#I became the tyrant of a defense game

[captain-jale]

I've been reading I Became The Tyrant Of A Defense Game lately and....

This is something Cale would do.

[sometimesthatsbetter]

Every thing i read in Febubary

I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game

The MC of this novel is so fucking silly cause who tf names their kid Ash 'Born hater' Everblack? Like i'm being for real right now, his mom literally called him her 'little hater'. Love that

So, a Korean gamer who was streaming about this old strategy game on hardmode where if you fail once the game resets. The guy got isekaied the moment he finished the game on stream and right in the middle of the battle field too, tough luck hater.

Before we go more in depth about this story I would recommend that you read the novel version, the manhwa seems a little tacky and i've seen alot of readers complain that the manhwa makes everything look cheaper.

So, one of reasons why it made on to my reading list is because it was recommended by my guy friends who has great taste for this kinda genre. It drew him in because it used actual strategies that he would also use in his game instead of throwing around random lingo in hopes to cater to gamers. Like every battle was truly suspenseful and the author isn't afraid to show that every victory requires a sacrifice. Also I've seen people praise the character development of this novel, everyone starts out a little stereotypical and annoying but they get their own story arcs to shine.

Another thing i like is that this story is about the fight against the end of the world. Like i know alot of stories with that kind of premise but rarely do i ever feel the urgencey as strongly as i do with this story. The last stand against a sea of monsters waiting to consume the world and the young prince who's tasked with the question of remaining human or turning into a monster to save his world. I love me some classical fantasy

Anyways, it has 500+ translated chapters and it's all free. Go read it now.

The problematic prince

If i'm being honest here i can think of at least 10 more manhwa crown princes who are even more problematic than the ML, especially that guy from the abandoned empress, yeah fuck you blueberry head.

So the story premise is the typical bad boy x good girl story trope. Our prince Bjorn keeps getting pestered by his ex wife whom he doesn't want contact with and our FL is being sold off to the highest bidder in society, shinnaigans happen and so the are married. That's the very shorten version of the plot

First thing that i noticed, the vibes. It gave off so much Edwardian, turn of the century energy that i adore. From the costuming to the city streets and the interactions between common people. Love it.

The author seems to have been blessed with amazing writing skills because oh my god did the writing style made me swoon. Erna, our FL, can be classified as one of those soft girl heroines but i feel like she's more than that. She knew what she had to do to keep her loved ones safe and always strived for better, she's not a cunning villainess nor a simpering coward. Erna never settled and kept enduring and trying new ways to connect with others around her even when she's being labelled as a home wrecker.

Also the nobilities and medias reaction to their marriage was incredibly realistic, i see alot of manhwas with rags to riches stories or men marrying women with horrendus reputations but never mention how powerful the influence of the peoples opinions. Here you can see that Bjorn and Erna's relationship, while rocky still holds strong, it seemed like they are truly in love and happy with their choices. Yet media still condemns her as a witch, a slut and a disgrace towards the royal family. It even lead to a attempt on Ernas life. Which shows you how easily the public can be whipped into a frenzy just because of a narritive that she is other woman.

The spirit queen

If i even find the author of this manhwa i would like to make out with them and have their babies, cause this kind of genious deserves to be preserved.

Do you want a story with proper drama? Do you want something that actually keeps it's momentum and doesn't half ass shit half way through? Do you want themes about power and how it turns people into the worse version of themselves? Well look no further. The spirit queen has your back

Another thing that i loved about this story was it's sympathy towards the working class. The servants in this aren't the stereotypical happy go lucky loyal maids that you see in manhwas, they also aren't evil back stabbing people either. They know that their lives are worthless when it comes to the upper classes so they do all that they can to survive and to protect their loved ones. And i respect that as hell, even if it made them do less than savory things.

Also i recently learned that the author, Tutu-nim, wrote and drew this manhwa on their own. A true girlboss

Run away with me, girl

Remember all those times you said that you can be a better husband for the FL? Well this is a lesbian romance based on that premise.

It's a bittersweet romance story about two girls who were high school friends meeting each other after 10 years. Maki, who is till doing her graduate courses while living with her mom and lamenting her loneliness, while Midori is engaged and pregnant and living that perfect, normal life she wanted. Of course everything is not as it seems, and that's what the author wanted to explore in the coming chapters of the story

It's a short read, about 16? 17? chapters. But the author manages to do so much in that short amount of time. Every character felt so real and complicated. At first when you see Midori and the way that she treated Maki after their reunion, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that Midori is just playing around with Makis feelings. Especially with the way that she flirts and then reminds Maki of her engagement to her boyfriend.

This manga has the most realistic, hut wrenching potrayals of abuse, love and hate i've seen in a while. And if i'm being honest there is a high chance i would do the same if i was stuck in their situation.

[derekscorner]

[laughingherring]

I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game - Chapter 210 Wham! The next moment, sparks flew off the shield that Evangeline had wrapped around me.| Wielding her shield, she deflected the magical bullets, then clenched her magical lance forward. "Good heavens, he's completely lost it, hasn't he? I can't believe Damien would fire at you, senior?" Tell me about it. We might have to rethink the rankings of who's most likely to lose their minds in our party.

My goodness, they have a ranking for that!? I wonder how far up the list Ash is, he's usually pretty chill but he does have a reckless and unhinged side to him....

[luckykittens198]

Me reading "I Became the Tyrant of Tower Defense Game" and reaching ch 407: Fuck. SALOMEEEEEEE 😭😭😭😭

[itsanneeey]

Lily = Human Flamethrower lol

[sleepdeprivedartboi]

One of the greatest Manhwa panels I've seen.

Yes your eyes don't deceive you. He's using a crippled mage as a flamethrower. Peak shit. Lloyd from greate estate developer would be proud.

[soraybi]

THEM

[spectrumos]

I have to say I love miquella. I adore his aspirations and desire to relieve the suffering of others.

but he has suicide bomb soldiers in the Haligtree!

I aint TRUSTING someone who can charm people and has fucking SUICIDE BOMBERS. No matter what justification you have for that! Whether they figured out how to do that on their own, or Miquella just intended to give them a blessing, or whatever you can think of.

A leader who commands that level of belief and fanaticism, whether intentional or not, NEEDS to look in a fucking mirror.

LIKE, HOLY FUCK

Soldiers shouldn't WANT to sacrifice their lives! A kind leader would want them to try to fucking survive, yeah?

I know I couldn't stand the idea that someone, BECAUSE of their belief in our cause, or worse their belief in ME!? would choose to MARTYR themselves rather than run!

the suicide bombers were in the Haligtree! Miquella only shed pieces of himself AFTER cocooning! which means the soldiers became like this either before or during his cocooning.

Edit: I've taken a closer look at the haligtree soldier ashes and it says they only started exploding after he'd been gone for a long time.

But anyway, that shit was BEFORE the dlc!

acting like Shadow of the Erdtree was a straight up lie, a retcon, and betrayal of the previous writing on Miquella is honestly very fucking irritating.

It's a consistent expansion on his character! Someone who's so desperate to do the right thing that they're utterly blind to the folly of the actions they've taken along the way, or FAR worse, rationalizes and justifies them?

Someone who's childhood taught him that nobody could be trusted to help him if they're not loyal to his cause. maybe too loyal.

screaming

Additionally, the defense of Miquella's charm being "he used it in an ethical way" is fucking laughable and I utterly hate it.

That power is unethical.

Full. Stop.

Coercion is already evil. (our society does it all the time.)

And directly influencing someone's mind in a way they literally cannot resist (the only person who could resist it was the tarnished because we got his great rune) is far worse.

No person, god, or BEING can just use a power like that ethically. The power to do that is a temptation in and of itself.

Try to look at things from an angle of power imbalance, will yah? There's a reason power corrupts etc. is a saying.

Whenever a person holds great power, no matter how pure their intentions, they will misuse it and cause suffering.

Which is why I could never willingly let Miquella become a god. I'd sooner see him dead than that, because there's no way he could possibly make himself "pure" enough by removing fucking pieces of his very self!

A god who never feels doubt, indecision, fear, and love?

That's just a tyrant with even more tyranny than before!

A leader HAS to doubt their actions! If they cannot doubt, there's no room for anyone to protest their decisions!

The options, given his powers, are coercion, literally either killing those who resist, or fucking brainwashing them!

in the end, this game, and this dlc, are

A

FUCKING!

TRAGEDY!

ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

Rant over. Sorry if this hurt anyone's feelings, I'm just so irritated it's turned to anger, and I NEEDED to let it out.

[homestuckreplay]

Is The Wayward Vagabond Good At Chess?

On page 721 of Homestuck, the Wayward Vagabond kills time by playing chess against himself – a ‘stiff training regimen’ (p.720) for the citizen-militia of Can Town that leads to Black checkmating White, just as it was prophesied by Nannasprite that the forces of darkness would always triumph over light. But how does WV’s chess game actually play out, and what can this tell us about them and about Sburb?

First, as @tenaciouschronicler pointed out, the board is set up incorrectly. It’s a perfect mirror of how the board should be – the bottom left and top right squares on a chessboard should always be black, but in WV’s game, they’re white. To analyze this, I transcribed the actual moves that WV makes, and flipped them all horizontally – moving a piece to a2 became h2, b3 became g3, c4 became f4, etc – at which point the game becomes correct.

Here's the game after move 6 and move 13.

And, in standard chess notation (which is surprisingly quick to learn!), the moves that got us to this point.

d4 Nf6

c4 g6

Nc3 Bg7

e4 O-O

e5 Ne8

f4 d6

Be3 c5

dxc5 Nc6

cxd6 exd6

Ne4 Bf5

Ng3 Be6

Nf3 Qc7

Qb1 dxe5

Every move WV makes is legal within standard chess, so right away, we know they’ve got a good grasp of the rules and aren’t cheating. As Black, they play the King’s Indian Defense, which allows White to control the board in the early game in hopes of a counter-attack afterwards – according to chess.com, it is a ‘risky opening’ that ‘leads to unbalanced positions where Black tries to fight for an advantage instead of equality’ and makes it ‘more difficult for White to play for a draw, which tends to lead to more decisive games’.

Black’s fifth move with the knight is uncommon, but not bad. I spoke to a chess International Master to get his thoughts on the game, and he said ‘Normally people play 4…d6 in the King’s Indian to stop the knight being pushed back like this, but what Black did is also good, and he has a comfortable position out of the opening.’ He described the King’s Indian as ‘a typical fighting opening to get White to overextend’, and White fell for the play.

Homestuck doesn’t show us the middlegame, instead returning to WV’s mayoral dreams and Tab drinking as the timer rapidly counts down – but we return to the game with White in a terrible position. Here's the game where we pick up, and with White in checkmate.

Here, White is in check with an opportunity to take the opposing queen, but instead plays the following endgame moves.

Ke2 Qxg4

Kf2 Ne4

Kf1 Qg3

Re1 Qf2

This isn’t a strategic choice, but ultimately doesn’t matter - ‘No reason at all not to take the queen, White’s move is ridiculous - but he’s completely lost in the endgame anyway, with no real drawing chances’ (Chess IM). The game ends quickly, and the IM’s overall analysis is that ‘Black plays very well, either a strong tournament player or he’s cheating :) But not enough moves to go off to decide that. White is much weaker’.

Of course, Black and White are the same player. This tells us that WV does have a strong knowledge of chess, but either only knows how to play as black, or has a strong bias towards black winning. Either is believable. As a citizen of the ominous planet where the black chess pieces live, WV would likely have spent a lot of time learning strategies for Black to play, but their only knowledge of White would be how to counter their moves. They’re also indoctrinated into loyalty to the dark kingdom royalty, and to seeing Black as the superior force in battle, fated to always triumph.

Especially notable is WV’s unwillingness to capture Black’s queen. It’s an obvious move that wouldn’t have cost them the game. On page 687, WV asserts their hatred of kings as ‘petty, bossy tyrants’ who are ‘basically awful in every way’, but says nothing about queens – I wonder if WV retains some loyalty towards the dark kingdom’s queen, leading to an internal conflict where they’re unwilling to harm even her can representation.

While the battle/chess game likely plays out differently in each iteration of Sburb, WV comes from John’s game and is recreating the battle ‘years in the future’. Can this game tell us about dark and light kingdom politics during John’s game, predicting what we’ll see next in Homestuck? If so, it seems like four white pawns – perhaps representing the four players – will be allowed to initially advance, making it appear that they’re doing well in the game. John, Rose, Dave and GG will have some successes, and might let themselves get complacent with their abilities.

But the dark kingdom will hold back their best resources, and plan for the long term. They’ll take advantage of a couple big mistakes our main characters make while fighting on the side of light, skillfully eliminate these pieces from the board, retain their own queen while destroying the light kingdom’s, and, as the title of page 721 foretells, ‘lead [their] men to victory’.

It’s not a great prophecy for John and his friends – but then again, it’s uncommon for a piece taken off the chessboard to travel to another planet and start sending commands back through time. So, maybe there’s still a chance to swing the real battle in light’s favor.

[captain-jale]

Ash Everblack has a strong Lloyd Frontera vibe , and I love that for him

[lancelought]

Angraxaethe Sevsarstra, also known by her nickname Angy, is a Nova-turned-Protege I play in a game of Masks:A New Generation, a ttrpg about teenage superheroes.

Angy is a dragon from Avalon, a dimension of myth and legend and the source of many arthurian knights and wizards that became superheroes in the setting. Dragons are not well loved, and Angy herself was the only remaining egg from the hoard of the ancient avalonian Queen of Dragons, a terrifying beast the size of a mountain range that famously took hundreds of knights to defeat decades ago. In the aftermath of this campaign, all of her eggs were destroyed - except one, which was saved through the interference of one Archwizard Misaurystes of Anfwynn Tor, the headmaster of Avalon's best-known magic academy. She was allowed to keep the egg to raise herself under one condition:

Once hatched, the dragon would be shackled, in magical manacles, bound in humanoid form until such a time the magic deemed her no longer a danger to the people of Camelot.

So Angy grew up, with her adoptive mother and sister (Morgan le Fay), knowing she wads a dragon but not what she really looked like, not what that meant, nothing except that dragons were dangerous and so was she. The only stories she knew of dragons were from books on their terrors and their defeat - all except for a scant few stories of good dragons, the white ones and the sky blue, who appeared on scant few occasions to help the kingdom.

She knew she was not one of those, so she decided to be the other kind, and overcompensate.

Angy is kind of a bitch. She doesn't know how not to be, because it's what she thinks she is supposed to be. She is mean and vindictive and openly desires to be a tyrant. Of course, she never directly hurts anyone, tends to think of excuses to go out of her way to help or defend people, and when given a pocket dimension full of humans with no choice but to follow her spends most of her time making sure they are fed and happy... but that's not important, she's totally evil.

Without the use of her draconic form, Angraxaethe spent her childhood learning to channel her innate dragon magic into wizardry, and she is an accomplished wizard with specializations in defensive magic and dimensional magic, and a natural talent for burning things.

With the help of her girlfriend Mistilteinn (Misty), a personification of the mistletoe from norse myth (superhero settings are WILD), she eventually managed to break free from her shackles, and she is now capable of becoming her dragon self. Still, she spends most of her time walking around the city in humanoid form.

It's just more convenient, and has nothing to do with the fact that she can hold her girlfriend's hand, and look people in the eye.

[derekscorner]

[theosva]

Manhwa appreciation 5: I became the tyrant of a defense game

[yumeko2sevilla]

Airin Tojinomi_ unreliable messenger

╭── ⋅ ⋅ ── ✩ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──╮

ᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀᴀɴᴄᴇ

"Ahahaha. Now, do you really think I was that innocent?"

_The Unreliable Messenger

Full Name: Airin Tojinomi

⤿Airin (愛凜): A name of Japanese origin. "愛" meaning love, affection and '凜' meaning cold.

⤿Tojinomi (十時のみ): A name of Japanese origin. "十" meaning ten, "時" meaning time, hours, moments. "のみ" meaning delightful, beautiful, plesant.

Japanese: 十時のみ愛凜

Other Names:

╰┈➤Airin-san_ Tojinomi-san

╰┈➤Tojinomi (Yukiharu Shirokami)

╰┈➤Mademoiselle Trickster (Rook Hunt)

╰┈➤Bitch (Minako Sakamaki)

╰┈➤Unreliable Lady (Pierre @/anxious-twisted-vampire, Mia @/writingheiress)

╰┈➤Lady Airin (Maids of the Tojinomi Clan)

╰┈➤Little Actress (Tsukuyomi)

Title(s):

╰┈➤The 10th Lady of the Tojinomi Clan

╰┈➤Messenger of the Tojinomi Clan (Formerly)

Twisted From: Kyubey_ PMMM + Shikyou the Amanojaku- Masa Works Design

Voice Actor:

╰┈➤Japanese_ Nakashima Yuki_ Hinomori Shiho -Project Sekai

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Age: 17 (Appearance Wise)

Gender: Transfem Non-Binary (They/She/It)

Status: Alive_ Immortal

Species:__

Height: 188 cm

Birthday: February 29 (Pisces)

Dominant Hand: Right

Hair Color: Snow_Slivery White

Eye Color: Gray-ish Red

╰── ⋅ ⋅ ── ✩ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──╯

╭── ⋅ ⋅ ── ✩ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──╮

Homeland: Japan

『Family:

╰┈➤Ritsuka Tojinomi ("Mother"; Unknown)

╰┈➤Unname Father (Human?)

╰┈➤Mirai Onizaburo (Ancestor)』

Dormitory: Ramshackle

Occupation(s):

╰┈➤Student

╰┈➤ Head of the Tojinomi Clan

Grade: Freshman

Class: 1-A_ No. 7

Best Subject(s): History of Magic, Defense Arts

Club: Board Game Club

Favorite Food: Brioche

Least Favorite Food: Spagetti

Talent(s): Understanding Humans

"The Head of the Tojinomi Clan. A manipulative and cunning young lady, who hides their true selves by a mask of selflessness. But as time flow, the mask cracks more and more."

╰── ⋅ ⋅ ── ✩ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──╯

┌──═━┈━═──┐

ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ

"All you can really do is, stay."

╰┈➤Distinguish Two-Facer: Airin is -by others- an enigma, a seemingly sweet yet abnormal enigma. Kind? May not be the word. Manipulative? Now that sounds more like them, consider how they pulled the strings using their connections. Airin is terrifyingly good at keeping up the selfless mask she wore for a long time. After all, it's not her fault that it was called 'The Actress', no?

╰┈➤Love and Hatred: Airin,, quite has a view of 'love' and 'hatred'. As much as an emotional manipulator like them, love and hatred, for them- are the same thing, whilist love was born from hatred, the same opposite to hatred! Why should the world differ them so much? While you can mix them for tragedy, instead?

╰┈➤Tyrant of Tragedies: Dear Sevens, this young lady is going to be a tyrant. Among her traits, tyrancy and cruel are pretty much her definitions. The Tojinomi Clan became more grievious, and sadist due to her and her 'mother', Ritsuka. To say this young girl is the copy of Ritsuka, is not a compliment.

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✬Unique Magic: Blessings of The Fox's Wedding (狐の嫁入りの祝福)

"Oh Mrs. Fox, don't take the umbrella. Quickly, knit my feelings together.. Blessing of The Fox's Wedding."

╰┈➤The user is capable of granting others' wishes through phenomenons. When using this, the people will have other certain abilities that's related to their wish, which boost their macial powers up. However, as exchange.. Half of their soul will be a part of the user's feast.

†•°•══════ஓ๑✬๑ஓ══════•°•†

╰┈➤Backstory: •°•[Won't you smiling at me?]•°•

⤿Main Theme: The Fox's Wedding_ Shikyou the Amanojaku- Masa Works Design

✦Rumors going around, saying that Airin- while looks and act like human- has the ability to clone themself which make them immortal! It has never confirm this, however.

✦Somehow, Airin always appears where Yukiharu is. There is a theory that it was related to Yukiharu's curse.

✦Knows things that it shouldn't know, but doesn't care much.

✦Can anyone explain the tension between Airin and the Shirokami Clan Representive? Each time they communicate, they look like they want to kill eachother!

✦..It seems that she's involve in the Second Cold War. But neither Airin or Yukiharu accepted to say this.

@anxious-twisted-vampire @writing-heiress @achy-boo @yukii0nna

[iam-back]

Super Mario RPG playthrough diary - 40

Below here be spoilers!

Alright, 5 against 1 - a plumber, a cloudbaby prince, a light-mote possessing a doll, a princess, and a king v.s some hairy tyrant with a hammer.

It's a decisive battle and indeed a war between wishes and weapons. Bitchin' music, too!

This guy's a tough nut to crack. And his Smelter, too!

Throughout the fight he'll create random helpers with AOEs to fit their motif. ...Should I say just Shypers.

Destroy that first, and you're Gucci-golden!

...Op, Mario's down.

Anyway, I healed a bunch - now I won against good old Smithy!

At this point the foundation falls and we're thrust into phase 2, where the music becomes crazy and chaotic and he unleashes his true form after we were only shown the earlier form for like 2 minutes.

"Meanwhile, the fight is not over." "What!?" "True form activate."

...Well, his head changed. In fact, that's the name of the game here. His head will periodically cycle through a few forms - a tank for physical attack, a coffin containing the late Pink Panther for defense, a penis wizard man for magic, and a treasure box for status ailments up the wazoo.

Princess Peach is your best bet.

Oh God, tank mode.

His body works more like Exor's eyes - if you damage it enough it'll temporarily be unable to attack.

Next up he changed to penis-wizard mode.

No Magnum yet - just a bunch of Bullet Bills and stuff.

Apparently it's not a weird mouth under the hood - it's his little crown!

Next form! It's... This.

This mode is dedicated to defense - or defence, if you're British. It's immune to magic, so you'll be sorry if you wasted your Ultra Flame on that.

Oh God no, tank again. OH SHIT THERE'S MAGNUM AND IT KILLED GENO BECAUSE I DIDN'T REACT FAST ENOUGH

Penis wizard man again. Mario's down. So's Mallow.

Everyone keeps dying - time to send in tanky old Bowser.

Not the tank again!!! I wanna see the treasure box!!!

I blocked the Magnum!

Anyway, here's the last form - the treasure box full of status ailments.

I was meaning to save those Rock Candies during the Smithy fight, and look where I am!

Whew. Only ~1,300 HP to go. And they kept the status screens as eyestrain as ever.

Finally got that Healing Rainbow up and running.

And there! The last hit! I did it! FINALLY!

He's finished! Done for! Kaput! Over the hill! Shalom!

Now that Geno's left his host body and returned to space, let's gather'round and find out what became of everyone.

Todovsky has an orchestra.

Gaz and Geno reunited.

Croco joins the Mushroom Derby.

Valentina is trying to marry Booster.

The Starslap serenades everyone.

Johnny's just there. Who is he, Proto Man?

Mallow's on stage as the rightful heir to the Nimbus throne. I like to think that afterwards, Nimbus Land and Tadpole Pond form an alliance.

Bowser's fixing up the castle.

Plus, Punchinello showed up at the end! Proving that he's alive and not dead!

Also, the credits have gone all retro. This is either cute or lazy, depending on your sliding scale of idealism v.s cynicism.

Right around Johnny's section they've spiced up at night with parade lights.