u/Codexistakenwastaken

So I’ve just finished my first run (great game btw) and looked up some of the companions and wow. I was struggling through like half the game with no companion. On floor 1, I was scrounging up sandwich making supplies just to have Ernest for a day. Once I got to the ground floor, I found my first true companion with papineau and went back to grab Ernest again only >!to find him dead!<.

And then I played like 80% of the game with just papineau. The kid showed up at my door while I was exploring the basement, and then I had aster join me as I explored the parking lot.

During the last part of the game, I fought the final boss (first phase) and had to run away because >!aster left me for the ritual!<, leaving me with only a party of 3. After that I said screw it and looked up other companions, because it didn’t feel right that I only had 3 for the end, and wow. I killed >!the tooth guy you can recruit from the tooth apartment!<. I chose not to open my door to multiple potential companions. There were some I must’ve killed or just missed the dialogue option to recruit. I ended up going and recruiting Audrey, because she was the easiest to recruit so that I could go finish the game.

She was so underleveled that I just used her as an item bot for the ending and got both the perfect ritual endings. Am I dumb, or did most people miss basically every companion the first time round?

Would a room a Vantablack room be possible to map out with Lidar? If not, what would work? I'm writing a short story that involves a room made of vantablack, and would like the characters to actually map out the room, is it possible with real current technology?

Maybe this isn’t a rare opinion? Anyway this is mostly for games but also true of films. I never enjoy slow motion mechanics in games. I haven’t played max Payne which maybe does it better since the whole game is designed around the bullet time mechanic but any other shoot that has one is just a bore to play

For example I recently played an indie game shooter called “echo point nova” which is a pretty damn cool game with some cool buuld variety. But the first “mod” you’re given to change how you play is just a slow motion button. Used it once and never again, just didn’t have a mod until a bit later in the game. I just don’t find such a mechanic engaging, it’s just a temporary easy mode button. It’s so much more satisfying to pull of some skill shot while moving at light speed instead of slowing everything down and making it really easy

Or Zack Snyders constant use of slow motion, or honestly any film where a slow motion scene is used in an uninteresting way, that could easily be far more impressive if it was filmed and played at regular speed

Anyway it’s not a big issue but it’s always a turn off when a game or film has some slow motion mechanic and I pretty much always ignore it completely when possible

So I’ve actually had this many times since I was a kid but I’m just now wondering if it could be signs of something like an aneurysm. Sometimes when I turn my head too quick, I feel a like pop in in head and a kind of temporary numbness where the pop happens. I don’t get a headache and the numbness lasts for like a minute. Should I be worried?