The Roger The Paladin
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2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
I mean, I can say with almost absolute certainty I've never, ever used the triangle attack in SD, and I've played that game a lot more times than Quetzal lol. So I can definitely understand.
I've never used the Triangle attack in SD myself. Indeed I've only used it in Gaiden and Shadows of Valentia.
SpoilerThis is despite having played Fe9 with the Rolf, Oscar, Boyd combo. I gave Oscar Axes on promotion for obvious reasons, so the bow thing didn't work out. I've never actually used Tanith despite her interesting trick. Likewise, I've always found Syrene, Juno, Farina and Est far too lategame to bother using. As for the axe one... despite always intending to, I've never got around to using the naturally occuring axe users in that game. The roster's so big I usually end up deciding on other units.
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10 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
Wasn't it more "I psychically throw you out of my castle"? Bowser got whipped.
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.
3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:12 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said: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.
2 hours ago, Lightchao42 said:Obviously the villain rep of Three Houses should be Gatekeeper, we all know he's the true mastermind. If he got meme'd into Three Hopes, he can be meme'd into Engage.
I'd prefer that over any damn Agarthan. No matter how ridiculous it is.
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4 minutes ago, Armagon said:
Yours is the most realistic outcome but i was literally just thinking of an Edelgard pointing meme.
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.
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36 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
Ooooh, now I really like this. I mean, maybe not redeeming all of them, I think in some sense that undermines the tragedy, especially of Lyon in particular, but it'd be an amazing idea to see happen.
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
Spoilerthinks Black Knight helping Micaih liberate Daein helps balance the scales on what he did to Greil, or his part in the schemes of Lehran. I feel a Lyon who seeks to atone for his past would never erase the tragedy of the lives lost to his error. From an in-universe perspective, he'd never be able to undo deaths such as those of Fado, Ismaire, Glen, Selena, and others that fell to the war his mistakes caused.
My biggest problem with the idea is the fact I'm kind of doubting it'll even be a thing in the game. I feel it'd be a way to add meaning to the ring mechanic beyond the obvious fan-service by using it as a way to progress some character's stories. -
5 minutes ago, Armagon said:
This is further followed up by the player also being able to summon Edelgard.
I see we had the same idea.
13 minutes ago, The Roger The Paladin said: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.
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7 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
I mean, to be honest, it'd be pretty cool. It really would generate a ton of attention while putting an interesting pitch on the initial concept.
On the other hand though, I'd kinda like to see the villains use the Emblems of unambiguous heroes like Ike or Leif, y'know? Something so that they feel more like rings and not imports.
Kinda hoping for a Hardin Emblem instead of Gharnef.
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.
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2 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
They deserve to be red with anger, because they are already red with communism and the blood of innocent Poles.
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.
3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:I started making LPs. Then Benice pinged me to help him guide Shrimpy along in his first Berwick run. Then I stayed here. That's my backstory.
Let's not talk about the Three Houses hate arc.
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.
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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.
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8 minutes ago, Punished Dayni said:
So we all claim to be Wraith then?
Or Ruben, or something. I don't even know.
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2 minutes ago, lightcosmo said:
It sounded like a fun time, so i guess you can take that away from it?
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.
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Just now, Sidereal Wraith said:
Then why aren’t you drunk and slurring your words you glorious bastard?
You assume a lot thinking I'm not.
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Just now, Sidereal Wraith said:
Don’t sass talk me Sooks, you have no leg to stand on!
I'm not Sooks, I'm Wraith. Stop messing with me The Roger.
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Just now, Sidereal Wraith said:
Are you so sure Dayni?
Stop getting users mixed up The Roger, you old man.
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Just now, lightcosmo said:
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.
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1 hour ago, Sidereal Wraith said:
Because you’re use clips from TLJ and it maybe slowly liquifying my organs.
4 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:But... he's not called Rubenio, Wraith...
Everyone can be Saint Rubenio if they try hard enough?
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3 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:
The two negatives cancelled each other out, so to speak.
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 -
36 minutes ago, lightcosmo said:
Gosh, this sounds terrible! Are you doing okay?!
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.
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1 hour ago, Punished Dayni said:
What truths there are with this don't make it any better when Long Covid has been a thing for a while and it's own study has been sporadic at best.
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.
38 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:Well, they've moved me to a different office. I'm all on my own now, in a proper office with windows.
...maybe this ain't so bad after all. Only problem is I can't figure out how to open the goddamned windows lol
EDIT: I've figured it out, I had to turn this nob on the wall, and then the window opened so slowly I didn't even realize it was
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.
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1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:Quote
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.
2 hours ago, Punished Dayni said:This is some Covid's over but not really vibes.
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.
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1 hour ago, BrightBow said:
Best of luck. It's so disgraceful how many governments just decided that the crisis is over. ...and how many people are not willing to act in a responsible manner unless they are forced to.
Anyway, kick that sucker in the nuts.
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?
57 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:Thanks, everyone. Antigen test says I'm clean, but I'm still feeling sick and my dad is infected, so I'm not too sure.
...Still means I'm going to work. It's going to be very fun sitting in the office, unable to breathe properly on top of freezing because they won't even give us heating. Being an intern is fun!
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.
17 minutes ago, Capt. Fargus said:How long has your pop been feelin sick? If it’s been a week to ten days or so I think your outta the woods far as contagious goes
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.
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1 hour ago, lightcosmo said:
I dislike 776 capture after all the mods i've played that literally force you to rely on it to play the game at all. It really killed the way i view the mechanic.
Handy thing about not playing mods I suppose.
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4 hours ago, Edelguardiansing said:
Reading this was interesting considering my back is up against a wall.
...And behind that wall is a bunch of dirt.
How quickly we forget. Garon's a shapeshifting slime monster. He is the wall.
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On 9/14/2022 at 11:21 PM, Armagon said:
To be fair, this time Gust is involved and i'm way more confident in Gust projects than i am in Koei Tecmo projects.
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.
On 9/14/2022 at 11:55 PM, Saint Rubenio said:Wholesome.
Glad you're still enjoying that so much haha.
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.
On 9/15/2022 at 1:17 AM, Saint Rubenio said:Why would I do that for a FE4 remake, though? I don't want a FE4 remake lol
Unfortunately, the worst part of Engage is that it leds a lot of credence to the possibility of the FE4 remake. The elitists will celebrate this silver lining. Me, I'll sit in the corner with you anime scum and give it the cold shoulder. I only tolerated those maps just enough to beat them once haha.
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.
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4 minutes ago, Punished Dayni said:
How's life besides?
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.
You know you’re gettin older....
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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?