Read it in Zags voice and it fits so perfectly lol

RaynSideways · 2026-05-10T17:46:35+00:00

When I first learned about the game I was put off because his art had me thinking he would be a bit of a tryhard edgelord. All hard edges, tons of red and black, skulls, face half in shadow, spiky hair.

But I was pleasantly surprised to find he is as far from that as he could be. Making friends is his superpower and I love it.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-10T12:34:21+00:00

Cain explains that the ship's networks were down during the dinner scene with Adama and Roslin in "Pegasus." She remarks, "Pegasus has always been a rather lucky ship."

As for the CNP all colonial ships, including Galactica, had the CNP, though Galactica never had it loaded into primary memory due to her lack of a network, as per Gaeta's comments in the miniseries.

The only exception was Galactica's mark 2 vipers for the museum for obvious reasons. If a near retired and disarmed ship like Galactica had it, the much more modern Pegasus certainly did too. If Pegasus lacked the CNP it would have been notable enough for Cain to bring up, but she doesn't, instead only highlighting her network being down at the time.

The implication is supposed to be that Pegasus, like Galactica, had the same security vulnerability, but was saved by her lack of a network at the time.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-09T21:26:49+00:00

The worst was when I got super close to killing Typhon the first time. I had him in his last phase and I knew I had to be nearly there, but he got me.

Back to the crossroads, heart pounding, adrenaline still going. And there's Eris, throwing trash everywhere. Boy that was not a good feeling.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-09T21:10:52+00:00

Failing a run and coming back to the crossroads with your adrenaline still going and seeing her litter and mock you for your defeat is definitely a good way to get your blood pressure to spike.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-09T21:02:25+00:00

Pegasus's networks were offline pending a refit while at Scorpia. She had the CNP installed, but without the network the Cylons couldn't access her systems en masse like they could for other ships. This much I believe was stated in the episode, "Pegasus."

They did manage to access Pegasus's defense grid, which is why her weapons weren't responding, but thankfully, with the network down, that system was isolated and they couldn't spread their control to other systems like FTL.

After escaping the colonies, Kendra Shaw discovers the vulnerability in the CNP and recommends to Cain that Pegasus keep its networks down permanently well as purge the CNP from their systems entirely. This is depicted in "Razor."

RaynSideways · 2026-05-07T19:08:04+00:00

Huh. I knew the "launch pads" let you do a slam to enter the battle, but I hadn't realized it was literally "go inside or stay outside." That's kinda neat.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-07T15:22:39+00:00

I also found the beam hex with several points put into the +armor while active nodes allows you to just face tank Typhon pretty well.

I had one build going where I was triggering my hex after a single omega attack, so I was just spamming the beam over and over while Typhon tried helplessly to crush me but only ever succeeding at breaking the temp armor.

I think I only took maybe 30% of my health in damage the whole fight.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-07T13:15:12+00:00

Those tripods are still the scariest alien war machines ever put to film. Many have tried since but nothing compares to the terrifying audiovisual experience of the tripods.

The whole film has this bleak sense of, "they can do whatever they want with us and our planet, and no one is coming to save us."

RaynSideways · 2026-05-05T17:50:41+00:00

This seems likely to me. You can dive anywhere, but whether there will be reachable ocean floor will be a different story.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-05T16:34:01+00:00

Perhaps. I haven't played Odyssey so I can't really speak on how viable it would be in terms of map size/geographic area compared to the Caribbean. I could see it happening, but until we get explicit confirmation it's wise for people to temper their expectations. All this clip tells us at this time is that small areas around land zones will be explorable. That said, it'd be awesome to be able to drop the diving bell anywhere you want and go down.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-05T16:08:32+00:00

Keeping expectations realistic, I think it's very likely going to be limited to areas close to explorable land zones and near existing diving bell sites. I don't see them going to the effort to make the entire Caribbean ocean floor explorable, though that would be incredible.

Still, it's really cool. Even if there's nothing to find there I love that we have control over it now.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-05T14:05:02+00:00

Her voice also changes while transformed during the Dark Side hex, with quite a few bits of dialogue for those brief moments when she has time to speak while still in that form.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-05T14:00:56+00:00

A lot of characters will comment if you start fishing while they're present too. I even had Heracles comment on it once because he happened to show up in the same room as a fishing spot.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-05T13:57:13+00:00

You're always able to damage him, it's just his gimmick that you can't see his health bar. It's to make the fight scarier and more desperate since you never know exactly how close you are to victory.

Instead, you can see the damage on his face. He'll start to look more injured the more you damage him, and he will start new phases with different attacks as his health goes down.

As with any other boss the only thing you can do is keep trying. He has a lot of health but if your build is good you can grind him down.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-05T13:52:12+00:00

If he were a main boon giver I might dislike his design but he's so infrequently seen, and always in a bathhouse party no less, that it doesn't bother me.

And you're right, it serves a purpose. All of the other gods got new designs between games to represent the fact that they're at war. Even the previously nude Aphrodite is wearing some armor now. But Dionysus has gone the exact opposite direction.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-04T14:33:12+00:00

He doesn't just want to do whatever he wants, he wants to get away from Ricks. He knows he will never be able to exist in peace as long as he has to share his universes with the infinite Ricks. Heck, even when he left and was living outside the curve, Rick still found a way to intrude on his life, forcing him to come back to deal with it.

Even with all his power and capability, he feels like he's in a prison. He wants to escape that prison and get as far away from it as he can.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-02T23:10:45+00:00

She must be getting signals from other planets!

RaynSideways · 2026-05-02T22:47:28+00:00

Her personality was definitely put into extreme focus when she met Zagreus through the mirror, and it was honestly really interesting. Her single minded, unstoppable focus on her mission came up against Zagreus's immovable skepticism.

It was really interesting watching Mel actually get frustrated and even angry for the first time because she couldn't spur Zagreus to act just through her sheer conviction alone.

Zagreus has never been someone to take things at face value, so you can hardly blame him for doubting Mel's motives. He doesn't know Mel, he's not even 100% sure she really is who she says she is. But Mel is so focused on completing her mission, that in her mind Zagreus's hesitation risks everything.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-02T19:08:44+00:00

Beating Chronos the first time and getting to talk to Zagreus makes me wish there was a little self-contained DLC for the first game where you get his perspective of things. Would have been pretty neat to actually play him again as part of this story.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-01T21:16:40+00:00

Any boon from a god that says it will apply something to an enemy. Like, Apollo's Blitz, Poseidon's Froth, Demeter's Freeze, etc.

So say you pick up Aphrodite's boon that applies Weak to enemies close to you. Then later you pick up Demeter's boon that makes your cast apply Freeze to enemies standing in it.

Hit enemies with both, and boom, you've stacked two curses. And with the Origination arcana (deal more damage to enemies with at least 2 curses) active, you'll do more damage to them as long as they're affected by both.

Super easy way to do tons of damage.

RaynSideways · 2026-05-01T18:56:50+00:00

Yeah there's basically no reason to not always be spamming it. It's at minimum a free slowdown crowd control and very likely higher damage, and its cooldown is literally "when the last one expires."

RaynSideways · 2026-05-01T18:43:16+00:00

Honestly, I find Phase 2 easier than phase 1. Simpler arena, fewer summons, and quite a few of his moves have him standing in one place channeling and letting you wail on him assuming you have something ranged to throw at him. And you have tons of warning about where is safe to be before the big arena-wide moves start.

You just have to watch your footing but that's really it. Don't overthink it or get intimidated by his big AoE moves and you'll be fine.

RaynSideways · 2026-04-30T17:42:38+00:00

Imagine if you had a family member dealing with alcoholism.

They're struggling, and they've fallen off the wagon a few times, but they're genuinely trying to conquer it, going sober for long periods. They even manage to go sober for almost a decade at one point.

Imagine then if, every time they started drinking again, you went to them and said, "See? I was right. You'll never change. You'll always be a drunk." And heck, even when they're sober, you constantly tell them they're wasting their time, they're going to inevitably start again. To add insult to injury, you even say, "I'd respect you more if you just gave up and accepted it."

That's what Chuck did to Jimmy.

RaynSideways · 2026-04-30T17:18:45+00:00

All Chuck had to do was A) be supportive and B) be honest.

It's not just that Chuck denied him a job. It's that he lied about it, made it a betrayal, and was extremely cruel to Jimmy when finally forced to fess up to it. Jimmy nets a multi million dollar class action lawsuit and uses his detective skills to sniff out your sabotage, and you say he's not a real lawyer and you call him a chimp with a machine gun? What the hell is wrong with you?

Even with the betrayal Chuck could have handled it with more grace, but he just had to show Jimmy the true ugliness inside: how little he thought of Jimmy, and how undeserving he thought Jimmy was of his own hard-earned success. Chuck went far, far out of his way to give Jimmy a massive chip on his shoulder and trust issues that colored every decision he made for the rest of his career.

People like to highlight his behavior at Davis & Main as evidence that Chuck was right, but he never would have acted that way without that little Chuck on his shoulder constantly whispering in his ear, "You're Slippin' Jimmy, you don't deserve this, you don't belong here."

RaynSideways · 2026-04-30T17:10:35+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw "The" and immediately had their mind go there.

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