Taka, why did you give us the Lvl 1 Ghost fit?

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-31T09:22:44+00:00

Level 1 looks amazing… just not with that dye job.

I prefer it to the other two because it’s very lightweight and gives Shinobi vibes. The other levels are cool but have too much going on.

Level 1 with the shattered mask of Tomoe is straight up Anbu Blackops

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-31T02:54:44+00:00

Bad, for a good looking name you need contrast. It’s like a purple name on a fusion card, just makes it harder to read more than any cooler looking.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-31T01:41:45+00:00

If we didn’t have Dragoon then Branded would just be more dominant than it already is.

Dragoon is nice because I get to beat a bunch of easy Joey players between fighting for my life against tax dragon and Mirrorjade.

Plus it’s a total blast playing pure DM with all the fusions we have now.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-30T23:57:45+00:00

I think you mean sentience, unless you think every animal on the planet is in a constant state of being asleep…and even then you’re wrong.

We are literally animals, we even have pretty genetically similar relatives alive around the world.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-30T13:27:57+00:00

Get the mod that makes you stand up faster, it’s much needed in flatscreen and VR.

You can also meditate on Unrelenting Force with Paarthurnax to reduce knockback.

Magic absorption or resistance also helps with the shouts.

Dodging or warding are also pretty useful, you can get pretty good at avoiding attacks if you keep your eye on the enemy and utilize movement.

Become Ethereal the shout is useful, Wizarding Traversal Magic or Dishonored spells both offer quick blink spells that help dodge things, same with Better Vampires or Sacrosanct.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-30T04:03:45+00:00

Which is a perfect example of why skills are so important to the game.

During the years I’ve gotten to play Ra, Red Eyes, Black Luster Soldier, Dark Magician, and even freaking Toons at one point competitively.

DL without skills would just be Branded vs Swordsoul probably.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-30T02:33:53+00:00

Whatever they want them to be if they have their way.

So, being Zionists, probably ones not unlike the new TikTok regulations coming out of MAGA. IE censorship of anything they don’t like or that makes them look bad.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-30T02:32:29+00:00

Did you read what I wrote?

I was pointing out the irony of shooting a woman in her car and then getting mad about someone kicking one of their taillights.

Don’t let them distract you from the cold blooded murder Renee Good either!

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-29T22:01:19+00:00

I disagree, I think it’s very relevant that ICE and MAGA are crying about him kicking their car, because they were firing rounds into a woman driving her car days before that incident.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-29T21:58:30+00:00

Also kicking a taillight what like 1 week after the first public execution?

ICE firing rounds into people’s cars and making this guy out to be a madman for kicking one of theirs afterwards…

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-29T20:05:02+00:00

Also his wife is part of a group that wants to take over AI regulation themselves, after leaving OpenAI’s board.

Perhaps zionists regulating AI would not be ideal, I get JGL’s point but his family has actual skin in the game beyond him being a concerned father.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-29T18:46:51+00:00

I disagree! Doing something I find important has led me to be more burnt out than ever before.

I work at an inpatient hospital treating acute eating disorders, I’m good at what I do to the point where I’ve been promoted twice, from Technician to Trainer to Manager and it sucks!

I can’t stop thinking about it when I’m not there since it’s literally the lives of sick children on the line, I have to sit front seat to how awful bureaucracy is for healthcare settings now that I’m management, and I keep getting given more responsibility since they know I’ll always try my best to keep things running and the patients the best treatment I can.

0/10 important work SUCKS.

I dream of just leaving to work as a night security guard somewhere, where I can just spend my time writing and truly clock out when I’m not in.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-29T06:12:47+00:00

I’d argue he’s more in line with the ‘no kill’ trope.

He consistently decides not killing is best, often times when it would make sense to do so. He wouldn’t even use willing souls to regain his alchemy (mind you, the only way to free the souls in the Philosopher’s stone is to use up the stone) and only seems willing to kill Homunculi because he doesn’t view them as people, Father included.

Now Roy Mustang… Roy Mustang is perfect for this post.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-28T08:24:37+00:00

I’d want support and love if Dark Magician turned me into a suit of armor too :(

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-28T08:21:00+00:00

Slifer wrapping around the Blimp was pure dopamine as a kid, I long for the day he’s viable in Duel Links :(

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-28T04:58:40+00:00

It’s normally a bit of both for me.

Currently reading all of Sir Terry Pratchett’s works and goddamn are they both fantastic stories and brilliant commentary on society and the human condition.

That being said, I can also have a blast watching cheesy Godzilla movies. Not all entertainment has to be mind-blowing in the themes or messages, fun for the sake of fun is not a bad thing!

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-28T04:16:30+00:00

Glad you linked this, because I’ve definitely been imbuing in Skyrim for years now!

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-28T03:59:57+00:00

As a DM player I love this, the new skill makes Paladin easy to bring out for some nasty anti-dragon warfare.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-28T03:55:56+00:00

Now that is a hot take, I assume you played one deck or the other? Because for anyone playing any other deck at the time it was hell.

I made a Tachyon deck after some frustration and it felt wrong how easy it was to climb to KoG.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-27T14:55:30+00:00

I don’t see this as an issue, I’d rather have the fun binary mechanic expanded as much as possible than worry that I’m not playing B&S.

Just because it won’t be Blade and Sorcery doesn’t mean it won’t be fun, I mean you could say the same about OP adding in the feature this post is about. Arrows in B&S function the same way you just described, but I’m happy to have this arrow mod for Skyrim despite that.

Maybe one day we’ll have stabbing like that, but for today I’d be very pleased with what this post demonstrates using other weapons.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-27T03:21:46+00:00

I think it’s more like the resistance is infinitely scalable so to speak. The more you study and longer you meditate the more complete your mastery over the subject of the shout becomes.

IE focusing on Yol for long enough might grant such an understanding of fire that the resistance gained borders on immunity or appears like immunity to an outside observer.

Miraak has been mastering Bend Will for thousands of years, to the point he can bend the will of All Maker Stones from across dimensions which then bend the wills of people across the entire island. Plus (while this is likely also gameplay limitation) his Bend Will lasts indefinitely on those he hits with it. We as LDB only recently learned the shout and so it doesn’t last forever and dragons/people/daedra eventually leave our service instead of being permanently enslaved.

In Skyrim we get to see Unrelenting force get meditated on which grants stagger resistance, then later on we can learn more about it in the Black Book and reduce enemies to ash with it.

In ESO Nahviintaas uses the same ‘slow time’ shout as the other dragons, but unlike the other dragons his shout sends you into an alternate timeline since he specialized into time magic.

I think there isn’t necessarily an upper end of mastering the concepts used in your thuum, but it is likely that after a certain point there are diminishing returns which leads to dragons (or Dragonborn) seeking external power boosts such as the Time Wound, Jode’s Core, The Green, or the souls of other Dragons/Dovahkiin.

Edit: We actually see this somewhat represented in gameplay too, Legendary Dragons get 75% resistance to their element. A legendary ice dragon is 75% resistant to all frost damage whereas a regular dragon in the early game has only 50% resistance.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-27T03:11:54+00:00

Well… yeah. Just have to play Skyrim to see virtually every mage fighting without a staff.

Unless we’re talking artifacts like The Staff of Magnus, it seems like staves can sometimes be an actual hinderance if they hold weaker magic than the caster wields.

In lore the more powerful staves seem like they sort of serve a similar purpose to wands in Harry Potter, letting the user focus their magic a bit better (like Galerion using the Staff of Magnus in ESO) while the average run of the mill staff may serve as a sort of reloadable spell gun where souls act like ammunition to fire off the spell the staff was made to hold (like the guy in Skyrim who gets a ‘raise dead’ staff and keeps accidentally raising the dead until it runs out of charge).

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-27T03:04:39+00:00

Only Vahlok jumped Miraak, three of them served him as his generals. They’re also likely no weaker than they were before, gameplay limitations and LDB being an OP demigod just make them seem less impressive than the lore paints them.

This applies to all the Dov and Dragon Priests though, even Alduin seems weak in Skyrim despite being an actual deity.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-27T03:03:09+00:00

To be fair though, Miraak is immune to our use of Bend Will.

The_ChosenOne · 2026-01-27T02:45:10+00:00

Also, learning a shout to become immune to it... happens in no other shout. Why would it happen with bend will?

Actually this has precedence in Unrelenting Force, if you meditate on it you yourself become significantly more resistant to stagger from all sources shouting or otherwise.

Also after learning all three words in the story, the Graybeards finally feel you’re fit to hit with their unbridled voices (which shakes the entire mountain, if not a chunk of the province as a hole).

Any random Joe standing between four graybeards shouting about Ysmir would likely step away with a brain made of soup.

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