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Drawn over screenshot of Spiderman 2 game. I've drawn a bright red halo over Spidey's head and a somewhat less bright blue halo over an enemy's head. There's a red X next to Spidey's halo, and a green checkmark next to the enemy's halo.

Feels a bit like this sometimes

I think the one that's irritating me more tbh is the crush attack. It's mostly because between Spidey's red effect and the enemy's blue effect, one of them is a *lot* more attention grabbing and unfortunately it's not the one that's really crucial to be paying attention to >.<

I also frequently have to hit R3 during stealth MJ segments so it will highlight a waypoint marker because otherwise I'll just be standing around like ".... okay, where does the game want me to go from here??"

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And some bosses are visually designed in ways that make it even tougher for me. Like fighting Martin Li, where he's constantly surrounded by a ghostly white effect that makes the aforementioned blue effect really difficult for me to spot.

But in all three of those cases the Spidey sense around your head stays red, so it often turns into a mess of different overlapping colors that's hard for me to parse.

Normal attacks: Spidey sense around *your* head turns red, you can parry or dodge

Heavy attacks: That plus FX around *enemy's* head turns red, you can parry but not dodge.

Crush attacks: Similar but FX around enemy's head is blue instead of red, you can dodge but not parry

Another thing that's frustrating me a bit in this game is the normal vs heavy vs crush attack tells

Yep! That's a UI icon believe it or not

Zoomed in version of my photo of Spiderman 2, circling the tiny little white dot that indicates a thing I can interact with

It's this thing

I was literally about to walk right out of this room until Cynder told me there was stuff I missed. This has happened on *several* occasions.

Photo of Spiderman 2 game on the PS5. Peter, wearing the Symbiote suit, stands in a wrecked lab. If you look really closely, you might spot a small white dot hovering over a desk that indicates there's something I can interact with.

I do have a pet peeve with Spiderman 2's UI (well really the whole series & this game does not fix it)

There's a thing I can interact with in this room. Do you see it? Because it took me a bit.

Fair

C# scripting, interesting choice! I like it, though I do wonder why that rather than JavaScript (or even TypeScript, which would've pretty closely resembled AS3 😅)

Building a new Flash I don't know where to start with this but yeah I'm making flash if flash was built in 2026. I'm making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you'd like to support this project I've started a patreo...

Oh wow. Somebody is trying to make what seems like pretty much an open source Flash clone 😮

bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/16...

I was not expecting how much that would impact the taste.

Photo of the latte I just made. There's a chaotic swirl of cream on top

- Dropped it 1 notch coarser. Right back to 22s (though also using slightly less - 17g => 34g), probably about as good as I'm gonna get 🤷‍♀️
- Still suck at latte art (think I needed to aerate the milk longer)
- Holy fuck it's so tasty?? Like oh my god???

Photo of the DeLonghi 15 bar espresso machine I have

Yeah I've had it for like a year but basically never bothered learning how to actually *properly* make espresso

So that's what I'm doing now 😅

Tried going two notches finer.

Barely a drip LMAOO okay so one notch coarser and I'll try again

Also I regret to inform y'all that I think I kinda want some more accessories (knock box, puck screen, & basket funnel)...

But I'll hold off on those for a bit

- Crema was much smoother in appearance (previous pressure basket had a tendency to give me large bubbles)

Overall: I don't think I'm far off, so I may give it another shot. Maybe try and make a latte out of it!

Alright so finally getting to try my hand at properly dialling in my espresso...

- 18g of grounds at my grinder's current settings
- 36g of espresso, took ~22 seconds which is maybe a bit fast? (aiming for ~30s apparently), so I'll try and go for a finer grind I think

And just like that, it's gone

Well

That's a pretty fuckin heavy snow out of nowhere

These aren't even like... high end beans or anything, it's still very much a mass market brand (maybe later I can look at buying local but 🤷‍♀️)

Still a pretty clear step up. It's got a... idk how to describe it. Like a "warmer, rounder" taste? Old stuff had a more sharp bitter taste by comparison

New bottomless portafilter & food scale arriving today, but I already started using the new beans & I gotta say there is a NOTICABLE taste difference.

IT'S OUT FOR DELIVERY LET'S FUCKING GOOO

"Package is being processed at a carrier facility" aaaaaaghhhh when is it out for deliveryyyyy

I'm so impatient Lmaooo

It's my birthday, which means you are legally obligated to repost this and also tell all your friends to hire me because I'm very good at my job*

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* Goodness of job not contingent on birthday; we are a proud year-round (excluding holidays and sick days) Good At Job establishment since 1987

I hate daylight savings so much