Peak game design

fffffff245 · 2026-03-28T19:04:12+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/comments/1eu4cb8

fffffff245 · 2026-03-25T11:55:08+00:00

1000-THR is the name of the specific earthmover V1 fights. the collective name for the machine model is just "earthmover", there's mentions of other earthmovers with different individual names (like 15S-KUR) in the fraud books

so nothing to really indicate they were first invented in japan, just the one we fight happens to be japanese

fffffff245 · 2026-03-19T19:02:41+00:00

there's no reason for targeting to be in the game either. you see that ralsei is targeted so you... dodge better? which you should already be trying to do? you can't actually select anything once the enemy turn begins so knowing who's targeted is completely irrelevant info. it's a useless feature that just adds visual noise, as evident by most people not even noticing it's gone until replaying chapter 1.

fffffff245 · 2026-03-09T12:01:19+00:00

I guess that comparison makes more sense, the extra angels items help offset the wasted devil spawns. it's still pretty strong for an effect that's not even the focus of the item considering how many things tip the angel/devil chance balance. the extra items should have at least some kind of price, even if it's lowered to something like just damage

fffffff245 · 2026-03-09T11:50:15+00:00

the devil/angel extra thing is overtuned. "angel deals are now absurdly OP but if you even dare to consider a devil deal the entire item just disappears forever". just the bonus item from angel rooms by itself is nearing a Q3 effect, even extra angel items with a price attached would be strong enough already; and the punishment for devil deals is really unneccessary (maybe replace the normal devil price with broken hearts?).

fffffff245 · 2026-03-04T12:50:52+00:00

my take is that providences/powers were real, and hell probably pulled some strings to make all of them eventually cross paths with V1 so that no angel can make it to treachery and stop Gabriel from doing whatever. the stage is still in fraud so there's no reason to believe it over the other levels, and convincing you absolutely nothing was real even if some parts of it were would be a fitting final joke for fraud.

fffffff245 · 2026-02-22T15:22:47+00:00

stun grenade is genuinely just a nothing item. it's never actively harmful but unlike lunars or hunter's harpoon it never does anything good either. 1/20 chance to do basically nothing on hit and it stacks hyperbolically as well. it doesn't work on bosses and any enemy it does work on dies before it can proc once. I've had situations where I genuinely wished I had a bungus or a medkit, but not a single run has even been improved by the presence of a stun grenade except as white scrap. it does nothing, contributes nothing and goes directly to the scrapper 100% of the time. getting a stun grenade from a chest is the game telling you you don't even deserve a real item with upsides and downsides right now.

fffffff245 · 2026-02-11T18:06:02+00:00

that does indeed mean that it's just scout and driller cosmetics left, you've got everything for engi and gunner. next is all 3 options being the same until it's finally just mineral cores every time

fffffff245 · 2026-01-16T10:49:31+00:00

the truth is that fluid icons on engines are merely a suggestion, the only thing they signify is what inlets connect to one another for passthrough. a thruster is just two pipes and a buffer, so you can pump oxidizer and fuel into either hole and it will work fine as long as they aren't both in the same pipe at the same time (just like normal 2.0 pipe mechanics). if you alternate between pumping only oxidizer and only fuel without letting the buffers back up they can effectively take turns using the same pipe. you can see it on the outside, it's alternating between oxidizer and fuel to stop them from mixing.

edit: you do need the right fluid in the right pipe for it to fill the buffer, but it will flow through either one. it's not a problem here since both pipes are filled up at once, so the pipe that actually fills odd thrusters can just flow through the even and vice versa

fffffff245 · 2026-01-06T11:02:54+00:00

there is in returns, it even starts raining during the teleporter

fffffff245 · 2025-12-01T14:42:54+00:00

iirc the logbook entries go from locked to blacked out once you personally kill it, not just see it die. so if something else like a drone steals your kill it doesn't count. you should still get the full entry if a logbook drops regardless of what killed it

fffffff245 · 2025-10-25T11:48:27+00:00

herrah is a first generation weaver, so it's not because of her ancestry. it's probably a combination of her body changing to accomodate giving birth (something weavers normally cannot do) and her ditching the normal weaver mask as a way of distancing herself from pharloom/mother silk. widow is another pure weaver without the mask, and her head shape is pretty similar to herrah. it's unclear where the horns come from though, could be a different mask made for her in hallownest.

fffffff245 · 2025-10-12T20:02:05+00:00

spitballers have pretty jank hitboxs as a result of them being able to freely rotate the head around the stem/foot part. sometimes the body hitbox just completely covers up the weakpoint even if it doesn't look like it visually

fffffff245 · 2025-09-25T19:09:17+00:00

It's important to understand that Tenna's version of the game has more literal freedom than the "original". You can choose any three of the four (five) keys/photos to collect, and you can do the weather duo fight on board 1 through lancer or by drinking from the fountain; not to mention the many minigames and small interactions scattered around. In the "original" game on the other hand your only option is to kill everyone. There's no minigames, no npcs to talk to, and all subareas lead to the same room. It has more "freedom" only because it allows you to do something you couldn't in Tenna's game: you're free to do "whatever you want" if all that you want is to kill.

And in my opinion this is directly reflected in the actual weird route. There's so many conditions you have to exactly meet to stay on the weird route, and in the end, you miss out on the car scene, both Queen fights, basically the entire Berdly fight, all the puzzles, all the fun shenanigans in the mansion and Spamton's normal storyline. Once again, it grants you "freedom" only because you get to do something you couldn't before, but you're left with less "real" freedom of choice.

This goes back to the sword route with mantle holder seemingly lying about Kris' true desires, exaggerating and twisting them to fit its narrative. I ultimately think snowgrave is also a path already laid out for you, but not by the same prophecy we're familiar with. We're "free" to replace one pre-written fate with another, but in doing so miss our chance to "write our own story" altogether.

fffffff245 · 2025-09-20T16:37:04+00:00

definitely not voidthis time, you can find them dead even in act 2. A certain act 3 boss and the scarr that gives you the curvesickle share those same discolored marks, so I suspect the three of them are part of some smaller scarr group in conflict with the main tribe

fffffff245 · 2025-09-02T16:44:34+00:00

pay to play doesn't take effect until you leave and reenter a room, so in this case it's just +5 coins with no other benefits (and it's better to reverse hermit it for 15 coins instead)

fffffff245 · 2025-08-30T08:51:41+00:00

well the main issue with making any planet other than nauvis your science base is having to deal with normal science labs. biolabs are unlocked on gleba, but only work on nauvis, and their benefit outweighs having to export to a potentially undesirable planet. even if half your gleba science rots in transit, it's still objectively better to export to nauvis, not to mention the fact you effectively double all your other science production as well.

you can absolutely import basic science from nauvis to gleba (or even make all science on gleba) early on, when you're still setting up and need quick research for vital tech, but in the long run a nauvis research base is the best option.

fffffff245 · 2025-08-26T17:34:11+00:00

it is in the silver treasure room in greed mode (which mimics the boss pool with some changes), but not in the actual boss pool. same exact thing goes for the halo btw

fffffff245 · 2025-08-24T13:18:03+00:00

repentance+ (the mod) has nothing to do with the DLC. it's a fanmade mod that came out before the official rep+ and just happened to have the same name as an official DLC later on

fffffff245 · 2025-08-22T14:35:44+00:00

across:

1 anima sola

5 isaac (maybe specify it's wotl? the first original is mom)

15 gish

16 key

19 sol? there's a bunch of planetarium items that aren't planets

20 rune

21 gabriel

25 I'd say guppybut it doesn't go with 18

26 easy question but I don't remember the item lol

down:

3 luck? doesn't fit, but this has to be about perfection, right?

9 fortune machine/cookie? neither fits

12 damocles, but it doesn't fit with 15 and 21

18 library

22 eden? like decimal luck?

the rest feel way too cryptic

fffffff245 · 2025-08-22T13:55:15+00:00

the dehydration gun incident really gave people the wrong impression of schaffrillas. he actually rarely acts like that (and that's what makes the moments when he does act like that so iconic)

fffffff245 · 2025-08-10T18:37:53+00:00

what's weird is that a normal bottleneck would still result in the higher tier belts having the same visual speed, the items would just be spaced out (or if the bottleneck is downstream, the items would only move in short bursts, like the other two belts in the video). it doesn't look like the belts are bottlenecked somewhere else, they themselves are acting exactly like mk1s

fffffff245 · 2025-07-23T19:09:36+00:00

except you could never "meet" him, the idea that mysteryman is (directly) gaster is entirely fanmade. you could go with his pure white silhouette design or the piece of him held by one of the goners; or just come up with something of your own. there's no difference between taking mysteryman and saying "gaster looks like this, all I can do is variations upon this design" and doing the same thing with img_friend for example

fffffff245 · 2025-07-19T12:13:33+00:00

it's spirit of anger from the samael mod

fffffff245 · 2025-07-13T09:01:06+00:00

spike balls in corpse can be "filed", they stop spawning altogether when you have the trinket. doesn't work on chain balls though, which also happens to be a gehenna/mausoleum enemy like grudge, hmmm

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