u/Reasonable-Ad-8059

The new Neow bonus can be insane sometimes.

My parents are not perfect. Even still, leaving them to live by myself was utterly traumatizing. I literally cannot function without social pressure (and support) in my immediate vicinity. Getting dragged out of bed is the only way that consistently works. There's not a single meal plan (hellofresh included) that can feed me reliably -- with the sole exception of my parents. Without them, I would probably have died to depression by now. Am I being an unreasonable burden for wanting to live? No. That's ridiculous.

In fact, modern society is the problem, not me. Because a natural human existence would actually involve ~200 people living as a close knit community. I would thrive easily and provide tonnes of value because there wouldn't be a million decisions all the time that I'm "personally responsible" for making. The community hunts a deer, so I help them. I can't wake up? Doesn't matter, just shout in his ear, he IS going on that hunt. THAT is how a "natural" human life looks like.

Being an atomized individual, woken by a crude alarm clock, tortured over arbitrary deadlines and gaslit into viewing all friction as personal moral failure, that is dystopian and cruel. My ADHD isn't causing these issues. All it does is remove the last piece of tolerance for this kind of bullshit. If I subject myself to a "normal" life, by modern standards, then I will lose my will to live. Simple as.

Therefore, since I don't want to die, I'll stay with my parents until I find another community that can sustain me in a similar manner. Be that marriage or something else. Anything but living alone. That's not to say that I'm being lazy and a burden. I do as many chores as my brain allows, often paying for groceries and such. My parents are no less victims of capitalism than I am, so helping them out is equally my duty as helping me is for them.

Glam is such an exciting and fun early game reward. The fishing rod can give you solid long term value on maps with few elites, and it encourages card removes while letting you keep the treasure chest. The card rewards from other characters is actually really usefull. Especially on regent I can really use some "block 8, add 1 soul" or some other powerspike on the first floor, because even the coughing babies need to be respected early on with the regent.

Speaking of the regent, I think the bullwark nerf was quite necesary, but probably still not enough. Make it so that it gives 10 block and forge, upgraded to 13 of both. That way, it becomes more of a competitive forge card, not the all size fits all solution to every boss and hallway fight.

Also, having Crescent Spear buffed in the early game really enables you to grab a lot of glow, hidden cache, heavenly cloak, all the common star cards, and just breeze through the early game. Skipping cards all the time just waiting for "premium" overstated options isn't all that necessary. One or two crescent spears will probably do more damage than a single comet by the time you reach act 3, so if you got a couple of them, your deck will almost never have a bad draw order where your hallway fight drags on for 5 turns.

Spreading out the star expenditure onto more cards will maximize the black hole value as well. My best run got access to "Black hole (replay 1)" on the first floor. Safe to say, the Eels didn't stand a chance.