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Post by Timberwere on Sept 27, 2023 7:02:03 GMT
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Post by Angry Individual on Sept 27, 2023 7:08:15 GMT
Alright, this is definitely one of my favorite pages of all time.
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Post by madjack on Sept 27, 2023 7:08:29 GMT
So I think the real answer might be, given that this is Coyote: Has Annie played Baldur's Gate 3 yet? Yes, yes she has. Content warning and spoilers: |
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Post by bicarbonat on Sept 27, 2023 7:29:02 GMT
Punting the ref: that's a red card.
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Post by rafk on Sept 27, 2023 7:31:50 GMT
I feel like this is a fitting evolution of Annie's chastisement of Coyote - from SPANKIES to PUNT!
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Post by Corvo on Sept 27, 2023 7:33:22 GMT
That is not how you pokemon-battle, Annie.
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Post by rafk on Sept 27, 2023 7:34:46 GMT
So I think the real answer might be, given that this is Coyote: Has Annie played Baldur's Gate 3 yet? Yes, yes she has. Content warning and spoilers: Ewww. And to think, parents groups in the 90s went berserk about some pixelated blood spray in Mortal Kombat. That is so much worse. |
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Post by philman on Sept 27, 2023 7:37:38 GMT
Cheating is the answer to every riddle
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Post by madjack on Sept 27, 2023 7:50:48 GMT
Yes, yes she has. Content warning and spoilers: Ewww. And to think, parents groups in the 90s went berserk about some pixelated blood spray in Mortal Kombat. That is so much worse. They had more of a point in the case of Mortal Kombat, which is a straight up empowerment through violence experience. Game spoilers: In BG3, that and a lot of other, worse actions are committed by your character under certain circumstances and especially certain influences, and none of it is really portrayed as a good thing. |
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Post by Angry Individual on Sept 27, 2023 7:51:10 GMT
Now that I'm no longer giggling like a fool, it really does show Annie's growth in her ability to handle these situations. If it was the old Annie, I'm positive she would have felt required to solve the riddle.
But as she's learned with Zimmingham, the best solution to these "problems" is to blast it in the face with fire or run away from it. Seems like Coyoteville plays by the same rules, or lack thereof. Punt away the tedium!
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Post by blahzor on Sept 27, 2023 7:52:05 GMT
I guess hanging around Kat has made Annie smarter
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Post by blahzor on Sept 27, 2023 7:53:18 GMT
Punting the ref: that's a red card. Unless you're Katie McCabe |
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Post by noone3 on Sept 27, 2023 8:05:55 GMT
Cheating is the answer to every riddle Not really cheating if she just refuses to play. |
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Post by rafk on Sept 27, 2023 8:36:31 GMT
Ewww. And to think, parents groups in the 90s went berserk about some pixelated blood spray in Mortal Kombat. That is so much worse. They had more of a point in the case of Mortal Kombat, which is a straight up empowerment through violence experience. Game spoilers: In BG3, that and a lot of other, worse actions are committed by your character under certain circumstances and especially certain influences, and none of it is really portrayed as a good thing. D&D has always had the ability to role-play people committing hideously evil acts (or just classic murder hobo adventurer behaviour) and that's fine but if you decided to be graphically violent and cruel to small non dangerous animals in my game it would be a red flag that you're a psycho and probably not invited any more. I don't think "but it's portrayed as evil" is an excuse tbh - it's more than a bit unnecessary. I don't have much gaming time these days so I hadn't picked it up yet but I had been interested up until now. Now there's no chance. |
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Post by hnau on Sept 27, 2023 9:00:52 GMT
A practical solution to the riddle.
Bend your leg, then straighten quickly.
No need to prove yourself worthy by solving stupid riddles.
You need someone to receive the kick - and the other leg to stand on.
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Post by guntherkrieg on Sept 27, 2023 9:58:06 GMT
First pro-dunking Alastair the Bird Boy and now this.
Maybe Annie should be on a pure athletic track.
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Post by ghostiet on Sept 27, 2023 10:00:57 GMT
I don't have much gaming time these days so I hadn't picked it up yet but I had been interested up until now. Now there's no chance. It's not an excuse. It's the literal point of that particular character origin - you have brutal urges you can either indulge in or supress. It's also entirely optional. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Sept 27, 2023 10:44:13 GMT
oh, the answer was "my foot up your ass"
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Post by rabbit on Sept 27, 2023 11:12:31 GMT
GOOOOAAAAL!
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Post by kayback on Sept 27, 2023 11:45:52 GMT
That's a place kick isn't it?
I thought a punt was a drop kick without letting it bounce.
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Post by todd on Sept 27, 2023 12:50:40 GMT
And now we'll never know what the answer to the riddle was.
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Post by csj on Sept 27, 2023 12:52:29 GMT
american football scouts are going to want her number once this court business is over
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Post by guntherkrieg on Sept 27, 2023 13:27:20 GMT
Can we appreciate that Siddell captures the movement perfectly?
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Post by Nnelg on Sept 27, 2023 13:30:59 GMT
Punting the ref: that's a red card. Hm, side of a card may be an answer, too... And now we'll never know what the answer to the riddle was. Coyote may be unable to spill it, later. |
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Post by arf on Sept 27, 2023 13:49:37 GMT
Cheating is the answer to every riddle "What *has* it got in its pockets?" There's a scene in Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions" where the hero (snatched from a WWII firefight into a medieval fantasy world) is engaged in a riddle game with a troll. Playing for time, and drawing on schoolyard experiences, he asks "What is green, has wheels, and grows around houses?". The troll has to give up and ask for the answer: "Grass"
"... but grass doesn't have wheels!"
"Oh, I lied about the wheels."
At that moment, the Sun comes up, and the troll* is petrified. * Actually a giant, but the effect of sunlight is the same. |
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Post by ctso74 on Sept 27, 2023 14:07:48 GMT
Cheating is the answer to every riddle We could look at it as a Gordian Knot solution. If you consider the Gordian Knot solution as a true solution, that is. |
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Post by shadesight on Sept 27, 2023 14:16:13 GMT
... if you decided to be graphically violent and cruel to small non dangerous animals in my game it would be a red flag that you're a psycho... That is very much the point of the Dark Urge background. Minor, pre-game start spoilers follow: It is and should be an enormous red flag. The Dark Urge is extremely, psychopathically, unreasonably, uncontrollably evil, and that moment is one of the first times that you get a really solid clue to the effect that you are not your own master.
You can play into it, or you can reject it through the story, but that specific character that you saw in that youtube video is suffering from a curse. Tragedy will happen. That is understandable, but I would find it regrettable if you missed out on such a story for an uncontextualized moment. If it helps at all, the Dark Urge is the only "Origin Character" - character with personal plot woven through the story - that does not appear in the game if you aren't playing as them. Additional maybe-spoilers follow, for the purposes of context: and they are the only character that has unintended murder woven into their dialogue. If you do not choose to play the Dark Urge, the only unreasonable psychopaths in the game are villains - though Lae'zel and Astarion certainly give off unreasonable psychopath vibes, they are not.
In the interest of disclosure, any character can try to kick the squirrel if they object to it nibbling toes. This is not Bethesda Fallout - there are children and you can kill them. Nearly every character is named, individually voiced, and the game pulls no punches about the results of your actions, but mass murder is an option.
In the interest of further disclosure, it is not an evil-villain murder power fantasy. In almost every case where you can do the evil thing, what you get out of it is less than you'd have gotten by not being cartoonishly, stupidly, psychopathically evil. A casual murder early in the game can have knock-on effects that ripple into the endgame, and the level cap is low enough that "farming the village for xp" is shortsighted and stupid - much as evil tends to be. The good - or at least, not-psychopath - routes lead to stronger characters with more tools at their disposal. If, with that greater context, you still think BG3 is not the game for you, then I am glad to have helped provide the context to make a firmer decision - it sounds like your time is precious, and while I think it's a fantastic game and would want others to have the opportunity to enjoy it, I also understand the value of time and certainly don't want to encourage you to waste yours. |
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Post by csj on Sept 27, 2023 14:27:51 GMT
please give me more spoilers for the game I haven't played yet  |
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Post by Gemminie on Sept 27, 2023 14:55:57 GMT
After Coyote-Cubone asks his riddle and Annie says she knows the answer, Renard watches in the foreground as Annie walks out a short distance, starts running, and ...
... punts the little skull-headed varmint into the middle of next week. The centerpiece frame of this page shows Annie in a great action pose with the desert scene in the background and the sun with its curved rays in the sky.
We then see Renard and four of the New People staring open-mouthed. Has Annie just caused them all a world of trouble? Annie's response means, I believe, that they're not here to travel within Coyote's frame of reference; they're here to travel through it to somewhere else in the physical universe. In the final frame she puts forth that they need to "think about traveling less literally," which could mean either thinking less literally or traveling less literally. Or both.
I had not considered that Annie's answer was not to answer. But yes, it makes sense that if they had gotten guidance from the Coyote-critter, they would have found out how to travel to other points within Coyote's scenario ("manifestation"), but not out of it.
Slapping Coyote on the butt, kicking him into next Tuesday, such disrespect! Here he is just trying to be the best trickster he can be, and this is what he gets.
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Post by TBeholder on Sept 27, 2023 15:00:12 GMT
There's a scene in Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions" where the hero (snatched from a WWII firefight into a medieval fantasy world) is engaged in a riddle game with a troll. Playing for time, and drawing on schoolyard experiences, he asks "What is green, has wheels, and grows around houses?". The troll has to give up and ask for the answer: "Grass"
"... but grass doesn't have wheels!"
"Oh, I lied about the wheels."
I prefer “What’s green and red and goes round and round and round?” |
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