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I'm a pretty good writer.

Fuck self modesty! Tell me something you know you're great at! I'll start. I'm a great cook.

can't stop listening to Twisted Garden you guys. its just so fucking good

Fair enough, use the system to cut out a bit of the grind

Mutant. Down.

aw yeah

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mutant. man. i've always heard people talk about how good this fight is, and how they consider it one of if not THE BEST modded terraria boss fight. and, after experiencing it for myself, i would say that those claims have some serious merit.

mutant was awesome. i loved fighting him. the way it works with the flight-hover mechanic, the bullet hell-esque attacks, the way that you feel like you're mastering the boss more and more each attempt. somehow, someway, the devs behind this managed to create one of the BEST modded experiences with a character that looks like something i'd draw when i was 7. it's great. absolute cinema if you will.

my one and only complaint is that mutant does this funny thing where after attempting the boss something like 15 times, it skips the first phase and jumps straight to its second. this, to me, just doesn't feel right. it gives your successful attempt less merit. think about it--if you fuck up in the first phase, you lose health going into the second--encouraging the player to actually learn the first phase so they don't go into the second already crippled. but if you skip the first phase, all of the sudden you're always gonna go into the second phase will full health, no handicaps from any mistake you could've made whatsoever. it didn't feel like i beat mutant the first time i did, more like i just beat the second and desperation phase. luckily, i had to go back and fight it again with the same gear because it didn't drop enough Eternal Essence, so i was able to fully beat it from that. but still. not to mention that it just makes the fight unnecessarily shorter.

i mean, i get the idea behind it. you're fighting the boss for the 30th time, already mastered the first phase, and upset that it takes so long to get to the second to actually learn it. but i feel like this just isn't a viable solution to that. also Abominationn also has a weaker first phase and he doesn't have a phase skip. so idk what the problem is.

anyway. eternity mode was fun. shoutout for @kodithew for encouraging me to try it. (sorry for the mention but. yk.) i made the soul of eternity!! figure i should actually screenshot it but eh i already closed the game so. whatever.

i now sit atop the throne of the very few calamity players who have fully completed a mod unrelated to calamity. (well i mean i did mod of redemption before this but ehh i didn't like that one very much.)

i feel like people often claim that fargo is the go-to mod for players who want the same vibe as calamity, and i think that's a bit... oversimplified? like the two are fundamentally different experiences. you never had to collect 2,763 items from a completely different class just to make another stupid accessory that turns into a god. it's not a bad vibe---i personally enjoyed it a lot. (finally getting that warrior's soul or whatever it was was so satisfying.) it's different. and that's not a bad thing. might even be better. (fabsol, take notes, this is how you make a boss ya dunce.)

there's some more i wanna say but this post is getting LENGTHY. so to close this off, i really liked it :)

maybe ill try masochist mode one day. when i'm feeling masochistic. because brother i'm not touching this again for a long while that earlygame was PAIN.

anyway yeah. fun times. soul of eternity turned me into Jesus Christ himself

I commissioned @mythicalwater to do a portrait of my new dnd character Zu and omg I love him so much. He's just a lil goofball he can't be expected to hold still for a portrait!

Original mini for reference;

Recently I got into miniature painting, after a 12 year wait. Here's the progression over the past month or so.

This is one of the first miniatures I ever did, back when I was 10 or 11. A bit worse for wear.

The first figure I did in my recent stuff was this dnd miniature I practiced with (the arm broke in delivery so I glued it on.)

These other ones are in no particular order, but I am particularly proud of the bony one and the bike.

And finally, my most recent one was a redo of my dnd miniature, which I think turned out very very well.

Here's all of them together. (Plus some extras)

If ppl find this interesting, might post more about it and more of my models as I do them, who knows.

2nd day of the new world, feeling like I can definitely take on early prehardmode bosses up to perforators.

Gonna murder some worms and eyes. And clams. And slimes.

Hm yes, P rank with terrible resolution. Very funy.

I can only assume your thoughts on the soul of eternity

I think my favorite items in all of terraria are the items that combine like 10 things into one MEGA thing.

There's only a few off the top of my head, there's the obvious Zenith which obviously that thing is cool- it's a "post post post" game reward.

Terraspark boots, the triple balloon horshoe thing, Ankh Shield- even the cell phone and the associated parts (and its further upgrade)!

I LOVE having a reason to go around collecting tons of stuff to make a MEGA thing. Big fan when mods add yet more of that :)

(The spooky mod has multiple of these! Based on themed sets! Excitedly collecting!)