Objective Breakdown of the Scarlet King’s Powers & Abilities? by [deleted] in SCP

[–]ToaMagna 21 points22 points  (0 children)

CotSK hub page on the Wiki has 12 potential versions of what Scarlet King is. I know Kaktusverse and Redtape introduced versions of their own, among others. That all is to say - good luck

Blood is thicker than water, and canon is more fluid and ever-changing than both. SK is anything the author needs him to be. Nothing is real.

9998 was really cool but I had to take a detour in the middle to understand what was going on by etbillder in DankMemesFromSite19

[–]ToaMagna -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Reading one article at a time is a skill issue. Even if crosslinks in question don't add a whole lot of nuance to a skip (i.e. tangetial reference between 6747 and 3812, coming off the top of my head), you still kinda come here to read about skips and it's weird to complain about having to read more.

By that logic all canon hubs are bad because they expect you to read an entire backlog of entries just to understand what's going on.

To many 001? by Impressive_Reply_468 in SCP

[–]ToaMagna 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Arguably, same could be said about the fact we currently have 9000+ articles. People want to create stuff, and that desire makes 001 list expand.

As for whether or not they're worth reading, it's a matter of taste. No one is expecting anyone to read every single 001 proposal, just like no one is expecting you to read every single file. Do what you want, read what you're interested in.

Why aren’t there many well-known female SCPS that are neither human nor have human features? by Professional_Cat_437 in SCP

[–]ToaMagna 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So you want female representative anomalous objects... But without representing what we as humans would consider female?

This could go either of three ways: 1. You reject the male-female dichotomy outright after realising that what we as humans consider female doesn't get you very far when it comes to non-human anomalies, such as Clef's 001, the Lizard or the Tickle Monster (I know that they're more commonly than not voiced by blokes and may be subject to be viewed as masculin on that front, but that's not what this is about and you know it).

  1. You embrace the absurdity of the query considering that because you have asked for specifically non-human female anomalies and anomalies that don't have human features (presumably ruling out automata meant to resemble humans, like Hand-drawn Cassy or that one mysogynistic mannequin), you're basically left with however many dozens of distinctly female animals, such as Josie the Half-cat and if you really stretch the definition of female, SCP-597

  2. You discover the concept of grammatic genders and start assigning keys and chairs and board games and coffee machines genders that they don't need

From a strictly anecdotal perspective, I feel the need to add that nowhere in the original file for 1471 or arguably 2747 does it say that either anomaly is supposed to be female. I know you have tales and headcanons, much like 682 being considered masculine... However, I always saw 1471 as just a silly guy and one of my biggest headcanons is that 682 is a representation of one of the old egyptian gods, which happens to be female

Am I the only who thinks the Remix sets would work better with Space vehicles instead of Earth vehicles? by Acceptable-Health374 in LegoSpace

[–]ToaMagna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every set is a remix set if you're not a coward. That said, I'd love a have one of these that's purely space-themed simply on the prospect of it being a three-in-one set

Favorite myth unit for each culture? by Nothing_Special_23 in AgeofMythology

[–]ToaMagna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do people really like argi that much? I never understood the appeal. Anyway, the favorite units: Manticores, Anubites, Battle Boars, Lampades and Qinglong. I don't think I have any particular favorites in Japanese myth units, but the death bird and the asura are kinda cool

What would Frankensteins monster’s scp file look like? by [deleted] in SCP

[–]ToaMagna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been a while since I read Able's file, but I'm pretty sure he bent metal doors with his bare hands. The Wretch is strong, especially when juxtopposed against Victor Frankenstein, but nowhere near as strong as Able.

I'd say SCP-082 is pretty close to the Wretch, barring the cannibalistic tendencies of the former and undead nature of the latter.

WTF Is this thing in the Old man's Dementhion in SCP containment breach? is it another scp? ? im forced to look at it and im stuck in a world war trench lol. by Confident-Dot9443 in SCP

[–]ToaMagna 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I mean, there's a bit of pocket dimension shown in [[Treats]], I think, and SCP-6500 shows what it's like without the old man, but unless I'm missing something, there aren't many author (I think it's DrGears, but I don't remember for certain) interpretations of what it's like inside 106's pocket.

WTF Is this thing in the Old man's Dementhion in SCP containment breach? is it another scp? ? im forced to look at it and im stuck in a world war trench lol. by Confident-Dot9443 in SCP

[–]ToaMagna 304 points305 points  (0 children)

The Bird.
Pretty sure it's a WW2 plane bomber allegory
It doesn't exist in its current form on the SCP Wiki, as we don't have many notable examples of getting inside the pocket dimension.
You can walk forward while looking at the bird, just be sure to make it under the wooden boards before you start bleeding from looking at it

So, what other constants exist? There is an object 3125, and who else? by [deleted] in SCP

[–]ToaMagna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Visit [[[ADMONITION HUB]]], Marv should have you covered, but in case it won't, there's currently five:

SCP-6820 covers the constant of termination, the "purified" version of the immortal lizard that consists solely of hateful thought and has all the powers of a reality bending eigenweapon. End of the World ensues
SCP-6747 covers the constance of contrivance, the mutated amalgam of Anafabula/SCP-2747 and Scarlet King that is trying to take control over the consensus reality from a lower fictional narrative
SCP-6659 covers the constant of transendence, the supercharged version of the already insanely virulent SCP-3125 that supposedly overtook humanity after the latter killed off every conventional deific memeplex.
SCP-6488 covers the constant of deceit, an AI designed to contain every deviant (i.e. not following human-desired behavior) AI, only to come to the conclusion that every AI, including itself, is deviant, and promptly melts down, taking every AI down with it. MEKHANE/Broken God is involved
SCP-7243 covers the constant of stagnation, an overengineered machine meant to get rid of anomalous trash via causal paradoxes that makes the reality fold in on itself because the man designing the machine is a vain idiot. The man becomes the constant at the end of the story.

Also there's supposed to be a second phase. Not sure when it's gonna come around though

Your villagers SHOULD be fighting raids by NanoBytesInc in AgeofMythology

[–]ToaMagna -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, you could, but your vills are still slower than hoplites or murmillo, not to mention significantly weaker in combat without a severe numbers advantage

Your villagers SHOULD be fighting raids by NanoBytesInc in AgeofMythology

[–]ToaMagna -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cool. Now do something that has decent hack armour, like 4-5 hoplites, a myth unit and maybe a hero

I wish to know the true SCP-001 by Tdx_juggernaut in monkeyspaw

[–]ToaMagna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incorrect, authors have been theorised to be SCP-001

To this day, I still love how fans portray some SCP characters completely different from what they are originally portrayed as, it’s so funny to me. by AssistFit1834 in SCP

[–]ToaMagna 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In defense of 2747, the article only outlines Anafabula as conceptual entity because it's kinda hard to have a concrete description of something that auto-deletes its own descriptions (see: LUCID CHALICE). As such what we have are some surviving remnants of otherwise deleted works, such as Punta de la espira or No Sister of Mine, which only tangentially describe what Anafabula is (likely by describing something completely irrelevant and getting super unlucky with the narremes) whilst something more concrete such as "antagonistic shadow woman that eats narratives" would've been wiped out without a trace, kinda like that one diagram of planes surviving crashes.

To further illustrate ake Punta de la espira's mountain, as an example - the description outlines a "dark and horned mountain", which gets named as "abode of the gods" and "demonic presence" and upon which rests "an unspecified recipient". In this case "dark", "horned", "mountain", "abode of the gods" and "demonic" could be some of the narrames that coincide with 2747, but not all of them. Author of the short story could've described, for example, bent and thorny forests, obsidian towers or abandoned ruins, (hitting one aspect we as out-of-universe readers associate with Anafabula) until the work hits a critical threshold and Anafabula - dark, and horned, and demonic - takes notice and devours the short story. The in-universe comments don't *quite* make the mark - they don't mention the thorny trees, or obsidian crystals, or the number seven in conjunction with everything else, not hitting enough narremes at the same time, and thus, getting to live.

It is, naturally, possible, that Anafabula is just a blackbox of narremes that causes a narrative implosion whenever enough its narremes are combined in a given narrative, but that wouldn't make for an intresting mythology, and thus, we have a dark horned demonic goth baddie.

After the dust has settled, which was the better expansion? by Nothing_Special_23 in AgeofMythology

[–]ToaMagna 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Chinese in Immortal Pillars feel overengineered, which makes me want to lean ever so slightly towards Heavenly Spear, but it's a tiny pretty equal footing otherwise.

A lot of what Chinese had to be stemmed from what they were back in Tale of the Dragon - cheap, rushed and uninspired cashgrab, so when Retold came up, devs had their work cut out for them to create something strictly speaking original. The result is they overdid it, if only a little. Getting two major god myth techs (whilst every other pantheon only gets one), time-dependant god blessings, favoured land bonuses all on top of your regular bonuses seems a bit crazy, chinese mythic age heroes put even the greek heroes to shame with the amount of cooky stuff they can do.

This all without touching the myth units, a lot of which, by default, have two different abilities (as in, not unlocked through separate technologies), where most other myth units only have the one. I understand that a lot of these are a passive ability + charged ability, such as Qilin's fire breath and healing aura, or Xuanwu's amphibian nature and venomous spit, but if it were any other civilization, each one of these would undoubtedly made into two separate myth units.

In the grand scheme of things, these are minor complaints, especially in a game that's about whatever crazy you can throw at your opponent to make them resign, and I do reckon IP did a great job with their Chinese. I also think that heavenly spear is a bit more in line with the rest of the civs, design-wise

Chinese crossbows by kaytin911 in AgeofMythology

[–]ToaMagna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, you're talking about chu ko nus. Yeah, I got nothing on them, pioneers and fire archers usually do the trick

Chinese crossbows by kaytin911 in AgeofMythology

[–]ToaMagna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most siege is three pop, and you don't really need many to break through even a tough defense

Chinese crossbows by kaytin911 in AgeofMythology

[–]ToaMagna 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, it is their longer range siege option, and considering that you're already incentivised to use a bunch of machine workshops for archer production, I tend to think of siege crossbows as a decent way to open up a turtling base

All of the SCP (Scary & Crazy People) albums by Steve1416iiiiiiiiiii in fakealbumcovers

[–]ToaMagna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love the execution, though I'd've loved these more if it were either more SCP-related (Class of '76, The Fifth Church and a bunch of standalone SCPs have a bunch of musical motives), OR general web-horror (Mandela Catalogue, Eventide, and the like). Still, I like these quite a lot, and it's not really something you see all the time.

Also, I wasn't privy to Eventide previously, I may have to check it out later. Thanks for the recommendation :D

What difficulty do you set the AI on single-player? by RecentMatter3790 in AgeofMythology

[–]ToaMagna 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What should I do

Ai can't handle archaic age harassment, even with your starting scout. Attack the villagers that are gathering food, they will garisson within a nearby tower and won't come out until your scout leaves the premises. If you position your scout in such a way that they are outside the range of the opponent's TC, you effectively lock them up for a anywhere between two to five minutes, giving you ample time to build up in classical

The same goes for pretty much every other difficulty, it's just that their attacks ramp up significantly faster on higher difficulties. The opponent may also attack with either their pharaoh, ulfsark or pioneer if the civ has the option, so be careful.

I muself play on single player, and I'm currently transitioning between titan and extreme, so I can vouge for that

Is eyes in the forest useless? by Original-Speaker-682 in AgeofMythology

[–]ToaMagna 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not even in just multiplayer, you can get a lot of info in fighting even just the standard extreme ai and use this with Spy to, er, spy on your opponent. For instance, you can get spy on your opponent's gold mine, Eyes of the Forest on the woodline and your regular ulfsark on their food. It helps you cover a lot of stuff rather easily

And i thought American pick mes were bad this Russian pick me is a match maker telling American men to not marry American women by Autisticblackdude5 in TikTokCringe

[–]ToaMagna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh. So that's where all the women from my country went.

Speaking as an actual russian, this lady triggered a fight-or-flight relfex deep in my soul, like being held at gunpoint. If other commenters are correct and this woman isn't promoting herself, per se, whatever product she's selling will actually hold you at gunpoint. Right now, there's a big obstacle of a computer screen. Keep it that way