samwise

samwise

@samwiseff.bsky.social

Fantasy fooball tryhard, musician, minipainter, enthusiast

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Just completed Silksong (no spoilers here). Since about 3 hours in I've been astounded at how good it is, and was consistently made to feel that way until the end 45 hours later. I've played 18 metroidvanias by my count and this is best in class in so many ways.

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It ramps up the difficulty of fights and platforming soon into the game, as if it knows you've played and mastered Hollow Knight. I just hope people don't find that prohibitive as the movement feels so good and figuring out the fights is a joy, plenty of room for loadout experimentation too.

Just completed Silksong (no spoilers here). Since about 3 hours in I've been astounded at how good it is, and was consistently made to feel that way until the end 45 hours later. I've played 18 metroidvanias by my count and this is best in class in so many ways.

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The scope of the world is enormous and still dense with beautiful artwork, level design, and environmental storytelling. It has so much personality and sense of place with more tonal variation than Hollow Knight, death and decay are still major themes but there's much more life to contrast with.

The flow of exploration is great, I never felt aimless or like I was being nagged in any direction. I went slowly without guidance (STRONGLY recommend) and got to 94%. Kept discovering bosses, tools that made the game feel 10x better, or entire areas behind inconspicuous openings. Honestly the glee.

Just completed Silksong (no spoilers here). Since about 3 hours in I've been astounded at how good it is, and was consistently made to feel that way until the end 45 hours later. I've played 18 metroidvanias by my count and this is best in class in so many ways.

Only just spotted the bsky account for this, highly recommend playing for anyone who was into Sky or has an itch for something other than FPL right now. It's a really cool rule set and a simple, clean site

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๐Ÿ–๏ธSummer Python Camp is back for 2025! Hosted on the FPL Analytics Discord, this 6-week self-paced challenge is all about learning Python for sports & analytics. We've got 2 tracks: Beginner and Intermediate. Starts Saturday, June 7. Info below๐Ÿ‘‡

One more try: #FPL end of season ramble! A rank that makes my irl friends no longer believe I'm a wizard but pleased enough with how I played. Had no particular rank goals after last season, just wanted to play in a way that vaguely approached maximising the chance of OR1 from the start

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It's common sentiment that the analytics edge has reduced this season with an apparent uptick in competent teams, but imho it's mostly a coincidence that analytics agreed with the wider view of key players. The gulf in Palmer EOs in the last few GWs still shows vastly different processes

So yeah enjoyable season, the things I am most grateful for are caring about rank less and an apparent decrease in factionalism. Also thankful for Review and Sertalp + the Solio team as ever for making the game so interesting, and ofc my fwends in discord ๐Ÿ’–. Hope there's plenty to explore in 25/26

One more try: #FPL end of season ramble! A rank that makes my irl friends no longer believe I'm a wizard but pleased enough with how I played. Had no particular rank goals after last season, just wanted to play in a way that vaguely approached maximising the chance of OR1 from the start

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Regardless "Early FH and roll a lot" resulted in all subsequent chips practically choosing when to play themselves, something I didn't mind this time. Consecutive GWs in a period otherwise not hungry for transfers made AM24 obvious and a Haaland injury made delaying a WC beyond GW30 untenable

With respect to mistakes I made a few xMins/other oversights and missed a couple of deadline news events, but I know I leak EV due to process. Deterministic solving is fab but as long as we could be representing the problem better we don't know how much potential EV per GW is left ungrabbed

One more try: #FPL end of season ramble! A rank that makes my irl friends no longer believe I'm a wizard but pleased enough with how I played. Had no particular rank goals after last season, just wanted to play in a way that vaguely approached maximising the chance of OR1 from the start

Better pricing and an increased roll limit were solid changes, was a great chance to break away from received solver-logic wisdom. I'm also one of the apparent minority that enjoyed what Assistant Manager did for planning, though I hope we don't see another delayed chip reveal

I chose to play FH9 for around 14 EV, being content to not use it as a late season variance tool and believing that the increased roll limit and potentially fewer DGWs would devalue its use. Seems to me those of us that did this got a fortunate outcome. Credit to @analyticf.pl for the image

Follower count more than doubled today with so many fpl buddies making their way here, great to see and I hope this platform remains as community focussed and constructive as I've seen it be thus far Anyhow, as this is a general account here's some Drukhari ๐Ÿ˜‡ #miniaturepainting #warhammer40k

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