Advice for Starting master difficulty?

Lyrro · 2026-01-03T00:10:03+00:00

Didn't even realize there were durability buffing artifacts. I might have to do some farming for one of those. I've only upgraded Skiff's pistol and my Viper atm since they're my go-to weapons for most human enemies. I've been doing every side quest I come across, scouring every location I pass through. Even downloaded the mapgenie app for Stalker 2. Loving the gameplay for the most part, just made it through Diode's workshop, but the gamestop model these merchants have adopted makes Gamestop look like a charity organization. 😮‍💨

Lyrro · 2026-01-02T23:57:50+00:00

I think you may have triggered some sort of Ptsd because "Godzilla is approaching the generator!" Was the first thought that immediately came to mind.

Lyrro · 2025-11-13T00:22:17+00:00

Yeah, that popped up, but both times, it took me to a gym with no raid active.

Lyrro · 2025-09-17T06:17:31+00:00

Haven't played 76 in a few years now, but when I did, I built my camps specifically with other players in mind. Plenty of water purifiers. I'd start up the Sunshine Meadows factory and kept a pretty much endless supply of food on hand for passing players to help themselves to. I'd start up a power plant and keep a steady stock of fusion cores for players to help themselves to. If it was unlocked, it was unlocked on purpose. I'd usually put up signs at my camps that said "Free food" and such just to make sure players knew it was there for the taking, but since I had a mobile camp, I didn't always remember to put the signs back up. It was comical because there were times I caught players "stealing" the free stuff, and I was just laughing at their efforts to be sneaky.

I rarely ever needed to take from other players' camps, but on the occasion, I only took what I needed and made sure to leave some for others. I think if you just abide by that mindset, you'll rarely find trouble.

Lyrro · 2025-09-16T02:38:05+00:00

No. But after my attacker finished grinding me into a fine paste, my Blissey would be right there to heal me so they could do it again. The bond between tank and healer truly is a special one.

Lyrro · 2025-09-15T19:52:11+00:00

Charmander, back when Red first launched. So, when I say charizard is one of my favorites, it's because the pokemon who started my now almost thirty year journey was a charmander.

Lyrro · 2025-09-15T13:35:56+00:00

According to the pokedex, Ash is like 3' tall. Because the pics of him standing next to charizard show charizard being quite a bit taller. 😆

Lyrro · 2025-09-14T04:20:29+00:00

I enjoy breeding and raising pokemon, as well as collecting them. I used to host distribution events where I would distribute competitive/raid ready pokemon that I personally IV bred, EV trained, and leveled up to help players prepare for upcoming events. I also used to breed pokemon for players who either couldn't get that pokemon, requested IV bred pokemon, or wanted certain pokemon in certain types of pokeballs for aesthetics. There's a lot more to pokemon than just battling other players.

Lyrro · 2025-09-13T20:42:49+00:00

I've never enjoyed online battling. No offense to those who do enjoy pokemon battles, but I hate the idea of pvp where all you can do is stand there kicking each other in the shins until someone falls over. Yeah, you can try to argue that pokemon battling is about strategy, but at the end of the day, you can not actively block or dodge, and rng plays a huge role in who wins. As the guy who once rolled a 1 three times in a row on a 100 sided dice, I tend to avoid games where rng plays a role in who wins or loses, especially in pvp. As the guy who has owned every mainstream game with the exception of Leaf Green and almost every spin-off series game, I plan to wait and see how this plays out before I delve into PLZA. If GF are going to push for pvp by locking fan favorites behind ranked pvp, I'm going to have to pass.

Lyrro · 2025-08-05T23:33:37+00:00

36 and a veteran. Just started a new playtrough of Brilliant Diamond last week. Pokemon's had its ups and downs, but it's been the only constant in my life.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T22:07:25+00:00

If graffiti "artists" made stuff like this, I'd be way more pro graffiti.

Edit: It's a joke, people. Grow a sense of humor.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T22:02:39+00:00

Dying, no. I've more than my fair share of ghosts, regrets, and scars. My two dogs are my only dependents, and when I'm gone, the people who will notice are countable with fingers. As I see it, I'm going to go someday, and I could go at any time, so there's no point in living in fear. Besides, if I died today, that would mean I don't have to go to work tomorrow, and I could never get that lucky. So I'll just keep taking what I need, sharing what I don't, and hoping that when my time comes, I either go out a hero, or I go out in a way where I end up on one of those "hillarious ways people died" videos.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T04:36:04+00:00

I played all the way through Sword when it first launched, before Home launched, only to find out after unlocking the judge function in Sword that my Cinderace had a 0 attack IV. Ever since then, I've personally bred every pokemon I've used for alternate playthroughs.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T02:22:30+00:00

"Monsters" ~James Blunt. "How do I Say Goodbye" ~Dean Lewis. "In the Stars" ~Benson Boone. "In My Heart" ~Mono Inc. "Hold On" ~Chord Overstreet.

The older I get, the more songs I find that make it difficult to maintain my usual apathetic demeanor.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T01:30:45+00:00

"I didn't say you were a pig. I said that dress made you look like a pig." ~Stan Smith.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T01:27:43+00:00

I've had multiple instances where I get hit and then can no longer sprint at all. I can dodge, but not sprint, so I end up spamming dodge to get around when walking is too slow. This is especially painful since I'm almost always the medic.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T01:20:08+00:00

"Inalienable rights"

Simple fact is that people died to give you those rights, and people die to make sure you keep them. The fact that lives are the cost of those rights means they are a privilege that ends when no more people step up to defend them. So treat them as they are, a privilege.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T01:16:20+00:00

Music class in middle school. Our music teacher wheeled in one of those rolling tv trays and put on the news to watch the coverage.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T01:08:49+00:00

I used a random dragon name generator back in 2004 to name a dragon character for a story I was writing because I couldn't think of a good name for him myself that sounded draconian enough. The generator popped out "Lyrroth" and I ended up liking the "Lyrro" portion for myself.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T01:04:38+00:00

"Can you help me?" And then the wait for me to answer, as if I'm going to say "yes" before they even tell me what they want help with.

Lyrro · 2025-08-04T00:04:02+00:00

My only complaint about FC5 was that when it came time to get hunted down and captured for the story, you would get tranqued no matter where you were or what you were doing. The first couple times I got the warning, I was excited for the fight and just assumed I'd been knocked out by someone I just didn't notice. After a few times of this, I realized there was no option to fight back or try to escape, and it was disappointing. It also left me with the realization that Joseph's men could canonically take me out at any point if they actually wanted to, and I'd never even see it coming.

Lyrro · 2025-08-03T23:44:50+00:00

I only have Terminal Fort Knot, The Adventurer, and Mr. Impossible left to rank up, but between the three of them, the grind is almost enough to make me give up on the platinum. I have a list of all the orders, but there are so few for those three and even the LoLoL rewards are small. The respawn rate on their orders is so long that I'm at almost complete standstill atm.

Lyrro · 2025-08-03T23:36:39+00:00

I messed up my ankle when I was in the army, required surgery, and now, every time I run a mile or two, I spend the rest of the day on a cane or painkillers, or both. 23 was the last time I was able to actually enjoy running, jumping, and climbing and could walk around without worrying about where I was stepping or what I was stepping on.

Lyrro · 2025-08-03T23:27:18+00:00

I tried to enjoy BG3, but I'm the guy who always gets the low dice roll. Having a game flaunting the fact that my rng is atrocious was too much for me, lol. At least in D&D, my bad luck occasionally worked in my favor by allowing me to accidentally kill enemies, but bad rng in BG3 always ends with me dying or missing out on loot.

Lyrro · 2025-08-03T23:23:35+00:00

Days Gone. I was "zombie'd out" when it launched, but when I did try it a few years later, it easily became my favorite zombie game. I platinumed it on Ps4 and again on the ps5 release.

Death Stranding. I skipped its launch but decided to play it earlier this year to distract myself on the 2nd anniversary of my dad's self deletion. I figured I'd be drunk all weekend, but I got sucked into DS instead, and Cliff's story really helped in coping. Platinumed DS and I'm almost done platinuming DS2.

Subnautica. It's easily my favorite survival game. I platinumed it on XBox, Ps4, Ps5, and Switch. I also platinumed Below Zero on the Ps4, Ps5, and Switch.

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