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u/snowillis 2d ago
As someone who is nearly burnt out from playing way too much hades 2 lately I appreciate the reference.
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u/countryyoga 2d ago
Burnt...out....from playing....hades 2.....
Nope, not there yet!
(But give yourself a break, it will be more enjoyable coming back to it <3)
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u/snowillis 2d ago
These games really bring out the completionist in me so I’m probably going to keep trying to finish every last scrap of it for now. Eventually I’ll put it down probably for a long while until hopefully we get another one.
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u/half-giant 1d ago
I 100%ed Hades 1, but kinda fell off Hades 2 after reaching the epilogue. I’m sure I’ll get back on the horse soon.
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u/Wheat_Grinder 1d ago
For me it was Arachne's quest. I've got everything else done and hers is still, at best, moseying.
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u/TheMobHunter 2d ago
I haven’t played it but I’ve watched a little on YouTube and my main takeaway is that they definitely tried to make the characters as hot as possible
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u/Viper1089 2d ago
I am basically at the same point haha. I finally had an hour to sit down and play a game or two but I just sat at my home screen contemplating if I wanted to go through another run of hades...
... i decided to eat some leftovers and watch YouTube lol
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u/meesta_masa 2d ago
That's Bannerlord everytime a new mod comes out. I get excited, load up and realise I've got 300 Gold and 10 grain. Sigh. Here we go again.
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u/Bata600 2d ago
People often do not understand what little death really means.
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u/Dark_halocraft 2d ago
"the state of unconsciousness felt during an orgasm that certain people perceive during the sexual experiences."
Fym, how does one achieve this"
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u/goatonastik 1d ago
And here I thought they were making a Dune reference...
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u/Tresident_Pump 1d ago
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind killer.
Fear.. is the... Orgasm?
That brings total obliteration?4
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u/Professional_Baby24 2d ago edited 2d ago
The little death.
Edit. Its la petit mort. The way i spelled it has a the exact opposite effect of the joy experienced in the correct spelling
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u/Sloannee 2d ago
La petite mort**
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u/Professional_Baby24 2d ago
Thank you. A mix between autocorrect and the auto translate thing is messing me up. I speak no French. But when it corrected me I thought I had it wrong. Or it was a feminine to masculine thing like Spanish.
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u/Electrical_Diamond_9 2d ago
I mean, "la petite morte" works but it has a different meaning than "the little death". It means "the dead little girl"
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u/Professional_Baby24 2d ago
Well then. Quite the difference one letter can make. Interesting the auto translate still keeps changing it to the little death. Kinda frustrating. I find this whole string interesting though so im going to leave it up as is but add an edit.
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u/darkage_raven 2d ago
La petite morte is also an orgasm.
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u/Professional_Baby24 2d ago
I know. Ive always known it as la petit morte though. But yes its French for the little death.
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u/Jimmy_ijarue 2d ago
This one makes sense. I don’t like when people say “in French they don’t say such is life they say cest la vie”
Like yea that’s the literal translation.
Or that in Japanese “the moon is beautiful tonight” sounds like I love you
I mean I guess the last part of daisuke and tsukki sound the same?
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u/Major_R_Soul 2d ago
"Tsuki ga kirei desu ne" would most literally be translated as "Moon is beautiful y'know."
If you drop the T you get "Suki ga kirei desu ne" which would be "Love (affection/like-likeing someone) is beautiful y'know."
(Dai adds an extra level of importance to get daisuki which is like "I really really like [you].")
And I can imagine how sitting alone with someone on a moonlit night that you share romantic tension with, and just blurting out something that sounds similar to "Being in love is a beautiful thing" could cause them to think you're confessing.
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u/Marx_Forever 2d ago
I'm struggling a bit with differentiating Tsu and Su audibly. When I mention them sounding similar to my Japanese teacher she thought about it for a second, and was like; "nope."
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u/Major_R_Soul 2d ago
There should be a slight sound of the tongue hitting the roof of the mouth. Almost like a spitting sound tuh right before the sss is added by passing air between the tongue and roof of the mouth.
As opposed to a purely sss sound which only comes through the teeth being closed and the tongue almost being pressed against the teeth.
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u/ANGLVD3TH 2d ago edited 2d ago
Technically, the literal translation of c'est la vie is "that's the life." Which is amusingly an idiom in English meaning almost the opposite of the French phrase. Obviously, that's because English drops the article most of the time, adjusting for that the phrase becomes identical to an equivalent one in English, "that's life."
I find it especially amusing because both phrases start with an contraction for the same two words as well. C'est being a contraction of cela est, literally "that is," and c'est is therefore a perfect mirror for "that's," with the caveat that it is the first word being contracted away rather than the second.
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u/Khaeos 2d ago
Yeah, yeah, but who is the fruitcake? Eros? That's the key to the joke for me. And why are the other gods spitting out their Tang!?
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u/Professional_Baby24 2d ago
Apparently its hypnos. The Greek god of sleep. Sleep poetically was also known as the little death. But take that with a grain of salt. It makes sense. But I dont trust Google or Ai answers.
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u/smilingfreak 2d ago
These are the Greek gods as stylised in the Hades games. The fruitcake is Hypnos, twin brother to Thanatos, the god of death (the one with the scythe).
Poetically, death is often referred to as relative of death, or a small death. And they're spitting out their nectar due to the orgasm reference.
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u/cynicalsaint1 2d ago
Its Hypnos, as depicted in the Hades games.
The joke is conflating the use of "little death" as potentially meaning "sleep" or "orgasm"
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u/hackingfun 2d ago
The Greeks invented the orgies. But the Romans were the ones who invented inviting women to the orgy.
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u/Mystdrago 2d ago
The irony of course being that the Greeks actually like their wives, unlike the Romans.
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u/stevvvvewith4vs 2d ago
Romans had invented i hate my wife humor
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u/Mystdrago 2d ago
True Hera was the butt of many myths, then you look at Odysseus and Hades, and you realize that the guy that did the theogany just hated Zeus.
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u/zenthor109 2d ago
.. and then I said, thats the last time I let my wife drive the chariot!
laugh track
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u/JesterGodKing 2d ago
romans didn't invite the women to join the orgy, just to the orgy. so they could watch maybe take notes
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u/AungZeya 2d ago
Maybe that's why they didn't invite their wives. They don't wanna see their wives getting done by other dudes.
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u/MyPigWhistles 1d ago
Some centuries later, people discovered that it's also possible to invite adults.
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u/squid-do 2d ago
Before anyone asks, “little death” is an orgasm.
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u/grrangry 2d ago
Or is it fear?
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.-- Bene Gesserit, Litany Against Fear
...never mind. Even with the Bene Gesserit it's probably an orgasm.
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u/KrackerJoe 2d ago
No, I believe fear is an aberration.
Fear is the air that cowards breathe.
Fear is the first taste of defeat.
The Warrior only breathes the air of the brave and the Warrior only feasts on the fruit of VICTORY!
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u/ANGLVD3TH 2d ago
What did you think was gonna happen? That I wouldn't be hungry? That I wouldn't want a slice?
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u/DeadlyGreed 2d ago
Aww man! Not the god of accidentally swallowing water into the trachea? Or when you think you accidentally stepped on your pet's tail? Or when you walk up steps and take one extra step while swearing there was at least one more step?
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u/ChaseShiny 2d ago
Are you sure it's not the god of sneezing? I'm pretty sure that I read that that's where you come closest to death.
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u/ougryphon 2d ago
And we've come full circle, since sneezing and orgasm are said to be similar processes
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u/Guardiancomplex 2d ago
Technically it's the post orgasm consciousness fade/nap urge, not the orgasm itself.
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u/UnforeseenDerailment 2d ago
Yes yes, la petite mort, but who is in the last frame?
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u/Ingavar_Oakheart 2d ago
Left: Hypnos, God of sleep. Right (left to right): Thanatos, God of Death, Hades, God of the Dead, Zeus, God of Lightning.
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u/sassynapoleon 2d ago
Zeus is god of the sky and Hades is god of the underworld. They are both gods of realms, which is why they’re more important in the pantheon.
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u/Abyssal_Groot 23h ago
Exactly. Hades is the ruler of the underworld. This includes being god of the dead and funeral rites but also of hidden earhtly wealth (minerals, precious metals, gems).
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u/sycolution 1d ago
it only just occurred to me with this post why Thanatos and Hypnos are brothers…
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u/Rio_Walker 2d ago
"Little death they deserve?"
"No, like... little death... without commitment..."
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u/Wonderful-Hornet-164 2d ago
I was once in a DND game where the warlock's patron was god of little death. Also highland cows for some reason.
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u/Steve_78_OH 1d ago
So, the god of orgasms and (specifically) highland cows? That's definitely niche.
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u/Flimsy-Story3936 2d ago
And thier other brother brings Death like feeling. While one of their sisters plot death.
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