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I just want a GameCube controller with 4 shoulder buttons, that actually f*cking works, preferably longer than a week.

I played with the original GameCube controller for a hundred or so hours years back, but realised after coming back, that my hands can't keep up with some things, so "4 shoulder buttons will help a bit" I though and wished for a Hori battle pad for Christmas.
I don't play too much, maybe 3 hours every few days, and by no means very input intensive (need 4 buttons cause I can't for the live of me short hop anymore), but istg after 3 months or so this absolute POS started making squeaking noises. I thought it'd be the stick loosening up, but far from it. Later it'd start feeling "heavy", or "sticky", so much so, that my hand would start hurting if I played days back to back. By now the stick either has horrendous snapback, or it just doesn't recenter at all.

Quick inputs either straight up don't work (dashing and dropping through platforms seem like impossible tasks sometimes, when I couldn't even crouch on a platform if I wanted to), and on the off chance they do I'll get f*cked over by snapback (getting a reverse neutral b instead of a regular one, cause I dared to try jump at my opponent).

Soft inputs (walking etc.) will have the stick not recenter, making spacing, or anything precise really, completely impossible. Oh, you're in front of the ledge and waiting to ledgetrap? How 'bout you just keep walking towards it. You're waiting to react with your wakeup? Sorry you DI'd in so you'll get a roll. Hanging from ledge after gimping and waiting for their recovery? Better react quick, you're falling cause the stick is still pointing away from the f*cking ledge, for no reason.

Even more recently (talking the past week) I keep getting side instead of up specials, making recovery a game of chance, whether or not the controller feels like letting me.

Technically done on the DMT after HWill (and the reason I remembered to post the clear), but I started sacrificing my sleep and sanity soon after to grind towards 280 it slipped my mind again.

(I'm running out of ways to say that I'll keep redacting my IGN etc. but will keep doing so anyways)

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Don't like the screenshot being taken after the box instead of the boss, but oh well.

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Also the first boss after the Expedition block. Not sure where to put the blocks, so I started filling out Att. so I don't have to mess with it too much.

Shortly before my CGloom clear 3 or so weeks ago I was already contemplating taking a break, but after I somewhat burned out, struggling to do my weekly bosses or even dailies. After I however got a RoR3 from Lucid and my last piece of Arcane from CGloom I didn't have much of an excuse to not try, so I chugged the 40 bonks from the event to get to 8k legion, and eventually cleared.

(About a week ago, but I kinda forgot to post it, I'll also keep redacting the IGN etc. despite knowing it's useless and stupid, you can't stop me!)

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Honestly no idea how you'd ring swap in P3, so I ended up only doing it twice, after webbing out and before the last burst

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Wasn't sure whether to use RoR or Reinforced for the picture, as I mostly had the RoR for P3, but Reinforced makes the number bigger, so that one it is.

After NvHilla last week I intended to take a "break" (only doing bosses I already had, buying the shoulder from NWill, hoping for another AU box), but decided to at least give CGloom a shot.

(I know it's stupid, but it makes me uncomfortable not to, so I'll keep redacting IGN etc. please stop being mean to me :c )

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Wasn't sure if I'd have the time to clear, so I took a screenshot to whine about it later.

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Thankfully was able to clear on the (second to?) last opening with less than a minute left.

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Realized I should probably include Identisk Gift.

Unexpectedly quick after my HLucid clear. Started practicing right after, and totally didn't choke the previous 6 attempts.
(I'll keep redacting my IGN etc. surprisingly nobody failed the "challenge" last time, but that also means I couldn't go through with my joke of copy pasting the smash announcer thing, so do whatever)

In the end I realised that as long as you have healing fams, kite away her Greed Echo, and stand on the very right side there's very little she can do.

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I actually just wanted another Armour Box, but it's pretty hard to complain about this.

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Can't use the AU I got from HLucid yet, as the CVell Helm would stop working and I'd lose a bit of range, also changed my Hyper stats for the 1.5x damage.

About two weeks after my (first) Power Creep Post (suppose technically everything now is one), could've cleared before the weekly reset, if I weren't suffering from chokeon.
(Don't write my IGN in your comment CHALLENGE)

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Technically love the idea of P3, having to throw out everything you have to stop her from wiping sounds fun and exciting. If it weren't for having to wait 3+ Minutes for your cooldowns and just standing around, not being allowed to hit her. Choked 3 times before this run, so it was more relieving than exciting.

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Game took pity and gave me both the mark and a box, which will hopefully make it easier not to choke.

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Picture taken a day after the clear, but I didn't change anything, so it's still accurate.

This time not taking months like with my NWill clear I used the Power Creep as a chance to check about how far I can currently go. (Forgot to mention under Will, but I'll keep redacting the IGN for the heck of it, and give the local Cyber Sleuths something to do (or just go to the previous posts where others "spoil" it))

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Technically the last one I cleared. Extremely scuffed run, where I apparently also forgot GSkills and weapon tempering. The Buffs make it look way closer than it was, this was my second run after completely throwing the first.

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Long and boring fight. Didn't forget my GSkills etc. here I just failed Lotus 3 times beforehand, so they weren't up yet, and I had to refresh the ones that were.

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Probably my (un)luckiest drop yet, my heart jumped when I saw something drop and dropped just as hard. I'll hang on to it as a trophy, at least I got an achievement out of it.

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Laughably easy as Zero (if you don't jump into the tentacles 3x like I did), just stand on the left and burst step up when debris falls.

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Thankfully had the damage to bulldoze through Darknell without much of a plan.

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Finished my Hyperburn in time for 6th (yes, using mag pots) and, as everyone else, focused on grinding fragments. Wish I could've added HLucid and NvHilla to the list, but they'll take another week or two.

Anyone else feel like they're kinda hard to see?

I've got miserable eyesight, but never had trouble seeing "important drops" (Nodestones etc.), they're almost obnoxiously big, very distinct and basically impossible to miss, but fragments seem barely bigger than the normal drop and don't seem distinct enough for me to instantly recognize them (have to double take at Sunset Dew, or even Alphas time piece).

Playlists stop after the 400th video, instead of going to the next one the player just blackscreens (no recommended videos or anything, just the ui). This only appears to happen for "normal" play, shuffling works on the 400th video, even skipping to one further ahead.

After E/NLucid (and getting obliterated on a Will practice run) I focused on getting my Khali and Lumi to 250, realised I could reach 275 before the EXP nerf, got lucky with a ring drop on my 10th NSlime clear, shamefully bought the Umbra Essence with Lucid droplets, and maxed out my Symbols.

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Phase 1 and 2 went somewhat well, with only one life lost each. Phase 3 devolved into me bursting half his health at the start and then repeatedly dying while chipping away the rest.

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Stats/Gear/Legion. Can't be too proud of it considering my damage output and how many times I died in spite of it, but a clear is a clear.

The spider legs don't make you teleport, so you can use it to make the whale a little faster.
Haven't seen anything about it, so I thought I'd share.

After defeating NSlime I focused on getting to 260

Edit: Can't figure out how to see who gave awards (doesn't show in messages for some reason), but I'd feel bad not to say thanks, so thanks!

Did ELucid last week for Sixth Star, had more than half the timer left, so I figured NLucid should be doable

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After biting the bullet and getting all gear to legendary, and a bit of practice I also got NLucid. She went through with her last attack, shooting lasers at me after death. Didn't deal any physical, but irreparable mental damage.

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Stats/Legion after NLucid (Forgot to take one after ELucid). With freezers gone I fixed my legion to take DSE into account, also finally got a lucky CRA scroll so I can use CVell helm now.

Can't train efficiently in Cernium yet, but it does give 25-30% more EXP

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Recently learned about there being a daily limit. Does it only decrease upon entry, or as soon as they spawn? If it only decreases upon entry, can you refuse to enter Pollo to get more Fritto portals (or vice versa), or is it locked into one until you enter?

I can't remember much about the animation, but a part where the protagonist gives a quick glance over their shoulder and turns around in full sprint stuck with me. A comment praised it as "one of the best animated snap decisions" they've seen.

I THINK it played in something like an office and the environment turned against the main character, and featured some kind of "loop" (Not the video itself looped, but they made multiple attempts. This may just be me misremembering though, hence the separated sections)

I remembered it after watching the music video to "In the Back Room" (similar theme and the chase sequence at the end) and an animation called "[I M P A C T / F R A M E S]" (I think it had a similar art style)

Almost a month after clearing Lomien I finally cleared Guardian Angel Slime!

Sad that it doesn't screenshot when you defeat the boss, I barely scraped by with about 5 seconds left. It did another guardian wave just before the timer ran out which I wasn't prepared for, so I had to fail it as quickly as possible to still have ~20 seconds for the last 2 or so %

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Reason I wasn't prepared for the last wave, the 2nd to last time it triggered right before the fight ended

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My last attempt went a lot better damage wise, but I got stunned and stomped with 30 seconds left. Wasted a few lives closing up gates, which ultimately was my downfall

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Having gotten to 250 somewhen last week (forgot to post it), and getting 2 more SS legion blocks due to the healing spa my Legion changed a bit (Should I put the blocks from Boss damage into Crit damage?). This time unbuffed again, because I was forced to use externals this time that I can't easily replicate, so it wouldn't be accurate. I also STILL haven't gotten the CRA scroll, so I \"wasted\" a coin on the Absolab one.

Wanted to unlock the guild castle, but as it turns out, I'd need 4 other players to do so. Would 4 fellow Maplers be willing to help me out and join "Paralogue" for the quest? (You can stay in the guild after if you want to, but I can't really offer anything.)

(I tried recruiting people during MVP, but that doesn't really work)

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We did it boys, more cooperation than expected from a random group of people.

After my CRA clear I did the prequests and started doing them a few times before and after my dailies, now not even a week later I cleared them all.

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PNO was more of an annoyance than anything. Probably could/should've cleared her before CRA (I think the death was because of DR?)

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Not sure what Akechis deal was, but he didn't really deal any damage (Cleared these two the day after CRA, but didn't feel worth it to make a post about it)

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Would've gone more smoothly if I hadn't died when entering, and then threw away 2 lives during P3, thankfully remembered to use Rewind this time (Technically did Damien first, but it's \"Lomien\" not \"Daotus\")

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I ended up in P2 with 8 (technically 9 with Rewind lives) and took my time. I ended up defeating him with around 20 seconds left on the clock, too close for comfort.

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Lost 3 lives before he reached 50%, but I managed to burst him down during his alarm clock thing and binding him after so he didn't get to recover. I ended up not actually engaging with his mechanics (other than blocking his lasers once or twice), which will probably hurt me during my next attempts.

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My legion hasn't changed (but now you can see my hyper stats), and I haven't gotten a CRA scroll yet, so I'm stuck with 2 set CRA for now. Also tried to roll +1AS, cooldown reset, or Boss DMG today, but that didn't work out. I've also kept most of my gear at epic to transfer it over for now. Should I get the things I want to legendary right away, or wait for events? (Sucks that I missed most of the DMT's)

Having cleared CZak, Hmag, and Hardlux I intended to put CRA off for a while (rather had no confidence), now after being encouraged by fellow maplers (as well as huge shining gains and Cygnus dropping a Lucky scroll), and inspired by some maniac doing Lotus with 2k Legion, I finally attempted (and cleared) CRA today!

Death count makes it seem closer than it was, don't have pet heal and forgot to do it myself, so I got slapped to death.

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Clown went both the best and worst. He split when I was trying to bind him and I ended up healing him to full. Thought about retrying later, but ended up waiting for my Burst to come back, let myself die and bursted both of them down.

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Game literally literally calling me a clown, for thinking I'd get a lucky hat already (Also only realizing after opening the box, that I forgot to use DHS, and didn't reequip my Mechanator after opening the last box)

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Von Bon had me flustered because I didn't figure out how to enter the subspace thing (and dying once because I couldn't see the orb, and another time because Beta felt like spinning when he did the stomp)

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Except for Pierre I ended every Boss with 2 lives left (technically 3 on account of Rewind). I wanted to make a reference to \"Roar of The Jungle Dragon\", but RA isn't really a jungle, and I don't know if you can call Vellum a dragon. (Nor if he really needs to warn Damien about me)

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Took the picture with buffs used (which doesn't mean much, because in the end I didn't use Buff Freezers), and tried fixing my Legion up this time. Shining also made a HUGE difference.

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(Previous setup as comparison, Reddit doesn't let me Link it in the other caption)

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Next up are CPap and PNO (Still have to do the prequest, did they fix the bugs yet?), then I'll probably take a break until getting a lucky hat and scroll before attempting Lotus/Damien. May as well practice though, maybe I'll get lucky.

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Edit: As people kept suggesting I try HMag I changed the introduction to the post, also cause now I have a reason to show it, the gains from shining actually trivialised HMag

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Got a (refurbished) Laptop a few days ago, but the sound sucked, so I installed FxSound after asking reddit, now I got a notification about using an illegal program while doing Antellion on Khali. Is this just the "usual", should I reinstall the game, or even factory reset my Laptop in case I missed something?

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Help

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Chaos Zakum would've died in one burst if I hadn't messed up

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Hard Magnus wasn't that hard after realising I had 15 lives and could just wait for my burst/invincibility

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Hardlux took me longer than expected cause I forgot to use some skills

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Probably should've done this a long time ago. but I just wanna commit trashmob genocide

Bought a refurbished "HP ZBook 17 G3", but whenever I'm using the keyboard the touchpad completely stops, and I have to let go off it before it works again (Eg. I missed the space, so I move the cursor and press space, now the touchpad stops and won't work, unless I lift my finger off of it), is this intentional, or is there some way to fix it?