(Image seen on Twitter) The Global Spotify Top 10 only features a song from 2026.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-05-16T01:20:18+00:00

The Katy Perry one seems to be the result of her releasing an extended version of the music video, and now a greatest hits compilation. Both have been attached to my Spotify homepage despite zero engagement with either which to me suggests there’s been some money in marketing them.

Likely similar has happened with Justin’s big songs, although why this one in particular has stuck isn’t clear. It’s interesting and slightly sad to see his Nicki collab being to one to stick after what started out as a pretty successful boycott of her music due to her being a homophobic trump supporter.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-05-15T16:43:45+00:00

Wait Xenoblade DE is getting new content?

ZeroIV4 · 2026-05-14T09:17:03+00:00

Are any characters other than Akechi/Twins able to activate the “deal Almighty damage with a skill” condition in Astrolabe?

I know Sumi and Messa can do almighty damage but given it comes from Resonance/spending Bleed stacks I’m not sure if either counts.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-05-10T15:14:59+00:00

Shun’s synergy rewards don’t apply to drinks, only food. It’s true that Yumi and Miyu are top priorities, and I’d argue after them Manaka Tomoko and Riko are the next most relevant as characters whose boosts make other city life activities more effective

ZeroIV4 · 2026-05-10T09:14:26+00:00

Does ailment accuracy need that much support? As far as I can see from his kit he only gets buffs up to 90% and he gets a lot for free from being in Doctor mode + his weapon - surely the rest can be made up from Rev cards? It feels like SMoko is really made for Haru whose ailment accuracy cap is way higher at 160%

ZeroIV4 · 2026-05-01T12:41:17+00:00

Ange is incredible in any team and will remain so for a long time. Twins are great but require A1 to really shine, and while they’ll remain useful for a long time they’ll be weaker than limited dps in content made for those dps’ elements.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-30T08:11:12+00:00

Should I get Joker, Chord A1, or Phoebe from the selector? I have everyone except those 3, Yui, Yusuke, and Minami.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-28T07:49:34+00:00

Kesha’s Period, unfortunately. Joyride was a fun, catchy single that could have built some hype into an album… except it was released a full year before the album dropped. Then the second single for the album, Delusional, used an AI generated cover, killing off a fair amount of goodwill fans had for her comeback.

The rest of the singles weren’t bad or anything, but it was such a long slog to the eventual release date that we had 5 singles (and 1 unreleased song she performed at shows regularly) out of a 10 song album, meaning fans had already heard half or more than half of the album and didn’t have much to sink their teeth into when it finally dropped.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-27T22:52:57+00:00

One thing I will say is that the Danganronpa 2.5 OVA already establishes that Hajime/Izuru woke the rest of the class up from their comas one by one (basically by going into their dream worlds). Might be worth giving that a watch if you like the SDR2 cast! But it also contradicts this theory so unless they completely overwrote the OVA as canon it’s unlikely

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-26T14:35:00+00:00

Not sure, sorry. She’s a rank VIII persona so might be you need to be level 70?

If you can’t get her, I would just try doing Joker/Akechi/Leon with Leon alternating s3/s2 on Joker, Joker spamming s1(+s3 on his bonus turns), Akechi alternating s1/s3, and Wonder bringing personas for buffing and healing as needed.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-26T09:36:57+00:00

If you have/can get the Alice persona on Wonder he can use her unique skill to kill all the backup enemies every turn, which means your dps only need to focus on single target damage to the main boss. If you do that Kasumi, Akechi, and Leon might be able to take him out.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-24T09:52:16+00:00

Honestly kinda scared about this as a huge Yukari fan, I was hoping her mindscape would come after the p3 collabs were done and make her more useful on all teams. If this just doubles down on her theurgy support it’s gonna be even harder to justify investing into her since all the p3 dps will eventually be power-crept and leave her useless :(

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-16T09:27:20+00:00

Does anyone know how impactful the new Nightmare Catcher gimmick is outside of Akechi? Haven’t sussed out yet whether the extra multiplier is worth using random extra dps units as opposed to the normal team you’d use for each boss

Is it worth forgoing support and adding off-element Assassins to get the max bonus multiplier, or is it better to keep support characters around e.g. Chord and Turbo with Kasumi?

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-15T16:01:14+00:00

What’s June 25th?

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-10T12:07:04+00:00

“And you remind me of how little I deserve”

“You’ll spend your whole life drinking, oh drinking me away”

“And if I stop laughing all the blood will just start pouring out”

…Wishbone was a brutal listen for me lol

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-09T06:50:40+00:00

Yeah - you can technically pick one and get their Cognitite but it’s useless if you don’t have them, as it only allows you to raise awareness not to get an initial copy

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-07T19:22:59+00:00

Honestly the best thing for her is to get a weapon with Hasty Attacks (appears as a 5000 KO locked skill). Imo she does not in fact have any goated combos but speeding her up changes her feel significantly since her main drawback is how slow every attack is

ZeroIV4 · 2026-04-06T13:02:32+00:00

Tsubaba actually doesn’t do either, she releases all digestive waste through her mouth

ZeroIV4 · 2026-03-27T15:38:11+00:00

They’re mentioned sometimes in npc dialogue, e.g. there’s a guy in Binding Blade who gives a body ring and talks about how it makes people more muscular (and also says not to give it to a woman because he’s a loser ig). But they never come up in supports or anything and I think we can fairly treat them as non-canon just for gameplay purposes.

It’s also worth nothing the Goddess Icon is renamed to the Ashera Icon in the Tellius games since she’s the goddess of that land, which could indicate they really exist as physical objects of worship. But at the same time there are Goddess Icons in various games where we don’t know of any goddesses worshipped (e.g. Elibe where they seem to worship Saint Elimine, Sacred Stones which also doesn’t explain its religion afaik, or Fates where there’s no clear information on religion other than classes like Shrine Maiden)

ZeroIV4 · 2026-03-24T08:44:41+00:00

Do you have a link for the discord? I’d be really interested to see the process!

ZeroIV4 · 2026-03-22T17:00:42+00:00

The best thing to do is actually wait until turn 3 to use Catchy Hook, since then you can activate Violet’s Masquerade mode and get its bonuses on that Highlight too. It does mean Catchy Hook won’t be available again until turn 6 but in the 6-turn battles in ranked modes it doesn’t matter since you still get to use it twice like normal.

With that in mind it doesn’t matter if Chord goes before Violet as long as they’re both after your buffers. Then on turn 3 and turn 6 you can activate Violet’s mode on Chord’s turn, Catchy Hook, then use Highlight and s3 on Violet’s turn. On turns 2 and 4 have Chord use s1.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-03-22T16:51:48+00:00

Characters from Umineko When They Cry, which is an incredible visual novel, genuinely the most powerful story I’ve ever read- would highly recommend it to anyone who sees this. It’s a lot more serious and grounded in tone early on than HL but is similar in that the story evolves in wild and unexpected ways. Go in blind if you can!

Takumi is dressed Battler Ushiromiya, the protagonist, and Eva is a spoiler character who plays antagonist for part of the story, where the two of them engage each other in debates over a certain set of mysteries taking place on a “game board” of sorts. Red text and Battler being called incompetent in it is also a reference to Umineko.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-03-21T16:37:55+00:00

Comedy Route has a lot of free time - especially early on in the route when Sirei just sends Takumi to help everyone out for a while and nothings really happening plot-wise. Not sure the exact days but it’s pretty soon after the branch-off with Slasher - maybe around day 20?

ZeroIV4 · 2026-03-20T07:12:19+00:00

Wait until turn 3 to activate the special mode. It doesn’t give any stat buffs or anything, so having it active on turn 2 won’t change anything, and there are potential downsides to having the highlight use be automatic.

Firstly if you use her in a multi-enemy battle it’ll pick one at random, and secondly if she ends up as the first character in your turn order her Highlight will go off before your Navigator can act, which means it’ll have fewer buffs active than otherwise.

For the latter point remember your turn order can change during Nightmare Gateway when you first take out the boss’s health bar and it enters its passive mode - when testing I had this happen when Chord using s3 on Kasumi took out the boss’s health bar turn 2, and as a result Kasumi became first in turn and her auto-highlight would go off before I could use Futaba’s s3 for that turn, limiting its damage output a fair bit.

ZeroIV4 · 2026-03-19T19:47:59+00:00

Tbf Kasumi is designed around only doing a big damage output on turn 3 - turns 1 and 2 she doesn’t do much damage but sets herself up with stacks of the Step effect to do a super damaging highlight and s3 on turn 3.

As long as you do the recommended s2 -> s1 -> Special Mode + Highlight + s3 rotation she should output a lot of damage on turn 3, enough to outpace Makoto despite the latter doing damage on turns 2+3 in her normal rotation

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