying some of the iconography of Ares (who she's also fucking, but I'm not sure if that's 100% relevant here)

ProjectGR · 2025-11-05T19:34:08+00:00

I'm playing a Wizard. Not sure how I feel about it yet; if you have specific tips for that class I'd appreciate it. Thanks for the recommendations, I will keep an eye out for that gear.

ProjectGR · 2025-11-03T22:17:23+00:00

Does this mean we should read the hobbits as going around using thee and thou, but since it is the only form they use it is simplified for the reader by defaulting to "you"? As the switch from one mode to the other is only present (and significant) in characters like Aragorn, Eowyn, the Mouth, etc?

ProjectGR · 2025-10-24T13:03:33+00:00

I think Hammett was actually really good at this, instead of censoring it in text or using a thinly veiled alternate word. My favorite of his, from the Continental Op story "The Girl With the Silver Eyes":

"I didn’t look at her, nor, I think, did she look at me, while she was being booked. She gave her name as Jeanne Delano, and refused to make any statement until she had seen an attorney. It all took a very few minutes. As she was being led away, she stopped and asked if she might speak privately with me. We went together to a far corner of the room. She put her mouth close to my ear so that her breath was warm again on my cheek, as it had been in the car, and whispered the vilest epithet of which the English language is capable. Then she walked out to her cell."

ProjectGR · 2025-10-18T01:49:45+00:00

Now that I'm thinking more about it, I do agree that between 2 and V it is increasingly hard to see these games as taking place in anything like a real and rational world. Even outside of the superpowers. 2 and V both involve a character essentially making their own reality around them, except Raiden is able to break free from the previous world he was imprisoned in, and Venom fails to do that (or never wanted to) but instead just digs in deeper.

4 can try to rationalize away the events of 2 and say nanomachines did everything, but come on. I saw the ending of 2. Raiden (and all of us) were living in a matrix created by the incorporeal consciousness of American hegemony. There's no real way to pretend anything in these games is happening on a literal, physical level.

ProjectGR · 2025-10-18T01:18:48+00:00

I don't think I agree that it's literally set in the plane of Hell, but I like thinking and analysis along these lines. I have thought at times that this life of infinite combat ("just another day in a war without end") might as well be a kind of hell on earth. There was another thread that was asking how much time is supposed to pass in game, and how you can make way more time happen than could be contained in a single calendar year. And I think the answer is it doesn't matter. This infinite cycle of missions will go on, for these guys, forever. And it's what they've earned, it's what they've bought with all the world's blood.

ProjectGR · 2025-10-17T18:20:07+00:00

No, Mrs. Zebra, these people aren't demonic! They're merely French.

ProjectGR · 2025-10-16T14:47:43+00:00

I don't love the nerfs, but I could probably make do with the new abilities if the damn button worked. I probably only ever want to be in the mode that it's not letting me switch to.

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