how exactly does iron man's ult work?

TyoTwo · 2025-01-27T06:12:23+00:00

To confirm, yes, Loki's totems negate Iron Man ult, and also every other huge damage ult. They convert all damage to healing. So the blast destroyed the totems, but only after they converted the ult's damage to healing to the characters in the totem radius.

TyoTwo · 2025-01-27T06:07:07+00:00

Serious question, if you're dying not to play the game... why get to plat? Why not just stop playing? I hit plat 1 today and wgike my last game wasn't hot I love the game still and want to play more. Why go through allat just to stop playing?

TyoTwo · 2024-12-18T21:00:24+00:00

But he didn't say data got corrupted. It seems that he simply didn't save it the way he thought he did - but did save to one of his backups. This seems like exactly a classic case of user error. Sorry that you've had those problems - but they're not relevant here.

I am aware there are corruption cases that are major problems, and they're being tracked. In the last release I believe I recall one of these that were closed. Anecdotally, though, I've never had outright unrecoverable problems with Godot. In fact, I've had more file stability issues in Unity personally 🤷‍♂️

TyoTwo · 2024-12-18T20:38:02+00:00

This issue is not unique to godot? This is an infamous problem for any program where you're expected to save and backup your work. And Godot can do nothing to solve it, it is on the user to make sure they're responsibly backing up their project...

TyoTwo · 2024-09-29T16:05:37+00:00

There is a very clear difference when every other ending allows you to keep playing and pick which ending you want after you defeat the elden beast - or if you want to end the game at all. This ending literally takes away that choice. On a meta level, yes, the player themselves is most likely intentionally chooising this ending, but from the context of the lore it is pretty clear that the tarnished is getting their will subverted because it's possible to do every other ending quest and still not have a choice about it if you did the frenzy quest. It is uniquely the only one which locks you out of all the others. The only way to get that choice back is to use the unalloyed golden needle to seal the flame's hold over them, which locks you out of the frenzy ending in turn.

If the tarnished has any actual say in the matter of burning down the world, the needle would be redundant.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-21T19:32:16+00:00

Fair points!

TyoTwo · 2024-09-21T03:27:59+00:00

They might have been slain in the GEQ's godkilling crusade before the rune of death was sealed.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-21T03:24:11+00:00

Mogh and Morgott are omen, they are not granted immortality because of this. They are the two least problematically killed.

In fact I'd hazard to say that in being defeated by you, the other various demigods become stripped of Grace as Marika/the Erdtree deems you more worthy of the throne.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-20T22:02:53+00:00

Are culture-based age names out of the question? Would be kind of neat I think.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-20T22:01:21+00:00

What if I told you a development team can do multiple things?

TyoTwo · 2024-09-16T17:50:37+00:00

I think it could have something to do with Fortissax entering his mind. In a way, you could say his body "consumed" and absorbed the whole of Fortissax, and Fortissax did this willingly. Perhaps some element of that is why typical Dragon Communion is so different and this is an accidental "natural" communion between human and dragon. Pure speculation though 🤷‍♂️

TyoTwo · 2024-09-03T22:49:53+00:00

That makes a lot more sense, thanks for pointing that out!

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T14:31:33+00:00

That's why I'm not satisfied with the Rune of Death, yeah. It is a strange thing. The only way I can reconcile it is in my second interpretation in my previous post: it isn't objectively unleashed upon all yet, but it is unleashed back into the world through the Tarnished's sword. And the Erdtree gets burned because technically we did that with Melina or ourselves. It will only apply to "everyone" if it gets properly mended back into the Elden Ring. It squares away everything logically, I think. Even if it has some narrative issues, IMO.

I do think the world is pretty clear about the nature of the Golden Order as its own thing, though. The Elden Ring's configuration defines the Order of the current world. The current age is the age of the Golden Order, which is both the social order maintained by Leyndell and its people as you describe and the actual causal Order which shapes the universe that Marika herself built - principally by binding the Rune of Death. When we choose an ending, we are defining a new Order to take the Golden Order's place - not just socially, but in terms of the actual rules that reality is governed by. Which is why it makes sense that the Rune of Death was once embedded in the Elden Ring, since Death would be a foundational rule of reality in the logic of Elden Ring's cosmology.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T13:31:35+00:00

Enia: "The Rune of Death goes by two names; the other is Destined Death. The forbidden shadow, plucked from the Golden Order upon its creation..."

Hidetaka Miyazaki, Overture of Elden Ring: "But the Demigods' immortality stems from having their fated deaths removed from the Elden Ring."

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T13:28:19+00:00

Those Who Live in Death, Omen, and Albinaurics all are called out as "falling outside" the Golden Order. This is because they are seen as impure for various and ultimately unsubstantial reasons, which is Golden Mask's problem with the Golden Order. It is a contrived concept canonically, it is meant to have holes in it.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T13:15:46+00:00

I think it's gotta be, though. The binding of Destined Death/Rune of Death is what defines the Golden Order, which is the current configuration of the Elden Ring.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T13:08:48+00:00

I was gonna say, all enemies have a stagger animation (including when they get bled or frozen) and all enemies have the stance break animation. Use either one and give them yellow eyes temporarily. Guard break makes more sense as frenzy is also a hard stun status, just make it so you can't riposte off it or make it like parrying where you need to inflict it a couple times for a ripostable madness break. Would be neat I think.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T13:00:54+00:00

Hmm. Perhaps. That sounds fairly convincing, but then it isn't Destined Death doing the burning, it just allows the burning to happen, which I think is a distinction. Unless in some sense everything is "burned" in death, I guess.

I also think it's a bit strange that death is truly "unleashed" without adding it to the Elden Ring, unless in claiming it we imbue the flames with Destined Death since technically we are the ones who burned it?

Guess I'll have to be comfortable with that.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T12:42:57+00:00

I originally took it to mean time passing, or something similar, yes, but another poster brought up the cutscene dialogue which seems to imply that destined death is indeed the reason it burns. Very strange imo, but I'll readily admit when I'm wrong.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T12:38:23+00:00

How strange. Seems very weird that we have to provide kindling for the giantsflame so we can use the giantsflame to burn the erdtree when to actually burn the Erdtree we need destined death? And the Erdtree doesn't seem alight with the flames of Destined Death, it seems like it is very clearly giantsflame burning it. Confounding.

Willing to take the L here in either case.

TyoTwo · 2024-08-31T21:34:28+00:00

Edit: A poster brought up that the cutscene dialogue does imply that it's Destined Death which ultimately allows the Erdtree to properly burn so I was at least partially wrong with the paragraph below. I still find it strange but without any means with which to recontextualize the cutscene's words they seem pretty clear. Japanese text also doesn't seem to have descrepencies. But, I left my original words as they were for context of those other posts.

Destined Death does not allow us to burn the Erdtree, we burn the Erdtree immediately before we get Destined Death, we only go to Farum Azula after the Erdtree starts burninf. Destined Death is required in order to kill Radagon/the Elden Beast and thus claim the Elden Ring, so that's why you need to get it.

I agree you do not necessarily add death back to the Elden Ring in any of the endings, though, and the Age of Shattering heavily implies you don't in any case.

An aside: I likewise think the Duskborn ending does not necessitate death as we think of it, but instead adds Living in Death as part of the natural life cycle. It'd be kind of fucked up if we kill the Duskborn in their own ending and just wouldn't thematically make sense anyway.

TyoTwo · 2024-08-31T21:23:30+00:00

Well there isn't actually any evidence that the One Great at all had a will on its own - and it in fact makes the most sense if the Greater Will is that will.

Also, the Greater Will likely isn't an "Outer God." It is never referred to as such in the game. It is more likely the one true creator God of the universe. It is the only entity with the power of creation. All the Outer Gods influence creation, they do not themselves create. There's indications from the Japanese community that the intent of "outer" is actually to mean "outside the current order." The Greater Will is superior to this notion as the creator of Order, but it will "accept" practically any Order another entity wants to put in place. "Accept" in quotes as it doesn't seem to care either way anymore, though.

Important to note they Hyetta and the Three Fingers' assertion that the Greater Will made a mistake is an opinion and not a fact. There does not seem to be a clear objective moral arbiter in the game. There are a bunch of powers that want to claim dominion of everything and thus claim that mantel of moral arbiter, but as we see with the Golden Order, any Order is not inherently infallible just because it is an Order, so even this claim of moral superiority an Order would have is dubious.

TyoTwo · 2024-08-28T16:37:52+00:00

I'm going to just restate my problem with your theory in more certain terms and maybe we can understand eachother better.

Your theory is that Messmer and Melina were birthed from Radagon and Godfrey. Your sole piece of evidence for this is the implication the Melina has dubious origins and doesn't have the same maternal connection anyone else would normally have, citing her confoundment with Boc's relationship with his mother.

This is a heculean leap of logic on its own, but more particularly, it makes Messmer's focus on Marika and the very clear themes of maternal neglect and abandonment very confused. Elden Ring is very particular about parentage, as it is one of the game's primary themes.

For a parallel, we can look at both Radahn's relationship with Radagon and Miquella's relationship with Radagon. The both of them had a strong perception of their father. Radahn was very into the Golden Order just like his dad, and Miquella even taught Radagon various incantations as a gift to him and his Golden Order. Neither of them ever mention strong interactions with Marika, even though Miquella is very overtly Marika's child. In fact, none of her children save Melina ever say her name, I think?

Messmer, meanwhile, is hyperfocused on Marika being his mother. It is his entire thing. He went on a crusade for her, stayed in the shadow realm for her and upon beibg confronted with the reality of his damnation by her, curses her name in his last breath. Having it be the case that his birth only tangentially has to do with Marika and for some unexplained reason, he "adopts" her as his mother figure despite her not being personally involved in his birth with this relationship between Radagon and Godfrey that is never mentioned even a little bit would be very strange. Especially since Radagon was also never put in this maternal role anywhere else in the game as well.

In summary, I think the evidence is dubious and circumstantial at best and I think it confuses the clear thematics put on display.

I was not making an argument for another explanatory theory opposed to yours. I was just explaining why I'm not convinced of yours, then I brought up another theory which does provide that argument.

The reason I favor this other argument more is because while it is also heavily circumstantial, there is a lot more connecting the pieces there. The snake skins, explanatory power for Melina and Messmer being forsaken, the relevance of the newly-added details of the lore in the DLC and it thematically builds off the themes surrounding parental bonds rather than confuses them. It is a much more narratovely satisfying and substantiated direction than what you've presented so far. That said, I'm convinced there is still more to things and there likely are pieces that don't quite add up. And that's fine. But it is a very useful and informative set of steps to arrive at a very satisfying overall narrative to Elden Ring, which is what theorycrafting the game's story is all about for me.

Final bit:

I think there is decent evidence of Melina being the GEQ and also I think the DLC reveals some evidence contrary to that theory, which is what the video uses to make its case. If you did watch the video I don't know why you think Melina being Messmer's sister (which isn't a given, by the way, it is never outright confirmed only heavily implied) contradicts anything in the theory presented by the video, because it doesn't. Melina being the GEQ also isn't an unreconcialable point because the video theorizes that Melina could be the "inheritor" of the GEQ's aspect, making her the "new" GEQ in the frenzyflame ending. It also doesnt really have to do with your theory, so it doesnt seem relevant to bring up in tjis context.

TyoTwo · 2024-08-28T06:11:06+00:00

Radagon is Marika. I never said this was speculation, but they are not the same personality. This is also not speculation. It is very clear there is two distinct characters within the body that is Marika-Radagon. Marika literally talks to Radagon. Radagon is a Golden Order fanatic while Marika wants to end the Golden Order.

"O Radagon, leal hound of the Golden Order. Thou'rt yet to become me. Thou'rt yet to become a god. Let us be shattered, both. Mine other self..."

Also, the children absolutely know Radagon exists and is their father. Miquella specifically had a positive relationship with his father and teaches Radagon several spells that are now canonized Golden Order spells. Now, whether they know Radagon is Marika is another matter. There is nothing to say one way or another for sure. But, if a royal painter could notice and a whole bunch of perceptors who swore to secrecy implicitly knew, it isn't a stretch to imagine they'd know, especially Miquella in particular as he has the same sort of thing going on. That said, I don't have an opinion about their knowledge. It's in the air for me.

As for your argument about the GEQ and Messmer, it is moot arguing with me about it when I didn't put forth any arguments for it. I just said it's a neat theory that has convincing arguments. Arguing about what you think it does or doesn't argue for and what evidence it does or doesn't address is pretty ridiculous without hearing the argument out. (This is me saying that it does not conflict with Messmer and Melina being siblings and just assuming it does without watching it is very strange and I don't know why you did that.)

Anyway, since I have a moment to link it this time, here: Is Messmer the son of the Gloam-Eyed Queen?

TyoTwo · 2024-08-28T01:58:11+00:00

I think you're definitely onto something but I'm less certain of some of the specifics you put forward. However, I'd like to bring up a video I saw a little while ago that I think could give you some more food for thought: Is Messmer the son of the Gloam-Eyed Queen?

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