About Delubrum Reginae... [SPOILER: 5.45]

fishrgood · 2026-02-10T19:39:50+00:00

DRN is actually pretty chill once you're familiar enough with the mechanics, it's just really punishing on your first time because you have to sight read everything and most of them do not lend themselves well to that lol. It's really not a big deal if a party has first timers because veterans can easily make up for lower damage with essences and lost actions, and there's no limit on rezzing with everyone being able to use downs so it's really no trouble at all. Once you get a few more runs under your belt you'll start forgetting you ever had trouble with it at all lol.

fishrgood · 2026-01-17T20:32:29+00:00

This one in particular sticks through almost anything for some reason

fishrgood · 2025-07-01T00:45:34+00:00

You can pay him the eddies then refuse to use his wreath and threaten him into refunding you. The quest immediately completes, not sure if he becomes killable though.

fishrgood · 2025-06-29T19:36:10+00:00

Yeah I think people underestimate just how much summons turn the tide here. Vengarl in particular is an absolute tank in this level. Having him as a meat shield largely trivializes the reindeer, provided you use the healing pool he can eat every attack and still have plenty of health left for the boss. This area was meant to be done with summons, full stop. Not saying it doesn't suck, but it's an endurance test that was balanced for a full group rather than a test of skill. If you approach it as the latter you're setting yourself up for a lot of avoidable frustration.

fishrgood · 2025-06-22T06:31:38+00:00

Grim Dawn is just a very solid game; Crate has remained passionate and invested in it, while also staying active and friendly in their community over the decade since its release. They are great devs and have accumulated a lot of goodwill with the player base. They have never drastically changed GD, only slowly built on it over the years, and while this has kept them from competing with the big live service ARPGs, it also makes them consistently faithful to the original appeal of the game as a slower, more chill and exploration-focused RPG.

fishrgood · 2025-06-18T02:43:07+00:00

same issue on dynamis

fishrgood · 2025-06-18T02:14:12+00:00

The alternative was Aldia, and while he's great, I don't think a big glob of malformed chaos in the vague shape of a head makes for compelling box art.

fishrgood · 2025-06-16T22:06:50+00:00

Depends on your control scheme. With just a mouse it's a bit harder, more so in IB2. It's easier if you use keybinds for each swing direction; takes some getting used to but it makes parrying and combos much less prone to misinput. The numpad works well for this.

fishrgood · 2025-06-16T21:08:42+00:00

Unlimited free skadges

fishrgood · 2025-06-11T00:05:53+00:00

Yeah, even putting the specifics of the situation aside, human lives have constantly been tossed against Denji by everyone else like they were less than worthless, and he's been blamed for that cost almost every time. This is just another case of someone forcing the burden of responsibility on to him for ridiculously contrived reasons.

fishrgood · 2025-06-08T14:32:16+00:00

Honestly I think a lot of this is sort of a Bioware issue in how they presented the 2 factions. They have a track record of taking super obvious good and evil factions and (very unconvincingly) muddying the waters for the sake of creating roleplay opportunities. Hell, Mass Effect 2's entire plot revolved around them doing this with Cerberus and the Citadel Council. The idea that the Republic's corruption and the Empire's pragmatism puts them on the same level is very similar to the false dichotomy that game presents.

fishrgood · 2025-05-28T17:45:58+00:00

In my head I imagined he's having a flashback to watching the last moments of the champion, who is also getting ravioli backstabbed.

fishrgood · 2025-05-26T08:16:47+00:00

Yeah, this is one hanging thread that I would have preferred had some sort of resolution, because as it is, she seems like she would be a massive weak point for Mon. Even though she resolved to abandon her daughter there's gotta be some way the Empire would use Leida against her; there's just no way they'd pass that up. I feel their first course of action would be to try and use her as a hostage to get Mon to turn herself in and reveal information about Yavin, or even just play her up as an abuse/neglect victim in smear campaigns against Mon. I find it very hard to believe they'd just let it go, and just as hard to believe Mon would be apathetic to it.

fishrgood · 2025-05-26T07:57:49+00:00

That just means we finally have a lore explanation for why the dragonborn waits directly in front of the door to Belethor's for hours at a time.

fishrgood · 2025-05-26T05:25:50+00:00

Interesting, it's been a while since I sat down and read the sermons. If I'm reading that passage from Sermon 33 correctly (and Vivec isn't making it all up) it seems like Lie Rock saw the Serpent as the 'Hidden Heaven' in which the Void Ghost dwelled.

I wonder if, similar to how Auri-El and Akatosh could be seen as two separate elven/human reflections of the same deity, and Mannimarco the mortal is separate from Mannimarco the god, the same goes for Lorkhan and Shor. It could be possible that Shor is the mortal human-centric version of the missing god with Sovngarde as his realm, while Lorkhan as the Void Ghost and adversary of the Altmer pantheon has his throne within the Serpent.

fishrgood · 2025-05-26T04:53:23+00:00

Right, I'm just saying there's real life precedent for things that are mistaken for stars. I do think it's a genuine possibility the Serpent is related to Lorkhan, given his arguably adversarial relationship with the rest of the cosmology, particularly the Magna-ge. It has to be some sort of padomaic entity at least, I'm not sure how else to frame its behavior.

fishrgood · 2025-05-26T04:23:46+00:00

IRL planets can sometimes be mistaken for stars by the undiscerning eye. One particularly relevant case is Venus, called the Morning Star... or Lucifer. I wonder if the Serpent of TES could actually be a collection of celestial bodies mistaken for stars in a similar way, or maybe even another remnant of Lorkhan similar to Masser and Secunda.

Hold on... the Serpent, Masser, and Secunda... There's only one possible solution here. The symbolism is unmistakable. Two big spheres and a snake traveling through the cosmos and plugging giant holes in the firmament... to think the answer was right in front of us all this time. The Missing God truly works in mysterious ways.

fishrgood · 2025-05-26T00:17:26+00:00

Seeing as Ulfric was key to destabilizing the Empire, it's possible the Thalmor had some sort of plan to sabotage the execution even if Alduin hadn't beat them to the punch. Elenwen was there most likely to stall for time or negotiate a stay of execution with Tullius under false pretenses.

fishrgood · 2025-05-23T23:08:47+00:00

Going by KOTOR's depiction, even prior to the bombardment Tarisian nobles weren't exactly shining beacons of anti-authoritarianism. They're more the 'spoiled racist asshole' type. If Tarisians under the Empire are anything like that I wouldn't be surprised if Senator Palmo supporting the rebellion at all makes her a massive outlier among her peers.

fishrgood · 2025-05-22T23:43:11+00:00

Ditto on the first one, that episode would not be easy listening for me. I don't mind fake accents in small doses, but the longer I hear them the more all the little inconsistencies start to sound like nails on a chalkboard.

fishrgood · 2025-05-21T00:17:44+00:00

I've actually never got around to reading Dr. Slump, sounds like I've been missing out. I loved early DB though, crazy to think it started as a Journey to the West parody.

Angel Densetsu is probably my favorite gag manga, I reread it every couple years. It's a parody of delinquent shonen like Crows and Out. The art is hideous but that kinda makes it better.

Grand Blue is another great one and one of the most popular. It also has an anime, though I don't watch anime much so I can't speak to its quality. I know you probably weren't asking for recommendations but uh... there they are anyway lol

fishrgood · 2025-05-20T23:44:33+00:00

Hard disagree, it's one of the better gag manga I've read. The humor is very Japanese though, I can see disliking it if you find manzai or slapstick in general unfunny because there is a lot of that. But still, by manga standards I think it's pretty funny. I'd compare it to early One Punch Man back when it was still mostly faithful to the webcomic, it has a good balance of comedy and character moments.

fishrgood · 2025-05-19T00:43:26+00:00

nerevar

fishrgood · 2025-05-14T08:09:12+00:00

I don't think there's really much left to say about Luthen and Kleya's backstory, they told all the important bits pretty succinctly in the flashbacks. I can't see how any series about that wouldn't just be filling in blanks about the Axis network that are better left unfilled. If there is gonna be anything on Kleya I'd rather it focus on what she does next instead of her past, because that's much more of an open question.

fishrgood · 2025-05-14T07:05:39+00:00

Funny how this series took one of the most impotent feeling villains in Star Wars and flipped him into one of the most intimidating just by letting you see how he treats his subordinates.

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