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I am noticing though that the game's combat is HARD. Like, frustrating hard. So I have a bit more tuning to do in that regard. I actually want it to be a fairly casual game that doesn't require a lot of grinding. I know the combat is one of the weaker elements technically, it's no Chrono Trigger with all these different party attacks and such you know. So I don't want players to have to battle not only enemies but also the urge to keep playing lol.

I'm done testing for the night, but I have tuned down the enemy stats by 65% and I need to buff magic a little bit. That's a pretty big change, so I'll have to see if it's too easy at this point. It'll likely take a few playthroughs to really start to get it locked in, and then obviously testers after me will probably have some shit to say about it too lol.

Balancing the combat is definitely my weak point as a developer. I used a lot of math to get here but I might have overtuned it... by a bit.... or a lot.

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Actually some really cool news about the game...

I've been playing for about 3 hours at this point in my test run, and I've only done 1 main quest and 3 side quests. There are I think something like 50 side quests and 6 main quests, so it's looking like the game will be AT LEAST 20 hours playing casually, which is great! That's the sweet spot I wanted to hit, somewhere between 20-30 hours ideally.

Of course, this is just extrapolation and I'll have the real numbers soon enough, but I'm still pretty happy with that. Again, it's my own game so I think I naturally will get more invested in it, but I am pretty happy overall with how the world is and all the little stuff I'm finding. I somehow magically managed to pace things pretty well!

Oh man I guess the Goldeneye 64 decomp and PC port are done

Goldeneye: 007 - Facility (Decomp)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOBY8j-nQE

Vinny was saying there's a chance Red Vox will play a show in the tri-state area! Man even if the play a show in New York at some point, I'd travel over there to watch them. Favorite band, that doesn't really play live shows very often... in fact I think they've only played a couple at conventions. Once in a lifetime opportunity, probably.

Free speech advocates when you say something they don't agree with: :angry_pepe:

Eye-strain is truly the enemy of productivity.

The racial slur of the day is Doozers.

It is used to refer to Whites.

Deep lore: Used to describe white college students who do nothing but party and pull 2.0 GPAs.

Pageant moms are some of the most despicable human beings.

Somewhere out there is a pitbull who hates other pitbulls for making him look bad. When he gets to heaven he'll turn into a golden retriever.

i actually forgot that i work tomorrow and i'm debating on just pretending i don't and suffering the consequences later.

Sometimes the soul crushing weight of the disastrous world we live in presses down on me, and Atlas I am not.

had a dream where someone went to Malaysia and decapitated Ian Miles Cheong and used his bloody head as an icon on Elon's X impersonating him and saying he wanted to eat dogs and be in Heaven instead of Hell among other things
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