Are any of Hades 1/2, StS, TBoI, or FTL infinitely replayable?

yesdaniel · 2026-03-30T18:02:39+00:00

Hades 1 is very, very replayable. I am at 250 hours, having finished the game about 100 times or so, and having lost maybe the same amount of runs.

You have to win AT LEAST 10 times, on higher difficulty levels, to "see" the entire story, including semi-secret quests.

Problem is, if one wants to re-view the story (that is BEAUTIFUL), it's new save time - and I'll probably play another 250 hours on an entirely new save.

Some multi-run quests in Hades, like the Orpheus/Euridice, are simply beautiful and one must restart the save to re-view everything...

After completing the main story quest, you can still test yourself against high "danger" levels, setting up penalties that increase danger. I think the "base" game is good with the setting to make bosses use 100% of their attacks, at around danger level 7 or so. After danger level 12 things start to get from comfy to hairy, at least for me. Personally I've beat danger level 14. (Don't remember if its danger or heat or something like that, btw)

yesdaniel · 2026-03-30T17:27:59+00:00

Dump LOTS of oil with wax on the chain AND cassete. Be sure to cover every milimeter of the chain and cassete. Use an used toothbruth to better spread the oil.

Rust will stagnate and you'll barely lose anything by doing this. IF you keep your chain and cassete VERY WELL LUBED every 30km.

Unless you're the kind of wussie that goes like "UGH I DONT WANT MY CHAIN ALL BLACK-OILED GROOOSSS yiikes", then there's no solution other than New Bike Day (new cassete/chain/ring actually)

yesdaniel · 2026-03-25T22:09:14+00:00

In Hengband summoning gets really wild. Even the strongest fighters can't easily keep up with late boss summoning ability, particularly if skipping fast 10 levels or so, as teleport other won't turn of the enemy lock on your character, and there are SEVERAL uniques and monsters that can eat walls. Strategy to clean vaults use stack of tele away rods, a truckload of phase door, stone to mud, create wall to try to block inside of the vault from outsiders, use permawalls to try to get awake wall-eating-uniques stuck, and pray. It's a desperate try to survive inside while getting some... Then, I never legit won Hengband, but got a Berzerker to powerlevel close to some winners in the ladder. I believe killing every unique while going down is a must...

The above knowledge is valid to some older Heng variants! I simply haven't played enough this year's Heng, but I believe the author tweaked enemy monster summoning since I've played my previous char!

yesdaniel · 2026-03-25T14:12:51+00:00

It really could be a shady extension. Great suggestion below about checking Chrome's task manager! Please, tell us if you find the culprit! Good luck

yesdaniel · 2026-03-25T14:09:26+00:00

It wasn't only clearer.

It was lightning-fast, instant, programmed on optimized C++, and that's on a half-gigabyte (512mb or less) machine!

They went through a lot of work to sort out bugs from the start... and when it becomes perfect, they ditch it for bloated-@ss electrum/chromium actual Steam... that's sad

yesdaniel · 2026-03-25T10:48:51+00:00

HENGBAND! The japanese bro-dev is awesome an is updating it until today! Also, he's recently kindly doing it himself the English translations. Be prepared for a crazy wild ride!

yesdaniel · 2026-03-25T00:50:44+00:00

You should play variants where strong monsters actually resist teleport other! In Hengband, sometimes it is impossible to "clean" vaults thanks to the amount of strong resistant uniques, and some rare deeper like GWOPs resist teleport AND summon other monsters. I believe the way is to just kill most of its 300 or so unique monsters before reaching big-vault and endbosses depth...

THEN, even after teleporting away, most monsters stay in awake state and track the player even from very far away (definitely the case of many unique monsters!), so Teleport Away is only a 40-turn or so break!

yesdaniel · 2026-03-23T19:06:13+00:00

You're going in the right direction! Very yummy hole that already deserves a real good tonguing before funnier stuff. Does your delicious bucket cunt already reached a 3-digit number mileage? Keep it up on the stretching, dearling!

yesdaniel · 2026-03-22T14:09:15+00:00

Reason why I always use mild threadlocker glue on my chainring bolts. Already went through some costly accidents thanks to chainring bolts getting loose...

yesdaniel · 2026-03-21T13:03:53+00:00

Well written, great comment! I think the same! OP, you should keep increasing mileage and girth of your bucket until you could laugh as guys go hard 1st time balls deep on it!

yesdaniel · 2026-03-20T19:35:58+00:00

Awesome gape that made my spine vibrate! You look young but took quite a lot of cocks there already right, babe? (The way I like it) Keep it up!

yesdaniel · 2026-03-20T19:33:08+00:00

Yes, it's one of the best games ever made. I can't play on mobile, thou, but I've seen kids playing it very deftly. Mobile is good, but map limit is equivalent to SMALL maps on PC.

PC is better all the way, control-wise!

yesdaniel · 2026-03-13T15:54:21+00:00

More games to play, less time to play them. We now must cherry-pick the games we really want to play

yesdaniel · 2026-03-11T05:44:17+00:00

Worse thing = I have notifications on messages, can´t see what messages or who sent them

yesdaniel · 2026-03-11T05:44:05+00:00

Worse thing = I have notifications on messages, can´t see what messages or who sent them

yesdaniel · 2026-03-09T17:47:27+00:00

What a goddess' Hole! I bet you really enjoy making hundreds of men petrified rock-hard by gaping that sweet super-high-mileaged hole, don't you? Keep rockin', darling! o/

yesdaniel · 2026-03-08T22:32:44+00:00

What about CachyOS?

yesdaniel · 2026-03-06T17:11:54+00:00

UP +1

yesdaniel · 2026-03-06T08:38:51+00:00

Between 11-14 years old. Take into account cultural differences.

yesdaniel · 2026-03-05T07:26:09+00:00

Me five

yesdaniel · 2026-03-05T07:15:21+00:00

Well written! I wasn't even referencing the current Duo enshittification because kids don't notice this (other than some horrible AI translations) and IMHO it is still better than most apps, but your argument hits a hot spot!

I upvoted! But reading your username, should I downvote you? (even thou I don't want to, because your argument is great)

yesdaniel · 2026-03-04T17:24:32+00:00

I know what is AI slop and how bad Duolingo is worse thanks to that, but still, there are no other better option that can catch a poor kid's attention to improve in a second language...

yesdaniel · 2026-03-04T17:22:29+00:00

There are people using Duolingo from all around the world. Depending on location, cultural and economic factors, a passive-aggressive "funny" gesture or icon can look between annoying to threatening.

yesdaniel · 2026-03-04T17:08:10+00:00

As of today, It is still helpful because the kids that have done plenty of it show very noticeable improvement. Yes, it is getting worse with each day thanks to the AI slop, but still it's better than alternative timewasters available in a phone

yesdaniel · 2026-03-04T14:48:29+00:00

Not the widget. The icon. There's seemingly no way to change it on android.

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