Selfhosted ram • 4 months ago • 84%

I set up Nginx Proxy Manager, and one of my services I want to serve is my Jellyfin which is hosted on another machine. Instead of Proxying the stream though, it'd be easier on the network to use the Nginx Stream module for facilitating that, I would expect. The issue I'm facing is it seems like the only way to set up Nginx Stream is based on port, rather than by domain, and if I want to do it based on domain, I'd be proxying the data instead. Is there any way to Stream to my Jellyfin rather than Proxying? Thanks!

RetroAchievements ram • 6 months ago • 100%

I beat FF1 for the first time back in February 2022 through the Pixel Remaster. Even went and got all the Steam achievements! Now, someone I know was playing through the Pixel Remaster so I decided to play through the OG NES version myself. The achievements here were a good selection that ended up taking two playthroughs. The missables could have been gotten in my first playthrough had I planned a bit more, but I don't regret taking two playthroughs to get the achievements. First playthrough was Fighter Monk BlackMage WhiteMage. I went through and got all the chests but never got the class upgrade. Second playthrough was chestless, Fighter Monk Monk RedMage. I accepted the class upgrade, and completed the challenge achievements I didn't get on my first run - things like beat KARY with a flame sword or fire spell. Now I join 65 others who've mastered this game :)

RetroAchievements ram • 7 months ago • 100%

github.com

While there are no achievement sets yet, this gives RA devs the tools to roll them out once they're available and ready for rollout.

Gaming ram • 7 months ago • 100%

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/NotSoLittleC/status/1755705709667180594) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20240209045953/https://nitter.adminforge.de/NotSoLittleC/status/1755705709667180594) > so, enough time has passed now for me to talk about why i decided to leave Blizzard. a mixed year with great teammates, but a management that mistreated, lied to me, gaslit me, gave me a fake promotion, and HR that refused to help. > >buckle up friendos. 💪 > i wanna start by saying that all of the people I got to work with on Team 4 (Overwatch 2) were incredible. they were warm, welcoming, fun, friendly and just so goddamn talented. there were so many great people on my team championing for me and i am so grateful for their support >unfortunately however, i spent most of a year stressed out of my mind, working 4 peoples jobs at once, and having management make promises they had no intention of fulfilling and i ultimately felt like i had no choice but to leave for my own mental health. >in July of 2023, i was invited to a meeting by Art Leadership and production, to let me know they were interested in promoting me to Lead VFX Artist of the cosmetics team. (skins, emotes, POTGs, etc.), i had only been there 6 months and I told them basically "if youre sure?? lol" >but before accepting i was adamant, that we were all on the same page about the full role, what it meant, what i would be doing, and also, what the "promotion" would come with. (pay increase, title change) and confirmed all of those details before going further >these conversations included other Lead VFX, Art Directors, Associate Art Directors, Production Directions and also HR. and as we were *all* happy, i started the job effective immediately, with the details to come at the end of the week, in writing. >the new role was >\- all of my existing responsibilities and workload as a senior >\- becoming a line manager of 3 people immediately >\- managing our entire outsourced vfx pipeline in china >\- plus additional Lead things (planning, much more meetings lol) >friday of that week comes, nothing, but, the Production Dir does announce my promotion to Lead to the whole team on the thursday! its official! its happening! the whole team knows! i even tweet about it, because im so excited. we're all gucci! > > >on my first week as lead. my new manager, tells me that we are going to have to fire one of my new reports cus he wont RTO > >me: "he is waiting for a medical accommodation because he is a carer for his parents" > >them: "yeah [laughing] we're not gonna do that for a junior" >another lead on the team offers to deliver the news for me, because it is my first week as lead. and the person we are supposed to fire is one of my closest friends on the team. he is given until the end of the month to either relocate, or leave. we're all distraught. >im now doing my senior role, my lead role and now all the work that this great vfx artist was doing. they then refuse to hire an intern, another one of my reports, who is incredibly talented and we all love. so i add all the work they were going to do, to my plate. >a month goes by, and i have now sent an email or slack message, every other day to find out what is happening with the pay increase and title change. >im told i have to wait until August, because thats when all the promotions happen but "dont worry. its all happening" >i then discover that as I am earning less than 50% of every other Lead VFX Artist at blizzard, so much so, that as a Lead, my salary is lower than every person I am managing. i send more emails. im told its cus im in the UK, and my salary is based on market value, not my value. >i ask HR if they think that it is ethically okay to pay me less than 50% of every person for doing the same job? > >they tell me "why would we pay you more than we have to? that doesnt make any business sense" > >i realise i am talking to a person who doesnt give a shit about people >another month passes and i get to august and turns out, "no no, its actually september now" for some reason. but "dont worry, its coming. its definitely a promotion, and theres definitely a pay increase." > >i continue to be overworked, and exhausted, but hopeful. (fool) >another few weeks pass, and its getting to 3 months being a lead. so i send an email out to everyone, directors, VPs, HR, leads, you name it, telling them that if there is no written information by Sep 1st, i will stop doing the role immediately. >SUDDENLY, people have something to say! > >this entire time, HR have not responded once and they finally reply inviting me for a quick call. it is in this call that HR ask me "what promotion? i have no idea what you are talking about?" > >at this point i raised a formal complaint. >i had months of messages, emails that i sent to HR to explain what i was talking about and they finally reply with > >"you seem to be confused" ... "there is no promotion" ... "leadership is a lateral move" ... "its just a change of responsibilities" ... "there is no pay increase" >i was livid, naturally, and asked what any normal fucking rational human would "why would *anybody* want that promotion then?" which obviously they then did the old "i can see you're frustrated, i can see how you misinterpreted this". >the investigation from the formal complaint comes back after a few weeks and after some careful deliberation, decides that HR did nothing wrong, and followed all processes correctly. SO, i hand in my resignation about an hour later. but it doesnt end there!!! >because no!!! > >HR then told me!!! that because of my role as a Lead!!! i had gained inexplicable knowledge that would put me at a business risk to work anywhere else!!! so they are activating a Non-Compete Clause that restricts me from working ANYWHERE AT ALL for 3 MONTHS!!!!😍😍 >and, you may be rightfully thinking "oh, so this is a *paid* 3 months, right? you cant stop someone from working at ALL for 3 months without paying the-..." INCORRECT that is exactly what they did, and unfortunately, completely legal, because get fucked, i guess??? >i said I cant survive for 3 months without pay, I have a mortgage and they looked me in the eye and said: > >"well, you probably shouldn't have signed the contract then 🙂" > >within a few minutes i was locked out of slack/email, and that was the end of my time at Blizzard. 🎉🎉🎉 >if anyone has continued so far, thank you for listening 💚💚💚💚 > >idk what the point of this is, but, i needed to get it off my chest. blizzard had every opportunity to do the right thing, and they continually failed at that. >i also wanna sincerely thank everyone who purchased a mentorship session or portfolio review with me at the end of last year. it quite *literally* saved me, and meant that I was able to not go into debt and so i am hugely grateful, and hope you all felt like they were worth it!

Games ram • 7 months ago • 98%

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/NotSoLittleC/status/1755705709667180594) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20240209045953/https://nitter.adminforge.de/NotSoLittleC/status/1755705709667180594) > so, enough time has passed now for me to talk about why i decided to leave Blizzard. a mixed year with great teammates, but a management that mistreated, lied to me, gaslit me, gave me a fake promotion, and HR that refused to help. > >buckle up friendos. 💪 > i wanna start by saying that all of the people I got to work with on Team 4 (Overwatch 2) were incredible. they were warm, welcoming, fun, friendly and just so goddamn talented. there were so many great people on my team championing for me and i am so grateful for their support >unfortunately however, i spent most of a year stressed out of my mind, working 4 peoples jobs at once, and having management make promises they had no intention of fulfilling and i ultimately felt like i had no choice but to leave for my own mental health. >in July of 2023, i was invited to a meeting by Art Leadership and production, to let me know they were interested in promoting me to Lead VFX Artist of the cosmetics team. (skins, emotes, POTGs, etc.), i had only been there 6 months and I told them basically "if youre sure?? lol" >but before accepting i was adamant, that we were all on the same page about the full role, what it meant, what i would be doing, and also, what the "promotion" would come with. (pay increase, title change) and confirmed all of those details before going further >these conversations included other Lead VFX, Art Directors, Associate Art Directors, Production Directions and also HR. and as we were *all* happy, i started the job effective immediately, with the details to come at the end of the week, in writing. >the new role was >\- all of my existing responsibilities and workload as a senior >\- becoming a line manager of 3 people immediately >\- managing our entire outsourced vfx pipeline in china >\- plus additional Lead things (planning, much more meetings lol) >friday of that week comes, nothing, but, the Production Dir does announce my promotion to Lead to the whole team on the thursday! its official! its happening! the whole team knows! i even tweet about it, because im so excited. we're all gucci! > > >on my first week as lead. my new manager, tells me that we are going to have to fire one of my new reports cus he wont RTO > >me: "he is waiting for a medical accommodation because he is a carer for his parents" > >them: "yeah [laughing] we're not gonna do that for a junior" >another lead on the team offers to deliver the news for me, because it is my first week as lead. and the person we are supposed to fire is one of my closest friends on the team. he is given until the end of the month to either relocate, or leave. we're all distraught. >im now doing my senior role, my lead role and now all the work that this great vfx artist was doing. they then refuse to hire an intern, another one of my reports, who is incredibly talented and we all love. so i add all the work they were going to do, to my plate. >a month goes by, and i have now sent an email or slack message, every other day to find out what is happening with the pay increase and title change. >im told i have to wait until August, because thats when all the promotions happen but "dont worry. its all happening" >i then discover that as I am earning less than 50% of every other Lead VFX Artist at blizzard, so much so, that as a Lead, my salary is lower than every person I am managing. i send more emails. im told its cus im in the UK, and my salary is based on market value, not my value. >i ask HR if they think that it is ethically okay to pay me less than 50% of every person for doing the same job? > >they tell me "why would we pay you more than we have to? that doesnt make any business sense" > >i realise i am talking to a person who doesnt give a shit about people >another month passes and i get to august and turns out, "no no, its actually september now" for some reason. but "dont worry, its coming. its definitely a promotion, and theres definitely a pay increase." > >i continue to be overworked, and exhausted, but hopeful. (fool) >another few weeks pass, and its getting to 3 months being a lead. so i send an email out to everyone, directors, VPs, HR, leads, you name it, telling them that if there is no written information by Sep 1st, i will stop doing the role immediately. >SUDDENLY, people have something to say! > >this entire time, HR have not responded once and they finally reply inviting me for a quick call. it is in this call that HR ask me "what promotion? i have no idea what you are talking about?" > >at this point i raised a formal complaint. >i had months of messages, emails that i sent to HR to explain what i was talking about and they finally reply with > >"you seem to be confused" ... "there is no promotion" ... "leadership is a lateral move" ... "its just a change of responsibilities" ... "there is no pay increase" >i was livid, naturally, and asked what any normal fucking rational human would "why would *anybody* want that promotion then?" which obviously they then did the old "i can see you're frustrated, i can see how you misinterpreted this". >the investigation from the formal complaint comes back after a few weeks and after some careful deliberation, decides that HR did nothing wrong, and followed all processes correctly. SO, i hand in my resignation about an hour later. but it doesnt end there!!! >because no!!! > >HR then told me!!! that because of my role as a Lead!!! i had gained inexplicable knowledge that would put me at a business risk to work anywhere else!!! so they are activating a Non-Compete Clause that restricts me from working ANYWHERE AT ALL for 3 MONTHS!!!!😍😍 >and, you may be rightfully thinking "oh, so this is a *paid* 3 months, right? you cant stop someone from working at ALL for 3 months without paying the-..." INCORRECT that is exactly what they did, and unfortunately, completely legal, because get fucked, i guess??? >i said I cant survive for 3 months without pay, I have a mortgage and they looked me in the eye and said: > >"well, you probably shouldn't have signed the contract then 🙂" > >within a few minutes i was locked out of slack/email, and that was the end of my time at Blizzard. 🎉🎉🎉 >if anyone has continued so far, thank you for listening 💚💚💚💚 > >idk what the point of this is, but, i needed to get it off my chest. blizzard had every opportunity to do the right thing, and they continually failed at that. >i also wanna sincerely thank everyone who purchased a mentorship session or portfolio review with me at the end of last year. it quite *literally* saved me, and meant that I was able to not go into debt and so i am hugely grateful, and hope you all felt like they were worth it!

Gaming ram • 8 months ago • 100%

in.ign.com

Tencent, who owns League of Legends and Valorant maker Riot Games, is now reportedly expanding its wide range of IPs by purchasing the rights to Dungeons & Dragons from Hasbro. Here is all you need to know about the recent developments. The report from Speed Daily, a Chinese media site (via Pan Daily), claims that either Tencent is looking to purchase the entire Dungeons & Dragons franchise or wants to get exclusive rights to develop video games based on D&D. It has also been claimed that Hasbro reached out to Larian Studios and offered the Dungeons & Dragons IP to them after the huge success of Baldur’s Gate 3. Tencent reportedly is acting as an intermediary in this deal as Larian Studios does not have the capital to see this deal through. For further context, Tencent holds a minority stake in Larian Studios. The driving force behind this decision from Hasbro to sell the Dungeons & Dragons IP is reportedly the recent financial struggles. Most recently, the company laid off over 1,000 employees before the holiday season in 2023. Hasbro, the toy-making company, owns the Dungeons & Dragons brand (via subsidiary Wizards of the Coast) along with Transformers and Monopoly. Wizards of the Coast had licensed Larian Studios to develop Baldur’s Gate 3 which went on to become the Game of the Year in 2023. While the report seems credible, it remains to be seen if it does turn out to be true. It is difficult to rule out Tencent’s intention to make further investments. Apart from owning Riot Games and Sharkmob, the video games giant has a majority stake in Turtle Studios (Back 4 Blood) and Techland (Dying Light 2). They also have a minority stake in Epic Games (Fortnite), FromSoftware (Elden Ring), Krafton (BGMI), Ubisoft (Assassin’s Creed), Paradox Interactive (Stellaris), and Remedy Entertainment (Alan Wake), and Netmarble (Marvel: Future Fight).

Ask Android ram • 8 months ago • 100%

I have an old samsung S21+ I don't use anymore and was thinking it'd be cool to turn it into a wireless charger via the wireless power share, but every time I take my Flip 5 off it, it turns of Power Share, and every time I leave it for a minute it turns off too. Is there a way I can keep Powershare on indefinitely?

Gaming ram • 8 months ago • 100%

pandaily.com

Speed Daily exclusively learned that the American toy company Hasbro is seeking to sell its well-known IP “Dungeons & Dragons” (referred to as “DND” below), and Tencent is one of the potential buyers. At present, the negotiations are still in the early stages and both parties have not yet reached an agreement on the details of the transaction. According to informed sources, the financial crisis faced by Hasbro is the main reason for considering the sale of DND, and Tencent Investment’s Larian Studios is acting as an intermediary in this transaction. Larian Studios’ game “Baldur’s Gate 3” won the TGA Game of the Year award in 2023 and is considered one of the most successful adaptations of DND. As a result, it was seen as a potential target buyer by Hasbro. However, due to insufficient funds, Larian ultimately introduced this deal to shareholder Tencent. Hasbro was founded in 1923 and has a history of over a hundred years. In 1935, the company gradually became a world-class toy company with its Monopoly series games. It owns well-known IPs such as Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons, Monopoly, and My Little Pony. However, this century-old enterprise is currently facing a huge crisis due to losses. Its stock price has dropped from a high of $108 in 2019 to $51 (closing data on January 26th). According to the financial report, as of the third quarter of 2023, Hasbro has been experiencing consecutive losses for four quarters due to its main business of toy sales. The accumulated loss from Q4 2022 to Q3 2023 exceeds $500 million USD, and in Q2 2023, there was even a negative free cash flow situation. According to Forbes reports, in response to the crisis, the company underwent significant layoffs last year, with a total reduction of over 1,900 employees accounting for more than 20%. Although the company as a whole is in a loss situation, its DND-related IP is a high-quality asset and has achieved considerable success in video game adaptations. Last year, the release of “Baldur’s Gate 3” by Larian Studios was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. It not only won six TGA awards, including Game of the Year but also generated revenue of $657 million, surpassing the Harry Potter IP adaptation game “Hogwarts Legacy,” making it the most profitable PC exclusive game last year. The success of “Baldur’s Gate 3” is also reflected in the financial data of Hasbro. The financial report shows that in the third quarter of 2023, driven by “Baldur’s Gate 3” and another Monopoly IP game called “Monopoly Go!”, Hasbro’s electronic gaming and licensing-related business achieved a contrary year-on-year growth of 40%, reaching $423 million. Outside of electronic games, DND is also one of the most popular tabletop games in Europe and America. It has appeared multiple times in American TV shows such as “The Big Bang Theory” and “Stranger Things”. A large fan base has formed around its related culture, making it a top-tier IP. A Tencent IEG (Interactive Entertainment Group) insider revealed that Tencent, represented by its overseas business department IEG Global, is in negotiations with the aim of acquiring a series of rights including the adaptation rights for electronic games such as DND. According to the aforementioned IEG insiders, Tencent currently holds the game adaptation rights for many top-tier IPs. However, due to the licensing model mostly not being a one-time buyout, Tencent not only needs to bear high copyright fees and long-term revenue sharing but also frequently faces restrictions from its partners in terms of development and operation. Previously, the mobile game adaptation of “NieR” developed by Tencent TiMi Studio was unable to be launched even until the project was cancelled. If this acquisition is successful, it will enable Tencent to gain dominant control over the IP of Dungeons & Dragons, which will largely avoid the aforementioned issues. Companies in Europe and America attach great importance to the value of intellectual property (IP), while Chinese companies have limited opportunities to acquire top-tier IP from overseas. For Tencent, the opportunity to acquire the Dungeons & Dragons IP from Hasbro due to financial considerations is a rare chance.

Games ram • 8 months ago • 94%

pandaily.com

Speed Daily exclusively learned that the American toy company Hasbro is seeking to sell its well-known IP “Dungeons & Dragons” (referred to as “DND” below), and Tencent is one of the potential buyers. At present, the negotiations are still in the early stages and both parties have not yet reached an agreement on the details of the transaction. According to informed sources, the financial crisis faced by Hasbro is the main reason for considering the sale of DND, and Tencent Investment’s Larian Studios is acting as an intermediary in this transaction. Larian Studios’ game “Baldur’s Gate 3” won the TGA Game of the Year award in 2023 and is considered one of the most successful adaptations of DND. As a result, it was seen as a potential target buyer by Hasbro. However, due to insufficient funds, Larian ultimately introduced this deal to shareholder Tencent. Hasbro was founded in 1923 and has a history of over a hundred years. In 1935, the company gradually became a world-class toy company with its Monopoly series games. It owns well-known IPs such as Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons, Monopoly, and My Little Pony. However, this century-old enterprise is currently facing a huge crisis due to losses. Its stock price has dropped from a high of $108 in 2019 to $51 (closing data on January 26th). According to the financial report, as of the third quarter of 2023, Hasbro has been experiencing consecutive losses for four quarters due to its main business of toy sales. The accumulated loss from Q4 2022 to Q3 2023 exceeds $500 million USD, and in Q2 2023, there was even a negative free cash flow situation. According to Forbes reports, in response to the crisis, the company underwent significant layoffs last year, with a total reduction of over 1,900 employees accounting for more than 20%. Although the company as a whole is in a loss situation, its DND-related IP is a high-quality asset and has achieved considerable success in video game adaptations. Last year, the release of “Baldur’s Gate 3” by Larian Studios was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. It not only won six TGA awards, including Game of the Year but also generated revenue of $657 million, surpassing the Harry Potter IP adaptation game “Hogwarts Legacy,” making it the most profitable PC exclusive game last year. The success of “Baldur’s Gate 3” is also reflected in the financial data of Hasbro. The financial report shows that in the third quarter of 2023, driven by “Baldur’s Gate 3” and another Monopoly IP game called “Monopoly Go!”, Hasbro’s electronic gaming and licensing-related business achieved a contrary year-on-year growth of 40%, reaching $423 million. Outside of electronic games, DND is also one of the most popular tabletop games in Europe and America. It has appeared multiple times in American TV shows such as “The Big Bang Theory” and “Stranger Things”. A large fan base has formed around its related culture, making it a top-tier IP. A Tencent IEG (Interactive Entertainment Group) insider revealed that Tencent, represented by its overseas business department IEG Global, is in negotiations with the aim of acquiring a series of rights including the adaptation rights for electronic games such as DND. According to the aforementioned IEG insiders, Tencent currently holds the game adaptation rights for many top-tier IPs. However, due to the licensing model mostly not being a one-time buyout, Tencent not only needs to bear high copyright fees and long-term revenue sharing but also frequently faces restrictions from its partners in terms of development and operation. Previously, the mobile game adaptation of “NieR” developed by Tencent TiMi Studio was unable to be launched even until the project was cancelled. If this acquisition is successful, it will enable Tencent to gain dominant control over the IP of Dungeons & Dragons, which will largely avoid the aforementioned issues. Companies in Europe and America attach great importance to the value of intellectual property (IP), while Chinese companies have limited opportunities to acquire top-tier IP from overseas. For Tencent, the opportunity to acquire the Dungeons & Dragons IP from Hasbro due to financial considerations is a rare chance.

Games ram • 8 months ago • 97%

www.gamedeveloper.com

Tencent, the sprawling multinational that spent years gobbling up studios like Riot Games and Techland while investing in others including Ubisoft, Remedy, and FromSoftware, has chastized itself for becoming a passenger during 2023. As reported by Reuters, Tencent CEO and co-founder Pony Ma indicated the company has been coasting along while its major competitors have been rolling out global hits. Speaking at the company's annual meeting, Ma reiterated that video games remain Tencent's flagship business but suggested the company "achieved nothing" in the market over the past year. "Gaming is our flagship business [...] but in the past year, we have faced significant challenges. We have found ourselves at a loss as our competitors continue to produce new products, leaving us feeling having achieved nothing," he said. # Tencent playing "catchup" on AI Ma added that some of Tencent's latest releases have failed to meet internal expectations, but didn't specify which titles underwhelmed. He also suggested the company was until recently playing catch-up when it comes to AI tech, but is now able to "follow the pace" of leading rivals. Ma said Tencent should be focused on leveraging its own 'Hunyuan' generative AI model across various businesses. It's unclear if that means the company's internal game studios will be encouraged to lean on the technology. Tencent has been grappling with tightening playtime and spending regulations in China, resulting in the company investing in more western studios. In 2023 alone, Tencent became the majority shareholder of Dying Light maker Techland, sunk cash into new startups like Lighthouse Games, and led a $10 million investment into fitness game maker Quell. More recently, however, Tencent subsidiary Riot Games laid off 530 workers after claiming it scaled up too quickly and overreached with a number of "big bets."

Gaming ram • 8 months ago • 100%

www.gamedeveloper.com

Tencent, the sprawling multinational that spent years gobbling up studios like Riot Games and Techland while investing in others including Ubisoft, Remedy, and FromSoftware, has chastized itself for becoming a passenger during 2023. As reported by Reuters, Tencent CEO and co-founder Pony Ma indicated the company has been coasting along while its major competitors have been rolling out global hits. Speaking at the company's annual meeting, Ma reiterated that video games remain Tencent's flagship business but suggested the company "achieved nothing" in the market over the past year. "Gaming is our flagship business [...] but in the past year, we have faced significant challenges. We have found ourselves at a loss as our competitors continue to produce new products, leaving us feeling having achieved nothing," he said. # Tencent playing "catchup" on AI Ma added that some of Tencent's latest releases have failed to meet internal expectations, but didn't specify which titles underwhelmed. He also suggested the company was until recently playing catch-up when it comes to AI tech, but is now able to "follow the pace" of leading rivals. Ma said Tencent should be focused on leveraging its own 'Hunyuan' generative AI model across various businesses. It's unclear if that means the company's internal game studios will be encouraged to lean on the technology. Tencent has been grappling with tightening playtime and spending regulations in China, resulting in the company investing in more western studios. In 2023 alone, Tencent became the majority shareholder of Dying Light maker Techland, sunk cash into new startups like Lighthouse Games, and led a $10 million investment into fitness game maker Quell. More recently, however, Tencent subsidiary Riot Games laid off 530 workers after claiming it scaled up too quickly and overreached with a number of "big bets."

RetroAchievements ram • 8 months ago • 86%

>I have been informed by Snow that the RetroAchievements devs are going to begin the dev rollout for Dolphin on Feb 1 > >Rollout will be for developers only, with some people given permissions to do player testing. Rollout will be indefinite with no end date until we're satisfied with the player testing, and we expect somewhere around three months. > >At that point RC will coordinate with Dolphin about properly announcing and releasing achievement functionality to all players.

Gaming ram • 8 months ago • 100%

www.nexusmods.com

Palworld continues to break records on Steam, racking up 1,864,421 unique concurrent players in the past 24 hours. At least 4 of those uniques are in the Nexus Mods offices, where after-hours ‘research’ is being conducted. Whether you think this game has arrived out of the blue, or was an obvious hit, one thing is clear; It bears a lot of similarity to an existing game franchise you may have encountered, namely Pokémon. We won’t go into detail about potential similarities; suffice to say that enough significant likeness exists in the base games to require clarification when it comes to modding the game. We do think that adding Pokémon content to Palworld is a very cool idea and we understand why people would want such a thing. However, we're not comfortable hosting this content at Nexus Mods. As you may know, Nintendo (who jointly own the Pokémon franchise) have a consistent record of mercilessly submitting legal challenges, DMCAs and takedowns against fan-made content. Given Palworld's similarity to the Pokémon franchise as a base game, hosting content that adds Pokémon copyrighted characters or assets into the game is almost certainly going to put us at risk of legal action. Palworld content that is uploaded to Nexus Mods and is considered to have Pokémon-derived characters or assets will be taken down. Our normal moderation policies will apply. We don’t think it's worth the risk to allow this content to be shared in our community. At best we would have to deal with the headache of legal threats from Nintendo and at worst they may seek to take action against us and the uploaders of the mods directly. There are many creative opportunities to explore mods for this game that add to the world and gameplay, but do not infringe on existing IP so obviously. You are encouraged to explore these modding directions freely. We are looking to support Palworld modding in any way that we can and we have already released Vortex mod manager support for Palworld. We also encourage you to visit us in our Palworld modding forums. All of us here at Nexus Mods are really excited to see what the PalWorld modding community comes up with.

Gaming ram • 8 months ago • 94%

www.nexusmods.com

Palworld continues to break records on Steam, racking up 1,864,421 unique concurrent players in the past 24 hours. At least 4 of those uniques are in the Nexus Mods offices, where after-hours ‘research’ is being conducted. Whether you think this game has arrived out of the blue, or was an obvious hit, one thing is clear; It bears a lot of similarity to an existing game franchise you may have encountered, namely Pokémon. We won’t go into detail about potential similarities; suffice to say that enough significant likeness exists in the base games to require clarification when it comes to modding the game. We do think that adding Pokémon content to Palworld is a very cool idea and we understand why people would want such a thing. However, we're not comfortable hosting this content at Nexus Mods. As you may know, Nintendo (who jointly own the Pokémon franchise) have a consistent record of mercilessly submitting legal challenges, DMCAs and takedowns against fan-made content. Given Palworld's similarity to the Pokémon franchise as a base game, hosting content that adds Pokémon copyrighted characters or assets into the game is almost certainly going to put us at risk of legal action. Palworld content that is uploaded to Nexus Mods and is considered to have Pokémon-derived characters or assets will be taken down. Our normal moderation policies will apply. We don’t think it's worth the risk to allow this content to be shared in our community. At best we would have to deal with the headache of legal threats from Nintendo and at worst they may seek to take action against us and the uploaders of the mods directly. There are many creative opportunities to explore mods for this game that add to the world and gameplay, but do not infringe on existing IP so obviously. You are encouraged to explore these modding directions freely. We are looking to support Palworld modding in any way that we can and we have already released Vortex mod manager support for Palworld. We also encourage you to visit us in our Palworld modding forums. All of us here at Nexus Mods are really excited to see what the PalWorld modding community comes up with.

U.S. News ram • 8 months ago • 100%

www.pbs.org

Amna Nawaz: >The gruesome discovery of 215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief. >The families are angry their loved ones were buried in so-called pauper's graves marked by just a metal rod and a number and families were never notified of their deaths. The startling revelation came months after the mother of 37-year-old Dexter Wade filed a missing persons report last March. It wasn't until August when Bettersten Wade learned her son had been hit by a police car and killed, then buried in that same cemetery. >For more about this case and the disturbing details that have emerged since then, I am joined now by Bettersten Wade and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing her and other families. Welcome to you both. >Ms. Wade, can I just begin by saying how very sorry we are for your loss, and thank you for joining us. >Bettersten Wade, Mother of Dexter Wade: Thank you all too. Amna Nawaz: >I understand, Ms. Wade, you contacted the Jackson Police Department after reporting that your son was missing several times, even after he had been buried without your knowledge. >Give us a sense of what they told you over those many months and what those months were like for you, not knowing where your son was. Bettersten Wade: >Well, it was devastating to me, because I didn't know where he were. >And then I was calling them. They didn't have no information to let me know, have they found any information? All the details that I gave them for leads, they never came back to me to say, well, that lead led to something that we can work with. And I just couldn't believe that he had disappeared off the face of Earth and nobody knows where he at. >And it was just horrible for me. And every day I wake up, I just want — I just look, look, look, just looking for him, just out in the streets looking for him. And, I mean, that's heartbreaking for a mother, and can't say hello, don't know how to get in touch with him. That is a horrible thing for a mother. Amna Nawaz: >Mr. Crump, after it was discovered that Dexter had been killed, that he had been buried in this grave, his body was exhumed in November. There was an autopsy conducted. He was given a proper burial. >But I also understand a wallet was found in his front pocket with his I.D., his home address, his insurance card. What's the explanation officials give for why no one was notified he had been killed and buried? >Benjamin Crump, Attorney For Wade and Other Families: There really is no explanation that they have offered. >They claimed that they tried to reach out to Ms. Bettersten. And you should know that Ms. Bettersten is the named plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Jackson Police Department, because they killed her brother three years earlier. Now, she went through two criminal trials, had several press conferences. >So when they called her house, if they did call her house, like they claim, they knew where she lived. They knew how to get in contact with her if they really wanted to notify her that her son Dex had been hit by a police car. So it is very suspicious that they would just bury him in a pauper's grave because they said they could not identify his next of kin. >Ms. Bettersten does not accept it. And because of her tenacity, it has exposed all of these loved ones being dropped in a hole in a bag behind a Mississippi jail. Amna Nawaz: >Mr. Crump, the Jackson mayor did say there were mistakes. He also just said that Dexter Wade's death was a tragic accident. He said there was no malicious intent in failing to notify the family. >We know the police department has new notification procedures right now. What recourse are you specifically seeking right now in these — for these families you represent? Benjamin Crump: >We're seeking to have the federal Department of Justice come in and do an investigation to make sure that each and every one of these citizens, disproportionately Black citizens, whose lives matter will be identified, their families notified, and them given a proper funeral. Amna Nawaz: >And I should say, Ms. Wade, I mentioned families because you are not alone here. There's been in the last few months the discovery at least two other men; 40-year-old Mario Moore and 39-year-old Jonathan Hankins were also killed and buried in that same cemetery and their families not notified for months. >From your perspective, Ms. Wade, what do you want to see happen now? Bettersten Wade: >Well, first of all, I feel like that the city need to give me an acknowledgement to say that, hey, I'm sorry. I mean, just give me some kind of closure and explain to me what actually happened to my son on that freeway that night. >How did it actually occur, you know, just what went down, the events that went down with it? And I want to see justice. I want to see justice done for this, because it's wrong. It's wrong to take somebody's child and bury them in a field and take — and I didn't even get a last chance to say anything to my child, or I didn't even get a last chance to just say, babe, I love you, just to look down on them and say, babe, I love you. >They haven't even came and called me and said, Ms. Wade, could you come down and we explain to you what happened? I mean, I haven't even got a word. And so how do that feel? That makes you feel like they are guilty. They are guilty of a crime, because they can't tell you what happened. Amna Nawaz: >Ms. Wade, do I understand correctly that the mayor, no one from the police department has reached out to you to explain what happened to your son? Bettersten Wade: >No, no one have reached out to me to say — to explain it, to explain what happened to my son. >But I did at least have city supervisors — the supervisors, the board supervisors to say that they hated what happened to me. But I haven't had said anything — nobody from JPD, Jackson Police Department, have came to me and acknowledged me. Amna Nawaz: >Mr. Crump, the story gets even more disturbing with this discovery of 215 bodies in that cemetery. What do we know about those bodies? Benjamin Crump: >We know, based on the records from the coroner's office, that, since 2016, in the last eight years, we can identify 215 individuals that were buried behind that jail, and their families have not been notified. >Furthermore, Mr. Wade was number 672. That means there are 671 other people buried behind that jail marked with only a number. Amna Nawaz: >Mr. Crump and Ms. Bettersten Wade, I thank you so much for joining us tonight. I have a feeling we will be following up on this story in the weeks and months ahead. >Thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate it. Benjamin Crump: >Thank you.

Technology ram • 8 months ago • 100%

www.theverge.com

Microsoft said 2024 was going to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it looks like that’s ringing true already. Microsoft appears to be readying a new generative AI feature for its Notepad application that’s built into Windows. While the software giant hasn’t officially announced it, eagle-eyed Windows watchers have discovered code in Microsoft’s latest test builds of Windows 11 that indicate a new “Cowriter” feature could be on the way soon. It looks like it has the same credits system that Microsoft uses in its Cocreator feature in Paint to let Windows users know how many more times they can use these AI-powered features. Microsoft hasn’t announced pricing for these credits yet, but one can assume the company will eventually start charging once you run out of them. Bing uses a similar system, but once you run out of “daily boosts,” the image creation through DALL-E simply slows down. New Notepad feature soon™️ pic.twitter.com/yv6axwuG2e — PhantomOcean3 ☃️ (@PhantomOfEarth) January 9, 2024 Other Windows testers have even found references to a waitlist for the feature and a hero image that Microsoft may use to market its new Notepad Cowriter. The style of the image is identical to how Microsoft markets its Copilot features inside Office apps like Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. This could indicate that Microsoft is close to officially announcing the Cowriter feature for beta testing, in the same way that it tested the Paint generative image feature for months before it was rolled out to all Windows 11 users. Now, I’m old enough to remember a time when Notepad was but a mere simple Windows app that had barely been touched for more than three decades. Microsoft has been greatly improving Notepad on Windows 11 in recent years, adding a dark mode, tabs, character count, features like autosave and automatic restoration of tabs, and even a virtual fidget spinner. I don’t think I’m alone in not wanting these kind of AI features built directly into Windows apps as a means to upsell users into buying AI credits. I’d rather see Microsoft continue on its path of improving Notepad in meaningful ways, especially since it’s removing WordPad from Windows after nearly 30 years. If Notepad is going to get another new feature, please let it be an optional spellcheck instead of a computer hallucinating into my text editor.

Nintendo ram • 9 months ago • 60%

www.youtube.com

cross-posted from: https://bookwormstory.social/post/900150 > [Invidious Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MFx1DLLWo4) > > [Demo](https://gamebanana.com/mods/432762), most recent version 2.1 released November 22, 2023

Gaming ram • 9 months ago • 100%

www.youtube.com

[Invidious Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MFx1DLLWo4) [Demo](https://gamebanana.com/mods/432762), most recent version 2.1 released November 22, 2023

Enough Musk Spam ram • 9 months ago • 96%

[archive.org](http://web.archive.org/web/20231213190021/https://nitter.net/mayemusk/status/1734961547078746422)^[^[^Original^](https://twitter.com/mayemusk/status/1734961547078746422)^]^ Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC -- Dec 13, 2023 · 03:42 AM UTC >President Biden stood at a White House podium & stated that Elon Musk “is worth being looked at.” > >When asked "How?", President Biden responded “There’s a lot of ways.” > >There certainly are. The DOJ, FAA, FTC, NLRB, SDNY, & FWS have all taken action. > >The FCC now joins them. Maye Musk @mayemusk -- Dec 13, 2023 · 15:40 PM UTC > I am the mother of @elonmusk His goal is to make this world a better place. @POTUS wants to stop him. Have you any idea how furious I am? People in other countries are proud of Elon and do not understand the US President’s motive. Please tell me how I should answer them.

Canada ram • 10 months ago • 96%

Comments start at 06:22 and end at 12:30

Asklemmy ram • 10 months ago • 90%

My current place is being sold, so my cheap ass rent for an entire house? Gone! Oh well, I have a friend in QC looking to move, and he asked if I'd join him. Prices in MTL are of negligible difference to my city in Ontario, but the area we'd be looking is in the more-french portion of MTL. So I've got maybe 4 months to learn as much french as I can. I have an *ok* understanding of syntax and can parse the phonemes on the bad end of *ok*. I don't wanna use the Owl app, I don't think it's actually that effective a language teacher. Any advice on how I can shove in as much french as I can to become minimally conversational? Apps, anki decks, textbooks; anything would be appreciated. ♥

Enough Musk Spam ram • 11 months ago • 84%

hard-drive.net

[archive](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/HmJnQ) >## SAN FRANCISCO — >Elon Musk’s latest wave of firings has seen the dismissal of the man formerly in charge of making sure the Twitter CEO looked like absolute hell every time you saw him, sources have confirmed. > >“Damn, not sure I’ll be able to find more work in this field,” said Cal Harper, who up until recently was in charge of laying out Musk’s awkwardly fitting wardrobe and coaching him on how to look out of place no matter what he was doing. > >“I thought he was joking when he brought me onboard a while ago to make sure he looked uncomfortable and inhuman on every occasion both public and private, but you know, I wasn’t going to say no to the money. This was the best job I ever had. He sent my family on a vacation after those pictures of him on that boat worked out so well for us.” > >Musk defended the move, stating that he had learned enough to perform the tasks himself. > >“Probably going to do his job from here on out,” he said. > >“No reason to pay someone to apply skin pastener and fuck my hair all up when I’m perfectly capable of doing it myself. Based on current trends, cases of me looking weird and bloated and making those dumb faces should be down to zero by late April.” > >As of press time, the full time employee that was paid to hang around and talk about how strong Musk’s meme game was had also been dismissed.

RetroAchievements ram • 11 months ago • 100%

forms.gle

The RA Awards will be kicking off in December but lighten the work load of nominees and not getting any we are starting with non set categories now to help some categories that don't get much love get more love Take the survey and cast your nominees https://forms.gle/GY56mcvcTjBEShAx7 RA Awards 2023 first awards will kick off 12/15

RetroAchievements ram • 11 months ago • 100%

retroachievements.org

Longplay: https://www.[Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hw7VXjkxjfQ) || [YouTube](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hw7VXjkxjfQ) 115 achievements worth 830 points. FINAL FANTASY II is highly anticipated follow-up to the original FINAL FANTASY, released in Japan in 1988. The game features the bitter and beautiful tale of four war-orphaned heroes who become embroiled in a conflict between the hostile Empire of Palamecia and the rebel resistance. By eschewing conventional leveling for a proficiency system that allows players to tailor their characters' growth and incorporating a key term memory system that makes dialogue integral to gameplay, this game sparked the spirit of innovation for which the series has become known. This release also contains the bonus dungeons added to later editions of the game--the Soul of Rebirth and the Arcane Labyrinth. Files Required: `Final Fantasy II - 20th Anniversary Edition (Europe) (En,Ja).iso` - [[Redump](http://redump.org/disc/4401/)] - RA Hash: `89a7e92dc1b2288bf03009063157e34c` `Final Fantasy II - 20th Anniversary Edition (USA) (En,Ja).iso` - [[Redump](http://redump.org/disc/4138/)] - RA Hash: `e16ddbe67ccd31e3e18e24e4b394b655 linked by Snowpin`

RetroAchievements ram • 11 months ago • 100%

What you can find in this month's issue: - Interview with **BahamutVoid** about the origin and future plans for the Console Wars event. - Set of the Month voting results. - This Month In Retro takes you back to look at some of the releases in October 1997. - Stats from the Month of September. - User and developer milestones were reached. - Details on ongoing Events. - Latest in Community News. - RAPodcast is back to talk about the Junior Developer experience. - Play This Set and Wish This Set submissions. - Master The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion with the latest RAGuide by **Nepiki**. - Complete Chapter 11 with an A-Ranking in Faselei! using this months RAdvantage tip from **Whynot15**. - List of new sets, revisions, rescores, and art updates. - Find how you rank among the top 300 players on the site. - Developer and user RAnniversaries this month. - New updates in the Top Masteries section. - Most Wanted sets and a new system for DevQuest 007. - Set Creation Leaderboard updates, see which devs have made the most sets for each individual console. - New Spot the Difference game featuring Flashback: The Quest for Identity. **Cover by: Nydaxn**  Thank you to everyone who contributed to this month's issue. Please feel free to reach out to https://retroachievements.org/user/RANews for any questions, comments, contributions, etc.

Writing ram • 11 months ago • 100%

I hope this resonates with others who've been going through some stuff ♥

Technology ram • 11 months ago • 98%

arstechnica.com

[archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20231019045124/https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/google-hosted-malvertising-leads-to-fake-keepass-site-that-looks-genuine/) >Google has been caught hosting a malicious ad so convincing that there’s a decent chance it has managed to trick some of the more security-savvy users who encountered it. > >Looking at the ad, which masquerades as a pitch for the open-source password manager Keepass, there’s no way to know that it’s fake. It’s on Google, after all, which claims to vet the ads it carries. Making the ruse all the more convincing, clicking on it leads to ķeepass[.]info, which when viewed in an address bar appears to be the genuine Keepass site. > >A closer link at the link, however, shows that the site is not the genuine one. In fact, ķeepass[.]info —at least when it appears in the address bar—is just an encoded way of denoting xn--eepass-vbb[.]info, which it turns out, is pushing a malware family tracked as FakeBat. Combining the ad on Google with a website with an almost identical URL creates a near perfect storm of deception. > >“Users are first deceived via the Google ad that looks entirely legitimate and then again via a lookalike domain,” Jérôme Segura, head of threat intelligence at security provider Malwarebytes, wrote in a post Wednesday that revealed the scam. > >Information available through Google’s Ad Transparency Center shows that the ads have been running since Saturday and last appeared on Wednesday. The ads were paid for by an outfit called Digital Eagle, which the transparency page says is an advertiser whose identity has been verified by Google. > >Google representatives didn’t immediately respond to an email, which was sent after hours. In the past, the company has said it promptly removes fraudulent ads as soon as possible after they’re reported. > >The sleight of hand that allowed the imposter site xn--eepass-vbb[.]info to appear as ķeepass[.]info is an encoding scheme known as punycode. It allows unicode characters to be represented in standard ASCII text. Looking carefully, it’s easy to spot the small comma-like figure immediately below the k. When it appears in an address bar, the figure is equally easy to miss, especially when the URL is backed by a valid TLS certificate, as is the case here. > >The use of punycode-enhanced malware scams has a long history. Two years ago, scammers used Google ads to drive people to a site that looked almost identical to brave.com, but was, in fact, another malicious website pushing a fake, malicious version of the browser. The punycode technique first came to widespread attention in 2017, when a Web application developer created a proof-of-concept site that masqueraded as apple.com. > >There’s no sure-fire way to detect either malicious Google ads or punycode encoded URLs. Posting ķeepass[.]info into all five major browsers leads to the imposter site. When in doubt, people can open a new browser tab and manually type the URL, but that’s not always feasible when they’re long. Another option is to inspect the TLS certificate to make sure it belongs to the site displayed in the address bar.

LightNovels ram • 11 months ago • 80%

www.animenewsnetwork.com

[archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20231019021044/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-10-18/seven-seas-licenses-chasing-spica-ill-never-be-your-crown-princess-betrothed-gravitation-and-more-/.203579) >Seven Seas announced on Wednesday that it has licensed the Chasing Spica, I'll Never Be Your Crown Princess! - Betrothed manga, The Evil Queen's Beautiful Principles light novels, the manga and two more light novel volumes for Yes, No, or Maybe?, as well as the Noss and Zakuro and Gravitation: Collector's Edition manga. > >Seven Seas will publish Reia and Haduki Futaba's The Evil Queen's Beautiful Principles light novels in April 2024 as part of Seven Seas' Airship imprint physically, with digital editions available earlier. It describes the story: > >>In a world of royalty and magic, a young Japanese woman is reincarnated as Princess Luxeria. But the princess is born with magical abilities so strong and terrible that she agrees to live her life locked away in a tower. When her family is betrayed and her royal parents are murdered, she's forced to step out of her self-imposed exile and into a treacherous world. Princess Luxeria must pretend to be the perfect puppet ruler…all while concealing her burning desire for vengeance. > >Reia published the web novel on the ncode syosetsu website in 2019. Kadokawa published the series in light novels, shipping volume 2 in March 2021. > >Seven Seas will publish Michi Ichiho and Yukimura's Yes, No, or Maybe? manga in November 2024 physically and digitally, as well as the two more novel volumes (Center of the World and Where Home Is) by Michi Ichiho and Lala Takemiya in March and June. Digital editions will be available (earlier than print for the novel volumes). It describes the story: > >>Kunieda Kei is the up-and-coming prince of the evening news. Inside, he's the opposite: brash, hot-tempered, and prickly as can be. For years, Kei has successfully juggled his private and professional personas—until a chance meeting with stop-motion animator Tsuzuki Ushio threatens to bring it all crashing down. But is that really as frightening as the possibility that someone might love and accept both sides of who he is? > >Michi Ichio and Yukimura launched the light novel series in Shinshokan's Shōsetsu Dear!+ magazine in 2013. Seven Seas licensed the novels in English in 2020. The series inspired the manga adaptation in 2022. Shinshokan shipped the compiled book volume in November 2022.The series was adapted into an anime series in 2019.

Manga ram • 11 months ago • 100%

[archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20231019021044/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-10-18/seven-seas-licenses-chasing-spica-ill-never-be-your-crown-princess-betrothed-gravitation-and-more-/.203579) >Seven Seas announced on Wednesday that it has licensed the Chasing Spica, I'll Never Be Your Crown Princess! - Betrothed manga, The Evil Queen's Beautiful Principles light novels, the manga and two more light novel volumes for Yes, No, or Maybe?, as well as the Noss and Zakuro and Gravitation: Collector's Edition manga. > >Seven Seas will start publishing Chihiro Orihi's Chasing Spica manga in June 2024 in large-trim editions as part of the Seven Seas GL label (Girls' Love/yuri titles) and digitally as eBooks. The company describes the story: > >>Nekozuka Serina is a serious third-year high school student who's studying hard to qualify for a scholarship. Her cute and stylish looks, however, don't exactly meet the school dress code—which Tachibana Reiko, a member of the disciplinary committee, is always on her case about. Plus, no matter how much Serina tries, Reiko always bests her in grades and athletics. One day, however, Serina spots Reiko meeting with an unknown woman after school…and going to a love hotel! What will happen between Serina and Reiko now that they share a secret? > >Orihi launched the manga on Ichijinsha's Ichijin Plus manga website in 2021. Volume 1 shipped in May 2022. > >Seven Seas will release Saki Tsukigami, Rena Kamono, and Enn Tsutamori's I'll Never Be Your Crown Princess - Betrothed manga in July 2024 in single large-trim editions as part of Seven Seas' Steamship imprint, and the publisher describes the story: > >>Liddy, who was Japanese in her previous life, is now the daughter of a duke and engaged to marry the gorgeous Crown Prince Friedrich—despite her complaints. But her plan to lose her virginity to a stranger and break her own engagement backfired when she accidentally slept with the prince himself! These hot-and-cold lovers are still bound together, in the streets and in the sheets. Follow what happens next in this sequel to the hit original series! > >The series is a sequel to the I'll Never Be Your Crown Princess! manga, which debuted in Ichijinsha's Zero-Sum Online service in 2019. Seven Seas published the series in English in 2022. > >Seven Seas will publish Michi Ichiho and Yukimura's Yes, No, or Maybe? manga in November 2024 physically and digitally, as well as the two more novel volumes (Center of the World and Where Home Is) by Michi Ichiho and Lala Takemiya in March and June. Digital editions will be available (earlier than print for the novel volumes). It describes the story: > >>Kunieda Kei is the up-and-coming prince of the evening news. Inside, he's the opposite: brash, hot-tempered, and prickly as can be. For years, Kei has successfully juggled his private and professional personas—until a chance meeting with stop-motion animator Tsuzuki Ushio threatens to bring it all crashing down. But is that really as frightening as the possibility that someone might love and accept both sides of who he is? > >Michi Ichio and Yukimura launched the light novel series in Shinshokan's Shōsetsu Dear!+ magazine in 2013. Seven Seas licensed the novels in English in 2020. The series inspired the manga adaptation in 2022. Shinshokan shipped the compiled book volume in November 2022.The series was adapted into an anime series in 2019. > >Seven Seas celebrates rariatoo's Noss and Zakuro manga with an early digital release of volume 1, and later a physical edition in April 2024. The series will be published physically and digitally. The company describes the story: > >>In Shadowsville, a supernatural land that exists between this world and the next, there lives a pair of spooky vampires. Well, not that spooky—the beautiful Noss (the Nosferatu) and her adopted daughter Zakuro don't even suck human blood, since that's gross and mean. A juice-box equivalent sustains them as they frolic around their town shopping for anti-sun accessories, meeting up with other monster buddies, and supporting each other like a real mother and daughter…because blood is less important when you find a good substitute. > >Rariatoo published the series digitally on East Press ' Matogrosso website on May 25. East Press ships volume 1 on December 13. > >Seven Seas will publish Maki Murakami's Gravitation: Collector's Edition manga in April 2024 in a large-trim omnibus as part of the Seven Seas BL label (Boys' Love titles). Ebook editions will also be available. The company describes the story: > >>Shindou Shuichi is a young, energetic, and optimistic rockstar wannabe. He's in a band with his best friend and is determined to top the charts. When a romance novelist named Eiri Yuki criticizes his lyrics, Shuichi takes it badly and wants to make Yuki eat his words…but as he starts to follow Yuki around, Shuichi falls hard for him. Yuki, despite his cold and prickly demeanor, even seems to like Shuichi back! Still, Yuki has a past full of trauma that he's never fully faced, and Shuichi discovers that succeeding in the music biz might cost him his soul. Can these two very different men support each other and make this relationship work? > >Murakami debuted the manga in Gentosha's Kimi to Boku magazine in 1996. The series concluded in 2002. The series inspired an OVA in 1999, and a television anime series in 2000. Tokyopop originally released the manga in English in 2003.

RetroAchievements ram • 11 months ago • 75%

retroachievements.org

72 achievements worth 490 points KOF Neowave features 12 three-man teams made up of some of the greatest characters from SNK's 11-year history, including the Women Fighters Team (Mai, King and Yuri) and the Fatal Fury Team (Terry, Joe, and Andy). NEOWAVE features three modes of play - Super Cancel, Guard Break, and Max2. A new "Heat Mode" lets players power up their attacks in exchange for a gradual loss of health. Xbox Live support featuring head-to-head fighting and Tournament Mode. A total of 43 characters including 7 Bonus characters. 12 of the most dangerous fighting teams ever assembled. Pick your team and fight it out in the original 3-on-3 battle format. Beautifully rendered background graphics. Activate "Heat Mode" to power-up your attacks. Revives the evacuation rolling maneuver and thrust attacks. Over-the-top Super Special Moves. 3 modes of play: Super Cancel, Guard Break and Max2. Link a Special Move with a Super Attack in the Super Cancel Mode to cause extreme damage. `King of Fighters, The - Neowave (Europe, Australia)` - [[Redump](http://redump.org/disc/7799/)] - RA Hash: `bbb338a585f3887502c0418dd46046c4`

Technology ram • 11 months ago • 84%

fortune.com

[archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20231018013914/https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/) >X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, quote, repost, like, bookmark, and create lists, according to a source familiar with the matter. This change will go live today for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines. > >Roughly 20 minutes after this story published, X’s Support account confirmed the details, writing that “this new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver.” > >>Starting today, we're testing a new program (Not A Bot) in New Zealand and the Philippines. New, unverified accounts will be required to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post & interact with other posts. Within this test, existing users are not affected. >> >>This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver. >> >>And so far, subscription options have proven to be the main solution that works at scale. >> — Support (@Support) October 17, 2023 > >The company published the “Not-a-Bot Terms and Conditions” today outlining its plan for a paid subscription service that gives users certain abilities on their platform, like posting content and interacting with other users. This program is different from X Premium, which offers more features like “Undo” and “Edit” for posts for $8 a month. Given the company’s tumultuous reputation under Musk, some users have voiced their hesitancy to turn over their credit card info. > >X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. During a livestreamed conversation with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, Musk said “It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.” > >Shortly after the announcement, Musk tweeted that you can “read for free, but $1/year to write.” > >“It’s the only way to fight bots without blocking real users,” Musk wrote. “This won’t stop bots completely, but it will be 1000X harder to manipulate the platform.” > >X CEO Linda Yaccarino was asked last month onstage at Vox’s Code Conference about how going to a full subscription model on X will affect revenue, something that is now going live to users today. Yaccarino answered at the time, “Did he say that or did he say he’s thinking about it?”

Technology ram • 11 months ago • 98%

fortune.com

[archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20231018013914/https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/) >X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, quote, repost, like, bookmark, and create lists, according to a source familiar with the matter. This change will go live today for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines. > >Roughly 20 minutes after this story published, X’s Support account confirmed the details, writing that “this new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver.” > >>Starting today, we're testing a new program (Not A Bot) in New Zealand and the Philippines. New, unverified accounts will be required to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post & interact with other posts. Within this test, existing users are not affected. >> >>This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver. >> >>And so far, subscription options have proven to be the main solution that works at scale. >> — Support (@Support) October 17, 2023 > >The company published the “Not-a-Bot Terms and Conditions” today outlining its plan for a paid subscription service that gives users certain abilities on their platform, like posting content and interacting with other users. This program is different from X Premium, which offers more features like “Undo” and “Edit” for posts for $8 a month. Given the company’s tumultuous reputation under Musk, some users have voiced their hesitancy to turn over their credit card info. > >X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. During a livestreamed conversation with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, Musk said “It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.” > >Shortly after the announcement, Musk tweeted that you can “read for free, but $1/year to write.” > >“It’s the only way to fight bots without blocking real users,” Musk wrote. “This won’t stop bots completely, but it will be 1000X harder to manipulate the platform.” > >X CEO Linda Yaccarino was asked last month onstage at Vox’s Code Conference about how going to a full subscription model on X will affect revenue, something that is now going live to users today. Yaccarino answered at the time, “Did he say that or did he say he’s thinking about it?”

Manga ram • 11 months ago • 100%

www.animenewsnetwork.com

The company also announced that it has licensed the following manga: **Black Summoner** *Doufu Mayoi (story), Gin Ammo (art), Kurogin (DIGS) (character design)* While being transmigrated to another world, Kelvin gave up his memories for powerful new abilities. Setting out on the ultimate adventure as the world's strongest Summoner—his first Follower the very goddess who brought him over!—he soon discovers his true calling as a battle junkie. Faced with one formidable foe after another, Kelvin can hardly contain his exhilaration! The curtain rises on this epic saga as the black-clad warrior and his allies carve their way into the annals of history!! **The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life** *Usata Nonohara (story), Aya Obara (art), ox (character design)* For an alchemist like Mariela, performing incredible feats of magic are just part of the job. So when a stampeding horde of monsters threatens to devour the kingdom of Endalsia, she decides to put herself in a brief state of suspended animation to survive. Luckily, she awakens safe and sound—200 years in the future... Now, all Mariela really wants is a quiet, laid-back life in this land she barely recognizes. It's too bad potions have become a luxury good, and she's the only girl in town with the skills to make them.

LightNovels ram • 11 months ago • 100%

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Yen Press announced at its panel at the New York Comic Con that it has licensed the following light novels: **Sword Art Online: Progressive Canon of the Golden Rule** *Reki Kawahara (story), Mugetsu (art), abec (character design)* The SAO: Progressive series continues, following Asuna and Kirito to the sixth floor of Aincrad, where puzzles and brainteasers galore await them! Will our sword swinging pair burn out on a mental challenge, or will the frightening gang of player-killers catch up with them first…? **Trinity Seven -Revision-** *Yōichi Nishio (art), Kenji Saitō (story), Akinari Nao (character design)* From the world of Trinity Seven comes a sizzling new spinoff! High schooler Mitsunari Miyazawa had aspirations of becoming a writer until a run-in with a demonic creature turns deadly. Now, Mitsunari has been reborn with the power of the Magus of Envy, fighting with the help of the living grimoire Lydia! **The Tiger Hasn't Eaten the Dragon Yet** *Hachi Inaba* “Make me think it's okay if you're the one who eats me...” In the mountains somewhere, a tiger catches its prey: a lone dragon, the kind that is hardly ever seen. Eating the dragon's meat extracts the ultimate flavor, drinking its blood heals all injuries, and devouring its heart grants immortality...And yet, upon seeing the dragon's undeveloped stature, the tiger refuses to eat it. Dragon and tiger, predator and prey—is what ties them together simply natural hunting instincts or something more...? **Amalgam Hound** *Midori Komai (story), Domino Ozaki (illustration)* Theo, a young investigator, crosses paths with Eleven, an amalgam perfectly mimicking the form of a girl. In a strange twist of fate, the two become partners on a special mission to track down other amalgams on the run after the war. However, Eleven only looks like a young girl. She's a living weapon who doesn't understand what it means to be human. Theo has no love for amalgams, but he'll have to deal with it, because a terrorist attack has rocked the nation to its core…and someone needs to get to the bottom of it! **Classroom For Heroes** *Shin Araki (story), Haruyuki (illustration)* When the hero Blade defeated the demon king, he lost all his powers. For him, this should have been a dream come true—finally, life as a normal student without fighting or adventuring. That is, until he discovers his school is a school for heroes. He just wants to get by with a solid average, but as a hero with real experience, it turns out his idea of average is a little off...! **My Gemini** *Yuu Morikawa* Plain, redheaded, and freckled John has nothing going for him, except his two friends who are incredibly popular at school—twins Jekyll and Hyde. The twins, indistinguishable, have always enjoyed taking each other's places for fun. But when the pair is fragmented by an untimely death, it's up to John to find out…which twin is left?  **All or Nothing** *Shikke* When Kadoi and Hasumoto reveal that they've been dating for a whole month, Oka and Sawada are more jealous that their friends have lovers than anything else. So when the change in their friends' relationship causes them to be more conscious of each other, they can't help but wonder what it'd be like to be together—in more ways than one... **Fox-Colored Jealousy** *Machi Suehiro* They first met on the train. While Akiha Konno was on his way to his first day of school in Tokyo, some creep just had to touch his butt... Thankfully, the nice college guy saved him, but—uhhh...Akiha really didn't mean to just glomp him like that! Worse, he called the fox ears that appear when he's all worked up “cute”! Welp, it's not like he'll ever see him again... **I Want a Gal Gamer to Praise Me** *Geshumaro* When high school shut-in Raito Sasaki hires a pro gamer coach to help hone his FPS skills, he never expected that the one knocking on his door would be Rion Suzuki—a cute and fashionable beauty the same age as him! With such a charming and supportive gamer gal cheering him on, can Raito take his game to the next level, or will the pressure of being up close and personal with a bombshell like Rion lead him to throw? **Riviere and the Land of Prayer** *Jougi Shiraishi (story), Azure (illustration)* Return to the world of the Wandering Witch in a brand-new spin-off! The stage is set for two girls in a land where prayers have become curses. In a small island nation, there is a mysterious town where people's prayers are answered by a mysterious force. I, Makmilia, assist the enigmatic Riviere in our shop, where we deal with the dangerous items borne of those prayers. We've got a fate-changing perfume, a talking vase, and a bag containing strange creatures, just to name a few. Yes, indeed, the deeds of the marvelous duo, Makmilia and Riviere, will overshadow even the Ashen Witch Elaina! **Once Upon a Witch's Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy** *Saka (story), Chorefuji (illustration),* On her seventeenth birthday, the apprentice witch Meg learns that she only has one year left to live. Her teacher, the long-lived witch Faust, explains that the only way to undo the death curse is to collect tears of joy and grow the seed of life. To find them, Meg will have to leave the sheltered life she's always known and head out into the world. There will be meetings, partings, and friendships aplenty, and of course many tears. Meg will learn that the most important lessons for a witch are bright, sweet, and somewhat heart-wrenching. **Adults' Picture Book** *Kei Itoi* Erotic manga author Kudou's friend Haruki passes away, leaving behind his young daughter, Kiki, and a note bequeathing her to Kudou. Strange as the situation is, Kudou commits to making a real family with the girl—so when he meets a woman who reminds him of his late friend, he fires off a marriage proposal on the spot! By blood, friendship, love, or circumstance, family is family... **You Can't See the Snow** *Rokudo Ningen* College freshman Natsuki and sophomore Yuki meet and fall in love one summer night—the first of many they spend together. But as autumn approaches, Yuki suddenly tells Natsuki she wants him to be happy and find a cute girlfriend, then disappears from campus. Hoping to see Yuki one final time, Natsuki visits her home and learns she suffers from an unknown illness that forces her to sleep through the winter. This modern-day version of Sleeping Beauty explores the miracle of love.

RetroAchievements ram • 11 months ago • 100%

Hi everyone. We want to keep you informed and updated as we've been making progress with the ongoing server and site performance issues. You may have noticed that badges have been a little slow to update since we released V5 yesterday. Don't worry. Right now, the server has automatically queued up a lot of work that will help us resolve the performance issues we've been seeing over the last few weeks. Badge updates are now handled in these queues too, and unfortunately some of the updates have been queued at the "back of the line". If you find that some of your badges are missing, they'll eventually arrive after waiting it out for a little while. The work the server is doing right now is necessary for us to finally get over the hump. This will not be a regular occurrence. Because of the intensity of the work the server is doing in the background right now, you may notice certain site features are no longer visible. This is to ensure the server can get through its work as quickly as possible. Thanks again for your understanding!

RetroAchievements ram • 11 months ago • 100%

github.com

We are now starting to populate and maintain aggregated data for frequently called expensive queries. Soon we will be able to start using that aggregated data to alleviate much of the stress currently being experienced by the database server.

Anime ram • 11 months ago • 97%

www.animenewsnetwork.com

[archive](http://web.archive.org/web/20231014153626/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-10-14/bocchi-the-rock-compilation-project-to-be-2-films-in-spring-summer-2024/.203442) >Bocchi the Rock! -Live-, a live-streamed program to commemorate the Bocchi the Rock! television anime's one-year anniversary, announced that the anime's compilation film project is actually two films. The first part will open next spring as previously announced, while the second part will open next summer. The program also debuted the films' teaser visual: > > > > >The anime adapts Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga Bocchi the Rock!, which follows Hitori "Bocchi-chan" ("Loner") Gotō, a lonely high school girl whose heart lies in her guitar. She does nothing every day except strum her guitar by herself at home. However, she happens one day to meet Nijika Ijichi, who is looking for a guitarist for her group named "Kessoku Band." > >The television anime's main cast includes: > >- Yoshino Aoyama as Hitori "Bocchi-chan" ("Loner") Gotō >- Sayumi Suzushiro as Nijika Ijichi >- Saku Mizuno as Ryо̄ Yamada >- Ikumi Hasegawa as Ikuyo Kita > >Keiichirō Saitō (ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. Regards) directed the television anime at CloverWorks. Erika Yoshida (Lupin III: Part IV)ˀsupervised and wrote the series scripts. Kerorira (animation director for Wonder Egg Priority) designed the characters. > >The television anime premiered on the Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV, and Tochigi TV channels on October 9, and it also ran on MRT Miyazaki Broadcasting, MBS, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, and AT-X. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it airs in Japan. > >The anime's "Kessoku Band" with Ikumi Hasegawa (voice of Ikuyo Kita) on vocals performed the opening and ending songs. Singer-songwriter Ai Higuchi wrote the lyrics, and Otoha, member of the musical group 48foureight, composed the music for the opening song titled "Seishun Complex" (Youth Complex). The KANA-BOON band's vocalist and guitarist Maguro Taniguchi wrote the lyrics and composed the music for the ending song titled "Distortion!!" > >Hamaji launched the manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Max magazine in December 2017, and the series is ongoing.