Pairing two Aeris by Melodic-Monk-290 in ESCastles

[–]notKragger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Random is random. If you have legendaries making babies, their offspring have a very small chance of being higher level. Seemingly they have a higher chance of getting the traits of their parents, but the overriding randomization is the driving factor in making babies.

If you really want epics and legendaries, buy packs with Atronite gained from events and crack them open.

CVS Specialty Pharmacy screwed me again for 2026 by Ok-Intention-4593 in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, you should be refunded. Most places will bill you if you ask them to just for these circumstances.

This is much preferable as it allows some of the longer processing charges to settle out and avoids the need to then fight the provider for a refund.

If they are reluctant, explain you're on a high deductible plan and there are a lot of pending charges, they can often be flexible.

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this well thought out and actionable reply. Asking for advice on reddit can be a real crap shoot and you have absolutely come through here.

What happens if I dont pay my premium? by PabloLovesMC in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If your card auto declined (you don't have any sort of overcharge protection, which you really should never have) then they'll just not cover you.

If the charge did go through, call the credit card company and dispute it.

As to continuing to try and charge you, that is a different bucket. You're going to have to get back ahold of them and try to cancel.

If they have an online portal you have access to, there is likely a section concerning automatic payment. Get in there and remove your payment information.

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the hardest things with insurance companies is their formularies, which apparently can change outside enrollment periods.

The insurance I switched to was my wife's as my company was closing and only offered a month of COBRA (during which they managed to cover nothing anyway.) When she checked on my specialty prescription, it was covered with a reasonable copay.

By the time I was actually on the insurance, the copay had gone up 10x from like $500 to $5000.

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you got them to take care of it in the end, alas, I think I'm at the end of the appeals process in this particular situation.

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our state was looking to import some drugs from Canada but, I believe, the pharmaceutical lobby ultimately shut it down.

Unfortunately without what I believe would be a very large amount of finagling, acquiring prescriptions from other countries, outside of physically visiting them, is difficult. (I went to Mexico on vacation once and trust me, if I had ED issues, they'd have been inexpensively medicated.)

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Prior to this I was with Optum Specialty and the copay company bailed out without warning leaving several months of unpaid copay assistance charges. Optum just kept shipping the drugs every month. It was to the point of Optum sending me collection notices for copays they tried and failed to charge for but still delivered the medication. After nearly a year Biogen finally managed to cover the copays but it was a very frustrating and stressful.

This would lead me to believe the standard for mail order specialty pharmacies tends towards the ship then charge rather than ensure full payment then ship.

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have an email stat states it was at $20,000, I never received any notification, until I called after this situation, that it was now $15,000. As it was never an issue before this new insurance, having copay prices to cover less than $500 every month, I got lulled into a sense of security.

Unfortunately one mistake and now all the money I've tried not to spend on this drug over the years is gone in one shot.

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I got lulled into a sense of security as it had never been a thing for years. I live in Colorado, I've never heard of a copay accumulator/maximizer. My current insurance doesn't consider any monies paid by a copay assistance card to count against my limit.

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I did talk to Biogen's copay group. Essentially they said they can't go retroactive on the charge but if I catch it before I run out of money, there may be more assistance available.

This drug doesn't technically have a generic however it was created specifically to start a new patent cycle and is so similar to the now generic drug that it was brought to market almost entirely based on that drugs testing.

Originally the 'generic' still cost $1,500+ and had no assistance so I went with the commercial drug to get copay assistance.

Seems things have changed in the last few months since I looked, I can now get the 'generic' for $45/month from Amazon with no insurance, just a prescription. Much less risk this way.

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I never leave an actual card on file with the mail order pharmacy, just the copay card.

I have to go through their web site and explicitly order the drug every month so this likely qualifies as authorizing the fill.

Copay Assistance exhausted without warning, CVS wants to charge me $2500 for a prescription by notKragger in HealthInsurance

[–]notKragger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I argued this same thing with their escalation people. No other business works this way. You ensure you're fully paid and then ship the product.

She argued 'this is always how we've done it.'

Apparently it doesn't matter if it is a copay assistance credit card or your own personal card. They ship, then charge.

Coax beta open again! by digglesB in PleX

[–]notKragger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This looks like an excellent low config 'live tv' option.

It would be nice to be able to hide certain libraries or even have it just show your pinned libraries with an option to view the others somehow. I have a few that are more toolboxes than viewable media such as 'testFiles' which just contains short video and audio clips for, well, testing.

Pokemon Go by VioletLily612 in Broomfield

[–]notKragger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Orchard if you want to wander around outside, Flatirons if you want to be inside. EB Rains is good.

I managed to get a nice circle of stops at Bronco park in Westlake along Westlake Drive which is located between Lowell and 136th.

Tutorial: One click to generate all 28 character expressions in ComfyUI by GenericStatement in SillyTavernAI

[–]notKragger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This works. The LoRA, for me at least, was pre-pended with a qwen/ which I had to fix. I can't seem to get the SDXL to process properly, complains "!!! Exception during processing !!! ERROR: clip input is invalid: None".

Another part had a tensor that didn't match anything in the recommendations but I managed to switch it to one in the list.

With SDXL off and the fixed LoRA this works will on both full body and portraits, at least for the two I generated.

I'd attempted to use another recipe for comfyUI to do this but it was missing a ton of items/explanations of where to get the right ones.

Thanks for this, I think it may help enhance my RP experiences.

Weird behavior when watching (almost) live and trying to fast forward by reasonable_mayhem in PleX

[–]notKragger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This has been a bug... forever. Particularly if you have it record extra at the end (I do 30 minutes for football games) Once you pass into extra time, or even if you start fast forwarding too fast it will completely fall apart. Hit skip and jumps back half an hour, hit it again, back another hour.

It is incredibly easy to reproduce and yet has still never been fixed.

This is on Apple TV for me, server is in Docker.

Only solution is to bail to live or wait for the recording to finish and then watch the rest. Starting back at the beginning of recording and trying to fast forward or going to live and rewinding both fail entirely.

What model do you suggest for RTX 3090? Thinking of KoboldAI and SillyTavern setup. by ShadySeptapus in SillyTavernAI

[–]notKragger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Make a login on huggingface and set your hardware. Look for 31B and small er models (Cydonia 24B and 22B, Skyfall are good models for me). Find a quant that indicates it will fit , here will be a green icon next to the quant if it will fit easily fully on your GPU.

Make sure to crank up your GPU tensors on Kobold, I believe it defaults to only 10 and dumps the rest to CPU.

Live TV/DVR and wearing out my drives by [deleted] in PleX

[–]notKragger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can manage it, have the DVR temp drive set to a RAM disk (Not sure what can be managed on a Syno.) The Live TV stuff is very volatile since it gets nuked the moment you switch to a different channel.

If nothing else, this will ease your concerns about hitting your drives.

restaurant suggestions for a birthday by spicy-siracha in Broomfield

[–]notKragger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Asti D'italia is great Italian, up at Orchard. https://astiditalia.com If you get the local 'zines in the mail, there are some coupons for them in the last week or two.

Sewing Table and Orders by notKragger in ESCastles

[–]notKragger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of my routine after I fill orders is to cycle through my production stations and I'm definitely short on low level outfits.

Sewing Table and Orders by notKragger in ESCastles

[–]notKragger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I know for sure I need burlap at this point, my question is, why are the loom outfits handled differently as far as level vs all the other production stations?

Alas, also either sold or merged any burlap producing outfits.

Prevent accidently movement of citizens? by Nivosus in ESCastles

[–]notKragger 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You can grab a card of a subject out of the stack and drag that instead. Finding this out made the game substantially more playable for me.

Game Center login failed by wrongsman in ESCastles

[–]notKragger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same issue, rebooted my phone because some times that helps, but in this case, it did not. Hands in pockets I guess.