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Of all the things to start randomly hallucinating, it seems my brain has decided see through wall spiders of improbable size is the way to go. Why that's what it's decided is a good choice for sporadic visual distortions I don't know. Why it's pretty much only that outside the standard visual snow, I know even less. Some variety would be nice.

... also I could really do without having to guess whether or not the handspan+ polterspider crawling on the wall is actually there or just going to disappear when I look at it more. The snow was plenty enough, hallucinatory phase spider expies on my wall is a bit much. One is pretty, the other I'm not able to be sure if the potentially venomous schrodinger arachnid the size of my head is actually there in defiance to local ecology or just the brainmeat going haywire some more. Which is less than ideal, because fuckoff huge only partially opaque spider spazzing out on the far wall is something that requires far more attention than ubiquitous mostly-transparent television static to dismiss as a substantial concern. My adrenaline reserves could stand to not have to deal with that. One day it's going to be someone's actual escaped tarantula or something and I'm going to freak the fuck out right through the window. The glass and metal window that hasn't been able to be opened in over a decade.

Nah, that's what petroleum jelly is for.

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T posted something yesterday, actually.

Di... did you actually just censor out half -- and the meaningfully identifiable half -- of the title of a work you were recommending? My blank is a blank isn't even pulling up applicable google searches.

There's scaling of some sort, yeah. Haven't actually seen someone pin down what causes it, yet, though. Common conjecture is event linked. Dungeon completion, story progression, shrines etc. obtained, so on, so forth. Other possibilities are time, hearts (which would basically mean shrines + dungeons anyway), blood moons (which would conceptually be time, too, but blood moons are kinda' buggy as hell on at-least the switch, unless that's been patched already)... basically more or less anything that effectively increments.

That said, you can wander into places with abnormally strong enemies. Iirc there's at least one silver maned lynel floating somewhere around the map you could theoretically access with 3 hearts, more or less immediately after leaving the plateau. Might even be able to kill it, if you abuse hearty food hard enough/dodge everything and manage to scrounge up sufficient weapons to eat through it's health. So it's kinda' a bit of both, or at least some areas start with a higher base difficulty (then presumably cap out earlier, I guess?) but there's overall scaling, too.

Can totally still run into lower leveled stuff, particularly in places that were originally scrubtown joints, though, if for whatever reason you need to kill a fooblin and can't drop a stronger one.

Heh. Do remember, there's only so much need to pillage before burning. The important things will still be there even if you put everything on the island to the torch.

Think the zappy one was my favorite to watch, so far. Probably the burny one second, but that honestly more for the backdrop than the boss. The latter's dungeon was definitely the prettiest, to me, though, at least so far as the dungeon proper goes. Entry fight... probably a toss up between the ice and birdland ones. Beast design itself I'd probably give to the bird. Air fortress laser bird is pretty great. Actually kinda' interesting how that falls out, now that I think about it. Each dungeon more or less tops one major aspect of the things for me.

... though yeah, I'd probably agree with the general sentiment I've been seeing that the dungeons are a bit on the weak side, so far as things go. Generally rather pretty, but a little on the short and easy side of things, at least so far as watching folks play seems to entail. Bit more staying power and somewhat more involved and they probably could have managed a fair bit of improvement.