Interdimensional Observer

I read your earlier comment, because of it, I think I mistook the definition of "broken" here.🤣 I thought you meant the 😭 kind.

...Didn't you say this was the True Ending? And I believe that somewhere in here, you said you prefer a happy ending to a sad one.😕 Is this being only the first half of a whole story the thing that is letting you feel this way? Or are you simply wowed by the (totally deviating from the original?) narrative?🤔

If you weren't doing Lewyn!Tine, Leif has a practical monopoly on Tornado, since ForsetiBoy doesn't need it. ...But Tine is Pursuit-less, and there's only one ring of that, which -if you're not egalitarian and willing to settle for a coin flip Adept proc for murdering- is probably going to Arthur. (EDIT: I completely skipped past you being egalitarian -but in Iucharba's favor.😅 No objection there, even if Tine complains.) Leif in this situation has a monopoly on Bolognese -but the weight likely kills any desire to actually use that, and that Leif could always find something better. Neato.🤓 Meanwhile Endless Space 2... is much more annoying with truces. If the enemy proposes one (some of the time, not all of it, I'm not sure why) and you don't have Influence (a currency akin to Culture + diplomatic/administrative capital) to refuse the truce, you'll be forced into it.😑 I'm reminded of an art history course I took on India. There are depictions of Shiva that give the glorious god a total of four heads. Some show three heads, but three implies a fourth. Also, a fourth head implies a fifth IIRC, which represents the qualities of the divine that are beyond mortal comprehension. The other heads have symbolism too, yet what exactly each head represents varies from source to source -but basically add all the heads together and what it amounts to is Shiva Is Everything. Is this all that relevant? Not really.🤓🙃 You took notice, but fell into the trap anyhow. -You're definitely not alone in that.😉 -But Julius INSISTED he be allowed to use the omniscient omnipresent invincible warp powers belonging to Cult-kun -corrected LEADING Cult-kun- conveys. The job is pretty boring otherwise. And Arion being a guy with holy pointy stick was enough of an excuse to tell Manfroy to buzz off.😛 (Alas, even as the Dark God Incarnate, Julius had to strike a bargain with his leading vicar, and in exchange for wrapnapping Arion, gave Manfroy total control over what to do about Julia. Not the wisest of compromises.😝)

They retroactively slipped this into Return to Dream Land Deluxe.😄

Just a name methinks, no ultra-caffeinated chocolate crunch dunked in energy drink. Though I've had them at least once before, not bad.🍪😋 They also do delivery -but probably not airmail.😛

The link failed? -Cookie chain in the US. Invented for late-night sweet-tooth cravings at college.

For a fraction of a second, I misread "Erin" as "Finn".🤣 Thracia does establish that Free and ...Districtorial(?) Cities exist. -But I haven't a clue how the political structure would function. Free Imperial Cities in the HRE meant "only has the Holy Roman Emperor as a landlord, nobody in-between", and I don't think there's any indication that Leonster's monarch occupies a similar role in the District? Maybe? It's never clearly stated if King/Queen of Leonster does, at least in matters of defense against foreign aggression. Thracia was modeled after Spain, while Leonster, in the north, was modeled after Italy. That’s why Leonster appears more highly-civilised and polished in comparison. -Kaga's remarks again. ...Sooooo is the Manster District supposed to be akin to Medieval/Renaissance Italy politically then? -With way less internal conflict I would imagine.

-I asked, because if Ninty has been keeping their own cards very close for a while, it could mean 🎆🎇🎊 nonstop during the inevitable June/Summer Direct.

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/04/nintendo-indie-world-showcase-set-for-april-17 ...When was the last time Nintendo did a normal direct featuring their own output? -Just asking.

My error then, my misinterpretation.😅 Sorry for wasting your time. I wasn’t attempting to defend Arion for his decision that dooms the lives of hundreds or thousands of Thracians. -Yet, I admit I try not to be one to harshly criticize fictional characters …though Gen 2 Lewyn is something of an exception (save for the part where loathing pixels is unpleasant, unneeded, and undesirable, so I’d rather not dislike him even if he’s dislikable).😆 Completely unserious explanation for anything stupid any flier character does.: Spending a bunch of time high in the sky where the air is thinner leads to slight oxygen deprivation, the effects of which on the brain and cognitive functions are subtle yet significant. -This explanation doesn't work at all, because there is simply no way pegasi and wyverns fly at such altitudes that oxygen masks/pressured cabins are necessary to stay alive and functionally conscious.😝

Don't get fat.😃 Isn't that what you sometimes want with scary things though? Wouldn't playing in the sunny daytime possibly ruin the immersion?🤔

True. Harder DS adaptations have been made (The World Ends With You, Etrian Odyssey). But Konami not being all big on video games nowadays except Momotaro Dentetsu selling like crazy in Japan, maybe even these little things are making them drag their feet on a Castlevania DS Collection. ...And then for some reason chats with Shu afterwards. A portable reboot that never got the needed sequels?😛 If it weren't for Pinball and Link Battler, the GBC would've been devoid of SRW, surprising.

Forgot to comment on this before, but I do find it weird that this is where Victory and G Gundams got their debuts.😆 Seems like an obvious thing for Konami to do. Although they do have to put in a tiny bit of additional effort to adjust for the lack of two screens, touch controls, and NDS WiFi. Still easier than a Boktai tetralogy.

Portrait of Ruin is the second of the three DS Igavanias, Dawn of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia being the other two. -PoR was also the sixth Igavania in ten years, so the approach was getting worn out for the franchise at the point of its release. Whilst not exactly the most original title (with some sprites going back to 1993's Rondo of Blood), and perhaps too easy, Portrait of Ruin is a solid Igavania. I played it to the point of overdoing it when I younger.😆 Treat it as junk food. This is what you get for not going to bed.😜 -Nice to see you've a case of Good Game Insomnia.😛

As I said before- methinks Arion was listening to the father he was used to hearing, and ignored the one actually in front of him. Or perhaps, to make Arion a little less blind, examined the two, and when deciding on how to interpret the contradictions between the fathers, fell lopsidedly in favor of the old one. Tunnel vision, people in crises of the worst kind aren't immune to it. Indeed, some disasters only get worse/happen because some people fail to see what is truly happening in front of them. (By Michalis before him and TRS Julius thereafter, Kaga seems to have liked moody wyvern princes who get into unnecessary battles.) If/when Genealogy gets remade... I haven't the faintest how they could possibly fix Coirpre. Short of turning Silvia's Dance from a class skill to a personal one, being a second refresher would maybe improve him? I also sorta like the map blockiness of Genealogy Generals. Them, Barons, and Emperors, you can see how IS was trying to back as much as possible into those tiny map tiles, to the point the classes look squished.

Tycho Brahe?😕 Does the Father's Son do.: The thing Father Dearest is implicitly telling him to do now, for the very first time. The thing that Father Dearest has whined to him about doing ...776000 times in his life? -Or die trying to do. Which of these would Daddy really want? What would truly make him happy up in Heaven? What it is that The Most Loyal Child should actually do? The answer is obvious. Arion is Daddy Issues/10. Counterfactual thought- imagine if Leif had been taken by Ethlyn instead of Altena. Travant probably would've chucked the Gae Bolg at his utterly useless skull and walked away leaving his second "son" with a fractured skull at some point.

Super Castlevania IV is basically a "narrative remake" -not that it really has any plot- of the original Castlevania. And, Dragon Quests 1-3 got Super Famicom remakes. And, there's Super Mario All-Stars, and the Japan-only BS Legend of Zelda 1 remake... ...I get it. Development costs/time were probably low enough back then, and the graphical jump from NES to SNES was pretty big. FYI- Sakurai has stated he originally wanted to leave Copy Abilities out of Spring Breeze, to imitate the original Kirby's Dream Land, but, a member of the dev team persuaded him not to. -Even though this, for Sakurai, leaves Dyna Blade without anything to distinguish it from Spring Breeze. Enjoy!😀 Hopefully!🤞

Unusually warm weather today, I sat outside and read an entire magazine to catch up on my history. Mosaic of the Roman god Oceanus, discovered in the 1980s in a 4th century AD Roman villa located in Carranque, Spain. You approve of the blue beard like rolling waves @Saint Rubenio?🌊 And Shrimpy, yes those are crustacean claws and antennae emerging from his head. ...Also read of the gold and silver treasures left behind by the historical Thracians (thought of as barbarians and warriors -for hire even!- by the Greeks, no wyverns though). The Odrysian Kingdom (480 BC-30 AD) of the Thracians being located at the intersection of modern Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. ...And that, contrary to what certain corner of the Internet would have you believe, anime did not invent unnecessarily sexualization.😝 The late 4th century Greek Neoplatonist, Hypatia, was one of the last great philosophers of was last great Classical philosophers, and a woman at that. When Enlightenment era Europe developed a liking for this ancient lady of rational thought, she began being depicted in the 1700s & 1800s as a beautiful youthful nude woman in the classical/Renaissance/neoclassical style. -Despite the fact said sculptures/paintings are supposed to depict her tragic death at the hands of a fanatical Christian mob in 415 AD, and Hypatia was born around 360 AD, which means she would've been ~55 years of age.

Feeling between games ATM, and the aforementioned Kirby threw me in the mood to do Extra Mode in Return to Dreamland, so I've been dashing through that for the past three days, something not overly cerebral/immersion-demanding. -No intentions of doing the Arena/True Arena though. I should do the postgame world in Forgotten Land at some point. Hopefully the altered controls make them to some degree enjoyable for you. Personally... I think I might prefer PH over ST? Not entirely sure why. On the topic of infrastructure, random factoid I had read yesterday- there are 40 million miles (64.374 million km) of (automotive) roads globally, 4 million of which are in the United States.

"Angry and violent perverts when drunk", to which civilization that isn't teetotaler has that not been applied by somebody at some point?🤨 -The world hardly changes in some ways. I like the variety of other insulting descriptions too, as one mustn't brand the Other all under exactly the same label. You have to show yourself a connoisseur of xenophobia and judge nonsensically with a discerning eye.🧐 -And I haven't a clue either on which story, if any, in which Arthur was killed by Bretons. I only know the Le Morte d'Arthur version of things.

Seems like you're very much enjoying the old madness in a new bottle though!😃

Well it's derived from history (the Records of the Three Kingdoms), and history has a lot of names. 95% of people aren't generics.😄 Doesn't help China has a long history of good record-keeping and so there were plenty of historical names that were remembered when the novel got written. As for the infamous Lu Bu, from what I gather, he was a lot of bark, but no brains, and he couldn't bite hard enough to save him from his brainlessness.☠️ Nonetheless, Lu Bu barked loud enough in his short time on the Chinese stage that the Romance chose to make him famous. -I recently played the Lu Bu storyline exclusive to DW8, and I like how they spun his tale with the implicit message- "this is an example of how NOT to warlord!".😉 They chose to use him there to represent one of the many failed warlords who -due to personal flaws or luck or circumstances largely beyond their control- didn't eventually emerge as one of the Big Three.

I learned about it via Dynasty Warriors. ...Not exactly the most historically accurate of depictions.😅 -And this is the cast as of Dynasty Warriors 7 (we're now on DW9). Almost everyone is color-coded according to their faction: Purple/dark blue for Wei. Wu gets red/orange. (Minus Lu Bu the big idiot in the middle here, he's an Other). Shu gets green. (Zhao Yun directly to the viewer's left of Lu Bu is oddly mostly blue despite being Shu). Cyan means Jin. (Intentionally supposed to blend in with Wei.) Yellow is supposed to be the color of Other- those who don't belong to one of the other four- but it's less consistently applied. So much for being the squeaky-clean protagonist of the entire story.😆 As if the baby-spike wasn't already indication of that.

Filial piety taken to an extreme? -Yes, some children with overbearing parents grow up to rebel in every way imaginable. In this case however, Arion, from birth to this moment, has spent his life in the shadow of his extremely frustrated father, who inherited the unfulfilled ambitions of his ancestors, embodied in a country of dearth. He isn't a grown adult who then came to voluntarily work for Travant, and his natural instinct when faced with all the pressure from before he could even walk no doubt, was to cave in and be that loyal son. ...Altena? Okay, someone who spent almost as long under the same paternal hadopelagic pressure, and clearly hasn't been as crushed. But I suppose different people naturally react differently in the same situations. I'm not saying I like Arion as a character. I don't care for him either way. His folly I'm just not as cynical about. -Arion kinda is an Anti-Michalis. Michalis is the wyvern prince with an -unfortunately incompetent- little sister, who committed patricide. Arion is the wyvern prince with an -unfortunately incompetent- little sister, who would die for his father. I feel like this scene is kinda forced and perhaps even out-of-character for Travant (not entirely, given his Gen 1 massacre). Feels more like something that was tossed in for gameplay "fun" and some sorta-interesting way to introduce Hannibal and Priest. I've always been on Team Wei.😄 Although South Thracia is more Shu territorially, a poor smaller country with mountains at the border making it difficult to invade ...until Jiang Wei intentionally abandoned the border fortresses, smart move that was. And are we sure Seliph isn't more like Liu Shan? At least Zhuge Liang has no personality, because he has so much divine wisdom that he can't elicit mortal emotions.

Columbia was the goddess-personification of the American continents (which Europeans initially regarded as a single continent) -and later the United States- from the late 1600s to the end of the 1800s (in the US perspective). When the Big French Lady came our way in 1886, the copper-green goddess gradually replaced Columbia, and this was finalized by 1931- when the "Star-Spangled Banner" replaced "Hail Columbia" as the national anthem of the United States. Although, Columbia Pictures was so named in 1924, one of her last starring roles. (Uncle Sam appeared in the first half of the 1800s, yet it was not until the 1860s and 70s that he began gaining widespread popularity/notoriety as the embodiment of the United States/federal government. It wasn't until World War I that Uncle Sam fully replaced Columbia in war propaganda.) ...I remembered a two-page article on the history of Lady Columbia in Smithsonian Magazine *flips to the cover* from September-October last year. Just parroting what's written in it.🇺🇸🤓 Thankfully we have the regional concept of "Oceania".