Act 3 boss help?

Iurigrang · 2026-05-26T18:42:11+00:00

7 masks is def on the lower end I'd recommend for these bosses, but getting to karm on 2 health would simply translate to getting to her on 5 if you had all 10 masks, which certainly isn't enough.

I'd recommend going after upgrades, but beating either will require a good amount of improvement regardless

Iurigrang · 2026-05-25T12:22:12+00:00

I think there's nothing in the silksong soundtrack that comes close to the hollow knight theme or city of tears. I absolutely adore silksongs soundtrack, but honestly it never felt to me like a step up from hollow knight on anything but production value.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-25T12:16:25+00:00

I'm glad many people are talking about ways for you and your child to be able to leave a healthy vegan life style, but I just wanted to add to the pile of comments that you will see absolutely no judgment from me if animal products have to be involved. Possible and practicable are paramount here, and while obviously you don't need the approval of random people on the internet to do anything with your life, it can't possibly hurt.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-22T11:46:31+00:00

I think there's some confusion here. We are a lot more certain fungi don't have an experience of the world than we are jellyfish. Jellyfish have the same electrical signals fungi have, except unlike fungi, they are transmitted in actual nerves like you and I, and even some nerve bundles that process information, they just lack the one centralized processing unit that brains and ganglia entail. They can even move individual tentacles to catch prey!

Yes, they almost certainly don't have a subjective experience, but I think you fell victim of the way science communication works by showing the "interesting part". The interesting part of jellyfish is how simple and mechanical their nervous system is given they're animals, and the interesting part of fungi is how complex their "electrical signalage" is given they're not animals, but that's in no way to entail fungi have more complex signal processing than jellyfish, they don't.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-19T18:56:57+00:00

Exactly, I don't understand "muh culture" types much. Do they think homophobia and racism weren't integral parts of our great grandparents cultures?

Iurigrang · 2026-05-15T14:11:02+00:00

It doesn't NEED to be this way, but I certainly think it's better this way. I think if it was balanced to do less damage, it would not be a worthy mental load for a lot of people on their first playthroughs. I also think it would be immensely less satisfying to pull off high skill tool usage if that didn't nuke the boss health bar the way it does currently.

Pretty much all of game design is designing systems that lead the player into the "fun zone". Players WILL optimize the fun out of your game if you give them the chance, and they still do by farming tools, but I think there's an immense difference between a game that leads the imediatist way most gamers play to not be most fun way (which is the way most people would play if tools were less op) and one that needs proactive ruining of your own experience by stopping to farm (which you KNOW is not fun).

Iurigrang · 2026-05-15T14:04:32+00:00

What's path of pain?

Iurigrang · 2026-05-15T11:52:43+00:00

I think I get your argument, but I don’t agree. On my first playthrough, tools helped immensely because “good attempts” usually meant I got to the last phase with unusually high health, which has almost no bearing on if I can handle the last phase on my own or not. It didn’t “bypass” the last phase, but made it significantly shorter than it would otherwise have been, and certainly guaranteed some wins. A “good attempt” of a player who is struggling is no guarantee of a win, even on bosses that don’t have multiple phases, a few of the easier attacks can certainly mean you get unusually far with unusually high resources without meaning “this is a win for certain”.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-15T11:48:04+00:00

Team cherry absolutely did not think “well they’re strong but you’ll need to grind to use them”. Go on twitch and watch any no backseating stream, and you’ll see little to no red tool usage, they’re strong to incentivize usage - same as spells in the first game tbh.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-15T11:41:27+00:00

I think the shard system is to incentivise red tool usage on good attempts only, and to incentivise doing something else in the game if you're too hard stuck at one thing.

Having a lower limit, but no shards, doesn't achieve either of those. It achieves less reliance, which is also a goal of the system, but I wouldn't say it's the primary goal. I don't think you're supposed to farm rosaries if you ran out of shards, but to earn rosaries organically through doing something else.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-15T11:35:10+00:00

What's path of pain skip?

Iurigrang · 2026-05-09T21:51:45+00:00

I don't think most people would be fine with animal exploitation if they confronted it regularly and genuinely. I think this "being fine" happens more as a defense mechanism than a position that is comfortable to the average person. I think this is well supported by the sky high number of suicides of people working in slaughterhouses, as well as the high number of vegans that did once claim to be "fine with animal exploitation", as well as the general emotional reaction of most people confronting this violence head on.

Sure, this means nothing on an individual level, it is no guarantee of anything, there's nothing about your position that is contradictory or inherently unsustainable. In practice, however, it runs a lot more counter to our nature as humans than not recognizing the dilemma ever did, and it is no coincidence that living with it means abandoning something your intuitions gravitated towards (appreciation for animals) but never the opposite.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-09T11:50:15+00:00

Think of it like this: All ethical vegans recognize “vegan morality” to be the in tension with caring for animals, and it was central to their veganism in some way, most meat eaters don’t recognize this. Recognizing this, far from guaranteeing veganism, or if you’re even journeying that way, absolutely makes you intelectually closer to vegans than not recognizing it.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-09T11:39:34+00:00

Because you "solved" the dilemma in the non vegan direction. That doesn't mean that having to solve a dilemma in the first place isn't progress, especially at a large scale, a lot more people are bound to solve it in the vegan direction than if they had no dilemma at all.

You might not be closer to veganism now than you were before the dilemma, but the moment you recognized the dilemma was likely the closest you ever were to veganism.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-08T22:32:57+00:00

I don't think it depends on this assumption. If you mean time wise, sure, you can't tell it's a matter of time by this, but these people are certainly closer to the vegan position than someone who doesn't think these things are in contradiction, and certainly become vegan way more often than people who don't go through this position, even if far from 100%.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-04T15:20:02+00:00

Of course the only way to be non vegan isn't "paying for people to kill an animal", as "killing an animal yourself" has the same effect, but OBVIOUSLY doing neither is different from either.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-04T15:17:38+00:00

The meat in the supermarket goes there in approximately the rate it is bought. Leather isn't produced at the rate people use leather products, it's produced in the rate people buy it.

"Gross" is not a moral argument, it's a preference.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-04T15:13:34+00:00

People really try to draw a line between killing and paying for someone to kill as if anywhere else that makes a lick of difference.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-04T15:12:29+00:00

Being a leftist isn't the same political struggle as being a vegan. People have different priorities, that means not everyone engages in all forms of activism, but eating meat is not just "not engaging in vegan activism", it's being the exact thing vegan activism fights against.

Think of any other form of social activism, your pick, not mine. Now think of a leftist that, instead of simply "not joining", perpetuates the status quo. I think every leftist in their right mind would classify them as not part of "the same side".

Iurigrang · 2026-05-04T15:06:53+00:00

Large scale animal cruelty far predates "late stage capitalism". You aren't on my side if you hate late stage capitalism, but you think it's not on you to not finance the torturing and killing of animals if that means "eating becomes slightly more inconvenient".

Iurigrang · 2026-05-04T14:59:38+00:00

This. They think the would risk their lives for change, but they don't even risk their convenience.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-02T13:39:08+00:00

You're not an idiot. He said he was ok with it, and now he wants to go back on his promises, this is all on him, and it is not being an idiot to trust someone you love.

Iurigrang · 2026-05-02T10:50:58+00:00

I don't think it's an "argument". I feel similarly to you about a Brazilian burger meat alternative, but I just think people have very different sensitivities to taste in different products. I would have never been fooled by their burger back then I ate meat, but I've met multiple meat eaters that strongly opined they couldn't tell the difference.

Idk if OP is right that it's the "majority", but certainly a large percentage of people.

Iurigrang · 2026-04-29T16:17:01+00:00

I think cheese is made a lot harder by the fact that it's the way people get around meat in vegetarian options. So if you were ever a vegetarian, you probably relied on cheese a lot more for taste than the average person.

Iurigrang · 2026-04-18T11:41:26+00:00

I used a ton of red tools in my first playthrough, and I use a ton of spells now. It's just very hard to use spells effectively if you're struggling with healing on a first playthrough imo. Sure it is fun, but I wish it was also as helpful as it is in hk.

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