#no equip challenge

[legionofshitposting]

Origami King: No Equip Challenge

Alright, I've finally finished all of Paper Mario: The Origami King No Equip Run, and here's what it's all about.

Rules: No equipping any armor upgrade and badges. All items are allowed, but no help from Toads (note: no Toads is optional. I did it for further challenge)

This run is mostly doable (we'll get to the one part later), with the biggest hurtle against you being how long the battles will be post Earth Vellumental due to the base attack being so low (it maxes to 24 for boots and 28 for hammer). The Hearts scattered across the game will be mandatory to survive (especially for Green Streamer and Origami Castle), as well as a decent stock of all battle items (Fire and Ice flowers, Tails, the shiny variants, and the POW Block).

Here's all the enemies you cannot one-shot after maxing out (hammer and boot attack only):

Hammer, Fire, Ice, Boomerang, Sledge and Sumo Bros., Piranha and Ptooie Plants, all Spike variants, Chargin' Chucks, Bone Goomba, Crowber, Spike Top, Grass Ninji, Stingby, Rocky Wrench, all Cutout Soldiers, and Blooper

Here's the boss guide:

Earth Vellumental: Easiest boss due to it being a tutorial (also equippables have not been fully introduced yet so we're fine here).

Colored Pencils: Another relatively easy boss. The battle isn't terribly affected by not having anything equipped.

Water Vellumental: This boss is where you start to feel not having anything equppied, with draining it's HP taking longer than an average playthrough, but other than that it isn't terrible.

Rubber Band: Not affected by the run due to only using 1000-Fold Arms.

Fire Vellumental: The biggest waiting game in the run. Wait until it has about 1/4 of its HP before using the Water Vellumental and 1000-Fold.

Hole Punch: Another boss where it simply takes a lot longer than normal to finish it due to dealing less damage.

Ice Vellumental: Not terrible since the boss is mostly puzzle based.

Tape: Surprisingly the first phase was the hardest due to it taking 3-4 hits to get rid of just one part of the dispenser. Second phase easy since it's just magic circle shenanigans.

Boss Sumo Bros.: Painfully long (I think this fight took me the longest). Since the little Sumo Bros. have 45 HP each, it takes multiple hits to take the ones you need out.

Handaconda: Not affected since it's just Rock-Paper-Scissors.

Scissors: This was probably the second longest fight since I got killed and had to face it again, but it is doable.

Stapler: Not affected by the challenge, so it's easy.

King Olly: Also not affected by the run since all phases do not use the attack command.

All in all, a long but fun challenge! So long as you're good with puzzles, I would say do this challenge (minus the Fire Vellumental, I'm going to throw that chicken into the sea).

[unexpectedbrickattack]

Based off of this: please understand my vision....

[kitsune-kira]

Hey so can we talk about the fact that apparently Joachim disguised himself as Joyce and managed to keep up the illusion that Joyce was alive until revealing in 2000 during the Second Eruption that it was Joachim/Welt the whole time

LIKE???

[nhlportraits]

Mo | Image ref (x)

[minarosario]

Day 8 Challenge- Sniper

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

WHY DO I KEEP TRYING TO FIGHT THINGS WAY ABOVE MY LEVEL?!

But... hey, I survived.

Just barely.

I was level 31, by the way.

Yeah, I felt pretty good about that.

[thefirstknife]

Getting real sick of a certain subset of Destiny players complaining that it’s a baby game and crying to Bungie to nerf exotics and abilities when their ENTIRE POINT IS TO BE STRONG in specific ways as if they are being locked into using them.

IF YOU WANT AN EXTRA CHALLENGE STOP BEING SUCH A DPS GOBLIN AND JUST EQUIP SOMETHING THATS NOT TOP TIER META AND STOP COMPLAINING JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

MOOD. Go off.

It's incredibly annoying to me. They always use the argument of "the game should FORCE me to do things, I should not SELF-IMPOSE challenges." And like. ? I'm sorry but what? It's a video game for a big audience, it's here to be playable and accessible to the widest possible playerbase. There are plenty of ways to make the game difficult for yourself, so knock yourself out if that's your thing, but don't force others into it.

Like, I enjoy hard content, I regularly at least attempt day 1 raids, I do master raids, GMs, solo and solo flawless content and all that. But only when I want to. Sometimes I don't and I don't want to suffer in a patrol zone or struggle in a seasonal activity I'm doing for the story. The majority of the players don't want that. Designing games for the professional gamers only has NEVER been a good idea and never will be. Fifty streamers can't sustain a video game. It needs casual players who will want to come back to the game instead of feeling defeated.

One of the reasons I really enjoy helping others is because I know that casual players tend to struggle in stuff that's basic activity for me. I've seen people unable to get through a strike. I've sat for 10 minutes rezing someone who couldn't do the jump in a seasonal activity. I want those people to be able to play basic content without feeling frustrated and I want them to know that there are people out there who will help them out.

And this doesn't apply just to basic content, although it should start with that. I think all dungeons and raids and everything should be things that all players can complete. Fine, doing a master raid with all challenges should be tough, but it should be achievable with time and practice, not impossible. What a lot of these "pros" want is just completely divorced from reality.

It takes days and days of practice every time a new master raid is out for me and my team (all with thousands of hours of playtime) to get comfortable to finally finish it. We're far from casual players and it still takes a lot of time to be able to finish hard content. Making it even harder is insane to me. Like, if something is so hard that my team full of people, each with 5000+ hours of playtime and a coordinated team that's been raiding together for years now can't finish it, that means it's absolutely impossible for probably 90% of the playerbase. That's wild to me. Raids and GMs should have more people playing them. If master raids are too easy for you, Mr. I-Play-Destiny-For-A-Living, that's on you buddy. Unequip the super god tier god roll meta guns and loadouts or play something else.

And ofc, another excuse they make is "if I don't use meta, I am not going to win a raid race!" Then don't. Idk. Let me play you the tiniest violin. This affects literally nobody except a grand total of 50 people. Run your meta in day 1, and play with random shit otherwise. Play raids with all white weapons. Play without mods. Play without a HUD. Do things solo only. I don't know, make up a way to spice things up for yourself. I'm not interested in that and neither are 99% of the players out there. The game is genuinely hard enough for the majority of the players. On top of that, I am here to feel like a powerful space fantasy superhero. I am NOT here to die to dregs in patrol zones. If there's ONE thing that I know for a fact that put people off from Lightfall (as in this year of Destiny), it's the difficulty changes. They're annoying, frustrating and for some a barrier to entry more than anything else.

[wusopiejung25]

The Dark Knight

Tumblr made me read batman (mainly superbat) ff for the past few days and suddenly I want to try if I can make something close to it on my time princess.

[zero-up]

Trope a Day - Day 3 & 5

I missed my opportunity to do day 3, so I decided to make up for it by doing two tropes in one image. If I wasn't lazy, I would have had Stan say this: "And this is the Knitwitt's Stone! Don't let the red glow fool you, the mechanical arm is just for show. It's (probably) completely safe!... Probably."

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[spotaus]

Coda and Ichor! (Catacombtale Style!)

These two don't have a *ton* of interaction in the Main story, but since Ichor and Balance are the only two characters I've fully designed, Coda gets stuck next to him, haha!

BONUS art jumpscare:

These two actually exist in another project I'm working on too called Codex, which is basically just removing the UT aspects of Catacombtale and doing a lot more worldbuilding and character design!

Coda is older in Codex and is marked by an old God (which should get him jailed or killed, as it means for everyone else) but he hides it for years and years before he finally flees the complex he's living in to go confront the gods and stop their destructive path. Meanwhile Ichor is much the same, only he's much more ready and willing to help Coda without much prompting. Here he's also sort of a Koi Fish! (His brother is a Betta Fish)

[weepylucifer]

i'm on the part of hot sith girl summer where maul starts to feature heavily, and he's quite the interesting challenge to write!! a v delicate needle to thread here. like, i don't want to make him irredeemably vile, but he also can't be too soft. he can't resist attempts to get through to him FOREVER (bc the plot must move forward!) but he can't warm up too quickly (bc that would feel out of character!). he can't act feral all the time bc he's not an animal, but he's also nowhere near 100% well-adjusted. he was raised by a sitting senator. he lived in the garbage for 12 years. he moves in the upper echelons (of mob kingpins) with poise and refinement and grace. he's floridly mentally ill. he has one foot in Mundane Starwars World (mandalorians, the syndicates) and one foot in Wild Force Bullshit World (the dark side and sith). and now it's up to me to find out how he'd act in his day-to-day

[axiseart]

Goretober #8 - Flesh & Steel

[annelidist]

i don't really get why greatshields are so slept on in these games. i guess the hardcore playerbase is just like extremely averse to using shields for anything other than parrying and that trickles down to more casual players via what gets recommended by friends / used by content creators / etc

[gotmeolk]

I don't post much (at all), but this deserves a gotmeolk resurrection.

My first & ultimate bias teaming up to absolutely WRECK what little is left of my poor soul.

helppp

[njgs24]

Inktober Day 23

[gorgynei]

seeing elon's elden ring build really puts into perspective how stupid he is. like if he's this bad at elden ring i can truly understand the scope of how bad he is at everything else. he doesn't even have the estus flasks equipped.