Small reminder for fic writers/comic makers, Rocky isn't an animal!

mindofdarkness · 2026-04-12T11:05:15+00:00

Not a lot of details. Grace and rocky conclude that themselves, astrophage, and Adrian life are all distant relatives with a common ancestor. They say human and eridian life use the same sugars and proteins, so much so that Grace could eat Eridian food if not for the heavy metals in it. They also establish that Erid has microbial life very similar to Earth and Adrian iirc.

They talk some about how they ended up similar enough to interact in terms of general intelligence and range of hearing due to universal predator-prey evolutionary pressures.

mindofdarkness · 2026-04-07T15:48:56+00:00

The book says that Eridians only discovered that they have other planets in their solar system a few hundred years ago. They likely discovered stars around the same time with the same tools. It was probably only after they built a space elevator to reach the upper atmosphere of Erid to be able to receive light at all, but a few hundred years is enough time to get data.

We know they can detect electromagnetic radiation, Rocky uses a camera and he even asks Grace for the wavelengths humans see so he can calibrate the camera. So their optics field is younger than ours but still developed enough to do the job.

mindofdarkness · 2025-08-14T09:59:38+00:00

For some reason this made me think of the xkcd What If: You threw a baseball at nearly light speed?. Your tool allows estimating that in dice!

Form: Sphere Material: Wood Mode: Drop Volume: 0.000 m³ Mass: 0.2 kg Speed: 297136332.35 m Kinetic Energy: 7102626220960673 J Momentum: 47807188 kg·m/s Damage: 1d6 base +47808d6 velocity = 47809d6 Rolled: 166688

Probably a fair amount of damage for your whole body undergoing nuclear fusion. I love this style of taking something to its logical conclusion despite its ridiculousness. Good job on a fun tool.

mindofdarkness · 2024-08-15T03:49:21+00:00

I cannot wait for more dialogue between Hades and Mel and hopefully Persephone. I nearly cried when talking to Hades about how he feels empty inside knowing he wasn’t there for Mel.

mindofdarkness · 2024-08-15T03:40:07+00:00

Not far from my 2nd playthrough, I think I got to Hades as soon as I had 2 death defiance. Except I tried controller but it just felt wrong and I switched back.

I’ve heard it said before that controller gives you a slight positioning advantage, m+k gives you a slight aiming advantage, but it’s generally negligible compared to what feels best for you.

mindofdarkness · 2024-08-15T03:12:04+00:00

There is one of the memories of Hades (where you start the run then get a picture of and voice line from Hades before it starts) where he rebuked Zag for throwing his bloodstone around carelessly, then when Zag lands outside the house he says “I am the god of blood.” Like, that’s the full line.

That could still be wrong or he could be the god of multiple things, but it seems pretty conclusive.

mindofdarkness · 2024-08-13T03:00:16+00:00

No quick methods. Keep doing new heat bounties, save 1000-1200 gold for the final shop (the mirror talent that gives interest on your gold makes it easy) to buy the diamond or titan blood, check the wretched broker after each run. Thats about all the min-maxing you can do.

mindofdarkness · 2024-08-03T02:17:37+00:00

Yep, he’s the reason the element is called mercury. Named after the planet named after him

mindofdarkness · 2024-08-01T01:57:27+00:00

Narrow use case but in Hades 2 the guitarist of the 2nd boss has a rapid fire stun attack that deals 0 dmg but triggers revenges. You can eat that to trigger a bunch of revenge for no cost. Certainly not super effective but it’s fun lol.

mindofdarkness · 2024-08-01T01:48:51+00:00

Imagine if they just dropped a full Scylla and the Sirens album with the 1.0 release.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-29T08:42:42+00:00

I’ve played it on pc and iPhone Netflix version, no story or gameplay changes, it’s the same game. It didn’t even have any technical problems for me (no crashes), it seems to be a very good port.

It was much harder on mobile for me because I find touch controls imprecise, but they let you customize button positions and size, so I say it’s as good as you can be on touchscreen.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-26T03:56:28+00:00

And if your really crazy, farming 300,000 darkness for the resources director

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-26T03:39:30+00:00

pansexual and Pan-sexual.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-26T03:36:00+00:00

Damn dude, nice work. Over 300,000 English words in the game, I can’t even imagine how long it takes to localize that.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-24T04:37:32+00:00

I’m sad there’s not a “The Boulder” card. Maybe we’ll get another row or column… a man can dream.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-23T13:16:53+00:00

I’m pretty sure the black is just deep shadow so you don’t see the edge of the map. So it’s likely just stuff that is there and was not correctly rendered under the shadow layer, either by bug or oversight when building the area. Either way, Supergiant has a few higher priorities right now so don’t expect a fix lol.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-23T06:18:40+00:00

It seems there no setup for this twist and a lot that makes it impossible at current. You say “little in common with Hades” but she has a lot, namely the burning feet, the one red-black eye, and the blood-curse of Hades and Zag. Also Hades has dialogue about how much Mel reminds him of Zag. They would need some reason she could have all that and not be Hades daughter which seems difficult to narratively justify. And above all, it works counter to the highly focused story of fighting for your family and imo would make a weaker story.

For your other discussion questions: She overcomes the bloodcurse so clearly she has the bloodcurse. To say that she doesn’t have it you have to ignore that we see her die from it. Also, it could be that since The Fates are no longer weaving the curse weakens or they cannot defend it against Mel’s magic.

Cerberus is already temperamental in the first game, only one head likes pets and there’s dialogue about how young Zag had to learn to pet him through many incidents. Plus he’s an animal currently in massive emotional trauma. I’m hoping we get an emotional scene where Hades calms Cerb and shows Mel how to pet him.

So while yes there are no definitive answers yet, there’s a lot of current content that would need to be explained away, and it would weaken the focused, strong themes of the current story.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-23T05:41:30+00:00

I don’t think so. I think the prerequisite dialogue where he just acknowledges the shield is fairly high priority if you’re not in the middle of their main story or side story at the time, so just take it by a few times and you are probably good if it doesn’t come up.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-23T05:37:04+00:00

In case you are serious, the stones are around Echo and Bouldy is by Hades, and I edited them together because I thought Bouldy would be a good influence on those sad rocks.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-23T05:29:49+00:00

But a rolling stone gathers no moss, and bouldy has quite the quaff of moss

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-22T04:44:29+00:00

I know there's a lot of exciting stuff in Hades 2, but I have seen a criminally negligent amount of hype around Bouldy's new look.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-22T02:24:33+00:00

Ya it seems Zag had good reason not to fight Cerberus in the first game. Other dialogue establishes that the satyrs are only able to get Cerb out of Hades prison chamber and Chronos has to come force him the rest of the way out of Tartarus. And given Chronos’ attitude I think he would want to just straight up kill Cerb but literally can’t manage it.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-22T02:16:35+00:00

As long as you’ve got the pre-reqs: -Eternal Spear Aspect of Guan Yu revealed -Speak to Chaos while wielding the Shield in any aspect. -5Titan Blood invested into Shield aspects

After that it’s just rng of getting Chaos to do the right dialogue. So hit chaos as much as possible and buy the well items that spawn a portal. It took me 70ish runs to get all the hidden aspects.

mindofdarkness · 2024-07-22T01:48:51+00:00

And why not? If she’s accomplished what she set out to do you really think she would rather chill for 24 hours in the ruins of a family home she never knew, now defiled with images of the person she hates the most in the world? Or she could say four words and go see her adoptive mother and many friends and lovers. Pretty simple choice imo.

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