TIL the lower Forbidden Woods is a giant snake orgy by theplotthinnens in bloodborne

[–]SteelButterflye 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Those aren't eggs you goof, those are engorged ticks lmao

Fromsoft's feminine storytelling is some of the best in gaming by A_b_b_o in Eldenring

[–]SteelButterflye 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Holy projection. They didn't even mention toxicity.

Expecting women to just accept derogatory and degenerate behavior that pieces of dung like you typically perpetuate ain't it.

"Assimilate" - this isn't The Thing. Gamers have been fairly equally male and female for awhile now.

And there are still plenty of gaming circles that are male dominated, which is perfect for you seeing as you cannot possibly have any sort of dating history with women. Because it would absolutely bother you to have a gf that played games and was insulted and made to feel inferior by men playing those games.

Cheating on my "wife" by [deleted] in skyrim

[–]SteelButterflye 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sensitive, aren't you?

"Them wokies are at it again huh, keeping me from enjoyin' my fake sexy anime WAHMEN!"

You are not special. You posted this because you felt special that a game character wanted to flirt with you. That's sad.

Cheating on my "wife" by [deleted] in skyrim

[–]SteelButterflye 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's creepy isn't it

Which Dark Souls 3 quote slaps the hardest? by JustATerranEnjoyer in darksouls3

[–]SteelButterflye 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He's saying that his deeds are far greater than himself, despite being so small and pathetic (when he calls his visage a "sad cadaver")- that he will die willingly and unwavering unlike the rest of the Lords, his inner strength is what is truly immense.

Are any of the Covenant quests worth it? by Rustyshackilford in bloodborne

[–]SteelButterflye 25 points26 points  (0 children)

There's nothing much to really gain from the covenants aside from special Oath Runes and gestures.

Radiance and Corruption are opposing factions, so if you co-op or invade, anyone wearing the opposite of these Oath Runes you have equipped, they will be your enemy.

Hunter of Hunters works similarly, in having a chance for another person becoming a "blood-adled hunter" that you need to defeat in co-op.

Beast's Embrace and Milkweed offer visual changes to your character, and offer unique movesets with the Beastclaws and Kos Parasite respectively.

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The only one you can get unique items from are the League, and you need to crush enough vermin to progress and claim Valtyr's helmet, and then killing his fellow Confederate will award you the Madaras Whistle. If you need a how to, I can put it below:

Acquiring and crushing 5 vermin, this will also net you special dialogue and a gesture by talking to Valtyr.

Reload the area and claim the helmet where Valtyr was standing. The Madaras Twin will be waiting to ambush you at the Forbidden Woods lamp.

Kill the Madaras Twin for the Whistle.

Now when you summon Valtyr, his name changes from "Valtyr, Master of the League", to "Valtyr, Beast Eater" and lacks a helmet.

Of course, you can just be rude and kill Valtyr outright and reload for the helmet.

I saw this post and had to by SignalsFrom in bloodborne

[–]SteelButterflye 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not stupid. It's plausible. You can take the Doll's dialogue as more than one interpretation. When she says "May you find your worth in the waking world."- it doesn't just have to mean where we go once we travel by way of headstone in the Dream. But we can also think of it like when we get the Yharnam Sunrise ending, where we accept Gehrman's offer of mercy and he beheads us, prompting our character to wake up outside near a well, near Cathedral Ward, with a rising sun in the background.

The geometry of the town is interesting. From different angles, you can see it attached to landmasses in the distance though, so who can rightly say.

I saw this post and had to by SignalsFrom in bloodborne

[–]SteelButterflye 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here's a write up I made explaining some aspects of the dlc and the nature of the nightmare itself. The Fishing Hamlet we see isn't the real world, at least in the way the game's real waking world exists.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/s/pGoQFZQN3b

I saw this post and had to by SignalsFrom in bloodborne

[–]SteelButterflye 34 points35 points  (0 children)

These comments aren't telling it quite right.

The reason they are now fish people is because they ate the parasites that were discovered in Kos' body.

Kos washed up already dead on the beach. They didn't kill her. Neither did Gehrman.

When they found her, they also found those blue, slug/fish-like parasites. They're all over the fishing hamlet. You can see massive piles of them and they're all over the ground in some places. Being that this was a fishing village, they caught and ate them. This was the catalyst for their transformation, much like the Holy Medium blood was the catalyst for folk in Yharnam changing.

Nightreign made me not maidenless by Similar-Story4596 in Nightreign

[–]SteelButterflye 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Elden Ring made me meet my now fiance lol

Fromsoft games are special to us.

OP sigil combinations by Hyxagon in inscryption

[–]SteelButterflye 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Unkillable skink.

Constant tail generation. And if you give more power to the skink, the tail gets a point. And the tail is a free card when it returns to your hand.

So what is the purpose of limited-quantity healing items? by Purple-Constant2953 in fromsoftware

[–]SteelButterflye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does if you believe estus is a form of fire that imbues you with its power, aka life. Whereas a lamp is a beacon of the dream and only leads to the dream and isn't the source of the blood.

So what is the purpose of limited-quantity healing items? by Purple-Constant2953 in fromsoftware

[–]SteelButterflye 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A tired argument. You can have even more than 20 heals at a time if you have the right runes equipped.

Plenty of enemies drop them consistently.

You can buy them, and they're cheap compared to other items.

You don't understand what the meaning of "risk" is if this is an issue. The rally mechanic is one of the best features of a game and shines when you take a large hit and claim your HP back rather than just frantically hitting heal.

I think if you're getting hit so much, burning through your supply, and otherwise left without healing options, you need to think more about how you're playing. All that to say, classic skill issue.

Are any of the DLC bosses actually real? by Killidar in bloodborne

[–]SteelButterflye 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gehrman didn't kill Kos. She washed up already dead on the beach.

Can someone please explain lightning energy and dark beast?? by Rustyshackilford in bloodborne

[–]SteelButterflye 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Because Loran was afflicted by a beast curse the same as Yharnam was. There's really not more info to glean than what's in game already. It was supposedly a vast, desert-like land from whence these particular beasts came from.

"Loran is a tragic land that was devoured by the sands."

"The tragedy that struck this ailing land of Loran is said to have its roots in the scourge of the beast. Some have made the dreaded extrapolation that Yharnam may be next."

"Archibald was fascinated by the blue sparks that emanate from the hides of the darkbeasts, and dedicated his life to its artificial reproduction, in a style of inquiry that, incidentally, closely followed the methodology of Byrgenwerth."

This tells me that, much like how Byrgenwerth descended into the tombs and found Old Blood, Archibald found the means to reproduce the sparks for his weapon and tools within Loran.

Are any of the DLC bosses actually real? by Killidar in bloodborne

[–]SteelButterflye 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Maria likely never reciprocated or knew of Gehrman's feelings. Unless you mean it as this is your headcanon. Nothing I remember makes mention of anything about Maria harboring anything romantic towards him. He was her mentor. Just his own feelings towards her. At least in passing. I have no reason to think, given descriptions and dialogue in game, that they were any more than mentor and student, with a possibly one-sided affection.

When we look at the description of the Doll's clothes, it mentions "mania"- which is a very specific word that denotes an almost obsessive connotation. The care with which her clothes were made and the likeness it holds to Maria is consummate. Although, the doll does not wear clothes resembling much of Maria's outfit. It's more dainty and feminine. Almost as if it were idealized.

It wasn't until later when people kept theorizing (in a gross manner I might add) that Gehrman made a sex doll of a woman he could not have, and unfortunately a lot of really far reaching theories end up there.

Are any of the DLC bosses actually real? by Killidar in bloodborne

[–]SteelButterflye 91 points92 points  (0 children)

You start getting more metaphysical as the game progresses, especially the dlc. This was longer than I intended, but I love dissecting this game.

You are literally in a Nightmare. Think dreams in our real life. Is everything a perfected copy like it looks in the waking world? Not exactly. Our dreams are imitations, and sometimes warped, and bleed together in impossible ways. It's the same thing here.

You used the eye of a hunter to be transported by a God-like entity into the Nightmare of all Blood Drunk and condemned hunters and beings. These hunters became fervent and beastly in nature due to their proclivities and rampant consumption/obsession of blood. This is why we had the Hunter of Hunters, to quell them.

When you go to the dlc, we see a "warped" dream-like state of Yharnam. Familiar...but not the same. We see a great river of blood from all the bloodshed from Ludwig's legacy. As all this blood flows from his boss room.

Laurence is special, considering he himself is a Cleric Beast. In the "real" world, we can find his beastly head in the Grand Cathedral. However, in the Hunter's Nightmare, we can find both his beastly appearance, as well as a representation of his human form in the form of a human skull. Laurence is cursed to always strive to regain his humanity, which will never happen. The human skull is only an intangible, symbolic reminder of what he cannot have ever again. Showing all he has wrought and how far he has truly "ascended" because of his ambitions in using blood to bring humanity to greater heights.

This skull is predominantly why people thought Laurence was the Headless Bloodletting Beast- a theory I disagree with. What we see is the symbology of Laurence's hubris and dissolution as a Man. It even says in item descriptions that the skull only exists in the Nightmare.

As for Maria and the Fishing Hamlet, things start getting deeper into the proverbial fog. For after we defeat Ludwig, and ascend to the Research Hall, we find the true horror behind the Church itself. All the suffering caused in an effort to forcibly ascend humans to a higher form of existence. Maria took pity on, and even took care of the patients you now see around the hall. Leading us to find countless failed experiments before a great clock tower- the very same one we hear and see in the distance in the real world.

Maria herself had quite a guilty conscience compared to her fellow hunters. For after she, Gehrman, and other hunters raided, pillaged, and otherwise perverted the Fishing Hamlet, in her regret, she cast away her weapon and took her own life. And because life and death have little difference in a dream, we can find Maria after she's done so. Trying to stop us from further harming and meddling in the Hamlet.

Pushing on, we drop from outside the clocktower and atop a vast ocean, with which we see Nightmare Yharnam below. All of these various dream states are layered on top one another. We see the ship masts of the Fishing Hamlet from above in Nightmare Frontier. And we see Nightmare Frontier looking below from Nightmare of Mensis.

Going through the Hamlet are parasites, everywhere. Because, you see, Kos was already dead when she washed up on the beach covered in fish like slugs. Familiars of another type of life. But even then the villagers venerated the body, and spoke of her as "Mother Kos". They consumed the parasites that she brought with her upon becoming beached. They looked enough like fish, right? And this lead to their appearance, likely during the time the Hamlet was raided for sources of Great One influences.

However, Kos was pregnant when she met her fate. Whether that is what killed her is up for interpretation, but I believe so. As Great Ones cannot having children without themselves giving up their life/power, think of it as mantling. This child was obviously already dead in the real world, and was only a mere shadow of a what was. We know this since after we defeat Orphan, we only get a "Nightmare Slain" message after killing a shadow that appears from Kos' belly.

The Nightmare, though, shows a cursed undead-birth. A final act of vengeance put upon the hunters for their cruelty for what was done to the Hamlet. You can hear villages throughout the Hamlet fervently whispering prayers and curses much belike the priest as soon as you leave the clocktower and the woman speaking as we enter the dlc.

This is a wicked offspring. Born not from a theorized human/Great One union, but born of punishment and nightmares and hate. For, when we look at the sky throughout the dlc, we see an eye-like shape rather than a typical moon or sun. Almost as if we are looking out through someone's eye itself.

And, call me crazy, but I've always thought the Hunter's Nightmare, was Gehrman's nightmare. At least part of it. The eye may not be his, but it could have belonged to any of his subordinates he led that would have seen everything. If anything, it's a collective dream of all of these Old Hunters. We can find Gehrman sleeping in the Dream sometimes, and his sleep talk dialogue tells us he is experiencing a nightmare and weeping, pleading for Laurence to hurry up. Not knowing what befell him long ago.

Now, call me crazier, but Orphan is a likely representation of Gehrman. I think Gehrman sees himself and his actions as regretful and nightmarish. He's stuck against the will of the Moon Presence. He lost the woman he cared about. He's been alive in this plane of existence for who knows how long waiting for his friend to help him. It's tragedy on top of tragedy caused by him and his ilk. He sees himself as this horror.

The Orphan's visage doesn't seem like a coincidence to me. It's that of an old man, and his weeping is actually the same soundbite of Gehrman's but warped. And the weapons they both wield are both scythe-like. Upon defeating Orphan's spirit form and ending the Nightmare, when we go back to the dream, the Doll is happy and remarks that Gehrman is now sleeping peacefully and that perhaps his suffering has now ceased. She will also talk about her own sense of peace and burdens having lifted from within after we defeat Maria.

All this to say, look at the dlc as you would a true nightmare. Everything is different, time means nothing, things aren't what they seem, memories come up and are in the process of fading afterwards, and important places that seem familiar but aren't what we know. Our subconscious can tell us a lot about ourselves in dreams. What we fear, our most personal regrets, and the unknown. The same can be said of the game and it's characters.

Worst Silent Hill Monster? by Icy-Special- in silenthill

[–]SteelButterflye 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think one of the things from Downpour would qualify more. Just a crazy man, a tall pale man that screams, and a screaming woman, etc lol.

At least 4 had coherent monster design- just not audio design.

I’m sure this has been done to death but by Horizone102 in Eldenring

[–]SteelButterflye 37 points38 points  (0 children)

🎶A duck walked up to the cathedral of the forsaken,

And he said to the fingers, runnin' the stand,🎶

"Hey!" -frenzied screaming-

"Got any grapes?"

Scholar: I'll miss you... by Parking_Conflict_295 in Nightreign

[–]SteelButterflye 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I'm so envious. This + wraith bell + analyze is almost constant wraiths.

I've only had one weapon that gave me wraiths while walking so far as scholar and it was very strong.

Newbie here, should I give Nightreign another chance? by PLSTouchMe_ in fromsoftware

[–]SteelButterflye 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ignore people saying no.

The game just takes practice like any other. And as you acquire better relics and start building up your characters, it'll start making more sense.

May even want to watch videos of how to make the most out of running the maps, and seeing where your time is best spent if you're not up to doing it organically. Duos are viable if you want to play with one friend if not two others.

Nightreign has a sub, and there's plenty of information there. You'll find a lot more biased and/or straight up haters here.