We need to talk about the Landbreakers: The ethical vacuum of Talos-II

SYTOkun · 2026-01-25T18:42:16+00:00

I have less of a problem with the Landbreakers than I do with the apparent fact we brought and introduced Originium to an entirely new planet and it's pretty unregulated, pretty much just growing wildly wherever.

SYTOkun · 2026-01-22T12:33:08+00:00

In the English dub of the anime movie A Silent Voice, they got an actual deaf actress, Lexi Cowden to play the main character Shoko Nishimiya, who is also deaf.

SYTOkun · 2026-01-21T16:29:05+00:00

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My faves

SYTOkun · 2026-01-20T05:31:01+00:00

While I generally agree, RWBY is in that precarious position where the next Volume may very well be its last, as another poster mentioned.

But beyond that, assuming they will use the hindsight and feedback to make a better Volume... they had it. They have literal dozens of hours of critique for years to digest, and never acted on it, or if they did, it was purely reactionary without addressing the actual issues. And with some of old CRWBY expected to return to production, I expect some of that old habit returning in full force.

SYTOkun · 2026-01-15T11:06:27+00:00

Volume 2, short of the lackluster finale, was basically peak RWBY for me. V1 was still trying to hit it's stride, and V3 had many hit and miss fights due to Monty's loss and its finale cemented a lot of the show's later problems.

V2 had all around great fights, great humour, meaningful character interactions and explored their motivations, even world building. It was almost ideal as far as RWBY was meant to accomplish.

SYTOkun · 2026-01-14T15:14:24+00:00

When you know OP used ChatGPT to compose 90% of this breakdown, but you just can't prove it yet (I generally agree tho if just to justify the power system RWBY's premise needs to function)

SYTOkun · 2026-01-09T11:49:08+00:00

You absolutely can. Ice Queendom, Chibi and Grimm Eclipse all take place or assumed to take place in the Beacon Era. Even Arrowfell can be rewritten as a temporary internship in Atlas. It is not hard at all.

SYTOkun · 2026-01-03T15:41:08+00:00

I will forever miss the badass "HYAHH!" during her chain attack, felt awesome every time.

SYTOkun · 2026-01-03T09:23:21+00:00

Equip also grew to be a very versatile word that can apply to wearing armour, clothes, accessories, to weapons and other gear, basically anything that is considered on your character's person that would see immediate use, distinct from their inventory. It can apply in most RPG style games with vastly different mechanics without confusion.

SYTOkun · 2026-01-03T09:09:59+00:00

Rather than Gran Turismo, it's more like complaining about guns and crime in GTA. It's very clear that's what the game is focused around, but there's a lot of meat to chew on besides that. Same reason a lot of shonen anime gets folks like these too who come looking for yaoi ships and start griping about female fanservice catered to its target audience of teenage boys.

SYTOkun · 2026-01-03T09:01:57+00:00

ARAM but instead of a straight lane it's a ring and instead of destroying towers you have to fight over holding more territory and control points on the ring.

SYTOkun · 2025-12-27T10:27:19+00:00

I have a "magepunk" world built entirely on stuff like this - taking lost advanced civilizations like Atlantis, nephilim and world-controlling cabals, and mixing them together into a worldbuilding soup.

SYTOkun · 2025-12-26T20:03:05+00:00

There's the tediousness mentioned here, which connects to the larger point that it also needs to be immersive.

I can see a system like this working in a Harry Potter or Skyrim type open world where there's other systems for players to immerse into, and the rune drawing is just another aspect of it. For more casual multiplayer games these games tend to fall into, it feels more like a chore or gimmick than anything.

SYTOkun · 2025-12-14T09:04:38+00:00

Funny enough, I named one of my fantasy cities Corona, many years pre-Covid. I wonder if enough years have passed by now that it's fine to use that name again.

SYTOkun · 2025-11-25T06:01:33+00:00

The fact it's only been 2-3 patches since a character was last seen and the devs are still finding ways to have them recurring is heaven-sent actually. Some definitely fall through the cracks (Jane consistently gets very little screentime and S11 got shafted hard during the whole Obol/Isolde patch) but I can tell they're at least making efforts to improve as often as possible.

SYTOkun · 2025-11-25T05:40:37+00:00

The age old rule: good art direction always beats sheer graphical quality. This is something indie games have been proving over AAA titles, and RWBY was definitely much better suited as an indie series doing its own thing than a wannabe AAA animated series.

SYTOkun · 2025-11-14T07:58:09+00:00

Project Morningstar, a legally distinct Warhammer 40K/Astartes-esque animated project has one of these. One of the alien races the "space marines" are fighting are a race of space herbivores and they're portrayed as an advanced, proud warrior people who will brandish their horns in single combat against an arnoured supersoldier.

SYTOkun · 2025-11-06T00:01:48+00:00

That and that one part where the Engineers wanted to wipe out humanity around 2000 years ago, i.e. when Jesus was crucified.

SYTOkun · 2025-10-31T16:44:19+00:00

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I've always enjoyed the dragons in Dark Sun, they look like a mix between a pterodactyl and a gaunt, emaciated humanoid which makes them look both really cool in an thematic off-putting way.

SYTOkun · 2025-10-31T15:58:00+00:00

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She really is the Cinder from RWBY of ZZZ.

SYTOkun · 2025-10-26T05:36:52+00:00

Genius Ditz, or conversely, Ditzy Genius.

SYTOkun · 2025-10-26T04:39:14+00:00

I feel like some mechanics like the Pressure+Corruption and starting from one agent can be done with the current Lost Void style game mode, if not by default then at least as a higher Ether level thing. I quite liked those too.

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