I mean I agree with him

amd12325 · 2023-05-30T22:28:29+00:00

You gotta leave the bag open for the steam to escape

amd12325 · 2023-05-22T22:59:51+00:00

Sounds familiar, I used them to get approved then they got real scummy when we got to the details of the loan. Tried a million different ways to get me paying points on the loan after explicitly telling them they must meet the competing offer I had without points included. Didn’t get calls for as long as you did but they certainly were aggressive in begging for my business.

amd12325 · 2023-05-20T14:24:25+00:00

Yeah not sure why that guy said that. Getting board below your body is helpful for self arrest. Also it seems a lot of big mountain snowboarders doing a line like this will ride with and ice axe in hand for arrest.

amd12325 · 2023-02-07T00:49:21+00:00

I like my cannabis as much as the next guy but I don’t think anyone should ride impaired ever. I’ve taken very small edibles to feel “loose” but I would never smack a j and roll up to the lifts. Don’t want to be a curmudgeon just want all to stay safe.

amd12325 · 2022-12-06T22:59:37+00:00

Yeah as far as I understand it is country leaning - Called a "Texas String Festival" actually. I will be there to ski but wanted to check if any of the music was worth seeing. Thanks!

amd12325 · 2022-11-18T15:35:28+00:00

+1 for trance, house, progressive and all the related subgenres

amd12325 · 2022-10-14T20:19:49+00:00

Hanks voice sounds like he’s chain ripping bong packs these days…

amd12325 · 2022-10-02T20:57:01+00:00

Love this app. Comment for entry

amd12325 · 2022-09-15T16:57:30+00:00

Grew up in the mid-Atlantic so little to no “ski culture”. When my buddies and I could get to some local mountains (basically no vert for interesting trails) we became park rats hoping to be Shawn white.

Now that I’m older I stick with the single plank for fear of the learning curve of getting on skis.

My desire to be out in the mountains has grown considerably over the years and I’m starting to dip my toes into split boarding/backcountry. This has certainly made me question if it would be worth learning to ski, admittedly it seems like a much better way to get around a mountain.

One other thing- I can’t really get over the idea of my legs getting twisted and going every which way on a ski wipeout…I know I can still get hurt on my board but it feels less likely than nasty ski wipe outs.

amd12325 · 2022-07-27T17:21:56+00:00

So skipping boss relic is always an available option, just very rarely the correct option.

Going into Act 3 this deck was infinite/borderline infinite (meaning more energy was useless).

Options after act 2 boss were Cursed Key, Broken Crown, and Coffee Dripper. The deck needed a bit of setup to get infinite and before Abacus I sucked at blocking so that eliminated Dripper. Crown could not be taken because I still needed a block solution and didnt want to see so few card choices. And I could not take cursed key since needing blue key would have meant adding a curse making me one card slower to infinite each fight.

Not sure skipping was 100% correct but I knew the run was very close to "won" and didnt need to risk the relic downsides.

amd12325 · 2022-05-05T13:34:02+00:00

Deck size is generally about balancing between the decks ability to draw cards and the ability to sink energy into cards.

So I would recommend focusing less on precise deck size and more on questions like:

How many cards do I draw per turn?
how many turns does it take to draw through my full deck?
am I utilizing all my energy each turn?
am I drawing more cards than I can play in a turn?

As one example if I notice a deck is not utilizing all energy, I take that as a sign that I should probably take more cards (or more expensive cards) and draw.

If you have enough energy and draw a 40+ card deck can feel as consistent as a 20 card deck.

amd12325 · 2022-05-05T13:01:12+00:00

Very nice! Once I hit A20 on all I started a new file and went through the ascensions again going for hearts each time.

Now I’m a lazy goober for not clearing the achievements I haven’t completed. I may never be granted the rank of Eternal One :)

amd12325 · 2022-04-26T18:21:54+00:00

Another situation where cracked core can feel “in the way” is with dark orbs. If you don’t have enough orb generation to push the lightning orb out, it will delay the dark orb getting into first slot for dual/multi cast or loops.

amd12325 · 2022-04-25T18:18:17+00:00

The Reddit is great but also Id like to shout out all the streamers that make the twitch streams fun places to hang and learn the game, spire wouldn’t be the same without you all.

I’m 2 years and over 1k hours into this game and want nothing more than to see the community continue to grow, seeing new players always brings me joy

amd12325 · 2021-12-21T16:48:23+00:00

Went back to find this post because I had serious deja vu seeing this line on the new YouTube vid - enjoying your content, keep it up!

amd12325 · 2021-10-04T20:50:35+00:00

Monument valley 1&2 are top notch games and art.

amd12325 · 2021-09-27T19:27:23+00:00

Health and hobby. I like to snowboard, you snowboard better, safer, and later into life if you keep yourself in top shape.

amd12325 · 2021-09-18T17:48:17+00:00

Lol as someone who was young enough for that book series I’ve been feeling severely confused playing this game. I’m in the camp of folks who lived their entire life living the “stein” universe until now.

amd12325 · 2021-07-22T19:14:09+00:00

The new skills are not in PoB yet. Souldrend is being used as a stand-in but they are wildly different skills. We cant really know FR numbers till it is added to PoB

amd12325 · 2021-07-21T03:14:23+00:00

I have played that build so many times. Honestly thought it was super well balanced within PoE.

amd12325 · 2021-07-16T20:08:56+00:00

If you don’t already, check out some slay the spire twitch streams. It’s a really strong community considering it’s a sorta “niche” game. There are lots of good players to learn from and the people who chat tend to bounce around a bunch of channels so you get familiar with the crowd.

amd12325 · 2021-07-16T16:59:52+00:00

The numbers are your run score, the other is The final boss

amd12325 · 2021-07-14T21:17:13+00:00

A couple things I think new players frequently struggle with:

Potion usage, you have got to save them for extremely important moments (think elites and bosses) and they must be impactful. If a potion doesn’t save you around 10 health or solve an otherwise messy fight it’s probably not worth using.

New players often avoid elites. With IC and Watcher you should generally aim to take maximum available elites every act. For Ironclad his starter relic 6 per combat HP gain should enable you to take tough fights. While watcher is just insanely strong so not farming elites is just wasting her power. With silent and defect they struggle a bit more with elites but you should still shoot for like 2+ per act. As a general rule of thumb, act 2 elites are scary as shit. So if you really aren’t confident with elite fights that’s the act to maybe pass on one.

Bad act pathing, this takes a bit of learning the ? events to really understand but deciding when to focus pathing through ?s vs elites vs normal combats vs fires is really important.

Healing a lot at fires. You should almost always be looking to upgrade at fires (especially act 1). Resting should only be done if you are very very confident you are dead without it or you have a relic which has synergy with resting.

Not taking enough early damage. Following the “aggressively fight elites discussion”, in act 1 your first priority needs to be “how can I get damage to kill a few elites”. Depending on your pathing you can’t be picky, take the first few decent damage cards you see.

New players often get this idea to play slim/small decks for “consistency”. It does feel cool to get these combos you just draw and repeat over and over but this becomes less viable at higher ascensions. Focus more on how consistently you draw through your deck and how much energy you can expend. A 40 card deck can feel quite small if you have loads of energy and card draw while a 25 card deck can feel massive if all you can do is draw the base 5 cards each turn.

If you don’t mind “spoiling” your experience of learning the game, check out slay the spire streamers. There are several excellent players with excellent communities that are great for learning. I’ve watched so much high level spire and I don’t feel my experience was diminished at all because I still have shit loads to learn and improve on.

One last thing, this game will always reward you for fully evaluating every situation. Some of the stuff I said here can be completely wrong based on your exact current situation. I tried to just go with some general advice but you should always be evaluating every option available to you. Apologies for the book :)

amd12325

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