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[avinryd]

Y'all i just finished yet another replay of Wind Water HD and i'm seeing it with 👀new eyes👀

Ganondorf and the king have serious History(tm) and i'm seeing potential for some tasty old man yaoi at the center of the whole "the gods flooded hyrule because we ran out of options" debacle...

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Hades II Stream in a half-hour!

today's theme: If I didn't get to sleep, neither does Hypnos

[avinryd]

Planning a Hades II stream this week!

Wednesday "Hypnos, it's time to WAKEUP" Daytime Stream

Wednesday, Oct 1st 1pm-3pm CST Post!true ending, the plot is in the postgame but Hypnos is still sleeby. We're gonna fix that

No Friday stream since my wife and I have plans Friday evening~

[avinryd]

Hades II Stream Wrapup(i guess these are just happening next day lol)

Quiet stream, after I resolved some tech issues on my end, at any rate. Only went for 3 hours, but we got a lot done for all it didn't feel like it!

Hades II spoilers under the cut:

We got topside! I completely forgot that there's a whole slog of resource gathering immediately after opening the gate, so we had to get through THAT before we could actually play the above ground route, but we got there.

While i'm glad I'm clearly better at this game than I used to be, and I DO want to get to the end-game somewhat quickly because I Gotta Know, I do feel that I'm probably missing out on some story by breezing through so quickly. I'm glad I did early access for the forcible slowing down of the plot(since the rest of the plot wasn't there yet). I hit Olympus this time without even a quarter of NPC interaction i'd had in early access. Hm. But this is how the OG Hades game went for me too, so I think that's just how these games play. I'll probably do another file of no God Mode on my own time for that experience.

But for now! We go fast! I died a number of times on the way up but we hit the mountaintop, and I ended the stream after I got my ass handed to me Two Floors from the big bad, aaagh. It was the Typhon Tail miniboss that has been the bane of my existence since it first dropped, so I don't feel too bad.

I REALLY love the updated animation for Prometheus. His flame effects are much prettier. Also he's got some different foreshadowing dialogue which I assume is pointing at the full release story. Hype!

I'm continuing the main game loop on my own, but haven't beaten Typhon yet. I am, however, saving some plot special stuff for my next stream on Wednesday, October 1st at 12pm(noon) CST. We're gonna do all things Hypnos, whatever it takes to get that story moved forward! I've got the first recipe cooked up to kick it off, and access to everywhere we need for what I know of the next parts of the quest. It's time to wake up the sleepy boi!

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Ok technical difficulties fixed lets go for real

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Hades II, Surface Boogaloo! Stream at 7pm CST!

Yesterday the Underworld, today Olympus(maybe)! Find me over at @AvinRyd on twitch.tv for a chill Hades II stream this evening!

[avinryd]

Hades II Launch Stream Wrapup(yes its late shhh)

Yesterday's stream was fun! Assuming my hands cooperate after five hours of streaming plus another two gaming after oough i'm gonna do another around 7pm CST today(friday september 26th) Keep an eye out for the post!

Spoilers for the game under the cut

For those who missed it, we got from the beginning of the game all the way down Tartarus! And had it out with PeePaw a couple times to boot! (We lost) Only took 5 hours and God Mode is only charged up to 44%

Not bad for a day's work tbh

Now after i ended the stream i DID continue for another couple hours because y'all, i've been playing Early Access since it came out, May of 2024, and i was NOT going to go to bed tonight without seeing what Zag's bedroom looks like now. And i got there!

I had good luck and finally got the Burning Desire build together with the Blades, which helped a lot. Had Frinos along for the run too which saved me from a number of rough hits.

And! The new bit! The story! These are the spoilers now

Zag in the mirror!!!! I missed him and i LOVE that our first look at him isn't the doofus we all came to know and love, but the sharp and intelligent member of the Cthonic court that sometimes fandom forgets he also is. Gods it was good i am SO hype for another run down there-

However. Per what i said on stream, tomorrow's stream will be my first reactions to the surface, live for your viewing interest. I took care of the incantation prep work and everything so it'll be straight up to the surface at 7.

Hope to see you there!

[avinryd]

Hades II lets gooooo

[avinryd]

Hades II launch stream in one hour!

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[avinryd]

so the first bit of the stream will be me downloading and launching the game, since it drops at 11am CST, just fyi

[avinryd]

Hades II launch stream in one hour!

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UUUWEREEUGH

[avinryd]

SO. UPDATED plan for streaming:

Daytime stream for Hades II launch day EDITED:

Thursday, September 25th 12:00pm~3:00pm CST on Twitch.tv @AvinRyd Planning on the 3 hours but I will have incentives to push longer, (with a hard cutoff of 4:30pm since my wife has to start taking work phone calls then)

If Thursday is a vibe and I feel like trying to get into a groove, I'll be streaming Hades II again:

Friday, September 26th 8:00pm~10:00pm CST on Twitch.tv @AvinRyd Again, planning on the 2ish hours but will have silly games which might push past the time. No time limit, tho you might get to see my wife's pretty face walk by occasionally(a blessed sight)

If this keeps being fun, I have thoughts for daytime streams during the week, video games and craft livestreams, maybe writing sprints, as well as keeping the Friday evening time to snag evening people while I've got the office to myself(my wife has pathfinder on Friday evenings). But this is all assuming I'm having fun and feeling well. If one or both of those conditions are false, then back to the drawing board -shrug- Hope to see you there!

[mintaii]

hades 2 this week!!!! wahoo!!!!!

[puppygirllaika]

at some point you just have to realize that "because the scene works better as a sword fight" is a perfectly valid justification for having your characters use swords instead of guns. Like, there's a million reasons for this, maybe it's more intimate, maybe it's slower, maybe it lets you engage in a subtextual dialogue, or maybe it's just a lot cooler in your head, but i feel like there's this expectation placed on a lot of writers (and other creatives) to have some kind of worldbuilding justification for every single element of their story. That if your characters use swords instead of guns it's because there is some history, some core reason, but like. you are allowed to hand wave that shit. if you wanna try and justify it in the story you can, but it's perfectly alright to just say "because I wanted this to be a sword fight, not a gun fight." that's reason enough.