Ah shit I clicked it.

Is that why this is what's being advertised to me on Amazon lately?

2 hours ago, avatar! said:

Sure you could in principle get super unlucky and get obliterated, but it's worlds apart from Slay the Spire   Also, to be clear, it's not that Inscryption doesn't have it's challenges, especially at the beginning. But, from start to finish it's about 10-15 hours and the game truly is meant to be experienced and completed. There's no artificially increasing the playtime by needlessly making enemies super challenging or always starting from scratch as in Slay the Spire --

My frustrations with Slay the Spire, 100 hours later

https://www.giantbomb.com/slay-the-spire/3030-59383/forums/my-frustrations-with-slay-the-spire-100-hours-late-1822259/

I have NEVER beaten the Awakened One...Yeah screw The Awakened One. I've beaten the games 4-5 times or something, but never won against him/that. I feel it was stupidly poorly balanced ...I really hope they change/balance the last bosses some more.

I did beat the Awakened One, it was tough, but I got lucky. And therein is the major problem with Slay the Spire, even if you play it for hundreds of hours, at the end, it comes to luck. While you can grind in Inscryption, there's really no point. Slay the Spire on the other hand SHOULD have a mechanism to strengthen your deck or at least re-balance the bosses so that it's not entirely RNG dependent -- as it stands, that's exactly what it is, RNG dependent.

The point of the screenshot is, and you may have forgotten this, but on your first playthrough Leshi just up and decides you're doing too well and pulls a full table of Grizzly Bears with boosts that make it near impossible to pass.

5 minutes ago, avatar! said:

Inscryption basically bypasses all of the faults above. Again, without spoiling, let me say Inscryption wants you to win, it's the opposite of artificially increasing the difficulty.

*ahem*

Currently playing Guardian Force on Sega Saturn. Trying to get a 1CC on it, need to learn/memorize the game first.

5 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

The Might and Magic VII thing @Gloves

 

Acromage?

Cuz FYI: ArcoMage HD

3 hours ago, a3quit4s said:

Odd Tinkering on YouTube is one of my favorite restorers to watch. He does some of the full ins for metal pitting on this video. I think his about has what he uses to do it as well:

 

Just watched; I need to see about some of that filler stuff. Seems like it'd be handy for the toolbox since there's definitely pitting going on, assuming I've got the terminology right there.

1 hour ago, SilverspoonGaming said:

I have an opinion on this, even though Ive never heard the question come up before as I just thought it was normal to have them be yellow.

I can remember back to about 1st grade art class, when we would have to draw our family on a white piece of paper.  I couldnt make my skin white because the white crayon didnt show up on the white background, and some people would use the peach crayon, if they were caucasian of course, and that always left me with yellow as the best option. 

On another note, my drawn people would always have 3 fingers as it was way to hard to draw a good hand small enough to look legit with a crayon.

I drew people like this as a kid, cuz stick people were so blasé:

Easily one of the best games I've played in recent years, and I stay pretty up to date for the most part. It's an absolute masterpiece.

2 minutes ago, Only_None said:

Unless you do body work, like filling pits, it will always look/feel like an old box that has been painted. Personally I prefer the worn in look. As long as it’s clean and functional. 

I'm not opposed to doing what needs done, assuming the skill and tools required aren't insane. Do you have any tips on what such body work looks like, or where I might start looking into it? 

Finished up for the day, here's the removable shelf cleaned of grime and such, before and after:

12 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

If it was me I’d definitely try to remove the old paint first, painting over it is gonna come out bad imo. Maybe something like this or similar product in Canada? If you strip it don’t forget primer before painting!

https://www.lowes.com/pd/CitriStrip-32-fl-oz-Regular-Multi-surface-Paint-Stripper-Gel-Removes-Latex-Paint-Oil-based-Paint-Varnish-Lacquer-Polyurethane-Shellac/5003322011?cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-pnt-_-ggl-_-LIA_PNT_133_TS-Sanding-Sundries-Surface-Buckets-_-5003322011-_-local-_-0-_-0&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD2B2W_L9WwuO4Keu_M1fIf5RsY_j&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2uTx9eChhQMVZEhHAR3Z8AvoEAQYAiABEgItbPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

This is exactly why I posted this, very handy! Thanks, I'll do this 100%!

I'm on the "clean it up" phase right now, doing a drawer or two today. Will order this or something similar so it shows up before next weekend. 

Any good brands you'd suggest for primer and paint? I was looking at Rustoleum. 

2 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

It would be dope if you had the means to sandblast those and repaint them, fresh coat of fire engine red paint is truly beautiful!

The plan is to scrub the shit out of it and then do exactly that. No sand blaster sadly but I can put in elbow grease. 

First thing first, those grimy and squeaky metal slider things. I cleaned em up nice. Not sure next step here, whether I need to grease em back up, or if WD40 is the move. Again, I know Jack diddly, so it's a matter of research and/or you all tossing me advice! 

Before and after shots:

So I'm not the handiest fellow around, but I do like to try. I like using my hands, getting a bit dirty, fixing stuff up, stuff like that. I'm trying my best especially with the new house to take on a more frugal, reuse mindset. 

My neighbors ended up upgrading their own toolboxes and asked if I wanted their old ones. Naturally, free stuff is free so I said yes. They ended up giving me a quite tall toolbox on wheels, and a more regular sized, if a bit big, toolbox. The regular size one is the one I'll be talking about here today.

The toolbox is Beach brand which I understand to be quite sturdy, and it does seem to fit that bill so far. That said, it's old and well used, showing signs of wear and some rusting. My intent is to do my best to bring it back to as close to "good as new" as I can, turning the free thing into probably an expensive thing lol. But it'll give me something to do with my hands. 

And that's where I turn to you all. I plan to document the process here, and I'm hoping some of the handier folks (I know you exist!) might give some tips, suggestions, product recos, etc.. 

Here's how she looks to start:

Yeah I'm not a fan of the waits with Kickstarter and similar, especially when one impacts the other (I backed something on Indiegogo expecting to get it in March this year, but apparently there was also a Kickstarter and those backers are first in line...). 

Hopefully someone sees this and responds, but I'd go double on your comms and send the company another message on Kickstarter and/or twitter/whatever to be like "hey I made this thread, any news on famicom version being sent out?". 

Have you contacted them through Kickstarter itself? Frankengraphics hasn't visited VGS in over a year now, so the ping is probably floating in the aether.

29 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

Wait this is an actual game and not an april fools joke lmaoooo

This guy is in the game:

IYKYK.

I didn't want to steer the discussion so I let others do the talking for a bit, and now I feel like it's been enough time to put this out there - IMO vote how you FEEL about the thing, as YOU experienced it. Seems people are doing that. 

I don't know The Simpsons of today, it's something else entirely in my mind. When I say The Simpsons, like many others here I'm envisioning the first let's say 10 seasons. Which let's be real, is a hell of a run for anything. It was an absolute phenomenon, and it'll stick with me for my whole life as something cherished which I could easily revisit any time (thanks, dvd collection!). 

Love it. 

1 minute ago, Red said:

Are you saying I just beat Ultra Vortek for nothing!?

Seriously, I just beat Ultra Vortek.  This thread is no joke!

Too slow, muh man!

I just beat all of them.

9 minutes ago, MinusWorlds said:

I need minions. The pay is zero, but you can play all the games you want. All you have to do is fight off the Reddit crowd for me. It’s pretty easy. Just a bunch of infants that cry a lot. 
 

I also have cats btw. Lost my avatar buddy few years back tho

Sad to hear about the pup, they're truly our besties. I've got 3 black cat boys, it's funny how anyone seeing them for the first time is like "how do you tell them apart?" when they're all so different both physically and in how they behave and interact with us and each other. Such interesting animals.

Just now, MinusWorlds said:

Awesome. What’s up dude? How you been?

I'm alright. Need a job but other than that just been chillin. Have a house and cats now, mostly playin' games, as ever.

2 minutes ago, MinusWorlds said:

This is MinusWorlds. I am a bot. Beep boop beep. Fuck Reddit. Boop beep boop. The creator of Reddit owns many Wata games. Including the $1.56M Super Mario64. Boop boop beep. Oh the irony. Beep boop. Lolz. Beep boop beep. 
 

Imagine that in your best robot voice.