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I wrote Elden Ring using an AI trained on National Lampoon movies
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Catgirl Al Capone posted:I wrote Elden Ring using an AI trained on National Lampoon movies I always knew Godric was just Chevy Chase
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Dec 25, 2023 17:56
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ty franck is actually short for thank you franck
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Dec 25, 2023 18:27
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So what's the lore about the sphincters anyway
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Dec 25, 2023 19:54
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If GRRM had written it, the whole game would have been about a hosed-up family with loads of incest and every major character's name would have begun with one of the initials of his name as a power move.
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Dec 25, 2023 20:21
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Bug Squash posted:If GRRM had written it, the whole game would have been about a hosed-up family with loads of incest and every major character's name would have begun with one of the initials of his name as a power move.
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Dec 25, 2023 20:22
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Bug Squash posted:If GRRM had written it, the whole game would have been about a hosed-up family with loads of incest and every major character's name would have begun with one of the initials of his name as a power move. We can validate that pretty quickly. Let's just pick a few at random like Tanith, Torrent, the Tarnished, Fia, Fingers (Two). Hey wait a second...
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Dec 25, 2023 20:29
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Omnomnomnivore posted:So what's the lore about the sphincters anyway It references the protrusions off of the Dung Eaters armor. They're supposed to mimic the excised horns of the Omens. Cuz he's like an Omen at heart or something, cursed on the inside instead of the out.
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Dec 25, 2023 20:34
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i always assumed it was about the weird land mollusk things that poison you, but that makes much more sense
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Dec 25, 2023 20:36
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War Wizard posted:It references the protrusions off of the Dung Eaters armor. They're supposed to mimic the excised horns of the Omens. Cuz he's like an Omen at heart or something, cursed on the inside instead of the out. He's an edgelord loser projecting his misanthropy onto a blameless minority imo
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Dec 25, 2023 20:40
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No Dignity posted:He's an edgelord loser projecting his misanthropy onto a blameless minority imo Well, yes. Somehow his "If everyone is cursed, then no one is" worldview/mending-rune doesn't seem to resonate with a lot of people.
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Dec 25, 2023 20:46
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Killing a god by poisoning its food is at least fundamentally pretty metal
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exquisite tea posted:Yeah Ty Franck wrote it, hence the thread title. its true
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Dec 25, 2023 22:22
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Epic High Five posted:Killing a god by poisoning its food is at least fundamentally pretty metal More like starving it, if I understand correctly -- the Seedbed Curse ensures that your soul can never return to the Erdtree. You might still reincarnate, that part isn't 100% clear, but if so it's like everyone's trapped in their own little personal cycle of rebirth, alienated from all other souls.
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Dec 25, 2023 22:27
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Bug Squash posted:If GRRM had written it, the whole game would have been about a hosed-up family with loads of incest and every major character's name would have begun with one of the initials of his name as a power move.
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Dec 25, 2023 22:40
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I was complaining about all the similar names to a friend when I paused halfway through the list to look at the initials and typed "GRM YOU HACK" in all caps.
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Dec 25, 2023 23:03
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100% co-op run is off to the races, I've gone with pure faith again because of how much co-op utility it has and the goal is to always summon where I can summon, to always activate effigies, always have my own beacon on far/wide, and to only go solo if no signs at all appear for a couple minutes (matchmaking is a bit weird so I need to factor in for this.) Really love doing the sunbro thing in these games, love the little interactions and seeing what builds people are playing. Also hoping I show some new players just how devastating Catch Flame is and that it isn't some lame starter spell Still about 10 more levels until I start getting nonstop summons to clear Castle Morne, which I'm looking forward to because it's the first really great co-op zone edit - it's also been fun having to deprogram myself after playing through DS3 and especially DS2 since my last run. I still feel a child-like glee whenever I drink my estus at lightning speed and my stamina is back in a flash Epic High Five fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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Dec 26, 2023 08:54
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GimmickMan posted:I was complaining about all the similar names to a friend when I paused halfway through the list to look at the initials and typed "GRM YOU HACK" in all caps. It's funny because it's a pretty big hint that Melina is related to Malenia and Miquella.
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Dec 26, 2023 08:57
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Fister Roboto posted:It's funny because it's a pretty big hint that Melina is related to Malenia and Miquella. Also that the other divine pairings have 3 definite children each. Godfrey and Marika = Mohg, Morgott and Godwyn. Radagon + Rennala = Ranni, Radahn and Rykard. Therefor Marika + Radagon = Miquella, Malenia and ???? (Melina?).
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Dec 26, 2023 09:22
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Is the Roundtable Hold in the capital meant to be the same place or did they just reuse the building? Also there was like Godrick's ghost or something in a random house. I literally don't know what's going on anymore. And what's the deal with the giant skeletons on thrones? King guy (Moggott?) was the easiest major boss so far. I'm now in the snow land and I find my interest slipping again. Rogue Trader is tempting me away.
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Dec 27, 2023 00:32
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I think you will find that the Godrick ghost is legally-distinct and totally different character (honest) Godefroy the Grafted.
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Dec 27, 2023 00:42
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Digital Flower posted:Is the Roundtable Hold in the capital meant to be the same place or did they just reuse the building? I mean, this is never explicitly stated, but the Roundtable Hold is probably an idealized memory of the place you can find in the capital, in the same way that when you kill a demigod or another powerful enemy you gain their Remembrance as it's "hewn into the Erdtree." You can tell because (lategame spoilers) when the Erdtree burns, the Roundtable Hold burns with it. Digital Flower posted:And what's the deal with the giant skeletons on thrones? They were probably important people in Nokron and Nokstella. Given the clothing at least one of them seems to have been a woman. One of Marika's old enemies, the Gloam-Eyed Queen, is kind of conspicuously absent from the game -- especially compared to everyone else she conquered (e.g. the dragons, the fire giants, and the Carians, all of whom are very obviously still present in some form) so it's kind of tempting to identify the two together, but it's just speculation. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Dec 27, 2023 00:43
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Digital Flower posted:Is the Roundtable Hold in the capital meant to be the same place or did they just reuse the building? You're onto something about roundtable hold. Hewg the blacksmith there rambles onto some more details. I don't want to go much further since it's story you're very close to seeing. Giant skeletons are part of a group that got conquered by the golden order or whoever before the shattering I think. Press onward! You're nearing the end. Snow lands is pretty quick and you can easily just beeline to the end. Then you get a legacy dungeon that's pretty cool all things considered.
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Dec 27, 2023 00:44
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Digital Flower posted:Is the Roundtable Hold in the capital meant to be the same place or did they just reuse the building? My answers, there's more videos about all of this: 1. The one in leyndell is the original the one you visit is....a copy somewhere else. It's never really explained but you get some prominent hints later on. 2. The gold guy is you fighting a projection of Godfrey, which is like a magical copy you control at a distance. Godfrey probably doesn't want you to be Elden Lord and is trying to stop you. 3. Who loving knows man, again multiple theories around that. 4. Yeah the snow area is where things start to slow for most people. 5.
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Dec 27, 2023 00:46
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They were buried for trying to make an artificial Lord, so there's a chance those huge skeletons are those Lords, but it could also be that they just realized they could make massive skeletons sitting terrifyingly in gigantic thrones and couldnt think of a reason not to. Possibly something to do with the huge skulls in the landscape you see from time to time
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Dec 27, 2023 00:49
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I'm pretty sure the above-ground giant skeletons buried in the landscape are just dead fire giants. They're only really present in the Forbidden Lands and the north-eastern edge of Caelid. (Which also kinda suggests there may not always have been a gap between the two.)
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Dec 27, 2023 00:53
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I'm pretty sure the above-ground giant skeletons buried in the landscape are just dead fire giants. They're only really present in the Forbidden Lands and the north-eastern edge of Caelid. (Which also kinda suggests there may not always have been a gap between the two.) Could just be there were some there. Godfrey then showed up and resolved that issue. Caelid was way different, too, before the rot nuke detonated.
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Dec 27, 2023 00:59
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we don't really know much about the giants on thrones and lots of details like the roundtable hold being duplicated, which of course is rather par for the course in these games. certainly it is intentional and presumably based on something in the full treatment that GRRM wrote that we'll never get to see, rather than simple reuse, but like gently caress will we ever learn what the deal is. maybe the dlc will have some info about these or many other issues but it's just as likely to raise more questions zullie has a couple videos related to that, chiefly this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2j5NwgXpnE and this one mentions them but doesn't really say much more than "they big" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZTJibqr4g tarnished archaeologist has speculations on them, but he makes much more far-reaching conjectures based on the same scanty information and long leaps of logic, which may annoy you. and also he sure fuckin' likes to talk, so his videos are long-rear end essays rather than bite-sized vignettes. but this one has some discussion of those giant skeletons in caelid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCe6tVyJ7bw and there are some others he's made that discuss nox and nokstella but I've linked enough videos in the post already, you can find them yourself if you want anyway maybe you shouldn't watch these videos if you haven't beaten the game, but at the same time, who cares
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I actually don't believe Godfrey himself made the construct, it doesn't seem his style at all, it's far more likely that its Morgott making a defense mechanism, given that he uses Golden Order incantations and has projected himself elsewhere before.
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Skelly people were definitely up to some crazy poo poo since the place is full of mimic slimes and petrified things that look like they were turning into humans. There’s also larval tears all over the place. Renalla uses the larval tears to try to rebirth her son, a demi-god. It’s likely the skeletons were up to the same thing, trying to create a god- or perhaps they were the product of that experiment. Whichever it was, it didn’t work out, probably for the same reason all of Renalla’s creations are flawed* *see her flock of lame magelings, her precious egg son or a possible choice related to Boc. Something is lost in rebirth. E: the soldier boys and whip ladies are there for reasons that are explained in item descriptions you find underground. It’s clear they came afterwards Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Dec 27, 2023 01:26
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Fruits of the sea posted:Skelly people were definitely up to some crazy poo poo since the place is full of mimic slimes and petrified things that look like they were turning into humans. There’s also larval tears all over the place. The zombie guys are latter-day adventurers, but the whip ladies are Nox, who are the same Eternal City people who made the mimics in course of inventing weird sorcerous liquid metal stuff. They're also dressed like the giant chair skeletons. I guess theyre supposed to be like remnant survivors like all the Pthumerians wandering around the chalice dungeons in Bloodborne.
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I haven't seen anything to indicate that Renalla's amber egg is her child. It's just the vessel for the Rune given to her by Radagon.
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Which honestly raises even more questions, since the Elden Ring wasn't even broken when Radagon left Renalla. Is it possible to "give" Great Runes without removing them from the Ring? That might explain why each child wound up with one, even ones like Ranni who didn't actually want one. It doesn't explain how Godrick got the centerpiece, though.
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Annath posted:I haven't seen anything to indicate that Renalla's amber egg is her child. It's just the vessel for the Rune given to her by Radagon. If I remember right, there used to be an infant in it that was removed prior to release.
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Dec 27, 2023 02:48
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I always assumed the Rune of the Unborn was Ranni's "cast aside" rune, given that she manifests out of it during phase 2 of Rennala's fight and the lack of other likely candidates.
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Dec 27, 2023 02:53
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I always assumed the Rune of the Unborn was Ranni's "cast aside" rune, given that she manifests out of it during phase 2 of Rennala's fight and the lack of other likely candidates. Apparently she chucked hers in the trash and it hasn't been seen since.
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Dec 27, 2023 02:56
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Mustached Demon posted:Apparently she chucked hers in the trash and it hasn't been seen since. This is, if nothing else, the funnier possibility.
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Dec 27, 2023 02:59
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Picked this up during the sale. Finally excited to have some proper, punishment from our lord Miyazaki.
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Dec 27, 2023 03:08
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I like how the weird melty corpses around the giant skeletons remind me of the ending shot of Shin Godzilla with the humanoids coming out of his tail.
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The giant throne skeletons are cool and my friends
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