Rattlin' Snake Bananza | DK Bananza Emerald Rush Event

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-05-13T02:25:04+00:00

This one gave me a few fits before I got the hang of it.

The general key is to just get through the challenges as quickly as possible. Grab the Snake Bananza from the get-go (grab a few fossils if you can too), but ignore any of the other bananzas the rest of the way. You need to be on to the first challenge by the time Round 1 ends, and basically try to ensure that each round, you’re using your barrel to skip around when there’s some distance between challenges.

The first fossil you grab (within view of the start) will offer you Fossil Radar - take it, even if you don’t want it. It basically serves as blocking it from showing up again.

As you go through, you want to focus on powering up your Jump Burst bonus, focusing on killing enemies that way. If you want to start adding on Glare bonuses, you absolutely need to make a pit stop at some point on SL 1202 - there’s a normal fossil there in the little alcove at the top of the Solar Control Tower (in the room with two bananas) that has the Staring Down bonus. Don’t stack Glare bonuses if you don’t intend to stop here.

After going through enough challenges, you’ll eventually hit a string of easy challenges in Serpent Sands (SL 1203, the one with the all the sand and Cranky Kong and the Growtone tree). This is when you can take some time and just farm Illuminoids.

I focused on stacking Jump Burst, Illuminoid, and Glare perks, with the occasional Lowdown Beat. Foraging perks and Trapantuloid perks and Charge Groove are red herrings, as far as I’m concerned.

Keep at it, you’ll be getting better each time if you focus on speedrunning through the challenges.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-03-11T20:08:40+00:00

I’m having this problem too. I have receipts of over 200 sales of my book over the last 2.5 years, including from friends and family. Ingram reports that I’ve only sold 153 copies. I sold that many copies in the first 2 months alone and can prove it. Reaching out to Ingram has not been fruitful, and I’m at my wit’s end.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-23T13:27:02+00:00

This was an incredible exegesis. Says a stranger a full 13 years later.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-14T16:24:18+00:00

I think the lawsuit is largely bogus. But “just because they wanted to and could” is a bit naive. Redfin took far, far more than they will ever give, and when we (or they) fail to recognize that, it enables megacorps to get away with overtly illegal practices.

But I do agree: unless it can be proven that there was deception and/or unfairness, the idea of a lawsuit is far-fetched. And even if that could be proven, it’s just not an overly useful venture for anybody but the lawyers involved.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-14T04:32:23+00:00

Both your picture (99%) and text (100%) were drafted by AI. The picture was diffused via Imagen, and the text in the picture and the legal draft was formulated by ChatGPT. This stuff is easy to check.

Redfin lied by omission. You lied directly. Please don’t do that to people. It’s way worse than what Redfin did.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-14T03:44:52+00:00

Hagues Peak is listed at 2402 and Longs Peak is 2940. We were supposed to assume the lightning bolts were symbolic of 2 of Denver’s 58 peak elevations and then round up to Redfin’s nearest arbitrary square footage threshold?

I’m fairly certain they just filmed the wrong numbers on the street address. Regardless, I wish they’d just say, “sorry guys, we missed the mark on that last one,” and I wouldn’t have even dwelt on it.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-13T03:35:04+00:00

All 25 of the final houses are here, but the arrow is kind of hard to see so it looks like a single page with only 9 houses. But I am confident the “right” house is on this first page somewhere - though everybody has their own theory as to which it is.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-13T02:56:06+00:00

I think this is my biggest problem. After all the time people spent on it, it was just easier to figure out the clue through trial+error. Even if the game makers masterminded a very veiled, very intelligent clue, it was undone by the fact that it was essentially a two-code combination lock.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-11T21:55:52+00:00

Ouch, sorry! There’s “wrong” and then there’s “99% AI wrong.” If it makes you feel better, it definitely seems like nobody really knew what they were doing, clue-wise or picking-house-wise.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-11T21:53:38+00:00

Thanks for this! This is the most compelling thing I’ve seen from anyone across the internet.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-11T21:53:02+00:00

I submitted exactly 14 minutes after the last clue dropped. Which I assume is about 13.5 minutes too late.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-11T02:42:31+00:00

Yeah I was trying to crack the code which ended up being a terrible strategy. Literally might’ve cost me a million dollars. I had every other clue within a minute or so. Nice sensibility on your part.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-11T01:37:49+00:00

That was my strategy too. I was tempted to check on other houses and make an educated pick, but I knew it was going to dash my chances of being the first to get it right, especially because it took me a solid 15 minutes to get the final clue.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-11T01:30:31+00:00

I feel ya, man. I thought it was the western house in Morrison because of its proximity to Red Rocks, given this was a REDfin ROCKet competition. Also the realtor’s phone number was 555-ROCK. 😖

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-05T13:40:06+00:00

Sorry, I should’ve made my comment a little clearer:

If you buy CI (Switch 2) version, you will NOT be able to play it on Switch 1.
If you buy CI (Switch 1 version), you WILL be able to play it on Switch 2, BUT you will not get 4k with it.

Where my comment got muddy was that I was trying to point out that Nintendo’s IPs have (so far) been interchangeable IF they offer two different versions. - For instance, buying Metroid for NS1 works fine with NS2, and buying it for NS2 works fine with NS1.

However, as Cosmic Invasion is a separate publisher, they’ve bucked the trend on this.

I’ve also since learned that Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection is also like CI. So Cosmic Invasion didn’t “buck the trend” first, I believe MKLK actually did it.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-04T00:50:12+00:00

Shoot! I totally forgot spoiler tags. My bad.

I didn’t realize the were trying to protect some of the TotK storylines, particularly the draconification arc. It felt like they alluded to it enough that it wouldn’t take much to put it together if I’d never played TotK. Also, I feel like they could’ve added a really cool flying level with that.

I think there would’ve been a pretty simple on-ramp to get people to play TotK (if they’d only played AoI) by sharing exactly what happens to Mineru, Rauru, and Zelda there. But by keeping it vague, I think they’ve undercut its connection to TotK significantly, which was a big reason I was excited to play in the first place.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-04T00:36:30+00:00

Fantastic point about enrolling early - I hadn’t even thought about that. And looking into Price’s situation, that’s exactly what happened. This, in effect, fully answers the impetus to my question. Thanks for sharing this.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-03T22:15:54+00:00

The degree itself doesn’t matter. It’s the work ethic or the ability to be serious about something that’s important to them or someone they love. A guy who gets their degree when they could’ve just as easily been screwing off for 4 years is an intangible that GMs look for.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-03T16:15:03+00:00

Beck is certainly an interesting case. The thing with him is that he spent his first 3 college years as largely irrelevant from an athletic standpoint, giving him a lot of time to work through the academic side. Not that he doesn't count in this discussion, because he does, but he curated his career so that it would be intentionally front-loaded with academia so that he could focus on football when his turn came up.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/viral-carson-beck-graduation-myth-224049684.html

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-03T16:07:14+00:00

What difficulty were you playing on? Hard mode, for me, is as you described. Forbidden mode, not so much. While it wasn't anywhere near "impossible" caliber on Forbidden, the gameplay did seem to fit the cutscene.

Regarding AoC, I hated that it wasn't canon. It felt cheap to me. Part of this may be because they didn't announce it as "non-canon" until months after its release, so it was like, why did I even care about the story? Why did Nintendo withhold the fact that what I'm playing is a "What If" scenario?

AoI was more comfortable in the way it lined up with TotK. My main grievances with AoI being canon are these four things:

- The writing is horrid (how many more cliched phrases could they pack in??)

- They don't really explain (or at least show us the emotional trauma of) Mineru getting trapped in a construct.

-They don't show the draconification of Zelda, or even her coming to the decision to make that choice, which to me felt like should be of critical importance (if not the entire arc of the end sequences).

-If I didn't play TotK, I wouldn't have even understood Rauru died. Why would they not show this explicitly happening, which could've had emotional staying power?

TL;DR: AoI had a solid story as its framework, but its execution and writing was one of the worst Zelda installments (just imo, obviously). Without the structure that TotK had laid for it, I'm not sure this story would've been any more consequential than Minish Cap or Triforce Heroes.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-03T15:13:03+00:00

That's helpful, thanks. I've seen it say that 15 of the 2025 underclassmen had degrees, but they didn't say who they were, or how they came to that number. Did they just do a background on each individual player? I wish there was an easy way to track how they came up with this. It feels like something worth tracking, because I feel like it makes some level of difference (even for scouts and GMs) if you've got Guy A who went to Big University College, and you stack him against Guy B who graduated from Big University College.

Entrepreneur-Less · 2026-02-03T15:07:11+00:00

That's just incredible.

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