Rae's Ponderings

Posts on various tech things,Honkai:Star Rail, anime, Guild Wars 2 and gacha games. My Honkai:Star Rail Blog for longform ramblings.

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Pre 4.5 Thoughts / Speculation

Seeing as how the 4.5 special program drops tomorrow figured I'd drop thoughts on 4.5....Meant to post this sooner but got caught up in ZZZ (Oooh, Remielle...) and Arknights: Endfield (Liino stole all my Oroberyls sadge!...)

Thoughts and speculation after the break...

So originally after 4.4 I thought the reason why 4.5 would be the beach episode / Astropolis is that we would put a bandaid on Ouroboros because our maybe other half kept saying 8 with everything (wonder if he watched the ring one too many times?) is that we would have enough time to try and bandaid it while we get more aid and what better place than Astropolis? But too many extra questions, how would we get there ( The express needs repairs and omg is PomPom OKAY?!)

But especially with the description for the 4.5 Special program It's looking like it's going to be some wibbly wobbly timey wimey...stuff going on.

The description mentions " This summer version will bring you a Trailblaze Continuance taking place shortly — or perhaps a long time — after the conclusion of our journey in Planarcadia. " Trailblaze Continuance's typically have build upon existing storylines but have not furthered the main story and as I've realized watching new streamers that play HSR you don't have to play them to continue on the main storyline. Xianzhou War Games, Holy Grail War, Topaz's introduction/Aetherum Wars to name a few.

This is an interesting choice for HoYo to go with, almost like they are trying to build suspense from 4.4 and it reminds me of the midseason / summer cliffhangers you would get on TV shows of old and have to wait a couple months for them to return (The wait to know who shot Mr. Burns was craaazy...)

It can definitely explain how we go from " Oh, crap Ouroboros is waking up and gonna gobble the planet" to " Beach vacation with Aventurine and Robin!" Hopefully it does give some more lore and such as the intro Planarcadia trailers gave us.

I was thinking that Planarcadia would be two patches (4.5 & 4.6) and then we would go back on 4.7 and wrap things up but with Pearl being drip marketed it's sounding like 4.6 will go back to Planarcadia (or maybe it'll be a split PoV Thing? Only time will telll....)

I'll be watching the Special program in the morning and seeing where that goes. I don't for a second think that we'll ever get a 100% peaceful vacation, we are the baseball racoon after all!

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Woooo, finally made it to Wealth Creator! I took a break ascending to get all the bonds at Amethyst 9. Ran Elation and Stellaron Hunter build and Silver Wolf lv 999 carried!

Can't wait to see how more ridiculous things get as O ascend higher

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[fridayfrogfish]

Night on the Nova Milky Way

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[ripauilapew]

draw me a hero

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Toward Distant Horizons 🌟 I think Himeko would slay flared pants

[moroxx]

ᕼIᗰEKO ᑎOᐯᗩ₊⊹

– If I die, I want to die where the stars are within reach. ₊⊹

Since after her story arc in planarcadia i can't help but admire her♡♡

I might do more of this since its just for fun and practice !

I didnt place any watermarks tho, feel free to use it ! | with some proper credits ofcourse hehe

[ohmyjulai]

[knarchive]

Himeko Nova

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[liberalsarecool]

Trump built a $10 billion trap and walked right into it himself. #BBC #discovery

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asking for straight pride is like asking for able bodied parking spaces

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thats a really good comparison because there are about seventy able bodied parking spaces to one disabled and able bodied people still insist on using the ones that arent theirs

[chaseross]

this is seriously a great post 

[writingdose]

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[melyzard]

Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

And often, they are assholes, too.

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johnny english really destroyed all movie logic

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the funniest part is that he’s not even running

[inthefallofasparrow]

Mr Bean as a Persistence Predator

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[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.