#and I've been playing rain world as monk recently

[cinnamon-flame]

These guys killed me a couple of times but I can't possibly be mad at them, just look at them, scavs are so adorable.

[gynandromorph]

You like rainworld :o !? I recently got into the game and i am struggling as the monk. How far have you gotten? Do you have any tips?

oh yeah, i'm not a diehard fan making fan content, but the procedurally generated animation has honestly been formative for me (as formative as something can be for someone in their later 20s). my friend recommended it to me in 2019, so that is when i picked it up. i've even referenced rain world with a lookalike game in a side comic about sugar:

the game that i was working on earlier this year also had a similar tunnel crawling mechanic inspired in large part by rain world. they are obviously way above any level i'll ever be with programming, but they did easily evade the wall i hit by making the tunnels straight lines instead of lumpy diagonals.

i've beaten rain world once as the survivor -- didn't like where they spawn the hunter, so i never progressed very far (it doesn't help that i'm mostly a "play games with friends" type of person and once the novelty of a game wears off i have very little motivation to play it solo). i was doing another run with the survivor where i transport all of the colored pearls to Moon, but i set it aside to work on idletry. i also started a run as the gourmand and the explodey one i can't remember the name of, but for similar reasons, i haven't picked it up again. it's really a game i only like to play with a large block of time because i know it will take a long time to make progress even if i'm playing well and rarely die due to the convoluted map. i REALLY want to be able to play as the axolotl, though, which requires you to beat the game more times to unlock.

i'm no expert at the game by any means (as a reference, my first run of the game took 11 hours and had 155 cycles), but i'm not uncertain about if i could complete a run or not anymore... my tips would be don't play it on console, keep jumping when you're running from something, look up an advanced movement tutorial because the amount of minute controls you have at your disposal that are never explained to you is disgusting, learn how to kill lizards with a single rubbish + a spear and you'll become infinitely more confident, befriending lizards is worth more than befriending scavengers (but don't piss off the scavengers), and learn to love death because it's most of your run. there really are some cycles that are just unfair, as the whole game is unfair, and i felt better when i would sometimes kill myself intentionally if i, say, had an axolotl spawn directly above the exit to my burrow and camp there until the rain came, rather than trying to get around it. just left me in a better mood

[delta-orionis]

Tuesday Again No Problem 4/2/24

I feel like this is one of those weeks where I was extremely busy but accomplished very little...

Listening

Earlier this week I felt compelled to go back and listen to some of the songs by AURORA that were featured in that Sky: Children of the Light concert from a while ago.

This song in particular is one that I'd love to create a music video for if I had the skill or patience.

Because I have Rain World on the brain, it brings to mind a slugcat (Survivor and Monk in particular) who are just focused on survival but slowly start to become aware of exactly why the world around them functions the way it does.

Watching

My Well There's Your Problem marathon continues. The most recent episode I listened to was this one about the Y2K Bug:

(Again, it's kind of cheating for me to put a podcast with slides in the watching section, but I haven't really been watching anything else...)

Reading

Fallow this week.

Playing

I'm back to playing Rain World.

I was putting off beating the Artificer campaign, so I finally said "fuck it", and killed the Scavenger king in a very anticlimactic way by just chucking a singularity bomb at them.

In other news, I started a Hunter playthrough. I'm going to admit up front that I cheated in extra cycles for myself because I know for sure I will not be able to beat the game in under 25. To be honest I kind of wanted to do a relatively normal run where I can take my time and also be a carnivore.

Oh, and I have slugpups unlocked, so I keep finding the little guys everywhere. (They're hard to keep alive, unfortunately...)

My adventures have so far included...

Getting bullied by squidcadas,

Watching vultures beat the shit out of each other,

And witnessing one of the strongest enemies in the game get electrocuted to death right in front of me.

I finally reached Five Pebbles today. I got to him by climbing The Wall by way of Chimney Canopy, which isn't the route I usually take. I also made the (probably foolish) decision to take the long way out and go through his interior to access the Underhang. That might have been a bad idea, but Five Pebbles is one of my favorite areas in the game and I didn't want to miss an opportunity to pass through it. The Underhang sucks, though. If I get too frustrated I might just go back up through the inside (since fast travel isn't available for Hunter).

Making

I haven't made much progress on my crochet projects this week. I am getting close to finishing that granny square tote bag, though. I started the tedious process of weaving in all the loose ends.

I've also been revising that post I mentioned last week about trying to estimate how big Rain World's iterators are. My initial estimate was WAY too big, I think, and I've been debating even keeping it in the post at all. For the sake of clarity it might be best to delete it, even though I went through the trouble of making some diagrams for it... I'll think about it some more.

In addition, I’m continuing to worldbuild for my iterator OC. I made a rough layout of their facility grounds:

The idea is that they sit on top of a mountain, where their rain freezes into several glaciers which flow down to the base. At the base are twelve dams which collect the water, arranged like a big clock.

This “clock” is broken up into six sectors which serve different functions, and have analogues to the regions from the game (noted above in parentheses). I’d like to make a more polished map, maybe some time in the future.

I also posted some doodles the other day (featuring the same OC being smacked in the face)

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This coming week, I'm traveling to the path of totality for the April 8th solar eclipse. Because I'll be traveling, I can't imagine I'll have much to report in terms of the Tuesdaypost, but I guess we'll see.

[nok-joke]

So I've been playing a lot of Rain World with my friends recently

The blue one is my beast, I was survivor in one run, monk in the other,

The playthrough where I became a single father and met god is the monk play through where we were speedrunning the game to try and unlock more slugcats

I love this family

The void colored one is mines ex-husband, never married, 3 times divorced

My beast is very stupid. The eye scar is from a vulture and the rest are from his own fumbles

[joowee-feftynn]

i haven't really mentioned it here but I've been playing rain world recently! I'm first gonna complete the monk campaign because I'm a little baby who's bad at videogames i want to go around and properly check and know my surroundings before doing a survivor run. Overall it's been fun !!!