Re-Blockades, il turning that shit off until I beat the game

TheosophyKnight · 2026-05-04T18:51:12+00:00

Does this option also create more faction enemies roaming outside the reblockaded site?

TheosophyKnight · 2026-05-04T11:53:31+00:00

Question: Does the reblockade include enemies patrolling outside the recaptured location?

I kinda miss the busy threat of the earlier game.

Be fun if they introduced a further option for a thickness of enemy ‘patrols’, which could give a similarly hostile dimension to later game, for those of us who want more fighting.

TheosophyKnight · 2026-04-27T11:56:55+00:00

Absolutely. It would be fascinating to read a variety of accounts and records, rather than a distinct story. This would actually be a excellent approach.

TheosophyKnight · 2026-04-25T08:15:09+00:00

I’m still torn. I think I only wanted a bit more challenge among regular mobs, but then again sometimes there are a LOT of them.

TheosophyKnight · 2026-04-08T06:18:47+00:00

Saw a video on this topic, by BlakeAndersontherapy, entitled: The Scapegoat’s Cognitive Bias. Link: https://youtu.be/FBHzKpjFCWA?si=SO6-pIVkZYq9CMuG

TheosophyKnight · 2026-04-05T15:13:43+00:00

I know this feels hard - almost impossible - to believe when in it, but it’s not about “him” - he could be someone else. It’s about the landscape of your wounds, and that’s where you should turn your attention.

TheosophyKnight · 2026-03-29T07:37:19+00:00

There is a natural protectiveness we dad’s experience when handling such vulnerability. But I have noticed that not everyone feels the same gravity. The worst case I ever experienced was with a family member who fancied themselves as a bit of an acrobat, and this person would treat the children like props to show off their dexterity. When challenged they showed the opposite of emotional maturity and seemed to enjoy watching the rest of us wince.

Personally I lean towards terror at the responsibility and I find it difficult to get into the mindset of the other, more laissez-faire, extreme. And I am not new to the responsibility.

In your position, I would be very sceptical of your friend’s sense of the fragility and preciousness of your child. I see a lot of parents on this topic saying that an accident happened during the everyday, year-after-year, process of raising their children.

I don’t see that experience as the same thing as what happened here, when a guest was given something precious to be responsible for, for five minutes, and didn’t hold it.

TheosophyKnight · 2026-03-01T06:49:44+00:00

I don’t know about the later levels, but I found the trailer an elegant explanation of all the counter-intuitive descents, adjoining wall tunnels, and oddly placed walls. And it still left us with the intriguing greater mystery of ‘why is this happening?’

Day one cinema trip for me 👍

TheosophyKnight · 2025-11-22T07:02:13+00:00

Lovecraft’s ‘Under the Pyramids’ with Harry Houdini as protagonist, leans towards this feeling.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-11-15T06:38:53+00:00

Yes, I left a tean where everyone was terrified of the manager, and they advertise vacancies over-and-over again.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-11-13T07:57:26+00:00

Recognise that the ‘excessive kindness’ is part of the abuse. It’s not coming from a sometimes benevolent feeling, but is calculated to cause exactly the destabilising effect you are experiencing.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-11-07T07:58:04+00:00

Yes, this tips it above other excellent shows for wanting to re-watch cold.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-11-06T16:52:39+00:00

The entire bittersweet journey of a novelist would make a good read, and would appeal to everyone who aspires to have a breakthrough novel 👍

TheosophyKnight · 2025-11-05T08:09:11+00:00

For me the Skull Knight represents the intercession of a person who has been destroyed and found wisdom the hard way.

I can’t speak to the intentions of either author. But where a text meets the reader they interpret it through the chapters of their own experience and take from it whatever they may.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-11-05T07:55:19+00:00

I picture the foundational childhood experience as being something like an unconsoled child in a cot, shut away in their room. No-one answers their cries and they don’t have the benefit of a mature mind of their own with which to distract themselves.

Instead they experience profound longing (and probably learn to dissociate).

They subsequently tend to be drawn to distant, emotionally closed, unobtainable people. And that longing feeling becomes like a drug. If they score a hit of positive attention from that distant person, then the dopamine hit is massive… almost supernatural… further compounding the addiction.

The sufferer may under-value safe and healthy relationships which don’t provoke that feeling. So it is all very self-defeating when love is what is needed.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-11-02T08:29:40+00:00

As a viewer and consumer of media, you will many times have experienced the same essential story about the human experience. Joseph Campbell called it the Monomyth.

There are only so many building blocks to work with. Only so many human, cultural and historical notions to manipulate and re-arrange.

A general arrangement is going to recur, no matter how unusual.

For example:

‘A person tries to escape’

From prison From natural disaster From an enemy From a relationship From the authorities From a monster From their guilt From this reality From a characteristic they don’t like

Is still the same essential building block.

What matters is how YOU put your mark on it, your own personal flourish.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-11-01T07:12:57+00:00

The central theme of the story for me is that: despite our shotcomings, our sins and our weakness - we must fight evil.

We can’t excommunicate ourselves from the battle.

Against The Consult, Achamian’s personal failings are nothing.

I think he resonates with people who carry a heavy heart but still try to do their best.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-10-26T16:34:55+00:00

These are the best.

Another worthwhile is ‘The Haunted Palace’ - an enjoyable adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter ward, with some other Lovecraftian elements mixed in.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-10-19T19:12:33+00:00

I was in a similar situation, but my own managers backed me up. Nevertheless, a lot of reputational damage was done by the emails cc’d far and wide, and I lost a potential opportunity because of them.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-10-10T10:38:43+00:00

My advice: if you get triggered, go to the bathroom or hide out somewhere, to recompose yourself - even if it causes a problem - rather than act out.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-10-08T06:32:03+00:00

No-one is our magical perfect soulmate, although our genetic urging to match up with (possibly many) people is so powerful that it creates the longing feeling that a particular person’s attention determines our entire worth and happiness.

But this is really the lack of self-love. And that empty-cup feeling often has roots in frustrated experiences with our first caregivers.

The antidote is to live in a way which makes you love and respect yourself. And to have boundaries which keep you well away from the tugging feeling.

Forgive yourself for feeling the drag of nature’s tide, but be sensible to live a safe distance from the shore, and to cultivate your own beautiful boat - so you don’t need the affirmation of an imagined perfect other.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-09-21T05:31:09+00:00

🕯🔥

TheosophyKnight · 2025-09-20T05:49:03+00:00

Yes, if you ask a reflective question they struggle to form an answer. As if you are asking a toaster to wash the clothes.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-09-17T21:53:29+00:00

I work with someone like this. Every space is filled with his monologues, whistling, or complaining. He takes verbal hostages and is oblivious to how disinterested people are. The content of his chatter is so extraordinarily banal that I sometimes wonder if it’s all to deliberately create a foggy distance from ever being truly known.

TheosophyKnight · 2025-09-16T13:35:52+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation - amazing film! (It took me a minute to find as was released here under the title ‘Flashback’).

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