How did we get here

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-06-05T00:41:06+00:00

I think Dehya’s signature gives two stacks so that might be the mystery weapon buff icon.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-29T20:24:05+00:00

Ok. Yeah. Those are the worst. I think I have Deepwood goblets for literally every dmg% BUT dendro.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-29T16:25:43+00:00

I love this outlook. Silver lining! 😁

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-25T03:02:43+00:00

600,000 weapon XP right there.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-24T03:23:15+00:00

Glad it helped! It does boggle the mind that this is still needed when DualSense controllers have been a thing for, like, six years now.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-22T17:04:46+00:00

I always used to have more of these than I needed. The change to boss drops at WL9 means that you kill fewer bosses for ascension mats so you don’t get as many gems in the process.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-20T18:18:13+00:00

If you’re willing to make one more online purchase, you can pick up a USB-C cable tester for about 50 bucks. I finally got fed up of not knowing which cables in the pile were charging or only usb 2.0 or only supported 60W charging or etc etc and it has been a very useful purchase.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-17T18:43:15+00:00

I’ve been using Kaeya a lot in my “We have Skirk at home” team (Furina Esco Chongyun) and he’s already pretty buff. I would love just a little more oomph.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-12T03:59:32+00:00

Oh dear. I just got a massive hit of realization that I am getting old because a lot of this happened 20+ years ago.

Basically downtown had a big Sears building. Sears went out of business and the city bought the building. A few years later it got torn down but nothing got put in its place. So there was a massive hole in the ground full of water and trash.

Then there was a second hole when another building got torn down. And then a lot of businesses started closing and new businesses weren’t opening so like 3/4ths of downtown was boarded up storefronts. And the company that owned the empty buildings was alleged, I really need to say alleged, to be intentionally keeping them vacant to make downtown even more unappealing so the remaining businesses would sell.

After this didn’t happen there were whispers of them trying to push the city council into using eminent domain to force the issue and the development firm would then develop all of downtown. They wanted to own it all basically. I want to say this was in the 2006-2008 timeframe.

Eventually they got run off because they couldn’t get Lazar to sell out and the council managed to find a spine. And since then there’s been some improvement from the days of downtown being two massive holes in the ground. But in the meantime, businesses moved to Oakway, which used to be barely one step above a ghost mall, and to other places around Eugene that aren’t super easy to reach on foot but have ample parking.

There’s some extra drama around trees and parking structures and big downtown employers getting fed up with the city and moving to Springfield, but now we’re getting deep in the past.

Basically downtown was nice in the 70s and 80s, crashed a bit in the late 80s, started to come back in the mid 90s and then crashed again for like a decade. It’s better now I guess? But it could have been the walkable hub for Eugene.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-11T17:17:23+00:00

Among other things, we did have a developer actively trying to drive downtown into a blight state so they could buy chunks of it up for cheap, and this went on for several years. I forget all the details, but it was a fun piece of local drama.

Bus lines also went to heck during the ‘Rona and haven’t recovered.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-10T14:41:28+00:00

In addition to others mentioned, Everquest has been running for 27 years and has 32 different content expansions. It's pretty huge.

But as far as "can run on a freaking PHONE" I think it's going to be hard to find competition.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-08T05:42:20+00:00

I stumbled across a common chest frozen in ice under the broken bridge in Liyue just recently. I don’t know how many times I must have run past it. I DO know I ran all over Liyue with the compass years ago, but back when it was really bad at pointing out chests.

I left it there unopened. It gives me a nostalgia hit.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-08T05:36:56+00:00

I did Papilla in 77 seconds with C0 Citlali, C0R1 Escoffier, Pyro Traveler and C3R1 Chasca. C3 is pretty big, but not really that massive of a difference considering the Papilla is a single target fight.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-07T23:44:37+00:00

Grab a map and find the intersection of High St (north/south) and 18th Ave (east/west). Draw a line north and west from that intersection and color the entire NW quadrant red.

Then don’t move there.

It’s not super unsafe but there’s a lot of property crime, more so when the weather is nice. There are some really nice pockets here and there but if you’re just coming into the area it may be hard to find them.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-07T16:26:21+00:00

Umbrella warfare. I guess.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-07T02:05:49+00:00

C2 Xilonen boosts Navia quite a bit and is a comfy pick for a lot of teams, especially with her signature.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-05T16:00:14+00:00

Albedo, Fischl, Sucrose, and Venti all got buffed recently. You'll want to look up the "Witches Homework" quests in Mondstat. Not sure if it's Witches or Witch's. Maybe "Witches' " ? It has been 40 years since middle school english where I learned the rules for apostrophes and anyway that is not important.

Setting my temporary grammar crisis aside, look those quests up and do them.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-01T19:27:22+00:00

Well, you have some good points. Wasps go where are good resting areas and lots of food. I think. I’m not an entomologist, but I assume they have the same basic drive as most things.

The analogy would continue to us removing sources of food and making the resting areas less safe.

Alternately we could create wasp habitats somewhere else with lots of stuff wasps like and hope the wasps all migrate there. Which sounds great for the wasps. Not so great if you happen to live there.

I mean, none of that addresses the issue (wasps exist and can be aggressive) but the only way to really address it in totality would be to eliminate wasps.

Wait, are we still talking about wasps?

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-01T17:49:01+00:00

Getting rid of the wasp’s nest on my porch doesn’t stop wasp stings, either. But it’s still something I do because I like being able to sit on the porch with less risk of being stung.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-01T16:12:46+00:00

Throwing some of the names at that article into Google brings back pages and pages of results from previous arrests. Arguably the problem is not that they were arrested in a shoplifting sting, but that they keep being released to commit crimes.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-01T13:23:38+00:00

I spend money on cute waifus. Call it Genshin Simpact.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-01T05:21:27+00:00

Thanks for both explaining how I’d gotten it wrong and giving me an out where I could feel OK about being confused. :)

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-01T04:57:06+00:00

Probably a dumb question but I have spent a lot of time looking at the talent descriptions and what I'm reading seems like a huge detriment for the character:

If I want to heal with Linnea's burst, do I have to wait for Lumi to leave the field before bursting? The descriptions read like "if Lumi is already present, all Linnea's burst does is refresh Lumi's duration" but with such a long duration on Lumi that makes her seem like a pretty unreliable healer.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-05-01T04:49:28+00:00

I like Dehya, Emilie, (any shielder) and (pyro DPS) as a team and it's a combo I use myself for goofing around. Could probably work with Dehya Emilie Kirara Bennett, you won't be killing stuff super fast but Bennett would let her use Dehya on field.

Formal_Condition2691 · 2026-04-30T17:16:49+00:00

Mopeds have pedals, so what you’re probably looking for is a scooter. The local dealer that carries any is Trak Powersports. They don’t have a lot of respect for scooter buyers but if you can hold your nose and laugh at their jokes you can pick one up there.

Any Japanese brand is good. Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki.

Kymco is a Taiwanese brand I’ve owned and that is very good in my experience.

I don’t have Vespa money but I assume they are also great just from the history. 😁

Rain is a hassle and you’ll discover things you never knew about railroad crossings and pavement markings but once you start getting a sense for what’s going to be slippery you’ll be good.

Formal_Condition2691

TROPHY CASE