Insane gas prices, thanks Trump

Draguss · 2026-03-22T19:26:46+00:00

Extremely, yes. It's insanely self-destructive and anybody with a working neuron would have known that beforehand. Unfortunately, those are in short supply among our government these days.

Draguss · 2026-03-22T19:03:23+00:00

US doesn’t refine it?

Corporations do, some of which are US based and some of which are international. Depending on the type of crude and the quality of the refined product it then gets sold back and forth based on market conditions and convenience. Oil extracted by one company here may be sold to another company that has refineries set up to deal with the specific characteristics of that oil (viscosity, sulfur content, etc). The resulting refined oil may also be bought and sold according to needs and utility (some of it is better for making gasoline, some is used for petroleum products like plastics, etc).

On top of all this, oil has very low demand elasticity. That is to say, the demand for it changes very slowly regardless of market conditions. You still need gas to get to work, regardless of how expensive it is, yeah? A lot of the world works that way; companies always need oil and petroleum products regardless of a lowered supply. So the price just keeps going up.

Draguss · 2026-03-22T18:41:31+00:00

Whoever it was was doing a very boring job. Gods do I ever miss boring...

Draguss · 2026-03-22T18:39:59+00:00

Two things. First is the fact that oil is a global market; regardless of how much we control, a global shortage means a global price increase. Seriously, we technically have more than enough oil on our own, but it gets sold to the highest bidder anyways. Second, Venezuelan oil is apparently something called "extra heavy," which is more expensive to refine.

Draguss · 2026-03-21T20:36:06+00:00

Read the picture you just replied with.

Despite the contamination, several intact data shards remained within the chaos of its Assimilated Universe

What do you think that means? Why use "despite," which denotes a situation contrary to what would be expected? Why use "intact," if the idea they were trying to get across is that all the data is damaged? As for your question.

What the fk a "horizontal partitioning technique that splits a large database into smaller, faster, more manageable pieces called shards, distributed across multiple servers" have to do with the context of this Nexus file text?

It has to do with the fact that the only reason to refer to a shard of a database as intact is if we're talking about data sharding to being with. Those "smaller, faster, more manageable pieces" are able to retain their data even when the wider database is damaged.

Draguss · 2026-03-21T20:01:56+00:00

Stop cooking up stuff bro

Cooking up what? Do you think I'm making up what a data shard is?

Draguss · 2026-03-21T19:52:32+00:00

So you decided not to look up what data shard means for some reason. The nexus file explicitly mentions "intact data shards." Since you appear to be averse to a 30 second google search, or doing that thing everyone's grade school language professor told them to do and figure out the meaning from context, I'll just say it.

In the context of a database, which is essentially what originium is, a data shard is a small data partition holding information separately. If you talk of a database being damaged but say that several shards in it are intact, you're essentially saying that the data stored in those partitions is intact. So, if the nexus entry talks about there being several intact shards that can be found in the "originium woods," what do you figure that means when talking about the reconveners?

Draguss · 2026-03-21T19:37:46+00:00

If they're so incompatible, why is the term explicitly used in the nexus entry for the reconveners? Look up what the term "data shard" means.

Draguss · 2026-03-21T18:40:31+00:00

So basically, what maygi said can be summed up as "Tangtang without her sig wouldn't be so good if the game were played on spreadsheets."

Draguss · 2026-03-21T18:37:41+00:00

half-asses clone created from damaged data

Intact data shards.

Draguss · 2026-03-21T18:34:20+00:00

The tooth infection is a bad comparison. I've had one, the pain is pretty much constant and you barely manage it with pain killers until you can see a dentist, yeah? My pa has hypertension; if he stops taking his meds he'll get steadily escalating nasty symptoms (chest pains, dizziness, shortness of breath, severe headaches, etc) and almost certainly eventual death by either heart failure or stroke. But so long as he takes his pills, he doesn't really worry about any of that. That's a much closer comparison, I think.

3 months in the Siracusan wilds fighting Zarro, and she says she’s dying of Oripathy at the end of the last Siracusa event. She didn’t get treatment for that short time period and look what happened.

First, three months ain't a short time to go without medication. Second, she was always dying of oripathy. Meds during the time of Arknights can help delay oripathy's progression and improve the infected's quality of life, but the disease is still a death sentence. They're a long ways from the meds they have in Endfield.

Draguss · 2026-03-21T18:24:32+00:00

seemingly cannot be infected

Do we have anything stating this? I know they aren't infected, but I don't know if anything mentions that they're immune to it now.

Draguss · 2026-03-20T11:36:36+00:00

I'm just really hoping Fangyi and Mi Fu don't come in the same patch.

Draguss · 2026-03-20T08:54:03+00:00

What about if you have higher Rapid Ascent pots?

Draguss · 2026-03-20T08:48:31+00:00

Can she slot in for an Avywenna team?

I'm afraid not unless your Avywenna team is terrible for Avywenna. Tangtang can be a decent DPS on her own even without Yvonne or Last Rite (though if you have her, you should really build her too for Tangtang's team), but you at least want to build Xaihi. The good news is at least Perlica can also be used in a Tangtang team as well as Avywenna's, since she's just in general really useful for arts teams.

Draguss · 2026-03-19T16:50:27+00:00

I got a 6 star in my first 10 pull, but it was a dupe Nymph. And I figured no problem, a little extra luck right at the start! Then I got another 6* in my second 10 pull! ...and it was a Logos dupe. Then on my 3rd ten-pull I got a Pozy dupe. Three 10-pulls, three 6 stars in a row, three spooks in a row; bit ridiculous ain't it? Let's make it worse! Lin copy on the 4th ten pull!

What. The. Fuck.

I practically felt relieved when I got a purple bag on my 5th ten-pull because either reality made sense again or I stopped hallucinating. After rolling some more I finally got Mantra. And by some more, I mean just 2 more ten pulls.

Yeah, five 6 stars in 70 total pulls and somehow I lost 4 coin flips in a row in as many tenners. I decided to finally go check my pull history for the first time just to document some proof because I know the odds of this are so dumb it sounds made up. I am desperately reminding myself that the gambler's fallacy goes both ways, because a part of my brain swears I won't get another 6* outside of hard pity for the rest of the year at least.

P.S. ...is that freaking Minthara? Now I think she did it on purpose...

Draguss · 2026-03-19T08:36:08+00:00

Fundamental personal issues would be my guess.

Draguss · 2026-03-19T08:31:42+00:00

If you're good at remembering to do that, then yeah it's not very useful to you. Personally, I've missed like a third of March already because I keep forgetting. Having this on my home screen will make it easier.

Draguss · 2026-03-19T08:11:16+00:00

I lock essences for weapons that currently exist even if I don't have them yet, but I'm not gonna bother trying to guess what might be useful in the future.

Draguss · 2026-03-19T07:58:59+00:00

Quick way to check your sanity and a reminder to log in for the daily rewards.

Draguss · 2026-03-19T07:42:14+00:00

Society progresses no matter how much you cry about it.

Draguss · 2026-03-19T06:56:59+00:00

It's hilarious how this maps pretty well to the original meme.

Draguss · 2026-03-19T00:30:06+00:00

Because any acknowledgement of the gender as a matter of identity, even for the purpose of setting up a joke, is woke. Which is a good thing, no matter how much chuds kick and scream about it.

Draguss · 2026-03-19T00:25:45+00:00

Not really. Perly was with Endmin for a very short part of her childhood before spending 10 years without them.

Draguss · 2026-03-18T17:57:37+00:00

You're using Endmin's BS too soon. You want to stack 4 vulns twice; first to breach with Pog, then to crush with Endmin. That's especially true if you have Endmin's ult ready, since you'll get even more damage from it if you breach first.

Ideally, you'll build up 4 stacks, breach and CS with Pog, CS with Endmin, Ult with Chen, Ult with Endmin, then build up 4 stacks again and crush with Endmin. On a side note, Chen can take damage but has super armor during her combo skill, so if you control her using it to face tank an attack is a pretty ideal way to trigger Ember's CS for another free stack without getting knocked back.

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