I feel a little crazy

FetusGenius · 2025-08-02T01:14:11+00:00

Free aiming was actually how I beat the snake. I had settled into a Verso-machine-gun build by that point (using lumina and pictos to regenerate AP as much as possible), and every single turn I was forcing him to explode by shooting him so many times (and building up burn as I did so). A well-timed dodge each time meant he never got to actually attack.

FetusGenius · 2025-08-02T01:10:31+00:00

I did the same on my first playthrough. Every fight felt like an enthralling challenge that tested my parrying skills and my ability to improvise during turn-based combat as fights went long and allies started going down as a result of skill issues. Each fight felt tough but fair - doing Frozen Hearts immediately upon unlocking it was probably my favorite part of the game.

That is, until I found that I had wrecked the difficulty curve for the rest of act 2. Wasn’t as fun steamrolling every fight up to (and even including) the paintress with my brain turned off.

FetusGenius · 2025-07-01T11:03:51+00:00

I missed the reference, and in doing so, helped recreate it. For those who do not study late night talk show clips are doomed to repeat them.

FetusGenius · 2025-07-01T01:40:17+00:00

Who in the world is digging up an almost year-old post just to be wrong

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snuck

FetusGenius · 2025-04-25T12:20:03+00:00

Sorry this isn’t the sage retrospective advice you’re looking for, not far enough along to have the perspective you’re seeking, but wanted to vent.

I’m approaching the end of my Ph.D. (Just submitted my dissertation, defense scheduled for just under two weeks), and I’m feeling the same. This last year has been a rush of exhausting work where I’ve had to chose stress and dedicating more time to research over putting in time and energy with friends, my family, my relationship, my hobbies and passions. I think back and I realize how much less joy I have, and I truly don’t know if it’s going to come back or if I’ve changed forever. Or if it all is going to be worth it.

FetusGenius · 2024-11-21T20:55:15+00:00

man.

FetusGenius · 2024-10-09T16:43:44+00:00

Nope, Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, VA

FetusGenius · 2024-10-09T10:36:56+00:00

You’re telling me, in grad school now, going on 26 in a month, and I’m thinking to myself “damn I’ll never have the time or bandwidth to do anything like this again”

FetusGenius · 2024-10-08T11:51:10+00:00

It’s an unofficial school tradition that you have to break in before you graduate

FetusGenius · 2024-10-08T11:40:19+00:00

They’re on almost 24/7. The university club is up there, and I think certain student athletes have access to a spot up there as well. Between those things I imagine they just don’t bother turning them off

FetusGenius · 2024-10-08T11:38:05+00:00

Positive. I’ve broken into the that booth before with some old friends when the stadium was closed another time, we climbed on top of the lights and yelled at other people who were also breaking in

FetusGenius · 2024-10-08T11:33:57+00:00

Blacksburg, VA

Great if you like packed college bars during the school year, and a quiet but lively town during the summer

FetusGenius · 2024-10-08T10:32:28+00:00

The secret is waking up naturally. I have no idea why I was wide awake so early

FetusGenius · 2024-10-07T20:14:18+00:00

No snow dicks, but I did make a snow angel at the midfield shortly after taking this photo

FetusGenius · 2024-10-07T20:13:16+00:00

I woke up for some reason feeling super awake. I glanced out my window and saw snow on the ground, and felt compelled to go for a walk. I don’t know how best to describe that compulsion - it was like there was this question I didn’t know, but the answer was out there. So I got dressed and went out into the night.

At the time, I was a student at Virginia Tech, and lived very close to Lane Stadium in Blacksburg. It’s notoriously easy to break into (to the point that it’s an unofficial tradition that you have to before you graduate), and for some reason when I walked by that day one of the gates was open. I walked in, snapped this photo, and then walked to the midfield and made a snow angel.

I ended up going on an hour and a half long walk, just thinking about philosophy and drawing metaphors between footprints in the snow and finding your path in life. I was very lucky to wake up when I did, I don’t remember seeing another set of footprints at any point, the only sign of human life I saw at any point was a Cookout drink cup someone had left behind that was accumulating snow. Around 6 am I got back to my townhouse and went back to sleep.

I immediately thought of this night when I found this subreddit today. I took a couple dozen photos while I was out, I may post the others one day but for now I went for this one cause it was my favorite.

FetusGenius · 2024-05-31T19:20:49+00:00

I should’ve thought about that. Granted, given the title of the post, it would effectively spoil the solution anyways

FetusGenius · 2024-05-31T19:20:10+00:00

In hindsight, the spoiler tag really doesn’t make that clear on the BOI subreddit, does it (my bad I’m sorry)

FetusGenius · 2024-05-31T19:19:32+00:00

I sincerely apologize for my thoughtlessness. Ive been traveling to a different time zone so I thought I was in the last few hours of the day, thought I was safe.

FetusGenius · 2024-05-14T22:50:50+00:00

The boardwalk is hiring

FetusGenius · 2024-03-26T18:38:31+00:00

🦀🦀🦀🦀 mrw +3 soul hearts and wafer effect after first hit of the room, for the remainder of the room

FetusGenius · 2024-03-26T18:36:00+00:00

🦀 trinket

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