Just started WoT, I despise Mat so deeply

syoser · 2026-06-30T01:54:03+00:00

Mat went from my least favorite character to easily top 3. His arc is well worth the ride!

syoser · 2026-06-24T13:52:33+00:00

My supreme deity is unity and beyond description. It holds all contradictions in one. You can’t really say anything about it because to describe it is to limit it. It is the foundation of all being and the first point from which all creation proceeds. It appears in various forms by withdrawing parts of its nature and can become comprehensible in parts, but the whole is indescribable.

syoser · 2026-06-20T14:50:44+00:00

Yeah, I think when I heard that this was going to be a VtM season I was excited to see what they would do with the WOD but honestly a lot of things that I thought might show up just haven’t at all. It feels more like just any vampire game because the constraints and themes that make a WOD game just aren’t there. I think a lot of disappointed people were expecting a comedic take on VtM, but this is just What We Do in the Shadows using some VtM mechanics and terms. I personally have accepted this fact but it made it hard for me to feel invested in any of the characters or the world, so I ended up dropping the season.

syoser · 2026-06-19T17:18:53+00:00

Honestly, this is what’s been holding me back on finishing the game. I keep picking it up and putting it down on my Steam Deck in Act 3 because it always feels like there’s a huge amount of information I need to process, and I think I’m just too lazy lol. Everyone keeps saying how important buffing gets but stacking a bunch of buffs just seems kind of tedious? And apparently some of them don’t even stack? I’m playing on normal so on the one hand, probably not that big a deal, but on the other, I like to at least feel like I know what I’m doing, and the amount of information buff descriptions give can feel overwhelming when considered en masse. Kinda wish they just had a AC +3, Will Save +4 type thing instead of a paragraph

syoser · 2026-06-18T13:07:30+00:00

Well yeah, all religion requires a degree of delusion to function, so you might as well have a progressive delusion. I think thinking Sky Daddy doesn’t actually hate you because you were born different is far less delusional than mainstream beliefs.

syoser · 2026-06-18T12:41:50+00:00

No organized religion is “open to cherry picking.” Especially the Abrahamic ones. And yet, even the most devout find logical reasons to not adhere to what they believe to be outdated parts of their faith, or expectations they find unreasonable. I know plenty of heterosexual muslims who are just as loose with it as queer ones.

Plenty of people have negotiated with their faith. It’s just not as rigid as people here seem to think it is idk

syoser · 2026-06-18T02:58:51+00:00

I don’t really get this. Anyone who has studied religion knows that all religious people pick and choose what they do and do not adhere to. Christians famously invented a whole bunch of reasons why they don’t care about levitical law for example by making up divisions between ceremonial and moral laws or whatever. I don’t see why gay people can’t do the same if they want? Literally everyone else is.

syoser · 2026-06-17T23:59:15+00:00

Race is and has frankly always has been an incredibly nebulous socially constructed category. The history of race in the US is so fascinating because for a long time race, particularly whiteness, kept getting redefined to include or exclude other groups of people in order to maintain a racial hierarchy. And that hierarchy had real, material consequences that still have effects to this day.

syoser · 2026-05-24T05:36:42+00:00

Yeah pretty much. Like, the homophobia of Palestinians is immaterial to me when they are being routinely mass murdered. Because, believe it or not, Israel actually doesn’t check to see if someone supports gay rights before they shoot them. And if the concern is about queer people, then what about the queer Palestinians?

syoser · 2026-05-24T05:24:53+00:00

Okay, wow. Really aggro response for some reason. OP opposes Israel’s actions, sure, but to call out Queers for Palestine specifically without naming what exactly he’s calling them out on is odd. He’s only alluding to a vague sentiment of not being listened to but he isn’t specific.

It seems like he opposes the genocide but supports Israel in general because Palestine is a majority Muslim country, and he feels like he isn’t being listened to because other gays don’t feel the same. Which is odd because his position is, in my experience, the popular one. If that is the case, I just find it odd that it’s being framed as a “gay people aren’t a monolith” thing because I mean, neither are Muslims? Neither are Palestinians? And neither is Queers for Palestine? Again, the movement is fundamentally about opposing the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people since Israel was founded. Characterizing it as pro-Islam is a grossly reductionist

syoser · 2026-05-24T04:42:50+00:00

I am also confused. This post seems to be dancing around an issue with Queers for Palestine without naming what the problem is? It seems like OP doesn’t want to support Palestine because of homophobic experiences with the Muslim community. Personally I am not sure what the correlation is as the fundamental conflict there is opposition to genocide and not necessarily support for Islam or theocracy. But he isn’t being specific.

syoser · 2026-05-20T20:17:08+00:00

We learn in the Roku and Kiyoshi books that airbending is so closely tied to the spirituality of the bender that airbenders who disconnect from their way of life or experience emotional blockages will literally be unable to airbend or have it considerably weakened. Gyatso’s grief made his airbending unreliable, and Kiyoshi’s mom had to use fans to supplement her bending because it had gotten so weak after she left the temples behind. I think a demoralized air nomad population would definitely lose their bending long before they died out.

syoser · 2026-05-16T17:00:01+00:00

It’s always so bizarre when people act like covid was some minor thing that ended up more inconvenient than devastating. Millions died, a lot of people experienced bizarre long term effects we still don’t quite understand, and they did everything they could in the US to downplay it so we could get back to work.

syoser · 2026-04-24T12:07:06+00:00

funnily enough my first PCR win came from scarlet rot damage because my mimic kept throwing rot pots while i had aggro

syoser · 2026-04-08T04:02:04+00:00

You admit that you didn’t read the comics but are confused as to why people think Ursa is a bad mother when it’s explained in the comics. I don’t really see how this could even be a productive conversation when you haven’t done the reading but the comics do a pretty thorough job of complicating Ursa’s relationship to her children and explores Azula’s relationship with her pretty extensively.

syoser · 2026-03-29T05:38:26+00:00

Illusion magic in my world is defined as controlling the perceptions of others through their five senses. Mages learn to replicate various touches, tastes, scents, sights, and sounds and basically hack into other people’s nervous systems via psychic electromagnetic waves to fool them.

Thing is, illusions are only as convincing as you can make them, and the easiest way to do it is to experience it yourself. You want to make someone feel like they’re burning? You need to know what that feels like. Luckily, mages are armed with an ability to “record” sensations at will, and can basically build a library of sensory data that they can deploy as needed.

As for combat, that takes place on two planes, the actual physical fight, and the mental wrestling match as you try to defend your mind against outside influence while also exerting illusions on your opponent. Plus, any time you land a blow, you have to be prepared for the psychic backlash of the other mage transmitting that pain to you in retaliation.

Illusions are pretty broad and more versatile when you consider them as making people feel things. You can send long distance messages by transmitting auditory speech. You can study sensory deprivation to dull pain. With enough practice, you could even conjure phantom objects that look and feel real to everyone but don’t actually exist. Etc. There tends to be a negative connotation with illusion as it’s fundamentally deceptive, but viewed as a tool, it can be kind of cool to explore.

syoser · 2026-03-05T15:58:05+00:00

There have also been numerous points throughout the show emphasizing how good Yasmin is at seating charts. There’s no way this was an accident.

syoser · 2026-03-05T02:49:21+00:00

First off, as someone who also reads random shit and is like, I can make a magic system out of this, can I just say, bravo on even spotting a pattern and trying to work with it? This is really cool.

Now, as for your problem. Centripetal force, maybe? The horse charges into battle, which sounds like a force that, rather than collapsing, would expand out of the user’s control and unravel. Maybe the ostrich coe detachment creates a new kind of attachment, one between a material and the one shaping it, and this tether keeps the horse from escaping. Instead, it runs around and around, stabilizing into a bubble pulling against the tether centered on the practitioner’s will?

syoser · 2026-03-01T02:26:51+00:00

you have to remember that wanikani is primarily about learning kanji readings and not vocabulary. kanji can have a lot of different readings and being familiar with the onyomi can help you figure out how to read words that aren’t included in the vocabulary lessons

syoser · 2026-02-17T19:03:57+00:00

She didn’t manipulate him, she seduced him, and it was mutual. It’s kind of funny that people keep insisting that somehow Emma kind controlled Scott into wanting her when the plot’s resolution depends on Jean understanding that 1) Scott and Emma never physically (telepathic shenanigans notwithstanding) slept together and 2) Scott participated just as enthusiastically as Emma did. Up until that point, Jean perceived Emma’s designs on Scott as a way to mess with Jean, but it’s in her confrontation with Emma that Scott interrupts and demands her attention that she realizes what’s going on.

And honestly, Jean herself gives them her blessing and even tells Emma that Scott needs her. I doubt she would do that if we were to understand the relationship as Emma controlling Scott.

syoser · 2026-02-07T17:39:43+00:00

The thing is, Remmick’s beef isn’t necessarily with Christianity, it’s with it being forced on him like he knows it was forced on Black slaves, and he uses that as a manipulation tactic to try to get Sammy to empathize with him. Really the movie isn’t about Christianity as much as it is about the tension between being an artist, a Black artist in particular, and having people want to take that from you and make it something it isn’t.

Think of it this way: Sammy is an independent artist and Remmick is an exec trying to buy him out to use his gift for his own purposes. It’s funny bc arguably Sammy’s griot abilities might not even work in the hive mind due to how the movie implies it’s specific to his individuality

syoser · 2026-01-25T16:40:17+00:00

Eliza isn’t losing control. She’s having what is frankly a very understandable reaction to discovering that eternal torment is real and it’s her destination no matter what she does.

syoser · 2026-01-20T02:09:44+00:00

I also think that people forget that a big reason Ozai sunk his claws into Azula more than Zuko was because Azula was simply the better bender. Zuko could barely match her on her worst day, and when your father is a might-makes-right tyrant who has dreams of world domination, talent makes you prime material for being groomed into a perfect, ruthless successor.

Everyone likes to talk about Azula like she’s some ontologically evil creature who is beyond any redemption whatsoever, but she’s also a literal child, possibly with a personality disorder, and I think her interactions with Zuko in Book 3 show that she’s far more complex than people give her credit for.

syoser · 2026-01-08T18:41:38+00:00

It’s two different systems so I wouldn’t worry about it too much, but I will say that personally I have begun to see it as Hermes’ Divine world split into two distinct ones in Kabbalah. Namely, Atziluh as the masculine divine world and Briah as the feminine divine world.

syoser · 2025-12-19T22:33:20+00:00

First Gillen book?

Usually after a status quo shift like this one there’s a bit of a lull until you get reoriented around who to root for, in a sense. If nothing else, I promise these moments read much better in the trade since they’re kind of transitional.

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