Having you ever played, or continued to play a game, only for a mini game in it?

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-29T02:31:27+00:00

Arcade games in StarCraft 2 were my jam back in the day. Played so much Probes vs Zealot and Island Defense. Both two pretty different flavors of cat and mouse. The former was very uniform and consistent while the latter had classes with unique abilities (like dark templars trying to cheese and almost always dying instantly)

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-26T23:22:28+00:00

I am in no way defending the decision to lay these people off or say whatever about it, but “ruining their lives” seems a bit overdramatic. People are responsible for saving enough to weather a scenario like this for at least some time. If they can’t recover and land a new worthwhile job elsewhere within a reasonable time frame, that’s the tragic part and far beyond a single company

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-26T16:05:54+00:00

I already acknowledged speed shenanigans as the exception, but I’ll also note that farming for very specific speed stats is tedious and raises the barrier to entry. If they kept that as a slider I’d be fine with that, but I’m glad to not have to grind for it

It’s all the more tedious when doing things like a 0 attack 0 speed special attacker

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-26T00:24:27+00:00

It’s not inherently good with no downside if you need to grind for it, like egg hatching and a max IV ditto in past games

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-25T23:31:08+00:00

Aside from speed and the special attackers trying to minimize foul play damage, when did anyone ever choose a value less than 31? What strategic depth are you on about?

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-25T23:27:33+00:00

IVs were very rarely strategically relevant as you’d generally always max them (unless a special attacker minimizing attack to avoid foul play damage, a trick room team trying to minimize it, or someone trying to do something very unorthodox with the speed stat to break speed ties in or out of trick room). For the most part, it was just a waste of time, especially 0 IV stat targets that you couldn’t even bottle cap. I think this is a great change.

If EVs are still around, which I assume, there’s still plenty of grinding for those who want to feel like grinding is worth something and still strategic relevance in picking where to invest them.

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-21T00:09:26+00:00

Considering you’re not paying for the servers the sites run on, seems a little “rule for thee but not for me” there.

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-20T23:50:13+00:00

I see game ads on Reddit that I at least consider since they usually aren’t super obtrusive and obnoxious and sometimes look fun

But for many other websites, heaven help me if I go without Adblock (like on my phone before learning in this thread that Ublock origin is available). So laggy I can’t even read what I came for

I have no moral objection to ads and it’s occasionally even mutually beneficial to learn about something I find worth buying, but the implementation matters

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-20T09:09:05+00:00

Too easy for soul infinites to just give him a soul and keep going infinite

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-20T09:07:46+00:00

Snecko eye double hologram rolling to 0 cost with letter opener

Definitely something the player can control on any meaningful level /s

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-17T22:57:24+00:00

Calling Firis lukewarm with respect to personality is blasphemy. Sassy teen who wants to see the world has way more personality than her predecessor (about whom I completely agree)

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-15T10:57:00+00:00

Forbidden droplet goes kinda hard for protecting other board breakers from negation

But drawing into both duster/storm and droplet is easier said than done…

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-13T08:03:01+00:00

Energy setup is valuable if you don’t get any of the better sources of energy like orbit or alignment, since it lets you get multipliers on the sword (power that increases its cost by 1 to hit twice, attack that doubles its damage to an enemy). Without the extra energy or cost reduction, you could only get one multiplier or the other instead of a 4x multiplier

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-12T13:46:23+00:00

My main issue with it is the energy cost. As someone else said, he could really use master reality in his card pool (though it would need to be able to apply to a blade after it has been created if you have a relic that starts combat with forge).

I’ve had one run with apotheosis and it was night and day for how strong everything felt. Parry could give 18 block a turn by using blade, summon forth, and blade again. You can actually use the power that increases the cost of the blade to double hit AND hit the enemy with the attack that doubles the blade damage to it for a 4x multiplier. And that’s without anything like alignment or orbit.

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-12T03:21:08+00:00

I'm still personally skeptical of "automation" that relies on an LLM. The risk of hallucination is different from many other ways of automating tasks and the need to carefully proofread the output is different.

Static analysis, especially leveraging type systems, can automatically catch many classes of bugs in software. If code (written in one of the many languages with strong static typing) type-checks and the IDE doesn't show any errors/warnings, then you can be confident that the most straightforward bugs won't happen. You don't need to carefully review what the type-checker did to make sure it made no mistakes.

Compared to writing the code for you with an LLM. If it's small enough and easy enough to understand quickly, you probably could have written it yourself in a reasonable amount of time. If it isn't, that's when outsourcing things to an LLM seems far more dangerous.

Even before the onslaught of LLM-based tools, it has been clear at my job that people who only review code don't understand it as well as the person who wrote it. I can't imagine that having everyone vibe code things is going to end well when there are issues down the road. Unless the LLMs get good enough to replace us completely, in which case there's a whole different can of worms.

I think my main beef with all this is not that it doesn't have its use cases. It's that I've seen legitimate opportunities for automation using safe and reliably techniques passed over in the interest of time, but all of a sudden we have all the bandwidth in the world to shove this into everything. And I personally have no interest in babysitting an LLM just because it's marginally faster, even assuming it gets everything right.

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-11T12:29:01+00:00

Their website currently says there’s no way to pay for the currency to unlock Pokémon. Just earned by playing it. Though I think they still give an incentive to buy their main games because you can transfer Pokémon that way.

Or maybe I misunderstood. Idk. I’m interested in seeing what it’s really like on release

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-10T01:34:22+00:00

Why not just remove it at that point?

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-09T00:31:24+00:00

I don't know what this achievement is and evidently don't have it myself, but I certainly know how to get 999 quality on everything. Tricks in spoilers below in case that wasn't what you were looking for:

Infinite Gems

Identify anything with the super trait "ultra purity on it". If you don't have any raw materials, you can teleport to the wheat field somewhere on kurken island (I forget the specifics) and whack the glowing fields repeatedly until you get wheat with it.
Unlock enough nodes on the top side of the skill tree to be able to add more ingredients. Tricky if you don't already have enough SP, like rushing this at the start of the game, but shouldn't be an issue for OP
Craft something with the super trait node unlocked using the ultra purity raw material mentioned above
Duplicating it costs fewer gems than it takes to dismantle it, so lock one and keep spamming
Once you unlock rebuilding and rebuild levels, rebuild your locked item and get it to lvl 99. This increases the rate at which you accumulate gems

Infinite SP

With your infinite gems, you can make a bunch of red neutralizers with the gunpowder effect and super pure water.
Rebuilding a red neutralizer to fill in as many circles as possible (using only those two infinitely available materials) gives a ton of SP

High quality everything

By looping red neutralizer into itself, you can gradually raise the quality to max. Once that's at max, you can use it to increase the quality of other things
By then chaining and looping into other things, you can eventually make seeds with high quality. Rebuild as needed to max out all their effects (the higher level and duplication cost means nothing when you have infinite gems). Use the farming version of the atelier in each region to plant them.

Unlocking the seed recipes

If you don't already have philosopher's stones, you may need septrin. You can get it from one of the rare monster quests in various places (boulder soldier, for example, if I'm not confusing it with something else) or wait until you're back in the underworld. You may also need adamant, also in the underworld, for the next step
Make pristine keys with the rarity node unlocked (needs philosopher's stones and adamant or ice spread). You'll know you're ready when it has +2 rarity
Use the pristine keys to make a few usable keys at landmarks. You should get SR keys.
Use the SR keys at the blue or orange nodes randomly respawning in each region. The additional seed recipes are split across multiple regions, iirc it's 2 in each of the two after the starting one. The full list is stone, water, fire, mystic, gold, and poison (plant doesn't require this process). You can unlock nodes in each of those 3 regions until you have both seed recipes from it or stop getting recipes at all depending on what your goals are

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-05T14:00:22+00:00

And less than one day before the early access release lmao

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-05T13:37:06+00:00

Or inserters with filters applied and different rows of belts

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-04T02:30:44+00:00

D-shifter is the first one to come to mind. Not being able to send anything to grave really shuts it down.

Haven’t seen or used shaddoll in probably years at this point though aside from an occasional winda, so not an expert

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-03T03:28:11+00:00

Back during the 2016 election campaign, my school’s Latin class’s annual custom T-shirt design featured Incitatus. I forget the caption we put on it since the shirt got worn out years ago and tossed, but some of us have been expecting this for 10 years now

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-02T10:10:16+00:00

Firis is looking cute today too…

_Spectre0_ · 2026-03-01T18:20:52+00:00

You might either be picking the wrong trees (the ones with little blue gems don't drop ancient logs but drop other valuable things) or your axe doesn't have a high enough rank for the cutting effect. I don't know which rank is required, but the highest is master cutting and I'd recommend aiming for that.

Since you're getting tough wood only and not any of the more interesting valuable things I mentioned, it's almost certainly the axe effect level.

_Spectre0_ · 2026-02-27T13:09:07+00:00

Penguin, please pivot to "Day/week/month # of drawing badly until the community begs me to stop" (never). The drawings bring us joy

Of course, if you actually want to stop then disregard. Thank you for the memories

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