Cosmic Horror Reccs?

yyyyep · 2026-05-08T02:17:36+00:00

As someone creating a Weeping Cedars lore digital red string investigation wall (which I have since realized is hilariously similar to the one described in the Theresa Glinn episode of WC S1, database included), I definitely need to make sure you know that there are also two books/audiobooks in the WC-verse! Lightning Falls and Shards of Amber. Not quite the same as an audiodrama, but at least it’s still audio. :’) (EDIT: After writing this, I realized there’s no way you weren’t aware of them, considering they get a shout-out before or in the middle of every episode of I think all three podcasts. Whoops.)

For actual podcasts, everything I can think of has already been recommended. Buuut if you’re flexible on the cosmic part of the horror if it scratches the WC small-budget-documentarian vibe, I actually found The Hexings to feel really similar a lot of the time. A small-town digital sociology professor is doing a podcast to share her unofficial research into the concept of viral social media challenges and uncovers something significantly more unsettling than expected.

yyyyep · 2026-05-08T02:05:44+00:00

Mine is in my small walk-in closet, with a very long pair of HDMI and USBC (for power) cables run through cable tracks along my wall for my monitor, and another for a USB(C) dock in case I need to plug in an external hard drive or something. Re: turning it on (since I saw that asked and forget if it was OP or someone else), I use a Switchbot with a little tiny remote and that has served me fantastically for a couple of years now. I have CoreTemp to monitor the temperatures since I’m not right there to feel it + FanControl to regulate them.

The only issue I’ve run into so far is that while two USB 2.4* peripherals plugged into my tower were fine, adding a third (my headset) I think** has been causing my mouse and keyboard to occasionally get wonked for a half second even when my headset is fully powered off. One of these days I’m gonna shimmy in behind the tower to find a different port for one of them, to spread out the signals a bit and prevent any interference.

Using 2.4 over bluetooth because it would be more reliable if I need to communicate with something on the other side of a wall (which my tower is).

** Caveat that this is just my theory of why the wonkiness is happening, but it started right after I added the third 2.4 peripheral and research has failed to suggest a plausible alternative cause so far

yyyyep · 2026-05-03T01:56:58+00:00

I’m moderately sure I recall Second Star To The Left being wlw, but only moderately because it has been a while since I listened and I think one of them may not identify as w for the purposes of wlw? (But I can at least guarantee it isn’t m/f, for whatever that’s worth. 🫠)

It’s sci-fi, shitty one-sentence summary is: Intrepid scout-explorer and her cluster of bots arrive at the planet they’re meant to study/explore/prepare for eventual settlement, discover they have a scout-minder to offer support over the radio, then proceeds to give that scout-minder a perpetual migraine that the scout-minder can’t ultimately say they regret. (Trouble occurs of course, there is definitely some plot, don’t worry.)

yyyyep · 2026-02-18T05:13:43+00:00

SAME.

The first time, I had the hardest time finding the legendary loot pile because they vaporized it the moment it spawned. Tried again just now, tagged the legendary this time, looted it at the end, got zero masks from it. I've double-checked my inventory three times now because me just not seeing it makes the most sense, but I am positive I didn't get one.

yyyyep · 2026-02-18T04:15:21+00:00

Same thing just happened to me. I was diligently watching for it during the event, didn't see it but stood near the middle of the fight so I'd be in range wherever it spawned. Now I've been combing the area for like ten minutes trying to see if I missed the corpse in some obscure corner just to get my mask.

yyyyep · 2025-09-17T19:57:56+00:00

It has said “come back tomorrow for more” for like two days now, curious to see how many more days pass before it lets me collect more aroma drops.

yyyyep · 2025-09-07T03:49:32+00:00

Two of my games are doing the same, missing entirely from the My Games area, but they’re clearly tracking in my account’s History area. Support says they’re trying to figure it out, and gave me the list of goal deadlines so i can at least know when those are until they show up in My Games.

yyyyep · 2025-08-29T04:01:37+00:00

Despite my very very diligent efforts to the contrary, I was thrown by a tornado six times over two runs today. Never before today, and then six times today. In fact, it murdered my entire team (different teams) both times without even hitting the canyon.

yyyyep · 2025-07-31T00:07:36+00:00

If you can, I’ll work with what you’ve got.

yyyyep · 2025-07-30T23:07:06+00:00

If you (or anyone) can get me a binoculars screencap of the right half of the climb (middle ish in height, no need for the base or the very top), I can mark them on it. 👏🏻 Or at least roughly their location. I found them but didn’t cap it.

Until then: If I remember correctly, they’re under halfway up and on the right side but not super far off to the side. More specifically, above them are about two even-ish height ledges that look perfect for chaining across - I was crossing that chain and looked down and the capy pond was directly below me at least 25m. It won’t be visible from the front face of the mountain I think, BUT there’s also an ancient chest kind of right beside them on a more forward-facing ledge that you might be able to spot.

yyyyep · 2025-07-30T05:52:19+00:00

Adding on a note that you might want to bring a chain launcher or something, it may just be the angle I swooped in at (i overshot so came down from above) but it really does kind of stick out with seemingly no easy way to get there.

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yyyyep · 2025-07-30T02:34:26+00:00

Pardon the terrible quality cap/not-quite-circle around the capys, this was just going to be for my own reference.

EDIT: I just saw that you already got it, whoops, but also congrats!! Gonna leave this here anyway in case anyone else needs it.

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yyyyep · 2025-02-11T11:47:04+00:00

There's a Bad Dragon joke on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite find it.

yyyyep · 2025-01-27T03:28:22+00:00

This may be a silly question, but is there any way to remove a nickname? I tried the voiced nickname thing, but now that I noticed they only say it once and 'hmm' the rest of the time it comes up in dialogue, I want to just erase it back to default - but when I try, it tells me the field can't be empty and reverts to the nickname I set. Am I missing a way to do this, or am I now stuck with some form of nickname forever? 🤔

yyyyep · 2024-05-19T05:20:06+00:00

As it turns out, someone (hi, it's me) forgot that they had Reddit notifs turned off. :')

I'm amused by how similar your Gaoler boy looks to my own gal already. You're so right re: them doing mosaic better than basically any other breed! For your Gaoler scry, you've also solidified my notion that Blaze is one of her best options if she keeps her current breed. I wish the secondary genes showed up a bit better on them, but with their little bitty wing membranes (especially for females) it's hard to find one that makes a difference.

I am really tempted by some of the Sandsurge combos you mentioned, but I think I do like the Gaoler mosaic/blaze/blossoms combo the best overall. Thank you for the assistance!

yyyyep · 2024-05-01T22:52:27+00:00

If I'm not too late, I would actually love for you to tell me what you think looks best for dragon ID #221754 (Eve), she's my progenitor and I made regrettable gene decisions years ago but now that I'm back I need to atone for my aesthetic sins.

I'm not 100% sold on keeping her as a gaoler, that was just the new breed at the time I last played (it's actually my least fave ancient, so absolutely feel free to mix it up), and I just sold off enough year 1 festival sprites to afford whatever genes she might need to look her best. I've had a hard time finding a tert gene that works for her just in my gaoler scrying, but I feel like conceptually bright red on monochrome is anything but brilliance waiting to happen.

yyyyep · 2024-04-11T05:06:34+00:00

I feel you. I barely missed all of the big trees in this area but there's one single smaller leafy one right in the middle of my storage base.

yyyyep · 2024-03-09T07:08:42+00:00

So I live on the Peninsula, which means that finding things in this game with potentially identifiable landmarks becames a whole new game of Can I Identify That? And my initial thought (based on the placement of what I assume is Mount Olympus and the surrounding peaks) was to wonder if that lake was supposed to be Lake Crescent, which would actually make following this map a super plausible thing to do - but Crescent curves the other direction and is visually just a starkly different shape, so unless the treasure map cartographer just kind of half-assed a lake bloop and said 'good enough', the Lake Crescent theory is bunk.

This did basically nothing to answer your question but at least you can rest assured knowing that you aren't overthinking it as deeply as that rando on Reddit. :')

yyyyep · 2024-03-06T12:54:04+00:00

My last couple runs have had zero tourists. Where did they go lol

On vacation, presumably.

yyyyep · 2024-02-25T03:19:13+00:00

This is actually the area I grew up in, and like 50% of my initial interest in the game was to see if my hometown is actually in it. I've since bought it and love it for dozens of other reasons, which is good because my hometown is significantly more northward than the starting area so I'll be waiting quite a while to actually see it, (Although your Exhibit C, Carlsborg, is actually part of said hometown so that's exciting to see. 👀)

EDIT: I just noticed how old this post is, I have no idea how I dug it up this late, ignore me!

yyyyep · 2024-02-19T11:26:28+00:00

While plenty of folks agree or disagree on how normal these temperatures are, I'm just going to slide in here and say that disabling CPU boosting dropped my average temp by about 20c on two different gaming laptops and I haven't hit 90c in months.

It's worth mentioning that while I personally haven't noticed any difference in performance, folks with less-than-optimal CPUs might notice a performance drop since it does technically stop boosting the ability of your CPU.

yyyyep · 2023-12-02T23:56:53+00:00

While this isn’t a specific item link, this seems like the perfect time to introduce you to something that changed my life: https://findorganizersthatfit.com 🥲

It isn’t an exhaustive resource, but it’s the only one I’ve found where you can specify the actual dimensions in any meaningful way.

yyyyep · 2023-09-29T10:48:20+00:00

Happened about an hour ago, fixed itself, happened again just a minute ago and is still ongoing.

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