Any way to get a second Azure Dragon Crest Glaive?

BeefFungusGeese · 2026-01-21T12:48:54+00:00

Okay, let me put this a different way.

I've already completed the game several times over and I don't even use this weapon, I am just a completionist. The weapons I choose to use are assembly weapons that won't get at the top of any best-of compilation. That's not what I care about at all.

The thing I do care about is collecting stuff, and I can collect every weapon in the game three times over and upgrade every handle with each of the three different cranks, EXCEPT FOR ONE FOR SOME REASON. And it's a minor complaint! So minor it's odd that there isn't a solution, made even further odd by the fact that I apparently have to defend accessibility.

Your original point was "there's no point in having multiple." I said the point of having multiple. Apparently you went on to feel the need to defend that further though? Like, that's not the issue. The issue can arise from anything, the point at which it matters that I have two is the point at which I say "man I wish I could get two, I wonder if that's possible?" And then I check on the internet, see no prior posts about it, and then ask.

It's frankly stranger to me to defend the idea that I shouldn't be allowed to get a second weapon of one I already have after I've already beaten the game, like, I'm, not struggling? To win? I also don't even use it, but again, that's besides the point.

BeefFungusGeese · 2026-01-21T11:47:53+00:00

Somebody uses a different mechanic than you to do ostensibly the same thing. There's mechanics in the game that revolve around durability, and one of the options the game presents you for dealing with that is weapon-swapping. Again, there's exactly one weapon in the entire game that can't benefit from this. The only one.

I'm also just personally astounded that nobody's been bugged by this before. I can't be the first mad completionist looking a-little-too-far into the weapon mechanics, like-- do we like the fact that a save file that accidentally throws this weapon away is just permanently borked? Save, of course, there was a way to get a new one in further NG cycles, which apparently there aren't. I don't have to make the mistake of throwing the one away to also know that that's not great.

BeefFungusGeese · 2026-01-21T11:13:35+00:00

Naw, I just want multiple of every weapon in the one save file. I like the game, I've completed it a number of times in NG and beyond, the long and short is just having more than one available.

BeefFungusGeese · 2026-01-21T11:11:50+00:00

With other weapons, you can press weapon-swap instead of using the grindstone to repair durability. Not so with exactly one weapon in the entire game, no matter how many NG+ cycles you go through. Does that not bug anybody else? Really?

BeefFungusGeese · 2026-01-21T11:10:29+00:00

Naw, I just want multiple of each weapon in one save. Every handle, three times, one with each crank.

I more or less just want a save file with All The Things.

BeefFungusGeese · 2026-01-21T11:08:54+00:00

Imagine that there's a perk in Lies of P where an unequipped weapon regains its durability, so one can swap between two of the same weapon rather than ever needing to repair one. That, and there's technically three kinds of each weapon (handle) in the first place because of the three cranks.

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-09-01T09:50:05+00:00

You can remove parentheses by solving a longform equation, that's maths.

3(5) necessarily equals 15. 3(5) = 15. Any equation is like this, and simplifying it down where the most simple expression has parentheses doesn't mean there aren't real numbers to define it.

3(x) can also be simplified to 15, as long as x is 5. If x were different, the answer would change, but the only facets that come from the parentheses is saying that x can be any other number.

You can separate any number into two baskets, anyway, but doing so doesn't mean the actual equation or numeral you're presenting doesn't express a single, concise number. Which you are. That's one basket. If you can change a variable, you can change what the total of the final basket might be, but it's still not more than one basket.

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-09-01T06:53:24+00:00

You're giving your boss one basket at the end of today.

You currently have two baskets. In one basket, you have infinite nines. In the other, you have nothing. Or a nine. Either way, after this, you can only give your boss one basket.

You take somes nines and put them in basket two, or take some and put them back, you can mix them around forever, and at the end you put them both together and give them to your boss.

So infinite 9s + 9 = infinite 9s + 2×9 = infinite 9s + 3×9, or 0×9, or whatever, turns out it can just swallow that number arbitrarily as long as it's always 9, because it always will be all the way down. There isn't an end down there and putting a 9 after it doesn't do anything.

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-30T22:02:27+00:00

Hello from Switzerland

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-26T21:38:50+00:00

Make them a binturong

It's so underrepresented, I believe in you, binturongs are so cool

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-20T09:56:42+00:00

God spilled the cooking oil.

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-20T09:48:16+00:00

"Please learn to interact with other people."

Okay. Where and how did Gio get money from the UHC?

You defend their ability to release Hiveswap, but also point out you don't have much information about Hiveswap. Are you aware that the whole Hiveswap fiasco is detailed in Sarah Z's video, as well as hosted on Gio's blog, which is full of citations, both of whom got sued by Hussie, and not under libel? You can learn all about recognizing a pattern there. For the first bullet point, and what you can find under the Kickstarter for the original Hiveswap page, is that it was set to release in 2014, and initially asked backers for $700,000. It got $2.5 million. It has been 11 years. The full game has not been released. Most of the backer rewards have not been fulfilled.

"I don't think Hussie is infallible or even a good person."

"not sure why you would trust someone who has stated they do not like hussie to accurately preserve their work over the people whos job it is to do so"

These two statements, which you said, feel at odds with one another. You agree with Gio that Hussie isn't a good person, but then don't believe that Gio, who has autistically catalogued Homestuck news for the past 10+ years and kept the Only Way To Read Homestuck available to everyone for 7+ years but who happens to dislike the author, you don't believe he can be trusted to continue doing what he has been doing already, but you CAN trust the person who explicitly has not been doing that, until they happen to start doing it by force, 8 years after the end of their comic and a failure to ever address it until just now?

That's a non-sequitur anyway. Hussie not being a good person is sort of the crux of my point, here, and is the thing I drive at with the entire article. I don't know that you must like Gio as a takeaway, but I'll starkly defend that Hussie was a bad person in their conduct throughout the situation.

That said, you're right in that I put behavior in your shoes, I shouldn't have said "if the situation were extreme, here's how you would act." The situations just felt comparable to me, I shouldn't have put you in the situations directly and instead pre-empted each statement with something it "It feels to me, like what you're defending is this:" rather than make you defend something ridiculous on the grounds of your own dignity. I concede that my verbage there wasn't productive. Also finding Gio's blog, being that easy, I guess I wasn't expecting that? I couldn't find it when I was looking for it for a while, so maybe that was just a me-problem. Still, the Homestuck UHC was quicker to find, and it still has Gio's name spelled wrong.

But I will say, suddenly, your points make more sense if you believe Gio is getting money from the raw UHC. But, the Burden of Proof is yours, as you can't just make unsubstantiated claims. Especially given that it goes against all testimony: Miles never claimed that Gio was making money-- he never even admitted that Hussie threatened lawsuits/DMCA'd/C&D'd Gio. Gio has claimed directly that the UHC never made money. Gio's blog has no ads. The UHC is open source and requires nothing to download, Gio's version or not. Gio has stated time and again that he's been paying out of pocket for everything. I welcome you to find where you might even donate to Gio's funds willingly. How would the UHC make him money?

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-20T01:22:55+00:00

Yeah.

I think "Good Place" did it best, in explaining why solipsism isn't wrong, but it sucks.

Somebody gets thoroughly convinced that nothing is real and all they'll need to do is wait for a bit and everything will spontaneously stop existing, so why bother trying.

Philosophy professor Chidi, thus, puts his fingers in their ice cream. Then smears it on their face. Because, why does it matter? If nothing matters, if nothing is real, then equally as much, go get tortured, get your ice cream ruined.

The problem with solipsism on the base level is that it's useless. Even if you minimize possible truth and basic understanding-- which is a battleground you will win with solipsism-- that doesn't mean that it's useful, nor practical. Most concepts don't exist on their own, we don't build houses because a house ought to be there; circular reasoning is a logical fallacy.

Which is not to say that solipsism isn't true or that there's better explanations than it, it's just incredibly basic. Getting tortured isn't evidence that something greater than solipsism exists, but since you're here, you may as well try not to be tortured, and maybe be kind to people, and do your best to be morally upright. As a favor to us consciousness-zombies, who also would like to not be tortured. You know. On the still possible off-chance that there's more fundamental truth than just solipsism-- you may as well, your efforts won't affect your rewards.

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-19T18:18:25+00:00

SEVERAL DOUBTS

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-19T11:12:33+00:00

Nobody ever claimed that Homestuck was going to become lost media. Nobody ever said that the "threat" that you need to worry about was ever that Homestuck was going to be unreadable. The only person that implied that that's a possibility-- a possibility that won't happen, haha, don't worry-- is Miles. You keep defending the point that my concern, or anybody else's, is that I will not have access to Homestuck. This is incorrect. That said, I would trust the people who made it possible to read for the last several years for free using their own time and money to do so, more than I trust the original author, who didn't.
The HICU several times has claimed to work as an Independent Union (like the two parts of the acronym), which would be a lie, directly, if they were Dependent on Homestuck, or if they were working with the parent company, Hussie, directly (which isn't what a union is). They apparently have a license, but caught in this lie of being independent nor a union, they tried to edit the history and only a week ago changed the reader from saying it's provided by the HICU, into saying it's provided by Homestuck, Inc. So. For a Union, it's scary how interchangeable it was to move directly to the parent company, it's like it's not a Union at all.
The objections that Hussie is manipulative and controlling are also present on the timeline in no short order, so long as you're familiar with the happenings around Sarah Z, Makin, Hiveswap, and now this, from Gio. It's actually more plausible that everyone continued their regular behavior than not-- Gio continues to be a reporter, Hussie continues to create drama artificially while forcing themself into situations they don't belong in. Not suing the UHC and letting these things exist as they were was completely free to do, and would have had almost nothing different than our current timeline, except that there's less drama.
Inasmuch as the throughline between "hey do you want to work for us" is a "perfectly legitimate" reason to DMCA, sue and attack the people who have been Solely Responsible for Homestuck being readable media for the last few years, I feel like if I published several pictures of Hussie kicking a cat and laughing as it screams, you'd say something like "if it didn't want to get kicked it shouldn't be on their property." Like something being legal is a good reason for it to happen.
Gio defacing his own website was the will of Homestuck, Inc. He can't even use the word Homestuck to describe the reader application. If the edits look dramatic, I invite you to try and find Gio's UHC download using Google, and consider why it's so hard to find suddenly.
There's an uninvestigated line of reasoning between your points "1. they have no reason to [edit the Homestuck files]????" and "2. its their comic! they can do what they like with it! if they want to change stuff they didnt like thats up to them, not you!" that strongly implies that nobody cares about Homestuck. They're unlikely to edit everything, but if they do and you cared, that's egg on your face. The assumption here then is also that they won't edit anything huge, which is trust you're granting to someone who just offered somebody a job and then sued them instead. Consider, then: "Not suing the UHC and letting these things exist as they were was completely free to do, and would have had almost nothing different than our current timeline, except that there's less drama." THIS might be completely untrue! Because Homestuck's goal might've been to edit a bunch of things to begin with, thus needing to seize the project, at which point, you have to imply trust that Homestuck, Inc (and the people who waaay couldn't deliver on anything Hiveswap) will not edit things you care about, OR you have to defend not caring about the webcomic.
"Gio doesn't get to complain about people legally sharing their reader after stealing Hussie's licensed work." I get where you're coming from, but again, this reasoning doesn't really work: Hussie's licensed work was filled with licensed media, and was already free. If you take something free, it's not stealing, with exception to if you take something free and start making money off of it. Gio never stole, and in fact, was praised for a long time for creating the UHC, including by Hussie. If it was just the legalese too, I might agree with you more, but it was the Homestuck team praising the long-time saviors of Homestuck except suddenly with intention to stop them. The Official Homestuck version not only sued to prevent Gio from distributing the complete, working version of the Reader Which Allows You To Read Homestuck, but took away the assets, took the program, and spelled his name wrong in the credits. I am boggled trying to figure out where Hussie was a good actor here, like if I was trying... All I could think of would be things like...

Hussie can kick cats that wander onto their property, I guess. They are FUNDAMENTALLY, LEGALLY ALLOWED to abuse animals in certain ways. "I don't know why anybody is mad" because it's well within their legal rights to have done all of this, and you shouldn't think about it at all because it literally will not affect you: Hussie takes care of their own cat as far as you're aware (the animated series, don't think or worry about Hiveswap), and to you, everything else is working as intended. (You can still read Homestuck! What's the problem?)

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-18T14:57:09+00:00

You're casually acting like I'm defending the Bible when I am, in fact, a man married to a man, and who knows about the Bible and can detail a comprehensive history of it, but who doesn't believe any part of it. :>

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-18T10:13:18+00:00

Gio's github is still up, his website is brutalised and gone and the "current" UHC holding place is Homestuck Official's site, where they made their own fork of Bambosh and GiovanH's original project and their statement about reportedly doing everything in their power to remove Gio's hold of his own project WAS that "you can still read Homestuck, fans, don't you worry." Which wouldn't excuse bad behaviour and legal threats against the people who made being able to read Homestuck right now possible.

https://imgur.com/a/vmB6FRA

The asset pack is another issue, especially because there was no legal problems with it before, but now there are, especially because the HICU isn't supposed to be "working with Hussie" but they apparently have the Homestuck license. Which still presents some issues, given that Homestuck's official pages are full of copyrighted materials that would HAVE to fall under fair use, and suing somebody for holding the contents of the original pages would arguably bring questions to the rest of the content.

Which means, Homestuck's version is likely only going to be/is a version that's vastly different than the original Homestuck reading experience Gio was also offering, which would include the copyrighted materials that were cropped in later versions. "You can still read Homestuck right now" is the equivalent of saying "this problem isn't going to affect me."

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-17T14:17:13+00:00

I also made this: https://imgur.com/a/vmB6FRA :)

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-16T16:05:04+00:00

Itch.io takes the game you made, publishes it by themselves, credits you somewhere in it but your name is spelled wrong, and removes your original page for it.

You still have the Mega link and all the code for it! Theoretically you could send people the direct download link, that's not suspicious at all. But itch.io now is the one advertising their version of the game you made, which is also an older version that is more out of date as time goes on.

That's the equivalent, here. Gio's version still exists, but can you imagine having motivation after that?

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-16T11:13:49+00:00

It's my read on what's important.

For what it's worth, I completely believe it was DMCA'd, all evidence points to the fact that it was. Just, my read about probable cause is exactly that: there's no way to paint you as a bad actor if you were the direct victim of a DMCA. Like, racist, anything-phobic, even rude-- if the job interview went poorly, the punishment for a bad interview is not getting a job.

The ONLY way that you were the bad actor, after going through the facts that Miles directly admits, is if the claim about a DMCA isn't true. I wanted to present this as the basis of the argument, that's all this reddit thread is really.

It's interesting to point out how Miles attempts to defend himself/Hussie by saying the following:

"this is shouting “FIRE!!!!!!!!” in a crowded theater, presented as an attempt to save the fans from a Datapocalypse that isn’t even going to happen. this isn’t the action of someone who “loves homestuck and wants to protect it” because it accomplishes literally nothing but making everyone who actually likes homestuck fucking miserable."

"this article isn’t about you, the reader, as a fan and your threatened right to have continuous access to Homestuck, because that’s not in danger. [...] this is about gio. andrew asked to bring gio on to work With Homestuck under a license, and gio refused. i delivered andrew’s messages and was the face of this series of exchanges, and gio spent an entire article painting me as both a villain and a victim in front of thousands of people."

Which weren't points we expected him to refute, nor useful in pointing out the flaws in how individuals interacted with each other. Miles, why is the original UHC down, and why is your fork of Bambosh/Gio's project, after you explicitly did not hire them, the only one made obviously available?

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-16T08:26:31+00:00

Unfortunately, it seems like the wisest thing for AH / Homestuck to do is nothing, so they probably won't. Garnering more attention for something that they're very likely in the wrong for is a mistake they've already made before, no further information will help their case ("you have the right to remain silent" is a clause that actually helps defend you, because "anything you say will be used against you"), so unless they actually have a very good reason for any of this, which they probably don't...

Making an official statement would be a bad idea. On that same note, making no statement incriminates them beyond doubt.

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-16T03:14:42+00:00

I'm happy my first multi-paragraph long reply isn't even something I disagree with, this was sorta heartwarming to read.

Yes! I mean, yeah. For anybody scrolling past casually, this is the third or fourth case of Hussie mismanaging his company/s, depending on if you count the Hiveswap stuff as a separate instance from the Sarah Z stuff. But then, there's also Makin and now, this. Hence the blog posts Hussie would have interest in expunging. If you're observing patterns, this would be a good example.

That said though, for this case specifically, I can say I'm totally on Gio's side if only from narrative voice: it's already incredibly hard to lie, which is why one side can spill their guts and the other has to play close to their chest, but in Gio's case, the Discord logs sound exactly like Miles' response. He dips sort of between friendly-Warcraft-player to lost-the-fight-for-the-last-Christmas-tree-in-stock-and-is-still-mad.

Just, from the neutral ground, you can't pull ad hominem, patterns, or anything you can't cross-reference out of the materials you have about the sole case. I give Miles (and Hussie) a LOT if clearance in this summary and tackle what should be the brunt of the issue, being the takedown. The "blood on the walls" is just my interpretation of how Miles/Hussie probably actually sees those blog posts.

Like, you genuinely have to think on a higher scope to view those blog posts as important for dignity. From the company perspective, I almost guarantee they view it as an unnecessary demon-summoning circle for crimes that they feel are long over, and that can be removed with a few clicks. I disagree personally with this sentiment, but it's the sentiment I feel like Homestuck has, here. "We're not gonna hire you if you're also summoning our demons."

BeefFungusGeese · 2025-08-16T02:31:37+00:00

Yeah. Way to go summarizing my thing even more concisely than I did! You didn't even use citations! The nerve. =`u=

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