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I got to it last night, and I've only attempted it once so far

No, I got through that one. You can miss a couple of parries here and there and still be OK. I'm talking about the final battle in the Flying Manor

I've played a bunch of Dark Souls and Elden Ring, but I'm always dodge rolling in those games, and that usually has more forgiving timing

I got to a fight where you effectively need to parry every attack, and it's hard

So, ~9 frames. The timing does feel pretty tight, but I also thought it seemed fair most of the time once I learned the timings.

I guess there's basic stats: after X time we have completed Y checks out of Z total. A, B, and C games have finished.

@RavenDreamer I don't think Archipelago has much of anything in terms of stats. It's mainly just tracking which checks have been completed. If you look at the tracker page for our event, it mainly just shows checks completed, and details about hinted checks.

@HunterofWisdom I think it's going to be pretty rare that an early game required item in one game will be behind a late game check in another game. Other than that, waiting for checks is just part of the experience.

@Bridget Making it async is supposed to help with that, by giving some leeway in how fast you make progress, but I understand that that doesn't change how it feels.

@Bridget Double sleeved cards can be pretty bulky at first, but if you compress the deck a bit to squeeze out the air it will generally be easier to handle.

The second Archipelago event has finished. If you played it, did you enjoy it? Do you have any thoughts or feedback about the event?

The other Cloudflare R2 questions I see have code in them. I think they're mostly asking about interacting with the R2 API, which definitely would be on topic.

@xtropicalsoothing My immediate reaction on reading the question is that it looks like it's more about system administration than software development, so I'd identify it as a Server Fault question.

This is why these complaints always bother me. There's often a simple solution that would take a little effort, but people would rather say "I tried once and failed, so I give up and its SO's fault"

Why not just ask the question on the proper site? I'm pretty sure that would be Server Fault

@xtropicalsoothing It's an off topic question closed as off topic. Do you expect them to just discard the rules to keep people here?

I don't think anyone but you can answer that question, in regards to your own life

@xtropicalsoothing Living with your parents doesn't solve the problem of having the resources to sustain yourself, it just pushes the problem onto someone else

@SPArcheon-onstrike More than one

And Noita

Yeah, and Hollow Knight has a couple of bosses that are just there to stop you from getting past, and they aren't actually guarding a specific item

And not all bosses have a drop like that

Defeating a boss is not itself normally a check

For any boss that drops a large amount of geo when they die, that's a check

@RavenDreamer I turned on extra checks: grubs, boss geo, geo chests, and boss dream essence.

I have now done every useful check in Hollow Knight. I just need one hinted item and then I can finish the game.

@Ronan That's good. There's one behind my Colosseum 2 check, and I was hoping to avoid that one.

@Ronan How important are Gold Skulltula Tokens for you?

For example, SGDQ this year had a two player Sonic Adventure 2 Archipelago run: youtube.com/watch?v=z-FP8_T5pg4

There's no difference between randomizing multiple instances of the same game, and multiple different games

You can have two slots for the same game, if that's what you mean

At least, if everything is configured properly

Progression items are purple, useful upgrades are dark blue, and other things are light blue

If you're using the Archipelago text client, it shows the items names in different colors roughly depending on their importance

You're thinking of "king fragment", "queen fragment", and "void heart". I already have two of those, but I don't remember which ones

@RavenDreamer Actually, no, that's just money

But you can also generalize the concept of "items" and "locations" a lot. For example, Archipelago has a Yacht Dice game (legally distinct Yahtzee), where the "items" are dice, rerolls, categories, and point multipliers, and the "locations" are score milestones.

@SPArcheon-onstrike It definitely works better for some games than others. It works well with Metroidvanias, for example, because the concept of progression being limited by what items you have is already part of the premise of the game

Then you just have to make sure that each sphere contains at least one item that gives you access to something you don't already have access to, and that guarantees that you can always make progress towards the goal.

Then sphere 1 is all of the locations reachable with the items in sphere 0, and so on

The "spheres" Tobias mentioned is a strategy for doing that. You start by looking at sphere 0, which is all of the locations reachable from the beginning of the game with no items, and you put some items there.

Then when doing the actual generation for one run, the randomizer arranges things so that you can always obtain what you need to be able to keep making progress

@SPArcheon-onstrike Essentially, as part of programming the randomizer, for every location you can check in the game, they track which items you need to get it.

@Ronan yes

The Archipelago event has started. This is the room link: archipelago.gg/room/SHrUeGilRGmdmj432JKweg

@RavenDreamer Nice, happy to have more people in the event

@SPArcheon-onstrike I mean that there's nothing misleading in the sense that the claim in the listing is "the ESRB rated this game E"

@User1865345 These responses don't make sense. The post specifically says that he threatened to kill everyone on "what he believed was the Jeffrey Epstein client list". If he had a list of people and he threatened to kill them, that certainly is an actionable threat even if he is mistaken in his belief that it is the real Epstein client list.

I think that might just be the only combo in Magic that will achieve that board state

Presumably Book of Exalted Deeds on Mutavault