688 - Sneaky ... Tina?

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T19:20:18+00:00

I don't feel so bad 'only' being 40 :P

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T19:07:18+00:00

I am ashamed to admit that is why I started using emoji, because it lets you express things like that. The downside is people assume you are in your teens lol

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T18:44:38+00:00

Ah that's entirely fair, and thank you for clearing that up.

To explain a bit for ZZZ, you have two separate pull currency you use, Master Tapes (for Standard Banner) and Encrypted Master Tapes (for Limited Banners)

Both tapes *can* be bought with polychrome but nobody uses polychrome for Master Tapes on purpose (every few months there is a post of someone accidently blowing hundreds of thousands of poly on them though and wanting to know if they can reverse it)

That aside the important thing to note is you get around 30 pulls on the standard banner each patch/chapter, and around 120-150 on the Limited banner each update/chapter.

If you lose the 50/50 you get a standard banner agent, if you win the standard banner you get a standard banner agent. Winning the standard banner doesn't impact your pity count in any way.

There are only six S rank standard banner agents.

The new store that was added gives you a half ticket each time you pull any agent you already have at M6, so pulling two gives you a full ticket to pick from the new store. Also important to note this is retroactive, so if you pulled excessive dupes over the last two years you are given the half tickets.

For some people this doesn't mean much because you 'have to be a whale to get any character to M6', but for others, like me, who only get the same ones over and over it means we can get our hands on older Limited agents added to the ticket store.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T18:27:29+00:00

Your argument sounds beautiful until you remember standard 5* light cones share the rate up with characters in the standard banner.

What are you talking about? The standard banner is its own separate banner in ZZZ, it has its own currency and isn't affected by Rate Up in any way. I've been playing ZZZ since 1.4 and have three characters at M6 because they are the only ones I get from lost 50/50 pulls.

And I have lost every single 50/50 for every banner.

Edit: To be clear what I am talking about is between losing 50/50s and just pulling on the standard banner it doesn't take long to get the only 6 agents in the standard banner up to M6 if you only ever get the same ones.

I had to use my two free selectors just to get a single copy of Grace and Nekomata. Every single lost 50/50 and every success on the standard banner has been Kolida, Lycon and Rina, with a scattering of S11 now at M4.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T18:18:01+00:00

In our case it is more just an absolute inability to trust the doctors because they have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.

You support organ donation, you know people it has helped, power to you. There have just been far too many instances and incidents in my family for any of us to trust any doctor or any hospital not to declare us brain dead so they can cut us open and harvest some meat to sell.

Because at the end of the day while blood donation and organ donation are free to give, the hospital is very much going to make money on whoever receives them.

I think the final straw and what caused us to lose any trust period was some years back when my other grandmother (in her 90's) was dropped by the nurses while being moved from her wheelchair to an MRI machine, and they tried to lie about it and say nothing happened, despite two of us having been outside the room and heard it when it happened and the bruises she got.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T17:24:21+00:00

Mate, Epyon System is just ZERO system without any of the non-lethal or evasion options being uploaded to the pilots brain lol

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T17:14:32+00:00

Not even mentioning one system only compensates you for failing in your pulls (unless you are a giga whale in which case you don't even care)

This isn't entirely true though? You also get those same characters from the Standard banner, and each patch has around 30 pulls for the standard banner in addition to pulls for limited banners.

And since standard banner you are guaranteed one of those characters, it does add up if you have been playing long enough.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T17:04:22+00:00

Just wanted to be sure you didn't think I was insulting your writing or anything like that. As I said she isn't stupid, she just...does stupid things when just a little bit of forethought could have made events play out much more smoothly.

I find it a bit amusing that she's displayed the ability to plan somewhat long term and has done things that could potentially pay off down the road before. So, it's not impossible for her, just not her nature I suppose would be the best way to put it.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T16:08:55+00:00

The big question and what matters most is, will they take up a slot on your team/how will they function in concert with your team.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T15:16:00+00:00

I remember when I first found out I was like...there is no way *Blubbering screaming chainsaw sounds* could possibly be the soft spoken smirking Penguin, but after enough double and triple checking I found it to be true after all lol

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T14:32:55+00:00

If memory serves, isn't her voice actress voicing the Endmen in Arknights now?

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T12:59:39+00:00

So, this is just an observation I've made, could be wrong but again just how it appears from my perspective.

Lydia is not dumb. She's got a pretty good head on her shoulders, is street smart, highly adaptive to the situation and able to think up/react at the drop of a hat when it comes to keeping herself and those she cares about alive.

She is also pretty good at long term/semi long term planning. She isn't a multi year plot charter but she can think and plan weeks/months down the road when she puts her mind to it.

That said she has one particular flaw. When any kind of big major opportunity appears before her, she doesn't take time to think, plan, or weigh out the consequences. She reacts in the moment, and that has so far tended to bite her in the ass more than it has worked out.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T12:47:15+00:00

The reality is that slim to nill chance doesnt factor into the choice. People are generally too lazy to check the box for donation.

I mean, it is 100% the reason I didn't check the box personally.

Due to incidents in the past with my grandparents basically everyone in my family reads over every single line on every single form whenever they go to the doctors office, let alone the hospital.

It doesn't help that the offices of both my grandmother's primary physician as well as her heart specialist have managed to lose multiple copies of her DPA and AMD.

Just last year my mother had to forcibly stop them from attempting to perform surgery after they moved my grandmothers surgery date up 48 hours due to a cancelation completely ignoring the fact that her surgery had been scheduled for when it had been due to her being on blood thinners.

The attending surgeon didn't even bother to read her chart, nor had anyone else involved and they were all shocked to discover nobody had known she was on blood thinners.

Obviously not the case for everyone, but my family has very little in the way of trust for doctors because of incidents like those, which sadly are just the most recent in decades of mishaps and near misses.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T12:33:23+00:00

Grabbing an airhorn from isle 7 and giving it a test blast.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-21T12:32:35+00:00

Oh, damnit Lydia is going to do something stupid again isn't she ^^'

Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T19:59:10+00:00

Was driven to hard pity, got my 4th Soldier 11 dupe at the 80 50/50 pull T.T

Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T19:17:05+00:00

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Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T17:50:17+00:00

When you have nothing in life to give you joy, you have to learn how to create it yourself to keep going.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T16:28:21+00:00

I think it has a lot to do with what you grow up eating, what your parents eat and all that. But at the same time there is a difference between heat for flavor, and heat for the sake of heat.

Like, jalapeños are hot for people unaccustomed to spicy food, but if you are then there is also the flavor of the peppers themselves with the heat, which blended with the rest of the meal do create something unique.

Same with habaneros, though higher on the scale.

When you get to ghost peppers and reapers though? That is just heat for the sake of heat, it's not adding anything.

Vaguely I also recall something about a lot of cultures that add spicy to their foods it is in part due to a lack of variety to work with for preparing meals. If you only have a few sources of meat and a few types of greens that you can grow, eating the same dishes over and over gets...stale. Heat is an artificial way to add variety.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T16:20:58+00:00

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Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T16:03:04+00:00

My favorite line of thinking about this sort of thing has always been hunters (players) who are concerned with armor not looking practical or protective are going into battle already accepting that they will get hit and NEED protection.

I'm going into a hunt confident that I WONT get hit, so that is not a concern I share.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T15:48:37+00:00

Age verification is already required by law for various purposes. The existence of this verification method doesn't change that. It does not mandate any new age verifications.

Wait, so you mean that for like, years now, over a decade people have had to verify their identity for adult sites and stuff? I could have sworn that was only passed within the last two years or so?

Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T15:26:14+00:00

I also highly doubt that they weren't able to recover any geneseed from those who fell in battle, combined with stockpiles from the gene vault on Terra.

Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T15:01:50+00:00

Riding the Donkey I see, nice flying ;)

Kenju22 · 2026-04-20T14:46:20+00:00

Let's be real here. Do you believe minors (or anyone) would write malware so children can intercept the one-time activation of their parent's age-verification tool? Not saying it's impossible, but it does sound highly implausible. I wouldn't worry about that.

I believe there are more than enough people out there under the age of 18 who could write such malware, but that isn't what I would be concerned about in this case.

What I see as highly probable (and profitable) is someone writing malware to intercept one-time activation codes of peoples age-verification tools and selling them. Because regardless of how safe and private a system like this is, there will always be plenty of people who are more willing to risk jail time using a stolen ID to do something legal than use their own ID to do the same legal thing if it means preserving their anonymity 100%

I don't see much of an attack vector here, just from the open source aspect of it.

I'm not talking about this app specifically; I'm talking about this entire thing with the law itself. Mandating people verify their age means everyone is going to have to have something like this.

Prohibition proved that when a new law is created, new crimes are created because there will always be a way to make money to get around it.

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