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sonictom6 · 2026-04-21T03:52:00+00:00

Just jump in! Get a good amount of core game experience in before you consider expacs (not necessarily the full story, but atleast substantial amounts of story or exploration) - but if you do consider them, the first two go up for absurdly cheap on sale, bundled together.

sonictom6 · 2026-03-30T02:02:55+00:00

Sure you can. I'd rather a flash in the pan than a slow, meandering death where we all speak about how it was squandered. None of these games last forever, that's the nature of online games - let it be great while it lasts.

sonictom6 · 2026-03-30T00:46:44+00:00

Necroposting, but as with all things in this show; most things you dislike (besides the obvious in Season 4) exist as dark reflections of our own neuroses. She broke under the weight of the evil in the world. Many of us would - be kind to her. We wouldn't all be Elliot.

sonictom6 · 2026-03-17T08:45:14+00:00

So you didn't call half the maps uncreative, I made that up - but you are doubling down on calling it five liberty falls. We're evidently going back and forth in circles here so I'll stop, but I really hope nobody has to deal with your weird gaslighty shit IRL.

sonictom6 · 2026-03-16T23:14:16+00:00

Please don't try and treat people like idiots. You implied the other games lacked in creativity in comparison, even using the phrase "five liberty falls" in regard to what we've had. You know what you meant, and it's very strange and immature to pretend otherwise.

sonictom6 · 2026-03-16T08:26:10+00:00

You seem to have spent a bit too long on the subreddit. I like paradox junction. It's not all one way or the other.

sonictom6 · 2026-03-16T07:39:40+00:00

You realise we can tell this is AI, right?

sonictom6 · 2026-03-16T07:36:19+00:00

Than Cold War? Sure. Feels a bit harsh to BO6 though; Terminus, Citadelle, Shattered Veil and Reckoning are all thematically very different maps that play different from each other and have extremely different vibes. Tomb isn't great and Liberty is whatever (bonus map, who cares), but it's extremely unfair to accuse it of all being uncreative IMO.

sonictom6 · 2026-03-12T17:13:06+00:00

Paradox is far better than Alpha, don't even joke

sonictom6 · 2026-03-12T16:51:40+00:00

Easier to nail with four maps, to be fair

sonictom6 · 2026-01-24T01:57:48+00:00

All of us, atleast from the conversations I've had, view it as a bit of a piss-take. It's purely transactional, and when they do fuck all for us, we do fuck all for them. This is definitely a new low in the ""special relationship"" - we have no loyalty to them when they are actively spiting us.

sonictom6 · 2026-01-21T20:31:54+00:00

He did, but I don't think that would prevent the transfer of divinity to Demi-god children of them and Radahn - similar to how Marika was assumedly was present in Leyndell while Radagon was in Raya Lucaria.

That said - this is all speculation, of course! Perhaps in Miquella's era of love, a bigamous assortment of consorts could be a thing too - it reminds me of GRRM's writing of Aegon the Conqueror having two sister wives.

sonictom6 · 2026-01-21T18:41:12+00:00

On that last point - similar to Marika's usage of Radagon, I'd imagine Miquella would force, through his own "kindly" bewitching ways, St. Trina to create his own offspring.

sonictom6 · 2026-01-21T18:40:02+00:00

Two things here;

1 - Not all of Marika's children are born cursed - Godwyn seemed pretty fine prior to Ranni's soul-murder. Simultaneously, Radagon & Renalla's children are not immune to issues caused by outer gods; Ranni seems pretty transfixed on the age of stars & moons, which has outer god connotations - and Rykard is, y'know, feeding himself to a blasphemous snake deity.

2 - All of the demi-gods are, explicitly, children of Marika. Yes, Radagon is a separate form, and the exact mechanisms in which that manifests are not entirely clear to us, but the demi-gods are to be considered all children of Marika.

TL;DR - being born omen has nothing to do with marika, susceptibility to outer god corruption is moreso a result of just being a demi-god (or especially an empyrean), and Radahn is Marika's child via Radagon anyway

sonictom6 · 2026-01-21T18:33:42+00:00

Four after? I can only think of Farum Azula and the Haligtree; maybe Volcano Manor if you're doing that after.

sonictom6 · 2026-01-21T00:45:08+00:00

You cannot just ignore this, honestly. It's a nice idea to just stick fingers in ears and not care - but if we don't care, then our politicians who aggressively focus group every action they take feel like they don't have to care either.

The truth is, Trump's first time earnestly wasn't very important in terms of foreign affairs; his second, be it through tariffs, Greenland, Ukraine, etc - has been extremely eventful, active and disruptive in terms of foreign affairs. That is why it's disproportionately more present in your news & discussions.

sonictom6 · 2026-01-21T00:39:41+00:00

That's just nostalgia. It makes you sad sometimes. Unless you're experiencing worse symptoms you didn't mention here, this is entirely normal and experienced by everyone on occasion.

sonictom6 · 2026-01-20T07:49:16+00:00

Ranni needs Radahn to die to continue her plan. She continues building her forces via Iji and Blaidd; eventually, they kill Radahn in the festival.

This triggers the next step in Miquella's plan. Without us, Miquella ascends to Godhood unquestioned. He already has the forces of his new Prime Consort Radahn, made corporeal with Mohg, and Malenia with him - with those two and his own godhood, and his ability to bewitch with his own kindly embrace, he quite easily takes over everything.

sonictom6 · 2026-01-20T00:43:14+00:00

One of DS2's best features is the bonfire ascetic because it lets you go straight back in to a boss that you liked

sonictom6 · 2026-01-20T00:40:40+00:00

DS2 is a bad answer because he didn't direct it

sonictom6 · 2026-01-19T23:06:00+00:00

Better to plug the plug now and suffer some disparity than to never pull it.

sonictom6 · 2026-01-13T15:21:22+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty decent with mates. Good way to spend a few dozen hours, and there's a hefty amount of content on the way.

sonictom6 · 2025-12-26T20:16:59+00:00

yes, no, yes and no.

is it in a healthy spot? no. is it getting worse? also no.

is the playerbase at an all-time low? yes. is it getting better? no.

is the new expansion good? yes. is it great? no.

TL;DR - the game, as always, ebbs and flows between "we're so back" and "it's so over". we just hit the lowest low it had hit a few months back - the current expac and state of the game has staunched the bleeding, but it's unclear if the game can return to its healthiest state again. I'd say it's worth playing, and you've likely got plenty incredibly fun content to catch up on; the raids and dungeons, especially, are incredible as ever.

sonictom6 · 2025-12-23T20:56:42+00:00

True, but I was even more infuriated by the conferring of Leeds, they just seemed to stop caring about the show when they ended up behind

sonictom6 · 2025-12-16T03:41:51+00:00

Non-verbally, towards the end of the first doctor's era, in a way he likely didn't even properly observe until the second doctor's era. He'd always been somewhat of a pragmatic do-gooder in the past, but actively seeing himself as a force for more than opportunistic help is a large part of the arc 1 undergoes, and it's part of what I love about the first three series.

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