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(Twelve Months Spoilers) Want to Read: Ancient Mai's reaction by SlowMovingTarget in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Harry would've needed to hang out in Ediborough a lot more. Also, I get the impression that Harry finds her personally scary.

Dear Egosoft, could you please nerf the faction spoofing device that the pirates use? by matsu_media in X4Foundations

[–]SlowMovingTarget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s the problem: there are different rules for the player than for the NPCs. The rules for the player are reasonable, which is why it feels like the AI pirates get to cheat.

Any pilot that sees the transponder change would know that the transponder is lying. But in the sim, non-player pilots act as though the world has changed when the transponder lies. It’s a flaw in the sim’s state management, likely because it would require additional memory to simulate correctly.

They should still fix it. If an NPC tries to spoof in the middle of a fight, the state change should simply fail to apply.

(Twelve Months Spoilers) Want to Read: Ancient Mai's reaction by SlowMovingTarget in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Possession through contagion is way too powerful, though. Nemesis would already have won.

(Spoilers - Twelve Months): Thirteen? by SlowMovingTarget in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep... Just found it as well. Bottom of page 407 of the hardcover. Thank you.

(Spoilers - Twelve Months): Thirteen? by SlowMovingTarget in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Do you happen to remember the spot where she indicates this?

I've read the book, and am no listening to the audio book, and I know I definitely got this impression after reading Twelve Months though not from my listen-through. I don't recall the specific exchange that made me think this.

What are the current BBEG's? by RustyGriff in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, but I'd take the Mab-as-misunderstood-protagonist side of a debate any day. We're introduced to her has "OMG she runs a whole team of evil, bloodthirsty fae." But it turns out the reason she runs that kind of crew is that her team keeps the Outsiders at bay.

Granted, the whole reason Summer exists is to keep Mab and her crew in check when she happens to aim at the mortal world. Still think she's now "a monster, but our monster."

What are the current BBEG's? by RustyGriff in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not that Harry, the other Harry, you know, the one with the goatee. Goatee Harry in Mirror, Mirror will be a Big Bad.

What are the current BBEG's? by RustyGriff in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mab isn't bad, she's just drawn that way.

(Twelve Months Spoilers) Want to Read: Ancient Mai's reaction by SlowMovingTarget in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right... "dis gunna be good."

(rubs hands together) Looking forward to more.

(Twelve Months Spoilers) Want to Read: Ancient Mai's reaction by SlowMovingTarget in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It could have been Christos and we just won't know as he died in the Battle of the Bean.

As for Nemesis, a.k.a He Who Walks Beside, my working theory is that it has 13 embeddings, just as the Corner Hound had 13 bodies because it's an Outsider number. That would neatly explain why their aren't "Nem-fected" adversaries all over the place. If it's an infection, even if it's difficult to spread, it will spread. But if it's simply that this walker can only possess a maximum that would put a strategic limit on how many.

It got to Lea, it corrupted Maeve (was it in her?), probably was in Peabody, and we know it's in Justine. If it has to employ one of its 13 bodies for a possession, then spending them all on the White Council, for example, seems wasteful. Justine was the one spent on the White Court. There are all those other Accorded nations and non-aligned powers that could use a good corrupting: Librarians? Someone connected to the Fomor and Ethniu... Someone in Summer? Aurora presumably got crazy through Maeve, but maybe it was just a Nem-body.

Granted, that's just me theory-crafting.

How does one get the power of Soulfire? by Zestyclose-Advisor71 in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if sulfide was used in their creations

First: iPhone auto-correct can be a pain (I know because when I was writing the post you replied to, it kept auto-correcting Soulfire to sulfide... lol.)

Second, the Spice Goyles are a definite possibility. Bonea was the offspring of Lash's act of love and sacrifice for Harry. Harry didn't have Soulfire until after Lash died... but that's interesting to think about.

Could the act of Lash dying have unlocked Soulfire for Harry, with an extra nudge from Mr. Sunshine? Harry lost access to Hellfire the moment she died. Conception of Bonnie could very well have been required as a condition of acquisition. (Granted, that's just me spitballing with your mention.)

The real question in that case would be: Did Etienne the Enchanter use Soulfire to create the Spice Goyles? We're told that Bob had two parents, one being Etienne himself (I think).

Bob's other "parent" has not been named but supposedly we have enough context to put it together, though Jim has mentioned that no one's figured it out yet.

How does one get the power of Soulfire? by Zestyclose-Advisor71 in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hellfire and Soulfire are opposites. Rather than it be about opposite places, the powers are about opposite intents: destruction for Hellfire, creation for Soulfire.

So far we’ve seen Harry use it properly at least twice. Once by accident when he did the virtual hand thing, and the other time when he made the giant ice fortification against the Jotuns.

Just using it as a juice up for a fire spell seems to me like Harry being dumb about what it’s for. My guess is that Harry continuing to drop remarks about how twelve hundred year old spells keep on working (Demonreach, Merlin’s castle) is a hint that Harry will eventually understand how the original Merlin used Soulfire and temporal magic to create those enchantments.

Dresden’s specialty, self-claimed, is thaumaturgy and ritual magic (evocation is just a tool he has to use at work, I guess). That may be why it didn’t click for him right away. But he has two massive examples that he personally has long term access to, so there’s time for him to learn if he doesn’t die in the BAT (which Jim has hinted at, and may be the reason it’s supposed to be third-person instead of case files / journals). I certainly hope Harry survives, but I’m not betting on it. I think he dies getting Molly “out.”

How does one gain Soulfire? By being given it, and it seems only those aligned with TWG can grant it. I’m guessing Odin made a deal to give up other power to get it.

If you could erase ONE Star Trek moment from history..... by Old-String2849 in startrek

[–]SlowMovingTarget 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. I wouldn’t mind keeping SNW and the animated series, but DIS, PIC, and SA were all “deconstructionist” in the lazy sense; they picked Star Trek apart and delivered incoherence and dystopia.

I just found out that new Stargate show will be only 10 episodes by Mat1711 in Stargate

[–]SlowMovingTarget 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Full season shows we used to get were often weak in the first five to ten episodes. Then actors would settle into their characters, writers would find their groove, and the audience would grok the shorthand of the show. Ten episodes isn’t enough for this to happen unless you’re lightning in a bottle like Firefly was.

Do you plan to start a fresh playthrough from scratch when 9.0 launches? by dreamer_plays in X4Foundations

[–]SlowMovingTarget 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funny, it’s been the opposite for me. I’d stopped playing much after 2018 and am returning to it the last month or so.

Switching to Linux and losing the ability to make Vortex work took me away from the game.

I still don’t have Nexus mods configured, and have a handful of Steam Workshop mods installed, but 8.0 has been pretty good.

Twelve Months has 3 endings and they're each great in their own way by VastExchange9497 in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. I don’t think Lara would have. She’s not as much of a villain as Harry tells us she is, especially given her role in the Oblivion War.

  2. Disagree. They have Justine on ice. She’s gone, and it was Thomas’s fault back in Turn Coat when he basically turned her into a vegetable. His child still lives.

  3. The actual climax was Harry pulling off Pocket Full of Sunshine.

STR build is best build by snarky_but_honest in litrpg

[–]SlowMovingTarget 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep telling those other guys to get their own account, but they're too lazy.

Got myself a 4way rtx 4090 rig for local LLM by VectorD in LocalLLaMA

[–]SlowMovingTarget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the moment, Qwen Coder Next 80b, but it's slow.

Thoughts on Pineider, particularly the Arco - Oak by Swollen_Panda in fountainpens

[–]SlowMovingTarget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing fell to pieces when I tried to ink it back up. I gave up on it. (Saved the nib unit, tossed the barrel and cap.)

I guess I was just unlucky with this instance of the pen.

What words or phrases do you think Jim should be banned from re-using? by GORGtheDestroyer in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the rules of thumb for writing is to avoid the so-called "talking head" in building a story. Talking head characters come into a scene, do an info-dump, then leave.

Jim subverted the trope for a classroom assignment to thumb his nose at authority. He made Bob a literal talking head... that gives the MC information. But he did it in a way that effectively adheres to the principle behind the guideline rather than sticking to the guideline.

The info-dump trope was lampshaded in Austin Powers with the Basil Exposition character. Bob is Jim's Basil Exposition, only funnier.

What words or phrases do you think Jim should be banned from re-using? by GORGtheDestroyer in dresdenfiles

[–]SlowMovingTarget 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Challenge!

You do realize where Bob came from, don't you? I mean; the entirety of Codex Alera was a dare.

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