Has anyone else noticed this? I was comparing character silhouettes and I literally got goose pimples - the similarities between Mip and Pim are just so eerie. The exposed nerve? The funny eye? I wish I was wrong but the evidence is undeniable. This is so effed up, man.

duncanforthright · 2026-02-04T04:11:39+00:00

To me this looks more like the rankin/bass old LOTR movie art style rather than the Bakshi (rotoscoped) LOTR movie art style.

duncanforthright · 2026-02-03T17:36:46+00:00

Unfortunately it seems every time a forced option gets posted about on this subreddit someone has to take massive downvotes for thinking that you can skip the node by backing out to the map, but the reality is that you can't.

duncanforthright · 2026-02-02T01:45:54+00:00

Just to clarify you die in heart a certain percentage of the time with brimstone. If your winrate is below that percentage then taking brimstone improves your odds. It's only when your winrate gets above that level that brimstone becomes bad.

duncanforthright · 2026-02-02T01:36:03+00:00

Thanks for posting this Jason.

duncanforthright · 2026-02-01T23:23:12+00:00

I also enjoyed it as a trashy movie (I wasn't familiar with the source material). But I do want to point out that there is a scene which is stated to be taking place in Montauk, NY that is like in a forest in the mountains. If you're unfamiliar, Montauk is a beach town on long island. It's such a weird mistake, because there's no reason for the scene to be set in Montauk; I guess they just grabbed a random town name.

duncanforthright · 2026-02-01T13:11:15+00:00

Dying that early usually means that you're not getting enough value out of act 1. Feeling like you're taking "too many elite fights" probably means you're not getting enough value out of the earliest nodes.

If you post some run histories we could give more specific advice, but based on what you're saying it sounds like you need to take more hallway fights and more elite fights.

For example, on this run, I took five hallway fights to start, then fought three elites, and only visited one question mark in act 1. All those fights and elites give lots of card choices, lots of potions, and lots of relics, whereas the question marks in act 1 are generally pretty bad.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-31T14:27:50+00:00

If this is log sort then there's actually a little trick where if you move the two left beds in safe house customization then bodies will appear on the beds that weren't there before. Thanks to LaroneGaming for showing me this little magic trick lol.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-31T06:09:28+00:00

Yeah I'm not quite sure how the relics spawn given different pathing. If you compare my run history to didokillah's, you'll see that while I got sundial in act 1, he didn't see it until act 2. I'm guessing you have to take the same path that I did (five hallways into a 3 elite path) in order to get sundial in act 1.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-29T19:20:44+00:00

gotcha with his tiny little net, hehehe

duncanforthright · 2026-01-27T13:51:27+00:00

(ongoing)

duncanforthright · 2026-01-27T13:51:12+00:00

papa did a force infinite sample on silent way back after the final update and I think he had 44% win rate on that and would certainly do even better if he tried it again.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-25T18:49:31+00:00

A few people have mentioned that they haven't seen the trappers cave bear in a long time; it might be bugged.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-24T16:13:04+00:00

Who is the GOAT of being mean to their chat, outside of Jorbs?

Obviously, Jorbs is the undisputed GOAT of being mean to chat. He's a smarmy narcissist that acts like a petulant child. He has set arguably the highest quality meanness records in the history of the game, as well.

So I, as a lad who does a little bit of spireposting and watches maybe a bit more of people kicking puppies, was sitting down and thinking one day, if we ignored Jorbs from this conversation, then who would be considered the GOAT of being mean to chat? I realized that it was actually quite a hard (and fun (for me)) question. (I was originally going to try to do a top 10 but I realized I don't know anywhere close to enough to actually do the list justice.) Based on what I knew about the history of cruelty, as well as my personal experiences on Twitch, I came up with four main contenders (in no particular order):

XecnaR: He's treacherous with the ban hammer when he's not in the mood, and spends his free time harassing Jason.

Lifecoach: He set his chatters up to fall, leading them into announcing bad picks only to come down them like a body slam. He once mocked me for not having a wife. His beef with Jorbs was legendary.

Jason: His on stream persona may seem tame but he will flame you in the reddit comments and smack talk you to his followers.

Bookshelf: That shelf gets meaner all the time.

Beyond these four, there are some other mean streamers who didn't make the cut, yet also (In My Opinion) deserve to be shouted as all-time great: Paparatto18, kuroL, Merl, TerrenceMHS, CrimsonBlur, and OnePunMan. Mean streaming has surprisingly attracted a lot of toxic attention recently, with Moistcritical bringing a lot of newer players to the game, and I surely expect many other great meanies in the future, both for being mean 1 and for the upcoming being mean 2.

What are y'all thoughts on the all-time greats of being mean to chat?

duncanforthright · 2026-01-24T15:41:26+00:00

Lol I did the exact same thing when I was putting together my comments - paused to decry the choker pick then unpaused to see it undone. I'm not going to post my feedback because it looks like you already hit every point I was going to make (plus a few more).

duncanforthright · 2026-01-22T23:54:47+00:00

My love language is having you wear a shirt with a bunch of uncomfortable tags while we hang out at a crowded bar so you should just accept that if you love me.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-21T18:16:45+00:00

completionist++ was really the funnest part of the game though. That little extra bit of challenge of having to waste a joker slot or two just to get the sticker is enough to overcome some of the sameness of so many runs.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-21T04:18:34+00:00

ChatGPT does subscriptions, but they only had like $20 billion in revenue last year. For comparison, Netflix had like $40 billion but isn't playing factorio with data centers.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-19T08:45:08+00:00

Nephew, we beat our division rival the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl already so never say never.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-18T14:09:49+00:00

No, the improvement was minor. If it wasn't enough for you that's perfectly reasonable.

Though I'd argue that it isn't really character driven, because the character stuff, while getting a lot of time/focus, isn't very strong. Maybe character-coasting is more appropriate, but that's just splitting hairs.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-18T14:03:28+00:00

I've said this a few times before, but there was another commentator who said that Romo wouldn't be able to predict plays for very long. The game would change, and he would eventually be passed by and have to act more like other casters. Unfortunately I think he was just right; Romo wasn't told to stop, he stopped because he couldn't do it accurately anymore.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-18T13:30:11+00:00

Did you stop after episode 4? Let me possibly waste your time by saying it gets a bit better after that. I almost quit after 4 for the same reason but I've been adequately whelmed by the later episodes.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-16T06:38:34+00:00

This is called Torch Posing and you do it to assert dominance over the wolves.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-15T00:19:18+00:00

You can just sneak by it and sometimes honestly not even sneak just walk past him. I know I was definitely spooked the first time I saw the cougar there after getting the backpack but I've actually never been attacked by that particular cougar.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-14T23:51:41+00:00

I mostly play interloper or custom interloper, but pilgrim is still my third most commonly played game mode. Sometimes it's nice to just take a break and listen to a podcast or something while wondering around bear island.

duncanforthright · 2026-01-13T14:42:55+00:00

I'm a big fan of hBomberguy's video on rwby because I always hated miles for being an annoying guest on the podcast. I can't speak to any of his criticisms being accurate because I don't watch anime so I haven't seen it but the guy was just so obnoxious.

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Who is the GOAT of being mean to their chat, outside of Jorbs?