u/MaxRavenclaw

What's topping you from setting your flair to that?

Like I said in a different comment, something seems to be lost in translation or something. The writing in the subs wasn't clear enough for my taste, and I was left confused about some of the bits in the flashback, but they do describe two upper levels: "Heaven" and "High" or something along those lines. Kept expecting some more clarification over why there are two upper levels and if there's a distinction between them, but maybe we're not meant to know this yet.

I'm a pretty big fan of the show so far, but I have to agree. The flashback could have used an extra editing pass at the very least, and I'm pretty sure a lot was lost in translation--subs haven't really managed to send the ideas across too well. Maybe we're meant to still be confused, but I wouldn't bet on it.

EDIT: For example, I don't think the subs did a good job explaining what exactly the two upper "Heaven" and "High" levels of Toah were, what was the deal with the clouds on the upper most level, and why the Heroes only went berserk and killed everyone when they did. Presumably they were locked in the lower levels before that, and thus couldn't access the upper class Toah? I dunno, maybe some of this is meant to be ambiguous, but I suspect some is just poorly translated.

Exactly. It's far more likely they were acting suspicious because they knew the nukes were coming. ICBMs don't just teleport at their targets. They probably knew the US was up to DEFCON 1 and maybe even launched, and it was a matter of 10-30 minutes before the enemy nukes hit.

I think people are overthinking it. It's far more likely they were acting suspicious because they knew the nukes were coming. ICBMs don't just teleport at their targets. They probably knew the US was up to DEFCON 1 and maybe even launched, and it was a matter of 10-30 minutes before the enemy nukes hit.

Problem I have is, from what this episode shows, I find it hard to believe they managed to fill the Silos under such short notice.

I remember the scene where the doctor first tells Daniel about the memory drugs felt off too. Both of them, but especially Daniel, were incredibly nonchalant about the thing, and Daniel was even the one to ask if he can fake his sister's memories. Really weird.

Gothic is a groundbreaking franchise in the world of open world RPGs and should stand right next to The Elder Scrolls. Original Gothic 2 competed with Morrowind in 2002. Original Gothic 3 competed with Oblivion in 2006. So, the Gothic Remake should have reached similar sales as Oblivion Remastered.

Gothic 2 compared favorably to Morrowind. Gothic 3 wasn't even close to Oblivion, and since then the rift between the Gothic series and Bethesda games has only grown. It's absolutely no surprise that Oblivion Remastered had considerably more hype and sold considerably more. I don't think anyone expected Gothic Remake to come close to the sale numbers of Oblivion Remaster. If anything, it's surprising the latter sold so much. I guess the TES drought since Skyrim was a factor.

I think people underestimate just how famous TES is compared to Gothic.

That's what I did. I actually have a save where I can join any camp by giving the modified list to Diego, raiding the convoy, then saving then and there. In the end I became a Shadow even after backstabing the Old Camp that hard, and it never came up.

Better solution would be to just allow us to join the raid even without the list, albeit with a smaller reward at the end, and still be allowed to join the Rogues (wait, no, it's Bandits now) at the end.

You think this is rude? Merdarion continues to call you deaf and tell you to sod off even after you become a Water Mage.

It's probably scripted. The new remake content is great, but multiple times I found myself thinking it could have used a bit more reactivity. Mind you, there is some reactivity, like Huno mentioning Gomez's death if you kill Gomez, which is nice flavor, but then the Orcs don't have any reaction if you walk out of the Sleeper Temple instead of teleporting after you bring the temple barrier down and while I appreciate the New Camp doesn't go hostile after you charge Uriziel, there's also literally zero reactivity to you just walking out instead of teleporting away.

Don't all 2H axes have the same move set? Or do you mean 2H axes have better moves than 2H swords?

I half expected the voice to go "Oh, sorry, I was on the shitter" at that time.

I half expected the voice to go "Oh, sorry, I was on the shitter" when it took a while to respond this last episode.

At that point, might as well install one of the auto-lockpicking mods.

Who said anything about inflation?

If you're trying to achieve the same conclusion as comparing the efficiency of two tanks by having them face each other in a frictionless plane 1v1, sure, capital investments should not be counted. But in terms of how their costs impacted the war, it's still relevant to varying degrees, especially if you spend a lot on capital investments and then only build like 2 tanks. But I'll agree that when comparing the Panther and Panzer IV in particular it is less relevant than when comparing other tanks, and less relevant relative to the other aspects of the comparison as well.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone reconcile it so far, though. I suppose an average between all factories might produce a better result. Or a weighed average based on production numbers maybe.

Anyway, even disregarding the above three factors—of which inflation I never brought it up anyway—the rest of the points remain. The Panther was indeed a simplified and cheaper design, but between slave labour, Speer's shenanigans, and the prices not including all equipment, I'd still not confidently say the Panther was just as expensive as the Panzer IV as is commonly declared online.

There are obviously exceptions to the rule I described. AFAIK, however, France was indeed a kingdom, at least until it became an empire. But a nation can be simultaneously a kingdom and an empire. The UK was individually a kingdom, and only when counted alongside its colonies did it become the British Empire.

The HRE was a weird one, though, yes. And more modern empires, as they move away from monarchy, start using different names too. The USSR was basically a Russian Empire, more or less.

Historically, yes. I was just about to type the same thing. But the term has been used in fiction to refer to empires or other similar autocratic polities, like the Terran Dominion, or the Aldmeri Dominion, or the Dominion from Star Trek.

Technically speaking, an empire is a polity made out of multiple polities lead by one in particular, be it colonies under one central kingdom, or some other form of puppets under a central power.

Like you said, there's no term to describe states proportional to their size, and you can technically have kingdoms or non-monarchic nation states that are geographically larger than an empire, though it gets harder to manage at that point, which is why the largest powers were usually empires.

If an empire conquers other empires, it's still an empire, but I suppose you could call it an Empire of Empires, like how some ancient kings called themselves Kings of Kings (which subsequently became Emperor I believe).

IIRC, there are 50 silos. So what, only 7 years of data from each? And the fake mines theory also feels like a reach to me, but again, I guess we'll find out sooner or later.

It would be a cheap subversion if they go back after all this evidence, IMHO. They’d need to explain at the very least why the mines appear to be 300 years old. We'll see, I guess.

I think the notion that the silos are not that old has been dispelled by the reveal that the mines at the very least are 300 years old, plus the algorithm's mention of 350~ years of data. I bet we really are around 350 years in the future.

Yeah, I wish that was handled better, and more focus was put perhaps alleging the memory erasure was vital for healing the brain, and the idea of implanting false memories not only introduced in a less creepy way, but also as something possible that wasn't necessarily considered. Anything to make it so obviously a very abusable technique, and Daniel a huge creep.

They did have one line of dialogue suggesting that it's easier/intended for true memories to be restored compared to false memories being implanted, but I don't think that was enough. Again, it's too obvious this is abusable to the extreme, and I find it odd neither the doctor nor Daniel seem to even consider the existence of ethical concerns.