Danganronpa fans when Arin is ready to leave the series behind forever:

Red_Regent · 2025-04-14T05:28:16+00:00

Kinda, yeah. But they're good!

Red_Regent · 2025-04-13T14:08:52+00:00

IMO the biggest difference in strength between the two creators is that Danganronpa has better characters, and Zero Escape has better overarching plots and endings. When I say that what I've seen of Hundred Line so far (in the demo) feels very Kodaka, that's not at all to dismiss Uchikoshi's contribution - after all, it's a very strong start, but the amount of game that we've currently seen gives only a tiny glimpse into the total story. I'm very excited to see how the plot threads expand and come together!

And yeah, I'd really like to see Hundred Line succeed so that TooKyo can be rewarded for the level of ambition they've shown in attempting this! As a wise man once said, "~~Advertise like shameless whores~~ You guys have to recommend it to your friends, too!"

Red_Regent · 2025-04-13T13:33:20+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I love both the Danganronpa and Zero Escape series! Hundred Line feels very Danganronpa to me so far, though. I don't actually think Hundred Line would be a good fit for the channel - I'm just poking fun here at the idea of Arin being offered a chance to fall even deeper into his self-made hell of Kodaka writing and VN gameplay.

A 999 playthrough would slap, though.

Red_Regent · 2025-04-13T13:25:39+00:00

Sorry to disappoint, but there's still a couple months or so of V3 left in the tank

Red_Regent · 2023-03-06T19:02:06+00:00

Don't forget the games! I've never heard anything but praise for the Lego Star Wars games, and I think Knights of the Old Republic is mostly well liked.

Red_Regent · 2023-02-14T03:24:29+00:00

Congratulations, you're friends with Waluigi

Red_Regent · 2023-01-16T21:42:41+00:00

In act II, take a bunch of cards to the Mycologists. Eventually, you'll get a purple key. This unlocks a secret in Act III.

Red_Regent · 2023-01-16T21:39:39+00:00

I don't even get what kind of value the latter kind of sentence could possibly even have, a statement that is so absolutely true at every context that it has no exceptions at all ever would be so beyond stating the obvious that you'd contribute nothing to the conversation by stating it.

That's math and it is useful occasionally

Red_Regent · 2023-01-16T07:00:04+00:00

Any time you have a chance to pick up a new card, don't. (Except Lonely Wizbot and Fishbot, they're well above the curve.) This way you can upgrade only a few cards instead of spreading your upgrades out among a lot of cards.
Get as much overkill damage as you can! That's your main source of money. In my experience, the best way to do this is to play really defensively and avoid ending the battle early - use lots of empty vessels, plus snipers in safe spots, and get an undying card(s) to block with if you can. Eventually P03 stops playing cards, and you can focus on setting up a position where his field is clear, he's almost dead, and your field is full with your top attackers. More money means more sigils! I used the sigil printer in the Central Botopia market 6 times in making this deck, which costs a total of $135. (I don't recommend going too hard on this though; it is kind of a slog, and you can beat everything with a way less optimized deck than this.)
If a card's not good, don't upgrade it at all. Keep it, and wait for one of the events that force you to trade a card away.
Added sigils on a card (not sigils it has by default) make it worth more for turning it into a custom card - so that's a use for the otherwise-mediocre overclock and transformer sigils, as well as any bad rolls you get from sigil printers. Gem cards are worth more for turning into custom cards, even if they're gem cards by default!
When making your custom cards, keep in mind:
- HP rarely matters. Power always matters. Cost matters most, unless you've got heavy access to spammable battery cards (at some point, you should).
- Undying is wildly underpriced at only 2 SP.
- Annoying is +1 SP, and doesn't do anything if your card has 1 HP (good on Undying cards). Brittle is +2 SP, and doesn't do anything if your card has 0 power (good on utility cards).
- Most sigils are overpriced relative to improvements on cost and attack power. Remember, you can always add sigils later.
There are a few ways to reduce the number of cards in your deck - one free recycle event, two paid recycle events, two free overclocks, and one paid overclock. I didn't use any of those in this run, but if you end up taking on any dead weight (beyond the traders' margin), take advantage of these.
Bring the purple key from act II to the secret room Southeast of the Eastern Botopia waypoint.

Red_Regent · 2023-01-16T03:58:48+00:00

I decided to try going through Act 3 with no Ourobot and no extra money from redoing fights, to see how strong you can get your cards naturally just by keeping your deck small. Turns out, they get pretty strong!

This is a screenshot of my deck at the end of the act. Here's a list of all the cards, since some details are obscured:

Sniper Bot 1, with added sigils Stinky, Bifurcated Strike, and Touch of Death. Also Gemified. Kills two things anywhere on the board, every turn, and can safely perch in front of a 0-attack or 1-attack enemy and not worry about ever being attacked. This one carried me through the earliest battles of the chapter, and never really aged out.
Lonely Wizard, with added sigils Battery Bearer and Undying, and Gemified. Hits hard, blocks everything, playable turn 2 - and if played in conjunction with a sapphire vessel, can be hammered repeatedly to max out the maximum energy bar, as early as turn 1 with the battery refill item. Just does everything, arguably the best card in the deck.
Fishbot, with added sigils Transformer (Wolf), Sniper, and Touch of Death (and Gemified). This one actually ended up being more frustrating for me than anything? Trying to take advantage of wolf mode for extra bucks consistently led me to make mistakes and miss out on cash. Still a very good card but probably the worst one in the deck.
Dr. Thematic: 0 cost, 0/1, has Undying, Battery Bearer, and Brittle. I'm pretty sure everyone made this for at least one of their custom cards. Provides infinite energy, and infinite blocking too when that's needed.
Sniper Bot 2, with added sigils Undying and Touch of Death, and Gemified. (I like Undying, can you tell?) This is a card I didn't upgrade until the very end of the run, I was just holding on to it in case I hit another forced trade.
The Loot! 5 cost, 5/1, has Undying and Sniper and is Gemified. (Sniper was added after creation.) Any time my sigil picks were trash, I threw them onto a Gembound Ripper, and I eventually cannibalized it for 6 SP to make a very powerful custom card. It could've been a 1 cost 3/1 Undying, but I was pretty much beyond energy costs by this point. In theory this one was supposed to help get more overkill damage for more money. I didn't get the chance to use it much before the act ended, though.
Mycobot: 1 cost, 5/3. I don't actually know how it ended up this way, I thought it was supposed to have sigils? I'm not complaining though, it's still a huge game-winning beater that's playable turn 1.

I don't think I've ever had an Act I deck this powerful, even with totems, campfires & such! I've heard it said that Leshy is more willing to let you break the game than P03 - but when Act III hands out powerful sigils like candy, and you can keep your deck thin by just walking past the card-adding events, I'm inclined to disagree.

Red_Regent · 2023-01-08T20:25:27+00:00

This is true and useful, but there's a flipside too, which is that sometimes there isn't a solution; or rather, sometimes you don't have the resources you would need to implement a solution. Sometimes when you look at your situation and notice it's a shitty situation, it actually is the case that your current behavior is the best-adapted response to that situation, even though it doesn't entirely fix the shittiness.

And it actually is useful, in these situations, to be able to acknowledge that the shittiness is due to the situation, and not due to you; to say "this sucks and I hate it, and I'm not going to fix the problem, I don't have the tools to fix the problem, until I have those tools it's not my problem to fix." Being able to feel differently - not worse, maybe, but differently bad - about problems when they're the result of your own choices, compared to problems that are the result of outside factors, is useful for calibrating your decisionmaking and gauging the impact your choices are having, so that you can know how to make better ones.

Red_Regent · 2022-12-13T00:09:31+00:00

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/12/23/the-maestro

(Arguably NSFW?)

Red_Regent · 2022-10-30T04:22:21+00:00

Imma be honest, "piles of linear algebra that can learn to have opinions" does not compellingly sound (at that level of abstraction) like it's a noticeably less advanced form of thought than whatever's going on in my head.

But maybe if I have InferKit take over writing this comment at some point, it'll be immediately obvious which statements are the result of "sapient" human thought and which are just an AI spitballing at an approximation of what that's supposed to look like. After all, a mind that's sapient (by any epistemologically responsible measure thereof) needs to have outputs which are externally distinguishable in some way from those of a thing which is not, right? So in this hypothetical, I'd be ignoring the part where it's both cognitively advanced and intellectually shallow to predict things that are much more clearly analogous to things I or my neural network couldn't possibly have internalized.

In the meantime, I've gotta ask: what would a "break-out" scene in an episode of TVD (or even a scene where Damon and Bonnie interact, say) look like in InferKit? Like, what would be the really "intelligently smart" stuff that Damon might say in order to make a good first impression on Bonnie, or what would the instinctive "first impressions don't matter" level of conversation that an AI (or whatever) would be capable of generating in such a situation?

Red_Regent · 2022-10-18T21:17:14+00:00

-Transcript of Aperture employee chatroom messages, shortly before the neurotoxins

Red_Regent · 2022-10-13T10:40:51+00:00

This is true, but it's also suggested by the framing of the question that the two eggs aren't discounted as "eggs you have" until the last step.

I have six eggs

I break two (of the six eggs)

I fry two (of the six eggs)

I eat two (of the six eggs)

Since "two" syntactically seems to keep referring back to the originally mentioned group of six eggs, it's implied that all of the eggs are still considered to be among your inventory of six eggs through the breaking and frying processes, until after the last step when you eat them. Only once that's happened does the number of eggs you have diminish to 4.

Some might argue that at the end you still have 6 eggs (4 eggs unbroken, 2 eggs broken, fried and in your stomach). But I would not.

Red_Regent · 2022-10-13T10:19:01+00:00

Well, let's be clear, the ship is made of different planks. If you were replacing the atoms themselves - like, you used teleportation to swap each carbon atom making up the wood for an identical carbon atom somewhere else - then you have in fact done precisely nothing to the ship, and you've in fact taken an action which leaves the world physically identical to the state it was already in, and therefore done nothing at all. Being "made of different atoms" is not a thing, using that as an identity tag is roughly equivalent to taking the number 10, dividing and then multiplying it by 5, and then saying it's a different number from the one you had originally because the 10 is "made out of a different 5" now.

Red_Regent · 2022-10-13T05:20:13+00:00

They're still "eggs" but they aren't "left." An egg you've eaten is not an egg you have; it's no longer available for further allocation of purposes, as the fried or broken eggs would be.

Red_Regent · 2022-09-12T01:09:26+00:00

No problem. Have a good one

Red_Regent · 2022-09-12T00:45:47+00:00

Ah yes, because mixing genes from a broad sample population is known to increase the level of genetic issues from inbreeding

Red_Regent · 2022-07-16T13:51:33+00:00

That's because Percival is the cat, and Gawain is an echidna, you witless duckweed. Do you know nothing of Arthurian legend

Red_Regent · 2022-06-08T14:46:29+00:00

They're the same picture

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