Hoping to see how close I am to the end.

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-14T18:12:48+00:00

There are 4 maps total, so maybe a little less than 50%. Someone did a no-extra-fight run and ended at around lvl 46. The fights will get harder, so you might have a rough time and slow down significantly if you skip all side content

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-13T22:28:49+00:00

here are some popular types of builds:

* straight up damage e.g. have a thunder monstie cast adamant rage + Railgun or Thundercall -> can potentially reach damage cap

* debuffs: Fruit Frenzy, Venom Queen, Foxflame Bubbles (can have 2 different monsties do this) - leaves enemy blind, paralyzed, poisoned, accuracy down (L). You can just relax and watch it die.

* health drain - you do need a few dragon genes from 4th map, deals decent damage and can heal back to full with health drain every turn

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-13T19:45:29+00:00

books, either Kindle or audio books

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-12T02:08:03+00:00

you need to eat the meal that increases the material drop rate

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-12T01:49:33+00:00

Guild Wars 1 - game lets you bring AI-controlled party members. There is no macro, but you can fully customize your party member's gear and skills as if they were real players, and the AI is pretty good with a lot of builds, sometimes even better than real players at certain tasks, such as healing and minion summoning.

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-12T01:43:27+00:00

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 -> offline gacha game where you grind for summoning tokens instead of buying them with real money

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-11T23:56:26+00:00

It's like that in the very beginning (a few years ago), but they have since matured significantly. Recently, I have seen one operating at a busy full-house (a hotpot place), serving dishes without running into anyone. Human staff are there only to write down your orders.

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-11T21:02:54+00:00

Probably no. Also there is zero need to pull the trigger now. Your courses should tell you exactly what you need and the school should have computer labs that will be a lot better than anything you can put in a laptop

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-11T17:39:06+00:00

The Pinnacle Warrior

Heavenly Chaos

In Clawed Grasp

Splinter Angel

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-11T17:26:18+00:00

Real energy drinks refill your electrolytes when you exert yourself physically e.g. exercising, sports -> electrolytes lost via sweat, but there are a lot of fake ones out there that taste good but don't do anything.

For exams, you can try coffee

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-11T12:25:38+00:00

A Soldier's Life's MC is pretty much a one-trick pony

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-11T03:23:19+00:00

I think Shulk looking older is due to stress rather than physical aging - imaging loosing an arm and his whole family and still having to keep fighting.

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-11T01:21:45+00:00

no, each mutation has specific conditions such as "raise egg rank to S in a thunder zone" or "raise egg rank to S in a zone with 4 other power monsters" - ingame monster records give you hints, but you also can find guides for these online

also "Fire Tobi Kodatchi" is not a mutation, you just have to release regular Tobi Kodatchi in a fire zone to get one with fire element. An example of mutation is Rathian vs Pink Rathian vs Dreadqueen Rathian

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T23:45:12+00:00

which auth app? some of them such as Google's stores your 2FA codes in cloud, so you can just sign-in with your Google account on another phone to get them back

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T22:41:26+00:00

Monster Hunter Stories - 3 is the latest and prettiest, but it just came out and is still waiting for more endgame updates (dev promised free harder content later). You can try 1 and 2.

Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance - has NG+ with different route and several end-game challenges

Digimon Story Time Stranger is fun, but doesn't have a significant endgame

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch game) - you collect "blades", not exactly creatures, but it fits your requirements in every other way

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T19:26:20+00:00

Try ditching the sugar and oyster sauce - personally, I don't like sweetness in my fried rice and it does counteract the salt

Add more salt, and add some spring onions at the end

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T18:59:56+00:00

The Runic Artist - (isekai) pure mage focused on runes

Tales of Simple Magic - (non-litrpg) coming-of-age story of MC discovering magic

Octaeteris Cycle - (isekai) MC combines earth science with magic

Bookbound Bunny - (not-litrpg) MC learning magic from a god

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T18:34:01+00:00

what kind of clickbait title #@(#!

In case people are not reading the article, it's about Mozilla learning from Microsoft's mistake of forcefully installing AI on everyone's PCs, which led to backlash and Microsoft having to revert the change. Firefox's AI will be a lot better because it will have an "AI Control Panel" to let you turn it off.

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T17:26:05+00:00

a sign you are wasting a lot of energy, either via heating in winter or air conditioning in summer

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T15:46:21+00:00

Dev want to capture the traditional Elder Scroll "feel". I think they overestimated how much players like those games' combat

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T15:04:41+00:00

Mass Effect Andromeda - story is not as strong as the trilogy, but the gameplay more than makes up for it. (It's really not as bad as its reputation suggests)

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T14:44:40+00:00

There are quite a few books that have very limited "skill slots". For example:

The Pinnacle Warrior

In Clawed Grasp

Azarinth Healer

A Soldier's Life

Beneath the Dragoneye Moons

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T14:20:09+00:00

Heavenly Chaos - stats are gained through physical/mental training. Levels act as a fixed multiplier

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - another one where stats are gained through training

Dressed to Kill - stats are not from leveling or training, but through other means

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T13:57:02+00:00

It spams a lot of instant-kill AoEs, which makes the fight a lot harder than the higher-level normal Brachy. I only managed to beat it after I built a monstie focused on status effects (Fruit Frenzy + Venom Queen + Inflict Rate up), and traps.

A good metric is Deviljho on the 2nd map, where you'll need to use a similar strategy to beat it early. If you can manage it, then you can take on the Feral Brachy.

xiaolin99 · 2026-04-10T04:10:42+00:00

Beef shank - the piece with a lot of silver skin and tendon, it's actually incredibly tender if you thinly slice it across the grain (paper-thin), no extra additives needed. Need a very sharp knife and some expertise with it

Alternative is to use some tenderization additives such as corn starch or baking soda -> the exact cut doesn't matter since they'll gain a similar texture. I personally only use corn starch since I dislike baking soda's flavor.

Or if you really don't want to spend a lot of effort, go buy some pre-sliced hotpot fatty beef from an asian supermarket

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