u/Pyotr_WrangeI

This and also Settra should not be fighting Nagash by turn 5, that is very anticlimactic

Name:Michael(The One Like God) Jordan(to flow down or descend)

Numerology:6 Championships/6FMVP/2 3Peats/His number 23( 2/3=.666)/scored 666 playoff points in his 3rd title run for his first 3 peat)

Symbolically:Everybody knows Bapamet(goat head demon)and how the goat got associated with the devil because in the original Hebrew text, one word to describe Lucifer was “Sa ir” which means hairy one or “GOAT” and thats where the 2 horns come from. They also use the calf to describe a part of the beast. The goat is in the calf family and a bull is a male calf. Does the bulls logo not look like Bapamet? Not to mention the bulls color is red which has always been the color for The Devil. So when they call him “The Goat” they really saying the devil it’s all deception.

Nick Names:The GOAT(The Devil) and Mr June(Yes I know that’s the playoff month but it’s also the sixth month out of the year)

We also know Lucifer is a reptilian but still a man. Serpant is normally used to describe a humanoid reptilian. In the Old Testament, you can’t even find the Names Satan or Lucifer. It was The Serpent and we all know all his other snake like nicknames that followed because he is a Reptilian(half reptilian half Elohim/angel/anunnaki/).

Then the cherry on top is THIS video. https://youtube.com/shorts/RsuHdMvlO8M?is=HtqTXkwsXw3cPSJg Filmed in the 80s, and it’s clearly not fake. This video is actually already well known. You can google and research everything I just said to see it’s true. How can you honestly look at all of this and think this is a coincidence? This many?? All  pertaining to the Devil? MJ is either Lucifer in the flesh or he is one of the 200 fallen angels that was cast out with him.

Edit:Mods please do not remove my post. The link below shows Michael Jordan the reptilian/serpent morphing.

Wikipedia article in question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healslut

I myself have played Civ 5 in the past but only in singleplayer, so I wouldn't know anything about this sort of thing.

She was COMPLETELY clueless about anything on earth, and she came against Brainiac's wishes, so he didn't provide them.

Here, for example, is the feat on which VSB Wiki bases Stardust the Super Wizard's planetary level AP. Many feats of this tier, especially if that's the upper end of the character's AP, show the character get really exhausted or hurt by performing the feat, but Stardust here accomplishes the task so easily (as he always does, don't think Stardust ever struggles with even a single thing) that he never even stops, instead immediately going after the villain.

First and foremost, I invite you to just answer the question in the title and consider ignoring the below text altogether because this is going to be a rant, and for a wrong reason too. Like, no one's playing a game like Skald for the story, right? Basically what I am looking for is either A)"You're a dumbass, the ending is actually really good because you didn't understand X"; or B) Just validation of others agreeing that the game ends in a stupid unsatisfying way. Well, regardless, I've spent maybe around a week on this game, just finished it and really feel like sharing some things, whether they truly warrant sharing or not.

Anyways, I got this game on Epic a pretty long time ago, back when it was available for free (making the rant even less warranted), and, after playing for a bit I dropped it, in no small part because I just don't vibe with the theme, that became apparent very quickly, of "horrors beyond your comprehension", preferring my horrors to be more grounded and comprehensible. I didn't mind the gameplay however, so after some months of generally hearing good things about the game (mostly from this sub) I gave it another shot.

And, well, yeah. The game is not bad at all, although pretty much all aspects of it, from combat tactics, to character building, to exploration are quite simple and underwhelming, but that's okay, not all RPGs can (or should) be Wrath of the Righteous. So all else being decently engaging but not really outstanding, I ended up latching on to the main mystery of the plot as my hook for the game, set my biases aside and became quite commited to it all the way through to the end and, y'all, I really wish I had just listened to my biases. All my assumptions from back when I had dropped the game were correct. I honestly don't even know if this should be a spoiler because of how in line the story of the game is with the conventions of the genre. I think the best example of what I'm talking about is the cheery town preparing for a celebration you get to visit about midway through the game. Before you even talk to a single NPC it is dead obvious that something horrific is going to happen at that celebration and that the whole town is actually somehow cursed and doomed, yet for some reason the game sends you on a fetch quest all around the town where you constantly stumble into very heavy foreshadowing of "ooooh, everything seems so nice and cheery in this town, but what if there's actually something eldritch and evil going on beneath the suraface? wouldn't that be fucked up?" and all I can think about is "It actually would have been *more* interesting if amidst all the horrors this actually was a truly nice place, to both contrast all of the darkness and give us a reminder of what we're fighting for". So of course during the celebration an eldritch monstrosity pops up and makes all the townsfolk kill each other, though surprisingly you do get to save some kids from an insane noblewoman, that was nice.

But of course the problem here is with me for trying to engage with the type of story that is not written for me, because "what we're fighting for" here is not other people, our own betterment, or anything that can be related to or comprehended. Our quest is entirely dedicated to awakening an impossibly ancient ambivalent ancient being to stop an impossibly ancient malevolent ancient being, with neither of the beings of course caring about us or the rest of the worlds and even describing ourselves as pawns in their game would be an enormous overestimation of how little we are worth to beings like them. And okay, fine, I have read Lovecraft, it's not my favorite but I can vibe with the story of "Characters encounter and are tormented by horrors beyond their comprehension --> Characters walk away forever changed by the horrors", but... in Skald no one walks away to get to be changed. In fact, not only do all our companions die both torturous and pointless (except for one) deaths at the very end, but the entire region that we played in gets destroyed! Every single character (outside of the prologue) that we have interacted with, that we helped, saved (including those kids I was surprised we got to save earlier) or otherwise impacted dies at the end, so literally none of what we have done outside of our one sided interaction with incomprehensible eldritch thing has mattered at all! In fact, fuck it, we may have actually been predetermined to awaken this ambivalent being all along, so we basically didn't even do anything really. Timeline shenanigans, or whatever.

So as I said before, I am seeing this as *my fault*. I am not criticising Skald, it is a very good game with most significant flaws being annoying inventory management and characters sometimes (rarely) just being unable to attack on soe turns. There is a reason why no media is almost ever truly Grimdark and why 40k stopped being such a very long time ago, but some people do like it and I shouldn't tell people who do that they are wrong for liking it, which is why instead of doing that I am simply ranting about how I now feel that I've wasted a week's worth of leisure time because the game I've played told me that none of what I did had mattered and I was stupid for expecting a satisfying conclusion to a story that established right off the bat that it is all about incomprehensible horrors, at the end of that week's worth of leisure time.

As I said, the rest of the game isn't bad at all, but in most other CRPGs where I've felt unsatisfied by the story, like BG3 or Necromancer's Tale, I had other things to look back on fondly at the end,with Skald though, I just look back at all of the hours I've spent and feel nothing except frustration. I just wanted to find out what was happening, y'know? I suppressed my gut feeling, gave the game a chance which allowed me to actually get quite engaged with it only to then immensely regret doing all that at the end. Some people enjoy media about beings whose motives and actions are as incomprehensible to them as non-euclidian physics are to an ant, and these people deserve to have stories catered to them, after all, I get media catered to me that those people would not understand the appeal of. But like, am I really invalid for feeling frustrated now? Is it stupid to ask "what actual difference is there to my character or any character I got to interact with in the game between the Navigator awakening and the Dragon ascending if all of them horrificaly die either way? (in fact most of your companions would have actually been quite better off dying along the way)" I guess this may be my eldritch horror, because I can't imagine that an ant trying to read a physics text book is being any less productive than I am now.

If I had a nickel for every time Korra befriends a fire nation girl with a shitty dad I’d have two nickels

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1. Karara fixes Azula (cringe, misogynist, spiritually israeli, boring)

OR

2. Azula makes Katara worse (Based, peak, feminist, fun)

It's clear by now that the show is only really taking basic inspiration from original story, but is there any moment in particular that you would hope to see?