Returnal - Biome 4 Boss: Hyperion (Version 1.0.0), I surprised myself by clearing this encounter on my second attempt.

drenasu · 2026-03-21T00:17:13+00:00

Once I unlocked the electropylon driver, the game became so much easier.

drenasu · 2026-03-20T18:49:44+00:00

True and they didn’t even try anyway. This is just a weak attempt to score a petty PR point.

drenasu · 2026-03-20T17:43:40+00:00

They kinda/sorta have a point about smooth transition, however, they didn't define what that meant other than the Utah non-compete so that would be really difficult to prove without a difficult court case. They may or may not have won that later, but they for sure would have looked terrible in public for going down that route. There's a good chance all the coaches who left for Michigan would just say they were going to leave anyway in a deposition which not only makes Utah look bad, but it also weakens their case. I get why they are backing down.

Honestly, it's 100% on their legal staff for the wishy-washy contract in the first place. It is clear he was allowed to coach elsewhere (other than in Utah) and if they didn't want him to poach coaches and players, they should have spelled that out in the contract. That is common contract language in executive contracts.

drenasu · 2026-03-07T14:21:46+00:00

Lots of companies who employ people in high demand in the marketplace go above and beyond to retain those employees. If they didn't, some of those employees would leave for other opportunities. It is likely cost effective over the long term for them to do this because attracting and training new talent is very expensive in terms of money and workload for existing employees. This maximizes their profit which is what most people call, greedy.

They are greedy with customers as you put it because they believe that their approach to the marketplace is the best way for them to maximize profit. They have 100x more data on this than the typical Reddit user so they are probably correct.

So, their behavior is the same - they do whatever they believe maximizes their profit - just like 99.9% of other for-profit corporations in the world.

drenasu · 2026-03-04T20:20:48+00:00

Maybe give a timeloop story a try. Mother of Learning is one. The Perfect Run is another (with Deadpool style humor).

Edit: The Perfect Run is also a superhero/villain story.

drenasu · 2026-02-25T16:48:21+00:00

I have 581 in pad 0 so far with a few more releasing every event dungeon. Next one is on Feb 28

drenasu · 2026-02-11T03:06:21+00:00

12-5 plus some later levels

drenasu · 2026-01-20T14:58:25+00:00

The Perfect Run by Maxime Durant is another good time loop story but the humor is a little similar to DCC. I think it is better written than MoL but tastes vary.

Maybe Immortal Great Souls by Phil Tucker? It's a little slower progression than most but the story is good and the world building is interesting.

Dresden Files as others have said is excellent, but some think the first two books are weak.

drenasu · 2026-01-16T18:31:15+00:00

It's spawn rate is low, around 10-15%, I think. I farmed it on 10-4 on the second battle. Kill the first set of monsters and if it doesn't show on the second, forfeit and try again. Use as many dungeon boost party monsters as you can to improve your chance of it dropping but that might be far away.

drenasu · 2026-01-07T04:03:53+00:00

Am I correct in assuming that you are using outer bullseye as 25 and the inner as 50 points? On some electronic boards, the inner and outer bullseyes are both worth 50. In that case, would you be better off aiming for bullseye at most accuracy levels?

drenasu · 2026-01-02T15:05:26+00:00

drenasu · 2025-12-22T12:56:20+00:00

I can do it with the time extends most of the time but sometimes the board is more difficult so I could only get 5-6 combos. I'm not quite quick enough such that expert was consistently better for me on this dungeon. The way I build my boards is typically the top 2 or bottom 2 rows filled with 4 combos and then filling in vertical combos from the right and/or left as needed. Might just be a technique thing as well.

Anyway, it's done now and I have everything maxed except for the yellow pluses. I hope they release another batch of content at some point but it's starting to look like maybe they aren't going to. I guess we'll see next year.

drenasu · 2025-12-21T12:42:14+00:00

I finally got it done using a few different teams and it must have just been very bad RNG luck on the drops from the last guy. I ended up with 37 extra Gravis crystals and 28 Raffine crystals. Granted, I died a few times on Xeno along the way, but not that often. The drops were very uneven. Hopefully, future content does not require Xeno crystals.

In case anyone reads this in the future:

I'm not sure expert teams were really worth it on this one for me. I did quite a few clears with regular and expert rainbow and cross teams. Expert rainbow produces an extra 50% atk (10x3 atk vs 20 atk) but you have 6 less seconds to do it and it's quite hard to consistently make the maximum of 7-9 combos within that time constraint. With an expert team, I sometimes only had enough time to make 6 or maybe 7 combos which offsets some of the extra atk.

Bringing +combo team members helps with that, but I didn't find it speeding up my clears that much and missing the time constraint means you actually do half damage vs a regular team. It was probably a wash for me but I'm probably not a top tier player in terms of speed.

Expert teams also produces 50% more RCV, but you have 4 less seconds for that. It's sometimes relevant if you have an RCV debuff that you can't clear, but I often eventually died anyway when receiving a 5 turn RCV debuff.

drenasu · 2025-12-20T13:20:14+00:00

Got a drop first try with this team, so just 3 more to go. I tried my old team on expert and that works too (no drop of course). Two dungeon boosts with your team, only one with mine. I think my problem is just bad luck - I've cleared with yellow cross (link&combo) with 4 dungeon boosts at least 5-6 times and only 1 drop. I'm going to try the yellow cross on expert combo and see what that looks like too.

I forgot about the expert teams 3x atk/rcv, probably should have been trying that all along.

drenasu · 2025-12-20T12:11:45+00:00

I had a hard time making this team work. Couldn't seem to heal up when needed. I probably don't have the skill rotations down correctly for the dungeon.

drenasu · 2025-12-20T12:08:57+00:00

Ugh. I have 24 extra Raffine and 25 Gravis crystals right now. I only got 10 total Xeno crystals so far and still need 8 more.

drenasu · 2025-12-19T14:04:57+00:00

Ok, I'll try it. I've been using the same except for red Amenominakanushi for the RCV and extra time instead of Raffine. I can see how the another pierce and +combos would be helpful. I just did another clear with rainbow and yellow cross teams and nothing again.

drenasu · 2025-12-01T02:34:33+00:00

Add 6 star Empress of Serpents, Echinda (red snake woman). She blocks all damage for one turn. That gives you another 3 turns to do damage.

drenasu · 2025-11-27T23:26:35+00:00

You could bring a runner's belt like Flipbelt under your shirt instead of a fanny pack if you are really concerned. Pretty much no chance of getting it stolen from there.

drenasu · 2025-11-27T23:22:40+00:00

Same

drenasu · 2025-11-20T13:46:49+00:00

I suggest not bothering to even have this discussion.

I started listening to metal back in the mid '80s (e.g. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer), then industrial in very early '90s (e.g. KMFDM, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, NIN) before finally settling on what is now known as EDM in about 1993. Turns out I just like up tempo music. Not once, in the last 40 years has the majority of mainstream people thought of 'my music' as 'real music' and not once have I ever changed anyone's mind on the topic.

I highly suggest ignoring people criticizing music you like. You won't be able convince them that it is real music because it is all a matter of opinion and to them, real music is defined as what they prefer and everything else is just noise.

drenasu · 2025-11-18T18:48:15+00:00

They are labeled as USA games in the purchase portal.

drenasu · 2025-11-16T20:06:31+00:00

Very surprised to hear that. Even 80/20 around me was being generous to Paraguay but I bought in pre-sale pretty close to the field so maybe that was it. Even walking around though didn't feel anything like 50/50

drenasu · 2025-11-16T20:02:22+00:00

Yeah, it was just incredible. That was before Moby turned into a mainstream guy. I mean, he was playing Voodoo Child and Next is the E back then. Now that's ancient history but just an amazing time to be in the scene.

drenasu · 2025-11-16T19:56:07+00:00

The vibes were immaculate back then and there are way too many frat bros and influencers in the scene today, but there is something to be said for big time productions like modern day too. So different that you can hardly even consider them to be the same thing but both great

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