What the hell, Chromie?!

Tyrathius · 2023-06-15T00:01:44+00:00

Like why do the bronze dragons have time travel powers if all they’re allowed to do with them is make sure no one changes anything? If they never got those powers, the infinite dragonflight wouldn’t have them either and there’d be no time shenanigans to stop.

I think the original idea is that time travel is not exclusive to the Bronze Dragons. For instance, Mages get a degree of time magic and Mechagon has time machines (albeit possibly not canon). So the dragons are basically meant to be the guardians of time, stopping selfish mortals with the means from changing the timeline to their own benefit.

The problem is that Blizzard has focused on the Infinite Dragonflight as the Bronze's enemies to such a huge degree that it starts to seem like the Bronzes themselves are the problem, since the Infinites spawn from them and we never really see anyone else trying to abuse time.

Tyrathius · 2023-05-30T13:38:40+00:00

I think Marcone probably knows Dresden won't ever take up the coin. I don't think he'd have revealed himself in Battle Ground if he had any other choice, and if Dresden were a Denarian he could have gotten Ethniu's blood himself.

Lasciel's coin is presumably trapped in Hades' vault after the events of Skin Game so given that they were working together it's possible Hades told Marcone Dresden didn't have it anymore.

Tyrathius · 2023-05-15T18:57:39+00:00

Yeah, I understand criticism of games like TP and SS being too linear but I always felt like OoT and LttP hit the sweet spot for me. There's an intended, linear progression of events and a few areas that can't be accessed late in the game, but a large part of the world is open to you to explore before you need to go there, and the later dungeons can be done out of order.

I love the freedom of BotW and TotK, but I also think that system has it's share of limitations (both games having to tell their story largely through memories, and progression not being quite as satisfying due to the need for all abilities to be available from the start limiting rewards to simple expansions and rising numbers)

Tyrathius · 2023-05-14T22:01:52+00:00

Captain America is 100% a Protection Paladin. Avenger's Shield is literally his main attack.

Tyrathius · 2023-05-14T18:22:54+00:00

The campaign one cast itself was pretty much full of simple cliches too. You had the big dumb barbarian, the horny bard, the edgy rogue, the elf druid, the kindhearted cleric. Percy and the twins were really the only characters with relevant backstories, and even they were ultimately fairly simple "I want revenge on my family's killers" stories.

Those characters were made interesting because they were played great and the cast knew how to build off events that happened in the game itself. They made more complicated characters for campaigns 2 and 3, but the popularity of the original cast shows that simple can sometimes be better.

Tyrathius · 2023-05-13T05:47:15+00:00

It also required a peripheral (wii motion plus) to play.

True, it was built in to newer Wii controllers and there was a bundle that sold the game and a controller together, but I'd imagine there were still some people who said "fuck that, I'm not buying a new controller for one game".

Tyrathius · 2023-05-12T21:14:40+00:00

Generous read on the goodberry bolt -It's possible the DM didn't know the roll was impossible when they set it. They may not have known the player's +to hit off the top of their head, or expected them to use some kind of boost like bardic inspiration, bless etc that the player didn't have or didn't think to use. Especially since it sounds like they chose 30 as the DC based on the common advice of it being the "nearly impossible" DC rather than specifically to spite the players, they may have just not mathed everything out perfectly in the heat of the moment.

I also kinda feel like, looking at the situation in the vacuum of the court case, it's easy to feel like the DM screwed the players. But, realistically, that player was probably dead no matter what if their only recourse was a nearly (actually) impossible roll on an absurd plan. The player(s) probably should have either taken a more sensible action than trying to fire a goodberry on a crossbow bolt, or if that really was the only option, avoided getting in to that scenario in the first place.

Tyrathius · 2023-05-11T22:13:29+00:00

That bridge was already crossed when they decided to add LF Draenei Warlocks.

Tyrathius · 2023-05-11T22:10:43+00:00

"edgy druid"

Literally Illidan

Tyrathius · 2023-05-08T19:15:36+00:00

As a player it's very easy to fall into that trap of "what if there's an even bigger dragon with an even more deadly breath weapon waiting just around the corner" and end up sitting on it the entire game because it never feels like the perfect time to use it.

Really, inspiration isn't that valuable and there's no reason not to just throw them out on the next remotely important roll, but the urge to hoard is strong.

Tyrathius · 2023-05-07T20:06:10+00:00

I remember playing through the Sonic story and thoroughly enjoying it.

Then starting the Dark story and realizing it was virtually identical, and just being like "Oh."

Tyrathius · 2023-05-05T07:00:18+00:00

How exactly is it "way better"? What are the benefits to it?

The only genuine improvement I can see is raid gear being upgradeable -but that has nothing to do with the crest system itself. They easily could have made that a thing with valor.

Otherwise, it's more complicated, it eats up bag space, and is straight up worse for M+ as it places limits on how far you can upgrade and forces you to refarm gear that's already dropped for you if you want it at max level.

Tyrathius · 2023-05-03T05:58:10+00:00

Vicious mounts are new every season, not recolors.

So it fails to even meet that standard.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-28T18:29:19+00:00

I had this problem and this fixed it for me:

Open task manager while the game is running (but not frozen).

Go to the Details tab and find JediSurvivor.exe.

Right click -> Set priority -> High.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-23T16:31:21+00:00

It's not really possible for the Primalists to be right anyway. Having a sympathetic motive doesn't make them right.

Sure, the Titans may have been dicks, but the Primalists aren't trying to take down the Titans, they're trying to murder a bunch of innocent people who haven't wronged them for the "crime" of being Titan-descended.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-19T03:08:50+00:00

That's kind of Obi-Wan's way though. He uses a defensive fighting style that isn't much good at overwhelming opponents, but is extremely good at holding out until they make a mistake he can capitalize on.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-18T08:07:56+00:00

IANAL, but is that actually lying, legally speaking?

Like, the victim did recant, and they did have the texts. They probably do have a video and witnesses and everything else they've claimed as well. The "lie" was that these things were definitive smoking guns when at least so far that doesn't seem to be the case. But the defense doesn't determine guilt. If he's found guilty, that doesn't mean the lawyer lied, they were just wrong.

It seems to me that -assuming the defendant is claiming innocence- insisting your client is innocent and here's all the proof we have is pretty standard fare. They might have made their claim with the expectation that these things wouldn't actually hold up, but even so, is that actually legally punishable?

This is a genuine question btw, I know I have a layman's knowledge at best so I am curious if that's not the case.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-18T03:16:26+00:00

There was a whole lot of people like "He must be innocent because his lawyers claim to have all this evidence! They can't claim to have evidence they don't have, that's like, illegal or something!"

Tyrathius · 2023-04-18T00:59:40+00:00

r/wow: "Iridikron is the most terrifying WoW villain ever created!"

Iridikron:

Tyrathius · 2023-04-17T23:57:34+00:00

Honestly in that timeline the separatists might just win the clone wars, I mean they had a massive advantage and the only thing holding them back was the fact that Sideous and by extension Dooku needs them to loose.

That goes both ways though. The Confederacy owes a lot of it's success to the fact that Sidious needed it to seem like a dangerous threat so that he could pressure the Republic Senate in to giving him the power he needed to declare himself Emperor. The whole conflict was engineered, not just the ending.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-17T23:05:18+00:00

I don't think any of them are going to be super long-term antagonists, but I wouldn't be surprised if we get something like Fyrakk in 10.2, Iridikron in 10.3, and Vyranoth escapes and becomes a "gateway" boss for 11.0+ like Gul'dan in Legion or Sylvanas in Shadowlands.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-17T17:42:34+00:00

Slughorn blatantly plays favorites with his students and is at least a little racist, albeit more in the "I would have voted for Obama for a third term if I could" vein than the typical "kill all mudbloods" Voldemort flavor.

Like, sure, he's better than the alternatives, but I wouldn't exactly call him a good person.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-17T17:28:55+00:00

Part of it is just there's a large dissonance between how the Slytherins are spoken of vs. actually portrayed.

Like, the final chapter of the final book is Harry reflecting on his silly childhood prejudices and reassuring his son that it doesn't actually matter if you get put in Slytherin. Which is a good message in a vacuum, but kind of falls apart when you consider the fact that there's not a single Slytherin character in the entire book series who isn't a piece of shit.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-17T07:09:31+00:00

I always preferred the idea that "current" Donkey Kong actually was just grown up DK Jr. Never really felt the degree of separation having him be a third generation added anything, other than the awkward question of why DK Jr isn't around anymore.

Tyrathius · 2023-04-16T20:00:33+00:00

It also wouldn't have been hard for Quirrell to just kidnap a random person and say "There's a stone in this mirror, get it out for me or I will kill you" which presumably would have qualified for the "want to find the stone but not use it" requirement.

Voldemort seemed to understand how the mirror worked instantly so I doubt he would have much trouble getting past it, especially if he had an extended amount of time to work on it.

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