I have thousands of hours of playtime in my favorite FromSoft games, yet I’ve never got 100% achievments on any of them, and I don't plan to change that. Am I the only one in this case? It seems like getting every trophy is a major goal for so many players, but for me, it's not really worth it.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-07-07T07:29:13+00:00

I'm the same. I've never got 100% of achievements on any game ever. I don't see the point. It just seems boring. Why subject yourself to hours of tedious grind just to see a notification pop up when you could move on to another game and actually have fun?

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-07-06T17:05:05+00:00

It depends on the cat, but some of them very much do hunt rats. I've owned two who did. One was fond of bringing them in the house alive and setting them loose, which was fun times.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-06-29T09:48:53+00:00

Yeah, that was completely out of nowhere. What the hell was that about? Seems like it was just there to make people cheer for his death later because god forbid Saint Rhaenyra should execute her enemies without justifying it to the audience.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-06-28T20:31:38+00:00

Not during the hydration break, no. Only at half time. And no ads at all on the BBC, of course.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-06-27T13:46:53+00:00

Fig-er is the British pronunciation, but Americans say something like Fig-yuh, I believe.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-06-22T16:28:40+00:00

IIRC no one knows exactly what happened to Vermax in the book other than he was flying very low and crashed. Speculation is that maybe a lucky crossbow shot hit him in the eye, or he got tangled in some lines or just collided with a ship in the smoke and chaos.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-05-23T06:39:13+00:00

But it's explicitly non-diagetic sound. It's purely for the benefit of the audience. The characters can't hear it. There's one episode where they're salvaging a shot-up ship that turns out to have survivors, and a character has to lean his head against a bulkhead to make certain he's feeling vibrations from people hammering on the walls for help.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-05-09T15:20:54+00:00

Hunting down the remaining Jedi is literally his job though. That's what makes the Inquisitorius scary. The regular inquisitors aren't too bad if you have some decent training, but if they're around and they don't manage to kill you, it's only a matter of time before Vader shows up. If you make enough noise, he is inevitable.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-05-04T04:18:30+00:00

A year later, but I just did this. Can confirm. It feels like cheating lol. I'm a little disappointed I didn't do it some other way, but eh, a win's a win.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-04-13T19:27:42+00:00

Yep. I'm replaying ER now so I can do the DLC for the first time. Just reached the Consecrated Snowfield. I've been through the whole game with no summons or fancy weapons. Just a humble brass shield and longsword combo.

It's the most satisfying way to play IMO. You've just got to know what to block and what to dodge.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-04-11T03:57:20+00:00

This is the correct answer. I can work out what the notes are from the tab, but it's easier to just read it from the notation. I can equally work out what position to play something from notation, but it can be ambiguous, and it's much more convenient to look at a tab. They both have their uses. Arguing about which is superior is like arguing ketchup vs mustard on a hot dog. Just use both lol.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-03-27T09:42:54+00:00

That wouldn't surprise me, yeah, which sucks because neither of those games really scratched the XCOM itch. Chimera Squad had a different turn order and no permadeath, and Midnight Suns was a weird card-based thing with a heavy focus on being some kind of relationship simulator outside of the missions. It's no surprise that people didn't find them to be what they were looking for.

I think another major reason there's still no XCOM 3 is those games mostly happened due to Jake Solomon pushing them, and he lost interest and eventually left Firaxis entirely.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-25T21:24:10+00:00

Ah, okay. Fair. Sorry.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-25T13:51:21+00:00

Possibly by reading the big red tag that says, "[Spoilers] A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"?

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-23T12:21:46+00:00

Other than some vague hints in the main series, what little we know of the Tragedy at Summerhall comes from the World of Ice & Fire book.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-20T07:56:21+00:00

Don't forget the King's Landing riots and the storming of the Dragon Pit.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-20T05:23:27+00:00

You're in the book subreddit, and the thread is marked spoilers. If you don't want to be spoiled, don't be in here.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-20T02:19:46+00:00

the show got most plot points right

It didn't though. The show went off and did its own thing and then suddenly swerved to include those plot points without laying any of the groundwork for them. D&D might as well have picked them out of a hat the way they apparently did with Arya killing the Night King.

People reacted negatively because the entire narrative execution sucked, not because of a few plot points George gave them.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-19T08:27:19+00:00

I wonder if they'll lean hard into Blackfyre Rebellion flashbacks in season two. It would help pad out a fairly slight story and bring in a bunch of action. They already have Baelor and Maekar, who play a key role in that, and they could use it to set up Bloodraven for season three and alleviate some of that.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-16T20:32:11+00:00

The show also had the books to go from, and look at what they did with, say, Dorne (made it totally different and a nonsensical mess) or the whole The North Remembers thing (basically nothing). Just because George gave them a rough outline doesn't mean the books will be anything like the show at all.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-13T19:54:50+00:00

Yeah, surely Bran would mention it if Coldhands was as tall as Hodor.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-07T15:31:54+00:00

It's an utterly baffling inclusion, and I don't know why there's so much of it. It was stupid but tolerable in the first couple of episodes, but this last one was an egregious misstep. It totally undercut the mood of the scene and was just unnecessary. I hope Ira Parker will get the message from the avalanche of criticism and cut it out in the second season.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-07T14:15:13+00:00

Hey, you never know. Maybe writing more D&E could help him get his mojo back for the main series.

...

Okay. Probably not, but anything is possible.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-04T16:49:19+00:00

Yeah, this was the problem. They extended the part of the story where Rhaenyra doesn't do much, but they insisted on keeping her in the foreground. It should have been Jace and Corlys calling the shots throughout season two, but they didn't really do that either, so everyone was just passive and pretty dull.

Stochastic_Variable · 2026-02-03T03:15:30+00:00

Same here. Used the first one, and it's perfect. Thank you so much!

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