xenogears

a million shades of light

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first and foremost i am here to amuse myself
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i love weird and bad video games, speedrunning, professional wrestling, and rodents
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i hate computers
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bluesky for the foreseeable future, i guess



threeoh6000
@threeoh6000
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sirocyl
@sirocyl

"third party anti-cheat kernel driver" should strike the same kind of fear in you as "debug port left exposed" or "default root telnet password"

there should be no business sense for MS to sign these; they should not be signed, signing them should result in fines and sanctions, and the OS already doesn't load unsigned kernel drivers.

this shit should, honestly, be illegal through and through.



xenogears
@xenogears

oops i spent like 6 hours planning routing and testing an all sidequests speedrun of dragon's dogma oops i'm not even remotely close to being done oops whoops oopsie


xenogears
@xenogears

this is such a nightmare to route and test lmfao

i'm only about a third of the way into routing this and i've been playing along with my route to make saves for practice/testing but i didn't take into account that i'm a fucking moron who has to keep scrapping everything because i forgot things or didn't know about major issues with my plans

the newest problem i've run into is i have no idea how i can afford the maker's finger and pilgrim's charm from fournival while also having enough for consumables i need throughout the run. i can get almost exactly the number needed for the finger and charm, but then i'd be out of stamina items for the next section until i complete a quest or find something to sell. which like, idfk what's worth what in this game so i haven't been picking anything up

i'd really hate to end up completing the entire route only to get halfway through a test run and realize there's something horribly wrong with it, but i think that's gonna end up being far more efficient than what i've been doing so far lmao

it's been too long since i've had to put in this kind of work for a speedrun. not used to it

in retrospect this method of making saves was never going to make any sense with how i've been having to add detours in earlier places as i work through the game from start to finish



it's so tragic how there's a glitch that allows you to pass through just about any wall using a barrel, but it's nearly useless for speedruns

i just found out you can use it to do the catacombs from the back and that you don't have to talk to anyone for the quest to continue as normal, and there's also a spot you can use it to get a portcrystal early in selene's house, but other than that... nothing
EDIT: i'm very wrong the quest doesn't continue as normal LMAO i'm pretty sure you have to go in the front

gonna keep looking for more spots but i already know a lot of stuff in this game is impossible to complete early. years ago i used cheat engine to hack my way to a bunch of locations early in the hopes that i could advance the game state, but nothing worked. you can even get all the way to the door that leads you to the tainted mountain........ but you can't open it

you can even get in the castle early by getting arrested, using a skeleton key to escape, and doing this barrel glitch to bypass the gate that blocks you before you've met the duke, but once again there's nothing there. you can talk to everyone, but they won't give you their quests