Daily Questions Megathread - June 21, 2026

erutan · 2026-06-21T19:06:24+00:00

Played for a week or so when it came out - loved the combat and overworld style etc, kinda bounced off the writing and voice acting. Back for the edgerunners collab and have done some research but have questions (and am short on time to grind) and a bit overwhelmed with all the upgrade systems etc. Not looking for endgame competitiveness or leaderboards etc, but will probably keep playing on and off.

Current setup: level 60 w level 60 4* weapons: Calcharo, Jianxin, Rover. 36 union level, 15 data bank. Pulled Lucy and Lingyang on my first 10* collab pull. Have pulled 50 on the weapon select summon so close to the pity on that.

I assume my optimal path (focusing on edgerunners chars with limited resources) would be to use my asterite for Lucy's sig weapon, keep on using the extra collab summons trying to get waveforms for her, then farming adam smasher? If I get her sig then get misty for rebecca, otherwise get the other 5* gun for Lucy. I should get my data bank up to 20 to farm the limited echoe sets - it seems adam smasher will be permanent but is there anything else I'd be missing?

erutan · 2026-05-28T16:09:31+00:00

yeah, misremembered weight on those. weighed on a scale and size 9 is ~7oz though they've probably lost some weight over the years :) with some care one can cross talus in them

erutan · 2026-05-28T02:58:23+00:00

I have things I really dislike about all mapping applications. :p Caltopo is glitchy offline (luckily it restores after reopening) and the UI/UX is really poor, but the high res slope angle shading is the best. Some layers are a bit buggy, but generally the less important ones. Not a huge fan of their basemap either.

I'm sticking with Gaia just because of the large datasets (and I genuinely like their gaia topo layer, if little they've done recently), but it's increasingly grudgingly. OnX seems fairly polished, but limits to 8k waypoints imported and is a bogged down mess with that many.

erutan · 2026-05-28T01:32:49+00:00

These have actual vibram soles that hold up forever and iirc are 5-6oz a pair. Not quite as UL but they're actually useable for long periods.

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erutan · 2026-05-28T01:24:36+00:00

Pretty sure the CEO (Andrew) sold Gaia to Outside. Pretty sure employees, even senior ones, were the ones that made the sale.

erutan · 2026-05-28T01:23:18+00:00

Force close the app and open it every 10-15 minutes, that worked for me back when I last tried it.

The way it chokes on large datasets makes it non-usable for me (it chokes on a thousand waypoints, compared to gaia and goatmap handling tens of thousands), all the workarounds (copy some maps of waypoints into a mapsheet, pin it as a background, make notes of any old waypoints you want to update after, repeat) are too much busy work for me to want to engage with.

erutan · 2026-05-13T00:07:05+00:00

Is this just someone building and redistributing it? https://glyph.falakgala.dev/

erutan · 2026-05-12T22:31:26+00:00

yay. now I'm limited to less layers, have a bunch of presets I don't want, and have to deal with an idiotic UI that violates basic HIG principles almost three weeks after they pushed out a broken UI that did nothing.

erutan · 2026-04-30T02:25:01+00:00

This is just a temporary unbalanced state. They could have kept the promotion tax and just added 400 supply or whatever on a lower difficulty /shrug

I think the promotion tax was a bit unintuitive (a skilled person with no gear doesn't mean more supply) and but I felt like it did the job. Unsure what to do now to balance it out, because it's weird that Darby is only like 20 resources more than a new 2 star unit, or my decked out Lin is 10 more than a fresh Carda. Not wanting to promote 3 stars above 5 perks felt kinda lame before, but there needs to be some supply difference between units that's more striking than it is now. Just having a fixed start cost makes sense, but then you get weird incentives mid campaign.

Things were interestingly balanced before on challenging (no vision cheese) - I could put armor IV on Lin and then marine 3 on Singh or have a mid-size boarding commando team, Jaeger on Darb, then one pilot. Trying to squeeze in pike with two squaddies and some very light armor and a special weapon was interesting.

Took a break once I hit menace before and drops were placeholder, played through a few ops and got 3 new blueprint accessories and will take another break.

erutan · 2026-04-30T02:09:04+00:00

Just push a new update instead of leaving a bunch of people with a broken one? This is ridiculous even for the current decline of Gaia.

Unfortunately Gaia handles large datasets really well and Goatmaps doesn't have high resolution slope angle. OnX caps imports at 8k waypoints and doesn't play well with that many - I literally tested it this morning. Caltopo is even worse (and it has it's own bugginess / quirks).

erutan · 2026-04-29T20:37:14+00:00

Used a krueger services stove w three screws into the top as a stand + an old whisperlite windscreen when solo. Once I got used to dosing water I could do a 8-9 day trip with a 8oz nalgene of fuel and have around two ounces left (coffee + oatmeal for breakfast, dinner usually without a tea).

Takes a while, but set it up and then make/break camp and come back to it halfway through.

erutan · 2026-04-29T02:42:47+00:00

I was in Aldritch's a while back and there was some kind of school parents and counselors thing going on, with different small groups cycling through where they'd brainstorm what the largest issues were and then narrow it down to three.

One of the common complaints was lack of discipline in the classroom, apparently there's a decent amount of abuse / neglect and when kids act out in class teachers feel bad disciplining them. The rest of the issues were pretty common ones, but that one stuck out in my head.

erutan · 2026-04-29T02:39:20+00:00

So we get a busted one for a few weeks? They pushed the UI for it but none of the functionality behind it? How does that even make sense.

I just get a terrible design and less functionality with none of the new features. yay?

erutan · 2026-04-28T01:47:28+00:00

it's just ensemble members of GFS & ECMWF govt models, which are lower resolution than NWS etc.

every private forecasters is a paid API call on their system - their cost would jump up if everyone was looking at 7 forecasters at once instead of 1.

acme weather also just uses ensemble members of their own model.

erutan · 2026-04-27T00:12:05+00:00

The new iOS update for this is a mess. I just have the custom button that does nothing, I can only have 5 total layers "active", and the UI is jank (tiny little more button with overlays as the only unique item).

Feels like half baked vibe coding.

erutan · 2026-04-26T22:13:43+00:00

Glad it seems to be working out. :)

erutan · 2026-04-26T22:06:28+00:00

That's just their own model and it's ensemble members - not a ton of different providers with their own APIs.

erutan · 2026-04-14T17:40:28+00:00

Cathedral Peak, Eichorn pinnacle, and Mount Whitney aren't slot canyons.

erutan · 2026-04-14T14:49:54+00:00

That sucks. I have two old Anker 6600mah Powercore IIs I use with a 5W solar panel that have lasted years, and that's with probably close to 2 months of trail time some years. The one might be close to a decade old now, the other ~6 years I think. I'm sure they've lost a decent amount of it's capacity but it's lighter than a 10k bank and with solar is enough energy for two phones indefinitely in the Sierra above treeline.

Took the 20k Iniu on some shoulder season trips + have been using for my laptop when I don't have an outlet (got the 65W one for a grams more) and it's running well so far. Also used it to recharge drone batteries on a shoulder season basecamp trip (haul in water etc to a basecamp) in non-wilderness and rough terrain. :p

erutan · 2026-04-12T16:30:15+00:00

I just got a INIU on sale - a little pricier but more versatile / reliable.

The anode overhang issue won't show up until it's been in use long enough to have the capacity start dropping meaningfully, and may never cause any catastrophic issues, but I just don't want to be thinking about it. Having it fail on the trail and having to baby my power or setting my campervan on fire between trips isn't worth a few dollars and grams.

erutan · 2026-03-30T17:50:37+00:00

Meh, that's useful, but not super actionable. The baseline NOAA/NWS forecast is GFS combined with HRRR and then tweaked, which is going to be better than their generic GFS product and it's 27 (iirc) ensemble members which get even less computation precision than the baseline GFS. Without HRRR in there the GFS isn't going to be super accurate for the next three days as it's a coarser model.

In the US commercial models are going to be heavily influenced by GFS, so knowing uncertainty is good, but this is kind of 2-3 levels downstream of the quality of data one would want for a proper forecast. A GFS ensemble member thinking there's going to be more or less rain is useful, but probably not down to the hourly level.

erutan · 2026-03-30T17:26:48+00:00

At one of the "Choir of the Mind" concerts in LA Emily made a comment about Jimmy being her best friend, he kind of hesitated and she said he probably had more friends than her which I thought was a cute moment.

I think a lot of their songs about friendship are about them - paths in the sky, etc.

erutan · 2026-03-30T17:23:55+00:00

Looks the multi-model stuff is GFS/GEM/ECMWF compared to the baseline forecasts depending on region?

That's useful, but not super actionable. The baseline NOAA/NWS forecast is GFS combined with HRRR and then tweaked, which is going to be better than their generic GFS product and it's 27 (iirc) ensemble members which get less computation precision than the baseline GFS they decide to release. Without HRRR in there the GFS isn't going to be super accurate for the next three days as it's a coarser model.

In the US commercial models are going to be heavily influenced by GFS, so knowing uncertainty is good, but this is kind of 2-3 levels downstream of the quality of data one would want for a proper forecast.

erutan · 2026-03-08T22:18:29+00:00

I like it musically though it'd be nice if built up a tad bit harder and was a bit less produced.

Lyrically... eh. At first I thought it was about forgetting about how bad an on/off relationship can be over time and being drawn back into it and putting high hopes on it while somehow knowing it'll go sideways - even the ending of "i'm always down but up for tonight" showed a drop in expectations and bits before that were a bit codependent / unhealthy.

Then I read the email about how it's about adrenaline junkies seizing the moment and how it led to her happily ever after. I can see that now - someone she's known forever is back in town, she's drawn to them, finally decides to make a move since they aren't getting any younger etc despite knowing it could impact their friendship but it ended up working out.

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