The Adventures of Peaches, Part Sixteen

So there are these people(?) or creatures(?) in Elden Ring called Godskin Apostles. Their deal is that they wear robes made out of human(?) skin. I’m not sure what this is about, but both the Apostles and their clothing are creepy as fuck. If you can manage to defeat one of the Apostles at the bottom of a secret dungeon in the Caelid region, you can wear their human skin robes as well.

What the shit Elden Ring! But I guess that’s on brand. This game is constantly finding new ways to surprise me. At this point cannibalism doesn’t phase me at all. If I see some random person enjoying a tasty snack by the side of the road, I wish them a good day and ride on by. There are worse things.

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Re: The Adventures of Peaches, Part Sixteen

Speaking of discourse, something that was bothering me about Elden Ring is the way that the game seems to suggest that a "superior" class of people - meaning the ruling elite - managed to maintain their sanity during the event that caused the world's collapse, while the "common" people all turned into mindless zombies.

Now that I've gotten deeper into the story, however, I realize that a lot of the former rulers have become mindless zombies too. And a few of them, if they're not mindless yet, they're definitely getting there.

Something I appreciate is that most of the professional wizards have not in fact lost their minds. They're not corrupted or insane; they're just making a conscious decision to be antisocial assholes. And if "fighting petty battles while the world burns around them" isn't an accurate assessment of academia, I don't know what is.