Ascension 20 woooo
Dec. 23rd, 2024 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoySo I haven't posted in a while but woooo I beat Slay the Spire on Ascension 20 (as Watcher, no heart). :D
I, uh, did not expect I would be able to do that (without lots of going and looking up strategy, I mean, as opposed to figuring things out myself). I was going to content myself with just getting all my characters to Ascension 20. But now I guess I've got to beat Ascension 20 with all of them! That still seems daunting, though... (currently, I have Ironclad at 18, Defect at 19, and Silent at 20).
When I beat Ascension 19 as Watcher I had very little health left and was like how will I ever beat 20?? Well uh part of the answer was having Fossilized Helix to tank some big hits near the end! (And then having enough block to not waste it on small hits, due to Kunai + Duality.)
(Beating Ascension 19 as Silent, uh, that was an Apotheosis run, so. :P )
If I do beat Ascension 20 as every character I think I'm just stopping for now -- I'm not going for heart ascensions, no thanks. That's too much. Maybe after another yearlong break from the game. :P
(Slay the Spire 2? Yeah that looks cool but uh I've still got the first one to play... also who knows how long it will take to emerge from early access...)
Meanwhile other things going on! I'm finally looking for work again. Well -- I've been procrastinating on this, because it's a pain, but it's a thing I need to do!
Andreas Weiermann wanted me to come out to Belgium again sometime in 2025 but I don't think it's going to work out, a new job is hardly about to let me take a month off like Truffle did...
Speaking of math, a guy named John Campbell wrote to me recently to suggest a new variant of complexity: What's the smallest number of 1's you need to make a *multiple* of n? I don't know that there's much to do with this (and usually it will equal the ordinary complexity, though not always; 1499 is a counterexample), but it's kind of neat. I guess it satisfies f(mn)≤f(m)+f(n). And it's computable, although I certainly don't know of any good way to compute it... maybe somebody will find one?
Uh, I had a large belated birthday party a few weeks ago! I announced it well in advance in the hopes that some of the always-busy people would show up... it was partly successful at this. Linda showed up so I finally got to show her that look I still have your drawings! But Liz Goetz did not so I did not get to show her that look I still have your sign. Oh well.
We're down to just 163 books to give away, though...
I, uh, did not expect I would be able to do that (without lots of going and looking up strategy, I mean, as opposed to figuring things out myself). I was going to content myself with just getting all my characters to Ascension 20. But now I guess I've got to beat Ascension 20 with all of them! That still seems daunting, though... (currently, I have Ironclad at 18, Defect at 19, and Silent at 20).
When I beat Ascension 19 as Watcher I had very little health left and was like how will I ever beat 20?? Well uh part of the answer was having Fossilized Helix to tank some big hits near the end! (And then having enough block to not waste it on small hits, due to Kunai + Duality.)
(Beating Ascension 19 as Silent, uh, that was an Apotheosis run, so. :P )
If I do beat Ascension 20 as every character I think I'm just stopping for now -- I'm not going for heart ascensions, no thanks. That's too much. Maybe after another yearlong break from the game. :P
(Slay the Spire 2? Yeah that looks cool but uh I've still got the first one to play... also who knows how long it will take to emerge from early access...)
Meanwhile other things going on! I'm finally looking for work again. Well -- I've been procrastinating on this, because it's a pain, but it's a thing I need to do!
Andreas Weiermann wanted me to come out to Belgium again sometime in 2025 but I don't think it's going to work out, a new job is hardly about to let me take a month off like Truffle did...
Speaking of math, a guy named John Campbell wrote to me recently to suggest a new variant of complexity: What's the smallest number of 1's you need to make a *multiple* of n? I don't know that there's much to do with this (and usually it will equal the ordinary complexity, though not always; 1499 is a counterexample), but it's kind of neat. I guess it satisfies f(mn)≤f(m)+f(n). And it's computable, although I certainly don't know of any good way to compute it... maybe somebody will find one?
Uh, I had a large belated birthday party a few weeks ago! I announced it well in advance in the hopes that some of the always-busy people would show up... it was partly successful at this. Linda showed up so I finally got to show her that look I still have your drawings! But Liz Goetz did not so I did not get to show her that look I still have your sign. Oh well.
We're down to just 163 books to give away, though...
