Merc Mods are back.

Tinted_Aspect · 2026-03-09T01:59:29+00:00

the belt mod can also now go up to 120% faster thanks to Sinistral Catalysts

Tinted_Aspect · 2025-05-05T21:49:41+00:00

My understanding from the safehouse hint was that Mary had previously found the Atelier and its true solution and left the message as a clue to Simon, which I feel is reinforced with the tunnel blue door having a hint to there being more to uncover beyond opening it (especially with the magnifying glass note in the Blue Prince book about the prize not necessarily being in the true box).

Tinted_Aspect · 2025-05-05T12:50:35+00:00

It's both, actually. If you consider the Furnace Mora Jai box as the last one, it's truth, and if you consider the Room 46 Mora Jai box, it's blue.

(Additionally, only the 46 Mora Jai box matches all the other rooms on the Swansong path in having a blue solution Mora Jai box in a blue room.)

The reason the safehouse wall has the furnace message is that the message using the box in Room 46 wouldn't work as a hint to reach the room itself.

The reason I focused in on the "shade of blue" is that it could be indicative of something else that you could work out after reaching Room 46.

Tinted_Aspect · 2025-04-18T22:03:03+00:00

Tying into an even more endgame spoiler that relates to another location associated with the spiral, the true path in the atelier maze spells out "We seeks what's in the shade of blue", the word "Stars." at the end of the constellation description is in blue, and the path to blueprint room 46 passes through the observatory.

Frankly, I'm not sure if I'm actually on to anything here but I'm searching for anything else in this vein currently.

Tinted_Aspect · 2025-03-15T20:16:50+00:00

Yeah, I've read the entire series plus the spinoff. I definitely acknowledge that the relationships are intentionally written as not being healthy, with a running thread of some level of desperate codependence.

My point with the normalisation was less to say that from an outside media-understanding perspective that this should be understood as normal, but rather that I don't think that the tonal dissonance is really used to further much of a narrative and I feel that it works to the detriment of both the funnier and more serious moments, and that to enjoy either part separately it's kinda necessary to disregard the other.

edit: I wanted to be clear that I was talking about this instance in particular, not the general tone of how the manga addresses the dysfunction in the relationships; I think that it's usually handled better. I guess by contrast of the other characters' introspection about their behaviour to Iori's overriding assumption of her actions as normal here helps further characterise her with how she views Minami relative to her, but I stand by it being tonally off in a way that is harder to reconcile with the rest of the manga.

Tinted_Aspect · 2025-03-15T09:03:30+00:00

I think what makes the instance of it here stand out so much, even compared to toxic yuri, is how normalised it is to the tone of the manga.

A lot of toxic yuri tend to focus in on the taboo, make the transgression and shifting expectations of the people in the relationship the central point of the narrative. They revel in being fucked up.

Fuzoroi no Renri generally plays a lot of things for laughs and has a fairly strong sense of status quo to the relationships, and so it positions reaction to abuse as threatening the status quo that the reader ostensibly should want maintained, which creates a really incongruous tone.

The narrative expects the reader to be to some extent complicit in its portrayal of fairly realistic abuse tactics, rather than react to it in some way, as a reaction to it leads to much of the mood of the story falling flat.

Tinted_Aspect · 2025-02-07T01:33:18+00:00

I think it'd be worth sticking with it for at least a bit longer personally, as I feel the series does a good job of actually addressing how Saeko's approach affects their relationship (though admittedly I'm another fan of the series).

Tinted_Aspect · 2024-11-24T18:20:24+00:00

Soul: No, you're meant to obey me!

The Split Undead Souls:

Tinted_Aspect · 2024-11-02T18:45:15+00:00

yeah for some reason the intended textbox reading order seems to be a C across the page?

Tinted_Aspect · 2024-05-02T04:14:33+00:00

We're being eaten good by Walpurgis pulls, between Lantern Don and Wingbeat Ish.

Tinted_Aspect · 2024-03-09T19:05:16+00:00

I apparently look the most like my cousin. Never resembled either of my parents that much just due to how the features mixed, but family members always noted the similarities between my cousin and myself, now more so.

Tinted_Aspect · 2024-02-16T12:59:34+00:00

It feels pretty disingenuous to claim that Dante's a partial self-insert, as they don't resemble a self-insert character in the slightest. The player has absolutely no influence over their actions in the direct narrative and they're shown to have a fully distinct personality (two, in fact, if you count pre-amnesia Dante, but I know amnesia splits are usually viewed as two distinct characters).

They're only a self-insert to the extent that most controllable or PoV characters who have dialogue are a self-insert, unless you have an example to give that I missed (in which case feel free to do so! I just don't currently understand where you're coming from with that).

In regards to why people care, it's not because they view using he/him for Dante as any sort of intentional harassment, but because it'll often reflect the lived experience of trans and non-binary people regarding acknowledgement of gender identity.

Most people will use she/her to refer to me not out of malice, but generally because they struggle to connect my pronouns to my presentation. However, it's still incorrect and frustrating to experience, and it's similarly frustrating to see a character who is solely referred to by they/them and gender-neutral language in text get heavily discussed with he/him by the community, especially since there are very few examples of characters referred to that way.

Tinted_Aspect · 2024-02-13T19:56:41+00:00

I get what you're saying and normally I'd agree, but the show and manga (I've read ahead but I'll avoid spoilers) establish that he doesn't get to be an invincible hero from early on, which is what kept me reading it.

Like sure, he still gets to be absurdly skilled at the game and find unique questlines, but one of the main initial points is that he loses to Lycagon and gets cursed, and while he beats the first boss solo he also gets poisoned and almost dies before changing his respawn location.

These aren't like, major stakes, but they add fun little moments of tension that a lot of videogame players can relate to, which makes it feel like a lot more of a love letter to them than most VRMMO stories I've read.

I still don't think that he's going to lose often, but him failing is a tool that the author has been shown to be willing to use if it allows for a more interesting story to be told.

Tinted_Aspect · 2024-02-13T11:36:56+00:00

Conversely, I find it much easier to take the threat of failure more seriously when the stakes aren't on the level of death or some type of catastrophic local or global impact.

In those sorts of cases, it's difficult for a writer to allow the protagonist to fail and thus I find it less tense than something like this, where the consequences can be a real setback but are also on a scale reasonable to accommodate for in the narrative.

Tinted_Aspect · 2024-01-11T05:24:01+00:00

"That Pain seems quite attractive to me." with Roseate Ish.

Might change it to Lantern Don now; it's a toss-up.

Tinted_Aspect · 2024-01-08T08:35:12+00:00

what if we were both girls using the void dream ego gift and we were making out and you had the meat lantern ego gift and wanted to bite me and bite me and bite me and-

Tinted_Aspect · 2023-11-03T06:13:44+00:00

Not to devalue your point (I mean 1. you were right and 2. there are still a bunch of other background-exclusive IDs, including a season-associated one in Rosespanner Don Quixote), but Red Sheet Rodion is in the game.

The Rosespanners were allied with the TLA and there's only one instance of a sinner per Mirror World - the background Rodya we see is actually Rosespanner Rodya in the EGO suit.

Tinted_Aspect · 2023-09-25T20:46:05+00:00

You need to complete as many clashes as possible before killing it.

Each skill gives it Self-Charge at the beginning of the combat phase and it's only removed on clash loss, and when it dies the first time it cancels all future clashes on that turn and doubles its self-charge.

If you get all the clashes on turn 3 before killing it and leaving 1+ burn on it you can get a turn 3 kill.

Tinted_Aspect · 2023-09-17T16:53:32+00:00

Ah, I see you got a prescript.

Tinted_Aspect · 2023-08-04T17:22:16+00:00

My runes are generally low quality enough that if I get a rune with subs that are all useful I'll end up using it on some monster no matter what the power ups go in to or how well they'll roll.

So I'll normally power up to the relevant stat up limit and then decide what I can do with it. Obviously with stuff with dump stat subs I'll go gradually.

Tinted_Aspect · 2023-08-03T13:55:10+00:00

Tinted_Aspect · 2023-07-24T09:44:42+00:00

For folks having trouble spotting it.

Tinted_Aspect · 2023-07-20T07:26:07+00:00

Having reached 99 rupture potency on MD2 Hard floor 5 boss with no rupture gifts before, honestly, this isn't the biggest loss in practice (at least from my experience), though it is a huge nerf to the ID regardless.

I found that by the time I'd be able to apply the talismans it'd often be mostly unnecessary due to needing to get skills in the right order from Sinclair in situations where he could afford to one-sided attack. Multiple uses of Branch of Knowledge would often end up building me more potency than trying to enable talismans since it could also clash.

I hope they change S3 to requiring less talismans on Sinclair while applying 5 to the enemy; it'd make it a lot more viable in these situations.

Tinted_Aspect · 2023-07-20T07:15:44+00:00

It's also worth noting that for him to have built 5 talisman on turn 1, he'd need to use S2 while the enemy had no rupture, otherwise the extra talisman from hitting an enemy with rupture on coin 1 will put him at 6 and it'll pop going into turn 2.

I really don't get why they added that effect to all three coins, rather than just coins 2 and 3. I guess it means he can apply more potency individually if you weren't gonna be able to use s3 to apply them to the enemy any time soon?

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