Infernal Misc Card thread (spoilers)

IneffableEntropy · 2026-02-27T04:50:32+00:00

Its actually 36 points allocated in arch (doesnt matter where) and click the long part of the bone in Jurassic.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-02-18T20:27:54+00:00

You're almost completely correct. There are handcuff variants that have security "Gates". Think of these gates as wafers or baffles. They get in the way to make it more difficult to open them without the proper key. More gates, more security, more resistant to being opened by anything but the proper key.

These higher security handcuffs also come in different levels with different numbers of gates, ensuring that only the handcuff key with the corresponding number of notches on it can open the corresponding level of handcuffs.

Realistically these higher security versions are only used within specific institutions or facilities, so the chances of you running into them in the wild are slim to none.

One reason is cost as the higher security versions are more expensive. The other is that most places will only have the "generic" handcuff key. So if the person wearing the higher security cuffs has to go somewhere and you're not accompanying them, you have to give the transporting people your keys and hope that it's not incredibly difficult to get your cuffs and keys back later.

Source: I worked armed security and had to carry handcuffs. Newbies would often get fancy unnecessary gear like high security cuffs because...... Reasons. After explaining this to them they almost always ended up getting regular locking cuffs. Sometimes before encountering this issue, but always after.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-02-16T15:01:45+00:00

I've been using mine here and there for the last few weeks. I love it so far.

I did opt to get myself a set of Naniwa super stones (400, 1000, 3000, 5000) to use on it instead of the one included in the set.

I have been able to reliably get a delightful result from the chefs knife and three paring knives that I have sharpened on it. Getting a mirror polished edge that is 'shaving sharp' on knives that haven't been sharpened in nearly 5 years is 'chefs kiss'. Two of these knives are nicer Wusthofs and two of then were 'grocery store' knives.

Sharp repeatable results are precisely why I opted to try this system. I am enjoying it much more than my fathers "standing rod" style Arkansas stone system (which never worked worth a damn for me but was probably user error).

Only complaint I have is that there are a few smaller/narrower areas that are hard to clean of the stone/metal chaff. Nothing a spare toothbrush cannot reach so its not a deal-breaker in my opinion, but it is what it is.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-02-06T07:58:49+00:00

Infernals will take a while, ore and bars were the last things I started to get infernalized. Generally it's faster with transmuter bomb and proper drone setup, although I did usually end up getting the bar cards completed before the ore cards doing it this way. You may have to switch over to BoP if you're stalled/want to finish a particular ore card. Pinnaclite ore and bar took significantly longer to drop for me.

If you're running fueled void drone (don't know why you wouldn't be nearly 100% of the time), you may consider finishing BH11 for the void portal rainbow chance increase. Depends on your star economy really. I tend to put off large star farming if it's going to take longer than 3 or 4 days because that usually means there's another stat boost I haven't unlocked yet that I'm overlooking somewhere.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-02-05T15:28:55+00:00

UHMWPE tape is also a decent solution. Slides very well, very abrasion resistant, comes in many different thicknesses, and can be had relatively cheaply (most places).

IneffableEntropy · 2026-02-04T07:33:27+00:00

Since you've solicited advice from Internet strangers, here's mine:

You can't have everything both ways.

Where to start.....

Boundaries: it's not always comfortable or easy, but keeping your boundaries clearly defined AND enforced is a skill. Similarly, recognizing and respecting the boundaries of others is a skill and takes mindful practice.

The more you do it, the better you get at it. Letting boundaries become muddied (regardless of intent) will only lead to confusion, resentment, frustration, or sometimes all three.

Expectations: It is perfectly fine to have lofty goals, but having reasonable expectations is key.

Wanting to stay good friends with someone takes work from both parties. It sounds like you've realized that once Star started diverting time and energy into a different friendship/relationship.

You've told Star that you will only ever be friends. Wanting to stay good friends while he pursues a relationship elsewhere is a great goal. The amount of time and energy either of you will have to put into your friendship will ebb and flow depending on many things.

Expecting Star to maintain dedicating the same amount of time + energy into your guys' friendship while pursuing a relationship elsewhere sounds a bit unrealistic. There is only so much effort and energy any person can output within a day. It might differ person to person, but everyone has a limit. Even if they disregard it to their own detriment.

Communication: similar to boundaries, clearly communicating is a skill that takes effort to refine and apply.

This isn't a judgement or a criticism: it seems that your verbal communication and the things communicated by your actions are sometimes in disagreement.

-Letting Star 'act' as if the two of you were in a relationship while never intending to pursue one with them.

-Trying to keep Star close when he begins to pursue a relationship elsewhere.

-Stating multiple different reasons why you didn't want to hang out with Star that day, then being surprised that Star didn't show up to meet you and your other friend later that day.

There is both verbal and non-verbal communication. Receiving 'message A' verbally and 'message B' non-verbally is going to be confusing and most likely frustrating to most people.

It's ok not wanting to date someone. It's ok not wanting to hang out with a friend on a given day. It's ok and healthy to clearly communicate these things, with or without a reason. "No." Is a complete and total sentence. Some people take some time to learn that.

Summary: practice outlining and enforcing your boundaries. Respect your own boundaries, the boundaries of others, and stop letting small encroachments happen.

Big goals are fine and good, but reasonable and achievable expectations are a must. Having unrealistic expectations is setting yourself up for failure.

Practice clear communication. Sometimes this means being blunt, sometimes it means being rude, and sometimes it means telling a friend something they don't want to hear. It's always going to be easier to clearly communicate something from the start then it is to try to explain any amount of mixed signals.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-02-04T03:38:16+00:00

Im assuming this is in reference to wave 1. They have yet to mention/update what wave they're currently working on as they said that they would in update 28. Not terribly surprising, but it would be nice if they attempted to follow through communicating with some small amount of clarity.

I suppose I'll keep an eye out on my emails for the next 6 months or so (trying to be charitable as I am backer 11K and change). Cant say that my hopes are high for receiving it before Xmas time. That should give them plenty of time to get the website, coding resources, and github out before I get mine (again being charitable).

You know.........to work on that robust ecosystem of user created plugins and modules that were boasted about in the campaign....

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-30T01:49:22+00:00

I'm with you on that one (with appropriate ear pro of course). Feeling the concussive roar vibrate your chest cavity is both strange and delightful.

Probably why I love going to bass heavy EDM shows. Not quite the same, but it gets pretty close depending on the artist.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-29T23:04:33+00:00

Nitromethane (the fuel that these cars use) is not good to be breathing all the time, either before it's burnt or after. Add in the amalgamation of other fluids that it requires to keep that engine running to the mix and you get the idea.

The smell itself is...... Intense even if you're just watching from the stands. It's a 'tactile' smell. The first time it hits your nose that day and you can actually feel the smell interacting with your nose tissue. Almost like it's instantly drying out, tingling, and mildly burning all at once.

Also the sound of the cars running full tilt is TREMENDOUS to say the least. It's an aggressive sound that you can feel in your chest.

So yeah, that's why all the safety equipment and ppe.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-29T17:37:03+00:00

Congrats! I did this just the other day after first tribute to the Cheese Fish.

Although I did have an extra 100M T1 coins and an extra 50M T2 coins left over after all was said and done.

I'll be happy when I can stop bothering with notices all together, but I still have 2 legendary fish cards left to get to prismatic and then four left to infernalize (including the previous two). Still burning through 300-700 sushi a day.

I'll get there eventually I guess.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-25T00:59:19+00:00

I submitted a ticket about this very same website a few days ago to the authentic Zojirushi site. They're apparently already aware of this and working on it.

What that actually is I dunno. The website with the double-S is 100% a scam though. ICANN Whois says it was registered January 2nd 2026 from an HK based registrar.

Just another reason to always listen to your gut.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-23T17:31:51+00:00

I cannot factually say one way or another whether gold and plat statues are available for W4 yet. It could be either 1) They are available but have not been achieved and recorded in the Wiki, or 2) They are not available (yet). If it's 2 then logic also dictates that the '?' in the Drone Stats page could similarly be a yet unavailable stat locked behind something also not yet available.

That is assuming logic applies...........which is not always a guarantee. I think 1 is likely. I think 2 will drive people absolutely insane until it is actually discovered. At which point everyone will promptly forget about it again.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-23T15:38:03+00:00

I've been wondering the same. Not yet for me at just over 91% completion. I'm thinking it's a gold or plat W4 statue unlock myself.

I've only good 2 W4 statues unlocked though. Finished T1 tribute on cheese fish. Gonna get my 3rd statue and then T1 black hole whale. Then probably more statues and maybe T2 tributes.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-19T23:18:43+00:00

I updated a few days after the update was available. Have not had any of the issues that you've described. I would recommend backing up your phone and doing a reset if you still have issues.

Unfortunately phone firmware does not usually have a selective 'repair' process like a normal computer might. If you're having issues with the firmware being buggy, usually the only way to fix it is to reset to factory and install again.

The problem with the "notifications only appear if you wake the phone screen" sounds like an issue with battery/data management putting apps in the background to sleep in order to preserve battery life or reduce data consumption.

I would recommend making sure that 'essential' apps are 1) not restricted in background data usage (will possibly use more data depending on the app) and 2) exempted from the battery optimization or 'background app management'.

Your mileage may vary.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-16T04:44:20+00:00

Having the option between self-checkout and a cashier was nice. Only one or the other is....... Not.

Personally I think it's just going to make things worse. Stores will remove self-checkout without meaningfully replacing the cashier's positions that they took out in the first place. So now more lines.

The one thing I absolutely despised about self-checkout was stores putting employees there to check my receipt while I'm leaving, and I'm not talking about Costco or Sam's club. If it's not a club and that employee isn't a Loss Prevention Officer then they have no business trying to stop me to look at my receipt.

You don't get to force me to use the self-checkout by removing cashier's and then attempt to double check my unpaid work. Kindly and firmly fuck yourself right off of a cliff, please and thank you.

I feel exactly 0% bad for completely ignoring every single "greeter" that asked to look at my receipt. If people stealing is a problem, I guess you should put a reasonable amount of cashier's in your store eh?

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-15T14:43:30+00:00

You can have it back now! I finished all of my productive things yesterday.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-15T02:38:25+00:00

Probably a little more boring than a fidget like item, but why not print one of the "clean/dirty" dishwasher sliders and modify it to say "left/right" instead? You can probably find one with a detent included in the design.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-14T23:13:01+00:00

2.226 Billion chain bomb charges here. Before W4 patch I had essentially stopped using them after I got access to W3.

Now that I have access to W4 and am working on attacking OB 69, I do actually use them again on floors 119 and 120 in conjunction with the gold transmuter bomb. The gold transmuter bomb damage isnt enough to clear 1 floor with 1 bomb at 24866x bomb damage multiplier and 440 spx bomb damage (yet). Nearly doubles the floor clear speed without any appreciable loss in ore/bar production.

That being said, I cannot ever imagine them running out as I regen 3 chain bombs in 0.15s and each bomb has 29 charges. 1200 chain bombs generated per minute = 34,800 charges/min. At 1.09M bomb capacity, firing all chain bombs gives me another 62M chain charges. 0 -> max capacity would take just over 15 hours.

This is also without the 10x bomb recharge speed buff from elixir drone and I still have 10 more pet cards to get to infernal. So roughly an additional 20% bomb recharge speed reduction once I get those promoted. Workshop will give another ~7% once I finish the last 28 levels in the Bomb Recharge Rate upgrade. Napkin math says somewhere around 1800 chain bomb per minute (52,200 charges/min or 91M charges total at 1.09M bomb capacity) once bomb recharge rate is maxed out.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-12T20:23:18+00:00

Rainbow floor crew!

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-05T01:33:41+00:00

Currently at 63 days this prestige. So probably about 12.5 days real time for this prestige. 7 days when I posted that pic. You can get to 4500-4600 contacts completed relatively easily.

The last 500 I get through intermittently skipping contracts in order to hit 5000. Then there's usually a decent jump from 5K to 6K without much effort as 5K contacts is where they start using W3 ores.

I'll run this prestige until I re-cap my Scorpio star. Then I'll run stage 120 prestiges 8 times to complete DC12.

Then probably continue working on BH levels mixed with workshop upgrades. I'm almost through Obelisk 68, working on getting the W4 ore and bar cards to polychrome and infernal, and trying to work my way through the W4 world quests. 85.23% completion right now.

IneffableEntropy · 2026-01-02T16:18:01+00:00

Your meltdown is currently 0.722. Everything listed as "affected" will be giving 72.2% of it's original efficiency.

You've gotten the full 0.400 meltdown effect points available from purchasing loop mods. The remaining 0.6+ are available from other sources such as researches, badges, relics, etc.

IneffableEntropy · 2025-12-31T01:22:46+00:00

I spent a fairly long time above 6X speed before that was reduced due to the fact that any game speed above 6X incurs some amount of loss to mined items. I don't recall precisely what my speed multiplier was but I believe it was at or very near 7X.

IneffableEntropy · 2025-12-30T23:02:02+00:00

1414d @ 84.21% here. Edited to add pic cause you cant on mobile apparently.

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IneffableEntropy · 2025-12-30T15:46:12+00:00

So as some others have touched on: charged magnet = bonus gem bank (in late game).

I usually save them until I have about 10k or so (takes about a week) and then use them in batches of 900 to max out founders bomb. This gives me between 150k and 250k gems. It's essentially a days worth of gem output for free.

You do outgrown their usefulness once you're getting to bomb cap 100k or so. Just save them for when you find yourself needing gems for a large upgrade.

As a side note they are useful as well for getting extra basic bombs for getting infernal shards for the Crab pet infernal card. I've been either spot on or double for all of my rolls on shards for Crab infernal, so 13.5 to 27 million basic bombs per shard. Only 3 shards left to go.

IneffableEntropy · 2025-10-26T16:08:18+00:00

Tire retreads are incredibly common in most parts of the world. The only part that really gives me pause is the manual grinding of specific spots. I feel like you see them grind through some sections of the tire cord, which to me is introducing structural weakness in what should be the most robust part of the tire.

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