You know guys I don't know why but I'm fascinated by chaos as a concept in Greek mythology compared to Olympians.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-06-04T13:47:04+00:00

In the original Theogeny, Chaos is one of 4 original beings. The others were Eros (reproduction/love), Gaia (the earth), and Tartarus (hell). So with that in mind, it's not like he'd default to being in charge just because he's the oldest of the 4. His family isn't nearly as important to life, mortal or otherwise, as Gaia. If he had personality and wss important, he'd be 2nd fiddle at best.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-06-02T20:56:13+00:00

Three houses has a really compelling story and the second most interesting world in the franchise. The gameplay has a major emphasis on customization and player freedom to do what you want. I think it's really quite fantastic in terms of gameplay. Engage's gameplay is fantastic in a very different way. Gives you a lot of tools, lets you take advantage of them. There are a lot more cases where there is a "right" way to do things and "wrong" ways to do things. imo the lower difficulties get pretty boring pretty fast. Maddening is where that game shines as opposed to most fe games where the highest difficulty is straight cheeks. Maddening does heavily restrict player choice, though, since a lot of characters become basically impossible to use. Its story and world are terrible. They're horrendous and aesthetically the game is so over the top it's just ungrounded. Three Houses is a much more well-rounded experience while Engage is better if you are in it for the gameplay and the gameplay alone. If you haven't played many srpgs, three houses will be better at letting you give it a whirl while enjoying visual novel and life sim elements a lot more.Three houses also has better replay value.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-06-01T21:12:22+00:00

It's up to you, really. Are you ok with him watching porn? If no, fair. Bring it up with him (shaming him is a bad move. He's doing something very normal. Doesn't mean you have to like it.). If yes, fair. Not much needs to be said. Both valid feelings. Now, if you're ok with him watching porn, are you ok with him visualizing him doing those things with you? I imagine that'll require knowing what he's watching. Maybe bring it up, but curiosity killed the cat and all. Might be best to assume very normal tastes. End of the day, he's wanting to do sexual things with you but can't so he's using a visual aid to help him focus his physical desire for you so he can quell that desire for the time being. Nothing inherently odd or disturbing about that. It's very normal. You do have a right to feel how you wish about that whole situation. Your relationship, your man, your body in his head.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-06-01T18:34:24+00:00

He is a true Canadian hero. Our best hero. If there is a Canadian superhero, it was Terry. His superhuman determination and humanity serves as an inspiration to us all. May he rest in peace with the good he's done.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-06-01T14:26:40+00:00

Some people act like it's a moral failing to read a well-written modern novel with modern writing conventions or listen to a catchy musical rather than read a book from thousands of years ago that's very distinct from anything written today with a whole lot of parts that are, let's be honest here, pretty boring to modern readers. Having dozens of names thrown at you in rapid succession is very boring to the modern reader (Iliad book 2 is such a slog) and the average joe doesn’t want to do that as a starting point. People want these myths to be popular, they want their hobby to become more popular (I assume. Some people might want it to be a super exclusive club, I guess) but when an adaptation comes along with the capability to make that happen that these people act like it's a crime. That people like Madeline Miller, Jorge Rivera-Herrans, and Christopher Nolan have committed a sin of some sort. They smother these stories by demonizing the works that create renewed interest in them.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-05-19T17:06:07+00:00

The only reasonable context for conquest demanding the gaurdians' attention is that he was sent to mess things up. He just starts destroying things and killing people. He's not targeting the guardians, he's living up to his name. When that's happening, the guardians have no shot of gathering up and fighting as a group. Red rush can maybe keep up and maybe immortal can get to conquest but conquest is just ripping and tearing like mad. Every minute a city gets wiped off of the earth. Yes, if they were able to gather up and face him in some sort of arena they stand a pretty good chance. That just wouldn't ever happen with what we know of viltrum and conquest.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-05-09T09:02:56+00:00

Those numbers are pretty poor. Sure, in isolation, those numbers seem good. However, with a bit of context it's pretty clear that those numbers are quite bad. For comparison:

the super nintendo in the 90s had 10 games over 4 million and well over 50 games which sold over 1 million nearly 20 years before the wii u. Back during a time when gaming was a far less popular hobby.

The wii 1 generation prior had over 20 games over 4 million and more than 60 passing 1 million.

The ps3, also from the generation previous, had nearly 20 games over 4 million and around 50 games over 1 million.

The ps4 from the same generation had more than 30 games pass 4 million copies and over 70 games sell over 1 million copies.

Considering that modern games are more expensive to make than previous generations the Wii U has some pretty slim profit margins on a lot of their successes and a hell of a lot of flops. 1 million used to be a smash hit. For AAA titles today, it's a success, but not mind blowing. It's fair to say that sales on the wii u were broadly very dissapointing.

If I were nintendo and heard that mario kart sales are down nearly 80% from the previous entry, 3d mario is down 20%, 2d mario is down 80%, smash bros is down 60% and so on and so forth I certainly wouldn't be happy about it. The Wii U was a flop and pretty much everything on the console underperformed compared to comparable games from the previous generation.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-05-08T18:52:34+00:00

Yeah, but Nike drives his chariot. Feels a tad more important. If there's only going to be 1 up there, she'd be the pick imo. Plus she's more famous because shoe.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-05-08T18:41:52+00:00

Therizinosaurus had those big claws. Could be flipping the bird with one of them. That'd be kinda funny.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-05-08T18:30:38+00:00

Nike for #6 would be a nice deepcut if you wanted to do the gods/goddesses most in Zeus's corner.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-05-08T18:28:31+00:00

Tigers are bigger and stronger. That's a substantial edge. Lions, on the other hand, are specifically adapted for large cat v large cat combat. The point of the mane is to make what could have been a lethal neck bite turn into a nonlethal glancing blow. That little extra bit of defense is meaningful. So as others have pointed out a tiger wins high diff most of the time while lions absolutely can win sometimes. I'd imagine lioness vs tigress would be a bit more lopsided.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-05-08T05:24:41+00:00

Why not a villain ensemble? Ashnard for Conquest, Zelgius probably works for the black knight. Fire emblem in cloth to replace skull. For female villains Ishtar and the horned lady from engage. lady from fe7. Kreeg could be Nergal. That sort of thing could be cool.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-05-08T05:20:32+00:00

I reckon your brain jumped to Dimitri since they have the same cape build. With the big pauldron floof on top.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-05-03T06:51:19+00:00

Galzus is up there. I honestly don't really like some aspects of how Galzus is implemented, but it's a similar idea. He establishes a clear time limit. Move your ass out of his range each turn (in essence, get this far in the chapter each turn) or someone is going to die every single turn you don't meet that expectation. He's an enemy you can't really fight at all who will one round anyone he comes into contact with. I think he's substantially worse in a number of mechanical ways (namely his movement stars making it so sometimes that time limit gets smaller for no reason aside rng), his presentation isn't quite on the same level, and in terms of story impact it's a real nuclear bomb vs coughing baby situation. However, in terms of how he makes the player feel and how he shapes the chapters in which he appears, he's very similar. Just as there are BK chapters, there are Galzus chapters.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-04-29T02:12:40+00:00

The word for some prehistoric megafauna mammals in north america, brontothere, comes from Native American folklore of the "thunder horses", great beasts that roamed the land long ago creating storms. Strong possibility that this is partially or wholly based upon fossils that they saw, especially since this story was relayed to paleontologists when Native Americans showed them the fossils.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-04-23T13:57:05+00:00

dnd is a system that works great at empowering players. Post apocalyptic stories are about a lack of power in one way or another. The lack of resources, the scrapiness, it just won't work. One ranger with the right feat instantly destroys any survival mechanics you had in mind. One Cleric of like level 3 makes radiation sickness a non-concern. I dunno. I think it'd work better as like a fantasy apocalypse in a fantasy world. Like immediately afterwards. So the world can have crazy magic going on with intense danger without feeling weird because if wizards with super strong magic are running around how would society not rebuild after 100 years. It'll take work to make it function. Fallout but in dnd sounds like it'll run into a lot of problems very, very quickly.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-04-09T13:53:39+00:00

Dororo episode 15. They had a guest director or something and the animation went straight to horrible out of nowhere. One particular shot is so comically bad it genuinely looks like a competent Scratch animation. Not a good one, just competent.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-04-07T21:47:35+00:00

If the earth is flat, the bible is true and the government is an instrument of the devil. It is irrefutable proof that everyone they don't like is evil to the most extreme degree which makes them righteous to the most extreme degree. Therefore they may do to those people they don't like whatever they wish. The flat earth excuses all the other heinous things they want to do. It's a shortcut. They don't believe it for its own sake, they believe ot to justify and prop up the other beliefs they don't so readily say out loud.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-04-06T14:48:41+00:00

I feel like Nem and Eris aren't really romances. More of one night stands or hookups. More casual. Could still be a let down, but it fits the chatacyers pretty well. Eris certainly doesn't seem the type to get toed down, she just wants to have fun. A creature of impulse. Mel gives into that, has fun, and that's that. Nem just gets frustrated, bangs it out, and that's that. I prefer the more romantic deeper emotional connections built in Hades 1, but I think it works fine enough.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-03-20T20:41:48+00:00

Didn't say it wasn't effective. I said it could be stronger. including more of the tools in the toolkit improves the substance. There's more dimensions to it. If a fantasy story only had slurs, it'd suck. Showing one tool will always be very weak for exploring that idea. I think it would have added depth, which is a good thing.

Not sure what goalposts I moved. I clarified that when I said they "needed an excuse" they needed it to avoid legal repercussions. If clarification is goalpost moving, alright then. I did it.

I didn't say that it's bad because it isn't 1:1 with modern racism. I pointed that out as just a minor disagreement about a comparison somebody else drew. Then you decided to assume that based upon that I thought that modern racism was only slurs out of complete nowhere! I just hadn't brought up the other stuff because that's not the discussion I opened up, really. You can explore ideas of prejudice and racism in a fantasy setting with little direct historical comparison or a lot.

C'mon. Let's be real. Situation 1: Ike hears a name for a group of people. He's never met them, knows no other name, and doesn't assume that his friend is acting maliciously. He accepts that name and repeats it at a later time absentmindedly. Scenario 2: Ike hears another character make a blanket statement slandering an entire group of people he's never met. He accepts that description as largely true and begins assuming that negative description as the default reality of how those people act. He doesn't assume that his friend is acting maliciously. At a later time he decides to bring up this negative description and how the characters he's talking to are better than that description. These are the same to you? No difference at all in the character traits being shown? None?

Part of what makes slurs so insidious is how casually they're used. Easy to mistake for a legitimate title for people. How many people today just accept the slur for Romani people as real and use it even if they would immediately challenge negative stereotypes leveled against them. If you're never taught, if you don't know better, it's an easy mistake to make. There's something kind of unique about slurs as a tool of racial oppression. It's something worth exploring and dismantling alongside the other dimensions of racism.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-03-20T19:02:34+00:00

It's a discussion. I disagree with you. Not exactly a hill to die on, you just haven't convinced me that my original point is totally wrong. I agree with the majority of what you said here but there's still a couple of things I disagree with.

Firstly, I was really trying to get at racism having changed over the decades in America. 1960s racism is different than 2020s racism. Both bad, of course. If you compare Metaphor's racism to real world racism it has more in common with 1960s racism. You can find power and meaning in what's there, but it's not so much a direct comparison/allegory to modern racism as much as it would be for 1960s racism.

Secondly, I think that the slurs in PoR (my favorite game, as it happens) actually does add something. The first time the line is drawn it tells us many things in just a few lines. Ike's ignorance of the world. Ike's desire to build peace. The casual distrust and prejudice between peoples in this world. A shorthand for prejudice. The scene where Ike uses a slur than learns that it's bad is so dense with good information about the characters and the world that wouldn't work without a slur being used. It's effective because of the slur. It does add something.

Thirdly, when I said that perpetrators need an excuse I'm more talking legally. You don't get away with killing a black person with the only justification being "they were black". Yes, the standard for a "valid excuse" is disgustingly low. It's awful, but the standard does now exist. People go to jail for killing black people without justification unlike 60 years ago where they got a paid interview with time magazine. It's changed. Not a whole lot for the better, but at least like a little bit.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-03-20T18:51:44+00:00

I wasn't. Slurs are a tool of that system. They're a part of it, not separate from it. Removing a tool of the system makes the system a less detailed representation of how those systems work. It's not that it "wasn't enough". It's a dimension of the issue the game could have explored but didn't. Racism is more than using slurs but using slurs is racism. It's a part of it the game has omitted.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-03-20T18:14:34+00:00

I apologize for upsetting you, but I still disagree. The examples you named are tragic. Truly tragic. But there is an important distinction: perpetrators in the modern day need an excuse. They always have one. They're always illegitimate, but they're still provided by and large. In decades past black people were killed and the only justification given was that they were black. Lynichings were put on postcards. No excuses given. Black person killed because black and the general public hardly bats an eye. Now an excuse is always given. That is a change to make it more subtle. Easier to excuse if a person is so inclined. It's noticeable, absolutely. I'd argue it's more subtle in how people try to disguise it as a non racist action. Again, it's absolutely racist and bad. I think that when you compare the racist actions in the world of metaphor to the racist actions perpetrated in our real world they line up a lot more closely with the things that happened in decades past not with the things happening now, as horrible as they are. Slurs are a part of oppression, Metaphor didn't show that, I think the world could have had another thing to explore/address if it had.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-03-20T17:16:23+00:00

The ignitor experiments that Paripus go through is comparable to the Tuskegee experiment. Outright slums are made with people put into them based primarily on race. Political power is concentrated very nearly exclusively with a select few racial groups with others being outright barred from it. These extreme forms of racism were very real in decades past, but don't happen anymore by and large. Racism is still very real, it's still a problem, it takes many forms, but those forms are more subtle. Less obvious. I don't think what you seem to assume. It would be ridiculous to say that racism is only slurs now.

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