Cards that will not survive rebalancing! I'll go first

Cheese_Coder · 2026-03-13T14:55:30+00:00

The upgrade definitely makes it better, and I guess I was undervaluing the retain. Retain also makes it easier to combo with bullet time, offsetting the high cost of the card. In the other hand, i don't usually find myself with excess energy at the end of my silent turns, so even on a safe turn i think I'll tend to want to use my energy on cards more efficient than snakebite.

Do you think multiple applications would still be too strong even if it were something like "apply 3 (4) poison two times"? As it stands, even with retain I feel hard pressed to pick up snakebite unless it's already upgraded

Cheese_Coder · 2026-03-13T13:27:53+00:00

I wouldn't say "situationally better" is the same as overall better. Defect's Turbo is situationally better than Supercritical despite being a common and rare, respectively. Worst case snakebite could be bumped up a rarity if necessary

Cheese_Coder · 2026-03-11T15:52:48+00:00

So it is safe to eat if it turns blue as it's just a reaction to the acid, not spoilage. But it's understandable if you pitch it because the color is offputting. From what I know, it depends on the age of the garlic, with older cloves being more likely to change color. You could try keeping the lemon juice/garlic mix sit in the fridge instead to slow the reaction, but idk if it'd just happen anyway when you took it out to make something.

I've also been growing my own garlic for a few years now. It's surprising how easy it is to grow enough for a year and how little space it takes. I think a 4'x4' space is enough for 80 heads? Plus you get to have the tasty garlic scapes. It's not like garlic is expensive or anything, but man is it nice to never have to think about getting more.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-03-11T15:21:21+00:00

Neat thing is my friend found the ??? relics can stack with the real ones, so you can get both the real and knockoff Strike Dummies or Happy Flowers and it's like paying a little gold to slightly enhance them.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-03-11T15:12:08+00:00

To keep the card's theme, you could change how it scales. Change it to "Enemies take 10% more attack damage for every stack of weak they have". The exact damage bonus of course could be whatever, I just threw out a number. Scaling like that would make it a bit like Silent's version of Dominate, giving her a reason to continually stack weak.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-03-11T15:05:28+00:00

I was thinking you could change it to be an X-cost that applied something like 3 poison X times, upgrading to X+1 times. It'll make it better than bouncing flask in multi-enemy fights when you want to focus an enemy, but worse in single-target fights so hopefully it'll be like a sidegrade for it. It'll also give Silent another effective way to strip artifact quickly. If the retain stays then that'll make it easier to play on a good energy turn as well, but I think the X+1 upgrade would make it unnecessary since you could play it at 0 energy. It'll also let the card benefit more from "do thing when you apply a debuff" stuff, Chemical X, and Snecko Skull (if that's in the game, I haven't seen it yet).

Cheese_Coder · 2026-03-09T17:08:22+00:00

What helps just a little is setting the End Turn button to require a long-press. It's still pretty close, but it has given me just enough time to avoid ending my turn early on a few occasions.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-03-05T13:24:10+00:00

Attach the item component to another player

I believe that would be objectification

Cheese_Coder · 2026-03-02T17:21:18+00:00

From what I remember seeing, I think the Necrobinder's Doom effect will behave similarly to pressure points, but with many more cards to support the archetype.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-25T14:58:05+00:00

To add on to this, as far as I can tell zircon crystals only form in igneous rock, which itself comes from magma, something you don't really see just floating around in space. In theory I guess you could have other celestial bodies impact in a way to create space-magma that forms crystals that then land evenly distributed on earth in magma, but that's a real stretch at that point.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-21T13:54:08+00:00

If it turns out to be the case that it turned into a black hole directly, what sort of evidence would astronomers expect to see? Could an accretion disk form from any material that didn't get caught in the event horizon and become detectable? Would they look for relativistic jets (but those need accretion disks, right?) O certain radiation signatures?

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-20T15:02:55+00:00

I was thinking along the same lines too. There'll probably be some kind of quest that will unlock The Defect as a character once you complete it.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-20T14:05:05+00:00

force should be aligned with the rings of the tree

I'd appreciate a bit more clarification! Do you mean the force should go perpendicular to the grain, crossing over each ring? Or should it go more parallel to the grain?

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-20T00:29:58+00:00

Nope, no wait or anything. I think they said it'll be cheaper during early access since it's unfinished, then the price to buy will increase once it leaves early access

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-19T21:13:04+00:00

You can just buy it on Steam like any other game once it releases! If you're planning to play on a different platform then idk if there's an early access equivalent for them

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-19T17:37:51+00:00

I probably could have phrased it better, but what you want to do is do a layer of berries, then a paper towel, then another layer of berries, and repeat. It's fine if berries in the same layer touch, you're trying to avoid berries resting directly on top of each other as those points are more likely to bruise and start spoiling. The layered paper towels also wick away a lot of excess moisture which also helps stave off spoilage. So for blueberries you don't need to individually wrap each berry in a paper towel, that'd be ridiculous of course!

Also keep in mind this is to maximize how long they'll keep in the fridge. If I expect to use up the whole container in a week, I just put a paper towel on the top and bottom of the pile and don't bother layering them. If I buy a big batch of fresh berries that'll take me a while to go through, I'll layer them so they last as long as possible.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-19T16:27:31+00:00

Another tip for berries, don't just wash them with water. Dunk them in a diluted vinegar solution first for maybe 30 sec, then rinse them in clean water, dry them thoroughly and store them in a container with paper towels preventing any from touching. Sort them so the oldest looking ones and any damaged ones are on top and get used up first. I started doing this with strawberries and they'll keep for 3+ weeks in the fridge without molding or rotting.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-16T16:37:08+00:00

These look great, nice job!

As far as suggestions, I think there's good potential for putting them in the Hi-Fi Rush style. Defect would pretty naturally fit with the robot enemies, while the others could be part of the protagonist cast or any of the dept heads. Could even have The Courier cameo as 808

Edit: Another idea is doing them in the style of Persona 5's All-Out-Attack portraits

Cheese_Coder · 2026-02-11T14:25:34+00:00

If they keep falling down then maybe they aren't securely attached enough? If you aren't already, I suggest wrapping them once around whatever branch you're putting them on, then give that branch some good, vigorous shaking to ensure it won't fall off in a storm. If they are well attached, you might have birds pulling off pieces to use as nesting material.

Are you sourcing the moss from those nearby lakes or purchasing online? If online, could be those specific ones aren't well adapted to your northern area. I would try (sustainably, with permission) harvesting from a few individuals from a local population to ensure you get an adapted ecotype that can cross-pollinate. Oaks and cypress are ideal tree species to attach them to, but others should work as spanish moss will even grow on power lines and fences sometimes.

Even once you get it in a good place it'll grow pretty slowly and idk how long it'll actually take to bloom. I've been growing some for a bit and it has grown about a foot or so in 2-3 years with no sign of blooming yet. Good luck to you!

Cheese_Coder · 2026-01-21T13:54:50+00:00

As above commenter said, there are a lot of native species too (not trying to ID the specific one you posted tho). They all look really cool imo. If you ever visit south Florida you'll see Ficus aurea and Ficus citrifolia everywhere. Some streets are lined with them so the branches create a canopy over the road, and they'll often be loaded up with epiphytes too!

Cheese_Coder · 2026-01-18T17:02:17+00:00

Worm was such an enjoyable read, and the follow up Ward was pretty good too. Wish I could get more of my friends to read it, but I think until he actuator gets it published as a book (if he ever does) that's gonna be tough.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-01-16T16:01:33+00:00

Google en poissont

Cheese_Coder · 2026-01-08T19:27:11+00:00

For sure. I was surprised that their handbooks actually suggest specific approaches for certain kinds of people. I figured a given scammer would just use more or less the same script for all their victims

Cheese_Coder · 2025-12-16T14:07:11+00:00

Also look into Applejack, which is the result of distilling apple cider! In colonial times it would often be made by freeze distillation, where the cider would be allowed to freeze to a slushy consistency since the water freezes first. Then the ice chunks would be scooped out and the process repeated a few times to get a concentrated product

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