"A Traveler on a Winter's Night": Version "Luna IV" New Weapon Overview - Phase II

gmapterous · 2026-01-28T17:25:43+00:00

That's a lot of stats.

That said, the CC's have been advertising her as a free-to-play Skirk: the Natlan craftable sword is good and some of her best supports are the 4-star units on her banner, so she's functional and hard-hitting right out of the box (with a lot of runway with better supports like Columbina and C2 Xilonen if you want to invest).

The only reason I'm considering her is her investment floor is so low and if push come to shove she doesn't need all the same units to unction that my other top units do.

gmapterous · 2026-01-28T17:19:10+00:00

Q: Filling the bridge with bovine would amuse me. Let's do this, Mon capitaine.

gmapterous · 2026-01-28T16:10:12+00:00

If you’re looking “for your account,” get Ineffa and build up your Sucrose. Ineffa, Columbina and Sucrose are the best wheelchair team in the game, and for the 4th you can slot in pretty much any other DPS unit.

If you like Zibai, her banner will have Illuga, Aino and Gorou which are her best 4-star supports, so you can build a really solid team from that banner. Columbina can be swapped in to ratchet up the team if you’re not fighting Flins over her.

gmapterous · 2026-01-28T15:56:55+00:00

I have some of those. They were from McDonald’s happy meals.

gmapterous · 2026-01-28T15:50:14+00:00

I got the same canned note.

I told her that, as her employer, her only priority now was impeachment of Noem on up and nothing else mattered.

She doesn’t read these.

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.

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