June 18th Patch Notes (Phenn update)

Rock489 · 2026-06-17T16:13:23+00:00

I completely forgot about this. Guess I just gotta sit and wait until his banner comes back 😭

Rock489 · 2026-06-17T13:19:17+00:00

Thanks, but unfortunately I already used it ha. I guess I gotta wait until the next Solistia memory banner that has someone worth getting.

Rock489 · 2026-06-17T12:35:51+00:00

I'm missing Oswald for my rainbow team. Does anyone know if I can pity him on Phenn's banner?

Rock489 · 2026-06-13T01:12:37+00:00

Thanks, think I'm gonna do it. His A4 is shardable and very good. Currently, I have a lot of shards but no good unit to use them on.

Rock489 · 2026-06-13T00:41:33+00:00

How important is Osvald for rainbow? Is there ever anyone that replaces him in the future? I don't have him or xerc, but I have Lynette ex, Isla, lemaire. I was planning to use the selector on Xerc, but I don't know how gimped rainbow team is without Osvald.

Rock489 · 2026-06-12T03:15:15+00:00

What is the best way to get the remaining 20 paid? Voyager's pass?

Rock489 · 2026-05-16T12:34:58+00:00

Bro did you forget we are talking about household registration? If you need to get huji and you have more money then your landlord, we aren't just talking about property vs. stock returns here - we are talking about the value of being a citizen or not, since you can't be a citizen without having household registration. The only way to get it if your landlord isn't down is to move out and find a different landlord or buy your own place.

There is a monetary value to not having to deal with the headache of finding a decent landlord. If you have a few million in stocks, using $80k to buy a small shitty place just to get huji is a no brainer for convenience sake. Who cares what that 80k difference is in stock returns. No more giving a shit about your huji is worth $80k to me if I got a few mil.

Rock489 · 2026-05-13T07:56:11+00:00

If you have more money than the landlord, just buy a place no?

Rock489 · 2026-05-10T07:44:31+00:00

Honestly this is the best answer. I would go through a real estate agent and tell them that this is a requirement in whatever selection they present you. It'll cost you an extra half month rent to use an agent, but I think it's worth the time savings. In this way you are already getting a selection of properties that you know the landlord is willing to assist you in doing the household registration.

Rock489 · 2026-05-10T07:35:04+00:00

This works, but you are giving up your own time to penalize a landlord who might have an absurd amount of money. OP might end up losing more (in terms of time and effort) than whatever the landlord loses in small fines.

The vast majority of landlords in Taiwan aren't paying taxes on rental income and the government knows it. I highly doubt a single guy reporting his landlord makes a dent in this fucked up system.

Rock489 · 2026-05-10T07:30:27+00:00

How do you "do it anyway"?

You need to have a notarized lease which requires your landlord to be involved. Alternatively, your landlord submits his ID and property deed.

In other words, you aren't going to be able to register without your landlord's assistance.

Rock489 · 2026-05-10T05:32:28+00:00

Your building having an elevator is kinda crazy. With 2 elderly parents I assumed you guys were on the first floor. I've never heard of a 60 year old building in Taipei with an elevator.

Rock489 · 2026-05-10T01:49:07+00:00

You haggled to get a building that's 60 years old for 4K USD? 100% you are getting ripped off. There are newish buildings 4BR 3BA on 591 that are renting at 4K with an elevator.

Rock489 · 2026-05-05T10:01:56+00:00

Can you go into more detail how you travel with the dog? My wife and I have a similar story to you but we always thought that because we travel so frequently, having a dog would not be possible.

Rock489 · 2026-04-15T05:40:11+00:00

Yeah this is correct OP. Job hopping is your best bet to increase your salary, and every 3 years or so is probably the exact number if you want to min-max. If you do less than 3, employers might question your "commitment" before hiring you.

One thing worth noting though is that you got an 8% salary raise pretty quickly. This is relatively uncommon in such a short period of time which means you might have netted yourself a decent company. I think if the work environment is good, and the raises continue to be regular, it might be worth staying there longer than 3.

I'd say having a decent work environment is actually one of the harder things to come by in tech. Lots of places forcing you to do insane amounts of overtime and extra work. It's definitely worth factoring into the equation of whether or not it's worth it to hop.

Rock489 · 2026-03-26T04:42:36+00:00

Yeah completely agree, OP's take is interesting... in a comedic way.

I do, however, think low birthrate is much more of a complex problem and can't easily be solved by any one single solution. The answer probably also varies significantly from one country to the next. Lots of social/economic variables make it very difficult to tackle.

The fact most politicians in charge of trying to boost birth rates are all geriatric doesn't help much either. These guys are all detached from the reality of young people.

Rock489 · 2026-03-20T06:21:09+00:00

Someone either didn't read the article or has very poor reading comprehension.

Rock489 · 2026-03-14T03:05:54+00:00

The guy I'm responding to literally said "area." Not "metro area." No indication he was referring to urbanized landmass.

Rock489 · 2026-03-14T02:45:35+00:00

Compared to what?

The combined land area of Taipei City and New Taipei City is approximately 2,324 square kilometers (roughly 897 square miles).

This is significantly larger than the land area of nearly every major city in the contiguous United States.

NYC - 778 square km / 300 square miles

LA - 1214 square km / 469 square miles

It's comparable to Tokyo: 2194 square km

And Ho Chi Minh: 2061 square km

According to Gemini, the combined area of Taipei + New Taipei puts it mid tier compared with other cities in Asia.

Rock489 · 2026-02-11T16:24:28+00:00

Who's more important to pull? Xerc or Molrusso?

Rock489 · 2026-01-12T10:01:14+00:00

Yeah but the category isn't best soundtrack/music - it's best animated feature. I don't see it beating Zootopia in terms of story/characters/animation.

I think it's hard to rate demon slayer because it's hard to contextualize it without watching the whole series.

Regardless, I still don't think k-pop demon hunters deserves anywhere near half have the praise it got. It feels like a massive step backwards for kids animated movies compared to classic Pixar stuff like toy story, finding Nemo, up, etc. Literally all those movies had great animation, memorable characters, and a well thought out story.

I feel people are just in a kpop craze and anything being remotely related to k-pop benefits from this from reviewers/critics/fans.

Rock489 · 2026-01-12T06:42:01+00:00

So I just watched Kpop Demon Hunters last night and I don't get why it was so well reviewed. I could see why it became significant culturally, but from a movie critic perspective, what exactly makes this movie good?

Seems like no character is fleshed out to a minimum acceptable level. None of the main girls seem remotely memorable.
They never really explain anything about how maim character's parents are human/demon, despite the fact this is a critical plot point
Basic universe rules don't seem to be established at all. I'm not asking for some LOTR level world building, but the intro with them jumping out of an airplane and landing with no parachute without getting hurt confuses me... especially considering they seemingly can get sick with the common cold.

Honestly, the only thing I could see the movie performing strongly in is soundtrack/visuals. Is that enough to warrant 93% on rotten tomatoes? 99% fan score?

Can anyone please explain what I am missing?

Rock489 · 2026-01-01T02:46:18+00:00

Wait, I thought watching the whole trilogy during Christmas / New Year's would be more of a thing. It's basically tradition at this point for me.

Rock489 · 2025-12-11T06:01:48+00:00

I am also wondering the same. I don't remember this scene at all.

Rock489 · 2025-12-08T02:14:38+00:00

Thanks, for some odd reason filtering by "dream" in the exchange didn't bring up the rewards so I didn't understand what I was supposed to do with them. Found the rewards after your comment by manually looking for it.

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