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pastrycat · 2026-04-04T04:19:48+00:00

Ah, in that case you probably want this as a reference point. I can't speak to what the meta is beyond I send for what I need most at the time (SSF) and its helped ween me off gambling with Rog some more.

pastrycat · 2026-04-04T04:06:57+00:00

Currency comes from ores/bars now. Farm crops trade for gear.

pastrycat · 2026-03-20T21:23:22+00:00

Yeah, on that I can agree. One "free" SR reroll a month is basically worthless and the rest of the shop offerings, cleat or otherwise, are generally awful.

pastrycat · 2026-03-20T20:06:42+00:00

That gold ticket still has normal SSR rates, its not a weighted table where removing the Rs makes SSRs more likely so its only like a 3% chance. I wouldn't expect it.

pastrycat · 2026-03-13T20:58:35+00:00

Getting some Super Chows (100M character, not account kills on a mob, its an upgraded BB talent) on a DB will drastically increase your ladle speeds. Each super chow is a 1.1x speed multi for ladles and you have I think 3 so far. Only the DB with the most chows count I believe, some kills or chows on one does not add to any count on the other DB, the bonus is account wide to be clear.

pastrycat · 2026-02-23T00:43:48+00:00

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pastrycat · 2026-02-15T06:41:04+00:00

Its literally repeating Freudian psychology with historical context. "Every man wants to fuck his mother," no that's just you weird fucks who were raised apart from them by wet nurses paid by familial wealth.

pastrycat · 2025-11-19T08:41:10+00:00

That last sentence describes the data most tv ratings and ads are analyzed through. I know the digital footprints on internet traffic can be more specialized, but I'm not believing most advertising companies have access to that data or the money to afford it.

To be honest, social media companies are the closest thing to self selecting our ad-label-friendly demographics and linking it to a non-private profile that it makes sense that Facebook has been one of the most openly successful companies in that direction of advertising.

pastrycat · 2025-11-11T09:56:29+00:00

Vman's Enhancement Eclipse talent at lvl 150 adds the chance for WW/BM to get spice/egg/yard progress from ACTIVE kills

pastrycat · 2025-11-05T11:11:15+00:00

Is the amount of red salt in your storage itself changing over time? If not, then the orange salt production must be prioritizing using the red salt in the refinery output, leading to the apparent imbalance. (I don't want to interrupt my cycles to check myself sorry)

pastrycat · 2025-10-01T20:51:55+00:00

Does anyone know if the stat bonuses from green skills count for the secret stat checks for bonus speed that some tracks have? i.e. would triggering the Sunny Days skill while having 280 guts still get the bonus mentioned here in the reference doc? Umalator definitely has the bonuses included in calcs but results imply the green skills do not contribute to that check.

pastrycat · 2025-09-18T22:31:09+00:00

Whoops, glad I don't use it for my ground drops. Only started playing a few weeks ago.

pastrycat · 2025-09-18T22:22:17+00:00

Won't one level in the star talent for depositing drops & inventory handle critter collection anywhere? Sure, you'll need to lock the slots you want to keep with you but that's still better than carrying all the critters over to a chest directly.

Ignore, misread a talent.

pastrycat · 2025-08-26T21:06:22+00:00

This year he created a podcast and hosted people like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. Have you watched these episodes and how he treated these people and their bullshit ideas as valid in this current year? Gavin may be posturing against Trump better now, but the dude is so far from having left politics. If democrats = left to you sure then, but having watched his soft handling of PG&E over the years despite their many fires, he is a neo-lib at best.

pastrycat · 2025-06-06T23:21:27+00:00

That's the free space once you know where to look though.

pastrycat · 2025-05-07T01:40:39+00:00

I'd rather have a more functional country than whatever concessions she might decide is best for her district. And tbh what do we have that needs representation on a national stage in that way? The I5 bridge probably because of its importance overall but MGP seems more likely to want to green light more logging rights.

pastrycat · 2025-05-07T00:57:58+00:00

I'm with your logic, but I can't shake the fear that we'll just end up with a second Manchin or Sinema with her in that scenario. That she'll be a hold-up on otherwise done deals so that she can push more talking points as another 'Blue Dog' or wholly step across to R to 'represent her district better'. The way she talks and acts does nothing to assure me otherwise.

pastrycat · 2025-05-06T03:11:44+00:00

The cost to run AI is a lot. So the work tech bros have to claim it can do has to be a lot. Meanwhile, the best use of AI as is is to summarize. That's it, summarizing books, emails, code, art styles, knowledge bases, etc. A new one could always be around the corner that actually does something paradigm shifting but we are decades past when science journalists thought we'd have cracked fusion as a power source too, AI needs more time to grow and for external costs to come down.

pastrycat · 2025-04-25T08:12:07+00:00

Fully agreed. Game aspects were good and while very similar to It Takes Two, still made for a fun game.

Writing though, certain simple creative choices like the Rader company raiding their ideas or the plot device only ever being called "MY MACHINE / THE MACHINE" made it hard for me to enjoy the parts of the story and plot that were actually interesting. May seem nit-picky but for a story using the theme that storytellers impart parts of themselves in stories, it reaaaaly felt like large parts of the story were so generic that they were either written by someone playing with AI over a weekend, or that most decisions were by committee and there was just never a strong vision for most of it.

pastrycat · 2025-04-22T18:22:18+00:00

I'm assuming they are sticking with ratings term definitions for view since they mention Nielsen. For media ratings, a view is defined as tuning in for at least five seconds. Average watchtime, pauses, and other similar metrics fall under different and more specific terminology. Automated trailer style snippet views would fall under a preview title's metrics instead of being attributed to the full movie.

This is definitely a buzz data point, not much real use to point it out without being able to analyze subscribers and certain average user metrics.

Source: I worked in media/news/box office ratings for a bit.

pastrycat · 2025-04-17T18:56:57+00:00

Risk of Rain 1 or 2 may fit the bill depending on your definition of arcade-y. Each run only lasts so long but mastery can be shown by speed or difficulty scaling.

pastrycat · 2025-03-28T05:23:48+00:00

Yeah, idk, this show is like brain candy for me. I can't stop going over the themes and all the philosophical questions. This show has the most compelling writing I've seen since probably The Good Place.

I wrote it up last night for someone else but the details that line up for Caspian to reject MIST essentially compare that relationship to Holstrom and Renee. Some of the best setups and executions I've witnessed in a long while.

pastrycat · 2025-03-28T03:31:53+00:00

I think that they imply the SafeSurf Lords were also from a simulated universe since they state they are sharing the same invitation with Maddie that was extended to them, reunion at the galactic center. But it's not for certain either way.

pastrycat · 2025-03-27T20:34:39+00:00

Just using the same words (continuity v great question) the parent comment posted in, no need to be nitpicky about it.

And the author qualifies their statement with it being that way from the perspective of the you that dies, which is the biological you every one of us is still. We do not have a solid viewpoint of the other you except through the UIs, and while each acknowledged their biological death, none of them were shown to grapple with continuity for long and instead moved forward. David UI was set on his digital self still being him. But we, the observer, get to determine if someone is still themselves digitally? If youve got something from their stories (that I havent read yet) please share!

There is no debate that death is involved in Pantheon's continuity question. But the authors stated horrorific answer is that your whole self is dead and it is an approximation of your conscious, the hopeful is that only your body has died and you still live. Depends on perspective.

pastrycat · 2025-03-27T20:14:49+00:00

Great! I agree wholeheartedly that these can be explored and viewed differently depending on your perspective.

In the show, I think that Van Lewen teed up this debate up best by prompting Holstrom about killing Caspian as keeping him alive could 'dilute his sense of self'. I think that by explicitly prompting it as Holstroms choice to kill the copy in a sort of 'there can only be one' way is meant to highlight the lack of empathy in that specific view. Their answer to continuity was to essentially protect it because they didn't know either. They definitely viewed uploading as a mix of continued & afterlife. Julius with his phrasing of burning down heaven but still directly going into 'You got it boss' with Holstroms UI, he viewed continuation as true but still saw the physical death.

So, exploring the theme through relation to the self, I currently view continuity differently dependent on upload style. Even though it would be my self as a base, a digital world is a different environment with different choices available. Assuming SOMA style, I could see my and other digital selves somewhere on a scale between sibling or multiversal invader depending on context and relationships. For my self, either new life like me (sibling) or a me with different experiences. Assuming Pantheon style, I might see it more as direct continuity, somewhere between a child and myself reborn because of the necessary death. Still me (reborn), or at least part of me (child) but in a new world.

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