Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

The tiny computer has been forged successfully.

Now to install a touchscreen keyboard and the things I wanted on it.

Raspberry Pi Zero experiment is continuing apace. I’ve tried pocketing this thing, and it’s practically weightless, which is kind of crazy to me.

I also might have bought a second, since it’s inexpensive and enables further experimenting.

Relatedly, I think I used over 70 deku sticks in this run.

Shot: Hint stone: “The Kokiri Sword is in the final chest of Gerudo Thief’s Training.”

Chaser: It was in the last sphere generated by the seed, one chest _after_ finding the boomerang for go mode.

Just placed an electronics order to see how tiny I can make a dedicated two-factor device. Not everything I use supports U2F or FIDO2 (that’s already easy), and I’m kind of afraid of a simple phone drop leading to manual recovery of ~20 TOTP keys.

I’m a little surprised this is not a common enough thing for there to already exist commodity devices, so I’m going to try a Raspberry Pi Zero W build first.

I’ve been picking at a few other randomizers lately for exercise time. Currently working through OoT randomizer, with a plan to try Metroid Prime rando next.

Current seed I’ve been trying across several sessions put bombs, Zelda’s lullaby, and the adult’s wallet deep into the Gerudo desert, forcing me to route in all the shortcuts in the game.

Apparently I remembered those and most of the caves under rocks everywhere, despite not playing this game for many years?

The goose is an incarnation of one or more trickster gods, and no one can convince me otherwise.

tl;dr: I’ve learned to greatly appreciate robot wars as a genre of videogame.

Most interesting is how it selects from the pool of available buffs and debuffs.

The War of the Lions build of the AI seems to consider the balance of opposing units when selecting spells that mitigate physical and magical damage. It’ll also selectively go for Haste, Slow, and Immobilize if that outcompetes KOing a unit outright. Which all is way more nuanced than I ever expected the AI to be when I first played it.

The AI sees _way_ more creative solutions to damage and crowd control than I do, but it can easily get caught in loops with the wrong strategy (ie, units hiding in a corner healing themselves forever).

There are also a few skills the AI will _always_ go for (ie, how it considers skills involving the charm status) that I had to prevent units from learning entirely.

Building around that has been an interesting challenge.

Picking up my old iOS copy and, it actually got better with age.

Back when I ran this on its original build, I meticulously moved all of my units. Spent literal days grinding and micromanaging my party.

Now? I’ve learned how the AI works, and I’m building a party to see how far I can take autoplay.

Under manual control, everyone was a healer with Raise. Under AI control, everyone is instead a DPS, with the ability to end encounters in under three rounds.