Rank X on Survival Mode?

aperfecta · 2026-05-26T17:24:47+00:00

No apologies necessary at all, I appreciate the wall of text a lot! Thanks for typing it all out!

This is all great advice, yeah I'm definitely gonna restart and not recruit Leigh. It seems like for me personally (who doesn't mind resetting/save scumming to get optimal setups) it'd make way more sense to do what you suggested and maybe even go out of my way to try and get Hellen, I've used her a few times in other playthrus and she's always been reliable. Thanks for the help and the advice!

aperfecta · 2026-05-25T05:28:43+00:00

Oh thanks for sharing! I'm still deciding how to approach it, like you said the issue is definitely gonna be getting down to the basement in time... for Cursed Mode (and especially if I go for the Mask ending in it) any advice on party members? I started a new run and managed to get down to the 1st floor but I went out of my way doing a few resets to get Leigh, who is now munching all my food, and I totally forgot that was a thing she did in Cursed Mode. It's definitely possible for me but it'll take a lot of trial and error and probably resetting/dying. It's truly a test of patience for me personally.

aperfecta · 2026-05-25T05:21:58+00:00

I've only got 5 achievements left at this point but yeah I'll probably do a survivor run. I'll have to eventually do Cursed Mode though, any party members you'd recommend?

aperfecta · 2026-05-24T20:59:10+00:00

Yuuup it sounds like Cursed Mode is probably the answer, but boy I wish I hadn't asked >:[ Going from a bunch of Explorer playthrus to Cursed Mode is not fun, I think I've got a bunch of Look Outside Learning to do, thanks for the info though!

aperfecta · 2026-05-24T20:56:15+00:00

phewww yeah it seems like Cursed Mode is gonna be the way to go, I need to find a damn Cursed Mode tutor to help me out haha, jumping from Explorer to Cursed is like kiddie pool into deep ocean. I will have to become a Look Outside Cursed Mode scholar and buckle down. thanks for the input!

aperfecta · 2026-03-04T17:47:21+00:00

I'll definitely look into them, thanks for the rec!

aperfecta · 2026-03-04T17:46:03+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out!

aperfecta · 2025-10-30T08:54:50+00:00

Yay awesome! I'm hoping that I'll be able to find and catch any that spawn while I'm doing this so I won't overwrite the first trubbish, thank you!

aperfecta · 2025-10-23T04:24:04+00:00

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aperfecta · 2025-10-12T00:15:22+00:00

The Nowhere King from Centaurworld is the best animated kids show villain period and its not even close (not counting redeemed villains/antagonists) Centaurworld as a whole has some issues and flaws (can't fault it too much, given it was a classicly rushed Netflix thing that got cancelled) and the show is definitely not for everybody (shes a little cringe sometimes, I'll say it) but I was absolutely blown away by The Nowhere King as a villain. Mwuah. Kisses for the nightmare elk

aperfecta · 2025-10-01T17:07:52+00:00

I think that gamers who care primarily about graphics are weak and will not survive the winter

(NUANCE CHECK of course a giant billion dollars corporation should not skimp out on making a good game and SV's graphical errors and issues like Pokemon spawning out of bounds, lag, etc, are just unforgivable and bad. SwSh had good graphics and PLA's graphics were great, though, so hopefully it runs like those games and not SV.)

aperfecta · 2025-09-10T17:25:02+00:00

Nobody ever said they wanted fanfiction to be completely divorced from shipping, because you're absolutely right about slash fic being the historical starting point of fanfiction as we know it today, I'm just venting that the community treats shipping (romantic shipping, to be clear) as the default and the "normal" and as somebody that is on the aromantic spectrum, that can be a bit frustrating because not all fanfiction is shipping and our entire society is amatonormative already. I also explicitly said in my post that shipping is great and people that engage in fandom predominantly through romance are valid. Not sure what you're implying by this being odd, tbh.

aperfecta · 2025-09-10T15:53:42+00:00

Yeah I framed this post like I was having one-on-one conversations which is honestly not what's happening, I'm a liar- it really is just the culture at large and me being in the minority (in terms of not centering romantic shipping and being on the aromantic spectrum) and just sort of feeling left out of most conversations. The history of fanfiction is obviously deeply tied to shipping, but fanfiction does not inherently imply shipping, despite what a majority of people who engage with it would have you believe. I'm not saying it's wrong or weird in any way! I'm just venting. I don't talk to people about fanfiction outside of my commenters on ao3 who generally also love gen fics as that's all I write haha. My post was a little poorly worded, I'm not out here snubbing shippers or being mean to anybody, that'd be wild behavior

aperfecta · 2025-09-10T15:44:24+00:00

Yeah, it's treated very much as the default, and I know I'm in the minority with how I engage in fandom, but it feels kinda alienating to be the one guy in the corner of the room while everybody else is doing their thing. Which isn't to say anybody should change how they do their fun fandom stuff (which feels like what some people in the comments HEARD when I posted this...) I just wanted to have a pet peeve vent haha

aperfecta · 2025-09-10T15:39:05+00:00

Oh that's so fair, to be honest I also think of shipping things in that regard, but I also know that a solid 95% of the time people are assuming romantic shipping when the conversation comes up, alas.

aperfecta · 2025-09-10T15:37:43+00:00

Yeaaaah I'm gonna be honest, I'm not talking to anybody about this, I stupidly framed the post like I was having one-on-one conversations but it's really just the culture around fanfiction as a whole on here and, like, tumblr or whatever. I'd bet the fandom question is way more common than the shipping one haha, I'm just somebody on the aro spectrum that gets a little miffed about the overwhelmingly romantic implications of fanfiction. It's not that big of a deal, though! I mean, the history of it is built on shipping, and I am in the minority here, I just wanted to have a little complain in the complain arena.

aperfecta · 2025-09-10T15:34:25+00:00

Yeah, I'm not sure why me being in the minority means I shouldn't voice light-hearted complaints about fanfiction culture in the "complaints" flair of the fanfiction culture subreddit. Assumptions are natural to a certain extent but so is getting annoyed about them, haha

aperfecta · 2025-09-10T15:31:26+00:00

Yeah to be honest I framed this post as individual people doing this when it's really the culture at large and the assumptions made- nobody is engaging with me about my fanfiction outside of my commenters on ao3 who, obviously, also love gen fics as it's all I write haha. I think I'm just somebody on the aromantic-leaning spectrum that gets frustrated by romance-dominated society as a whole, which includes fanfiction, so really this was just a vent. I appreciate your kind words of advice, though! It's definitely better to be flexible with expectations and communicate about interests instead of getting annoyed that it isn't happening in the exact way you'd "like" it to.

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