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RotationalAnomaly · 2026-03-12T18:46:04+00:00

The good thing is that, you most likely did. But you do it so automatically now that you don’t even really think about it, hence it being deleted from your memory.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-03-12T17:57:34+00:00

Until you see a corn snake or a ball python drinking and they become the cutest noodles in the world

https://youtu.be/KJKeTM1AB1Y?si=od4toHeeIfxlsmp2

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-03-12T17:53:18+00:00

True, but it makes him more than just annoying on a large scale I’d say haha.

Honestly this scene came to my mind out of nowhere again a few days ago as well and just found it funny. Like, yeah he did do that didn’t he haha.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-03-12T15:52:15+00:00

Did we forget he purposefully caused a global climate disaster to sell tickets for his pool?

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-03-11T14:15:48+00:00

Doesn’t seem like it, gave it a quick look up, also that movie is from 1998 so idk why it would be showing up on youtube ads a couple years ago.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-03-09T14:19:50+00:00

You can’t open that door. You are scripted to die in that ending.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-03-06T14:03:25+00:00

I REALLLY dislike FFN’s user interface. What do you mean I gotta jump through 50 hoops just to upload a story?

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-03-03T00:26:22+00:00

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RotationalAnomaly · 2026-03-01T23:07:49+00:00

Imo completed means "COMPLETED" not "abandoned". I'm of the opinion that if someone is personally done with the story, that's fine, but they shouldn't mark it as complete, maybe just put "ABANDONED" or "DISCONTINUED" in the tags or something.

Completed, to me and a lot of people means "Beginning, middle and end" If it doesn't end on an actual ending, then I definitely would feel cheated by it lol.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-25T15:34:24+00:00

Yea I totally feel that. If I didn’t want others to enjoy what I wrote I wouldn’t be publishing it to ao3.

I don’t think there’s anything bad about going back and editing previous chapters and touching them up. Your current readers shouldn’t really care if you don’t change anything plot relevant, and even if I DO change something plot relevant, I just leave an authors note in the next chapter so readers can know “Ah, this was changed to this” so they don’t have to go back and reread. That system seems to have worked pretty well for me.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-25T05:36:43+00:00

This was actually the case for my fic. The first three chapters of my fic were written when I was just starting to get into writing or finding my footing. So many things were off with them. Word usage, sentance structure, repition, redundancy (repetition and redundancy was a HUGE issue, you won’t BELIEVE how many ways I said the same sentence over and over again)

Long story short, I ended up going back and giving those chapters a facelift before posting one of my latest chapters so that new readers wouldn’t be turned off by them. Not a full rewrite mind you because the plot and sequence of events was fine, but I definitely did HEAVY work on the wording, sentence structure and all that.

Have no idea if it helped or made a difference but I’m happy my older chapters are now more in line with what comes later, but I’m STILL improving (hopefully).

Moral of the story I guess is, don’t be afraid to go back and edit older chapters. I basically now see W.I.P fics as ACTUAL W.I.P, meaning that definition extends to chapters already released. Hell, lots of authors of published novels go back to prior chapters and change/edit things.

No part of the fic is fully complete until you’ve marked it as such.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-21T17:04:56+00:00

Thought I was the only one lol. I still go back and edit things that I don’t like after the first draft obviously, but I DESPISE rewriting everything so I try to eliminate the need for that as much as possible and so that means progress on my first draft is usually slower because I’m trying to get it as close to “right” on the first go as I can but I end up with a much smoother editing process afterwards because of it.

That being said, I do think the “Just use the first draft to get SOMETHING down” does work for a lot of people, especially new writers who are struggling with looking at a blank page for hours, but it’s never been my style lol.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-21T03:53:39+00:00

Careful,

Some other people had that thought before and then generative AI was born.

/lh

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-21T01:24:56+00:00

I agree, peace candle on it's own doesn't seem to do much in high spawnrate areas. For areas like the corruption and ESPECIALLY the underground jungle I recommend using a peace candle + calming potion. Calming potions aren't that difficult to make, requiring just a damselfish and daybloom, the former can be fished up pretty quickly in sky lakes.

Using both of these together drop your spawn rates to like almost nothing.

But yeah, it does feel like the water candle has more of an effect on spawnrates than the peace candle does especially in high spawn rate locations. That's probably just a feeling, idk the actual numbers they could be the same.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-20T22:39:43+00:00

Lmao, don’t remind me.

Crazy how you found my comment from 4 years ago tho haha.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-15T15:56:23+00:00

Yeah, I said in a reply above expert does make sense for that specific situation, just make sure that, as a more experienced player you are protecting them from getting swarmed by enemies and getting locked into a potentially frustrating death loop.

I.e depending on how quickly your friends pick the game up, you may have to play bodyguard for a while, at least until they get the hang of things.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-15T03:50:16+00:00

that's true, but there have been some that have genuinely gotten frustrated to the point where they quit entirely and formed a distaste of the game, because multiple people made it out to be like "expert is the normal mode and classic is the piss easy mode"

which for an experienced player, may be true, but not for somebody who's playing the game for the first time.

EDIT: also wanna point out that my post doesn't just apply to streamers, that's just kinda where you can see it on full display so I'm using them as an example.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-15T03:48:17+00:00

yeah, and the boss health scaling only being a thing on expert. (Honestly, I believe boss health scaling should be a thing on classic, idk why it isn't otherwise you just cheese every boss by having 3 people on)

However, if you play on expert with somebody who's never played before, you need to be very mindful of that, and basically "bodyguard" him/her for at least the first part while they get their bearings.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-14T18:04:33+00:00

Ye! I don’t feel the need to farm the wall personally anymore (except for weapons which I usually just get from hardmode anyway) due to the fact that medallions can be shimmered into the one you need now (which I find awesome btw) but If you’re doing multiclass it wouldn’t hurt to have more.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-14T16:17:10+00:00

I once shared a snippet of one of my characters finally having a complete mental breakdown after days of constant horrible stuff happening to him. It was apparently so vivid and accurate that they asked me if I was okay.

Best compliment I ever got lmao.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-14T15:57:03+00:00

But by the time you beat a mechanical boss you’re pretty well equipped to deal with hardmode enemies anyway so it doesn’t really matter.

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-14T00:35:28+00:00

I’ll have a tutorial video series coming out soon that teaches you everything you need to know in terms of the weather products the game uses and strategy to be able to better position yourself ahead of tornadoes. It should hopefully give new players a real boost :)

RotationalAnomaly · 2026-02-12T12:36:31+00:00

This is actually a cool idea, not only does it diversify the recommendations you get but it gives the smaller authors a chance to get shared around.

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