mysticpickle
@mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 days ago:
Amazing work as always! Gaming journalism as it should be.
Nintendo really doubling down in the heel turn recently 🤢
- Comment on Whenever you feel inadequate, remember we all have at least one thing that we are really good at 1 week ago:
- Comment on What are some of your unpopular opinions, hot takes about shows, streamers, the wider industry etc? 1 week ago:
I kinda feel the last season of Game of Thrones was so transcendentally bad it tainted my memories of everything good before it. I still can’t bring myself to rewatch the first 5 good seasons :<
- Comment on What TV series suffered by introducing an unnecessary romance between characters? And in the reverse, are there any TV series that suffered by NOT introducing a romance between two characters? 2 weeks ago:
Wait. Necessary or unnecessary romance? :o
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 weeks ago:
Tbh playing Magic the Gathering or Warhammer 40k with random dudes at a hobby store is cheaper and more fun than most traditional dates I’ve been on.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 weeks ago:
Space above and beyond died too young. It was such an awesome scifi show with some really mind blowing good episodes
- Comment on Chipotle offering a discount, while warning they may also inflate prices and delivery fees simultaneously 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 2 weeks ago:
Very detailed and informative post as always! This is how video game journalism should be done.
You’ve convinced me to give Death Standing another go. I bounced off of it 30 minutes in after the 20th minute of cut scenes but there seems to be more juice to it further in so I’ll power through another hour or two and see if I can’t find the hooks!
- Comment on You can only imagine what is going on in there 3 weeks ago:
Probably just a buncha Klingons :>
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 3 weeks ago:
The fact the story in the latter seasons started angling towards the whole underclass starting a massive uprising probably rustled his oligarch jimmies a bit :>
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 3 weeks ago:
Big brain move here. They’re going to wait 20 years so the actors age appropriately and they can save a ton on makeup costs before they start filming the next season :>
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #6 4 weeks ago:
Love these! Reading the bit about Sierra have me big nostalgia vibes.
Just a FYI, the turds at Longdue making “Hopetown” are suing Argo Tuulik one of the lead writers for the OG Disco Elysium in some lame effort to snuff out any preternatural competition from Argo’s own project.
Luckily the community has really rallied behind him so things are looking up. Still I wouldn’t give Longdue/Riaz Moola/Hopetown (ugh what kind of hack came up with that name?) any more positive press because they ate as hell don’t deserve it :o
- Comment on Marc Rober shows why Tesla's camera-only self-driving system is dangerous 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 4 weeks ago:
Star Control 2 - it’s a mix of RPG storytelling with zany aliens mixed with Asteroids style PvP arcade gameplay. Like Ham and Cantaloupe, you think the combination wouldn’t work but it just somehow does. The writing and lore of the whole universe is just super rich and really immerses you into the whole universe.
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 5 weeks ago:
Recycling is what Disney does best :>
- Comment on Which movie do you feel has the most wasted potential? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 1 month ago:
That’s because they used pewter containers which were pretty common back in the day. The acidity from tomatoes would leech the lead out of the pewter and into the tomato so anyone eating this lead infused tomato product was gonna be in for a bad time.
- Comment on What's this thing stuck on my dirty underwear? Is it a piece of undissolved tide pod? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 1 month ago:
Castlevania has some killer tracks
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 1 month ago:
Woah I’m still getting new stuff this is great! The Romeo and Juliet equidistant is particularly cool! Thank you! :o
I’m using Sync for Lemmy which hasn’t updated in forever so its spoiler tag function is all borked for me :<
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 1 month ago:
Woah didn’t know what one, mind blown thanks!
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 1 month ago:
New player monster/object guide
Since there’s no explanation in game of how the monsters behave I’ve put this together with the hopes it’ll make the initial experience a bit less frustrating for new players. Feel free to chime in if I get anything wrong or miss something and I’ll edit it in:
WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO PREFER TO DISCOVER THINGS ON YOUR OWN. SCROLL NO FURTHER
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X-Walls - always spawns in orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) adjacent pairs. Can be destroyed if hit 3 times at a cost of 1 health per hit. Drops a coin worth 1 xp when destroyed.
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0-Starting Orb - reveals all tiles in two orthogonal (vertical/horizontal) tile radius when used. You should usually start by clicking this.
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0-Healing Scroll - restores life full. Also drops from Romeo and Juliet (9 power monsters)
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0-Clairvoyance Scroll - randomly reveals any random tile on the board and all 8 tiles around it.
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0-Gnome - ?? seems to teleport around randomly until you corner him eventually. Worth 9 xp
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0-Dragon Egg - spawns in one of the 8 spaces around the dragon (power 13 monster). Leave it in tact for an achievement. Worth 3 xp
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1-Rat - all of them can be revealed by defeating the rat king (power 5 monster) and using the scroll that drops from him. Avoid killing for achievement.
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1-Slime King - always spawns on the board edge surrounded by five Purple Slimes. Drops a scroll that reveals all Purple and Green Slimes.
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2-Bat - nothing special
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3-Skeleton - nothing special
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4-Gargoyle - always spawns in orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) adjacent pairs
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5-Green Slime - all of them can be revealed by defeating the slime king (power 1 monster) and using the scroll that drops from him
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5-Beholder - replaces clues in a two orthogonal (vertical/horizontal) tile radius while alive.
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5-Rat King - drops a scroll that reveals all rats on the board
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6-Minotaur - a treasure chest always spawns in one of the 8 spaces surrounding him
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7-Guardian - nothing special
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8-Purple Slime - always spawns in a ring around the slime king (power 1 monster) along the edges of the board. All of them are revealed by using the scroll that drops from the slime king.
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9-Romeo and Juliet - drops a healing scroll on death. Leave them alive for an achievement
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10-Mine King - always spawns in one of the 4 corners of the board. Drops a scroll that disarms all mines in the board.
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11-Mimic - looks like a regular chest upon being revealed. Won’t fight you until you click it again after revealing it.
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13-Dragon - always spawns in the same spot on board near the center. A dragon egg (power 0 monster with 3 xp) will always spawn in one of the 8 tiles surrounding it. Defeat it to end the game with a win.
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100-Mine - the only way to disarm these is by defeating the mine king (power 10 monster) and using the scroll he drops. Disarmed mines are worth 3 xp
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- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 1 month ago:
The game is fun but man it was rough figuring out all the monster abilities. I wish they’d improve the monsternomicon to actually tell you what the monsters do. Like I still don’t know how the gnome monster works.
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 2 months ago:
- Comment on anyone know any good android games? 4 months ago:
Slice and Dice. Turn based RPG dungeon fighter where your party are all unique dice that you can modify with items and such. The interface is super slick and well done.
I’ve put in hundreds of hours and I’m going to likely be putting in hundreds more. Well worth the price!
- Comment on A Song of Ice and Fire - first editions of each book 4 months ago:
People love stories, who has a better story than Bran The Broken?
- Comment on Anyone know of any good cheap/free trivia party games? 5 months ago:
Ah reread you message and you were asking specifically about trivia games. I thought you meant party games in general so I’ll just give you one of my favorites anyways!
Just One! - retails for about 20 bucks but you can DIY this with an online random noun generator and some bits of paper and pencils. This plays best with more than 4 players.
Cooperative game where the basic gist is one person is a guesser and everyone else are cluegivers trying to make him guess the mystery word by writing down a one word clue in secret. The catch is before revealing clues to the guesser, the cluegivers have to compare the clues they write with each other and if any of the clues match (or have matching root words) those are taken out and not revealed to the guesser.
Games are out of a total of 13 words and even a getting 7 out of 13 right on your group’s first go is considered pretty good!
It’s surprisingly fun for such a simple rule set since you have to think of good clues but not necessarily obvious ones that might conflict with other people’s clues. I highly recommend it!
- Comment on Anyone know of any good cheap/free trivia party games? 5 months ago:
Lot of good ones out there that you could probably DIY but some of them work best a certain player counts. How many people are playing?
- Comment on [Weekly thread] It's Wednesday, which movies have you been watching? 5 months ago:
Casa Bonita Mi Amore! - Documentary on the reopening of Casa Bonita, an aiming gigantic 50,000 sq ft. cross between a Mexican Restaurant and Disneyland. The guys who created South Park ended up buying the place out of nostalgia thinking it’d just need some new carpet and a coat of paint to get back to its glory days but quickly realize things are a lot more complicated. Truly captivating stuff.
