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About Me
Hi, I'm Wyvern, and welcome to my blog! This is a place for my thoughts and reblogs of stuff that I like. I'm mostly into games and art.
What I like:
Monster Hunter
Rune Factory 4, 5, and Guardians of Azuma
Dragon's Dogma
Punishing: Grey Raven
Devil May Cry
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Bayonetta
Sanrio
World of Warcraft
Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Gothic 1 and 2 Night of the Raven
Personal tag: #🐍🐉 | wyvern's thoughts
Hope my fanart of Kobo will brighten your day a little!
it bothers me when someone brings up misogyny in shounen anime and people shrug it off with "its designed for teenage boys, what can you expect." like well. idk i think its actually pretty important that shows for teenage boys are normal about women. i mean i think all media should be normal about women but teenagers are impressionable i think we could put a little bit of feminism in the teenage boy shows. it might do some good. you never know.
and this isnt just about shounen i just mean like. if you're excusing misogynistic writing with "well it wasn't written for girls" then i'm seriously questioning your approach to all this.
revolutionary girls
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Long before colonialism, when gender was policed and queerness was punished, Trans+ communities in the Philippines were sacred
Long before gender was policed and queerness was punished, they were sacred. In the Philippines, trans and gender-diverse people once stood at the centre of spiritual life. Precolonial Filipino societies recognised figures known as babaylan, ritual leaders primarily in the Visayan region who served as healers, spirit mediums, historians, and political authorities. Many babaylan were women, while others were asogor bayog, who were described by Western accounts as effeminate men or transgender individuals. Their gender variance was not only accepted but revered. Their authority did not exist despite their gender expression – it existed because of it.
Bamboo drink🐼🎋✨
The natural conclusion to my berrymania is blueberry pie!🫐✨🥧
I also realized that I've accidentally made a short comic about the fate of these blueberries with my 3 paintings haha
Painting process! The full hours long video will be DMed on Patreon.com/Yuumei on August 5th!
Lil lizards 🦎
What's the purpose of being given an option to spare Gomez in the Remake? And why does he even have the ore armour?
I mean, if they want to bring him back for the remake of 2/NotR, sure. They can figure that out. NotR still needs to have Raven as the threat, though, because it's funny that this random right-hand man of Gomez survived and became a servant of Beliar. It's like: was Raven always a cultist or it just happened after the Barrier fell. Not sure what Gomez will be doing in the sunken tower until 2. The orcs and dragons will be coming, after all. I'm pretty sure he valued the life of luxury he had as the most powerful man in the colony as well as the status quo, so this just has me scratching my head.
Tips for people playing Gothic 2 gold edition (aka Gothic 2 + Night of the Raven expansion) for the first time.
Collect every apple you find. For every 25 apples you eat, your strength stat increases by 1.
Collect every dark mushroom (Dunkelpilz) you find. For every 50 dark mushrooms you eat, you gain a permanent +5 bonus to your mana pool.
Scrolls that allow you to transform into a dragon snapper are some of the most OP items in the game. When in doubt, transform into a dragon snapper.
Rain of Fire is devastating in this game (which may surprise you particular if you've just played the G1 remake). When in doubt (and a dragon snapper won't cut it), cast Rain of Fire. Buy every scroll you come accross. If you're a mage, Rain of Fire should also be the first rune you create once you reach the 6th Circle of Magic.
Storm (Unwetter), sold/taught by the water mages is Rain of Fire's little sibling and will do for you in the early chapters what Rain of Fire is going to do for you late game (i. e. clear entire rooms/buildings).
Rain of Fire, Storm and other AOE spells do not respect walls and ceilings. Do not cast this close to friendly NPCs/quest NPCs you want to keep around. In particular, DO NOT CAST these spells trying to clear the sewers under Khorinis if you still want to have merchants to trade with once you're back topside.
Paladins are fine without using runes. If you don't really wanna invest in magic, don't. You only get a very limited selection of runes and your damage spells mostly only work against Demons, Dragons and the Undead. However, against those types of enemies, they are very effective.
If you plan on learning alchemy, don't eat dragon roots or goblin berries. You can turn them into potions. If eaten raw, these plants increase your stats by 1 point. Potions increase stats by 3 points.
If you plan on brewing stat potions, never eat or sell King's Sorrel (Kronstöckl). There's only 25 of them in the entire game and you can't brew stat potions without them.
That said, try to save your permanent bonuses (at least the ones for your main stat(s)) for the mid game game (some people recommend saving them for the endgame, but who has that kind of patience?). Character progression in Night of the Raven is very costly. The LP cost for increasing your stats with teachers increases the higher your stats are. For example, if your DEX is 10, you need to spend 1 LP to increase DEX by 1. If your DEX is 30, you need to spend 2 LP, 3 LP at 60, 4 LP at 90 and so on.
IMO it's best not to start using permanent bonuses before you're about to hit the 60 point threshold.
Once you start chapter 2, you can choose to return to the valley of mines or continue with the plot of the expansion. Even though it's tempting to return to the place you know from the first gane/remake, I recommend playing the expansion first, at least up until the point at which you're tasked to talk to a specific ghost. The expansion is slightly easier and you're going to need the extra levels early, especially if you're a mage.
Snaf will ask you to brew a potion at some point. Samuel can brew the potion for you if you bring him the recipe, saving you from having to collect the ingredients, some of which are hard to find if you don't want to invest skill points in learning hunter's skills.
Learn to how to remove the stringers from bloodflies and how to remove the poison from the stingers. You will be able to eat the stingers, instantly and fully regenerating your health. You can learn both skills from Edgor for 1 LP each. You'll find him in the swamp if you follow the expansion's storyline.
DEX is kinda OP in this game and a useful stat to increase for most builds. People who play mercs/dragon slayers often end up running quality builds (STR/DEX) and mages often use DEX swords early game before they have access to the fireball/ice lance runes and as a backup for when they run out of magic, because the stat requirements for DEX weapons are lower than for STR weapons.
In this game, unlike G1/Remake, acrobatics/combat roll is not a skill you can learn. You gain the ability automatically once you reach 90 DEX. If you were going to level DEX high anyway, this is a good threshold to aim for.
Be nice to Thekla. Just in general, she's under a lot of stress. But especially if you run a STR build. Her stew gives you a permanent STR bonus. You can multple helpings if you do quests for her.
If you want an extra STR point, don't talk to Thekla until you've joined your preferred faction. She'll hand out a freebie to mercenaries/dragon slayers, novices/fire mages and paladins. Militia boys don't get anything. If you went with the militia/paladin route, I don't think it's really worth it to wait talking to her until you're a paladin though, it's only a single point.
Once you're nearing the end of the game, you will be able to pick multiple NPCs to accompany you on your final quest. Paladins should always bring Girion along in order to be able to complete a faction-specific quest. Mages should bring Vatras for their own faction quest. Dragon slayers are fine no matter who they pick (but if you manage to convince Torlof to join you I'm kinda gonna judge you on moral grounds).
Asking Vatras to join you on your quest will cause Myxir to become unavailable as a teacher. So make sure you learn everything from Myxir you want to learn before you invite Vatras (in particular, you'll want to learn all 3 dialects of the Builders' language.
If you're a mage, you need to pick which spells to craft runes for. There are not enough rune stones in the game to craft every rune and only very few runes can be found by exploring.
For this reason, if you're a mage, you should hold back on turning in Fernando to the militia until you've finished the quest "Fernando's Business", since he'll reward you with a rune stone (this chapter is available from the beginning of chapter 2). You can still sell him out in chapter 3.
Fire mages, don't sleep on the water mages' magic! Ice lance is going to be your Fireball against enemies with high fire resistance (such as wargs). If you learn only 2 spells from Circle 2, they should be Fireball and Ice Lance.
Learn sneaking and lockpicking as soon as possible. Sneaking isn't just great for robbing people, it also lets you sneak around monsters that are too strong for you in the early game. It also allows you to loot shadow beasts' lairs right at the start of chapter 1, since shadow beasts sleep during daytime and as long as you sneak, you won't wake them up even if you walk right up to them.
Occasionally check back in with Xardas. There is no gameplay reason for this, he's just gonna be really sarcastic if you report in before you've actually finished any of the main quests.
Be supportive towards Lee. Again, no gameplay reason for this, he's just having a rough time.
Don't stress about Gorn in chapter 2. If you're really that hard on cash, Milten is going to get him out on his own (he's only going to have to break his oath to do it 😔😔😔. Don't stress about that either. Nobody will ever know).
If you're running a melee build and you finish the expansion's storyline, you may come to believe that the sword you receive at the end of the expansion's storyline is all you're going to need to finish the game because it's just that OP. This is mostly true. You will likely use this sword until the end of the game. The sword IS that OP. You should still make sure you got a second weapon you like and that works with your build once you cross the Point of No Return (the Point of No Return is clearly telegraphed in this game, btw. it involves a ship). Don't worry, the OP sword is not going to be taken from you at any point. It will be right there with you until the every end. Still, just keep one other high damage endgame weapon on you so you have a backup that isn't a rusty Zweihander you picked up from a random enemy. Trust me. You will be laughed at if you don't.
Back after a break 😭
・・・はっ、ゆめだったの・・・！すてきなゆめだったなぁ
...Oh, it was a dream...! What a wonderful dream.
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Absolutely loved seeing Zul'jin in the Legacy of Rage motion comic - such a badass grandpa - and as always Kayi Ushe gives a fantastic performance. However, I simply do not understand why another character he voices will be killed off.
Why is the story robbing a woman of her remaining family and having her make peace with her colonisers? Where are the other women: Yayo'jin who was supposed to be Zul'jin's mate and is still alive, and Ral'ji who was introduced in Legacy of the Amani and is Zul'jarra's partner? Why does it seem like Liadrin and Zul'jarra are being paired up when Liadrin has been tortured by Zul'jin before (as well as Zul'jarra already having a partner)? Why is Liadrin pushing to replace Zul'jarra's family with herself? No, seriously, what the heck. As an eldest child, the writing for Liadrin screams only child.
Previously, Talanji (apparently around 18 years old at the time) had to witness her father die in her arms. It's honestly upsetting that history will repeat. Much worse that this is happening to the Amani. Haven't the people suffered enough? Even Arator points that out. We could have had a sister-and-brother pair share leadership. Despite having different views and approaches, they would always have each other's backs because they only have each other left.
Also, get out of here with that "We all came from Haranir" and "Elf Unity" nonsense. Was it not confirmed long ago that elves knew they came from (dark) trolls? Might as well ignore Chronicle Volume 1, I guess. Can't rely on anything anymore. Regardless, sharing a common ancestor does not erase thousands of years of conflict or ongoing conflict. Elves have good reasons to despise each other, and trolls have extremely good reasons to despise elves.
Those in support of Zul'jan are amazing people. Those who are drawing him and writing fanfiction of him/shipping him with their OCs, you are all amazing.
Pwede mag complain dito about Pax Silica? Taglish po kasi hindi ako confident sa Filipino ko ^^; Na notice ko sa socmed, pag sinabi yung isang tao na anti-Pax Silica sya, the people who are pro-Pax Silica start calling them pro-China. Like, what the heck? Pwede naman anti-China at anti-US ang tao.
I get it when Filipinos say that dapat mag industrialise ang Pinas, that Pax Silica will provide jobs, that wag na madepend sa China ang Pinas. But I see the phrases "AI is here to stay" at "AI is the future", and my blood pressure goes up. Businesses replace their employees with AI so that they would no longer have to pay people. AI data centres use freshwater and heats up their surroundings - Philippines cannot handle this; heck, even USAmericans are protesting against the data centres. Does anyone even think about that?
Hindi ko alam ano yung sentiment sa AI, especially yung generative AI, sa Pinas. Pero meron political content creators nakikita ko who post AI generated images for satire or for diagrams. Not all of them, mind you, but it looks to be common. And I feel sad because some of these people have views I agree with, pero it's clear they do not have deeper knowledge of the cons of generative AI. Meron ako family and friends who do art, I myself love art. I also love to write, and I believe that the best computer humans have access to are their brains. Thus, I absolutely hate generative AI for stealing from artists and contributing massively to the literacy crisis.
IDK. Filipinos need to have a long conversation about Pax Silica. Thank you for reading po!
Absolutely pwede na pwede mag-complain sa inbox ko about Pax Silica and absolutely taglish or english or tagalog is allowed
But yes, absolutely all of this regarding Pax Silica and the whole you have to be pro this if you're anti that is exhausting! Mostly yung sentiment na "you're probably pro-China" comes from how Pax Silica was created specifically dahil the US and its allies wanted to create a strong "AI sector" to counter China's grip in AI and development so yun yung reason kung bakit yung mga pro-Pax Silica keeps pushing that narrative which is sooo disingenuous and it reminds me na most people really does have a black and white view of politics. If you're against the US, you must be pro-China and if you're against China, you must be pro-US! It's absolutely infuriating! Both are huge imperialistic countries na ilang dekada na nag-iintervene sa ating politics!! We shouldn't bend over backwards for one or the other and you should be critical of both!!! This isn't even going over how Pax Silica is going to screw over yung mga taga-New Clark City at other Kapampangan communities and especially yung indigenous groups in the area like the Aeta People which should be a concern for literally everyone in the country!!!
Regarding local sentiment, I'm an artist and writer too. In fact, I am going back to art college next week and I've been working on a novel for a while. It's been dire.
Most the average people na nakakausap ko are either neutral about AI or think na AI is the future and its been a trend since around 2023 nung nagsimula yung AI boom. Most people genuinely do not know the environmental impact of AI data centers either and it's something that I only mostly see people from my background (middle to upper middle class, some level of secondary or higher education, some progressive politics) are even talking about and I know na hindi kami yung majority. Even then, some people na middle class, educated, and progressive still don't care enough to avoid using it either which pmo so much.
Most people in the Philippines do not know the negative environmental impact AI has or if they did, they don't see the big deal despite how we've been dealing with worse and worse summers and worse and worse typhoons (just last year we had typhoons within a MONTH with half of them being super typhoons!). In fact, the average person seem to be not as informed kung ano nga ba yung Pax Silica at kung paano sila maapektuhan nito. Even my very well-educated AI-skeptical mother had no clue and I had to explain it to her and how bad it is. It's drowned out mostly by other news which kahit importanate, like yung impeachment ng VP, it's still awful na most people are uninformed o unaware on what's happening with this and if meron man silang info, they might only be given yung good parts that the gov't has been telling people so they're not going to look any deeper.
On my personal experience, most of my (art-aligned) peers absolutely detest AI pero I've also encountered people higher up (teachers, industry professionals, bosses, etc.) accept it or even embrace it. One of my college's projects that they gave the students was that they needed to use Adobe's AI program to generate an image that they have to paint traditionally which is confusing as hell??? Meron din yung isang professional artist that I used to look up to quite a bit na I saw use AI years ago and it pissed me off (not sure if they changed their minds I hope so). My friend who works for a design and printing company had a client feed yung design niya sa isang AI generator to "make it better" and sent it back to her which is insulting as hell.
Anyway, yeah Pax Silica has been pissing me off and I'm glad there's so much backlash for it I've been seeing but there seriously needs to be way more discussions and honesty about Pax Silica and especially to the majority of the population and it should be stated in understandable terms too. This isn't just a discourse that should be left in political and creative circles but a discussion for the people of this country who would be the most affected by this.
Salamat sa pag tugon! Best of luck sa college ^__^
So true that discussion is being overshadowed by the impeachment trial ng VP, though I am also paying close attention to that. I am just hoping that the people who are wary of Pax Silica or against it can have their side of the argument be heard kasi masyado black-and-white talaga yung thinking na mga tao. So sorry for your friend; it's stressful how normalised (gen) AI has become. The average person really needs to be made aware of how harmful and exploitative AI is. Dapat protektahan ng Philippines ang natural resources, sovereignty, at people nya.
Take care po!
Just like that!
Said I would post more about Gothic 1 and 2 + NotR so here we go.
I played with EN voices and by Innos is the voice acting good at some parts and hilariously bad at others. NH's performance is the best. It's consistent in both games, and him being a smartass makes me think that's why he was arrested and sent to the colony (ignoring what Rhobar II said in 3). It's funnier to have NH be a random dude who just so happens to be the Chosen One because he was willing to get shit done. I also like Milten's, it kinda fits him being the youngest Fire Magician. Not sure how old the four friends are, but NH feels like he's the same age as Milten and Lester, and Diego's probably the oldest?The comic revealed Milten was a deserter who got caught stealing an apple, and him being a deserter makes sense if he was a young man who didn't want to fight. If you forget the Eye of Innos, not only does Xardas scold (and threaten) you, Milten gets mad at you too XD
The difference in Diego's voice in 1 and 2 is so stark, it makes me cry. I can forgive him not wanting to get close to the castle or orc wall, but I can't forgive how he sounds.
