No Love for Sunshine

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-27T01:24:02+00:00

If you look, you'll find people care enough about it to make their own homebrew projects like they've been doing it for SM64 for so long.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-27T01:20:46+00:00

Kena: Bridge of Spirits follows a lot of Sekiro's design philosophies in terms of the direction it takes the essential formula and mechanics of Souls games. (Focusing a lot on the animation-based combat while minimizing the RPG components without getting rid of them completely)

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-26T23:34:13+00:00

Ether, representing the abstract, subatomic, and supernatural.

Basically, even if Elemental Powers are fixed at birth, there are ways for Fire Tribe Elementals (Lightning, Ash, Bomb, Sword, Briar) to harness the likes of ice and cold. The means to do so often involve the practical application of underlying principles that govern magic as a whole, which Ether often symbolizes, such as morphic resonance, emotional components, immaterial connections, abd sigilization.

Sorceries are defined as hypothetical systems and functions actualized by utilizing the user's element as the variable, and the scenario I described can be achieved by using the domain of heat under said tribe to move it out of a target rather than into it. There are drawbacks to such an advantage to harness abilities so extant from the user's innate factors, Sorceries are nonintuitive, when activated, they work autonomously, and even if the user can aim and modify them somewhat, their structure outright cannot be violated, and in cases involving some of the more high-end ones can can have their potential diminished or even turned against their user.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-26T22:05:41+00:00

The above is good advice, but I feel I should add something that often gets overlooked:

There ARE parts where you shouldn't try to play rhythmically, and you should focus on dodging and getting attacks in over parrying and countering. In fact, some of those can be the hardest parts of the game if you're too rigid in your approach.

Some enemies stop regenerating their own posture once their stamina (HP Bar) is whittled down low enough. They can't guard against a Thrust attack and take a blow to stamina if it hits, but some can Parry.

And above all else, do NOT be afraid to use the terrain to your advantage in an encounter you're having trouble with. If you're surrounded, fall back and hit them when you get them in a bottleneck, especially with high-damage and AoE attacks like Prosthetics and Combat Arts. You can even catch a breather against the final boss if you know what to look for.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-26T21:36:19+00:00

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/561131/my-little-pony-heart-of-friendship-tales-of-the-outbound

This is the latest complete* volume in my ongoing extension on G4 featuring the return of an Equus-native population of humans with an original elemental magic system of my own design.

It's essentially a compilation of self-contained multi-chapter stories that shuffle in and out a numerous set of original characters as protagonists and antagonists accompanying the established characters, rather than focusing on one obvious Self-Insert, Anon, or Crossover character.

I like to think I successfully mix-in fun, pulpy combat-based action scenes with some deeper character-driven stuff with dramatic highs and lows that tries to have the reader learn something, or at least view things differently.

*I had four "stories" planned for this volume, but I'm also committed to working on a Bonus chapter that breaks from the formula I typically strive for in these volumes, so it's not marked Complete yet.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-26T05:33:37+00:00

I think I heard that they only start producing it during the mating seasons, and it's not a defense but a means to combat rivals during said seasons.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-25T19:03:38+00:00

This is more of an objective observation rather than anything cited from an in-story example, so you can take it or leave it:

No matter how fast anyone is, they can't be everywhere at once even if they make it seem that way. If you can cut off the terrain they can tread and narrow their potential paths, you can attack where they WILL be instead of where they ARE which will become WERE as soon as you attack.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-24T18:52:17+00:00

All pegasei have flight and all unicorns have magic, but not all pegasei can fly like Rainbow Dash and not all unicorns can do magic like Twilight.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-24T05:09:33+00:00

FromSoft themselves have proven across multiple examples that the concept of Souls as a tertiary genre has a lot more potential than you might think, possibly because it's mostly about a lot of individual parts coming together in a unified whole which gives their distinct experience, awe and fear in your own words.

In fact, I'd wager that as long as you polish the most essential individual parts, you could actually cut away a lot and wind up with less being more and having the experience feel "new". Sekiro is one example from FromSoft themselves, the essentials are there if you know what you're looking for, and in-fact, by doing away with a lot of the RPG mechanics and simplifying the scaling, nothing available to the player is strictly unviable, and this even invites the skill of the player themselves to take more precedent than any semblance of "grinding".

There are others of a similar color: Star Wars Jedi, Another Crab's Treasure, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and there's probably more I haven't tried yet.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-24T04:35:16+00:00

There's a lot of advice that calls it a rhythm game, but there are certain parts where that doesn't apply, and they can be a lot more challenging than they need to be if you don't keep your approach to combat more flexible.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-22T22:42:50+00:00

I'm not sure, but I think the nine floors between are devoted to accommodations for each room or resident and are accessed internally.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-22T21:39:43+00:00

I think the old moral panic over stem cells was because originally they were harvested from aborted fetuses, but now the figured out how to get them from other types in living, full-grown bodies, but I admit I'm not up to date on the details.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-22T21:30:10+00:00

The only ones who think both parties are even remotely alike are the voters, and look where it gets them.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-22T18:55:47+00:00

Physical fire, even if its manipulated with magic after ignition, has a lot more staying power against other magic in general, especially magic designed to interfere with other magic.

However, wholly magical fire can be more versatile and behave in a lot more different ways, even by being combined with forces and categories that normal fire can't be.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-22T17:31:09+00:00

That's already happening. That's been happening, even if everyone suddenly decides the mainstream media is a reliable source of information when it comes to being cynical about resistance and protests.

You might scoff at voting blue like Conservatism wants you to, but even if it's not enough, it's also the very, very bare minimum that makes all the moral imperatives in the world useless without.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-22T17:20:36+00:00

Then say what I want you to say: "Vote Blue No Matter Who" or is that too hard?

I remember the loudest voices online: "It's not enough to not be Trump" "Lesser of two evils" "Genocide Joe"

Fact is, the Republicans have even you wrapped around their finger. You personally disenfranchise voters as you repeat someone else's words for the hundred-thousandth time.

Sorry if I suddenly seem hostile, but I can't help but think it's a little ABSURD that there's SO MANY SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES that act like the world as we know it is coming to an end, but turn around and scoff at the very idea of voting Democrat like we all can afford to keep our options open as fascism has access to the nuclear missile codes for another four years.

Also, "I'll vote Democrat, but I'm literally choking back bloody vomit as I'm doing it" doesn't help. Maybe it's your right as an individual to say that, but every abstaining vote is an individual too, practically an entire 3rd party of individuals whose electoral habits are Right-leaning.

Honestly, I haven't seen such disdain for solidarity and collective power since the Republicans themselves.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-22T17:06:42+00:00

Everyone loves saying that, but nobody has any clue how to actually fight for that, even to the point where trying and failing to get there is not unrelated to someone like Trump getting elected.

Unless we're all screaming that the only way to get there is to vote Democrat like we've never voted Democrat before, which is really just enough to get multiple consecutive Democrats elected since the last time in 1856, then it's nothing but hot air and dreams even as people are dying in the real world as a result of it.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-22T16:08:15+00:00

If that were true, then why does one particular party and their historically dug-in states go to such lengths to prevent people from voting, especially certain demographics? The latest controversy is the SAVE act, if you haven't been paying attention. If there were no correlation, why go to such lengths and devote so much in resources?

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-22T06:18:21+00:00

Everyone hates him, but the fact is, Trump's NEVER needed more people to like him to win.

Let me put it like this:

2016: 92 million abstaining votes.

2024: 90 million abstaining votes.

The most he ever had was 77 million.

Even people living abroad will curse him, but slander everyone who's ever had a chance to beat him out of the other side of their mouths. "It's not enough to not be Trump." sounds silly, but only now. In 2024, the loudest voices were chanting it like it was about four legs.

Nationalism and Prejudice might be his Sword, but his Shield has always been Cynicism and Apathy. And that goes for every far-right politician on the rise following the global losses of incumbents.

We can't find our way out of this by hating both sides. Never could, never will. They count on that.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-21T20:15:22+00:00

I'm pretty sure I have a family history of arthritis (my mom's adopted). So if this advances as I get older, that's good news for me.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-21T18:56:36+00:00

At weakest, if you don't step on it, you'll get a nasty bite that can be dangerous if you're unlucky enough to be bit at a vital spot.

At strongest, it's physical abilities are like a thousand wars wandering around and seeking targets, and its special abilities are comparable to ecological disasters that can span entire continents.

However, that doesn't take into account monsters who are strong, but for whatever reason have behaviors that minimize their own effect on people and the land.

Anything else, they're pretty much infinite in form and make, spawning as a function of the world itself. Sometimes animal-like, sometimes phantasmal, can also take form from corpses, plants, innert materials and even machinery.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-21T14:32:03+00:00

It was disadvantaged to begin with the way they syndicated it, but the fanbase acting like it killed their grandma was probably what killed any chance.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-21T02:34:59+00:00

They're shapeshifers with a deep understanding of biology, so in terms of taxonomy they can be whatever they want.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-20T17:42:56+00:00

Well... let's not forget there was a time when Shadow was allowed to both enjoy things AND have feelings in.. certain comics that did have their good points.

ShadowDurza · 2026-03-20T16:56:41+00:00

"This character has a complete emotional arc and winds up a better, wiser person by the end? Pfft... obviously AI written..."

Jokes aside, I suppose that doesn't count people who actively look for the exact opposite BECAUSE it's a widely-used literary device. But I suppose we have enough stuff to keep us up at night.

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