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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 08/10/2026

expedition day 3 (final)

the final iteration of the map/flowchart. there are some bits where i've had to pull things apart so arrows can reach across to the other end of them map, but i'm pretty satisfied with how, for the most part, i didnt have to rearrange anything and don't have any arrows passing through any rooms. it's still pretty dense, though at this resolution good luck actually reading it lol

There is a lime green arrow extending off the right side of the map in the southeast corner.

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 06/10/2026

day 1 expedition results

a partial flowchart/map of the flash version of subm*chine universe

I've tried very hard to make it so no arrows cross over each other, but I'm pretty sure I'll be reaching the point where that's no longer possible soon

(* = a)

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 27/09/2026

this is getting a lot of heavy lifting from the +29 purification boost all enemies receive because this blessing, which scales off of how many dice you have after 25 isn't balanced around the run modifier that triples how much dice you pick up but hehehehe number large

the dicesmith helmet blessing, which reads "If you have 25 dice in your dice pool, increase Purification received by enemies by 1 and for each additional 5 dice, increase Purification received by enemies by 1."

...i grabbed that off the wiki i and i think it's been buffed since then?

yeah it now says "If you have 25 dice in your dice pool, increase Purification received by enemies by 1 and for each additional 5 dice, increase Purification received by enemies by **2**."

the number on the blessing is currently 29 ([97 dice - 25]/5*2)=28 (+1 for hitting 25 dice)

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 27/09/2026

very funny that hypersensitive aura stacks. cool video gaem

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 25/09/2026

looking forward to the full game

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 14/09/2026

2/10. only reason why its not a 1/10 is because safi is worse. instead of doing what mr does and letting the phase transitions be at fixed hp thresholds, the siege asks you to break specific parts and doesn't tell you which ones and that alone is enough to drag this down to like a 4/10 but

hr at kt rears up dramatically because i have cleared this fuckass quest

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 14/09/2026

yippee. around a 7/10 fight once you learn it where i think it brings things to the table that are interesting but not suuuuuper interesting yknow. tail hitbox is a contender for most annoying thing in the game yes please push me halfway across the arena i would like that mhm.

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 05/09/2026

sorta like a mix of the best parts of a number of games with similar inspirations (escher). probably strikes my favorite balance between gameplay, environment, and general refinement among the ones that ive played, though i think the way shading/borders were done sometimes dulled the sense of scale

manifold garden steam page banner cover art dot png

(it's actually a jpg)

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 04/09/2026

i think it can digging in the ground for tubers (it/he)

a g/bafe-styled portrait of an older man, made using spliced and recolored asset. he has swept back grey hair, darkish skin, and a large beard and mustache (a darker grey than his hair). he has some spines sticking out of his hair (b/c he's an echidna shifter). He's wearing a light brown cloak, a darker brown scarf, and a dark teal shirt.

there is a lot of space above his head, which creates the impression that he's on the shorter end.

a map sprite for the same character. the main detail that is visible here is that his cloak is too large and drags on the ground and that he is relatively short

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 31/08/2026

fuck the arena i could live with it not scaling for single player if it didn't have the world's worst armor sets

failed the quest at 44:28 because they give you Like Basically Nothing

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 31/08/2026

i was initially excited to use the gay blog glaive but i kept hearing this weird sound and was like what the dink is that noise and turns out it has custom sfx which is like neat i guess but i really dont like the way the advance/recall sounds so i went to mod only those sfx it but intro guide to

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 31/08/2026

the consequences of like. failure when dealing with monsters is like... it's present in the sense that you've gotta hunter the monster but it's abstracted to a sort of fantastical nonspecific 'danger' in 5/5u basically all the way up until this line gets said (post-fatalis).

Serious Handler: If I ever lost someone dear to me, I should just go home. And being a handler? Would I even do that again?

Serious Handler: And that's why I won't be buried here. One day, I'll go home.

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 31/08/2026

its genuinely impressive how much the collab quests suck. i feel like i'm missing like 50% of the game mechanics when i'm fighting leshen and behemoth is just total ass solo. i cant imaging playing these quests and wanting to try out their original games

beat the hard version of the w/itcher collab quest

Contract: Woodland Spirit
Completion time: 45'32''65

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 28/08/2026

its not about thinking that theyll actually do what you ask them to. its about making john atlus so mad that he has no choice but to come to your house and kill you

the last question from the 2026 marketing survey. I have chosen to use my 400 character allotment to say "It's never too late to localize the Switch release if Knights in the Nightmare"

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 27/08/2026

made a embed header for ••- -• •--- •- -- and also figured out how to put a linebreak in <meta og:description> thank you 
 i love you 


a photo of the front of intelligent systems's (kyoto) office building. kishuna is (reasonably crudely) drawn flipping off the sign

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 23/08/2026

i'm a fan of how bskys interface lets you line up the part where they accuse you of "strategicly reacting your immature insults" with the part where you clarified that you were calling them a dumbass. was that part not an insult?

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 21/08/2026

this also scales based off of tic rate (for some reason) and the game lets you run uncapped fps. so.

this cat does 2,105,914 damage per second

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 21/08/2026

apparently this bug/exploit is a few years old, but there are a few types of projectiles where, when colliding with something that doesn't have a hitbox (ie. bombs. other players. a snowman.), they multiply. for some reason. gunlance has one move that works as does the final burst from meowcano.

earlier in the run. the hud says it's under 70% health after my first meowcano and im at ~130 fps

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 21/08/2026

I did it! (don't worry about the super large fps counter int he upper right and the fact that i seem to be running on the lowest settings possible. no. stop. stop thinking about it. stop that.)

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 18/08/2026

waow, what a lovely group of totally real people who followed me at the same time whose most recent posts are all exactly 8 days ago. what a coincidence! im sure theyre all following me for my radiant personality and/or my witty, clever remarks :)

three accounts that followed me at roughly the same time.
the first two have the "unfollowed 100+ yesterday" and "unfollowed 150+ in the last month" badges and the second one has "unfollowed 50+ yesterday" and "unfollowed 150+ in the last month.

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 18/08/2026

fun ("fun") ræn fact: html has native support for ruby text (the annotations above characters) (image 1) but i didnt like how it messed with the line height so i had to instead reproduce it in regular degular html, making those sections twice as long and 10x harder to parse 😔

<p aria-hidden=true><ruby><rb>••</rb><rt>I</rt></ruby> / <ruby><rb>•-</rb><rt>A</rt></ruby> <ruby><rb>-</rb><rt>T</rt></ruby> <ruby><rb>•</rb><rt>E</rt></ruby></p>

<p aria-hidden="true"><span class="ruby"><span class="rb">••</span><span class="rt">I</span></span> / <span class="ruby"><span class="rb">•-</span><span class="rt">A</span></span> <span class="ruby"><span class="rb">-</span><span class="rt">T</span></span> <span class="ruby"><span class="rb">•</span><span class="rt">E</span></span></p>

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 17/08/2026

I feel like I covered everything in the author's note that I really really wanted to re: specific sections, but I will note that I did organically misspell this, encoded it, and only then caught the typo. I initially kept it because editing these sections was a pain and because it's more 'human'

the phrase "understatement." in morse code, misspelled as "understantement."
notably, the code for the error ('n') is the same as the following two characters ('t' and 'e') if they were encoded too fast to register as separate characters (- . => -.)

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 16/08/2026

apparently the white line vs yellow lines are meant to indicate which lane is meant to yield if two people want to pass at the same time but. :(

yt caption.
SEAN: "I think there's three or four deaths on the highway in these last two weeks alone."

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 15/08/2026

"Hmmm. i have access to a printer. maybe i should print this out so i can go over it and like. mark it up with a pen or whatever. let's just copypaste it into a program actually designed for printing and—" jesus christ

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 09/08/2026

hunt number 1 since i started keeping track: lol

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 09/08/2026

my new keyboard has a dedicated 'open calculator' button (which cannot be remapped) for some reason

a screenshot of my taskbar. there are twenty calculator windows open.

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 06/08/2026

i have a new archenemy and its name is ⎯

a breakdown of how the character is positioned in a line of text and how it actually renders. each character has a width (which scales based off of the font size (height)) that is used to tell the computer how it should be positioned relative to the prior character and how the next character should be positioned relative to it. this width is fully independent from what it actually ends up drawing. a well-known example of characters that intentionally draw outside of their 'box' are some diacritics, which are used to modify the preceding character.
this dash that i need to use happens to draw itself offset slightly to the right of what one might expect, so there's a gap to the left of where it starts on the screen and it extends into the character to the right. since it's still drawn at the internal width of the character, it can be used in succession to draw a continuous line, but you can't position it flush to anything. which is annoying. because that is what i need it to do.

my current solution is to throw "<span style="letter-spacing:-9px">⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯</span>" at the start of the line im trying to draw but it looks kinda bad zoomed out so im going to have to mess around with other stuff

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 06/08/2026

i appear to have solved a work problem that has over the past year caused me enough stress to measurably reduced my life expectancy

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 05/08/2026

wow, tahts a cool thing built into regular degular html that perfectly fits my needs for this thing that i want to do, let's just—

Does it work? No, no browser engine currently supports rendering of bopomofo ruby.

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 04/08/2026

i guess i cant complain toooo much about farming decos since like. i got the one that I *need* needed on my first fight. i guess.

I obtained Challenger Jewel+ 4, which gives two levels of agitator

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 04/08/2026

ive been thinking about my hunters backstory in this one more since its still super vague and i think the hunter and the seeker have like. a really weird amount of chemistry for a mh npc. so maybe they can be like. glaive besties. with some. tension. yknow.

The seeker says: Before long, you and I will go our separate ways. And after we say our farewells and several human lifetimes pass, maybe the day will come when I find an answer.

[the second half of the message in the previous image's alt text]

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 04/08/2026

i keep flip flopping between hating it and being like hmmmm i feel like i'm starting to get it but i think it was totally possible to make this not suck for solo play. tone down the aggression slightly since otherwise its always on your ass and tweak the thresholds to make defeating it reasonable

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 04/08/2026

people complain about the claw and i do like. agree that the lame "im just going to stand here" openings and the ability to keep the monster toppled more or less forever as long as its not enraged and light weapons needing to dedicate a 3 slot to shaver to not have to tenderize twice and...

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 04/08/2026

i was NOT in range of that

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 03/08/2026

did not answer the specific question that i had but was otherwise helpful in a more general sense

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 03/08/2026

the second rule of dash usage is to just vibe it out :)

a photo of a line from the fourth edition of the elements of style. it says: "Use a dash only when a more common mark of punctuation seems inadequate."

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ræn @raen.nekoweb.org · 31/07/2026

they already have the ace cadet namedrop a bunch of other random monsters that dont show up in this game because its just his verbal tic but its always cute when they add little stuff like this

the description for an ingredient
Kut-Ku Bean
Veggie that helps trigger artillery food skills. The occasional bean is hot enough to have you spouting fire like a Yian Kut-Ku.

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