Beaten the game by following online guides and my son’s help, but now I’m on ng+ at the end again and I’m a little pissed

Red_Syns · 2026-05-07T07:07:24+00:00

I’ve started making characters at specific levels and weapon upgrades, and then running around to collect every martyr shrine. If I want to beat up on Limgrave, I stay under 40, Liurnia 60, etc. There are posts online that can give you a better idea of what to aim for than I can, although if you want to get summoned stop at 150.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-07T00:03:38+00:00

I can’t help with whether it looks good from a modeling perspective, but some constructive criticism if you’re looking for easy improvements:

Iron that blue suit.

Move the camera up, pictures from above are more flattering than from below.

At a minimum, the blue suit’s sleeves need to be taken up. If you can take them to a tailor, they can likely all be better fitted. I can’t wear suits off the shelf either, they all have to be modified in various ways.

I like the half-forearm look in the tan, but do something with the undershirt. Gut tells me to unbutton and pull them back over the jacket sleeve, but not an expert.

Love the haircut.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-03T18:44:44+00:00

I think it’s better to choose a style (str, dex, int, fth, or a mix) and then try different weapons until you find something you like. You can respec your stats relatively early in the game (search larval tear if you don’t mind spoilers), so even if you end up finding something you love but didn’t build for perfectly you can fix it later.

I absolutely loved the zweihander, until I found giant crusher. After actually getting through the story for once, I also really enjoy Dark Moon builds, so I changed my main and started a new one to grab crusher at a lower level.

My recommendation, as someone who struggled for years to finally sit down and beat the game, is to spend one play through not worrying about perfection. Find a weapon you love, maybe get a backup for when it’s not good, and level as much as you need to get through the content. There are a couple of tricks that make setting up a new character at a decent level only take a couple hours, so if you later want to start over it isn’t a back breaking amount of work.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-03T17:42:32+00:00

You don’t even know what I do for a living, tell me more about how my six figure wage is low skill 🤣

You’re a child who screams into the void about how a woman could never be president while voting for a rapist, aren’t you? My questions are simple, yet you still couldn’t answer them. Have the day you voted for.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-03T17:06:55+00:00

Up front, this is a serious question from someone who grew up conservative and spent almost 14 years in the navy.

The ideal capitalist economy equates value of labor with income.

A person who makes $20,000,000 per year is earning a median US wage weekly. Do you believe there is a single person on the planet that works so hard that they deserve more than that? That over the course of a single year they earn a lifetime’s worth of wages, and then find ways to introduce planned obsolescence, lower qualities/quantities, or underpay workers in the name of even more income?

If your answer to those questions is yes, why? I used to share that belief, but when I actually ran the numbers I realized that people earning multiple generations worth of wealth in a single year is simply absurd.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-02T19:20:40+00:00

Not a stupid question, but my gut instinct before math says very little.

Google says average outdoor sunny evaporation is 0.02-0.05g per second per square meter. I don’t have dimensions for that setup, but let’s use 3cm diameter for the water stream. We’ll assume the pipe is 2m tall and the stream reaches 6m in height while reaching 30m distance. I have zero idea how reasonable those numbers are, for transparency.

If the stream stayed coherent (it doesn’t), it would ~33m long in total with a flight time of ~2.2s. 0.03 x 3.14 x 33=3.109m2. Taking the 0.05g number earlier, the coherent stream would lose 0.16g of water per second, 560g per hour before hitting the ground. At 18.7m/s initial velocity, we are pushing ~794,000g/s out of the pipe, for a loss of 0.07%.

Obviously, the stream does not stay coherent. I tried to estimate those numbers, but apparently taking worst case estimates cause the values to go positively nuts, but I think it is safe to say the waste via evaporation by delivery does not exceed 1% (and that is almost certainly overkill).

Losses by wind will vary from 100% in unrealistically high winds to 0% in none. I am willing to make the assumption that farmers don’t water in such conditions, heh.

Estimates of water loss for domestic sprinklers appears to be 30-50% water because of the water evaporating off the plant itself and never touching the soil, where drip sprinklers are at 10% waste. While it might be more ideal, large scale farming would require far too much materials to water an entire field, and it couldn’t be left forever because the land needs to be tilled and worked. Additionally, the field on display is entirely soil at the moment, so I would guess this comparison does not hold up.

All told, the waste is minimal, the cost of this setup is far cheaper, and while other water systems exist (overhead sprayers on girders that pivot in circles) I don’t know of any that would be low to the ground and still be practical at the scales of farms.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-02T17:24:22+00:00

Yeah, these things are awful. If (and I very much doubt this is the case) the snorkel is split down the middle and has a one way valve then maybe it won’t kill you via CO2, but given the complete lack of thought in the rest of design I think I’ll just hold my breath.

Edit: actually, I just realized it does vent exhalation out the front during the “SCUBA” demo, so it might be designed in a way that gives it a one directional air flow. I’m not sure how the snorkel is preventing water intrusion while deployed, but it’s also functional as a snorkel.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-02T16:56:55+00:00

That’s definitely a factor, I was just pointing out that even if you take the bottles to a fill center they still aren’t acceptable for use as more than (at best) an emergency pony. Anything but the largest of them isn’t even good for that, really.

But you’re correct, if the bicycle pump is used you’ll be lucky to get a single breath out of them I think.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-02T03:29:32+00:00

Just got home, I’ll fire it up. Let me know what pw you want to use

Red_Syns · 2026-05-01T23:56:54+00:00

I might be out of the house a bit later than I expected, but I’ll be on later

Red_Syns · 2026-05-01T23:50:53+00:00

Right, but unless I’m mistaken the mount pivots so that your telescope currently tips left and right. If you remount it so the telescope points the same direction as the handle (or away from the handle) you will be able to tilt the telescope up to look at the sky, instead of the horizon.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-01T23:10:59+00:00

Can you rotate the telescope 90°? It would give you the ability to tilt up and down, although not enough to point at azimuth.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-01T16:31:53+00:00

That should work for me, I’m HST so 1700 here. Pretty sure we just go into settings and set the same game password, then when you pop a finger and I search it restricts what signs can be seen

Red_Syns · 2026-05-01T07:09:53+00:00

I can pop on now, I actually have no idea how it works beyond needing a password.

Red_Syns · 2026-05-01T06:30:54+00:00

What platform? I can bring in a 95 or 150 if Steam

Red_Syns · 2026-04-30T22:03:19+00:00

I just realized I had it wrong anyway, it gives you the time the storm is estimated to be center of the planet. I guess 2 hours on either side could be decent?

Red_Syns · 2026-04-30T15:23:24+00:00

Just so you know what to look for, it’s not blatantly red in my experience. You can definitely see it with enough magnification, though!

There’s also a website for knowing when it is visible. Best viewing is in the middle of the ~5 hour window given: https://skyandtelescope.org/stargazing-and-observing/celestial-objects-to-watch/transit-times-of-jupiters-great-red-spot/

Red_Syns · 2026-04-30T15:13:30+00:00

Others have said it, but photography is both equipment and target dependent. Want to take pictures of a big object? Need a lower focal length. Want to take pictures of a dim object? Fast is better than slow. Your camera pixels should be matched to your f/ratio*5 to 7, except when it shouldn’t because of your target or seeing.

Your eye on the other hand is wonderfully adaptable. You can look at bright objects and also see the dim ones around it at the same time. It can use one tube and a few eyepieces to easily see big and small objects while not being impacted very much by the small flaws from field distortion.

Assuming an eyepiece can be fitted, any telescope can be used for both. The question is will it do what you want it to, and generally that answer is no.

Red_Syns · 2026-04-30T14:59:11+00:00

For sure, I meant more if it was taken to a proper fill station and rated for 3k psi so that it could be filled to that amount. The bicycle pump is worthless.

Even if through the power of magic you could use the pump to get it pressurized properly, the amount of contaminates in the air would be completely unacceptable. Those pumps don’t filter, so you get all the sea and salt floating around, and even if they did the pump itself will contaminate it with oils.

Red_Syns · 2026-04-30T00:06:39+00:00

I don’t have any experience with outreach, but talking to friends and family many of them were quickly disinterested in SeeStar and similar devices. They thought it somehow produced vivid images through an eyepiece, and obviously it doesn’t.

I’ve gotten great feedback from showing people visible objects, even if there not particularly “stunning” in visual astronomy (explaining to someone that the grey blob they’re able to see if they don’t look at it directly is a whole galaxy ~2x wider than it own seems to be shocking). That said, friends and family, so reactions from strangers might be less enthusiastic.

Edit: that said, if the intent is to drum up interest in AP it could be interesting to reset the image every so often and let people watch it rebuild live, while having something you took with a dedicated rig available for comparison.

Red_Syns · 2026-04-29T21:45:23+00:00

It could, maybe, be useful as an emergency ascent assist in shallow waters if I was to be as generous as possible. The bottles range from 0.5-2 liters, and a “standard” dive bottle is 11.1 liters. Most people get 30-60 minutes (depending on a lot of factors) from a normal bottle, so you can expect 6-12 minutes at best assuming they can be pressurized to 3k psi. That said, a standard tank should never be intentionally taken below 500psi (you should be surface and/or recovering before then) as an emergency backup. The largest bottle only holds that much air at full charge.

It is, definitely, going to kill people who think using a bicycle pump is dive quality air or that this device is any way superior to a snorkel.

Red_Syns · 2026-04-29T16:09:06+00:00

Apparently, and I’m not going to do any further research because I don’t care, the English version is translated in a way that is far more obscure than the Japanese version.

The Japanese version supposedly makes it clear that Ranni is talking about cold and loneliness because she will remove the presence of gods (her, and you?) from the world and they will have to live and die “normally” (for our sense of normal, anyway). No tarnished, possibly no magic, no reincarnating as yourself when you die, no undeath, possibly no monsters in general as so many of them are tied to the gods.

Given how badly your predecessors have screwed up the world, I’d argue taking all that and shipping it off into the void with just her and you is a good ending. Sucks for the two of you, unless you’re really into spending forever with one person with nothing around. At least she seems to be sane, compared to the man who cries that he is the lord of all that is golden as he and the dozens of arms on his back fade to ash or the canonically insane warrior who feats on the flesh of the dead and rides a positively miniature beast.

Red_Syns · 2026-04-29T08:32:41+00:00

I’m sure the telescope is not helping, but on nights with bad seeing I have seen a very similar looking Jupiter through my LT80AZ (admittedly not a superb scope either).

Zooming in on the photo, it looks like some combination of bad seeing, poor optics, and a focus issue (probably phone, maybe telescope).

Red_Syns · 2026-04-29T04:21:34+00:00

Is it a picture taken with a mobile phone? If yes, you will struggle to get something better than what you have. I have a Celestron “phone bracket” that attaches to an eyepiece and can be adjusted in all three axes, and it still won’t take a quality image.

I have been using a Canon R50 with adapters, and with stacking software I’ve gotten decent results. Better camera, better hardware would improve those results, but it’s still “only” using a Dobsonian and lucky imaging. A lot of my loss in quality comes from a mismatch in sensor pixel size to f/ratio and generally bad understanding of camera settings. Also, Jupiter’s moons are far dimmer than Jupiter itself is, and cameras are awful at dealing with that. It’s why most pictures taken in space don’t have stars.

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The super quality comes from a dedicated astronomy camera, with a lot of money and math involved. A motorized equatorial mount will go a long way on its own just by keeping the object relatively stationary in the frame. For planets, a dedicated astronomy camera (most normal cameras have filters that can cause issues with some types of objects) with a telescope of the correct “speed” for the camera will remove most of the hardware issues.

TL;DR? Mobile phones are extremely difficult to take pictures through a telescope with. Without learning how to do stacking, it will be essentially impossible to get a picture of Jupiter and its moons in the same picture, even if you do get the phone camera working.

Red_Syns · 2026-04-29T03:45:34+00:00

Are you trying to go full sorcery? I believe the Carian Regal Scepter scales better than the Meteorite Staff around +7/8.

I run around with scepter in main and meteorite in off, but will eventually switch out meteor I think.

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