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Post by Leapkit on Aug 29, 2022 14:36:30 GMT -5
The neutral stats was kind of a bonus in my opinion, just cause theres other characters who have one stat or even multiple totally neutered and hard to recover from if you don't get items with stats you need. (Staring directly at Maggie's slow ass, meaning lower level bosses give unavoidable damage that not even yum heart can help.)
Having stats be "just okay" >>> stats that are straight up garbage.
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Post by Brownie on Aug 29, 2022 14:40:39 GMT -5
honestly, fair. Though I think maggie is the only one that really takes a hit from garbage base stats. apollyon too maybe, but I just think he's bad in general (void is too long a cooldown for a mediocre effect imo)
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Post by Leapkit on Aug 29, 2022 14:48:50 GMT -5
Apollyon is good to take into the alt routs to void the double item rooms. But that's abt it.
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Post by Brownie on Aug 29, 2022 15:03:28 GMT -5
even then the double minor stat is rarely worth the value of a 2+ rare item
I'm currently having to grind t apollyon on greedier and it's the worst first floor I've ever had to play tbh
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Post by Brownie on Aug 29, 2022 16:40:55 GMT -5
Loop hero is on sale for 5$ on steam (from 15$)
I've heard it's a pretty good roguelike, but not too long. I just got it, so I'll let yall know what I think of it and if it's worth the sale price
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Post by Brownie on Aug 29, 2022 17:36:14 GMT -5
Game:Loop Hero
Okay, this is interesting... so the premise is that your hero just runs in circles and auto attacks, the skill comes from choosing equipment and placing unique tiles that give more enemies, but also more loot to make you stronger. Resources are important to build things in your camp between runs. You can also unlock different cards that can show up and build a deck to influence the odds of different loots and push your strategy in different ways.
The art is fantastic; it's old pixel style with an old CRT shader which is super cool. The music is a bit repetitive but alright.
Evaluation: totally worth 5$ to anyone who likes roguelikes, idle style games, or retro pixel games
EDIT - oh, and there's a decent story! The world apparently became void and you're trying to "remember" it by building tiles and making the world again.
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Post by Brownie on Aug 30, 2022 7:09:55 GMT -5
Hey yall just a quick update to anyone it may concern: my power is out and will probably stay gone for at least another two days. Gonna be poofed until then. Wish my electricians good luck. On my last 2% phone battery and then imma have to find a mcdonalds with a generator or smth Sand rip to our plot sorry. mintedstar/fur🦇 im gonna extend the contest another week with the same prompt so you got time. If you wanna announce that on the page id appreciate swallowtail i see the post it clan but my phone might die before i get to read it!! littlesong42 if you finish the chapter before my power is back, just dm me and ill get to it asap. Might not be the most thourough in-line critique as i was hoping but i can give some insight. Bad timing on that! But maybe my power comes back before you finish
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Post by Sand on Aug 30, 2022 8:59:36 GMT -5
Rip plot, you were so good to us.
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Post by Brownie on Aug 31, 2022 13:14:09 GMT -5
Woot power back earlier than expected! Gonna have to deal with all the irl stuff that accumulated between moving and power outage (which is absolute bad timing for real) but I should have time tonight to get to rp replies and catch up with other Things
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Post by Brownie on Aug 31, 2022 15:16:42 GMT -5
Game:Loop Hero
Final verdict: It's a good game. The tutorial gives you only the very basics and leaves you to puzzle out the rest, which was refreshing. I enjoyed mucking about and figuring out the best plays and strategies (and combo tiles) by trial and error. Always a blast to accedentally do something really good (or bad!) and learn for a future run; in a roguelike, this isn't super punishing and the game makes even losing feel okay. After all, you have to leave the loop eventually.
They do keep adding systems and I hope it doesn't get TOO complex. I like the concept but too many systems and currencies and progressions would weigh it down. Because it's an autobattler with chance loot though, it probably won't be extremely replayable after 100% like some others (coughcough isaac) but it's WELL worth the 5$ (and probably full price too)
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Post by Brownie on Sept 1, 2022 13:18:13 GMT -5
I lost this run in the dumbest way possible and I'm a little sad about that :(
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Post by Leapkit on Sept 2, 2022 13:20:57 GMT -5
>losing godhead run you done been Skill Issued. :(
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Post by Brownie on Sept 2, 2022 18:18:50 GMT -5
>losing godhead run you done been Skill Issued. :( tbf it doesn't do much with knife and wanna know the reason I died? ya know those things that shoot maggots out of their stomachs? I am an epic gamer and know how to space those. Unfortunately, the maggot thing was hiding UNDERNEATH at the same pace and since I spaced the first one right at the tip, I had .0001 seconds of seeing the other one under it after the top one turned around :((((
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Post by Brownie on Sept 3, 2022 12:33:47 GMT -5
Game:Isaac (Annotated)Here's another screenshots + commentary from one of my runs~ We're playing t. bethany! Which, let's be honest, is impossible to lose with. Legementon is just. opaf. I thought I needed to get my Mother mark, which is why I have the knife, but it was beast I was missing. Whoops! Luckily she's op enough to deal with going Up through the Alt floors (which can be a pain in the ass for lesser creatures than she). Anyways, this was the first... weird thing of the run. Two bibles spawned on Necropolis II, one in shop and one in the library. Super weird I've never seen that happen before. I took it along for the quick mom kill and then swapped back to satanic bible. Because who doesn't want free health as a can't-take-red-health-gimmick character? Okay it's over. t.Bethany + any 4 rare is usually an instant win, since you can just legementon into an op combo and hold onto it for the rest of the game. My combo was.... Eye of the Occult! (+dunce cap which actually was pretty nice with bookworm). I will dub this: Bendy Straw from Hell. Anyway, I got car battery (double active items) which along with the early gimpy I picked up from satanic bible, meant that I had enough extra charges of red health to survive at least four apocalypses (and beast) (; Yea I swept the Up path. This is how many wisps I collected and still had 60 charges of red health in my pocket for the actual boss fight. GGs. I don't even know what I had anymore. Stats, hopefully, and nothing that broke my combos, so it didn't really matter. I was fairly low on damage, though. I had infinite health to soak that weakness, but it was annoying to have to sit through the horsemen's "harder" attacks since I couldn't burn them quickly. Knock out drops was a bit of a meme the entire horsemen fight tho. I couldn't see what was happening because they were getting shoved off the screen the entire time. Anyways by death I realized I didn't need to save any of my red charges for health anymore (like I was gonna even take a single hit from beast, his patterns are by far the easiest of any boss despite his cool mechanics). So I just popped legementon + car battery for all I was worth. Some honorable mentions were godhead, parasitoid AND mulligan, and tech 2 Anyways, t.Bethany is just free unlocks. The only one I still have with her is void, since I was unlucky on both of my up and down runs and didn't get a portal. Time to speedrun to hush again for the 100% portal and hope I can have enough red charges to smash that fight
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Post by Brownie on Sept 3, 2022 19:05:16 GMT -5
Game:teamfight tactics (TFT)
So I told myself I wouldn't play this until midpatch update on wednesday because I already missed the rest of the patch.
And now I'm spamming lobbies <3 anyone else play?
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Post by Brownie on Sept 8, 2022 14:48:29 GMT -5
Game:Minecraft-WynncraftAnyone play this MMO back in the day? I played on and off, did most of the quests (when I started, lvl max was only like, 75? maybe not even that it might have only been 50 and one continent idk) anyways, every few years I run around and do a little bit with the updates, and today was 2.0 and uh, well. I might have to wait a little longer to try the new stuff. Now is a super good time to join (though maybe wait a few days......) since they revamped a lot of the early/mid game (which Needed updating, some of the quests were going on 7 years old and they did so much since then). And they apparently made it easier to run on low-end machines which is pretty cool. I'm going to be starting a new character for the update, so if anyone wants to join me or friend me lmk~ I'm down to party up
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Post by Brownie on Sept 8, 2022 15:05:07 GMT -5
less than a thousand now but it's going slower I'm guessing it's gonna be another hour in queue. not horrible for mmo opening day patch but ehhh
ig I can play the tft update that ALSO came out today !! While I wait
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Post by Brownie on Sept 9, 2022 20:41:01 GMT -5
wynncraft servers were down pretty much all day, which was okay because that meant I was forced to go outside and touch grass. I actually caught a bunch of bugs for a project which I've been meaning to do before it gets too cold so yay me. productivity.
I keep losing isaac runs which is sad. I keep losing tft games too which is... concerning. I'm usually pretty good but I'm Struggling with hitting comps this patch. It's only been two days so imma keep at it and maybe something will click idk. My econ just isn't what it should be.
uhhhhh what else. I've been editing so much writing lately like. My own writing, other people's writing, a few friends, some people irl for once, it's crazy. I enjoy it, but it's Something New for sure.
I've also been writing a lot myself~ Never on projects I want to be done, but oh well I'll get there one day. I did a few more posts on my 1x0 roleplay which was fun; I like that project and totally recommend it to anyone whose muse is poofy af but loves rp post style. And if anyone wants to read about my sword boy x artificer boy shenannigans it's out there~
oh, also if anyone's keeping up with my Circle of Granite worldbuild... I'm on SparkClan which has 143 CURRENT characters populating it. It's a lot of names. A lot. I'm slowly getting through the complete allegiances, then it's onto writing some personality and Lore for everyone (; I did write a few paragraphs of Lore for Jadedrop: a cat that just recently was Created (aka, someone's OC got dumped into the simulation) right in the middle of the Jeweled Claws, the cats that fight mutated chimera creatures in the desert reaches. He does NOT like this btw and is very confused about everything and concerned why everyone is just okay with this as their everyday life, which tbh, valid
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Post by Brownie on Sept 14, 2022 21:05:23 GMT -5
getting to all responsibilities on here Tomorrow. Due to stuff and things.
Also my leading cause of death in my t.lost runs have been spike rocks. In rooms with no enemies. I just forget they are in the middle of the room and slam my face into them. </3
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Post by Brownie on Sept 15, 2022 22:12:48 GMT -5
bruh t.lost tech x + redemption + godhead + ghost pepper
DIES TO SPIKE CHEST in womb 2 cuz I'm a dumbass </3
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Post by Brownie on Sept 17, 2022 12:25:53 GMT -5
got hush, isaac and bb with t.lost~ Wish I had keys for m.satan and void since I could have totally beat those too, but I took devils instead (goat head from curse room). I only got stats from the devil deals too, nothing super amazing, it would have been sick if I could have rolled dad's key on chest (I full cleared floor and did everything I could, including not taking any of the initial room for best perthro chance and took metronome to hit in that room every two just in case).
I had gotten a void portal off of mom's foot (5%) that run but not after any of the other bosses, and I didn't want to go there after hush because I did want to get the free isaac/bb marks </3
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Post by Brownie on Sept 29, 2022 21:15:02 GMT -5
finally did the grind and got marbles and huge growth from laz greed spam funny enough, I actually got them both the first run I tried to break, which is super cool. Usually it takes a few runs to get placebo
I've also been smashing out marks for tainted characters. t.forgotten, t.lilith, t.isaac are 100% with most having just a few more marks to go. Besides t.j because I just unlocked him!! That's right I played jne and didn't lose!!! I actually got THREE runs with jne which is like, all I'm gonna do for a while cuz screw that character I really liked the red redemption challenge tho, it was super fun and creative. now out of all the challenges, I just have the marbles one cuz I just got that unlock like 10 mins ago, and also hot potato, which is easy but I just haven't bothered with it yet
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Post by Brownie on Oct 6, 2022 17:55:18 GMT -5
a series of events:
I've been too lazy to set up spellcheck on my browser I regularly use discord to quickly spellcheck long words that I don't use often Discord keeps memory of unsent replies even after rebooting pc I see my friend is online I accedentally send "retribution hi"
dunno what they'll think the retribution is for but ngl they probably deserve it (;
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Post by Brownie on Oct 10, 2022 18:04:56 GMT -5
been checking off so many marks in isaac I'm just that insane I should count how many I have left for dead god it's less than 50 for sure AHHH
Writing, yes. I've been fantasizing about writing but doing very little actual pen-to-paper which is... fine, because my thinking has been Productive Thoughts and not Useless Worldbuilding Factoids, so that's a step in the right direction. I've been doing a LOT for the Granite Circle; it's really getting to Be Something which is super exciting. I love everything about it and I'm gonna keep doing cool things so that I love it more <3333
Also I've spent all day today in minecraft. Trying to get fortune 3 (I've been rolling so BADLY) and breeding axolotls which is my new favorite thing
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Post by Brownie on Oct 16, 2022 11:43:02 GMT -5
okay I've been writing like, A LOT for my PMD short and it's really getting to Be Something which is super cool!! I love all my characters <3 Penny is still the most chaotic force I have ever had the pleasure of writing and it's super fun. I thought I would mostly be sitting in Pix's POV but Penny's is just. So much more fun? She has more to say about everything and more secrets and I love that for her.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 21, 2022 16:01:29 GMT -5
BRO anyone who plays pokemon romhacks or fangames has GOT to try emerald rogue right now !!
If it's not obvious from my addiction to isaac, I love roguelikes and I never in my dreams thought they'd make a decent one for Pokemon!! No grind, challenging, and strategic oooooh boy it's everything I love in a game! and the increased shiny odds feel good since they are only temporary (I always feel like these new hacks with 1/480 odds are just handing them out like candy and I Don't Like That cuz they stop feeling special).
The only downside is that you hardly get any currency to spend outside of the runs, because the perma unlocked items are specialized and so you need a good variety to actually increase run consistency any appreciable amount. And maybe it'll feel better once I'm out of early game, but I'm so upset with early shops since I rarely have enough money to buy more than one thing before the second gym. Maybe I just suck or am greedy but!! They are showing me so many Optimal Plays and I want it all!!
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Post by Brownie on Oct 23, 2022 12:47:30 GMT -5
Lileep is such a good pokemon what playing emerald rogue and winonna's mantine is just roost stalling but it's scald is super scary for my team (three fire types eek) and I was out of torkoal hp to put more sun up so it's just lileep vs the world. waiting for this mantine to run out of roosts and spamming giga while roosting and recover while not. We're both burned. Just stall. lmao
oh and the fight would have been easy if I was allowed to set up with golem but no murkrow taunted me on switch in :) I probably should have just switched out and tried again but the problem with rogue is that the movesets are random and also the AI is super random and so idk what coverage it has or if it will even USE that coverage.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 29, 2022 22:58:17 GMT -5
So I'm playing some LEAGUE again (: AP rakan mid. Having an absolute blast bullying mages out of lane and also being an assassin and also engage tank all in one
also rakan is just fun. He wants red shoes and thinks more people should be complementing him on his sexy cape and that's just a pure vibe.
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Post by Brownie on Dec 16, 2022 16:03:50 GMT -5
new split tft is pretty good
tho it couldn't have been worse than last season, so ig there was a low bar.
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Post by Brownie on Apr 9, 2023 20:40:42 GMT -5
Updates on the Gaming Front because why not.
Been playing a lot of osu and clone hero. I'm honestly not that great at rhythm games for how much time I've put into them (over 1k hours on osu, maybe 300ish on clone) but I enjoy them for the "listening to music actively" vibe.
More league and tft. Hit diamond tft in like, two weeks prepatch, but now I'm struggling up and down in plat 1/2 in midpatch. oof. Mostly because I've been doing very risky augment plays and/or memes and/or inting strats. League I've actually decided to try and grind ranked with one tricking gnar. He's cool. Not as cool as rakan, but nothing can compete with rakan. Tho I might swap to mid because holy hell is top useless. I can carry as hard as physically possible but if I'm not impacting jng matchup with roams, my jng will always ragequit and feed. At least mid I can roam and soothe the fragile egos of gold players.
As for singleplayers and roguelikes....
BLACK RELIQUARY DROPPED !!!! I've been waiting for this darkest dungeon rework mod since early in it's development and BOY HOWDY does it deliver it is the most awesome thing!!! I haven't played too much of it, mostly because I've been focusing on writing and league grind, but it is the absolute best thing and the devs are amazing and it's just the best okay. Go play it if you liked darkest dungeon it's very, very worth it (and it's FREE).
Endless Dungeon is three weeks out and I wish it was here already </3 Been waiting on that for nearly six years too
Uh.... I've been grinding eclipse difficulties on risk of rain 2. They've been doing these competitive races (twitch @ riskofresources) and it's super fun to watch with the shoutcasters. I've never been interested in eclipse before (mostly because I only love commando and why would I play the rest) but it's been a super fun challenge and now that I know a better strategy to keep runs consistent, I've been having a lot of success (~half of my roster is sitting on e3, which is the first big hurdle). I really never fought mithrix before this (I was a looper) so I had to learn that fight from scratch, which wasn't hard but was a little annoying at first.
Rapid fire of other smaller achievements: more Hades cosmetic grind; little bit of isaac (ULTRA HARD IS FINALLY DONE OMG); finally broke through Slay the spire's a17 for silent; played nothing but slime rancher for three days when I was super depressed and it helped (as usual); bought iratus and it's... alright; DEAD CELLS CASTLEVANIA DLC!!! I haven't tried it yet because I am Frustrated with learning controller for that game.
OH and I got a VR set used from a friend!! I don't play it often because my CPU is bottlenecking and my room isn't large enough to do anything more than limited motion games (like beat saber or virtual painting). As long as I'm always facing forward it's okay but I can't walk or turn around </3 It's also a pain to set up and gives me a headache haha
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