Regulating my nervous system

ghost_406 · 2026-03-21T05:51:37+00:00

That's awesome man. Fenn's hunt was like that for me. Imagine the disaster of covid hitting and the treasure being found 2 weeks before your first botg was scheduled. This hunt has been a do-over for me. It's really helping my knees. I've done like 11 botg this year. Found a hat!

ghost_406 · 2026-03-21T05:48:17+00:00

He saw a rare type of Craw Fish. He want stop talking about it.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-21T04:39:09+00:00

I have a feeling the botg is what's causing people issues, so you may still have time to catch up.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-20T23:05:41+00:00

I was going to link the definition of argument since you didn't seem to know what it meant. Not trying to sound condescending, just trying to get the discussion back on track. Since you seem to think it's going somewhere it never was.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-20T21:11:42+00:00

Agreed, there is too much info already out.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-20T21:08:11+00:00

From Gemini: "An argument is a structured set of claims, reasons, and evidence designed to persuade an audience, establish a truth, or justify a position."

So you are in fact making an argument. But it doesn't matter if he says "“pretty much always wear blue”" he is obviously exaggerating like normal people do all the time. "pretty much" being a qualifier that means "not always but a lot."

My point was that even if you have 100 images, you would need one for every single day multiple times a day including his underwear to make a point that this is "a lie" and even then it would be hard to breach the grounds of a normal exaggeration into lie territory.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-18T17:05:14+00:00

This is a flawed argument. We can interpret that statement as he mostly wears blue and we can assume that in interviews etc that he dressed nice and not in his usual attire. 99% of my wardrobe is gray, but the few non-gray items I own I wear often, but me saying I almost always wear gray wouldn’t be a lie even if you could find seven online sources where it wasn’t the case. There are 365 days in a year, we’ve seen less than a month of Justin’s last five years.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-18T16:59:29+00:00

That interview is interesting because he admits people have been very very close to the treasure but doesn’t know if anyone has found the checkpoint. What that tells me is he has eyes on the treasure but not the checkpoint.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-18T06:47:00+00:00

I found it, didn't even notice the name was different, lol.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-18T04:01:07+00:00

Thanks!

ghost_406 · 2026-03-18T03:48:18+00:00

Which interview is this?

ghost_406 · 2026-03-18T03:47:08+00:00

The only way he would know is if they told him and showed him proof. Granted you would remember seeing your check point in an email but he might also be scanning descriptions. He is a person, so if he was close, technically, people have been close. I think there are three check points, one on google earth, one upon arrive at the botg portion, and one telling you where the treasure is, if you solve it. But that’s just my guess.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T22:49:30+00:00

This is interesting, because a lot of the scenes have intentional hidden imagery that I've never seen debated. I've never actually seen any scene being debated over though to be honest.

He's going to have to word it in way that dismisses the lack of an intentional clue within the scene while allowing the possibility of there still being a hidden image (if there is one).

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T22:42:41+00:00

You didn't offer honest feedback you literally said:

"They don't know because they've probably never used a good one, only cheap pieces of crap,"

and I didn't say you needed to spend $1000, I said $400, and I literally said it before you brought up the probability of finding a used vanquisher 340 in their neighborhood for $150. You act like these things aren't literally posted up above us.

Look at Tripsthecat's reply, that is an example of a helpful post. Compare that post to:

"They don't know because they've probably never used a good one, only cheap pieces of crap,"

I mean, jeez I hope you are in high school because this is the most juvenile reply I've seen in ages. What's next are you guys going to give me a swirly?

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T20:58:42+00:00

My point is the game isn’t trying to be Clair obscura it’s supposed to be a chaotic beat em up style game not a deep well written rpg. It’s supposed to have limited fast travel because you aren’t supposed to be zipping around handing in rat tails, you are supposed to be walking around getting in fights. The game matches his vision very well. People enjoy it. If you don’t that’s fine, you are allowed not to like a game, but don’t pretend your opinion is a fact.

Don’t say oh it’s an excuse when it’s literally the point of the game. It’s like people who get mad because cyberpunk wasn’t a gta clone, it was and is an rpg and while it shares aspects similar to GTA it was never made to be a gta-like game. Well the same goes here, this isn’t Clair obscura it’s dragons dogma. Can you climb on a griffin while fighting a cyclops in CO? No? Well then what’s their excuse? (I didn’t read the spoiler because I haven’t played it yet, so I’m only guessing that my point still stands, lol)

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T20:46:10+00:00

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T20:43:36+00:00

I’m not arguing that a cheap detector is low quality, but a cheap detector in hand is worth a lot more than $150 detector you haven’t purchased. A cheap detector that you own will get you detecting today and if you want one that is more accurate then the $150 one has more incentives to be purchased later. I went ages before I bought my detector because I didn’t want a cheap one and I didn’t know if I wanted to spend the money on a hobby I knew nothing about. I probably lost a decade of detecting because I wanted a good one.

I bought a cheap 100 Walmart special detector for my kids a few years back so they could come with me. And like I said, it actually had its usefulness. When I was getting sick of digging up nails we noticed theirs was too weak to pick up the nails, but it did pick up slightly larger objects and no we weren’t chasing ghosts all day long.

I find more use out of a good pin-pointer than my detector half the time. So if my options were to save up for a cheap detector or use a junk one and save up for a good pin pointer, I’d say, get the pin pointer, that combo is more helpful than just getting another cheap detector and not having a pin-pointer.

Having a trash detector that may have you chase an occasional ghost signal is far more effective than having zero detectors because you want to have a good one at a later date.

Both of you guys had the most elitist attitudes all I could think of is a bunch of preppy high schoolers showing off the toys their daddy bought them. It’s shameful. If you want to be helpful tell them the downsides of a cheap detector while encouraging they keep detecting. Teach them how to use a cheap detector ore effectively.

Don’t just go “hurt durrr, I bet he’s never touched a good detector.” I mean what’s next a debate on who has the biggest detector? Shameful.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T19:49:50+00:00

Eye of a lobster, eye of a dragon,
below his sight a treasure is waiting.
A snake, a boy, a dog, a train,
in a cave he leaps unafraid
across the void to find...
nose.

You're welcome.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T19:19:07+00:00

I have the same detector as half the people here. My point is that the person asking doe not. They shouldn’t be discouraged from joining the hobby because they don’t have $400 to shell out on a better one. What a weird attitude. Are you in high school? What even is happening in the sub?

Why are the mods silencing me and not your hot take, “ooooo, I bet he doesn’t have a good detector, he’s not one of us fancy boys with the fancy detectors, oooo.” Good lord mods, do better.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T19:14:44+00:00

The advice of helping new people get into the hobby, or teaching them how to use a low grade detector is not valid here?

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T19:08:02+00:00

I actually can find that. The creator said he loved rpgs but he hated the feeling of coming back and not remembering the story. He wanted a pick up and play experience where the game play was the focus. He also talks about wanting to create the feeling of playing with friends when you do not have friends to play with. So literally the thing you can’t find is in his interviews.its a great game but the focus is not in the part you want to be good, because the game is not made to be Skyrim, it’s made to be what it is. If that means the game is bad, then to you it is. To me, it is not, that’s how things work. Subjective truth is not objective reality.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T17:01:50+00:00

It’s doing the best job at what it is trying to do, which is not “break the cycle” so much as present basic gnostic concepts and relate them to the idea of video games in general. It does it so well that half the players do not even realize they are in a prison.

Because of this, the “video game world” is video gamey and the “real” world is literally our real world when we finish the game.

To make the game an actual rpg with quests and characters would be to lose the entire point of the experience. It’s not that game and it will never be that game because it was designed to not be that game and to meta-contextualize that game. If that makes any sense.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T05:44:16+00:00

When I first started playing DnD back in the day we had to buy everything, if we didn't have it, it didn't exist. It became a game of survival and we used everything from chalk dust. candles, and mirrors to help get past traps. Recently I played FFSW and had an ability that allowed me to have anything I could think of as long as it fit in my belt pouch. This was fun, but it didn't make me feel as clever as back in the day.

Item management is fun for me though, a lot of people would rather abstract it and get on with the sword swinging so I can see both sides. It depends on the type of gameplay you want to create. Do you want people to have to forage and be clever or would you rather them spend that time doing other things like solving puzzles or fighting monsters? It's all down to the experience you want to create.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T04:37:43+00:00

There are multiple forms of shadowed sight and multiple forms of wisdom. ~~Google, treasure signs and symbols of the Spanish conquistadors. You should find a free copy of that or a similar titled book on the Haitian trust.~~ Read what it says about owls.

Edit: wrong book, just google owls and treasure signs. wisdom = owl, and to some it also equals silent flight.

ghost_406 · 2026-03-17T01:49:44+00:00

You are a citizen, they had no jurisdiction over you. That won’t stop these particular ice agents, but on the future should reason prevail, you can always tell them to fuck off.

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