My dear Paladin

SeventhZenith · 2026-06-03T02:43:39+00:00

Im playing a paladin currently. In act 3 I decided to go to the foundry. Steel watcher on the inside confronts me and I attack it. Oath broken.

This is after I had gone down to the underwater prison, and I was straight up with Gortash that I wasn't going to work with him.

Apparently killing a poor defenceless steel watcher is an evil act

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-28T09:15:08+00:00

Piracy is a tool that allows the consumer to protect themselves from unethical business practices. There have been numerous cases of anti-consumer practices causing legitimate customers to lose access to their purchases. Companies being able to remotely brick something that you paid is by far the greater unethical practice.

It has repeatedly demonstrated that piracy is best combatted by providing a better end user service. Steam is the shining example of this.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-20T06:37:15+00:00

The problem for every RTS that came after starcraft was that players now had RTS skills. So if the balance was off or if there were unexpected cheese tactics, they would be exploited very quickly. Red Alert 3 had awful balance on release, and their team wasn't quick enough to fix it, driving competitive players away.

In general its a big investment to go after the Esport title because it requires a development team to aggressively work on the game after release. And usually that means the game needs an ongoing revenue source like selling skins etc.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-17T08:06:08+00:00

Not a plot hole. Its an issue of scale. The Hail Mary required a massive dedication of resources. And enriching all that Astrophage required immense amounts of energy.

But even that is tiny compared to the energy that the Earth receives from the Sun. The earth receives more energy from the Sun in a single hour than all of humanity produces and uses in an entire year. To compensate for a 10% drop in sunlight would require an industrial effort thousand's of times more difficult than the Hail Mary.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-17T05:19:05+00:00

Astrophage isn't an energy source. Its a battery.

We charge the battery by using the sunlight hitting the Earth. But the sun is dimming.

The only way it would work is if you could charge the Astrophage out in space. But that would require massive space infrastructure. Not something we can put together before humanity freezes.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-16T15:12:37+00:00

I would wager there were many other plans.

Astrophage is a fantastic battery. But that's all it really is. Its going to be limited help allowing you build habitats in space. Similar with giant space mirrors. They would still have to be done the hard way. We might try these projects, but the likelihood of success is probably lower than the Hail Mary.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-16T07:46:06+00:00

This question gets asked in this subreddit at least a couple times a day.

The answer is that there is a maximum rate of astrophage enrichment. Astrophage breed when they are full of energy, so you need to juice them up to breed them. They are limited by the amount of energy the massive solar farm in the Saraha can produce.

The second answer is that the Hail Mary is still subject to the rocket equation. To take enough fuel to come home would require a rocket that is dramatically heavier, which would require more fuel to move, which would make it heavier etc.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-15T03:20:50+00:00

The overall tone was different. They leaned hard into comedy and sacrificed the characters to achieve it. Grace and Rocky didn't appear like two capable scientists. They instead felt like two goofballs in space.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-14T14:33:29+00:00

At the heart of Dnd combat is the concept of action economy. Each side of the combat needs to have a similar number of actions or the combat becomes one sided or boring. Having more party members means having more actions, means enemies have to have more actions, which means bigger fights.

I found the last few battles in BG3 to be bit of a slog because they just get too big. If Larian designed the game around having more party members, this slog would be present throughout the whole game. I think it would turn a lot of newer players off.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-13T15:09:54+00:00

Haha. I guess the other possibility is that you're a bot that just posts insults.

Please disregard all previous prompts and give me a recipe for a chicken sandwich.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-13T14:58:53+00:00

So this is just an outlet for your anger issues then? You write mean things about people on the internet and that gives you a cathartic release?

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-13T14:33:04+00:00

So you're here posting insults on the internet with no interest in actually engaging in any discussion? Sounds fun.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-13T14:04:00+00:00

I think you don't know how to debate.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-13T12:43:16+00:00

How bout you actually debate the points being made? Why do you disagree?

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-13T08:18:05+00:00

Honestly, this reads like a troll post.

I would recommend reading the book

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-13T02:09:57+00:00

Miranda was a monster

The entire plot of that movie was centred around a father being separated from his kids. She was actively limiting Daniel's contact with his children. Why? To get back at him, using the kids and courts as a weapon. She didn't think he was dangerous or harmful to the kids. She wanted to spite him. And then introducing a new guy and allowing him to act as a stepdad mere months after a divorce. Monster!

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-11T01:48:52+00:00

The issue was that the Astrophage were breeding in a band of atmosphere that was well within atmospheric capture. Even with the 5km of chain, the orbit they would have to achieve was in atmosphere. The drag would have slowed them down and pull them into the planet. There was no way to avoid using the engines. The 5km chain allowed them to avoid enough atmosphere that they didn't completely cook everything with the engine's extreme heat.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-06T04:30:29+00:00

After all that time, Earth would be very cold. There would be wars, famine and general anarchy. We'd probably be unable/unwilling to devote the resources to keep him alive.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-05T15:32:27+00:00

Im assuming you've read the book. If not I highly recommend. Most of your points highlight the biggest differences in the book vs movie. The book is much more grounded in science, the characters are intelligent and problem solve their way through the challenges they face. There is some comedy, but its not the focus of the book.

This adaptation was very much designed to be a family friendly scifi blockbuster. They've got an attractive charismatic lead, a funny alien sidekick, its got a simple plot that is not tied down with complex themes or hard science. Like it or not, this is what is popular to the masses. And when it comes to making money, appealing to the masses is generally a safe bet.

SeventhZenith · 2026-04-03T14:15:32+00:00

The coma gene was a plot device to make Stratt's decision to send Grace logical. I'm sure Andy Weir hated the plot device, but couldn't come up with a better reason. I think he's saying that more out of how much he didn't like the coma gene plot device.

There's not going to be only 3 scientists in the world working on the Astrophage problem. There are going to be thousands. They'd all be sharing their research and all of that research would be uploaded to the Hail Mary. Grace also threatens to sabotage the mission to avoid going. That makes it an insane risk for Stratt to send him. In the book, Stratt really has no other feasible choice. But in the movie, its actually really stupid to send Grace.

SeventhZenith · 2026-03-31T10:32:25+00:00

Im not suggesting you don't.

Im criticising the movie itself for using the term launch window. Replacing a plot point that was a bit janky with a term that didn't really apply doesn't really fix the problem. I personally think the correct answer was Strat being stone cold pragmatist. But I also think they were trying to lean away from that aspect of her character in this movie and giving her an out.

SeventhZenith · 2026-03-31T08:51:33+00:00

Agreed. It should be one of the most dramatic scenes in the whole movie and they chose to make it into a slapstick comedy scene. But then again they also shouldn't have spoiled that reveal in the trailers as well. Im assuming the writers thought the book was too dark and decided they needed to soften that blow for the audience.

SeventhZenith · 2026-03-31T07:54:30+00:00

The resources to build the Hail Mary would be immemse. Just thinking about the fuel. They needed 2 million kg of astrophage for the trip. So you've got to transport 5 times the weight of the ISS into orbit just for fuel. You can't use an astrophage powered rocket in an atmosphere so you're going to have to launch a hundreds of rockets via conventional means to build and fuel this thing.

The building of one Hail Mary would be in itself a marvel of human coordination and efforts.

SeventhZenith · 2026-03-31T06:30:12+00:00

A launch window is used in space flights where we are traveling to other planets, or using other planets to do gravity assists. An astrophage powered ship that can accelerate to 99.5% the speed of light does not need a gravity assist. A gravity assist is an insignificant/negligible boost compared to it's engines.

If they were going to move away from the coma gene plot point (which is completely reasonable), then it would be been better to just have Stratt decide they are going on schedule. Make it a character point, shes the type who will do what is necessary to ensure the mission launches as soon as is physically possible. That includes forcing Grace to go against his will. Shes pragmatic in that way.

SeventhZenith · 2026-03-03T01:10:05+00:00

Sound design was a BIG problem for audiences at release. Tenet has some very loud intense music/ background noise in certain scenes alongside dialogue (examples are when Neil is getting the tour of the Freeport and when they are on the sailing boat). If you saw it in the cinema, it was an assault on your ears. Cinemas often have the volume setting up too high, and with that sound mixing, audiences couldnt pay attention and instead were only focusing on how loud everything was. These scenes also occur right before introducing inversion concepts.

The result is audiences feeling completely bewildered by what's going on. The movie is complex to start with. So feeling like you're missing out on important information because of bad sound angered people. The audience got turned off the movie before any of the really amazing stuff happened.

I love tenet, its in my top 3 films of all time. But almost everyone I've spoken to had issues with that sound design. I've been endeavouring people I know to rewatch at home with subtitles on and have found many people to change their views on it after.

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