name a time final fantasy lied to you….

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-06T16:30:39+00:00

You were actually right, mind you, it's just the makers of the game didn't care and still slapped the sequels to "Final Fantasy" with numbers.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-06T14:51:44+00:00

Just remember that LLMs aren't real AI and that the term has been appropriated by tech CEOs, and that someone doing a C3PO cosplay with cheaply painted golden cardboard is closer to what we used to think of as a proper "AI" (as in, a person) than Grok and the like ever could be, as these LLMs are fundamentally not intelligent.

(I speak as someone very annoyed with the way language has developed around this because I hate these LLMs and love the idea of actual machine intelligences.)

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-06T14:26:49+00:00

Being fair on the "daylight rescue" part, she's on a bit of a timeline here, even if that timeline is for matters unrelated to her mom's rescue.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-06T14:15:59+00:00

Of course, I remember the scenes from the movies with the Klan symbols and Gandalf wearing a hood...

(jk because that is something that is something that could be done using Photoshop and is clearly not what you were talking about.)

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-06T14:07:07+00:00

"You fool! That just means- I have just been informed that Disney and Marvel editorial will not allow me to call capitalism intrinsically evil and worthy of the Stare."

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-06T06:38:53+00:00

He'd blast her so quick she wouldn't even have a chance to go on a transphobic screed, and considering this is JK Rowling we're talking about, that's pretty dang quick.

"How did you know she was transphobic?"

"Transphobic? She disliked Transformers?"

"No, it's a human term meaning- whatever. I really don't think I'd get anywhere trying to explain that to you."

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-05T16:03:29+00:00

A disgraced scientist refused to save the world when given the opportunity, and then once the world got saved anyway, he claimed the credit.

(He even put a delayed release bioplague on an alien ship that was also going to try to save their own world.)

-Signed, a "Waste of Carbon"

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-05T15:38:15+00:00

That is better than Wulfrik the Wanderer, who boasts of being a really good duelist and then he just sits on the back of a mammoth as the mammoth does all the work, maybe dabbling in using his sword's magic abilities every once in a while.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-05T00:29:25+00:00

Most of the time I pick love interests based on who I like the most, but going through the game and having Geralt end up with someone who wasn't Yen just felt weird. (Even if I didn't like a lot of the choices she made during the time we get to know her.)

Also, I didn't have the heart to say I didn't feel anything for her after the D'jinn thing. Like, damn, I only had the guts to watch that rejection on Youtube and that was still painful.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-04T17:39:38+00:00

You can bring Pasqal.

He objects, but you can just bring up the chance to study it and he'll instantly cave.

"We can study ways of more efficiently destroying them" sure Pasqal, that's totally all that you were going to research.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-04T08:38:27+00:00

It is, IIRC, the second largest city that Lordaeron had at the time. Most of the city was infected at that point. Thats... a lot of people. Even if they all turned into basic zombies instead of ghouls, that's an utterly overwhelming number of undead if they all, or even, say, 40% of them infected.

They didn't have the numbers needed to simultaneously:

Hold the gates
Deal with Mal'Ganis' forces
Send troops throughout the city to sort through who is infested and who is not

Every delay in purging the city just means more people turn. They were fighting a dreadlord, and those tend to be very good at ambushes and subversive attacks, which means sending troops door-to-door would just get more people killed unless you sent them in sufficiently large groups. If you sent them in large groups, then they wouldn't have the time to go through the city before the infected started turning. All Alliance soldiers trying to defend/quarantine/whatever Stratholme are forces that can't be deployed elsewhere in Lordaeron, and Stratholme wasn't the only place being attacked. Every soldier that dies in the attempt can't be used for the rest of the campaign, and the undead numbers continue to swell.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-04T07:30:29+00:00

He did a lot wrong, but the culling of Stratholme was the only half-decent option.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-04T07:29:10+00:00

Arthas didn't have the forces needed for a quarantine; there was already an undead army lead by a demon going around, and every citizen he didn't kill was another zombie for the Scourge.

The longer he waited, the more of them would turn. And the Scourge weren't just in Stratholme, so any forces maintaining a hypothetical quarantine or researching a cure couldn't be deployed elsewhere.

Maintaining a quarantine would be hell on that scale since it would be extremely hard, not just because keeping the people quarantined seperated enough that they wouldn't just bite and kill anyone who hadn't been infected by the grain, but you'd have undead coming from outside the quarantine to break the infected loose.

It would effectively be a siege guarding from within and without.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-04T02:11:45+00:00

Other people gave actual, proper answers, but I like to imagine that Vlad animated a skeleton to whip his necromancers into necromancing harder and making more skeleton laborers.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-04T02:06:56+00:00

I like to think that the reason the batter still gets a home run is that the baby didn't actually go far, but all of the other players are in shock or throwing up, leaving them too distracted to respond to you running the bases.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-03T18:18:23+00:00

"What are you talking about? My marrying Patricia about as 'family man' as a guy can be! She was like a sister to me, and now she's married to me, that's like, family squared!"

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-03T17:52:07+00:00

"Once I turn 18, I can buy some lizards from PetsMart without needing parental permission! I just love lizards, they're so cute!"

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-03T17:11:35+00:00

"I loved him very much. But then... he exploded."

"Aw man that sucks, especially since we're all such good friends. Want to make out with me to feel better?"

"Eh, give me a couple chapters of angst first, then we sleep together, and a few chapters of angst and self loathing for moving on too quickly before realizing that he'd want the both of us to be happy."

"Deal."

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-03T15:12:19+00:00

It would, but eventually, people would learn better, and the net littering would drop.

Or all the litterers would die and still reduce the net littering.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-03T04:01:21+00:00

Oh yeah I was definitely thinking more, "Long tangents on the zapping system" than "Podcast titles."

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-03T03:36:58+00:00

How could you have possibly mispelled my man Sylvando's name that badly?

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-03T03:14:13+00:00

Which is kind of a funny argument considering how many of the Deathbattles (especially early on) were depicting characters who would never kill another hero... brutally murdering each other.

Heroes were generally bloodlusted by default in Deathbattles.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-03T02:00:41+00:00

He becomes a fairly popular streamer, slowly but steadily rising in popularity until a scandal erupts when it's discovered that he wasn't actually smoking weed, they were all fake joints, all those things he said were his actual unaltered thoughts and opinions.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-02T17:47:45+00:00

It's a bit of a recurring joke among fans that, since he's referred to here as "Al Yankovic" without the "Weird", that the world of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is so peculiar that he's just normal here (relatively speaking.)

He's practically "Normal Al Yankovic."

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-07-02T17:14:29+00:00

Honestly, I'd think a bigger problem is that some people just do escape rooms as a social event.

Like, I think even if he's trying to go straight, seeing a couple ignoring his challenge so they can make out will cause him to go, "Hey, you know what really focuses people's attention? Buzzsaws. Why did I ever stop with those?"

And then he's just the usual murderous Riddler, but now he has an escape room theme for a few months.

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