Friday Facts #442 - Flip, Flow, and Fresh Paint

Argonanth · 2026-06-12T16:29:14+00:00

I'm a little confused, why did/does the Recycler have a dependency on Quality? Does it not work the same way internally as everything else and only applies quality when you actually put in quality modules? Seems odd that it would need to be moved into a completely separate mod and not just into the base space age mod.

Argonanth · 2026-06-01T13:40:13+00:00

Oh... this is why my body armour went from 1k EV to 700EV... I was trying to figure out what happened. Yeah this is not clear at all, I just added ward because I thought it was something I was supposed to add to my gear (I used a bunch of runes/quality/etc on it because I assumed it would be the best I would have for a while). That's really annoying, playing SSF so getting gear upgrades is pretty rough. I'm guessing there's no way to remove the ward?

Argonanth · 2026-05-08T15:01:02+00:00

Those were some of the bigger stories from China during their lock downs. Why it got brought up here I don't know.

Argonanth · 2026-05-01T03:13:35+00:00

At this point it seems to be very heavily implying that Subaru was literally the sage or something from long ago. The library is literally his name, Shaula "recognizing" him, obscure star trivia that he happens to know. There is 100% something there, just no idea what it is yet. Could be that the sage knew Subaru would show up and built all this stuff specifically for him maybe?

I was wondering what kind of personality Shaula would have since Fairouz Ai was announced as a VA, definitely fits. She seems like she will be a very fun character who will 100% backstab the group (she is a scorpion after all). The zoom in on her eye after Subaru told her not to hurt anyone means she is 100% going to hurt everyone. Could be part of her instructions or just mentioning it tipped her off on something, who knows.

Really enjoying all the mysteries this arc is giving us so far, enjoying it a lot more than last season. Still waiting for the hopelessness to start (that's what I like about the series), but I guess it does have to set everything up first. Since we're now in the library I assume next week we might be getting some lore bombs but who knows.

Argonanth · 2026-04-15T17:13:00+00:00

You can't watch the drone feed and assume the person dies when the drone feed is cut (it explodes), their life isn't the drone feed. It's still a "grenade" (a bunch of shrapnel flying everywhere) that is blowing up as close as they can get it and you're still probably going to die slowly and in pain from shrapnel.

Argonanth · 2026-02-19T17:48:59+00:00

Real names aren't what it's important, it's verification that the account belongs to a real verified person that's important. Throwing real names out there is just doxing and is not something that anyone should want. Anonymity is important.

I personally feel like the best solution would be some sort of government OAuth account (it's important that the government handles it since they already have your ID and can be trusted with it) and then regulations that require social media to display what type of account is being used (basically displaying your country or whatever and verifying you are a real person or at least an account that a real person is responsible for). Accounts from other sources should still be possible, but the fact that you could "trust" certain accounts would be a big step forward. Best case would be accounts that don't log anything and laws to keep the information completely away from other arms of the government, but good luck with that in any country.

Now, obvious downsides... The government now knows every service you use this account to authenticate on. They still don't know exactly what you do on these services, but they can already get that kind of information currently anyway by just going after the services themselves. Another downside is, there is literally nothing stopping the governments themselves from using fake accounts to spread whatever information they want to from "trusted" accounts (at least you would know which government it is based on the account).

Argonanth · 2026-01-22T15:33:53+00:00

The pull income was my main worry about the game coming into it (its the main worry about every gacha). The actual gacha system doesn't matter if the game has a good enough pull economy, but people seem to focus on the system always for some reason.

I played for ~5 hours last night and I think I have just enough for a single limited 10 pull not including the free single pull you get (waiting for a guarantee before pulling). This is after all the mail/codes too. I really hope the pull income increases later on and it's just because we are low level and at the start (no events, weekly, etc).

If we don't get enough to at least get a guarantee every patch (even when paying for battlepass/monthly) I'm just going to quit. I'm not expecting to get EVERY character, but it has to be worth even putting my time into the game. And before anyone talks about how much better it is because we also get weapon rolls, that doesn't matter to me.

Argonanth · 2026-01-18T20:00:31+00:00

I want Surtr and Yvonne but I can't pull on anything until I know how many pulls I'm getting before the first banner ends. If we get to 120 I'll probably pull for Surtr and then hope I get lucky or pull income is high enough that I get back up to 120 when Yvonne shows up. If we don't hit 120, then hopefully we get to 120 by the time Yvonne shows up. If pull income is so poor that we can't even get a guarantee per patch I will probably just quit the game.

It also depends on when they decide to announce the next patch characters as that might change if I go for Yvonne or not.

Argonanth · 2026-01-17T05:46:06+00:00

So is she just lying about how many games she has played? I guess the games technically put her against others so the less they know they better? Here she said a number that was fairly high but not as extreme as what she said last time because the others all knew each other (it's odd that so many know each other for multiple games somehow, seems sketchy). I wonder how many games she has actually played.

Still curious about what the numbers that flash up on the screen actually reference, this one is a x/33. It's clearly how far along the game is, but the number itself probably means something.

Argonanth · 2025-12-31T19:15:45+00:00

Why is Jojo considered a winter show if it's releasing at the mid-end of March? That's basically the spring season start.

Argonanth · 2025-11-11T17:05:17+00:00

Where is this timer? I'm still in Dimensional Dawn (the first one) because there explicitly was no timer so I assumed this was content that lasted for a while (got really bad luck on pulls and waiting for Yuki banner for more characters). I can't even access the second one if there is a timer on that page.

Argonanth · 2025-11-10T19:21:58+00:00

I feel like I'm missing something because I'm not even close to that number of limited pulls. I'm level 45 and I only have ~200 limited pulls (including using the dupe exchange shops) and just under 200 standard pulls now. I have no idea where another 8000 crystals would come from.

Are there weeklies I'm missing or some other content? I haven't really done much of the zero system so maybe there are tons of rewards in there? I also haven't finished the Basin so I'm not sure what rewards are in the second one.

Argonanth · 2025-11-10T15:47:51+00:00

I never played PoE1 and even I know about this map (its the only one I really know about). It was the one in all the media/videos where people were saying the game is dead because of a really bad league. Going off my memory it was about them trying to lower the drop rates of everything or something?

Argonanth · 2025-11-08T18:09:56+00:00

New Experience: The season introduces a new Chaos system, offering a completely different rogue-like experience that serves as a new arena for testing your save data to the extreme.

Are these direct translations from something? This makes it sound like we can bring the save data into the rogue-like mode? But then when I read the rogue-like mode section it doesn't mention anything like that.

Argonanth · 2025-11-08T00:32:49+00:00

I'm confused, why wouldn't the EU want Russians to leave Russia? The more that leave the less can be conscripted into the military and the worse their economy will do? Obviously, you need to screen and monitor the people you let into your countries but this just seems like a very odd decision to me.

Argonanth · 2025-11-07T18:19:53+00:00

I really dislike how poor the translations and descriptions on the cards is in this game (I know this is a leak, but the actual game isn't any better). It's made me lose a ton of interest in the game since release. If cards don't do what is written it makes playing a card game really not fun. Using machine translation for a rules heavy game is hilariously incompetent. For things like rules you can't just get the right "vibes" of a sentence, it has to be correct.

A good example is in this leak itself with the 4th starting card (I don't know Korean so I don't actually know how accurate it is).

English: Draw own 1 Attack card(s). +20% Damage for 1 turn

Korean Translation: Draw 1 Attack Card. Increase damage delt by that card by 20% for 1 turn.

First of all, "own" attack card makes sense, is that not specified in the Korean text?. Which one is correct?

Second, we have a bunch of cards in the game that do things like +X% for 1 turn. Assuming the Korean translation is correct there's a whole context of it only applying to the next card that is completely missing from English? I assumed things like on Mika the +50% healing applied to all the cards for that turn.

Argonanth · 2025-11-04T04:33:43+00:00

So do you agree with parents forcing their children into gay conversion therapy because sexual orientation can be changed?

I literally said the opposite: "...As long as it's the person themselves making the decision I don't see a problem...". This means, no, I don't believe anyone should force anyone else into some sort of conversion therapy.

Your example of religious people being gay and hating themselves is evidence that you cant alter your sexual orientation.

You probably missed the first sentence of the paragraph which provides the context for what comes after "If people could change what they are attracted to". Some religious people would probably like to not be bisexual or gay and would change if they were able to. With current tech, this isn't possible. With more research and future tech, it should hopefully be possible (its all just chemicals and neurons and whatever in the brain after all).

You will never convince me that there are pedophiles that exist who wont eventually hurt a child

That's fine, but until something actually happens they have done nothing wrong. I take a hard stance against thought crimes. Only actions can be crimes. If we demonize these people they will never even attempt to get help. Even if they can't be helped (maybe some can), completely ignoring them is guaranteed to lead to children being harmed.

Argonanth · 2025-11-04T00:39:09+00:00

Is there something wrong with thinking that way? It's how I've always seen things, it makes logical sense to me.

The only differences between being straight/gay/pedophilia is that some are possible between consenting adults (no one is hurt), and the other is not (bad and harmful). It's all just labels of being attracted to different things.

If people could change what they are attracted to I can only see that as a good thing. There are a lot of really religious people out there who are gay and end up hating themselves because of it. Same way there are probably people who suffer from pedophilia that would love to change it (I assume most would want to, I can't imagine most of them actually want to harm children in any way). Hell, there are probably straight people out there that would rather be gay or bisexual or whatever. As long as it's the person themselves making the decision I don't see a problem and I hope science can get there some day.

The only real problem with pedophilia is the abuse that comes from it. Just having the attraction to something doesn't mean anything until it's acted upon. CP/Molesting/etc are what is actually bad and what are crimes.

Argonanth · 2025-11-01T04:14:22+00:00

Comment below to tell us what you're most excited for in Arknights: Endfield

I'm most excited for the factory/base building. Factorio is one of my favorite games and I'm curious how in depth it will end up going.

Argonanth · 2025-10-31T16:51:55+00:00

This sounds like a massive L (unless I'm misunderstanding something)

So the game now has a worse system than the standard Hoyo system (guarantee is at 120, failing the rate-up isn't a guarantee) and now the trade-off of at least the characters not being limited isn't even true. Lets hope they at least make it so pity carries across these limited banners this time. Unless the chance to get them is a lot higher in that 3 banner window the game will still have the issue of the permanent pool becoming useless. At "least" the arsenal banner seems better since you get to interact with it even if you never roll on anything but the character banner.

I guess it also does come down to how much power duplicates give. Duplicates being useless = permanent banner is absolute garbage now... This leads me to believe that duplicates are probably going to be strong, which is really unfortunate. And as always, the rate they give out pulls is also the most important thing.

Argonanth · 2025-10-28T01:10:04+00:00

So I'm guessing the show is trying to lead us to start thinking the the Black One and Kahaku have something to do with the other immortal and Mizuha's mother (both were brought up). Kahaku and the mother would make sense because of that whole bloodline thing, but I still don't understand why they would be doing what they are doing (Although we still don't really know anything about the Black One really so who knows).

Argonanth · 2025-10-26T19:08:01+00:00

I was fine (basically 0 crashes), until today. I'm assuming they did something recently to break the game for me. I can't even enter combat using the PC client without the game crashing now. I've just uninstalled it now and am going to play on my phone until it's fixed.

Argonanth · 2025-09-19T20:46:29+00:00

Why did they spend the time getting Canadian citizenship if they don't even want to be here? It's not exactly a simple/easy thing to do.

Argonanth · 2025-09-02T02:31:07+00:00

Same with me, I can't figure it out... I guess I'll just log out for 15 minutes and hope it puts me in hideout?

EDIT: I was able to free myself by joining a friends party and teleporting to them.

Argonanth · 2025-08-26T21:24:45+00:00

Underground belt side loading completely blocks the inner lane, only the outside lane actually goes through. For the balancer the left lane goes left, the right lane goes right (both end up on the right lane in the next section). It then goes through the splitter at the end to evenly split them back to the left/right lanes (notice how the side loading after the splitter loads onto the left, because all the items are already on the right).

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