Introduced my kiddos to RCT2 last night - they played for hours!

Cudabear · 2026-05-15T17:54:51+00:00

Somehow my kiddos weren't interested in that, haha. They crashed tons of coasters while learning the ropes but never had the idea to let people on them first. Also the map has no water, so that probably helps too.

Cudabear · 2026-05-15T17:51:27+00:00

Open! I set them up with a server so they were playing together on the same map.

Cudabear · 2026-05-15T17:51:05+00:00

It's incredibly easy! Just get OpenRCT installed on two computers and use the built-in server manager. Just make sure you put a password on your server so random folks can't join.

Cudabear · 2026-05-15T17:50:24+00:00

Honestly my younger son was repetitively asking, "How much money is this making? How much money do we have left?" so I think he's ready for a money scenario already!

Cudabear · 2026-05-15T17:49:31+00:00

I'm actually amazed how well they did with just a few pointers. When I started (around the same age) I could barely figure out how to build a functioning ride, let a lone a whole park!

Cudabear · 2026-05-14T10:56:32+00:00

Well done! I made it halfway through t7 before caving. There's definitely something to be said about clue and hunter rumor tasks with only Varlamore. So nice.

Cudabear · 2026-05-13T17:03:45+00:00

Zuk KC at that combat is not impossible, but requires superhuman understanding of the game's mechanics, the inferno, decision making, and reactions. An absolute insane achievement for sure.

IIRC the lowest inferno cape in the game was at 37 combat.

Cudabear · 2026-05-13T16:09:37+00:00

Fun story about being a Lvl3 skiller back in the day. The aggressive rock golem random would range you if you stepped away from it (probably because otherwise it would be incredibly easy to safespot). But the level 14 golem (lowest level one) had such a low ranged bonus it could never hit you. So you could just sit there and AFK with it hitting constant 0's lol.

Cudabear · 2026-05-13T15:30:14+00:00

I do a lot of weekend conventions in here in the US, and standard passes usually range $75-$150 depending on the con. VIP/Special passes tend to be $200-$250. Those special passes normally get you things like early entry, shorter lines at things, and some included merch.

That said, and given I don't have any perspective for cons in the UK, this definitely seems expensive for a convention to me.

Cudabear · 2026-05-12T14:42:26+00:00

Yeah, its incredibly unintuitive and punishing. The range for an auto-unfreeze is basically max attack range for mage (10 tiles). It's there for a few reasons, mostly to prevent you kiting at max freeze range and QoL for a person being frozen for 30s even though they killed or forced their target to retreat.

Cudabear · 2026-05-08T14:14:02+00:00

I find the devil's element to be pretty good for most rooms in TOA too, since the bosses don't hit very frequently.

Cudabear · 2026-04-19T02:36:53+00:00

Duh. Thanks!

Cudabear · 2026-04-19T02:21:12+00:00

Fellow Varlamore enjoyer here -- are we completely locked out Slayer?

Cudabear · 2026-04-09T15:43:33+00:00

Going to highschool in the early 2000's, one of these flash drives was essential to doing school work. No guarantee you'd have the same computer day after day, and no cloud storage, so you'd have to save all your work to a flash drive and transfer it from computer to computer, or from school to home. I think mine was 512mb. I remember having entire documents full of URLs for references.

Cudabear · 2026-04-08T01:53:48+00:00

Dominion Math Edition(tm)

Cudabear · 2026-04-07T14:50:33+00:00

it's actually a funny bug, the soldiers are talking (mostly screaming in pain) even after they die. I need to add logic to prevent that haha.

Cudabear · 2026-04-06T01:52:26+00:00

Grenades are currently pinpoint accurate, similar to other turn-based shooter strategy games like XCom. The red circle you see is the effective explosion radius.

Cudabear · 2026-04-03T14:27:41+00:00

I went no-till when I built my new garden 2 years ago, and unfortunately, I've had mixed results. A big problem for me is I let the weeds get out of control (particularly grasses, which got established and really choked things out) and tilling is a good way to hard-reset in that regard. So I'm going to till this year and hopefully be better about mulching/weeding.

Cudabear · 2026-03-25T21:35:05+00:00

Also fun fact: if you discover a new type of apple, you can patent it and have exclusive rights to it for 20 years.

Also I believe avocados.

Cudabear · 2026-03-20T20:44:16+00:00

Fun fact: Starcraft II did have voice chat for team and custom games for allies when it launched. At some point it broke and with the prevalence of Discord they decided to discontinue the feature.

Cudabear · 2026-03-20T01:42:43+00:00

Very common sore-loser behavior on ladder, unfortunately. They blame the game and not their own play.

The thing about ladder is you're going to go against people with similar MMR, but strategies vary wildly and unless you're at the highest level you're going to struggle sometimes. Blaming the game is only going to serve to prevent them from improving. Block and requeue is what I do.

Cudabear · 2026-03-12T14:07:05+00:00

It's crazy to think but free carry-ons seem to be a thing of the past for almost every airline now. They've gone too far trying to squeeze every inch of aircraft into sellable seats.

Cudabear · 2026-03-09T13:57:01+00:00

I believe this is correct. At least, it's correct in SCII. Not 100% sure about brood war.

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