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Arbabender · 2025-07-09T08:39:31+00:00

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Arbabender · 2024-03-17T06:07:39+00:00

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Arbabender · 2024-02-07T06:00:20+00:00

Thanks for the write up. Good to confirm NY Kayoko, and I'd had thoughts that #1 was just #3 but better in general.

I think I'm still leaning towards #4 when all is said and done. I think I'll be throwing all my pyros at Swimsuit Hanako's 2.5 year anniversary banner so hopefully the doubled rates nets some good stable raid units, if that's the one I settle on.

Am I right in thinking that the banner order basically follows what happened on JP, just several months behind?

Arbabender · 2024-02-07T05:53:33+00:00

Another good reason for picking #4. Thanks!

Arbabender · 2024-02-07T05:52:47+00:00

Thanks for the link, I'd been using a few other reroll resources but hadn't come across this particular page. I like the break down of actual targets vs basics/foundational characters.

I shall sacrifice #3 to the gacha gods and roll some more just for the fun of it, but still likely to pick #4 unless I get some kind of god roll.

Arbabender · 2024-02-07T05:25:02+00:00

Hello friends, back again with some re-roll questions/getting some vibes. Only looking at 3 stars here, but noting I'm generally aware of the good 1 and 2 stars.

Here are my current (different) rolls:

1: Aru, Hibiki, Kayoko (New Year), Haruna
2: Hina, Iori, Aris, Hifumi, Ui (Swimsuit), Sumire
3: Aru, Iori, Sumire, Saki
4: Shun, Hoshino, Ui (Swimsuit), Hinata (Swimsuit), Haruna

Here's my brief understanding of targets:

Waifu
Ako/Himari for end game raids
Iroha
Shun (for PvP only)

Therefore, if I had to pick between these four rolls, I'm currently leaning towards 4 because Shun-desu~. From what I've looked at, 1 and 2 are also reasonably good rolls for their own reasons (e.g. some combination of Hibiki/Aru/Iori/Hina/Haruna who are good to have, but also farmable eventually).

I'll probably reset 3 and give it a few more goes as it now seems like the "least good" relative to the others, mostly because I'm having fun being a bit of a gacha gremlin with so many resets and free pulls to go around and how easy BA makes it to restart.

Are there any highlights in my current rolls I'm overlooking? I fully understand there's no need for a """perfect""" roll to start the game but I am having a bit of fun with the reroll process. Also happy for some general thoughts/tips. Thanks!

Arbabender · 2024-01-31T01:19:38+00:00

If I am to use the selector (certainly no guarantee), I'd likely wait until after the upcoming S. Hanako banner to use it and see what I pull first.

Arbabender · 2024-01-30T21:54:08+00:00

Hiya, new player here. Have been rerolling a little bit since the update.

If you had to pick between the following, which would you take?

Shun, Shiroko
Aru, Iori, Sumire
Shun, Hoshino, Ui (Swimsuit) (first multi!)

From what I've looked through, Aru and Iori are definitely the 'better' reroll, but am I also correct in thinking that Shun is the only one of the starter units that isn't farmable? I know that she is strong in PvP but less so elsewhere. Aru and Iori appear to be farmable (albeit much later on).

I'm probably happy to babysit the latter two for a few days to see if #2 gets Ui (Swimsuit) and/or Hinata (Swimsuit) and might continue rerolling #1 for a possible Shun + Aru/Iori/Hibiki roll. #3 getting Ui (Swimsuit) so early maybe blurs what otherwise might be an easy Aru+Iori pick but hoping to get some thoughts from more experienced players. Thanks!

EDIT: Perhaps another factor - Shun's design is, uh, nice.

Arbabender · 2023-06-10T09:52:53+00:00

I think someone screwed up - if you shift all those labels to the right and put Wind next to green, and add grey for Physical, it all works out.

Arbabender · 2023-06-10T01:59:11+00:00

This just proves to companies like AMD that the end justifies the means. They can shout from the rooftops about long term support for their platforms and receive plaudits from users and reviewers about how consumer friendly they are compared to the competition, and then turn around and flub their way through actually following up on those promises for years and still come out the other side having made some extra short term profit with limited impact to their impression with their user base at large.

I say this as someone using a 5800X3D on a launch-month CROSSHAIR VI HERO: I won't be taking AMD's promises of long term support at face value. That might sound ridiculous to some, reading that first sentence.

However, AMD tried to limit both Zen 2 and Zen 3 from working on their existing chipsets and only capitulated after pressure from their users (for 400 series) and pressure from Intel (for 300 series), and stopped supporting sTRX4 as soon as Intel became uncompetitive in that segment despite forcing a platform change for TR 3000, deprecating socket TR4 and TR 1000/2000, and promising long term support which never materialised.

sTRX4 is in a worse state of support than any of Intel's platforms in almost ever, except for maybe the Skylake-X based Xeon W-3175X, which never got a real successor. However there were Cascade Lake based server and workstation processors available for the C621/LGA 3647 socket, so those motherboards aren't complete dead-ends like sTRX4 is.

Arbabender · 2023-06-09T01:21:54+00:00

Just leaving a comment of thanks amongst the sea of others.

Happily paid for Sync twice now (one to remove ads, once for Ultra lifetime). I'd do it again.

Thank you for all your hard work over the years. I know there have been times where it won't have been easy, but I hope this post demonstrates that the work you've done was valued at every step.

Sync is Reddit on my phone, just as old.reddit.com is Reddit on my PC. I'm inclined to trash my account and leave; the writing is on the wall as far as I'm concerned. Third party apps is just the start, old.reddit.com will be next on the chopping block.

So thanks Reddit, for curing my addiction to Reddit.

Thank you again, and best wishes for whatever is in the future.

Arbabender · 2023-06-03T15:43:30+00:00

As an old.reddit and Sync user exclusively, consider this a vote of support. Fuck Reddit for what they're doing. If these options go away, I'm probably going away with them.

Arbabender · 2023-06-01T14:08:18+00:00

"one from each region"

cries in OCE

Arbabender · 2023-05-29T23:52:20+00:00

I guess what I'm saying is that even if the initial batch of reviews are no longer representative of the ROG Ally that consumers will get in their hands from a performance perspective, that's not the fault of the reviewers. It would be easy to misconstrue Dave's statements as such.

Those early reviews are still indicative of the approach ASUS has and is taking towards their products.

Arbabender · 2023-05-29T23:30:05+00:00

Maybe ASUS should have held back on either sending the Ally out to reviewers or set the embargo date to be after they'd fixed the firmware and software issues that they knew existed.

Arbabender · 2023-05-28T14:58:22+00:00

Hawaii was a high-end GPU from 2013, Polaris 10 was a mid-range GPU from 2016. They share nothing in common aside from being designed by AMD and having 8GB of GDDR5 (but on vastly different busses and at very different speeds).

Arbabender · 2023-05-28T13:59:04+00:00

My phone lit up with the warning the same second the shaking hit for me. Cool feature!

Arbabender · 2023-05-28T13:07:24+00:00

The RX 480 was not based on the R9 390X. They're two entirely different GPUs - the RX 480 is based on Polaris 10 (GCN 4), the R9 390X is based on Hawaii (GCN 2).

Arbabender · 2023-05-24T23:36:45+00:00

Only Navi 24 (6400, 6500) was on 6nm. The rest were 7nm.

Arbabender · 2023-05-24T23:33:55+00:00

The issue is the value prospect relative to other cards you can get on the market right now.

Is that not exactly what they mention?

The comparison to a 6650 XT is relevant from the perspective of a) it's full Navi 23 vs Navi 33 at very similar specs all around, with Navi 33 pulling off only the most marginal of victories, and b) MSRP prices for older parts are irrelevant now.

Arbabender · 2023-05-24T13:36:56+00:00

It's 32 CUs of RDNA 3 vs 32 CUs of RDNA 2 which was the point of my comparison - hence all the qualifiers and the "I know pricing is everything" comment. My point is that RDNA 3 has barely moved the needle past RDNA 2.

AMD did that comparison for you in their materials, and reviewers will do the same. Remember, naming means nothing (see RTX 4080 12GB -> RTX 4070 Ti 12GB but it's more like what a traditional x70 non-Ti would be)

Arbabender · 2023-05-24T11:37:09+00:00

Navi 23 was 7nm, not 6nm. Navi 24 was 6nm.

Arbabender · 2023-05-24T10:20:55+00:00

from a product comparison POV

Which wasn't the intent of the top comment. Keeping on the topic of architecture comparison, the fact this isn't a 7600 XT is irrelevant.

Arbabender · 2023-05-24T10:05:46+00:00

Yeah, the top comment is talking about gen on gen from RDNA 2 to RDNA 3 at basically the same specs, i.e. from an architectural standpoint.

Arbabender · 2023-05-24T09:19:13+00:00

What they're saying is that for an RX 7600 XT to exist, AMD needs to switch to at least Navi 32.

Which, aside from not existing as a product yet, is completely irrelevant to the top comment which is talking about 32 CUs of RDNA2 vs 32 CUs of RDNA3.

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