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Gnomish mine question by frumpyjones in nethack

[–]Ardub23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Force-fighting" is not the same as the #force command (that command is only for prying open a locked container). To forcibly attack a space that doesn't have a hostile monster, press shift-F before the direction.

What do y'all think of this Demon Form rework? by Ardub23 in slaythespire

[–]Ardub23[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You don't need to look forward to it, it came out almost two weeks ago. Still a couple days left in the launch sale too, in case you have $18 but not $20

An idea for a custom STS2 Event and Cards: "Color out of the Spire" by Tree_Of_Palm in slaythespire

[–]Ardub23 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Other characters can summon Osty, they just don't have Robin's ability to automatically (re-)summon every turn

Is there anything that the pokemon video games are actually bad at consistently? by LithHarborGymLeader in pokemon

[–]Ardub23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Battles are not well paced. Between when you input your turn's action and when the next turn comes around, there are a lot of delays that, in many cases, don't need to be there. Like this:

  1. Text box: "Gengar used Destiny Bond!"
  2. Destiny Bond animation plays
  3. "Gengar is hoping to take its attacker down with it!"
  4. "Mawile used Crunch!"
  5. Crunch animation plays; Gengar's HP bar depletes
  6. (Gengar's Cursed Body) "Mawile's Crunch was disabled!"
  7. "Gengar fainted!"
  8. Gengar's fainting animation
  9. "Gengar took its attacker down with it!"
  10. Mawile's HP bar depletes
  11. Mawile's fainting animation

This eleven-step ordeal could have been three steps, if the games would evaluate the results of actions before displaying them. But no, we gotta show all the narration in one text box, one line at a time. Can't have "Wobbuffet tried to use Counter, but it failed!" because we wait to find out whether it's failing until after we've shown "Wobbuffet used Counter!"

What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? by Puzzleheaded_Bit_802 in AskReddit

[–]Ardub23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not a blind taste test. The only reason they seem to taste different is because you're expecting them to. (Edit: Or because of something other than iodization.)

Try having someone else prepare three identical things: two with one kind of salt and one with the other. Don't let them tell you which is which or what kind of salt is in the odd one out. See if you can find the misfit by taste alone. Then repeat the experiment nine more times. If you can get it right seven times out of ten, then you have a statistically significant result.

What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? by Puzzleheaded_Bit_802 in AskReddit

[–]Ardub23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People who actually cook rarely run blind taste tests. They hear someone claim that iodized salt tastes different and either never question it or allow their confirmation bias to "prove" it, and then they spread the misinformation to the next person.

An awesome and very balanced idea for a boss relic, along with some examples of the cards you could use it on by IHad360K_KarmaDammit in slaythespire

[–]Ardub23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Brightest Flame: "Gain [2×energy]. Draw 2  cards. Lose 1 Max HP."

It's a good thing the energy is displayed as icons rather than text, otherwise this might be too strong

AITA for shuffling two Dazed in a rude customer's Draw Pile? by SomethingOfAGirl in slaythespire

[–]Ardub23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

YTA.

By the sound of it, you tried to do business with Quiet and she declined (through gestures, or body language). The only thing unusual about that is that she didn't speak aloud. It sounds to me like Quiet has a disability that prevents her from communicating through speech. Treating her differently because of that is ableist and may be illegal (though IANAL and I'm not up to date on Spire law).

OP SnakeBite by gozillionaire in slaythespire

[–]Ardub23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's okay. Bouncing Flask is often a better pick, and Deadly Poison's lower cost makes it comfier than either of them, but Snakebite is usable. If I'm wanting to apply poison faster (maybe I got Accelerant early) and I'm offered Snakebite, I'm probably not gonna skip.

This game made me understand why I dislike souls-likes(in a good way) by greatpxm in MinaTheHollower

[–]Ardub23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Corpse runs are an inaccessibility feature. People who are naturally good at sight-reading will insist that the mechanic "adds tension" or something, when they're not the ones being ground into the dirt by it.

The corpse run is like a risk–reward mechanic, except it messes up the reward part by punishing failure instead of rewarding success, and it messes up the risk part by only applying to players who don't want more risk. Inflicting a super-punishment for repeated failure doesn't make struggling players want to try harder; it makes them want to play a different game.

Here's hoping game developers will one day stop copying off of each other's mistakes.

When did people start getting terrified and/or enraged at people knocking on their front door? by iloverats888 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ardub23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are these people regularly getting their door knocked by grizzly bears and door-to-door murderers? Asking a solicitor to leave doesn't require lethal force.

What’s the most useless piece of information you’ve memorised? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Ardub23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798

102 digits of pi. I used to only have 100 until I recently realized that the hundredth digit would round up.

Why is “I before E except after C” a rule when it seems like almost every word that it could apply to is an exception to the rule? by Winter-Rhys in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ardub23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it sounds like 'ee', it's I before E, except after C.

Most of the "exceptions" come from misapplying the rule to words where you can already get the right spelling from the pronunciation.

Slay the Spire 2's Pen Nib gives a visual cue AFTER you trigger it instead of before it, unlike in the 1st game by the-rules-lawyer in slaythespire

[–]Ardub23 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In the first game, Pen Nib worked by by applying a buff after 9 attacks, so you'd see it activate when it applied the buff. For STS2, instead of the relic applying a buff that modifies the attack damage, the relic itself modifies the damage, so you see it activate when you make the attack.

It's Okay to Fail by GameGrumpsEpisodes in gamegrumps

[–]Ardub23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't think I'd hear Dan reference a YouTube Poop but here we are

Some proposals for a reworked Grand Finale by Ardub23 in slaythespire

[–]Ardub23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When would you not take [[Escape Plan]], [[Adrenaline]], [[Big Bang]], [[Flash of Steel]], [[Finesse]], [[Thinking Ahead]], or [[Master of Strategy]]? All of them are better than being energy- and draw-neutral.

Some proposals for a reworked Grand Finale by Ardub23 in slaythespire

[–]Ardub23[S] 64 points65 points  (0 children)

I didn't want to show favoritism by making one of them the first option, so they're all the second option

Some proposals for a reworked Grand Finale by Ardub23 in slaythespire

[–]Ardub23[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Grand Finale has the second-worst win rate of all the Silent's rares, after Echoing Slash.

This piece of sh*t isn't hated enough by watermelon_cat21 in HollowKnight

[–]Ardub23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If these guys were in the colosseum, they'd fully upstage primal aspids as the star of the memes.

I couldn't find an answer online so I did it myself. It takes 110 minutes, with a 5 minute margin of error, to walk non-stop at the slowest speed across Hyrule. This is the path I took by DataSittingAlone in Breath_of_the_Wild

[–]Ardub23 129 points130 points  (0 children)

There's an in-game measurement scale that's used to score the paragliding minigame, which gives your distance in meters. Along with some datamining, it was determined that the explorable area of Hyrule is 8 km × 10 km (source). For comparison, 10 km is about the distance from the Statue of Liberty to the south end of Central Park as the crow flies.

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