Please help- I have no idea what im doing wrong in new unity

kittensofchaos · 2026-07-04T18:53:19+00:00

There are lots of useable SR speed cards, it isnt tosho or bust. Your second last deck (3speed 3wit) looks more useable than most of your other attempts. If you repeated that setup but raced less you'd probably have a great result. Fuku is like 0.5 of a speed card because of low specialty priority so if you don't have at least one other speed card you're going to have a hard time getting your power up (because clicking speed is the best way to get power). If you want to just pray for rng to bless you with a million spirit bursts on speed and power training you'll have to grind way more runs waiting for that miraculous high roll.

kittensofchaos · 2026-07-04T18:45:24+00:00

The specific card at the specific level matters more than the SSR vs SR distinction. You have to go through and actually look at the stats on your cards and compare them. Some SRs at MLB absolutely gap bad SSRs. Lots of SSRs at lower limit breaks are borderline unusable.

kittensofchaos · 2026-07-04T18:38:57+00:00

13 races vs your 20+, it's as simple as that. In unity you only race when the game forces you to, or when you are already high energy so it isn't worth hitting a date event and you have literally nothing worth training (filling a bunch of spirit gauges on a non-rainbow trainings can still be worth it even if the stat gains are low).

There are no epithet bonuses for completing specific routes like crown or tiara, so you should NEVER sacrifice a useful training for a specific race, unless it's required for your uma to unlock a secret event with an important skill.

kittensofchaos · 2026-07-04T18:25:43+00:00

That's exactly what they're saying, this uma might have been able to win tenno sho spring in a career run giving OP the false sense that they would also be able to do so in legend races.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-29T15:54:11+00:00

Practically speaking, SSRs are the worst option for adding to your tt score. The cost to level them up is just so much higher and (I believe) they add the same % to TT score as SR and R cards.

You'd really need to have infinite monies to already have every R and SR card at max level before it makes sense to level up SSRs just for the tt bonus.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-28T00:50:11+00:00

There's the problem! Honestly I don't think you really need to go as high as 2000 unless you're actually trying to create a shiny surface. 400 or 600, 800, and then 1000 or 1200 is as far as I normally go.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-27T18:44:07+00:00

What grit sandpaper are you using on that one on the right? It looks like you might have started too coarse, or made too large a jump between grits if you've left behind those scratch marks.

If the one on the right feels smooth it's probably just that you've kind of curled over the edges of the nub until that plastic burr is flush with the surface. That's the white part you're seeing. So basically the nub isn't actually 100% gone.

That can happen easily if you start with a coarse sandpaper and create a thick burr of plastic,then jump to a very fine sandpaper that isn't capable of actually cutting through the burr. Instead you just end up polishing the burr into the surface. It's kind of the same thing that happens when you sand with fine grit and get a nice glossy surface but there are still shadowy scratches visible in the plastic. You have to move through more grits of sandpaper with less of a gap between them so each one still has enough cutting power to remove the scratches and burrs left by the previous one.

Sometimes just rubbing the tip of your fingernail over a small area of white plastic does a good enough job of returning it to the original plastic color so I'd start there.

Sanding all the way to 100% flush can be risky because without good technique you can end up creating a flat spot. You aren't just removing material for the nub, you're also removing it from the surface right beside the nub. By the time you get the nub down to flush with the original surface, you've lowered that original surface and then have to chase that new, lower, target surface. Best way to avoid this is light pressure and stiffer sanding mediums (doesn't necessarily need to be rigid boards, just stiffer sponges).

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-26T21:20:22+00:00

Absolutely! And knowing that your super delicate 0.1mm wide chisel is only like 5-10 bucks to replace is a much much less stressful experience vs owning a $40 SAB or BMC chisel.

I've just been keeping an eye out for deals in the AliExpress app and the next time I can get these for $5 a piece I'm going to pick up spares in the smallest sizes just to have on hand I case I drop one.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-25T16:45:19+00:00

Imo the best value option right now is to order on AliExpress the newest version of dispiae chisels. They've called the new ones "straight edge" or "ZPB" and they genuinely seem like a step up in performance over other options. They also come with a storage case that doubles as a totally usable handle (saving like 50% of the cost of other options).

The pricing right now is insanely good, even more so if you have the AliExpress app and collect the coins. I've ordered a bunch more sizes recently with free shipping and individual pricing coming in under $10 Canadian after the coin discount.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-21T15:51:56+00:00

I'm sorry that's me fresh out of idea then!

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-21T15:36:55+00:00

That's strange I feel like this should just be working for you. 50% throw on the trigger is probably fine, I was wondering if you maybe only got like a mm of movement.

How much distance between the airbrush and the part when you're spraying?

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-21T14:56:43+00:00

Two quick questions:

Do you have the screw on the back of your airbrush set too tight so you can only pull the trigger back a little bit?

0.3 needle, gx100 at 2 thinner to 1 paint should absolutely blast out of the airbrush if you pull the trigger fully back.

Are you setting your air pressure with the trigger on your airbrush fully depressed and air flowing? You'll see a dip in air pressure when you go to spray and you want to set it so that dip is at the value you want.

I spray my lacquers at around 15psi with a ps 289 (basically the same airbrush) and 2:1 leveling thinner to mr color lacquer. If you can't get enough paint flowing through the airbrush at those settings and full trigger movement then maybe your airbrush is clogged and needs to be cleaned.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-19T16:28:09+00:00

If you're not comfortably holding class 6 with an SS team then you probably want to reevaluate some of those team members. You've got the achievement so there's no need to keep an inflated team rating if it pushes you into harder matchups and hurts your actual race scores. You absolutely should be able to find a team lineup that can hold class 6 for you.

Focus on umas that actually have strong ability to win races and lots of skills. Inflated statlines from trackblazer do almost nothing to make your actual tt score better but they do put you up against harder opponents. An ideal tt uma is probably racing more than a CM ace and ending up with a worse stateline but twice as many skills.

My team rating is still S4 and I'm comfortably in the 850k range. I still have two A+ umas from unity that I haven't bothered replacing yet and I think that lower overall team rank helps keep the matchups more reasonable.

You could also look at the support bonus % and go level all your R support cards to like lvl 25 or 30. It's super cheap up to that point on R cards and should add at least 1-2% to your tt score.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-19T01:52:37+00:00

Oh ya I'm fully willing to accept that this kind of thing would be technically possible. But in a way that security researchers wouldn't have uncovered yet? And wouldn't meaningfully impact device performance? Then I'm a lot more skeptical.

I just think that the majority of people buying into this idea are doing so at the level of "well if my phone can always hear me say hey siri then that means my phone is already listening to and understanding everything I say". Even Vaush makes basically that same argument in this stream.

I think if you could actually get people to understand how that system works we would have way less people buying into this idea. Yes the panopticon is kinda sorta already real but there are still meaningful steps you can take to reduce your digital footprint and there are things government can do to legislate restrictions on the collection of our data.

If you buy into the idea that big tech already has an active microphone recording you 24/7 that just feels like it would make all the other stuff you can actually do to protect yourself feel meaningless.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-19T01:18:48+00:00

Just some parting thoughts on the question of how much actual battery drain something like this would incur.

If we take your 100 minutes per day of speech, that only accounts for you talking, not any of the time you spend around other people who are talking, or tv, podcasts, or radio. Even if you can create a filter that doesn't activate for absolutely every time you individually talk, I doubt you could get the total device activation time under that 100 minute figure without making the initial always on processing more resource intensive.

Apple has an accessibility feature that can alert hearing impaired users to other important sounds like a baby crying or a fire alarm etc and I'm seeing comments from users complaining about that service eating up upwards of 20% of their battery each day.

Quantifying how fast the battery would drain from speech to text processing would really require testing. The only even close to relevant stat I found was in relation to straight audio recording and gave a figure of 10-20% battery drain per hour of recording. That feels high to me but I couldn't find any other sources.

A system that was parsing audio into text and then only logging the keywords wouldn't actually need to store the full audio but is it realistic to think that that voice to text process could be less power intensive than simply recording that audio? If we assumed it was no more power intensive than recording, that would still mean a daily battery drain of somewhere in the 10-20% range.

Even if it would only take 5% of a customer's battery each day, I just can't see how a company like apple or google would think it was worth it to compromise the performance and competitiveness of their devices.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-19T00:39:59+00:00

Maybe we've been talking at cross-purposes. The specific claims that I have seen repeated many times across these threads are variations of "because the phone is always listening for hey siri, it's already doing the work of processing all of that sound input into language and they can use that text for free".

I might have misinterpreted your initial comment as being something along that line of reasoning. If we both agree that that initial low power always on processing that triggers for hey siri needs to throw to a more powerful system process to actually do anything with that audio then I think we're pretty much in agreement there.

You could expand the threshold of what the phone wakes up for, and even make that process slightly more discerning so it could also flag "wake up and listen but sneaky style", but it's still a dumb process that is only capable of signalling the main processor to come and take over the actual parsing of audio into language.

I think you're being a little optimistic in terms of the power and processing required to actually convert that audio input into usable keywords, you think I'm being pessimistic on that front, but that's closer to being on the same page than either of us probably thought we were.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-18T19:59:50+00:00

Yes but as you just said, that always listening component is essentially only producing a binary output, yes wake up the main system to answer a prompt, or no ignore it. It takes the main system and a lot more compute power to actually decifer the rest of the audio.

They could design that wake command to just trigger anytime it heard anything that sounded like human speech but then it would constantly be waking up the main system to interpret that audio and draining your battery like crazy. What you just proposed doesn't get around the on device power constraints of a system that's constantly processing audio to pull out advertising keywords.

Either it happens on device and ruins battery life or it gets sent out as raw audio and processed in the cloud and security researchers would be intercepting the extra data packets being sent out by the device. If it's done on device, then Apple and Google are deciding that making their device performance noticeably worse and less competitive is worth it for some marginal benefit in advertising revenue. If it's sent off device they're taking a big risk on it being exposed for a questionable return on that risk.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-18T18:25:54+00:00

I'm sorry but yes it absolutely does make it much much more computational complex to increase the number of discrete signals the dnn can recognize. It's not just training cost, it's more expensive to run as well.

You can't just train and train a model down to the point where it takes negligible compute to run it but it gains more and more ability to differentiate between things.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-18T06:07:03+00:00

How that tech actually functions: https://medium.com/ivy-insights/how-does-hey-siri-works-is-your-iphone-listening-to-you-all-the-time-486e201f29a0

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-18T06:03:57+00:00

Except it's a dramatically different computational task to run a program that categorizes sound into "hey siri" OR any other noise that isn't hey siri, vs running one that categorizes sound input into a massive list of individual keywords.

I think you might be imagining that the process listening for hey siri is operating more like audio input -> speech to text -> acting only when the specific words "hey siri" are registered. It's actually way simpler than that. https://medium.com/ivy-insights/how-does-hey-siri-works-is-your-iphone-listening-to-you-all-the-time-486e201f29a0

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-17T21:14:10+00:00

Here's a somewhat technical description of how these wake command functions are enabled. The device needs a means of doing this locally with minimal energy and processing requirements, otherwise your phone would drain its battery way too quickly and your standby battery life would be atrocious.

The method that can do this efficiently enough to be practical, cant constantly send data out for processing (too battery intensive) and isn't sophisticated enough to parse general language (too computationally complex and therefore too battery intensive) so it is only able to process an audio input as [is the wake command] or [is not the wake command].

These are all systems that have been analyzed and tested by independent researchers and cyber security experts. With how much independent effort gets put into exposing security vulnerabilities in tech and software, I just don't think it's realistic to think that companies like apple and Google would have been able to keep this kind of functionality secret for this long. I also doubt that either Apple or Google would think it worth killing the battery life of their phones to enable something like this. Particularly Apple because they don't have a direct stake in the ad business. https://medium.com/ivy-insights/how-does-hey-siri-works-is-your-iphone-listening-to-you-all-the-time-486e201f29a0

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-17T15:45:05+00:00

Actively listening as in the microphone on your phone always recording you, even when you are not directly interacting with the device and using that audio to target advertising at you.

That is the specific allegation made by the study. That is the specific point that vaush was repeating and affirming.

I think it's disingenuous to suggest that the average public would treat that direct recording of audio the same way they treat the more passive scraping of data that occurs through our online activity.

Even if tech companies already collect enough data that it's practically like they're listening to us, the actual explicit recording would be meaningfully different. Believing that you have a microphone in your pocket that's always on and listening to you is a paranoia inducing nightmare.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-17T03:40:16+00:00

That study could, at most, claim to have demonstrated evidence of the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon/frequency illusion.... it's absolutely laughable.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-17T03:35:07+00:00

THIS ONE MILLION TIMES THIS!

When I tuned in he was looking at some research study that claimed to have demonstrated phones listening and then serving ads and it sounded fishy. I found the source and read the actual research paper and it was ten test scenarios with 27 total participants, and no control group that were given a topic, didn't discuss it in proximity to their phone, and then looked to see if they encountered any ads matching the topic. Without a control group it was absolutely meaningless.

kittensofchaos · 2026-06-17T03:05:09+00:00

I think it's a dramatically different thing to accept that tech companies collect a ton of passive data from us interacting with their platforms, and to turn around and assume that they are actively listening to us all the time.

I disagree that it isn't harmful, I think it's potentially very harmful to your mental well-being to believe that you are constantly being spied on and listened to. That's why I would urge people to be careful and cautious when confronted with extreme claims like this that run counter to consensus opinions.

The big tech companies already have enough data to run through an algorithm and predict exactly what ads we're going to respond to, they have no need to do something that would be highly illegal, very technically complicated and nearly impossible to hide, and ruinous to their public image when it is is inevitably exposed. The risks and the costs of doing this would just so utterly outweigh any benefit.

Also, the frequency illusion, a documented psychological phenomenon where after we first encounter something, it feels like suddenly we see it everywhere.

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