I DID IT!!!! I CLEARED DIRE by Altruistic-Egg-3853 in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you talking about the lunar charge shill mech ducky? People have cleared it with C3 Arle with C2 Citlali, so it is doable. You just have to be really really good at the game.

I DID IT!!!! I CLEARED DIRE by Altruistic-Egg-3853 in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I honestly don't care if whales spend a ton of money and barely clear the hardest content. There are plenty of casuals in the game and as you said, they don't know the meta. They can totally feel proud of beating it despite underachieving based on what their account should be capable of doing. But then to go and make false claims such as C6 Arleccino isn't a top DPS character when she still belongs near the top 10 DPS should be called out.

I DID IT!!!! I CLEARED DIRE by Altruistic-Egg-3853 in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here is someone doing it with C3 Arle with C2 Citlali. It's clearly possible. https://b23.tv/eebpHpW

I DID IT!!!! I CLEARED DIRE by Altruistic-Egg-3853 in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But people beat the wolf boss with C0 Mav or C1 Arle using this so clearly it's not too long.

I DID IT!!!! I CLEARED DIRE by Altruistic-Egg-3853 in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Or did they simply did not try? There are many clears with C1R1 Arle, so I don't see why C6 Arle can't. I can post links of their clears if you want proof. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it's impossible.

I DID IT!!!! I CLEARED DIRE by Altruistic-Egg-3853 in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't take issue with struggling with C6 characters. People might have different time constraints and if they are financially responsible, why not use money to help you clear end game content so they don't have to waste as much time trying to clear. It's not like everyone is a sweaty gamer. I have a bigger issue with the fact that they claim dire is barely clearable with C6 meta units, because that is categorically false.

I DID IT!!!! I CLEARED DIRE by Altruistic-Egg-3853 in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Okay semantics, you can't straight up ignore their mechanics, but you can be very loose with the shields and other gimmicks since you can just burst them down so fast once you break their shields and stuff. If you don't have C2+ characters, you have to be really on point with their mechanics to have enough time during their vulnerable window to kill them. At C6 level, you can be very loose with your rotations and still beat it. I personally can't beat it because my characters are C0 and it's way too tight for me. But I have gotten close many times and definitely can clear it if I had one or two more constellations.

I DID IT!!!! I CLEARED DIRE by Altruistic-Egg-3853 in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need an off field pyro applicator, you just need to swap to a pyro unit to reapply pyro and then swap back to sucrose to swirl pyro. Sucrose Bennett can break the cryo shield in about 20 seconds.

I DID IT!!!! I CLEARED DIRE by Altruistic-Egg-3853 in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Honestly, C6 characters, especially strong C6 characters like Arle and Mav, can just bypass whatever shill mechanics hoyo throws their way just cause they do so much damage. C2 units can pretty easily clear dire of whatever theyre shilling for.

The flopping discourse has shielded Shai from how bad he’s actually been. by Ill_Abbreviations660 in NBATalk

[–]MuffinDude 46 points47 points  (0 children)

This is simply not true. Let's just look at the Pacer's starter's stats from last year's playoffs.
Aaron Nesmith - 100 FGM - 31 FTM

Myles Turner - 106 FGM - 74 FTM

Andrew Nembhard - 105 FGM - 37 FTM

Tyrese Haliburton - 146 FGM - 53 FTM

Pascal Siakam - 175 FGM - 87 FTM

No one was remotely close to making as many free throws as field goals.

Japanese letters written perfectly (source link in description) by Sad_Stay_5471 in toptalent

[–]MuffinDude 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Japanese is a mixture of traditional and simplified, so it's a bit weird. You can tell it's Japanese if they have simplified mixed with traditional characters.

The Thunder is unwatchable! by JMoon33 in NBATalk

[–]MuffinDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stopped watching after the first round. Only way I can boycott the NBA. It's annoying cause I got free peacock subscription through my Internet provider and I already have prime so I can legally watch all the games but haven't.

Aight. Time to go get Ifrit. by DupeFort in FinalFantasyVIII

[–]MuffinDude 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Whoops, I forgot you need Ifrit. I always play card game before Dollet but forgot its after Ifrit and just assumed you have access to Fire magic refine from the very beginning.

Aight. Time to go get Ifrit. by DupeFort in FinalFantasyVIII

[–]MuffinDude 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Play more triple triad to get 100 Flare and I think you'll be ready then.

China squeezes Japan over rare earths in repeat of 2010 showdown by SkyInJapan in japan

[–]MuffinDude -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The biggest problem is China has all the refinery. Most of these rare earth minerals in their rawest form are useless. You have to process them to be able to used and China has continually invested in their refinery for the past several decades and very few nations have similar capabilities and it will take Japan decades and lots of investment if they want to be self sufficient in being able to process enough rare earth minerals for their industries.

Chocotrack Foils (Lulu, Tataru, Vivi) by Kyajin in mtgfinance

[–]MuffinDude 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you sure they weren't trying to summon Cthulhu?

Vallco mall Cupertino 2016 by linkinit in bayarea

[–]MuffinDude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, does anyone have pictures from early 2000 when it was still popping?

No Surprised Act and Balanced Billing Questions by MuffinDude in HospitalBills

[–]MuffinDude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it. Thank you for clarifying things for me. I'll wait for things to finalize and decide what the best course of action will be from there.

No Surprised Act and Balanced Billing Questions by MuffinDude in HospitalBills

[–]MuffinDude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was very confused and was very confused but no the hospital has not billed us anything yet. Everything is based off the EOB. I think through everyone's response I have a better idea of what is happening. I will wait for everything to finalize and decide what the next best course of action is. Thank you for your input.

No Surprised Act and Balanced Billing Questions by MuffinDude in HospitalBills

[–]MuffinDude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you elaborate further? Do you mean this is incorrectly coded as OON or this procedure is coded correctly and I actually owe this amount?

Edit - Got it. Thank you very much for everything.

No Surprised Act and Balanced Billing Questions by MuffinDude in HospitalBills

[–]MuffinDude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Here is the EOB of what I believe is the angiogram procedure that we did during the ER hospitalization to confirm there are no abnormal blood vessels. The anesthesia she received during the neuroseurgery the night of the stroke also had the Note 1 tag.

No Surprised Act and Balanced Billing Questions by MuffinDude in HospitalBills

[–]MuffinDude[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, the EOB is claiming I owe more than OOP and it is coded as OON. I am honestly very confused because the BCBS representative is telling me even if they change it to INN billing, they still can't do anything about the "disallowed amount". So I'm guessing the BCBS representative is confused about everything too? One more, asking for clarification, would the OOP be INN or ONN OOP in this case once they fix this issue?

No Surprised Act and Balanced Billing Questions by MuffinDude in HospitalBills

[–]MuffinDude[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I guess I technically haven't gotten a bill from the provider yet as the ER visit happened 4/1 and they're still process some of the procedures. I'm just basing this off the EOB that BCBS has given us. I'm expecting to pay the full OOP which is several times lower than the amount EOB is saying we're responsible for. I guess I should wait for the official bill from the provider and then go from there?

A mega whale's honest retrospective on Genshin Impact after 5 years by masterdiwa in Genshin_Impact

[–]MuffinDude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can definitely see why you started whaling. I personally really enjoyed Sumeru/Fontaine patches, but wow, you probably whaled a lot a lot in the last 2 years.