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I have to thank you for recommending Hades. It's a very well made game. I wish these types of games were made in the NES era. It would've made replayability so much higher.

Link, do you have any advice on how I should handle the pilfer rapport buff from the 100k tribute fountain? It's used for that final room, but I hear that if you die and lose it, you can't get the buff ever again. So one attempt per save file unless backed up and scummed. Somehow that sounds false to me. Why would the developer only give you one chance for something like that? That's just going to piss people off. That can't be true. Can it? Either way, I hear I should do other stuff in othermine first before beating the bog.

The internet really is confusing. People give shitty advice and you really have to go to someone who isn't dumb. Reminds me of all the superstition over the secrets in Remnant I'd hear over the mic in multiplayer. Humans love making shit up whenever they can't clearly see something. I'm amazed how we go back to our caveman roots and invent all kinds of juju about how some video game world's secrets work. /rant. Sorry, I needed that.

It took me 48 tries to beat the game. What a loser. I should just delete it and not be allowed to see the rest. I bet when I was a kid I could've done it in 20 runs. Imagine getting worse at video games and being a gamer your whole life.

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Welp, I had a good run going with my favorite relic Mjolnir with super throw speed, I diededed to the final boss. He had like 1 HP left too.

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Well, considering it took me 3 times to figure out how to beat the 3rd boss. I guess the practice does stay with you. I still hate those summoners, the rock throwers and the first time that damn knife guy who disappears and reappears. Omg.

Watching someone play this would kinda spoil it. At least for me. I wanted to watch a no hit run, but didn't want to see the bosses before I got to them myself.

They just released a 1.02 update for Playstation's UnderMine. Single patch note that says, "Fixed an issue that could cause lost progress when loading back to the Hub."

Reminds me of an issue the PlayStation Forager by HopFrog or whatever where you could get far then when you'd exit a building, the damn game would crash and you'd reload as if you just started a new game and the save file was already overwritten. So you had to constantly back up your save for a long time.

I can only imagine how pissed the few people were that lost their progress on this game. I imagine a few of them had some good runs right before. Totally gone.

Hell, that'll make some people quit on the spot. Glad that never happened to me with this game.

No, not yet. I'll check it out. I saw the ad for it. I'm trying not to create a backlog again. I abandoned my old one and pretended not to care. It's working so far.

Edit: Just pre-ordered it for the 13th after watching the IGN review. Yeah, that will be worth $25 easy. I see it came out on the Switch almost a year ago.

I bought it for $19.99 on PSN
Marenian Tavern Story before it for $9.99

For some reason I am back on 2D games and Minecraft again. I never can figure me out.

Once that canary is level 3, those pilfer slimes get told real quick they're wearing the wrong shoes for this dance club. I still bat them out of the park for a home runs to keep up my practice. A couple of the bomb ones actually opened secret tunnels for me last run.

I finally died on the next healer/knight guarded entrance where a bunch of bugs shooting green poison killed me. I had like 20k 20 relic 10 curses. Found Arkanos' book and got a new pet.

Bought the two health item more effective upgrades new bombs and some other stuff. The only reason I got that far was because I gave some bard all my cash (1007gp at the time) and he offered me 3 circles of relics. I chose the meat cleaver one that randomly drops meat on kill. I knew that would keep me alive.

I probably lost and refilled my health bar 10 times that run.

Omg I just beat that boss with all the lightning orbs. Holy shit, that was intense.

I even told myself to make sure I didn't let autocorrect or anything make it mancer instead of dancer. I literally thought about it and still just ...

Anywho, I'll probably do it again. Even on this post to make myself look even more foolish. But yeah I got past the first boss and got into that keyed dungeon. Got about 2 to 3 levels of upgrades now.

Yeah, I got over myself and learned the game. Reminds me of Crypt of the Necromancer, only easier. If I had to change anything, I'd add the ability to make a mining team you could do extra things with as well as a canary room.

I'd love if they would add some secondary fun rpg maintenance elements into the game like mobile games have. I like harvesting, crafting, feeding pets, gearing things. They could add all that kinda stuff to this game and sell you cosmetics and monetize the game.

No real complaints though. I can just tell I'll probably get bored of it quicker than I'd like to. Trying to make it to Tales of Arise before I buy anything else.

I also would like why the hell I have some fascination with mining and gold? Precious gems too. I've never been a miner. My family weren't miners. Yet I love Minecraft and any mining type game. And why the hell am I like a moth to the flame for gold? It's just a yellow orangey metal. I think there's something programmed in us to love gold or something.

What the hell is up with this game? I just crafted some popcorn and that little thieving slime bastard took it after it popped off of Wayland. Wtf is up with this game and penalties. Hell, it's almost as bad as Darkest Dungeon. And they've got that survival ice town game where you mostly die too. Wtf is up with these sadistic games lately? I almost feel like I'm back in the old NES days where when I died I had to start all over.

At least it's not taking a quarter each time. Geez.

Is this game preparing me for the dreary future earth where we all live in Stalinkas and thank our government for our daily pittance of breadcrumbs? lol just shoot me now if so

Which was pretty accurate back in the medieval age. They would get you to wear pocket less trousers and if you had silver dust in your pants in anyway, you could be punished. Working in previous metal and gem mining has a pretty horrible history. In some respects it's still practiced that way today. Any gold processing plant is sealed and strictly enforced when it comes to what you can bring in and take out of there. They won't even let you have a speck of dust. Greedy bastards.

Finally got one I want after getting back home. She could be a bit more tan, but I can fix that later with a mirror. Luna is a cute name. A lot better than the dumb rando ones like Laydy or Jullilia or Magan or Skyan or Doreb. Like wtf. lol Evice Elizphine and Erope were others. Just no. I take pride in my little characters. I like them to look a certain way. Now I just have to figure out how not to die. I backed the save up just in case.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

I hated making characters in oblivion. The lighting was awful. Id ger out of the prison so many times to realize my character looked like shit.

Yes, I can relate. I had to have just the right tan. I wanted a brown but reddish tan on my He-Man type guy. I'd get out of the sewers and pan around in 3rd person to make sure everything looked right.

At least I'm not the only one lol

Ok so after trying 100 times, I figured out that if you click play right as the character in the line is coming up to the mine, it will choose that one, but randomize the name. So now I'm just getting a name that doesn't sound wonky.

My God, I'd give anything to be one of those people that doesn't care about this stuff. This and my ocd has made start characters in games take soo long. Hell, I restart Elder Scrolls games like 10 times before I get one I like. I'm so damn picky it's ridiculous.

omg stop making me some doodie head with a mustache! I don't want to actually LOOK like a miner. I want to be a cute girl!

I cannot tell you how important it is to be able to pick how your character looks, their gender, and their name. My God. I had the perfect cute girl brunette in red with a cool name and she died. Then I learn it randomizes it every time.

Just my luck. Now I can't even remember the name or the seed and the share video doesn't have the info anymore on PS4. Grrr!

Just let us pick our own look. This was so infuriating on early MMOs like EverQuest when you wanted to be a halfling, but only had a few choice of classes per race.

It's like things start austere and slowly get more free over time. The every once in a while a hardass comes along and takes us right back to his prison.

Let.
Me.
Be.
Me

What's important right now is music from 1972.
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IfgJkODc42XZAKTNeA6y2

Mead posted...

ok so its a fancy hide a key?

Supposed to be a secret actually. We should probably burn this thread for justice. I'm joking. It might be though. I think the public is just happy thinking it's just some weird utility thing. Maybe something to do with fire or electricity. Little do they know the key to the vault is awaiting them.

It appears to be a Knox Box 911 responder key box for emergency use. It's used when shit goes down and our civil servants need to open shit up.

I remember Lufia because I liked the slot machines. Breath of Fire 2 definitely would be a great remake if they did it just like that. I remember reading over the giant strategy book many times. In high school at the lunch table. That was one of the first games my friends had too so we could talk about it while we played it.

wydrah posted...

None of us can even imagine being a millionaire, let alone from one job. Why care about what we think we would do in her place?

Why care about why I care?

See? I can be Clevon too!
Hey, maybe fitting in won't be that hard after all!

I have a feeling a lot of these threads end up being hardline opinions with arguing that at the end of the day become the sum social crucible that sorts people into the "I hate you" or "I like you" basket.

In other words, ironically the actual subject matter being discussed becomes nothing more than a vehicle for Balkanization of the community here discussing it. So her feud has become ours and the liquid hate trickles down to all that speak of it.

I guess this is the one time where the "Who cares?" reply becomes a valuable utility of positive social change.

I think the people saying she should cry about it sarcastically would probably do what she's doing if they were in her situation. I think in 2021 they'd also just say "So?"

So there's no real point in having a strong opinion when any defense of that opinion works. We're getting closer to The Idiocracy every day. And the people who realize it are the base cogs. The sad part is, I think they know it and could care less.

I don't know whether I should start handing out Brawndo or phone Terry Crews and start grooming him for the presidency.

I don't even remember most of the story and I beat it like 3 or 4 times. I'm healthy, exercise every day, I don't consume much sugar and yet still I can't remember a damn thing. I'm so sick of getting old.

Well, at least that proves you aren't an evil person. Usually when people comment how annoying her voice is tells me they probably watch horror movies as instructional videos.

Here's a few images I saved.

http://imgur.com/a/MEGKins

Platinum'd it back in November. The game was worth it for Angela alone.

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Bhutan's flag is pretty cool. A dragon and my favorite culurs.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

japan's probably the most lame

About 3 hardcore animu are reading that right now and are all like "Nani!?!?!" They quickly went to their only drawer in their room that's clean and pulled out their Naruto cosplay, donned it and are practicing jutsu in the corner real mad.

Run for your lives.

Prediction: Some people will agree that such flags are ugly, then the usual suspects will chime in and pick their economic system of choice's flags are somehow good.

It'll probably be a Sweden flag
Then we'll have some French
Then some edgy China

Of course we gotta get the j and k fans too.

Basically anything but USA.

And of course the board Canadians are allowed to be brand loyal so they'll go hard maple leaf.
Meanwhile, the actually point to the topic and aesthetic choice will go out the window.

Yay internet land!

And of course

INB4 "Literally no one's doing that"

I see a lot of people saying this, then you point out the lowest IQ members of society also think like them and suddenly you're the bad guy.

That was 10 years ago. Now it's just obvious to everyone so they're just firebombing anyone who disagrees.

(posters reading this) "I wonder what side he's talking about. Hmm, who is this new guy anyway? He better not be on the wrong side!"

Jesus Christ. That's why I don't talk about this stuff. Peace out.

(posters) "You'll not get away that easily! I'll tag you as suspect! We will figure out whether you are part of the La Revolucin or not! Aiaiaiaiai!!!"

My God! (runs away screaming)

I know this is probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd be perfectly fine playing the 2 to 3 gen-ago Kemco rpg/sim games on low power console. I never cared for amazing graphics. I still like FF6 better than most all the later FFs after it. Hell, I still read books.

They'll definitely do something. I'm starting to see YouTube videos made by 80s Batman street thug types living in messy apartments making crypto tutorials.

The authorities will make what they're doing illegal somehow. I'm sure they'll start trying to jack into power supplies and lines. I have a feeling we're going to lose a lot of personal freedom in the next 20 years. Maybe everyone living in pods and eating protein(bugs) bars while the ruling class runs away with all the money lol.

I just hope we get to choose which flavor. I'm partial to beetles myself. I don't like roaches.

This is step one. Time to get used to those grey and black screen Tiger Electronics handhelds again! Get your little drug store batteries and screwdrivers ready. Hell, we might just have to go back to boardgames. Batteries may be too much!

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Edit: Made url tiny. Long version too long for site.

When people can admit to who they really are and how they really feel, then they can have clothing optional in public. If they refuse and pretend to be moralists then no.

Look, but dont touch.
Touch, but dont taste.
Taste, but dont swallow.

Either live honest and be free or hide behind the gate and fences that you made as the ruling class in another life.

Currently the free-spirited people of yesterday are now moralists and the moralists of yesterday are still moralists. We're in a purity spiral that no one knows where will stop. I fully expect a world where clothing is optional in the future, but anything resembling an attractive man or a woman will be considered offensive and enabling and thus stigmatized and socially unacceptable.

And so by the time clothing is optional, no one will want to see you naked anyway.

Look at this guys, literally same steps and time, says I did one less mile. So much for Samsung Health. Maybe doing the gps map made it more honest? I also broke 5 of my old records. Must've been the banana pudding I ate before.

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That's all I really wanted to say. Just got some from the deli. I'd probably have it as my last meal.

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Yeah, the spiders really ruin some bridge walks in season. Happened to me in Buffalo back in 2011. I was tempted to bring a broom and brush them all off, but the damn things we're along the entire walkway. I got chills just being near them and kept feeling as if things were crawling on me when they obviously weren't. And I like spiders too. My biology obviously doesn't care.

I mean there had to have been 100,000 of them.

It would be cool if we could all make a guild on some smartphone game and team up kicking ass with collective steps.

Ok... so maybe that sounds dumb, but it could be cool if they did it right.

Well, as for distance, it does measure it via gps mapping. The distance I walked was definitely over 6.5 miles because it's normally 5 and I did a our 1.5 extra today by taking an extended route to see where a new bulldozed path led.

The odd thing is the time. It says 136 minutes. Felt more like 3 hours, but I don't see it screwing up on time. The sad thing is, 20 years ago, I could do almost double that distance in nearly half the time jogging. I was 50lbs lighter too. Sometimes I don't even know how I was that person anymore.

Personally, I can't wait for the dystopian future where insurance companies force us to share our fitness data and ping us for being fatties. Can you imagine in like 2050, your government issue citizen health band waking you up at 5am and telling you to get out of bed and go walk because you're not as physically fit as the rest of the ants at the factory? Gotta be fit so you can work hard and produce more widgets for the regime's war machine.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-companies.html

14k is almost 6.66miles. As you can see, I stopped just before met the Devil.

I set my weight to 350. Look how many calories I would burn if I let one of your ride piggyback

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Clench281 posted...

I never knew there were so many different apps people use for activity tracking

I thought Fitbit, apple fit and Google fit were most of it

There's quite a few geoloc games on the app stores too. I was playing one years ago and some kid had taken all the lands in my area. I conquered them and ended up running into him, but he was like 9 years old and it would've been awkward so I just laughed and went back to my car. I must look like such a loser playing geoloc games when only kids are doing them. I'm the only male my age I've ever seen playing them. I saw one shop owner lady playing Pokemon Go, but I got tired of that game. It was too repetitive. Someone from inside a pizza place that was closed was helping me beat some boss once. I always thought that was weird. The lights were out and no cars in the parking lot.

Pineapple pizza by itself is good. I even had one my bro made with big ass heavy canned circle pineapple pieces all over the top.

Always blew my mind people getting freaked out over it. Simple taste buds can't handle savory and sweet. Meanwhile it's completely normal, totally done throughout the world. People grilling up tarantulas. And we're picky about pineapples.

Reminds me of this grown ass man I worked a seasonal at in Walmart where he just couldn't handle the thought of a peanut butter and sour mayonnaise sandwich.

Like... dude... calm your big ass down. If it was a hot girl telling you about it, you would've waxed cosmopolitan and been like "Hmm!" People don't usually just make stuff up. Chances are if it's different, you just haven't had it yet. Wake up and stop being so close-minded. Beavers literally gnaw on big trees every day and love every piece of sawdust.

"Oooh no! Pineapple!" ...

Yea, pineapple. It's good. Quite, actually.

"B-but!"

No, no b-but... it's tasty tasty. Look, this man loves them so much, he got a pineapple hairdo.
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Ok so I'm halfway done with my daily walk. This is what my phone says.

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Stopped to sit down in the shade at the baseball park. It's hot as balls outside.

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I didn't know gay people couldn't donate. So that's why they ask those questions. Weird. I wish they would at least allow you to let your blood. It always makes me feel nice for a few hours. My doctor says I make too many red blood cells.