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So we all agree that Diana’s actions here are legitimately villainous, right?

That she had full and complete knowledge of what radical-6 was, who was infected with it, how it would spread, and what the consequences of that would be? And that she deliberately orchestrated the deaths of billions to gamble on a chance to save one individual?

I’d always assumed that Diana was tricked into releasing radical-6 in the timeline leading to V L R.

God damn.

D END - 1

It seems only fitting that my first ending is the reality that got us into this nightmare to begin with.

As an aside...

This “kid” has never bled or really been confirmed dead - not once. A GAULEM, maybe? Sigma did just say that the framework, the hardware, was already established prior to his personal interpretation of artificial intelligence.

Wouldn’t it be funny if he didn’t have a head under that helmet? If that was just... it? In any event, I’d be blown away if Q was human at this point. Check out that circuitry on the portrait, even.

BOSS PHI

Alright that plan was absolutely stupid as hell but she still seems like the only one with any real sense left.

She gets it. She knows what will happen if she’s allowed to survive, and to reach the surface. Of course, one glance at Sigma should already tell her that her survival is inevitable - from her perspective, this history is already... well, history. It’s already come to pass.

Still, her heroism and pragmatism are both admirable. This is what I expected out of Akane, who has been exhaustively awful to date - not Phi. Give it up for Boss Phi.

i told yall this was a stupid fucking plan

Termites, however, is earning major points for both his classic self-sacrificing altruism and his Akane-style manipulation in enacting it.

He has a ways to go to dig himself out of the mountain of my Kyle-related resentment that’s crashed on top of him, but this is a good start.

so there’s really no way the #teamphiklim theory was wrong at this point, right?

boss phi

#boss phi

straight outta dcom

Just kidding. This plan is terrible.

Do we have any sense of the blast radius on that bomb? I’m wondering about that lingering shot to the stun gun, too...

bananadumbledore replied to your post “move over, kubota. step back, quark. lay off, dio.”

BLAME KAREN SHE TOOK FULL CREDIT FOR THIS BULLSHIT ON TWITTER

The only thing that surprises me here is that I didn’t already immediately assume this was the case. Obvious in hindsight.

#cringefest 2k28 #bananadumbledore

Sigma’s speech about his vulnerability is among the only scenes to emotionally resonate with me in the game thus far.

That “...Do you hate me?” - you can tell he’s always wondered. Grief or not, loneliness or not, despair or not, did he cross a line with her? The question must have consumed him.

And of course, he already knew that Diana must pose for Luna - he knew that following the NG:AE. “Diana Model” is even in her serial number (GTF-DM-L-016). Did she serve as a model for her as she was dying?

In some part of his mind, Sigma must have known that Diana would not be a permanent fixture on the rhizome. Again, he already knew that - if she was, where was she in Kyle’s stories? Kyle lived on the rhizome for 23 years and explicitly stated that he had no company at any point prior to Akane’s arrival.

Also, if Sigma loved Luna like a daughter, it’s a bit odd to have his “daughter” raising his son... but I digress. This is all pretty touching, if in an awkward and fumbling sense of the term.

move over, kubota. step back, quark. lay off, dio.

This piece of shit is the new worst character in ZE.

A small part of me hoped it would explode us just so I didn’t have to endure another wave of memes from 2009.

shiv wizards

Eric could have easily been stabbed to death, but Mira’s too obvious an answer, right? Could Q have fit through that vent if they got their helmet off somehow?

It really did seem like Phi, oddly. She didn’t even seem surprised to see that Sigma had died. Though because she’s so clever you’d expect her to feign surprise, not unlike a certain other murderous individual with one mention in the entire game.

I expected a more straightforward parallel to Luna’s ending with Sigma cradling Diana, not the other way around. This caught me off guard - especially his hazy misinterpretation of Diana. Ouch, ouch, ouch.

I really did think the killer may have been Phi, for whatever her personal reason may have been. Slight of frame, the rounded face, the robes covering any blood splatter after the stabbing. There was a knife in the healing room that she could have obtained. Her reaction, too, was weird - where was the Phi absolutely losing it over Sigma in the chair? She barely made any sort of commentary when he died. She certainly didn’t seem surprised. And where did she run off to briefly anyway?

I was even skeptical when Phi staggered in with the blood splatter on her back. She could have soaked her sweater in Sigma’s blood - I didn’t see a wound. I didn’t buy that she was really dead until the announcement and subsequent X-Pass reveal, and even now some small part of me is still curious...

Way to salt the wound with that X-Pass, too. “DAD”, really?

His only mention in a 20-something hour game. Bravo.

...but to table my salt very briefly.

How would this work, exactly? His consciousness branched from a future reality to create a point of divergence into their current reality in 2028. Why would Kyle, Lagomorph etc. fail to exist in the future? This has been exhaustively confirmed to not work that way - see the Q&A, the biker speech, the holograms, post-VLR Akane...

What?

soporil-beta

The healing room is such a nice reprieve. Calm music, comfy if interesting atmosphere, best team by miles.

So, when’s the rug going to be pulled out? Maybe we’ll end up blowing up Team C - shoot crash keys!

soporil-beta

You will NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED

Wouldn’t that suggest a true many-worlds interpretation, though? Wherein countless realities without radical-6, FBR or anything else must exist? What’s the point of any of this, then?

I’m snorting at his “I dunno”, but this seems to be a pretty far cry from the elegant cathedrals I’m accustomed to.

uh not that there are normally bombs in nonary games or anything... just hypothetically...

WHAT KIND OF SELF-DRAG

#HEY UMMM not to vague anyone but some people have run better nonary games before so um (: maybe you could make some adjustments next time

The healing room is such a nice reprieve. Calm music, comfy if interesting atmosphere, best team by miles.

So, when’s the rug going to be pulled out? Maybe we’ll end up blowing up Team C - shoot crash keys!

#trust no one

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