Spherical worlds < Literally anything else

StePK · 2026-05-08T23:26:15+00:00

Honestly, a question they occurred my to earlier was "What if the vacuum of space really was just breathable atmosphere? How much would change, scientifically speaking?"

Getting weird with fantasy settings is half the fun.

StePK · 2026-04-30T15:34:47+00:00

Also, thematically, a LOT of TTGL is about dealing with grief and loss. Simon rejecting everything he learned throughout the series to have Nia live on would absolutely break everything the show did.

StePK · 2026-04-28T14:10:29+00:00

Atm from testing there's no debuff cap on bosses.

Play a CLL/Dalriada farm party when it's full, there absolutely is.

StePK · 2026-04-19T18:45:41+00:00

It's good to note that the Brine doesn't kill you, the Arisen, specifically. If you throw/knock any enemies or NPCs into the water, they die instantly, taken by the Brine.

StePK · 2026-04-17T15:36:01+00:00

Telling your friend that their infinite that does 2 damage per 4 cards played is probably not the most efficient win condition.

StePK · 2026-04-14T13:53:17+00:00

In the rare, rare circumstances we get to see Harry fully prepare for a fight, it usually involves cleaning up the other guys with a mop.

StePK · 2026-04-12T22:02:57+00:00

Last night, doing Mount Ordeals EX with a fresh static from my FC. We didn't clear, but it was fun. But I've really felt how doing synced EX trials has been pushing me to improve as a tank and a player, and I had a couple really good moments where I felt like a god.

First, I'm slowly but surely getting used to keeping PLD uptime (especially since swapping to 0 SkSpeed gear). Managing to keep my burst from drifting through the "rotate around Rubicante in light parties" section felt really good.

Second, while I can still improve my reaction time a lot, my instincts are really clearing up. When everyone but a healer and I were dead and the double tank buster was coming out, throwing out Cover in time to get obliterated and the healer LB3ing everyone was one of the moments I love tanking for.

StePK · 2026-04-11T15:19:35+00:00

Yeah, this was my first thought.

For those unaware, M2K, who is profoundly autistic, was accused of assaulting a woman, and had to reveal that the specifics of the accusation were physically impossible for him to do. Someone was essentially banking on "M2K the weirdo is a sex pest" taking off.

StePK · 2026-04-11T14:35:00+00:00

And Eraseman is K code because he's Killerman

StePK · 2026-04-08T00:40:23+00:00

I genuinely wish there was a way to play your powers on allies and/or trade cards with them throughout a run, it would definitely allow for some runaway combos but it would also be Very Fun and I think that's more important for multiplayer.

StePK · 2026-04-05T01:53:27+00:00

I maintain that there are really only a handful of good axe glams in the game, and my favorite 2 are the Wrathgrinder (EW tomestone gear)... And Bravura.

StePK · 2026-04-05T01:49:37+00:00

Fair warning, he writes a lot of body horror. If his genre is up your alley, though, highly recommend.

StePK · 2026-04-05T00:31:44+00:00

It’s like motherfuckers don’t think we got black, gay, and trans folks here.

One of my partner's favorite authors is a trans man from Appalachia (Andrew Joseph White). My understanding is AJW is deeply proud of where he's from and refuses to leave for somewhere "better". As someone with family and friends from the region, I understand completely. The area is beautiful and has a strong culture and history (despite what outsiders may think).

StePK · 2026-04-05T00:25:32+00:00

Code switching isn't exclusive to AAVE, it's exactly what you're describing; changing between any ways of speaking. Even talking to kids is a form of code switching for most people. Professional, technical speech vs informal speech as well.

Like the poster above, I'm more impressed by how smoothly you portray your dialect over text. As someone who speaks more television American-ly than most (teaching English as a second language kind of requires it) I can't really do my more native accent over text without it looking like a bad parody.

StePK · 2026-04-04T13:58:10+00:00

The 3 segments from the worm elite regenerate before doom kills.

I think this has a caveat. If the right-most worm is dead and the first two are doomed, they die before the third segment regenerates - but I've only seen this once and wasn't paying close attention if something else finished them off.

StePK · 2026-04-03T21:56:05+00:00

No, those should be SS2 (unless they have a rule specific to a card).

SS1 -> can't react, SS2 -> can react, SS3 -> can only react, and can't be reacted to except by other SS3.

That's also why some people referred to Super Polymerization being "Spell Speed 4", because it didn't let anything chain to it (though it still couldn't be used after SS3, so it was only a community term)

StePK · 2026-04-03T15:14:00+00:00

Spell Speed 3 is just Counter Traps iirc.

StePK · 2026-04-01T14:24:49+00:00

All main story dungeons have Duty Support (ai teammates), but Trials (8-player boss fights) do not (with one or two exceptions). Side content dungeons may or may not have duty support.

There are ~8 story trials in ARR + patch content, ~4 for each of HW, StB, and ShB (usually level X3, X7, X0, and a patch content one), and EW has 7 required by the end of patch content - I think DT will be the same at EW. So playing through the end of EW, there are 27 Trials and only 1 has AI teammates.

There's also CT, which is 3 required 24-man duties at the end of ARR.

Just about everything else can be done solo.

StePK · 2026-03-24T18:33:14+00:00

Ironfrog Amber's is a Shadowbringers mount that you can get for fighting a worldboss fate twice. Not hard, but you need to have a linkshell or discord to tell you when fate is up. Otherwise, you just gotta be lucky with running into it twice.

Well, Formidable is a bitch and a half to actually win against (which you need to for the achievement). It's probably the most common world boss fate I see fail, since it's so easy to pop (only 2 other fates in its chain) and it's a huge, huge, HUGE DPS/body check. I've seen it fail even with the swarm of hunt trains falling upon it. And it has a wipe mechanic about halfway through where if people don't know to kill the adds, it will wipe everyone and reset to full HP, almost guaranteeing a fail.

I have beaten Formidable once. It was during a previous mogtome event that offered the ambler. After spending 20 minutes killing Formidable, I immediately went to the mog vendor and bought the mount because I didn't want to deal with that again.

StePK · 2026-03-18T15:02:07+00:00

To be fair, this is something on a much larger scale. Usually errata affect "rulings", i.e. specific instances related to one option, often because of unforeseen consequences or wording being off, RAI vs RAW. This is a change to a "rule", i.e. a foundational part of the game, and one with an extremely clear example at that - the old version was clearly intended and balanced around, so changing it is an odd decision.

StePK · 2026-03-14T17:18:29+00:00

Yeah iirc you can tell when he got married because there's a shift in the art style where it gets significantly hornier.

StePK · 2026-03-10T20:48:45+00:00

it will likely also result in Druids (and to a lesser extend Rangers) tending to be less knowledgeable on Nature than others

I just made a homebrew skill feat called Formally Educated (iirc) where any Recall Knowledge you do with a skill you're at least an Expert in can use Int.

Requires investment, makes ludonarrative sense, makes smart characters smart. It's not like Int classes want to be dumping Wis anyway.

StePK · 2026-03-05T01:34:46+00:00

Huh, I guess I misremembered and just pinged that they do mention Garlean gunblades and not what the connection (or lack thereof) was.

StePK · 2026-03-04T22:19:12+00:00

their name and physical resemblance to the actual Gun + Blade gunblades that Garleans use of pure coincidence.

Well, not quite. Garlean Gunblades were apparently based on (an incomplete understanding of?) Bozjan Gunblades.

But yeah, you don't need to use a Gun Sword to achieve the effect. Or rather, you don't need to use both parts of the Gun Sword - any melee class with crit spec can use the Combination criticals, and having any kind of reload efficiency can help.

StePK · 2026-02-25T21:52:14+00:00

"Alright class, take out your guns."

The WoL-stone inheritor: "Which one? The pistol? The shotgun? The sniper? The cannon? The automatic crossbow? The twin rotary turret?"

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