Irishjohn

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I think I'm going to have a no-Spelunky weekend. I'm starting to experience these weird, unusual damages I can't even tell where they're coming from (i.e. I'm going crazy). Today I died in the daily by whipping a boomeran tiki guy from behind. A few days ago I fell into the abyss with my Hedjet and jetpack after being stunned from damage I took when I stomped on a frozen enemy in a 1-tile-tall tunnel. That happened another time as well, without as fatal consequences. A mantrap, which I was sure was supposed to be stuck in some webs was moving around and ate me.

 

I made it to Yama once, and died an honest death due to ignorance (I've explained it earlier). Since then it's been harder and harder to even reach the Temple. I think at least a few days break will do me good, and let the stirring insanity inside me calm down a bit.

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Whoo! Beat Olmec during the daily and eked out the $500k achievement by bombing out gems in Olmec's stage. I did mess up and didn't have any bombs in the City of Gold so I couldn't get the Book of the Dead. 

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Back from a week long ski trip, so back to spelunking.

 

I've never seen that ball and chain before.

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How much do you allow yourselves to know about the upcoming Daily Challenge before attempting it?

 

I'll usually look at the leaderboards for a target and an idea of where people are getting to, sometimes check the thread for any chat, but stop short of watching videos. Maybe I've gone too far already.

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I check the leaderboards.

Man, I don't know if today's seed was especially brutal or if I'm tired, but I struggled all the way tonight,

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Mistakes were made. I couldn't find the black market entrance.

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The purity of my daily challenge runs must be absolute. Luckily that's not very hard.

In other news I'm traveling for work and can't do the dailies all week. Maybe I should just quit my job instead...

 

Windows XP, Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz, Direct X 9. Make it so.

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Massive bee killing going on here. Successfully raided the blackmarket. Did some ghosting. And fucked up big time twice in the same level.

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My theory is the better the warmup, the worse the actual run.

 

Yeah, I've started going straight into the daily (mainly on vita) rather than warming up at all. I had too many warm ups where I got really far, then didn't do nearly so well in the daily.

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ffs... I had a great practice run, reaching 3-4 (although I stupidly took the wrong exit and missed the black market).

And then this happened in the challenge:

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Damn, made it to Yama for the second time ever in today's daily. I had five hitpoints before entering Hell, but only one when reaching the final level.There were some monumental butt-clenches, getting hit by vampires and whatnot. I got him to his final stage, this time knowing that the falling projectiles don't stop even after you destroy his hands. But, I just couldn't hit him with my bombs, and eventually I took that one final point of damage.

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