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[–] ram 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not really. There's a ton of other survival games I'd rather play, and the game's progression feels like it's deliberately just fast enough to keep me from closing it. After 8 hours or so I closed and uninstalled because it feels engaging enough to play, but not enough to be anything but chores.

The boss battles suck, the crafting has arbitrary timers to it. I just really don't find it fun at all.

I love monster collection games, and I enjoy survival, but this definitely isn't for me.

[–] ram 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What sites would these be, out of curiosity?

[–] ram 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Devs clearly refers to the company that develops the game. Try again.

The fact that you're harping on this point is because you know I don't agree with personal harassment. You are aware that I don't agree with people being abusive about specific people who work for the company. You're making bad faith arguments to try to prove "You were saying this", which I was not, and if I was, is clearly not what I intended. Move on.

[–] ram -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I repeat, for the last time, I've never advocated for toxicity or harassment to workers. Only to the companies they represent. Please, if you're going to argue with me, argue based on what I say, not what you decide I mean.

[–] ram -5 points 11 months ago

Sorry, but being toxic about a company is distinct from harassing the individual CM. You're gonna need to try a different line of reasoning because this is a pretty foolish one.

[–] ram -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sorry but I did specify publishers and companies multiple times. I've never once even alluded to personal harassment as I obviously don't believe in that. I however do think that this game deserves the toxicity it sees and the company deserves to be harassed for not delivering on their promise of a worthwhile product for which many people paid nearly $70 (CAD).

[–] ram 3 points 11 months ago

Oooo I like this, thank you

[–] ram 1 points 11 months ago

I'd have to imagine it would.

 

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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. ♥

 

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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.

 

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

 

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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.

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October RANews is Available (news.retroachievements.org)
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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.

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

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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.

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