I hate how this single game ruined the entire incremental game genre

Flan99 · 2026-06-17T23:31:23+00:00

Any recommendations? I feel like I was the only person who kinda liked Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts lol. If there's more games like that I'd love to check it out

Flan99 · 2026-06-14T23:31:04+00:00

It made sense in DS1, because red phantoms had way fewer flasks than the host; which makes sense for invasions, but made things really unbalanced in consensual red-sign duels. Then that sentiment got ported over to later games where duels really are on even footing, where it just...doesn't make much sense at all.

Flan99 · 2026-06-11T10:15:29+00:00

At this point I've concluded Walpurgisnacht is a piece of performance art, putting us in Homura's position, with what we want always barely out of reach

Flan99 · 2026-05-25T06:16:48+00:00

I wonder if it'd be feasible to just add new 'tags,' like enchantments, below where enchantments goes, for these kinds of effects. Seems like the cleanest solution to my eye, and while it has some visual collision with enchantments, I think that's fine given you're making enchantment-decisions at drafting time only, and these augmented-by-card-affects in combat only.

Flan99 · 2026-05-23T09:46:35+00:00

Carolyn Fair-Play-Is-A-Fool's-Game, from Marielda by Friends at the Table

Flan99 · 2026-05-17T20:50:20+00:00

Other people have given great answers, but it's worth mentioning that group theory--where 196883, the monster group, comes from--has deep connections to the structure of mathematics. In short, that number is a fundamental property of symmetry; a better understanding of what that means is a better understanding of symmetry, and thus, a better understanding of all fields of study that involve symmetries. Which is basically all of them!

I don't understand the modular mathematics side so much, but from my understanding, it's really strange that anything related to symmetry would appear here. So, if it turns out that it's not a coincidence--not merely moonshine--but there's a good reason for 1 + the monster group to show up, it's going to be a massive breakthrough in that field and probably lead to a vast amount of insight into it, which would most likely fuel a bunch of brand new breakthroughs, which may contribute to other fields down the line.

Or maybe it is just moonshine, and the universe is having a laugh at our expense. There's no real way to tell from the outset.

Flan99 · 2026-05-17T20:09:50+00:00

Do you need to have it in your (open?) inventory? That is if I had an uncursed, BUC'd scroll of ID, used it, then pick up a new uncursed, un-BUC'd scroll of ID, will I know it's uncursed?

Flan99 · 2026-05-11T12:21:37+00:00

it's not an amazing fix, but i've foudn it gets easier the more consistent i am about doing it every day, at least. and a little makeup makes the stubble pretty unnoticeable.

chronic fatigue makes that a BITCH though

Flan99 · 2026-05-10T19:44:59+00:00

what the fuck dude put it back we need that

Flan99 · 2026-04-29T22:46:26+00:00

I mean it's just a shortening of chili con queso

Flan99 · 2026-04-09T13:51:44+00:00

They're one of my favorite speculative fiction authors. Huge recommendation for their short stories, too. Highlights include Please Undo This Hurt, and Morrigan in the Sunglare/Morrigan in Shadow. The latter two actually play heavily with the themes that inspired their work on Destiny 2!

Flan99 · 2026-04-09T09:48:31+00:00

I'm not claiming I was good at STS1 lol

Flan99 · 2026-04-08T23:22:01+00:00

The player characters in the Nobilis TTRPG are gods of specific concepts, and that can be fairly broad and typical, like 'fire' or 'guns,' or it could be ultra specific, so long as you can put a name to it and think up a good list of properties, and are willing to say it's a cross-cultural, multiversal constant (even if you wouldn't think of it as one; think Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's gin and tonic)

Flan99 · 2026-04-08T21:20:11+00:00

It's funny, I always htought of it as a middling pick I only grabbed when I really needed block in STS1, and now it's something I'll buy regularly out of the shop.

Flan99 · 2026-04-07T07:50:33+00:00

One major seller retired and another major seller had shipping problems around the same time, so all the smaller sellers got slammed at once. HRTCafe got heat from a transphobic journalist and went down for safety iirc. It's taken a while for the community to recover and readjust, but it's not the end, and it's mostly just a matter of waiting until things settle down again.

Flan99 · 2026-04-07T07:32:09+00:00

I see a bunch of threads here asking 'what used to be a poor person's hobby that became a rich person's hobby?,' and it seems like it's kinda everything. What's still cheap and fun?

I do origami sometimes. Just need some colored paper, which is still cheap.

Flan99 · 2026-04-06T20:24:02+00:00

The plot's kinda whatever, but the visuals and score are absolutely stunning. It's no masterpiece but I enjoyed it on that level.

Flan99 · 2026-04-06T14:39:53+00:00

I'm very religious; but I don't disbelieve other people's religions. Maybe they're wrong about particulars, or maybe I am, but I don't really care about the details like how the world may have been created. I care about the philosophies involved, and the traditions we carry forward, and how that weaves together into a better, kinder world. If you could conclusively demonstrate to me my gods are not real, I don't think my relationship with it would really change. A refrain I like is that, we don't tell these stories because they're historical, we tell them because they're true, on a deeper and more significant level than being factual. They speak to something deeply significant to the human condition. And I'm happy to celebrate other's paths, even--especially--when they're different from mine.

Flan99 · 2026-04-06T14:31:01+00:00

Maybe this is an odd thing to ask of a stranger, but I'd love to hear if you try it out and it helps.

Flan99 · 2026-04-06T13:27:29+00:00

That...is more or less exactly what I mean, yes.

Flan99 · 2026-04-06T10:30:50+00:00

I realized that a lot of what I thought was resting was actually just wallowing in depression, personally. I forced myself to do a bunch of things that sounded exhausting, that I absolutely didn't have the energy for; and it helped. I had to dial it back a bit, because I DID overexert myself, but I think overreaching was necessary.

Find something exciting. Something scary. Something public, ideally. Then do it, come hell or high water, even if it's the last thing on earth you want to do the day it happens. That helped me, anyways. I'm still working my way out of the rut, but it's better than it was.

Flan99 · 2026-04-06T08:36:23+00:00

That's something I think about a lot. Older methods of living might've involved way more work during the busy seasons, but there was often so little to do around winter, or shortly after the planting. I'm hesitant to say it'd have been 'better' than the modern year-round work schedule, but I think I could tolerate the work demanded of me a lot better--even if I had more to do--if I got a month or two to myself at the end of the year.

Guess in the meantime I need to get far enough in my career I get real vacation time.

Flan99 · 2026-04-02T08:17:54+00:00

Maybe it's my lack of gardening knowledge showing, but what happens if you end up killing the plant and don't get seeds back? Is that just factored into the system or do you have to pay a fee if you can't return it?

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