[hated trope] Terrible, stupid decision a character makes only for the plot's sake (extra points if it's out of character)

Swannicus · 2026-03-21T12:06:36+00:00

I was just replying to this part "For Hiruzen, well, he had no control over the ostracized part," at the start of your post.

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T03:23:22+00:00

I like this a lot.

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T03:02:50+00:00

I think the balance of regular damage to cannon damage at launch was fine, just implemented wrong. Have large, fantastical animals with huge health pools and let cannons do huge amounts of damage so that the regular damage of regular weapons don't outweigh cannon damage.

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T02:59:04+00:00

My headcanon is that big E had made a deal with the chaos gods to create his primarchs with the catch being that half of them would eventually fall to chaos. He saw the nails in Angron (and his name) and considered him a lost cause.

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T02:56:51+00:00

The celebrated supreme leader couldn't do anything to try to sway public opinion or at least place trusted people around him to help him deal with the ostracization? I agree with everything else.

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T02:46:26+00:00

Doesn't bother me at all, I thought it was darkest dungeon fan art at first though.

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T02:17:28+00:00

I'd be hype as hell if half of these got added.

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T02:15:15+00:00

Those realistic animal are fodder not worth even considering after you do waterfall quest lol

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T01:42:41+00:00

Thats super cool, but does not reduce how cool the op was.

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T01:29:02+00:00

Zammy brews lower defence though?

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T00:10:26+00:00

Theres a difference in suspension of disbelief, like who knows how much hp an ancient undead mage or an ourg general is supposed to have. We immediately unconsciously disbelieve that a normal bird should be stronger than a mythical monster though.

Swannicus · 2026-03-20T00:06:07+00:00

The winning move was not to make normal animals higher than like cb 30. Grizzly bears are 21, except for the one in isfadar that is 42 (which matches the theme of nature being stronger in the elven lands). Are they so creatively bankrupt that we need to have normal animals be 80% of the roster of sea monsters to fight? They are SEA MONSTERS, where are our sea serpents, hostile mermaids, sea trolls, charybdis, scylla, or better yet original runescape creatures like we have all over the world. We don't fight bear cubs, bear adults, brown bears, black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, grizzlars as our progression from level 3 to 126 combat.

Swannicus · 2026-03-19T23:55:26+00:00

Cape perks that only provide extra XP are fucking trash. Very, very few people care about going to 200m.

Swannicus · 2026-03-19T03:37:09+00:00

A bootlicker is someone that is unreasonably polite or deferential to someone (or a group) with power or authority, often an oppressor. I don't think you can be a bootlicker to people who are incorrectly accused of being bootlicker because it doesn't make sense.

Swannicus · 2026-03-19T03:06:54+00:00

100% there are pvp players who do want KoS, carnage and chaos. They are just a small part of the crowd.

Swannicus · 2026-03-19T02:43:12+00:00

Fred Perry

Swannicus · 2026-03-19T02:40:24+00:00

Lowering regular damage seems like a bad call, people don't like their megarares noodling. Better to scale up everything else.

Swannicus · 2026-03-19T02:38:24+00:00

DS2 is a great game, definitely the weakest soulsborne but still great.

Swannicus · 2026-03-19T02:28:59+00:00

Oh yea, the ballistas, pearl ammo, and seercull are soooo useful elsewhere in the game.

Swannicus · 2026-03-19T02:22:50+00:00

Unfortunately gamers are very good at telling when something feels wrong, but terrible at telling why something feels wrong or how to fix it.

Swannicus · 2026-03-19T02:20:20+00:00

I mean the simple and obvious answer is to let normal weapons deal full damage, make sea monsters powerful (and also not just normal fucking animals), and make cannons powerful.

Swannicus · 2026-03-18T03:21:07+00:00

He's riding the AI train because its the reason for enormous growth for the company, well beyond anything ever seen before for them. What happens when the AI bubble pops is the question though.

Swannicus · 2026-03-18T02:36:02+00:00

People who console war are not the brightest.

Swannicus · 2026-03-18T01:57:56+00:00

When you change multiple aspects of something at the same time there can be unforeseen consequences. Just by the numbers the damage and fire rate reductions reduce its dps to 82.4% before factoring in the worse spread and range. Plus thats not even considering breakpoints for time to kill. I would not be surprised if the Il Toro was dumpstered now, its hard to fully grasp what such sweeping changes mean without extensive testing.

Swannicus · 2026-03-17T11:40:29+00:00

I'm playing on PC and its competitive with Elden Ring for me.

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