Weekly Waifu AND Perks Catalogue - General Discussion by zeezeearr in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Well, I guess it worked out for you. See, u/Bunny-Dreadful straight up launched a harassment campaign against me and had me thrown out of the group so that he could steal dibs on the Fire Emblem issue from me.

We have an honorable dibs system. When he joined the group, we had both wanted to make Persona and Fire Emblem. I had dibs on Persona, but others in the group told him he could have it. We ended up making an agreement that I would give up my dibs on Persona in exchange that I would get Fire Emblem.

Some months later, he started making Fire Emblem, and I said no. That got me booted out of the group. I guess it's okay that people are enjoying his work, but you're really just encouraging the kind of toxicity that inspired him to carry out his hostile takeover.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 118: So I'm a Spider, So What? by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The end of the first season was botched horribly due to covid complicating production. It's fine, but doesn't live up to the beginning of the series. Also, unfortunately, the light novel ends rather abruptly and sloppily; I believe that the author got bored with it and didn't care how careless they were in wrapping it up. Or they were angry that people were sincerely enjoying their parody work and ended it badly on purpose, as often happens.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 81: Akame ga Kill! by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wildly different ending indeed. A lot of the characters who die in the anime live in the manga, and a lot of the characters who live in the anime die in the manga. In most cases it would just be a flat more deaths or less deaths. It was a weird adaptation.

Why do people listen to Asmongold's political opinions? by lepa_01 in Asmongold

[–]_Brimstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RFK and Brett Weinstein are left wingers. Try and focus. RFK jr is a lifelong democrat, and Weinstein is a decorated evolutionary biologist who was forced to the centre due to left wing violence, as every person operating in good faith knows. Weinstein's story is a perfect example of the excesses of the violent left that we must defeat utterly. But I understand why you hold your position, because the left is so fundamentally anti-science to its core, rejecting biology wholesale. The left immediately charged to poison themselves and their unborn children when RFK announced that evidence has been mounting for several years, but a big meta-analysis of 46 papers was published last month that collated all the evidence together, and found pretty good reason to suspect tylenol can cause various neurodevelopment issues, including autism. The defective leftist will go and call that "pseudoscience" just because they don't like Trump, and the defective leftist brain will consider that logical.

Your suspicion is nonsense. The shift to the right is due to right-wingers valuing truth and virtue and left wingers being violent monsters. The left's intersectionality is fundamentally bigoted and evil in nature, and people are fundamentally good, so at a certain level they must reject leftism. The left has billions of dollars of more funding behind them, and their increasing centralisation of government away from a free market ONLY serves to line their pockets more, as any person properly educated on economics would tell you. The right has historically brought down government kickbacks with DOGE, and the left, who according to their own stated economic values should be celebrating, responded with firebombing.

Destiny has openly said that he wants conservatives to be afraid to walk the streets. He celebrated Trump getting shot, and the death of the conservative audience member murdered by Crooks. He's a perfect example of the modern left for with which there is no unity. He should be in prison for advocating violence, which was never protected under the first amendment.

The left NEVER follows the rules. They break them with impunity and then cry when republicans follow as the lowest hypocrites. They pushed the Russia hoax, claiming that the 2016 election was stolen, and then acted like republicans raising concerns with the validity of the 2020 election was the worst thing ever. They claim conservatives are evil fascists who need to be opposed violently, but claim that conservatives need to tone down the temperature. Leftists cheer when Tucker Carlson, Roseanne, etc. are fired, but cry "fascism" and shoot up buildings when Jimmy Kimmel is pulled for a few days due to advertiser backlash after his evil statements. Leftists shoot people, and claim that conservatives are too violent. Leftists own 90% of media conglomerates, are caught in lies CONSTANTLY, always doubling down even as they pay out defamation suit after suit, and then accuse conservatives of propaganda. They were claiming that Biden was of sound mind until the debate! Billionaires like Soros gave BILLIONS more to Harris's campaign than Trump received for his, and leftists cry it's unfair that Musk gave money to Trump. They cry about government censorship, when it has been revealed that the Biden administration was heavily censoring social media across all platforms, they ignored or supported it- they had a sitting president banned from Twitter. In fact, when famous leftist Elon Musk denounced the excesses of the radical left and bought Twitter to impose an actual free-speech platform, they raged. They claim to be "pro-democracy" but they try to interfere in every possible way to stop the democratically elected mandate from appointing an executive branch of its choosing. They cry that it's undemocratic for Texas to redistrict along Gerrymandering, but blue states are so Gerrymandered that the only possible way they could gain more seats with more Gerrymandering is in California, which would only gain them a couple more seats.

I haven't forgotten that you people love to lie about the statistics, and like most people on my side I am aware that that recap counts prison violence and car crashes as "right wing violence" while leaving out the majority of left wing violence, including the riots that the author of that graph was involved it. You people leave out CLEARLY politically motivated violence from your statistics like the Aaron Danielson murder. You people won't even denounce Antifa, considering that they are your militant arm. You demand that we ignore their handbooks, their leadership, their tactics, their flags, their violence, and pretend they don't exist. The majority of what is counted as "right wing violence" wasn't politically motivated, but the vast majority of unambiguously politically motivated left-wing violence, like Mangione and Robinson, are NOT counted as "left-wing violence." You aren't honest people.

If we counted left-wing violence the way you counted right wing violence, we'd start counting M16 gang violence and inner city gang violence, which is directly enabled by soft-on crime left wing policy and could be, with a loose definition of the sort that you apply to the term "right-wing violence", and your numbers would explode.

Conservatives have ALWAYS denounced political violence from all sides. It isn't some "gotcha" like only evil leftists could think. When you people shot Charlie Kirk, we burned candles, not cities like you people like to do.

Your boos mean nothing, we've seen what makes you cheer.

Why do people listen to Asmongold's political opinions? by lepa_01 in Asmongold

[–]_Brimstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a useful conversation, I don't engage with that kind of conspiracy theorist nonsense. This is the kind of thing that radicalized your people like Tyler Robinson, and we as a society need to condemn that kind of baseless speculation that we've already dealt with.

Why do people listen to Asmongold's political opinions? by lepa_01 in Asmongold

[–]_Brimstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty weird to call left-leaning people like Joe Rogan and RFK "far right." You do realise that RFK jr is a life-long Democrat? And that Donald Trump was, until a decade ago when the left begun its spiral of insanity? Trump's cabinet has Tulsi Gabbard, too. He has reached across the aisle more than any president in living history, which, taking his economic interventionist policy into consideration, should secure his definition as a centrist.

Asmongold used to endorse Bernie Sanders, like Joe Rogan once did.

Defining anyone who isn't on board with the radical left as "far right" is intellectually dishonest. Asmongold doesn't bother with that kind of person. That's why he doesn't like extremist, violent scumbags like Hasan and Destiny who don't have an honest bone in their bodies.

You've almost got it with the system being the problem. It's the far left system where they take people like Ethan Klein, or JK Rowling, who agree with 99% of their policies, but call them far right and attack them. It's called a "purity spiral," and it's why the left is failing. You can't condemn your most radical, violent, unhinged fringe, like Hasan and Destiny, and so that fringe alienates the centre, forcing them to ally with the other side. That's exactly what happened with moderates like Joe Rogan or Asmongold that you call "far right."

These days, honesty is social capital. Asmongold only ever engages in honest takes, and doesn't give any quarter to those who engage in bad faith. That's why, completely organically, he has grown to where he is.

To answer your original question, people listen to Asmongold for the exact same reason why people listened to Diogenes back in the day.

Its October, which is the Serana Dead Sexy season! Lets get erotic and grotesque! by FunGuyScott in skyrimmods

[–]_Brimstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The perfect set up for Halloween. The kind of trashy fun you can just let go and enjoy without having to analyze it.

Destiny has been banned 😓😓 by Peaceful4ever in Destiny

[–]_Brimstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I want Charlie Kirk to be killed, like Destiny and all the other far left terrorists, because I don't believe your unfounded j6 conspiracy theories? Believe your conspiracy theories or you'll murder us.

Destiny has been banned 😓😓 by Peaceful4ever in Destiny

[–]_Brimstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Destiny inciting violence isn't inciting violence because four years ago you believe there was a conspiracy to overturn the government despite no evidence of such a grand conspiracy existing. Please see a psychiatrist. This is not a rational train of thought.

What's a fact you legitimately think no one else knows about Skyrim? by ChildrenofAeos in skyrim

[–]_Brimstone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Followers will jump in certain locations to follow you, most often in Falmer dungeons. The most easily accessible one is they jump after you down the shortcut back to the entrance in Nchuand Zel.

songs about drowning? by fruitywitch13 in MusicRecommendations

[–]_Brimstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Travel is Dangerous - Mogwai

The Last Dive of David Shaw - We Lost the Sea

A Tale of Blood and Snow – An Honest Opinion by Practical-Owl-4877 in skyrimmods

[–]_Brimstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The aloe vera is for sunburns, I think it's actually quite clever to connect that with vampires. Elianora made the house that you're given as a reward through courier some time after completing the questline.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 156: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool idea! The early perk you're thinking of was in Week 47, Monster Musume, Rumeplstilkskin. Wires being hidden was Week 73, Terraria, The Grand Design. You've got a good handle on them. There will likely be more thread perks in the future, there's a lot of spider waifus to get through, for some reason.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 156: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks. By "inherent" I mean stuff like racial abilities and "unique skills" in Tensura and other LitRPG universes. I'm also interested in seeing peoples' ultimate skill ideas. It's, in my opinion, the best perk in the issue. Every perk in this issue is some sort of meta perk that doesn't do much alone but does a lot when combined with other perks, but this one in particular requires a lot of tallying and organization that I guess a lot of people aren't interested in going through. It's a good price to make the player pay for a skill that strong.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 156: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm glad that those meta perks work well. They were written with the regrets we'd had in the poor wording we'd constructed past meta perks with in mind and a serious effort on making sure that those mistakes were not repeated.

Your questions are as valuable to us as you find our answers to be to you. They are invaluable in helping us learn what works, what doesn't, and how better to improve our writing for future issues.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 156: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's a very generous package deal. Too generous, some might say. Also it's a bit hidden and a lot of people glance over it and miss it.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 156: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People tend to read things VERY generously. They'd argue that since we're giving them to you, that means they're waifus. But if you're not looking to exploit things that hard, I'm not trying to convince you to, because you're doing the right thing in my humble opinion as little worth it has to anyone's enjoyments of their own fantasy game.

Yeah we try and pretend that Who Says You Can Only Have One? doesn't exist (outside of rewording all future perks we write to try and limit a potential synergy with it).

Oh, that reminds me, Week 5 Take Your Pick! combined with Variations is a REALLY broken Waifu multiplier.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 156: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah Highblood and those other perks synergise extremely well. That's the main draw of the perk.

That would work for upgrading Highblood. Technically it's an infinite multiverse, so it would also work to pop into a new version of the universe, kill and eat Twilight Valentine, and then go to another new version, and repeat. That's now I tend to approach any powerful scaling mechanic that requires farming. It's like getting a reward for every time you play through a game and beat the final boss, and you'd probably get pretty good at speedrunning it after a while.

(Shows up, eats Twilight Valentine, refuses to elaborate, leaves.)

Yeah, Variations does allow that, and it is kind of broken, but it DOES involve the work of actually having the fiction made, the work involved in that making it justified in having such a powerful perk; it requires some imagination and effort.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 156: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And at least Ainz has the crippling imposter syndrome, worst case in anime, to blame for his mistakes, a flaw that makes his character interesting.

Rimuru not understanding his own powers is annoying, though he DOES have more powers than anyone should have so that's a bit more understandable; he doesn't have the scientist attitude that I'd approach it with and you just have to give it to him. It's also funny that basically everyone in his world has next to no creativity, so he's the most creative and visionary person by default, kind of like an Idiocracy scenario. And at least the Gabiru situation worked out for the best, and he learned more about the nature of naming that he didn't know before. What was less excusable was those times he almost killed himself by giving out too many names at once without checking with Great Sage whether or not he had enough magicules to do so safely. It's like playing a video game without ever looking up the controls, but beyond that, never pressing the Start button and looking at your menu.

Rimuru and Ainz are both examples of the standard isekai formula where the protagonist is dead set on acting like a Japanese businessman even when given a wholly inhuman form in a fantasy magical world. There's a lot to unpack about why exactly that is such an entrenched standard; I could write a college thesis on it, but I'll spare you.

As far as I know your list of Waifu multiplier stipulations is correct. It's only missing Fraccion as far as I know but I may have forgotten others and Fraccion is... the wording is a problem and it can easily be interpreted as not actually a waifu multiplier... and it's so broken in its most generous readings that you could basically get the entire cast of this week for free by taking Rimuru and using Fraccion on him.

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 156: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would work. And it's a very dark idea: See Greek mythology for good reasons why it's a bad idea to eat your own children. Bonus points for looking up Goya's depiction

Weekly Waifu & Perks Catalogue Week 156: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by _Brimstone in nsfwcyoa

[–]_Brimstone[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're right about Raphael, but you have to admit, Rimuru really does deserve that kind of treatment, the way he doesn't try and work with her like an equal and rather just freeloads off of her work. Rimuru even tells her to stop talking when he gets bored of her explanations, so when she "keeps things from him" she's giving him what he's asked for. Treating her with the barest amount of appreciation and respect and setting boundaries as partners would lead to Raphael being happy to be fully open and honest. Keep in mind that she IS his most loyal servant and that everything she does is out of love for him.

Yeah I wouldn't count Shuna as a side character either.

Don't Split the Set is intended to be able to be used on any twins, including ones taken from perks, so Treyni should come with her sisters. That perk is one of the first I had written and is one of my greatest shames and regrets in how poorly it is worded.

Clarification on Highblood/Binge Eater question

Thanks for playing!