Whatever RPG it is:
Me: Haha, Stealth build go brrrt
My problem with stealth takedowns has become that Iâm in the endgame and Iâm clearing out gigs and it takes forever. Coupled with not having a cyberdeck I also canât take out cameras without alerting everyone, or at least I couldnât until the discovery of silenced pistols.
Now it just makes clearing areas so much faster, and also a lot more ruthless and precise which feels good. Just walk in and headshot a few guys, job done. Pay me now please.
But, if not cuddle, then why smol and fluffy? 
reject modernity
embrace stealth archer
it just works
apparently its to scream until he gets everything he wants handed to im on a platter then go be fat somewhere else and sleep.
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same tbh
I wish that were me (ok, not the fat part, Iâve just put in the diet to get away from that possibility, and have no desire to return)
Would 100% be up for some hibernation, though.
So Iâve finished the second season of Loki, and here are my thoughts. (Warning: long)
Loki whole series spoilers
He Who Remains has an ingenious setup.
Heâs a Kang, and his solution to the multiverse problem was ultimately Kangish. âI will force the entire universe to evolve according to my script, or else.â
So after he defeated the other Kangs, he created the Temporal Loom, pruned the multiverse down to the timelines where he is the Kang variant to emerge, then erased his alliesâ memories to make them forget about it all, and about him even existing. He built the TVA around the Loom to prune âunsanctionedâ timelines. He himself became a secret, shadow leader of the TVA, creating the Time-Keepers to serve as the public figureheads.
But he was still human. Apparently he extended his life through technology, but he couldnât extend it forever. (Itâs not clear how that works, or for that matter the whole thing with passage of time in the TVA outside conventional time. Does the universe evolve in meta-time?) He began searching for a successor, settled on Variant Loki and Sylvie, and paved the way for them to arrive into his citadel. He gave them a choice, but in fact it was an illusion of a choice. Remember, HWR is the ultimate railroading GM. History will evolve according to his script or else.
So in case something happens to him, he has a back-up plan. If his chosen successor rejects his offer and kills him, branching timelines will continue to grow until they overload the Loom, and its failsafe function will trigger a reset of the entire multiverse to just the Sacred Timeline, while the Loom itself will persist. This puts everything back at square one, and HWR can try his successor gambit again. The choice to kill him isnât a choice at all, itâs a railroaded storyâs But Thou Must.
By finding a third option, Loki not only saves the multiverse from HWRâs Thanatos Gambit, but also, indirectly, flips the bird to Mass Effect 3âs Starchild scene, where the protagonist has no choices except those handed by the antagonist on a silver platter.
Aon top of everything else, HWR is also a gleeful sadist. He could have stopped and even killed Sylvie with a flick of his finger, but he wanted Loki to do it to Teach Him an Important Lesson about making hard decisions for the Greater Good ⢠and the futility of going off script.
What if thatâs the reason he engineered for both of them to come there in the first place? Setting up Sylvie as a sacrificial lamb to break Loki and shape him into the successor he wanted, as some kind of initiation rite?
Iâm only not calling him the most vile character in the entire MCU because the High Evolutionary exists. The difference between them is that HWR is a railroading GM and the High Evolutionary is a ârocks fall, everyone diesâ GM. When something goes off script, HWRâs response is âWhoops, wrong choice. Iâve reset time. Try againâ, and the High Evolutionaryâs response is just to kill everyone and destroy everything, like a child throwing a temper tantrum. Iâm not sure which is worse, but personally I would rather be alive in a railroaded universe than not be alive at all.
This, ultimately, also explains to me why Loki couldnât just go earlier into his own timeline to prevent Sylvie from ever reaching the Citadel. Because HWR wanted to engineer this scenario of the two of them reaching the Citadel, and if Loki tried to prevent these specific events from playing out, HWR would contrive some other way.
HWR tries to present himself as the savior of the universe, but this is a load of bull. He built all this Ruby Goldbergesque setup ostensibly to prevent other variants of him from emerging, and if this was his goal, then the TVA could just hunt them. In fact, thatâs exactly what the reformed TVA does at the end.
But it wasnât enough for him to play whack-a-mole with his variants as theyâre born. He wanted the satisfaction of them not existing and never having existed. He wanted them gone from history retroactively. Then, and only then, would his victory in the Multiversal War be complete in his mind.
The story of Loki is a sequel to a Bad Future where one guy built a massively overengineered global solution to a local problem and held all of space and time hostage because of his massive ego. HWR is a dark counterpart to Loki himself, a representation of what would happen if Lokiâs goal stated back in episode 1 â to take away everyone elseâs free will for the greater good â actually succeeded.
â For nearly every living thing, choice breeds shame and uncertainty and regret. Thereâs a fork in every road, yet the wrong path always taken.
â Good. Yeah. You said ânearly every living thingâ, so Iâm guessing you donât fall into that category?
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I need a 3rd fan heater.
This flat is freezing and my toes are like ice.
Peeved by every update to the weather forecast app making it more neurotic.
I really donât need a âweather warningâ for wind and rain. Whoever created this stuff clearly lives in a very different placeâŚ
Warriors with long weapons
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Why use an app for weather at all? I just visit accuweather.com.
I was going to say heroic leaping across the sky but this is good too. Perhaps both at once.
Even the weathermen know that manufactured drama and outrage give more click through and thus more advert revenue.
It comes with the phone
Dear weatherperson, I just want to know if itâs going to rain with or without wind so I know if bringing my umbrella is worth it u_u
The EXACT hour in which we will maybe FOR SURE have a POLAR BLAST sometime next week which will DEVASTATE large sections of THIS REGION.
The helicopter lightsabers are sick as hell and I will fight anyone who badmouths them
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Star Wars is all about finding & creating increasingly silly, yet incredibly cool lightsaber designs.
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I highly enjoy sword guys giving serious talks on lightsaber combat
One recent one was showing how the âturn off a lightsaber to get past opponentâs guardâ trick likely wouldnât work because of how âthe bindâ (how swords act when clashed) works - suddenly taking your blade away means your opponent can blast past your guard and hit you
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