Hello, I’m Bentarb Jade Bronze. Autistic recluse, Fanfic author, would be fantasy author, and self-proclaimed philosopher who likely isn’t as smart and intriguing as he’d like to think.
In Baldur’s Gate 3 casting Heal on a Dark Urge character lets them remember either playing with other kids or killing their adoptive family. With the later option their house is described as a 2-bedroom place in the poorer part of the city. And I’m curious if it could be a house we can visit in-game.
Could it be the same house Mayrina’s anti-hag group holes up? It’s in ruins when they set up shop, I don’t remember anything explaining why it’s like that, and it makes sense a place where a family was murdered would be abandoned. And if The Dark Urge did grow up there, it might be familiar.
And if they tell Mayrina ‘I think I grew up here,’ that could make it a landmark post-game. 'The Childhood Home Of The Hero Of Baldurs Gate’, or maybe it would be rebuilt and given to them as a reward for their heroism. Any thoughts?
Playing Star Wars: The Old Republic lets the player encounter numerous planets, but a few of them all seem to come with a question the game never asks - and unless I’m missing something, no other media answers - but still feels important.
What happened to the planets by the time of the films?
The Voss prophets seem like they could have a major roll in The Clone Wars and The Rebellion against Palpatine’s empire, so why aren’t they involved? Did the republic keep using Belsavis as a prison planet, or is it long abandoned by the time the Skywalkers start terrorising the galaxy?
And the same question can be asked about technologies. In a side quest on Dromund Kass, we find a scientist who’s life work is creating cybernetic limbs that grow and heal like living fleash and bone. So where is that tech by the time of The Clone Wars?
Or The Infinite Engine. Was a growing machine that could become a weapons factory that can make anything from The Force just… misplaced?
I know that The Old Republic Era and the film era are seperated by roughly 33 centuries, and that’s a lot of time for things to be lost and forgotten, but it still feels weird.
“Unlike the lesser gods who came after, their crowns had been theirs since birth.”
“They came from the godly realm beyond, gifted this newly shaped world to govern.”
“They created all creatures, they crowned all they chose, they were a pantheon unlike any have seen or ever will see.”
“They are the Old Gods.”
These six gods started this world. It was newly created for these siblings. In the beginning when they came to their new world, it had no mortal to speak of. They came together to created mortal based off themselves.
Morossa, the Scorpion God of Burial, Creator of All Invertebrates, and Judge of the Afterlife.
Pengaia, the Swan God of Seasons, Creator of All Birds, and Yngya the Mother of Nature.
Doragon, the Dragon God of Storms, Creator of All Reptiles, and Bringer of Life and Terror from the skies.
Xortus, The Axolotl God of Death, Creator of All Amphibians, and Guider of Lost Souls.
Barmacu, The Barracuda God of Dominion, Creator of All Fish, and Leader of Order and Chaos.
Kuluga, The Stag God of Emotion, Creator of All Mammals, and Source of All Feelings of the Heart.
I’ve kept thinking about what’s mentioned as the old gods. Some of the Bishops of the Old Faith, found and claimed their crowns. But who made those crowns to bestow?
The had Clemach create all manner of crowns they gave personally to those they chose, or simply spread across the world to find. They deemed what they saw the lesser gods would embody, allowed them to develop their own beliefs and gospels. The Old Gods however never wanted for more power and devotion, unlike the lesser gods. For they started at the top, and stood together as equals.
Pengaia was the eldest and leader of this pantheon. Loved and respected by her siblings, gods, and mortals alike. Mother of Clauneck, Kudaai, and Clemach. She who sent her rainbow crow Lomasi to retrieve the warmth of the sun, and made all crows in Lomasi’s blackened image. Pengaia controlled the earth and nature. The world rotated itself, but she controlled the shift of it’s axis, allowing the changing of the seasons.
Till tragedy struck the great pantheon. Mortals and gods began to discourage one of the Old Gods. They blamed Kuluga as the God of Emtion, for their sadness, their anger, their despair, and thus raged against him. He felt these emotions, they burned inside him. Kuluga thought it unfair the emotions he gave, the positives all went to his siblings, while he was blamed to the negatives. It was as if they’d forgotten he gave them happiness, hope, and love. His beloved sister Pengaia tried to console him. She knew not what it was like to be hated, for she was loved by all. In that moment, the rage of all others filling him. His own rage flooded and consumed his sense of reason. Blinded by emotion, unconscious of what followed, Kuluga struck down Pengaia.
The entire world was horrified by what occurred. None thought any but the lesser gods could be killed. Upon regaining himself, Kuluga despaired by what he had done. Killing his loving sister in cold blood, he and his siblings mourned, shedding the god tears. The many of gods feared they would be next, and united against Kuluga for his act of betrayal. Having believed him now slain as well. The lesser gods turned to distrust and their own self preservation. Some united in their own pantheons, others stood alone.
The rest of the Old Gods however had different fates.
Doragon thought the world was now unworthy, given it drove one of her siblings to slaughter another. She return to the godly realm, her storms now ceasing.
Xortus could not bring himself to pass his sister beyond, and so decided to step down. Death could not leave this world as it was required. Xortus then bestowed the Red Crown to a young disciplined and ambitious Narinder. Xortus is rumored to still be immortal and wanders the world as a shapeshifter.
Barmacu retreated into the depths of the ocean, so deep none but him could reach. Influencing leadership and dominion from the trenches.
Most to this day believe Kuluga meet his end long ago. But as all still feel emotion to this day, some wonder if apart of him still lives on.
Kuluga is who I had in mind to be the raising final boss of Cult of the Lamb 2. He had been hidden, bidding his time, feeding on and bottling all emotions, both his and others’ to strengthen his power. His boss form and second phase final form both look different then his past self here. The crystals on his neck and antler embody emotions. His necklace will shift and swap colors with the hanging crystal to symbolize what he’s feeling.
Each of them I tried to go for a distinguished vibe. Morossa is a judge of the afterlife and wears a robe, Pengaia is nature based and is dressed in her own wings, Doragon has a European style going on with the cape and armor, Xortus I went for a death priest and gave him pink death teeth, Barmacu I wanted to have a pirate-ish outfit, and Kuluga had fur-like robes with armor mixed in.
I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that “How many of tumblr’s favorite movies have you seen?” list that’s been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.
Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn’t on here in 2013 or so, but you’re telling me you made a list of “tumblr’s favorite movies” that doesn’t include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.
I’m a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn’t sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list – though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I’ve lurked in over the years. For what it’s worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I’ve been here for over a decade. But if there’s anything that truly doesn’t feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.
(And apologies, but I couldn’t seem to find Goncharov among the website’s listings)
me starting a new baldurs gate 3 save just to fuck the Emperor again and piss off all the little delulu haters who are still making shit up to be upset about
I’m sorry, but concerning the tags, where did you get the idea that Raphael was a child predator? If you’re talking about him taking Gortash as a slave than 1: having a child slave doesn’t mean you’re a kiddie fiddler, and 2: if you use speak with dead on Harleep, he says that Raphael only wants to have sex with himself.
“Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So, the Nothing grows stronger.”
The Neverending Story (1984)
This is exactly why speculative fiction is important
This is why taking a break for downtime is important
This is why being able to daydream and wander, is important
Without hope and dreams, we can’t even consider that a better world is possible
And that is exactly the point of overworking and underpaying us.
Michael Ende, who wrote The Neverending Story, also wrote Momo, where the villains are little grey men who convince you to “save time” by cutting out everything fun and meaningful in your life. But you never get the saved time back, the little men smoke it.
Momo should be vastly more well-known than it is, IMO.
Can I just say that trying to do all the character stories in one playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 is - to me at least - very annoying and not that fun.
The issue is that I keep having to swap out who’s in the party and who’s at camp based on where I am, where I’m going, and what will be happening at any given time, a fact made worse in Act III where all the stories come to a head.
This results in a lot of needing to predict where I’m going to be, what will happen there, and who I’ll need with me to make their story progress. That leads to a lot of tedious back and forth between the camp and the area of the act I’m in.
And yes, I know there’s the ‘Party Limit Begone’ mod that will let me have everyone in my party at once, but the enviroments of Baldur’s Gate 3 aren’t designed to have a party of nine or ten people, plus any summons, all moving together to the same place at once.
This is even more true in the indoor enviroments, which leave little space to work with for a four person party, let alone a group of twice that many. You’d barely be able to move without clicking on someone you didn’t mean to, and the rest of the party will keep getting in trouble by wandering into restricted areas because there’s not enough space for everyone.
Also, does playing on the lowest difficulty make companion approval higher and easier to gain? Because playing on that difficulty, I’ve had Lae'zel proposition me even though I’ve only had her in the party for the bare minimum needed to progess her story. I;E, get her out of the cage and talk to Zorru about where the Githyanki are.
➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.
➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”
➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”
➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”
➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”
➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.
“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.
“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”
➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”
➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”
However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!
➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.
If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)
➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“
“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.
➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.
➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”
➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.
“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”
➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.
“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”
puki flew to japan for this single bowl of ramen and will be flying back soon
According to most manga I read, that’s the predominate reason why foreigners fly to Japan.
I’m in Taiwan, you fucking lunatics
I hate the fact they saw Asia and immediately assumed Japan. A bit racist.
It’s not. Though the dish doesn’t technically originate in Japan, it is a popular staple of Japanese cuisine; most variations of the dish were birthed within the country itself in order to suit their respective tastes. The ramen that the west typically knows is a unique dish to the one found in China (lamian) - couple that with the vast cultural outputs from Japan into the west, and it’s easy to associate that dish with Japan. Many people are far less versed in the dichotomies of different east asian cultures. The scope and scale may be lost to them. Their presumption comes from innocent naivety, not hatred. You, sir, have become the lunatic.
Isn’t there a saying about not instantly assigning malice to something that could be explained with ignorance? I feel like that should be applied to accusations of racism.
If accidently revealing ignorance about other cultures gets you branded as hateful, than people won’t be so inclined to interact with other cultures, for fear of being branded racist.
I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!
