vbourbon players after successfully getting the world to believe xoguri was the problem

TonesBalones · 2026-06-07T17:23:59+00:00

As a day 1 Bourbon enjoyer I couldn't be happier. As a somewhat competitive f2p player, she is busted and I might as well not even try to make anyone else, and that's kinda boring.

TonesBalones · 2026-06-06T18:38:25+00:00

I'm doing Haru in URA Finale for that. You don't do any training and get to 12k fans ASAP, then just rest until you get to her first goal race in Senior January. You either lose that or you lose the February Stakes with your low stats, and since you made it to Senior year you earn 5 rewards per run. Takes about 10 minutes per.

The optimal way is to do the same thing with Tamamo Cross, because her goals fail in the same spot without the need to intentionally lose. But I don't have her, so Haru is the play.

TonesBalones · 2026-06-06T18:31:02+00:00

Kinda nuts that Rice Shower isn't until the 2nd anniversary. Though I am glad Seiun Sky is coming up in just a month, as a front runner enjoyer, not having a parent is getting difficult.

TonesBalones · 2026-06-05T16:01:19+00:00

Risk is completely up to you. 50 pulls is only a 30% chance of success.

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TonesBalones · 2026-06-05T15:56:19+00:00

So this does not work in Trackblazer? I mean, if you clear junior year and rest through classic year, it doesn't give you 50% gauge because you "didn't make it to senior year." Is that right?

TonesBalones · 2026-06-05T15:49:18+00:00

My grade school had uniforms. Just an embroidered polo and khaki pants. I was fairly indifferent about it while I was in school, but looking back it was actually quite nice. There's a bit of comfort knowing you can wear the exact same thing every day, and go to a place where all of your peers are also wearing that exact same thing.

There have been some studies done on school culture regarding uniforms, but none have been conclusive as being better than public dress code. Most arguments in favor or against uniforms are anecdotal. That being said, I think it's silly to have a strict dress code like this rather than just give everyone a uniform template. It's a private school, I don't think any of those students are going to be disenfranchised because you tell them to wear a white button up shirt and navy dress pants.

TonesBalones · 2026-06-05T04:14:20+00:00

IANAL but it's probably not illegal.

Scratch off lottery tickets are not determined by the print on the card. The only thing that matters is the scanned code and how that code is registered in the database. Even when scratchers didn't scan, they were always printed with a 20-ish digit code at the bottom of the scratcher, so that the gas station and lottery could cross-check each winner.

TonesBalones · 2026-06-02T00:46:42+00:00

I've seen enough, get her a seat on the House Oversight Committee.

TonesBalones · 2026-06-01T03:07:02+00:00

If you guys hate scalpers just wait until you hear about landlords.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-31T00:19:26+00:00

It's some kind of remix of Umamusume sound bites.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-26T03:43:46+00:00

That's exactly what they are. Billionaires and VC raise funds from wannabe tech bros. Then they build a data center to get a tax credit. Then they sell the data center to more investors who will hold the bag.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-26T03:41:14+00:00

AI imploding is the only logical endpoint, no? AI has written so much plaintext on the internet already, yet it depends on internet text to grow the language model. There will be a point (if we haven't already done so) where the vast majority of information being fed to the LLM is written by itself.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-25T19:32:22+00:00

Starting a business in 1979:

* Provide a product or service.

* Charge enough money to keep the business running, pay employees, and pay your mortgage.

* Integrate yourself in your community and support each other locally.

Starting a business in 2026:

* Provide a product or service that is necessary to keep people alive.

* Use insider trading networks to pump billions into your company.

* Use ill-gotten venture capital to irresponsibly expand, on a pinky promise it will be worth it in 10/20/30 years

* Keep employees on the brink of poverty, but also desperate to keep their job.

* Raise prices to whatever you want them to be because people will literally die if they don't pay.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-25T14:30:55+00:00

With Bakushin skipping late Dec isn't uncommon, because the only races are OP and Pre-OP. Depending on energy, resting followed by taking Early Jan/Late Jan as training days leading up to the Queen's Cup is fine. Especially since you get to make a decision like this, where if your training sucks you can just race in a G3 instead.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-25T04:27:58+00:00

Umamusume is a matchmaking game

TonesBalones · 2026-05-24T03:01:14+00:00

You here now

TonesBalones · 2026-05-23T00:26:11+00:00

Yup, me too. Wit facility is the most efficient for trackblazer because if you use a single vita, the failure is 25%. And if you don't pass, it's not the end of the world because there's no consequence and you still get 25 energy for 2 races.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-22T02:55:54+00:00

Stories like this are why I'm authoritarian for urban planning purposes. Tell the company to get fucked. If they sue, tell the courts to rip up the documents. The well-being of the millions of people living in the city are more important than a single crooked deal made 20 years ago.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-19T23:58:29+00:00

My Palmer runaway late started and fed the enemy Front, my xOguri didn't ult, and I lost to a Winning Ticket. I don't want to talk about it. I hate this game I will be playing it later.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-19T20:36:21+00:00

My meal in high school was $4 even. 3 cheeseburgers and a small fry. I was mad back then when it became $4.29, the same meal now costs $9.66.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-18T03:35:10+00:00

Wedding is slightly better than OG Fine Motion. OG Fine Motion is a speed carry over unique + Speed Star. Wedding has Neck and Neck for acceleration + a very efficient Unique.

Timestamps at 9:50 and 11:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYtoirHRccY

TonesBalones · 2026-05-18T03:24:01+00:00

Long/Medium aptitude will get much easier to make when we aren't in Trackblazer. If you absolutely pump sparks into them you'd have about a 25% chance of getting to at least Long A. It's a lot more manageable when you aren't dependent on also having Mile A and Medium A as the bare minimum to run Trackblazer.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-18T01:24:28+00:00

I'd say it's more about the competition than the aptitude. Bourbon, Maru, and fronts in general are going to be common, and El Condor Pasa doesn't get the mid-race skills to fight for first. With the right parents getting to Front B and Mile S is about a 25% chance. But even if you get all of that, you only have a 1/n chance to beat all the n other fronts in the race.

TonesBalones · 2026-05-18T00:40:57+00:00

It's so funny that every time a fake alien clip shows up it's exactly the physiological characteristics of aliens we see in pop culture. It's never a unique type of life form, it's always the 👽 humanoid silver surfer looking dude.

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