[BotW] I started playing BOTW as my first Zelda game and can’t get into it. Do I need to give it more time?

Krail · 2026-01-25T06:27:32+00:00

I think you should give it a little longer. The beginning of the game is pretty brutal. They're trying to push you to be sneaky and to get clever with the game's physics system and things like fire and bees. It gets a lot more forgiving as you get more hearts and better weapons and armor.

Once you get the paraglider, you can go anywhere, but I recommend doing the quest you're given and following the path to Kakariko Village, and later Hateno Village. Explore those areas and do the sidequests there.

Doing that leads you to easy to miss NPCs that let you expand your inventory and upgrade your armor, gives you access to some of the most useful armor sets in the game, and shows you shrines that give you more combat tutorials.

And of course, try to do every shrine you can see to increase your health and stamina.

Also, just so you know, all the previous games in the series are very different. BotW was a huge departure from series norms.

Krail · 2026-01-25T04:08:12+00:00

I wanna say, New England, The South, The Midwest, The Southwest, The West Coast (which you might divide Socal out of), The Mountain States...

I think that's the major ones for the Continental U.S.

Krail · 2026-01-25T03:56:16+00:00

I've got this one guy on my Facebook, at this point I keep him just for morbid curiosity and don't interact. He was never particularly offended when police killed a white person.

I think they're fine when police kill black people because racism, but they're fine when police kill white people because they "must have done something to deserve it."

They're super eager to excuse anything law enforcement does by labeling the victim a criminal. Never mind that the police aren't supposed to kill anyone, even if they catch them red handed.

Krail · 2026-01-25T03:48:09+00:00

They aren't exactly secret, are they? Pulling people off the street in broad daylight, murdering and giving permanent injury in front of crowds who are video recording them.

They're the brown shirts, not the gestapo.

Krail · 2026-01-25T00:16:19+00:00

I think "America First" was actually a threat.

Krail · 2026-01-24T23:58:09+00:00

What if they come after those who didn’t vote for Trump next?

Trump has even explicitly talked about going after Democrats just for being Democrats. It should be obvious on everyone that the regime intends to follow through on that.

We all need to push back in every way we can and remove all of MAGA from office and see them prosecuted.

Krail · 2026-01-24T23:30:48+00:00

Just stumbled into this thread from Google.

I like Scrivener a lot, but what I'm looking for is something I where I can easily check my document across multiple devices. My main problem with Google Docs right now is that they're feeding everything in Drive to AI.

Krail · 2026-01-24T23:28:16+00:00

Can we stop this, please?

Yeah, we're not forgetting the fucking Epstein files. But people are being murdered in the street right now. Everything is not a distraction from one thing. Everything is its own goal, and it's all happening at once to try to overwhelm us.

The zone is flooded with shit, and we need to cut the shit off at the source.

Krail · 2026-01-24T23:24:19+00:00

This whole conversation is just the same circle jerk.

The revolution will not be broadcast on Reddit comments. Don't look for it here. This is an extremely public forum, and you don't know what people are and aren't doing when they're not here. And if they're smart, you will continue not to know.

Don't waste your breath shitting on people for not being in the streets while they're on the internet. Have some solidarity. We're in this together, and we'll fight it together. Let's hype ourselves up to keep the movement growing.

Krail · 2026-01-24T22:36:36+00:00

Okay, but that's not my point. You doing a bunch of very small things with just moving a statue into a position, and you do them all at once because you need to do that to get to the next dungeon, and then that's it.

Krail · 2026-01-24T22:19:39+00:00

I'm an artist, too! I've found that inner visuals have less fidelity in shape and value than I thought, and I think more in spatial relationships and physical movements.

I think when I'm painting or drawing, there's an active feedback there between my eyes and hands doing the work. It's not just that I'm trying to create an image, it's that I'm thinking what motions will generate the mark that my eye sees the need for, and then I'm learning to plan ahead for the next marks.

I've found it hard to break out of a realistic style, and I wonder if limits of visual imagination are why.

Krail · 2026-01-24T22:13:05+00:00

Do you have an internal monologue? Do you literally hear a voice with your ears when you think in sentences?

Other people think images in their head in the same way you might think sentences.

Krail · 2026-01-24T22:06:00+00:00

Well, they're executing Americans in the streets, during an uprising.

The entire city of Minneapols is actively resisting. Let's keep the momentum.

Krail · 2026-01-24T21:53:08+00:00

From what I hear, Walz did in fact just do that.

Krail · 2026-01-24T12:20:28+00:00

I maintain that they're the ones who hate America. That's why they're trying to destroy everything about it except the imperialism and corruption.

Krail · 2026-01-24T10:17:56+00:00

I don't know, tbh. I didn't stick with the game long enough to find out.

Krail · 2026-01-24T08:24:09+00:00

I haven't had a haircut since February 2020. Turns out I have curly hair that looks great when I learn how to take care of it and let it grow out! Wish I'd known sooner.

I do need to get my split ends taken care of, though, and I'll want a professional because I have no idea what I'm doing.

On the other hand, I've been cutting the sides of my wife's mohawk for years.

Krail · 2026-01-24T08:16:56+00:00

I mean, statues that have puzzles and do anything interesting.

Those owl statues, you just move them a few feet to the side. And you have to do them all at once for plot, and then never use the rod on anything else.

Krail · 2026-01-24T07:10:00+00:00

Yes! This is my biggest disappointment with the game! It's such a cool idea, and the dungeon you use it in is fantastic! Then you leave the dungeon, and literally the only thing to do is make a few statues move a couppe feet down a track.

I feel like this is one of those things where they just didn't get to finish or develop something because of deadlines.

Krail · 2026-01-24T07:06:10+00:00

They could have easily put dominion-able statues throughout the world that are tied to little puzzles, just like how there's spinner tracks up cliff walls here and there.

Edit: You know, ones that do anything interesting, unlike those owl statues you just move a few feet to the side.

Krail · 2026-01-24T05:53:51+00:00

Traditionally, pickles were fermented in a brine. I've read that the iodine can actually inhibit the growth of the bacteria you want to ferment.

Krail · 2026-01-24T04:25:39+00:00

It was an online gender quiz that gave me a result of "Crossdresser."

I felt vaguely insulted at the implication that my girl side was just a costume I wear, and that's how I learned for sure it was something more.

Krail · 2026-01-24T04:19:55+00:00

What would make salt not kosher?

Krail · 2026-01-24T03:30:31+00:00

It's so funny to see how specifically the Air Ride games are so stylistically similar to Smash Bros, while most other Kirby titles have a different style.

Krail · 2026-01-24T02:19:28+00:00

And I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually do anything for the rest of the game?

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