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Mivey

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It's actually already been nearly 1 year since this whole thing started, and it was even self inflicted by the chinese users (Taiwan being in the top of the statistics due to chinese users using VPNs to watch the streams).
Seems like it's just an excuse to harass a woman online. Sad to see companies be pressured by what is essentially a hate campaign.
 

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Seems like it's just an excuse to harass a woman online. Sad to see companies be pressured by what is essentially a hate campaign.
Pretty much, yeah, and it gets worse, she's not even under the same persona she used to be 1 year ago.
Back then she was a vtuber for a company, but a few months ago she chose to leave the company and nowadays she's an independent streamer that does streams either with her real self or with a vtuber avatar (on her original channel from before she joined the company).

The identity of the person behind her previous role in the company was never revealed also, but since her voice and her knowledge of both english and japanese are very recognizable, many already knew about her original channel when she left the company (including the antis/harassers).
 
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Pretty much, yeah, and it gets worse, she's not even under the same persona she used to be 1 year ago.
Back then she was a vtuber for a company, but a few months ago she chose to leave the company and nowadays she's an independent streamer that does streams either with her real self or with a vtuber avatar (on her original channel from before she joined the company).

The identity of the person behind her previous role in the company was never revealed also, but since her voice and her knowledge of both english and japanese are very recognizable, many already knew about her original channel when she left the company (including the antis/harassers).
Those people that continue harass need to let it go...
 

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A data comparison would be quite interesting, to be fair.
I saw someone on the Steam hub mention that some release dates were null, whereas they were filled in for me.

It is possible that Ighor is just missing the release dates, like xPaw, in which case this back-up leak is less interesting. XD

 
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I saw someone on the Steam hub mention that some release dates were null, whereas they were filled in for me.

It is possible that Ighor is just missing the release dates, like xPaw, in which case this back-up leak is less interesting. XD

Yeah, I remember that conversation, both Madjoki and you hade the InitialReleaseDate filled while xPaw and some others didn't, it was weird but as you said, it might be due to their back-end information, which is incomplete.
 
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what does everybody here do when they face the dilemma of wanting to play a video game while simultaneously having 0 motivation to play?
Play a low investment game, like for me its Minecraft or State of Decay 2, I can just play them when I don't know what to play, I can just return to them a few days and then start with something else.
 

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I rarely play online or with online features enabled in these games anyway. I was the person in watchdogs that when i was invaded would just go and stand in the middle of the road or somewhere obvious or i'd just go about looking for the puzzle pieve or whatever collectable i was looking for. Poor invaders expecting a fun and exciting chase and there's me not giving a rat's ass. lol.

That's not exactly true though, i did do the hide in a store window with the mannequins thing a few times. That worked more than you'd imagine.
I have zero interest in PvP and so when i got invaded in Dark Souls i would hide for as long as possible from the invader and then when spotted jump to my doom off a cliff. Once this player kept appearing in my game time after time and after about the 6th suicide from me they didnt bother attacking me on the next invade, just gave me a wave and quit out.
 

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on the positive side, the time i've waited for has come, as we're around 5 hours away from it hitting the 20th of September in Japan, and therefore the anniversary for Revelations: Persona, which means after 5 hours, we could get an announcement at any moment

on the bad side, i am really in need of tasks related to discrete math, specifically logical statements, predicants, set theory and functions
 

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This is quite strange to be honest, World War Z: Aftermath releases in 2 days and the Steam store is not price tagged. You can't pre order the game unless you opt in to go for grey marketplaces sites except for 2 other authorised stores which are a) Microsoft b) Joybuggy

Is there something I am missing here? Like if Valve doesn't allow to set pre order price for a game that previous base version was never available on Steam store?
 
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This is quite strange to be honest, World War Z: Aftermath releases in 2 days and the Steam store is not price tagged. You can't pre order the game unless you opt in to go for grey marketplaces sites except for 2 other authorised stores which are a) Microsoft b) Joybuggy

Is there something I am missing here? Like if Valve doesn't allow to set pre order price for a game that previous base version was never available on Steam store?
You might be correct. IIRC, Creative Assembly wasn't allowed to take preorders for Troy Total War either.
 

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This is quite strange to be honest, World War Z: Aftermath releases in 2 days and the Steam store is not price tagged. You can't pre order the game unless you opt in to go for grey marketplaces sites except for 2 other authorised stores which are a) Microsoft b) Joybuggy

Is there something I am missing here? Like if Valve doesn't allow to set pre order price for a game that previous base version was never available on Steam store?
Maybe EGS doesn't want them to allow preorders on Steam so that impatient people preorder it on EGS and stay in the ecosystem?
Maybe Sabre decided to keep the game late on Steam, dunno.
 
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Maybe EGS doesn't want them to allow preorders on Steam so that impatient people preorder it on EGS and stay in the ecosystem?
I think Arc got the right answer. I don't think it has to do with Epic but rather Valve policy on this regard.

I'm a bit torn on this matter because this might punish your Steam users if they can't pre order a game and potentially miss out on pre order bonuses, assuming they exist first on these specific game cases.
At least there's always the option to go to cd-keys sites but right now the only available options are what I mentioned on my previous post and the majority are marketplaces which I as a user don't like a single bit.
 

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on the positive side, the time i've waited for has come, as we're around 5 hours away from it hitting the 20th of September in Japan, and therefore the anniversary for Revelations: Persona, which means after 5 hours, we could get an announcement at any moment

on the bad side, i am really in need of tasks related to discrete math, specifically logical statements, predicants, set theory and functions
You know we will get disappointed because god has forsaken us, I'm just expecting 2 things from this 25th Anniversary (P3 remake and P5R, both for Steam) and I already know I will eat crow.



This is quite strange to be honest, World War Z: Aftermath releases in 2 days and the Steam store is not price tagged. You can't pre order the game unless you opt in to go for grey marketplaces sites except for 2 other authorised stores which are a) Microsoft b) Joybuggy

Is there something I am missing here? Like if Valve doesn't allow to set pre order price for a game that previous base version was never available on Steam store?
You might be correct. IIRC, Creative Assembly wasn't allowed to take preorders for Troy Total War either.
In both cases it's because it's a new SKU instead of a base model but it's not about punishment, it's about engagement for potential special deals (like the ones Crysis got with Steam release) if they open pre-orders, they won't be able to update a deal that might drive more interest from users, this is all in the documents for developers where Valve recommends certain things in order to engage in a more efficient way.

Not allowing pre-orders doesn't benefit Valve in any way, getting more engagement within the release date does.
 

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You know we will get disappointed because god has forsaken us, I'm just expecting 2 things from this 25th Anniversary (P3 remake and P5R, both for Steam) and I already know I will eat crow.
I only expect Persona 5 Royale on PC haha. The remaining will be all bonus.
 
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Li Kao

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Oh, look ! It's plumbing day ! Da death fight with my sink. And I'm losing it. Quite literally. If we don't talk about the rotten seals, I also seem to have... misplaced a piece ? erroneously rebuilt this shit ? Shitting bricks, if we have to ask for professional help, my entire year end budget could be dead. That includes the Deck.

My neighbor may be able to help, but far be it for me to bite the helping hand, he is not a pressed man. He planned to mount us two electrical sockets in the next few days. Two weeks ago.
I really should have put more attention to these things back in my formative years, they are incredibly useful if you don't shit 100 euros each morning.
 

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Yeah, that's not happening soon
i mean, it's more on the speculative side when it happens

we've all seen how Atlus outsources their ports, they gave The Eccentric Ape the job for Catherine Classic, ITL Inc. for SMT3HD, P4G got Preapp Partners
who is to say that they haven't thought about this long term, and just got other companies to work on ports before the anniversary so they could be ready for the anniversary period
 

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Alright, here is a first observation about the back-up of the leak which is hosted by Ighor: it is missing 30 apps out of 19346 apps (including redundant apps).

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6ebcfde0-6c1c-49d0-8c02-bd145195d4b3    A-Train 10    <--    Artdink Corporation    <-    DEGICA Co., Ltd.
77fd713b-0999-4d1b-962c-12cb62ec892d    A-Train 10    <--    Artdink Corporation    <-    DEGICA Co., Ltd.
4ce8f504-6574-4f83-971e-b09dc03fb824    Battlezone 2    <--    Rebellion
d3e07c6d-bcb7-4258-89fd-6f9a493ef27e    Battlezone 2    <--    Rebellion
311be895-5a32-4f01-bf34-8b86101259b4    Divinity: Fallen Heroes    <--    Larian Studios
70150ce1-1925-41f8-9d16-41ded0f70a56    Divinity: Fallen Heroes    <--    Larian Studios
492a4821-1d2d-493a-a971-903ab1e2dd62    Dolphin (emulator)    <--    Dolphin Team
94583470-3747-4889-8b8f-56d8a501ef4e    Dolphin (emulator)    <--    Dolphin Team
4e761f36-abc0-4f73-bbfa-00a7f687c4ab    Hard West 2    <--    Ice Code Games    <-    Good Shepherd Entertainment
b7ab61b0-ff29-41a4-9f8d-cadb37ca60dc    Hard West 2    <--    Ice Code Games    <-    Good Shepherd Entertainment
32464ab2-25b3-4e68-b6b6-821da8ce5c05    Human: Fall Flat 2    <--    No Brakes Games    <-    Curve Digital
8ce56b90-ba46-4030-a2b2-51068be29b5a    Human: Fall Flat 2    <--    No Brakes Games    <-    Curve Digital
86dd19ac-3418-493e-a3a4-6256561fa57c    MechWitch    <--    League of Geeks    <-    Private Division
b750cdea-0c9e-4bfc-af3d-8e7dc0c71869    MechWitch    <--    League of Geeks    <-    Private Division
a0284d15-e85f-4511-9ec1-637120ff3630    New Super Mario Bros.    <--    Nintendo
ef36ed93-d75c-4db1-93d0-1ea2f8943e8f    New Super Mario Bros.    <--    Nintendo
4dd63a61-d699-46d6-b1b9-30a4b3e5c039    Project QD Next    <--    Quantic Dream
cc8e1c07-4f6c-44f8-8fb2-89d41ee2a412    Project QD Next    <--    Quantic Dream
adfe43f0-dad1-4936-9fcf-33415e9c3550    Project Wind    <--    Rebellion
bef12f17-15e3-4873-ad0c-44c677ca6b7c    Project Wind    <--    Rebellion
99379f48-84b2-4a5b-b962-8030e357e835    Roller Champions    <--    Ubisoft
fc828fe1-8c79-4432-8431-5704ee66c9d0    Roller Champions    <--    Ubisoft
58c1db26-7196-4266-a264-5f989388638b    Sniper Elite 5    <--    Rebellion
c450d5ff-8f19-48d0-a279-ec44345fa12b    Sniper Elite 5    <--    Rebellion
62474635-a30c-4ee4-b04b-48a3ee36e3dd    The Mighty Eighth    <--    Microprose Software Inc.
e914ec03-076b-4e21-abc7-18a61d02e52d    The Mighty Eighth    <--    Microprose Software Inc.
3380ffa6-7748-4238-8c09-7a29c24b833a    Trainz Railroad Simulator 2021    <--    N3V Games Pty Ltd
d13a789c-5f97-4807-90e8-6de2fc214869    Trainz Railroad Simulator 2021    <--    N3V Games Pty Ltd
0af4f840-0adc-4b0c-8a4d-d86d53d4a144    Zombie Army: Dead War 4    <--    Rebellion
8771d9ba-b9a2-41ec-a478-0090c3a60c13    Zombie Army: Dead War 4    <--    Rebellion
I don't know whether he removed these apps intentionally, or whether these apps were missing from the database when he downloaded it. It could be a bit of both, as I suspect he does not want to embarass Nvidia with some of these, e.g. the Dolphin emulator or New Super Mario Bros.
 
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Tried the Cold War beta on both PC and PS5. What went wrong. The game feels very bad to play compared to the earlier CoD games. All those studios and this is the best they could do.
 
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Actually, the answer seems obvious for Dolphin and Super Mario. The dude posted a link to query these two appIDs in his original blog post:



If you replace Nvidia's endpoint with Ighor's backup, you get a chance to query the database, and the result is empty for these two specific appIDs.

 
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Problem solved. Now I'm just very suspicious of the sealing on the pipe that goes into the basement. Not too hot on being responsible of water damage to a whole tenement.
But I guess that for the time being, you know it in your heart...
IT'S A ME ! MARIO !
 

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Now that I'm hot I kinda want to do the electrical sockets myself, saw a video and it's a dumb as shit operation.
But I lack some pretty essential tools like stripping pliers and optionally a screwdriver that does voltage test.
 
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Started playing Metro Exodus and at first wasn't really feeling it at all, because it felt like it was on rails, but once you are literally on rails and the game opens up I'm loving it. Feels more open than I remember the former games being, reminds me more of Stalker.
Agree, also got a strong Stalker vibe from Metro Exodus.
It's so weird to be in a world, where we have a series by former Stalker devs that is going back to the style of the Stalker games, as well as somehow GSC being revived and working on a proper new Stalker game. Wonder who will end up making the better games going forward.
 
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Agree, also got a strong Stalker vibe from Metro Exodus.
It's so weird to be in a world, where we have a series by former Stalker devs that is going back to the style of the Stalker games, as well as somehow GSC being revived and working on a proper new Stalker game. Wonder who will end up making the better games going forward.
Either way, win win for us!:D
 
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By the way, to be on topic for a change, I started Aragami 1 yesterday and it's... not bad at all. Could even be very good. But yeah, the game was apparently made on a shoestring, so storytelling is shit. We are talking uninteresting plot, so so character models and some jarring piece of background.
But hey, the stealth is cool, that's the most important.
 

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mm, because this place has some fossils who are further than me in education, i've got a question for you IT-data-scientist-educational-guys

so basically, i wanna do shit like develop AI, nothing small like being a replacable IT consulant, but nothing too big-and-small like getting a phD in hopes of being a researcher, only to turn into some random teacher at an university
problem is, i ain't an engineer, my plans are basically directing me towards a master's degree in informatics with a focus on AI, basically a computer scientist, and i'm wondering (if anyone of you know), can i make it bros
 

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actual_norwegian_guy There is a saying, the difference between an amateur and a master is 10 000 hours. So if you think you can willingly put in the hours, then of course you can make it.

Like for me, Ive studied programming and I find is interesting BUT I don't really do it for fun so I will never be good at it. But for photography I might have a chance since I do that for fun, for work, I live and breathe it.
 

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actual_norwegian_guy There is a saying, the difference between an amateur and a master is 10 000 hours. So if you think you can willingly put in the hours, then of course you can make it.

Like for me, Ive studied programming and I find is interesting BUT I don't really do it for fun so I will never be good at it. But for photography I might have a chance since I do that for fun, for work, I live and breathe it.
mm, thanks for the words, i'll also look into the requirements for job listings that exist now and get a generalization going there
good luck doing the photography stuff, hoping that works well for you too
 
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Now that I'm hot I kinda want to do the electrical sockets myself, saw a video and it's a dumb as shit operation.
But I lack some pretty essential tools like stripping pliers and optionally a screwdriver that does voltage test.
Please don't fuck about with mains electricity if you don't know what you are doing. Especialy if you getting your knowledge from youtube.

I once plugged myself into the mains while repairing a Pinball machine because I didn't think about what I was doing. To this day I still remember how much it hurt.
 

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Now that I'm hot I kinda want to do the electrical sockets myself, saw a video and it's a dumb as shit operation.
But I lack some pretty essential tools like stripping pliers and optionally a screwdriver that does voltage test.
i just saw the reply
DO. NOT. TOUCH. ANYTHING. ELECTRICAL. WITHOUT. KNOWING. 100%. WHAT. YOU'RE. DOING.
where there is electricity and DIY, there is always that one chance you'll end up like the 10 construction workers who accidentally touched overhead lines to a train with a steel construction they were moving, DO NOT DO IT
 

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I only expect Persona 5 Royale on PC haha. The remaining will be all bonus.
That's one of the two things I want :lampblob:

i mean, it's more on the speculative side when it happens

we've all seen how Atlus outsources their ports, they gave The Eccentric Ape the job for Catherine Classic, ITL Inc. for SMT3HD, P4G got Preapp Partners
who is to say that they haven't thought about this long term, and just got other companies to work on ports before the anniversary so they could be ready for the anniversary period
Hope this is the case :thumbsupblob:




Loops and loops!

 
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You're obviously right with the electrical safety, it doesn't resemble me to be this bold. Evidently, the first thing I would do is cut the electricity in the whole apartment before touching anything, but there is a possibility some current remains, hence the need of a screwdriver tester... and the point when I should have bailed :face-with-cold-sweat:
But being poor, I can't really get professional help, so that limits my options. I will gather more info about what it would cost.
 
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