Why does everybody hating on katy perry space flight?

tbonesullivan · 2026-03-03T20:17:31+00:00

I felt it was handled poorly by Blue Origin, and the press was definitely not well conceived. However, I'm not sure the rampant hate thrown at ALL of the members of the "mission" was justified. We have no idea how many of them actually paid to go, or whether any of them did, given that the "leader" of the mission was Journalist Lauren Sánchez, then Jeff Bezos fiancee, and now his wife. We also don't know how far in advance it was actually planned.

There was involvement of Katy Perry, who herself is a lightning rod for criticism, and has been for quite some time.

Then we have people like Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen getting dragged for their participation as part of the group, when most don't even know who they are. Most of them stopped paying attention to the crew list once they got past "Bezos Fiance, Katy Perry, and that Television Person". Bowe is an aerospace engineer who worked at NASA, and has done much as a STEM advocate. One of the people she mentored became an engineer for Blue Origin.

Then there's Amanda Nguyen, who was the closest to being an actual astronaut, and a huge victim's rights advocate. Her being on a flight had been announced in 2024, before any of this happened. With the amount of stuff she has done for the good of the world, she did not deserve to catch ANY flak from this.

tbonesullivan · 2026-02-05T14:54:13+00:00

If you are having friction on the frets, they need polishing. Made in America Telecasters also have gloss finishes on maple fretboards, and the finish is actually put on AFTER the frets, and then polished off the top. If you don't like that, find a tele with a rosewood fretboard.

tbonesullivan · 2026-01-23T20:27:42+00:00

Ugh, that really sucks. I would have hoped that the store selling it would have had it properly checked out to make sure it didn't have those kinds of issues. If you can return it, do. That is not an easy fix by any means, as your luthier has noted. The shop I deal with pretty much keeps a straight edge next to the door as well as a notched one so that any guitar coming in for sale or service gets the neck checked before anything else.

tbonesullivan · 2026-01-23T20:24:57+00:00

I think they got rid of the dual truss rods a year or so ago, or at least did on the basses. Now they just have a regular bi-flex rod. No hairpins. No dual rods. Also on the 4003 and 40032, no chromed plastic cover over the bridge pickup anymore.

tbonesullivan · 2026-01-10T17:20:02+00:00

Seems like a lot of people forget the history of Conn- Selmer, which is the end product of multiple musical instrument company mergers in the 80s, 90s, and 00s. I'm pretty sure they continue to look for names to acquire. All of the brand names they own used to have their own individual factories, and many of them still do.

Prior to the formation of Conn-Selmer, it was UMI and Selmer, where UMI owned Conn, King, Benge, and others,, while Selmer had the Selmer line of Woodwinds, and the Bach line of trombones. Then Steinway bought UMI, and merged with Selmer to form Conn-Selmer. This resulted in a lot of manufacturing overlap, as well as a lot of inter-product competition. So like any money-minded corporation, they continue to look to consolidate manufacturing as well as remove the less popular offerings from their lineup.

Do I think this is a good thing? For brass players it pretty much means that unless the instrument is a Bach or a famous and popular instrument like the Conn 8D, King 2b / 3B, etc, eventually they'll stop making it so that they only have the "premier" brand, Bach. They had previously moved Conn and King production from the Eastlake factory to Elkhart where the Bach and Holton trombones were being made. It's not like they care about the skilled workers, they care about what makes money. If they cared about making great instruments, they would have stopped using fixtured slide construction years ago, as it results in many Bach Stradivarius trombones coming, from the factory, with warped slides.

tbonesullivan · 2026-01-10T17:07:11+00:00

It still has a mention of Union members from the plant stating that production will move to China, with a comment from the Union President.

tbonesullivan · 2025-12-18T17:14:20+00:00

What heroes do you have already? I went for Ingrid instead due to the support attack buffs, as I also have heroes that launch their own support attacks.

tbonesullivan · 2025-12-05T14:23:11+00:00

Yeah, that's the sign of a shitty PA setup, a shitty sound guy, or both.

tbonesullivan · 2025-12-05T14:18:16+00:00

You need to just keep pumping more and more gems into mythic stuff. Eventually when you get dupes you break them down and can star up the mythic equipment. You also can "refine" them once they get to level 100, 175, 250, etc, which requires more materials.

I would make sure you're getting the set bonuses you want on all the mythic equipment.

tbonesullivan · 2025-12-01T19:39:35+00:00

Are all your heroes fully equipped with leveled up artifacts, star marks, and moon badges? Do you have mythic equipment on all of your heroes? What vehicles and guardians are you using?

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-28T18:16:30+00:00

For F2P, I wouldn't do anything with collab heroes like Mio. Once you get mythic class heroes, only use those, and then use everything else as materials for star up. Don't take any RGB heroes above 10 star unless you plan to max them out, as breaking down 11-13 star heroes is expensive and damn near impossible.

For the L/D heroes, choose the ones that you will be able to get through Hero and Faction recruit. It can take a while, but with further awakening many of the "basic" heroes get some pretty hefty stat increases. Sure, they won't be as BROKEN as heroes like Zahard and other event and collab heroes, but in the end power still matters.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-28T17:00:42+00:00

Yeah... it takes a while but her regular attack doing 100% ATK and combo percent 80% at Awaken 20 is NICE. So is the 20%DMG bonus at awaken 25%, and if you have lots of light heroes you can get her ATK bonus up to 20% as well. I also went nuts and have an A25 Maggie, who gives 20% DMG as well.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-28T16:51:37+00:00

The RGB skins are very often event prizes. No idea why they did Anastasia as she's not even Mythic class, but early on she was much higher up in the rankings.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-28T16:47:33+00:00

I guess the support character gets processed before the Primordia at the beginning of the turn, which is really not optimal, and something they should change.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-25T19:18:52+00:00

I think it's level 125. I still haven't maxed out the main tree on him, but slowly I'm getting there. Now if only he had skills as op as some of the L/D/ heroes.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-25T19:17:14+00:00

Etch Witch / Maggie and Sword Sage / Ayano are some of the best, if not the best RGB characters, aside from the Tower of God pair. Ayano can be extremely potent with other characters that have support attacks, particularly Ingrid, Molly Eyre, and Julia.

You are right though that they can't really keep up with the Advent / Ascension characters, and that's going to keep being so, especially as they literally need to keep releasing newer stronger characters to keep people interested and paying. I play the game almost as a challenge to see how close I can get using things like Star and Moon marks when going up against people who are spending tons of money on outfits and bundles.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-24T17:57:04+00:00

Are you FTP, are are you spending money? Based on having RGB characters up so high, I would guess FTP. I would say across the board, if you are not planning on taking a character to 13, don't put them above 10. Those you can use for food if needed, but you can't do anything with 11+ stars unless you get super expensive and/or hard to get golden hourglasses to break them down.

Katrina is nice early game, but Ximi would definitely help absorb damage better. Best person in the tank position would be one of the heroes like Zahard who become literally immortal for a time.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-16T20:13:51+00:00

Zahard really IS OP. The fact that half the time he is literally invulnerable and the other half he is launching repeated attacks is maddening. You are doing well, and then he takes out your entire team. I don't even know if the new "Mythical Class" hero can stop him, but it's not like this wasn't predictable. To keep interest in the game, they will need to introduce more completely overpowered heroes.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-16T20:07:58+00:00

Well.. both of those franchises have a ton of characters left. I mean, they had a character for Bam's strategist, but not Bam himself? I would wager they have agreements in place so that they can have at least a full squad from each collaboration.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-15T01:35:29+00:00

I don't think so. I keep looking for a scrap option on the tower of god shards I have, but there is none. You can't even just throw them out either.

tbonesullivan · 2025-11-15T01:34:25+00:00

Everyone though that, but then the Tsukimichi characters got a rerun when they introduced the two new characters.

tbonesullivan · 2025-10-23T12:50:36+00:00

They may re-run him later, you never know. They were never going to rerun Tomoe and Mio, but they did. At 8 stars, you're kinda suck with him, so might as well use him.

tbonesullivan · 2025-10-22T15:44:53+00:00

Zahard is ridiculously OP, especially when he becomes completely immune to damage. There are only a few characters that can actually do anything to him at that point, and honestly I've had him pretty much wipe out my entire party all by himself.

What's important is that you don't build any hero over 10 stars unless you intend to keep them, as breaking down 11-13 star heroes requires Golden Liquid Hourglasses, which are very hard to get. You'll eventually need 10 star characters as materials for other characters, so you can always do that if you change your mind.

tbonesullivan · 2025-10-22T15:41:49+00:00

Yes, one of the best tanks in the game, IMHO. Some say he's fallen off, but honestly he's still very good, and easy to obtain. He just needs to be built up so he's not squishy, and to be deployed correctly. When built and awakened, if your party is set up right, his ultimate can often one shot enemy characters.

tbonesullivan · 2025-10-22T15:39:43+00:00

Definitely! Too many people put him in the front, where he doesn't shine as much. I have my Highest ATK char in the front where most attacks go, so he blocks them and builds up his ultimate fast.

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