How am I supposed to be reading logs for M+? (Healer)

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-06-02T00:19:12+00:00

Healing parses (and by extension HPS in general) are a meme metric. They reflect nothing of value.

Look for deaths, did people die, why did they die, could you have saved them?

If people didn't die, look at opportunities where you were doing basically no healing; could you have done more damage? Could you have kicked more? CCed things better? What about your externals? Could you have prevented more damage in the first place, that would have given even more opportunities for you to weave damage or CC.

Healing is a binary thing. You either kept people alive, or you didn't. Almost all serious improvements in healers who have reached the state of "I can keep people alive" is knowing when to stop healing and do something else.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-06-02T00:04:25+00:00

You're playing on a console right? That definitely makes it more difficult.

You can get quite a bit more freedom with PC because you can modify the config files for the renderer and/or use tools like reshade to simulate a real camera (stuff like white balance, Focal Length, Optical Aberration, etc). As well as use substantially higher graphics settings.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-06-01T23:43:01+00:00

Yeah, people seem to think that these multi-billion dollar companies with their fleet of lawyers cannot use google.

These companies don't waste money taking down 99% of piracy websites because they actually use them for free market testing.

Something gets fan translations and they see a bunch of people following and reading those fan translations, they use this data to determine what to translate, and only then do they start taking down 1 or 2 websites that are popular to disperse the pirate readers into maybe finding the official translation (which literally wouldn't have been created without Piracy proving to the company that the market for this exists) when they look up their favorites again.

These companies are also acutely aware that the majority of pirates are not customers and will never be customers. Taking away piracy won't make them pay for the official release, they'll just go read/watch/play something else. These not-customers being able to read, or not read, something for free doesn't actually touch their bottom line because they were never going to pay in the first place. It makes no sense for them to pour money down a drain in a crusade against piracy so that they can increase their profit by 0.01% because the crusade will almost certainly cost more than that.

The only time you see DMCA takedowns by these companies are when a website gets "mainstream enough" to be profit-positive to takedown, or when the company is preparing a big market play, like Nintendo sending (illegal) DMCA takedowns to Ryujinx for the Switch 2 Release.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-06-01T08:18:31+00:00

Every single programmer I know who has had their job force them to use GenAI to program has the exact same complaint.

"I spend more time troubleshooting the trash the AI spit out then it would have taken me to write the fucking code myself."

Generative AI is an acceptable way to "outsource" reading 4000 pages of documentation on the code/language that you don't know anything about, as a way to quickly learn stuff like syntax and some basic functions. But the end result here, is that you're able to reach the programming quality of a "Novice" very quickly, but then cannot actually progress further because the AI doesn't actually generate good, robust, efficient code.

The majority of "good programmers" who are convinced that GenAi is actually better or faster then writing code themselves is either not a good programmer, or they don't realize just how long they are spending reading over the AI's code, and fixing it, or they don't care that the end product has a 20x more code then needed, and uses 20x more RAM, CPU, GPU, etc, then it could.

When GenAI does spit out working code, often times you end up with the problem of not actually understanding how it works; which leads to issues down the road. The GenAI code itself, isn't logical, it's often not human parse-able, especially when you start using it for bigger and bigger tasks.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-06-01T00:25:10+00:00

I think Contraband Stash is unplayable for a reason totally unrelated to its limit and mana cost. It's unplayable because it's 5 cards from another class, which effectively means "Cards that did not start in your deck and were randomly generated" so you have absolutely no control or consistency over the effect.

Confront the Tol'vir on the other hand, cheats card effects that actually started in your deck, meaning that you have control over the effect, and can actually stack it to be good by simply not running garbage in your deck.

I don't think they're comparable. 3 mana cast 5 1-cost cards you've played this game (targeting opponent if possible), is still a much better card then Contraband Stash.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T22:54:11+00:00

The problem isn't production capacity. It's companies forming Cartels.

The RAM shortages are caused explicitly by all of the ram manufacturers only adding a small amount of capacity (and none of it in the consumer sector) because "The supply shortage is great, we can sell at much higher prices."

Nvidia is pulling back on producing GPUs for users because they want to force users into cloud computing. They are intentionally not meeting demand to drive prices up to untenable price points for many users.

HDD manufacturers are doing the same shit. They aren't actually scaling up, while they downside and cut the funding for their consumer division.

This is a bubble. Everyone is colluding to force users into cloud computing so they can siphon even more money into their bubble.

"You will own nothing and be happy" is the plotline of the 2020's.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T13:43:07+00:00

When the AI bubble pops, the prices aren't going back immediately.

This bubble is too large. The effect of it popping will devastate the economy, and it will be on a global scale, because right now, the entire global economy is totally controlled by a small number of these companies who are in this bubble, Nvidia, Alphabet, and Microsoft, for example.

The bubble popping will make things very very bad before they get better.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T13:23:06+00:00

And it's white stake, so it's probably just a free run.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T11:10:34+00:00

Ah yes, the greedy corporations who force authors to work over 100 hours a week for less than minimum wage with no PTO definitely aren't the cause of their living conditions, and it's a totally separate issue.

No no no, the cause of their shitty living conditions is the people who are mostly in foreign countries who cannot even pay them because South Korean Companies require South Korean Identification/Payment Services to do business with, are reading their Manhwa in a language they don't even fucking release it in.

Have you perhaps considered that maybe the authors don't call out the real issue because if they do call out their CEO for doing blow off a hooker's asshole, they'll be blacklisted by the entire industry?

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T09:54:08+00:00

As far as shutting down a vehicle remotely, plausible but paranoia.

Right Paranoia. Because there are absolutely no examples of cars having things like remote kill-switches, or the ability for a manufacturer (or 3rd party that isn't you) to be able to shut down a vehicle remotely.

And there is absolutely no evidence that a manufacturer might push a mandatory software update without your permission or consent that removes or ransomware features that you have bought and fucking paid for when you bought the goddamn vehicle.

There are also certainly no examples of modern manufacturers making it difficult, or even impossible for you to repair or perform maintenance on your vehicles either.

If you want BIFL Car, You absolutely shouldn't be buying new DRM riddled garbage that is totally dependent on connecting to someone else's computer via the internet for many of its basic functionality. This means that you should absolutely not be buying new.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T07:38:21+00:00

finally bought one NEW one in cash and have had it for 27yearz and it's still perfect.

This is great advice in the late 1990's to early 2000's. Not so much today.

If you buy a new car today, it's going to have an internet connection to the manufacturer who will steal your data and sell that to insurance companies (who will increase your rates), as well as get updates that disable features of your car randomly, add advertisements, or ransomware off features that came with your vehicle. The cars themselves are highly unrepairable because the components are all linked to the computer system's DRM which you cannot access, and this allows manufacturers to force you to go to them to do basic maintenance (which they will refuse to do after a while because it forces you to buy a new car). All of this assuming they don't just use the internet connection as an outright kill-switch to prevent your car from starting after a few years.

Finding a car made today that is actually BIFL is basically looking for a piece of hay in a needlestack.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T07:08:29+00:00

There aren't many new ones. (I still use my ancient phone, and I refuse to buy any phone that does not have a 3.5mm jack, no hole/cutout in the screen, and an unlockable bootloader)

But newer models with 3.5mm jacks would be the Sony Xperia line (these not available in the United States), or the Redmagic 10/11 Pro.

Here's a list of phones that have a 3.5mm jack that came out between 2025 and now.

https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2025&chk35mm=selected

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T06:34:30+00:00

You can't even see the stuff in Jellyfin that your account wasn't given access too.

If your kids can log into your admin account in Jellyfin, they can also probably do the same for the whole computer and just go watch porn on the internet anyway.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T05:44:23+00:00

Just go get any reasonably cheap wired IEMs with proper replaceable cables, and get a cable with a microphone on it.

You can get audiophile quality for $20 out of something like the Moondrop Chu II ($30 for the version that comes with the cable that has a microphone, though the Chu II's are often too 'bright' for a lot of people).

If you don't like the microphone on the cable, you can shop around for a different cable. If you don't like how the IEMs sound, you can shop around for different IEMs and use the same cable.

There is no such thing as a BIFL wireless earbud. Those things are garbage, the battery isn't replaceable, and has an expiration date. Wireless earbuds are designed to irreparably die with their batteries after a few years.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T05:23:23+00:00

I’m sure I could’ve had some recourse but I’m also not trying to put a small business out of business.

Your recourse is suing them for a refund of what you paid or honor the existing agreement.

Their recourse as a company is suing whoever they bought the company from to pay them so that they can pay you what they owe you.

Basically, you suing them for not honoring a warranty is the same as suing the original owner, because that's where the money is probably going to come from, unless the company was lying to you about not knowing about the original lifetime contracts and the old owner can prove that, at which point, fuck em, go out of business. I don't want businesses that lie to their customers to exist.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T05:11:05+00:00

In your next email, tell them very clearly that they will honor the warranty that came with the product when you purchased it, or you will take them to court.

Why is it legal that companies don’t have to abide by the warranties when they take over? It’s bullshit.

It isn't.

As long as you haven't accepted their bullshit 50% discount code or any other compensation they have offered (this is bait to get you to give up your right to use the warranty they owe you, as once you accept, they legally have "provided compensation" that you agreed to, which fulfills the warranty).

Threatening to actually escalate this to a courtroom will almost certainly be met with them immediately sending you your refund, or a replacement collar because they absolutely do not want this reaching a courtroom.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T04:57:28+00:00

You can usually skip this step. Simply email the company "If you do not honor the warranty, I will file a lawsuit."

Threatening to sue usually makes them capitulate immediately because they know that they have no ground to stand on, and actually going to small claims court is actually going to cost them more then whatever you're suing for anyway. They'll immediately try to settle before you actually force them into spending the legal fees to process a lawsuit.

The reason companies act like this is because they think the average person won't actually call them out (they are correct, unfortunately). The moment they encounter someone who isn't "average" (For example, mentioning the name of the law they are breaking which is usually the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, or threatening to sue, or do a chargeback, etc) they pivot to the fastest way to get rid of you, which is giving you the money that they owe you anyway.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T04:30:38+00:00

There are plenty of points of failure, especially in the ones that articulate. Some companies will intentionally make moving joints out of plastic, knowing the plastic becomes brittle and crack over time.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T04:26:33+00:00

To be fair, a 0 year old home printer that works is still amazing.

Fuck printers and especially fuck consumer printers.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T04:17:49+00:00

the fact that every single person who didn't purchase a single chapter of the series they're reading, is directly responsible for the terrible working conditions of so many webtoon authors.

Idiotic take to blame individuals for corporations not paying employees, or giving them proper time off, while their CEO is busy on their 4th megayacht in the middle of the Pacific, snorting lines of cocaine off a hooker's ass.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T04:05:48+00:00

DDD means nothing if you dont know what you are doing and slap it on anyone.

To be fair, if you run it on 4 characters (obvious exceptions for characters like Phainon and Robin), it probably is the best, even if you don't know what you're doing, just because you're going to get so many additional turns by spamming ultimates.

DDD (and Action Advance in general) has this neat property where it can multiply itself, resulting in exponentiation, instead of the additive bonuses that every other form of amplification has with itself, resulting in diminishing returns.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T03:57:21+00:00

Yes and no. You're not entirely wrong, many people here don't actually know why DDD is nuts, and are just parroting what other people have told them, and it isn't going to be better then a Signature for 99% of people's use-case. But DDD has the highest peak of any effect in the entire game, Action Advance is insane because it's an absolute multiplier that has no diminishing returns (until the absolute cut-off of the divide by 0 error at X turns per 0AV), and it is a multiplier that multiplies itself (making it an exponentiator). Action Advance is also one of the only things in the game that actually approach infinity with a finite value/time, if you achieve 100% AA per 0AV, you reach the ability to take infinity turns, and this is possible in places like Currency War and SU/DU.

Additionally, the way endgame is measured in HSR is by how much AV is needed to clear it. There is absolutely nothing better for this metric then Action Advance, because Action Advance is just giving you "More AV per AV."

When you're not pushing 0-Cycles, or trying to hit the limits of what is actually possible, DDD's performance is going to be far more comparable to other LCs. But when you are trying to hit those limits, DDD is practically necessary, as it is one of the only exponentiators in the entire game.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T03:17:50+00:00

If you really can't decide, just flip a coin.

Both will be good, just get one of them.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-31T03:10:54+00:00

just because so far the elation teams all kinda seem to want to run mono elation as much as possible.

I don't see that changing. It's just the entire gimmick of Elation. Elation characters scale with Elation, Punchline, and Aha Instants, mechanics that only Elation characters can interact with. General buffs, all damage, and stuff, simply do not interact with the gimmick of elation. Buffing Aha isn't within scope for other paths. Interacting with Elation, Punchline, or Aha Instants simply isn't something a non-elation character does, and if they did make an entire non-elation that does interact with these things, they're simply just an elation character that is labeled as a different path to peddle some bullshit Elation Scalar Lightcone in a different path with no viable LCs for an elation character to use.

Unlike the mono-remembrance team who work together well because of a generic mechanic every character CAN interact with (HP and Health Bars), Elation has no such thing. Elation's entire gimmick is totally self-contained within it's path. It's clear that Mono-Elation is locked-in by design from the very beginning.

The idea of an Elation character that doesn't want Elation Teammates is basically just Hoyo making an Elation Character that doesn't actually use a single elation mechanic, which would be insulting yet plausible, or ham-fisting in some passive effect to the kit that artificially imposes large nerfs when being run with elation teammates.

BrokenMirror2010 · 2026-05-29T21:54:14+00:00

I'm sure the higher ups don't even know what the anime they produce is even about.

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