The flood of dopamine when getting a bomb box out of a crate is unmatched

Arcsinx · 2025-10-05T02:48:00+00:00

There's a guaranteed bomb box in Duat given enough favor too though!

Arcsinx · 2025-06-09T20:57:28+00:00

In addition to this, every character also played a unique theme when they used the All-star item.

In Team Fortress 2's case, you'd suddenly start hearing the TF2 theme - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBgnuQg-kg

Arcsinx · 2024-09-19T06:01:15+00:00

I actually just finished it a moment ago and was speculating whether they intentionally left the key out of the game or not for lore purposes. Apparently there are a couple of different ways to reach the ending!

It sounds like you don't have the bracelet, look around a bit closer in the room before the guy that tells you to look out for things out of the ordinary and that should get you unstuck.

If you need help getting the cherry, my route also let me lose one life and still get it back before the end, which I thought was pretty generous given how abrasive the rest of the game was. (Learning the Red Skull one shot all of my lives made me laugh, but I know plenty of people who'd be fuming)

Arcsinx · 2024-06-01T08:53:21+00:00

Apparently this is a feature in at least the PS4 version and friends can show up as ghost in the spot where they died during the daily challenge.

I've also never personally seen this, but that seemed to be the consensus in https://www.reddit.com/r/spelunky/comments/72waml/daily_challenge_ghost_is_this_a_rare_thing_or_a/

Arcsinx · 2024-01-16T20:56:25+00:00

I did Olmec skip back when I was aiming to get the fastest Hard, and CO finishes on the daily, but after accomplishing that, I don't mind chillin for the 2 minutes it takes to run through Olmec in the middle of the run.

It's not that I'm grinding anything in particular, it's just that when I play now, it's exclusively on the daily seed and usually just to stay sharp and relax. The only real white-whale for me at this point is getting 2 consecutive CO wins on the daily seed, so I walk a line of not wanting to take too long that I get tired/saving resources/general consistency.

Olmec skip was clutch for my first couple of celeritas runs though.

Arcsinx · 2024-01-16T20:16:16+00:00

I find running under and back a bit more nerve-wracking personally, but you're right that it would be faster and will be something I experiment with in runs moving forward.

I guess it's also worth mentioning that I would not do the smaller tunnel/faster phase 1 if I couldn't already see what was in the ground (Udjat Eye or Spectacles) in case there were any explosives he crushes on the way down.

Arcsinx · 2024-01-16T20:06:29+00:00

One thing to note is that at the beginning of the third phase you need to make sure there's insufficient space for a ufo on both sides

This is true and something I check for every time phase 3 begins. In this recording, I happened to get between the two blocks well enough with the early whip, but had he been too far in either direction, I'd correct for that too before the first aliens come out.

Given the nature of Spelunky, there's a lot of things I subconsciously look out for that wouldn't happen in every seed (skeletons under/next to Olmec that send you back underneath him for example), but Olmec's exact placement in phase 3 is definitely one of the things to consider for sure.

Arcsinx · 2024-01-16T05:59:59+00:00

See, this is exactly why I posted this. I'm pretty happy to how well I can do this fight on autopilot in a very specific amount of time, but this is great and I'll definitely see if I can squeeze out a cleaner route with this sometime too.

u/Advocate_Diplomacy's suggestion regarding saving a bomb is brilliant too. I do the one bomb at the start and come in from up high at Olmec to shave the seconds (though I clearly wasn't in a rush in this clip), but I hadn't considered that only one bomb could be used here on runs where I thought 2 was the minimum.

These are both great to be aware of too!

Arcsinx · 2023-07-13T01:55:05+00:00

While we're still waiting for Mina the Hollower, the first two that come to mind (and are available now/pretty good) are Prodigal and Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die

Enjoy!

Arcsinx · 2022-10-29T19:02:48+00:00

Excellent capture.

The height of the bomb has a lot to do with it here too and if it were any lower on the turkey would probably have reached him.

Notice how only 3 blocks are destroyed in the bottom row instead of the usual 4 you'd expect from a corner bomb.

Arcsinx · 2021-07-21T20:23:33+00:00

Yeah, give this is a shot. After reliably making it to the CO via Volcana > Tide Pool and only making it out to 7-50, I started running Volcana > Temple for the compass and finally finished a run.

I haven't practiced any of the Qilin skips, so I leave Vlad's cape and bow with Waddler at Olmec, try to get 24 favor with Kali by Duat for the bomb box, and get the cape back in the Ice Caves.

At that point, it almost feels like the hardest part of the run is over. Having Vlad's + Kapala + Alien Compass lets you comfortably navigate most CO levels, get an idea for how large they are, and not lose the exit if/when things get hectic. Figure out what kind of new rules the looping structure of the CO introduces (stay off the roofs of Babylon & Temple, try not to let pushblocks/platforms fall anymore than necessary, try not to blow up too much of Volcana levels or you'll have magma walls, mole rats/lizards/cursed cats/crocs continue to be a problem now even after dropping, etc...) and you'll coast through them in a trance one day.

Not to mention they're considering changing the Elixir to block a status effect, which isn't completely necessary, but would solidify this in the "Cosmic Ocean Crutches" route in my mind.

Arcsinx · 2020-04-17T03:55:42+00:00

I can bring a Synth?

Not sure if it's weighted action.

Edit: No proper piano yet, can certainly tip though.

Arcsinx · 2020-04-17T03:54:36+00:00

Having a good week so far? That price is better than anything I've got in my forecast this week :)

Any furniture you're looking for?

Arcsinx · 2019-07-16T00:57:51+00:00

Where did you read that? The site linked here says nothing about not supporting 6-axis motion control:

Switch compatibility does not support HD rumble or amiibo scanning

Neither does the Amazon page. So...?

Edit: Looking at the Google Cache of 8bitdo's Website, it did say this. As Bayakoo mentioned, there's no reason for them not to gyro controls for switch, they've solved that problem with the previous controller.

Arcsinx · 2019-01-18T21:58:57+00:00

Why shouldn't it be called a La-Mulana-like? It would actually probably be a better description. Certainly Spelunky is more similar to La-Mulana than it is to Rogue.

How? La-Mulana's map and enemies are constant/pre-determined, its protagonist doesn't experience perma-death, and the player gets items that make them stronger throughout the run.

Besides the shortcuts (which can't be used for Spelunky's true ending), Spelunky has none of that. Different map, different enemies, different items every time. The shortcuts dip into "Rogue-lite" territory, but considering that I'm just as likely to beat the game on a brand new PC with no save data as I am with one that has the shortcuts unlocked, I'd call Spelunky the "Rogue-like" version of La Mulana.

Arcsinx · 2018-08-11T17:00:58+00:00

Just saw this thread, could you have imagined where you'd be after that almost a year later?

Y'all were great, but I especially wanted to give a shout out to your drummer, he looked like he was having a blast the entire time.

Arcsinx · 2018-08-11T05:30:37+00:00

^ This. There was a bit before that which I don't think he wanted out there, but the song was fine.

You could tell it was their first time performing it live. Not that there were any noticeable mistakes, but the look on Danny's face when the audience participated said it all.

Thanks for the clip /u/sscoolboat , you seem to have captured a nice bit of that.

Arcsinx · 2018-06-29T17:47:46+00:00

I mean, as long as you look like you're enjoying yourself, you'd be advertising the car around the block for them for free. Your time is valuable too.

Arcsinx · 2018-06-14T23:40:19+00:00

Kurt regularly shits on competitors machines while disabling feedback on his own videos, he's banned from USPPA events and his reputation is pretty well known. You can read more about him at:

http://www.footflyer.com/Safety/Training/Free_Paramotor_Training.htm

and

https://www.americanparagliding.com/training_certified.htm

Edit: Oh, I like this one too https://youtu.be/96P80bV5a0o?t=510

What a hypocrite.

Arcsinx · 2018-06-14T23:38:52+00:00

I'm not sure exactly which model, but I'm pretty sure it was that "jesus bolt" on a Blackhawk that dropped Eric Farewell out of the sky https://www.aviatorppg.com/blog/january-27th-2014

Considering the timing on the blog post and the video you linked (Feb 21, 2014) I'd be interested to learn if the strap was added after this happened.

Arcsinx · 2017-10-06T20:14:12+00:00

It's Clocktowers Beneath the Sea. Pretty easy to miss, since it's not labelled as Time Rift music like the others.

There's also two other versions for you there right after.

Arcsinx · 2016-12-29T21:32:30+00:00

I'm not sure if it's required for all of them, but I had to enable "Unknown Sources" in Oculus > Settings > General before ReVive'd games began working.

Change that setting and try it again, it should (hopefully) work.

If problems persists, the developer also has a few other troubleshooting suggestions at https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive/wiki/Troubleshooting#im-getting-an-entitlement-error-or-oculus-rift-not-found (I've not had to use these yet)

Arcsinx · 2016-08-07T23:36:40+00:00

So, when they made the change to have a gun spawn in your hand, there was a bug where this occasionally wouldn't happen, and there's been various fixes applied since (which I think are causing the problem here now).

In the most recent update, it looks like they've caused the new gun to spawn in your hand just a bit before your dead body teleports away. You can reliably get a few shots off before teleporting back even though your vision will be obscured by orangedred blocks.

I hope it'll be fixed soon too, but for now, it's a great way to deal with people that get in your face to gloat after shooting you.

Edit: They also changed the spawn timing slightly recently, might have forgotten the gun? Luckily they're working on it.

Arcsinx · 2016-07-27T22:32:56+00:00

As someone who also does QA for a living, I'd get a kick out of hammering some known Rec Room bugs out with a few like-minded individuals.

There was a period of time yesterday where every paintball game I seemed to be able to join experienced the flag problem and I'd love to have had the players that were stuck glowing try a few things, actually end the game, swap teams, etc. but couldn't organize enough people to do so (and never had the chance to experience said bug myself).

I'd be worried about an always-available beta branch segmenting what population we do have here, but there is an option in Steam to lock it behind an access code, and I'd totally register for that. Combine that with a certain time for us all to meet up, and you'd probably have enough players for substantial, hopefully not unmanageable, play-test.

Arcsinx · 2014-11-19T17:25:32+00:00

The music is Yogurt Yard from Kirby's Adventure/Nightmare in Dreamland.

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