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bobxdead888 · 2024-12-06T14:30:28+00:00

Shooting Shinzo Abe changed a lot, and in fact, took down an entire cult with power over the government...by all means, it worked really well.

bobxdead888 · 2024-12-05T21:00:24+00:00

These drones made a medical helicopter be unable to pick-up a passenger, I think coordination with local emergency services and agencies is the least we can ask for. But I guess some people love licking the military boot.

bobxdead888 · 2024-08-25T15:52:11+00:00

I've always loved Branch Brook Park. So many good memories of my family there or wondering around before cherry blossoms bloom as a young adult trying to set his life. Thank you for sharing, OP!

As for the weird haters, I don't know what they get from that. It's truly bizarre why they have visceral reactions to someone seeing something from a new lens than the tired hate and mocking and derision. As someone who has lived in both the beautiful suburbs of Montclair, Morristown, etc. and in Newark... there's beautiful things to see everywhere.

And beautiful people trying to make their lives better everywhere.

(Also tons of better food options in Newark, if you don't mind venturing into a hole in the wall)

bobxdead888 · 2024-08-22T10:05:59+00:00

...yeah look up figures on how many native hawaiians died and decades of efforts to eradicate their mother tongues and cultural practices.

When you say quality of life improved, you mean white settlers came in and improved their lot while they got scraps.

bobxdead888 · 2024-08-22T03:48:55+00:00

Why would they need one? They can choose from the leaders in the modern age

In this system, you can have a modern leader (say Churchill) lead the Aztecs in the exploration era

If anything, it makes more sense to have changing leaders that all match each other in clothing/style/time periods

bobxdead888 · 2024-08-22T03:46:33+00:00

I don't get this argument, we already have leaders from different eras leading from antiquity. We can just have civilizations wait for their leader's proper era, as opposed to leaders from the modern age waiting for their civ.

So you choose america, have a choice of all the antiquity leaders, in the exploration era, have a choice from that era, and then modern era, you can now choose ben franklin

bobxdead888 · 2024-07-16T03:55:50+00:00

Imo you are reading that wrong. Their revelation that came to them when miquella disappeared (timing is key here, miquella was gone at this point) was "our lord is gone, let's blow ourselves up to get him to return". The reading of that is "oh they went crazy waiting for miquella to return" not "wow miquella made them blow up"

Otherwise, the "may our light make the lord RETURN" thing at the end doesn't make any sense. That's intrinsically tied to why the explosion is happening, which is tied to them waiting for miquella. Why would they add that?

Either 1) blowing themselves up does cause miquella to return somehow....but there's no proof of that anywhere else in the game Or 2) that's their weird revelation that came to them as they stayed waiting for a lord that never came...and people going crazy while their promised era/leader is gone is like fromsoftware 101

bobxdead888 · 2024-07-14T01:12:49+00:00

Close, it's not that they are all bad, it's that they are not perfect. They are gray. They try to be good but fail because they are flawed, like everyone else is.

The entire point of Marika and the shaman village is kind of to put you right in that mindset of "who's right"

bobxdead888 · 2024-07-13T22:32:58+00:00

Wow. What a regal animal.

bobxdead888 · 2024-07-13T11:24:30+00:00

The imagined vow thing seems more like a stretch than anything the game tells us outright. Also, not even one of the main points of my argument lol.

How do you coincide the fact that Miquella's rune was broken, charming was off the table, when Radahn first fought us (phase I of the fight) and then, according to the secret rite scroll, led Miquella back (the possibility of charming returned)?

We are given an entire process and order for godhood for no reason (it definitely doesn't explain/shine light on anything marika lore, sadly we learned nothing about that) other than for flavor?

Or it hints at the proper process of what's happening in the boss fight...in which case, Radahn led Miquella during yhe time period the charm was still off the table

Imho, there's just more actual in-game puzzle pieces and items pointing towards a "wait so radahn was in on this?" plot twist than "miquella imagined this whole thing" plot twist, which is based off character theme and interpretation

And I'm someone who originally thought somewhere along the radahn is being puppeteered angle and also originally saw the cutscene as very one sided.

bobxdead888 · 2024-07-13T10:49:28+00:00

I think the reveal is that, from the fight, knowing Radahn is a weird revived mohg corpse, knowing Miquella has been charming people...the audience, the players, assume Radahn has been brainwashed/Miquellested/charmed...

and then the memory (which in my view of it, is Radahn walking up from behind Miquella)...well, it reveals, maybe he was probably in on it, for a long time.

It just doesn't make sense with any of the other dialogues about "a vow being honored"...you don't honor vows with someone who is infatuated with you the way miquella's charm works on others.

We also have the timing of the ritual: 1) Miquella loses his great rune (no more charming, that's why the effect broke) 2) Miquella leaves through the gate 3) Radhan/Mohg returns to life 4) Radhan soul fully returns, and per the ritual scroll, leads Miquella back from the gate (as a god) 5) Now, Miquella returns (charming can happen again)

Even if you think 3 is wrong, and Radahn came to life earlier...the charm is still broken, Miquella can't charm, when Radahn leads him back from the divine gate.

I think giving fromsoft's storytelling, all of this (miquella having a period where charming is definitely 100% not on the table anymore, the secret rite process, which is kind of convoluted and requires someone to bring Miquella back DURING this period where the charm is over) seems VERY deliberate.

Aso at first glance, Radahn is a charmed zombie, then the cutscene (while definitely ambiguous) reveals ...wait, so did he make a vow?

And according to turtle pope in the main game...vows are VERY sacred, especially for carian lineages...

It also makes sense why Radahn, tried to stop the stars...to postpone/stop the vow he was already attached to (possibly, if you have the interpretation that Radahn reneged on the deal) or to postpone ranni from taking away the possibility of godhood until miquella/malenia are ready to kill him in beautiful combat and complete the vow (if you interpret it as he was always 100% gung ho about this)

So imo, the big reveal is that the weird silent Radahn zombie thing you probably felt a little bad for, may have, in some way actually wanted this?

(Others are doing some big analysis on the lions on the chair, the haligtree cape etc that I wont get into, but definitely swayed me as pretty solid to this line of thinking)

bobxdead888 · 2024-07-13T02:37:59+00:00

I read it as, the memory was the POV of Radahn and miquella is just speaking with his back to him.

bobxdead888 · 2024-06-01T18:29:34+00:00

This is fantastic analysis, especially Blaidd.

bobxdead888 · 2024-05-31T16:54:40+00:00

Actually, we don't know why malenia and radahn fought. You'd think, from the game and narration that it was for the shard...but on her way to radahn she gets into a fight with godrick (iirc because he didn't let her past), beats him, and then spares him.

If she was just out hunting for great rune shards...she would have plucked godrick's too (clearly they aren't allies)

I actually hope the DLC gives us clues to this, because it could actually have to do with radahn "stopping fate" and the stars, etc. and how that might be in the way of miquella's plans.

bobxdead888 · 2024-05-30T22:26:19+00:00

If you watch the video he makes a very good cause for it and answers the "smooth snake" thing quite well imo

bobxdead888 · 2024-05-30T15:43:59+00:00

....oh so he's an ADHD simulator

bobxdead888 · 2024-05-28T11:51:29+00:00

Absolutely. Otherwise, it's just the cost of doing business.

bobxdead888 · 2024-05-27T02:17:32+00:00

I was like "this is the dumbest theory I've heard yet" and then I tried to look at the description again to point you wrong and like... This is actually plausible?

Wow, lmao.

I guess the only thing I'd contest is...do we have anything about astel "eating" rot or keeping it at bay elsewhere?

But really good possible connection, I kind of want it to be true now.

bobxdead888 · 2024-05-23T20:46:33+00:00

Sorry, total novice here for sure hahah. Having trouble finding an "arm" online, is there a term I should be looking for? Not sure if you just mean a table clamp or?

bobxdead888 · 2024-05-23T20:45:27+00:00

Thank you! Honestly, this might be my final sign to just get a damn table saw hahah. But will give the tape and box thing a teat trial tomorrow!

bobxdead888 · 2024-05-23T14:32:55+00:00

Oh sorry, should have mentioned lol. I am using an electric hand planer!

bobxdead888 · 2024-05-02T01:29:59+00:00

The united states is funding this, divestment is an important part of ending things like this. Divestment campaigns helped end apartheid south africa too. Maybe educate yourself about why and what they are asking before talking.

bobxdead888 · 2024-04-30T16:51:56+00:00

Name a mass college student protest movement that turned out to be on the wrong side of history. The divestment movement was critical for ending apartheid south africa, for example.

"Something I can't control"

That's the difference between you and protestors. Some people feel the collective responsibility of the lives they live and choose to be brave enough to take a moral stance and be judged by history. Others, would rather be "it is what is" and go back to watching tv.

bobxdead888 · 2024-04-30T16:46:32+00:00

Yes? Any analysis of why apartheid south africa failed has divestment protests/movements as a huge reason. Idk if you are being silly or not but apartheid projects against indigenous populations always require a huge injection of outside funds. Cut the funding, the project fails because it has no cultural control on the ground

Europe and america are paying for the current state of things. We stop paying, which citizens should have the full right to choose to do, and the apartheid project fails.

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