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Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Amusingly, mayhem is a unique orb brand because all the other brands scale heavily with evocation skill nowadays yet mayhem still has a fixed effect. But it's the one the most likely to backfire so that makes sense.

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Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

They rarely provide anything really good for characters who can clear them while also forcing you to burn through lots of your consumables. It can be fun though, a nice way to remind yourself that this game has permadeath and you can't just smash two buttons until victory.

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Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

With all the new orbs I completely forgot about the orb of mayhem to the point that I was shocked to see it in one of my recent games.

the affected monsters get buffed.

Yara's Violent Unraveling reasons B)

Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

I think I opened one of those in zot once and deeply regretted the orb of fire party I found.

"We have Ziggurat at home"

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Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

The closest to in-fighting in DCSS is a wand of charming that makes an enemy fight for you for some time. Unfortunately, it's single-targeted and can fail against its target's willpower.

If I would need to open this mess and deal with it, I'd do the following:

Clear the entire floor first, making sure to not disturb anything inside with noise (they won't open the blue doors but that'll still mess up my plan, see below);
Open the blue doors then make a few steps away from the vault (enemies are still not aware of me);
Drink a potion of lignification that will turn me into a tree (we'll need it for a later step);
Probably drink some other potions like resistance (to not be one-shotted by the dragon), invisibility and especially haste;
Shout to attract attention of the enemies;
Read a scroll of immolation - it applies a special status effect to all enemies, making them take additional fire damage when they lose health and explode when they die, heavily damaging anyone who stands close;
Read a scroll of torment halving everyone's health in half (which is considered an attack, so it'll trigger the immolation's fire damage) - it usually applies to the player too but the tree form grants immunity to it;
Read torment again if it wasn't enough;
Read a scroll of teleportation and then walk around the floor, killing off whoever is still alive.

With this plan, my chances to win would probably be higher than the risk of death.

Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Well, I did post one a month ago in !gaming@lemmy.world but yeah, I mostly post them in the Tavern. Posting them on Lemmy usually takes some effort since I try to make the posts approachable for those who aren't familiar with crawl in its current version so I often just don't do it at all.

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Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 3w ago

Well, the OP image looks terrible for instance.

I feel like using AI for memes is like cooking food with a flamethrower. They are much better when they are obviously low-effort. GenAI images try really hard to hide how little effort was involved in their creation.

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Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 3w ago

I disagree, shitty paint drawings or stickmen are million times better than AI slop. Glossy AI images suck the fun away, for me at least.

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Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 3w ago

0.29 was my first version! I even thought about returning to it someday just to get a win but it's such a pain in the ass to play knowing that I miss out on many QoL features and rebalancing changes of the later versions.

Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 3w ago

Went to space, fired up 2048 to kill some time during flight, missed the entire voyage

Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 3w ago

silly creature

Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 3w ago

Yeah the moment Bushido clicked with me I just feel in love with it. Really surprised it managed to keep me hooked for 24 hours!

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Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 3w ago

Fair! If you can find anyone to play with you, you can try doing it in coop. Coop is 2vs2 so you only have 2 fights ahead so it's much easier to do. And Bushido in coop is sooo fun!

Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 4w ago

I find Zoldath similar to Nethack in a way - all these hidden interactions, quick and often hilarious deaths, and lots of procgen of course. Edit: Planet Zoldath was released in 1984, the same year as the release of Hack on Usenet.

On an unrelated note, the "I wanna be the guy" dev have their personal website at kayin.moe where they often posts about indie games. I found this blog pretty cool. There are also a few posts about UFO 50.

Lucy [she/faer] @piefed.blahaj.zone 4w ago

UFO 50 is brutal and I love it for this. Cherrying Bushido Ball for the first time felt great!