Btw is it just me or is YouTube really ramping up the 2-ads-in-a-row thing? Coupled with them being too long too
And the new annoying design for the progress bar on the bottom too (@YouTube - don't think I don't notice how this is your way to try to get the viewer to stare at the ad's proximity and/or stay on the page to skip lol)

-Galaxian-

I eat 2 cheese sticks a day to keep the lactose intolerance away

Btw the other day I learnt that apparently there's a term called "sinodonty" which just means that people of Chinese descent just tend to have a specific dental pattern. For instance, the back of the upper incisors are kinda shovel-shaped, and they tend to be not as well aligned with the other teeth.
I then spent some time looking at my teeth, and I don't have the alignment issue (and no I don't have braces), but the shovel shape is definitely there. Which is cool. I thought everyone's teeth looked like that. Ig that just means I didn't spend enough time staring at teeth.
I'm always interested in stuff like this, 'cause I have some suspicion that some of my ancestors were from further away, and some of the traits that came from that side of the family clearly run counter to some Chinese traits (specifically a gene related to swelly sweat). The lactose tolerance is an example of something that feels a bit out-of-par, since the vast majority of Chinese are apparently lactose intolerant and ik my mom's family seems to be pretty tolerant of it. 
I'm gonna have to stare at my mom's teeth at some point lol (this is super interesting to me)

-Galaxian-

Vilhelm: Sir why are we here again
Dion: I don't  k n o w
Mitsuharu: (*possibly asleep under the mask, either that or he went catatonic*)
Raez: Hey guys wanna go catch some fish from the river (:

-Galaxian-

I really liked OF-ST5. 
Actually I accidentally just speedran the entire event story today lol. 
But anyways, really neat. I do feel like there is a very specific type of nostalgia that's reserved for places. But what if that place is a country? I can't quite relate with that sort of grand notion, but I do miss places that I've called home, and I think people who love their countries just have that on a grander scheme. That's probably why some of them go to some extremes. Everyone likes keeping their hand on what goes on in their homes, after all.

-Galaxian-

The long-awaited, statistically-inaccurate probability analysis that no one asked for (:
but actually I am just curious lol. Doing this to indulge myself

Total rolls on this banner: 112
5-stars obtained: 12 (not counting free copy of Fang the Fire-Sharpened), 11 (not counting guaranteed 5-star on first multi)
6-stars obtained: 2
 
For the 5-stars, I had an average probability of 11/112 (excluding the guaranteed operator as mentioned), which is around 9.82%. The probability of getting a 5* per roll is around 8%, which lines up with me feeling like I get pretty lucky with 5-stars, but also doesn't line up all that well because. yeah. It's statistically insignificant or something but I appreciate 'em anyways lol
I did not log the number of 4* and 3* potentials that I got lol. Let me know if you want me to do this in the future please do not, or else I'll have to start logging every single pull to know what happens at every number of rolls and uhhh

Biggest result is full potential Fang Alter (one obtained from 75 of the token currency and not counted here, but 5/12 of the 5-stars were her)
That more or less aligns with the 50% probability of me getting Fang Alter if the rarity of the Operator is 5-stars. See, that's 41.67%. But this is not really accurate since every 5* roll result is determined separately. Again, this is an average look for fun. Onto the 6-star results

The default rate of obtaining any 6-star is 2% (it increases every 50 rolls, and I definitely got a 6-star every 50 rolls, so I don't think the rate ever increased to 4% in the process. However, I did not log the roll counts so it's possible one of the 6-stars was influenced by this. I do not think it did tho)
2/112 makes for a mean 1.79% rate of a 6-star acquisition for me, though this is statistically inaccurate because (I believe) every roll is mostly determined independently. In other words, every roll is a coin flip, excluding the guaranteed 5-star-or-above rarity operator from the first multi. 

Now, both 6-stars acquired were not Logos or Wis'adel (spooks basically), and neither were they Specter Alter/Texas Alter/Muelsyse. So basically combining the fact that Logos and Wis'adel were supposed to account for 70% of the odds when rolling a 6-star, coupled with the 2% drop rate of 6* Operators, yields a 0.6% probability chance that I'd get a 6* who was not Logos or Wis'adel each time (and this is statistically correct because it treats the results as separate)
Banner information says that Specter Alter/Texas Alter/Muelsyse have a "other character drop rate [30%] 5x rate boost", which I'm not completely sure the meaning of, but for now I'm just gonna guess that when you don't get the 70% outcome above (Logos or Wis'adel), you're supposed to be 5 times more likely to get one of these three compared to anyone else. That yields an approximately 83.35% chance of getting one of them when getting a non-Logos/Walter 6* result, and ofc a 16.65% chance of not getting any of the above. As mentioned, I didn't get any of them three either for each 6* result, which means that in addition to the 0.6% probability chance mentioned above, I obtained a result that had a 0.099% chance of happening each time I got one of those 6*s, just considering how rate-up was set up. 

I will then consider the full list of 6-star operators who were available on this banner. Their number totals 53. That means that for me getting Penance specifically (since she was on my wishlist), I'd have a 1/53 (1.89%) chance of getting her from a 6-star roll with no rate-up. Coupled with the above probabilities influenced by rate-up, me being able to acquire her specifically from the list of 53 6* operators was effectively a 0.00187% chance that manifested in reality. 
Love you too Penance (and you Mountain lol)

Addition: Notice 3 elaborates somewhat on the 5x rate boost, saying that the probability of obtaining other 6* operators (except Wis'adel and Logos) "decreases proportionally until" the probability of obtaining Specter Alter/Texas Alter/Muelsyse is 5x the rate of obtaining other 6*s (again, not Logos or Walter). But that just means that I have no way of knowing what the rate is at any given point since it follows some kind of progression path that isn't disclosed. So just assume the actual odds of getting a 6* who aren't any of the on-rate-up limited 6-stars is slightly higher than what I have calculated, assuming that I'm doing my probability math correctly anyways, which is kinda a big assumption lol

I like math (:
Anyone who's taken statistics, feel free to correct me lol, I just feel like just feeling lucky or unlucky every gacha is kinda...well let's just say I like doing this xD it's fun.

-Galaxian-

It feels like Windows 10 came out yesterday, but suddenly Microsoft is making it defunct?
Yeah this feels really exploitative lol. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

-Galaxian-