What style of froglight farm did you make? Ours uses a layer of snow between a slime spawner and a grid of glass panels that only the small slimes can fit through, but it takes a while for the slimes to actually fall down to where the frogs are. I’ve heard there are better options available but I want to make sure the frogs aren’t able to jump up into the snow and hurt themselves.

I’m just laughing at the number of posts I’ve seen online from console players who are already 30+ hours in. Get some sleep, people! A rested pioneer is a productive pioneer.

There are some accounts that explicitly label themselves as bots, though. So on those, you’re basically guaranteed to never receive any response or engagement from OP.

I don’t know, I kinda like most of the newer icons. They’re not perfect, but then neither were the old ones.

Monument Valley 1, 2, and 3 (mobile games). An interesting set of puzzle games with good visuals. They only require single taps to work.

Also can get a mouse for the Steam Deck (or a PC if you have one). There are a lot of good games that you can likely use with a mouse if the hand/wrist motion doesn’t cause pain or discomfort for your thumb.

That’s what they said

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_D._Melvin

Not a lit major, just someone who spends too long going through Wikipedia and TV Tropes and was looking for any way to pass the time at work, haha.

It also occurred to me that folks from the younger generation may not have played OoT, so here is the same reapplied to Breath of the Wild:

1. Ordinary World: The Great Plateau

2. Call to Adventure: The message left by Zelda after waking up.

3. Refusal of the Call: The temptation not to climb that damn frozen mountain because you haven’t figured out how to keep warm yet. Alternatively, the temptation to spend hours just chopping trees and killing Bokoblins instead of moving on.

4. Meeting the Mentor: The old man (King Rhoam) who teaches you how to do things like staying warm to be able to climb the mountain.

5. Crossing the Threshold: Climbing the tower and gliding down to Hyrule Field.

6. Tests, Allies, Enemies: The majority of the game, including all shrines and the four divine beasts.

7. Approach: Pushing through Hyrule Castle.

8. Ordeal, Death & Rebirth: Fighting Calamity Ganon (and the 4 Blights if skipped). Also Link fully recovering his memories and being “reborn” in a metaphorical sense.

9. Reward, Seizing the Sword: Rescuing Zelda, obtaining the Bow of Light.

10. The Road Back: Returning back out to Hyrule Field.

11. Resurrection: Calamity Ganon returns as Dark Beast Ganon

12. Return with Elixir: The calamity is over, the guardians are deactivated, and Hyrule Castle is no longer corrupted. People can move back and rebuild.

Yeah, it’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all approach, but more like “If this story has these aspects, this is generally the order in which they occur.” Some of the terminology developed from the original concept is also flexible or substitutible.

Edit: Applying the example above to Zelda (Ocarina of Time), just based on the question towards the top:

1. Ordinary World: Kokiri Forest

2. Call to Adventure: Navi arriving, The Deku Tree

3. Refusal of the Call: Saria’s disappointment at Link leaving (interpreted this case merely as the temptation to stay)

4. Meeting the Mentor: The Owl who teaches you not to mash A too quickly

5. Crossing the Threshold: Stepping out into Hyrule Field

6. Tests, Allies, Enemies: The majority of the game, from the end of Kokiri Forest up to collecting all the Medallions.

7. Approach: Going to Ganon’s Castle

8. Ordeal, Death & Rebirth: Fighting Ganondorf and Ganon, awakening to the power of the Triforce of Courage. Also Link fully recovering his memories and being “reborn” in a metaphorical sense.

9. Reward, Seizing the Sword: Ganondorf’s defeat, rescuing Zelda (the Master Sword is not itself the reward in this case, despite the specific mention of a Sword in this stage, though could maybe interpret as grabbing the Master Sword again during the Resurrection stage)

10. The Road Back: Escaping from the collapsing castle

11. Resurrection: Ganondorf returns as Ganon and must be confronted one final time.

12. Return with Elixir: Reclaiming the Triforce, sealing the darkness, returning to childhood and meeting Zelda again.

Insomuch as most heroic narratives follow a similar template, absolutely.

More context about the Hero’s Journey narrative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero's_journey

Man I’d love a sequel to Firewatch, if only Valve didn’t basically kill that studio.

The Earth’s magnetic field is gone and we all die.

I didn’t even know that FBC Firebreak had anything to do with Control until reading this post.

Support outside of New York City isn’t what matters right now, though. If the people of New York don’t choose him first, it’s a moot point.

Edit: Thank you New York for coming through, now it’s up to the rest in 2026.

If money was no issue, I’d choose to live close to where I live now, but in an actual house that I could call my own.

Fire that burns down the whole town

U and me

No survivors

Hell, I’m in.

But it does feel like 1938

Oh man, takes me back to the Magic Treehouse books.

I feel like the best approach would be to take any work of fiction which has some sort of no-consequence superpower and obtain it to bring back to the real world, though off the cuff I am struggling to think of which example to use (too many superhero origin stories involve traumatic experiences, couldn’t be done by people who weren’t already extraordinary, or have some undesirable consequence down the road, haha).

The other element is that you probably want to aim for something that gives you as much power as you can get, but not something that completely detaches you from humanity. For example, you could go to the episode of Star Trek: TNG where Riker is given Q powers (though I suppose good luck somehow intercepting that, since I feel like the powers would not be given to just some rando who isn’t part of the bridge crew), but then getting powers that make you nearly omnipotent serves to separate you from humanity, and it could become too tempting to develop a god complex.

Maybe I’d just go to something like Apple TV’s Foundation series and just steal some imperial nanomachines to keep me healthy and fast-healing for the duration of my natural life, and leave it at that.