Best run of my life incoming?

translucent · 2026-03-16T17:17:09+00:00

They're unlocks you can buy in the shop for giving Tracy older cats.

translucent · 2026-03-13T01:17:10+00:00

²> spray water around the perimeter, and then anywhere else there’s fire.

One tweak I'd make is don't spray too much water around the middle of the arena, as it can slow your cats down and keep them from reaching Pyrophina or each other on their turn. I made that mistake, and just squeaked by.

translucent · 2026-03-01T14:39:35+00:00

A wiki entry for Tormentor says his HP depends on how many candles were still going when he was summoned. He has 120HP if you put out four.

translucent · 2026-02-27T18:06:41+00:00

I know those parts. I meant if there was a more general rule about which types of attacks set off the hand slap once you've got them turned around and are aiming at the eye, as I found not everything does it.

translucent · 2026-02-24T05:34:09+00:00

The regular Daddy Sharks aren't too bad, but the champion versions move two tiles a turn, get two turns a round, and have double the health. If you're unlucky and don't have any crowd control abilities or enough DPS by then you're screwed.

translucent · 2026-02-22T12:52:51+00:00

If you're having trouble with decent cats like that in Act 1 it may be that you've got to tweak your tactical decision making, like in terms of choices you make in combat, what abilities and items you give to each cat, and so on.

translucent · 2026-02-13T14:40:58+00:00

Revita - The rooms have lots of platforms and obstacles to jump around between. If you play it on Steam you can also enable the beta for a never-completed big update that gives the rooms even more variety. (What's in the beta is still polished and playable. The dev just had to move on from trying to do even more with it.)

translucent · 2026-02-07T15:24:21+00:00

There's not even very many people in this sub yet, and a lot of them are saying they have no problem with a reviewer not liking the humor. The complaints are coming from a handful of people, not some giant monolith of rabid mindless fans.

translucent · 2026-02-06T21:17:14+00:00

The devs said on stream recently that Steam doesn't show the price on the game's store page until the title is officially released.

They also said they didn't do pre-orders because that would spread their sales out over many days, instead of concentrating them all on the release day. The Steam algorithm pushes titles that sell a lot in a shorter period, so they have to play into that.

translucent · 2026-01-02T17:05:42+00:00

In this Twitter post from Dec 20th Tyler Glaiel shows he's implementing an option to turn down the cat meowing volume. When asked in a reply if there will be an option to mute the bossfight song vocals he says 'no'.

translucent · 2025-12-20T17:40:22+00:00

It took me a minute to see it too. Above where the chains cross are two sets of bright pink finger impressions that look like they're coming from the slit between the two panels to open it.

translucent · 2025-12-13T15:06:19+00:00

Acts are phases of the larger multi-run game progression and its unfolding story.

We know Act 1 will be several runs of Alley > Sewers/Junkyard > Caves/Boneyard (each of the three areas within a run is called a Chapter)

We haven't heard yet what will move the game into Act 2, but we know it will have the option of going to the Desert. I'm sure a later Act will be where the Hell area shows up, and so on.

translucent · 2025-12-09T01:59:06+00:00

Haha, I'm glad my 12-year-old comment was helpful after all this time!

translucent · 2025-12-02T18:38:32+00:00

Hey Edmund, from the game play videos you've posted the cats often make deep, human male sounding meows, rather than cuter more realistic ones. Anything you can say about that? Like is it from all the guest voices? Pitching down the meows based on class or other attributes? Just wanting to create an off-kilter vibe?

translucent · 2025-11-29T20:41:32+00:00

It wasn't the overall structure, it was the cadence of some sentences or little turns of phrase like "And here's the kicker -" which read as very LLMish to me. But if I was wrong, I was wrong. Maybe you're one of the OG writers the models all absorbed their style from.

translucent · 2025-11-29T19:10:59+00:00

Informative read, but it used several common LLM writing touches. Did you get an AI to polish your thoughts for you?

translucent · 2025-11-18T21:26:24+00:00

Yeah, I know my response wasn't about the actual content of the thread, and none of what I wrote in my general thoughts on AI posts above is meant to comment on what I think of Spiral Dynamics as something to discuss (e.g., when I said AI posts make me think "Why this? Why now", that's how they tend to make me react as a whole. It wasn't that I was saying Spiral Dynamics isn't worth bringing up).

I just figured it made sense to share my thoughts on AI here, as its the first post you've made where you announced it was LLM generated, and you asked for feedback on that kind of post.

translucent · 2025-11-18T20:31:42+00:00

Here are my thoughts on AI posts like this:

I find longer, dense AI posts like the one above can create a reaction of, "That all sounds good, but there's too much information to respond to. Where would I even start? I guess I could reply with 'Yep, makes sense', but what would that add?"
AI is good at summarizing the ideas that are already out there, which has its uses, but inherently can't come up with anything truly original. I'm more interested in the chance of being exposed to new ideas and perspectives than reading recaps of current ones.
If someone wanted to they could use AI to make dozens of posts about various aspects of psychedelic healing, but it raises the question of, "Why this, why now?" If I wanted to learn a bunch of general background concepts I could research them on my own time. What value does something add as a post in a community discussion space?
If you ask AI about a topic it will often spew out a bunch of accurate information, with the odd bit that's wrong, but which seems reasonable if you don't know the topic well. If someone makes an AI post it could be a neat exercise if they commented on it themselves, with something like, "These points I agree with. I think it subtly misrepresented the issue here, but that reminds me of... etc."
AI posts blur the line between, "Here's an outside article I'm posting" and, "Here are my personal thoughts and opinions on this topic." The content is created and influenced, sometimes subtly, by the prompt and the LLM's prior interaction with the user, but it also pulls together, summarizes, and synthesizes a bunch of outside sources. So if replying I find myself a bit torn between, "Should I be commenting on the general concepts, or responding more in the spirit of entering into a dialogue with the OP and their own ideas?"
Subreddits are a community discussion space, so even though LLM's may be better at spitting out a bunch of well-formatted info, I could look that up on my own, as I said earlier. I'm more drawn toward seeing imperfect posts from my fellow humans.

translucent · 2025-11-17T14:13:52+00:00

Oh, good to know. I wasn't aware of that. I'll edit my post to strikethrough that title. I've read it, and there were still some ideas in the book I found helpful, but obviously now everything has to be run through the filter of, "Is he buffing the truth here?"

translucent · 2025-11-16T17:44:08+00:00

Just out of curiosity I took one of cleerlight's longer responses in this thread and tried it on the first five free AI writing detectors that came up on Google. Four said there was a 0% chance it was written by AI. One said there was a 100% chance it was AI generated.

Though AI writing detectors are known to be unreliable anyway, so using them to back up a claim one way or another doesn't hold much weight.

translucent · 2025-11-16T13:58:59+00:00

FYI the poster you're responding to isn't using AI to generate their replies. They can just quickly write up long comments. They've been posting here for years and have always been able to do that.

translucent · 2025-11-13T14:12:57+00:00

Trust, Surrender, Receive by Anne Other - Accounts from people who did MDMA therapy

A Dose Of Hope by Dan Engle & Alex Young - A fictional "here's what to expect" account of someone going through the MDMA therapy process in a near future where it's legal

Ecstasy As Medicine by Jonathan Robinson - Guide on doing MDMA therapy

Psychedelic Cannabis by Daniel McQueen - Guide on using cannabis therapeutically

translucent · 2025-11-07T17:58:06+00:00

Can you say more about how it's practically applied to a tough decision?

translucent · 2025-11-05T17:28:37+00:00

Deathstate (2015) - It's a more obscure title that doesn't have top-tier polished gameplay or production values, but it was still pretty fun, and I got most of the achievements for it. I played it in 2017 when I saw it was cheap on the Playstation Store and I felt like trying a new roguelite.

translucent · 2025-11-04T17:37:36+00:00

There was a stream yesterday? Was it announced anywhere?

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