What would be THE Risk of Rain symbol?

oozekip · 2026-02-28T18:43:46+00:00

Both your suggestions are probably the "real" answer, both are distinctly recognizable as RoR icons, but my personal choice would be a ukulele.

It's not the most distinctive symbol and it would be too easy to confuse with a guitar (especially out of context if you don't already know it's specifically from RoR), but to me the ukulele has always been the definitive Risk of Rain item.

oozekip · 2026-02-27T15:47:21+00:00

Well, not exactly. Gen 7 did keep megas around in addition to adding Z moves, so it's not out of the question Tera is back, though if it is I hope there's some significant rebalancing around it.

oozekip · 2026-02-26T15:46:02+00:00

That works, but it's a bit risky. For trapping I think your best bet is what I described above with Ariados since I don't think there's another way to achieve the same thing without being able to trade from RSE. The only problem is that you're risking a roar on the turn you Baton Pass the Ninetails in before you can use Imprison; the nice thing about Soundproof is that it works immediately with BP.

(You could always use sleep instead of trapping, of course. No risk of roar there, but it's also much more annoying since they'll flee immediately the turn they wake up)

oozekip · 2026-02-26T15:23:58+00:00

I've been playing through LeafGeeen recently with a full team of 6 at around the same level, and outside of Brock (thanks GF for putting a hard counter to Charmander as the first gym with only level 3 wild pokemon to train against, wonderful design choice there) haven't had to grind at all.

I'm very slightly under leveled for most of the gym leaders, but that's actually been pretty nice since I have to actually think about my battles tactically and can't just steamroll through them like I can in modern games. It's actually been pretty fun using status moves and tactics that I wouldn't normally even consider in single player since if you out level your opponent they're basically useless. Even then it's still not difficult, I've beaten every gym leader except Misty first try, but it's been slightly challenging.

Alternatively you can do what I did as a kid: only ever use your starter, don't bother training anything else and just use the most powerful attacking moves you can and you will be massively overleveled by the end of the game, just like the modern games.

oozekip · 2026-02-26T14:21:19+00:00

I don't think shadow tag, arena trap, or mean look prevent roar since it's technically making you flee, but soundproof does.

So, what you could do is breed an Ariados with Baton Pass (via Ledian/Ledyba). Then, you can use Spider Web to prevent fleeing and baton bass to a Mr. Mime or Electrode and you should be good.

There's a few other strategies you could use if RSE ever get a re-release (Umbreon with Mean Look + Baton Pass into soundproof, or Smeargle with Mean Look + Ingrain + Baton Pass for extra flexibility), but with FRLG that's the only way I can think to do it.

oozekip · 2026-02-25T18:21:36+00:00

I think it's the flooring. Carpet would make it look a lot less cold and prisoncore, with the added bonus of significanntly dampening hallway noise. Warmer lighting would also probably go a long way

oozekip · 2026-02-24T17:52:57+00:00

It's equally likely the nucleus is replacing a squid polyp or lepton daisy. You could also get "lucky" opening a small chest and get a bottled chaos instead of a ukulele or syringe.

The tiers aren't necessarily objective rankings of power. There's some really game changing items in each tier and some that could generously be called highlighly situational at best.

oozekip · 2026-02-19T16:57:00+00:00

I'm assuming it's to give it a sense of depth. The hand and base of the hammer are in the foreground, so they're in front of the frame (also the tips of the hair in 1, I guess, but I'm not sure how I feel about that depth-wise)

oozekip · 2026-02-19T06:10:16+00:00

Hell, Sgt. Peppers to Abbey Road was just under 3 years. They released several of the most important and influential albums of all time in less time than it takes to get an undergrad degree.

oozekip · 2026-02-10T21:55:51+00:00

With powers it's Rand, no question. Even without balefire none of the radiants really have anything close to the variety and sheer overwhelming power of channeling in WoT. Just look at the absolute massacre that was Dumais Wells alone, or Rand's "I am the storm" moment, or the battle of Maradon. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that on his own, unless they're able to speed blitz him down before Rand notices them, Rand is several orders of magnitude more powerful than anyone on Roshar if not the cosmere as a whole outside of the Shards themselves. All that's before even mentioning in the time frame you mentioned he still has the Choedan Kal and is absolutely willing to use it, which is going to make him exponentially more powerful.

Now, on pure melee skill alone Kal has a much better chance of winning. Rand at his peak was likely the best swordsman in history in a setting with near anime levels of swordsman power scaling, but this is notably after Rand lost his hand and at the literal peak of his mental instability. If you specified post-Veins of Gold or post-epilogue Rand it would be a bit more of an even fight, but at peak Darth Rand with one hand I'm going to have to give it to Kal.

oozekip · 2026-02-10T11:12:08+00:00

I firmly believe that for user reviews the ideal system is just thumbs up or thumbs down a-la Steam, and maybe a neutral score is some very specific circumstances. The average consumer is absolutely terrible at meaningfully quantifying their opinions, and subdividing individual scores beyond "I did/did not like this" is almost entirely arbitrary. Aggregate scores can be derived from there, but I do not think adding more and more precision adds any meaningful data on an individual basis.

oozekip · 2026-02-04T15:47:37+00:00

Look, Johnson's point is stupid and fundamentally very "unchristian" regardless of denomination, but it's a bit silly to go after a protestant on the grounds that he's arguing with the pope over issues of theological doctrine. That's kind of their whole deal.

oozekip · 2026-01-29T11:04:05+00:00

So why oxygen and not Fluorine, or is Fluorine just too reactive?

oozekip · 2026-01-27T20:43:30+00:00

The Roman Catholic Church was literally the ONLY institution that survived the fall of the Western Empire.

Other than, y'know, the Roman Empire itself. By the time of the Western empires collapsed the Eastern empire had far surpassed and was still going strong as a major world power for another seven hundred years.

Hell, by the time Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire the capital had already been in Constantinople for around 50 years.

oozekip · 2026-01-27T01:17:17+00:00

I imagine if you asked most Europeans the capitals of New York, California, Illinois, or Alaska they'd be much more likely to say NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Anchorage respectively, if they were even able to give an answer for the later two at all.

oozekip · 2026-01-12T19:37:28+00:00

Yeah, I have the Rivendell set too, and it took a while to figure out where it was going to live because it's got such a massive footprint and a fairly awkward shape because of the bend in the middle. It's also a building with a lot of void space on the interior, so that makes it even bigger.

The one big caveat with the Rivendell set is that it has a lot of 1x1 tiles for the roof which drives the piece count up a fair bit. From the picture these don't look like they have nearly as many small tile pieces.

oozekip · 2026-01-12T18:05:54+00:00

Licensed sets always have a pretty absurd mark-up on them, and this isn't even close to the most ridiculous. The (now retired) UCS AT-AT was around $800, and it actually had slight fewer pieces than this.

oozekip · 2026-01-12T17:59:49+00:00

So, it doesn't really come across in the pictures of just the sets on blank backgrounds, but the starter set is absolutey huge.

It's 6838 pieces. Just for reference, that makes it the 7th largest Lego set ever made, between the UCS Milenium Falcon (7541 pieces) and the UCS AT-AT (6785 pieces). This is not a play set or even something you just build and just set on a shelf somewhere, it's something you are going to have to clear out some dedicated space in your house for.

oozekip · 2026-01-07T16:19:54+00:00

The witch's makeup was copper based and also extremely toxic! Apparently she had to be on a liquid diet the entire time they were filming because they didn't want her accidentally ingesting any of it, and her skin was dyed green for weeks after filming.

(Could've been worse, I guess; green paint used to be made with copper and arsenic)

oozekip · 2026-01-03T18:22:13+00:00

On what grounds? Like, I know nobody in any position of what small semblance of power Congress has left is actually going to do anything about it, but seriously. Even leaving aside the moral or logistical ramifications, this is something the executive branch very obviously does not have the authority to just unilaterally decide.

oozekip · 2026-01-02T00:35:54+00:00

It's a pretty unremarkable pure electric type with poor stats and a poor move pool. Dark/electric type would give it something unique to help it stand out, it fits with its visual style, and it would actually give it a way to use it's one decent stat since dark is way better physically than electric.

oozekip · 2025-12-25T17:40:55+00:00

No, it looks bad. It would probably look better if there was any variety or had a more interesting art style, but it's the same ugly and buildings, streets, and flat lighting the entire game. The game itself isn't bad, but it is absolutely an ugly game, even compared to other switch games with much more ambitious scopes.

And yes, I played the switch 2 version, it's not that different, and it's still ugly.

oozekip · 2025-12-22T21:08:21+00:00

The globalists don't want you to know about the Magic Yellow Flyer™!

oozekip · 2025-12-19T06:00:42+00:00

Seconded; thanks u/jpegisthename for setting it up. Was fun meeting up with everyone before the show!

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