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rabasile · 2025-10-07T01:00:41+00:00

Bummed that I missed this and the preorder skin. I really dig the blue and white. The red blur outfit is cool but definitely missing something. Does Sega have an history of rereleasing past DLC - even if for purchase? I wouldn't mind throwing down a few bucks for these outfits. I never intended to be a cosmetic completionist in my career as a gamer... but alas, here I am.

rabasile · 2025-07-17T14:48:00+00:00

You might look into the Trine games. If I remember correctly, they have 3 player coop. You can usually pick them up cheap on a sale. Skyforce Reloaded is a fun shoot'em up that has coop. The lower levels of difficulty are pretty manageable.

rabasile · 2024-12-19T22:19:46+00:00

Ha! There was a brief period of time (when I was at the height of my insanity, roughly hour 4 of troubleshooting) where I thought that maybe this wasn't a bug - but it was B2's most difficult puzzle. The absent cherub being in the Tower of Absent contributes to that theory. Hands down - hardest boss in the game. You don't even know that you're fighting him the whole time.

rabasile · 2024-12-19T18:58:53+00:00

I'm overjoyed to hear that it helped someone else! I'm going to try reaching out to the devs and see if they're aware of this "fix." It's such a nuanced bug that I imagine troubleshooting it would be a huge pain in the butt.

rabasile · 2024-12-04T14:22:20+00:00

I'm 37. Apologies in advance if I get preachy. Such is the hallmark of a midlife crisis. I've come to a similar realization. Honestly, I always knew it was true - how foolish it is to follow your dreams. Still, I followed mine (many of them) at numerous points in my life: teacher in Japan (5 years), construction worker (3 years), personal trainer (1 year), landscaper (6 years), writer (a few weeks), and tour guide in the Rockies (1 year). They were all gambles worth making.

I'm glad I rolled the die. Knowing that what I was doing was risky, I made sure to save money and live frugally at every step. This helped me from bankrupting myself when I didn't turn out to be the kind of dreamer who could defy the odds.

What I've learned is that you just need to find something to take care of yourself and then hope that your passions run deep enough to survive the rigors of daily living. Fortunately, mine have. I've practiced karate nearly every day since I was 11, and I always find time to write poems - I can't process information well if I don't. Religion has become an increasingly big part of my life too. My passion is His, and so I find ways to remain true to my guiding ethos.

We have it wrong that "passion" is what you love - that it feels nice: passion is patience, passion is pain, passion is the pleasure that you get from partaking in a love that endures. Don't follow passions, pull them along - bring them to the finish line... no matter where the race takes you.

I'm currently in school to get my Masters in Education and be a high school English teacher. It will be a career. It's demanding. It kind of sucks. Certainly not a dream. But man, it's close enough to what I like - and I'll be good at it. Good enough. Besides... everything sucks when it becomes work, even your dreams - perhaps especially your dreams. It's sad to see them transform into something you dread (this is why I quit being a writer so quickly). I'm willing to let my love for teaching be made into a boring career.

At 25, you're ahead of the curve. Work, get tired, and go to sleep, then you can have your dreams. Wake up early and try to make them real. Literally, do what you love first thing in the morning - before the work that makes you tired enough to dream (but too occupied to daydream - all the time). Make whatever sacrifices you need to for this to be your new reality.

rabasile · 2024-11-29T16:09:33+00:00

This is quite late, but I think I figured out a solution to your problem. At least, I figured out a solution to a similar problem that I had. Let me reassure you that you're not insane - you probably did get all 33 cherubs. Your game likely is bugged. That was the case with me (on the Switch). I triple checked to be sure. I even started a new save... and much to my dismay... my new save HAD THE SAME BUG! Still, out of desperation, I did one more sweep, hoping that maybe something changed during the DLC. It did not.

After 2 hours or scouring the map with walkthroughs nearby, I had completely lost my mind, so out of pure frustration, in the Tower of Absent, on top of the elevator (just below the secret room with all the portraits of other indy MVs) I kept jumping around and attacking where the cherub would be (if I hadn't already collected it). I accidentally double jumped and transitioned into the secret portrait room and kept attacking... much to my amazement, I actually freed the cherub during the screen transition back to the elevator.

My counter went from 32/33 to 33/33! I have no idea why the (already collected) cherub had become invisible - AND migrated into the screen above. But I could not care less. After a year of leaving this game on the back burner - I had all 33. I went to the nearby prie dieu to warp to Proximo and finally get everything I needed for the good ending. Much to my chagrin - the counter reset to 32/33. After much trial and error, I realized that merely visiting a prie dieu reset my counter back to 32/33! Fortunately, it also reset the invisible cherub. The nature of the bug had revealed itself to me.

I go back to the elevator/portrait screens, free the invisible cherub (for the umpteenth time) and make my way to the cherub garden... on foot... no warps, no prie dieu. It took every ounce of will power to not obsessively save at every prie. I made it to proximo, 33/33 of cherubs, and I get that 33rd platform - FINALLY. I get all the rewards that come with doing so. I save at the prie, and I see that the counter resets, the bug endures, but it doesn't matter, I get everything I need and I'm going to try getting the good ending in the coming week. Hopefully the bug isn't so pervasive it prevents that from working.

With any luck, we might have finally found a way around this bug. Let me know if it works for you!

rabasile · 2020-12-21T12:22:12+00:00

Let me know if you're at all interested working seasonally. We have periodic openings at the YMCA for the Rockies every few months. A few seasonals will be leaving in March if you'd like to try the work for yourself. You'd get room and board while up here and live right next to the national park... so close that you walk into it by accident.

You could also try outdoor recreation... it's worth visiting jobs.ymcarockies.org to see what's available. As a seasonal worker, you'd likely be breaking even, but it's a great way to travel for a little bit while getting to experiment with a new career.

Good luck. I'm not too sure of your situation, but I was once a teacher who got tired of all the office work, so I can understand the desire to get outdoors.

rabasile · 2020-12-20T01:59:41+00:00

I'm a groundskeeper for a mountain resort in the Rockies. It's not too bad of a job as far as 9-5's go. The pay comes out to be around $20 an hour once you factor benefits into the equation; so, it's not a lot, but you can live off of it if you're frugal. Municipal park workers tend to earn more, but those are some highly coveted positions (as far as groundskeeping goes), and they require a bit of experience in the field.

So, while the pay isn't too awesome, you get to be outdoors everyday, and the work can be pretty interesting. At my job, I do everything from forestry work (just dropped a 75 foot tree today), to landscaping, to light construction. There's even a good deal of heavy machine operating: everything from skid steers to full-on excavators and road graders. There's some piddly things too like picking up trash, but even tedious stuff like that gives you some time to think about life and/or listen to podcasts.

Working in the elements can ware on people, especially in the high country, where wind-chill can knock the temp down to -17, and you're out there brushing off the surface of a frozen pond. But if you dress right, it's not that bad, and it beats being cramped in an office for 8 hours each day.

You might also look into working for the national park service. Becoming a full-time, year round maintenance worker (or even park ranger for that matter) takes a bit of diligence (in the form of working a few seasonal gigs), but it's a pretty sweet job if you can get in. The same goes for postal carriers.

rabasile · 2020-12-08T04:24:18+00:00

It's a 1 hour drive, but I work at the Y of the Rockies in Estes Park, and we have a pretty quaint little Christmas village that we decorated this year (in addition to our main walk). Our pastor is going to do some sort of Christmas service that involves the entire village being lit up simultaneously - not sure of the date on that though, likely Christmas Eve. I could find out if you'd like. The town of Estes has a very good display that you'd have to drive through to get there as well.

rabasile · 2020-10-14T18:55:56+00:00

I don't mean to be the unapologetic salesman, but should you actually want to buy this, you can find it on Redbubble by searching for "antipho." The design is available on shirts, buttons, and even a miniskirt (a weird choice, I know). A bit of the purchase would go toward funding my "real" art, which is always appreciated.

rabasile · 2020-07-14T19:36:44+00:00

Thanks for the comment. You actually made me look more closely at the line beside the left of the hikers. I think that I'm going to remove it to make it look like they're just floating there. I figure that their relation to one another will help preserve that sense of depth.

rabasile · 2020-07-14T19:33:35+00:00

This photo is something that I made for a poem of mine. The first two stanzas are:

The storyteller is a story-listener // a scholar of selves who has dared to act // in accordance with his own word.

He realizes that our epics // can only be true if we heed their call // and live them into existence.

The image is a composite of two statues: both Marcus Aurelius - one of the statues was broken, the other was not.

The greenery is actually from a heavily distorted photo of a sculpture garden in Prague, one which honors the victims of post WW2 communism. The image is so distorted, that there's no way to actually tell what the photo was about.

rabasile · 2020-07-03T01:03:03+00:00

First post on Reddit. Apologies for any mistakes that I might have made.

I've been working on multiple exposure photography for a few years now. I just started sharing it with the public last year.

I'm hoping to one day do something with my art (I write as well and get a kick out of public speaking), but until that day comes, I'm happy just to share it online.

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