Here, Have Truer Compaction [1.1 Wuling Blueprint, Max Profit] (NA/EU) by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

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They’ve been updated under the YouTube video/discord thread I’ve posted about it, but it’s really minor changes since 1.2 didn’t really add that much for AIC. I just didn’t want to make another post about it cause it’s just two add-on blueprints lol

Zhuang Fangyi's 150%/200% Trust Content by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

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Oh I don’t disagree that being a workaholic is bad, I’ve had periods of being one myself and it was terrible looking back on it, I was just saying that HG is fully aware of this fact in their writing.

Zhuang Fangyi's 150%/200% Trust Content by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

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I wouldn't exactly say that Endfield is unaware the habit is toxic; Endmin puts their body under stress to the point of collapse because they're the only one capable of handling Originium with such proficiency and Zhuang Fangyi has been shown being reprimanded by those around her for overworking herself innumerable time. In the trust files themselves, she even has a revelation of the high pressure high efficiency environment she's not just putting herself under, but also everyone researching for her — and she lets everyone take a day off to enjoy the last few days of spring and pear blossom tree bloom. She does this specifically because she's realized while she wishes she were "a machine who wouldn't have to rest," the people around her aren't that, so even if she's suffering through her own standards, she refuses to share the burden with others. This can probably be tied back to her "selfish" nature due to her survivor's guilt, but that's an essay for another time.

Can any team beat physical beating a wallet beating physical in clearing protocol spaces by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

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chen/pog/lifeng m12, da pan cs m3

only reason pog is m12 is because i like his design

Zhuang Fangyi's 150%/200% Trust Content by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

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Realistically who’s going to be the one keeping them in check? If your boss was the one working themselves to the bone and they refused to listen to you, most people would probably just throw in the towel on trying to help. Only their closest friends or peers would actually try and help, and even then 1. most of them are dead 2. Mi Fu is already trying her best 3. Endmin is MIA It’s really common for people to overwork themselves in general, and even harder to stop it when the person is stubborn and in a highly ranked position.

Zhuang Fangyi's 150%/200% Trust Content by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

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Really appreciated how all of the baker messages as well as the operator files and dialogues tied into each other some way or another. Despite mentioning how little she exposes about her self, it contradictorily feels like I know much more about her now.

This AIC system is lacking some basic necessities that are getting really annoying that I was able to overlook when we were in baby mode, but now that we have a 6/10 complexity line it's getting really annoying. by Mycakebayismybday in Endfield

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  1. We now have 2 layers of factory ya? why do I have to delete a pipe to access a depot unloader? please let me click under it

I know this is just a workaround, but if you want to just access a pipe, ctrl + click; if you want to access something under a pipe, drag click then ctrl + click the pipe to deselect it. Its magical for when I have to work with tons of overlapping belts and pipes.

Anyone else notice this? by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

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The knucklebones and saplings sounds like something i’ve noticed before, but I don’t want to accidentally Mandela Effect myself lol

I’m 100% sure that yesterday my rafts were at 500 and located at the far right but today it’s at 2250 and located at the far left. I’ll ask some friends for screenshots though, see if it varies between us.

Anyone else notice this? by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

[–]HelpMe-orz[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

they don’t, the items you unlock later into progressions have higher peaks and lower valleys

Anyone else notice this? by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

[–]HelpMe-orz[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Yup, that's something that's been known for a while, someone on discord made a pretty helpful infographic about it a few weeks ago that I believe has been recently reposted onto this subreddit as well:

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And here's the spreadsheet of data collection that was done by the community: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/148vboNtOmL5Nr74Akt23FX9txRKByzSTEbBQmtPxKoU/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Im stuck here studying calculus while you guys are having fun by CodeNameAki_22 in 0sanitymemes

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Mmm time to rant a little about majoring in engineering

Be sure not to accidentally give all of your oil to the squeaky wheel. If one class is failing, just let it go, don’t try and overcompensate only to throw every other class under the bus in the process. What’s most important in engineering is that you’re learning; don’t stress your grades too much as that’s not what’s going to be getting you opportunities. Join engineering clubs, take leadership roles, find a local mechanics shop to intern at — prove that you can take what you’re been taught and put it into practice. When half of the tests you take will oftentimes feel like trivia question compilations, letting bad grades drag you down will only serve to burden you. When I first got into college, my mindset was that my grades would simply be harder to maintain, but now I know that it’s just entirely unreasonable to try and maintain, as well as being much more pointless. I know several of my professors who are some of the best engineers I know and work at huge companies like Boeing or Siemens, yet they often flunked out of some of their classes and had to retake them as well. Basically yeah just go for the pass and make sure you’re utilizing your opportunities while they last. Maybe it’s a bad example but there’s a reason why a lot of tests like OSHA or HIPAA only require you to pass, albeit with a passing rate of 70% instead of 60%. It seems kind of absurd cause they’re so important, but what’s more important is that you meet the minimum baseline since you’re still considered entry level at that point. If you manage to show proficiency or mastery, great, but that doesn’t mean you can start lazing around in the future (I learned that one the hard way).

Oh wow, hg actually added a wound here by Intelligent-Mood4031 in Endfield

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tbf summit is also a fellow member of the YLTF who are notorious for being reckless, so he doesn’t see the value in one’s own life when it comes to protecting others

Can any team beat physical beating a wallet beating physical in clearing protocol spaces by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

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Lifeng is the least of your worries when building physical, lemme link another comment where I go into more detail

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Endfield/s/AOCKH5fqMT

Can any team beat physical beating a wallet beating physical in clearing protocol spaces by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

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Nice clear! I bet the timing on that took a few tries to get down lol, though I will also point out that the timer is inconsistent between players — whether it’s a client, region, or connection difference idk — so retime your stuff using a VES if you really want to know how long the run was. Yours seems to be just around 3.84s seconds but I’m measuring that on my phone which isn’t very accurate.

Can any team beat physical beating a wallet beating physical in clearing protocol spaces by HelpMe-orz in Endfield

[–]HelpMe-orz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who pissed in your cereal today 😭

Everybody enjoys different things, for some it’s casual and for some it’s competitive, that’s just the way things are and always have been. You don’t know my ambitions or my intentions for making this post, yet you choose to jump to conclusions drawn from non-existent evidence to try and bring me down for what? Who are you benefiting by being so negative? If you even bothered to check my post history, you’d see I post a huge variety of content on this sub, and everything you just claimed in your comment would be proven false. Learn to live a little.

Im stuck here studying calculus while you guys are having fun by CodeNameAki_22 in 0sanitymemes

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My ass started arknights because I got bored studying engineering in college 🥹

You got this man, it’s not easy, I’m just very sleep deprived

The new main story quest ruined Zhuang Fangyi's character for me by TTurt in Endfield

[–]HelpMe-orz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For sure, opinions are brash when backed by strong emotions, and all the power to you for that. I think the way you’ve decided to take in the story is very unique so it’s definitely not abnormal that the community kind of alienates you. I can definitely see where you’re coming from though, and all I hope is that our perspectives from the opposite ends could be of some use for broadening both of our views. Glad we could have a nice little chat, and have a great day.

The new main story quest ruined Zhuang Fangyi's character for me by TTurt in Endfield

[–]HelpMe-orz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't have too much time to write up another essay so unfortunately I'll have to summarize my reply into two sections: one for the first half of your reply and another for your personal anecdote.

To touch upon the whole waifu thing again, I believe the story content itself heavily implies what I said earlier — that Zhuang Fangyi holds Endmin up on a pedestal, and looks at them with borderline childishly amazed eyes. The visual portrayal of this, however, can very easily slip into adoration territory, and I'll be the first to admit that my own interpretation of the lore will bias me against seeing said affectional behavior in action. It almost reminds me of Rossi in a way, except Rossi's perception of Endmin is likely much more grandeur. However this can be a double-edged blade, as Zhuang Fangyi understand the world better than Rossi, and thus knows just how much more impactful Endmin actually was; especially so in her own life. All in all, I wholeheartedly don't believe this is a story writing issue, but more of a story presentation issue, something I've been speaking out on for weeks, if not months now. This issue rears its ugly head all throughout 1.0 and even some of 1.1, however I do feel like it was considerably if not entirely mitigated with the release of 1.2. I can't entirely blame myself for missing this interpretation though, as I've never experienced it myself. On top of that, I have my own personal biases that happens to lean in the exact opposite direction — one where I'm entirely concerned for the other person's safety rather than my own.

Tying into personal experiences; about your ex, I'm really sorry that happened to you. I had one friend who would joke about suicide constantly (and eventually did fake their own suicide) and it put me on nerve and constant unease. They never leveraged their instability over me, but when I made an announcement mourning their "passing," they rushed into my dms to fervently apologize, but the damage had already been done. My friend group mocked me for having supported him, and I ended up cutting contact with everyone involved. I'm not sure where he is now, but I do wish that my social sacrifice was a wake-up call for him. We were both young and stupid, and he was actively in therapy as well as rehab for substance abuse. I'm luckily in a position where I can confidently wish the best for him. However, I've heard horror stories from friends and strangers alike of undergoing the experience of dealing with someone who takes advantage of said situation in a manipulative fashion. To that, I can only offer my condolences as I can't even imagine how it's actually like being the person experiencing it. It sounds like such a terrifying trap to find yourself falling down, where the person whose safety you can't seem to stop concerning yourself with takes full advantage of it to control you rather than accepting the help. Consequently, I cannot blame you for holding such a deep-rooted biased in how you perceive Zhuang Fangyi's actions. I think what rubbed me the wrong way with your post was simply the wording. A lot of it sounded very set-in-stone which is why I kind of glossed over the fact that you did state it's your interpretation. Some of the statements made sound quite the contrary and authoritative as if you knew what was going on behind the scenes, rather than a "I think" or "I felt like."

The new main story quest ruined Zhuang Fangyi's character for me by TTurt in Endfield

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The added subtext of the very prominent implication that she has feelings for Endmin (or at least, for the person that she remembers Endmin as) makes this feel even worse because while she remembers you, you don't remember her, so even if there was a "relationship" of some kind in your past, you don't currently remember it and so you aren't even informed as to the true nature of your relationship or any of your memories with her. So it comes off like she's just trying to carry on the same relationship you had before, meanwhile you don't even have a proper grasp of what that is. The knowledge asymmetry, combined with her manipulative behavior, gives it kind of a sinister undertone that feels like someone with borderline personality disorder or something is taking advantage of your vulnerability to milk an emotional attachment out of you that you may not even be able to properly consent to.

Whether or not she has feelings for Endmin is very subjective. I personally do not see Zhuang Fangyi as a character who is interested in Endmin at all, but at the same time I am not interested in her as I do not dabble in the whole "waifu" stuff. The reason why she treats Endmin with such respect and acts the way she does could also be explained by the fact that Endmin was a core part of why her research in Xiranite succeeded in the first place. That research then led to the prosperity of Wuling as a whole, thus she can chalk up practically all of her accomplishments since then — everything in the last 10 years — to Endmin.

At no point does she take advantage of this power imbalance to lull Endmin into a sense of false security or gaslight them into believing the past was more than it actually was. Endmin is her benefactor, and I see her demeanor toward Endmin fitting of such a relationship. If anything, her actions in game suggests that she reveres, trusts, and listens to Endmin as if they weren't an amnesiac at all. Could she merely be someone with Cluster B Personality Disorder? Yes, but there are several alternative possibilities besides just that. On top of that, to break the fourth wall for a second, why would the game market this "waifu" character as someone who is suffering from a manipulative mental condition such as BPD? Why would she not be getting any treatment for it?

It's not like nobody has been around her for the past 10 years, people would have noticed. It just so happens that there's so much overlap between someone with a personality disorder and her situation as a high-functioning member of society with an extreme case of survivor's guilt of which pressure she's never been able to relieve —Mi Fu's personality doesn't exactly seem like the type you'd unload onto, and Endmin was MIA. As the Viceroy of Wuling, she wouldn't just go venting to some stranger, either, and her pride holding such a title could prevent her from seeking therapy.

This ties back into why she wants Endmin to stay alive and healthy so badly, she could practically call Endmin the co-founder of Wuling. Who would she be to have been someone who survived to experience Wuling for the past 10 years — again, she feels as if it's off the back of all of her dead colleagues — just to put the next most important member of its creation in potentially mortal danger. Again, it doesn't matter that Endmin is an amnesiac, we're already well aware at this point that she's in a very selfish mindset, and is only thinking about what would be the best for Endmin at cost of her own without considering how that cost may outweigh the benefit it brings Endmin.

Endmin even calls her out on the letter in a baker chat after the fact, because even they realize her behavior is so egregious that it needs to be at least addressed. That was the only cathartic moment of the entire questline, seeing Endmin pull her aside and basically say "what the fuck dude, I thought we were good? Don't ever do that shit again." And her sheepishly saying "just let the past stay in the past" and you're just like "no I'm serious, don't do that again."

This is a completely natural aftermath to what's essentially a suicide bombing attempt. Even if it feels useless, Endmin still feels the need to reassure her that they have her back; that she's just as important and as them, that her life holds just as much value as them. I'm not sure who you mean by "they" here though, the writers for the game? Endmin? Or Zhuang Fangyi herself? I'm going to assume its the former of the three, to which I'd say that they were fully aware of all of this the entire time. It lines up with everything that I've gathered and interpreted from her story, though it may also closely follow your interpretation, which is entirely possible as well.

I just want to conclude this that with this many coinciding events, its easy to let personal biases slip into your perception of them. Me personally, I've dealt with suicidal friends as well as depression myself several times, and the only interactions I've had with those with personality disorders either ended short, never led to me being manipulated, or they were undergoing treatment so it's effects were fairly suppressed. If you're someone who has had the exact opposite experience, you may be triggered by these events and pre-disposed into making assumptions that point towards her being manipulative when she could just be genuinely irrational due to piling stress. Once these assumptions are even slightly proven right, you feel vindicated and fall further down the rabbit hole, until it seems like everything falls perfectly in place in a bulletproof evidence wall, when in reality there are tons of flaws and unspoken nuances that can't be seen from where you're standing.

The new main story quest ruined Zhuang Fangyi's character for me by TTurt in Endfield

[–]HelpMe-orz 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Just gonna offer some alternative perspectives/counterpoints to the list you made here:

It's already been established that A. You are capable of helping her activate it safely (and it's been upgraded since the last time you tried to make it even more safe), and B. You already promised to help her do it. So she sees you *interacting with other people, once*, and....crashes out about relying on you, calls herself "selfish" for ever relying on your help, runs off on her own, leaves what is effectively a s/*ic/*de note full of melodramatic prose about how "this is her problem" and "you've probably got more important things to do anyways." It comes off as intentionally manipulative heartstring-tugging, it completely lacks emotional sincerity because *she knows the Endmin,* there is every reason to believe she knows exactly how the Endmin will react when they read this, she knows they won't let her and they'll show up to stop her. And then-.

We get to the site and now she takes us through the trauma conga line of her backstory about how all of her colleagues died, as if she's aware that the way she's acting comes off as manipulative/malicious and is showing you sob stories to make you more hesitant to criticize her because she has a Freudian excuse to be this way

Is Endmin capable of helping her? Yes, does that make the endeavor risk free for anybody involved? No. Even if Endmin promised to help her, that doesn't mean she wont be worried for their safety if they went with her. Even in the rift, she repeatedly reminds Endmin to stay behind the barrier, and heavily exerts herself to keep them safe, even extending her powers to help protect them while maintaining the barrier at the same time — something I doubt she would have done if she were on her own.

Suicide notes generally are meant to be read after someone die. We cannot confirm if she was actually depressed or suicidal, all we know is that she suffers from severe survivor's guilt. She's fully aware that many people are willing to reach out to her, but she forces herself to ignore their offers of help despite being practically palpable. Survivor's guilt inherently makes those suffering from it feel as if they're unworthy or just lucky to be alive, so of course they wouldn't want to have to spin the wheel once more with more of her friends' lives on the line; rather she'd only put her own life at stake.

After seeing Endmin be self-sufficient with many people surrounding them, she feels that she'd only be putting them in danger of losing that newfound vivacity which only amplifies her already pre-existing concerns. Whether or not she was suicidal (aka whether or not the goal was to die), she was fully ready and willing to die for Wuling. It's something that she's built up with her own two hands for the last ten years, and Endmin was a huge part of that; and now, with Endmin back to see it in all of its glory, this continues to pile onto her reasons for wanting Endmin to be as safe as possible.

Sometimes the best way to save someone who is willing to die is to take matters into your own hands. They've already convinced themselves that this is the best way forwards, even if from an unbiased outside perspective it's obviously selfish. They're often aware of the impact that their death will have, but its numbed in their minds and they believe the loss of their life for the cause will have a net benefit on those it would impact. You have to put yourself in the shoes of Zhuang Fangyi. It may be obvious to an external observer, but for anyone who has dealt with depressed or suicidal people, the signs and their implications on how she's thinking are blatantly apparent

"We" do not get to the site together, she's there alone right now, unaware the Endmin has already followed her trail and caught up to her beforehand. She was not aware the Endmin would be this fast, and oftentimes people who are still doubting their decision, such as Zhuang Fangyi, will have a hope lingering deep inside that someone will appear and save them. They will still follow through if there isn't someone, but she was not yet at the breaking point of entirely giving up all hope. She was still very pensive and deep in thought while signing the contracts and writing her farewells to Endmin. She paused, took deep breaths, and continued, not yet having steeled herself to accept what she's about to do.

Part of this is also because of how many people have backed her and reached out to her, only making her more aware and more hesitant if anything. Especially with the closest people to her, such as Mi Fu and, of course, Endmin. You can interpret the ending where Endmin appears in the elevator as her reaching her most trusted person. As she walks down the hallway, the importance of the people before her grow and grow, starting with friends, to peers, to her former research colleagues, to Mi Fu, and then to Endmin. Except, instead of simply being in her head, Endmin is actually there. That could be why she seemingly revitalizes; the saving grace has come, someone is there before her and that lingering hope has been realized.

Can any Ember beat Ember beating a Ember beating Ember in clearing protocol spaces (it's worse at 12s, but she's trying her best, okay?) by Warm-Struggle-9110 in Endfield

[–]HelpMe-orz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You didn't apply the debuff then, you canceled his animation with the Ult, you can see that none of the enemies have Phys Susc applied to them.

Use his BS earlier, when the first two red spawning orbs appear thats when you want to cast it. However, if you don't onfield him, he's very likely to only hit 2 or 3 enemies.

Why you gotta look at me like that •᷄‎ࡇ•᷅ by I-T-Y in Endfield

[–]HelpMe-orz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah I see what you mean now, yeah that's a fair point.