The Roger The Paladin

I played through that last year. It kicked my ass when I played it 22 years ago... but it was pretty manageable this time. I secretly stole your skill. But is there any way to avoid getting older except to die?

I've never used the Triangle attack in SD myself. Indeed I've only used it in Gaiden and Shadows of Valentia.

Yeah, but that was after the tutorial fight with Mario... where Bowser complained that he wasn't bringing his A-game... which was revealed to be Peach & Starlow's doing in an explanation of why tutorial Bowser was a joke right before said telekinetic yeeting to Dimble Woods. Which how you know it was a far amplified version of what Peach can get away with by herself. Besides the fact it was said Starlow was helping. By the way, I added the spoiler tab you suggested. I just didn't get a chance to reply because a rather dangerous animal had entered my property and I had to forcibly remove it. How the turntables. Wraith contributed to the Teehee cause. Mind you the fact the tag was something along the lines of "Help me The Roger The Paladin" kind of explains why he thinks I make more sense than other people in the thread. He literally brought me here. Which technically means that I'm like the bridge between Wraith and the rest of the thread or something. Which makes a lot of sense when you consider there's some considerable overlap in taste in fiction, I'm about the same age, I tend to like older FE and remakes of older FE more than the later games and I don't really watch anime. I also enjoy posting total nonsense at times. So from my perspective he's not as odd as he likes to pretend to be. I'd prefer that over any damn Agarthan. No matter how ridiculous it is.

I like to come up with ideas on how to use a gameplay related concept to add to the lore.... or sometimes vice versa. I once had an idea for instance relating to how Bowser is most capable of tasks when he's working towards a good end. Remembering the instance at the start of Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside story where Peach was able to weaken him with Starlow's assistance, the concept of Peach's wishes helping her get saved from the Star Road explanation in Super Mario RPG, and even the Star Rod/Twink wishes in Paper Mario.. I posited the idea that when Bowser is doing something beneficial it's the one time we see him where Peach isn't actively wishing for his failure. The original Super Mario Bros manual did posit that she had some sort of magic that Bowser perceived as a threat. I posit what Starlow did was merely the amplification of what's already there. That Peach essentially weakens Bowser making him more defeatable through a subconscious mechanism. This would also explain the inconsistency of Bowser's performance as a boss throughout the years. Ultimately all pointless overthinking of something the developers probably never thought much on, but fun to think about.

I do see the idea of it undermining the tragedy. But I feel the fact their life was cut short, that they know the harm done by their fall, and the fact what they are doing now is just atonement rather than fixing their past actions means the tragedy is never truly erased. After all, I doubt anyone

I see we had the same idea.

Like you couldn't do both. Just because there's one hero between Book 1 and 2 doesn't mean you can't do two villains. If it were me though, the villains like Hardin and Lyon and Edelgard that weren't necessarily evil would have Emblems that you acquire by defeating the prior holder. A kind of "redemption" arc afterwards. But if you introduced the concept through Edelgard, you'd get the attention from having her as a villain initially... while having the benefits of a character that has more recent recognition introduce the idea without giving away the possibility of characters who were doomed in life to die a villain getting a chance to redeem themselves in the afterlife. Meanwhile, the more Gharnef type villains... would remain just that. Whether you have the Emblems conveniently lost by story purposes... or even have a corrupting influence.

Plus it'd be the best advertising possible for the game. People legit would be talking about it constantly. Besides, it's better than including those forgettable Agarthans and thereby adding more dark magic users to the villains side. Whereas I ended up in this particular thread because Wraith arbitrarily tagged me in it once despite me having never posted in it prior. Turns out it's got a nigh-inescapable pull because of the amount of people who end up here. Yeah. That's irony for you. Wraith, who always talks about the insanity of the thread literally brought someone else into it.

So, I was thinking. We know the at least one of the villains has a ring for Fire Emblem Engage too. If IS really, really wanted to rage bait people into talking about the game... they could have the villains across the game all use rings that summon high profile villains from the series history (Gharnef, Zephiel, The Black Knight), only to throw people a curve ball by having Edelgard as the villain rep for Three Houses.... knowing full well some people relate more to her goals than the other lords of that game.

Or Ruben, or something. I don't even know.

The funny thing is, I don't remember who actually did whatever he got blamed for... or really what it was. Just the fact everyone was pretending to be him.

You assume a lot thinking I'm not.

I'm not Sooks, I'm Wraith. Stop messing with me The Roger.

Stop getting users mixed up The Roger, you old man.

I made that joke thinking back to a group I used to be in, where someone mistakenly blamed a guy for something, so everyone changed their profile pictures to that guy's profile picture and we started all claiming to be him for a day. I knew some real screwballs back in the day.

Everyone can be Saint Rubenio if they try hard enough?

Or close enough to. Then again, Covid kind of interfered with me getting the mucus removed in the first place by screwing up the whole health system. So it's more Covid being uncharacteristically polite and cleaning up the problem it created. Speaking of thoughts on characters, I had the idea just before about the Fates Capture system and wondered.... what if it's just Corrin taking on Garon's policy of forcibly adopting people? Turns out Corrin was the true heir to Nohr all along

Thanks for asking, but this was back in May. It wasn't fun... but ironically the increased body temperature from Covid infection melted the mucus that had been congested in my head... which would've been coming out by surgery otherwise. So ironically, the Covid meant I didn't need surgery... and the mucus meant that I was visibly sick enough that my decision to stay home and sleep most of the time I was sick was accepted even by those who wouldn't usually have cared. As I've said previously, not a fun experience. That mucus was the worst tasting thing I have ever had the displeasure of knowing... and it's sufficiently sticky that the process of bringing it up was far lengthier than the average vomit. And the stuff that doesn't come up plays havoc on the digestive system. But all said, I'm happier for it being out of my system. Seriously, there was so much of the stuff stuck in there my head's a noticeably different shape after it came out. My nose is thinner, my eyes further back, and I don't have the ridge that was growing on my forehead. So ironically, I've got a virus that has been nothing but a nuisance to most to thank for getting rid of it. Even if the process of getting rid of it was really, really unpleasant.

That's the catch. Being similar doesn't mean being the same. If it did humans having similar DNA to chimpanzees would most certainly be more relevant to day to day life. Better than nothing I suppose. Me? I didn't have to worry. See, when mucus melts out of your head at a higher rate than your stomach can digest, you start trying to get rid of the excess any way you can. Which means a lot of vomiting literal mucus. Enough so to warrant "yeah, changed our minds" from the same people who'd tried to be hardcases about twenty-four hours earlier. Long story short, my pre-existing condition helped me there.

Yeah, nobody cares anymore. My boss said they really should give days off for covid, but well, he's not the boss of Spain, so nothing he can do either. My whole point about governments still standing. More or less my experience when I had covid... except I kind of got a note allowing me to stay home for the duration... and spent the time until I was clear just kind of sleeping and/or playing Shadow Dragon. I think those vibes are basically the permanent situation from now on. Actual elimination's off the table at this stage. The Governments of the world kind of held off on doing anything long enough for the virus to be too widespread to contain. There's no wonder cure to kill off the damn thing either, as much as some were banking on it. Not to mention respiratory viruses have a tendency to mutate damn fast and bypass prior immunity. The only benefit is viruses tend to mutate towards being less lethal. After all, if they kill their host before they spread, they kill themselves too. Point is, I expect this is functionally not going to be dissimilar to the flu (ironic considering the "just a flu" bit early on) going forward.

Gotta keep the economy going somehow. You know, kind of like why they dragged their feet on doing anything in the first place until it was too late. Who'd have figured politicians value money over people? Off memory those rapid antigen tests had a pretty terrible accuracy in comparison to the PCR. I literally had a doctor that wouldn't even consider them valid as proof. Anyway, best of luck. From my experience, the first week's about the worst of it. Though expect to be a bit fatigued when you recover. I'm of the understanding that vitamin c and d might help alleviate syptoms. Can't say for sure. I can definitely recommend getting as much sleep as possible though. It helps a lot with recovering. Gotta disagree. My mother was literally two weeks in when my positive test and symptoms came up. I think the incubation period and contagious period are a little less concrete than the guidelines say. Which is part of the problem on containing it in my opinion. People hard core want to believe the guidelines are a hard and fast rule instead of a guess around what should be safe most of the time. Catch is, everyone's immune system and strains upon it is different. Some people may take longer than the average to recover.

Handy thing about not playing mods I suppose.

How quickly we forget. Garon's a shapeshifting slime monster. He is the wall.

I'll be honest here, it's less to do with Koei Tecmo as a company. It's just I can't help associating them with Three Houses/Three Hopes. Which to some people would be a plus. But I burnt out so hard on Three Houses that when Three Hopes came out I was like "whatever". Which feels wrong when I remember how excited I got for games like New Mystery (which I'm still mad about not releasing here), Awakening and Shadows of Valentia. Or how much I enjoyed Fates over-all despite reservations about "splitting the game Pokemon style". The worst thing is the fatigue isn't even something that happened over the course of one playthrough. I went through the game 7 times to get all the supports. The only route I didn't do twice was Silver Snow. Then right after I finished... Jeritza dropped as free dlc. I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back as it were. The idea of going through Crimson Flower again just to use Jeritza and get his supports made me feel physically ill. I know that's a bit of an over-reaction. But I was sick of Fodlan. Something about Garreg Mach turns the whole thing into a naseous tedium the more you replay the game. Fates MyCastle didn't do that. It was simple and streamlined. It couldn't convey plot or lore in the same way... but it also didn't make me walk around halls with no threat or grand secrets for what feels like an eternity. tl;dr version being: I like the gameplay more than the lore due to the fact I like to replay games a lot... and Garreg Mach feels like it only added to the lore. Fun fact. My niece is very musically inclined despite her young age. She wrote three different songs about my dog. To existing tunes, sure. But the fact she can sing a song about my dog to the alphabet song's tune while having entirely different lyrics is really pretty impressive. More so because you only know it's to the tune because you recognize it from her singing. I wouldn't mind an FE4 remake. It'd have to make the gameplay quicker even if they didn't make a single quality of life change. Simply because unless it pulls a New Mystery I won't have to translate when I play... which isn't a very natural process to me. Plus, they could inadverdantly do something like fixing it so Arden could cross the mountains in Chapter 4 by making a path. You might say they'd never do this... but there's precedent. New Mystery of the Emblem removed some mountains by the forts in the pass towards the center of the map so Draug, Ryan, Gordin, and the cavs (who could no longer dismount) wouldn't need to be reclassed to pass the pass. Or maybe they could do something so crossing a certain desert in chapter 5 isn't a chore. You know. Basic, little changes even a purist won't throw a fit about.

A bit here, a bit there. Looking after my niece about four days a week now... more or less. I get to experience parenting without actually having kids. But she makes me so happy I can't complain a bit.