Urrrrrgh

Long time no Cookie News, I guess -- the current event is about the Forest Cookies and the Great Tree, and I really like it, the stages are fun, Churro Cookie is fun and the Cookiemals are a gimmick that I don't hate since they're basically three mini gimmicks in one

but the Master mode

is so poorly optimised that I'm losing my head trying to push through it

Like, okay, I like sudden death (can't collide, can't fall into holes) and the stages also don't drain health which I definitely like b/c it doesn't make me feel like I could score better just by having a slightly higher level cookie which discourages me from actually Getting Good

but the stages stutter so much and when every dropped input sends you back to the start of the stage.... that's not fun, actually!!

At least the event currency is easy to grind, b/c you can get like a +160% modifier on it and you get a minimum 30 from each successful run. Maybe for once I don't actually have to grind for money at the end of the season to get everything from the event store at a reasonable rate.

I can't believe DevSys is making money from this game, it's so easy to get ahead without spending any.

(also, lore-related sidenote: I didn't realise Millenial Tree capitalises Time before this. Hmm.)