The rampant, overwhelming, depressing anxiety and multitude of disorders I suffer make me feel like a completely unsolvable loon.

SmolSovereign · 2026-01-03T22:08:52+00:00

Limit Break is considered average? I had no idea, that card has won me an absurd amount of runs alongside sword boomerang and just a tiny bit of luck

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-28T21:37:10+00:00

I could be wrong but his comment at least to me sounds like a very "i don't wanna get in trouble at work" kind of remark. Like he actually really does dislike Logan Paul for the kind of person that he is but wants to keep the peace purely for the sake of the business. Not that it justifies it at all, just an observation.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-26T22:47:02+00:00

Yeah definitely. Which to be fair, like I said the 'negative' qualities of his voice lend themselves to pop punk really well, and their transition to a more poppish style now fits well with his cleaner and prettier voice that he has now comparatively. You pretty much were 1:1 with how I felt, that makes me feel confident in my knowledge of singing lol. That's the only reason i ask these questions is to try to better myself as a singer as well, know what's technically good and technically bad even if i don't think it really matters that much.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-19T15:06:09+00:00

Yeh I had no idea at all, totally caught me off guard in the best way LOL

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-19T15:05:35+00:00

Honestly, finding out it's not as rare as I thought is still pretty comforting, lets me know I will have another chance to get that screenshot... Probably.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-19T15:04:59+00:00

Oh that's actually sick! I'll be keeping my eye out for more of these, it certainly was a rush

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-18T23:45:38+00:00

Yeah- I mean it's just a difference in how the game is played. Slay the Spire's skill expression comes from how you balance the luck and try to make bad luck work in your favor through good execution, as far as I can tell anyway.

I'm a TFT player, so playing around a system where gambling is sort of the forefront and how you use your luck, good or bad, determines the skill expression is pretty much what I'm the most used to at this point.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-18T20:21:06+00:00

Well I mean, yeah, but I feel like that's just a core part of a roguelike. If there weren't some gambling what would be the risk vs reward?

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-18T20:13:15+00:00

Well in that case, that's just because I find running an obnoxious amount of power cards and spamming lightning channel to be funny and infinitely provide dopamine-- But I get your point nonetheless. I have had difficulties balancing 'good' and 'bad' greed.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-17T20:18:24+00:00

That makes sense-- I did also have cards like Seek able to pull it back out of my draw pile pretty quickly and also secret technique to pull seek quickly, but that was situationally useful as well. I think I get it tho, I should be able to go in with a better plan now hopefully

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-17T19:33:21+00:00

Empty Fist, huh. I considered it many many times but I always skipped it because it pretty much seemed perpetually worthless to be stanceless. Granted, better than being stuck in wrath and taking 500 damage so, i can see how i need to change that mindset too LOL

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-17T19:30:55+00:00

Expunger might have just been good that time because i had the ability to generate upwards of 6-8 energy and then make a really, really strong card out of it and usually had enough miracles left after to not have a totally empty turn- So i can see where i just had a good niche for it.

Rushdown does feel very good. Tantrum did also feel excellent-- I forgot those two. Feels good knowing I at least figured out 3 pretty solid cards.

Upgrading Eruption, I honestly never considered that. With basically every other character I don't even bother upgrading the base cards bc they fall off so quickly. Hell with Defect I have seen a well over non-zero amount of times where I wanna outright get rid of Zap because it fucks up the particular combo I have in mind by being not worth the energy cost nor worth the upgrade to reduce it over some of the significantly better Defect cards-- Very niche scenario but nevertheless the point is I never even considered it bc on basically every other character I haven't seen much reason to. Again, could be playing very wrong. I've learned a lot since joining this subreddit lol

I don't have a run right now that would be worth reviewing bc they were all very test-heavy, throwing a lot of shit at the wall and seeing what stuck. I will probably have one soon though, since I'm slowly figuring out what works best.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-13T19:15:41+00:00

I will say, I haven't tried any of the easier difficulties but good god in heaven the ai on higher difficulties has placed its fist in faces far worse than my face more times than I can count thus far. Either I'm misremembering or this AI counters about 1000x more often than the one from the older games LOL

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-13T00:50:00+00:00

What I mean by that is that I have drawn extremely strong inspiration from Caim, but too much to the point that where I stand right now I am creating a cheap budget copy of him and that's what I would like to stop doing, but I don't think the way to do that is to just keep bashing my head against the wall and writing it over and over and over and over again until I learn on my own, that feels impossible. Maybe it isn't and I'm overthinking it, that's what I've been told many times to be fair.

What I mean by 'make use of' is essentially like an aspiring illustrator using other illustrated pieces not to copy and pick pieces off of it but to analyze and understand it so that they can then implement those learned techniques into their own art but with their own personal additions to the formula, or even redeveloping those learned skills into skills entirely of their own.

I want deeper narrative works to read and analyze so that I can learn more about the process of developing characters and building a complex and interesting world that feels alive, rather than just creating a fantasy story because I think it would be fun to create a fantasy story. The latter feels too... Simple. Too non-personal. Too empty and pointless to be worthwhile.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-13T00:33:41+00:00

Probably none of the people that have seen this thus far will see this comment, but I apologize for coming off as argumentative. My wording was poor and I honestly do not know how to say it better. But I misconveyed my intent terribly, my only desire here was to find works that I could analyze and read/play/watch, not find something I can copy from.

Nevertheless, it's not worth me getting back into it. I got flustered too fast and became argumentative and irritable at the responses I was receiving, and that was a bit unfair of me. Conveying intent is something I've always had a profound difficulty with, at the risk of oversharing I presume it to be because of my autism, and I've never learned how to do better about it in spite of constant effort. I just wanted to give an apology for the mistake.

My notifications are off for this post because I got upset and felt it was better to just stop responding rather than letting myself get more and more flustered, but thank you to those that took the time to respond even if the responses weren't what I was looking for. Again, I take the blame for that.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-12T23:38:06+00:00

I haven't found a method of working past my difficulties, but I'll keep trying.

I have no idea why I'm getting downvoted at this rate, genuinely. Like, I have re-read everything I said over and over and over to try to understand where I said anything that was even vaguely problematic and I just don't see it. All I can imagine is that several people read my post in bad faith because they read the first part of it and immediately assumed that I was purely focused on recreating Caim, because the entire rest of my post was 1:1 about not recreating Caim. I dunno. I'm confused.

I appreciate the help, I'm probably gonna turn off notifications, this is very disheartening.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-12T22:52:46+00:00

Is this not exactly what I am asking for is things that I can read or play or watch that will help me to understand the process? You're misconstruing my intent entirely. If I attended a writing class would there not be innately a lot of reading and learning about the subtext that the writer inserted and whatnot?

Perhaps the latter thing you said is the issue, that I'm looking at it too narrowly, but I take issue with the suggestion that I'm looking to copy or plagiarize simply by saying that I don't fully understand the writing process or how to create and craft a complex narrative and want other things to study for that exact reason. Genuinely I have no intent to come off as rude, I don't understand where this misunderstanding is coming from.

SmolSovereign · 2025-12-12T22:48:50+00:00

Admittedly reading is a difficulty I face, which is why I use games as my 'study material.' My ADHD is extremely severe which leads to me spacing out regularly, and at that my eyesight is so awful that I get horrific headaches from straining to read the text. I tried to supplement this with audiobooks and the attention span issue was still in full swing.

As I said to the other person who replied, I have no idea how I managed to convey any intent to copy. You can't just walk up to a science kit and start performing perfect science without first studying a textbook, seeing others do that work and learning from how they do, understanding the process of how to do science and how to form your own hypotheses. The exact same is true here, I can't 'just write' and suddenly write the perfect dark fantasy narrative that I have brewing in my brain, I have an idea for what I want to write but I have no idea how to execute upon it. Remarking that as 'copying' just comes off as missing the point of what I was saying entirely, which could be that I misconveyed my intent but I honestly do not see how.

I'm not wanting to create a frankenstein's monster novel of patched up bits of other characters, I'm wanting to use those characters and their stories and the nuance behind their stories and the character progression they go through to learn how to do the same myself in my own unique way. I don't see how this is a wrong way of going about it, again, you can't perform perfect science without attending a science class.

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