I think one of the tricks is to purposefully plan time to cook that’s not right before you’re planning to eat, so it’s an activity/hobby, not a necessity. If I have to cook when I’m hungry, I’ll probably just make do instead, but if I say “ok, Saturday afternoon, I’m gonna make a pot of soup, because that’ll be delicious later,” it’s a lot less dreadful, imo.

You might have a look at Darebee workouts/programs. Can search by ‘upper’, ‘abs’, etc to cut out a lot of stuff your foot might have trouble with.

I like Temple more than I thought I would, but the metronome mechanic is annoying. You don’t have to hit everything on beat, but ofc it’s better if you do. It’d be nice if there was an option either to always have the ticking on, or to have the beat reset to match the first cast in a chain.

Shout out to the visual designer, though: it’s hard to give them a bad color scheme, and the glitter on one of the color channels is a nice touch.

It did: they gave Drummer Michio Pa’s story in the last couple seasons.

Ivara was my first main stealth frame, so I’m so used to using her for spy and conservation that I’ve never bothered using the better options. I do think she’s still excellent for fishing. Otherwise, you’re not wrong, though.

(Thank you for continuing to do these posts!)

It’s not there if you’re trying to do professional printing: I still see people complaining about messed up color profiles, exporting, etc. Otherwise, I’ve found it fairly ok, although pelespirit’s right about the clunk here and there.

I’m guessing maybe you haven’t played the New War quest (or Duviri, I guess) yet? There’s a story development that makes it not weird.

Interesting, sounds like a bug then. I did some brief simulacrum testing with just serration and a single 60% elemental mod in a gun, and resistances are working for me as per the wiki. In other words, corrupted lancers (listed as vulnerable to puncture and viral, resistant to rad) take less damage from rad (230 per hit) than they do from magnetic or cold (279 per hit).

Please do test this yourself, though! It’d be hilarious if it was more than a UI thing for you.

So I just checked in game (on PC), and my codex for frontier lancers looks like this:

Is it a platform thing, maybe, or a bug? My guess is, that list you have is less “vulnerable/resistant” and more “vulnerable/not vulnerable”, just worded weirdly. What does it say for enemies from late game factions that have documented resistances, like the murmur?

Thanks for the reminder! I forgot we hadn’t had one this month.

If only Sonar created true weak points, instead of fake ones.

Found the quest kind of narratively choppy, and didn’t love the 10 minute survival or being stuck in not-my-gear, but otherwise I’ve been having fun. The art direction is excellent, as usual. The magnetic mods are a nice addition, and I’m looking forward to playing around with the new arcanes.

Nah, it’s just a badly worded title. From my understanding of the devstream yesterday, Chemistry is separate from Hex rep, and is more in line with the standard romance heart system you’d see in something like Stardew (individual favor per protoframe). They haven’t said if it has a daily cap or if it’s just very grindy, just that it’d take a while to max out (and that you can redo stuff at certain points if you’re unhappy with how things are going).

It’s still very bare bones alpha, so if you’re looking for something to play regularly, then maybe hold off until there’s more content. That said, you could definitely get a few hours out of it (or more, if you really want to grind) just seeing what is there. I’m personally not sold on the combat as it currently stands, but that’s probably a mix of it needing tweaking and me being bad at it. It is very pretty, though!

Obviously not meta, but I’ll point out that Furis also has the Wings of Purity augment, which adds lifesteal and some extra health.

I would add The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) to your Funny and Spooky list. I’ll also second the The Fog (1981) suggestion.

I’m probably definitely going Sybaris, and then either Dera or Okina. I could never make the Dera work the way I wanted, so hopefully the incarnon boosts it up.

I use a lot of off-meta melee (if there is such a thing, since most melee can be made powerful). I guess the ones on my list that count as “mediocre” are Mios, Ninkondi, Prisma Dual Cleavers, Guandao Prime, and Twin Basolk. If we’re counting hidden gems, I’d also add Caustacyst, which I liked even before I had a riven for it, and now use on my Kullervo loadout as well.

Just want to add: forma are for when you’ve run out of capacity after you’ve installed a reactor/catalyst. You can install them before, but it’s really inefficient.

Also, if you put all the basic mods on a weapon, and it still feels weak, take a look at its base (unmodded) crit and status chance stats. If, say, base crit chance is significantly lower than base status chance, then replace crit mods with more status/status chance, and see if that feels better. Same principle for frames: some frames have really low base shield, or their abilities don’t need range, or they don’t need to worry about energy management, so you’re better off swapping out some mods for others.