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[Frumple]

Zero mistake hell board, for the second time. Took 1405 seconds and four tries, heh.

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Sudoku RPG, classic mode, which is... just normal sudoku, mostly. For reference, a hell board looks like this:

The last few spots are the most nerve wracking, honestly. The ones where literally all you're doing is counting to finish off the lines. That's the point where you're one miscount or misclick from starting over and doing the whole thing again, and it's just. Easily the roughest part of solving one of those things. Can you count to 9 y/n aaaahhhh

[Rolan7]

I didn't notice the classic mode!  Thanks!
I did fine on Difficult just now, but Very Difficult was kinda difficult.  Was nice to Sudoku a little again~

[Frumple]

The best tip I have, if you haven't already noticed the functionality (it's easy to miss or forget it's there), is that you can click on the numbers that are already there and it'll highlight all the ones on the board. Easiest way to start a hell board I've found, is to take a minute to go through everything that's already there and see if the lines let you eliminate any possibilities. You usually seem to be able to get at least two or three spots down that way, and sometimes you can actually get down every one for a particular number.

[Rolan7]

I was *looking* for that feature!!  I half-remembered it!  I was trying by pressing a numkey with no box selected, but that doesn't work.

Thanks, that does indeed help a lot.

[Criptfeind]

I've been playing a lord of the rings total war medieval 2 mod called divide and conquer. It's quite fun, if a bit limited in what it can do because of the base game. I'm playing as Dol Guldur lead by Khamul the Easternling. Sauron's stronghold in southern Murkwood given over to the second strongest ring wraith. It's quite a hard start, you start at war with the elves of Lothlórien and them almost adjacent to the west, only separated by a very crossable Anduin. But you really can't kill them, even leaving aside how Celeborn is an absolute kill pig who can probably defeat your entire starting forces solo, the game has a mechanic where any faction on their last legs will spawn an emergency final stack full of high tier units. And a full stack of high tier elves would be absolutely ruinous to fight and even if you won it'd just thrust you into a war against the dwarves of Moria and likely Rohan as well, so basically you're forced into a tense standoff with them across the river, pouring gold into defensive forces as you attempt to expand elsewhere. But expanding elsewhere brings it's own problems. Beornings to the northwest, Sindar elves to the north, the men of Dale to the northeast, and the men of Dorwinion to the east.

Despite these issues, I was doing well, goblins poured forth from the dark woods, lead by orcs and ring wraiths, they pushed backed the men of the east to the forest river and were threatening to drive Dorwinion into the sea of Rhun. But the most successful war was against the Beornings where a legion of goblins and orcs lead by Khamul himself drive the wild northern men from the woods and eventually lay siege to and captured Beorns home itself. Lightly armored heavy hitting men were weak to the massed arrows of a goblin horde that had grown in the darkness of an elven forest, and other then the direct skinshifting kin of Beorn himself they had a weak will that was easily shattered by the hammer of terror wielded by Khamul. However, once I had taken their capital I was betrayed. The snow orcs of Mount Gundabad came, despite being my allies under Sauron, despite being at war with the same people as me. These fucking snow orcs marched PAST the weak remains of the Beornings that they were at war with to come out of the fog of war and lay siege to the Beorning capital that Khamul was in with the largest army I've seen.

This was a huge problem, if you're under siege it's a win or die situation, there's no possibility of retreat. But despite Khamul being a pretty deadly dude, his army only consisted at this point of around 1200 troops, around 1/3 of them orcs and the remaining 2/3s just goblins. The forces of Gundabad had 3000 orcs, and the orcs of the far north are generally a bit more of a hearty breed, more suited to being warriors then the weaker orcs of the south. So basically not only was I outnumbered three to one, but they had a fairly substantial troop quality advantage over me. And I had to win, loss meant the death of Khamul, who was the only thing holding together the northern front against the Sindar Elves and the Beorning and also my only possible response to the elves of Lothlórien trying to cross the Anduin on mass would be Khamul returning to lead the defense. Loosing this fight could very well mean the end of the campaign. The game gave a power ranking completely lopsided in the snow orcs favor.

Spoiler: The fight took like an hour, almost the entire battle timer and I never sped it up. But in the end I just about managed to pull out a victory. (click to show/hide)

Anyone who knows total war probably can guess that Khamul is a heavy cav unit and carried most of the fight himself. Charging into and out of combat over and over to break the orcs. But the difficult part was even the ultimate hammer needs an anvil to dash against and my forces were mostly not up to the task. So the combat took the form of a running battle from the northern edge of the map almost to the southern one (and this was a big map) where I repeatedly teased apart and isolated smaller groups of orcs to crush them, slowly taking apart the enemy army. The biggest victory came when I found a clean charge on the enemy general, and was lucky enough that he died almost immediately to the charge. This made the fight a lot easier and marked the turning point where it went from me slowly loosing the trades I was forced to make to actually starting to break his army apart and start climbing the balance of power bar. It was certainly the longest and hardest battle I've had in this game thus far. Quite a wild fight and likely saved my campaign. Since then I've pulled back from the north slightly, as the snow orcs responded with a second army that is just as large. But it's given me time to pull up reinforcements. And now Khamul leads an army not of 1200 of mostly goblins with some orcs. But one with 700 Uruk and 1500 orcs. And now he'll march north again, to teach Gundabad the price of betrayal.

[Akura]

Took several times, partly due to me sucking at the fight and not having adequate sundelion-based food, and partly due to console crashes, but I finally beat the Demon King.

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Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. During the credits, particularly showing the murals of the Imprisoning War, I got the idea that Demon King Ganondorf looks like a fusion of Samurai Jack and his nemesis Aku, and now I can't unsee it.

[Frumple]

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Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. During the credits, particularly showing the murals of the Imprisoning War, I got the idea that Demon King Ganondorf looks like a fusion of Samurai Jack and his nemesis Aku, and now I can't unsee it.

So that's what happened when aku did

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the whole genderbend and seduce

thing, huh. Gannondorf. Makes sense to me.

[Great Order]

Mission where I had to look after a pet and face two pretty heavy mechanoid attacks.

Not only did I fend them off without any deaths (Plenty of casualties, but nothing permanent aside from one janissary getting brain damage. Not that I cared, he wasn't *my* janissary), I fended off another two raids almost immediately after. Shotguns are ridiculous in CE so long as you can get in range.

Rimworld

EDIT: 1.14bn points, locked one fragment of tachyolium, time travelled twice (Although I didn't have the fragment then so I went to the future and back), picked up four souvenirs, got quickshot mania for the first time, and managed to get the mystery (It was an extra ball).

Pro Pinball: Timeshock!

[Akura]

Beat the Swarm monster boss fight at Moth Village. Cut out about 95% of the fight by dropping a flamethrower turret directly into its mouth. Otherwise, the fight would have been a slog of diving over it's projectile wave, tapping it with my pistol(sniper rifle was already out of ammo doing this) for pitiful damage, then diving back. But why do that when you can kill it with fire?

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Black Skylands, released from Early Access a few weeks ago. Last I played was nearly two years ago. There was a significant change in the story, especially the beginning. Not really liking the changes too much so far.

[hector13]

Managed to get a thirteen orphans finish in mahjong. Tricky hand to get since you need to draw every tile yourself, though you can claim the final tile from another player’s discard.

I almost got it again later. I was two tiles short when someone else won.

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Yakuza Kiwami 2

[Iduno]

Playing as the clock girl (looked it up, Ouro Kronii) in Holocure. No collabs or special weapons allowed, so to make it easier just one level of +enemies turned on.

I got the achievement for that, for having haste over +100%, and winning as her (since the achievements were added).

Took max (so many extra points) on the items slots: +coins, lab coat (+exp if you don't get hit), +exp, Halu (more enemies who are also stronger, and you get some coins at the end as a reward), headphones with a 35% chance (at max) to ignore damage and knock all enemies back, and Knight Milk (bigger attacks, and you pick up xp, food, and coins from further away).

I did have the +haste, bigger weapons, and +5/10/15% attack per empty weapon slot stamps. 5 empty weapon slots when you don't allow special weapons.


Edit: Another dumb one today. Couch Potato achievement: don't move at all. It's a Vampire Survivors-like.

So, for a dumb achievement, I used a dumb character. Ceres Fauna has abilities that heal, and ones that do damage to a random enemy when you heal, encouraging you to just run into piles of enemies. Her weapon can't be aimed until it's maxed out , and just kind of floats around you. Then her special ability heals you and makes you invulnerable as long as you're in range of it (which, when you're not moving, and it starts centered on you...), which is great for making bosses accomplish nothing against you.

Took Knight Milk (more pick-up range, which is useful when you can't walk over xp to pick it up), breastplate (damage reduction, and chance to do damage back to the enemy), and nurse's horns (heal when you kill something) before finally getting my xp glasses. BL Books and Spider Cooking are great close-range AOE attacks, so xp falls near you. I also managed the "level 4 times in 1 second" achievement (time spent in the level-up menu doesn't count) when I upgraded my pick-up range and grabbed an xp magnet thing.

I grabbed wamy water for collabs, which work better if you can get to an anvil. The knockback there cost me some levels. I won anyway.

[Great Order]

Level three against a level 5 boss phase spider with two level 3 phase spiders and a small swarm of level 1 hatchlings.

I got a surprise round off, which let me dispense of the regular phase spiders. The hatchlings I managed to splat with liberal use of a cleave and my rogue's two bonus actions and an offhand attack. The boss, however, had 125hp and an attack that would down anyone who didn't have full hp. Despite that, I managed to steadily chip away at the thing until it finally gave up the ghost. Everyone was downed at least once, but being able to throw healing potions was insanely useful.

Baldur's Gate 3

[AlStar]

Defeated the Hand of the King on 1BC/New Game+ mode, earning me the "honor" of stepping up to 2BC/New Game++ mode. Major shoutout goes to the legendary weapon I found about halfway through my run, whose special ability changed my weapon from one that you normally have to charge for a second to inflict critical hits to one that just always throws out criticals. The massive increase in damage output allowed me to mostly facetank the boss; beating him in a DPS dual.

For something closer to *me* owning, rather than just my equipment, I managed to flawless The Concierge, the first boss you encounter. This actually required some skill, since I had to stay the hell away from him (in a very small arena), dodging his attacks while I peppered him with arrows. That one earned me an achievement and a golden skin unlock.

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Dead Cells

[hector13]

Spoiler: an avenged death (click to show/hide)

Managed to get to sector 8 in very good nick: fully upgraded shield, engines, and reactor, an Ion Blast II that you start of with plus an Ion Stunner and a Hull Beam, as well as two drones(one combat, one beam), and enough scrap leftover to fully upgrade my sensors, doors, and pilot… though I didn’t do the latter because I had an elite pilot, as well as elite Engi engineer, Engi weapons officer, and Human shield officer (who doubled as security) plus one spare Engi to send out for repairing and shooting.

Got through the first two phases of the Rebel flagship fine, only taking a single point of damage in the second phase.

Third phase though… I’m playing in advanced mode and had never got to this point before so didn’t know they had a mind control system.

First they took over my weapons officer, who was blasting away for a bit until they got a lucky shot on the weapons system which basically took it all out, while teleporting guys in on top of that. This meant I was unable to deal with the flagship’s shields.

I was in the process of dealing with all of that as the initial mind control wore off when they did it again… to my pilot. This meant every single shot got through and made pretty short work of my ship… so I regretted a lot not upgrading my pilot system after that.

In the next run in the same ship, I managed to get a Slug as a reward in sector 1. Mofos are immune to mind control. Guess who immediately became my pilot?

[spoiler]Faster Than Light: Advanced Mode[/spoiler]

Managed to win that next run, with the Ion Blast II, a Heavy Ion, and Heavy Laser Mk 1 for weapons, plus a ridiculous number of drones because I just kept getting them as rewards: 1 Defense II (that saved the run at least once on its own), a combat and a beam drone, and enough power in the system to run two of them at a time.

This time I also upgraded my Pilot upon getting to sector 8, not that it mattered since the first phase the hacker drone hacked the Pilot system :| I got through it though, and the tactic of getting through the shields with a combination of drones and ions worked a treat, then switching the ion blast to the enemy system causing me the biggest trouble at any given time (NO MORE MIND CONTROL) meant I could just watch as my ship tore the bugger to bits.

I unlocked the Federation Cruiser as a consequence, so I get to do that as a run for a bit, with the goal of unlocking the variants of it in the mean time.

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Faster Than Light: Advanced Mode

[Great Order]

Honestly, flak is probably one of the best weapons in general, and two flak IIs will shred even the flagship. If you get the opportunity, buy them. Level 4 shields mean nothing compared to a ceaseless wave of shrapnel. Seriously, it's 14 shots with a not too bad cooldown, just target a big room and only one or two will miss.