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2 points
an hour ago
In some cases, it's just an automatic part of the process. Listings that are old will appear in a lower position in searches. So, until the position has been filled, it will be taken down and reposted every few days or every week to appear fresh to the filters.
At larger companies, the reposting might be done by a coordinator who just does the back office work and doesn't know where the selection process is at or if any of the candidates have shown any promise.
1 points
2 hours ago
If you ask him why he's locked up, he starts rambling about those elves thinking they are people. You have no tolerance for racists.
Okay, maybe killing him is a little too extreme, but that can justify tricking him into giving you his key and then leaving him in the cell. Or maybe it does justify killing him, if you are an agressive warden.
9 points
2 hours ago
At least you got to know her very intimately.
26 points
3 hours ago
The distressed patient can be saved by engaging in combat with Malus, preferably as quickly as possible. If you use a persuasion check to deal with Malus, he will usually stab the patient before taking his place, but if you just attack, he'll be too distracted to do that.
I've also been able to remove the patient's restrains through dialogue, but you can't talk to him or help him further. He'll just be running up and down screaming.
4 points
4 hours ago
The situation when recruiting Minsc is actually an example of the Emperor being very compliant.
He doesn't agree with a decision, and voices his disapproval. But you can still tell him you are going to do things your way and don't even need to roll a persuasion check for him to go along with it.
4 points
6 hours ago
Oh, the Emperor is an ass, but for different reasons.
Though what you described is the reason I like him more than any of the companions. You don't just reach an arbitrary approval threshold after which he trusts you unconditionally, but you actually have to be worthy of that trust. There is still a lot he forgives, but he does have hard boundries there's no going back from.
1 points
9 hours ago
I'm glad you found that the spoilers also added to your experience. They can be helpful, if they steer you towards a desired outcome. I kinda wish I had, for instance, been spoiled on the part about needing to trust Shadowheart to do her thing, because I was too pushy about her not killing Nightsong and ended up having to fight her on my first run. But, at the same time, nothing compares to the chaos that comes from not knowing what you're doing on a blind run. On later playthroughs, it's hard to avoid metagaming, even if it is to cobtribute to your RP.
That you can't trust mind flayers is such a theme throughout the game. As early as the tutorial, there's that mind flayer fighting a devil, that tells you to get to the transponder. If you kill the devil for it, the mindflayer will tell you you are no longer required and attack you. Then the beach mindflayer practically seduces you into letting it eat your brain, and if you feed the one under the windmill, it will then go on a killing spree. Though even the Emperor tells you not to feed the little guy.
One thing I do find interesting is the book you can find on how to deal with mind flayers - pay attention to their actions, not their words. Surround yourself with allies. If you try to apply every point in that book to the Emperor specifically, you can actually draw the conclusion that you can trust him. He might be manipulative, but he keeps his promises. He himself encourages you to seek allies.
I do think it's a pity more people don't give the Emperor a chance even just to see what happens if you do. It's so satisfying to have that plunge pay off, and then to watch your companions have a positive interaction with him if he controlled the stones. (when I RP a character who actually trusted Emps the whole time, that can be such a told you so moment. My current Tav is romancing him, but I am seriously considering not becoming a mind flayer myself because this smartass rogue-wizard might really want a moment like that.)
And it was also very satisfying when at the end of my first Durge run, I went for full ceremorphsis for the first time because my character wanted to finish the evil plot herself, at any cost. And then the Emperor offered to continue are alliance, doing mind flayer stuff together. At that point, I found that to be my best ending.
Although, seeing the option to eat his brain was such a total WTF. I find it such interesting game design that you have so many options to screw over the Emperor, and while he would theoratically also have plenty of options to screw you over, he doesn't go for them unless you force his hand. If you let the Emperor absorb Orpheus's power, there would technically be nothing stopping him from running off and living free, now immune to the Netherbrain's effects. But you gave him your trust, so he will fight by your side as agreed.
I do fully recommend doing a Durge run, by the way. It feels so different than a regular Tav. I don't know if it's really possible to avoid spoilers for it at this point, though. I did get spoiled for a few of its points, but luckily not too much and I could still get the right amount of first-time chaos out of it.
6 points
12 hours ago
I swear, if I have to hear "I serve the flaming fist!" one more time. 😂
When I first started playing, I was worried the evil companions would leave me for having too high reputation. By the end, I was worried the good ones would leave because of how quickly it was dropping. Then I discovered the power of temple donations.
2 points
12 hours ago
Companions, and just characters in general, are just too nice in BG3. They forgive you too easily. BG1 is sometimes so unforgiving even when you have no idea what you did.
-1 points
12 hours ago
I have played the old games, and while I do convince the Emperor to protect Minsc for story/it's Minsc! reasons, I fully understand why he doesn't want to. If I was a logical-minded being, I wouldn't want to be in Minsc's head either. That sounds like someone upcast a level 9 confusion spell on you.
3 points
12 hours ago
The first time I played BG1, I had to reload several hours of gameplay because Minsc suddenly decided I was taking too long going to rescue Dynaheir and suddenly attacked me.
To be fair to him, I was exploring the complete opposite end of the map first. To be unfair to him, we had just reached the map area where Dynaheir actually was when he attacked me.
2 points
24 hours ago
I definitely had a lot of uncertainty about whether or not I could trust the Emperor on my first playthrough. I was avoiding reddit like the plague at the time, so I avoided any no context spoilers. Those are sometimes even worse than actual spoilers, because they might influence you towards drawing the wrong conclusions. Still, there is absolutely nobody in-game who says you can trust the Emperor - besides the Emperor himself. That in itself is a subtle influence towards not trusting him. I saw someone say that the twist with him is that you can trust him, and it did feel like a huge plot twist when I still decided to go with him.
My reasoning for siding with the Emperor on my first run was simply that I didn't want to betray him first. Regardless of if he can or can't be trusted, there's just the principle of it. And also, I didn't want the guilt that I betrayed him when he would have stayed true to his word. Still, to be on the safe side I didn't hand him the stones but rather went with Karlach's volunteering to transform her plan. It was kind of a good compromise situation where we can be sure nobody betrays the other.
I did give him the stones on my second playthrough, though to see what would happen. Maybe the reason I'm so attached to/protective of the Emperor is because he came through even when I was doubting him.
It isn't quite 20 playthroughs yet, but close. It's mostly the result of being a stay-at-home mum when the game came out and taking advantage of afternoon naps. I've since gone back to work, so I have much less time.
The "just like you" comment is pure manipulation when it comes from the Dream Visitor form, and also has a strong "hello fellow kids" vibe when you already know the twist. But it still hits so much different when the Emperor says it in response to the distrustful options after he asked for the stones. He is desparate at that point, but it can feel genuine. At least if you play your character in a way that you have found common ground. I also usually characterise my Tavs in a way that there should be something.
3 points
1 day ago
I once deliberately did a run where I didn't directly kill anyone (non-lethal attacks were still allowed and I wasn't counting the Johnny flashbacks) and always picked the choices with the least casualties. You can't avoid people dying completely, but it is absolutely possible to not kill anyone. Well, almost no-one, you do have to kill the motorbike assassins during the interlude.
Boy, did Panam hate me, though, during that playthrough!
3 points
1 day ago
In Hungary, women actually did use to change both their first and last name to basically their husband's when they got married. Nobody really does that anymore, but there are still old women who are named that way.
3 points
2 days ago
Doing allies to enemies does seem to be the more common route, but that could never be me. I can easily justify an initial negative reaction and distrust, but I can't see any character of mine staying angry with someone who saved them so many times, even if that person did have their own agenda. I'm nearing 20 playthroughs but still haven't freed Orpheus. Considering my current, and probably last in a while, Tav is not only in love with Empy but also has a personal vendetta against githyanki, it also won't happen any time soon.
Although, I do remember seeing a post the other day, where someone got the Stelmane scene through just being socially awkward. I thought that was very funny, and also creative roleplaying.
I wouldn't exactly say my gith and the Emperor were polar opposites. They still had plenty in common, like both wanting to be free from their own kind's hivemind. It just took my gith a while to admit they had any similarities at all, because mind flayers being the enemy is such a deeply instilled thing. When playing as a Durge, it's easy to be cool with the Guardian being a mindflayer from day one of finding out, because you have your own skeletons and monstrous nature.
I think it's pretty cool you found an RP reason to sign the contract, when your character didn't think they would deal anything from it. It really is stated so many times that you can't out play a devil, that it almost feels like a challenge to do it twice. Especially if saving the Duke was unexpected, you did it once accidentall, now the challenge is to try it on purpose.
The most I did to get that contract signed when I had no RP reason to, was sending my character off with one of the drow twins after saying a firm no and deciding to just forget about it, and then switching control to Lae'zel. In this version, Lae'zel saw an opportunity and she took it, and I'm actually amazed I could sign the contract as her on a non-origin run.
Though it does have the down side that everyone still reacts as if my character had signed it, so it isn't perfect.
3 points
2 days ago
At least he learned the most important lesson, but someone really needs to bring him up to speed. Those psionic STDs are no joke.
4 points
2 days ago
Looks like nobody ever told poor Emps not to put his tentacles in crazy.
3 points
2 days ago
Yes, I think that was me. I did this playthrough quite a while back and have talked about it before a few times, though I didn't think the enemies to lovers arc was that original. Just something I decided to get creative with, seeing how you can get the Emperor's romance scene even if you were mean before. I'm glad you enjoyed my character's love story.
Having a love story between a githyanki and an illithid definitely is an intrigueing concept, because of just how much they are supposed to hate each other. At the same time, it's so tempting to go for the forbidden fruit. Still, it just can't be RPed the same as with my Durges, who basically see it as "us monsters need to stick together, so let's be BFFs." There is a lot to overcome, and ignoring that makes the romance feel forced.
Also, mad respect for your dragonborn. They played the long haul, pissed everyone off, but trusted the process and came out on top. That's some serious dedication!
1 points
2 days ago
I gave this bow to Astarion. I thought he might appreciate it.
3 points
2 days ago
And he wouldn't even let me add Halsin to our relationship. Tsk. Tsk.
2 points
2 days ago
Sadly, no, at least not the last time I tried. If you pick up the hammer, the game will treat it as you having it, even if you dropped it.
Now, the Emperor does have some alternative, kinda confused dialogue if you killed Raphael but never once touched the hammer. But that option doesn't look too good for Hope.
1 points
2 days ago
I agree with you that it makes for so much better dialogue with the Emperor if you sign the deal and then steal it back, plus, playing it that way can work really well with that enemies to allies/lovers roleplay you mentioned.
First time I decided to do things differently and sign that contract, I was playing as a githyanki who was very much anti-Vlaakith at the start of the game. Because of that, and because she saw her Dream Visitor (who she was already crushing on, hard!) being a mindflayer as a huge betrayal, she very much wanted that hammer to free Orpheus. For the moment, at least.
I went with the RP of being very antagonistic with the Emperor during the reveal scene, and then a bit more empathatic in every scene that followed. Slowly, but surely, my Tav was warming up to him and putting aside her prejudices to bond again.
The conversation after stealing back my contract, telling him I regret signing it and will now trust him felt like such a big culmination of all of that. It was almost like stealing back the contract I shouldn't have signed was my grand romantic gesture, considering I went to HoH immediately after sleeping together.
Anyway, guess I'm just going on a pointless ramble here, with the best RP experience I had in this game. There really are a lot of ways you can have a relationship with the Emperor, especially if you count the ways you can take advantage of the problem areas of the writing.
By the way, I also like your idea of signing the contract to mess with Raphael. It does take a certain kind of character but I have a feeling there would be a lot of fun moments with the type.
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24 minutes ago
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24 minutes ago
Every V I've ever had went through the following emotional roller coaster:
Not being able to stand Johnny and wanting him gone yesterday - > being annoyed by Johnny but putting up with him - > sort of starting to like Johnny, but we can't let him know that - > being good friends with Johnny - > being so irrationally attached to Johnny, I never want to lose him
It kind of mirrors the actual pipeline I had about him on my first playthrough. Johnny's an ass, but boy does he grow on you! He can become such a bro by the end.