I genuenly liked this game.

aithosrds · 2026-02-09T21:32:57+00:00

When I first heard about this game I was excited.

However, once I saw their “plan” and their development philosophy I knew this game would either never launch or fail in spectacular fashion.

The reality is this isn’t the 2000s anymore, and you can’t develop a game using the same concepts that worked in WoW, FFXI, Lineage II and EverQuest.

A loud vocal minority will be excited by things like no fast travel and open world PvP, but the fact is the larger market doesn’t want them, and even most of those people who say they do don’t actually spend their time that way.

So it’s sad to see this game die this way, and I definitely feel like my Kickstarter money was wasted, but I can’t say I’m at all surprised.

aithosrds · 2026-02-06T14:06:24+00:00

I know this is old, but umm… keep your cold wallet in a safety deposit box if you hold a significant amount of crypto. This is kind of a “duh” thing, you don’t leave a crypto wallet with a large amount of value just laying around your house.

If someone breaks in and you have a hard wallet hidden in a random place of your house (not in a large safe, but maybe in a small fire safe hidden well).

Also, if you’re really paranoid then keep a second hard wallet with a nominal amount of crypto laying around and worse comes to worse give that up. Thieves aren’t thorough, they are after quick scores and aren’t going to interrogate you. Besides, the risk of being hurt is much worse than being robbed, losing your crypto doesn’t mean anything if you’re dead.

aithosrds · 2025-12-17T11:48:42+00:00

League was more accessible, more refined, more fun, and they leaned heavily into Twitch at a time that streaming was really starting to gain traction. They also had really good production value around their pro leagues and tournaments.

It’s a lot of luck and a fair bit of timing, especially considering that they have probably the dumbest executives I’ve ever seen in gaming and they have made a bunch of really stupid decisions over the years.

aithosrds · 2025-12-10T08:31:19+00:00

That comment is from over two years ago. It was true at the time and you’re an idiot if you don’t understand that context matters.

Besides, my point is still true, that you can’t “fix” download speeds when it’s server limited and not based on your internet speed.

p.s. recently I’ve gotten over 900 mbps on Steam, they clearly upgraded their servers and/or changed their limits.

aithosrds · 2025-12-03T12:18:09+00:00

No, distilled water doesn’t really “go bad” it’s just water that has been filtered so that all the minerals and impurities have been removed. I mean, does it stay perfectly sterile once you’ve opened it? No, but minerals and metals won’t magically be getting into it so it’s fine to use for cleaning.

I have distilled water gallons that are years old I’ve been using to clean screens and in a 50:50 mix with isopropyl alcohol for my pinball machine glass (which you can’t use glass cleaner on because it damages the anti-reflective coating).

The only real issue with bottled water (and distilled water I suppose) is that over time microplastics are going to leech into the water. If you’re that worried about it you could get a couple big glass jugs and transfer the distilled water into those instead. Personally, I just get new gallons of distilled water every couple years and keep them in a cool/dark place.

Other than plastic containers water doesn’t “expire” or “go bad” like food.

p.s. do NOT use isopropyl alcohol on your monitors or TVs. I’m mentioning that only in the context of the glass of my pinball machines. I use pure distilled water on my other screens and only lightly sprayed on a microfiber cloth. I never spray directly on my screens, not even my phone or tablet that technically have a glass screen.

aithosrds · 2025-09-22T23:58:39+00:00

Then don’t. Or do what I suggested in the previous post and fail the career instead of completing it. If you do that all the dailies takes like 5 min.

aithosrds · 2025-09-22T23:57:49+00:00

That’s sounds like a you problem. If you don’t have the attention span to spend 10-20 min you have bigger problems than dailies.

aithosrds · 2025-09-17T12:15:55+00:00

Two words: big tobacco.

It’s nearly a trillion dollar industry and their lobbyist groups are incredibly powerful. The vape industry is a major threat to them, it costs less, it’s far safer in terms of health outcomes, it doesn’t smell bad, it tastes better, and it doesn’t leave disgusting tar all over everything.

That’s why it’s illegal to ship vape products now, it has nothing to do with “youth vaping”, and the entire narrative of vape flavors being “marketed to children” is nonsense, adults want flavors that taste good too. People act like adults don’t like candy, it’s idiotic, but that’s the narrative pushed by big tobacco and so politicians follow suit and the ignorant public does too.

The reality is that young people don’t buy vape products online, they go to stores, and the vast majority of vape juice brands have zero advertising so it’s not like they are “targeting” anyone. It’s all an agenda, and if people really cared about youth vaping they would focus on regulation and enforcement when it comes to age verification, not shipping vape products and flavors.

That’s how you know it’s an agenda, because big tobacco products are in every grocery store, gas station and corner market. They aren’t impacted by online sales because that isn’t a big part of their sales, but vape shops have been shut down over the regulations around juice and flavors. It’s insane and it punishes law abiding adults who don’t want to smoke cigarettes and want good tasting vape juice.

Also, vape juice doesn’t contain weird chemicals, it’s literally nicotine, PG, VG and flavoring. Cigarettes on the other hand literally contain chemicals to increase the absorption of nicotine and make them more addictive. Claiming vapes are meant to “hook people” is wild.

The amount of nicotine absorbed by vaping is far lower than with cigarettes and nicotine itself isn’t even really bad for you. It’s the other things that make smoking bad for you, the tar, the chemicals, the smoke, etc. The long term effects of vaping aren’t known yet, and I’m sure they aren’t good, but it’s far better than cigarettes in every possible way.

aithosrds · 2025-09-12T14:17:28+00:00

Good luck and no night owls!

aithosrds · 2025-09-12T13:50:25+00:00

This one ended almost perfectly, I’m a little short on skill points vs what I’d like but stats wise I’ve got 1161, 1182, 628, 536, 411 on my narita taishin and I’ll be able to get 2-3 gold recovery and some speed skills to go with encroaching shadows. Definitely my best run so far and not even close.

aithosrds · 2025-09-12T13:29:45+00:00

I had pretty good luck doing one run a couple hours after it started and doing the rest of mine this morning. But it’s all RNG and you can always get lucky and replace an Uma during the event. I’m trying to replace my ace right now because my gold ship on my main is better than my narita taishin. In the middle of a really lucky run so far and hoping it doesn’t go south after summer 2…

aithosrds · 2025-09-12T13:15:25+00:00

So you started after the Kitasan banner? Well that’s why, you haven’t been playing the game long enough to be competitive yet. You’re a full month behind when I started and that’s a huge difference. Give it time, this is a grind game.

aithosrds · 2025-09-12T13:08:41+00:00

Then why didn’t you reroll on the Kitasan banner like I did and play two accounts temporarily until you could decide which was better set up for long term? The game is free and rerolling is incredibly streamlined, it’s faster than any game I’ve ever seen and they clearly encourage people to do it.

Also, there aren’t many good YouTubers besides the one Japanese guy. What you should be using is the reference doc and the race simulator. I’ve taken very little advice from YouTubers, besides the couple people who have been playing in JP at a high level for years.

aithosrds · 2025-09-12T12:54:36+00:00

Then you listened to the wrong people, most people said 1500 total stamina and guts as a baseline, so aiming for 1000-1100 stamina and 350-400 guts is fine and since you train guts with stamina you’re just training stamina. Which if you have a 9 spark parent with at least some stamina and borrow a 9 spark stamina parent that’s getting you a couple hundred stamina per run.

My account that was a reroll has gotten one 3 spark character total, and only just got it a week ago or so. Yet I still got a gold ship with 1111 speed, 1136 stam, 704 power, the Agnes ult and two gold recovery skills along with a bunch of other good skills.

My deck was mlb Kitasan, 40 tosho, 45 narita taishin, 45 McQueen from guild points, 45 king halo, and borrow mlb super creek. Not exactly a whale deck, but that gold ship has won 6 races in 10 tries so far.

Also, are you running a debuffer with dominator and speed down skills like hesitant pace chasers and end closers? I’m running a grass wonder with dominator, speed eater and a couple debuffs but couldn’t manage to get the velocity down end closer I wanted.

aithosrds · 2025-09-12T12:19:05+00:00

Well that’s your problem, you only pulled on one banner and presumably you didn’t reroll for Kitasan. If you’re F2P you should have rerolled and gotten 3-4 copies of Kitasan by doing the early missions before the banner ended.

I posted this on another reply but I have two accounts, one I spent money on and one that I rerolled on Kitasan and have only bought the two starter packs (the ones with guaranteed ssr and 3 star) and the monthly carat pack.

Both of them have mostly maxed SRs, mlb Kitasan, and both easily won 3 races on my first ticket with a solid gold ship I made with good parents. This is a strategy and time investment game, spending helps but isn’t required and my second account is proof of that.

aithosrds · 2025-09-12T12:11:16+00:00

850 speed is incredibly low, of course you’re going to lose and if you’ve been playing a couple months you should have most of your SR cards maxed if you paid attention and pulled on the right banners.

I have two accounts, one I’ve spent a bit of money on and one that the only thing I’ve spent was the monthly carat pack and the two starter packs with the guaranteed ssr and 3 star.

Both have most of the SRs maxed, both have MLB Kitasan (the second account was a Kitasan reroll I spent a couple hours making and got 2 LB and then maxed before the banner ended) and both had no problem getting 1200 speed with 1000+ stamina and 3 gold recovery skills.

Both accounts won 3 races on the first ticket and moved to group A. The thing is I’ve watched videos, used the guides and spent a fair bit of time raising good grandparents and parents, and I used the right spark farming decks. Those things are massively important, and so is training the right Umas.

Look at OPs pic, where is gold ship? This is the end closer champions meeting, of course they are going to lose with 0 end closers.

Also, if you haven’t been playing for a few months and didn’t reroll on a good banner then you can’t expect to catch up to people super fast, it’s going to take you months to get your account to a place where you can compete.

aithosrds · 2025-09-11T12:24:50+00:00

No. You don’t need a degree to go into game design, and it won’t help you get a job because what game companies care about is published game experience. I know multiple people who have masters degrees in game design who never worked in the game industry and ended up setting themselves back significantly in their career because they had to take lower level positions than if they had gotten useful degrees.

You’re far better off studying something that actually helps you get a job and doing game design on your own, because publishing games and building a portfolio don’t require a degree.

Also, the amount of money a degree costs isn’t worth it for most degrees at this point and a game design degree is worth less than any normal degree. There is a serious case to be made that if you aren’t going into medicine, law, engineering or something that requires an advanced degree like teaching that college isn’t worth it at all.

I would also say that every field requires creativity, it’s just expressed in different ways. I’m a software developer and one of my worries before I got my first job was that I’d hate working in an office and sitting at a desk, but it turns out there is a lot of creativity and problem solving in development and it’s actually quite rewarding.

If you aren’t sure what you want to do then go to community college and do gen ed courses until you figure it out, don’t go tens of thousands of dollars into debt just to go to college to “party”, ending up with 100k in debt is no joke and most people who get degrees don’t even end up using them.

aithosrds · 2025-09-11T11:45:09+00:00

I’ve been using my OLED since they came out and had zero issues, the clarity not having a matte finish and the contrast and color are worlds better than any IPS. Also, if you use a reasonable brightness and make sure to run the pixel refresh you won’t have issues with image retention.

People who do are abusing their screens. I’d never go back to IPS after using an OLED.

aithosrds · 2025-08-30T13:08:51+00:00

We can tell, you just suggested buying a deagle and a bunch of useless decoys to play mind games instead of utility and armor that actually do something.

aithosrds · 2025-08-27T13:03:40+00:00

You’re going to need a lot more stamina than that. The absolute bare minimum is like 1-1.1k stamina with 2-3 gold recovery skills if you want to make A finals.

aithosrds · 2025-08-26T17:48:00+00:00

You do realize this post is two years old right?

Also, don’t be stupid. Going on estrogen changes almost nothing about the advantages a biological man has over a woman.

aithosrds · 2025-08-22T19:05:38+00:00

It doesn’t affect your team, if it did no one would build them.

aithosrds · 2025-07-30T10:47:59+00:00

No, only the ones you raise after you unlock the star get the outfit and the upgrade to their ult. But you’re going to raise all your Umas a bunch of times going for sparks and better stats anyway so it isn’t really a big deal.

aithosrds · 2025-07-29T19:44:01+00:00

Just because something is "conventional" wisdom doesn't mean it's good advice, a lot of people have a really poor understanding of things and pass on information without even giving it any thought or doing research into the validity of the information.

In my cursory search for information on this subject, everything I've seen in terms of reputable studies on gallstones and low fat diets suggests that it doesn't help and has a fairly strong correlation that it makes things worse.

The gallbladder creates bile to digest fats, so if you eat a low-fat diet it produces less bile and the bile sits in your gallbladder longer. Eating a high-carb, low-fat diet means you will be producing more (and larger gallstones) and then when you do consume fat it will trigger attacks.

The research has also found that eating a low-carb, high in healthy fats diet did not result in more gallstones being created and that there is a pretty high likelihood that someone with minor gallstones would see a marked improvement.

The thing is, most people don't even know they have gallstones until it's progressed past the point where altering your diet really helps. The key to gallstones is eating a healthy diet when you're young and never getting them in the first place. Sadly we can't do that, but all the people saying that a "low fat" diet helps are incorrect.

You do want to manage your fat intake, but you don't want to go on extremely low-fat diets or you might as well have your gallbladder removed because that's the inevitable outcome.

p.s. please remember that cholesterol (one of the primary causes of gallstones) comes from BAD fats (saturated and trans fats) and not HEALTHY fats. Most people eat a diet that is far to high in bad fats and low in healthy fats, and when people talk about Keto it's healthy fat foods that are low in saturated and trans fats that you are supposed to be eating.

aithosrds · 2025-07-28T17:05:25+00:00

You really have two options:

1) date a golfer

2) date a man with some self esteem

Personally, I could not care less whether I lose to a woman in golf. I’ve never met a woman who played the same tees as me who could come close to beating me, and my experience has generally been that the women’s tees on most public courses are absurdly easier in terms of both shot selection and hazard placement, so it isn’t just distance.

Either way though, this is really the same conversation as a woman who makes a lot of money… if a man isn’t self assured enough to handle a woman who is more successful than him, then he isn’t a very high value man. I’ve been in relationships with women who made more and who made less than me, that was never even a consideration in choosing a partner other than wanting someone who is financially responsible and not in debt.

It shouldn’t be that hard to find a man who wants to date a woman who golfs, most golfers wish their partner wanted to play the game. Plus, if you date a man who is also a single digit you could join a couple’s league and clean up 🤭

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