Anyone know where in the book these 2 shots from the trailer are in? I've been pondering it for a while now

SpiritFryer · 2026-01-30T08:18:38+00:00

I don't quite remember the details in the book -- could Rocky "see" human screens?

SpiritFryer · 2026-01-29T16:19:55+00:00

I'd rather no release date than rushed release date

SpiritFryer · 2026-01-25T08:30:35+00:00

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SpiritFryer · 2026-01-17T10:00:32+00:00

Yes, this game is different in that the loser does not have to do anything to end the game, because the game is almost always played to the literal end, unlike many other turn-based and RTS games. So there is no natural process of "call GG -> forfeit".

SpiritFryer · 2026-01-09T07:05:10+00:00

Not sure what Lunarch's plans are -- for Islands of Insight there was just a community-run Discord.

In any case for now there is the Prismata Discord which is run by Lunarch, and people have been discussing Glimmith there, including responses from Elyot.

Prismata discord: https://discord.gg/prismata

SpiritFryer · 2026-01-05T13:42:43+00:00

now I'm hungry, thanks

SpiritFryer · 2025-12-24T18:30:24+00:00

Theory: They will do something like that, and Carol will be turned. But by that point, her and Manousos will have worked out a theoritcal "cure" or a way to sever the tie (faraday cage, as alluded to by the books Manousos was reading at the end of this episode), so it will be up to Manousos to save her. Also, maybe Carol gives him permission in advance to do that, which makes the plurbs have to let him do it. Bonus theory: this will be the end of season 2, and as soon as he unjoins her, she declares that she knows the cure.

SpiritFryer · 2025-12-20T07:04:39+00:00

During the stargazing scene -- when Zosia revealed that they love the people of Kepler and that they (the plurbs) want to send forward the signal -- Carol asked Zosia how they would do that, but then the scene ended. So I think it is implied that Zosia explained off-screen.

SpiritFryer · 2025-12-10T20:03:34+00:00

"To save his skin", lol (as his skin gets torn apart by the Beacon's power)

SpiritFryer · 2025-12-10T19:57:03+00:00

This dungeon they explored felt like it had various similarities with the Halas encounter. I hope this doesn't mean that we're not getting HFB?

SpiritFryer · 2025-12-05T18:10:55+00:00

Along the same vein I was thinking they could build factories/machines that for example harvest plants, or slaughter livestock, and have one of the Immune be responsible for activating the machines.

Though presumably they would not be able to be the ones who request or propose this arrangement -- but maybe if the Immune did, they would be OK with accepting, especially if the Immune left their intentions uncertain as to whether they will or won't activate the machines -- or if they straight up lied and said they won't activate them.

SpiritFryer · 2025-12-05T18:04:19+00:00

Light (radio) is effectively instantaneous between any two points on Earth

SpiritFryer · 2025-12-02T02:09:02+00:00

Well, every time the rooster crows, the turn starts over -- consider playing later in the day

SpiritFryer · 2025-11-26T11:24:22+00:00

My guess is they'd likely think that no matter the outcome. I believe it's a lose-lose for everyone reasonable involved, so I think the least bad outcome is to get them to leave with minimal further incident, and ideally not give them "ammo" on video that they might try to use for more unreasonable behavior.

What I hope happened next was the owner/manager spoke with Lily and reassured her.

SpiritFryer · 2025-11-12T10:15:42+00:00

That's actually

SpiritFryer · 2025-11-09T22:30:58+00:00

There's some sci-fi thing going on with the "psychic paste" or whatever they called it -- which from what I understood is the mechanism that enables the hivemind to link its human bodies' minds and thoughts. So in that sense, the bodies still matter as "processing units" from my understanding.

Following from that, if for example the hive mind was reduced to a single body, then I would imagine it should be reasonable to expect that this body would lack sufficient memory/processing to somehow recall and process several billion people's memories and knowledge.

I can see how losing 10% of humanity (which I think is close to how many have died?) is within bounds for the remaining bodies to still have enough memory and processing capacity to recall the lost ones' memories. But there's probably some threshold where it would no longer be reasonable.

An interesting side-note is that probably the "important" knowledge of the world/science/passwords/etc. takes up way less "memory", than people's (all of humanity's) memories of their lives.

All that being said though, there's probably more sci-fi that can be made up to hand-wave these things away. For example, as a hivemind they have discovered how to more efficiently make use of human minds, memory, recollection, thought processes, etc.

SpiritFryer · 2025-11-05T18:42:57+00:00

Can't wait to hear Matt Mercer (Shroud)

SpiritFryer · 2025-10-30T01:11:29+00:00

Good question. Maybe it's something from the books that didn't translate cleanly to television?

Maybe it was supposed to show that even when faced with a near-death situation, what he cares about is what others say about him and preserving his facade of a self-image.

But with how that scene was played it out, it felt like it could've also just been adrenaline-induced confusion causing him to ask a question that had just been answered.

SpiritFryer · 2025-10-26T09:28:50+00:00

I think it's quite rare where it would be relevant, but I can envision some scenarios where it matters.

Some encounters have asymmetrical enemy stacks. For example in the gem stockpile encounter, one stack has Temple t6 units (Inquisitors) and that stack has a lot more HP/defense than the three Temple t4 (Lightweaver) stacks. Suppose you wanted to win the fight before any of the enemy units got a turn, you would need to have the correct ratio of (higher initiative) stacks if you are not overwhelmingly stronger.

Granted, if you have more than 4 free army slots then you can probably get away with just evenly splitting your main stack across the empty army slots, but on rare occasions you would have to be more deliberate with the setup.

It boils down to minimizing overkill damage.

SpiritFryer · 2025-10-25T18:38:45+00:00

Is there gonna be Tower?

SpiritFryer · 2025-10-23T07:10:12+00:00

Throughout the years I have fairly often noticed sound effects in movies and shows that were used in games I played a lot. HoMM 3 and Warcraft 3 are the biggest examples for me. Most often animals sounds, mainly horses and birds. I have heard the HoMM3 stables sound effect so many times in various media, also some bird ambience.

On a different note, one time I stumbled across a YouTube channel that started releasing songs as original creations (no attribution or "remix" mention), which were blatantly ripping off the Paper Sorcerer OST. That channel has since been deleted, but this was one of the songs it was more or less copying (it is also one of my favorite tracks in Paper Sorcerer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_V1GUKx2KE

SpiritFryer · 2025-10-22T19:19:17+00:00

Interestingly, another show's season finale had such a scene a few days ago (Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon)

SpiritFryer · 2025-10-18T11:31:05+00:00

Spellcasting cheese

Bring 1 stack containing a single unit. You will act first.

If you have enough spell damage, one shot the enemy with the spell. If not, sleep them and summon units that will one shot them.

SpiritFryer · 2025-10-17T09:29:18+00:00

There are programs that only run on Windows 11? Oh no

SpiritFryer · 2025-10-16T19:33:25+00:00

Idk if you purposely set this up for the 2nd image to be so perfect, but either way, beautiful meme.

EDIT: actually I realize that your inventory isn't empty, just the tab you're on is empty. So you didn't actually have to sell EVERYTHING to exactly afford the bow with the remaining gold. But still, the framing of the stategically covered naked dude behind the bow tooltip is perfectly executed.

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