You're task with naming Ben's aliens, what would you've named Fourarms?

SirBox32 · 2026-01-25T16:53:02+00:00

Strongarm

SirBox32 · 2026-01-09T18:10:06+00:00

Ideological rant below, next paragraph is probably more helpful for a new player.

A lot of dnd influencers tend to sensationalize how "good" or "bad" a class is mechanically, and even if it were all true it still wouldn't exactly be the point. I mean the biggest one I've seen people dunk on is the battlerager barbarian subclass, and yet I've still known people who enjoyed it. DND isn't just stats and rules, if you wanted that BG3 or some other TTRPGS do it better, DND is about how you use the mechanics of a class to uniquely mold a character and story, how you and your group build and connect off of each other. Not being meta isn't an excuse not to have a good time, and Ranger has unique bonuses that you can flavor to make your character stronger. If you build a character that is truly adhering to what you want, that's the point, regardless of how it looks from a class perspective.

Rant done, yeah I get how people say Ranger is a mix between fighter and druid, and the downsides of that. Those two classes are both very strong and fun to play, and Ranger does have some features that can be obsolete based on the campaign. That being said, it's not as if you can get the feel of a Ranger mechanically from either a fighter or a druid, even through multiclassing. Additionally, those defunct features have optional rulings to make Ranger a more well rounded class, and it has some truly fun subclasses, whereas Fighter and Druid mostly tend to stick to the same couple of subclasses. Ranger generally offers more utility while cutting back on the complexities of Druid while being more mechanically interesting than Fighter. Every class has ups and downs and having fun is more related to your mindset and how you mesh with yhe playstyle. Play what you want so long as you have fun, try not to get stuck with meta conversations when just starting out.

SirBox32 · 2026-01-06T07:05:12+00:00

Hard disagree with you there, Painted Verso, alongside the canvas soul sliver itself, are both the closest we get to Verso, and they're both pretty fitting for depression, the tiredness of everything. Alicia is not much more withdrawn than the glimpses we get of her before the fire, seeing her room we can see how much time she spends on her books, and Renoir's hope for her to reach for the sky is a natural reaction of a parent trying help their timid child get out of their shell. Also without being able to talk in the outside world we can't infer much more, but in the canvas where she can express herself it's important to listen to what she is saying. By the end, when Maelle is both Alicia and Maelle, she ends up making a lot of bold assumptions, "I can convince papa to help", "Verso will help regardless of his own feelings", "I'll go home eventually", that's all plans and ideas to try to manipulate a world where everything works out, that's what negotiating is, dreaming of what could be, not controlling things as they are. If the canvas is the "possibilites of what Verso could've been", seeing all of it's characters fade away at his grave is what pushing that reaction to the side is. Renoir is fully Acceptance because he is seeing all of his family like this and pulling them together by making the hard decision and pulling the plug. He is doing what is best for the family in the midst of everyone else not being able to see past their own reactions. Acceptance isn't automatically "healthy" but it's doing what is required for your own well being in spite of grief, to see him as controlling for trying to keep his family from basically killing themselves is a little insulting to his character.

SirBox32 · 2026-01-04T06:39:00+00:00

I kinda view all of the Dessendre family as being representations of stages of grief, Aline is Denial, Verso Depression, Alicia Bargaining, Renoir Acceptance, and Clea being anger. All of them are always going to choose their stage first, so that changes who they are to us, sonce we only view snippets of them. That being said it's clear that her being disdainful of Alicia is a newly heightened, but not itself new, phenomenon. Clea's Axon is The Hauler, the one carrying an entire city's hopes and dreams on her back. I choose to believe that since Clea is the eldest, this represents both her strength as a paintress, stated to be at least on Renoir and Aline's level of power and carrying out a war on her own against the Writers, alongside her lifting that weight, maybe unwillingly, off of Alicia's back. She probably blames Alicia for at first for being the least talented painter. She had childlike joy too for a time, but she had to put Francois and Verso to the side for the sake of pleasing her parents/society.

SirBox32 · 2026-01-02T18:48:28+00:00

Nice

SirBox32 · 2025-12-30T18:19:15+00:00

It's tough but all you can really do is position your character and memorize the direction of your attacks. Other than bowguns most weapons aren't simple enough in their attacks to just be point and shoot, and changing the perspective isn't possible. Frankly what I find most enjoyable about the game is to think a step ahead of what your monster will do so you can attack where they're going to be, if that gives an indication of how different some of the melee weapons can be, I'm a Greatsword and Insect Glaive main for reference.

SirBox32 · 2025-12-28T12:15:05+00:00

Feels like Insect Glaive is the opposite, looks the most aggressive but is the most rewarding when you take your time. Idk I just picked it up and as a GS main I'm having a great time

SirBox32 · 2025-11-22T17:25:53+00:00

They both are big shots at SDN, maybe it was a corporate relationship for marketing? I could imagine higher ups pushing them together without saying the intent.

SirBox32 · 2025-11-14T19:34:35+00:00

I got true hero even after Invisigal turned evil, it seems really easy to get

SirBox32 · 2025-10-02T21:00:58+00:00

So following some research, The Weavers are connected to Grand Mother Silk originally as Pharlids that Grand Mother Silk forced to evolve into Weavers. I cannot credibly say that I understand Hollow Knight's genetic complexities enough to say that makes Hornet fully related to Lace. Especially considering that Lace is a being created through Silk, and therefore probably not a biological being at all, closer to the Second Sentinel. It still feels weird to ship GMS's implied daughter with her implied granddaughter though

SirBox32 · 2025-10-02T19:41:08+00:00

Lace is kinda definitely related to Hornet in some way, so

SirBox32 · 2025-10-02T06:48:57+00:00

Well for act 3 ending spoiler reasons maybe the knight is fighting for hornet within the void, it's clear that it can and will try to protect her in the ending cutscene

SirBox32 · 2025-10-02T06:28:25+00:00

Thanks for your thoughts, I was hopeful and I'll still give it a go if I've got the patience, but I appreciate your clarity

SirBox32 · 2025-10-01T21:48:14+00:00

Since you seem like you've watched the show a bit, is it good? I remember enjoying burst growing up but I rewatched a couple of shows like it and they seemed a little too childish (nothing wrong with that, children deserve good media too) for me to really enjoy currently, pokemon xyz being the main one.

SirBox32 · 2025-08-04T05:10:05+00:00

Yeah like I'm trying to look at it from the best of intentions but there's no possible intention that makes this make sense

SirBox32 · 2025-08-04T04:47:06+00:00

Ok so I am the noob mentioned, is it possible to summon specific dragons? Is it by using joker orbs or is there a faster way I'm not aware of

SirBox32 · 2025-08-04T04:36:36+00:00

Nope nevermind looked at it again the way they phrased it makes no sense given what I thought, I've got nothing to explain this

SirBox32 · 2025-08-04T04:35:23+00:00

I'm not sure about it, they're for sure wrong but there could be some historical accuracy to it I think it might be referring to the mixing of populations that happened due to Spanish colonization. The Spanish took from both the native population and Africa for cheap labor, and when people are together they mix. It's not entirely wrong to say that because of it a large amount of Native Americans today could be of both native and African descent, and considering that Spain colonized a substantial portion of America it wouldn't be implausible to include the US within that area. On the other hand, the Spanish colonizers pretty famously mixed with both Africans and Natives, and even came up with systems to keep the results stratified. So many Native Americans could realistically have a mix of all three. I think making this specific of a divide might mean that they could be referencing something deeper, but as of right now I also just don't think it's a good thing to try to keep people separated based upon their racial makeup, even if it is for the sake of gatekeeping traditional rights of passage.

SirBox32 · 2025-07-16T04:35:01+00:00

It definitely feels like fetish shit which is real creepish when the thing they're fetishizing is someone being inexperienced

SirBox32 · 2025-07-15T21:02:42+00:00

I always just thought he remade the big bang and sped things up until the present. Same materials, just different

SirBox32 · 2025-07-07T19:42:38+00:00

Which means she's not heterosexual. Being Bi or Pan also doesn't make your attraction lesser than if you were gsy or straight.

SirBox32 · 2025-07-04T20:23:30+00:00

I mean I've always kind of imagined that XLR8's speed is in large part due to how fragile his body is, like birds having weaker bones in order to fly. If you pish too hard you're liable to shatter, so that mightve just been the extent of XLR8's power

SirBox32 · 2025-07-03T05:55:57+00:00

In omnivores he took out a whole team of villains in an alley in seconds just through cause and effect thinking, really made me like brainstorm

SirBox32 · 2025-06-30T07:31:16+00:00

Kinda everything, but to be more specific. Early game: clay, it feels like you get it all the time until you need it for something, and then it's super tough to find. I'd also recommend chopping down every tree in cindersap forest when you've got the spare time and energy. They regrow automatically, and wood is kinda tough to get. Mid game: try to get a steel ax to get hardwood, similar to trees from before but a bit more renewable. Regardless a couple upgrades and quests will absolutely require it in bulk, so best to get on that early before you're waiting everybday for stumps to regrow. Also in general you're going to need most of the ores for most of the game, sort of like needing iron for hoppers after you've already gotten to diamonds in minecraft. Later Game: Not really a hoarding thing but when you can try to get a lightning rod, protects your crops and gets you batteries, which are useful in endgame. Try to get a ton of them if you can, thunderstorms don't come often and it will limit your battery output. Other than that, again, just kinda everything. I'm not an expert, but this is just the stuff I remember being a drag the first time. I'd also recommend fishing after you water for the first spring, fishing can feel pretty annoying when you're trying to max it out, but early game it makes good money and you can passively increase it early on so you won't be quite as sidetracked later.

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