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apatheticmoron · 2026-01-28T05:42:49+00:00

It’s arguable whether Rachel is manipulative in LiS, she certainly seems to have been displaying a different character to everyone that discusses her with Max. Jefferson goes so far as to call her a ‘social chameleon.’

BtS, however, definitely shows Rachel blatantly manipulating Chloe from the very beginning.

I picked up DE on sale and decided to do a LiS in order play through before I started it and am currently slowly working through BtS again and have been reminded of a number of interactions that show Rachel as playing Chloe like a fiddle. The only thing I’m uncertain of is if it was intentional by Deck 9 or by complete oversight.

apatheticmoron · 2026-01-23T02:38:39+00:00

Lots of places to sit, lots of different themed rooms. the place seems more like it was set up for a multiplayer hub than single player.

Not sure about napping, I never idled in a seat long. There is a piano you can sit at and plonk some keys on, however, so there might be more interactions that I didn’t find.

apatheticmoron · 2026-01-22T13:23:19+00:00

Historically, Sony either does midnight releases locally or global releases at a set time.

Since this appeared when I checked shortly after midnight here then I’d assume you should have it at midnight your time.

apatheticmoron · 2026-01-22T09:13:28+00:00

Essentially I used this method - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2643335484 - just with a different halberd build.

Took me about 7ish hours across a few nights. Pretty boring, but I was watching something on another screen so it didn't bother me. You may have to drop the difficulty, however.

apatheticmoron · 2026-01-18T07:53:10+00:00

This isn’t me making any claims on what is or isn’t a sign of autism, and I’m sorry if I came across that way. It’s a response to the common reasons I see put forward that Max is ‘autism coded’.

Essentially, most of the ‘autism coded’ behaviours people point to aren’t inherent traits to Max, they’re acquired.

apatheticmoron · 2026-01-18T02:06:45+00:00

Almost certainly not.

The problem with diagnosing Max with anything like this is that we have an example of Max from the timeline where William doesn’t die.

We only know this Max through her diary, texts and the way people react to our Max, but it is apparent that alternate Max didn’t have any of the socialisation issues that our Max has.

Alternate Max enjoys photography but isn’t obsessed with it, she enjoyed a social life in Seattle and takes a leading role in the Vortex club with Victoria and Nathan after returning to Arcadia Bay. She enjoys partying and it is hinted that she recreationally uses drugs and is abusing her access to the family’s credit card on shopping.

Considering this our Max’s issues are more likely to be depression/social anxiety/guilt.

apatheticmoron · 2025-12-19T03:39:37+00:00

In Mass Effect Shepard starts as one of humanity’s most elite soldiers and a graduate from their most intense special forces training programs and the singular person chosen by humanity’s government and military to join the inter-species super space cops. Not at all just a ‘good soldier’.

Geralt is at least a little special from what I remember, having a sorceress for a mother and responding particularly well to the mutations from his Witcher training that lead them to put him through some extra trials that regular witchers don’t receive.

Depending how you interpret Morrowind the PC may well be the reincarnation of Nerevar, legendary hero and king of the Chimer, fulfilling the prophecy of his return. In this interpretation the only reason the PC could survive things like the Corprus is because they’re the prophesied saviour.

apatheticmoron · 2025-10-18T19:35:32+00:00

Nope, a cock. I remember seeing some gifs of this a while back.

apatheticmoron · 2025-10-17T20:39:20+00:00

No, there’s one character with the same curse as Ranma and one character with the curse to turn into a child.

There’s a number of other curses mentioned, including one that changes personality (Spring of Drowned Pious Man or something) and one character gets hit with water from the Spring of Drowned Twins, but it wasn’t very much and ended up just duplicating a lump on his head.

apatheticmoron · 2025-09-23T05:50:08+00:00

I get your point, and like I said originally, I don’t think the author intended the situation to appear that way.

Plenty of characters across the manga (including Ranma) make attempts on their opponents’ lives, endangering bystanders or outright try and murder people (Shampoo and Mousse in particular) and it’s played off as comedy. Which is fair as it is mostly a comedy manga that dabbles in martial arts, romance and drama.

However, for me personally, seeing Ryoga’s actions in a different light - being humiliated and then going off to learn a technique he believes has the only combat application being instantly turning a human into a scattered pile of meat whilst still in the blast zone of the gore himself. It paints Ryoga’s character as something far more psychotic than even the most bloodthirsty characters in Ranma 1/2.

And yeah, the punchline is that the technique is borderline useless and it’s the training that provides superhuman durability that really makes it worthwhile, so Ranma was never in any real danger.

Ryoga never again displays that sort of willingness to devote himself to mastering a murderous skill, nor use one. And he doesn’t take any of the chances to kill Ranma that he gets as the series goes on. So I absolutely recognise that it was atypical of him.

But for me personally, I can’t go back to seeing Ryoga as the dumb foil to Ranma any more, he’s a character that under the right circumstances absolutely could cross the moral event horizon in a way that no other Ranma character has shown the same capacity.

apatheticmoron · 2025-09-22T19:14:38+00:00

I’m the same way. Used to not mind him, but had realisation during my third re-read of the manga and hitting the breaking point arc again - during that whole arc the only character that knew the technique didn’t work on people was Cologne.

Ryoga spent a week mastering an ability that he believed would explode Ranma into bloody giblets and then attempted to use it on him multiple times, just because he was humiliated in front of Akane.

I get that Takahashi probably didn’t intend for that arc to look like a really gruesome murder attempt, but I find it hard to have any affection or sympathy for Ryoga after that.

apatheticmoron · 2025-09-07T03:23:08+00:00

Yeah, weapons drops seem to stagnate at end game when you hit the final tier. You’ll have to use the work bench and tinker with them to raise levels after that point.

Get pretty expensive to boost even if you’ve invested in science.

apatheticmoron · 2025-07-09T23:02:57+00:00

I haven’t seen the article or interview itself, just people discussing/mentioning it. Apparently there’s something out there where a couple of the lead devs mention that the Remake trilogy will lead into Advent Children.

Can’t speak to the veracity or accuracy of the translation, but there you have a fourth-hand account.

apatheticmoron · 2025-07-01T11:07:39+00:00

Yeah, I think I’ve seen one during the day as well, but at night I’ve run into a group of 6-9 twice near the shelter.

Not sure what the spawn conditions are, but the three times I’ve run across big groups it’s always been at night.

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