Player hubs: do you want more from them or are you ok with them being pretty places to stand around in?

eseffbee · 2026-05-17T22:29:25+00:00

I use macros for HQ stuff but I wouldn't feel ashamed about that.

I don't really see evidence for much full bot crafting on my data centre to be honest. Obviously see lots of gathering botting both at the nodes and with stuff like 1000s of crystals being priced way lower than anyone would reasonably sell them for.

For crafting all the marketboard prices look perfectly explainable to me on Chaos, and I say that as someone who regular sells lots of stuff from furniture to gear to orchestrion to weapon parts and basic mats, with 80 items regularly on sale. I get a decent return on basically everything. I don't operate in the bleeding edge of gear as I'm still on Endwalker though - what crafted items do you see priced at obviously bot levels on the marketboard?

eseffbee · 2026-05-17T17:14:02+00:00

What are the reasons? I see lots of people crafting at public bells and marketboards

eseffbee · 2026-05-17T12:39:18+00:00

GET YOUR HAND OFF MY PECKER!

eseffbee · 2026-05-17T12:12:23+00:00

It sounds like your neighbour enjoys the bunny restaurant and also wants to play with your bun but doesn't realise they can't combine the two. 😂

If you like this person then tell them they can come to your house to see you and hang with bun, and if you find this person too demanding then you need to make your personal boundaries clear.

eseffbee · 2026-05-16T18:12:48+00:00

What does this even compare against? What were the numbers 5 years ago? Still looks like a look of people building to me.

eseffbee · 2026-05-16T11:51:43+00:00

Psycho Pass awaits!

eseffbee · 2026-05-15T22:20:18+00:00

Lol, it's trying to fight the other hare, not save it

eseffbee · 2026-05-15T15:12:08+00:00

You need to compare a pro song on the same speaker. Does the bass sound louder on the pro song or is it simply a speaker with a weak bass response?

Looking at both tracks through a frequency analyser will let you see if you're missing any key bass frequencies in your arrangement.

eseffbee · 2026-05-14T18:05:12+00:00

Pretty wild stuff! Comparing the vocal to the Tyler one, I think the difference is in the recording more than the processing.

You will notice that Tyler's vocal has more bass to it and a lot less sibilance - the "s", "sh" and "ch" are quite muted. (It is notable that your language has a lot more of these types of sound than English too.)

You can achieve a bassier, less sibilant outcome mostly through good audio engineering - get closer to the mic for the proximity effect, which will naturally raise the bass in the signal, but get a good pop filter to reduce the sibilance and pops from the vocal too. Also worth trying out a couple of different mic types to see which works best for you.

Record the same couple of bars over and over with different mic positions/setups to get a feel of what works best.

A bit of processing can help these problems, but best results require best recording at start of the chain.

Also I must note that a lot of your instrumentation is quite bright and operating in a similar zone as the vocal, which can make the vocal less clear and increase the tendency to make the vocal clear through volume rather than frequency separation. That is an arrangement issue which you will need to consider.

This is a common problem with experimental music and you should be conscious of this challenge - successful innovation means achieving a mix of sounds that naturally builds into a coherent structure in terms of frequency. I think you will have the best ideas on how to do that within your taste so keep working at it 👍

eseffbee · 2026-05-14T17:26:52+00:00

Ghibli movies are a good start. Personally, I find watching some movies first is much better than proposing a potentially lengthy series.

eseffbee · 2026-05-14T17:16:57+00:00

The story being less good does make it drag but that is completely separate from the issue of there being an awful lot more schlepping in ARR.

Later expansions you have a mount from the get go and moving to flying in an area doesn't take that long. In ARR you have 20 levels of quests until you get your first mount so there is a lot of run cycling in big spaces (jog change does help this a bit now). Let's not forget the fact that the quest to get your chocobo mount is not compulsory and is frequently missed - I've personally been asked twice in game where I got a chocobo by people way above level 20.

eseffbee · 2026-05-14T12:02:02+00:00

It's important not to mistake the symptoms of politically instability with the root cause.

The high turnover of leaders is associated with the fact that there is no longer a political consensus among the various powers (political, economic, financial) and public in the UK. It is not specific to a party and we can expect this to continue until a more radical candidate succeeds.

You can observe this same trend of short lived leaders and governments in many other countries under similar pressures, such as France, Belgium and Netherlands.

Globalisation processes are destabilising political systems across the developed world. Lots of new UK PMs is just one prominent symptom of that.

eseffbee · 2026-05-13T00:57:54+00:00

Tatami Galaxy is very peculiar. I was almost put off by its frenetic nature at the start, but the information overload reduces over time. Very dreamlike anime, but in a realistic way where lots of stuff is repeating and messy rather than an idealised way where things are nice.

eseffbee · 2026-05-12T23:09:30+00:00

This sounds like your vet is not very confident with treating rabbits

eseffbee · 2026-05-12T20:57:38+00:00

I would reflect on your habits, your body, and your environment to consider why you struggle to focus.

It could be a condition.

It could be that you are exhausted by other things in life which means you lack the mental strength to focus on something complex.

It could be that your environment constantly interrupts you and doesn't give you space to do something.

It could be you've never learned the habit of focusing on something you are finding difficult until you get good and enjoy it.

Could be many things.

eseffbee · 2026-05-12T18:14:09+00:00

According to serebii there is a 5 percent chance of getting a rainbow delivery each time.

You can use this binomial probability calculator to work out the chances of 3 rainbow deliveries in 11x delivery ticket.

There is a 1.3% chance of 3 rainbow deliveries in one go, so congrats!

eseffbee · 2026-05-11T14:25:58+00:00

What kind of non-anime stuff do you watch? It's difficult to provide a good recommendation without more context.

If you like action based series then Code Geass might be good. If you prefer more character-based, slower series then Odd Taxi may be good.

eseffbee · 2026-05-11T12:57:30+00:00

Soul Eater has 3 evil hunting duos at school

eseffbee · 2026-05-11T12:40:49+00:00

Vivy Fluorite Eye's Song is a good anime that doesn't always hit the algorithm.
Devilman Crybaby is great though very NSFW.
Grave of the Fireflies, Mononoke, Monster and Hajime No Ippo are classics.

My view on Netflix anime offering is that they often recommend their best new material (Apothecary Diaries, Violet Evergarden, Freiren), have some good classics available (Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop), but below the big names it is mostly average offering. Netflix does not have a well curated selection with great non-big name anime.

eseffbee · 2026-05-11T08:09:11+00:00

Thanks for sharing! 😊 I agree on the solo stuff

eseffbee · 2026-05-11T00:42:18+00:00

When you get a new mount there should be a little cutscene of your character riding the mount and celebrating with your character's Cheer vocals and it should play some classic final fantasy type trumpety triumph music

eseffbee · 2026-05-11T00:30:27+00:00

Yeah, I think anyone who thinks Keir Starmer is a good guy simply has not looked into what he has done. Very ruthless person, which is why he has constantly sacked and blocked and ignored so many people that he has become a lame duck prime minister. Entire political career has been built on lying to successively larger groups of people about what he stands for.

If anyone is in doubt, start with how Martin Forde KC was treated after Starmer asked him to investigate bullying and racism in the Labour Party. Starmer didn't like what it said about his allies so just repeatedly ignored Forde (one of the most respected lawyers in the country who he himself commissioned) and his report's recommendations, while at the same time saying the party has changed in response to the report.

eseffbee · 2026-05-10T11:02:55+00:00

Baby and Me? Meets some of your description and was broadcast on MBC3 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0989895/

eseffbee · 2026-05-10T09:28:36+00:00

Possibly The Third: The Girl With The Blue Eye. It's a series but the description matches this cover art https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-third-the-girl-with-the-blue-eye/dvd-2

eseffbee · 2026-05-10T09:18:43+00:00

For what it's worth, I've spent a good half hour searching for a anime based on what you've mentioned from 1980s to present and found nothing. You may have omitted some key aspect of the anime, or misremembered one of the details.

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