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The game almost screwed me over on my last Samson run. I was building up Samson's stats, and had a very good thing going on (two Guppy items, Dark Bum, Little Chad, Jera rune, full set of spirit hearts, and quite good rate of tears and damage). Then I enter the womb and it's the curse of the maze. I enter a double key room and it's an One Dice. I definitely don't want to reroll my whole run, so I leave. A couple of rooms later the curse decides to teleport me to the double key room and I walk like an idiot into the middle of it and reroll the run anyway to an Ipecac, triple shot, loki's horn, anti-gravity and strange attractor tears with 3 normal hearts and a few spirit hearts (lost my Polaroid invincibility and lost all spirit hearts before the It lives fight). It almost hosed up the entire run, until I realized two floors later (at the Cathedral) that I have Pyromaniac as well and the ipecac explosions (which were all over the place and I was trying to avoid, dodging into enemies as a result) heal me. The rest of the run became this majestic thing of explosions everywhere in every room. Isaac and Blue baby had no chance
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If anyone's wanting to practice a Lost run, I just had a run with the Dead Cat (you have to kill the miniboss tho, I think it's Super Lust?) on the first floor and the Holy Mantle on the second. Be careful of the upper right item drop in the boss rush, it's Anti Grav. That made things pretty irritating afterwards, but the reward for completing the rush is the Plinking Shears so it was definitely worth it. R31L 878J
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# ? Mar 7, 2015 23:21 |
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Yaaay, I tried colliding with Satan directly, and The Lost unlocked this time.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 02:43 |
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Manatee Cannon posted:Plinking Shears Is this some kind of inside joke, or are people just retarded and illiterate? This is not the first time I've seen this and it's driving me crazy. Pinking shears are the toothed shears used for fabric and possibly something else. Plinking, with an L, is priority linking, a thing that abuses the lovely coding of SFIV to make links easier. For the love of god people LEARN THE loving NAMES Of your items.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 02:57 |
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Gibbo posted:Is this some kind of inside joke, or are people just retarded and illiterate? This is not the first time I've seen this and it's driving me crazy. Quoted for posterity, and also because plinking has its own English definition that isn't whatever weird sperg language you're using. Maybe it is you who is are illiterate
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 03:50 |
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Ah yes, consistently misspelling one word that looks similar to another word because of a letter that looks similar to another letter, means you are retarded and illiterate. Thanks goon hyperbole.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 04:21 |
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'plink' is the onomatopoeia of flicking a nerd's glasses off his face.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 04:30 |
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Prop Wash posted:Quoted for posterity, and also because plinking has its own English definition that isn't whatever weird sperg language you're using. Maybe it is you who is are illiterate So it does, but that point being is that the other uses of the word plinking don't involve shears.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 05:25 |
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Gibbo posted:So it does, but that point being is that the other uses of the word plinking don't involve shears. And as we all know that's a perfectly logical reason to be a dipshit and call people retarded I'm gonna refer to the Pinking Shears as the Plinking Shears from now on just to make you mad edit: vvv pot calls kettle black news at 11 CJacobs fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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CJacobs posted:And as we all know that's a perfectly logical reason to be a dipshit and call people retarded
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 05:28 |
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Keep digging that hole deeper, dude, maybe there's still a single person who doesn't find you ridiculous
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 05:31 |
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flatluigi posted:Keep digging that hole deeper, dude, maybe there's still a single person who doesn't find you ridiculous As if I care what you think. Excuse me while I go condition my neckbeard. I retain the right to refer to someone that can't transcribe the name of something they regularly see spelled in front of them as an idiot. Gibbo fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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Gibbo posted:As if I care what of think. Excuse me while I go condition my neckbeard. I retain the right to refer to someone that can't transcribe the name of something they regularly see spelled in front of them as an idiot. Yeah, why should you care "what of think" when someone makes a spelling or grammar mistake?
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 05:42 |
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Welp. (Except that use of plinking was not a one off)
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 05:43 |
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Gibbo posted:Is this some kind of inside joke, or are people just retarded and illiterate? This is not the first time I've seen this and it's driving me crazy. You're a human being
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 05:47 |
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I for one love the plinking sheers and keep them over pretty much every use item. makes a ton of bosses 2EZ
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 05:48 |
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JoshVanValkenburg posted:I for one love the plinking sheers and keep them over pretty much every use item. makes a ton of bosses 2EZ Yeah I totally underrated them at first but it's crazy high damage, it seems like the damaging 6-charge items are really poorly balanced in general because some of them are like "instantly kill a boss" (krampus head, plinking shears) and then you have Crack the Sky.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 05:54 |
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Yeah, Plinking Shears are fun. How are the Scissors? I haven't gotten 100 deaths yet, but they don't sound great.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 06:12 |
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I don't like the Sclissors as much as I do the Plinking Shears, they're harder to navigate successfully for me.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 06:22 |
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Wait, don't tell me the Sclissors work like the Gluillotine. They seriously made that the 100 death prize instead of the Plinking Shears?
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 06:51 |
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The scissors works kind of like the guillotine, only you're not moving both parts. Your head sits in place and you run around controlling the body. I've managed to get Body, Mind and Soul, all in my item list without finding a single one. D100 and the Missingno or whichever rerolls your items.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 07:02 |
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For best results use the Plinking Shears on the boss rush. That little guy is like a murderous energizer bunny.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 08:06 |
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i hate how my plinko shears keep falling into the hole that doesn't win the game and makes bob barker heckle me
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 08:33 |
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The plinking shears seem really hard to balance. At the 6 room charge they have now, I rarely want to take them. But I think making it even 4 would be overpowered.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 08:45 |
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I only ever activate the Plinking Shears in boss rooms, but that's good enough for me.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 09:30 |
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I initially got mad at people mis-pronouncing synthol until I realised the game really did call it synthoil after all.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 10:26 |
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Guys for fucks sake it's spelled Pllinking
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 11:12 |
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Wow 30+ posts in the Isaac thread? Maybe there was an Afterbirth tease or something! Oh. Plinking
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 14:31 |
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I was the Plinko Shears. I want the Binding of the Price Is Right.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 18:27 |
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Finding Stleven is the only thing between me and Rleal Pllatinum Glod. This is going to take me all year of resetting the game after Basement II, isn't it.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 22:10 |
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IMJack posted:Finding Stleven is the only thing between me and Rleal Pllatinum Glod. Use Azazel and just rush to the boss. If it isn't Steven, reset. If you get the Cellar, reset since Steven doesn't appear there.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 22:12 |
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He can only appear in Basement 1 so no need to beat any other boss.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 23:26 |
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The ideal thing to find in the Item Room is Little Steve, if you're hunting for the Steven item. Isn't necessary, but does basically guarantee the item should Steven (the boss) appear. Otherwise, you're facing 1/6 odds even if he does show up.
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# ? Mar 8, 2015 23:34 |
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IMJack posted:Finding Stleven is the only thing between me and Rleal Pllatinum Glod. Could be worse: my last item was 1up mushroom.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 04:10 |
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It's not all that hard to get an infinite reroll setup and find the secret room in the chest, Steven exists in exactly one room in the game and it's on basement 1 only.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 04:39 |
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https://gfycat.com/TimelyWanFirecrest Tiny Planet was the first item. I had my doubts, but I was rewarded.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 05:34 |
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Codiekitty posted:Yaaay, I tried colliding with Satan directly, and The Lost unlocked this time. Uggh, goddammit, I forgot about this and just failed to unlock him. Shots on the second form don't count I guess. Edit: You'd think this would be mentioned on the wiki, at least. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Mar 9, 2015 |
# ? Mar 9, 2015 07:43 |
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Panko Shears kinda seem like a cheese move against the big bosses, I personally like them the most against dual Monstro 2/The Cage-type bosses with a metric shitton of health.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 08:10 |
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ConorT posted:Could be worse: my last item was 1up mushroom. Ugh I'm dealing with that right now. In hundreds of games I haven't seen it at all
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Rollersnake posted:Uggh, goddammit, I forgot about this and just failed to unlock him. Shots on the second form don't count I guess. They do, that's how I've unlocked the Lost twice.
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