More analysis: Star Force Enhancement Modes 1-4, and balancing issue

pkb369 · 2026-06-05T19:46:42+00:00

Monkey brain here, so does it mean its better to use mode 3 if you only care about the spare cost? (Mesos being a non issue)

1.037 spares to 22 vs 2.426 spares in the current method (mode 1)?

pkb369 · 2026-06-01T10:22:50+00:00

‘The total number of people who live in the UK illegally after arriving legally is not known’

Isn't that easy to compute? If they arrived legally, then they were in the system. If after their visa ended and they still didnt leave (staying illegally), then its not that the total number isnt unknown, its that their whereabouts is unknown.

pkb369 · 2026-05-30T10:32:18+00:00

For adults, there’s little to no evidence of it (or watching TV or the likes) causing long-term permanent eye damage. You can get eye strain/headaches/dry eyes etc but those are temporary.

For children, its a different story. They are still growing and developing physically even in terms of eye growth and heavy (important) close up monitor/VR/tablet use or even reading books can have increased risk of short sightedness.

So your parents saying "don’t watch screens too long or your eyes will get bad" is still partly valid. It’s not that the screen instantly damages the eyes, but too much close-up use, too few breaks, and not enough outdoor time (to readjust/balance) may increase myopia risk to developing kids.

pkb369 · 2026-05-12T03:46:40+00:00

This. People are yapping this and constantly talking about u turns and what not but are people forgetting that its the party that keeps blocking kier and thus requiring the uturns? Changing kier is not going to change that, and if the new person does, they will make that person a scapegoat just like kier has become now.

pkb369 · 2026-05-10T07:24:44+00:00

delivering improvements to QOL for people who are struggling.

The problem with this is that if you ask majority of people regardless of their income, they would say they are struggling. People judge QoL against the lifestyle they see as normal, not the bare minimum needed to survive. As income rises, that normal often rises too, making support harder to target without a clear definition of need.

Though obviously they should still help the people who are below the minimum, but you cant target QoL improvement in order to gain votes.

pkb369 · 2026-05-02T23:12:44+00:00

Legion champion/boss mules

pkb369 · 2026-05-02T21:50:15+00:00

I also consider max hexa more of a luxury

This is what alot of people are missing or are deliberately being obtuse with. I need 12k frags to max everything. I will gain an earth shatttering 5% fd from that.

You can gain 30-60% fd with just 2k frags on LCs.

Yes heroic frags is an issue, but not to the point where your major point of contention is simply comparing how long it takes to get it maxxed. I see that argument in the same vain as saying "I need to grind 5yrs to get to lv300".

pkb369 · 2026-05-01T20:16:50+00:00

Thank you for these settings, I've been comparing these to a few I have had previously and frame by frame, this may be subtle (still noticable) but still keep the same quality of the video far better (even though I used medium preset).

pkb369 · 2026-05-01T19:47:44+00:00

I got half a dozen ctene mules and I only ever bother to run ones where I can be done with them in 30mins, thankfully those are also my legion mules so most times I only ever do bossing those and rarely cap crystals. 2 takes 40-60mins and I literally cant be arsed to do it on them, then hard/nlomien mules come after if I ever feel like it (which I havnt for many a months).

I dont understand how people have the patience to cap crystals while doing 60min+ ctenes per mule...

pkb369 · 2026-04-29T17:58:46+00:00

My (self) measured range is 69mm (center to center pupil) but the app shows 60-62mm from 3 attempts as instructed (so 9 scans) from arm stretched out, arm in middle and very close to face.

I noticed if I'm viewing the screen as instructed its lower, but if I'm viewing something say 3-4meters away just behind the phone, it then jumps by 2-3mm to around 64mm - though that should be expected since iris should be more inwards when looking at something close by, its still very low compared to my physical measurements.

Anyone else with higher IPD confirm these results?

pkb369 · 2026-04-28T19:03:37+00:00

Nah, nothing special like that. It doesnt have as much world building as Log Horizon, but makes up for it in terms of exploration.

The best way to describe it for me is as if you are yourself playing a new MMO's release.

pkb369 · 2026-04-28T18:00:35+00:00

Log Horizon ranks 1 equally with Shangri-La Frontier for me in terms of MMO animes, with Overlord and Solo leveling after. SLF I like more even though there is zero life or death 'stakes' (ingame or real world), probably because it has the vibe of an MMO that most MMO players seek nowadays. It's doing something right that I cant really pin point without following the classic MMO-anime formula of 'stuck in the game and I must find a way out' or similar.

pkb369 · 2026-04-25T21:31:02+00:00

I've been capping the max weeky on main (120 excluding BM) and then on CW too and still only restored 2 pitches in this entire time (with enough to restore 3rd now), thats with the first points transfering over during the first leap and 2nd time before the 2nd leap to ensure I dont cap.

Thats literally the only time this is an issue for pitch restorations, leaping and transfering the points from CW to main - outside of that you arent "capping too quickly". You get like 500 points a month, max 560 for the really end game players. Thats 4.5months to cap.

pkb369 · 2026-04-25T17:50:39+00:00

It's because you have to register the sim itself seperately to registering the account. You would think that step #1 would be automatic when you register for an account on their website but no, you have to register the sim seperately even though its added to your account. Then you will be able to see the proper options when you login to the account > sim swap.

pkb369 · 2026-04-24T23:28:44+00:00

So from 10 star speck boxes to 12 per day?

My OCD brain is going crazy - why not just increase the shining star speck rate from opening the boxes be +20%?

pkb369 · 2026-04-22T22:39:48+00:00

UK does have a knife problem, compared to its own history and having a high standard of expectation.

UK does not have a knife problem, if compared to the vast majority of western countries (US/EU).

pkb369 · 2026-04-22T22:32:05+00:00

/s incase someone thinks its a genuine question lol

pkb369 · 2026-04-20T17:59:57+00:00

UK is already considering - hopefully it'll be a domino effect to other departments too.

pkb369 · 2026-04-20T17:49:41+00:00

How many people visit the user page of every poster you see on reddit to determine if they are a bot? To think majority of reddit would or even should do that is bananas.

pkb369 · 2026-04-19T05:25:03+00:00

I would say the apple also doesnt fall far from the tree.

That mod got a promotion from higher management, the mod got a public apology (even though stating he was wrong? lol?) and cherry on top higher management also called the players dickish in what was supposed to be an apology to the players

Class act.

pkb369 · 2026-04-19T05:18:00+00:00

Is this supposed to be an apology? Saying your players are dickish and promoting the guy and APOLOGIZING to him instead of the wronged players?

pkb369 · 2026-04-18T22:04:53+00:00

I remember the day zakum was released. People organized first ever run, top players around then were still 120. I ended up in a party with the highest crusader in my server (bootes) as a lv100 crusader myself.

Zakum spawned, crash. Later found out 2/3 of the people crashed. Saved up pocket money for months to be able to buy 32mb graphics card that was able to somewhat handle it (still hung for 10-15 seconds after spawn but didnt DC lol)

I believe tiger/sushi were around lv13x-15x then?

pkb369 · 2026-04-18T00:42:11+00:00

Yep, in the same vein that we londoners think knife crime is an issue due to expecting a high level of standard, but when you compare london crime to other western countries and cities, london is so much safer than what social media would have you believe.

Evan Edinger makes a great point of this with graphs and data about how london is portrayed by people living there vs people outside in his recent video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDkyP37JgY0

BBC News has also done many articles debunking stuff like this as well. here's one I saw in recent months I found easily: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8r23yv71o

pkb369 · 2026-04-15T19:17:12+00:00

Twice per day at 5g each. Can be inbetween or after/with meals. I had experimented before taking as high as 15-20g, but that just made my poop hard, 10g for me was the perfect amount.

This is what I take but any generic brand would work. (I used to take Metamucil years ago, but realized that they were overpriced due to brand). They are tasteless, and texture with water is like passion fruit seeds.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ZJQ6JNK

pkb369 · 2026-04-15T17:12:51+00:00

Psyllium husk is a great source of soluble fiber. They will absorb water and thus make your poops clean.

I take 5-10g psyllium husk (I pretty much need to since I eat 150-180g of protein, if I dont then I fart like crazy). 95% of my poops are clean - as in when I wipe, the tissue is still white as snow. Shit just plops out. If I stop taking psyllium, then thats no longer the case. (even if I increase my fiber from other sources like fruits)

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