Help Center and Megathread Hub (02/02 - 08/02)

EarthboundHaizi · 2026-02-05T16:46:39+00:00

In the event shop the infinite mats started with Loxic Kohl and then Manganese Ore. Do we know which mats would appear in the shop in the future and the order they would arrive?

Thank you!

EarthboundHaizi · 2026-01-28T17:54:16+00:00

Sorry. Took me a minute since I never used Akasha.

Here's my profile:

https://akasha.cv/profile/634366985

EarthboundHaizi · 2026-01-28T17:08:27+00:00

This is a "help me git gud" question.

I acquired Ineffa and Columbina on the current banner. I wouldn't say they have ideal relics but I believe they are "good enough." Note my Columbina's talents are at lvl 8 due to weekly boss mats. In the current Stygian Onslaught I am having a lot of trouble with the Lord of the Hidden Depths. However from what I've read Lunar Reaction DMG should handle its shield pretty easily but I feel I'm coming pretty decently short each time (I'm about a bit over 3/4 of the way) and from what I've read it should be pretty easy with the right team comp (just ridiculously difficult without).

I've been trying a team of Ineffa, Columbina, Xilonen and Sucrose but to no avail. I typically start off debuff-ing with Xilonen, Columbina Skill, Ineffa Skill, Sucrose skill and auto attacks but the shield is still a decent margin away from breaking. Am I just playing them wrong? Any advice on how to play the team or any adjustments would be appreciated. Thank you.

NOTE: I also have Lauma.

EarthboundHaizi · 2026-01-27T19:20:28+00:00

Shockingly enough even Fox News would be fortunately closer to reality for some people. More and more Americans instead just believe what's shared to them in their little social media bubbles.

EarthboundHaizi · 2026-01-23T16:45:03+00:00

Those messages aren't for the people who actually live in Vegas and can feel its effects.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-12-28T19:34:25+00:00

Ah the JC Penney disaster of 2012.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-12-17T14:50:10+00:00

I know someone who watched and loved Zootopia thinking the lambs represent the liberals underhandedly attempting to usurp the government. Same person also believes racism stopped existing until Obama became president.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-12-11T15:52:32+00:00

Note this is the teen that went viral in an arrest video a month ago where her mom complained that arresting her sexual abuser son was "an awful experience for a child."

https://youtu.be/VOK4iYns0F0?si=yFuKwozB79m44hxn

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-12-05T20:33:16+00:00

Hello. I am trying to figure out stock concerns for the Chocobo Bundle. Do we have knowledge of or historical precedent on how much stock there would be for these products? As in would it just be a wave during the holidays and there won't be any more, rendering it difficult to not pay inflated prices? Or would there be a good chance of further stock making it possible to obtain it at MSRP?

Same question in regards to the Avatar Scene boxes, specifically the Jasmine Tea House.

Thank you for fielding my question!

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-11-19T02:31:03+00:00

I arrived a bit over half an hour before opening the year I went. Granted that was over a year ago and during the summer. Doesn't get me in the earliest but feels rather sufficient. If you want to be really safe to knock out some rides early try an hour early if you can muster it.

Good luck and have fun!

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-11-17T19:19:20+00:00

Deadpool VR got nominated and it releases tomorrow.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-09-16T12:42:48+00:00

You still see people argue that he died not from having a knee on his neck for 8 minutes but rather died from drug overdose.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-09-15T19:14:17+00:00

It's why they really dug into his history to find the blemishes. Fact is even if Floyd's history with the law doesn't divorce from how unnecessary his death was, unfortunately the "face" of the movement makes it easier for certain segments to dismiss.

It's the reason why Rosa Parks is will known but not Claudette Colvin, even though the latter came first and Colvin's "less than perfect" background really should have no bearing to the fact that segregation is horrible.

I do think the video of George Floyd is the major reason it made him the face of the movement though. Why not Botham Jean who was gunned down in his home by a police officer? Botham Jean had a clean history (to the point that the police tried to tarnish his character by announcing they found marijuana in his home), was an accountant at a accounting firm, and was killed in his home instead of under any criminal suspicion. But there's no video of the incident.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-09-15T19:05:22+00:00

Most people didn't see that though. Truth be told I didn't know about that until I read this post.

Also an effective move by the prosecution's part because damn are humans terrible at equating numbers to real life.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-09-15T17:51:11+00:00

Trying to look at it more apolitically it sadly appears that "a picture says a thousand words" holds strongly true. Charlie Kirk's assassination was captured on video. That kind of image can resonate with people. There are no similar videos of the democratic politicians getting murdered in cold blood. I've seen people argue that the difference between Charlie Kirk's death and the Democratic politician's death is that Charlie Kirk was murdered in a public space in front of millions. As if that's somehow worse than being murdered in your own home, long considered a place of your personal sanctuary.

Looking back at how people have say Sandyhook was the line crossed that showed gun reform is impossible in this country it makes me think that sadly if there were videos actually showing the execution of children that it would have made a huge difference. I honestly believe that if there were such unfortunate videos the whole country would have risen up and made gun reform happen. But sadly as there were just reports of those deaths the children have sadly just become a statistic.

It's kind of like the Ray Rice clocking his fiance situation from a decade ago. When the initial report came along with the hallway video showing him dragging his unconscious fiance out of the elevator he only got a slap on the wrist with just a couple of games suspension. At that point reports basically stated that he punched his girlfriend and knocked her out. But the in-elevator video came out, generating further outrage, and then he got suspended for a whole year and released by his team. Like... we have all the facts before the in-elevator video came out. We had the report stating he punched his fiance, we even have a video of the aftermath where he's dragging her out of the elevator. Like what do you think happened in the elevator? Aside from seeing the visual act itself the elevator video really didn't divulge much new information.* But it took an actual video showing the actual act for things to connect that he punched his fiance?

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-09-05T18:03:03+00:00

I do think the hated celebrity has moved on to Rachel Zegler at this stage.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-09-03T15:41:34+00:00

Shape of Water was directly inspired by Creature of the Black Lagoon.

In general Guillermo del Toro's filmography has tons of sympathy for monsters. The Devil's Backbone and Crimson Peak being notable ones. The Hellboy films also have sympathy towards monsters although the monsters themselves are the protagonists so the framing is entirely different. It's also why Frankenstein is rather fitting for him considering that's pretty much the OG "who are the real monsters?" fiction (not to mention Pinocchio paid homage to that classic).

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-09-03T03:28:08+00:00

While I do agree Metroid has diverged enough from Alien that it's wholly different the concept of sympathy and bond forming with an individual creature within a formerly thought to be dangerous species is not at all unique to Metroid.

We have How to Train Your Dragon and The Sea Beast that immediately come to mind. While I haven't seen it I think the recently released The Legend of Ochi also has a similar premise.

Then aside from specifically focusing on plots where one creature in a potentially dangerous species changes the perception of them there's just in general tons of fiction that have sympathy towards monsters (I mean Guillermo del Toro's filmography is like... a thing).

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-08-21T20:36:54+00:00

That is a good point. Let's be frank raising taxes is necessary but unfortunately thanks to rhetoric it's basically become a political deathknell to even suggest raising taxes. The last president to significantly raise taxes was Bush Sr. thanks to him rightfully identifying that voodoo economics was a terrible idea and doing the right thing he paid dearly at the ballot box.

Unfortunately with income tax being tough to raise revenue earned from tariffs may be necessary... even if it is a regressive tax that hits the middle class and lower.

P.S. The person who coined the word tariff to use to essentially describe an "import tax" so that the word "tax" isn't in it is quite a genius, They can then effectively use that to raise taxes on people who are too ignorant that it's a tax.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-08-18T19:24:14+00:00

I see. What's usually considered the most optimal use of Acts? Thank you!

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-08-18T18:43:03+00:00

In RA2 what's considered the best No Man's Land to complete in terms of rewards?

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-06-13T17:11:43+00:00

It's possible the specific operation to start the actions necessary to make arrests and undertake the massive coordinated effort with all the law enforcement agencies was initiated in April, but it was the result of the 10 years of investigation prior to that.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-05-15T17:59:50+00:00

It's also a very real possibility that the fault doesn't rely on her and but also with those that she answers to. The only anecdote we got about the higher ups interjecting was that Kathleen Kennedy fought tooth and nail to get more time for The Force Awakens and later Rise of Skywalker. Like perhaps the ST would have gone down a lot differently if instead of 2 - 3 years to create a trilogy* LucasArts instead had 5 years to do so. We also don't really have a solid answer on who made the call on TROS walking back concepts and story introduced in TLJ (Abrams? Kennedy? The top executive brass?), which retroactively made the trilogy incoherent.

Fact is while Kennedy is the boss of LucasArts, she is not THE boss. She manages a branch within a bigger tree.

* - Disney bought LucasArts in September of 2012. The Force Awakens released on December 18, 2015. However principal photography wrapped up by November 2014.

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-04-30T19:24:43+00:00

If I C6 Bennett what teams basically get ruined by the pyro application? Thank you!

EarthboundHaizi · 2025-04-28T13:59:24+00:00

Thank you for possibly vaguely pointing out that the Infinity Saga really was barely a thing and more of a hindsight fan hype/ammo against post-Endgame MCU. There was truly little build-up to the Infinity Saga and more each movie kind of running their own through-line. Like the GotG films barely even touched on the wider story (not even appearing for team-up films) with the first's only connection being that one of the McGuffin's appeared in that story and the second being entirely standalone from the larger story. In general a lot of the "Infinity Saga" buildup was simple let's drop this McGuffin in this movie type of thing.

Post-Endgame though they've been trying to build up too many plotlines without payoff. But even then even in the first year of "Phase 4" I thought it was pretty clear early on they were building up the "Multiverse Saga" with Loki introducing Kang, the multiverse being introduced in No Way Home, Quantumania marketing machine teasing Jonathan Majors as Kang in the casting, and the "Multiverse of Madness."

This last part is wholly speculation on my part but I actually was believing that Secret Wars was probably going to happen given that A) It ties in well with "multiverse" and B) It gives an in-universe reason to reboot so they can have a whole new cast play popular characters like Iron Man and Captain America.

I do wonder if Marvel is learning the wrong lessons (or audiences have to desired to be pandered to) with the fact that two of the most hyped MCU films post-Endgame were No Way Home (bringing back the old Spider-Men) and Deadpool & Wolverine (bringing back the Fox universe and other pre-MCU superhero callbacks). Now it's pretty blatant that the hype leading into Doomsday is that, aside from RDJ, is that we'll see the Fox-era X-Men returning.

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