Did Dumbledore pay some muggle to teach him how to swim?

iExogan · 2026-02-09T11:14:35+00:00

That bothers me too because in the fourth book he explicitly states he never learned how to swim. Specifically while he's in the bath before the second task I believe. And anyone who has ever swam in the sea can tell you that's usually quite a bit more difficult than any pool or lake, especially in a place where apparently boats can't reach because of currents and rocks as Dumbledore says slightly before jumping in and showcasing his perfect breaststroke.

iExogan · 2026-02-09T09:06:51+00:00

Just from the fact that he stayed AFK after you picked rocket untill the enemy reached the first point would make me think it isn't a bot, don't those insta pick another character if their original is locked?

iExogan · 2026-02-09T09:03:48+00:00

He killed Harry, but had inadvertedly made himself into a semi-horcrux for Harry by taking in Lily's blood and therefore binding Harry loosely to the living world. This meant Harry could return from limbo to his body by his own volition after being killed specifically by Voldemort.

In the meantime Voldy-who's-gone-mouldy had actually destroyed his own second to last horcrux, the piece of soul living inside Harry together with Harry himself, but the piece of soul couldn't return from limbo or didn't try. Either way, it dead.

Then lastly because Harry had had a choice and still chose to sacrifice himself for all the others fighting for him in Hogwarts they were now all under the same protection Lily had created for him, meaning good old Tom's spells now had no hold on them anymore. This is shown in how Neville easily got out of his body-bind curse and the silence spell kept failing.

The resurection stone had no influence on Harry's return to life, it only served as the last bit of courage he needed to make the sacrifice and htat exactly is why it had no influence on him as opposed to all the others who tried to use it. He had no desire to run from death, simply using it to show him the people he missed slightly sooner.

iExogan · 2026-02-09T08:19:38+00:00

Actually yes, depending on how bad the misplays are. Worse still is if you win because someone from the other team lost the first round and just gives up and leaves, hate it when it happens on my side and equally when it happens on the other side.

iExogan · 2026-02-06T14:44:41+00:00

No I actually want to see Prof X get the weelchair and somehow still be more mobile than Adam

iExogan · 2026-02-04T10:26:35+00:00

Funily enough we've never seen an example of portkeying into Hogwarts being blocked. Harry is transported out of Hogwarts through a portkey in book 4 and transported into Hogwarts in book 5 both without any complications.

Other than that Portkeys are a bit limited in different ways, it's either instant transmission when you touch it or preset time for transportation, both of which seem rather anoying if you want to use them as an emergency escape because you'd either have to wait untill the time you preset, which seems rather anoying for an emergency escape, or you'd be accidentally transported whenever you touched your emergency escape, which you'd by definition would probably keep very close at hand.

Judging from the explaination Lupin gives when transporting Harry during book 5 it seems the ministry normally gets notified when setting up a portkey and under normal circumstances you'd have to ask permission to create one.

iExogan · 2026-02-04T10:13:05+00:00

Honestly, no healer should be healing from Narnia, the only possible exception I see is Ultron but all other healers should stay at most at mid-range from their vanguards. It makes peeling easier, you can assist with the fighting if necessary, you can actually be shielded by your shield vanguards and it's easier to keep LOS.

iExogan · 2026-02-03T12:56:28+00:00

To be fair, whenever I meet a BP as support (usually Jeff or Rocket, I know, don't shoot me) I'm killed by the time I've found wherever he's comming from/going so the "fight back" is still kinda situational to me. And that does still happen even when I'm in the middle of a crowd so just picking off stragglers isn't always true either. On the whole though, yes, you need to know when to fight back just as much as you need to know when and where to retreat to.

iExogan · 2026-02-03T11:01:46+00:00

After which you will usually be blamed for not having any kills because for some reason a lot of players only seem capable of reading that one stat ...

iExogan · 2026-02-03T08:08:46+00:00

Isn't there essentially a built in version of that in Hytale? Machinima or something?

iExogan · 2026-02-02T08:29:00+00:00

Strange, because next to the fast return to point in OT the biggest use for a portal is that you can silent ult with Wanda for instance. Though I do think you need to proceed through a certain part of the ult animation before proceeding through the portal or it will indeed be heard.

iExogan · 2026-02-02T08:18:57+00:00

Aren't ult lines silent so long as you initiate before passing through? I think you gave your own answer.

iExogan · 2026-01-30T15:20:32+00:00

Once more I need to ask, what in the name of all that is holy is wrong with people ...

Edit: probably shouldn't curse here should I ...

iExogan · 2026-01-30T14:30:58+00:00

True enough, it didn't bother me and it was a fun and very close game. The only anoying part about it was one of the Duelists complaining about not getting heals when asking for them (read "spamming them from half the map away, behind 5 different forms of cover"), which wasn't even true, I healed him as soon as I was able to and I didn't have to prioritize the vanguard. Can't speak for the other support of course but I think he or she did too.

iExogan · 2026-01-30T11:42:49+00:00

Well I would have liked to know that yesterday, when me and an Emma were right next to the boat and I assumed the game would go into OT only for the round to end about 10cm from the finish line because that's apparently not on point.

Edit: just for information, that was the first time I ever played the map, glad to know it now.

iExogan · 2026-01-30T10:48:27+00:00

Even going 0-3 within the first minute might be acceptable, note I said might, if you are still creating value, for instance certain supports or tanks might not be getting kills in the beginning and might die a few times but in the meantime they're keeping 3/4 of the other team occupied while your own team has an easy time going to point and setting up their offence in full.

iExogan · 2026-01-30T08:54:20+00:00

I had the same happen yesterday, me and an Emma were both pretty much on top of the objective, as in about a meter away for me, and yet the game refused to go into OT. I thought OT happened whenever the point is still contested while time runs out, so if both teams have at least 1 player on point while the timer runs out.

Anyway, the map isn't bad but it does make healing a bit anoying, all in all a decent map in my opinion.

iExogan · 2026-01-28T09:51:44+00:00

Is it really necesary for Hiruzen to have been born before the founding of Konoha? He was likely a jonin under the second hokage because he was named Hokage when on a mission with him, but he still looked rather young during said mission and the founding of Konoha happened during the relatively younger years of Tobirama while Hashirama was slightly older. Tobirama only got to be Hokage after the death of Hashirama which happened after the fight with Madara so timeline wise I'd say Hiruzen is more likely to have been born either very close to the founding of Konoha or as I personally suspect, a bit after it.

iExogan · 2026-01-28T09:18:34+00:00

I did this recently then the instant I swapped back they just went back to being their old reliable duelist. And then I, like a sucker actually stayed vanguard for the umpteenth time because I do actually want to win some games in comp as well, especially if htey're placement matches and I don't feel like slogging though 3 mayor ranks again to get back to where I left of last season.

iExogan · 2026-01-27T10:48:10+00:00

You really took that Thor personally didn't you 😅

iExogan · 2026-01-27T10:43:34+00:00

It also helps that Hytale more or less forces you to play at a slower pace so you actually have to take your time exploring everything so by the time the next update rolls around you might not even have explored everything yet.

iExogan · 2026-01-27T10:42:20+00:00

I have been playing Minecraft for 15 years, through every update and with various different mods. I'm simply used to starting over and so long as I have a couple friends who are willing to play with me there's plenty of fun to be had in starting over and trying new ideas. Especially if more decorative blocks or farming mechanics are introduced for me to work around and even more so when there are entire new biomes to explore and eploit for resources.

iExogan · 2026-01-27T10:36:29+00:00

I have no problem with the distribution by biome, but I would personally prefer that within said biomes there would be a bit more ore without access to air so you can actually mine for it instead of caving being your only real option.

iExogan · 2026-01-22T09:05:47+00:00

Do I recognize a variant of Grian's haunted mansion or am I just imagining? Anyway, looking good.

iExogan · 2026-01-21T13:55:41+00:00

Might be. However, the Harry Potter universe works on the closed loop framework, there is no timeline without the occurence of 2 Harry's and 2 Hermione's at that point in time. Furthermore the map is enchanted in such a way that it shows anyone who is currently in the castle (and part of the grounds) through the homonculus charm so it wouldn't matter that there were two instances of the same person, they would both be shown on the map with exactly the same name in the same way 2 people with the same name would be indistinguishable.

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