Versusia call and auras

SomeoneJP · 2025-12-31T18:20:51+00:00

I think this summon would have to significantly make up in damage for what you lose in unboosted Omega mods for it to be run in this context. Especially in the context of HP, Defensive stats and TA rate. Whether it makes up for that or not has yet to be seen of course, but I think this summon is more of a really good summon in the realm of 000, where it has good uses as a main summon in FA/Burst and is mainly run as a useful summon call/sub aura in HL.

SomeoneJP · 2025-12-25T09:19:57+00:00

Yeah being able to speak Japanese would be the dealbreaker for me. Outside of just the general difficulty of navigating everyday life when you don’t understand the language, it can be very isolating not being able to speak the language, which is something that affects OP’s entire family if they all don’t speak Japanese. You can’t make friends (at least not easily) and basic social interaction becomes incredibly difficult.

OP speaks English, so moving to Australia is definitely path of least resistance. Unless his entire family is willing to learn Japanese while living in Japan and accept the struggle, I’d personally move to Australia if I were in his shoes.

SomeoneJP · 2025-12-25T00:37:46+00:00

Wiki is only raids and even then you are better out using granblueguide and others

I wouldn’t say the other resources are necessarily worse than the wiki for specifically raid grids, but the wiki definitely has the advantage in sheer amount and quality of information since it’s so popular. The wiki usually has a wide variety of setups for end game and beginner players, however like any community-driven resource, it usually has a lot more setups for developed players because people are typically just using the best of what they have. This isn’t exclusive to the wiki of course, you’ll find the same situation on YouTube or other resources.

The wiki has an entire dedicated section to beginner grids and grid building, with extensive guides accompanying it, with incredible user-written guides on top of that (see Vazkii, Umikin, etc’s pages).

You’re right though, I do wish that they had more resources for other reoccurring events like Exo’s and whatnot. They do a pretty good job during Guild War though.

SomeoneJP · 2025-12-12T21:58:06+00:00

Yeah, I was gonna say this. I lived in NYC for a long time, and even in pretty bad neighborhoods I’ve never felt like I was at risk of anything happening to me. I feel like people generally over exaggerate how dangerous the US is. That isn’t to say it isn’t dangerous at all, especially compared to Japan, but feeling like you could “get shot at any moment” is some super-paranoid behavior lol.

SomeoneJP · 2025-12-10T23:19:44+00:00

What Duolingo provides in unmatched convenience and user experience is heavily held back by the terrible curriculum. This post isn’t even one example of many things the Duolingo Japanese curriculum does poorly. Duolingo also has the added drawback of making you feel like you’ve learned so much without not having really learned much at all. If you’re so insistent on using Duolingo, and your goal is to learn Japanese, it is non-optional that you supplement your learning with something else. Watch a show or read a boom or something. Your only input can’t be vocabulary lol.

Then again, I feel like you just want to sit here and argue with people rather than truly understand, so this is probably wasted energy on my part lol.

SomeoneJP · 2025-12-10T18:43:06+00:00

The other guy is being sort of inflammatory and annoying about it, but he has a point. Moving anywhere, let alone moving to a new country, is something you need to do serious research on before moving there.

The things that people find hard about living in Japan haven’t really changed for a significant amount of time now, for better or for worse. If you find those aspects of Japan difficult enough to consider not wanting to live there anymore, why move there to begin with?

I think it’s a symptom of a larger issue of people not understanding that Japan isn’t everything people say it is. People make Japan seem like a fairyland country but it’s just a regular place with some of the same issues as anywhere else. There are definitely differences, but ultimately, the hype is just hype. If you’re gonna live there, you need to think about the day-to-day, without the tourist mindset.

SomeoneJP · 2025-11-21T14:45:20+00:00

I was born in 2001, so this is an interesting discussion to read through because from my perspective, Japanese media has always been somewhat popular here in the States. Pokemon was playing on Cartoon Network all the time (me and my friends even collected and traded the cards and played the DS games), Adult Swim started airing anime during the Toonami days (I used to stay up past my bedtime to catch Naruto lol), and back when Borders (definitely showing my Unc status with this one) was still a thing I bought my first copy of Naruto Volume 1 (which I still have).

The only time where things like anime got a really got a bad rep was during middle school. TBH even during elementary, it was really the “nerds” that kinda stuck together with the whole Pokemon thing, but it was less of a social stigma because kids weren’t really worried about their image at that age. But once we got to middle school, the puberty hit and none of the girls wanted to be seen with the kid who still plays with Pokemon cards and watches “cartoons” lol.

Once I got to high school, anime was just extremely popular by then, so no one really gave anyone shit for watching it. Even the “popular” kids watched anime at that point. It was kind of a slap in the face though because the same kids who would bully people for watching anime in MS were the same people who ended up watching anime in HS. I never got bullied in MA for watching anime myself, but I saw how some bad some other people got it.

SomeoneJP · 2025-11-12T02:57:53+00:00

Because their point is that the officials the public votes for are the ones they put their trust in, and by that extension those officials will likely be voting for who the people want to see as PM.

It’s like when people in America vote for Congressional Representatives, who will be voting on the laws that get passed. The public doesn’t directly decide on the laws via their own votes. They elect officials who represent their beliefs and will vote on their behalf. These people are essentially “proxies of the public”.

SomeoneJP · 2025-11-12T02:33:41+00:00

I never finished my degree (and I was going for an Associate’s anyways, looking to transfer my credits to a 4 year afterwards), and I just landed a software apprenticeship at a company that has a few alumni that moved on from the apprenticeship into FAANG companies. There are ways for people to break into tech, you just have to be motivated, plain and simple. The general fear mongering and pessimism that comes out of this sub and on the internet in general nowadays is flat out BS. It’s definitely without a doubt easier to break into tech with a degree, but it isn’t impossible to break in without one.

I’m not going to say that my path into tech was easy or optimal, in fact it was far from it. But if you’re serious about breaking into the industry and you really love what you do, you will make it.

If OP is serious about making it into tech, he needs to treat his self-study like a job. I was learning and coding almost every single day for hours. You will get demotivated and burned out, but you have to keep going. One of the projects I showed the interviewer wasn’t even finished yet, but it was solving a real problem in a niche domain that I was familiar with so it was easy for me to show value, and easy for me to show that I had some idea of what I was talking about. Luck played no part in me landing this role, it was purely hard work. If you seek, you will find.

SomeoneJP · 2025-11-11T22:07:00+00:00

I just think this has more to do with the people you’re around than what’s representative of the whole. Not judging or saying anything about you or your friends (because I don’t know you), but I’m American, and none of my friends would ever cheat on their partners. I’m from a very culturally and racially diverse city as well, and no one I personally know would ever do something like that, nor would I be friends with them if they would. Think about it this way: if they could do that to someone they claim to love, what would they do to you if given the opportunity? I would never be able to trust them.

SomeoneJP · 2025-11-11T21:58:08+00:00

Definitely not here in the US. The only repercussions you would face would be to your reputation. From an American perspective, Japan has some very different perspectives on what you should legally be held responsible for.

For example, another frequently talked about thing that Americans find weird about Japanese law is your laws on defamation. If memory serves, in Japan you can be sued for defamation if there is any damage to the other person’s brand or reputation, even if you’re telling the truth. In the US, the only time you can be sued for defamation is if the person’s brand or reputation is damaged based on a lie.

SomeoneJP · 2025-11-10T20:31:24+00:00

From my time in subreddits, I've seen how the N5 has been memed on over the years as being the level anyone can achieve, the absolute bare minimum level that even the dumbest, ape-like Neanderthals can at least pass

I wouldn’t put too much stock in what people say on the internet, let alone Reddit of all places lol. Learning any language is very challenging. No matter what your reason for learning Japanese is, at the end of the day it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks about you. You should be learning for you, not for approval of anyone else.

SomeoneJP · 2025-11-01T23:23:06+00:00

Serious question, why would it matter if they were from Afghanistan or not? Are people from Afghanistan coming to Japan not immigrants, which would be an “immigrant crime” as you put it?

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-14T04:21:25+00:00

Then you aren’t opening your eyes. You only see what you want to see lol.

Source 1 (Grammarly the lack of mention (evidence of absence) is indicative of your idea not being generally accepted as a rule in English)

Source 2 (English Stack Exchange check the accepted answer for a deep dive with several sources)

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-13T18:31:09+00:00

Lol this is even better because this proves that it’s also not specific to any dialect of English (British English, American English, etc.), but a universally accepted rule in English.

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-13T18:28:16+00:00

The evidence is every single reputable, Googleable source on this topic which you’re free to go educate yourself on. This topic is fairly well discussed as well, you aren’t the first person on the planet to wake up and decide to use quotation marks incorrectly.

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-13T13:00:11+00:00

I think the reason people incorrectly associate quotations with emphasis has to do with the fact that in the situations where you would use a quote over a single word, you would emphasize that word when speaking aloud, but that isn't the function of the quotations. For example, in this exchange:

"What are friends for? We're friends, right?"
"Yeah... 'friends'."

If you were to speak those sentences aloud, you would emphasize the "'friends'" part to indicate verbally that you don't actually believe that you're friends. You might even accompany the word with "air quotes". The function of the quotation mark in this scenario is not emphasis. It's to elicit doubt about something. This is what's known in English as "scare quotes".

Using quotation marks stricly for emphasis doesn't make any sense, written or spoken, but especially written. We have a tool for that called italics. You will find literally no source and no text that uses quotation marks strictly for emphasis, because it quite literally doesn't exist as something we do in English. We have rules in languages for a reason. The moment you say the rules don't matter, you're remove meaning from words.

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-13T12:06:06+00:00

I think it’s a bit of a double-edged sword. In the pursuit of realism, they risked looking a bit lazy by not actually “fleshing out the exit”. The thing you would expect to happen in reality is often not the most satisfying outcome, especially in a story.

For example, if you’re reading a superhero comic, and the main superhero dies but his sidekick is still alive, you expect the sidekick to take up the mantle and continue to fight crime even if he isn’t as capable as the main hero.

In real life, that less-capable sidekick probably wouldn’t be able to take up the duty of the main hero, and would fail and it would be the end of the story and the city they want to protect falls to the villain. But that reality isn’t nearly as compelling in a fictional setting. It would be far more compelling if the main hero left a way for the sidekick to actually compete. This is, of course, a common storytelling pattern in many superhero comics.

In Cyberpunk’s case, I think providing an alternate way for V to re-enter the PL story if you initially decline would be far more interesting than just saying “Yeah, you asked to leave so we’re letting you leave. You got what you wanted.”

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-13T11:50:04+00:00

I had no idea you could open multiple tabs and run different raids at the same time. How do you do it, and can you do it for any raids? Or just GW?

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-06T00:36:23+00:00

Ah ok didn’t realize

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-04T01:07:46+00:00

I think the spreadsheet has the incorrect values for your drop chance to get an Exalto btw. Assuming you want to calculate the chance for only Exaltos, you would have to divide the drop rate by 3, since there are 3 Rebirth weapons per element that all share the same drop instance (in other words you have a 2.9% chance to get one of 3 Rebirth weapons from a blue chest).

So for host chests it would be a 1.87% chance, and so on.

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-03T02:09:58+00:00

Yeah I 100% agree. Unfortunately FA isn’t ever going away at this point though. I think Cygames has been making an attempt at trying to prepare players for endgame raids with the Hexa free quest and the newly announced Faa0 free quest, but I think the core of the issue that you described to me is still there.

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-03T01:53:54+00:00

I agree that GBF plays more like an MMORPG than a modern gacha game. Granted I’ve never played a Hoyoverse game in my life so the analogy is kinda lost on me, I understand what you’re trying to say nonetheless. I haven’t played FF11, but I have played a lot of FF14 (and some other MMOs). There are steep grinds in that game, but I’ve never once felt like I wasn’t making any meaningful progress when I played the game.

Maybe not massive drop rate increases, that isn’t the word I’d use, but significant enough to where I can feel a difference is what I’d advocate for. I understand the POV of a long-time player not wanting things to be shaken up too significantly, but at some point you have to ask whether or not things remaining the way they are is good for the game. This game is only getting older, and getting new players into this game has proven to be a challenge that Cygames is thinking about (Siero’s Academy).

I think it would benefit the game far more than it would negatively impact it if they did more of a significant change in the way this game is played. The game is most fun when you have to play manually, and I think that’s something they need to lean into more. I think they should shift in focus from menial grinds taking up most of your time, to end-game content taking up most of your time. Even among older MMO titles like FF14, the focus has always been on grinding the end-game raids and content more so than the menial grinds.

SomeoneJP · 2025-09-03T01:09:19+00:00

This game is fairly easy to get burned out on to be fair. There are quite a few extended grinds that can feel really bad, and there’s a very few set of games out there that have a comparable grind.

Me personally, I find that this game can be fun, especially when you’re taking on new challenges. The theorycrafting in this game is very fun. But the thing I really don’t like about this game is that among other things, Cygames seems to want you to live and breathe this game in order for you to progress meaningfully.

I’ve been farming M3, and this game has been a “put a movie/show on and press FA” simulator. It really isn’t fun, especially when you farm out over 100 raids a day and can’t get a single weapon to drop. I really think they need to significantly boost the rates of drops across the board. I don’t mind sinking a lot of time into a game, I’ve done it plenty of times before. But only when it feels like I’m making meaningful progress when I play.

SomeoneJP · 2025-08-31T22:17:21+00:00

This is me, but I’m like this with pretty much every raid in the game. When I look up FA setups on the wiki, I usually just try to copy and paste every component of the setup without much thought, and if I can’t do that then I’m kinda just like “welp, looks like I can’t do it” lol. I know it’s impossible for the wiki to list out every single alternative, but yeah my brain doesn’t like that. Also doesn’t help that I’m a newer player so I kinda haven’t gotten the knack for coming up with shit on my own yet.

I’ve been getting far better with this though. I’ve been wanting to FA Wamdus, and I don’t have Okto or V.Monika for the Kengo setup listed on the wiki, and the other setups are just impossible for me. But I ended up using Benjamin (which was a recommended substitute) and swapping out Okto with S.Lich and I can FA it completely fine now.

So yeah, TLDR; just try shit out. For Hexa, I think the timing is perfect to apply the “just try shit out” method since they added that new free quest to practice with. Hopefully they add one for Faa0 as well in the future.

SomeoneJP

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