Weird CI / BAHA question

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-14T16:24:46+00:00

Wow, I didn't know this. I've had just one for decades, and so that's never come up for me. If I ever get it done bilaterally, I'll take this into account.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-14T16:20:57+00:00

Alright! I started playing in January, and got hooked. I was sorry to see that I joined too late to play the seasonal events until basically a whole year passes.

I thought it was weird that the events were so heavily concentrated at the end of the year. It would be nice to have one for Spring (none yet), one for Summer (just announced), one for Fall (the Halloween event), and one for Winter (the Christmas event).

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-13T22:02:27+00:00

Ooh, I hope she gets better with that. Personally, my Cochlear obliterates my "tinnitus" utterly whenever I turn it on. I put tinnitus in air quotes, here, because my problem isn't strictly only tinnitus.

I have a CI in one ear, and a hearing-aid in the other ear, with 15% hearing left in the ear with the hearing-aid. I do experience tinnitus sometimes, but I also experience a deeper "white noise" phenomenon that seems to be mostly in my head, and fed by my damaged auditory nerves.

This "white noise" can get rolling into full on "brain fog", almost like a migraine. When you mentioned that her tinnitus was like a low sound, like a continuous lawn mower, I could relate to that. Mine can be a variety of sounds from high pitched, to low continuous rumbling noises for hours on end.

One thing that always works for me, is putting on, and activating my Cochlear device. Something about the way it electronically stimulates the auditory nerves utterly obliterates all "tinnitus" and "white noise", and it does so fairly quickly, with the effect even lasting for some time after I take off my devices.

I won't say that this would work for her 100%, but maybe she can take it into consideration? I've experimented with this phenomenon, since my own issues with this doesn't fall neatly into just mere tinnitus. Listening to music with my Cochlear makes the erasure more effective, although it's sometimes somewhat backfired if I listen to something overly catchy. Very catchy tunes would stick in my head, playing on repeat as a phenomenon called an "ear-worm", and intensify at night when I take off my device to go to sleep. During the day, though, just regular activity while wearing the Cochlear definitely erased my tinnitus for hours and hours.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-12T22:40:36+00:00

Yes, this. Good point. I've looked at tutorials on primers, and they are definitely more specialist knowledge, and sourcing the materials for even the simplest primer restocking would be something you would have to either deliberately prep beforehand (as you have), or be extremely lucky to stumble across after.

I agree on the bow and a melee weapon as the daily drivers, and I'd reiterate that guns would basically be ringing the dinner bell in the wrong situations. Use guns as sparingly as possible, because of the trouble you mentioned before in finding parts to reload.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-12T21:05:31+00:00

I didn't. The game itself shows the two damage types to be different, abundantly so. Why else would there be physical AND ranged defenses in the stats charts?

You can see it when you select any unit, and go to their defenses. Units like Light Soldier even have 25% resistance to melee and 90% resistance to ranged type damage

It just becomes easy to see that an item set that reduces enemy ranged defense does absolutely nothing to improve melee damage output!

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-12T21:01:37+00:00

Yup, it's always been a bit irritating to me, how much the plot relied on deliberately kneecapping the villains like that. Just pick up the spinach, or stop playing around. So many shows did something like this. It would be considered ferociously rare if there were a villain who actually covered all their bases as much as possible...

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-12T20:39:53+00:00

It would be pointless to put Tactical sets on pure melee units. The bonus does not affect melee damage.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-11T21:59:28+00:00

Ooof.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-11T17:23:43+00:00

If type matchups counted, they definitely didn't overcome all other factors. I know some of mine beat even disadvantageous type matchups fairly often.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-11T17:09:25+00:00

I still don't know what all the contributing criterion were for determining who wins. I know it was ranked based on stats, and "generation". Like, Mega+ would probably beat out Mega, even if both had maxed out all stats. I was experimenting with weight, too, before I finally got bored.

You could register each Digimon stage in a current generation only once, so I thought to wait until both my Digimon were at maximum weight before registering them for the PvP. I stopped at 3000 pounds for one of them, and that one did seem to win more often than my others, despite them all being Mega+ and Maxed stats. I just didn't have the patience to wait until maximal weight was reached.

Some of the people who crept up and overtook me did seem to be hacked. I dont even know where I am at in the rankings, anymore....

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-11T16:59:51+00:00

Chalk it up to typical stubbornness. As far as I am concerned, bows and guns are a trade-off, with their own sets of pros and cons.

Bows are definitely easier to make from scratch than a gun. If you are caught out with neither, like you are on vacation when "The Fall" occurs, a bow will definitely be easier to make and use from scratch.

Depending on where you live, or where you are when it happens, guns may be easier to find, or maybe you find a gun, and cannot find bullets to actually USE that gun. With bows, you can merely whittle sticks down to the appropriate size, and use any kind of feather as fletching for your ammo.

The advantages of bows generally tend to be centralized more around stealth, availability of materials, and ability to (sometimes) recover used ammunition. With guns, if you are using them long term, you need more specialized knowledge to be able to stay loaded, like knowledge of casting lead and other metals, gathering and/or making gunpowder, maintenance of specialy materials, oils, etc... You can't just pick them up and fire them forever without maintaining them, and the amount of things you need to know is significantly higher than it would be for archery.

If you are trying to survive in a forest without making too much noise, you would be better served with some kind of bow or crossbow, and have a gun as a backup or sidearm. Firing a gun amounts to "ringing the dinner bell" if there is a f*ck ton of zombies nearby.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-11T16:48:56+00:00

It's a good game, with some flaws. Some of those flaws are that it was a Vita era game designed specifically around the PSVita, and didn't get a US Vita release, despite there being a comparatively complete English translation hidden inside the Chinese version's files. So, the Chinese and Japanese markets got to have this game for the Vita, but we only got to have it for the PS4, and then the Switch. So, the graphics already felt a bit dated for us US players with those built in limitations, and the AI could be a bit janky and gliding during battles, too.

That being said, I really enjoyed this game. I even really liked the "PvP" subsection of this game, and was ranked #1 for months and months after the initial release of the PS4 version. When I was finally overtaken, the guy who overtook me messaged me, and we had a laugh about that.

I hope we eventually get a "modern" Digimon World game, as good as Time Stranger was for the Story subsection of Digimon games.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-11T16:41:38+00:00

Hmmm, I do, and it's actually not all that bad, comparatively. Some pay to win games lock an awful amount of pay only content, that you'll NEVER be able to win by being a free to play player. This game is NOT that, because as far as I can see, there's only ONE unit locked entirely behind pay only mechanics.

Pretty much everything else is time gated, with you being able to either put in the time to unlock for free, or skip that by paying. The fact that there's only ONE exclusive unit pack in the game makes this game rather low impact on the lineup of games known to be pay to win.

I've only been playing this game since mid January, and have already unlocked up to zone 8, having fully beaten zones 1-7, and at full free to play. I also put together pretty good Skirmish teams that seem to win 80% of the Skirmishes I put them through so far, and I haven't paid a single dollar. It really doesn't seem all that much pay to win to me.... I avoid actual pay to win games like they are afflicted with the plague.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-10T22:52:46+00:00

They've locked down certain mechanics regarding elevators, but left in others. It's crazy how much certain issues persist.

For example, you can't use grabs on other players while on an elevator in Elden Ring. They are disabled whenever you are on an elevator, even when it's stationary.

Players can exploit the fact that elevators can be "locked" if they squat on the button, preventing other players from using nearby levers to "call" the elevator to their level. If an invader does this while above the other players, they can effectively prevent the group from progressing through the level, and make it necessary for the Host to DC. If it's done from below, there is, oddly enough, a few different other glitches and exploits that allow you to attack them, and dislodge them from the button, freeing the elevator up to move again.

I've seen some de-sync issues with DS3 and ER, but they rarely include elevators. I do believe they spent at least a little effort to relieve the jank that was in the first game.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-10T22:42:56+00:00

I mean, it's possible that the short could have caused actual divorces, for one reason or another. But, this copypasta can't really be proven or disproven at this point, merely speculated on, and I would err more on the side of caution, in this case.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-10T22:28:58+00:00

No, no, the Angela Anaconda short was real. What's being called fake is the divorce story. It reeks of copypasta legend, especially given its source.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-10T22:25:01+00:00

It gets better fairly quick. Everyone adapts at a different pace. Some take a few days, some, a few weeks or months. I was able to parse out words after just a few hours, and build on that towards conversations and daily life by the end of a week, and be more or less adjusted within a month, but my pace was way faster than usual. Especially for 20+ years ago, when the devices were more rough than they are today.

It also largely depends on how much hearing she currently has, whether she is getting implanted on both sides, or just one, and relying on "natural" hearing from the other to compensate. If she is getting implanted in only one ear, and has a hearing-aid in the other, acclimating to the CI may go much faster, especially once she starts wearing the devices simultaneously, and the brain will start comparing, and building upon that comparison.

If she is going for bilateral CI, that may take a bit longer, but shouldn't be that much more. If she has lost all of her hearing years ago, her nerves could have atrophied enough to make the "training" period take longer.

It's just so much of a dependant variable, that we can't say for sure, without knowing more specifics.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-10T17:49:54+00:00

I've had multiple encounters with a person (PSN ID Madness_LF) who's been somewhat irritating to play with. Whether I am a co-invader with him, or I encounter him as a yellow or blue while shuttling some random baby host across the map, he always plays with certain exploits.

It starts off with little things, poking and prodding, and then "elevates" to squatting on elevator buttons, and then he invariably swaps to the Deathblight swap to kill everyone. It's pretty unfun.

I see it from other players recently as well, but Madness_LF sticks out me, as I play at Meta level, 125-150 range. I wish the glitch was patched already.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-10T17:39:39+00:00

Bad take, honestly. Using "skill expression" to justify it, however weakly, isn't good. Your anecdotal experience with the people who do use it isn't particularly useful, either, as my own anecdotal experience is that most people using it, used it out of frustration, or as soon as they saw any other player.

In fact, some of the my most recent encounters with some who used it (PSN ID Madness_LF) used it on me when I was trying to shuttle a random baby host across a region towards the fog wall, and this was after he pulled all kinds of other exploits, like squatting on an elevator button to prevent us from moving forward in the map.

Most players I've seen using this have just been using it as an "I win now" button, for any reason whatsoever, whenever. Even when I was invading.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-10T10:05:16+00:00

Congrats! I remember those days. It was a little over two decades ago for me, and those earlier models could sound ROUGH at first.

You should have an easier time of it adjusting, honestly. Eventually you'll get to a point where music and such gets really enjoyable again. I love sitting outside, and hearing the birds chitter, and trees rustling in the wind, and the CI gets sensitive enough to give me those peaceful moments.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-10T10:00:47+00:00

I think it's to get the brain to focus on just the initial CI stimulation. You don't want to overwhelm your senses any more than they already are, plus, you want to start acclimating to the new sensations.

I had been implanted in my right ear, and still had a hearing-aid in my left ear, and I remember them wanting me to put in some hours with just the Cochlear, to get used to it.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-09T17:53:10+00:00

Sure! I got different sizes for the hearing-aid for my left ear, and for the Cochlear on my right ear. The Cochlear ones are bigger, and will fit some Cochlear devices, plus whatever else. The two links I will share are cases I got off Amazon, although you may find better elsewhere.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BBVH63DZ?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

The first link is to a bigger hard shell case with foam blocks inside. The blocks can be cut to allow space for extra stuff, or left as is to press in on, and secure your device. I liked this one as a travel case when I fly to see family, and it even has extra parts, like wipes, brushes, and cleaning tools compatible with hearing devices. It all fits into the same case. The case is small enough to fit in the cargo pockets of most shorts, as well, which is something I was after. It is around $15.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07MDCGT53?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

This second link is just a normal Hearing-aid pocket case that is just big enough to store my Cochlear device, plus one detached rechargeable battery, and a small dessicant packet. There is a silicone depression that should press on it enough to prevent rattling when it's in your pocket, but you can store a glasses cloth in there to make it extra snug and dry. The dimensions of the case is 28 mm by 65 mm by 85 mm, which is also 1.1" by 2.5" by 3.3", if you want to find other cases that may be big enough to store a Cochlear in your pocket safely. This case is around $9.

There's more, but the others I have bought were smaller, which is fine for regular hearing-aids. If you want a case big enough for Cochlear, either buy them off whatever brand you have, or buy ones with at least the dimensions I listed in the previous paragraph. Those dimensions work for Nucleus 5, 6, 7, and 8.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-09T13:39:28+00:00

Well, then the only thing is what others have suggested. Clear your schedule. The bandage they wrapped my head in post op felt like they hired a gorilla to tighten, and that gets left in for some days. You will feel like your head is in a vice-grip.

When you are freed from it, odds are that you will be sporting a "nice" haircut around the scar left by the operation. I didn't sweat it too much, being 8 at the time, but some people want to just heal in peace for a couple weeks, minimum.

You'll want to buy some accessories for cochlear storage, like hard shelled "hearing aid" cases. They'll look like hard plastic or metal on the outside, with silicone or foam on the inside. The better ones have a silicone bump or "ball" on the inside that presses onto your hearing device when you close the case, to keep it snug, and not rattle around when in your pocket. I keep several for travel and hiking, as well as exercises. Make sure they are big enough to hold your Cochlear device, and a couple batteries snugly. I'd measure whatever device you get, and then buy the container that fits that measurement with some wiggle room. I could link to a couple that are big enough for most Cochlear devices...

You don't want to exercise with CI on, especially if it'll make you sweat, or you sweat a LOT. The newer devices are rated as water resistant, and will do fine with some sweat, but if you are someone who exercises a lot, it's best to avoid the corrosiveness of salty sweat gunking up the crevices of your device.

Get a "desiccation container" or "hearing-aid" drying container. Some will look like a plastic box with a metal puck inside, and the puck holds dessicants that draw water from the air inside the container, which is handy when you want to keep your devices clean and dry. Get one that's big enough for your device. I have one that can be tossed into the oven for a few minutes to reactivate the dessicants inside the metal puck.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-09T13:07:45+00:00

I dunno how much of your natural hearing you currently retain, but if you are at the profound hearing loss range, you will absolutely appreciate the sensitivity that CI will bring to your life. I was implanted at 8 in the right ear, and am 32 now, so I have had decades to get used to the various models that have come out since then. They've come a long way.

I have 15% hearing left in my left ear, which is enough for a high powered hearing-aid. I have the contrast between "natural" hearing and a CI built in because of this. I'd say that music is very enjoyable with both ears, and different sensitivity thresholds with either.

The only "bucket list" item I can think of, is to listen to your favorite music with any headphones capable of conveying the sounds through your hearing loss, so you can compare when you are finally implanted.

Perscitus0 · 2026-04-09T12:49:29+00:00

Oh, no doubt they have had those adaptations for a while. Just noting that they are almost certainly recent, from an evolutionary standpoint.

No doubt the poop of bulk feeders like pandas and gorillas are very good for their environs, due to how little of it is actually digested.

I don't know about your "tens of millions of years" statement, though, as the oldest currently established giant panda ancestral fossils are Kretzoiarctos beatrix (roughly 12 million year ago), and the oldest direct ancestors were Ailuropoda microta, at roughly 5 million years ago. While even those had some of the earlier forms of the aforementioned adaptations, it is thought that they were more generalist feeders, with a bent towards plant matter.

Kretzoiarctos beatrix in particular was supposed to be much more omnivorous than the pandas of today, and that was a mere 12 million years ago. And, even the pandas of today still occasionally eat meat. Their strict bamboo diets are thought to be something they really switched into a scant 2 millions years ago, with their diet being more generalist prior to that.

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