If you are using a network level block, make sure it’s a black hole and not just a DNS filter. I tried a DNS filter with a Roku and found that they bypass it with hardcoded values, even when the DNS server was statically assigned and DHCP assigned.

please tell me there is no penalty to those women taking this option. It would be so easy for Uber to pull a “only $5 more” to get a ride or “5% less” to avoid a rider.

it’s true!

But the game has established multiple times that a set only gives a bonus on full equip!

I think you only need one piece of the flamebreaker set to be fireproof in Goron City.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

The only reason I didn’t brute force the whole way was I ran out of food.

Nope, I talked to every NPC at all the towns, and on the roads. But, I didn’t stop at any of the horse stables since I never had need of a horse. It’s all cliffs and teleportation!

no reflection at all on how 0 to 11 that reaction is? Huh… Well, another to add to the block list I guess.

It’s not just the tree guy. The whole game’s like that.

Here, let me give you another example of the counter-intuitive gameplay I encountered:

The volcano. It’s hot. I need to travel up it.

First attempt: Check my available tools for something. Bombs, no. Timestop, no. Ice pillar, maybe? no. Swords, Shields, Bows… no.

Second attempt: Explore the area, see a hotspring. Try to map out a route using hotsprings as a cooling source. No dice.

Third attempt: Visit all the major cities for info, nothing found other than the volcano is hot. No vendors selling any items that can help.

Fourth attempt: Circle around and try to find a tunnel, putting on all my desert gear to reduce heat damage. Catch fire regardless, no cave found.

Fifth attempt: Load up all my food and make meals, brute force my way to the base camp. No assistance there, have to teleport out.

Sixth attempt: Doing a completely unrelated hunt for a shrine, bump into the NPC selling fire resist potions at a horse stable. A horse stable I mostly ignore because the game lets you teleport everywhere!

Do I feel accomplished, finally finding this only way up the volcano? No! I feel like Nintendo just wasted my time!

Even worse, when I finally make it to the Goron city and buy the fireproof armor, I bump into a Goron who gives me half the recipe to make the fire resist potion. Not even the whole recipe. And he was far far beyond the base camp I brute forced to. If he had been in all the other cities, and with the full recipe, maybe this wouldn’t have been such a challenge of dumb luck.

Wow dude, you go straight to insinuating we’re abuser who’s family abandoned them because we accomplished a goal without follow instructions to the letter in a video game?

You’ve got a really good point. The fact that they don’t gatekeep you using the previous dungeon’s item is completely different than what Zelda games do as a tradition… BUT wandering around an open world and getting a lucky find that is critical to beating the game is so very Zelda 1.