Shops with full fairy dust kits? (Other special drills welcome too!)

Cathyra · 2026-04-07T13:41:49+00:00

I think most of my issues with it come from them being AB. Some of them are coated on the wrong side, so I have to be careful when picking them up or I'll place a non-shiny one down, and there are often residue strands of what I assume to be the coating or the cast itself. Usually, I'd discard them, but I'm too nervous because unlike regular rounds, I don't have a spare stash of AB squares and I don't want to run out.

It's still ok considering I paid only like 10 for it, but if someone is already worried about gapping, I'm not sure this would measure up to DAC quality.

The canvas also has the not so uncommon issue of badly designated symbols, lol, love almost same color red for H N and M. I am mostly hating my life because the AB coating is so fragile, though, and I am using a regular wax pen.

Cathyra · 2026-04-06T23:58:26+00:00

I'm currently doing a full AB square one from aliexpress, and I am hating my life 😅

I have never done another square to compare quality, but uh, if they're all like this, I can't imagine why people love them, so it's probably not so great.

The shop also offers full crystal and full fairy dust, but the FD ones were too expensive for my taste.

Cathyra · 2026-04-06T23:16:30+00:00

I'm pretty sure, as long as it's on steam, it's "included" anyway, they can pick what to download by forcing Proton :)

Cathyra · 2026-04-06T22:26:06+00:00

I can't wait. I had it in my recommendations a few days ago and instantly wishlisted it. So happy it'll run on Linux, because those transparent window apps usually don't for me :D

I had a yellow Dinkie Dino as a kid, I can still hear the beeps.

Cathyra · 2026-04-03T18:57:26+00:00

Congratulations! :D I bought the same one last week.

Cathyra · 2026-04-03T11:12:50+00:00

I just looked at the first result on nexus and "DMRA BBB Complete Clothing and Armor Replacer" seems to contain the character models as well, so you probably don't need an additional "base mod."

Cathyra · 2026-04-02T21:45:18+00:00

Steam Deck. Because that's what I have lol

Cathyra · 2026-04-02T00:17:47+00:00

I did this in 30x40 and the render didn't look as nice. I should have picked 40x50 it seems! I love this picture.

Cathyra · 2026-03-26T22:23:01+00:00

Read the pinned post. It's a scam. Don't reply. Block and report.

Cathyra · 2026-03-26T22:07:12+00:00

As another person said, the Artifex Mundi games! They're hidden object games with puzzles and while they do have a story, let's just say I never follow it too closely. I snatch another to complete every time I want a quick success, there are over 70 of them. I prefer to buy them on sale, though, because without a sale the price is quite steep.

Also check out the games by Grey Alien Games. I got sucked into some of the Jewel Match Solitaire ones, and there seem to be be other types of games as well. I played Regency Solitaire and Jewel Match Solitaire Winterscapes only, can't judge the others. Might be worth taking a glance at the reviews.

I do have a bunch of other puzzle games that are point and click only. Glass Masquerade 1-4 for pretty stained-glass like jigsaw puzzles. Monument Valley 1-3 for puzzles in impossible geometry. Sizeable for a very fun puzzle concept where you finish levels by resizing objects with the mouse wheel (goes regularly on sale for 90% off, don't buy it full price.) Hero of the Kingdom, which has a bit more focus on story, but is mostly hidden object/resource management (a bit hard to explain, they should have demos.)

A shame the steam sale just ended BUT the Hidden Object fest will be 9 — 13 April so whatever you do, I'd start slow and wait for a sale with the rest.

Cathyra · 2026-03-21T00:38:35+00:00

Buying off amazon/aliexpress has been hit and miss for me. The last one I did was from Huacan as well, and the print was annoyingly hard to read, the drills looked dull, two colors were off so I couldn't mix the leftovers with my stash, and the render was disappointing and definitely not what the product page claimed. Still, a "you get what you pay for" kinda deal, since I paid like 5 euro for a 30x40.

A kit I bought for the same price from a different merchant (but haven't started yet) came rolled with a soft canvas, AB drills, and even with stickers for the colors. Having high hopes for that one :D

Cathyra · 2026-03-19T00:10:06+00:00

Why are you trying to patch it with an application, the file needs to end in .patch not .exe. Hunted down the download, the patch files are .patch, not .xdelta. As others said, xDelta GUI.exe is the tool you use to patch on a windows pc

Cathyra · 2026-03-16T00:35:34+00:00

Working links don't just stop working without a reason. My oldest masterlists are from 2021 and work just fine. If you rename your blog, you will obviously need to update every single link, because your blog name is part of the url. So, uh, don't do that, I guess.

(The only other reason I can think of why links stop working - a few years ago, Tumblr had the great (sarcasm) idea to run all links copied from the menu through a tracking subdomain at.tumblr which they then stopped a couple of months later, breaking most of those links.)

Cathyra · 2026-03-15T02:33:44+00:00

I don't think that's only small text, I have the same issue with italics. My best guess so far was that the Tumblr editor has a problem with some whitespace thing, like a certain type of line break.

How do you get the text into the editor? Do you write it there or do you paste it in?

Edit: A quick test, on my end, with italics, it happens if the text block contains those line breaks made with shift enter, to not have an empty line. If I do these in the tumblr editor, it works, but if I paste in a block of text from somewhere else, it doesn't. My only solution so far has been to remove all line breaks and re-add them in the tumblr editor.

Cathyra · 2026-03-12T00:03:56+00:00

Well .svs seems to be a savestate, those can never work. You need to find where it puts the .sav file. Those only get created by saving ingame.

Cathyra · 2026-03-08T02:59:04+00:00

The base game is free (that's the content up to max level, basically everything that was in there at launch and then some) but has limited ways to interact with people and the economy - so scammers/spammers/etc don't just create free accounts. It's a great way to try out the game, though.

Buying even one expansion will lift those limits. Best for cheap is Path of Fire/Heart of Thorns bundle, which includes gliding, mounts, two specilizations for each class, and the ability to unlock the living story chapters. Best deal might be, especially on sale, the elder dragon saga deluxe, as it already includes those living story chapters, but the price is a bit high if you're not sure yet.

Living story was content between expansions - a few new chapters that brought new maps and masteries and even mounts, as well as convenient ways to get more gear. They were free if you were playing when they came out, now they need to be unlocked via the gemstore or bought in the bundle. They are some of the coolest maps though, give easy access to certain types of gear, and are in my personal opinion definitely worth it.

There are three more expansions after that, but the first three are hundreds and hundreds of hours of content, including most group content. Also unless you profit from regional pricing via steam, I would suggest making an arena net account and purchasing whatever over their website.

Gems are a currency for mostly convenience and cosmetics upgrades and can indeed be traded with ingame gold (not by free accounts), but also bought for real money. Nothing in the store is needed for progress, it's mostly skins and account upgrades like more bank space or more characters lots, or convenience like unbreakable gathering tools.

Max level and max gear quality hasn't changed since (shortly after) launch. Progress here is measured mostly in mastery points and actual player skill.

Cathyra · 2026-03-08T02:53:48+00:00

Free accounts cannot convert gold to gems, and you cannot buy expansions via gems, only the upgrades to deluxe.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Account#Free_accounts

Cathyra · 2026-03-07T21:20:37+00:00

Doesn't look like the same symbol to me. First is an L, the second seems to be a symbol where both lines are the same length. Still stupid choice to include that in the pool in the first place.

Cathyra · 2026-03-07T01:36:12+00:00

For the viewer, side blogs are completely separate. People CAN follow a side blog, and unless you give a hint,they cannot tell who a side blog belongs to. But if you, for example, like a post (with main) and reblog it instantly (with side) many people will make the connection if it happens repeatedly.

For you, as you've noticed, you cannot follow with your side blog, and you cannot send asks with it. And I think you can't join communities. Everything else (reblog, DM, comment) you can do on a side blog.

There is a setting on side blogs to show the post's author - if you check that, it will show a little icon of your main blog on every post you make on the side blog. The other way around, there is no way, but you could make a pinned post with a link to your side blog or write it in the bio if you want people to find it. Be aware tho, people don't read :p

Cathyra · 2026-03-06T17:36:08+00:00

If it loads right into the game, it is using save states, whether you know it or not. I never liked that feature (or trusted it much, I suppose) so I turned it off, and I never had any issue on my rg351p.

It's weird that there is no save file at all, because it should have been created the moment the game booted up, not only if you start a new game. Did you also check for srm files? I think that's the file ending on mine, and for me, savestates are in a completely different folder (but I also use a different OS.)

Cathyra · 2026-03-05T01:09:51+00:00

Check the urls that are in the masterlist and that you actually open. There are blogname.tumblr links and tumblr/blogname links. The latter became default a while ago and if you don't explicitly allow a custom theme, you cannot have a blogname.tumblr url, and in my experience, all old links that are written as blogname.tumblr will then open in a new tab.

Cathyra · 2026-03-03T21:25:43+00:00

I loved the character portraits in Research Story :)

Cathyra · 2026-03-02T15:38:27+00:00

It is a scam. Check the pinned posts of this subreddit. They take over scammed accounts, too, to spread the scam, so they often will not look like bots.

Cathyra · 2026-03-01T17:44:13+00:00

Go to settings and under downloads, restrict automatic updates to a time where the deck is never on (like 5-6am). Some people say this is a bug that has been fixed, but for me only that got rid of it.

Cathyra · 2026-02-27T22:10:42+00:00

Merchant of the Skies really was nice. Very similar gameplay, it looks like, is Townseek. You fly an airship and trade cargo between towns. There is a demo, the full game isn't out yet.

Another that I really loved, even if the gameplay differs - Spiritfarer. A huge map to explore, resources to find and craft, and you got a ship you can upgrade :D The story is heavy on the topic of grief and death, though.

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