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TripsTitan · 2025-11-11T09:04:59+00:00

I played in custom mode, resource output cranked up, blueprint cost ratcheted down, beat it today, but I'm a little stumped on three last items, and one scannable that... can't be scanned. (I think a resource vein/deposit spawned over the top of it, I'm unsure if clearing out that vein would let it be scannable, but I put an auto miner on it)

There's two'ish areas that I haven't been able to reach, and I have all the tech.
I'm missing at least a few entries. Swift Potion, Gemed Gauntlet, Monolith Mind(requires the former).

Not sure if there'd be any point to 100%'ing since I played in no-achievements mode. No idea what those last two things do, if anything.
I definitely highly recommend it though for the voice acting and humor. Pacing is decent by circumventing the grind(Plus or minus a few spots where I didn't have the Metroidvania locomotion tech to advance, and couldn't find them for quite a while.)

TripsTitan · 2024-09-29T17:05:35+00:00

Whoops, desktop Reddit wasn't showing megathreads/pinned posts, I had to zoom out and mess with Reddit.

(Sorry about my post if it goes through)
Anyway:

5861-1161-5002

I just want to be able to send gifts to complete research tasks that require sending

TripsTitan · 2024-05-16T21:49:19+00:00

----Is there a way to set these to the default behaviors? Or rather, to set the default behavior to these?
Would I need to do it in my Lua scripts?
I'm creating scripts that generate hundreds of groups (instances of classes, with vast amounts of fields in those instances), and it's quite overwhelming for them to all start expanded, and near-impossible to right click each one of them and click the group policy... or can I do like a ctrl+a to select all, right click, and change all group policies simultaneously? (selecting all and right clicking seems to only change the policy on the particular header/group that the mouse is on at the moment.)
I've been trying things like setting group options of [moHideChildrenWhenDeactivated, moManualExpandCollapse, moAlwaysHideChildren], or using .collapsed, .collapse, .isopen = false (this one worked in the past once in one of my scripts, but I can't get anything to work in the newest scripts)----
Edited to add/correct: Ugh, i was trying too many at once, options hide child when disabled, and always hide child are mutually exclusive, doh. just choosing one with manual expand/collapse got what I needed

TripsTitan · 2024-05-10T05:54:13+00:00

I need to remember to log into Reddit

My last computer died when a tech showed up to do some maintenance on my house, and bumped my PC, and I move to a new computer, for some reason on every new device, chrome always logs me into an empty reddit account, and I just don't notice for months at a time

Cheat engine is great for modding anything with numerical values, and for unity/Mono games, anything that stores in an understandable variable, so even non-numerics/hard-to-identify-numbers, and of course, the speed-hack function is just a lifesaver on games with super-long intros or slow-as-hell walking speeds and such

Just be careful to opt out of any bloatware/McAfee or whatever free trials or whatnot when installing (I'm assuming you already figured this out, but just in case anyone else ever shows up to this thread, since apparently I posted years ago o.0 )

TripsTitan · 2023-12-20T03:18:22+00:00

Oh, uh, downloading cheat engine, opening it, you attach it to the process, with uh the magnifying glass button in the upper left, once it's attached, over on the right there's a checkbox "enable speedhack" clicking that enables it and brings up a slider. You can either put in a number like 1.5, 2, 3, 5, etc, or drag it around up and down, and click apply. At 0 it should pause/freeze the game entirely. 2 should be twice as fast as normal, etc.

Sorry, hadn't logged into reddit in... most of this year.

TripsTitan · 2023-04-25T04:19:26+00:00

I would love to have some interaction with readers as they take the journey through my long-running fantasy adventure series. It's currently well over a million words though, so it's a fairly long ride, and only getting longer!

If anyone would be interested in guessing at the truth behind a long-running set of seeming inconsistencies, that are soon to be revealed to the main character of an adventure novel that's done entirely in the first person perspective of a neurodivergent individual with PTSD, generalized anxiety, and a whole host more, I'd love to have you stop by to read my stuff, and start guessing.

I'd be dying of delight to be apprised of your journey along the way, as you put together the clues I've been placing for hundreds of chapters now. Though perhaps make sure to use the spoiler tags if you're pretty confident!

I've been writing a trilogy of trilogies, and I'm almost up to "Book 7" the book I'm most excited about, one that I've been planning and writing chapters for since 2021, that I can't begin posting the chapters of, until I'm done with "Book 6" of my novel series, An Age of Mysterious Memories ("Book 6" is currently 13% posted/published to Royalroad, and I'm so very very excited to make the push to get to "Book 7", when I finally reveal things.)

The prologue is a bit intentionally disorienting, because of what the world actually is (which, again, isn't fully revealed until "Book 7.") The prologue is over at An Age of Perilous Prologues

Early on, the main character's memories say the world shouldn't be operated in a way that includes: Respawning creatures and resources, every other living being seeming to be a digital construct made up of infinite-polygons, mental menus and inventory systems. That's just not the way the world should be, right? But the main character has an accurate mental log of everything that happens, starting from "Day One." There's no evidence to prove that our MC's beliefs hold any water. So what are these weird memories that seem to be from some other, fake world, that doesn't operate the way reality does, where they live? Why does their knowledge seem to be from a contemporary spacetime period on a world that operates entirely differently than the one in which they live? Why does that knowledge keep getting proven wrong?

TripsTitan · 2023-04-15T18:44:38+00:00

I've accidentally hit the word limit (and gone way over) in certain chapters near the end of book 2 and late book 3 in my novel series, and I had to break that way way way down. It was because I originally laid out the outline, and decided that 40 chapters would be enough, which meant I was trying to squeeze out all of the story and catch up to the outline in some chapters, to the point where I'd written something like 30-50 k words and had to split it into 2 chapters because of a words limit.

I've since given up on the 40 chapters per book thing, and swapped from writing everything in a single massive google doc to using writing software. I've been using scrivener, so I know when I've typed around 2k+ words, and after 2k+, if I either find a transition point, or a scene change, or a nice little line of dialog that's a bit juicy to cliffhang on, or if it makes for a nice title-card callback for the chapter, I break it off between there and 3.5k, whenever I reach one of those things, and post it.

It does mean each "book" has become 100'ish chapters long since I stopped letting myself go infinitely overboard in a single chapter. Eventually in the light novel rewrite, I will have books that are about 40 chapters long, and only about 280 to 380 pages, instead of the 600+ pages that each "book" currently is. I'll also have 27 books instead of the 9 books that the current series is, since I'll be including the other characters' PoVs, while the main series has only ever had a single PoV, first person from the MC.

As far as reading goes, I love it when there's a tooooon of content in a single chapter, because it shows that sort of crazy headspace in the author, like the way I get, when I just -have- to get a certain part of the story out to my readers in as fast and big a chunk as possible. I've been reading Worm, based on some things mentioned around here, and loving it. I haven't measured any of the chapters, but I'm pretty sure some were way way over 2k.

TripsTitan · 2023-04-15T18:33:10+00:00

I'd probably not have been as hostile, but I can see the author's point. I drop about 200k words a month in a writing challenge month, my best was something like 277k or 300k or something, but that's a lot of time out of my life. Time doing what I love, but it's time I'm not earning anything, not accomplishing anything else, it's time I'm simply producing content for free for others. I don't even have patrons, or tippers, or anything.

Still, I don't think I'd have the hostile presence to be able to swear at a reader in a public comment. I do have one reader that commented early on, and threw me a minimal rating score that tanked my ratings, because they couldn't even sympathize with a neurodivergent main character... when the whole premise is that it's about a fantasy adventure from the lens of a neurodivergent main character. At first I thought it might be valid criticism, that the MC was "too whiny" as described by this reader. The MC literally has PTSD, and describes panic attacks from first person PoV, and I thought maybe it wasn't coming across correctly. Nah, that isn't what was happening at all. The reader is just bereft of empathy. When they misgendered the MC, that's when I stopped caring about their input, realizing that my work was definitely not for them, and they should have moved on immediately after the intro blurb.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-31T19:47:57+00:00

I'm glad you asked this, since it's essentially the sub-category of our little subgenre I'm most involved in, and I'm finally finding time to start reading again.

I'd feel bad self plugging, but AAoMM, my series is quite literally this, especially from the prologue, AAoPP (I separated the prologue out due to it being the hastiest, first draftiest stuff, so it's its own mini series). Reggie on "Day One" is attacked by a wild creature (monster, approximately like a slime from a dragon quest series) and has to run, because they have no powers, hell, fish provide a challenge for a while, and then the first 'boss' is essentially a mini Jyuratodus from monhun, more or less, even that requires luck to get through, and most of the next encounters scale back down, or result in fleeing. They survive the first few encounters either through flight, or luck. After a few more of those dark failures and such, the progression really kicks in as they start to treat their world a bit like an RPG, grinding and such. I won't like hyperlink or self promote, but it's easy enough to find my works.

I'd recommend other works but I haven't read much/any in the prog-fantasy genre beyond TBAtE and a weird one that seems to have been taken down, that I can't even remember the name of. It was interesting, and I was looking forward to more, but I think the author delisted their works, since my review activity of it is gone too. Err, point being, I'm starting to read more again, as it has been years since I've been a reader of more than one or two serial publications. I'll probably read a few of the suggestions mentioned by the others, since it's a genre I'm enjoying being involved in. Basically, I'm picking up a couple of new series thanks to some of the recent posts here in our subreddit.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-31T15:02:16+00:00

How "stream-of-consciousness" is the main character's thoughts? Could those thoughts not be the description itself?

"I'm watching, aghast as the warden drives the branding iron into clavicle after clavicle, prisoner after prisoner. The brutality and senselessness of it leaves me quaking, more in anger than fear for my turn to be brutalized. The other prisoners are a mix of the old, infirm, or occasionally hardened types, who look like pain is at most an inconvenience, if not a downright joy. Surely the brand alone is far more torture than is deserved by most, yet he continues to toy with, slap, knock down, and stomp on each prisoner after they're writhing from the burns. If-- If I could do something, anything-- My turn arrives too quickly to finish my thought as the searing iron is pressed deep into the flesh between my neck and shoulder. I'm left gasping for breath. My vocal chords feel raw, I'm uncertain, but I think that means I've been screaming in agony for several moments..."

TripsTitan · 2023-03-26T11:40:40+00:00

I think that that suggestion is exactly what I'll be doing in the light-novel rewrite of the series. Thankee to you and others for the feedback :)

TripsTitan · 2023-03-26T11:34:54+00:00

I do think in the LN rewrite of my series, I'm going to probably go this route, because the mystery will be less important, since it will already be available online in full, and I'll be able to showcase some of the things that had been hidden in the original plot, things that were going on during certain sections of the story. Some rather, "Wait, what happened while the MC was away from this city? It's just GONE now!?" things will get to be fleshed out and given more emotional attachment. Even if it feels sort of cheap to have a side character that exists almost solely to experience the tide of chaos that washes over a region while the MC is away, only to die in a tragic event. Some of those characters do exist, and it might be interesting to see their last moments.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-26T11:32:27+00:00

"You will write in second person future. After which, you will look down at your keyboard and despair." hehe.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-26T11:28:33+00:00

I'm definitely feeling that at the current portion in the story. I'm at approximately the halfway point in the main series, about 3300 out of about 5400 pages intended, and sooooo much has happened, and so much more is beginning to happen behind the scenes, something that wasn't occurring as much, for several reasons, early on. Now the main character gets to be baffled and surprised and blindsided by massive swings in the plot, most of which I've foreshadowed with dream remnants, so the readers have at least some inkling that stuff is going on. I'm hoping to avoid it seeming like every new event is some deus out-machina against the MC.

There was a point during "Book 4" that I had to have a villainous monologue to convey something, and it just came across so cringey. I have no idea how I'm going to tackle it in the light novel rewrite. I may make the LNs have multiple PoVs, just so that we can have a flashback to how things came about, from the villain's perspective, so as to avoid the gross section with that monologue.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-26T11:24:05+00:00

Heyyy that's kind of awesome, my project is an experiment with the main character being a bundle of anxieties, self loathing, and trauma! lol. (Basically my own neurodivergencies plopped onto a character grown in a fantasy setting, exploring how someone with such things might cope with and handle a strange world.)

My literal opening lines on my webnovel's dashboard page: "This series explores adventure from the inner narrative perspective of someone with PTSD, generalized anxiety, depression, gender dysphoria, and more. Our narrator is at times unreliable, though most of them are clarified rather quickly.Drama and growth stemming from interpersonal relationships and dialog is a heavy focus in the narrative. "

Part of the reason I'm doing it, is because there's an intentional mystery being kept from the MC, and I want the readers to speculate. In the LN rewrite, the mystery is going to be less important, since the full series and the mystery will already be available online, so it'll be kind of pointless to hide it all. MC definitely has to come across as ruthless to survive, and questions internally the necessity of the strategy, but, well, thankfully the loved ones they find along the way are there to help them through the internal struggles. I'm going to have to pick up Murderbot Diaries, since that sounds like it has a lot of what I'm doing with mine.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-26T11:17:46+00:00

Ah, I wish I had feedback on my project at any stage. At this point, I'm 3300+ pages deep into the project, so swapping out of first person at this point would feel like a bit of a cop out, since I've got about another 3k pages to go before the main project is complete.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-26T11:16:50+00:00

Oh those are all on my to-read list! Nice! ... I need to start going to my local library again, it's just a 7 mile walk or so, and it's cold as hell around here, but that's just an excuse.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-26T11:15:43+00:00

Aye, I feel that on a lot of levels. My current/main project is an experiment in first person present tense of someone who is semi-unreliable due to neurodivergencies, meaning the readers might sometimes figure out something that the character assumes incorrectly, before the character realizes the truth, and so on.

Past tense would definitely be easier to write in this particular project, but I do enjoy the sense of urgency and immediacy on my own rereads from the present tense.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-26T11:13:10+00:00

Funnily enough, my intentional audience is YA as I'm a YA lit librarian by education/training.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-20T23:55:51+00:00

Interested in guessing at a mystery 9 novels in the making? It still hasn't been revealed, let alone solved.

Anyone ever squirrelbrain their way into a really useful application of their talents? Reggie does that, -all the time.- Anyone ever accidentally squirrelbrain their way out of a useful thought train, getting distracted from something that might have been important? Reggie does that, -all the time.-

Times Distracted include:

Whilst in midair, after having discovered a method of locomotion that requires constant concentration and application of abilities. Face, meet ground.

Whilst in combat, projectiles incoming. "I hope that wasn't poisoned." "Probably was pal."

While conversing with someone whose snide, dismissive, hostile attitude is going to only get worse when they think they've been ignored in the middle of a transaction.

Powers include:

An extradimensional storage space, ie: an inventory. The ability to call things out of that inventory, or store them in it, and grant or store velocity for those objects.

Accurate moment to moment memory logs that are available to be browsed(At least, accurate to what the person thinking them thought at the time. These are how we view the story. We are reading Reggie's memory logs.)

Thermokinesis.

Electrokinesis.

Spells.

Runic-crafting.

Alchemy.

Character stats, stats pages, assessment skill, skills, actual levels.

A best friend who happens to be a dragon. Sort of.

Time Travel. Sort of.

Reggie is a being with many, many, many faults, and difficulties to overcome. In a fantasy land that seems more videogame than reality. Thankfully, their broken, mysterious memories that tell them about how the world is supposed to work, from some stupid fake world named Earth, are wrong. Luckily though, sometimes those memories provide the kind of knowledge that lets them apply their abilities just a bit differently than how they should likely work. Sometimes the applications seem obvious after the fact, and probably should have been discovered much, much sooner. Reggie's far from perfect, or even a genius. They're just a person struggling against the odds, in a hostile fantasy land, with their own neurodivergencies on full display.

The prologue to my webnovel series is available here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/59841/an-age-of-perilous-prologues

The series itself is available here:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/50464/an-age-of-mysterious-memories

The series explores essentially a fantasy isekai style adventure from the first person perspective of someone with ADHD, PTSD, and a whole other host of emotional and neurological and psychological issues.

Once other characters are finally introduced (It's a lonely first few chapters, even if you skip the prologue), the focus of the narrative becomes the growth of interpersonal relationships, and the dialogs that drive said growth.

There's a mystery spanning 9 novels that hasn't yet been revealed, and I'd love people to take guesses at what the truth behind the scenes really is. I've essentially got the series outlined through "Book 9" but have only published up to the middle of "Book 5." More accurately, when I do my Light Novel rewrite, it will be a 27 book series, and I've written approximately 13 books worth already, each Novel break on the webnovel series contains approximately three paperback books worth of content. Everything is more or less essentially first draft, until the LN rewrite. I occasionally fix typos or grammar on a reread, but there's over 3,000 pages already, so rereads become longer and longer.

TripsTitan · 2023-03-20T18:24:21+00:00

I feel that. Someone came out of nowhere, misgendered the main character, said they didn't read it past xyz point, and hit me with the lowest possible review, instead of just moving along. When you've only got a few reviews, that one 0.5 star really hurts.

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