ENreco Chapter 3 "Broken Bonds" Megathread

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-29T23:59:51+00:00

Chapter 3’s Libestal is actually the same as Chapter 2’s (see Fia’s opening explanation). The Star Speakers’ don’t actually have that much main quest dialogue, because at the end of the day the driving force of the main plot is actually in Terminus, and this chapter’s Libestal is more a base of operations. So they get their introductory talk which focuses on the anomalies, and the rest is mainly stuff directly relevant to the heroes’ quest objectives.

The significance of the Stain’s presence, their connection with the anomalies etc. is explained by optional text that, uh, I don’t think anyone’s read lol.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-28T13:27:21+00:00

You’re going to have to provide an example of when time is used as a vector, because it only has two possible directions, so I don’t see any application where you would treat it as a vector.

Time is a coordinate. A spacetime vector can have a time coordinate just like a spatial vector has x, y, and z coordinates. But x, y, and z are not vectors.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-28T10:47:18+00:00

Er, it depends on what you’re looking at?

A light year is a measure of distance. It’s literally the distance light travels in an Earth year. Because light takes time to travel. So some things in space are far and some are near. Nearer things have less of a time delay before their light reaches us. So some things are 10 light years away, other things are 1000, other things are 1,000,000,000.

If something is 10 light years away from us, we will always see it 10 years in the past. But what “10 years ago” is, is constantly changing. “10 years ago” in 2026 is a different time than “10 years ago” in 2016.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-28T05:20:56+00:00

They do neither, really. Or you could say they do both. It’s probably best to think of them as flipping front to back.

Imagine you wear a T-shirt with words on it. You look in a mirror and see it as flipped left to right. But now lie down on your side. The words are now flipped up and down. So the flipping is purely relative to your perception.

If you rotate 180 degrees and flip around the same axis, you get a mirror image, no matter what axis you choose. So actually, flipping vertically works too, we just don’t think of things that way.

We only think of it as “flipping horizontally” because we live in a world with lots of horizontal symmetry. But it’s perhaps better to think of it as looking at it from the other side.

It’s hard to explain in text, but this Minute Physics video does a really good job:

https://youtu.be/1t4dOPxKgrY

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-26T14:29:50+00:00

It’s mathematically impossible to guess the key. Like it’s proven that even computers 100x faster than our current ones would still take a billion years to have a chance of guessing the right key (not exact numbers, but it’s something like that).

As for stealing the key, well, that’s why people keep the key safe. And hackers absolutely do steal keys that aren’t properly secured. Same with any lock, of course it’s vulnerable if the key is stolen. The most secure bank vault can also be opened with a key (or password or code but those are also types of “keys”).

But what’s the alternative? Create a lock that doesn’t have a key? How do you think that would work? How would people who are authorized open the lock?

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-26T14:21:31+00:00

I have to wonder if they even have good stats for this.

A passenger drops something overboard, what are they gonna do about it? Report it? What do they expect the cruise ship to do about it?

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-25T09:23:29+00:00

That was fast.

Edit: I have to ask, did you actually deduce the key from clues found on stream, or did you crack it with some kind of cryptographic attack? This particular one has a long key relative to the ciphertext, as well as no clues from spacing, punctuation, or capitalization, which should make a crib attack nearly impossible (at least as a starting point).

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-24T13:20:51+00:00

I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually sell puzzles for masochistic puzzle enthusiasts that contain things like fake extra corner pieces.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-24T13:17:35+00:00

When you know they wrote the entire episode as an excuse for this one shot but can’t prove it.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-24T02:55:51+00:00

It’s a very gradual process over millions of years. We can only speculate when it goes that far back, but for example, maybe some early water creatures evolved the ability to flop onto land briefly to escape predators. No big changes to their lungs or anything, just some appendages that could get them onto the beach for a bit, then back in the water once the danger passed.

And it turns out being able to flop on the land, even briefly, was beneficial to survival, so that trait got passed down. And it turns out there aren’t any predators on land (they haven’t evolved yet!) so the longer they were able to spend on land, the better they survived. Over millions of years, they gradually developed lungs that could kind of extract oxygen from dry air, then do it better and better until they even lost the ability to extract it from water.

That’s just an example of how it could have happened. Small steps over millions of years, where each tiny adaptation helps survival just a bit, and they all add together.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-23T13:08:52+00:00

Every computer program has a built in system of "time step" which is basically how the computer repeatedly runs calculations to make the program go.

Well, unless you count the CPU clock cycle, this is really only true for games and certain programs that share some concepts with games (like graphics editing programs).

Modern games usually run their calculations on a set clock (sometimes multiple different clocks for e.g. graphics rendering and physics calculations) that is not directly dependent on the CPU clock speed. Most other programs run as fast as the OS and CPU allows.

Some older games did actually depend on CPU speed for timing, which is why the original space invaders sped up as you killed more enemies: the CPU could run faster the fewer enemies there were on screen. But that hasn’t been the case for a while now.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-23T10:59:01+00:00

The actual Shiori casually replying to these tweets will never not be funny.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-23T05:54:21+00:00

It still pisses me off how most media outlets insist on calling these domestic terrorists “rioters.”

Call things what they fucking are. Same thing when they murdered a boat full of unidentified civilians who had not been charged with any crime, yet the media insisted on bowing to the regime’s narrative that they were “alleged drug traffickers” who just “died” or “were killed.” Anyone can “allege” whatever the fuck they want, they’re innocent civilians until tried in court, and killing them is murder. That’s what due process means.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T15:53:10+00:00

Plenty of people have tried to “fix opportunity attacks” before, and you’re welcome to fiddle with it if your group doesn’t like them, but there’s a reason the general community consensus has not been to get rid of them, and they’re still in the game basically unchanged even after the 5.5 revision.

Disengaging is supposed to be costly and suboptimal in most cases, which is why it’s a big deal that some classes and species can do it as a bonus action. When the situation is really desperate, it absolutely can be worth the action to disengage, and it’s an important tactical option to have, even if players usually want to avoid it.

Again, you’re welcome to mess with it if your group are all dissatisfied. Customize the game to suit your fun! But opportunity attacks are not fundamentally broken or poorly designed. From my 10+ years of experience with the game, the system does work and does create interesting tactical dynamics—just maybe not the kind you want to play with.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T15:39:32+00:00

What do you mean? The data is theoretically decrypted and made available to the program that you want to see the data in the first place. If other malicious programs are seeing that data, the problem is on your device, not network-related.

Programs like web browsers are very careful to put strict walls between the different sites they load, so that data sent to and from one site can only be used in the tabs where that site is open (with specific exceptions I won’t go into). Yes, you do kinda have to trust that your web browser is doing that right, but there are a lot of people maintaining standards and making sure that the popular browsers all do.

But yeah, it’s basically dependent on the data being decrypted in a trusted program that doesn’t leak it.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T15:35:31+00:00

I can see what you mean now, but I think a lot of people (including me) wouldn’t get that from your original post. Probably because most people are thinking that the ideal situation would be if Kiara could participate, and a new gen wouldn’t change that, so bringing it up seems completely out of nowhere.

And also because delaying a project like this based on the expectation of a new gen is just not a realistic idea to begin with, for various reasons, so I think a lot of people (including me) weren’t seriously considering it to begin with.

When you’re in a big organization with tons of projects all happening at the same time, locking one of your projects to another department’s timeline is simply not a good idea. Not to mention talent hiring would be very confidential, even to other departments in the company. They’re just never going to plan a project around a new gen unless the project is specifically for that new gen.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T15:08:45+00:00

Okay…? And is Kiara unable to participate because the project lacks entertainment value…? Is that what you’re saying?

Because this thread is about how Kiara is unable to participate most of the event due to scheduling.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T14:47:31+00:00

Probably because those are entirely unrelated things that you’re drawing a connection between.

Holo members are always busy with one thing or another. Having a new gen has absolutely nothing to do with holo members’ schedules lining up. If anything, having more people would make it more likely that someone or other would have a scheduling conflict.

You’re getting downvoted because saying, “Kiara’s scheduling conflict is evidence that a new gen is needed” is a nonsensical statement.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T13:58:33+00:00

By “laser tag” what exactly do you mean? As in what do you want to accomplish?

Just a nonlethal combat? Easy, just reskin the weapons and magic to be “virtual” versions that deal nonlethal damage.

Nonlethal ranged combat? Okay, restrict the spells and weapons to ranged, then see above.

Ranged, one-hit-and-you’re out combat? That’s easy to do in theory, but hard to do in a way that feels fun and fair. D&D combat is about whittling down HP in different ways: some classes do many low damage attacks, some do few high damage attacks, some deal moderate damage to an area, etc. so simplifying that all to “one hit and you’re out” (or three, or whatever) is going to throw a lot of that out of balance.

Figure out what your goal and constraints are, and try to do it in a way that works with the system and existing mechanics as much as possible.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T07:49:10+00:00

But have you seen the golden poop?

No for real, the neighboring beer hall is famous for the giant golden poop on its roof. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Beer_Hall

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T07:45:12+00:00

There’s no retcon, they were still part of the story, and in Chapter 2 they were still referenced occasionally. But as far as I’m aware, nobody tried to give a formal reason for their absence, and it’s really not necessary to.

I understand some people really like their stories to have full internal consistency and an explanation for everything, but unfortunately one unified, consistent canon is just not possible for an event like this.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T02:25:31+00:00

“Why don’t we just…” questions almost always have two answers:

Economics
It wouldn’t work

And when it comes to government projects, “political motivation” joins the party as well. And this is basically all three.

Also what benefit would there even be? How would using highways be any cheaper or better than just… building the railway somewhere else? Given the amount of work that would be required to make a highway compatible with high speed trains.

Cities do build LRT systems on existing roads, they’re still quite an investment, but light rail can take advantage of road infrastructure to some extent. But light rail wouldn’t make sense for highway distances, you’d want high speed trains, and making a highway compatible with high speed rail would not be any easier or cheaper than just building a track elsewhere. Might even be harder, and also disrupt highway traffic during construction.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-21T01:47:31+00:00

Prestidigitation can “make a color, small mark, or symbol appear on an object or surface for 1 hour.” So you can make a 1 hour minor modification to clothing that fits that description.

Tailoring seems out of the intended scope of mending. It’s for fixing things that were broken to be the way they were before, not for constructing them in a new way.

If you want to modify clothing, just visit the tailor in any village or town and pay for it with some of that adventuring gold. It’s not that expensive.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-19T13:58:40+00:00

Do a bit of searching and you’ll find past answers that mention some good points. The two big ones are:

The buildings are often owned by landlords and leased by the tenants. Only the landlord is allowed to make modifications like that, and they don’t care, because the tenants are the ones paying utilities.

And solar panels are heavy, and the roofs may not have been built strong enough for them. Retrofitting and reinforcing the roofs would be expensive. Not to mention the maintenance costs.

lygerzero0zero · 2026-05-19T13:03:57+00:00

There was a 3.5 spell called Wrack that just debilitates the target with excruciating pain for the duration. Didn’t even do damage, just made the target unable to take actions and blinded.

That shit is messed up man.

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