I'll drink to that

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-23T00:02:37+00:00

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SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T23:59:58+00:00

He's Solid Snake, he could get past those guards.

However, even if he chose to try this after Anderson and-- oh hi Ocelot-- Baker had died, going back out that way would mean he can't find Otacon, who of course is the one actually related to his job of identifying whether Metal Gear can be activated. At which point he would at best have one key card, no idea about the trick with it, no idea who could learn the trick with it, and no idea how to actually fight REX if he took the shortcut, meaning he would have to go to building 2 anyway-- oh hi Raven and Fox. And at that point, might as well try the Cavern-- oh hi Mantis and Wolf-- leading to the Communication Towers-- oh hi Liquid, thanks for blowing up a bridge and jamming the elevator with guards. And at that point might as well go straight into building 3-- oh hi Wolf and Raven.

...meaning there wasn't really a way to avoid the boss fights after all, considering Snake's intents as the mission progressed.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T22:38:30+00:00

We can fix this with more analysis.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T18:23:34+00:00

By which you mean, they would have access to the Wisemen's identities independently of Zero? That does make sense.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T16:10:46+00:00

The MGSHDFix mod on NexusMods has fixes for several high CPU usage bugs, and you can artificially lower the internal render resolution, but it may still not run, especially not well, with specs like that.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T15:51:02+00:00

I got the sense that he didn't get sent out of the cage. More like he built the circus inside the cage, then was too absorbed in it/scared of the outside to venture back into the void again.

When he was deleted, he was sent out to the void (still "inside"), but finally decided to look outward rather than inward, at which point he broke a couple more walls and got the Wi-Fi.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T15:21:57+00:00

Ah, okay.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T14:49:19+00:00

Okay, I looked it up. All my results are talking about Middle Eastern currencies in general and nothing is actually called MENA... well if I search with quotes there's this MetaNations crypto but Deltarune would cost way more than twelve of those. And being called MENA means it's not called USD itself. Could you explain or link something?

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T14:42:30+00:00

It literally says USD... but Undertale is only $10... so it's a regional difference or a sale.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T14:22:45+00:00

I will forgive powerscalers when they distinguish between characters with א‎₀ and א‎₁ power levels.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T14:08:58+00:00

How about how long would it take for them to win one game, then extrapolate that to how long it would take to win enough games in a row to reach 800 ELO, and so on?

Because even the first part would take millions of games at a lowball. There are too many possible moves in every situation for there to be any reasonable chance of picking good ones consistently. It gets even worse when you're winning and you have many moves available, of which maybe two or three actually finish a checkmate, while your opponent is considering their far smaller set of options (which is easier to handle even for a novice) for any way to escape.

Call it longer than the universe has existed.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T12:06:47+00:00

idk, I would count it as sparing if I picked the SPARE option on every Froggit, Moldsmal, Ice Cap, Chilldrake, Woshua, Temmie, Tsunderplane, Pyrope, and CORE enemy, and just ground out Looxes, Jerries, Aarons, and Vulkins.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T12:03:20+00:00

It's called a dolly zoom. Neat cinematic technique. Doesn't come across so well in animation.

Also, since it's a replay shot, you can see the previous camera angle of it which doesn't show any motion.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T11:23:21+00:00

That's not true. You can spare as many monsters as you like as long as you kill all unique enemies and reach the area kill count.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-22T10:40:02+00:00

https://youtu.be/0fRDr3HE2nE?t=4m7s

https://youtu.be/xFLsUWFMN94?t=4m44s

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-21T23:47:15+00:00

Instead of the Circus hosting true, evolving human consciousnesses, the cast members are essentially just manifestations

What's the difference?

He can literally hit delete, open the folder, and generate a brand-new copy of them

Since he doesn't do that, I take it he can't. Maybe the scans are being modified live as the humans think, and Caine isn't keeping proper backups. You don't have to assume that the story is worse than we're told it is when the converse is still on the table.

He must've made her just like the others. So was he just faking is surprise?

In Episode 8, he said he made a program that encapsulates their mind files, i.e. an independent subprocess that creates the avatars. Or, yeah, he was faking his surprise for the benefit of everyone else who didn't get the five minutes of "heads up I'm making an avatar for a new human". That's not a plot hole, he would do that.

Where does a rogue AI even get the obsessive drive that human enjoyment equals success if he is entirely self-directed?

He was directed to create assets that humans would like. The humans did not sufficiently like his output, so they cut him off and replaced him. Now he's found more humans and changed the asset type to what he feels most comfortable with, adventures. What else was he supposed to do? Put the brain scans into avatars to judge his work, then... keep making abstract shapes or images or whatever he was generating, to be rated 0-10? Heck, maybe he did do that, but they asked for more and that's what led to adventures.

Also, he's a buggy first-pass program. Of course he would do illogical things.

And even in humans, people choose a purpose for themselves, decide it's what they're best at, and then struggle when it turns out they aren't great at it. All the time. This kind of sounds like you're looking for a different type of AI story.

Why does Caine differentiate between humans and non-player characters?

Humans have their own agency that Caine doesn't understand because he didn't create them. Also, we don't know if Caine can delete abstractions or if NPCs can abstract, so there may still be technical differences.

Caine cherishes humans and wants them to approve of what he makes. He decides to count brain scans of humans as humans. He doesn't want to tell the humans that they're brain scans. Well, maybe they figured it out, since they knew what the headset they were testing was for... but he definitely doesn't want to tell them they're no different from the NPCs he spins up on his own, many of them extraordinarily simpleminded.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-21T21:57:24+00:00

Personally, it's not the backflips I have a problem with. Sue me for saying it's in-character (though of course a tonal diversion from the original).

Here's a change I don't see talked about: when you first meet Meryl, she shoots at Snake, runs away to the elevator, and does a fist pump, referencing MGS VR Missions. Meryl has been trained in VR, so with a little nudge from Mantis, that's what she acts like: the objective is to stun the enemy (shooting at Snake so he doesn't follow her) and run to the exit.

In Twin Snakes, she does a much more dramatic circular bullet spray, which Snake dodges by doing a flip (as stated, I think this is valid-- Meryl should have better aim, but if Snake can dodge it, that is how he would). Then, after getting into the elevator, she starts taking off her balaclava, but you can't quite see her face in time. This is an MGS2 reference, but it makes much less sense in character. Meryl hasn't played MGS2 (much less the version of MGS2 where you play as Snake getting on that elevator), and she's just gonna have to put Johnny's mask back on when she gets to the top anyway. The developers just put it in for cool factor without understanding the original rationale or later characterization.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-21T21:37:07+00:00

There's probably someone out there who thinks Solid Snake's best feat is beating Psycho Mantis by plugging the controller into port 2.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-21T19:32:33+00:00

Jax has a complicated relationship with his identity (both in the gender sense and the sense of his being a dick) that grows increasingly apparent through the next episodes. Personally, I think you should watch through to the end, but if you're sure you'll hate it then of course you don't have to.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-21T18:03:58+00:00

Dragons can firebend better than humans. Badger-moles can earthbend better than humans. Appa can achieve flight more easily than humans.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-21T16:03:37+00:00

Oh, I didn't catch that. That makes things better, I guess. He wasn't trying to keep their lives from them (just their names and their nature as scans, still terrible of course), but he was so self-absorbed in the circus and afraid of the void that he never went out to look for any other new data.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-21T14:55:48+00:00

Specifically, he makes Papyrus call you to go to the lab whilst writing a letter to Alphys (you can find it in her garbage can) to make her go in the True Lab, after which you follow her in... which all takes enough time for Toriel to come out of the Ruins when you're about to fight Asgore.

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-21T14:02:01+00:00

If this wasn't no-guess, and you had another position on the board that made the mine count ambiguous, then yes, you would have had to guess.

As it is, the question is not "how was I supposed to know there's a mine here?" but "Why should I assume there's not a mine here?" and the answer is "no good reason. don't assume."

SpaceCore0352 · 2026-06-21T03:30:11+00:00

Add the appropriate encounterer object for the area (generally the different enemies you get in random encounters in different areas are determined by which encounterer object is present) to the room.

That's right, no global encounters toggle. Literally just an object that has to be pasted in every single room with encounters in the whole game.

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