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@agoddamn

My Kuva Hek build with a riven which is arguably nasing spešal, but the crux of the build is to have a lot of multishot, which is why Scattered Justice is a pretty good option now.

God for the head, use alt fire to blast all 4 shots at once - slow but it's meant to be a boss killer, quite good at Archon hunts.

Alternatively I have a meme build where I put Silent Battery in the exilus slot so I can use it while invisible and utilize Ivara's headshot multiplier bonus:

[kishimotomasashi]

Re: tousama and chichiue, chichiue is definitely a notable step up in formality. People IRL these days might use "tousama" in a formal situation, but "chichiue" is SO formal that you only see it in historical dramas. If Hashirama and Madara/Izuna had both used chichiue I wouldn't think much of it, but the way that the Uchiha specifically use a different term feels purposeful. Similarly, Tobirama's "anija" is much more formal than Izuna's "niisan."

Oh, learned something new today! I actually did look up the different terms the kids used to refer to their dads specifically because I had a feeling that the Senju side in particular would be incredibly formal with their parents in that regard, but what I'd found was that "chichiue" was more familiar? Lesson learned regarding trusting the first results on google, I guess, lol. Linguistics L on my part.

[chellilonaaphra]

Tell me more about "no sex before marriage" Boba Fett

From Tales of the Bounty Hunters

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agoddamn said: What’s your specific o66 beef? Mine is that the movies never treated clones like people in the first place so the whole thing comes off as mad cheap, not like the dual-sided genocide that it is. Clone Wars is nice but can’t patch over the glaring holes in the original

with the disclaimer of “i strictly enjoy Stars Wars in a casual context and i DEFINITELY do not know all the lore (i still haven’t ever seen episode 4 or 6)″:

Order 66 struck me as TOO ludicrous of a hack/backdoor for the Sith to actually get away with it, assuming the Jedi practiced, like, literally any common sense / logic / opsec / etc.  see, the general sense you get from the movies is:

* pretty much Palpatine is the only Sith Lord of note atm (you never see any other ones?)

* but he somehow managed to backdoor this “execute Order 66″ thing into every fucking clone soldier in the entire fucking army?

* and this isn’t even, like, a sort of quick/reflexive thing that you could induce via hypnosis, right, not the “bark when i clap my hands” sort of thing—there’s shots of these clone soldiers ruthlessly chasing down Jedi that are trying to escape getting murdered, like, that requires higher-level strategy/planning functions, not just hitting a Rage Button.

* which like, what the fuck?  surely if this is some sort of “data chip thing implanted into every clone soldier’s brain,” there’s some kind of vetting process?  like, look, yes, i know i bitch about how horrible security is all the time, you don’t have to sell me on some kind of hacking being possible, i’m just saying it’s not going to be something like “when i say order 66 you murder all the jedi,” that’s too on the nose, and too specific of a thing to get past code review.  it’s very much a “why do we even have that lever” sort of situation

* (for contrast, i totally bought into the “one robot literally hacked the entire planet’s defense grid” thing that Battlestar Galactica did, because the evil robot disguised herself as a hot chick and just had mindblowing sex with the cybersecurity lead at the DoD, and then fucked up shit with his laptop while he was asleep.  that is totally an opsec story i buy lmao)

* and having something like that work flawlessly, on every single clone at once, is just... yeah, weird. implausible. usually there’s multiple shitty versions of the software floating around and your exploit only works on some subset of them, etc etc

it starts falling apart the more you think about it, for stuff related to what you mentioned—the whole “wait, are these people or not” thing.  i remember trying to look up once “so like are the clone soldiers autonomous or are they just robots,” and i guess they’re supposed to be whole entire human beings?  which is WILD because that is NOT the vibe you get from the movies at ALL, and changes the calculus a LOT (like, are the clones being forced to murder people they actually like, under horrible cyberteknik duress?  or are the clones conspiring because they’ve always thought the jedi are kinda shit and this is sweet vengeance?  i have no idea, but mad respect for karen traviss for just going hard on that question back when the EU was a thing and they just let randos write edgy fanfiction for money all day, lol)

but yeah that’s all i’ve got!  i’ve never seen Clone Wars but i do have a soft spot for ridiculous retcons, lmk if it delivers on that front :P

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agoddamn ha respondido a tu publicación “@ezralahm ha respondido a tu publicación “The Miklan mission is...”

Wait, when is it said that Ionius was trying to limit the power of Crest nobles? I was under the impression that all we heard was that Ionius was trying to obtain more power. Noted anti-Crest Hanneman believes that von Vestra was acting altruistically 

Sorry but I went into a coughing fit at "I guess I assumed it was progressive because that makes Edelgard right" and "I've only finished Flower"

That came out a lot more aggressive than I meant, I apologize. I'm not feeling well and let myself get too flippant. I like a lot of your original analysis but I think your foundation is critically flawed by not having the full context of Faerghus's situation and making assumptions in Edelgard's favor”

Yeah, that did come off as a little bit aggressive my dude. Like, oh, excuse me for not having yet finished all the routes in a rather lengthy game that only came out in late July, I happen to have a life outside talking about videogames. 

What I’m essentially doing is liveblogging my experience with the game, first with Crimson Flower, which was my first route, and now with Azure Moon, my second, so it’s only natural for me to compare Edelgard and Dimitri because of their radically opposed viewpoints and roles in the game, not because I hate either of the two. In fact, I think I’ve been rather fair to what I’ve seen of Dimitri just yet (I’m up to the “investigate Flayn’s disappearance” mission in AM), because I acknowledged his good points several times already in these meta posts. I do agree with you on that I don’t have all the information yet, and that my analysis may be flawed because of that, but that’s because I’m liveblogging, not analyzing the game from the perspective of someone who has finished all the routes. 

And I defend Edelgard because I actually like Edelgard, much like Dimitri stans defend Dimitri and have yet to get half the amount of vitriol Edelgard’s get. With him it’s all “poor little boy was sooooo sad and traumatized, let’s handle him with kiddy gloves and ignore his violent streak and unthinking defense of harmful traditions and the status quo, because that bitch Edelgard made him SO MAD and it’s all her fault for starting an unnecessary war when everything was already fine and dandy in the perfect land of Fodlan” 

That’s what annoys me about Dimitri stans, that many of them absolutely refuse to admit Dimitri’s faults while requiring Edelgard’s to pretty much put on a disclaimer before any post that is vaguely positive about her, saying that of course we know she was evil and wrong about everything and that we apologize for preferring her to the oh so perfect and holy knight Dimitri. I’m not saying that you’re one of those Dimitri stans, but it is a common enough attitude in his fandom for me to be annoyed at it.

If Ionius’ reforms were about centralizing state power, that means that he was dimishing the power of the crest-bearing nobility by default. And given what we’ve seen about the state of most of the empire’s noble houses (like with houses Aegir, Varley, Bartels and the house that used Hanneman’s sister as a crest broodmare, for example), I can’t say it was a bad political move born only of the desire for power. I also find it quite interesting that people in this fandom apparently have so much sympathy for the plight of the game’s feudal lords that use magically inherited superpowers and relic weapons to rule over their territories and get pissy about that power being diminished in any way, but okay. 

I got an entirely different reading on the Hanneman and Hubert support conversations, by the way. What I got from that conversation is that Marquis Vestra was a good and loyal man who was forced to choose between the emperor and his son’s safety, and he chose to protect Hubert over his duty to the emperor. This caused Hubert to hate his father and to act as his complete opposite, putting his own loyalty to Edelgard above everything. And given Marquis Vestra’s position as spymaster and retainer to the emperor and the Slitherer’s involvement with the Insurrection, I think they were involved in him being cornered into making such a decision. 

Talking about the experiments, I don’t know where you got that the emperor approved the experiments. In Edelgard’s crowning ceremony, she says that the crest experiments on the royal children were part of the Prime Minister’s plot with the Slitherers, and that not only did they made her father watch as his children were turned into science experiments and tortured into death and insanity, but Edelgard saw the suffering in his eyes and how helpless he was to help them or make their torturers stop. 

EDIT: Wait, I don’t know if it was you making that point or another person. I apologize if it wasn’t you and I confused you answer with someone else’s. YUP, I CONFUSED TWO DIFFERENT RESPONSES TO THE SAME POST, MY BAD. IT WAS @ezralahm WHO SAID THAT THE EMPEROR CONSENTED TO HIS CHILDREN BEING EXPERIMENTED ON BY THE SLITHERERS, NOT YOU.

So yeah, I do believe that there is enough evidence in canon Crimson Flower to believe that Edelgard and her father had similar reformist ideals, and that the difference between them is that Edelgard succeeded where Ionius failed, not because I think having a similar political ideology to her father automatically gives Edelgard the higher moral ground. 

What I do think gives Edelgard a high moral ground are her actions after the war, in which she spent years, if not decades, working on reforming the united Fodlan, reducing the power and importance of crests and the nobility, and giving commoners a chance to excel on their own merits through measures such as universal education, not to mention having gotten rid of the two shadow factions that had been fucking over humanity for at least a thousand years. It’s also implied that Edelgard also fostered good relations with foreign countries by negotiating with Almyra (something she showed she was willing to do in her paralogue) and giving Brigid its independence back. 

And after her job was done, she selected a successor based on their personal merit (instead of making her own crest baby to succeed her) and abdicated the throne. There are still nobles in her ending, just like there are still slitherers, but it’s because completely getting rid of those two factions took the majority of her reign after the war. 

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agoddamn replied to your post “Edgelord apologist: You are a Blue Lion 'stan'. You must love...”

The funniest part is that they're scorning "oh you only want to fuck Dmitri with your self-insert" while only wanting to fuck Edelgard with their self-insert jfksjfh

Lmao. They have zero (0) self-awareness.

Just like their fave

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agoddamn replied to your post: Is it sue storm or sue richards?

I’m still fascinated by that Reed/Johnny universe

I literally think about it all the time like Millar did this one thing for me. Like, the Fantastic Four wedding of the century celebrity bash being between a gay couple, the backlash, possible criticism of Reed if there’s still a big age difference, etc, and also the differences in dynamics it must present for the team having Reed and Johnny be the married ones and how Johnny’s a pretty high needs person attention wise but not exactly one to make that apparent to his partner in ways Reed might understand. (For the consideration of everyone: the Malice plot, but with Johnny in bondage gear.) I hate how Millar described Sue in the interview he did -- something about being a slutty party girl -- but a version of Sue Storm does deserve to be out there stringing along multiple high profile celebrities and superheroes for her own enjoyment and also relegating the buddy-buddy dynamic to be between her and Ben would be fun.

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agoddamn replied to your post

“(Fe 3h vague spoiler warning)I know you wouldn’t ever side with...”

Oh, I think Anon might actually be talking about 36:21 here https://youtu.be/SJCmZAPmwgs

Oh, this scene?

“Seteth... Flayn... First my mother, and now those two have been stolen away as well? Must you take everything from me?! No amount of repentance will bring your wretched soul salvation. You will be chained to the Valley of Torment... eternally walk the desert until the skin rots from your bones... I will ensure that you pay for your sins, Professor!”

Would it be valid to say this is a combination of grief and rage? I feel this patch of dialogue sounds like she’s channeling her losses into rage, which, honestly made sense to me after learning just how far back Rhea really goes. Crimson Flower draws parallels between Rhea and Byleth and Seiros and Nemesis in this regard, and Rhea is very aware of this.

Everything after this is speculation on my part, but I felt these lines were so heavily centered on revenge because she has finally accepted that Byleth isn’t Sothis, but the only thing she’s really left with now is that she can only see Nemesis in Byleth, and that will definitely push her berserk buttons, even if some of the fault is hers for not being totally transparent with Byleth, which would be one of the few reasons Byleth would not take her side.

Also Rhea was speaking in Catherine’s presence, so I don’t think at that point the two are that mutually emotionally vulnerable like she and Seteth are. Even in front of Seteth and Flayn, Rhea’s always had to play the stronger, brave one.