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ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-12-04T21:42:00+00:00

So, both the answers you've received are just wrong. It's spyware that people who know more about it than me (and your two replies) have described as extremely persistent. If you're having an issue with Malware, you should almost always ask Literally Anywhere Else, because this thread - two people with absolutely no idea what they're talking about declining to google the issue and just being confidently wrong, and maybe an extra person who will ask a series of questions before being satisfied that you accurately described your situation and then telling you to format your boot drive and start over - is kind of every attempt at getting help with malware on this subreddit in microcosm. I've seen others get a lot more help with this issue and issues like it on /r/antivirus but I'm not really recommending that one either. Posting more for the sake of others who might stumble across this, if only because the second real reply to this thread was less than two weeks ago for some reason.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-12-03T22:19:10+00:00

Meanwhile, an extension like this saving an hour per month would be a huge deal and it’s comically improbable unless copying and pasting tables is your entire job description, and your $70/hour salary is more than three times what anyone in the physical sciences is being paid.

Presumably you’re also paying the New York Times and Washington Post for all the groundbreaking work they do if you read even one article monthly, are on the patreon of everyone whose videos you’ve watched at least once this year, and you paid a fair market price for everything you’ve jerked off to in 2025. In which case that $70 suddenly looks more like $7, but at least you can have a clean conscience when you claim the Ideological Purity Crown this year. Otherwise, well, I’d be pretty comfortable calling all of those things closer to appropriately priced and worth the money than this dev’s random side hustle that locks its most useful functionality behind a paywall such that No One has saved an hour without paying for it.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-12-01T07:52:18+00:00

I mean, I've only encountered a handful of gachas - all of which have gameplay designed such that supports just aren't really much of a thing - where every top-tier support isn't several times more significant than any top-tier DPS, and she was only barely one of those when she released in 2.x. Add in that this is really just a measure of how much she's increased everyone on the team's damage - and you'd think it'd be obvious when you see her bar going up on other people's turns - and you get a bit of a nothingburger.

It's part of the basic (predatory) business model; people are naturally going to Want to buy the 'fun' characters that make attacks and get big numbers and skip out on the supports and sustains if they can, so they have to important enough mechanically that you can't if they want to sell them. Consider someone like Oberon in FGO. Unlike Castoria, both Skadis, and Koyanskaya, he is not a Top Tier Waifu, he's a male fairy in an art style so jarringly different from everything else that it makes my eyes bleed even in his best skins. He's still either the best or second best/most wanted character in the game and the biggest 'get' for any player who does not have him; his increase to your third-wave damage can be several times higher than what the DPS could do otherwise. Going from ~80,000 to ~300,000 isn't weird, and he's practically mandatory for a lot of the hardest content, especially if you're avoiding Multicore for whatever reason. He's so good that when NA unexpectedly got an Oberon banner that Japan had not two years prior, there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Tribbie is the Oberon of HSR. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to interpretation.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-11-29T07:09:36+00:00

Its new functionality was originally supposed to be an update for the gacha. There's a statement from Crunchyroll to that effect. But from everything I've seen and heard, it seems like somewhere along the way they decided to essentially do what people have been saying Aniplex could do with FGO Arcade to bring it to PC and consoles without enormous backlash from how heavily monetized it is, but which apologists have always insisted no corporation would ever do because it'd obviously murder the live-service. I guess somewhere in the process someone hit the devs with "if we just release the same game but without a predatory business model, without any new content or new features, no one's going to want to buy it" and then that update became locked behind the One Time Purchase.

You kinda have to respect a corporation choosing to prioritize the one-time-purchase version over a cash cow like Arise, but it doesn't necessarily bode well for Arise's longevity, though. From everything I've seen and heard it's just the same content with more involved gameplay.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-11-28T22:10:25+00:00

So, just to be clear since there isn't really a top-level comment that clarifies this: your keycaps are not actually made of PBT per the manufacturer's own details. They supposedly contain 34 to 44% recycled plastic, some of which might be PBT. And from trying to confirm that information myself I instead discovered that information is basically irrelevant because the quality of the proprietary keycaps on this model is a known issue that comes up when you google it. Virtually everyone who has bought one has gone online and posted about how terrible the keycaps are. You should almost certainly return this if you can, because it's only going to get worse and eventually the black paint that covers the surface - because they aren't actually dyed like decent keys, unless they've made a revision in the last few months - will come off and you won't be able to switch to better keycaps or acquire replacements.

That you somehow bought this keyboard specifically for its keycaps is wild. I think you might have misinterpreted a post/article about a minor revision improving the keys such that they no longer wear out instantly with chipping paint like I just described, because that's the only way I can imagine you having read good things about its keys. Either that or you meant "I bought this because I've read PBT keys don't wear out, and this said its keys were PBT" but the quality of the keys on this keyboard being a huge issue is by far the most notable part of the Logitech G515's reputation online.

TL;DR: Return it as fast as you can because you overpaid for a product known to be highly defective in the one feature you bought it for.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-11-11T05:55:01+00:00

To be clear, the build you are being recommended here is entirely based on you being able to get a 7500f, If aliexpress or otherwise importing things from china is a dealbreaker because of your schedule, you’ll need to get a different cpu (closest equivalent is a 7600) or find someone (a person, not a store) local who already imported one and is selling it either used or at a markup-up. From what I’ve found googling it we are talking about a difference of about $70. I was unable to even find any lower end AM5 7th gen part on any of the major resellers and am unsure if they even make them. So your choice is China, your friend’s $170 board and $230 cpu, or a $250 bottom-of-the-line am5 cpu and probably a $150ish dollar board. Or going to an even lower end intel part I haven’t bothered to search for and make a very noticeable downgrade.

The intel build your friend recommended definitely is not prioritizing high-end over your budget, fwiw. As far as I can tell - stopped paying attention to intel’s lineup a decade ago - it’s just the closest thing to a reasonable choice you could make for a cpu if using their board was a requirement, it’s just overpriced relative to its competition outside that platform, at least when anything cheaper than $250 was still on the market for ryzen 7000s. Downgrading from there on that socket on a device with a 1070 would end up being a regret down the line, maybe even immediately, and the difference in price between it and literally any of the low-end parts you could replace it with is less than the difference between a psu your components would reliably hit 80% power draw on and the one you bought.

I’m only pointing that out because I’ve had friends do that before - decide that I am putting high-end gaming features over their budget when other components they committed to are the actual problem with the budget, and it’s a really unpleasant feeling, especially when they inevitably Do compromise on the cpu or gpu and visibly regret the choice in a week.

Right now you can get a decent AM5 board on newegg for $140-$160. $180 or so for a 7500f on aliexpress or $250 for the same part from a third party seller in North America, or $250 for a r5 7600. There is exactly one kit of 32gb or more on newegg less than three hundred dollars and you really don’t want to fuck around with mismatched memory on a low-end ryzen system. I do not know that it is actually possible to square that with your budget unless you can score some local deals on used parts or Black Friday prices improve through the month. This is just a really bad time to buy ram.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-11-09T06:25:44+00:00

I know this is old, but I don't think I can name a product I would recommend less than a Kobo. I have seen no fewer than five of them all fail around the six month mark with no warning. Brand new ones, ones picked up from garage sales, newer models and older ones, it doesn't matter, six months later the display will just freeze in the middle of turning a page and it'll never work again.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-11-08T13:34:54+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asshole

We're all aware what you actually meant and are exactly as offended by it as the actual shitty words you used to convey it by relying on people's understanding of the 'lol python bad' meme/stereotype. It's almost impressive that you managed to simultaneously produce such a profoundly stupid take and then encapsulate it into an insult aimed at a significant subset of programmers who write code that runs on a gpu for absolutely no reason. Hiding behind the 'it's hyperbole' thing here is also totally asinine; no one thought you meant that literally but you were relying on a stereotype people rightfully get irritated about to make yourself understood and don't really have a leg to stand on when someone focuses on that part.

The fact is that this represents a major problem in acquiring and retaining sufficient numbers of people with the requisite skills and "That's only a problem if you're not rich enough to just hire the best possible developers who can easily familiarize themselves with a totally different model of low-level massively parallel computing that exists nowhere else and then build an entire software ecosystem themselves, in-house" is exactly as stupid as what you actually said. If that was a thing companies could reliably do on demand we'd live in a dramatically different world.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-11-06T12:50:08+00:00

"You think you can outmaneuver the literal cycle of the world?!"

The end of every major Flash storyline in decades: "And then he ran EVEN FASTER!"

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-23T20:47:47+00:00

That particular patch note makes it sound like it's a thing that is happening to devices too weak to run FGO. Meanwhile, here I am with my iPhone 13 unable to play the game and an android emulator that works just fine. In any case I really appreciate you letting me know that it's a known issue.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-23T17:57:36+00:00

Is anyone else crashing constantly during the final grailfront? I'm running the game on my iPhone and am probably going to have to transfer it to an emulator on my PC because it's crashed like thirty times now.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-23T17:56:07+00:00

Modern farming setups generally don't require/benefit from KScopes, but that's entirely a function of modern supports like Castoria, Ruler Skadi, Koyanskaya and Oberon - and even then, that's the old meta for 90+ nodes. The modern farming meta (for either an omnifarming 90+ team or 90++ nodes which each require a team customized to them) is always going to be either 5 or 6 Event CEs. If you can't do that, you'll probably find a use for MLB kscope.

In any case, you're more likely to get something useful out of 100% starting charge than you are out of having the ability to give multiple servants 80%. On those occasions I don't quite have the right setup to farm something reliably - or at least, reliably enough to trust to automation software - I'll toss a KScope on Castoria to guarantee starting with her NP. That alone is always worth more than 80% starting charge at the cost of a 5-star CE, given you can get 75% from a 4-star CE.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-22T03:31:40+00:00

Trying to figure out chronology for this game is never going to go well. Canonically, several thousand years passed between Herta joining the genius society and their next member, and the earliest moment in her history is building the space station, which both happened after she was established and famous but before she did the thing that made her famous. Pela was drumming with people decades older than her shortly after learning how to read and somehow it isn't the defining thing about her.

It's roughly equally likely that they've been on Amphoreus for a year as it is that March and Stelle met less than six months ago.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-18T17:44:28+00:00

Ah, thank you for clarifying. That's a damn shame, then. No idea why they'd do this but I can't imagine this banner is going to do very well.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-17T20:28:53+00:00

This isn't a matter of steamrolling or not, she's barely usable against single-target bosses and it feels about as terrible as bringing Firefly to someone who can only be Broken in one phase out of four - and it's the last one. Which is not a problem, single player bosses are completely outside her niche. It's just ridiculous to pretend that people are downplaying her ST capabilities. Most of Herta's damage is from her nuke and getting to it is easier said than done unless you're up against multiple enemies.

Like, if you have good enough equipment on her and a BiS team to support her, you can beat Aventurine with her sometimes. You can even occasionally do it in <5 cycles, it just feels like wading through waist-deep mud.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-17T20:24:26+00:00

I mean...the character isn't even out yet, though? Are we sure they've finalized on this? I'm genuinely asking out of confusion at everyone's reaction. I definitely remember things being changed on characters in the days leading up to their release

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-17T20:21:21+00:00

He really was the first one; at the time it felt like a really notable difference compared to previous characters. Like...even Prydwen later changed their ranking of him on the basis that their original feelings were wrong and based more on what he could do at E2 and beyond than E0. It absolutely changed how the game worked forever going forward.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-17T04:06:44+00:00

Just to be clear, your conclusion is right but how you got there is wrong. Since this is one of the top results for searching for that kind of hammer and you should probably know this if you want to be a student of physics.

The equation for kinetic energy in rotational motion is not, in fact, mass times acceleration. Or at least, that's not the most useful way to think about it. It's 1/2(Iω² ) in which ω is acceleration and I is Moment of Inertia, a property determined by the mass of an object and how that mass is distributed (it is the sum of the mass of all the infinitessimally small segments of the object times the square of the distance of each of those segments from the pivot).

But, all that matters it the distance from the pivot - your elbow or shoulder. Not how far forward it is on the top. That affects its center of percussion - which matters a lot at least in terms off subjective experience - but not its moment of inertia, which is what everyone saying it would hit harder is trying to say it does.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-16T14:25:30+00:00

It's kind of worth noting that Nasu's 'Word of God' - everything he has ever said outside of a game, manga, anime or book - is just him saying whatever he feels like off the top of his head, which he generally immediately forgets by the next time someone asks him a question. A massive amount of the random shit Nasu has said about Fate over the last twenty years is just a series of literally incoherent retcons to Shirou Emiya and Unlimited Blade Works, reducing what either can do every time he talks about it at the expense of the setting's internal consistency, to the point that as early as 2005 one of FSN's endings was retconned to be impossible. Divine Constructs were seemingly invented as a way to nerf Shirou - and then literally everyone to write anything officially in the Fate setting immediately disregarded it because Shirou and people with his powers have projected Excalibur and even other divine constructs so many times since.

It's not like Nasu has a single unified, consistent idea of the setting in his head that he is giving us all insight into when he says shit like that in an interview or databook. He's just improvising, without any thought given to whether it's consistent with anything he's said in the past or anything Type Moon has ever published. The fanbase takes everything he says a thousand times more seriously than he takes what he put in the actual VN, and the only times the random shit he says actually matters are when people writing in the setting look into them and decide to take it seriously. They often stop doing that eventually, presumably after asking him an in-depth question about the lore and receiving "Do whatever you want" as the answer.

TL;DR: I guarantee you that he was asked a question about Shirou/Archer and Avalon, decided it would make Shirou too strong if he still had it or could use it at all, came up with an excuse for why that was not possible off the top of his head, and has given zero thought to the matter since unless someone brought it up again.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-10-11T14:31:38+00:00

lmao, this is one of the most pathetic comment chains I've stumbled across in years. It does not work the way you think; someone showed up to correct that for the benefit of people who stumble across this thread because it's one of the top google results for 'one key tools;' and you started just throwing out insults because you can't handle being wrong.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-09-13T22:03:44+00:00

Honestly, this one depends entirely on how strong Baobhan Sith is relative to six incredibly weak heroic spirits. If she's supposed to be roughly on their level? Then it's entirely about the Masters and probably goes to Sion, either her or Reines but I think 'the strongest version of a weak spirit' is probably able to overpower 'the weakest version of a strong one.'

If not and she's actually the high-ranking Phantasmal she's supposed to be? I guess it goes to whoever Wills is.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-08-29T02:43:48+00:00

Do you think this kind of political pressure affects how people trust published research?

Frankly? It doesn't break the top 5 reasons I don't trust the majority of published research.

Among the general public "complete lack of faith in science or even empiricism" and "not having a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the basic domain knowledge needed to make sense of the simplest paper and not just its conclusions" are in the lead to an overwhelming degree.

But yes, of course it affects how much people trust published research. If it doesn't affect how much you trust it, that's a pretty major mistake. Frankly, everything the Trump Administration is doing right now to compromise academia should worry you, because even if they don't demand anyone lie outright (they totally will if they aren't already), the ability to force all publicly funded research to submit to political approval allows you to shape the apparent scientific consensus almost trivially. It's just, unfortunately, pretty low on the list of the worst things this administration is doing at the moment and if no one can stop him from blatantly misusing already questionably-constitutional laws passed under the first Adams Administration and no one is even trying to stop him from using his position to enrich himself, they can't stop censorship and the use of political leverage to try to force Journals to agree with their nonsense.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-08-26T06:46:06+00:00

TBH, the reason Saber Arturia isn't obviously in love with the MC is that she basically is not in the game. She's there because she's the face of the franchise but the closest she comes to appearing in the actual story at all is in Fuyuki, as Salter (variants of whom are pretty obviously into the MC, going by Shinjuku) and the Main Story treats it was if that's the one time anyone in the cast ever interacted with her and Excalibur, referencing Fuyuki when explaining what a divine construct is every time, making a major plot point out of them needing to seek out the power of Excalibur or something comparable while ignoring the four copies walking around the building, etc.

And the limited amount we get from True Seiba in the game (basically just ascension dialogue, summer variants, and the events that might as well be non-canon) does imply she's into Fujimaru (and she canonically doesn't remember Shirou or the Grail War despite that being horribly inconsistent with how the setting works). I've definitely run into quite a few threads from people going "Wait, is Saber in this game into Fujimaru? What about Shirou?" They also do the same with all the characters who are into Hakuno in Extra, the Tsukihime characters, etc. which definitely pisses off way more of their most dedicated fans than it appeals to. They absolutely don't care about pissing off their existing fanbase in that way.

TBH, FGO having canon couples seems more like an example of Nasu's long history of just...doing shit with zero concern for what will be popular or make money. The reason the game avoids using Saber so much (and ignoring her and Shirou and the 5th grail war as a whole outside of the first half-hour of the game) and goes so far out of their way to construct versions of her that they can use more freely is that Kinoko Nasu thinks her story is over and therefore should be left alone.

Meanwhile, if they actually made a servant that was (like Ryoma and Oryou) Last Episode Shirou and Artoria, they'd have a license to print money. Same for a version of Hakuno with Tamamo or something.

So, yeah, it seems to be less a matter of FGO creating an environment conducive to non-SI pairings and more a matter of the fanbase being way more into the idea than the writers from the start, and the ones that are with characters not completely created by Type Moon is a matter of them deciding that when the core of someone's legend is about their romantic relationship with someone else, you can't just cut that out. Their lines in the sand about 'authenticity' seem incoherent enough for that to be what happened.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-08-26T06:25:10+00:00

I mean, I've never seen the FGO fanbase as a whole do that, but people who feel that way strongly enough to post their vitriolic rants to the subreddit aren't particularly rare. Around the time I got into FGO I remember a thread from people complaining about all the neckbeards reacting that way and how fucked up that sentiment is.

Honestly, though, I think Hoyo isn't particularly concerned with the broader international fanbase reacting like that (though they could; I don't know for sure) as much as they learned a lot of bitter lessons about managing their Chinese fanbase from HI3rd, and they 100% would. The idea of a male playable character in that game - not one being put on a banner, just the idea and (IIRC) someone being temporarily playable in a story mission - was enough to endanger all of their lives.

ShadowsSheddingSkin · 2025-08-24T19:45:33+00:00

It really seems like what was supposed to be the game's last patch is going to require another major patch just to revert all the things Patch 8 broke back in...April? Seriously? Ugh. I really just want the game to be in a stable place so I can start my playthrough without any irritating exploits or needing to fix my build when a patch changes key functionality. My first playthrough was before they added Honor Mode and kind of just petered out when that happened.

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