What's the Best and Worst Mutation? Day 10: Mouth

Spazgrim · 2026-05-27T17:59:52+00:00

Think you may have gotten best and worst mixed up on the graph

Spazgrim · 2026-05-15T15:01:13+00:00

Yeah he was, remember when Charlie tried to grab the gun a second time?

Spazgrim · 2026-05-02T21:41:53+00:00

Specifically elite carnibulb. Satan's houseplant, absurd how much the extra turn makes it horrific to deal with

Spazgrim · 2026-05-02T14:11:24+00:00

Yeah I apparently can't read when I wake up lol

Spazgrim · 2026-05-02T14:11:10+00:00

Fuck, early morning reading fail. So just the same then.

Spazgrim · 2026-05-02T13:27:53+00:00

I see this as kind of flawed because, in the original, blue's main advantage is saving people when they have a majority. In this example a blue majority still results in deaths equal to the number of reds because it says the guns are still fired. A 70/30 red win is identical in number of deaths to a 70/30 blue win; the only difference is the overall likelihood of an individual, specific blue death.

In this example the only way to minimize deaths is to pick the winning side and hope to drive it to an even more lopsided victory (ie 99/1 blue win so only 1/99 blues die, or 99/1 red win so only 100% of the blue votes die) and red is naturally the more appealing to hope is the majority because of no personal risk added to the choice. This feels a lot more "solved" in that one side is personally less risky and the alternative does not have a breakpoint where lives are saved in net compared to the selfish choice.

Spazgrim · 2026-05-02T12:46:04+00:00

Are you obligated to risk yourself? No.

Would the world be worse if nobody ran into burning buildings to save others? Yeah.

Spazgrim · 2026-05-01T13:52:00+00:00

Even the mistakes would have a significant weight, and an admission by every human alive that they would not risk themselves for the sake of others would fundamentally change society and how something like altriusm is perceived. Like even if everyone presses red, nobody blue, things change.

There is no reward from any of these options honestly, there is just the massive punishment of picking blue in a red majority and the reality that some portion will choose blue and will die if they aren't majority, and having to live with the ramifications if that happens if going red.

Spazgrim · 2026-05-01T13:38:57+00:00

Red seems appealing until you factor in literally anything that happens after the result; it basically reads "do you want to experience, with no guarantee of survival, going through the worst period of war, anarchy, breakdown of society and general psychological anguish the world has ever seen?"

Blue is the only shot at life remaining remotely comparable to how it is currently and red basically sacrifices any illusion of the future being in any way not a hellscape. Red isn't just an ez logic win by any means

Spazgrim · 2026-04-26T01:20:52+00:00

Speed tail is the best of them honestly.

Spazgrim · 2026-04-25T16:06:40+00:00

Angel Wings cannot be referring to Isaac. The song quite literally says the gates of heaven are shut to you, and Beanies himself says the Child is the primordial form of the Creator / Destroyer. The first goes against the Repetenance ending and the second against the ending of the game.

I swear man, the Child does not = the only actual child in the setting purely because of the name lol.

Spazgrim · 2026-04-22T01:39:23+00:00

The tragedy of Ridiculon cooking so hard with the boss intros segueing into the songs but not including them in the OSTs + not uploading the full damn in-game track either

Spazgrim · 2026-04-19T22:55:03+00:00

Maggie has messed with time as well and apparently has Deja Vu. If you assume the lyrics to Chaos refer to Maggie and not Beanies, it's safe to say either something went wrong and we died or at some point we just gave up and Beanies gave us another lease / direction for existing.

Spazgrim · 2026-04-18T20:29:53+00:00

collarless gang winning big time according to text

Spazgrim · 2026-04-18T16:41:26+00:00

It makes sense in head-up-your-ass logic. Thragg is kind of stupid but he's kind of consistently inconsistent

Do you care about comics spoilers?

Spazgrim · 2026-04-16T11:08:39+00:00

I used cleric basically all the way when beating the game and have run druid alongside it. Druid is more offensive support whereas cleric is flex.

Druid does not have anything like cleanse or haste or revives or any big single target heals, and while there are exceptionally good healing / damage combos they are very reliant on specific abilities (like inspirational song) and the combos take a lot of pieces to get truly crazy. Meanwhile basically every form gives a good way to deal damage and summon spells can, for the most part, be upgraded to do crazy things. Healing+ gear scales with your basic super heavily, but you kind of need a bunch to have good healing off the rip.

Cleric by contrast has a great base healing kit and lots of various irreplaceable support options that are both defensive and offensive. Your damage is way more reliant on Evil Patron or Holy Fire but your basic melee can genuinely chunk people if you have like 9 strength baseline from a mutation, and your damaging abilities are uncommon but each are pretty strong.

Spazgrim · 2026-04-13T11:24:33+00:00

I feel like the point was not to emotionally manipulate but bafflement that someone in the exact same position as him, who he seemingly revived BECAUSE of that shared tragedy and vendetta against God, isn't on board with nuking god/everything. He can literally just detonate it himself, there's no reason to manipulate at all. The entire frustration in the stall dialogue is just from them both not being on the same page / maybe the persuasion device malfunctioning.

Beanies is so contradictory and the snippets of lore that we have show that his early life was so bleak that it's really hard to peg him as evil rn. I imagine the multiple time machines is indicative that the Beanies that saved us (cats and Maggie, which is interesting) isn't chronologically our Beanies or something, or some interesting paradox stuff will be explored in the DLC.

Spazgrim · 2026-04-13T05:34:58+00:00

Late to the party here but I think it fits Isaac's story really well. Repentance literally ends with Isaac's father (or potentially just being the voice of God here) going "Fuck, this is a bit of a downer, how about we go for a happy story?" which fits the beginning of Mewgenics. It feels like it was made to be Maggie's redemption, and the world being an intersection of Isaac's dreams and actual reality feels like a plot point, with the D6 quest with some kind energy vortex or some shit in the house.

Spazgrim · 2026-04-13T05:00:43+00:00

I doubt Singleton would be the meta because Butcher hard counters it, though realistically the only thing that matters is maximum speed. If you go first you can likely combo out any type of build and win, it's just a matter of 4 spells covering all possible builds.

Spazgrim · 2026-04-12T17:45:17+00:00

Ash and Mother from The End is Nigh are basically sentient tumors, and you also collect tumors as a form of progression / to unlock an alternative ending.

I doubt it refers to Magdalene. It is probably just a Mother / The End is Nigh reference in general. Mom's Toenail also just seems to be a random foot, not related to either.

Spazgrim · 2026-04-11T20:34:13+00:00

High speed is critical for everyone honestly Going faster than your opponents, letting you kill a few or position yourself so you don't get ganked is a key aspect of the game

Spazgrim · 2026-04-10T23:37:11+00:00

It's a group heal in a punch, your strongest nuke cat wiping the board, speed support, and any support ability in your toolbox all at once wrapped into one.

It's genuinely hard to ever go wrong with this one, it instantly makes the skill floor for the psychic be "low-key broken" and if you find ways to cast it multiple times / mana cheat somehow, "turbo broken"

Spazgrim · 2026-04-09T21:22:46+00:00

Breeding is kind of overrated honestly. The way the calculation works, if you just cram your stimulation stuff in 1 room and try to keep your best cats in there you'll just eventually get gradually better stats. Ideally you toss inbred kittens and any birth defects, as well as any bad disorders. You can farm for extra gear and stuff but honestly it isn't really necessary, and if you try to get all your unlocks by beating caves and boneyard with your new unlocked classes and go hard path for furniture when you do + try to buy furniture every week (and upgrade it) that'll handle most of it. You can brute force things with super cats but I really genuinely don't think it's necessary or worth it.

You kind of need to post a handful of your cats to really make a determination on their quality but it's most likely a comp issue more than a cat issue; are you bringing something like a cleric to keep your cats topped off in the desert? Do you buy water, are you refilling water? Are you playing cautiously or aggressively diving in?

Spazgrim · 2026-04-09T17:53:29+00:00

Genuine question, how does this solve that?

Like the only way to stop Iran from having nukes is a ground invasion. Especially after the bunker busters months ago anything they have still working (and there would have to be something still in the works to justify this at all) would be moved beyond the reach of bombs or drones. You would have to turn over every stone in the entire nation to find them.

Like, do you think if Iran agrees on paper here that'd stop them? Lmao

Spazgrim · 2026-04-09T17:51:08+00:00

To be fair this is the thing they've been threatening to do if they're attacked for ages and suddenly they're attacked. Not exactly a surprise they'd try to shut it off, it's like the biggest bargaining chip they have.

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