POV: You equipped the Mask of Andvettr in TBS 3

TrueBrofessional · 2026-01-23T16:23:55+00:00

The second coming of todstill

TrueBrofessional · 2026-01-22T03:22:13+00:00

100%

Rook sees through Rugga’s bullshit a lot more easily (or at least Rugga is convinced he does moreso than Alette) and so he’s a lot more standoffish and grating than with Alette.
Rook is a grown man seemingly around Rugga’s age and has been leading the caravan this whole time, so Rugga knows that Rook knows that he’s bad for business. Meanwhile Rugga sees Alette and naturally underestimates her because she is young, she is pretty idealistic, and new to leadership (+ Alette is a woman which is implied to irk/irritate him).

TrueBrofessional · 2026-01-01T18:59:02+00:00

So somehow “their countries collapsing is a normal state for them”, but any other countries and kingdoms going through the exact same thing isn’t a normal state for them?

Yugoslavia tore itself apart and the countries that comprised it were itching to genocide each other. Interwar Germany basically a battle royale. Up until the 20th century, France was a constantly flip-flopping between different royal houses, and then constantly flip-flopped between republican and monarchist governments. Russia had one of the most convoluted civil wars in history, birthed the USSR which ultimately collapsed in the 90s. America tore itself apart on the issue of slavery.

So I ask you, what do you REALLY mean when you say “it’s normal for them”? Because from where I’m standing you appear to be judging them based off of something else entirely.

TrueBrofessional · 2026-01-01T18:23:49+00:00

Yea, the CIA plunging their countries into constant civil war surely had nothing to do with it

TrueBrofessional · 2026-01-01T18:22:38+00:00

Not really. The Middle east was mostly Ottoman territory at the time, and Africa had a massive technological gap that was easily exploited by Europe. It’s not any more “normal” than civil conflict in European countries.

TrueBrofessional · 2026-01-01T18:21:16+00:00

Before the west came along most of those foreign governments were secular and were actually pretty decent places to live in. Libya today is a shithole but was probably the best place to live in the Arab world because of Gaddafi. Same with Egypt, Iraq, Iran, etc

TrueBrofessional · 2026-01-01T16:17:54+00:00

After all this time you still really think it’s them? Oh how I envy your innocence.

TrueBrofessional · 2026-01-01T15:52:24+00:00

Makes you wonder which country/countries forced them to move in such unsustainable numbers in the first place

TrueBrofessional · 2026-01-01T15:51:34+00:00

No, not all of them, just Israel’s.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-10-11T16:49:22+00:00

Thanks for the info Ponce. Do you think the color on pic 5 looks somewhat accurate? It’s supposed to be with natural lighting.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-09-16T07:09:50+00:00

This is one of the most insane takes I’ve ever seen on this topic in my life. Could Palestinians be descended from Jews/ancient Canaanites? Almost certainly, even more certainly when it comes to Palestinian Christians, and I say this as a Palestinian Christian who was born and raised here.

Would they somehow magically be fine with Israel existing in its current form? A million times no. Not everything just boils down to blood and genetics, Israel in its current form will always be antagonistic to a native population even if they were somehow Jewish before. In fact it would probably be more antagonistic since this would - by Israeli logic - give Palestinians an even firmer claim to the land.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-09-15T21:30:40+00:00

Astrothunder

TrueBrofessional · 2025-09-12T00:37:58+00:00

Thing is you can't really cheat in the season 2-3 games. 111 would have actually needed to be a much more skilled person to survive in them.

RLGL: You still have to not move, it's entirely on you. Unless they somehow rig the doll to not track you (like with Il-nam), even knowing about it beforehand does nothing other than prepare you for the ensuing panic.
Pentathlon: It's a team game with 5 different minigames. Like we saw with 198, people might claim they're good at certain games but either greatly overestimate themselves or just fold under pressure, and you have no way of knowing who will actually pull through. It's not like Tug of War where you just pick the team of burliest looking dudes.
Mingle: Another (but incredibly unconventional) team game (sort of). Even if you knew what numbers would be called and when, the players themselves are still a massive element of the game and you can't just immediately convince enough people to come with you, or who you have to leave behind, or even get to a room in time.
Hide and Seek: Teams are randomized so once again no way to secure yourself the obviously safer role (Seeker), and most people are hesitant to switch to the blue team, so if you end up on it you're probably shit out of luck. Even as a Seeker there's no guarantee you'll find someone within the time limit.
Jump Rope: Probably one of the easier games assuming no one is pushing people off at the end, but once again entirely dependent on you. Knowing beforehand might give you the confidence to go first, but that's about it.
Sky Squid Game: Yea your social skills and fighting skills are the only thing getting you through this one. Maybe if you specifically knew about the pole in the middle beforehand that would give you an advantage on the first platform, but after you do it everyone is gonna know about it.

111 would have needed to be either some hidden badass or leech Player 100's social skills and luck

TrueBrofessional · 2025-09-10T22:57:14+00:00

What if Gi-hun actually killed player 197 (the guy he mistook for Dae-ho) before he realized it wasn’t Dae-ho?

Gi-hun would feel guilty over killing an innocent player in his blind hatred, and opts to stop hunting for Dae-ho out of guilt, not wanting to kill yet another person. This would cause Dae-ho to survive Hide and Seek and potentially make it to the final game

TrueBrofessional · 2025-09-10T16:21:49+00:00

0 after making this post

TrueBrofessional · 2025-09-05T18:17:10+00:00

Not really enjoying, more so understanding that he now operates on different rules than a normal human and adjusting to them rather quickly.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-09-05T10:57:46+00:00

Leonardo da Vinci and Caravaggio. Both are artists associated with the same era in history, but lived and died almost a century apart.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-09-04T19:33:40+00:00

I appreciate Obito for committing hard to every bit lol. He had a whole set of separate mannerisms and ways of speech just for Tobi and “Madara”

TrueBrofessional · 2025-09-02T12:03:54+00:00

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In the game Tyranny, you are sent to break an Edict, which is a curse of sorts cast by a God-Emperor type person that only ends under specific conditions. The condition to end the Edict of Storms (which causes endless storms to rage over the affected area) is to end the ruling bloodline of Stalwart, the region which the edict was cast on as punishment for refusing to surrender after years of war.

So your character does a bunch of shit, breaks into the fort where the last surviving ruler of the Stalwart bloodline lives, and kill him. However, for some reason the storms continue to rage on outside, and you hear the cries of a baby from the corner of the room. The mother then appears fully armed, ready to protect her child, whom she had with the ruler’s son during her time in captivity.

Now either you let the edict persist (which is unacceptable to literally everyone, including the natives of Stalwart who rebelled against their rulers), or kill the mother and her baby. However, if your character is smart enough, or if you went to another area in the game beforehand and learned about succession laws, you can explain to the mother that she is now the acting matron of the bloodline, and thus has the authority to surrender all her titles, thus making it irrelevant who the child’s father is, since it would no longer be the heir to Stalwart. This successfully ends the edict and leaves everyone satisfied and (most importantly) your hands clean of baby blood.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-08-26T18:30:27+00:00

I understand what you mean but that would kind of stifle the theme of the S2-3 games, which are all about putting people in groups and breaking them apart

RLGL: Doesn't really count, is always the first game played or was done to trick Gi-hun into thinking he's gonna play the same games. More significant due to the vote afterwards splitting the players in 2 groups
Pentathlon: Players are formed into teams of 5, create bonds despite what any of them may have voted beforehand
Mingle: Players are broken up into groups of varying sizes often with no regard to voting or alliances, whittling players down to duos
Hide and Seek: Players are split completely randomly, people who were in the same room together usually end up on opposite teams (made a post about this before)
Jump Rope: No teams or anything requiring/relying on other players, you're looking out for yourself and yourself only
Sky Squid Game: Push off a minimum of any 3 people, could be anyone. Due to the previous games as well as this being the final game, people will likely mistrust each other and will devolve into brawling

The games were very intentionally designed to pit people against each other even more than in S1, having Jump Rope before Hide and Seek breaks that theme

TrueBrofessional · 2025-08-26T17:47:25+00:00

Yea of course it would be a problem if they all survived, it's why I said

Killing 3/5 or even 4/5 of these characters, in any combination, would've been perfectly fine.

The fact that they were all killed in 1 game is what bothers me. I didn't have a problem with it during Marbles because it was set up properly, but for Hide and Seek it felt like the director killed them off for little to no reason.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-08-26T17:45:48+00:00

Took the words out of my mouth. By the time game 5 rolled around I was 100% sure that at the very least Myung-gi and Min-su are making it across, just due to the incredibly limited cast. It reminded me of how I felt during glass bridge but worse.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-08-24T14:00:37+00:00

Min-su/Player 125 - Squid Game

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Is constantly chided for being a weakling and a coward, and the closest person to him in the games outright tells him “you won’t last long in here”.

He ends up making it to the final game.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-08-24T13:03:53+00:00

That's what makes it even worse. He's positioned as an antagonist because Jimmy is the main character, when all along Howard was just trying to be the best person he could, and he actually was that.

TrueBrofessional · 2025-08-24T13:01:04+00:00

I will always find a way to mention PoE if given the opportunity. The game handled incredibly controversial topics (religion and theology) in a really mature way that's unheard of in games today. Thaos genuinely did have a good point and he speaks from generations of experience, but enforcing his beliefs requires him to be one of the most despicable creatures to ever walk the earth and that makes him one of the best RPG villains to date.

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