Serenes Forest's Teehee Thread

[Acacia Sgt]

22 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Oohh...

...no, wait, what? In book 2 he straight up has no human form! I guess it's a sort of mash of both appearances? A bit weird, but oh well, better than nothing.

Well, that's how FEH works I guess. Had to give him his human form for other purposes.

Though I suppose having him as his Shadow Dragon form for, say, Aether Resort facilities would be hilarious to see. XD

Edited April 27, 2022 by Acacia Sgt

[Shrimpica]

9 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Though now you tell me the timeline is a little less linear than all that

If you want to play in order, i'd prefer release order over chronical order, mainly because how the gameplay changes and story stuff will make more sense that way. 

1/2 -> Ark -> Oath -> Origin -> 7 -> Memories -> 8 -> 9

5 has no canon release currently as previously mentioned.

That said, as long as you don't play 2 before 1 any order is ok.

5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Yeah, that's the strength of videogames as a storytelling medium. You're not just watching something happening, it feels like it's happening to you, so to speak. When game stories actually exploit that advantage, it makes for some brilliant moments

yup. That's very true. And FE has many examples of both doing it right and wrong

3 hours ago, Armagon said:

Xenoblade 3 gameplay

ngl i like these changes. Alot. Ofc remains to be seen how it will play, but seems like it answers few of the gripes i had with the gameplay. Also seems like positioning will matter more now!

2 hours ago, Armagon said:

dash

2 hours ago, Sooks said:

Ah yes, my daily reminder not to browse this thread at school.

School is for studying not for Teehee

2 hours ago, Dayni said:

barring asking people to not fuck their cousin.

you'd be surprised how many countries are still ok with that. I am not ok with it myself, but it's not as widely forbidden or viewed as incest everywhere.

That said, fantasies are fantasies and are ok aslong as they don't affect reality. No matter the kink.

Like the most popular porn tag in Germany iirc is stepmom. Personally disgusts me, alot, but i doubt that means all these people want to bang their stepmothers lol

Edited April 27, 2022 by Shrimpolaris

[Lightcosmo]

1 minute ago, Shrimpolaris said:

Also seems like positioning will matter more now!

Regarding this, hopefully they go the X route and display your relative position to the enemy on screen, was a nice addition imo needs to come back.

[Sooks]

1 hour ago, Newtype06 said:

You shouldn't use your phone at school in the first place.

5 minutes ago, Shrimpolaris said:

School is for studying not for Teehee

Wraith is actually Shrimpy and 06? Who woulda thought it?

Edited April 27, 2022 by Sooks

[Saint Rubenio]

 

8 minutes ago, Sooks said:

Wraith is actually Shrimpy and 06? Who woulda thought it?

I would scold you as well, but I think I lost the right the time I watched a movie with my classmate.

Or the time I 100%d Super Mario 63 over the course of multiple classes before Flash's takedown.

Or how when the school restricted internet access, I found a Belgium site that somehow escaped the lock full of Mario flash games to waste time with.

...Having computers in class makes it difficult to resist...

[GuardianSing]

15 hours ago, Armagon said:

That honestly depends but i'd rather a VN with game than a VN with none.

15 hours ago, Shrimpolaris said:

I only played one such VN with gameplay (or 2 if that other one counts), and i didn't mind them honestly.

Gameplay can infact improve the story by involving you in it directly.

Ah, okay. Interesting.

I was curious if it was like some musicals where the songs are nice but end up putting the story to a halt if they aren't melded together well.

14 hours ago, Newtype06 said:

"Hagia Sophia is an international inter-cultural treasure… Unless and until it can be shared by both religions in harmony – which would be a grand idea – it should remain a secular building honoring both religions who have made it beautiful."

Also I got to meet Suleiman, he was like the only historical figure I recognized but I was pretty excited when I did.

[Acacia Sgt]

Meanwhile, in an alternate world...

"What both religions? The Buddhists are so far away!"

Edited April 27, 2022 by Acacia Sgt

[Sooks]

27 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I would scold you as well, but I think I lost the right the time I watched a movie with my classmate.

Or the time I 100%d Super Mario 63 over the course of multiple classes before Flash's takedown.

Or how when the school restricted internet access, I found a Belgium site that somehow escaped the lock full of Mario flash games to waste time with.

...Having computers in class makes it difficult to resist...

I mean, it’s not like I’m wasting class time when I have work to do or when the teachers are teaching. But school is so easy, there’s a lot of time where neither thing is happening and I need something to do.

Edited April 27, 2022 by Sooks

[Acacia Sgt]

Forget Crusades on the Middle East.

Crusades on India and Tibet is where is at it!

[GuardianSing]

4 minutes ago, Acacia Sgt said:

Meanwhile, in an alternate world...

"What both religions? The Buddhists are so far away!"

Ah yes, me favorite religion, Siberian Wastes.

I love the little patches of Buddhism scattered across the central and east Europe. There's even some Taoist, how the hell did that happen?

[Acacia Sgt]

13 minutes ago, GuardianSing said:

Ah yes, me favorite religion, Siberian Wastes.

I love the little patches of Buddhism scattered across the central and east Europe. There's even some Taoist, how the hell did that happen?

People travel I guess. lol

By events or asking the Chinese Emperor you can get courtier from there into your court. Then just RNG be RNG and something happened to have a courtier end up there... or ends up ruling. Or they educated the heir and passed down the religion. So plenty of things to happen.

Which is how you end up with, say, that one Nestorian province in Mesopotamia, despite Catholicism already dominated the area.

Edited April 27, 2022 by Acacia Sgt

[ping]

17 minutes ago, Acacia Sgt said:

"What both religions? The Buddhists are so far away!"

More of a Coptoman, myself

(My biggest conversion run in CK was Mother Of Us All in CK3, convert all of Africa to Bori. Never again, CK3 is not a good game to blob in)

[Acacia Sgt]

It's not worth it if you're not map-paiting in something, hahaha.

As it is, I kept myself humble on the political side:

Tangier was just about the only expansion I did outside De Jure. I definitely was behind that big religion map painting however. Since early on I sent my Court Chaplain to proselyte foreign courts. Starting with the Bulgarians and Serbians so I could hem the Orthodox and stop them from expanding. Then for them I invited to court a claimant to the Byzantine Empire, converted him and his family, then pressed claim. Then tried to help them out as best I could until they could convert the place up. Then just let the thing cascade from there. Once Crusades arrived, it was easier.

Edited April 27, 2022 by Acacia Sgt

[Saint Rubenio]

Daniel isn't a very smart man.

45 minutes ago, Sooks said:

I mean, it’s not like I’m wasting class time when I have work to do or when the teachers are teaching. But school is so easy, there’s a lot of time where neither thing is happening and I need something to do.

No, yeah, I get you. This is one of like, ten billion problems with schools worldwide. Since there's a set schedule, often the teacher will be done teaching, but the students can't just leave or go do something better. Instead, the teacher has to present some excuse for work to cover the rest of the time, and the students will stare at the wall for the remainder of the class time. Thanks.

[Venger_06]

2 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

The advice columnist said incest fantasies, that don't go beyond fantasies, are fine.

And, if you weren't raised particularly close with the cousin, it's understandable they added. As it is a close upbringing that creates the sexual revulsion between family members, it's not inherently having close genes. Then, there was the case the Israeli communal kibbutz settlement programs (that still exist to this day, but less experimentally utopian). Children in kibbutz were raised collectively, though not entirely separated from their parents. Children raised in these old-fashioned kibbutz it was studied, had a tendency to later marry outside their community, as everyone they grew up within the community, were so close they considered them siblings, despite no genetic bond. Research into child marriages the columnist added, seem to run into intimacy issues sometimes as well. And then I recall this one murder show I was watching set in the Staten Island borough of New York City, where a young man said the Staten Island community was too close, so that youths like him generally preferred dating people outside of the borough when they crossed over to Manhattan to party, the girls of Staten Island were like his sisters

As if this wasn't enough, the columnist went even further! That, scientifically speaking, the genetic reproduction issues of a single 1st cousin marriage (what the Habsburgs were doing generation-after-generation was still very wrong) are only 3-4% higher than a normal, not-closely related couple. And even then that only applies in case of rare genetic diseases. Then, they claimed that, again, purely from a scientific perspective, a 4th (or maybe even 3rd, I forget) cousin marriage has been instinctively imagined by Homo sapiens as a species (during our long pre-civilization history I would think) as ideal. Since 4th is far enough removed to quash any increased genetic abnormality chances, yet close enough to be more... the phrasing was something like "genetically compatible". Perhaps referring to ease of a successful impregnation and or subsequent survival of the child to their own reproductive adulthood? 

-However, the advice provider was not endorsing incest.

What's the problem with cousin marriage? Here's fine. There's even a saying that goes like this: "God created our cousins so we wouldn't hook up with our sisters".

1 hour ago, Shrimpolaris said:

Like the most popular porn tag in Germany iirc is stepmom. Personally disgusts me, alot, but i doubt that means all these people want to bang their stepmothers lol

Hot

I mean, I doubt these people even have a stepmom. Just like people who fantasize about sibling incest doesn't usually have siblings. It's all just fetish

[Acacia Sgt]

Reminds me that in High School, for the days after the final exams of the semester but before the semester itself ended, we basically had nothing to do.

So we just played Smash Brawl. Someone bringing their Wii, and we just used one of the school's TV's.

On the same topic, in the mornings before class we'd also use the TV to watch cartoons.

[Shrimpica]

School systems worldwide need alot of reforms, yes, but good luck convincing the old blokes everywhere in control to care about education lol

7 minutes ago, Newtype06 said:

It's all just fetish

exactly. And nothing wrong with that

As for cousin marriage thing...to many, cousins are more akin to siblings. Romance with them is just...weird. Also family dynamics can be whack.

As i said above tho, that's not the case everywhere, and i lived in such a place myself for a few years. It's better to accept how different cultures handles such things even if you don't like it. Makes life easier that way.

Edited April 27, 2022 by Shrimpolaris

[Sidereal Wraith]

1 hour ago, Shrimpolaris said:

School is for studying not for Teehee

Damn straight!

1 hour ago, Shrimpolaris said:

Like the most popular porn tag in Germany iirc is stepmom. Personally disgusts me, alot, but i doubt that means all these people want to bang their stepmothers lol

…How do you know this Shrimp-kun?

[Shrimpica]

4 minutes ago, WraithReborn said:

…How do you know this Shrimp-kun?

r/de

[Sidereal Wraith]

9 minutes ago, Shrimpolaris said:

r/de

What?

[Shrimpica]

Just now, WraithReborn said:

What?

German subreddit

[Lightcosmo]

Another thing in XC3 I would like to see return: enemy appendages from X. 

The ability to stop specific attacks adds another layer of depth to the combat and it makes battles not always the same-y

[Shrimpica]

[Sidereal Wraith]

11 minutes ago, Shrimpolaris said:

German subreddit

Right… German “subreddit”

[ping]

1 hour ago, Acacia Sgt said:

Tangier was just about the only expansion I did outside De Jure. I definitely was behind that big religion map painting however. Since early on I sent my Court Chaplain to proselyte foreign courts. Starting with the Bulgarians and Serbians so I could hem the Orthodox and stop them from expanding. Then for them I invited to court a claimant to the Byzantine Empire, converted him and his family, then pressed claim. Then tried to help them out as best I could until they could convert the place up. Then just let the thing cascade from there. Once Crusades arrived, it was easier.

Ohh, completely forgot that you can do that in CK2. Or it was in a DLC that I didn't have - never been as much into CK2, so I only bought a couple when they were on discount, which might in turn be part of the reason why I never got as much into CK2 CK without events is honestly not that interesting a game, and I believe there's a lot of them in the DLCs.