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Vis a vis the jungle lizard, it's a good bit nastier than that vid made it look, heh. Those firenadoes instakill you; they're not so much attacks as boundaries to the fight. Fellow that made the video also seemed pretty well spec'd for speed (and solid at getting around regardless), which makes it look easier to avoid yharon's attacks than it actually is. The critter's pretty fast, too... want to say generally faster than the devourer. Few other things involved, a (fairly lengthy) invincibility phase, ferex.

Any case, I've definitely found the DoW to be the easier of the two. Way easier to vomit damage onto the DoW until it dies (I've had goes hit six digit DPS vs the worm, heh, when the baseline at the time was more low 10ks or high thousands), and for all the contact damage with the worm is huge, it's also generally notably easier to avoid than yharon's junk. Lizardbird's decently placed difficulty wise, imo, basically.

... also, slime catching tool? Is that new to something? Don't remember seeing it in... whatever it is that adds the adventurer.

also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiFzyf2Iua8

WHAT THE FUCK.....

... okay, how that critter took out the destroyer was kinda' hilarious. Reverse gravity, spam clouds. Good stuff. Railroad as grapple targets is legit, too. Forgot that could be a good idea, heh. Teleport thing with the golem was good for a chuckle, and that thing with the cultist was downright tricksy. Also amusing how the last two they just went more or less pure summons, heh. Most of it pretty straightforward, though. Kinda' surprised when the flamethrower types got busted out but everything else didn't come much out of left field, so to speak.

Kinda' wonder if the playback was sped up, though. If it wasn't, bloody hell but my rig slows things down for this game. Crap moves probably 2/3rds to 3/4ths as fast as that vid, sometimes slower. Which makes things hella' easier than it would be at full speed >_>

It's pretty much absolutely certain it's not a GATE spinoff, given the suggested year range. GATE's manga didn't even start until 2011, nevermind anything else. Books didn't even start until mid '00s, heh.

That said. That sounds hella' like spellcross, and the devs were indeed eastern european or summat like that.

Pretty great game for its time, incidentally. Aged decently, too.

See if you can get some wax removal stuff? There's over the counter options floating about, least in the U.S.

Most of my life the general recommendation by non-doctors has boiled down to "Q-tip", though. Last handful of years I've actually talked to a doc on the subject, and it turns out that's not a very good idea for anything particularly involving the ear canal itself. Not good of the "you might hospitalize yourself or cause lifelong damage" variety.

During one unwise period I found hydrogen peroxide works really well when it comes to clearing the ear out. Put a bit (like, less than a cap's worth) in your ear, hold your head so it gets in good, and then wait until the noises mostly stop. I was just later informed by an actual doctor it also comes with a non-zero chance of permanent inner ear damage, so, uh. Probably a poor idea, just heading that off at the pass.

... any case, as near as I can remember the general answer that doesn't come with caveats noting odds of permanent damage is just go to the doc and let them handle it if it's ended up stuffed up enough to be a problem.

Turns out the ear in general and particularly the bits not easily visible from the outside are kinda' delicate, as well as fairly infection prone, and you probably want someone else (very much preferably that actually knows what the hell they're doing) to be fiddling with it if you're having issues of one sort or another.

Basically there's a lot of other ways to solve it besides a doc visit, it's just they're pretty much unilaterally worse ways that may cause varyingly permanent problems. So... yeah.

Quote from: smjjames on December 19, 2017, 03:44:13 pm

Maybe those fighter pilots who were seeing those really oughta try shooting them down, just to see if it works.

Humanity at its most basic: Hey, look at that weird thing! Let's try to kill it! 

Look man, sometimes the only stick you have on hand is air to air missiles and/or more traditional heaps of flying metal. I'm pretty sure accelerating a stick fast enough to hit one of the things wouldn't make a substantial difference in regards to provocation.

... that said, the thought of military jets getting installed with lumber launchers for purposes of poking UFOs with a mostly literal stick is fairly amusing. Bonus points it'd probably be decently effective for ground support operations. If furry midgets can manage to take out AT-STs with logs on ropes surely launching them from a mach whatever jet at a building would do just fine, right? There's nothing wrong with that logic whatsoever.

Unit wise I've been finding a good nine or so storage units to be pretty good at keeping up, even if you're basically hoarding the everything. Last couple new worlds have ended up with a 3x4 box of boxes either under the floor or on top the ceiling of wherever I put the bed, with the closest layer being the heart and crafting modules (one for a while, but eventually two, one for most workhorse stations and another for specialty stuff like the decorative block junk or demon altar stand ins or whatev'). It's maybe not the most aesthetically amazing thing in the world, but it also doesn't look that bad, and having my entire storage and crafting mess contained to the space of about a room and a half of minimum-size NPC housing and shoved under the floor is, uh. Real convenient, ehehe.

That said, yeah, the gem input isn't that bad. Want to say it's like six or nine diamonds for that setup, seven emeralds, and 14 sapphire? Plus whatever the eventual upgrades ask for. Oddly enough, I generally find it to be the tungsten/silver outlay that slows things up the most, since a three by three of storage is 90-ish bars.

One interesting quirk with upgrading, by the by, if it hasn't been changed in a recent patch: Upgrading removes the platform-ish effect of storage units, which can remove (or add, depending; the first time I noticed it, it was from upgrading something that was plugging a hole, causing me to fall through into the storage chamber) some design concerns.

... all that said, there's like... at least two mods that adds a NPC that sells gems, ehehe. Pretty sure one of them even has its gem critter also be an arena store, that sells stuff like buckets of honey and water candles and such rot. Hella' convenient, massively so if you're running revengence and functionally have all the monies forever.

Also, now that I remember it. Just throwing this out there but there's a vein miner mod out there, now? Freakishly useful. Hold a button, dig a tile of a bunch of connected ore, the lot of it gets dug out. Hilarious (and a bit laggy) when used on meteors, but so very, very much time saving while still needing some exploration. Great stuff.

Everyone fixed it but no one mentioned it! The second I wasn't capitalized, which is a terrible sin for anyone not living in a primarily english using area and idle hobby for many of those that do _{i swear i'm capable of (properly, even!) editing master's plus level academic papers and crap, i just don't bother going that far better than 99% of the time because not is more fun}

... other than that folks hit the high points. Wunnit particularly terrible, but somewhat unpolished, per'aps? Can't quite put my finger on it (outside what's been already mentioned, anyway), but it kinda' feels like a sentence I would see in a non-beta'd fanfic and probably pass over it paying more attention to meaning than structure. One of those things where you'd miss any mistakes on first glance because you're used to mentally autocorrecting anything off involving grammatical or whatev' hiccups. Is actually the comma overuse and uncapitalised I that does it, heh.

Not horrible, though. Not nearly horrible. I've seen horrible, and there's apostrophes in horrible where no apostrophe should ever venture. Also that ruddy space between the end of the sentence and exclamation marks or whatever. Very blatant tell the writer's more used to using a different language, that.