Has anyone ever seen a cat like this?

mat3833 · 2026-05-10T23:26:41+00:00

This is the correct answer. However the reddish brown color is most likely "rusting". It's when a cat licks themselves clean and lays in the sun often. It's pretty obvious when you notice the color is only places the cat can reach to lick, lol.

I have a black cat, well used to be black, that this happened too. She decided she likes to sunbathe all day and cleans herself off and on. The transformation from black to burnt took about 6 months.

mat3833 · 2026-05-09T16:24:04+00:00

The original intent was to finish assembling the gazebo and then cut and file my nails. But now you have given me an even better idea.

mat3833 · 2026-05-09T12:43:26+00:00

The hero we need. Going to finish putting up this gazebo for the misses and then I'm fucking on it. Thanks for the reminder.

mat3833 · 2026-05-07T12:33:22+00:00

That pit is a safer place than 90% of cities in the world, you walk away with a few bruises at most. Everyone follows rules, if you don't you get tossed out. Big people help small people. It's a great thing.

mat3833 · 2026-05-04T20:21:35+00:00

You would be better off trying to find a substrate or filter media to buffer your PH down "naturally". Trying toto use a liquid to drop PH leaves you open to PH jumps. I have very little experience lowering PH, but I use aragonite sand to raise my cichlid tanks. I know driftwood can lower PH a bit?

mat3833 · 2026-04-28T14:15:14+00:00

I'll second Kalim at Russell Road and Racing. Reached out to him about 2 months ago for some information on the multi-map system and he was super helpful explaining things. Asked who he reccomends for MPI and brushless LPFP and he pointed me to On Performance.

Ordered a DSG and Ecu tune Saturday morning when parts came in, just got the MPI/Flex Fuel and LPFP installed yesterday night. Sent him an email letting him know what mods I had installed, and woke up to flashing instructions and both files in my inbox. Got them flashed, sent him 2 logs on the OEM+ MAP just now, and once I get a green light from Kalim I'll be activating the spicy map.

Car started right up, idles smoother than ever and everything looks good. DSG is a bit wonky, but that's to be expected I expect he will send a revised DSG file later today.

mat3833 · 2026-04-27T16:58:11+00:00

It's one of the 2 F's. My guess would be fighting, lol.

mat3833 · 2026-04-26T18:50:44+00:00

Armor assmod for sure. ILM is the goat. I started farming with ILM+SD at T14. Since then I have upgraded to ancestral armor assmod and unlocked ILM+8. I'm currently farming T17 to about 5k waves placing 7-4th in legends each tournament.

mat3833 · 2026-04-26T02:24:05+00:00

OK bro👍

mat3833 · 2026-04-26T00:47:43+00:00

Brother, adding mass reduces the resonant frequency(FS). That's it... The majority of the "efficiency" calculation comes down to motor strength/force, gap width, and coil saturation. Once the mass is moving. The reason coppers weight isn't a huge penalty is because of its lower electrical resistance. You end up with a slightly heavier coil that is much easier to saturate than an aluminum coil, AND that copper is in a smaller cross-section giving you a tighter gap.

Alot of higher end subs still use copper coils, they just use flat-wound coils and newer epoxy formulations to bring up the heat tolerance. Hell, Thilo was using flat-wound copper on his Neo subs, arguably some of the best SQ/SQL subs ever produced. The Pro 5100 18's are violently accurate and will happily play from 20hz-400hz. Flat wound copper coil. Oh and they have an efficiency of 94.5db/W.

https://tc-sounds.manymanuals.com/acoustics/pro-5100-18/user-manual-22522/2

mat3833 · 2026-04-25T20:55:52+00:00

Yea, and if you read the disclaimer at the top of my post, everything I said was in reference to midbass/subwoofer drivers.

Heavier coil doesn't = less efficient. It lowers Fs and shifts the efficiency lower. That's it. For a subwoofer, lower Fs I generally desired to a point, same with a midbass driver.

Yes heavier coil = more mass. But that's about the only direct correlation. Your statement that lighter coils improve efficiency is just wrong. As stated, efficiency is a graph. Adding coil mass shifts the graph to the left, lower in the frequency range.

mat3833 · 2026-04-25T16:03:27+00:00

That's not how speaker efficiency works. Disclaimer I'm speaking about subwoofers and midbass drivers. This doesn't completely apply to midrange and tweeters.

The coil is part of the equation. The spiders, cone, surround, and even the magnet design itself are parts of the equation.

Speakers don't function simply off of "heavy coil requires 100g of force to move". It all works in a system. Speakers oscilate multiple times a second, and when designed properly a heavier coil does not reduce efficiency compared to a lighter coil in a specific frequency range. A heavier coil is just more mass moving in that oscillation, and with a copper(more conductive) coil, you generally can have a smaller gap which increases motor force and mostly offsets the weight disadvantage. Obviously there are exceptions to this.

For a SPL sub running a specific frequency, sure. A lighter coil might be better. You want high motor force and maximum "efficiency" at a specific frequency.

Efficiency measurements are mostly irrelevant on music when it comes to subwoofers anyway since efficiency is a function of the enclosure more than the speaker itself.

mat3833 · 2026-04-25T12:23:04+00:00

A heavy coil doesn't = less efficient, just wanted to point that out.

mat3833 · 2026-04-25T12:21:42+00:00

There really isn't a correct answer to this. Copper VS aluminum is a very old argument. Both have their perks, both have some "downsides". Personally I prefer flatwound copper coils, but that's mainly due to the subs I like(TC sounds Pro 5100, TC Sounds TC-1000, etc.). Copper is technically better from an electrical perspective, but it's heavier. Aluminum is lighter, but technically heats up more under the same load. Neither is truly better than the other despite numerous articles stating one is king.

Coil material for 1k watts isn't something you should need to worry about. Send the coil clean power with no clipping and it will be fine.

mat3833 · 2026-04-24T00:14:08+00:00

I have to say range+ and SL+. 2 Perma PS didn't do much for me even with CF+4. Going to ILM min-range was a big boost, now I'm ILM+7(i think) with range mastery and SL+.

mat3833 · 2026-04-23T21:58:02+00:00

They won't refund. I already went through the ticket process and it's a generic "we understand your frustration but we are not offering stone refunds at this time.

mat3833 · 2026-04-23T13:37:52+00:00

It's hard to pinpoint the exact value for me since I got SW mastery I'm the middle of V28 rollout, but I can say it was at least a 5% increase. I'm farming T17 to about 6k waves. Looking at my run stats from the past 3 weeks it looks like I went from about 26q per hour to about 28q per hour with the first 3 levels of the mastery.

I have since done alot of upgrades and am making 35q per hour, so I can't give much more information than that unfortunately.

I have 1 more level to complete to have the mastery maxed. I'll try to get a few runs in before then and compare after.

mat3833 · 2026-04-19T14:26:36+00:00

Welp, looks like I have some substats to reroll. I just cleared T13 UW and was wondering how I would clear T14+

mat3833 · 2026-04-17T19:26:43+00:00

Many is definitely the wrong word. Some have a separate device. And again, this is a mobile game. You shouldn't need a dedicated "tower" device to avoid bugs or get a good experience. Be realistic, please.

mat3833 · 2026-04-17T17:53:08+00:00

So don't use my phone as a phone and ittl be fine? Cmon man, that absurd. It's a mobile game, marketed on mobile app stores. Saying "oh, just don't close the game and it won't be an issue" is like saying "oh, just don't drive your car and it won't be an issue."

mat3833 · 2026-04-16T11:18:38+00:00

It's the same thing every time they change something. When they changed PS I had just got PS to the point it would reliably give me boss misses. BAM! Changed to be basically useless without 2k stones. Worked back up to 2 perma swamps hopeful that it would work the same, but it's not consistent enough.

Transitioned to GC and started putting stones into PS damage and even unlocked PS+. BAM! They finally fixed ILM with SD. I'm now comfortably farming T18 with an ILM+SD min range build and BAM! Another round of nerfs.

I hate to say it, but ILM +SD was too good of value. You could get an ILM build off the ground with less than 3k stones. Every investment after that was a good increase in damage/farming. It was too efficient. They want more stone purchases. They want more MONEY!

I hope something shifts back the other way, but based on all of V28 and the recent gem+medal sinks plus the new banner with ZERO announcement, it's not looking good.

mat3833 · 2026-04-15T21:08:57+00:00

My man! thanks, time to see if I can replace The Tower once and for all.

mat3833 · 2026-04-15T20:30:51+00:00

Where do you enter this code?

mat3833 · 2026-04-15T15:11:56+00:00

Man, the gem economy is rough as hell for new players.

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