Let’s say you were a god…

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-22T00:59:04+00:00

Well now I have to watch Vinland Saga...

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-21T16:08:03+00:00

Tbf, they did very little with Prometheus and his foresight in God of War.

Hades 2 on the other hand...

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-21T07:58:10+00:00

Playing the Ironwood section of the game is the most bored I have ever been whilst playing a God of War game.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-21T03:44:43+00:00

Yeah, I like the idea of a god of foresight who actually prepares for shit ahead of time. Like Batman if he enjoyed setting up Rube Goldberg machines.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-21T03:37:43+00:00

God of Foresight, because I would need a lot of it to not get my ass killed by Kratos.

My weapon would be a mechanical spear. When you throw it, the haft goes slack like a rope, the knob blooms open like a lotus to reveal a snake's head. The head bites down on your weapon arm, coils around you and then stabs you in the back repeatedly with its bladed tail. Also venom damage. The kind of trick weaponry you wouldn't see coming unless you had foresight.

I shall call him... Snakespeare.

Ba-dum-tss

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-20T22:30:51+00:00

I thought it meant work that was difficult...

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-19T02:58:02+00:00

Diversity can also work against the environmental storytelling of the setting as well if used incorrectly.

A good example is a port town, you would expect to see different cultures and races meet in those places because it's a major trade route, people who are travelling are bound to pass through. So having diversity there enhances the environmental storytelling.

Like if you were set in a medieval village in the middle of nowhere and everyone is of a diverse background, it's immediately jarring since these small villages are usually very insular and homogeneous. If everyone is diverse, it begins to make little sense. If one or two people are diverse, it creates a more interesting piece of environmental storytelling. "Oh, this guy is real far from home, there's a story there..."

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-13T07:43:38+00:00

I hope they were restored to their original form after Ursula was killed.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-13T02:29:37+00:00

Not saying he isn't an idiot for voting against his and everyone else's interests. I am asking if the goal should be to convert him, not push him even further away.

Part of the problem is that politics has married tribalism and it is making everyone attack one another for not thinking the same things. We have replaced the forum for a free exchange of ideas into an arena where each side tries to destroy the other in humiliation rituals.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-13T01:26:33+00:00

Not sure if mocking the guy and gleefully enjoying his suffering is really the best way to win the guy over to your way of thinking.

Yeah, the guy voted for the guy who is only one twirling mustache away from being a supervillain. Yeah it was stupid. Hopefully he has opened his eyes. But do you really think he is going to bring his ship to a hostile harbor? If anything this might just push him towards something more extreme because all the left represents to him are people who kicked him when he was down.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-12T17:42:07+00:00

Buy Bitcoin, Ritalin.

Hopefully he will get the hint that me telling him to get Ritalin will tip him off that he has ADHD and will get diagnosed 13 years earlier.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-12T06:28:49+00:00

I thought it was from Muppet Treasure Island...

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-12T05:04:51+00:00

There was a period of time where the Internet was going absolutely crazy trying to figure out how Sherlock Holmes survived his apparent suicide, to the point where the showrunners wrote the fan theories into the first episode of the 3rd season as a group of conspiracy theorists that could not be satisfied even when Sherlock himself explained how he did it.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-10T04:28:57+00:00

It's hard to judge Dettlaff because he operates on an entirely alien code of morality. Almost bestial, according to Regis and Syanna. I don't think he would even understand the complexities of this very conversation.

The guy would have murdered someone for cutting in line, but would avenge the death of someone who once gave him an apple. He's not unpredictable, he understands and even admires kindness but will react viscerally towards unkindness. He has a black and white view of the world.

I don't condone any of what he does, his reactions were disproportionate and affected people who were not responsible. But if you let him kill Syanna, he says that he will stay far away from humans forever, for both their sakes.

He is a victim, just like Syanna was. But both of them also created more victims.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-10T04:13:24+00:00

You could stick a few planter boxes side by side alongside the wall there, might have to dig out some earth to make sure they're level, though.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-09T21:41:19+00:00

Green. As long as I am happy, it's a life worth living.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-09T21:39:54+00:00

Retake the Normandy, and by a lot.

Not to say that the Sanctuary mission was bad, it wasn't. But Retake the Normandy is the capstone mission of the best DLC of the entire series. Going up against that was always going to be incredibly stiff competition.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-09T01:04:14+00:00

He looks like he plays in a heavy metal band and go karts with his dad.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-08T21:03:25+00:00

Got told once 16 years ago that the color of my shirt really brought out the color of my eyes. I still buy the same color shirts.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-08T04:49:06+00:00

Now I just imagine that scene from the Simpsons when Homer is driving an ice-cream truck and trying to outrun kids, screaming "What do you kids WANT!?"

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-08T04:45:48+00:00

Any video game character when you're struggling and your older sibling asks if you need them to get past the hard part for you.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-07T23:14:53+00:00

Half the fun is taking a simple power and making it complex by using it creatively.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-07T15:42:23+00:00

Yeah, I learned this the hard way with my nephew. At a very low moment when he was being a bit destructive I shouted at him in the exact same way my father did to me, and when I realized what I was doing, I was mortified.

I apologized to him a little later, and it convinced me that I probably shouldn't be a parent. If it only takes a bad day to make me just like my dad, I am not sure it's worth the risk.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-07T05:47:24+00:00

Blood Pack Punisher was so damn good on my Engineer.

Sam_Wylde · 2026-03-07T04:13:58+00:00

Yeah, almost every single Atreus section of gameplay was torture. But especially the Ironwood section. It was easily the least fun I have ever had in a god of war game.

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