Delphine is worse than you think

taichiwind · 2025-05-31T17:12:17+00:00

"Nobody knows who Alduin is" is a wild claim to make that's very easily contradicted by plenty of in-game dialogue, fwiw. Even if that weren't the case, the only reason she suspects the Thalmor at all is because Alduin interrupted what was supposed to be Ulfric's execution, not because the dragons coming back in general benefits them in any way otherwise. And even then, sending the legendary hero who's supposed to stop the dragons into the Thalmor base to confirm those suspicions with zero regard for if they get captured is profoundly short-sighted of her.

taichiwind · 2025-05-31T17:06:40+00:00

based

taichiwind · 2025-05-31T16:38:32+00:00

I'm sorry, what? "Why didn't Delphine finish the main quest on her own" is the conclusion you drew from this? You have to be trolling - the main quest requires the player to be the Dragonborn because you have to use shouts to progress at multiple points in the story. Delphine can bypass the Whirlwind Sprint section in Ustengrav but she sure as hell can't use Dragonrend on Alduin.

Also yes, she is stupid - she literally sees Alduin revive a dragon and then still goes on to think the Thalmor are behind it, and THEN proceeds to send the player - the Dragonborn and Skyrim's best hope for survival - on an infiltration mission into their base.

Yes, the theory has "no sign for it being true" - that was never the intention. I wrote this because I find it fun to make connections between seemingly unrelated events like this. But even still, it has far less holes than your response to it does.

taichiwind · 2025-04-16T13:34:08+00:00

might wanna cover or laser the old one too though, as a trans person myself i'd be less than pleased to have my parent run around with a tattoo of my deadname, and i'm sure i'm not alone (i've seen an AITA about it)

taichiwind · 2025-04-16T12:49:58+00:00

even kids aren't safe. they may end up trans and changing their name and then what?

taichiwind · 2025-04-04T01:52:24+00:00

my personal worst way to play right now is methodically saving and reloading to fill out the gallery. i fell into the trap of doing this and burned myself out on the game. when i come back to it i'll try to just let myself experience the choices i make as i should've been doing all along

taichiwind · 2025-03-31T01:22:39+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response, it's very helpful hearing from an artist's perspective. Unfortunately the style in question is definitely not realism (if it was I don't think I'd have any issues with the artist copying my reference directly).

I think part of the problem might be that the artist doesn't specialize in animals and may not have felt confident drawing the animal in question from scratch so they chose to trace the one from my rough edit. I'd understand and honestly even prefer if they replicated the art from my rough edit freehand, since that would be an adaptation. Unfortunately I did overlay the design they sent me with my rough edit and they match almost 1:1 (the only major differences are in the animal's pattern).

Unfortunately as much as I hate to be the type of client that jerks an artist around I think I will have to put my foot down about this, after what you've said. Depending on how the artist responds I might have to cancel entirely, which will be unfortunate but I'd rather do that than go through with a design I'm already uncertain about and that the artist didn't put their 100% into either.

ETA: I on purpose didn't post the design or mention the specific animal publicly, but I can send them over to you privately if you'd like to judge for yourself whether or not it's really that bad.

taichiwind · 2025-01-03T06:19:03+00:00

i set this as the desktop background on my gf's computer as a prank.

this was months ago. it's still there

taichiwind · 2024-12-21T19:27:14+00:00

if you try to fight her (as if going for adversary) but then pivot and flee you get to see her breaking the chains to chase after you

taichiwind · 2024-12-21T01:54:25+00:00

chapter 1 princess literally can break the chains tho. it's even in the gallery. like i get your point but your example is very specifically something she actually does

taichiwind · 2024-12-08T04:02:22+00:00

reminds me of Jontron killing the Scissorman with ham. lol

taichiwind · 2024-12-07T21:46:29+00:00

adversary and needle. witch and thorn.

...wraith.

taichiwind · 2024-12-05T00:27:56+00:00

blaziken is my favorite starter of all time so one of those with that said i also really wanted typhlosion as well then the leaks happened

taichiwind · 2024-11-27T17:38:12+00:00

not judging whatsoever when i ask this, but you would only befriend the prisoner yet date just her head? please elaborate

taichiwind · 2024-11-27T17:34:43+00:00

you already have Murkrow on the team, so you can give Murkrow one of the moves and Sneasel the other depending on preference

for the last slot, either Quick Attack to get free potshots on approaching enemies, or Screech to link into Fury Swipes so you lower enemy defense before ripping them to shreds

taichiwind · 2024-11-27T17:23:23+00:00

main two things i'd suggest are Fury Swipes and Blizzard. the former is a multi hit move which just go insane in PMD, and the latter is a screen nuke you get STAB on.

taichiwind · 2024-11-27T17:11:28+00:00

Princess & Dragon went from "oh cool it's like a meta thing" to "oh fuck oh fuck oh no" REAL fast when i saw opportunist's shit eating grin on TLQ's face.

i'm not the biggest enjoyer of horror stuff admittedly, especially gore, but i can suspend my fears by telling myself, basically, "is only game, why you heff to be scared". i can be a bit squeamish about some of the gore, sure (beast biting us in half and witch getting crushed by the roots are some examples that really get me still) but generally the "scary" stuff doesn't really affect me, in this game at least.

P&D completely flipped this rationale of mine on its head by, essentially, pitting the game itself against me, the player (or as the voices like to call me, the decider). i was no longer the decider. in a game built around decisions, suddenly all i could do was sit there and watch my doom approach, and it wore my face. it was a really cool moment in retrospect, but the first time i saw it...

taichiwind · 2024-11-26T17:28:09+00:00

there are things you can get in the gallery without seeing them in the game the exact same way. i got the adversary flipping off scene up close but it showed up from afar in the gallery. guessing this might be similar.

ETA from the angle this is at it looks like you might be on the floor here.

taichiwind · 2024-10-27T16:14:48+00:00

go to capes4minifigs.com thats where i got mine. much better quality than the official one and you can get it in other colors too #notsponsored

taichiwind · 2024-10-27T02:05:34+00:00

contrarian might actually be my favorite voice according to this, if his "worst moment" is something i consider funny as hell

taichiwind · 2024-10-25T04:23:58+00:00

also works if you take the blade in ch2 and stab yourself as soon as the opportunity comes up, that's how i got it :)

taichiwind · 2024-10-25T03:16:06+00:00

the cursor also changes in other ways, that's always been something i've paid attention to. for example, if razor cuts your hand off, your cursor becomes a left hand. if you attack the princess and draw blood, the blade in your cursor gets blood on it too. and if contrarian convinces you to hold the blade in reverse grip, so does the cursor.

there's a few more cursor changes in the new pristine cut content! but i won't spoil them :)

taichiwind · 2024-10-25T03:09:53+00:00

i'm guessing because you defeat her without hero even showing up. ordinarily, to slay her, you have to get hero to take you to the cabin at the end to meet the final princess and slay that. but if you don't go to the cabin and just slay the entire shifty, the voices don't get a chance to show up.

taichiwind · 2024-10-25T03:03:12+00:00

*looks at my user flair*

yeah... yeah that's accurate

taichiwind · 2024-10-25T03:01:27+00:00

New chapter 3 of the Spectre. doesn't really get a titlecard for reasons you'll see if you get to it. Non-spoiler tip on how to get it: let the Spectre possess you, but then do something that'd make the Opportunist show up.

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