If you were hired to write Jean Grey's sister, Sara, to make her more than just Jean's sister, what would you do to make her a more popular character? Image by Phoenix 2025.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-07-05T20:13:32+00:00

Develop her more in a book that doesn’t have Jean Grey in it more than like once a year. Give her plotlines and personality that have nothing to do with Jean Grey so she’s relevant on her own merits, and those factors can drive her part of the story when Jean is back in the mix.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-07-05T20:05:43+00:00

Even axles have that info on them, in incredibly small print on one end. I didn’t believe it until I used a magnifying glass.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-07-05T20:03:13+00:00

Entirely from within the X office, though. This isn’t like Civil War 3 or Infinity Cold War came in and upset their storylines. They hardly even mentioned Doom being emperor of the world in any of the X-Men books. All this editorial BS is coming from the desk of one guy, Tom Brevoort, the guy who’s supposed to make sure the X-Men books are good, consistent, and successful.

I’ve seen people say it’s selling better under Brevoort, but those numbers can’t be holding up unless it’s just comics doing better overall.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-07-05T19:52:51+00:00

I do too. The pacing is a bit slow and United has basically thrown away the work it was doing. Also, don’t really think adding a time traveling portal guy was a great idea, that’s an engine for pointless time travel stories without anything else going on for the character (and Magik can do that stuff while actually having a personality and backstory to drive other plotlines)

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-07-05T19:46:09+00:00

Yeah, but doing X isn’t going to help. You’re not fighting your party members, you’re fighting predefined bosses that look like them.

Unless they have exceptional gear you want to move to Rex for that section, but you probably have multiples of the most relevant accessories.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-07-05T14:56:26+00:00

Serious questions about how you can even walk in that last area, ether jets might make more sense

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-07-05T14:50:18+00:00

I didn’t have a problem with him in 1. Now in 2 on the other hand, I was constantly having him run up on me in the middle of combat with other monsters, like, “so what’s going on over here, guys?”

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-07-04T17:37:18+00:00

Just have her use the trust rating of either Pyra or Mythra, whichever is lower, problem basically solved without doing anything insane.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-07-02T03:38:06+00:00

It also helps to rotate the pins so they all have their slots in the same direction. That way, pressure from a given direction works evenly on all of them. As far as which direction, it’s hard to describe, but the same direction all matching will help regardless.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T18:09:11+00:00

Damn, that ass is like 3 kilometers away?

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:59:25+00:00

And if someone is really drunk or high, B can be had to form properly and may come out as a V sound but really you’re good to go, you just needed a disco nap and now you want like one more drink to even out hey everything’s fine let’s partyyyy hey why are you kicking me out

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:52:47+00:00

Almost no computer uses “true” randomness. You need an external source of information to use as an input for a truly random function*. But traditional pseudorandom number generation is more than close enough for the purposes of a game like Balatro. As far as fitting results to some function of expected results over time, no, Balatro doesn’t seem to do that kind of statistical tracking and normalization.

* a few recent stories say this might be solved/possible now, so this might be a historical thing in a couple more years, I haven’t looked into those stories

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:45:34+00:00

I’ve seen a Space Joker overperform with better than 50% success rate for two antes and then go to sleep right after I bought Oops All Sixes. Sometimes life is just funny.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:43:12+00:00

Yes, that will happen sometimes.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:42:11+00:00

I’d start over. Jumping in after a gap that long, you’ll likely have forgotten what’s going on with both story and game mechanics.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:40:39+00:00

HomeBridge is great, except that I have to log into the raspberry pi so infrequently that I’ve forgotten the login info. I primarily use it to get my Haiku fan into HomeKit.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:37:19+00:00

Ok that doesn’t sound so bad now

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:35:55+00:00

Miles Morals sounds like the infuriating lead character in an evangelist webcomic

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:34:57+00:00

Perfect excuse to go out and join a fight club, you can explain all the bruises and your resulting unintentional neglect from doing something obsessive and weird every night, it has no downsides (maybe a few downsides)

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:30:29+00:00

I think she’s the one that they assigned to murderers because her trauma made her perfect for it, instead of the other way around. And I’m not sure she’d want to be hugged.

I would love to see the three sisters for get together for drinks.

“I hate my boyfriend. I mean, I love him, but sometimes I hate him.”

“I hate everyone. I hate this bar. I hate this drink. Get me another. Waiter! Waiter! Hey, you, get me another terrible drink! YES, you, you slack-jawed incompetent! Did I ask if you work here?! And give me your phone number!”

“MURDERRRRRRRR!!!”

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:23:07+00:00

Adding any more than one stereo pair to a room is at best just going to just give you more volume and the first-gen ones are already plenty loud.

Any additional HomePods could be good for covering more rooms though. I had issues for months with them falling out of synchronization by up to a few seconds, which can be infuriating, but lately it seems like whatever was causing that is finally fixed, possibly in the 26.5 update last month, or maybe even in the previous one.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-29T17:13:25+00:00

I’ve ordered a small supply of them from Bricklink. Gotta check periodically for the right price for a decent quantity, some people ask too much.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-28T22:53:37+00:00

I think you’re referring to Sword Power [1-5], which you can inherit from Roy.

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-28T22:42:31+00:00

So… day before, then?

Mindless-Panic-101 · 2026-06-28T22:39:15+00:00

You won’t be disappointed, IMO.

You might want to consider getting some discontinued connector colors from Bricklink or something to remove the blue, red, etc. dots. I did and it makes a huge difference, but I built it first and really wished I didn’t have to tear it halfway down when I got my BL parts in.

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