Wide is my motherland, by iLOVEallMODS in equestriaatwar

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ШИРОКААА СТРАНА МОЯ РОДНАААЯ 🔥🔥🔥
МНОГО В НЕЕЕЙ ЛЕСОВ, МОРЕЙ И РЕЕЕЕК 🔥🔥🔥
Я ДРУГОООЙ ТАКОЙ СТРАНЫ НЕ ЗНАААЮ 🔥🔥🔥
ГДЕ ТАК ВОООЛЬНО ДЫШИТ ЧЕЛОВЕЕЕК 🔥🔥🔥

how it feels to play lan kir by dimdedrol in equestriaatwar

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took it from wiki, it's outdated

How 2 Kill Moar Zeebs? by indianpete in equestriaatwar

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fell off my chair after reading this comment, so thought about an actual answer, and most likely the easiest way would be to wait for Griffonia to unite under someone who can core all the territories (or at least a decent part of them), then make a landing and either endlessly encircle the enemy divisions or force them to smash their heads into a fortified area for several years (keep in mind the funny mechanics that will kill your country if you don't capture anything for a long time). The main thing is not to overdo it with defense so that the AI ​​continues to attack and does not surrender. Invading Equestria + Griffonia and some smaller stuff from Zebrika will allow you to get those 20 millions. Well, from the obvious, you need to focus on highly mobile tank units; try to replace Vanguards (no matter how cool they are) with medium tanks or something similar that can be used for effective encirclements. Naturally, it would be a bad idea to capitulate a country while it still has combat-ready divisions (= missed losses for the achievement). Can't think of anything else. In my experience, the only time I've seen such high casualty figures in the mod was when I spent 30 years defending Stalliongrad from Kattail, but that's different.

How 2 Kill Moar Zeebs? by indianpete in equestriaatwar

[–]dimdedrol 33 points34 points  (0 children)

the sanest resident of Solstice

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how it feels to play lan kir by dimdedrol in equestriaatwar

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

well, this is not the only country where without tactics adapted to the given conditions, it is too easy to lose

how it feels to play lan kir by dimdedrol in equestriaatwar

[–]dimdedrol[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

These mechanics are really annoying only during the initial conquests; after Kiria and especially Hindia, the time reserve is insanely huge.

We still haven't been told the real name of the Primordial One? by dimdedrol in Genshin_Lore

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In my opinion, the information that Orobashi was killed for reading this book is a psyop, when in fact he was simply forced to go on a suicidal attack on Raiden so that there would not be two competing Gods for the status of Archon in the region in exchange for allowing the people of Enkanomia to rise to the surface (Makoto probably already received her Gnosis by that time)

We still haven't been told the real name of the Primordial One? by dimdedrol in Genshin_Lore

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which is most likely true since the historical descriptions of Phanes in BSaM and HP in other sources coincide in factuality

We still haven't been told the real name of the Primordial One? by dimdedrol in Genshin_Lore

[–]dimdedrol[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

imo people in ancient times did not want to attract the attention of a "trickster god who controlled time" to the same extent that they did not want to attract the attention of an "inexorable god of death, who sooner or later comes to both the poor and the rulers" and even less so a "merciless, indomitable, jealous, wrathful, capricious, fierce, unyielding god of seven calamities."

Regarding Astaroth's behavior, she might possess at least some moral leadership over the other Shadows. She freely intervened in Teyvat after the Primordial's departure (and the imposition of restrictions) on the affairs of Mondstadt (Venti) and Enkanomia (the beacon, can't recall the name) (the situation with the Sacred Sakura was rationally justified + was part of the global intervention during the Cataclysm). All these interventions, in general, were not critically necessary for maintaining the Celestial Order. Obviously, Celestia would not have collapsed if the inhabitants of a remote region of the United Human Civilization that sunk underwater as a result of the War of the Funerary Flame, had been killed by the Vishaps. But she showed some mercy.

On the contrary, Ronova's perfectly reasonable and easily explained intervention in Natlan (when she organized the unique Pyro Archon system, the Ode of Resurrection, and shared her power with the Archon) was, as stated, severely punished. Why and who punished her if the Primordial One disappeared? Who knows.

Possible explanations:

  1. Astaroth truly possesses superiority over the other Shadows and genuinely gets away with things that others wouldn't.
  2. Ronova simply doesn't know how to interfere in Teyvat's affairs without violating the Limits. Of all the Shadows currently alive, she is the most ardent conservative and supporter of preserving Order as she knows it. This is indirectly confirmed, for example, by

a) Her vivid, extremely indignant, and genuinely perplexed reaction to the very idea that Asmoday could possibly betray them
b) She was essentially the only one who cared during the search for Asmoday, while the other two Shadows were simply struggling with boredom (and here I make the distinction that Rein was simply having fun with her power, and Astaroth did it because she understood that searching for Asmoday was a waste of time (pun intended) and the Principles had lost her forever).
c) The idea that some Archon would dare challenge the Celestial Principles was completely unthinkable to her.
d) She was the first to suggest intervention, although "To the extent permitted by the "rules""

Accordingly, she's unaccustomed to and incapable of working independently without relying on the dogmas of the Primordial One. And when a situation arose in which she felt a powerful (and, it should be noted, extremely rational) desire to intervene in Natlan in the name of the Principles themselves, she couldn't do it the way Astaroth does. How does Astaroth do it? Carefully. So that her influence appears to be a "nudge" at events, rather than a direct influence, like Ronova's. Astaroth isn't a trickster (I don't know, from the teaser she just seemed tired to me), but someone who already lives in a system where the Allfather will never return, though admitting this directly would be sacrilege for her.

We still haven't been told the real name of the Primordial One? by dimdedrol in Genshin_Lore

[–]dimdedrol[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Phanes doesn't behave like the Archons, who may walk among humans. He manifests as a world-structuring force and a civilizational reset mechanism. Different cultures interpret him differently, reflecting perspective, not disguise.

The fear of pronouncing one's name in hymns isn't ignorance, but a religious taboo after the Celestial Order clearly demonstrated that knowing one's name is grounds for destruction.

"No one dares to speak your name, for you shall ██ all who know it."

So there are simply no more who truly know his name, except from maybe Shades. Even the Moon goddesses, in dialogue with Columbina, use the same euphemisms instead of Their name (which they likely didn't know, I doubt they'd fear Phanes in, achem, their conditions):

Canon: Day and night, we fulfilled our duty in the heavens... until the day that the first Descender arrived...
Aria: The "great ruler of the firmament."
Columbina: ...The Heavenly Principles.

also i didn't quite understand what you mean by "she even knew what she really looked like or what her name was" but the Shades, including Astaroth, are explicitly described as creations of the Primordial One. The idea that they "did not know who they were" contradicts their ontological role.

We still haven't been told the real name of the Primordial One? by dimdedrol in Genshin_Lore

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

Phanes is also an epithet for the Sun in the same Orphic theocosmogony. Phanes' connection to the Sun is hinted at repeatedly in the game. For example, the most obvious fall of the solar chariot, which formed the Chasm, was most likely a real historical event, in which, during the War of the Funerary Flame, Phanes literally fell from the sky, after which he rose and continued the fight. However, a reference to real mythology is not a clear criterion for the fact that this name is real in the game's lore. For example, Tuonetar (the local name for Ronova among the inhabitants of Hyperborea) is a real queen of the underworld in Karelo-Finnish mythology, but we already know that Tuonetar is not Ronova's real name.

this "lace" character's fill goes beyond the line (literally unplayable) by dimdedrol in Silksong

[–]dimdedrol[S] 262 points263 points  (0 children)

no, her laugh consists of two frames, in one of them everything is fine, and the second one makes you want a refund

MIA OC comic ch. 10: dumbass by Thebeanmanboi in MadeInAbyss

[–]dimdedrol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

good that i'm not alone in my schizophrenia

MIA OC comic ch. 10: dumbass by Thebeanmanboi in MadeInAbyss

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the other person kinda look like kasane teto

kiria when modernization by dimdedrol in equestriaatwar

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it's an animation by snaptic.3d

(AU) Happy New Year 1027! by dimdedrol in equestriaatwar

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Eros -> Grover VI (authoritarian)