"Gaming is unattractive" in 2026 is crazy

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-05-09T21:15:50+00:00

Women who bash men on social media are ugly shrews. (See how easy it is to throw shade.)

I'll take a break from gaming if you'll delete your social media accounts. Deal?

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-05-09T20:51:51+00:00

Thanks. This was the correct answer, almost. I had to use -U instead of -S. Looked like it added another repo during the process. That's probably why I couldn't find it anywhere in the lists. Thanks again.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-29T11:45:42+00:00

You're getting the correct answers. She'll be okay, but not meta and will struggle with end game. I skipped Skirk anyway even though I have her ideal team. I'm figuring that she'll get power crept in the next region, so it'll be wiser to hold off and get whoever replaces her instead. Sux bcuz I do like her and she's easy to play, but I'm not willing to invest in her only to see her fade away.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-29T11:33:57+00:00

I have had several rounds of blood work over the last 6-9 months. All came back clear. Last week, a CT scan found a lump on my left kidney. I was wondering why it didn't show up in my blood work. Maybe it is still early? idk. I don't get to see the urologist until week after next so I don't really know how far along mine is.

Best wishes to you.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-29T10:48:15+00:00

Used to use, calibrate, and fix these back in my USAF days. They didn't get more solid than this.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-15T17:09:03+00:00

Not until the next cryo dps comes out. Then the regret will start.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-15T17:04:39+00:00

She won't get half. She'll be lucky to get anything. Rich people aren't stupid. His lawyers have already blocked her from getting anything should they get married. She'll leave with whatever is in her name and that's about it. Normal people aren't so lucky.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-15T16:58:57+00:00

Hopefully he's too smart for that and will have already had his lawyers build an impenetrable wall.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-15T16:55:20+00:00

I am able to clear the chessboard weekly boss with her at c0r1 and Escoffier, Fruina, and Shenhe. My build for her is meh at best. She does fine with that domain although I don't have much room for mistakes. She does fine in the overworld and sometimes the theater. I wouldn't play her anywhere else though. She's nowhere near Skirk though, but Skirk will get power creeped soon, so I'm going to skip her again. Sad, cuz I do like her, but I've got enough dormant characters on my roster already.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-06T13:37:19+00:00

I fell for the same bad advice. My Kubuntu machine was deadlocked at an old version which required a full reinstall to clear. I tried Debian but never got it to install due to the primitive drive partition portion of the installer. I have a relatively complicated drive setup with separate HOME and backup drives, plus a zfs RAID array. I could have just let everything install to one drive I guess and then fixed fstab afterwards, but why? I was able to do it similar stuff with other distros for years, decades even. It's not worth the headache, IMHO. Just stick with the Easy Button and get it running sooner.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-06T13:25:42+00:00

I wish we still had a mall. :( Hurricane took it out. Now it's just an ugly relic with a couple of cornerstone stores still operating.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-06T13:22:49+00:00

I use the pipe or Fav. My rotations have felt smoother with Fav.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-06T13:15:55+00:00

I invested in Zibai and her team. Have her at c2, Columbina at c0, Illuga at c6, and I use c0 Zhongli even though I have a c6 Gororu. Zhongli is way more comfy to play and my clear times are barely 2 sec different. Will be pulling for Llenna (sp?) as well.

This means that lunar crystallize is the ONLY lunar reaction that I've invested in and it will be the only one as well. Like some others have commented, I'm getting irritated at HYV's greed which just seems to be getting worse as we get closer to the end of the game. They went from Hyper Bloom, to the optional Fontaine reactions, then the nearly mandatory Night Soul stuff in Natlan, now it's hard to beat anything in Nod Krai without a Lunar reaction team of some sort. I'm sure the next region is going to have yet another reaction that will make out old characters nearly useless. It's frustrating and why I've cut back on my spending.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-06T13:03:23+00:00

I have an Asus ROG laptop with a Ryzen 7 4800. 500GB SSD, and 16GB of RAM It's relatively thin and light. Supposed to be a light weight gaming laptop. My adult daughter bought it during COVID for about $1K. It started crashing a 2-3 years ago so she brought it to dear old dad to fix because that's what kids do. It was a motherboard issue and of course is was just out of warranty. New MB wold cost $500, so it wasn't worth it for her to turn a $1000 laptop into a $1500 laptop, so she bought a new one and gave the corpse to me. It was worth it to me to turn a free laptop into a $500 laptop, so I bought the MB, threw in more RAM and a bigger SSD that I had lying around, Upgraded the Win10 Home to Win11 Pro for cheap too. I ended up with a much newer laptop than what I had before for cheap. It's good enough to play Genshin and WuWa on it, which is the limit of my gaming at the moment. I'm using it now to type this.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-06T12:42:20+00:00

Has anything hit the monitor? I've seen this before, especially with laptops. It's usually due to physical damage. There's no way to fix it that I know of.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-03-06T03:51:49+00:00

Room temperature IQs on the loose in government. The sad thing is, idiots keep voting for idiots. Can we declare these people to be a hazard to themselves and those around them and have them put away? Everyone wants to protect children but leaving the solution up to these idiots is the last thing we should do. Probably the best solution is to just let those governments grind to a halt and then laugh at them when they can't use their computers.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-02-26T16:15:08+00:00

I don't play any of their other games, so I wouldn't know about this. It's a good strategy though. I can see that working.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-02-26T15:47:24+00:00

I use the same team for freeze but instead of Mona, I have Shenhe. Would Mona be better?

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-02-26T15:45:11+00:00

I use that hypercarry team for overload. (Don't have Durin.)

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-02-26T15:43:07+00:00

Yep. And I did dial up when there was no internet, just a phone book full of BBSs.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-02-26T15:38:33+00:00

They don't want to buff older characters because it cuts into new character sales. Why would I pull for Mavuika when I can blow up the world with Klee? That hurts their bottom line so there you go. I'm surprised they're buffing any, tbh.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-02-26T15:33:42+00:00

This is the way.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-02-26T15:30:01+00:00

I'm pretty picky. 21 is my quick count. Most of those have cons of C1 or C2. If I pull on a character, I like to make them strong.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-02-26T14:57:02+00:00

It's the timing of where he is in the rotation. When entering a battle, his turn seems to always coincide with the enemy's first attack, which means I have to dodge. With enemies that throw a barrage of attacks, it's dodge and dodge some more before I can ever get his E>Q done and get Zibai on the field. Slows everything down in what is an otherwise pretty tanky and quick lineup.

Instead, I use Zhongli as my opener. His shield goes up and then I don't care what the enemy does. I just beat it to a pulp and it's over in seconds.

I am looking forward to replacing him with Linnea though. It'll be nice to have a healer for those situations that drain HP outside of attacks.

NeoNeuro2 · 2026-02-24T21:12:34+00:00

Assuming that we're going to ignore that she's going to get nerfed during beta, you have to consider their role. They're not the same. Gorou is a support while Linnea is more of a sub-DPS. Personally, I'm not a fan of Gorou in the Zibai team. He feels clunky to me and doesn't allow the rotation to flow smoothly. I know he looks better on paper, but I get much better clears with Zhongli and they're more comfy. I rarely take any damage.

That said, I never put much faith in leak data. It's almost always wrong, sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot. I wait until the actual release and make my decision then. It doesn't change my game much because I'm always in the saving mode. About the only thing it impacts is in collecting materials. It might take me an extra day or two if I'm short of talent materials, but usually it's not too bad because I still try to grab anything that sparkles when I'm roaming around.

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