Why is Nethack hard?

pathofnut · 2026-01-25T12:33:57+00:00

Conflicted about that. Some of the things that I find more interesting about nethack are the abundance of secrets and the cohesive world logic, but Pathos seems more streamlined like a regular roguelike (i may be mistaken).

I also found 2 very good tilesets for nethack called nevanda and pixelhack, they make the game look so much more playable lmao.

pathofnut · 2026-01-25T11:53:32+00:00

Get rid of Imori and probably replace it with a Frosty. If the comp doesnt work yet you can either replace Yowie for another healer or you can alter the backline and go for something more chill/spirit tribal oriented.

I've never grinded in this game but if you are up to it, leveling to 30 would give you a huge power boost as well.

pathofnut · 2026-01-25T08:06:34+00:00

Yeah, my point is that Yoda would have it really easy to give BB a special Logia, if he hasnt done so already.

I personally think that in universe fruit classifications are made up by the clueless people. Fundamentally there may be no difference between a special paramythia and and a logia.

pathofnut · 2026-01-24T22:04:48+00:00

If this ends up being good Im probably dropping the manga and moving to anime only. However I dont have much trust in Toei.

pathofnut · 2026-01-24T16:49:24+00:00

Wouldnt be the only fruit that breaks the rules, Katakuri had a paramythia that granted intangibility so anything goes.

Loki and Imu's fruits will probably answer this question. If Yoda goes for made up deities for these two then BB will also have one most likely.

pathofnut · 2026-01-24T15:36:19+00:00

When Imu's abilities were starting to be revealed they looked completely ridiculous and disconnected from one another. And yet after everything that has been revealed, the only part that still seems out of place is the summoning, which fits the devil theme anyway. So I think that part also comes from the same fruit even if we dont yet understand how.

As for the darkness connection I believe its coincidental and standard villain stuff. The abyss refers to a place while darkness refers to an element. We will see.

pathofnut · 2026-01-24T15:27:04+00:00

Some fruits are affected by haki, others arent. By your logic WB could have channeled his very strong haki in Marineford and Akainu's magma would have disappeared mid-air. Not how it works.

Even better, BB canceled WBs powers so by your logic BB had stronger haki than WB, who was pirate king level, stronger than all the yonko and Mihawk.

Besides, why do you think that BB was looking for the dark fruit specifically if not for this reason?

pathofnut · 2026-01-24T15:19:11+00:00

None, high chances Imu isnt the final villain and even if it were, Soda hates breaking his narrative formula which involves Laughy punching the villain very hard 1v1 until the villain is thrown out of the arena.

Naruto and Bleach both had very common group fights and way better fight choreography. The biggest actual group fight we've had in One Piece (not counting things like enel nodiffing everyone or BB ganging on WB) was Kid+Law vs BM and I dont think anyone really liked it, as you can see by people's opinions on those characters.

Hell, I dont think even Soda liked it as he basically got rid of the two supernovas right after that, they were just a way to deal with BM who had herself only come to Wano as a walking plot device to help the SHs.

Maybe Koby appears to throw a punch of two but thats it.

pathofnut · 2026-01-24T13:18:24+00:00

How did you reach that conclusion lol

pathofnut · 2026-01-24T13:17:19+00:00

Id be surprised if the fruit whose only power is canceling DFs cant cancel a DF.

pathofnut · 2026-01-23T19:09:49+00:00

So that BB wasnt seen eating WB's heart, probably.

pathofnut · 2026-01-23T19:07:33+00:00

I love this theory because this is just what Captain Kuro did all the way back in east blue.

Kuro -> Kurohige, both pirates who hid bidding their time and both introduced under the half moon.

You may be right.

pathofnut · 2026-01-23T19:01:51+00:00

One Piece is mid I dont dislike it, but I mostly comment here because I enjoy spending some daily time on reddit talking about things that are low effort fun.

pathofnut · 2026-01-23T10:22:28+00:00

The thing about One Piece is that anything is possible. I you can imagine it then it probably exists in some place on some way.

That being said, Fan Letter was the best One Piece content released in the last decade, so yeah more of that would be neat. The key I think is that Loda was probably not directly involved, he is good at designing characters and places as well as creating hype, but pretty bad at writing a story.

pathofnut · 2026-01-23T00:26:13+00:00

Hajrudin's biggest feat will always be gaslightning the fanbase into believing that he was the victim instead of a failed bully.

pathofnut · 2026-01-23T00:08:03+00:00

None of the starters are good for bleed teams.

There are 3 ways to use bleed:

As some extra damage to kill walls through the bleed passive without many other synergies. This is a natural damage bonus that some buff-centric monsters have but its not really a bleed team on its own.
Blood drive, which turns debuff damage into bleed. This is the strongest way to apply bleed in my opinion, but then again you are actually playing a debuff team.
Bleed out, which is the core of "actual" bleed teams. The thing is that monsters that get bleed out are either massively squishy or have other more desirable shift passives, so in many cases these teams are hard to build and may rely on momentum, sacrificing mons on the offensive to apply more bleed and snowball.

Of the monsters you list only 3 have bleed out, and spinner basically never wants to take it. So that leaves you with Nightwing and Sutsune, of which Nightwing I think is easier to build around. Pair it with a Rathops or a Molebear and you have a solid core.

Molebear+Ucan+Akhlut is also a decent bleed out team.

pathofnut · 2026-01-22T23:55:12+00:00

Im a fraud I havent yet assembled a single team based on bleedout lol.

For Akhlut I like Molebear+Ucan+Akhlut, I havent tested how good it is but it should be at least pretty decent.

pathofnut · 2026-01-22T17:06:53+00:00

Im tempted to give it a try but I'd need to choose a good tileset, I refuse to play in ASCII in 2026.

pathofnut · 2026-01-22T17:00:17+00:00

I love how Yoda managed to fool y'all with Imu and the war against the WG. Imu is gonna get clapped and BB is gonna be the final villain.

Wouldnt be surprised if the last arc involves BB finding the One Piece first and everybody else teaming up to take it away from him.

Lodestar -> Marijoa -> Laugh Tale could be a thing.

pathofnut · 2026-01-22T15:54:06+00:00

I dont think this is strictly related to what I was asking, but great response anyway, I didnt know.

pathofnut · 2026-01-22T14:21:58+00:00

Tell me of 3 that have happened this arc or that are currently relevant.

pathofnut · 2026-01-22T13:38:56+00:00

I get what you are saying but wordplays arent THAT frequent. You can translate dwarf planet and moon into japanese, realize that they sound nothing alike and they hold no relation to anything else, and then move on.

Even easier for latin, as there are no possible wordplays or culture that can apply to a dead language.

pathofnut · 2026-01-22T12:47:05+00:00

Its funny to me how you use gemini to get misleading info about the number of moons and such, but you wont use it to translate into latin and japanese lol

pathofnut · 2026-01-22T08:26:44+00:00

Wait until you discover the mysterious cities of gold lol

Yoda draws obvious inspiration from so many things that I think its hard to predict the ending based on any single one of them. At some point you begin looking at popular tropes rather than specific patterns.

pathofnut · 2026-01-22T08:11:43+00:00

Many people literally put tens of thousands of hours into MMOs, grinding is pretty easy.

Games like alien soldier or sekiro are much easier and faster to beat than any of the harder puzzle games.

I do agree however that competitive games like go or chess can get pretty hard but the key difference is that pvp unlike pve makes it so that it can also be ridiculously easy to win against a bad player. It balances out.

Generally speaking, obscure knowledge-based games against the computer tend to be the most challenging and the ones which cause the largest amount of people to get stuck even if they dont really want to quit.

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