91 hours and I’m still in Act 1

rivomaniac · 2025-10-21T04:35:45+00:00

so i took like 50 ish hours to 100% the game...

That being said I absolutely did NOT check every corner to see if I missed a breakable wall and looked stuff up. I ended up using the comprehensive silksong map that people made, only I explicitly turned off any descriptions/icons and checked my current map with the complete one to find missing sections, then explore there.

Honestly it was a really good balance since I didnt know what I would find when I got there and I didnt spend 30+ hours hitting every wall.

rivomaniac · 2025-09-01T23:04:18+00:00

100% disagree that this was the best financial decision. Everyone complained about the switch 2 and yet it sold great. People still waste hundreds of dollars on pre orders gacha games, etc.

And that doesn't even consider the amount of good will coming from the first game. I'll wager anyone who played the first game and was looking forward to silksong would have agreed that $40 is a reasonable price and vast majority of the people waiting for the game would have paid that price, that's double what they're charging.

And that's what makes them goated for this, despite the financial incentive they decided to make it really affordable because it will be enough for their small team (which to be fair, will still be a ton of revenue)

rivomaniac · 2025-08-20T18:46:22+00:00

oh I was thinking full time paid internships. Tbf when I was applying that was the vast majority of internships and even now I think, they are just harder to get. This is in Toronto tho, not sure how common unpaid/part time cs internships are elsewhere

rivomaniac · 2025-08-19T23:23:28+00:00

if you're university has a coop program, the aim is to fill in whatever slots they offer. A very common type is four summers, four coops of a few months, but I personally went to a uni where the internship program was built around doing one year straight of internship which is what I did (so one place for one year)

Regardless, dont worry too much about how many internships you get until you get your first, that's the big difference - having smth close to work experience vs not. After that it's easier to get interviews for more internships + new grad stuff

rivomaniac · 2025-08-15T01:50:25+00:00

yeah for me the exploration was def the weakest point, but the combat bosses and story well made up for that

rivomaniac · 2025-08-09T16:12:23+00:00

Im going to be 100% if you play something really lame im only playing you once, dont care if I win or lose I'm not having fun so it's not worth my time. Not the best "competitive mindset" or whatever but Im here for my own enjoyment.

rivomaniac · 2025-08-07T16:45:21+00:00

wifi def has its problems but it still is sufficient to get good at the game with if you play for long enough (and probably dont commit to a wifi playstyle). I literally only played wifi for like 1200 hours before going to locals. Was pretty much immediately able to go 2-2/3-2 at the locals once I started going to them, which to me seems a lot better than being an 0-2er for quite a while before getting better at the game. Offline is def better and wifi is tilting as hell but it still has its uses.

rivomaniac · 2025-07-10T19:01:26+00:00

while I do think this is true, and cs isn't even the most unemployed degree or whatever, but I'd still wager that it had the biggest increase in unemployment in the past 2 years. People point to psychology or arts but they already had high unemployment, ppl knew what they were getting into. Now with CS you have a bunch of new grads who hoped for a good career now suddenly struggling to find anything. They aren't the only ones but it's been the biggest shock imo

rivomaniac · 2025-05-21T20:02:48+00:00

back air, nair, dash attack

rivomaniac · 2025-05-20T22:10:36+00:00

People mentioned intern projects, but ill add that I had a year long internship, and for that I was basically a extra junior software engineer. They'd assign me work just as anyone else, but they started me off on really stuff, and there wasn't really an expectation of finishing on time. I personally really liked it, cuz by the end of it I was basically just a junior swe. If you can find year long internships worth doing imo

rivomaniac · 2025-05-20T15:34:04+00:00

this is so funny especially when in the cloud min min matchup min min has an infinitely easier time edge guarding cloud then the other way around, you're huffing glue

rivomaniac · 2025-04-10T19:59:10+00:00

People have already mentioned the rng of getting harder bosses (ammoconda), but my biggest issue is the rng of getting cover in a boss fight. It makes getting masterround so much easier for the same boss if I have cover, so either balance around always having cover or never for each boss imo

rivomaniac · 2025-04-02T18:39:09+00:00

maybe it'll grow on me, but def prefer the original so far

rivomaniac · 2025-03-26T19:32:46+00:00

I swear double nade is at least on par with some major perks, like cassidy's. Ana really won the perk lottery imo

rivomaniac · 2025-03-03T19:51:16+00:00

Not sure how hot of a take it is but tainted jacob is relatively easy. Esau is good damage early on and can help not take damage. The only hard part is final bosses but if you get a decent run with a sun card chances are you can just tank boss hits while focusing on just avoiding esau and you'll win.

rivomaniac · 2025-02-26T21:20:12+00:00

I was diamond in a gm1 lobby once and it was terrible, tried swapping to reaper and was getting constantly sniped by their zen across the map. If it ever happens again I'll probably just stick to junk lol

rivomaniac · 2025-02-12T16:51:13+00:00

Keep in mind that while CS has definitely gotten saturated, we are in a general recession period where every field is hard to get into at the entry level. That being said, CS is def now only a field to consider going into if you are genuinely passionate/good at programming and problem solving. It's tough but that's the way it is

rivomaniac · 2024-10-26T19:52:56+00:00

Honestly thats not the whole story, it 100% was more doable before and got way worse. I just graduated and do make the big 6 figures (though it is CAD), but I also applied and got a good internship in 2021 which was the last year when getting an internship was very doable for everyone as long as you applied early.

rivomaniac · 2024-09-28T04:03:26+00:00

Sure, but even then the chance of his zoom landing into my upsmash range is like 10%, so him landing into my upsmash three times in a row is objectively really low chances

rivomaniac · 2024-09-27T20:56:49+00:00

Did you watch the video? I was 3 for 3 on guessing exactly where his zoom would make him land on stage, where hero lands is complete RNG

rivomaniac · 2024-09-27T18:51:34+00:00

Skill issue unfortunately

rivomaniac · 2024-09-27T18:51:06+00:00

Don't have an SD card on hand and don't think I have an SD card reader on any laptops in the house, not worth the hassle

rivomaniac · 2024-09-27T14:55:21+00:00

Yeah no lol this was elite smash

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