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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:EDIT: Beaten on the names. So have some other stuff instead to not waste a post. Have you interacted with AI before? (Yes, yes, I know. The things folks call "AI" are by and large LLMs, which wouldn't even pass the bar for a Mass Effect VI, let alone an AI. But my point is, "no amount of batshit evil seems unrealistic for an AI to pursue")
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Speaking of the Reverie Finale (not the Coda, the climax of the Finale before that)...
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Junpei posted:See: Jusis and Machias. Yeah, but that's a symptom of all character texture to Class 7 being condensed into just CS1 and disappearing afterwards. I actually want to replay CS1 at some point, just because it'd be kind of interesting given how "long ago" it was - if nothing else, this series is good at conveying a sense of lots of time passing, to the point that it'd be kind of novel to see all these characters when they first appear again. MythosDragon posted:At the very least, everyone's gotta do two things. The kind of giant difference is that the mind control in Sky wasn't the cause of the villains' behavior.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:EDIT: Beaten on the names. So have some other stuff instead to not waste a post. Lawyer guy (can't remember his name at the moment) said that Elysium had zero understanding of emotion whatsoever until he basically coached it into creating Lapis. Elysium, in its mindless gathering of knowledge, later created Ishmelga Rean without Lapis knowing about it until it was too late.
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I'm honestly kind of surprised Hummel is in the top 10. I like the guy well enough but he didn't seem all that memorable
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Red Red Blue posted:I'm honestly kind of surprised Hummel is in the top 10. I like the guy well enough but he didn't seem all that memorable I thought Hummel was the beefy anchor guy from YS 8; now I’m disappointed. Justice for beefy anchor guy.
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Veryslightlymad posted:Mass Effect VI It took me far too long to realise you weren't referring to a sixth Mass Effect game.
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After thinking on it a bit more, I think I'm more OK with the (Reverie) Juno Naval Fortress incident and general bloodlessness of Reverie. If one is inclined towards charitable interpretations, it could be explained by the Rean side of Ishmelga-Rean doing his best to pull punches even if he can't exert full control over the process. Another interesting implication of the plot is that Ishmelga is the most powerful malign entity within Elysium's simulation capacity, which we know extends at least a few months into the past and at least 3 years into the future across all of Zemuria. If they try to pull an "even bigger than Ishmelga" threat out of their hats, they need to explain why that threat didn't hijack Elysium instead of/from Ishmelga for its own ends.
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Thoom posted:Another interesting implication of the plot is that Ishmelga is the most powerful malign entity within Elysium's simulation capacity, which we know extends at least a few months into the past and at least 3 years into the future across all of Zemuria. If they try to pull an "even bigger than Ishmelga" threat out of their hats, they need to explain why that threat didn't hijack Elysium instead of/from Ishmelga for its own ends. ”within Elysium’s simulation capacity” probably does the heavy lifting there. I imagine any future threat larger than Ishmelga is one that Elysium wasn’t able to recreate even with all the infinite energy and literal magic at its disposal. Alternatively, perhaps Ishmelga was only one of the first threats it simulated and it had already taken over before Elysium could get to anything else.
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Super Jay Mann posted:”within Elysium’s simulation capacity” probably does the heavy lifting there. I imagine any future threat larger than Ishmelga is one that Elysium wasn’t able to recreate even with all the infinite energy and literal magic at its disposal. The first option seems more plausible. Though if they bother to explain it, it will probably be more like "it had the power to cloak itself from causality because lore and caught everyone by surprise" or something.
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I am in Act 2 of CS2 now and like 40 hours in. Either this game is long as hell even compared to the others or there aren't that many acts in it. I still really like Laura but I'm finding myself wishing she had more to do. Her role in the plot has mostly been to stand to the side and occasionally pipe up to say something about swords, with her only actual substantive dialogue being in bonding events. Even stuff like her concern for her missing father is shoved off into bonding events and basically ignored in the main plot. The stuff in the bonding events though does add to something I really like about the way Rean and Laura interact: they see right through each other and will call each other out on emotional dishonesty, and even when they have serious disagreements, they tend to deal with it and move on without any grudges. It feels remarkably healthy compared to a lot of character relationships in JRPGs.
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unimportantguy posted:I am in Act 2 of CS2 now and like 40 hours in. Either this game is long as hell even compared to the others or there aren't that many acts in it. There's only really two acts...kind of. So you're a solid distance in.
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CS2 is pretty long. Also kinda leaves you with the feeling a lot of the cast aren't doing a whole lot for most of it tbh
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unimportantguy posted:I am in Act 2 of CS2 now and like 40 hours in. Either this game is long as hell even compared to the others or there aren't that many acts in it. I feel like that's the point of Bonding events: it's hard for the main story to have someone like Elliot or Laura to contribute like Jusis or Alisa does, but with Bonding events you can still have deep scenes with the former to see either how the war is affecting them or just seeing Rean and them have a breather in between the action
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unimportantguy posted:I am in Act 2 of CS2 now and like 40 hours in. Either this game is long as hell even compared to the others or there aren't that many acts in it. Don't expect anyone except Rean to do anything in CS2.
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...! posted:(Reverie - Act 4 C route end - That's what a first draft looks like coming from a place of zero understanding??? unimportantguy posted:I am in Act 2 of CS2 now and like 40 hours in. Either this game is long as hell even compared to the others or there aren't that many acts in it. The game is a little longer than just what the act number suggest. Even though Laura isn't my favorite girl, I don't dislike her. I agree that the story badly shortchanges her in several ways. There are a lot of missed opportunities to add layers or interest to her. (Her conflict with Fie in CS 1 could have had a layer tied into something mentioned in Sky FC. The visit to Legram in CS 1 reveals the least about Laura than any other visit to a character's hometown reveals. They don't even reveal any information about her mother until CS 4, and that only made me wish they'd done ANYTHING with it earlier.) Another part of the problem is that she's one of the Swords People, and Falcom writes all the swords people the same way - practically single-minded in their obsession with training to get better at Swords. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Aug 7, 2023 |
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Speaking of the Reverie Finale (not the Coda, the climax of the Finale before that)... I mentioned this before, but it didn't choose the evil god, the evil god chose it. It was just mindlessly simulating all possible futures for reference purposes and stumbled across the one with the evil god, except even a simulation of the evil god was evil enough to take over all its systems. It was an accident.
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Clarste posted:I mentioned this before, but it didn't choose the evil god, the evil god chose it. It was just mindlessly simulating all possible futures for reference purposes and stumbled across the one with the evil god, except even a simulation of the evil god was evil enough to take over all its systems. It was an accident. Like everything else in this game, that makes literally no sense whatsoever.
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CS1 and CS2 are both 100 hours to 100%. Was my playtime both on Vita and PS4 somehow.
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Reverie just got a TC level plot of "A mysterious power causes an asset reuse adventure where Everyone Is Here". With a couple extra steps. The mechanics of the plot are pretty goofy and just an exuse to set the stage for the character exploration and boss refights the game wants to do.
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kirbysuperstar posted:heck yeah swords omg beautiful knight lady!!
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Speaking of weapons, have the CGF ever used the machine guns they have on their APCs? Maybe Crossbell would have less trouble if they ever figured out how to use them. Edit: LOL, they just did.
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When your sword is bigger than you, do you really need anything else? That's an automatic S tier Character just waiting to go higher.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Like everything else in this game, that makes literally no sense whatsoever. We live in a world where Microsoft let loose a benign LLM on Twitter and within days it turned into a racist Nazi troll, this fanciful video game scenario sounds ENTIRELY plausible.
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MythosDragon posted:When your sword is bigger than you, do you really need anything else? That's an automatic S tier Character just waiting to go higher. See Rixia for two things to add onto of a biggass sword
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So, what am I missing for the “The Many Famous Views of Crossbell” request? I’ve gotten -landscape along Old Armorica Riad - Arnorica village fields - Ursula Road ruins (the ones submerged in water - Graveyard cliff - Stargazer Tower - Ruins near Mainz Mountain Path - Sun Fort - Train I’m mostly curious at this point, it’s probably only one missing so I’d take the L happily otherwise.
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Last Celebration posted:So, what am I missing for the “The Many Famous Views of Crossbell” request? I’ve gotten The big honkin' scenic waterfall on Mainz Road.
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Lol, I thought it was a thing but I guess I didn’t stand in the right spot for the trigger, thanks.
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There's also the ancient battlefield, but only after the required quest that takes you there and you have to go back after the quest is completed. You can *find* the spot during the quest but you spend just as much time saying "NO TIME FOR THAT" as you could have taking the photo.
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Yeah, I somehow made a wild guess and assumed I’d have at least one thing open up like halfway through the chapter when I initially waited to submit the photos. Also it was nice seeing you again, Blueblanc even if I cheated 70% of your quest because I’m stupid and lazy. Wonder what point in Cold Steel 1 that request took place in since he mentions having to immediately dip after giving us the Sagittarius Gem, probably right before the festival.
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Crossbell's 70th Anniversary is early April and Class VII's first field study is late April; Class VII first meets on the 31st of March, so Bleublanc has plenty of time to go harass Olivert.
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Huh yeah, that does line up with him bumming around Erebonia for recon or whatever, though I can’t remember if he’s in the town for the very first trip or if it’s the second trip.
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Bleublanc is encountered in Bareahard, helping you out with your quests.
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Man, I guess there’s a lot of questions that could still be answered, but my number one thing is “why is Blueblanc an Enforcer?” Most of the other guys really just loving love fighting poo poo and/or violence and carnage, but he’s just there vibing and doing over the top heists that earn him international infamy. Maybe he’s a true believer in the cause? Maybe Ouroboros gave him his magic? Hell, is he actually Literally Just Magic, because I guess that gels with the setting? Who knows! He’s pretty cool though, ngl. ha-hah.
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