19:48 Sep 05 2026
Times Read: 111
I'm just like... intensely curious every time I'm wandering around the Elden Ring DLC... One of the huge details of the DLC is that the Hornsent were kidnapping, torturing, dismembering the Numen, and stuffing their collective parts into jars because for whatever reason they didn't die when this happened, their body parts melded together into these meatball people which was possible because the Numen are a race of shamans, and that makes them melt together when they're put in these jars. Right? Because that's clear xD The Numen are also said to originate from outside of the Land's Between which leads me to believe they're from space, they're holy space people. And the Hornsent were doing all this to the Numen because they were trying to create some sort of Saint. Why did they think doing this would accomplish that? The Outer Gods of the Land's Between have huge influence over everything. The Hornsent worship the Crucible. The Crucible is the source, and force of life. Is the Crucible part of the Greater Will or is the Greater Will part of the Crucible? Are they the same thing or separate entities? Is Marika the ultimate jar person? Is she the final culmination of what the Hornsent were trying to achieve only for her to, rightfully so, go completely genocide on their ass after the brutal annihilation of her own people? That's why I don't really like having to kill Messmer. The Hornsent kinda fucking deserved it when you go around the gaols, and see the torture of this entire race, for what? They wanted a Saint, they wanted a connection to god,, and Marika is a connection to A god, but not their god. But why did they think any of what they did would accomplish that? Did they see the Numen as some sorta magical space people, and decided to just give it a go? Just start chopping peope up, stuffing them into jars, and see what happens? There has to be some sorta outside influence here. Is it the One Great? The One Great is the source point for everything in existence. Literally everything in existence in the Universe was once together as this one thing until the Greater Will fractured it which caused the entire universe to explode into existence. Which is why the Greater Will isn't even an actual physical entity, it's literally the force of will like Green Lantern. The Flame of Frenzy, or the Outer God of Frenzied Flame, their entire goal is they want to burn the Universe down to bring everything back together in service of the One Great. It doesn't make sense to me though... The Frenzied Flame is all about chaos and insanity, people who worship it want to spread chaos across the world, it's their mantra. And sure, fire, and burning literally everything is very chaotic. But... it seems like it would be a lot more chaotic to let things run wild, and separate rather than trying to bring it all back into one singular thing. People who worship the Frenzied Flame will tell you the only way to end all the suffering, and evil in the Universe is to burn it all down, and bring it all back together, but that feels like ultimately it would lead to the end of chaos. So I don't really get why the Frenzied Flame is team One Great. It's a lot like Lord of the Rings how the big god there is like, well... I know I created this evil, and unleashed it on the world, but I can't destroy the evil without destroying the world because the evil is part of the world so yeah, that's the plan, just gonna destroy it all one day. I think the implication there is that even if he reached out, and crushed Morgoth out of existence, which a god of literally everything should be able to do, that it wouldn't matter, evil would still exist in the world, it's already in the heart's of men, you can't just rip that out even if you destroy the source, the damage is already done.
And now I've lost my train of thought xD
04:55 Sep 04 2026
Times Read: 161
I had a round today with the biggest baby Raider I've ever met in game. The end boss is Everdark Sentient Pest, easy win with fire, I'm very good with fire. Day one I manage to find a decent seal with Flame Fall Upon Them, basically an incantation which shoots several fireballs. It's no Flame of Frenzy, but it'll work if I don't find better, which I don't. I'm teamed with a Raider, and a Scholar, we're level 9, done with castle, looking great, day one circle is closing. Raider pings a nearby poison ruin, which is a baby POI, should be easy for two people to handle at level 9 so I head through a nearby mine to grab a stone to upgrade my seal. Somehow Raider ends up dead. Scholar isn't with him either. So Raider fully wipes. And Raider is using a double Balancers build so like... dying to a poison ruin, a POI I regularly solo at level 2, at level 9 is just extremely shameful, and apparently it completely popped this guy's fragile, overinflated ego because as soon as he respawns into the night one boss he immediately runs over to me, specifically me, and points me down, and refuses to help fight. Like, dude... this is base game. I have fire. I don't fucking need you. And sticking around the rest of the round simply to continue to point me down, and attempt to get me killed, which resulted in him dying multiple times instead, is just pathetic. Like, just leave, do you really have nothing else in life? That's sad. That's sad that because you're bad at a game you're gonna try to ruin it for someone else. Sorry I wasn't there to babysit you, lil fella. Scholar wasn't there either to help him, but he did not harass Scholar at all, in fact, went out of his way to help him dropping him stuff. Dunno why he was so specifically butthurt at me. After the night 2 boss, he's standing in the spirit shelter still pointing me down like he's making some statement when he hasn't impeded me at all, I glance into his inventory... He literally has a basic torch with no skill, and a crappy holy spear with Less Likely to be Targeted. Because I guess he thought we just couldn't go on without him helping so he didn't pick anything up, he was just sticking around waiting for me to lose, but I just kept carrying. I notice Scholar also has pretty bad equipment, the only person on the team with any fire, except his little torch, against a highly fire weak boss, is me. I would've melted those bugs in minutes. Would've, but at that point when I realized he'd be completely fucked without me I took my fire, and left. I've fought Sentient without fire, it's a long, miserable fight especially with three of them on your ass. Good luck to ya with that torch, asshole. Not only did I have Flame Fall Upon Them, but I also had Vyke's Warspear which has an excellent fire skill perfect for a fire double Balancers build. And I would've given it to him. But he turned baby. Imagine how pathetic you have to be to follow someone around in a game for 40 minutes repeatedly trying to impress upon them that they've made you angry despite you being literal trash.
I get it.
I don't fucking care.
When you've reached the point that this is what you're doing to people in a game, it's time to turn it off, peel yourself off your chair, and get out. Much as I love gaming, there are other things in life, I have other things, everyone should. When people act like this it makes me think this game must literally be all they have to be this angry. And that's just fucking sad. Don't be baby Raider.
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