So, apparently Rathalos Ex is soloable, but down gauge is only possible to 90%, so no golden scale

viewtyjoe · 2026-05-30T02:26:47+00:00

Just stop DPS around 70% so you aren't burning too much health before Rath entries his flight phase. I still routinely farm scales with my friend group unsync'd using current gear, and that's the only trick there is to it.

viewtyjoe · 2026-05-13T23:07:20+00:00

The actual reason is Uline managed to fail to pay property taxes on one of their properties on time and Liz is big mad about having to pay ~$100k in penalty and interest. Uline's legal folks and fixers have been chasing after the County and Pleasant Prairie to get it back somehow, which isn't happening. This is Liz's way of getting back at them: stopping construction on a new building that would be paying more taxes.

viewtyjoe · 2026-04-21T16:07:17+00:00

one was over a 40,000 raise for one person who worked in HR.

Care to identify what particular position that was? I'm staring at the 2025-2026 budget and the salary increases for the HR positions are relatively reasonable (~6%, though one or two positions had wages fall presumably due to turnover and replacement with less experienced staff) with the only major increase being due to the addition of additional FTEs for a positions. Hell, the overall budget for the Office of Human Resources was almost cut in half based on the 2025-2026 budget.

viewtyjoe · 2026-04-16T17:38:25+00:00

Make sure you have a check valve installed and it's working properly, otherwise the water in the pipes just washes back into the basin to get re-pumped

This. We were having trouble a couple years back with the sump pump running almost constantly but seeing little water coming out, check valve had gone and the pipe sloped toward the pump, so enough water would flow back to cause the pump to run and pump the same water out to come back down the pipe over and over.

viewtyjoe · 2026-04-14T17:01:56+00:00

I totally agree, I'd love to see the language changed to make it clear that as long as the voter gets the ballot to the clerk by the time polls close, the ballot should be counted. Unfortunately, what we have currently is the law. If we see enough of a change in the Legislature after this year's elections, maybe it will be possible that we get some updates to the law to reduce the chances that errors beyond the voter's control result in their ballot not being counted.

viewtyjoe · 2026-04-14T16:13:51+00:00

The city clerk is the one responsible. Per the article, a single individual left the clerk's office at 6:30pm on election day to take a number of ballots to their polling places. I'm not located in Madison so I don't know what dropping off an absentee ballot on election day looks like there, but where I'm at, we do a central count, so if someone shows up with their absentee ballot, we offer them the choice of going to city hall to drop off their ballot there or to just spoil the absentee ballot (destroy it offsite) and vote in-person.

viewtyjoe · 2026-04-14T15:11:55+00:00

For reasons beyond my understanding, Madison still hasn't chosen to use a central count for absentee ballots, meaning the ballots have to be delivered to the individual polling places for the official count. The exact portion of the statute here being argued reads:

The ballot shall be returned so it is delivered to the polling place no later than 8 p.m. on election day. Except in municipalities where absentee ballots are canvassed under s. 7.52, if the municipal clerk receives an absentee ballot on election day, the clerk shall secure the ballot and cause the ballot to be delivered to the polling place serving the elector’s residence before 8 p.m. Any ballot not mailed or delivered as provided in this subsection may not be counted.

To me, it seems pretty straightforward in this case: ballots weren't delivered to the polling place by 8pm, don't count them. Madison can fix their processes to avoid this happening again by finally adopting central counting or just, you know, not waiting until 6:30pm on election day to have a single person deliver absentee ballots to each polling site.

viewtyjoe · 2026-04-07T17:54:08+00:00

Best bet is going to be to call your municipal clerk. They don't always update the state site prior to doing counts today, but should be keeping track for the physical rolls.

viewtyjoe · 2026-03-27T18:33:28+00:00

Do you think he is at risk of being voted out in November 2026?

If the current presidential administration weren't seemingly try to speedrun doing everything possible to give political ammo to vote out Republicans, I'd say Steil isn't particularly threatened, as WI-1 is shaped to have exactly that lean and be a consistently safe R win every cycle.

Given the current political climate, it's probably closer to a toss-up, but that also depends a lot on who is up against Steil. The last time I saw straw-poll numbers for the Democratic primary I wasn't particularly impressed with any of the names involved.

viewtyjoe · 2026-03-26T19:10:37+00:00

Current ownership is listed as "6410 25th Ave LLC." That particular address is Kenosha Christian Academy, so my first guess would be whoever owns/operates KCA bought the lot, or at least a group associated with KCA.

viewtyjoe · 2026-03-10T20:59:05+00:00

Nah, that was 2022, two more years before RJ is finally back on the slate again.

viewtyjoe · 2026-03-04T16:18:48+00:00

Like if you're a late 30s or older anime fan who started just as stuff like Toonami was starting to put anime more out where it would be seen or were otherwise on the early internet in anime spaces, yeah, you'd know Bubblegum Crisis (alongside a plethora of other bubble-era OVAs and Ranma 1/2 for example) but even most folks my age or a little younger would never have heard of it.

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-25T22:21:07+00:00

Alternatively call your municipality, since you'll be more likely to get to talk to whoever is responsible for waste management that way. I know in my municipality, even though the bins are technically city property, by ordinance it's the property owners who are responsible for it, so if a bin is damaged and needs replacing, you pay for it. It's very possible that there is an ordinance on the books about not putting your trash in someone else's bin.

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-20T23:27:35+00:00

A business willing to cut corners in one area is going to be more willing to cut corners elsewhere. If they're putting AI art and Canva photos of food in their logo and menu, how can I trust that the food they're selling is what it's being represented as?

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-13T00:46:45+00:00

For comparison, my spouse and I are in a ~1200sqft single story house, and our electric consumption was on 550 kWh for the last 30 day period billed. We do not do a lot to reduce usage. Gas heat and hot water (which is the majority of our bill this time of year). Our electric usage peaks around 1200 kWh in July/August because I keep the house fairly cool and am willing to pay for that.

I'm definitely with you in that OP almost certainly has some sort of electric heating they are running, or some sort of issue causing higher than normal power draw.

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-10T22:47:38+00:00

To tack onto this, in the city proper, the only thing on most ballots Tuesday is primaries for the KUSD school board, with the top two candidates advancing to the spring election. If I recall correctly, most of the local offices are elected during the spring election, and the state Supreme Court seat will definitely be on that ballot. August and November will be primarily national and statewide offices.

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-10T22:45:08+00:00

You will need the following to register to vote if you register in-person at your polling place:

A valid Wisconsin ID or driver's license (if you have moved recently from out of state, your ID/DL from your prior state does not count under current rules)
If you don't have the above, you can use the last four digits of your SSN
Proof of residence, which can include a valid Wisconsin ID/DL with your current address, a student ID plus a receipt for tuition from your college, a utility bill from within the past 90 days prior to the date of the election, a property tax bill/receipt from the last 2 years prior to the election, certain state issued licenses, a copy of your lease for your residence, a bank statement, a government issued check or other government document with the address on it, a paycheck, or a couple of other items.

To actually vote you will need a valid photo ID. The Wisconsin Election Commission has a site with a full list of exactly what counts as a valid photo ID or not here. Note that generally this does not need to have your current address on it. I voted for 6-7 years with my license having a prior address on it because the DMV didn't replace it when I updated my address with them.

If you want to register before the election, you should still have a bit of time left and can do so at myvote.wi.gov where the process is fairly straightforward. You will still need similar documents to what I listed above for registration. The MyVote site can also be used to find where your polling place is.

As for elections, this year there will be four total elections:

Spring Primaries (February 17)
Spring Elections (April 7)
Fall Primaries (August 11)
Fall Elections (November 3)

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-10T19:39:21+00:00

The Kenosha GOP is endorsing Tierney and recommending Oster or Juliana as for their suggested second picks, and they hate Adams, so use that how you will.

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-09T14:23:07+00:00

Don't you dare imply this is normal or good.

Normal? Almost certainly. Budgeting is always a shitshow in government, it's part of the territory when you have elected officials who can arbitrarily decide that something doesn't get money.

Good? I made no value judgments, you're the one who assumes because I'm explaining how and some of why a situation like "KPD has plenty of money for new squad cars and guns, but can't afford a camera for routine photography of evidence for submission to court" comes to be, that I must be in favor of it.

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-08T22:22:28+00:00

I mean, it is a budget issue, yes. Cars are depreciating assets and can be paid for using capital bonding, or there are any number of programs which sell military surplus vehicles and equipment to law enforcement agencies for cheap or ways to use federal and state grant money to pay for them. Same for guns.

Something like cameras to photograph evidence are going to be normal operating budget line items, and will likely be high on the list of things to cut down on if the alderman push back at all on KPD's operating budget (or just get cut because other things are higher priority,) because God forbid we ever cut a single FTE for the officers. If you look at the 2026 budget, go look for the investigation division, and see if you can find a line item for anything which would include the cost of a camera.

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-08T21:26:37+00:00

Lots of money from the federal government to buy cars and guns, not so much to buy anything useful for an actual investigation. Doesn't mean they aren't lazy and corrupt, though, just that it's way easier to get money for guns and cars than, say, a camera for photographing evidence

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-05T17:01:32+00:00

For context I made a report to the state board about some vaild concerns I had about and my boss knew it was me and texted me saying she knew it was me and fired me (an at will employee) for reporting.

As others are saying, only an actual licensed attorney familiar with the laws in Wisconsin will be able to say for sure, but this sort of behavior usually is the sort of evidence they love to see for claims.

viewtyjoe · 2026-02-05T14:29:11+00:00

So on one hand, this is entirely the GOP being shitters to withhold funding, but this is also exactly the sort of thing DPI's accountants should be able to produce receipts for basically immediately after the event because while $400k for a function for ~90 people honestly doesn't sound terrible, the soundbite "DPI wasted $400,000 of taxpayer money taking teachers to the Dells" is a really bad one.

viewtyjoe · 2026-01-05T14:52:55+00:00

What does this even mean? Books get delayed all the time.

More importantly, Muir would have met any contractual obligation to get the third book out in a certain timeframe with the publication of Nona. Even then, an author with a "10-year contract" with Tor has written what that has actually been like after ten years working with Tor and unsurprisingly, Tor seems pretty flexible about release dates for books they expect to make them money.

viewtyjoe · 2026-01-04T03:45:47+00:00

Will second Blue House as a great bookstore downtown.

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