KoL - My HCNP Run Day 5? Analysis

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Day 5? - Goal: Finish the run.
Level 11 to 13

KoL - My HCNP Run Day 4 Fail Analysis

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Day 4 - Goal: Get Black Knight gear ASAP, keep pushing through to start Level 12 Quest.
Level 10 to Level 11

KoL - My HCNP Run Day 3 Analysis

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Day 3 - Goal: Level up as high as I can while completing quests. Speed and power through!
Level 8 to Level 10

KoL - My HCNP Run Day 2 Analysis

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Maintaining my buffs and juggling MP familiars sure is an awful lot of micromanagement, especially when you have a low max MP. When the familiar doesn't give me much MP during combats too, sometimes I'll run out of MP and lose some of my buffs for a few adventures. I'd like to work on minimizing that as much as possible, but I have to press on for now.

Day 2 - Goal: Level up as high as I can while completing quests. Aim for Milk of Magnesium access before eating.
Level 6 - Level 8

KoL - My HCNP Run Day 1 Analysis

This is a sample run of me doing a Hardcore No Path run on Kingdom of Loathing. For permanent skills, I have been following the Hardcore Skill priority list found here, with a few exceptions here and there for aftercore usefulness, trophies, and other purposes.

• These are the skills I currently have.
• These are the familiars I currently have.
• With no other restrictions, I can usually ascend in 5 days, right around 1000 turns spent. 
• My play style isn't necessarily optimal, so may not be the best guide to use. 
• I use LOTS of MP for buffs. Therefore, MP restoring familiars are necessary.
• Moxie classes are best for restoring MP with familiars.
• This run will be as a Seal Clubber.
• The Mongoose Zodiac
• Grab Astral six-pack, and an Astral belt

Well, I'm sure there will be plenty of room for improvement, but here we go.

First Anime Post - The Next Step

I'm surprised I haven't really talked much about anime here yet. Then again, I had been watching them a bit sparingly the past year or so. Unfortunately, I'm not going to list all the anime series that I've watched, since there's no way I'm going to be able to list them all anyway. >_>; I will mention the anime I have been watching recently though. Even before that though, here's the results from the poll I put up around New Year's.

Review - Duke Nukem Forever

Before I really get into the review, let me say that I am new to the Duke Nukem series. The early day FPS games like DOOM and such never had an appeal to me as a kid. Maybe it was the choppy looking 3D graphics; particularly the ugly, blocky textures and the enemies not blending in well with the background because they're still sprites instead of 3D models. Whatever the case, I never played any of the games before, so that makes me a new Duke player.

On top of that, there are already plenty of reviews out there since the game's incredibly delayed launch. I wasn't too interested then, and I definitely wasn't expecting much when I saw and bought this game for $5 from Steam. A lot of it was curiosity that got me to pick it up, as well as the huge, -75% off discount too. Having played through the campaign, how did I feel about the game?*

Conveniently enough, just as I write this review, Steam just put this game up for another -75% off discount again. See if you like what you'll read here and decide for yourself if this game is worth $5... provided it runs on your PC, of course.

* This review is based on my experience with the PC version of this game.