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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • Nope, been playing it for a couple days now. It’s just the same as it ever was. The web port itself is seamless (been playing on Firefox with a 10-year-old Macbook), but the game has a clunky, PITA UI.

    It’s kinda maddening in that no matter how well you clear every level, your character is likely to stall at some point and you’ll have to start over. For anybody who doesn’t know, you can start the game over again using the same character and re-loot the same levels; they don’t respawn once you clear them otherwise. In this way you can continually train up your character to make it further into the dungeon. At first it seems like this was a mistake, but then it seems that it actually was a design decision. It was the first of its kind, so it gets a pass I suppose.

    The shopkeepers inventory also does not cycle until you buy something and then that slot refills. So whatever you’ve got is what you’ve got. Unlike most of the games that came after, you are actually somewhat dependent on the shopkeepers for decent gear.

    That said, it’s still fun. Really fun. It’s not hard to see why it started something.









  • OK, so super weird. Private window behavior was the same. However, when I created a new profile (I am on Firefox 128.0), everything showed up normally. I tried everything to pinpoint the issue.

    I restarted my faulty profile window with all extensions disabled, no change. I cleared all my history and cache, no change. I have a custom userChrome.css, so I moved it out of the way, no change. I logged out (because my new profile was not logged in), no change.

    At this point, I noticed that the settings in my new profile window were different (I have “top 6 hours” selected in my usual profile), so I set everything to be the same as the settings in the new profile window. When I did that, everything started appearing again.

    But the weird part is: when I reset it back to the way it was… everything is still working.

    So I tried my best to get an actual answer to what’s going on here, but I’ve come up empty. Something about resetting the settings frees up whatever was going on, in case anybody watching sees this.

    Edit: so yeah, I went to my other computer, a Mac laptop - that was experiencing the same issue, and as soon as I changed “top 6 hour” to “hot” - everything came back. Subsequently changing it back to “top 6 hour” did not have any negative effect. So that’s the “solution,” such as it is.