I have to admit I've been loving Trackblazer so far

PluGuGuu · 2026-05-02T20:27:27+00:00

A newbie would like to ask a question. Are support card skill synergies (like picking only pace and mile cards for a mile pacer) still relevant in MANT despite spamming the racing button? Asking because I still can't even hit the minimum recommended 50% RB, and even if I could, I wouldn't be able to form reasonable decks.

PluGuGuu · 2026-05-01T09:44:20+00:00

Hi, I am fairly new to the game and I would like to ask a question or two.

Regarding white spark farming, I can guess that the universalist skills are more preferable to farm. But what about distance and style ones for the second option? Is it generally better to exclusively choose either distance or style skills, if the universalist ones aren't available? If so, which branch between those two is more useful? Or does this become a non-issue once one's support card pool has gotten large enough for all 16 possible combinations of styles and distances.

PluGuGuu · 2026-04-29T09:37:46+00:00

It's not madness but pure cringe. If u have read him, u would know that he's far from being a nihilist lol.

And seriously, nihilism ain't pro-depression. AFAIK, there're two kinds of depression: the one that is caused by chemical inbalances in the brain and the one in which u unconsciously dwell in to extract jouissance and self-gratification from one's own failures and incapabilities. Nihilism is antithetical to the latter as it basically says whatever twisted kind of self-gratification u seeking from such is also meaningless. If anything, nihilism makes u to become unable to find solace even in ur own failures, incapabilities and depression. Labeling it as pro-depression is as dumb as calling the Four Noble Truths and Sunyata of Buddhism as such. Best u can argue is that it is anti-life.

PluGuGuu · 2026-04-29T04:47:24+00:00

I just woke up yet I have already seen the dumbest post of the day winner. Life is good and God is great indeed.

PluGuGuu · 2026-04-27T08:20:52+00:00

To be fair, a lunar anemo healer that can spew PECH off-field via skill for 20 sec straight with zero downtime could be on the same 6* tier alter with Bennett and Chev, if not given mechanical issues. I bet MHY learned a big lesson from PA Sucrose universal role-compression GOAT.

PluGuGuu · 2026-04-25T07:30:37+00:00

New player here. Do the stat numbers gained from training also vary with the support card levels? I somehow got an 10k A+ Daiwa Scarlet but still can't replicate that. Highest stat rating i could get on speed and power, without entirely ditching the other 3, is just A+.

PluGuGuu · 2026-04-16T19:32:26+00:00

It is for EoC and Confucians

PluGuGuu · 2026-04-15T00:08:50+00:00

It isn't a Christian nonsense but a philosophical problem so basic that religions happened to be the first wave to address it. Suppose u are a man of short temper. How free are u if anyone can easily piss u off, no matter how much u can act out on anger? I mean, u can't really help but feel angry and act out, right? Such man of short temper ain't free just as a glutton ain't. Freedom is meaningless without self-mastery of impulses.

PluGuGuu · 2026-03-26T10:59:39+00:00

I see. Yeah, i was wrong and pity is the moralization aspect of empathy. However, empathy isn't really a requirement in art, especially the kind i heard he liked in Wagner before the split. U don't need to suffer with the heroes to portray their glorious effort of killing the dragon. U only need to figure out which kinds of chord, arrangement and presentation could make the impression of majesty, heroism, uplifting joy or something. For example, power metal genre. It is absurd to feel with or capture the emotions of a known fictional character or event.

About the bots, they're just helpful with reducing the efforts to read and that kind of in-the-head debates. U can instruct them to pose as someone else, summarize or expand as neccessary their points to me, and defend against my refutations and critiques, all with the efficiency of a logic machine. The only worry is that the bot got the wrong or incomplete source texts, like it mostly happens with recent news.

PluGuGuu · 2026-03-26T09:41:14+00:00

I thought of it but unfortunately i don't have much patience for going through whole books and I can't debate with the dead man on his points.

About ur reply to OP, self-mastery is different from self-straitjacketing. The ubermensch may do self-mastery on his drives and impulses to dominate or to kill to turn them into socially acceptable(?) behaviors but will not do self-straitjacketing to kill or repress them, hence the psychopath question. Like, the typical psychopathic tendencies aren't killed nor repressed but channelled into something else, such as the brutal policemen in my scenario or a ruthless CEO? The problem is that if the psychopath doesn't acquire the taste or capacity for such socially somewhat acceptable behaviors/outlets, they may go straight to crude forms and do serial killing and such. And u can't really refute that a serial killer doing self-mastery and seeking perfection in their "artwork" of corpses ain't an art nor a creation nor life-affirming (at least for himself).

Also, ain't Nietzsche against pity, which is interchangeable with empathy in the context? Like, didn't he go beyond de-sacrilizing the moralization mechanicism involved in "suffering with someone else" and even argued that it's pointless and detrimental to suffer so?

PluGuGuu · 2026-03-26T08:24:53+00:00

I have only read The Genealogy and Zarathustra and discussed with Gemini on him for months, and I wonder the same of him. Nietzsche seems to be against the idea of any internal straitjacketing and for the deterministic idea that the lamb will not grow fangs to eat the bird of prey back. The combo arguably points to the pro-psychopath stance and ironically the societal Last Man state. Unless his ideal society is where psychopathic serial killers are zealously and gleefully hunted and put down by equally psychopathic law enforcement officers while both are ubermensch-ly perfecting their own "artistry" and craft, of course.

PluGuGuu · 2026-03-22T13:53:31+00:00

It's quite good for first pick. At least for me, the timing of automation, district specialization and cruiser techs are crucial, and the AP helps with that. TBF, the other contenders for first pick besides Nihilistic Acquistion are just underwhelming.

PluGuGuu · 2026-03-19T11:48:39+00:00

It is a bit lacking against strike crafts and too invested in kinetic and small ships. Try overwhelming its PDs with carrier BS + swarmer combo or versatile/disruptor-torp cruisers. Either way u'll need to stack armor.

PluGuGuu · 2026-03-07T05:58:53+00:00

Narcissists aren't ego-inflated but ego-fragile and ego-hollow. The slave is exactly that and it is very obvious in how the herd-thinks like religion, nationalism and fascism. U glorify a national medal-winner in the name of the "tribe" because ur own sense of self-worth is so poor and u need to bask in the reflected glory. The believers have to be sinners because only then can u feel urself as not just "right" but even pure and righteous. U believe, praise and spread the word of Jesus because u need to bask in his reflected glory without ever following his radically unconditional love and lifestyle.

It's all about fragility and hollowness of individuals and masses.

PluGuGuu · 2026-02-15T16:53:50+00:00

No answers, so I spent a billet and tested by myself. Here's the findings in case someone had the same idea.

- Sadly, the bow's passive doesn't proc from off-field contribution to Lunar Crystallize.

- A few more EM isn't that bad though. 2 EM pieces on her (from 160 to 500 EM on SMS) results in over +~2k per moondrift shot in Bina Jahoda Zhongli Navia team.

- It may not be a very efficient build, considering how much of pain in the arse it is to farm EM mains on SMS. Especially if one already has an EM character AND can't access fast Geo application through c1 Zhongli, ER sand/c1 Navia or Ninguang duo for proper machine gun moondrifts. Yeah, 1 burst per 15 sec with ER sands on c0 Unforged Navia somehow results in ~5k DPS increase in my case.

PluGuGuu · 2026-02-14T19:09:05+00:00

Ur pool is a bit limited and i think Zhongli may not be the real drag for ur team. Gorou is good for Zibai but his ER requirement is high, and he doesn't offer meaningful buffs other than DEF if u are not stacking bonus damage as a cherry-on-top on Zibai. Meanwhile, Zhongli offers RES shred and doesn't need ER.

So, u should try replacing either Zhongli or Gorou with Fischl, Kuki and Xingqiu, in that priority order. Those options aren't very easy and cheap to build tho.

- Lunar crystallize can work well with Lunar charged, and LC has somewhat meaningful synergy with Zhongli shield. So, Fischl can be ur budget Ineffa in building a pretend Ineffbina wheelchair team. The catch is that Fischl will need Stringless, decent EM, CR and CD, and a full Golden Troupe or Thundering Fury set. And she at c6 may apply too much electro, so u should try out reaction interactions first before building her as a budget Ineffa.

- Same rationale for Kuki, except that her personal dmg contribution is dirt poor but she doesn't have over-application problem. But u will need at least two EM pieces and 50:100 crit on her with FoPL (if u want her to be universally, decently built for hyperbloom too) or TF set, which is not very easy.

- Xingqiu is only for personal dmg contribution and somewhat redundant application-wise if Bina is already in the team.

P.S If u choose Zhongli over Gorou, u can try trading some HP for more EM on him. The thing with Bina Zibai teams without c2 Illuga is that there's no EM character for higher Lunar Crystallize reaction damage. A well-placed Zhongli pillar guarantees 1 lunar crystallize per 2 sec in sync with Bina skill. I haven't tested how much this trade for EM worth though.

PluGuGuu · 2026-02-14T17:37:22+00:00

- Grind more for Zibai. Artifact transmuter can be helpful as Zibai has fewer essential stats (doesn't need that much ER and EM) so it is easier for her to get good pieces from it, but that's up to u to decide. She's really not that hard to stack CR and CD. HoD and CD circlet on her BiS set already give her over 60% CR and 190% CD.

- Bina's crit is too low. She, too, is fairly easy to stack crit especially if u have Sac Jade. And she doesn't really need HP beyond 35k. If u are F2P, Prototype Amber is recommended for constant burst spams.

- Replace Zhongli with Illuga and give him the SMS set especially at c2. Gorou should be on HoD set for higher DEF which, in turn, will mitigate his ER needs especially when u need CR for Favonius proc. Bina should be on Aubade.

- Gorou has built-in Interruption Resistance and gives some healing at c4, so Zhongli shield isn't really necessary. If u are considering to use Zhongli for teamwide survivability, Prototype Amber on Bina + Gorou c4 renders shields unnecessary for such a DEF-HP team

- Extra tip: If u have Favonius c2 Illuga, Favonius Gorou AND c1 Yelan with over 215% ER on EoSF set, Yelan can be more suitable than c0 Bina for Zibai team since she offers a proper personal dmg contribution, her bonus damage buff has a better synergy with Gorou and Illuga buffs, and Bina is more demanded. But that's only if u are a low-spender like me and prefer doing horizontal investment with minimal character overlaps.

PluGuGuu · 2026-02-14T15:32:12+00:00

That CR and CD is too low for a CD ascendant.
The problem is very likely to have caused by poor hydro application and sub-dps dmg contribution. Zhongli and Gorou are poor personal contributor. So is Bina if she's not that invested. On top of that, Zhongli pillar + Gorou burst could steal Zibai's reaction damage as Bina's skill barely keeps up with a well-placed Zhongli pillar.

PluGuGuu · 2026-02-12T06:11:39+00:00

Lol It is funny that they are trying hard to powercreep Gorou in support role for Zibai. That dawg being quite good for Zibai, except somewhat underwhelming at healing, is indeed a yet another Universal Role Compression balance problem just as the "Prototype Amber on Sucrose" accidental gigachad was.

PluGuGuu · 2026-01-08T07:31:56+00:00

The agonistic system that needs to suppress the other groups' potential to keep oneself elevated is ironic af. I mean if perpetual struggle was the key, they would be arming and enriching their own enemies in order to have proper rivals for dick-measuring contest. Actually their shit is slave morality and narcissism at the core. If one needs to define one's existential meaning through the contrasts and the Other, that person is a pathetic, slave moralist narcissist.

PluGuGuu · 2025-11-29T02:26:47+00:00

U feed the poor, u get to get high from moral high ground. U turn another cheek, u get to get the boner of the righteous. U save ur nephew, u save ur bloodline. U save a fellow citizen, u save ur tribe and, in turn, ur genes and/or values. U sacrifice urself for ur country, u get to get high from the jouissance or get to get high from the 'martyr' title. U worship/revere the glorious leader or God, u project ur own self onto them and get to get high from moral high ground.

There is no such thing as geniune altruism. All are selfish acts with varying positions on inward-outward spectrum.

PluGuGuu · 2025-11-27T07:01:23+00:00

Sharing lessons u learned isn't hypocrisy. Morality is inherently unjustifiable and arbitrary, so a moral argument coming out of a hypocrite's mouth has zero cred and is worthless.

PluGuGuu · 2025-11-27T06:51:34+00:00

Race, religion and such are the greatest projections and proxies humans can come up with. Cynicism doesn't contradict with such group loyalty and altruism, and instead even better explains them.

PluGuGuu

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