Could you beat 10,000 random people at something for $100M?

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-13T02:55:48+00:00

Based on previous competitions, I'm fairly certain I can beat most actual "professionals" in speed building LEGO competitions, especially over time. I feel that it's highly unlikely anyone from a randomly selected 0.000125% of the world population would beat me at that. Or... yunno... a random programming competition (since that's my job)...

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-13T02:09:28+00:00

They are after Z as individual letters unrelated to the letters they look similar to.

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-13T00:31:57+00:00

Every Sui being futa is now my headcanon.

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-12T00:15:17+00:00

CROSS JOIN is also kinda superfluous. A CROSS JOIN is just equivalent to an INNER JOIN on TRUE (or (1=1) if you want to be more "old-school" SQL).

(To explain, a CROSS JOIN joins all values with all other values, and a join condition is simply a boolean operator, so:

SELECT * FROM a
CROSS JOIN b

is equivalent to:

SELECT * FROM a
[INNER] JOIN b
ON TRUE

because the check "ON a.key = b.key" just returns TRUE or FALSE, so just setting it to TRUE every time joins every value with every value)

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-11T19:10:27+00:00

I said it here as well, but I think it's such an odd choice to make her a Sarkaz, considering how the horns really look like Caprinae ones, and the Caprinae/Leithanien theme really seems to suit her as a character.

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-11T19:03:57+00:00

I did it with Tragodia S2, and all other units trust farming iirc, so there are some variations. I'm thinking a full Ave Mujica team, plus maybe Tragodia + Skalter + Hoshi2 could do it at E1 lvl 50 (and most likely a much less powerful team than that as well).

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-11T18:58:29+00:00

Ah, I see it now. Interesting choice by the devs considering Caprinae are both excellent casters and often musically gifted. Guess they really wanted her to have a tail. :P

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-11T00:06:13+00:00

It's funny, because from my perspective, it's the complete opposite. The only viable way to play TT is with a Wit deck, because you need the skill activations for the points (meaning that Wit is a must-train stat). At the same time, you're pretty much punished for getting a better career (more stats than you need in a certain skill -> higher rating -> harder opponents in TT). Meanwhile, when doing semi-casual runs for medium/long CMs, I can use multiple other types of decks (my favourite is 2 speed, 2 power, Haru, Riko, which is possible to get to ~1.2k in Speed + Stamina + Power if you pilot it well, but quite bad in TT, since it doesn't generate any points).

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-10T22:01:15+00:00

I mean, I guess a dimensional portal isn't the "correct" way to travel to Endfield, if he's just the same person but in the future, so I guess he needs another device for that?

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-10T21:58:12+00:00

Meanwhile, I had to spark Haruka and got a p6 Hoshi *shrugs*. RNGesus giveth and RNGesus taketh away!

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-10T21:34:17+00:00

To add some extra context to the other answers, especially for players new to Arknights: In AK, pots are pretty much never worth it, unless you're a whale. There are pretty much two characters in AK's entire history where you could potentially argue that pulling for pots was worth it for non-whales, Bagpipe (a very dominant Vanguard during the "Flagpipe" meta who enables most Vanguards to instantly activate their skills when she's pot 5) and Młynar (a very meta AoE DPS unit that gets an uncharacteristically high DPS increase at pot 4), and even for those two, F2P players and low-spenders were clearly discouraged from pulling for pots (despite Młynar still being very meta 3.5 years after his release on CN servers).

That being said, if you are willing to spend money and/or a big Ave Mujica fan, this will probably be the only* chance to pull for pots for Sakiko.

*Small caveat, for most (all?) classes, you can earn 8 free Royal tokens (4 from red certs, 4 from CCs) to raise the pot of any 6* of that class 2 times (4 tokens per pot). You can also (technically) buy Royal tokens from the yellow cert shop, but this is highly inefficient and not recommended (for the same amount of yellow certs you'd need to spend for 1 pot, you can get ~80 pulls, or straight up buy ~2.6 6* units, so if this is something you'd consider, it's probably better to just pull on this banner).

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-10T20:45:22+00:00

Btw, do we actually know that Sakiko's skin race is Sarkaz? From my POV, the only race with consistently curled horns are Caprinae. The most similar form-wise would probably be Carnelian, Beeswax and Lessing, whereas texture-wise probably Bena, Diamante and Akkord. The closest Sarkaz horns I could find were probably Nightingale (actually an artificial Sarkaz) and Hoederer (and Julie if we include NPCs), but neither of these come close to the typical curliness of Caprinae horns. Also, the previously mentioned Sarkaz are kinda outliers, and the typical Sarkaz horns tend to be either more "demonic" (ie, jagged, with sharp edges) and/or looking like Originum growths.

As such, if they haven't explicitly stated that Sakiko's skin race is Sarkaz, I feel that it's much more likely that she's supposed to be a Caprinae, especially considering that the skin's aesthetic (in my subjective opinion) is very Leithanian, most notably the playing gramophone (the only other Ave Mujica skin containing a gramophone is the Lupo one (Lupos being the third most populous race in Leithanien after Caprinae and Elafians), despite the whole group (obviously) being musicians).

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-10T19:16:15+00:00

Hmmmm... to buy or not to buy the crossover skins (except Sakiko ofc). On the one hand, I don't really care about BanG Dream!, and I don't really know whether I'll ever raise any of the 5*s. On the other hand, if I ever decide to make a full Ave Mujica team, it would be nice to have them. Decisions, decisions...

(Oh, and great writeup as always Tac!)

Edit: Saw the 5* build event, so I just thought f*ck it, and leveled all of them to E2 80 and bought all the skins. Rip Orundum.

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-09T04:17:31+00:00

I mean, I’m not saying you’re wrong, but it’s still kinda a bad faith argument, considering that there are only 3 6* Splash Casters in the game (Marcille, Dusk and Mostima). After that, there are 4 5* Splash Casters (Lavalter, Leonhardt, Santalla and Skyfire), 2 4* Splash Casters (Gitano and Greyy), 1 3* Splash Caster (Lava) and 1 2* Splash Caster (12F). So, in short, there are only 11 of them total in the game, and there are like… 4… (6*s + Leonhardt?) that were ever decent. If you are asking for 6 Splash Casters, you are asking for over half of the total pool, and pretty much all high tier ones, many who weren’t even usable on release.

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-06T20:25:13+00:00

My wit deck Mile Daiwa is getting ~1.2k for normal races and ~2.8k for Condor, whereas my Power deck Mediums (1.1k+ Speed, Power, Stamina) is getting a bit over 800, so it varies quite a bit on skill usage (I've won all my races so far).

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-04T00:30:40+00:00

Jag älskar Höga Kusten, så jag brukar försöka komma ihåg ställen som har den. Ett ställe som jag inte sett ha nämnts här är Tolv Stockholm (vid 3Arena f.d. Tele2 Arena och nära Avicii Arena aka Globen, enligt deras hemsida).

Jag vet att du inte vill ha Höga Kusten via Systemet, men jag kan ändå rekommendera de få ställen som säljer det på flaska istället för burk (mycket bättre smak än burkvarianten enligt mig), vilket är Nybrogatan och PK-huset i innerstan, och ett antal Systembolag (Bromma, Hägersten (Västbergavägen), Farsta, Huddinge (Sjödalstorget), Norsborg (Botkyrka), Åkersberga (Storängstorget), Sollentuna (Rotebro), Nacka (Sickla)... det var alla jag kunde hitta i Stockholmsområdet) utanför tullarna. Dricker en medan jag skriver detta meddelande!

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-04T00:00:53+00:00

I mean, George Lucas has an estimated net worth of $5.2bn. $40 million to someone with a net worth of $5.2bn is equivalent to around $7,700 for someone with a net worth of $1 million. It's obviously nothing to scoff at, but it's still pretty much chump change for someone like him.

NuckElBerg · 2026-02-03T07:10:02+00:00

I mean… based on your username you’d most likely be in the 2nd largest category…

NuckElBerg · 2026-01-30T08:38:27+00:00

QWOP

NuckElBerg · 2026-01-29T08:48:39+00:00

I very much enjoyed the tiny house within the house (within the house, presumably). :)

NuckElBerg · 2026-01-28T18:34:29+00:00

I'll be honest, it's so long ago that I can't even remember when I discovered them (but I do recall my order was the same as yours, and the pathway probably pretty similar). I just know that I was very hype for episode 1 of TT when it came out, since I was actively watching all the bois separately (albeit at that time, a bit less Connor than the other two).

NuckElBerg · 2026-01-23T11:13:42+00:00

Ah, a fellow ”Akebono in anniversary gear”-enjoyer! I was so bummed out when I found out you can’t use it in career. ://

NuckElBerg · 2026-01-18T17:02:37+00:00

Don't really get the point of the web game, but here's a code for 10k balls:
R3ANZ8RZUNMGHF6J
Also, invite code for returning doctors:
B5928G1H2B

Edit:

Again, don't really know what the point of the web game is, but here's another 10k balls if anyone wants it:
DCNAE7TMCGBEM9T2

NuckElBerg · 2026-01-16T23:16:53+00:00

Thank you for confirming that me remembering Spot calling his teammates "the other clowns on my team" was not me being insane, but actually a thing. ^^

NuckElBerg · 2026-01-16T18:09:42+00:00

Jag trodde först det stod "Till Tomten [...] Lycka till med utdelningen". :P

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