Phoseo - 24D Incarnate

I really really don't like "give us an interesting fact(s) about yourself!! :D" icebreakers in any situation. I am boring, my interests are not marketable, why should I need to share info about myself for this college class?? It's already online, I dont intend to talk to any of these people.

Its all so dumb...

Moar Elden Ring

I explored some Mt. Gelmir and the Volcano Manor today, joined the Recusants, did some bad things to decent people.

Did a few dungeons in Gelmir/Altus Plateau, and I joined the Mohgwyn Dynasty, gotta be real, I would fuck Varré. He basically says "i like the way you scream" while inducting you into the Dynasty, which is really hot tbh.

I'm experimenting with my build again, hard shift into katanas and bleed, which is a pretty fun playstyle.

Maybe Nokstella next time...

note that this poll is meant to represent romantic (though not necessarily sexual) ships, not your favorite QPR. If you like, say, Aisha/Alec or Lisa/Taylor as strictly platonic partners, but only in this scenario, then please don't pick it as your favorite ship!

Other less popular taylor ships (like Taylor/Alec) are not included in this poll, I will be posting a second poll with Taylor-specific ships later

make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it!

What if BB was just on Lake Champlain and Leviathan was actually just Champ, and the other incidents around the world were a separate monster, what then

I didn't initially want to do this, since other people have done perfectly adequate and highly popular "where is brockton bay" polls before, but I decided i simply had to have it on my blog:

look, i try really hard not to, you know, like, put my finger on the scales, or whatever, but why would you pick Vermont? It's landlocked.

Make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it!

Map of new england attached below:

Note that New York is not technically a part of New England, despite having a similar climate!

Denial and Decay are not options. you know full well that in this case "state" refers only to the constituent political entity and element of the organizational structure of the united states of america, buster. You better quit it or i'm gonna get mad.

:(

The word "cock" is shaped kinda like a fish.

Just had some thoughts on soulsborne games and specifically the fanbase:

I think its fine to do things like "no hit/summon/magic/whatever" runs. They're pretty impressive things and it does take skill and effort to do so.

But.

There is not a "pure" or "superior" way to play these games. If it is a feature or mechanic within the game, it is a fair play as long as the boss dies. And its fine to not want to use those things in pursuit of being challenged and feeling fulfilled. What *isn't* fine is policing how other people play the game because it ruins a mythical image of souls games as exceptionally difficult or brutal.

It's really *really* easy to say a souls game is the hardest game ever when you're doing everything in your power to make it harder for yourself.

There is a lot I like about the other players in souls games, the messages I read as I travel through these worlds are usually witty or fun, and it goes a long way to making it feel like I'm having a shared experience with the broader playerbase. What I don't like is the imposition of specific playstyles as a purity test for worthiness. I can kinda get it for PvP because at that point its meta-gaming, but for PvE content? Stuff people are doing against the enemies of the game? Literally no one's problem but the player doing the fighting.

A win is a win is a win.

Hey why did you fill the grounds of your estate with numerous multi-fingered ambulatory hands? My sword arm is getting tired...

Had another long Elden Ring session today, so here's my progress:

1. Explored a bunch of new places in Liurnia, mostly on the eastern side.

2. Cleared a few Liurnia dungeons.

3. Started experimenting with some new weapons for fun.

4. Went down into the Ainsel River, via the lift, and killed the Withered Astel and the Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella.

5. Now trying to breach Caria Manor, to meet the best girl.

I'm really not a fan of the giant ants, they freak me out but at least theyre easy to bait. I think the only enemy I died to was the Deathbird to the East of Raya Lucaria? Almost all of my deaths today were to falling in the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel while I tried to do the little parkour section, most of those deaths coming as I desperately tried to retrieve thousands of stranded runes over and over again.

I think Liurnia might be my favorite of the two between it and Limgrave? Though that is a very small pool so we will see if it changes going forward.

join a gang of troubled parahuman teens and rob a bank (don't worry I'm going to arrest them soon)

YOU have named yourself GODDESS because you stole a bunch of REALLY STRONG SUPERPOWERS from your parahuman CLUSTER, and used them to TAKE OVER A PLANET (known as Earth SHIN). YOU still call yourself GODDESS, but the recent MIND CONTROL AND ALIEN-RELATED APOCALYPSE (long story, rough 1.6 million words) has STRANDED you on Earth GIMEL, in the city of the CITY. TWO YEARS LATER, you have no kingdom, no house, no money, and one of you POWERS is even missing. Just to check that none MORE have been STOLEN, you observe that you have: 1. A MASTER POWER THAT TURNS PARAHUMANS TO YOUR SIDE (your primary. you kinda unpleasant to be around without this thing.) 2. TELEKINESIS, STRONGER THAN A LOCOMOTIVE, FARTHER THAN A FLYING BULLET (your sexiest power. leaves pretty fractals behind) 3. A DANGER SENSE, FAIRLY ACCURATE (they would have killed you by now without this nifty thing) 4. DEFENSE MANIPULATION, LIKE THAT GOLDEN ASS FROM THE APOCALYPSE (why would you ever use this) 5. SOURCE OF POWER THAT INCREASES RANGE (this is the one that's stolen!) 6. A SECRET SIXTH THING. Oh, and ALSO, a bastard named TEACHER keeps trying to END YOU through his HENCEMEN and MACHINES. Your Highness, WHAT SHALL DO YOU DO?

I am not even old but I still default to typing "email" as "e-mail".

I don't know why, but that's just how my brain is wired. Strange...

Faultline, more like Fail-tline