LaserJesus

That sounds like the next lame Transformers toy line.

I personally plan to eventually go through and replay arcs that I've reviewed that have been stated by the author to have been updated, and change the rating accordingly.

It doesn't count if you actively search them out, jerk.

Look, as a man of mostly German ancestry, I can tell you that all Germans are insane.

Of course, the other part of me is Irish, so I'm drunk AND insane.

That's not meant to be racist. I really love to drink, is all.


Mmmm... beer.

I think it's the Aztecs who get the special Warrior that gets bonuses against Archers. I once did a 2 player game to see how fast I could kill my opponent by Quecha rushing them. I believe I won in like 900 AD.

That was a fun game.

His superpower is the best. He just tells people to cut it out and they stop.

Obviously a mind controller.

So now you drive the villains crazy because you're a lunatic?

Don't try to hide your addiction to the Disney channel by blaming a cat, BaBs.

The main problem I have with it is the fact that when I first made the arc, the boss did level down to 40 when I tested it out with a lower level character. For some reason, it doesn't anymore.

Technobabble is important in situations like this. Without a proper explanation as to why it has to be done, it's instantly recognizable as a handwave purely for plot purposes, to give the player a reason for having to be there. Of course, even when it is explained properly, it's still a handwave. However, it will be a handwave that makes sense.


Reading through it again, I see that I created the time jump/memory hole scenario in my head to have it make sense. Reading through it again with the knowledge that such a thing wasn't your intention, it now doesn't make any sense.

The line "for you I do not yet exist at all" gave me the impression that I'd been sent back in time, and somehow my memories were sent back as well. After all, I just talked to this guy. I should recognize him as the guy I just talked to, and he exists in a sense due to the fact that he's interacting with me.

However, if that wasn't your intention to give a time jump effect, then all this merely means is that in this arc, my character apparently shoots first, and asks questions later, so to speak. A mysterious man pops up and says "Save these aliens" and I apparently don't think to ask him who he is until after saving the aliens goes horribly wrong. That, to me, is even worse than a poorly executed time jump/memory hole scenario.

You did not implicitly state it, true. However, it was heavily implied whether you intended it or not. If a strange, half-real, black-and-white fire man shows up and tells me that I am needed on an alien planet to save their entire race, I'm probably going to assume that he's one of them. There's also the souvenir.

It states that the Kyrdosi sought my aid. Except, it was the Fractured One, who was later revealed to be a fragment of me. This implies that the Fractured One was masquerading as a Kyrdosi to get me to go to the planet to save them.

Also, here's another case of the transcendence device not making sense. It's stated in one of the clues that all of the Kyrdosi inside the building were not transformed by the device. Unless the device is made out of some kind of poison that only effects Kyrdosi, they would survive the process of turning it on.

I fully understand that. This isn't a case of me not getting what you're going for. In my review I even stated that the problem isn't even that it's a paradox. The problem is that the Fractured One is a total moron. He complains about being trapped in his state, when he perpetuates his own existence for all time.

For him, the best course of action would be to do absolutely nothing, and never bring me to the Kyrdosi planet in the first place. Since the Kyrdosi will die no matter what I do, then it's better to just let them blow up with their planet instead of activating their device that will cause them to become crazy universe destroying monsters. That will make it so the player character won't have to fracture themselves to get into the void shadow to stop them, and the Fractured One will never have come into existence.

Again, this is not a case of me saying that time paradoxes suck. This is a case of the contact's motivations making no sense.

I'm fully aware of the fact that they'll sometimes just plain not say it properly. However, the proper way to use $heshe at the beginning of a sentence is $HeShe. Ask the devs. Or, just go look at the Architect Entertainment Instructor.

Don't talk about such things! There are kids about!

They may read in between the lines and be ruined forever!

Oh, kind of like the MA editor does sometimes?

I'm not sure if you still can't write hazardous in there.

Reminds me of my days in Everquest, fighting Drnltrices.

Good times indeed. You know, except the Everquest part.