Things that annoy you in TM

[SpoonyViking]

I was surprised by the notion that he was also a noteworthy figure in places like China, India, etc.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Mostly thanks to Muslim influence, especially during the Mongol/Timurid era.

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It was all part of the religious culture of the era, and also, I don't think he was picked up in any major way by non-Muslims in India and China, though as Dully pointed out, there was lots of syncretism.

[Zork Knight]

I have a feeling Hermes Trismegistus is saved for something else down the road.

[Dullahan]

if anything some lame shit that'll be worse than what I said

I am better at writing FGO than FGO itself.

[Zork Knight]

But would you have come up with "Hermes Trismegistus burns human history to fuel time travel" on your own?

[Dullahan]

I would have done better even than that and realised that FGO is not actually a thing that should be written at all

[Zork Knight]

They thought so too but then changed their mind after player reaction to the first three chapters.

[Dullahan]

That's why I'm better. I wouldn't change my mind.

[LJ3]

They were gonna stop at three chapters??

[Zork Knight]

No, they were going to keep phoning the story in, IIRC.

[Deathhappens]

That's why I'm better. I wouldn't change my mind.

But then you wouldn't make them dank millions ¥¥¥.

[SpoonyViking]

Mostly thanks to Muslim influence, especially during the Mongol/Timurid era.

Hm, interesting. Thanks, Gau!

[Historia]

I would have done better even than that and realised that FGO is not actually a thing that should be written at all

yes

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Hm, interesting. Thanks, Gau!

Just took a class covering this topic this spring.

[falseCeilings]

Well, it's like "this thing can do this certain action because it's the universe somehow, or it's everything in some complicated way which makes it invincible, etc, and then you have to use another concept to stop it. And well, it can be hard to follow sometimes.

But conceptual stuff is very straightforward! It just does what is says on the label. A gun can be used to kill people, but how it works is based on physical laws which we have learned to leverage. On the other hand, something that can conceptually kill people is just that, there's no deeper explanation behind its mechanisms or the deeper explanation just functions as flowery exposition around the conceptual effect.

[Ruisu]

exactly!

which is why i said that they would have been better off using someone like hermes trismegistus instead

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not only do you get dank melty blood References for people to Get (and Clap when they Get them)

he's got s y n c r e t i s m potential which makes tamameme look like the shitter she is

Ah so that's why you didn't dismiss my first suggestion of Goetia having the personality suggested by the ecclesiastes, you find annoying that they got the characterization that would probably be more appropriate to the original solomon in the first place, right?

[Dullahan]

it's really a matter of "less retarded" than "more appropriate"

[Skull]

As far as "annoyances" go this is truly one of the most minor, most nitpicky. But it has always bugged me whenever I see Beowulf and remember that Hrunting is given a higher Rank than Nægling.

Seems a bit counterintuitive and that their Ranks should have been the other way around.

That is all.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Really? I've read Beowulf, and I can't see a compelling case for either being of any higher rank than the other. Then again, it has been 7 months...

[Inuhanyou]

There are too many situations of a company hitting a specific point where they can just coast raking in millions on a property that explodes, and everything else immediately stops becoming a priority.

FGO is that for Type Moon. Its like Epic with fortnite, or Valve with Steam.

To be fair, unlike those companies, they havent completely stopped giving a crap about expanding the brand, and the little they focus on has had its quality rise in proportion, but...its hard to see any way of out of such a situation