deluxev2
4mo ago
The thing about blood wall, blood letting, hemokinesis and such, is that they often end the battle with less total damage taken including the self damage. If you can't full block anyway, blood wall is just a block 13 for 1 energy. Blood letting is take another turn but you failed to block by 3 and the enemy doesn't scale. Playing hemokinesis twice (4 hp) instead of strike is about another full turns worth of damage.
deluxev2
4mo ago
Played 8 runs already, enjoying all the weirdness of the enemies and events.
Re strategy: It does make sense to skip card rewards, especially as you get later in the run and have a stronger deck. You want to take a card if it raises the average strength of cards in your deck (or if you need it so you can scale higher in the fight for powers).
deluxev2
4mo ago
Some stuff my group has done recently that roughly fits your criteria:
- PlateUp: Swap back and forth between a light automation/progression game and a flow state. Pretty vulnerable to quarterbacking if that is a problem for your group.
- Risk of Rain 2: Roguelike shooter, where you are reacting to the relics you get and trying to keep your team members builds in mind for sharing items. Quite a variety of characters with vastly different playstyles and some achievement based unlocks (do a hard weird thing to get a variant of this ability which is roughly balanced). Difficult to get win, so shared sense of accomplishment.
- Tabletop Simulator: One of our members is really into board games so recently we've played Spirit Island, Sentinels of the Multiverse and Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. All probably longer than you want.
- Hammerwatch: Kill monsters, get gold/exp, get cooler abilities, repeat. Class based which encourages cooperation.
- Divinity Original Sin 2: Play D&D but you don't need a DM. Less reactive than a real DM can be but more competent than many and will put up with more bullshit.
deluxev2
6mo ago
Fourth-ing (or whatever) the recommendation for Long War. Note that Long War: Rebalanced is made by different people and is pretty good but not the same experience.
deluxev2
7mo ago
Python doesn't ever error because it thinks you've made a mistake, it only stops you if it can't figure out what you are asking it to do. It does force you to use garbage collection and the language features love hashmaps but is generally very unopinionated on anything else.
deluxev2
8mo ago
The problem with heavy metals is that your body largely can't get rid of them, so short term abstinence won't do you any good. From what I've seen the numbers don't look concerning to me unless you think lifespan takeoff is around the corner.
deluxev2
8mo ago
I mainly use Gmail because it is reasonably functional and I already have it. I'd wouldn't judge a man by his email provider. It may not be there only email handle and email may not be their primary means of communication. Google gets my bills and Amazon confirmations and I don't feel bad about that.
deluxev2
8mo ago
Growing one carrot likely doesn't even cover their yearly carrot consumption. A line worker is producing more goods than they are consuming according to Toyota management, the best expert to judge that.
I'd wager that most people are using "produces more than they consume over a roughly decade window with allowances for trade"
deluxev2
10mo ago
The only major webfictions I've read are hpmor, worm, Homestuck and origins of the species. Hpmor is good but you have to like/tolerate the main character. I enjoyed the first third of worm a lot but it kinda takes too long to wrap up the main mysteries (the resolution is satisfying though, once you get there). Homestuck is not really the same vibe.
deluxev2
10mo ago
So far that has been the only AI propaganda. Definitely thematic parallels in other places and the story isn't over so still have to wait and see if it full tilts into it or something. I've been enjoying my time with it, there is definitely some cringey spots but better than the state of most media.
I have a black male rescue cat that I've taught a handful of tricks to (sit, shake, look, spin, lay down, up, down, shoulders, boop). They recently discontinued his kibble brand, so I've been trying to find him something else he likes before I run out of the stockpile of the good stuff.
I have mixed feelings on dogs. They are pretty great to own/be close to, especially if you have a bit of land that they can be on. Unfortunately a lot of people don't train their dogs (doesn't need to be formal, just basic etiquette is sufficient). They destroy property, they are capable of violence and often threaten it, they are loud enough to disturb neighbors, and they do all this with strong social cover that it isn't the owner's fault/responsibility. I think if your dog threatens someone, you should be held responsible as if you had done so. Good dogs are great though.
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