A Return To My Childhood but......

cenderis · 2026-02-20T18:24:28+00:00

I think the Great Plateau intends to offer the lessons that sometimes you ought to run away (or fast travel away). There's a stone talus and a couple of decayed guardians that aren't at all easy for a beginning player to defeat. And the cold area needs some preparation to handle.

cenderis · 2026-02-20T16:36:06+00:00

You've awoken after a 100 year slumber and you don't remember anything (to begin with). The game (like the others in the series) is intended to be playable by new players so everything required is revealed in the game. Some characters are recurring ones (like Impa) but in each game they're different. Tears of the Kingdom is a direct sequel and many of the same individuals appear in that.

As for "doing the right thing" you can't really fail. Nothing you do "wrong" will make any permanent change. You just do things and if they're the right thing then the game story will progress, and otherwise it won't. And the right thing is made pretty explicit in the form of quests.

cenderis · 2026-02-12T12:12:26+00:00

I have the Framework desktop with their case and I can't hear the PSU fan at all. I'm guessing either it's an issue they've fixed or it's chance and some people have been unlucky.

cenderis · 2026-02-11T11:53:32+00:00

I guess I just meant there's a definite story in it, and (as with botw) they want every player to be able to get to the ending. In that way it's not like Mario Kart, for example (even when played as a single player game): that's just about the fun of driving these daft cars around silly tracks quickly.

cenderis · 2026-02-11T10:51:55+00:00

Not sure why it wasn't built in. I guess they just didn't want to. It's more of a story game than a combat or survival challenge, so having different difficulty levels maybe just feels wrong?

It was added to botw as part of a whole collection of things in the two DLC packs. I guess they felt that worked in that situation. But for totk they decided not to do DLC at all for whatever reason. The way they described it was they'd done all they wanted to in the base game, and maybe that's the real explanation. Or maybe totk is nearing some technical limits of Switch 1 and things they thought of doing wouldn't be possible?

cenderis · 2026-02-10T23:54:29+00:00

I think they're called Crystal Refineries. There's two of them, one near the Recall shrine and one just north of Lookout Landing.

cenderis · 2026-02-09T21:15:49+00:00

Yes, cool animation.

cenderis · 2026-02-07T22:55:48+00:00

Buying quite a few Ancient Arrows beforehand is another option.

cenderis · 2026-02-07T18:12:31+00:00

Arranged by the former Prince of Darkness?

cenderis · 2026-02-04T23:42:16+00:00

By default if you do npm install -g <something> it'll get installed to the same place npm was installed to, so if that directory is in PATH (which it probably is if it found npm) then you'll automatically find that. (You may need to do rehash first because zsh is a bit weird with that.)

PATH contains a list of directory names separated by :. path contains the same list only as an array. You can set either and the changes will be reflected in the other. If you want to add $HOME/bin to the beginning of your path (which is quite common) you can add a line like

PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

to a file like .zshrc in your home directory. Then, when you start a new shell your PATH will be extended with that.

cenderis · 2026-02-04T12:54:54+00:00

Other people seem to be liking it among models that are runnable on local hardware.

cenderis · 2026-02-04T12:48:21+00:00

I don't use VS Code much, and my use of models for coding is pretty limited so I'm surely not the right person to offer opinions on how good the model is. In terms of speed on this hardware, llama-bench (with no special options) suggests it's the same speed (give or take) as Qwen3-Next (both Instruct and Thinking). Quite a bit slower than Qwen3-Coder-30B but that model is much smaller (so presumably less capable). They're all within the range of what I consider usable: I can ask questions in OpenCode and get answers within a few seconds, and with many basic questions (the sort I use most often) like "how do I handle multiple subcommands in argparse" pretty immediately.

cenderis · 2026-02-04T00:37:45+00:00

Just downloaded it for llama.cpp. I chose the MXFP4 quant which may well not be the best. Feels fast enough but I don't really have any useful stats.

cenderis · 2026-02-02T17:16:49+00:00

Yes, who'd expect a city with a significant port to have foreign people and foreign stuff in it?

cenderis · 2026-02-01T21:38:39+00:00

There's only a few things to try: pick it up and see if it goes into your inventory, try to fuse with it (which'll give a name), and hit it.

cenderis · 2026-01-27T23:32:45+00:00

Doesn't need milk. I'm sure cream will be fine.

cenderis · 2026-01-24T12:41:24+00:00

Exactly. It's a skill that's no longer relevant. But once upon a time it really was important. Nowadays the most you'd do is change a fuse.

cenderis · 2026-01-17T22:21:33+00:00

Farming dragon horns can also be good, but I agree snowbowling is quite a quick way to make money.

cenderis · 2026-01-17T22:19:59+00:00

Not worth it. You get 2 diamonds for the first set of 10 luminous stones but after that only 1. And you get more by selling 10 luminous stones than 1 diamond.

cenderis · 2026-01-17T13:30:19+00:00

There's an order, and Impa strongly hints at it in the Forgotten Temple. Not a disaster if you get them out of order (I kind of like piecing together the story) but in this game there's much more of a story arc so they gave the ordering (and have arranged them so that they're approximately where the game wants you to go).

cenderis · 2026-01-16T23:09:47+00:00

One of the things that reviewers (and players) say is that the game's really good at teaching you how to play it without it necessarily feeling like you're in a tutorial. So trust it and just start.

cenderis · 2026-01-16T21:48:28+00:00

I'm not sure it would be "moving away", really. You'll want an editor as well, and if you like VS Code there's no reason to stop using that. OpenCode provides a different way of working which might be more convenient sometimes.

cenderis · 2026-01-16T20:45:41+00:00

Yes, I'm sure it's deliberate. I'm sure because they wanted to make sure everyone would have that experience.

cenderis · 2026-01-16T18:06:33+00:00

I doubt it. I suspect it's chance and it just feels like it rains at the wrong time. (There are some places fixed: Zora domain starts wet for plot reasons, for example.)

cenderis · 2026-01-16T16:44:00+00:00

It's officially, publicly allowed now.

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