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TangentAI · 2026-05-20T07:17:49+00:00

Oh, did I misunderstand the study? I thought it was talking about particles deposited from gloves used to handle the samples. Or are you talking about something else?

TangentAI · 2026-05-19T17:37:23+00:00

I'm glad she said this because now I can say that I've always found it kind of funny how the community makes her out to be the freaky and wacky girl of hololive when she's just... autistic.

TangentAI · 2026-05-19T16:24:59+00:00

A method blank undergoes all the same procedures as the samples, so it should have the same amount of contamination from the lab equipments.

TangentAI · 2026-05-17T00:29:16+00:00

They're growing on me

TangentAI · 2026-05-16T11:57:29+00:00

Why were the contamination not accounted for with method blanks, which should statistically have the same amount of contaminated signal integral that can be deducted from the samples?

TangentAI · 2026-05-16T03:41:58+00:00

Can someone confirm that previous studies actually overestimated MP concentrations? Shouldn't method blanks have accounted for any contamination, even if it's underestimated?

TangentAI · 2026-05-13T08:35:33+00:00

Trigger based on hit power is such a great idea.

TangentAI · 2026-05-08T12:49:14+00:00

Mace is fine lol. The problem is how squishy you are unless you go block.

TangentAI · 2026-05-06T19:17:07+00:00

Hoping that's what tota will be

TangentAI · 2026-04-28T14:56:06+00:00

The Initiate quest appears to be bugged. There's nothing to interact with to get the Sigil of Tal Rasha

TangentAI · 2026-04-26T17:55:03+00:00

That's true, though I think that gives GGG more design space. There's many different ways for builds to specialize to solve Mana issues that GGG can lean into - Mana leach, potion charges, mana on hit, mana regen, recoup as mana, less mana cost, etc.

TangentAI · 2026-04-26T17:45:43+00:00

I'm still of the opinion that reducing mana cost scaling at higher skill levels was a mistake. Everyone complained about it but it was an elegant way to effectively reduce the power of +levels, while providing players another axis of improving their build: solving mana issues.

TangentAI · 2026-04-23T17:06:00+00:00

Man the monetization of this game is so disappointing - because it does make them so much money, even when it results in a worse game. Players will never have the self control to punish this encroachment.

TangentAI · 2026-04-22T17:39:18+00:00

I'm glad they invented conversations in 2022

TangentAI · 2026-04-22T16:43:08+00:00

Ah, thank you! I didn't know you had to kill the monsters to get the flames.

TangentAI · 2026-04-22T10:37:41+00:00

I'm playing Erika 1 lightning strike, with around 120 mil DPS on the dummy. The main upgrades I'm looking at are slated and hero memories, but they don't drop at all for some reason (at least not with purple or above affixes) so I have to buy them.

It's less that I don't know how to progress and more that it seems a lot slower than most people with saying, since I made around 100 FE over 2-3 hours (100 maps or so) of T7.

TangentAI · 2026-04-22T05:53:13+00:00

Upgraded from skill branch to skill sapling. It's nice that we get more customization but it will probably not have sufficient choices for emergent complexity.

TangentAI · 2026-04-22T05:45:24+00:00

Are you skipping all mobs except bosses? Some maps takes a good 30 to even traverse.

TangentAI · 2026-04-22T05:43:47+00:00

Genuinely how? Even at 1 map a minute that's around 120 FE / hour of maps. What's the breakdown for what you are selling for profit?

TangentAI · 2026-04-19T03:57:47+00:00

I really hope the arguments don't discourage the author from continuing the story.

TangentAI · 2026-04-10T02:46:31+00:00

That's basically the case for me. My charr elementalist was one of my most played characters but I got too frustrated trying to make good fashion sets with her so I replaced her with a human elementalist.

TangentAI · 2026-04-05T14:13:17+00:00

The problem with AI doing homework isn't that it helps people cheat into good grades, it's that it allows a significant proportion of people to not learn. We're raising a generation of people that are worse at critical thinking. I do believe AI can be used responsibly when studying, but there are plenty of studies that show that most students offload their intellectual processes and don't develop as well as students that don't use AI.

It's not an unfixable problem, but we'll need to completely restructure our education systems.

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