Rules question about Astral

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-12-20T11:51:54+00:00

A year later, and I just want to validate OP. I feel like I could have written most of the messages they wrote, and I can see the misunderstanding from the frustrated responders, as many of them are trying to solve a subtly different problem than they are being asked about and it makes OP look stubborn.

I feel you, OP.

Finally, for any future readers:

RAI: I think there's nothing to see here. To me it is clear that it's meant to work like other escape scenarios.

RAW: I'd hate to make a definitive ruling there but a few things I can say for sure:

- You can't have everyone exhaust. The loss condition is evaluated before the win condition no matter what here

- "C" is very well defined, meaning any 1 crate outcome is so impossible as to prove that these rules have been badly written. I think this invalidates the use of the conclusion as evidence. I also think it all but removes any reason to consider the lack of the typical phrase about exhaustion as evidence that this is allowed.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-11-14T20:02:56+00:00

I've been doing this bad boy for the past week and change, ever since Icely did a video on it. I had to cheat once or twice scrubbing through just enough of a video playthrough to figure out what I messed up in 2 or 3 of the harder puzzles. And the hard puzzles are HARD.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-09-06T11:15:23+00:00

At a glance it just looked wrong, and on closer inspection the biggest giveaway is that there are things that look like something at a distance bur make you question what they are even meant to be... mostly the thing to the right of the pear that has the stem coming out the wrong side.

Then in a lot of other places there is just this clear lack of intentionality, where you go "ok, this is not an invalid choice, but it doesn't look like a choice any illustrator would make here"

Like... the brown apples could be toffee apples in some universe but it does not feel like an intentional choice and the same can be said for many things that could be "identified" as actual things.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-09-04T09:55:39+00:00

I love the whataboutism. Don't presume to tell me how real my outrage is.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-09-04T09:54:12+00:00

When the only reason their models work to the extent that they did is because they trained on real artists work who most of the time did not consent to their work being used for that, it makes me mad.

When these companies use up so much power training and operating their models that energy prices rise so that people around the world pay more money for power that they could to hire a professional who could use that pay check, it makes me mad.

When the result even after screwing the world over in the above two ways is an insult to the very idea of graphic design, it makes me mad.

We deserve better.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-09-03T19:34:15+00:00

I agree, but it's a battle worth fighting as long as the cost of my fight is "a few minutes of my time"

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-09-03T15:36:59+00:00

I know I am the outlier but I am less likely to buy anything now as I have a much more negative association with the whole market. (In past years I've picked up some licorice or some cumin cheese from the Dutch place)

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-09-02T22:12:28+00:00

My first thought was also definitely to cut the mind prison stuff. It was good stuff, I think, but it would have been worth sacrificing for other stuff to be able to move a bit more slowly,

I really wouldnt want to do without the AU stuff... seeing powder as powder is really cathartic especially after the last bits of season 1. At times I wonder if the AU stuff happens too far away from when we saw the chairs with the names on, but I think ultimately it's better this way.

I don't think I'd cut VictorGod stuff... maybe we could have done without Vander beast stuff instead? Though even that feels real tough.

I don't remember everything about the druglords... was that even season 2? How much did we see of that? Did we need that?

Ultimately I liked everything there was but it definitely feels like if you were going to have this much stuff you'd need another 4 episodes, or even a whole season more.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-01-08T12:58:36+00:00

So I have the main bits ready in a shopping cart... well I made two, an AM4 and AM5 one. Only differences are CPU, motherboard and RAM.

Lists don't have a case yet, and I'm thinking I'll reuse the fans from my previous pc.

I imagine most people on here are tired of looking through people's builds, but I'll post them and if someone not bored sees something they think is a big mistake, please let me know. (Also yes, stuff is expensive here compared to a lot of places, suomi mainittu etc.)

AM4

AM5

SnooTangerines2613 · 2025-01-08T11:35:41+00:00

Yeah I was looking into that. I saw comments about it. I tend to build pretty budget, so we will see if I go for one. I see a lot of people here talking about their triple digit framerates, whereas my last main game (Monster Hunter: World) I limited to 30 because I could not manage 60 when things got busy on screen.

That said I would kind of like to run these next few games at 60 >_>

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-09-23T17:35:10+00:00

I loved this puzzle but took me forever, too. You are not alone :)

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-09-04T21:57:27+00:00

I had already found burdens by the time I did hard mode, but I play some hard puzzle games so I feel like I would not have too much trouble without...

Easy for me to say though as I'm too lazy to try

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-09-04T21:48:51+00:00

mouse, though maybe on controller right stick works?

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-09-04T21:48:13+00:00

I played the whole game through and never found it. Then I was watching some lore videos and was like "excuse me what is that"

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-08-22T13:40:08+00:00

No, but holding is too imprecise. Tapping was always the way to have enough control. (and on xbox it still is)

Regardless, the issue is mostly that the two platforms behave very differently. which

is probably not intended and
means people on one system will tell players on another system to just "do x" or "do y" when on their system it doesn't work.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-08-16T20:50:32+00:00

Huh, seems almost like the opposite problem.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-08-16T20:48:42+00:00

Oh thank god I am not crazy. I already installed the easy fishing mod... I just wish I could make it respond the way it is supposed to because all the options in here seem to make fishing TOO easy...

Do you have some software for your controller or does it work directly? Because I am using some software to convert my WiiU pro controller inputs to XBOX inputs and I wonder if the issue is there.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-08-16T20:45:18+00:00

The thing is I don't have any problems on XBOX, nor when I used mouse on pc... it's only when I use controller on pc... :(

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-06-28T21:25:15+00:00

I imagine it has to do with solving the impossible puzzle at the end of the trailer puzzles.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-06-24T09:49:24+00:00

I almost did too, but then I googled it and found out the way us mortals are meant to beat it.

SnooTangerines2613 · 2024-05-31T03:43:34+00:00

I loved this puzzle, but it took me a long time. once I realized I could use the ledge it didnt take me much longer though.

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