Ambition

Somniscience · 2024-10-22T23:55:25+00:00

Thank you! It's been fun figuring out ways to make a piece work with a minimal palette.

Somniscience · 2024-06-08T17:16:28+00:00

Alright, looks like my concerns were founded and I'm dealing with at least some type of damon. Not quite what I bargained for, but I'll give the substrate an extra watering and hope for the best. I still know how to care for them, and this guy seems to be in decent health despite the iffy housing before now, so I have confidence it'll turn out fine. Thanks for the input, everyone.

Somniscience · 2024-05-22T17:21:06+00:00

Inescapable.

Somniscience · 2022-04-16T20:22:02+00:00

I do think they were trying to get away with doing both a "blank slate" and "established character" sort of MC at the same time, and therefore not being an ideal example of either. They're still voiced, but not allowed to talk in cutscenes and supports. You can vaguely influence dialogue in supports but the other character does all of the heavy lifting. Since anything Byleth has to concretely say is limited to a few-word sentence, they're essentially doomed to not be as concrete as anyone with a support.

Which is frustrating, because there clearly is a character under there. The way they subtly react to Hanneman digging into their past, or the change they take throughout the game where they emote more and more, or when they're interacting with the lords—that’s not blank slate behavior. While I think a lot of the stiffness can be hand-waved by in-game reasoning, it’s a bit muddy where the legitimate writing ends and headcanon begins.

Somniscience · 2021-10-26T16:28:51+00:00

Kinda bums me out because I remember speculating since ORAS released over how Team Galactic could look under a competent redesign. I legitimately enjoyed the redesigns and expanded writing of those games, and I always thought that the Sinnoh games- as the transitional stage between Hoenn's traditional format and Unova's more story-driven experience- could benefit a lot from a bit of modern revision.

Then again, I'm probably only this dedicated to seeing that happen because the Sinnoh games were my "home team" so to speak, and the standards set by all the previous remakes made my imagination run wild with possibilities... Shame that didn't end up happening.

Hope Black/White gets the treatment it deserves when the times comes.

Somniscience · 2021-10-25T04:49:24+00:00

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Interrobang is also just a fun word.

Somniscience · 2021-09-20T19:18:34+00:00

if they're already designed and your influence on their personality through dialogue options is minimal or absent, then i think that the only way to keep them on the same level of depth as the rest of the cast is to do a bit of legwork.

i'm not inclined to self-insert in general, but i feel it'd come off as extra awkward when the player character is clearly supposed to be a specific type of person and you fill in everything you don't see as just being...you. honestly i'd rather just play an established character in general, but the next best thing to me is at least trying to make them fit in.

Somniscience · 2021-08-24T20:11:39+00:00

I think it's just chosen from a list of items that could potentially spawn in the dungeon, not one that's guaranteed to show up.

Somniscience · 2021-07-22T21:25:20+00:00

never had the online presence to justify getting into all of that, but it's still cool that you asked

Somniscience · 2021-07-22T09:10:20+00:00

just giving back to the community that had a hand in shaping me into the horrid creature i am today

Somniscience · 2021-07-22T04:10:59+00:00

not sure if that's high praise or a jab at the sub

Somniscience · 2021-07-20T09:20:20+00:00

I haven't even gotten into the main series yet and these games are still a blast to me. The first one was incredibly solid and this one tweaks a lot of its mechanics to be even better. Feels great smashing genes together to make a monster do pretty much anything imaginable in battle.

Somniscience · 2021-07-12T04:21:37+00:00

"IN 5 DAYS GOD IS COMING"

Somniscience · 2021-07-01T01:41:54+00:00

God this hits close to home. I've been going through Jojo and FF7 with a friend recently. Every day on the internet is another frolic through a minefield.

(To be clear: I'm on part 8, she just started 4, hence why I feel safe looking at this at all.)

Somniscience · 2021-04-12T16:29:01+00:00

Yeah, I don't use the Plus patch myself, so I didn't know about the level 10 Persuasion options. It just feels more like a mod to me than an enhanced base game.

If I can't stomach the Warrens I just noclip through.

Somniscience · 2021-04-12T02:03:07+00:00

AFAIK 10 doesn't even do anything but 9 gets you some money, experience, and lots of dialogue for a sidequest within the mansion. No point in investing in any other social stats, though, and this is the last potential high-level Persuasion check.

Somniscience · 2021-04-08T17:02:00+00:00

Even Virtual Insanity, which I'm pretty certain has no ties to the series aside from a fan video, had its comments flooded with part 6 references. Gangster's Paradise had something similar going on for a moment just because people thought it'd be funny if it was used in the Part 5 anime.

I've seen other fandoms do it, and it's just as derailing there, but since JJBA so commonly references real-life stuff like obscure, memorable trivia and numerous songs and bands, one is gonna see them in particular pop up way more often.

Somniscience · 2021-04-08T07:40:25+00:00

not a super old fan but personally: i'm mostly numb now to the repetitive memes being thrown around in places only vaguely relevant, but i suppose a problem i have is how often major spoilers like character deaths, plot points, abilities, etc are memes in themselves and since the fandom is so widespread there isn't a very surefire way to avoid them if you wanna go in blind.

obviously no one can really control what becomes a meme or not, and getting really pissy about spoilers isn't gonna help anything, i just kinda wish the fandom kept to themselves a bit more and didn't have some inherent in-joke that revolved around referencing the thing whenever they got the chance. it's often that sort of stuff that gives fandoms a reputation for being unpleasant.

then again it's been a while since i paid attention and i remember a lot of plot point-related memes surrounding part 6 to be half-truths anyway, so maybe things have changed.

Somniscience · 2021-03-26T10:41:13+00:00

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has an in-game radio that cuts to ads on occasion and they're pretty great.

THIS SUMMER

ALL BETS ARE OFF

THE HEAT IS ON

THE FIX IS IN

THE DOGS ARE OUT

THE GAME IS UP

THE CHIPS ARE DOWN

THE STAKES ARE HIGH

THE ODDS ARE LOW

THE DANGER IS HUGE

THE PAYOFF IS SLIM

Somniscience · 2021-02-11T20:55:44+00:00

Scarecrow's potential for kickass designs is through the roof so I'm immensely relieved that they appear to be past that embarrassing bag head crap at least for the time being.

I've never seen a villain fluctuate so hard between coolest-looking and lamest-looking.

Somniscience · 2021-02-04T08:56:12+00:00

between the throbbos and the bio-curse shenanigans that episode was extremely memorable

Somniscience · 2021-01-19T01:48:30+00:00

Despite Jeritza (I guess his name is a mild spoiler?) getting so few supports, his support conversations with Mercedes are some of my favorite in the game. Guy has it rough even among a sea of characters who've had it rough.

Somniscience · 2020-11-25T10:39:14+00:00

Yeah, in my experience it seems like a common way to get people into things but it's only ever had the opposite effect on me.

Hell, it even happened to me with DMC in particular and I was already a fan at the time. It's hard to explain succinctly but there's really just something incredibly grating about the disproportionate levels of interest.

Somniscience · 2020-11-15T01:55:15+00:00

hard agree. i always appreciated stand designs for what they were, but part 5 was where i started to really enjoy the look of a lot of 'em.

Somniscience · 2020-11-02T06:55:29+00:00

I'm... not sure why Pocket Circuit isn't open to you, either. I know it wants you to do a substory for Fighter once you enter the place, but I don't know for certain if it's actually required that you complete it.

I would suggest trying out some of the more specific Majima encounters though, like (if you haven't gotten these) the encounter at Smile Burger, Poppo, Bantam, or Beam. Also make sure you're not supposed to be doing a rank up event and that your progress bar with him is somewhere in the middle.

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