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That's a great point. I absolutely refuse to put government-enforced privacy-violating software on my machine. If in the coming years, no application will function without said software, the government is essentially forcing me to either accept their spying or be unable to use computers. This is nothing short of fascist. Newsom is Democrat Hitler.
I don't understand why anyone cares about this at all.
Have you genuinely tried to?
We've had these "are you over 18?" dialogs on websites for an eternity
Yes, on websites. A website is someone else's computer that I have no say over. This law is the government mandating what has to be on my computer. The government has absolutely no right to do so.
I think it's a good idea for parents to administer childrens computer systems and to provide some supervision.
There are a plethora of parental control tools already available that individual parents may voluntarily choose to use. The government shouldn't be parenting for us, and it certainly shouldn't be forcing me and other people without children to put software on our computers.
I also think it's good that social media will be required to protect children.
None of these laws protect children. In fact most of them make children more vulnerable. Any time a politician says they're doing something "for the children," in reality, they're taking your rights away.
Oh absolutely. The law is worded so absurdly broadly, it would even apply to, say, someone making a new OS for Amiga, or someone creating a totally from-scratch OS on a classic Z80 as a hobbyist project.
Technically this applies to the Switch, or even original DS. Absolute tech-illiterate morons wrote this law.
Discussion
About a year ago I played up through the end of Chapter 1 and haven't played since. I wanna finish the game but I can't remember a whole lot of specifics from the first few parts. From what I remember...
Chapter 0
Yuma woke up in a store room in a train platform and had a Shinigami bonded with him. Does he have amnesia? He gets on the train to, uh, Rain City and there's a murder mystery with a handful of people with superpowers. I don't remember if people with powers is just an everyday thing in this world, or maybe it was implied they were given powers? By some Amaterasu Corporation? Or by the World Detective Agency?
We solve the case, it was the skinny guy with glasses. There was car switching shenanigans. When we get off the train there's a gold blinged out fat guy (from Amaterasu?) who gives us some guff.
Prologue
Then we go to the submarine base of the WDA and meet the main cast. I remember virtually nothing about any of them. The leader is a slacker type. There's a very serious girl wearing a hoodie. I think there's a like, silent or rarely speaks guy? He sits in the fire place, and under a grand piano, he's a weirdo. I think there was a mini quest to get him a book or manga or something? And I don't remember at all what the one or two other detectives were like. I distinctly remember thinking one of them could secretly see Shinigami and simply wasn't saying anything about it.
We learn that Amaterasu controls the city, the city has basically no contact with the outside world, nobody knows why it constantly rains, I think it's implied that there's something weird with the rain, I remember thinking it's gonna turn out that they're nanomachines or something. Maybe spy cameras. Was there something about a satellite dish or some weird arena or building or something like that?
We met the head of the WDA (is it WDO? Organization not Agency?) some old man, and we learn that Amaterasu and WDO are fighting each other. I remember predicting that it's gonna turn out that they're actually both controlled by the same person or group who's manipulating everything for some larger goal. Honestly the old man is probably in control of Amaterasu too. From a writing perspective it's the most obvious thing to do and there was really no other reason to introduce him other than to set up a twist. In a writer myself, I tend to pick up on things like that.
Chapter 1
It was the Nail Man Killings case. Gosh I barely remember anything. I remember spending a very long time investigating like six different places. There was some tower with a weird shutter, an art store room, some seedy underground club, a church, some woods. Oh and Yuma can borrow or go along with other characters powers, I distinctly remember doing so with hoodie girl in the club. I remember the church characters having very distinct designs and I was wondering if they're gonna come back and be important later.
I don't imagine anything that happened in the actual case matters to the overarching plot of the game. I remember there was a little boy who's dad was falsely accused of being the Nail Man. Was he set up? I don't at all remember who the true culprit was. The priest from the church? Or maybe an Amaterasu officer?
I just remember after solving the case some edgelord Amaterasu guy (Yomi Deathsmile or something?) came and threatened to kill everyone at the WDO? Was he part of a coverup and Yuma exposed it at the last second? And Deathguy sort of made a tactical retreat? Also he had a sidekick girl he was getting handsy with. She seemed to be into it but I can only imagine it's an act and she's gonna kill him later.
Even though Yuma saved everyone I think he got punished for technically breaking protocol or something? He had to cook breakfast and sit on the floor or something. And then the little boy whose dad was falsely accused came and Yuma played baseball with him for awhile, and I think that was the end of the chapter.
Am I missing anything important? Any stuff they set up that might become important later? Any important lore that was revealed that I'm not remembering?
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I actually never even saw the stream I just caught a clip in a compilation awhile back.
DISCUSSION
If you somehow missed it California passed a law last year that goes into effect January 1st next year that requires all operating systems to ask for a user's age at account creation and provide a realtime API so that software can access that metric, with thousands of dollars in fines per child user to the OS developers for failure to comply. Other states are considering similar, and various nations around the world are as well or have already passed similar (Brazil's goes into effect this month and is even worse, with fines up to ten million). These laws are written as if all operating systems are corporate products with centralized user account infrastructure already in place and were clearly written without small or FOSS OSes in mind.
I trust that the Arch devs of all people aren't going to force this age verification software or API on users, but as far as I can see there's been no blog or news posts or anything on what they are gonna do.
Does anyone know? Have they put out a statement and I just missed it?
I take it you've probably seen this.
Sonic voice "Heh heh, alright."
No matter how many times I hear it I laugh or at least smile every time, and I got sick of the Grubba voice by the second sentence. I dunno why, it's just infinitely funny to me. Honestly Arin could do entire episodes in the Sonic voice and I wouldn't mind.
Can anyone completely confirm this? My concern is I don't want to share my home address or phone number if the admins can access them, even if they claim they would only do so with a court order.
I do know about PGP, I know I could self-encrypt that way to guarantee no one else can read them, but it's a hassle.
I'm reading the legal documents on matrix dot org and in one they mentioned pre-screening messages for moderation purposes. How is that possible on an E2EE message?
For that matter, how is any moderation possible at all when messages are E2EE? Can the server host just decrypt any message they want?
How is it that you can report a post or user if Element is supposedly E2EE? Can mods and admins unencrypt any message?
I've never not cracked up at "yeah, this is a classroom alright...a classroom of bad!"
(To be clear I don't only mean jokes that literally involve the word "bad" - it's pure coincidence that my favorite bad Grump joke involves the literal word "bad").
Discussion
At the beginning of the game there was a short cutaway to Kaede putting on some kind of techno helmet, and then later on (I forget when), Shuichi also had a brief flashback sorta thing to wearing the same sort of helmet, and he said something like "I want to die alongside all my friends."
Unless I missed something that was never addressed. Like, just no one ever brought it up, and it didn't end up being a thing at the end. So what was that all about?
Also why did Kaito reveal himself in the Chapter 5 trial? The whole idea was that Monokuma didn't know who was in the Exisal and if he got it wrong it would show the killing game was unfair and invalid. Shuichi had just convinced Monokuma that it was Kokichi in the Exisal - all they had to do is vote and win. And then Kaito came out and ruined it. If he had just stayed in they would've won. Why did he come out?
Also if Miu invented a control to control the Exisals why didn't she tell anyone or use it? Why not just use it to have them destroy each other and Monokuma right away?
And when Keebo realized he was being controlled by the audience why not just snap the antenna off?
Also why didn't Maki just kill Tsumugi as soon as she was revealed as the Mastermind? Why stand there and listen to her babble? Shuichi would stand there and let her talk but Maki had no reason to.
And why did Tsumugi get cospox from cosplaying as Kaede if Kaede is a fictional character? We ourselves saw her break out into hives so we know cospox is real and not just a lie. But she can cosplay as the DR1/2 characters so we know they're fictional at least.
Also why didn't the characters recognize Rantaro at the very beginning of the game before the first Flashback Light? If they all applied to be on the Danganronpa reality show and he was the previous season's winner they should've recognized him. Sure they were in a tense, scary situation but if I was kidnapped and forced into a murder game and one of the other participants was Tony Hawk I'd still be like "whoa is that Tony Hawk?"
Also why did Tsumugi use a different shot put ball to kill Rantaro? If she had just picked up Kaede's and used that she wouldn't have gotten exposed.
Also what would have happened if someone had killed Tsumugi randomly throughout the game? That wasn't an issue in DR1 or 2 for obvious reasons, but the mastermind literally playing the game this time means a lot more stuff had to happen by perfect coincidence for there to even be a story.
Also during Chapter 4 I think it was, Kokichi asked Monokuma for a rules clarification as to what would happen if two students get the same number of votes in a class trial. I can't remember what the answer was but it didn't end up happening anyway and never came up again (even though it could've been used in Chapter 5). So what was the point of that?
Also how was Tsumugi controlling Monokuma and participating in the killing game the whole time? In DR1 we never saw Junko and Monokuma at the same time, and of course in DR2 it wasn't an issue since it was all in virtual reality. But Tsumugi was just standing there all the times he appeared, we never actually saw her literally control him, and there's no control room like in DR1. For all intensive purposes he's his own character. Is he semi-autonomous? But then why would she need to go to the hidden room to make more Monokumas? And what was with the "vacation" he took?
Also near the end we saw the funeral flashback again but it only showed one portrait instead of them all. Why?
Also just to clarify, are television seasons in Japan quarterly? So the 53rd Danganronpa wouldn't be 53 years after the first it would be, what? 13?
I finished the game now. Holy fuck that sucked, I was a billion percent right. Kodaka hates Danganronpa. I mean I can't even be totally mad because if I wanted to work on tons of new creative projects and people just wanted me to keep making the same game over and over I'd probably resent it, too. But he could've just not made a third game. The anime very nicely wrapped up the storyline of Makoto, Hajime and the Future Foundation. He didn't have to be a dick about it.
Anyways, the “Kodaka hates the fans and V3 is just some elaborate middle finger to them” is just a (really annoying) misinterpretation of that ending
That's funny that I'm nowhere near the ending and I'm already getting that impression. I didn't read your spoiler parts and now I'm really curious. If it's the ending that makes people think that and I'm already thinking it, what the heck could this ending possibly be? Knowing in particular that people say it ruins the previous games, and now you saying that the ending is what leads people to think Kodaka hates DR and it's fans, I'm now wondering if it's going to be revealed that the survivors from D1/D2 were all killed shortly after escaping. That would certainly fit with this "Ultimate Hunt" that keeps getting teased, and that would definitely anger people.
I think that interperetation makes zero sense if you think about it for like 5 seconds anyway: if Kodaka really resented Danganronpa and its fanbase, then why is V3 so high effort and such an improvement on gameplay and presentation quality for what is supposedly nothing more than some elaborate middle finger,
It's not like Kodaka himself made the whole game. A whole team made this game and they obviously improved over time (not to mention the default quality improvement of going from PSP to Vita). He's only responsible for the writing. Him being resentful of the series and fans wouldn't mean like, bad graphics or music or glitches or something because those things aren't in his hands anyway.
and why has Kodaka made multiple spiritual successors to DR like Rain Code and Hundred Line that are marketed towards DR fans?
He's also not responsible for marketing, it's the marketing department who decides to try to appeal to DR fans and the "why" is obvious; financial incentive. And while I've only played Rain Code out of those two, it felt more like he was intentionally trying to distance himself from DR with that game than paying homage. Any similarities felt like just the fact that it was him and he has certain signatures and predilections, as do all artists. Arthur Conan Doyle famously came to despise Sherlock Holmes, but his later stories still feel Sherlock Holmes-ish, because that's just how Doyle writes.
You seem pretty confident that he isn't crapping on the fan base, though, so I'll take that into consideration. Certainly, I won't completely make up my mind until I finish the game. Thanks for your perspective.
I'm from a family with an alcoholic, I guarantee you I know the signs very well and know the difference between tired and drunk (tired gets you Yoshi's Cookie or Wild Snake, drunk gets you the latest Geoguesr). Unless you recorded and watched videos of yourself, you having been an alcoholic doesn't mean you're any better at noticing others being drunk and it might mean you're worse because you weren't seeing it from an outside, sober perspective.
Like, listen to this whole episode. Most people would probably not pick up on him being drunk (which he confirms at the end) but I knew the whole time. That's how a drunk man sounds. I spent my entire childhood on the alert for the signs, and they can be extremely subtle. Arin has been drunk for a solid 50% of the recording sessions in the past 12 months, I can tell you that with confidence.
I mean he was openly drinking during the tier lists, he literally joked about being drunk during one of the Truck Simulators, he was really slurring during the latest Geoguessr, he was pretty clearly drunk during Kickmaster, he was barely lucid during Pools. I'm pretty sure he's been drunk during Donkey Kong, though those episodes have been good.
Discussion
Played 1 and 2 years ago, never played the side games, read a spoiler synopsis of the anime but never watched it. The only thing I knew about V3 going in is that most people hate it and say the twist ruins the entire series.
So after the trial in Chapter 2, when they were standing around outside the Hall of Judgement talking, Kokichi or someone said something like "wow, all this stuff happening sure is putting on a good show." And Shuichi was even like "...show?!" And now after the third trial he said "could you imagine if someone was watching this right now? You'd have to be really twisted to enjoy watching this."
Like...really? Is Kodaka really trying to pull a "you're a bad person for enjoying a game about teenagers killing each other?" I mean okay, this is Kokichi, maybe he's just screwing with the others. But it certainly didn't feel like it. And I've heard Kodaka kinda resents the success of Danganronpa (and maybe the fan base?) and wishes people paid more attention to his other works. And indeed, even D2 had some swipes at D1 and the fanbase.
If this isn't Kodaka moralizing at the player, the only other thing I can think of for why this would keep coming up is that the twist is gonna be that the killing game is a literal in-universe reality show. And I can't decide if that would be better, or much worse.
But I'm leaning towards that not being it, I do think it's Kodaka moralizing, because I'm overall getting "this is what you degenerates want, huh?" vibes from this game so far. Like how all three Final Showdowns so far have ended with a scantily clad girl, to say nothing of Kirumi's death (which felt less like Kodaka enjoying sexualized violence against a woman and more like him chastising the player for enjoying it.) Plus the big one this chapter: Kiyo banging his sister. Incest stuff is like the most cliche "fandom people are sick freaks" cliche you could go for. The thing with Kiyo and his sister definitely didn't feel like "the author's barely disguised fetish" and again, it felt more like him being like "is this what you perverted freaks want from me?" And sure, the first two games had pervy stuff but this feels way more gratuitous.
This game so far almost feels like a parody of Danganronpa fan games (Kokichi feels like a bad fanfic OC, and that feels deliberate; not that Kodaka himself wrote a bad or cliche character but that he's making fun of fan characters). And I've definitely been picking up on all the references to the past games. Hell, this chapter was basically just a rehash of D2 Ch1. Even for a Danganronpa game and even for Monokuma and Kokichi, V3 seems to be really leaning on the fourth wall in a way that feels less like the setup to a reveal and more like Kodaka flipping off the fans.
Even the characters seem intentionally less interesting and more annoying than past games. I yelled "nooo!" at every death in D1 and D2 (well, not Teruteru of course), but I've felt nothing for anyone except Kaede so far, and when I saw Angie's corpse I was actually like "ugh, good, I hated her." And I was so happy at Kokichi's fakeout death and so disappointed when it was fake. I can't freaking stand this little piss goblin, he's like a bad fanfic attempt at one-upping Nagito.
Maybe I'm totally misreading this. Maybe I'm sensing a bitterness and hostility that simply isn't there. I really can't decide if this is Kodaka telling us to go Avrilavigne ourselves or is building up to the actual reveal. I mean "Danganronpa is an in-universe reality show and always was including D1 and D2" would certainly be the kinda reveal everybody would hate.
I dunno what my point is, I guess I just wanted to rant and I'm not on social media so I did it here, lol. But I will ask this: is it generally thought that this game is Kodaka dumping on fans? It sure feels like it.
Discussion
BEFORE YOU DOWNVOTE this is not a referendum on the morality of drinking, this is not an "Arin's an alcoholic" post and this isn't even a "what happened, Arin used to adamantly not drink" post.
It's just that, objectively, he's very obviously drunk during a lot of episodes over the past year (slurring words, literally drinking during the ep, etc.), and I don't think it makes for better or funnier episodes. On the contrary, for me personally, it feels like Dan is doing all the heavy lifting in a lot of these episodes and Arin's just...also there. In fact in some episodes, Dan is very obviously trying to like, keep Arin on task? Like, manage his drunkness so they can just get through the recording?
And believe me, I get it! The world is worse now than ever for as long as any of us have been alive. I'm gay and my partner's an immigrant, like, I get it. Just voicing some gentle criticism and trying to get a sense of if anyone else feels the same way. If everyone disagrees and I'm totally off base, fine, I'll shut up. It's not like there aren't any good episodes anymore or anything, there's still great ones. But those are the ones where Arin is clearly sober.
Still Searching
I think I remember at one point in Danganronpa 2 Fuyuhiko said something like "That's damn right." And Dan ads an absurd amount of swears to it and says like "That's God damn cock piss ass shit dick sucking mother fucking right!"
It's completely impossible to search for using Grumpsearch. Does anybody remember which episode it was?
PSA/Tip
He's one of the best physical supports in the game, and the 30% Damage bonus on his AA2 is great even if you have other physical supports (which technically you do from Dr. Mog's Trials), especially for something like Gigas fights. Completely worth the 100 Mythril in my opinion. (Don't get his Glint+, you can just Lens that)
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Anyone recognize (at 10:11 if the link doesn't automatically put you there)? I know I've heard it before I just can't think of it, it's definitely super famous.
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Anyone know this song playing in the background? Keep in mind this is an 11-year-old YouTube video so it's gonna be at least that old. The guy on this channel plays a lot of JRPGs so I suspect it's from one.
MEGATHREAD
No one else made one, so I did.
Post your pulls, celebrate, rant, ask questions, put it all here!
Every wallpaper site is 99% AI now, image searching through any site like Google or Bing or even DuckDuckGo (even with "Hide AI" enabled) turns up 99% AI, and all the wallpaper subreddits are pro-AI. I literally cannot find non-AI wallpapers anywhere on the Internet.
Any help?
Edit: Thanks for all the recs everyone, I'm looking into them all!
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Like the title says, I'm looking for female booktubers that do longer-form deep-dive book discussions. Not just reviews in terms of "did I like the book or not" but something more analytical, talking about the ideas of the book, the themes, the context in which the books were written, their cultural or social impact, etc. and importantly, discussing the whole, full book with complete spoilers, not keeping things vague in order to avoid spoilers.
There's a good handful of men I can find on booktube who do videos like that but I can't find women. And I'm not counting theory videos or lore videos, those are more pop-culturey and not what I'm looking for. Think of the kind of thing you might submit as an essay in a literature class.
I know Thoughts on Tomes used to do longer, spoiler-full reviews but she doesn't really do that anymore and those were still mostly "do I like it or not" reviews, not deep analysis.
Any recs?
If you want to run a "dumb" 1990's era CCTV system that simply captures all footage 24/7/365 you can certainly do that.
That's precisely what I do want to do but I can't find a way because literally every single product I look up has fifty privacy-violating tech panopticon features.
Frigate being open source doesn't mean anything, by the way. Open source is necessary but not sufficient for freedom and privacy concerns. Google Chrome is open source and it's arguably the single biggest component of the tech panopticon and one of the most injurious, evil pieces of software on the planet.
My country recently elected fascists who have openly threatened to kill their opposition. Even if it hadn't, you don't know my life situation. Maybe I'm a journalist who reports on war crimes. Maybe I'm a member of a violently oppressed minority.
You shouldn't be so quick to advocate against privacy, especially when you know nothing about the situation.
It's not that I'm dedicated to an RPi solution it's that I don't expect to find a commercially-available security camera that respects my privacy. They all send your data to the corporate cloud, or use facial recognition and harvest your biometrics, etc.
If I could just walk into a store and grab a dumb security camera I'd do so happily, but these days it's all apps and AI and zero privacy.
Thanks for all the tips, I'll have to look closely at the RPi documentation for temperature ranges and stuff. I had considered submersion in resin, didn't know if that was a crackpot thing to do so I'm glad you suggested it, lol.
I would like a single, basic security camera for my front porch. It doesn't need to have any crazy, fancy features, I literally just want to have a video feed of my front porch that can also store a bit of recordings (I shouldn't need more than a few days storage max). Ideally, I do not want the recordings stored on some company's servers, I don't want a company involved at all, I just want local recording, and I'm absolutely against facial recognition, facial tracking, and any AI features; that's 100% non-negotiable.
I know at the end of the day I could get a Raspberry Pi Zero and Camera and hack together something myself, but that's a lot of effort and I'm worried about it surviving low temperatures (I'm in the US PNW).
Is there any commercial solution that's truly privacy-respecting?
Question
EDIT: I'm gonna try Wright's, thanks everyone!
Many years ago I got liquid smoke for the first time and I feel like I remember it being just plain pure liquid smoke with no flavors added, and I remember it being just smoky and savory. I don't remember what the brand was.
But now I literally cannot find liquid smoke that doesn't have multiple ingredients, and tastes sweet. The Colgin that I see most YouTubers use I don't think is even real liquid smoke if you read the ingredients, and has molasses (which is where I assume the sweetness is coming from). I've even looked on Amazon and Walmart with no luck.
Does anyone have a brand or source for plain, pure liquid smoke without added flavorings and sweetness? (I know it's possible to make my own but that's way too labor-intensive for me)
Understandable. In the interest of full transparency, were you asked to remove my thread by anyone associated with LAcon V? Or, when making the decision to remove my thread, did you intend to give the con runners time to handle things quietly? My thread obviously didn't actually violate any sub rules.
Also, did you act independently of the other r/fantasy mods, or did they contribute to the decision?
Lastly, would you mind sharing who specifically from LAcon you spoke to on discord? Your suggestion to contact the con is a good one, but it would obviously be easier to speak directly to those involved than go through the website and end up talking to someone unrelated, or more likely, a generated form response. Thank you.
Would you mind seeking permission from the person who messaged you to share what they said? Or better yet, do they plan to make a public statement? I think authors have a right to know how and why AI-generated imagery was used, by whom, and what accountability steps are being taken. Given what happened when ChatGPT was revealed to have been used by Seattle 2025, I think some may wish to avoid or revoke their participation in the con, and I think that from an ethics standpoint, it's necessary to allow them to make that informed decision for themselves.
It's possible it's innocent. I read The Da Vinci Code last year and I seem to remember a similar description of a sports car. It came across as the author being a car enthusiast and wanting to communicate that the cool sophisticated character was driving a cool sophisticated car.
Then again this is James Patterson and I would not put it past him specifically.
Either way you can criticize it as immersion-breaking bad writing.
This might sound ridiculous, but did you contact LAcon V about this? I just went back to the webpage and the obviously-AI generated convention image has been changed. I took a screenshot of the old one for comparison before the change, so I still have that.
If it was an honest mistake or an intern or something so be it, if the con officially adopts a no-AI policy I'll be happy about that but I'd appreciate being kept in the loop.
I also noticed this. Numerous newer books I've read in the past two to three years especially have a lot of amateurish spelling, grammatical and typographical mistakes. Basic stuff like mixing up their and there, mixing up commas and periods, lines not being broken or indented correctly.
My tinfoil hat theory is that companies are purposely putting too big of a workload on too few editors to justify using AI; these errors, which they've purposefully caused, will get caught and fixed by AI. They're hoping we'll all go "oh wow, this AI stuff is actually pretty great! Better than those lazy human editors."
I hope people don't fall for it when that day comes.
Unusually generous way for DeNA to handle the issue of people having accidentally sold their 8% HEs. I'd have expected them to be added to the Krakka shop for 60,000 Greens each.
Then again I thought the same thing about Dr. Mog's Trials. Maybe DeNA have changed. Or maybe this is more evidence that the end times are upon us and they're just trying to let as many people get as far as possible before the end.
Either way, a welcome update.
A newer player probably won't get two more sandworm Lv1 magicites, so there's no use.
It's at least two free Empower 20s, which just inherited onto their earth Neo should at least be a noticable boost over two 15s.
You can also use it only once per fight.
What?! I didn't know that! That's so lame, I really hope they upgrade that in the future.
That's only true for a Level 99 copy; calculations indicate three Empower 28s are better than two plus a Surging.
Since these copies are both Level 1, at most you could combine them to get up to Level 65, and you have no way to get their Empowers up to 28, let alone a third Empower.
I haven't run the numbers myself but I doubt a Level 65 Sandworm would be better than putting two Level 50s info your earth Neo.
Discussion
DeNA just sent all accounts two Level 1 Sandworm Magicite, the newest Magicite released, as an apology for screwing up the High Scores in the current Gigas Challenge. These are extremely powerful Magicite to a new account, and each have an inheritable Empower Earth that starts off at Lv 20.
Anyone have any opinions on how these should be used, assuming a newer account isn't going to get any more Sandworms anytime soon? Combine them for a powerful early game Main Magicite? Inherit them onto an Earth Neo Bahamut to get early high-level Empowers and/or save on Krakka Greens? Inherit one into the other and change their deck strategy from the standard? Give us your opinion.
Magicite cast is a single hit that caps at 399999 and gives the entire party a level of Earth infusion.
This would've been so amazingly good a year and change ago, but as cool as finally having party infusion is, I can't imagine anything will ever be as good as Ark. That SB charge is just too good.
Get through about 30% of one bar on the Stage 6 fight Factoring in the multiplier, you'll need to do the following damage to Stage 6: Physical: 26.4 million Magical: 24 million
Oof. That's still basically two MASBs capping for the full 15 seconds. More reasonable than a full Stage 5 clear, but damn.
I'm running Linux Mint on my mini PC and not loving it and I want to install something else. I figured what I'll do is try out a bunch of different installs in a VM, configuring stuff extensively, and once I've crafted my perfect system, install that on the mini.
Aside from just keeping a list of all the programs I install and manually copying all config files to a thumb drive, then installing the distro on the PC and manually reinstalling everything and copying the config files, is there any better way to recreate a highly customized VM as a main install?
With my terrible skills playing on Active (still haven't moved to Wait Mode), my loaded Pecil with MASB and Agrias on imperils was able to shred him. Notably, that includes having a proper healer (Elarra), and taking out the P1 Part. Much like the video, Ark didn't get a single attack off or summon any Parts after hitting P2.
See, this doesn't gel at all with what I'm experiencing. The full 15 seconds of Cloud's MASB+DA+CA hitting for 99999 only gets through a little bit more than a single phase for me. I feel like my Ark has way, way, way more HP than everyone else's, which can't be the case.
If you're not getting anywhere near that, the only thing I can imagine is you're doing the Underworld version.
I'm gonna be ticked off if I've accidentally been fighting the Underworld version all this time. It's been over a week since my last attempt but I'm pretty sure a 5-hit 99999 does ~4% when I'm fighting.
Can someone explain [this Ark run] (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T6tVsK0ESgQ) to me? It seems like this Ark literally just has less HP than when I face him. I can get my Cloud to do 99999 hits but it just doesn't seem to shave his HP bar nearly that much. In Phase 3 near the end, he goes from 19.8 to 12.7 HP in a single attack. That's preposterous! His HP shouldn't go down nearly that much!
This run effectively kills Ark in three turns of 99999 damage hits. When I do 99999 damage hits, three turns barely gets through half of a single phase. What gives? Is it a fake video? Edited? Is he using cheats somehow?
Question
Getting my protein and starches is very easy; tofu, seitan, beans, rice, noodles - all brainless to throw together. I'm struggling with the veggies. And while I like making all sorts of different, new vegetable recipes, it does take mental effort and time to learn, which I don't have in great quantities. I would love a daily staple veggie dish I could make in huge batches, freeze, and just pop in the microwave to reheat. Something I could literally eat every day, just to not have to think or plan or make choices when I don't have the energy. Ideally something that has a bunch of different veggies and provides robust nutrition; it wouldn't really be helpful to just freeze a bunch of corn or something monolithic like that.
I'm trying out some stuff myself, mostly focusing on stews, but I don't have great intuition for cooking so it's not going great. In the meantime, does anybody have any sort of dish like this they make?
(Oh and it's fine if your recipe includes protein or starch, I'm not against them being in the recipe, but what I'm looking for is daily veggies).
Thanks!
The more conservative strategy on Ark is just taking out the P3 wings and letting the horn time out--or getting the body to 25% before destroying the wings.
That's what I was trying to do, but I think I was misinformed. I was given to understand that if you get Ark below 20% damage he paralyzes the entire party, effectively ending the fight. But I just watched a run on YouTube where he didn't. They enter P3, kill the Wings, then leisurely kill Ark. No big paralyze once he hits 20%.
Those sorts of finisher shenanigans aren't really necessary with MAs, though. You should have enough damage to manually destroy every part and still sub-30 the fight. So if you want to outline what you're using, maybe we can figure out what you can improve.
So I have a complete Quina and all Elarra's relevant stuff. My other two are Zack MA, Dyad, Wind Chain and two AAs (I can never remember which they are, but it's not super relevant). He's there mostly to keep up our Wind Attack levels. And I have Cid-7 with 7-Chain, Dual, Sync and two AAs. His Sync and AAs imperil, and his Dual Shift gives a stacking casting speed bonus to Wind abilities.
Because of this comp I'm actually using the FF7 Historia Crystal, which can instant kill any Part except the Wing, to which it does about 75% damage.
I didn't mention but I also have Cloud's instant free 7-Chain, G++ and wind Sync and AA.
My strategy is to slow roll P1, just using Sync from Quina for critfix and his AA that gives 50% DRB to survive that crazy early nuke, while the DPS uses their lesser SBs (under Cloud's Chain) to just whittle down the boss and get as far into P2 as possible. I pop my first HC cast on the P1 part because if I save it for P2 it won't be recharged in time for P3.
P2 I basically just do what damage I can (manually breaking the part) while building SB to start going brrr, which I do four seconds after the Aegis cast so that it's worn out by the time I have everything up.
Cloud does USB, Dual, Dual Shift (free SB cast), MA, CA. Quina does Zen, AA (the pQC one), Crystal. Zack does MA and his AA that gives crit damage buff. Cid does his Dual and Shifts to give us that extra speed.
I try to work it so that I cast Cloud's first CF (and Quina's) right before we enter P3, so he has that 30% piercing for two attacks on Ark's main body while he's vulnerable. Then he focuses on the Wing since he's the only one with any piercing while the other two do what they can against the body.
As I said, my ideal is getting the body to 20.1~24.9% and the Wing to <75.0%, then pop the second HC, but so far that just hasn't worked out. I just can't deal enough damage to the part fast enough, even with Cloud under all the buffs he's under. Like I said, when he attacks the body he does 99,999 but when he attacks the parts he barely breaks cap, if even.
I thought I could cheese it and bring Elarra Bomb but it doesn't break cap at all against the parts.
Aside from getting better stuff for Zack or getting a third Master user, I just don't see how I'm expected to do enough damage. I guess getting Cloud's Zen would help significantly, but I feel like I shouldn't need that kind of firepower. I watch other people's clears and it's like we're fighting two different bosses. Everyone else with a Master just instantly kills the boss before he even raises his parts. I can't even get enough SB generated to start casting any SBs before he puts his first part up.
I'm at a loss.
Er... they unfold when it comes out of it's 'damaged' phase, wait two turns, do a big attack, and then disappear. So if you're taking a big hit and they go away, then you're just not destroying them fast enough. I don't know what else you might mean by become untargetable.
The horn remains targetable, and the wings are still visibly there, nothing changes visibly. That's why I said "become untargetable." They're still there, I just can't target them. I didn't notice whether they did a big attack, Ark hits like a kitten other than that P1 nuke. I'll see if that's what it is next time.
Nothing but time. The Stop is a prelude to the Dead End for the phase. You can mitigate it somewhat by putting your DPS in the top slots, because the Stop goes bottom-up. If you push the phase it'll Un-Stop everyone. At the risk of sounding like generic Discord advice, your solution to both issues is, "go faster".
I have Cloud with MA+CA+DA and his USB1 up, he's doing 99,999 damage per hit. There is no "go faster" unless I get a second MASB user equally powerful, which is a ridiculous ask considering Ark launched before MASBs.
Also I only do four-digit damage to the Parts, they have absolutely absurd damage reduction for how ridiculously much HP they have. I just don't understand how I'm expected to deal more damage faster.
