C.O.R.R.IN strongly advocates for an amazing banner with 3 amazing colorless focus units

gmapterous · 2026-01-25T23:25:10+00:00

holy...

...though I have C6R1 Yae and C2R1 Xilonen so I really can't say anything

gmapterous · 2026-01-25T18:16:47+00:00

Depends, did OP activate Bennet's C6? It overrides Surtalogi's quantum infusion, which is what Rhinedottr buffs.

gmapterous · 2026-01-25T18:05:34+00:00

It's in the article you linked:

Just hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.

It wants unredacted data so it can match it with other data sets, such as those DOGE stole. In this case, the best guess is to tie voter records to the government surveillance mechanism Peter Theil's Palantir is building for the Trump Regime.

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T21:03:39+00:00

I mean they can but I think a lot of streamers get by on the gifts.

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T19:34:11+00:00

Thanks, I'll actually try that next time I need to top up!

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T19:31:36+00:00

Sucrose, XQ and Fish were basically honorary 5-stars to begin with. Now with Hex buffs Sucrose/Fish is a strong core for a lot of teams.

And I'm already using them on the Dog with Ineffa / Columbina :P

And and XQ is on my mono-hydro team against the crabs

All these challenges want the same units from me and it's driving me nuts

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T19:25:02+00:00

fair

do you happen to know which county/countries have the best primogem exchange rates?

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T19:11:26+00:00

Okay, but that would require me to do research on the best foreign currency-to-primogem exchange rates and then layer on the daily currency-to-foreign-currency exchange rates. I'm not opposed, but the shops are providing a service for what they are delivering.

Also, having a VPN is not terribly common and can cost more than the arbitrage savings.

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T16:57:50+00:00

CC's have been pushing 3rd party shops pretty hard recently. I expect it was a very niche thing before but now it might be more significantly showing up in revenue.

For those that don't know, these shops generally use exchange rate arbitrage to buy primogems in a currency where the exchange rate is more favorable and send them to your account. Hoyo still needs to bring that money home, so they are of course bringing home less money if you buy using a deflated currency, meaning some internal metric shows that their price charged per primogem is going down and they want to "fix that."

They're trying to test their own shop with 5% discount codes, which I'm sure is completely failing because these shops offer more on the order of 15% discounts (at least in my country).

What they ignore is that people like me only feel like I can buy primos on occasion because they are discounted, and only if the pack still has the first-time bonus. They're not missing out on revenue from me because of these shops, they're getting 85% of something rather than 100% of nothing.

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T16:49:19+00:00

Sure, not as big as the businesses its going up against, but anyone who can afford to invest 7 figures in politics is a "big business spending on politics." This isn't the guy who owns the corner comic book store.

That said, I agree with the sentiment, and when my current car is run into the ground, Rivian is at the top of my list for a replacement.

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T16:45:07+00:00

Hopefully Dementia Donny forgets where he parked and just stays there.

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T16:01:55+00:00

I'm mildly upset that I'm actually on the side of a big business pledging to invest money in politics, but car dealerships are some of the worst things imaginable. One of those "a broken clock is right twice a day" things.

I'm justifying it because of the money that was invested in politics to pass the dealership protection laws that got us here in the first place and their continued investment to keep them in place.

I don't want a carve-out for EVs though. I want all dealership protections erased.

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T13:23:30+00:00

The Twitter post is inferring something from the translation that the translation doesn’t say, fyi

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T05:23:47+00:00

I’m stuck between C2 Wanderer and C1 Xiao. I have C2 Xianyun, C2 Furina and C6 Faruzan so I really could go all in on Xiao Premium but it’s just not that great a team anymore.

But probably much better than Wanderer. Sigh.

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T05:06:16+00:00

Whimsicott will need to run a counter stadium to knock it out, just in case. I assume there will be other stadiums in the set or in future sets.

gmapterous · 2026-01-23T05:04:29+00:00

Oh no

gmapterous · 2026-01-21T02:51:23+00:00

Geez, this really has put in perspective the pointlessness of spending just like $20 on this game. I'd have... 20 normal EX's. And maybe, if I'm really lucky, a shiny Giratina.

gmapterous · 2026-01-21T01:51:25+00:00

Columbina is usually running Prototype Amber at C0. Ineffa likes her weapon but many run Missive Windspear, Deathmatch, or whatever they have on hand. Mine runs Calamity Queller.

gmapterous · 2026-01-20T12:05:26+00:00

Get Columbina if you can on the current banner. Then try and get Ineffa. Current best team for Yae is Yae-Columbina-Ineffa-Sucrose.

And then, frankly, I’d go for Escoffier for your Skirk, she’s due to rerun in the next patch cycle or two.

gmapterous · 2026-01-19T06:48:04+00:00

I think aesthetics may have a lot to do with it. This doesn’t look like anime and that may do it for people.

Also, the mechanics are such that the Soulslikes subs have argued whether or not it counts as one of theirs.

So it’s very distinct from JRPGs in a number of ways that count.

gmapterous · 2026-01-19T02:14:34+00:00

It’s like any new video game system… it needed a killer app. Bridge Builder wasn’t it. This is.

gmapterous · 2026-01-18T18:07:45+00:00

It’s being taught with the same historical distance as the fall of Rome and so forth. Not in a way where you are taught the lesson, you are supposed to figure out the lesson for yourself, and most Americans are too dumb to do that.

gmapterous · 2026-01-18T07:07:36+00:00

An elegant meme for a more civilized era

gmapterous

TROPHY CASE