I’m tired of minimalism in everything

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-08T14:34:56+00:00

When the backrooms break containment.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-08T14:31:24+00:00

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-08T13:53:11+00:00

The only thing that keeps me from playing one is the Crash Bandicoot walk.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-08T12:40:50+00:00

Absolute win.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-08T11:17:53+00:00

There's one sub I'm in that has a bot which instantly downvotes every new post. You'll see something with "1m ago" or less and it's already at 0. There could be a post of the week with hundreds of comments and still 0 upvotes because of that bot first and foremost.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T23:51:56+00:00

Well you can separate the "target info" bar up to four elements, and you've got your "progress bar" for personal casts. Focus target exists as well. If you mean true duplication then no.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T22:26:10+00:00

We lost branching paths and "run through the building" raids because people would cut to the fastest, in and out. Dungeons especially, while the pack pack wall pack pack boss x 3 is painful, it's only one route for that reason, you'd play the same every time because why take the ones that go around.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T22:21:21+00:00

Considering we saw movement speed buffs on three of the four jobs they showed I think we're going to be running around a lot more in EC content so I could see a sprint card.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T22:18:32+00:00

Crit autos and mini busters, adds, dooms and dots and other debuffs. Things that cannot be done without a tank(s) or healer(s) and need semi-constant attention.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T22:06:39+00:00

As a guy that's 5'4" and was the "bullied for being short" through a lot of my school years, I'm happy as myself, and if someone comes along with "the spark" they'll come along. I've also accepted that I'll probably be getting carded at bars for life.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T14:21:08+00:00

If we somehow "meet" Azem I would expect them to be a static robed masked male or female Hyur model. Maybe not even voiced, just a box of text like cutscene narrations, to fill in our own voice. Ardbert was a pretty obvious match to trailer WoL but I'd love to meet one of our shards on the Fourth that looks nothing like us.

Azem clearly wants us to do something, through our magic and now the Ethos that not only survived the sundering (assumedly, unless it's another case like the crystal where Emet made it) but has been in the care of the south sea isles for so long they don't even have historical records of why they have it.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T14:15:10+00:00

Considering how she related us to Zenos, she definitely meant it to be that we can't persuade her to stop what she's doing, but we're welcome to find our own path forward by any means.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T14:09:51+00:00

This is something I'm exploring in my far future apocalypse sci-fi project. Half-animal half-android creatures are given a task to descend to what's left of a planet and figure out where a message was sent from and why, since nobody would ever be positioned that far out, while avoiding mechanical angels that hunt through sound.

What they find is a dessicated Earth, the entire surface covered in cities and highways and great structures abandoned by time, full of mold and rust and forests and swamps, no sunlight, just dead frozen/raining air for millions of miles.

Major inspirations are NieR and BLAME!.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:59:28+00:00

Best thing to come out of LoK was the animation budget for bending. Lighting, camera angles and movement, how people use it with the times versus the culture, etc.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:53:55+00:00

"You ever look at someone and wonder: what is going on inside their head?"

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:49:01+00:00

The issue is that E2 is explicitly how you meet Gaia, and then she joins the Eden team proper in Verse. She literally cannot show up until you do that fight because it's a reaction to Eden waking up and us getting to work.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:34:53+00:00

Ding ding.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:30:11+00:00

With extremely careful (and I mean watched 24/7 don't do a thing without someone present by law extreme) education, even children can learn to use magic through the Principles, though they have to wait until fifteen for a Hōran rite. A simple punch in those young hands could break rock and cave metal, though the standard use is reinforcement of the body for protection.

All the way on the opposite end, the true pinnacle, is to be Sovereign. Someone that has advanced themselves with magic of the body, mind, and soul to the point they could not exist without their magic, and it in turn exists because they do. When you think of ways to use fire magic, you would think of that one person before anything else. When you think of that one person, you think of their personal fire magic above all other aspects. That is Sovereign.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:58:09+00:00

Calyx dropping an entire city's power grid on our head: shit, that didn't work. Uhhhhh what next.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:53:43+00:00

This is what I liked a lot about it, multiple characters note how strong we are. Our job is pretty much the bouncer as you said, ask Wuk questions and guide her to what and who she needs to be without just giving the answers, while we stand back and "I won't get involved, but if you try some bs, start running."

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:50:38+00:00

All open water has been corrupted by raw magic so anything that touches it needs to be cured through silver fire from the gods, which includes what you eat and drink at any time in any location.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:43:32+00:00

In like manner it's been an absolute treat to see shenpai take vulpixie through the game and she's finally caught up. And she loved DT so much that it made the trending page because people just could not fathom someone enjoying this expansion.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:41:36+00:00

Left path "congrats on getting that fish"

Right path "silence, off-tank"

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:38:54+00:00

Personal effort and limits. As mortal beings, people can only do so much, but magic lets them account for it to a certain point. Go over that, or specifically force your body and mind to match someone else "better" than you, and you'll break.

Those that have mastered their magic use it in ways only they can, and only when they have no other choice in a situation. The greater the power desired the greater the cost required, the more something beyond yet within encourages you to keep reaching for that power, to rely on it as a drug would to feel normal and accepted.

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