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sburbian-sage · 5 months ago

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Hey, relatively new to the replayer thing (only in my third session so far) and had a few questions.

1) Any rhyme or reason to how titles and aspects are distributed to replayers? I've been a native Maid of Breath, Rogue of Hope, and currently Sylph of Mind.

2) Is there some sort of benefit to yelling out your special move names like an anime protagonist, or is my coplayer just being a nerd?

3) Any specific "noob traps" or habits that replayers can fall into that will make the gods of the game itself slap you with a heavy dose of hubris?

4) What's vagabouncy? This is the only place I've heard about it, I haven't met any other players yet who know of it.

thanks in advance for any help! -emeraldFeathers

Your Native Title is significant, every Title after that is just nonsense. Or more accurately, it was significant for the previous occupant of the "slot" in the Session you are now filling, but isn't anymore because you're a different dude. Some people think their Replay Titles are significant along their "infinite journey across Paradox Space", but that's mostly wishful thinking. Assign meaning to it at your discretion.

There's no benefit unless you're a Rage Player, because Yelling is the elemental manifestation of Rage. Your coplayer is a nerd, but also you're a nascent godling who does in fact have magic powers, so let them have this.

Your experiences in previous Sessions do help, but don't assume that every Session will be exactly the same as the previous one(s). The game can be pretty inconsistent even before taking bugs into account. Virtually everything is semi-randomized. Don't fall into ruts or adhere mindlessly to patterns and you won't be caught off guard when the game throws a curveball. There's a balance to be struck between experience and flexibility.

Vagabouncy is a method through which one can change their Title to anything they want. It's a one-per-Session thing, so only one person can Vagabounce, once. Someone told me they were in a Session where half of their players Vagabounced, so I don't know if I'm just wrong on that (unlikely) or if they are somehow misunderstanding or lying or whatever. Basically, go to the house of mirrors on one of the Dream Moons, there's one special mirror that will change your Title if you smash it while thinking about another Title. Don't deliberately pick a Title you know the game shouldn't give you, and try not to Vagabounce for no reason.

#sburb #replay value au #vagabouncy

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sntechsupport · 5 months ago

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I'm reading an article about Vagabouncy (just for fun, not planning on doing it), and I'm wondering, is there actually anything in the game that uses your age as a factor? There isn't, like, a Fisher-Price Sburb for babies, right?

After a lot of fighting within the remaining development team and extensive user feedback, there are some instances where the specific age of Players plays a role. Most notable are age restricted areas (as in: those areas do not exist if somebody within your session does not meet the relative age requirement), such as the Dream Moon Tax Embezzlement Bureau - a very adult topic.

All text, including speech from game constructs, is rendered age appropriate. For example the Battleship Operation Manual, which spawns in the Dream Moon Libraries generates in larger letters if you have elementary school aged Players and it stresses the importance of safety, while for late-teens it is a rather cynical kamikaze step-by-step manual. Also, Consorts will never use actual swearwords, but depending on the youngest Player hearing them they can say cutes-y words like "bubbleducks" and "marmalade mambo" while adolescents get "fiddlesticks", "motherfryers", "kickheads", and for adults it's often just "Fu-BEEP-k". Which I think is my peak level of comedy, because they just say the word beep.

Technically all the Land puzzles are age-generated for appropriate difficulty, but we had to hard-by-pass it with any age category generating toddler puzzles. Yes, Gurl has given up on all of us.

Sincerely

SN Tech Support (Gear)

#sn tech support #sburb #sgrub

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jinpqchi-inactive · 11 years ago

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vagabouncy replied to your post “vagabouncy replied to your post “sighs i had kinda a bad day…” :o you...”

aw sweetie *hugs* im sorry. that's rough. if you ever need anyone to talk to, im here too (im usually on except for during school days) *hugs again*

thank you uvu

#vagabouncy #replies

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distressedalien · 11 years ago

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Rose, GAMZEE, Redglare, and Condy??

rose:

GaMzEe:

redglare:

Condy:

#omg #vagabouncy

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hatsunemishka · 11 years ago

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URL: don’t get it | omfg | jESUS CRHSTS | FUCKGGS GIVE MEEE

ICON: um | omfg | jESUS CRHSTS | *chokes and dies*

THEME: um | omfg | jESUS CRHSTS | taKING THE LIL FUCKER

SIDEBAR: um | omfg | jESUS CRHSTS | *curls into a ball*

POSTS: um | omfg | jESUS CRHSTS | *reblogs everything*

OVERALL: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | senpai

FOLLOW: thinking about it | no | now | yupp!

#vagabouncy

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abstruseglitch · 11 years ago

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aradia?

Why I like them: She's adorbubble. What's not to like?

Why I don’t: I love her. You hush :|

Favorite episode (scene if movie): When she reached God Tier

Favorite season/movie: Act 6

Favorite line: I don't know...

Favorite outfit: Her God Tier outfit

OTP: Arasol, duh :3

Brotp: AraFef

Head Canon: I dunno...

Unpopular opinion: I don't have one, I don't think...

A wish: I wish she'd become relevant again oAo

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: Dying again. Just no.

5 words to best describe them: im 0k with many things

My nickname for them: I don't have one

#vagabouncy #askstruseglitch

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sburbian-sage · 5 months ago

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Vagabouncy is NOT once per session, but it is if you want to do it safely.

If I remember correctly, it took a while for the mirror to be discovered. It's not like the Imaginarium is a fun place, and the mirror that does it isn't exactly super well signposted after all.

We used to use other methods. This guide describes them: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12506732

Personally, I think the author was fucking with people on that last one, I've never gotten it to work. Also I have no idea why they think having multiple Space or Time players is a problem. And I've heard that method two stopped working most of the time a few years back.

Method one though, where you bounce the kernelsprite around and scramble it's brain(?) still works, as far as I know. It's just stupidly dangerous, and if anything this guide undersells how much of the game it breaks, so I think it's better to just use whatever the game gives you in most cases, or use the mirror.

Nice catch. I mostly forgot about The Original Vagabouncy because of the fact that it's so dangerous. Recommending that method of Vagabouncy is like someone asking you "how do I roast marshmallows" and you answer "well you can use a campfire but if you're not a pussy I know this one trick you can do with a nuclear reactor".

The third method does seem pretty sketchy, yeah. It's notably missing the part where you choose what Title you reroll, which kind of defeats the entire point of Vagabouncy IMO (unless you just really really really don't want to be Title X) and "it picks a random Title but it's like an easy Title that isn't challenging or easy" sounds weirdly... Convenient? It also engages in "replaying resets your maturity" which I've always held is more of a psychological phenomenon. The average replayer, upon discovering why they're called a replayer, wants to put a fucking gun in their mouth and see how many times they can pull the trigger. Which combined with the looming dread of "I'm going to have to do EVERYTHING all over again", naturally biases their own judgement on their own maturity. I don't think the game actually schleps the life lessons out of your brain. Additionally, I imagine the issue with multiple Time or Space players is that "too many cooks in the kitchen spoils the pot". Time travel is already mind-bending, and having two people accidentally undoing each other's work or creating problems for the other to solve sounds infuriating. I also don't want to imagine the consequences of two Frog Breeding duties being active at once.

The second method does sound stupid enough to work, and the major "downside" of "maturity quests which are non-applicable to you" kind of already happens anyway. Some stuff is consistent, the Negastrife is always geared for you, and the most current version of you to boot (it will bring up stuff that happened in your last session, for example), so I don't imagine it'd be that big of a deal. I do wonder why it stopped working, or if indeed it actually stopped working.

I do agree with the last part though. Vagabouncy is a useful tool, but like many other tools, mastery involves not needing to use them. Or however that saying goes, you know what I mean. I'll bang this drum forever, inflexibility is what kills most players, and you need to learn to play other Titles, and display proficiency while doing so, just in case Vagabouncy isn't available, feasible, or you need to use the mirror for someone else. I've gotten to drive behind the wheels of a lot of different Titles, including the infamously confusing Time, the infinitely bugged Void, and the infinitely fucking insufferable Fate.

This does, by the way, solve the mystery of how half of the Universal Grist Bank guys Vagabounced. There's only one mirror, but they are experienced replayers, and thus probably knew how to pull of the alternate Vagabouncy methods semi-safely.

#sburb #replay value au #vagabouncy

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pinnithin · 11 years ago

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vagabouncy replied to your post: im drawing thing

wow you’re amazing!!! this is really cool!!!

ahh thank you friend!

#vagabouncy #comebacks #the stream is over now but thank you to everyone who stopped by!

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jinpqchi-inactive · 11 years ago

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vagabouncy replied to your post “sighs i had kinda a bad day…”

:o you okay hun?

sexualpercy replied to your post “sighs i had kinda a bad day…”

what happened?

yeah just got yelled at a lot and lectured about how im doing nothing with my life and told how if "i prettied myself up i could land myself a rich white guy and be happy forever" and my sis was bitchy and like none of my friends were online and neither was my rp partner and that made me sadder with no one to talk to so yeah

#vagabouncy #sexualpercy #replies

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ceciliabeaux-blog · 11 years ago

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distressedalien · 11 years ago

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hatsunemishka · 11 years ago

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sburbian-sage · 4 months ago

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Given Vagabouncy is the topic of the moment, does becoming a Waste or Grace class still set up a Cataclysm for you? Is there a point where it's too late in the session for it to come up, or do you just instantly get flipped into nonsense mode? All the Quartz talk has me wanting to try assorted bullshit on the mirror. Mirrors have heart-things, right? I wanna play with its heart-thing! Damn Sylph of Law...

That is a pretty good question. The Cataclysm is, simultaneously, an inevitability that's about as game-mandated as you entering the game and discovering you're a god (and then doing sidequests), but it often isn't framed as being a game-mandated event in the same way the other things are. More like, it's the natural consequence of being a Waste or Grace, you sling too much firepower and eventually things get too hot to handle, in the same way a Page or Knight isn't brainwashed into wanting to give up fighting, but rather that the former's constant cycle of getting stronger so they can raise the stake and fight tougher battles so they can raise the stakes, and the latter's Also Doing That while simultaneously morphing into a soldier and then into a weapon, is naturally draining on one's psyche. The main difference being, Knight Syndrome doesn't kick in literally every time you roll Knight/Page, Knight Syndrome is more accurately a very specific form of depression which is hardly Class-specific, and also Knight Syndrome doesn't throw a brick at the game's internal structure and turn shit on its head.

People Vagabouncing into a Waste or Grace is pretty uncommon, as it invokes something of a "why would you make the game significantly harder for us for no reason" response from one's coplayers, and those do result in Cataclysms. But more uncommon is a late-game Vagabouncy. For the most part, people Vagabounce at the beginning of a Session because they want to try a very specific run, or they simply do not vibe with their current Title in such a way that they might actually get killed for it (and do not have the skills to Git Gud at sucking it up like the rest of us). So naturally, "Vagabouncing into a Cataclysm Class at the mid-to-late game" is so rare as to be almost unreported on. I do have two theories, one plausible and the other slightly less plausible, however hear me out for a second.

Theory 1: It's mandated. Cataclysms will happen, no matter what, it's basically just fate (not to be confused with Fate). If you kill the Black King, that damn door shows up, and you fly over to the House of Mirrors to change into a Waste or Grace, you instantly explode because the game knows it has roughly five minutes to squeeze a Cataclysm in there.

Theory 2: Cataclysms are a consequence for early power. Wastes and Graces are pound-for-pound, the strongest Classes in the game (not to be confused with the Smith, which is the most Active, and the Clown, which is not a "real" class). They're just cooking with a different kind of fuel that burns brighter. This naturally makes Wastes and Graces pretty strong, right out the gate. So whether you think it's "building up entropic force" or just a mechanic meant to "balance" it, this early power is paid for with disaster later on. However, if one were to Vagabounce in the mid-to-late game, then it's not too unbalancing to have that level of power by that point in the game (and if anything, it might be detrimental because you lose your old abilities when you reroll). And because you don't have the early-game benefit, you don't pay the cost to balance it out.

Or to put it another way, ever play Alisa? You can choose to turn auto-aim on when you start a new game, but it "balances" this by making enemies drop less currency when you kill them, because it's easier but the game wants to 1) not let you steamroll the rest of the game 2) want to subtly encourage you to build that skill. HOWEVER, you can buy an upgrade in the shop which gives you auto-aim, and it doesn't penalize you when you have it equipped. You see the analogy I'm cooking, right?

Needless to say, I think the second theory is more likely. The game does do random asspulls to contrive absurd events into happening, but the Cataclysm always felt "consequential" and not like a spiteful game master forcing rocks to fall and everyone to die. So it stands to reason that, at the very least, it needs some time for the proverbial storm to brew before zapping you with lightning. However, for every inch you give the game, it takes a mile, so watch out either way.

As for the final note, the Vagabouncy Mirror almost assuredly does have a Heart Thing, as does nearly every other entity and object in the game. Considering that this particular Mirror can change one's Title, meaning it holds some level of access to the code that handles player ID and associated mechanics, I think the Sylph of Law might have had a pretty good reason for locking that off. It's all fun and games until you make everyone suffer an identity crisis, or remove their player IDs and Doom them all without Dooming the timeline.

#sburb #replay value au #vagabouncy #cataclysm class

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pinnithin · 11 years ago

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vagabouncy replied to your post: my band director wants us to play blurred lines at...

i am so. so. sorry.

same here friend

#vagabouncy #comebacks #if he actually gets serious about it im going to email him #and confront him face to face if necessary

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jinpqchi-inactive · 11 years ago

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vagabouncy replied to your post “900 followers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you uvu i still wanna know how...”