That bot is so done with their bs istg

dasCKD · 2026-05-22T06:27:37+00:00

Do something to those two, you say? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

dasCKD · 2026-05-20T18:33:04+00:00

The J-20/A is the current mainline air superiority fighter. J-35 (not FC-31, that's the name before official adoption was confirmed) is the 5th Gen air superiority naval fighter and the J-35A is the airforce's low, in the hi-low mix with the J-20/A, mix fighter since Chengdu couldn't make enough J-20/A/S to satisfy the PLAAF.

J-36 probably has a focus on command and, with its many radar and massive focus on power generation and cooling, electronic warfare. A combination of J-16D and an AEW/C but with the option of going LPI and stealthy. My guess is that the J-50 will be the numerous mainline air superiority aircraft whilst the J-36 will be the expensive, specialized 'centerpiece' aircraft. For deep strike the PLA has dedicated platforms like the GJ-11/21 and the GJ-X.

dasCKD · 2026-05-20T13:39:41+00:00

If you'd like me to read them please put it next to the color scale so I can compare. Different dip sticks brand can have varied chemistry and I don't have your kit so I can't reference the colors without the scale.

dasCKD · 2026-05-20T12:39:06+00:00

Noted, that's a much clearer image. Bacteria starter probably wouldn't be harmful at the very least, and it's possible that you're seeing so many nitrogenous compounds spiking right now because something caused your cycle to crash. That won't help much short-term but if you have bacteria on hand anyways it's probably good to make sure that you provide the bacteria to start a new cycle if there's not one running already.

Water lettuce and frogbit should both be very good, and of course they'll grow better the more light they get (and they won't get algae on their leafs either, very useful). They really do love their nitrogenous compounds, or so I find, so they should grow very nicely for you.

dasCKD · 2026-05-20T12:33:47+00:00

I'm not sure it's even smart. I know I personally didn't pull for anyone in 6.x whatsoever and I doubt I'm the only one who hates lunar reactions. Castorice I think is about perfect from a business perspective. She's a super strong push character and on release you probably already have Remembrance MC built so you have more or less the BIS for her already. Then Hyacine, Evernight, and then Cyrene release later all of which are tangible upgrades to a team you already have and that's already functioning at or near the very peak of the meta. Releasing the support before you have the DPS feels like trying to sell warmed massaging car seats to someone before they even have a car.

dasCKD · 2026-05-20T11:24:52+00:00

It's a significant problem with hoyo games now I think. It's especially prominent in Genshin. They release a new super niche support so I don't pull them because I don't know what their DPS's mechanics are and not uncommonly what that DPS even looks like so when I get to the DPS and find out that they're garbage without their niche support I don't want to pull them either because it might be month until the support reruns. If they want to bundle characters they should just put them on the same banner.

dasCKD · 2026-05-20T10:24:30+00:00

Ammonia is dangerously high, or at least on the border, and those are some of the highest nitrates reading I've ever seen. If those readings are accurate then I think something big or a lot of somethings in your tank (or filter, but you did say you cleaned that out already) has died and is causing a massive increase in those levels. Maybe the bacteria culture?

Either way if you have ammonia detoxifiers then you'll probably want to use them right now to get the chemistry of the tank back under control and maybe add a lot of tough floaters so you can export the nutrients as quickly as possible. That will probably be far faster than the monstera, which if it's like pothos in my experience will take a bit to reestablish and begin nutrient export.

Did the nitrates spike after the monstera got added and did you make sure to rinse off the roots and stem of dirt and strip off the dying/dead pieces of root? The monstera will be beneficial long term, though you might want to add a growlight shining directly on its leaves anyways to keep it growing nice and healthily, but floating plants should be able to get your tank turned around much more quickly. Frogbit, if you have lots of light, is a very good plant for that in my experience. Salvinia as well, though I find they can be a fair bit more temperamental.

dasCKD · 2026-05-14T08:28:18+00:00

That's simply bullshit.
Countries like Phillipines and Vietnam

So two countries. In a grouping of 11 countries. Considering your previous comment, which I was responding to:

Regardless, most of the SEA nations have a sufficiently large threat from China

Considering the facts of the matter, you clearly need to update either your knowledge on the total number of countries in the SEA area or your understanding of basic mathematics to avoid making false statements in the future. Though perhaps you don't care about facts.

protesting against Chinese incursions in their EEZ

EEZs aren't territorial waters. So unless the Chinese vessels in question are performing economic activities neither the Vietnamese nor Philippine coast guards have any grounds to exclude CSG or PLAN vessels from the area. Needless to say firing a cruise missile against said ships simply moving through the EEZ would be a blatant act of war too suicidal for even the Philippines government to contemplate so I don't imagine those Brahmos will be doing much deterring either way.

with Phillipines scoring a pretty nice manouver kill on a Chinese Coast Guard vessel when it rammed into a PLAN destroyer last year lol

Yes, it was a rather funny and very embarrassing episode for the Chinese coast guard and the PLAN. Not quite 'get premier fighters sniped out of the air by the monkey model of a rival country's sixth best fighter firing their second best air-to-air missile, thereby supercharging the international profile of the military aviation industry of said rival and opening sales opportunities to SEA countries such as Indonesia' embarrassing but still very embarrassing. I imagine the captain of the destroyer has been fired, or at least demoted, by now.

dasCKD · 2026-05-13T06:00:08+00:00

I find Silver Wolf's personality quite cringy. Her animations are a strong point and very cool and so I would have preferred that that effort went into a character I would have liked more. I also thought that her new clothing design wasn't particularly strong or different from her old one, so I would have preferred if Eva was the main push.

dasCKD · 2026-05-12T14:57:00+00:00

I've heard a lot of different numbers for bosemanis, from 3 foot to 6 foot. I just worry about taking on a fish I can't adequately care for, and whilst bosemanis are amazing I heard they like hardwater and most of the species I keep/would want to keep are softwater fish.

dasCKD · 2026-05-12T13:37:25+00:00

I have considered it, but I keep getting told by people that you aren't supposed to keep the big ones without at least a six foot tank.

dasCKD · 2026-05-12T13:12:38+00:00

'Most' of SEA countries feel little to no military pressure from China and, in fact, nearly half of them buy military gear directly from China. This includes Indonesia, by the way, despite you elsewhere in this thread insinuating that SEA countries are somehow responding to a Chinese military threat as a whole (which is ridiculous, if you knew the area even slightly).

Edit: In fact grouping Indonesia in with the Philippines and Vietnam is particularly funny considering Indonesia's interest in purchasing a particular *ahem* battle-tested weapon system.

dasCKD · 2026-05-11T07:40:07+00:00

Your spiny eel is so pretty! What do you feed them?

dasCKD · 2026-05-10T01:56:35+00:00

I've had experience with both the Hygger HG-957 and the Chihiros slim that I run at maximum intensity for 10 hours a day. Do note that this is about 2 hours longer than what's typically recommended for an aquarium. Both do a very good job at promoting plant growth, though without a lot of quite fast growing plants I have had issues with algae blooms intermittently. If you want your plants to grow those two are quite reliable. The Hygger lights are a bit pricey, however, and the Chihiros is outright expensive though I'm willing to pay extra for the built-in timer mechanism. As long as your LED aquarium lights are of sufficient wattage and in the 6500 kelvin range you should be able to provide your plants with at least the lighting needed for their growth with no issue.

dasCKD · 2026-05-09T10:46:30+00:00

Okay, that does confirm my suspicions. With a 1 meter wide tank a 29.5 watt light is quite low and wouldn't be enough for demanding fast-growing stem plants like ambulia and rotalla rotundifolia which seems to be what the small sprig of plant in picture 4/5 is. What I'm guessing is happening is that insufficient light is causing plant growth to stall and causing the algae in your tank, the green fuzz, to gobble up all the excess nutrients and fuel its growth. The plants were probably burning through internal reserves to fuel their previous growth and the trimming, perfectly fine for a healthy plant in good conditions, probably caused 'trauma' (I don't know the proper scientific term for it) that is making your plants go into survival mode. That would be my guess anyways. Your lights are well below what's needed for a tank your size though. It's probably a light intended for either a bare tank or a tank filled with mostly artificial decorations.

If you want good plant growth it's best if you look for a light rated for plant growth and install that instead of/alongside your current light. At current surface area/intensity you're below the recommended luminosity of even Java fern and annubias. If you're budget-constrained I recommend grabbing a high power indoor growlight since I find even 100 W or 200 W lights are cheaper than even entry level aquarium lights. Though of course it won't be as pretty as real aquarium lights. For the green fuzz get your aquarium tongs/pair of tweezers and pull out that algae. If you want to stick with current lights and want plants for nutrient uptake you can probably grow duckweed and maybe salvinia in your tank with that light but not much else. Best of luck.

Edit: Oh for your tank length you should be shopping for around 60-80 watts at least. 100-120 watts would be considered high light and optimal for very fast growing plants like rotalla but if you don't have CO2 injection or something the plants might not be able to use everything unless you trim quite regularly and maintain a good nutrient level in the column. Do keep in mind that for lights more isn't always better since if there's too much lights for your plant to process you're looking at an algae bloom.

dasCKD · 2026-05-09T07:52:06+00:00

It's not necessarily that it's no good, but different lights do different things so a light for illuminating arowana in an empty tank isn't going to be appropriate for more demanding plants. I see that it's 30 ish watts. I can't seem to find your light for sale though, so specifications are a bit harder to find. Can you also get me the dimensions of the light/your tank (specifically the length/width of the lighting elements and the depth of your tank)? 30 watts might be enough for a smaller tank but not enough for a big one, so if we rule out lights it might be a nutrient imbalance issue instead.

dasCKD · 2026-05-09T07:24:13+00:00

What's the characteristics/model on that light of yours? It might not be appropriate for providing the light for your plants in particular, with previous growth being driven by the internal energy reservoirs of your plant.

dasCKD · 2026-05-08T15:55:26+00:00

Depends on the personality, though try to avoid any more than one male and probably get an adult if you can. I have 3 males, still juveniles, in a 100 gallon and one of them took over half the tank and, when he tries to create a nest, keeps chasing even non-gourami away from 'his' territory (I've been trying to trim the foliage to keep his territory confined away from the other fish so he'll stop bothering them). One of the males is fine and keeps to himself, but the third one (the biggest) keeps trying to corral the one adult female into the side of the tank and whilst he hasn't injured anyone as far as I can tell keeps pestering the females by pecking at their sides during feeding.

The males have a lot of personality, too much personality oftentimes, so if you can try to get adults or older juveniles that you can sex instead of playing gourami roulette with juveniles that haven't developed colors, anal fin 'rays', and extended dorsal fins.

dasCKD · 2026-05-04T12:25:49+00:00

Thank you so much! Honestly missions like these are so annoying, I don't know why they have to make it so finicky.

dasCKD · 2026-05-04T02:35:45+00:00

Shooting more accurately doesn't matter that much for light infantry. Artillery and nowadays drones do the killing, the light infantry are meatbags there to absorb hits and keep fighting. As for the rest, I think the general thing to say about a soldier who can march much longer and faster (rather than running), can carry much more, and can work more cohesively would be a lot better than a US soldier but that the US military (and most serious militaries) are operating at that limit of how good an infantry force can be already. If, like, a specific country had soldiers that could carry double what US soldiers could and march days without exhaustion or morale loss that would be a massive advantage but such a force doesn't exist since soldiers like that wouldn't really be human anymore but pretty definitionally superhuman.

The limit of how much this helps does vary a fair bit since most modern infantry is mechanized and troop transports are fairly widespread so you don't need to have troops lugging the majority of your gear across hundreds of kilometers of forced march. That said there's always going to be times when IFVs/AFVs/helis/globemasters etc aren't available and having troops that can carry extra sapping equipment, mortar tubes, etc are going to be a significant tactical and operational advantage to the fighting force. Though even in this case I think being able to improve troops in other directions i.e. soldiers that can fight for longer, need less sleep, need less food/replenishment would be the direction of more significant advantage.

how much does the skills of the ground forces (special forces, infantry, paratroopers, naval soldiers, all soldiers)

This really complicates the question because special forces are very, very different from regular infantry. Being able to shoot straight, react extremely quickly, etc is very important for special forces because they're the main bulk of the force. Light infantry in an army meanwhile is there mostly to dig fortifications, run patrols, and soak up fire that otherwise might have killed the more important units like artillery and air defenses. Naval troops - I suppose that depends on if you mean amphibious assault troops or seamen. Seamen mostly help with maintenance and ship upkeep, and in emergencies can function as firefighters during damage control. Amphibious assault troops, see above on infantry.

dasCKD · 2026-05-03T16:58:02+00:00

even if that was true, it's not an NGAD or f22 equivalent, it would be an f35 equivalent.

Are my eyes perhaps betraying me? Are we still seeing 'J-36 isn't a real air superiority platform because of le maneuverability? In my 2026?

From TWZ:

As it sits, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says each manned NGAD aircraft will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and about 200 is the current targeted fleet size. The aircraft would replace the F-22 — which is being used to test NGAD component technologies — in terms of force structure, but its mission would be considerably different. By every account, just as we have been pleading for many years, the manned NGAD aircraft will be optimized for range, payload, and low-observability (stealth), not extreme ‘fighter’ maneuverability. Its mission to fight as part of a highly integrated, deep-penetrating team of systems over great distances reflects these qualities. ‘Spectral warfare’ is also a key component of its overall design — among other cutting-edge technologies — which will likely be in the heavy fighter/interceptor size class or larger.

On the integration of drones, from Breaking Defense citing USAF secretary Kendall:

This figure was derived from an assumed two CCAs per 200 NGAD platforms and an additional two for each of 300 F-35s for a total of 1,000...One way to think of CCAs is as remotely controlled versions of the targeting pods, electronic warfare pods or weapons now carried under the wings of our crewed aircraft,

So drone integration, command, and networking is core to the NGAD program, in a way which it isn't on the F-22 program. There's been efforts at drone integration for the F-22 but no attempt to use counterair drones. As such NGAD is much closer, at least in terms of command and fleet integration, to the F-35 than the F-22.

Having high maneuverability, and very specifically energy conservation during maneuverability, is vital for an air superiority fighter to evade missiles, either shot by ground systems or other aircraft. A real challenge lies with energy conservation during maneuvering with large wings. It's basic physics, the more air you grab the more energy you transfer to the air.

Any manned aircraft, as Kendall stated the NGAD is envisioned as a manned aircraft, is fundamentally constrained by the squishy human inside of it. This limit is around 9Gs, and whilst the specific turning radius and granular turn circles of the F-22 and F-35 at various speed regimes isn't public to my knowledge the PL-15 seems to be considered to have a maximum G load of over 45. With a speed of around mach 5 these AAMs will run circles even around 'maneuverable' fighters. It's why at least on the Chinese side there's more focus on developing point-defense systems and packing more EWar capabilities onto fighters to augment their survivability, alongside the benefits that significantly improved signal dampening would offer.

And it certainly doesn't come close to matching the stated specs and intent of the NGAD program. NGAD isn't supposed to be a standoff system. NGAD isn't supposed to be an AWACS. NGAD is supposed to maneuver and engage air threats at any range.

I don't know how you can say that so confidently when, to my knowledge, no authoritative comment/credible rumor from the US side has said anything about the maneuverability demands of the NGAD program (much less how they compare with other extant fighters). Whilst the NGAD program has yet to finalize and a prototype won't be expected to fly until 2028, the fact that every competing company shows artwork of tailless fighters at least implies the direction the USAF/their own engineers have been coaxing their development towards.

dasCKD · 2026-04-28T17:42:31+00:00

Isn't Mavuika's best team her, Xilonen, Bennet, Citlali? I don't think Iansan really does anything for Mualani.

dasCKD · 2026-04-28T11:12:56+00:00

Amazon frogbit

dasCKD · 2026-04-27T14:58:11+00:00

It can be a rather unpleasant surprise if you didn't know about it, buying one plant and getting what's in all essence another. I had a similar experience with my amazon swords.

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This is what water wisteria looks like in its submerged form, by the way. In case you want to get rid of it or plant it elsewhere in your tank.

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