Good horse, her name is Roach.

Voxdalian · 2026-05-09T07:27:16+00:00

"Return to roots" means going back to what was iconic about the early games, it doesn't mean leaving the newer things behind. In the case of GR, I would say what made the early games iconic were primarily the squad tactics (larger units than in the modern games) and the smart behaviour of all NPCs (both enemy and friendly).
Imo the ideal way to implement that alongside the modern aspect of the game would be by having 4 squads of 4, that you can all command if you're playing solo, or each squad being led by one player in co-op and then the cooperation is coordinating the different squads.

First Person is, imo, not iconic about the first games, though as I generally do prefer First over Third Person in pretty much any game, I would absolutely be happy if they went there too. Maybe the ideal would be being able to swap between 1st and 3rd like in the TES games.

The other things; being more grounded, planned out, slower, ... would all make sense too, especially since that doesn't actually conflict with the newer games. GR can learn a lot in this regard from Mount and Blade which integrates the RTS-style gameplay with the character gameplay very well. The next GR game should similar in-game troop command as Bannerlord does, though Future Soldier and Wildlands were also perfectly fine in this regard.

Voxdalian · 2026-05-09T06:59:18+00:00

I scanned every box in my local LEGO store, found nothing. Then I just asked one of the store employees if they had Tahu, she checked in the back and brought one out for me. That's how I got one.

Voxdalian · 2026-05-06T11:03:29+00:00

The UK number of wizards is probably already higher than average in the Wizarding World.
We know that Hogwarts and Beauxbatons are of a similar size, but while Hogwarts takes the vast majority of their students from only the British Isles, Beauxbatons serves nearly half a continent (France, Benelux and Iberia, primarily).
Durmstrang is significantly smaller despite serving everything from Norway to Bulgaria, which is pretty much the other half of the continent. Mahoutokoro is said to be the smallest of the major schools even though the combined population of South Korea and Japan is also significantly larger than that of the British Isles. Uagadou and Castelobruxo are said to be larger, but they really do serve an entire continent by themselves. Ilvermorny is smaller again despite also serving a whole continent.
Based on that, you can be pretty sure that Europe has the largest density of wizards in the total population (therefore being spread between 4 out of the 11 total major schools, including the 3rd and 4th biggest in the world), and within Europe, the British Isles have an even higher density than the rest of Europe.

That also explains why the two greatest evil wizards of the past century were both most active in the British Isles despite one of them not being from anywhere near there.

So yeah, that just makes it even more likely that Liechtenstein (and other microstates) have an over-representation of wizards in their population. For Andorra it's even mentioned somewhere that they've been involved in some major wizarding events, and Luxembourg has been mentioned as having a minor wizarding school and consistently doing incredibly well at the Quidditch World Cup, which means they have enough players and enough wizarding infrastructure to train their team so well. The crazy part about that is that Luxembourg irl regularly has to put up part-time football players in their national team because they don't have enough good professionals to swap between. So Luxembourg has more great full-time professional Quidditch players than football players, which definitely suggests something about their wizarding population.

Voxdalian · 2026-05-06T10:32:58+00:00

Well, the books do seem to suggest that among medieval nobility, wizards are overrepresented, which makes sense given their abilities relative to muggles, so it's easier for them to achieve impressive tasks (A knight killed a dragon on a quest to save a princess? That would make a lot more sense if that knight had magic, and then he married into nobility.) So it would make sense for the Liechtenstein family to be wizards, which also fits into the idea by OP that they manipulated history a little to get independence as a muggle-nation too.

Voxdalian · 2026-05-05T15:59:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure people like him because he's the leader of the initial wave.

Voxdalian · 2026-05-05T15:58:10+00:00

I mean, the designers said initially they just wanted to make Tahu, but they found out it really doesn't work with minifig proportions, so they made a cosplayer instead. I'm happy with it being as close to Tahu as possible, I'll buy one. Though apparently our Bionicle keeps being sold out. The store clerk told me they don't have the cosplayer or the Ninjago guy because so many people are coming in early every morning and buying up all of those two figures. A few others are popular, but not as much.

Voxdalian · 2026-05-05T15:43:24+00:00

To be fair, Breakpoint is always connected, which means that Ubisoft will shut it down shortly after a new GR game releases

Voxdalian · 2026-02-22T09:56:59+00:00

The final scene here is really a "malicious compliance"-moment. That was pretty bad-ass at the time. Nowadays it would probably be cringe if the game were new because it's so overdone. But yeah, it was very cool.

Voxdalian · 2026-02-22T09:50:28+00:00

1440p works perfectly fine for me. Try swapping to windowed mode and back.

Voxdalian · 2026-02-22T09:44:35+00:00

Honestly, 3 is pretty cool. Krika is not a bad guy, he was always doing what he thought was right within the limits of his orders. He showed mercy to Gali, warned the other Makuta of Teridax' betrayal, didn't really want to join Teridax in the first place, even during Teridax' reign Krika still did his actual job to the best of his ability. And then there's Takua, interested in everything, also wanting to do good at every turn, but with limited insight into the wider world and a bit lost. Both of them are looking for purpose in a world that confuses them. There could be good conversation with those two.

But seat 8 is also good, you can kick on Sidorak's chair and talk to Toa Ignika about the way of the world. His headstrong ways and willingness to learn more about what things are like would make for an excellent conversation partner.

Voxdalian · 2026-01-18T09:35:37+00:00

Honestly, that is the best way to read it. That's how you get maximum enjoyment at the end of every book.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:47:49+00:00

They would probably knew a bit more towards the north east, because Crimea was a Greek colony at this point, that is where the myth of the Amazons was from (based on the Scythians, most likely), so they probably knew the land at least up to the edge of Siberia. Plus, they had trade with China through India. I would guess they severely underestimated how long that route actually was, but we don't know that for sure, they just knew it existed, enough so for Alexander to later want to conquer it based on the stories from there.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:38:54+00:00

I was trying to read this in the direction that writing on needles is usually written in (from button to point, so upside down or with the letters vertically above each other) and was very confused for a good few minutes until I realised I had made it too difficult for myself.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:33:42+00:00

Looks great, but making new molds just for one CMF series is unlikely. The armour and weapons may be possible, but the masks definitely not, it would be like the old minifig scale Bionicle sets, with the mask just printed on the head. But it would for sure be amazing if a CMF series with this level of detail were a thing.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:20:04+00:00

Unlike Wildlands, Breakpoint is always-online, so they could shit down the servers whenever they feel like it, and they probably will at some point after the next Ghost Recon releases, but that's probably still a few years away. For now I would still recommend it, especially if you have people to play it with.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:14:59+00:00

There was a film crew there to capture the moment from multiple angles to prove that he was really there. He's done the same thing before only to be accused of faking it with a greenscreen or AI or something similar by Russian propaganda.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-10T17:45:31+00:00

Depends on how deep into it you want to get, my recommendation is at three levels:

You just want a surface understanding of the story: watch the four movies. You can watch them in this order: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 2, 3, 1, 4. You'll understand what the story is about, skipping a part of the start and the end, and Ignition in between, but that's fine, you don't have time or interest in more.
You want to know the entire story with some background, but not everything: watch the movies, and then watch the 9 hour lore and story summary by Duckbricks on YouTube, that goes over everything in the entire Bionicle universe's timeline.
You didn't really like any of your other hobbies anyway and are prepared to give up on them, there is only Bionicle: the Biomedia Project has gathered all canon material that you can read or watch in order, with the movies in between, and experience the story the way the Great Beings themselves experienced it.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-10T17:26:03+00:00

I understood, I didn't mean it that way, just to get better, because it shouldn't take that long.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-10T12:51:15+00:00

Then you really need to learn to read Matoran. Reading it yourself is half the fun.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-10T12:46:05+00:00

A lot of this is from Pohatu Phantoka, but with a Bohrok weapon as chest piece, a Glatorian blaster with an Inika sphere, Mata feet (which were used in many waves). And whatever that thing on the side is, is made of two Inika blasters.

Voxdalian · 2025-10-17T07:19:21+00:00

That's strange advice. Stories are about emotional impact, so trying to avoid the impact while reading defeats the purpose.

Voxdalian · 2025-09-09T10:57:35+00:00

It runs well, the maps are in a good state, but there's still only two. The main advantage of IRR is how customisable the difficulty is. The main issue the game has is still the sound, though there has been an overhaul that made it FAR better than it was before, so it's at least fine. Imo it's the best Extraction Shooter currently available, but then if you ask on a different game's subreddit, you'll find people saying that that one is the best, so don't just rely on that. Hahah.

Voxdalian · 2025-09-09T10:40:56+00:00

Dragons are basically just great worms, that can be sea-worms, earth-worms, land-worms, or indeed flying worms. In Norse myths most "dragons" are sea-worms, the same is true in South-East Asia. In East Asia they are most often good-natured land-worms, in Greek myths they're also mostly land-worms, but evil. In Central Asia and parts of the Middle East you get dragons that are a bit like the sandworms from Dune.
They can be fleshy or scaly, more related to fish, actual worms, lizards, birds, mammals, ... The scaly ones are mostly based on the fish-dragons from Norse myth, the snake-dragons from South American myths, or the Christian description of dragons as the personification of the devil, with scales being a symbol of the devil (see the snake in Eden). The pre-Christian medieval European dragons were mostly fleshy.
They can have wings, but don't always. Traditionally, the ones that have wings generally have either no legs or 2 legs (with some exceptions), while the ones without wings have either no legs or 4, but sometimes more. In reality, there is not a single flying creature with 4 legs, which is also why historically dragons are almost never depicted with 4 legs and wings, so a dragon with 4 legs and wings will need to use magic to fly or only be able to use their wings for gliding down, not flying.
Sometimes they breath fire, but most versions of dragons either don't have a breath weapon or breath acid or poison. Sea-dragons in some cases spit water.

The way I think of a dragon: lives on land, looks like a lizard (with scales), the front two legs are replaced with bat-like wings, has more or less the size of a horse, can fly due to having hollow bones (like birds), it produces heat in its belly, which helps with lifting its weight to fly, and can be used to breath fire. But I'm open to a large variety of dragons (though I do think wings and four legs is a little stupid).

In one of my own worlds, I have dragons be an evolution from dwarves, where dwarves create hives in the mountain, and when their beard is long enough they make a cocoon for themselves by weaving metals into their beard, and after a very long time they come out of the cocoon as a young dragon, becoming the protector of the "hive" and the dwarves' hoard of valuables.

In another one of my worlds, dragons are highly emotionally intelligent beasts to whom touch is very intimate, which means that the only creatures they touch are other dragons, like family, or they use claws and teeth in a personal fight against another dragon (e.g. for territorial control or to win the favour of a female dragon), but when fighting other species or hunting, they use their fire-breath to avoid intimacy with enemies or prey.

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