Imma wait โtil the first 4 are out. |
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all of them, thatโs my local high score list all roles ascended |
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oh jeez congrats, damn |
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actually iโm a huge nethack fan but iโve only ever ascended a valk even though iโve played it for over a decade. spent the first 8 years or so playing entirely unspoiled deliberately. i donโt recommend it lol how would you rank the difficulty of each role? did you have a favorite role? got any good stories from your ascensions? what did your ascension kits look like, was there any real variation or did everyone end up like dual wielding artifact weapon and sword, heaviest armor, ring of free action, bag of holding, wands of digging, etc |
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yeah I kind of wish I hadnโt spoiled myself so quickly when I first started playing it like 14yrs ago, it really takes out a lot of the challenge when you know all the tricks and itโs just execution of the same kind of strategies every time, but the game still is fun regardless difficulty wise I had the most trouble getting Tourists up and running, had many frustrating early deaths with them, they simply do not start with anything useful for surviving so a lot of it is luck of the draw with what you find. By about mid-game once you get MR, Reflection and Poison Res youโre about set so most roles tend to converge into the same old thing. Exact kit varies per class but I prefer getting reflection from SDSM, MR from Cloak, leaving amulet free for Life Saving, which leaves hands free for two-weaponing or using a two-hander Quest Artifact for flavour. one good story that sticks out was my Caveman run, an early poly trap turned my pet into a Baby White Dragon, which I cared for until it grew into an Adult White Dragon, which helped me kill a few pesky shopkeepers and priests and otherwise acted as a tough bodyguard. Eventually I reached Medusaโs level, but had none of the usual convenient means of crossing the water. I did, however, have a ing of conflict, and a galaxy brain moment of genius. Iโd use the ring to annoy my pet dragon and goad it into shooting itโs frost breath at me, freezing me a path across the level. It was a bit tedious in reality, but the mental image of this caveman dragging and yanking a bigass dragon by a leash, yelling and taunting while ninja-dodging blasts of frozen breath was too cool to not do. my Archeologist had some ridic early game luck, which was good because theyโre another weak starter. Looted $700 from a vault on dlvl2, got scale armour, cloak of invisibility, a nice shield, speed boots and a silver sabre from a dlvl3 shop, found gauntlets of power on immediately upon entering dlvl4, reach Minetown to find a magic marker, magic lamp, magic whistle, bag of holding and co-aligned altar, go a few floors down find a second magic lamp, wish for Grayswandir, check out a shop I had avoided due to sensing a large mimic, and find a 0:1 wand of wishing which bought me the Orb of Fate, cloak of magic resistance, SDSM. I was kitted out in totally awesome gear and I hadnโt even seen Mines End or Sokoban yet. and then there was the time I found a +6 Dwarven Cloak in the early levels of the Mines. I never knew armour could be generated that highly enchanted o.o โง Edited by iforgotnmyname at 2019-10-10 08:29:552019-10-10 08:29 |
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did you have a favorite/least-favorite quest? |
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a friend bought me Noita for my birthday so iโm gonna play that tonight my present to myself was Code Vein which is fun and chill so far |
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in other non video games news, Iโve been busting my ass for quite a long time now to get stronger at Go, and Iโm starting to be able to beat certain weaker AIs pretty consistently. I think Iโm at about 15 kyu now, which means Iโve come a long way this year. I started 2019 at probably about 25 kyu. its taken nearly constant study, working problems in downtime at work, playing on my go app when I get a spare moment, grinding out match experience and being active in my local club. itโs really paying off and it feels great to see the results on the board I play a lot of games but Go is my real passion. but Iโve played it and been garbage at it for too long. got serious about it this year finally โง Edited by Applebaps at 2019-10-14 06:57:472019-10-14 06:57 |
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finished Ciconia the other day at first i thought it was kind of lame because of the emphasis on battle scenes and weird mecha vibes, but itโs a true When They Cry story through and through with lots of intrigue and crazy foreshadowing i picked up Umineko Saku in akihabara today (got a cool when they cry calendar too) so iโm looking forward to reading the extra little story |
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Iโm obsessively reading through the Ciconia threads on 4chan and itโs kind of amazingโฆ itโs like weโre basically back in the peak of the Umineko theorycrafting days of 2009, when nobody can spoil you on the answer because nobody actually knows what the fuckโs going on in Ryukishiโs head. |
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elite dangerous all day every day |
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wow classic โ luigiโs mansion 3 โ dwarf fortress luigiโs mansion was a lot of fun |
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df always owns, i like to come back and check it out every couple of years |
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bouncing between Night In The Woods and Monster Sanctuary, loving both |
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i just discovered Slay the Spire and itโs fucking great i always figured there was a core fun game inside the deckbuilder genre but iโd never seen an example that wasnโt a cancerous CCG with aggressive monetization shitting all over it slay the spire proves that yes deckbuilding is fun and interesting |
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Applebaps pwned me at go, I have no skill though. We gotta play again some time.
I played through a bunch of Night in the Woods. It didnโt feel very satisfying, it kind of just felt like a linear visual novel rather than an adventure game.
Thereโs a difference between deckbuilding game genre vs building a TCG deck |
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final fantasy xii |
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been revisiting old monster hunter titles, namely freedom unite on the psp and 4 ultimate on the 2ds i have mixed feelings on 4u and feel like generations ultimate is way better. freedom unite still owns tho also playing a lot of iceborne. feel like thatโs been pretty great but i crave more classic mh |
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jumped back into Binding of Isaac for a bit, starting a new save file starting to remember why I liked and disliked this game, itโs fun as hell but I can feel the anger coming back at losses where I narrowly miss some goal and waste half an hour. Iโve already gone thru the stress of 100%ing this game, donโt need to repeat it all over again. |
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fuck TBOI (until the final expansion comes out) |
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man Iโm very hype for repentance |
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i like isaac but i cant bring myself to grind for 100% |
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same. i feel like that takes a lot of the fun out |
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I wasnโt aware of this untill I was looking some stuff up last night. Kinda hyped now.
Itโs a fucking challenge/grind yeah, Iโm starting to remember some of the absolute bullshit this game expects you to do or throws your way. I donโt think Iโve played a game that so clearly hates its players. |
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i 100%ed the original version (until they released a third expansion or something?) and ive never played it again theres just so many times where you didnโt get any damage powerups and everything just takes forever to kill its not about dodging anymore its about not being bored |
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yeah, a canon port of antibirth? sign me the heck up |
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yeah, rebirth had some serious power curve issues that itโs taken literally all of afterbirth and afterbirth+โs extra patches to correct the game is in a pretty good place atm with all expacs fwiw but it still sucks to get locked out of treasure rooms or to get to It Lives and realize you just donโt have the power to go beyond that without it taking 3 hours |
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thatโs just what happens when youโre the first game in your genre and donโt have the benefit of being able to look at other games to learn what not to do i guess it could be a lot worse, too. it could be Enter the Gungeon lmao. like 80% of the guns in that game are utter shit. at least in isaac the bad picks only amount to like 10-15% of the item pool at this point โง Edited by Applebaps at 2020-02-08 17:48:302020-02-08 17:48 |
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lately ive been playing Sabanโs Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid and by playing I mean just figuring out combos in training mode one of these days iโll go online I beat arcade mode without losing a character, so I wonโt get clowned on super hard I hope edit: i didnt say what it is, its a 3v3 vs-style fighter with simplified inputs not quite as crazy as a mvc, no flying characters yet and only one person can airdash but you still got ridiculous offense and combos โง Edited by meepches and pentell at 2020-02-09 00:08:532020-02-09 00:08 |
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which ranger do you main |
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my team is โDoggieโ Cruger, Udonna and Dai Shi |
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gettin back into my old-ass rpgs, playing ToME and etrian odyssey 3 |
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just finished dragon quest 11 |
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Iโve been playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance for the past two weeks and I fuckin love it itโs a great feeling to have a game that I look forward to playing every day now itโs been literal years and years since Iโve had this. I was playing Factorio a few weeks ago but it was alright. Still sort of enjoy it but Iโm way too into Kingdom Come right now |
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MONSTER HUNTER GENERATIONS ULTIMATE |
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Picked up Slay the Spire and gotten semi-addicted. Up to A15 Ironclad, A4 Silent, A16 Defect and A2 Watcher. Kinda hitting a wall though, itโs been difficult to get runs off the ground, I keep running out of steam mid Act 2. |
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she looks very drippy |
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still playibg ffxii zodiac and ACNH |
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got kinda burnt out on animal crossing |
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same and same |
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ship 1 hbu |
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2 rip |
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seems like too many people are on 2 lolz |
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thatโs where the goons are |
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yeah itโs where everyone is |
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yeah i think itโd probably be pretty nice to be able to walk around in lobbies without having to go through the fire and frames lol |
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A few months ago, I read this article: Yesterday I finally tried out a branch of that, the Japan-only SNES game โRecord of Lodoss Warโ for 3 hours, but because emulation, I failed to properly save it, so I lost my progress (I since solved and can remedy in future). Iโm not sure if Iโll start it up again, but Iโll share my impressions. Going into this game knowing that it was originally inspired by a Japanese ttrpg group helped a lot. Given the generic nature of it, I otherwise would probably have passed it off as just-another-jrpg. If somebody ran a ttrpg of it, I think I would be compelled to roleplay in the world presented. The lore is laid out right away and seems manageable, generic fantasy flavour, with roles and stories you could slip into. I only played through the first little bit, where you start off as a single character. More than once, it seems like you are KOโd intentionally and your spirit moves to a new body which is a really cool idea. Thatโs scripted though, so you donโt get to choose. At first youโre a legendary warrior, then a lowly thief, then an OP wizard. There is talking, wandering and retreading using new info/equipment. Based on chracter art Iโve seen, I think this is only during the intro, and future charactes are probably static. The thing that stood out most for me is the linear nature of the game. I had zero chance for exploration. Also bothered me that I couldnโt investigate barrels or shelves or things on a table, etc. The world feels more dead to me if I can only interact with NPCs. If I play more, itโll be because I want to play beyond what might be the intro section, and finally have more party members and agency. If this is just an intro section, I think itโs a really cool way to start off the game; ease you in, instead of managing several characters from the outset, kind of like DQ4 or Live a Live. Something I also like about the game is the battle system. It feels a lot more dynamic and interesting compared to Final Fantasy. You have an isometric (this might not be the right term. not side on, not first person, but turned 45ยบ) grid of 3 or 4 by 4 or 5, so a rectangle. You have a move action, then an action-action. If you want to escape, move off the board. Magic can be cast across the field, melee is next-to (obviously). A battle feels more pressing in this game, since distance and spacing matters when you have an enemy - or multiple enemies! - upon you in a turn or few. Iโd like to learn how battle are late in the game. In other RPGs, itโs navigating the turn-based structure and juggling multiple abstract effects, but this game might be more like tactical D&D grid combat. Oh yeah. The music is generic and reptitive but fine. The art is not bad and standard SNES RPG, with nice anime portraits for party dialogue. Just navigating the UI, I love seeing an RPG not made by Square of Enix. There is a persistent frame throughout the entire game, like Super Game Boy except stylized like a fancy picture frame. If I play more, maybe Iโll check out the anime. https://www.romhacking.net/translations/2155/ Can you guys suggest any other Japan-only fan-translated games? โง Edited by A Talking Pokemon at 2020-06-03 13:47:202020-06-03 13:47 |
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I have a group of 3 other friends Iโve been playing GTAV with since covid started. We started Borderlands 3 about 2 weeks ago. And itโs been awesome |
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that just sounds like borderlands with extra steps |
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I started a megaman legends playthrough last week I should keep going |
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new character for power ranger battle for the grid but they goofed up and you cant prepurchase the whole season yet!!! ๐ looks very fun though i love a projectile that just sits there for a second |
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gunfire is fun |
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same |
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play SYNTHETIK |
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I bought it expecting to play it for a few hours and set it aside, but Iโm playing it consistently for at least an hour a night at this point - just turn off the music, start Spotify with some nice music, and do a couple of runs. |
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Starting to play more Halo from the Halo: Master Chief Collection on PC. Halo 3 dropped two days ago, so the three Halo games I care about (and Reach) are now available and let me play online with some people on Steam, which is really nice and reminds me of high school/college when I used to play a bunch with people IRL. |
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iโm training for the 2020 US e-Go Congress, itโs been moved online due to the pandemic iโm entering the US Open and the DDK tournaments, both as a 10kyu which i think is probably about right |
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also playing a fuckload of Donโt Starve for some reason |
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This and pso2 |
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X to doubt from a very crappy Go player (me) |
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oh lol yeah iโm learnin |
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feels like iโm right on the cusp of breaking through into SDK i can occasionally peel a 3 or 4 handicap game off of 1k/1d amateurs but my OGS rank begs to differ |
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What are you studying/reading to help you along the way? |
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lotta stuff lol. especially when i was trying to make a breakthrough in the low DDKs i read a LOT. these days iโm more focused on playing lots and lots of games to let the theory settle in i think the book that woke me up the most was actually not a go book, it was sirlinโs โplay to winโ kageyamaโs โfundamentalsโ was hugely influential on my play. itโs like my little yellow bible โrescue and captureโ is an excellent book of problems that helps me get stones out of bad situations a lot once i started internalizing the situations โfighting fundamentalsโ by jasiek is also great though itโs a bit technical / mathematical for my current playstyle i also train occasionally with a leela zero setup on my pc. itโs important not to play against AI too much or they can actually just crush your desire to play at all. if you just do like an opening and midgame against one and then review their recommendations afterwards you can get a lot out of it in a short time tho, usually with minimal feelings of puny mortality lol |
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i really canโt emphasize enough though the importance of match experience. more than anything else the thing thatโs helped me get stronger has been little doses of theory coupled with LOTS of matches to let it cook into something i can use. after a while you start to recognize good and bad shape, potential places to go, forcing moves, situations where youโre in danger, where youโre alive, etc. but you really canโt fake it |
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I remember on the go server I used to play on a long time ago they had a chat channel for game reviews/analysis? Have you found that useful? I havenโt played Go in quite some time due to personal time limits, but yes, Iโve always found that playing was equally (if not slightly more) important to my improvement as reading/studying. I still try to do some daily tsumego though. |
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YES. reviewing games is crucial. just like watching your own replays in a fighting game, or anything else like this imo. thereโs two ways to do reviews i think, with their own merits and flaws you can review right then and there after a game so itโs fresh, and do it with your opponent so you get their perspective too. this is basically impossible to do right now because of the pandemic. this improves your reading and memory though which are important skills for playing on a real board the other way is to take an electronic game record in SGF format and feed it to an AI after you let your mind rest for a while. like a day or two later go over it with the bot and see what they think. bot reviewing gets to the heart of things but can be tough to understand at first since all you see is winrates and stuff. i have a tsumego app on my phone and iโll do some in my downtime too yeah i love the game so i tend to be thinking about it a lot, going over stuff in my head with spare brain power in my downtime, or wanting to play it a lot lol. i think the game you try to get really good at should be like that, personally, because itโs going to take so much of your time, youโll want it to be something youโre naturally inclined to want to do anyway. obsession is a plus i go through phases of development where tsumego will help me more or reading books will help me more or playing will, etc i also like goproyeonwoo on youtube, sheโs a pretty strong korean pro who does very helpful videos in the post-AI era, iโve found her analysis really invaluable for learning from the bots https://www.youtube.com/user/goingceo which is key to being strong now |
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you can definitely play too much, also go in particular is very taxing mentally. iโve overtrained and gotten to a point where it felt like i couldnโt make moves with any meaning then i had to take a longer rest from the game, sometimes as long as a month where i have to just ban myself from thinking about the game or playing at all until i recover itโs tough to know where your line is sometimes but itโs important to know so you donโt overtrain or overplay |
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The two different review styles appeal to me as a former high school and collegiate chess player as they are very similar to how I would review and learn from my chess games. The choices when I bought my go set were specifically geared towards this with single convex stones - then I moved half way across the country and away from my go playing friends so I havenโt been able to play in person in some time. Good luck in the open! |
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yeah our local club here hasnโt met since the pandemic really started hitting us in March. 4 months without touching the stones, ugh. i actually just broke out my set this morning to do some research and just to like, hold and feel the stones again. i really miss it you play chess, eh? iโve heard that chess and go have both been seeing record numbers of people streaming and watching online lately. like 50k+ for chess on twitch which is unheard of and awesome |
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and thanks! this will actually be my first major tournament so iโm really looking forward to having my ass handed to me lmao. itโll be valuable experience either way |
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Iโm a weird one and I love spending time holding the stones in front of the board and, for more in depth problems, will lay out the board and place/remove stones. For some reason that helps my memory. |
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you said you have single convex stones, what material are they? i have yunzi stones myself. love the feel, the weight, and the way they glow in the light
not weird at all! or if it is, iโm also weird. the physicality of go is a big part of what attracted me to the game in the first place |
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Theyโre yunzi and I adore them. |
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think iโm probably 4 or 5 stones stronger on a real board than online |
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arenโt they awesome? i wonโt settle for any other material at this point. iโve played with shell and slate japanese stones even and i prefer the yunzi tbh |
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I would eventually like to get a nice set of shell and slate stones, but thatโs for when Iโm retired and can spend all of my time drinking coffee/tea and playing go. |
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yeah like, those are THE stones for a super serious retirement set just because of the history but they tend to be quite fragile stones, they chip really easily and theyโre also harvested endangered species lol |
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I probably wouldnโt get new ones - Iโd buy a pre-owned set. |
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yeah for one thing thatโd be the only way to actually afford them lol |
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Itโs kind of like yunzi - you can clean them but they change their appearance from just being handled, and I think thatโs cool. |
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yeah definitely. same sort of appeal there what kind of board and bowl material do you have? bamboo and โฆ.. shit i forgot what kind of bowls i have. maple? idk. nothing special. i got a yellow mountain imports set a long time ago lol |
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If you got it from YMI then we probably have the same set. Bamboo table board and turned jujube bowls: https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Mountain-Imports-Jujube-Carrying/dp/B000JX6WPU |
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haha almost! these are my bowls: https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Mountain-Imports-Bamboo-Stones/dp/B0058LTQ1A/ |
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so i guess theyโre bamboo |
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Yeah. I bought mine as a set which they no longer offer as I think they stopped offering yunzi stones over the lead scare. I just donโt let children handle the stones and wash my hands after Iโm done/donโt eat/drink around my go board and stones. |
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If thereโs interest I have previously created https://baduk.thread.zone/. |
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i had no idea yunzi stones had lead in them, holy shit iโm looking around now to get more information |
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it says not authorized! is the zone private? |
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Some of them do. Itโs not every batch. There was a scare and people were ordering lead test kits and chasing up YMI for exchanges.
Fixed - I set it to private after creating it because I was thinking about the structure I wanted to open it with and then just sort of forgot about it. |
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jeez. well, i mean, if thereโs lead in my stonesโฆ iโve routinely snacked while playing, iโm drinking coffee even right now as i play with my set at home, iโve played with older people on this set i think iโd like to test my set and see. thanks for mentioning that! no matter how nice they feel or look, if theyโre a health risk iโm going to take that seriously
cool, thanks! lemme just pop in there rq |
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https://www.usgo.org/news/2014/02/yunzi-stones-and-lead-an-update/ |
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https://www.amazon.com/3M-717834209102DUPE-LeadCheck-Swabs-8-Pack/dp/B008BK15PU is what many people used to test. โง Edited by MasterOfMagic at 2020-07-16 18:36:062020-07-16 18:36 |
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sadly, i donโt know if we can really trust test results from a chinese factory tbh. theyโre at grave risk of losing face if it gets out that they still have lead contamination so they have a strong incentive to lie i think iโll get a home testing kit and find out if my particular stones have lead in them or not |
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Always good to test for yourself. |
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for anyone reading this whoโs not in the baduk zone: i tested my stones, it came back negative |
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been playing Death Stranding and the new super hot |
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update to this: after 120 hours i finally beat Adventure Mode |
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how is that btw, the new super hot |
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it owns also added some new weapons which are neat |
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lol nice |
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Finally got the season pack so I got the new purple ranger Heโs really cool, heโs got a short swing blow type thing that you can stop after the backstep part and either charge up for a bionic arm or cancel out of which seems like itโll be really sweet, and you can cancel into it on hit or block so you can sort of always abort your pressure pretty safely. I also spent some time in the lab and squeezed significantly more damage and some extra meter out of a BnB for Doggie, with the plus side of having it end with his super impractical rekka move that looks really cool, and made my Udonna BnB slightly meter positive and got a little bit more damage on it. Not sure if RJ is gonna be my third though, even after trying out like four different anchors I canโt decide. I need to lab a BnB I like for him. |
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I have been kind of at a loss since beating GTA5. |
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Playing a new game. Itโs called โSteam Controller Good Input Device Simulatorโ. Itโs played by sitting in my living room in front of my TV and configuring the Steam controller on my living room gaming rig to not be horrible in a wide variety of games. I havenโt won a round yet, but Iโll getting close. Last round I managed to get the Steam controller to not feel like I was stuck in the mud or so sensitive it gave me motion sickness in Fallout: New Vegas. โง Edited by MasterOfMagic at 2020-08-08 22:35:402020-08-08 22:35 |
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Update: I was able to get through the tutorial mission stuff in F:NV without wanting to switch to KB+M, so I think Iโm going to call this round a win. Using the controller in keyboard+mouse mode with the buttons bound as they would be on the 360 controller but using mouse input for the right trackpad means I can flick my finger and do a 180 while playing, and I have gyro aiming for small adjustments while aiming down sights. This would have been so much easier if F:NV would accept input from an XInput controller and a keyboard and mouse simultaneouslyโฆ As a reward I get to play the โwhatโs the correct load order to not crash F:NV when I mod the everloving stuffing out of itโ? |
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the new halo its like im back in 2007 all over again |
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