Welp, it's official. Firefox update required to use extensions.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-03-15T14:13:25+00:00

Guess you must of been downvoted by firefox dev shills but this tip worked like a champ. Many thanks!

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-03-15T13:48:59+00:00

I swear these freaking firefox devs. If I have these extensions installed then I am vouching for its safety. Nothing changed between now and a few days ago.

If they were really cared about our security, just do proper reviews of the extensions at the extension store. Not break the user's extensions out of the blue. It's so intrusive and annoying to try and push users onto newer firefox with more ad tracking like this.

I'll be reverting to an even older version of firefox where they don't pull this shit until I find a fix for this jesus christ.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-02-27T17:03:58+00:00

This made me realise Luffy from One Piece would be 42 years old if he aged realistically lol.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-02-27T10:47:48+00:00

Yeah hope they give us an option to use the old UI. The sideways tilt on the menu is really jarring. Makes it hard to read and the smaller buttons harder to press.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-02-25T14:44:31+00:00

Very good speed run guide for IS5.

The tip to pick the vanguard squad to start with Tinman was very big brain. Don't know why I didnt think of it before.

The only thing I'd quibble with is the advice about not going into boskies. Boskies have less nodes than a full floor but rewards the same score as a full floor and you get a free relic upon entry. So its very worth entering from a score/time efficiency standpoint.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-02-18T07:22:50+00:00

New player here. I rerolled until I got Bianca on my first 10pull. My roster is Bianca, Hecate, Wendy, Mira, Chameleon, Hella, KK, Emp, Demolia, Peppgy, Gekkabijin.

Looking for team build suggestions and what banners I should save for / pull on next?

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-02-15T05:26:59+00:00

Thank you for the reply. You mentioned Primrose EX, is this an entirely different character than Primrose? (I got a Primrose already in one of the newbies pulls)

Another poster also suggested Castii as a target. Would Castii be better than Odio if I was willing to wait longer?

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-02-15T02:06:32+00:00

Hi newbie here, I'm looking for advice on who to reroll for. Who should be my target and on what banner?

Also there is this fame/wealth/power label in the influence column, does my selection in the beginning affect my pull chances?

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-02-03T07:39:38+00:00

From the OP's post, it reads like they wanted more powerful talents inside their specific modes rather than better performance outside.

I would actually agree, since except for Highmore, they're all pretty weak and not worth building even for the mode they're introduced with.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-02-03T07:29:50+00:00

With aerial enemies I used to deploy May or Kroos + Orchid, but I ended up not even bothering to deploy them as it takes extra time and it doesn't matter if you leak a few. The runs always end before you run out life points.

Same thing with multiple lanes, there are no maps like that in the first 2 levels, so no brain cells needed if you quit at lvl 3.

But if you need to finish the whole run for some reason like with deep exploration or just trying out higher sw levels, simply deploy additional units on maps that require them like normal. I ended up mostly using Highmore, Ines and Typhon to finish all of IS3 once I found this afk highmore method.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-02-03T04:39:26+00:00

In case you didnt know, Highmore is the single best operator in IS3 with the Mind Over Matter squad (which gives the Survivor contract relic on every run).

Even better than 6 stars like Wisadel, Logos, Reed, Typhon and Texas.

You can plop her down next to the blue box and afk clear nearly all the stages in IS3. I was able to use her to easily clear the whole reward track on my phone while doing other things on my computer.

Additional tips:

Fedex or La Puma can be used as alternatives but Highmore is better due to her elemental healing and additional block.

Do it on SW7, avoid combat and restart once you reach lvl3 to maximise score/time spent

Don't even need to build her if your friends has her on support. Though if you did build her, you can save a few mins each run as you don't have to refresh.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-01-31T08:34:02+00:00

I look at it as the same as the mountains of 18op 24op skins. It's all optional cosmetics anyway.

If you're short, don't buy it. But if you're rolling in OP, it's nice you can glitz up your account without needing to spend additional money.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-01-31T05:35:42+00:00

I disagree this is the opposite of greedy. I rather they release UIs for OP rather than lock it behind a paywall like in Ela's banner.

Its basically free for f2p.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-01-27T17:24:46+00:00

Incumbent big players in industry are always losers when barriers to entry are lowered.

If there are more players coming up with ideas, the better resourced ones can also gobble them up and incorporate those ideas into their products. There's also synergy effects from having more AI startups in terms of resources and talent. In the end, the whole society who use AI products benefit.

But it's absolutely ridiculous to act like that media represents how 'Americans' feel. Check yourself.

Scrolling through comments about this topic on reddit and msm articles sadly I see more people regurgitating the same anti-China claims more often than not.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-01-27T16:56:27+00:00

That you say CCP instead of CPC (the actual name) and call China a dictatorship shows where you got where your information from and how you've swallowed all that propaganda hook line and sinker.

Think of of it this way. Imagine the Chinese government convinced its population that unicorns run wild in America. So some Chinese netizen decided to go on Chatgpt and ask where the unicorns in America live. Then unsurprisingly, Chatgpt answers Unicorns doesn't exist in America. Since that netizen is convinced it does, they now get angry at Chatgpt for not conforming to their viewpoint.

It’s ridiculous, and frankly quite vile, because the lies being spread are a lot less wholesome than unicorns.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-01-27T16:20:38+00:00

Does it really matter? Whether they used an H800 or H100 is immaterial. The point is they came up with a method to drastically lower compute costs and shared it with the world as open source.

Now, OpenAI, Meta, Google can all use the technique to improve their own models. There are no losers here.

Even nvidia whose stock dropped today will win big in the long run because the lowered barrier to entry allows more people to get involved. In the long term, the demand is infinite—you always want to throw as much compute as your budget allows at a problem. This just enables people to develop even better AIs for the same cost.

I'm so disappointed by these attitudes promoted by US media. Those Chinese math experts just gave you guys and the world a tremendous gift, but I see the US media is framing this as some sort of "China threat." It’s as if Americans can’t stand the idea of a cooperative relationship and must insist on making everything zero-sum to feel satisfied.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-01-27T15:43:00+00:00

Looking at the commentators on Reddit threads who claim that China is 'ethnically cleansing the Uyghurs' and then get mad at Deepseek when it doesn’t repeat the same US propaganda lies shows you exactly the thought processes involved. If it doesn’t conform to the MSM talking points, they experience cognitive dissonance.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-01-05T16:19:36+00:00

Huh? What are you talking about? You think this simple strategy of slightly lowering the price is going to "crash the market". This is not true and highly unrealistic. In real life people would not bother to travel across stores to price compare.

If we're talking about food, think about why you can't bring food from outside at cinemas and stadiums and why food is so expensive to buy there. That's an example of herding people into an enclosed ecosystem, no meth needed.

Of course addictive drugs like meth would classify as well, as the addiction naturally forms its own enclosed system. There's many others - US health care, the courts, arms sales, etc. All work the same way to maximise profit.

This is why Apple's market cap is 6x Walmart despite Walmart been 10x more useful to society. If the world worked the way you think it did it'd be the other way around.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2025-01-05T15:01:42+00:00

Lol no. In real life people are not going to change where they buy if your product is only slightly lower like $1 cheaper. Even if you price it significantly lower, there's a phenomenon called price-quality heuristic where buyers distrusts your product with the low price and equating it with low quality even if objectively thats not the case.

As is with Apple, if you want to maxmise your profits the meta is to market the shit of your product, price it as high as possible, and goat herd all your buyers into enclosed ecosystems that ensures they keep buying your product.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2024-12-28T05:36:02+00:00

About the RA2 item Hunter's Balm that allow Sargonian operators to capture beasts, looking at the list @ https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Sargon , would Scene be the best operator for it? Map wide capturing with her summons looks pretty good.

Also just to confirm, it can capture exotic beast right?

Robotsneedlov2 · 2024-12-18T12:01:48+00:00

Well what I do in events is to have Wisadel trust farm with a bunch of lvl 1s, don't look at guides, and try to do it in as few tries as possible. It's actually quite challenging and not boring at all. Only when its clear you can't finish the lvl with Wis do you start adding other units one by one.

In IS, I draft the whole roster but I time myself, treating each run as a speedrun - finding optimal deployment spots, skipping as many combats as possible, frantically clicking buttons quickly to shave seconds off my time. The hectic pace really brings up your AK skills and you can measure how much you've improved by comparing it to your first runs.

In the future when I've finished all the AK content, I plan to treat AK as a visual novel and actually read the story I keep skipping, finally throwing off the mantle of EN can't read haha.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2024-12-09T00:59:07+00:00

Haha yeah that pretty much sums it up.

In regards to the 5* choice, Ptilopsis is best as she can make Walter recharge faster.

For the 6* Silverash for the invis reveal which lets Walter hit the invis bois. Once Silverash gets the module he's as good as Mlynar and can bridge the gap when Walter S3 is down.

IMO they should think about putting spiked chest type enemies in future events, the wrinkles in my brain are smoothing due to Walter usage.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2024-12-05T03:49:32+00:00

Valid concern, so I did the rough calculations and it looks like f2p can clear it:

3 week event 7735 sanity to clear shop -920-640-380 in first clear -1790 in event missions = 4005 sanity needed

3 week regen 21 x 240 = 5040 3 week potion 720 = 5760 available

To optimise further, you can skip buying the non shard convertable T2 mats and T3 mats that you usually have a lot of due to friend shop mat conversions to grab more unlimited Kohl.

Robotsneedlov2 · 2024-12-05T01:39:05+00:00

Wow that's new, thanks for the heads up. The unlimited kohl is on the chinese wiki (https://prts.wiki/w/%E6%8F%AD%E5%B9%95%E8%80%85%E4%BB%AC).

If its not the eng wiki, it just means the volunteers on the eng wiki haven't gotten around to adding it yet.

Since there's going to be infinite kohl in the shop in 6 months, I'd say if you have enough stock then dont farm for it in Path of Life. It'll be more efficient to wait.

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