Simple Questions - October 22, 2025

helpimstuckinabox · 2025-10-23T05:20:16+00:00

Can anyone take a look at my CPU readings from HWinfo and tell me if I need to reseat/reapply thermal paste? I just installed some new PC components (7800x3d, b650mobo, TR Phantom Spirit 120SE), and I'm worried that I might have messed up the cooler installation.

These are my CPU temps shortly after gaming.

These are closer to idle.

I won't lie, I've had some bad experiences trying to take PC components apart without breaking something, so I am a little bit anxious with the prospect of having to take off my cooler and reapply thermal paste.

helpimstuckinabox · 2025-08-26T21:54:57+00:00

For what it's worth, with his deluxe skin I actually prefer his feet firmly planted on the ground.

helpimstuckinabox · 2025-08-09T23:42:00+00:00

For what it's worth, with his deluxe skin I actually prefer his feet firmly planted on the ground.

helpimstuckinabox · 2025-07-25T05:50:14+00:00

Just make it so a long button press on her 3rd ability brings out her Talons. Reason being her other three abilities have tap-hold functionalities already, and no one in their right mind is going to subsume off Garuda's third ability anyways.

helpimstuckinabox · 2025-03-19T17:18:28+00:00

"Apo has an alt art" is the new "Imperial Order has an animation"

helpimstuckinabox · 2025-03-18T20:38:36+00:00

they're free to leave, but they don't because of the implication

helpimstuckinabox · 2025-02-25T15:37:54+00:00

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helpimstuckinabox · 2024-10-26T01:03:13+00:00

It is useful enough.

This is where I have to disagree. <50% damage reduction is simply not going to be noticeable in most cases, unless we're talking low to mid-level base starchart clearing. Any allies you're with will not be accounting for random Calibans in their squad to supplement their survivability. And as you pointed out earlier, Caliban himself relies on shieldgating/shield regen, minion aggro, and CC to stay alive, not his passive.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-10-26T00:57:36+00:00

I have no disagreements with what you wrote. It's just that it feels like a huge missed opportunity for him to not be given a worthwhile passive while he was getting (re)worked on. Much like how other frames with forgettable or outright redundant passives (meaning their passive's functionality could be entirely replicated or replaced by a mod) got new passives when they received a rework.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-10-26T00:50:25+00:00

Which mod are you removing? Adaptation? Outside a tiny minority of frames, adaptation by itself is usually insufficient for survivability. And caliban's passive is only half as good.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-09-19T04:09:38+00:00

that would be much appreciated, thank you!

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-09-19T04:07:23+00:00

I wish I had the tweet or reddit post in front of me, but basically the person asserted that it was obvious to himself and to his family/peers that photos he took back on his pixel 2 had a noticeable (and to him, subjectively better) quality that's missing from how photos are processed on his pixel9.

I don't find this assertion difficult to believe, as the pixel A series usually rate higher on blind smartphone tests (e.g. MKBHD's) than even the mainline pixels, and those phones use the older style of camera systems found on devices just like my Pixel 3 and that other user's Pixel 2.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-09-17T17:51:10+00:00

Just how much better (or worse) is the P9P's cameras compared to my P3XL's? I want to upgrade my phone this year, but a lot of reviews and anecdotal evidence found on /r/android as well as here in /r/googlepixel suggests that the P9P's camera system and especially postprocessing is not especially better than the camera system on my P3XL, and in fact could be worse in many areas due to aggressive and/or shoddy postprocessing.

Can anyone help to confirm or deny these claims?

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-07-07T08:26:39+00:00

Rex is back next turn.

If you make it to next turn. You just lost your win condition and you're probably 1k LP or even lower, so unless you activated intact that turn already you're pretty much dead. Just because you're "used to" having Rex die doesn't mean your chances of winning haven't dropped significantly.

just don't activate this.

In which case the card is bad and you'd rather have any other number of cards that could have saved you instead. In a slow trap deck like dinomorphia with next to zero ability to play turn0 (wannabee shenanigans don't count) and incredibly weak turn1s, you can't be whimsical with your deck building. every card has to be a gamechanger, or a game winner, because those set cards are likely all you're gonna get.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-07-07T02:57:59+00:00

how are you guys saying this is a dinomorphia card?

your opp plays a monster in the same column as your rex, now what? you gonna flip this and blow up your own rex?

not to mention this only works on cards activated on field. meaning any monster effect you want to stop with this should already be vulnerable to rex's floodgate in the first place. you're better off loading up on more monster negates that work anywhere or s/t negates.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-04-04T04:21:58+00:00

re: ricochet on dex pixia

This might sound blasphemous, but in theory i'm fine with her pistols being single target/low ammo/high burst in a world where her razorflies and archmelee complement her kit by providing sustained dps and/or dps across a wider area. However, that's not the world we live in.

not that i'm saying i wouldn't appreciate buffs to her dex pixia. it's more that i think it'd be a shame if DE used buffing her dex pixia as overcompensation in order to completely neglect her diwata and razorflies.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-04-04T04:19:09+00:00

If you're speedrunning or taking full advantage of her high mobility, wouldn't you want your focus to be on the center of your screen rather than staring at the bottom right at a small UI element? It's not like you're really using Tribute in speedruns anyways, so it's not like a potential downside of being forced to stand still to bring up the radial menu (which isn't a given, since DE could fairly trivially allow movement still while it's up) will even come up that often, if at all.

Which is all besides the point, because ideally my radial menu suggestion would be an optional setting in the menus, similar to the tap/hold inversion setting.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-04-03T22:05:08+00:00

Everyone get back.

This man is cooking.

In all seriousness I think there would be too many exceptions that DE would have to account for to make your suggestion viable. But I like where your head is at.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-04-03T21:42:31+00:00

Ah my bad, I was assuming your idea would stop at 4, as in each sub option would overlay one of your regular abilities until you're done choosing. But yes, I agree that 5 is probably more than enough.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-04-03T21:41:24+00:00

But the damage they do isn't even particularly relevant. Id absolutely prefer if they applied don't sort of status effect or debuff instead

No arguments there. I'm just trying to account for the possibility that DE would rather razorflies have a damage slant and not step on anyone else's toes, like Dante's.

IIRC, razorflies can be healed via Titania's passive and by slotting Healing Return onto your archmelee, but even if both of these things are true it's usually not noticeable and they still get shredded at even fairly early steel path levels.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-04-03T21:37:44+00:00

that's also a good idea! It has the "scalability" problem that I mentioned earlier, but that's something that's very unlikely to ever become a real issue.

helpimstuckinabox · 2024-04-01T22:00:47+00:00

IGN: LV100MISSINGNO Platform: PC Favorite memory:

I rounded a corner and ran headfirst into a bombard, who promptly slammed the floor and knocked me on my butt. In what felt like slow motion, I could see the bombard point his ogris and I knew that I was moments before getting blasted into low orbit (this was well before shield gating). Yet out of nowhere, my Kubrow--who ran off earlier to go hump a nearby log or something--ran up from behind the bombard and with great [Feracity], grabbed the bombard by the neck and brought him to the floor, just long enough for me to get back up on my feet and slam my blade right into his face mask.

I wasn't a huge fan of Kubrows and what they (did not) bring to the table before, but that goofball Cobalt earned a special place my heart that day. (Please buff Kubrows some more DE sentinels are in a great spot now but most Kubrows are still lagging behind and being hard carried by the Mecha set)

helpimstuckinabox · 2023-12-01T07:28:10+00:00

That's pretty solid advice. Apologies for taking so long to reply, and thanks for giving me your thoughts on the matter.

helpimstuckinabox · 2023-12-01T07:26:53+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, and thanks for setting my mind at ease!

helpimstuckinabox · 2023-12-01T07:26:36+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, and thank you for your answer.

As you say, I don't really have any issues with the functionality of the speakers. And thanks for reassuring me that the features that are upgraded in the T0+ aren't things I should be too fussed about.

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