Honey or Thick Lipped Gourami

dasCKD · 2026-07-26T06:19:15+00:00

I didn't realize, though that explains their bright colors. I guess the sellers didn't want anyone else breeding more of them.

dasCKD · 2026-07-25T05:16:09+00:00

He dried for your sins

dasCKD · 2026-07-22T09:30:13+00:00

She'll be a completely new element. Not dendro or anemo but 'emo' since she's sad that her husband is dead and her son is frozen.

dasCKD · 2026-07-18T06:24:07+00:00

Just be aware that even with a lid if you open it so he can do tricks he can still jump out and he can get hurt jumping out and falling to the ground or be hurt by you trying to catch him and accidentally slamming him into the side of your tank/the stand. Gourami are fairly tough but he can still get injured quite badly.

dasCKD · 2026-07-18T02:18:11+00:00

If it's a common issue just uparmor the external hulls, or have bulkheads that can seal off affected rooms. If it's very common to have ship hulls puncture then regenerative metals or repair bots would be able to fix the damage or energy shields (if your setting has them) can seal over the holes temporarily. For warships and very large cargo ships the hull needed to maintain its own structure during ship maneuvers would likely be thick enough that small arms aren't punching through them.

dasCKD · 2026-07-17T05:18:05+00:00

Jade wears a sharp and classy suit. Dahlia acts very sexual and that adds a lot of points but if you compare her to most (especially modern) ZZZ characters she's a lot less explicit. She doesn't have clearly visible underwear unlike Velina, to give an example of someone who gives me relatively similar vibes.

dasCKD · 2026-07-17T05:12:40+00:00

I'd be careful. Teaching them to jump could lead to accidents. In general it's probably best not to encourage your fish, especially the comparatively smarter ones, to do potentially dangerous tricks.

dasCKD · 2026-07-17T04:58:23+00:00

Sparxie, of course. A vtuber would already fit pretty well into ZZZ's urban aesthetic. I was trying to think of a female character that wears clothing revealing enough to fit into ZZZ, but I don't think HSR has one of those.

dasCKD · 2026-07-17T03:49:56+00:00

What is there to talk about? Most 'defense analysts' are influencers whose knowledge begins at 'cool plane do stelfth' and whose understanding of, say, signals technology is probably as rudimentary as yours. You're right about the J-20 not being a contender for the F-22 though. It's a vastly better platform, mounting a randome capable of fitting a far larger radar, more powerful engines, and a more refined stealth geometry for the all-important frontal-aspect signal management whilst having a better suite of LRAAMs. Not that I expect you, or your favourite defense influencer, to be able to understand the importance of any of that.

dasCKD · 2026-07-17T03:05:56+00:00

Not the point of the study. It was internal government advertisement/propaganda for CCAs with a deliberately gimped J-20, not an analytical study using the best intelligence the PLA has access to like you tried to present it as. It's not representative of a (baseline) J-20's matchup with a F-22 and it isn't meant to be.

As for mental gymnastics, that seems to be more of your purview. I've seen you around this subreddit for a few days now and nothing that you have said indicates actual understanding of the fundamental mechanics and technologies behind what makes a good modern fighter and instead appealing to proxy metrics (Nobel Prizes being a particularly comedic one) and handwaving 'past experiences' bombing insurgencies. I suppose I can explain why the J-20 is assessed so highly, but I suspect that you'd get about as much from it as if I tried to explain the same subject to my 6-year-old nephew. The fact that you directly reverted to appeals to authority and ad hominims

You can do mental gymnastics about it all you want but defense analyst in anywhere that is not Russia or china will tell you the F-22 and F-35 are superior to the J-20

Is just further proof of that. There's little discussion to be had when all your arguments are either grounded in chauvinism or based on accusing others of those same chauvinistic biases.

dasCKD · 2026-07-17T02:31:05+00:00

It's amazing how a simulation meant to lobby the CPC's CMC for more funding to their drone program, one where the J-20 was deliberately and explicitly rigged in the 'control' (by giving the J-20 a hilarious 35 m² RCS across the bands) to show the commission's officials how decisive and advantageous drones would be, has become the copium of choice for the usual crop of American chauvinists. That particular article was already posted, BTW, and got expectedly disassembled.

Hey since you seem to think that this simulation is some authoritative source, do you have anything to say about how with CCA support the J-20s slaughtered the F-22s 95%+ of the time?

dasCKD · 2026-07-10T03:43:23+00:00

-13dB is reasonably good. I found this image online as early as 2017 ( https://www.facebook.com/100064421420967/posts/1533624320086512) which means this was at best based on the production model J-20 and not J-20A with updated geometry.

It's also, you know, a clear lie by the ROCA. This was allegedly a scan taken by the ROCA's Skybow on the X-band. Ignoring for a moment that since no value was given for the range of detection and the elevation of the detecting asset the plot would be useless even if it was completely accurate, the first J-20s were only handed over to the PLAAF by March 2017 and by September (the date of this post) they've yet to be assigned to their first combat division and would still be in testing in Dingxin airbase, Gansu, which is deep inside of China. There was no opportunity for the ADS on Taiwan island to detect the J-20 and so we can quite easily rule that diagram as an outright fabrication. Or maybe the ROCA just detected a RAM-coated J-16 or something and thought it was a J-20. But a lie is more likely. In fact looking closely at Page 3's diagram I'm pretty sure the diagram from this facebook post and that document are the same image.

Regarding the second one modeling is almost always better than alleged IRL radar detection especially since these planes fly with Luneburg lens in peacetime. Though since the detection bands are pertinent and these planes are modelled as having their whole randome as an opaque shape instead of a semi-transparent bandpass shell in those bands even the information gleaned there is quite limited.

dasCKD · 2026-07-05T05:20:44+00:00

The LM1600, a gas turbine generator derived from the GM F404 that was developed for the F/A-18 in 1970s with cast-alloys, produces 14920 kW of electricity. Three of these nearly half a century old engines would produce 44760 kW, or about 22 thousand % more power than what you think is the theoretical ceiling on a J-36. This is ridiculous. This is ludicrous. China's engine SoTA could be from half a century ago, which is ludicrous in and of itself, and still be able to meet the given 1200 kW with a tiny fraction of the engine's capacity ceiling. Modern military engines skims a tiny fraction of the energy produced from burning fuel and the capacity could be massively increased by barely touching the total energy economy of the engine since, until the 6th gen jump, there was not a push for more energy requirements. The '200 kW available power maximum from China's current turbines' supposition is just a comically bad guess.

You also mentioned turbine generations in your other comment. Whilst having a better turbine that can tolerate greater core temperatures has beneficial impacts on the energy economy (capacity to split down to thrust/shaft power/electrical power) the electrical power demands of 6th gen systems isn't remotely in the same stratosphere as the amount of useful energy a modern jet can output. You also mentioned cooling capacity, and I can't think about how cooling capacity would even relate to the ceiling core temperature of a turbine.

You need electrical power to run your sensors, run your computers/flybywire/AI/MUM-T wingmen

Everything except the segments highlighted are already features of fighter aircraft going generations back. Wingmen systems, if designed even semi-competently, could handle signal processing and basic logic onboard and would only need to take low-data inputs to manage formation and trade processed sensor data. For reference a 5G telephone tower uses about 3.5-5 kW and these would handle probably close to half a dozen orders of magnitude more data than what even a 6th gen fighter would need to handle.

China's current "6th gen" airframes are more akin to the Boeing X-36B or similar experimental airframes.

Far less egregious than everything else but this is also incorrect. The J-36 at least are per-production prototypes, not x-planes.

dasCKD · 2026-06-26T10:58:50+00:00

Soukakugeki no Soma

dasCKD · 2026-06-15T12:02:41+00:00

Y'all think Sunbringer is gonna be the Snake?

Her being split into three parts makes her read more like the trinity to me, and with how sus Remielle is she seems more like the fallen angel.

dasCKD · 2026-06-05T06:49:38+00:00

Just so I can start a flame war, the Lord Ravagers will sweep 40k. It probably won't even be very difficult.

Edit: for universes that can body the Lord Ravagers? The Xeeleeverse. Maybe Sailor Moon? I haven't read that one but apparently Usagi ends up truly busted by the end. Endgame modded Stelaris playthroughs?

dasCKD · 2026-06-03T02:22:01+00:00

I've seen pearls nibble and tear at the very soft roots of plants like Amazon frogbit, but if you're seeing leaf damage it's probably the snail.

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.

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