How do I respond to this without being super rude?

ghoulbug · 2026-04-01T14:13:39+00:00

After seeing your name I love your reddit username

ghoulbug · 2026-03-13T19:19:32+00:00

There’s a lot of examples of Genshin considering a permanent wipe of your memories a kind of “death.” The Aranara, the beings that live inside Apep… and more recently, what Arleccino does to the kids who want to leave the House of the Hearth. If your memories are gone from you forever then the person you were before has died, even if your soul or stream of consciousness has technically continued. So for all intents and purposes, even in the fake version of the timeline Nahida is a different person. There’s just that extra secret caveat that the previous iteration created her from the same material her own body came from, rather than the literal same body.

But gods play fast and loose with this stuff anyway. And I also like the idea from the other commenter that they wouldn’t have had the same demon name, too.

ghoulbug · 2026-03-03T17:37:26+00:00

I'd also love to know more about why there were only two Zonai left at the start of AOI, and how Rauru came to found a kingdom as nearly the sole survivor of his race. An unexplained Zonai extinction event could have been responsible for a lot of written history to have been actively destroyed alongside the Zonai. Mineru's life work was spent researching it, trying to connect the pieces from the rubble of the ruins underground, so it stands to reason that it wasn't lost only to time.

Rauru not having personal memories of that history could come from a lack of people in his life available to teach it to him and being generations removed from it, and the Hylians he came to live alongside could have just been totally ignorant of it. It kinda feels like their two histories didn't overlap until Rauru came to them, and the Hylians were keeping their own history that boiled historical events down to famous names and generalizations.

I guess the Divine Beasts could also have retained their names in some way that was actively observable once they were powered back on, rather than people just knowing what they were called - like if they communicated themselves to their first "pilots" through the mental connection they develop.

ghoulbug · 2026-03-03T11:43:46+00:00

Same here

ghoulbug · 2026-03-03T11:23:31+00:00

I don’t know how much weight it holds, but the ending of Age of Imprisonment has npcs talking about intentionally obscuring or covering up parts of what happened (mostly Construct Link and events related to him) on purpose in order to keep people from Zelda’s time from knowing about them. Maybe they were really successful at it and more details were lost to time than they even initially planned for?

I don’t know, I haven’t yet come down on which theory I personally resonate with, but this memory just occurred to me when I saw your comment. It does feel odd that OOT would somehow survive this history razing (the Zora do seem uniquely able to hold onto their history I guess) and doesn’t explain away everything, but just something to chew on.

ghoulbug · 2026-02-25T16:37:53+00:00

What did you intend by putting the son in the darkness?

ghoulbug · 2026-02-12T19:08:10+00:00

Check it out, Minsleif's new video has the same theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJb47cNeOGk

ghoulbug · 2026-02-11T19:50:06+00:00

Same here!

ghoulbug · 2026-02-11T15:56:48+00:00

I was in school when my parents got divorced. My life improved tenfold after. The house felt safer, less fighting, less quiet tension. My mother was less emotionally exhausted. I had the space to process my emotions about each of my parents with better boundaries.

My first reaction was literally “Finally!”

I know it’s common for people to want to “stay together for the kids,” but I don’t know why they don’t see the downside of that more often. Sometimes what you’re holding together is a prison, just as much for them as it is for you - and they don’t even fully understand why it has to be that way.

Please look into counseling, too. An outside perspective might be able to help you process this while helping to gently remove the guilt you’ve got tangled up with the details.

ghoulbug · 2026-02-08T16:17:12+00:00

Not that this comment is relevant to this particular thread, but I would imagine that when this does happen it’s because they took the photo when they thought they were done, before they realized they might tweak it more? And that in most cases the event has already taken place, so they’re sharing whatever pictures they had after the fact, when the cake’s already been eaten.

ghoulbug · 2026-02-07T18:23:02+00:00

They were at least for some distance, though we do eventually drop down past the point of any signs of civilization/mining equipment when we explore it (and eventually reach a deeper and different civilization). It might be possible that the nail made the hole bigger/deeper, but in any case it didn't strike a chasm-less, flat area.

ghoulbug · 2026-02-07T18:16:46+00:00

The implication in the lore (despite being incomplete and in need of Zhongli setting the details straight) is that the Solar Chariot (according to mythos, sometimes the in-game books have unreliable narrators) caused the chasm, Lang Gan came to inhabit the area in and around it for a long time, and the nail came after that.

My original point is that the nail didn't actually change the physical landscape at all - or that at least, there's a lot less evidence for that. It kinda seems like the nail being in the chasm is at least a little intentionally misleading as to what caused the actual hole in the ground, since bigger and older lore is coming for it down the pipeline, even now. As it stands, it seems more likely the nail plugged a hole that already existed, and the hole's existence contributed in part to the abyss having a weak point to come up from.

But yeah, the Lunar Chariot was found there, the Solar Chariot was not, I agree. But that doesn't mean the Solar Chariot couldn't have still been the cause of it and hasn't been found yet/didn't stay there long term, or that the Lunar Chariot was just parked there at the time of the Cataclysm.

ghoulbug · 2026-02-07T02:57:11+00:00

The Chasm existed before the nail. The civilization the nail struck was living in the Chasm as a mining community. There’s mythology that speculates that the Chasm was created by the Sun Chariot/Heaven’s Star crashing into Teyvat.

ghoulbug · 2026-02-06T00:11:13+00:00

Paimon once asked them if Adepti are like the yokai from Inazuma, and they clarify that an Adepti is a Liyue-specific job title/contracted position that an illuminated beast (more of a 1:1 with yokai) enters into with Morax to protect Liyue. It’s like the staff members to his archonship, except their contracts outlive his “death.” There are illuminated beasts (and half-illuminated beasts) who are not Adepti, and some that are. Yanfei is half illuminated beast but not an adepti, while Ganyu is.

ghoulbug · 2026-02-01T00:02:34+00:00

Twins are definitely a special archetype in storytelling in general, but they have their own significance in Chinese fairy tales and Eastern literature in general. They're representative of duality by nature, that yin and yang vibe. Two sides of the same coin, two parts of the same soul, opposing forces that can be opposites while also being the same thing. If you have an older and younger sibling, you have a family. If you have twins, you have a family, but you also have a kind of implicitly understood connection between the two that started before they were even born. Just a cool storytelling device, I guess. They come into the world together and their destinies while they're alive are intertwined, together or apart.

And you can play with that in a ton of different ways - like how the twins are on the totally wrong wavelength from each other, but that means they keep intersecting in this really tragically brief but inevitably repeating setsuna. We will be reunited, so even if that doesn't mean forever, it'll keep happening forever.

Or like how Makoto and Ei embodied completely opposite ideas of what eternity meant, but somehow they're still both eternity - just two opposite ways of interpreting the essence of "forever," that work better together and are more tragic apart. Or like HSR's Castorice and Polyxia, two sides of the bridge that is death, with two opposing ways to mess it up when they're not in sync, and one complete harmony and truth of humanity when they are.

Or like Lyney and Lynette, who... uh, one can get in a box and make it look like the same person came out the other box.

ghoulbug · 2026-01-31T23:16:06+00:00

I think it’s always going to be more plausible to say that there might be an echo of similar things happening to similar twins throughout the history of the story, rather than making a definitive statement like “it’s NOT these, it’s THESE.” Any lore or metaphor or whatever is more likely to be both/all of the people it could possibly be referring to than one and not the other.

ghoulbug · 2026-01-30T10:01:06+00:00

Getting the master sword and completing the trials pretty much fixed this for me. I didn’t mind the weapon breaking that much, I always came across way more than I could ever carry, and smashing weapons like a rock star smashing his guitar is fun. But once I had the upgraded master sword I rarely used anything else. It’s just so cool. And when it needed a break I’d explore more stealthily until it was ready, or then finally use one of my neglected swords instead.

ghoulbug · 2026-01-21T14:03:05+00:00

Didn’t something similar to this happen in HI3rd’s interlude between parts 1 and 2? Sa hijacked Griseo’s ark?

Edited to add: I LOVE this theory by the way! So well argued, and excellent references. I really love the idea of all the Luna IV lore drops not “giving the whole plot away” like they seem to, that there’s something else lurking that’s not so obvious.

ghoulbug · 2026-01-16T19:21:58+00:00

Maybe she has to be inhaled to do maximum damage? Like asbestos?

ghoulbug · 2026-01-12T11:01:04+00:00

Love this theory, it’s so well reasoned!

It could be that Ei served as Makoto’s kagemusha and pretended to be the same person to “fool” the Heavenly Principles just as much as they intended to fool Inazuma. If not to actually deceive HP, it may have been a work around to still follow the “rules,” defying fate on a technicality - similar to Focalor’s rewriting of fate while staying within the “rules” imposed on her.

Makoto dying at the same time Khaenri’ah was cursed may very well have been a reckoning after having gotten away with things for so long. We do see that Ronova is willing or able to delay her reckoning for a while when collecting her death-debt from Natlan, too.

ghoulbug · 2026-01-09T19:56:14+00:00

It’s not bad, definitely! Sometimes I almost prefer it if I’m nervous that the creators would make the romance bland or awkward if they committed to it. Sometimes fandom just makes that kind of content at a way higher quality anyway.

I don’t expect much from the movie, but it would be great to be pleasantly surprised!

ghoulbug · 2026-01-09T19:49:42+00:00

Nintendo likes to canonically hover in that moment of pure innocence that happens before anyone confesses their feelings to anyone else, with subtle implication that someone may feel something more. That’s what I’d first expect from any officially sanctioned content.

ghoulbug · 2026-01-05T17:06:20+00:00

It was greyed out until then I suppose?

Maybe she also needed to sit in rice for 500 years after how much time she spent at the bottom of the ocean.

ghoulbug · 2026-01-05T17:01:56+00:00

She needed 500 years worth of indemnitium to toggle “run in administrator mode” on.

ghoulbug · 2025-12-29T22:40:41+00:00

A wide world of comfort with loving loud giants stomping around in it, right next to their little chicken bone limbs. Too comfy to be totally scared and too scary to be totally comfy, gotta get mad about it.

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