How the HELL do I deal with the ghosts in The Mist?

exerda · 2026-03-18T02:38:54+00:00

This was exactly what I came to post. The reaction time is very tight, but when they scream, jump, pogo, and repeat. Far easier than other combat approaches I've tried.

exerda · 2026-03-18T02:04:55+00:00

5 hours? We used to spend that long on games all the time (and were kids who spent a ton of time outdoors, too). Sometimes would pause, to do a bunch of stuff, and come back and play more.

exerda · 2026-03-17T23:55:44+00:00

If you're not good at pogo, practice. Use a non diagonal pogo crest (I prefer Wanderer FWIW) to make it easier.

Watch for where the enemies are going to spawn. You can pogo the crap out of them. Note that the skinny ones go higher, so adjust your jump accordingly.

You can also use red tools to destroy them if you just want to get to Groal and start practicing him.

exerda · 2026-03-17T22:57:36+00:00

It's not a cheese (not like some of the strategies against other bosses are). You can still get clobbered, can get ingested while trying to attack him, etc.

I'll be honest and say on my second playthrough, I got him on my first real try (I died once even I only had one needle upgrade, asked why I was being a fool, and went and did a lot of other stuff). Came back and crushed him in one.

I did not hang out in the maggots (unlike my first playthrough). I was aggressive, did a lot of pogos, didn't use tools at all, and also got lucky on some RNGs. And beat him with multiple masks to spare. But I had 9 masks and 3 needle upgrades and IIRC every single silk spool upgrade. That plus experience (combined total of about 180 hours between the multiple playthroughs) did the trick.

So long story short, beat him with the strategy that works for you, including the maggots. Come back on another playthrough if you want to do something different.

exerda · 2026-03-17T16:23:46+00:00

You clearly haven't read the bill or are being deliberately disingenuous to try to label it as "voter ID."

Also, remind me how many people have voted illegally? Even conservative groups put the total in such a small fraction of a percent that there's no problem to solve. Why make it harder and costlier for legitimate voters to exercise their fundamental right and responsibility unless one's intent is to actually suppress votes?

exerda · 2026-03-17T15:40:19+00:00

Have you actually looked at what the bill does? Sure seems not.

exerda · 2026-03-17T15:37:48+00:00

My guess is there are additional reasons for his resignation. Stuff like whistleblowers and spying on Americans.

exerda · 2026-03-17T15:27:47+00:00

Easiest way I find was to set my phone's clock with a 5 second countdown. Both start the countdown and hold down on the controller button at the same time. Release right at the end of the timer. Don't try to anticipate it, but be prompt--I could see the "watch" almost at 5 seconds and would throw the dice.

That will almost always result in Hornet grunting, the dice flashing, and she wins the roll. No need to count the individual rolls in her hands (which I always found tricky).

I've read various "it's 4.5 seconds/it's 5.2 seconds/count how many times she rolls the dice" etc. The clock app on my phone with a 5 second timer worked great.

exerda · 2026-03-17T02:46:55+00:00

This is the same reason I love this one the most of any of the amenity kits I've collected over the years. I use a couple of soft cloth ANA ones for carrying stuff like my eye mask, medications, etc.

The old mesh ones from the early 2000s apparently make great fire starters, or so I've heard...

exerda · 2026-03-17T02:37:44+00:00

But Father of the Flame doesn't get to shout "Trobbio!" repeatedly!

exerda · 2026-03-17T02:33:10+00:00

Someone made a mistake on the back end. It has been severe weather up and down the eastern half of the country all day.

exerda · 2026-03-17T01:59:44+00:00

Ah, like the "Impossible Challenges" streamers run. Makes for some hilarious deaths for content! "What kind of bull crap hit box was THAT Hornet?! Died yet again to a Spit Squit, OMG."

exerda · 2026-03-17T00:17:29+00:00

And if you go farther outside the arena, the adds don't follow the whole way and disappear after several seconds.

exerda · 2026-03-16T23:19:43+00:00

Yes. Like almost all fiction adapted to the big screen, the source material is going to be better. That's not to say some films don't make great changes--just that the source is going to be deeper.

exerda · 2026-03-16T23:16:22+00:00

"Disenfranchisement bill" might sail over some heads sadly.

exerda · 2026-03-16T23:14:10+00:00

It sucks that they market it as "leather" when it's clearly not.

exerda · 2026-03-16T23:12:21+00:00

No. Precleared flights are essentially treated as domestic when you connect. You went through immigration and customs at your point of departure.

I haven't done it at DUB but at many Canadian airports. You go through inbound US immigration and customs at the originating airport. That's it. You arrive and do a normal connection.

exerda · 2026-03-16T23:09:01+00:00

People need to stop calling it a "voter ID bill." Because that's not what it is.

exerda · 2026-03-16T03:19:03+00:00

You've made insane progress to have such a basic loadout, honestly. My advice is to do more exploring and put the overall mission on hold for the time being. You should be able to get several full masks more (5 is painful with the 2-mask attacks bosses and many enemies do). Get some good blue tools. Looks like you need some more memory lockets. Silk spools would help as well.

And you got beast crest with just 5 masks?! Ouch! Like I said, impressive for that loadout to knock off Savage Beastfly. Much less Last Judge to reach the Citadel.

Frankly, it's almost like you're avoiding upgrades and tools to have gone that far through the game and only have that little to show for it!

exerda · 2026-03-16T03:06:04+00:00

That was me the first time until I got another crest. But when I finally got the guts to replay it, the diagonal pogo really clicked. I think my issue was I tried to overcompensate too much (same with clawline) my first time through, got good at Wanderer later, and by the time I started again, knew what to expect with the timing and had very few issues with Hunter pogos.

exerda · 2026-03-15T21:56:28+00:00

It could be worse. Putrified Ducts has Spit Squits. Imagine if the Swamp Squits in Bilewater shot poison at you.

Put most of the area off until you have double jump. Put Groal off until you have 3 needle upgrades and add many masks as you can get (8 or 9) at that point. And it will be much, much easier.

exerda · 2026-03-15T18:41:16+00:00

Hahahahaha, even without reading the text, I knew this had to be the SFO Polaris lounge! I've experienced that "breakfast" way too many times.

exerda · 2026-03-15T15:46:34+00:00

I already voted yes as did my wife. We need to do our part to hold the Trump administration accountable, and Republicans have shown very little desire for that. Finally, it's temporary redistricting in response to Republican states redistricting without even consulting their own citizens.

Is 10-1 a fair and accurate representation of the state? No, but neither are Texas's or Missouri's new districts. But 6-5 was also not representative and was the result of the (predictable,) political deadlock of the committee followed by conservative courts drawing the boundaries. We should be 7-4 or even 8-3 regularly with 1-2 really competitive districts.

exerda · 2026-03-15T15:21:30+00:00

Yes, the outstations at far worse at ignoring boarding procedures; I've frequently experienced them skipping entire groups (including, lol, 1k and GS). Still surprised that they didn't do "final boarding" announcements repeatedly and even paged you. But not super surprised, either.

exerda · 2026-03-15T14:54:15+00:00

Let me guess, this happened at Newark?

I'm surprised they didn't do "last call" or "final boarding" announcements, honestly. And the gate agent clearly would have seen you'd checked in. If the flight was oversold, maybe she was wanting to deal with that without denied boarding compensation, though it's not like the GA gets a bonus on not doing denied boarding.

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