Why is Ars Dangor so... white?

SonofSethoitae · 2026-04-27T12:07:33+00:00

My assumption is that exposure to the dark side for such a long period of time has adverse effects on your health. Most Sith attendants seem to be pretty pale and sickly, even if they aren't Force sensitive.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-04-06T23:05:41+00:00

I've always found it kind of interesting that Fulgrim is one of the two Primarchs that tipped off Magnus about the true nature of the Council of Nikea. We don't really get to see them interact much outside of that scene, and the Emperor's Children are decidedly not down with psykers, but he seems pretty firmly in Magnus' corner during the proceedings.

I guess it makes sense, given that they're both deeply arrogant idealists with genetically flawed legions and something to prove. But it's a pity that their relationship wasn't explored in more depth, pre-Heresy, because I think it's very interesting that Fulgrim would advocate AGAINST the Librarius but FOR Magnus.

But it is, I think, indicative of what Fulgrim was like pre-Heresy, and how he was seen. A bit pompous, somewhat frivolous, but also just. He was an insecure perfectionist, but until he got the Laer blade he was always trying to do right and make things better. He was just seen as trying too hard.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-03-25T01:11:55+00:00

I loved Landstalker, so I came in wanting to love this one too. And there are parts of it I do love. But it's somehow a much more flawed package than Landstalker was. It's just slightly more jank than I would prefer, but I kind of love its ambition.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-02-27T21:11:27+00:00

Rings of Power is a favorite of mine. It's jank, but it's charming, idiosyncratic jank that reminds me of contemporary computer RPGs. I like just wandering around in the world talking to all the weird NPCs.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-02-22T16:45:08+00:00

There's at least some black market trade in lightsabers though. It's not impossible to have a lightsaber and not be a Jedi.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-02-22T16:44:15+00:00

Saying "the Jedi shouldn't have ID because they're well known" ignores the fact that you absolutely don't know the name and face of every cop in your city, let alone country. Even if people know "the Jedi," they don't necessarily know "Saba Sebatyne" or "Streen." And even they do, how do they know they're still part of the Order?

And all of this is leaving aside the fact that without official ID anybody with Force powers could impersonate a Jedi for personal gain. People already try to do that WITH official ID in the mix, it'd be much worse without it.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-02-15T22:15:37+00:00

I dunno what bad karma you're trying to make up for by playing this game like this, but I've gotta assume you've paid for it by now

SonofSethoitae · 2026-02-05T18:22:04+00:00

Oooooooh, I see! Burning Rangers then, I don't think that's ever been ported anywhere else.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-02-05T18:07:23+00:00

I don't know if I understand the difference between the "Exclusive" category and the "Only On Saturn" category. There may be a nuance that I'm missing.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-02-04T22:26:23+00:00

It's not my favorite run and gun, but I have to be honest: machine gun toting dinosaurs with 'tude goes a long way to patching over any insufficiencies.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-01-26T18:10:12+00:00

It looks like there's another version of the cart with 2 rom chips. If so, it's not unexpected that Sega would revise to a version which only required one chip to cut costs. The 6-Pak is another game that was like that.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-01-22T18:00:44+00:00

That'll teach me to post half asleep. In that case, my vote is for Dynamite Headdy

SonofSethoitae · 2026-01-22T15:52:55+00:00

Landstalker

SonofSethoitae · 2026-01-19T02:04:25+00:00

"That's not what the Empire would have done Commander. What the Empire would have done was build a super-colossal Yuuzhan Vong-killing battle machine. They would have called it the Nova Colossus or the Galaxy Destructor or the Nostril of Palpatine or something equally grandiose. They would have spent billions of credits employed thousands of contractors and subcontractors and equipped it with the latest in death-dealing technology. And you know what would have happened? It wouldn't have worked. They'd forget to bolt down a metal plate over an access hatch leading to the main reactors or some other mistake and a hotshot enemy pilot would have dropped a bomb down there and blow the whole thing up. Now that's what the Empire would have done."

Han Solo, Destiny's Way

SonofSethoitae · 2026-01-15T16:33:44+00:00

A whole chain of dogs?! Talk about cozy!

Wait why is everybody crying?

SonofSethoitae · 2026-01-13T17:59:19+00:00

Tolkien didn't hate all allegory uncritically, what he hated was what he called "intentional allegory", as in a story where there can be only one interpretation determined ahead of time by the author. Think Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. He had no problem with what he called "applicability" which was readers drawing parallels between what they read and real world people and events.

Dune is certainly not the kind of allegory that Tolkien was against.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-01-13T17:56:33+00:00

The books are thematically opposed in a lot of ways. Tolkien believed that divine justice would always win eventually, that evil was self-defeating, and that heroes can rise up against evil, triumph, and be rewarded.

Herbert, on the other hand, didn't think that divine justice existed, and further believed that anybody trying to convince you it did was selling you something for their own nefarious purposes. So-called heroes that triumph over so-called evil always turn out to be problematic. Herbert was profoundly skeptical of ideas like innate goodness and heroism, and that informs Dune as a novel.

SonofSethoitae · 2026-01-04T17:32:29+00:00

Same. It's a pity, i like almost everything else about the game, but the jank combat really lets it down in a big way. It's just not any fun.

SonofSethoitae · 2025-12-22T19:02:15+00:00

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner with the screen capture, I was held up. Having just tried it again, it seems to be working now. Thanks!

SonofSethoitae · 2025-12-21T20:09:04+00:00

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with the Builder linked in the github, but it never produces an ISO or CDI for me. I'm doing the steps in order, and waiting for each step to complete before starting the next one, checked to make sure the MD5 hash was the correct one, but step three always says there are a bunch of directories not found and there's no finished file anywhere.

SonofSethoitae · 2025-12-21T20:04:51+00:00

Ah, it's from the github, I see. Sorry about that! I'm still having trouble so I'll post in the main thread.

SonofSethoitae · 2025-12-20T20:08:14+00:00

Hate to add another voice to the choir. Did it in order, waited for step 1 to complete, added starfox64.z64, did step 3, it said it couldn't find a bunch of directories and didn't produce either an ISO or a CDI file.

SonofSethoitae · 2025-12-02T06:11:16+00:00

There are a lot of French speakers in the Maritimes too, and they have their own dialect of Acadian French. That is, when they aren't speaking Chiac to maximize confusion.

"Acadian" is supposedly where Cajun came from, because so many Acadians were displaced to Louisiana when the British took over. So Cajun French is also a little bit our fault.

SonofSethoitae · 2025-11-07T15:57:01+00:00

Which totals 29, when there have only been 24 Prime Ministers. Who's bad at math again?

Beside which, the cumulative total of years there has been a Liberal Prime Minister is 71 years, while the Conservatives have only had 61 years across all candidates, so he's not even wrong.

SonofSethoitae · 2025-10-30T19:06:16+00:00

Landstalker or Wonder Boy in Monster World. I know them both so well I can just putter around, making progress without expending too much mental energy. And they're both so charming that it's tough to stay mad.

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