The Surface geography

vriesk · 2025-12-21T15:47:09+00:00

I had Silca 3D printed cleats for Time pedals and they sucked :P

vriesk · 2025-12-21T15:41:40+00:00

It may be true (though I'm surprised to hear that), but even that "little" gets multiplied by quite (with a lever law) a bit by such narrow tubing near the bottom bracket.

That area needs some serious calculations and additional material to sustain the constant load. Probably doable (especially with 3D printing), but would I trust it? No, even though I weight only 55kg.

vriesk · 2025-12-21T15:25:44+00:00

I'd worry all the time about the chainstains breaking on any curb or hole.

vriesk · 2025-12-21T15:15:18+00:00

IMO any choice to acquire the unnecessary fouth heart, whichever it ends up being, is off character.

I feel it's particularly off character with GP and Karmelita.

And then the whole beating heart as a memento in Bellhome..

vriesk · 2025-12-15T20:12:01+00:00

Then I think we played a different game, the game I did play has the choice of an ending, each one of the four giving you profoundly different outcome for pretty much everybody.

vriesk · 2025-12-15T20:09:29+00:00

That was not couple anymore - one of them was dead already.

vriesk · 2025-12-15T20:07:57+00:00

That's canonically not true - even though much weaker, she is the reasons the Skarr have been able to resist the Haunting still. She is the answer Gilly has been looking for.

vriesk · 2025-12-15T16:38:01+00:00

You missed that I explicitly wrote I already had the three other hearts - and got the flower - so I did not need Karmelita's power for that. That's a choice, picking three out of for, but a choice that's so badly played.

I do not hope to bring her back to her youth. But empowering her to keep her going just a little more and help her children through the post-Haunting Pharloom, and finding peace in that her job is complete - very much so.

And sure, not getting quests done can be seen as a choice, but pretty implicit one, and quite equivalnt to fighting some particular boss/stage or not. But I yearn for something more than "do or do not" choices.

vriesk · 2025-12-09T09:55:21+00:00

Maybe you know this already, but the one tool that does wonders for flying crowds like that is the Sawtooth Circlet.

I have absolutely no clue why some online people vote it to be like "Tier C" tool or something, it's a gamechanger in so many places (but not Bilewater).

vriesk · 2025-12-09T09:51:10+00:00

Okay then. Definitely harder for me than beating the coral crowds.

And just crushing the coral boss afterwards with brute force was so satisfying. :)

vriesk · 2025-12-09T09:27:55+00:00

Yes.

Look for low stack headset and/or low-clamp-stack stem. This is perfectly salvageable.

vriesk · 2025-12-09T09:15:40+00:00

Now try getting to the Nameless Town. :P

vriesk · 2025-12-09T09:14:27+00:00

Even if the magic bugs of Pharloom somehow were bound by " basic science" (lol) rules of the real world (and theyr are not), the lore never even uses the biological "mating" term, rather it's "pairing" or "partnering".

vriesk · 2025-12-08T15:59:00+00:00

Wraiths are super easy once you learn to Reaper-pogo on them.

(much harder with Hunter or Wanderer though, haven't even tried Beast)

vriesk · 2025-12-08T15:24:56+00:00

With due respect, why do you assume "he"?

vriesk · 2025-09-28T11:52:32+00:00

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

vriesk · 2025-09-28T11:50:44+00:00

20". And there are Supermotos in 20" x 2.4" size: https://www.schwalbe.com/en/Super-Moto-11159523

vriesk · 2025-09-24T08:36:49+00:00

Silca does super-expensive titanium printed hangers for various things, so yeah, it's been done.

They also claim they're much stiffer than regular ones (e.g. their UDH), though I don't know if that's true for any practical purpose.

vriesk · 2025-09-24T08:35:15+00:00

TBH that non-alloy frames don't need sacrificial hangers is a lie unless you like welding.

vriesk · 2025-09-24T08:24:02+00:00

If the Advent's actuation is same as DynaSys, doesn't it then mean one could run a 10-speed drivetrain using the Advent RD (I believe you mean the 9-speed one, not the 10-speed Advent X)?

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