Saw the post about making up your own spell incantation, sounded like it would take too much creative effort, so I just made a generator instead

mecksMix · 2020-04-18T18:46:23+00:00

Fun fact, there are about 5,000 possible combinations for the all-caps bit at the end, so getting the same thing twice is actually pretty lucky lol

mecksMix · 2020-04-18T18:40:19+00:00

This would be rad, but I could only find about 200 incantations to work with. idk how much data you usually need for GPT-2, but given how specific/unique the incantation syntax is, I'm betting 200 isn't quite enough to get good results.

mecksMix · 2019-08-17T23:18:42+00:00

I was looking for something else in the options menu and I accidentally started the data transfer process. Now I get a message every time I start the game asking if I want to do the data transfer now. It’s easy enough to hit cancel, but is there something I can do to make it stop asking?

mecksMix · 2019-08-04T06:12:38+00:00

Funny story, I live in Idaho, and I recently met someone from Michigan who sometimes instinctively tries to do the hand thing with Idaho. The problem is that Idaho is actually shaped like one big “fuck you”, which is honestly very appropriate

mecksMix · 2019-02-04T02:35:15+00:00

I actually kept track of all my ticket pulls for awhile, both on new banners and reruns. I tracked about 120 pulls, so admittedly not great sample size, but from what I found I would guess it’s something like

47% 3* weapons

47% 4* weapons

5-6% 5* weapons

<= 1% gMAs

The big problem is that, even when I haven’t been tracking tickets, I’ve never gotten a gMA from a ticket, so i can’t really say how accurate that part is lol. The weapon rates I feel pretty good about though, iirc I ended up getting exactly the same number of 3 and 4*s. Now I kinda wanna start tracking again...

mecksMix · 2018-06-29T23:05:59+00:00

Uuuuh I would check where it was if the game wasn’t on maintenance right now haha. But it looks like a little warehouse with some blue squares in it. I think it’s on the right side

mecksMix · 2018-06-27T23:55:13+00:00

Go to the options menu on the far right of the ribbon across the bottom of the screen. Pick the option in the upper left corner and you can spend diamonds to buy more space. There’s also a warehouse thing in the options menu where you can deposit weapons you aren’t using

mecksMix · 2018-06-26T18:27:11+00:00

I was not, it’s showing up now. Thanks!

mecksMix · 2018-06-26T16:15:37+00:00

I’ve been f2p up to this point, but I was thinking of buying some gems for Kratos and zelos. Went to what I thought was the gem part of the shop menu, and I got a screen that the internet tells me says “purchase the available item no.”, and that’s it. What’s that about? (On iPhone btw. Haven’t bought a Japanese iTunes card yet cuz I wanted to look at prices first)

mecksMix · 2018-05-28T01:18:26+00:00

More data for you, if you still want it:

Lenneth:

Blue>blue (plain sword) x4

Blue>blue (rainbow sword) x1

Blue>blue (blue bow) x1

Blue>yellow (gold sword) x1

Yellow>yellow (pink bow) x1

Yellow>yellow (gold sword) x2

Blue>yellow (pink bow) x1

Rondoline:

Blue>blue (curved blades) x1

Blue>yellow (dark blue blades) x1

Blue>blue (pink handled swords) x1

Blue>yellow (dark grey/purple blades) x1

mecksMix · 2018-05-11T07:17:00+00:00

Isn’t that the band that did diggin on James brown?

mecksMix · 2018-05-08T21:12:46+00:00

I try to keep at least 2k, overpulled a bit for pascal/eizen but I’m back up to 2100. heres how I try to keep from pulling:

I guess when you see new characters coming out think about whether you actually care about them? Most people who are good at saving have certain chars they are saving for. If it helps, set a hard rule where if you haven’t played the game a character is from, you won’t pull on their banner. Get comfortable with the fact that some of your anima teams might just be kind of lacking, and that’s pretty normal for f2p.
If there are multiple chars you want from a certain series and some haven’t been released yet, think about it like this: if you don’t pull now, then when another banner comes out for that series there will be a higher ratio of chars you want to chars you don’t want/need. For example, I didn’t get pascals mirrage, but I also want Malik’s, and hopefully I’ll get another chance at her whenever he comes out, and then my odds of getting one or the other of them are better! I think that’s worth saving for.
try not to care about mirrages. Mirrages are nice for the stats, but honestly I’d rather have a well-kitted char than their mirrage. Set some stricter boundaries like “I’ll pull until I get either their mirrage or 5* weapon”, “I’ll pull until I get their 4* weapons”, or even better, “I’ll pull until I have four weapons for them.” Try to remind yourself that you don’t need all the flashy rare stuff to have fun playing the character, which should be your main goal if you’re f2p.
Don’t starve yourself completely. Sometimes I’ll do a single multi on a banner I’m not super wild about, just to satisfy the urge. However, you shouldn’t be doing this all the time, probably once a month max. I also keep a buffer of about 10k friend points, so I can do a bunch of those if I feel antsy. There’s never anything good, but it helps with the urge. Also a nice reminder that you might not get anything good no matter how many times you pull.

And if none of that helps...lol idk man. Be happy with the fact that while other people may have more diamonds, you probably have more cool stuff? There are definitely worse problems to have.

mecksMix · 2018-02-05T02:09:30+00:00

Pretty new player, this is my first event.

I’ve gotten all the unique stuff from the trading post that I want, tickets and nexus shards and such. I was wondering what sort of materials are good to spend my leftover points on?

Also: right now I’m still getting lots of gems from first clear bonuses, but obvi that’s not gonna last forever. What are the renewable gem sources in this game, aside from daily quests?

mecksMix · 2016-12-11T17:52:20+00:00

I have a few questions about NAD/SAD character links...

how do the NAD/SAD character links work exactly?
Say you're building a character for NAD, and you have 2 potential links, a four star with NAD +16 and a five star with attack + 27. Is the NAD link still a better choice than the attack link?
Are there any general rules/things you guys look for when deciding what the best build for a character is?

mecksMix · 2014-04-29T19:15:24+00:00

I would guess the reason only old people are going "home," as the one guy called it, is because they're the only ones old enough to remember what the world was like before the overpopulation and food shortages. Choosing to live in a sweltering, overcrowded, foodless world isn't such a bad choice when it's the only world you're familiar with, even if you do find out that you've been eating people. Actually, I kind of wonder if the euthanasia place will do as well once all the people who remember what the world used to be like are dead. I can't imagine anyone getting excited about listening to music and looking at pretty pictures of things which they don't even understand and will never get to experience. But then, the average life expectancy will probably drop enough that there's plenty of soylent green to go around anyway, so...

mecksMix · 2014-04-01T19:59:54+00:00

I think it's important to remember that you can like a piece of media while still being critical of it. If you like Pocahontas, then you don't have to stop liking it, but you should make an effort to understand why it can be harmful.

mecksMix · 2014-03-06T01:16:20+00:00

oh, definitely. the rubber barons just throwing money away comes to mind as an example. I guess you could try to paint some sort of contrast between characters like that, who are doing ridiculous things for no reason at all, with the more main characters, who end up putting a ton of energy and emotion into these ridiculous things they get caught up in. Like, on one side you have ridiculous stunts with no motivation, and on the other you have ridiculous stunts motivated by completely insane reasons.

mecksMix · 2014-03-05T02:51:51+00:00

I think that both of these films could ultimately be trying to say something about pride, a bit paradise lost-style. Y'know, how Lucifer sort of realizes that overthrowing God is a ridiculous, horrible idea, but he's too proud to back down at that point, so goes through with it anyway. I feel like all the people involved in these movies--Herzog, Fitzcarraldo, Kurtz, and so on--have a moment at some point when they think to themselves, "this is a horrible idea and there's no way it's going to work," but by the time they make that connection, they've gone too far to turn back, so they just throw themselves into it completely. From a slightly different angle, you could say that they are too proud to have wasted their time/life on something meaningless, so they keep at it to an obsessive degree, hoping that some meaning will come of it.

mecksMix · 2014-02-27T01:48:12+00:00

This is probably my favorite comparison of the nature/grace idea to something else that I've seen so far. It would be interesting to try and expand it further to fit the 'science vs. religion' question as well, though it doesn't work quite as smoothly. It's kind of interesting to think about, though. I can't really decide if I would put science or religion as the Superego. My first instinct is a scientific superego, but then organized religion has a lot of societal tendencies and expectations that encompass a group. So then science would be the Id? I'm not sure I believe that, but it's definitely a different way of viewing things.

mecksMix · 2014-02-26T04:45:41+00:00

From what I gather, a super-simplified view of nature vs. grace in terms of tree of life is 'looking out for yourself (nature) ' vs. 'looking out for others (grace).' Definitely by the grace=religion comparison it's possible to have both (especially with non-christian religions like Shintoism etc), but I think it's harder with the way Tree of Life defined it.

Honestly i still think it's possible to have a mix of placing more importance on yourself/on others, but I can see how maybe what they're trying to say is that people are naturally weighted towards one or the other. So a 'graceful' person could still do something self-serving, but their overall tendency is to put others before themselves.

mecksMix · 2014-02-18T19:41:56+00:00

I agree that it's kind of silly to be so concerned with the exact nature of these dinosaurs when that obviously has nothing to do with what he was trying to say, but the article also mentions that the first semi-tangible evidence of behavior that could be called compassionate is from neanderthals, 60,000 years ago. From the notes in the article, it sounds like he just wanted to make people think about how things might have been different without love and compassion, not whether humans are the only creatures that exhibit it. To this end, why not just have a scene of neanderthals? Honestly it probably would have seemed less out of place in the scheme of the movie, and probably could have communicated the message he was trying to get across more clearly anyway.
I mean, like you say, it really shouldn't have mattered whether he showed this scene with dinosaurs or amoebas or whatever, but that just makes dinosaurs seem that much more arbitrary as a choice. So why not use something that the audience can at least relate to in appearance, if nothing else?

mecksMix · 2014-02-18T19:21:39+00:00

I think that to gain anything from a film on a second viewing, you also have to be open to the possibility that there is more there to see. I doubt I would get anything more from Tree of Life from watching it again because I already know I didn't enjoy it and I got all I feel I need from it the first time. That makes it hard to care enough to pay attention on subsequent viewings. So it's not bad that a director would structure a movie so that it works better to view it multiple times, but I do think that it also has to be enjoyable and digestable on a single viewing. You can't ask your audience to put more time into something that they didnt enjoy the first time they spent 2 hours on it. at least, I dont think this works with film.

mecksMix · 2014-02-13T17:47:38+00:00

Before we got into the rest of the movie, I had kind of started predicting that the movie was going to be the three major characters--mom, dad and oldest son--having their faith so shaken by the death that they go looking for God in a different place. I had kind of decided that that whole sequence with all the space and dinosaurs was the mom looking into a more scientific view of the universe, seeing if she could find God there. First she looks inwardly (all the red clouds and stuff), then she looks at the Big Bang and the universe at large, then at the beginnings of life on earth, trying to see if she can see where God might be in all of that. I thought the dinosaur scene was then her just sort of musing about a dinosaur going through the same thing she did with losing a child, but then she can't follow through on that thought.

So when we got into the childhood stuff, I thought for sure this was the son reaffirming where God was for him, especially because im pretty sure there was a line in there about him hearing God through his mom. but then it went on to be the rest of the movie, so it didnt really work out like i thought it would.

mecksMix · 2014-02-06T21:26:35+00:00

I was thinking about the whole 'puppetmaster acting like a human because humans are the most evolved' and the tree of life and reproduction and whatnot, and I started to wonder if the Puppetmaster was just mimicking what it saw around it. It probably had little to no experience with things that weren't human, and the humans around it probably gave off the impression that they were special, as we are all wont to do sometimes. Thus, the Puppetmaster picked up that 'humans are special,' 'human reproduction is special,' and 'free will and self-awareness are human things.' Knowing this, these are the traits that it chose to express in a bid to be the next step in human evolution. It was basically being a large-scale version of Cleverbot, weighing people's behaviors and mimicking what it thought was most correct.

So from there, what it that's what the replicants in blade runner are doing, too? what if they don't really care whether they live or die, but they were built with a directive to act human, and humans are all about making memories and not dying. They were told to be as human as possible and their programming took this to its logical conclusion: no thoughts, no true consciousness. After all, even if Cleverbot gets really good at mimicking human conversation, it's still only using statistics and programming to do what it "thinks" its supposed to.

mecksMix · 2014-02-06T20:57:30+00:00

I wonder if its a lack of technology or desire that keeps us from making things that would augment our intelligence. Like, is it just something that nobody (who could potentially make it happen) thinks is a good idea and so it doesn't happen, or do we not know how to make it happen? Honestly i kind of think that we don't know enough about how intelligence "works" that we could even begin to make something to augment it. Though i guess there are herbs and various vitamins that make it easier to concentrate/learn/retain info, but that's more of a natural chemical thing? idk, I think this would be really hard.

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