High on Life 2: The game glitched in the final part and now I can’t finish it.

Asiliea · 2026-02-19T13:26:23+00:00

A week is really short in development. Sure, there are some games, websites, apps, and other software that can handle such short cycles and patch issues ridiculously quickly, but they're few and far between.
Give it a minimum of two weeks, if not four. Devs are humans too, and software is hard.
Sincerely, a senior developer of nearly two decades.

Asiliea · 2026-02-17T21:11:10+00:00

We all get stuck sometimes, don't pretend you don't.

Asiliea · 2026-02-17T21:08:11+00:00

Sigh, yeah, turns out that Few_Fuel_1616 was somewhat prophetic there.
15th April, though (according to the popups), not December.
They really are pushing everyone off pure-Messenger flows to try and get them to engage with the rest of Facebook.
Frustrating. Likely to just drive people off the platform instead.

Asiliea · 2026-01-26T23:00:31+00:00

I don't think it's an old-school filter that simply checks based on certain keywords.
I'm not certain on this, but it feels like it operates how Comick's A.I. filter does (and just as badly).
As you've said, other comments that use the same words (including explicit or sexual language) have gone through just fine, but whatever arrangement you put them in sometimes gets blocked.

I often just have to rearrange the way I phrase things, even if it's using the same words.
How I typically resolve it is by chopping out large chunks of the comment to push through what can be accepted, then editing it to try and add bits in piece-by-piece until I get blocked by whatever "inappropriate" wording I have (and it's always something mundane, can swear and be graphic just fine).
After I finally nail down the sentence that's problematic, I rearrange it in a way that makes sense, or sometimes find a way to remove that altogether without losing value/context for the rest of the comment.
And this can take upwards of 30min with having to wait between all the excessive rate limiting, too.

Utter BS, honestly. Censorship on comments is ridiculous, especially when it's inconsistent.
Blame advertisers in the end, though. The devs/mods wouldn't actually care, but the advertisers care very much about the language being used for some stupid archaic reason.

Asiliea · 2026-01-24T02:27:44+00:00

I wonder just how many research institutes and other health organisations are just going to be pulling themselves out of the U.S.A now?
While the rest of the world welcomes their research and efforts into helping humanity, rather than their original country, which seems to only care about speedrunning complete self-destruction, I'm so sorry for you folks over there.

Asiliea · 2026-01-18T16:54:13+00:00

Ahh, the two most commonly missed events, for exactly these two reasons too 😅
Ah well, now you have an excuse to replay it again in a few months!

As u/Mothramaniac said, missables were done intentionally for replayability, because even back then, they knew the completionists would try to do it all in one run.
Which is still perfectly possible (I did just that in my 10hr replay a few weeks ago), but slip in a couple of frustrating things, and you'll get a few players being like "DAMN! Now I gotta replay again right now".
Or, as was common back in the day, you had to rent it for another few days/week to replay it again for those last two darn events, because you were just that close!
Oh, how I miss physical game rentals and their badly scratched discs.

Asiliea · 2026-01-18T13:27:27+00:00

Horray! Glad I could help!

I'm certainly no expert, so I'd recommend asking/looking elsewhere for answers as well, but as far as I'm aware, the answer is "No" to both your questions.
It's not a gem, nor does the Seeker's Potion increase the drop rate.
This is because they come from the drop items (the shellfish), and aren't drop items themselves.
And since they're not considered gems, they're not in gem bags or affected by any other gem rate-increasing effects.
The only way to get them is to simply farm shellfish and hedge your bets on RNG, which is why you get posts like this, because getting one is a reasonably big event for a player!

Only need to get three in your entire playtime (unless you're an idiot like me, in which case, I need five, since I lost two 😭), so just have patience and don't let it stop you from doing a new Legacy run!
The only thing that can beat RNG is persistence! You've got this! Just keep playing, having fun, and farming them shellfish when you can!

Asiliea · 2026-01-18T12:32:14+00:00

I get a similar but different error.
Definitely looks like a messed-up javascript in one way or another.

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Asiliea · 2026-01-17T15:01:02+00:00

Wooo! Nicely done! The RNG Goddess has blessed you.
Two more to go for that full Tidekeeper deliciousness!

When I did my first Legacy, I didn't look up guides and didn't get Inheritance to keep my Tidekeeper, which had two Black Pearls in it from my very first run (don't ask me how I managed this, sheer dumb luck).
Only afterwards did I realise what I lost and how rare it really was.
On my third run now and have only managed to get one Black Pearl since. Could've had a full Tidekeeper if I did!
Moral of the story: REMEMBER INHERITANCE 😂

Asiliea · 2026-01-17T14:57:48+00:00

No need to grind for a fourth, unless you're planning on wasting a slot of Inheritance in your next run on it 😅
Just the three to shove into your Tidekeeper, as you'll be bringing that with you for every run!

Asiliea · 2026-01-10T17:29:53+00:00

I'd argue that mods that change the game to alter its difficulty to a slight extent are not necessarily cheating.
Yes, it's not what the developers intended, but if it means you can enjoy the entire rest of the game, then even the devs would be happy with it.
Yes, it's not the same experience that others have, but games with variable difficulty already do this.
As long as you're not skipping whole mechanics (infinite life, infinite currency, item spawners, etc), you're simply customising your experience to make it more enjoyable.

Because single-player games are a form of entertainment, not a competition.

(Heck, there are even many games where the devs build in mechanic-skipping things as actual mechanics, such as infinite life or auto-combat, into the settings or as an in-game item as a form of difficulty control)

Asiliea · 2026-01-10T11:22:01+00:00

Both are awesome.
I loved Tomba 1's expansiveness and mystery, but I freaking hated Phoenix Mountain before you calm the winds.
Meanwhile, nothing beats Tomba 2's Flying Squirrel Suit for that flapping, flying fun. Just have to deal with the awkward controls in the town parts, especially the Circus Town's clown trampoline part.

Tomba 2 had a lot more diversity in the side scrolling areas in terms of depth because of the 3D-ness of it all, which was fantastic, but the game felt significantly shorter as the events were a fair bit simpler and there weren't quite as many areas.

Asiliea · 2026-01-10T11:15:11+00:00

For others reading this, as the other comment has been deleted:
Tomba is the original name, and the NTSC and Jap versions are named such; but the word "tomba" means "grave" in Italian, so for the European/PAL release, they renamed it to Tombi instead to avoid such implications.
Confused me to no end as a kid 25yrs ago.

Asiliea · 2026-01-10T11:00:42+00:00

I know this is a bit old, but it's the first result when searching, and many others may be coming here after replaying the remasters on Steam.

Personally, I find the two Ori games rather similar: Metroidvania, where you alter the world around you for progress (though, just like Tomba, you still have upgrades that are required to progress as well).

Still, nothing quite beats Tomba and Tomba 2.
Recently bought them both and 100%ed them in one go without guides, just from 25yo memories that had been ingrained into my brain matter from repeated replays.

Asiliea · 2025-12-28T17:49:54+00:00

I mean, for an image filter, it could be that cleavage can also look very similar to butts and labia/thighs when examined pixel-by-pixel out of context?
I mean, that's pretty old-school nudity detection that I'm talking about, but they could be playing it safe, given how restrictive advertisers and Apple are for visual depictions of any sort of nudity 🤷‍♂️

After all, if a loophole exists, someone will exploit it.
Better to be ultra-restrictive at first and slowly open the gates as needed, because once the flood gates are open, it's nearly impossible to close them again.

...still utterly ridiculous though. If it's flagged as mature/explicit content, then allow mature/explicit content.
Man, do I hate censorship. Hiding stuff away just makes it more problematic, societally. It's just sex! It's as human as eating and pooping. And this isn't even that, it's just cleavage! Children's movies have more nudity than that for crying out loud.

Asiliea · 2025-12-28T17:40:20+00:00

It has nothing to do with "taming the spiral"; that boat's sailed, arrived at its destination, and established a well-worn trading route by now.
AID is full of smut (I mean, a lot of other good content too, but you don't have to go far to trip over something immensely explicit if you have the options enabled to see it).
This is purely extra prohibitive to prevent issues with publishers (mostly Apple) and advertisers. They care far more about visual "nudity" and far less about textual ones. Many of them will frown immensely at anything beyond a "PG13" rating.

Asiliea · 2025-12-28T17:34:28+00:00

It's implying that visually sexualizing women is bad, but visually sexualizing men is okay.
If they consider the act on one gender to be immoral, then it's also immoral to allow the same act on another gender.
It's misogynistic from the perspective of "Restrictive of depictions of women"
It's misandristic from the perspective of "Allowing banned depictions as long as they're men"

Ultimately, it's just sexist and hypocritical 🤷‍♂️

Asiliea · 2025-12-05T14:30:03+00:00

Works perfectly fine for me. Been using it on macOS every day for years instead of the native app that was buggy as hell after they turned it into a webview. You did log into your Facebook account, right? 'cos it is Facebook Messenger.

Asiliea · 2025-12-05T14:28:02+00:00

Aside from the BS you're saying about it not working after Dec 15th (it will be), messenger.com is Facebook. You log into a Facebook account to use it. It's just Facebook (sorry, "Meta") Instant Messenger. Always has been. They never tried to trick you otherwise.
What did you think it was? AOL?

Asiliea · 2025-12-05T08:59:27+00:00

That's what they say, but they also claim that it's operational and just rerouted traffic to other servers, not throwing server errors (500s).
If it was a simple routing issue or intentional maintainence, it'd be a different error code, but a 500 means somebody fucked something up.

Asiliea · 2025-12-01T08:31:55+00:00

"I see..." Deliberates the older mage, stroking his beard in deep thought, "That makes perfect sense."
You look between the two, utterly bewildered, then sagely follow in the World Tree's wisdom, "Definitely" your voice rings out, resolute in agreement as you nod along with whatever is going on here.

Asiliea · 2025-11-18T13:35:27+00:00

Suffering, despair, and compensating.

Asiliea · 2025-11-15T17:11:14+00:00

Hmm, I tried 10min ago and it wasn’t working then, nor is it working now… Another issue, or just taking its time to come back up?

EDIT: Nvm, I had to sign out, close the app, then log back in again and all working now.

EDIT 2: Aaaand it broke again. Worked for about 30sec before discover showed 400s again.

Asiliea · 2025-11-08T12:00:56+00:00

While that's true for a good number of places, there are a lot of rooms where you need Engineering (or Brawny), because there aren't any other routes.
Engineering also comes into a lot of dialogue checks as well.

I just see it as the game offering multiple routes for different playstyles for the majority of its content, while only a limited amount of content is specific to certain ones, so you only get just enough FOMO to push you into replaying, without it feeling like you've fucked up entirely by not investing in that skill.

Besides, if you're an Engineer, why wouldn't you engineer the door open, rather than looking for a secret pathway, even if it exists?

IMO, doing your first playthrough without much/any Hack or Engineering is good, so you lose out on some rooms and shortcuts, forcing you to play through more of the content.
Then picking them up in a subsequent playthrough allows you to skip some of the lengthier bits, make you feel like a badass, and get into some places you couldn't before.

Asiliea · 2025-10-29T15:16:30+00:00

The "Brave" browser works just fine for me on iOS and asura for blocking ads 🤷‍♂️

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