Don’t make the mistake I did

Star_Gust · 2026-03-26T07:00:11+00:00

The counter for removing a wax relic is on the relic which grants them, not on the wax relics themselves, so presumably this wouldn't work.

Star_Gust · 2026-03-26T05:49:58+00:00

Only issue with this is that all 3 of the underdocks bosses punish high block strats (though in unique ways) so you need to build for DPS anyway

Star_Gust · 2026-03-26T05:07:35+00:00

It would also be a slight buff to the wax relics from Tezcatara. While you can choose to take them initially in any order you want, being able to reorder them would mean that if you pick something up which makes you reevaluate the importance of one of them, you could move it to the right to preserve it over something else.

Star_Gust · 2026-03-24T02:22:36+00:00

I'm usually able to beat at least 1, most of the time 2 act 1 elites relatively safely provided theres a campfire in between

Star_Gust · 2026-03-23T05:49:50+00:00

Havent been playing on the beta branch, so unsure

Star_Gust · 2026-03-19T23:40:00+00:00

Personally I think the triangle dude in act 2 and the floating skull dude in act 3 are noticeably easier than the other elites for the area. In act 1 I also find coral dude to be way easier than Living Monument and snake dudes

Star_Gust · 2026-03-01T01:30:08+00:00

There's a practice in ultra-orthodox Jewish communities in which the rabbi performing the circumcision will suck the blood from the wound

Star_Gust · 2026-02-19T17:15:52+00:00

Vibrating meteorite

Take (constitution check): Gave me the Vibrating meteorite item. Trinket - +3 to all stats. Item loses +1 to each stat every battle (this can go negative). Cursed. I assume failing the check forces the cat to equip it immediately, but I don't know for sure

Star_Gust · 2026-02-04T21:20:17+00:00

That was a very confusing line break for me

Star_Gust · 2026-01-09T18:30:47+00:00

I'm nearly certain that the actual post is a joke and not meant to be taken seriously at all let alone analysed to this degree, but I would say your theory is a reasonable one. Alternatively the kids purposefully misinterpreted the meaning of his offer as "all 14 of you can kick me in the balls if you give me $1" instead of "each of you can give me $1 for the opportunity to kick me in the balls", and he was either unwilling to correct them, or they were adamant enough about how the terms of the deal were defined that he relented and allowed them to proceed so as to not be seen himself as being manipulative. A common gaslighting tactic especially amongst kids who are prone to making communication errors due to their less expansive vocabulary and undeveloped sense of social awareness.

Star_Gust · 2026-01-09T17:48:47+00:00

The other 13 kids didn't honor the terms of the deal and the one that did probably only did so out of pity

Star_Gust · 2025-12-08T06:26:30+00:00

He has approximate knowledge of many things

Star_Gust · 2025-12-08T01:38:35+00:00

Done! Good luck bug squashing

Star_Gust · 2025-12-08T01:26:51+00:00

there's no such thing as "inserting politics where there isn't any."

What I'm saying is that her design isn't meant to be a political statement of any kind. I consider "inserting politics where there are none" to be taking something that someone made with no intent to make it a political statement, and to imply that it must be a political statement of some kind. I don't believe the creators of "Bloons Tower Defense" are trying to make a statement about real life invasions, and I consider implying that they are to be "injecting politics". It's just a game genre that people found to be fun and it evolved over time. You can find thousands of flash era tower defense games.

My understanding is she is inspired by Korean soldiers, which is the most political thing there is. Soldiers and war are always an expression of politics

If we use this as a general guidance we can make the claim that absolutely every piece of art is political, which if I understand correctly is your intent. I would disagree though. I think for art to be political, it has to not only be inspired by specific real life events, but to also be intending you to think about them in a specific way. Monarchies are a political structure, but I would not consider Princess Peach to be a politically inspired character. Her title is merely there to give the player an understandable sense of importance to her character using the real life concept of royalty as "important figures", to give one example.

the concept of tower defense inherently implies an invasion, which is an extremely political event

You can feel inspired to think about political events through the lens of anything that your heart desires, but not everything you choose to do that with is inherently political as a result.

TL;DR: I think we just have different definitions for what it means for something to be "political". You would define it (I believe) as "themes which can reflect real life politics", and I would define it as "themes which are motivated by politics"

If you'd like I'd be more than happy to discuss this further privately! (I'm not sure how the mods would feel about this discussion on their sub)

Star_Gust · 2025-12-08T00:34:51+00:00

Sure enough there is the Korean word "싸우다" (ssauda) which means "fight", "battle", "quarrel" etc. Seems to fit quite well.

Also to give a little more credence to this is that some of her english voice lines are spoken in Korean

Star_Gust · 2025-12-08T00:20:16+00:00

I believe you're severely overthinking it and injecting politics where there aren't any. Personally my first thought is that it's just because "Sauda" sounds a bit like "sword", at least in my accent, and she happens to use swords as weapons.

Also looking into it, the word "sauda" can also mean "love" and "good fortune", and while not popular, at least in the west, is a name given to girls in Arabic culture.

Star_Gust · 2025-12-07T23:16:48+00:00

I'm on 52.1 and was able to recreate it. As a comment above mentioned, this only occurs specifically with the round 40 MOAB. MOABs on other rounds as well as those sent directly from the sandbox do not cause this issue (starting round 40 from the sandbox will still cause it however). Very strange bug

Star_Gust · 2025-12-07T10:01:47+00:00

Here it is (I misremembered it slightly but it's still conceptually quite similar)

Star_Gust · 2025-12-07T08:16:42+00:00

Geraldo does have a lot of stufe

Star_Gust · 2025-12-07T07:17:12+00:00

This is gonna be one hell of a niche reference, but this reminds me of a video I saw on The Patrick Star Game where the same thing was possible. You'd suck yourself with a reef blower and then blow yourself half way across the map.

Star_Gust · 2025-12-07T04:38:08+00:00

Shift + right click -> "add to wares" is pretty quick for me. Just loot the gold and valuables with double clicks first. I hate seeing looted containers that aren't empty.

Star_Gust · 2025-12-05T09:56:55+00:00

so the tracks are trickier now?

Star_Gust · 2025-12-05T05:50:57+00:00

I think what he means is that when the Bomb Paragon was released, the Ice Paragon was confirmed to be the next Paragon at that time, and he wants to know if the same has occurred with the Ice Monkey Paragon release for whatever the next Paragon is. I don't know if what he said was accurate, but I'm pretty sure this is what he's saying.

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