UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • Folks, the bourgeois, they’re no good everyone is saying it. All these workers, very handsome workers come up to me and say, Comrade Trump there is a specter haunting Europe, and you know what, they’re right. These bourgeois are very nasty people very very rude and very unfair to the workers. They are stealing our surplus value and no one is doing anything about it. The proletariat comes up to me everyday and says, Comrade Trump will you lead the revolution? And I gotta turn to them and say, Look the instruments of capitalism will be used to bring about its destruction believe me you gotta trust me on this one. The means of production, obama never wanted to seize them. Well guess what? I’m seizing them. Landlords? They’re done for folks. Everyone told me they said, Comrade Trump you won’t be the vanguard of the revolution and they would laugh, the media laughed the democrats laughed, guess whose laughing now? a-little-trolling





  • Absolutely crazy Hades 2 run

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    Wanted to use the White Antlers (Artemis keepsake, gives you crit chance for 1 region but limits you to 30 max HP) and figured I’d try armor stacking for the first 3 regions and then switch to White Antlers for the last one. I picked up the Scarlet Dress from Arachne in the first region which only gives 10 armor but makes your Casts 100% stronger, and thanks to my other sources of armor I was able to keep it up until the end, which Chronos actually commented on.

    I don’t even know what happened in the last fight, Chronos just fkn dropped. It took like 15 seconds. I’ve had great builds before but this time I legit don’t know why it went as hard as it did. I had Aspect of Persephone equipped, Hera on Attack, Aphrodite on Special and Cast. Maybe Crit is really that damn good.

    By the way, Sun Worshipper (Apollo/Hera duo boon, resurrects the first slain enemy per encounter to fight for you) is so much better than it has any right to be. It’s weird because Charm has always been a really mid effect and the Hex that does pretty much the same thing feels really weak, but Sun Worshipper feels crazy good. “Allies” were the 2nd largest damage source in the run, and that’s all because of this one boon.





  • Tried Death Must Die a while back. The problem with making a game that’s “Vampire Survivors mixed with Hades” is that your game is gonna be compared to Hades. A game which has no weaknesses and is at least an 8/10 in every category possible. Amazing gameplay, music, visual design, writing, progression, replayability, anything you can think of, Hades is great at it. So when your Hades-inspired game does have weaknesses, they suddenly become very glaring in comparison.

    And the biggest weakness Death Must Die has imo is the writing and the characters. It’s basically non-existant what does exist is pretty bad. Now sure, Vampire Survivors has hardly any writing or story either, but Death Must Die clearly takes inspiration from Hades in that regard, not only are your powers given to you by gods, they also have a voice line every time you get one of their powers. Except where the Hades gods have entire books of dialogue where they talk about themselves, the player character, their many relationships with other characters etc., Death Must Die has none of that. The 3rd time I encountered the fire goddess, her dialogue was already reduced to “Let’s light it up!” or “Coming in hot!”-type of one-liners.

    Given how the playable characters are written in a completely different way with no voice acting and different typing gimmicks (like how one uses xd and >.> in her dialogue), it feels like the gods and their voice lines are literally just there because that’s how Hades does it. Except it sucks here and makes the game actively worse. Vampire Survivors gets by with no characters and no dialogue, which is way preferable to bad characters and bad dialogue.

    Edit: Just because this sounds so negative I wanna say that Death Must Die is not a bad game at all, in terms of gameplay it does the Vampire Survivors x Hades thing really well. The graphics are completely fine for an indie game made by a small team. I think the main characters each having their gimmick in how they speak is kinda neat. It’s just the terrible writing that makes it come off like a cheap knockoff when it isn’t.