I beat the main campaign of Nioh 2. Like what I did in the first game, I went out of my way to find hot springs and Kodama.

Links to screenshots:

• The achievement "Kodama Leader" popping up on Steam.
• "Spa Lover"...
• "Hidden Hopes"...
• and the progress screen showing at which character level I reached milestones.

The final mission's name is "Cherry Blossom Viewing in Daigo" which I beat at level 120. Between the final stage for Nioh 1 and Nioh 2, I think Nioh 1's was tougher.

#nioh2 #nioh

Is the morality of following forum thread compatible with skepticism?

The probable (negative) future of web revival by レオタルドのフェティッシュ (translit. from Katakana "Leotard Fetish")

https://archive.is/https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/the-probable-negative-future-of-web-revival.6206/

Words by themselves such as "anti-vax", "neo-Nazi", "transphobic" do not express gradients.

For example, someone who is skeptical of government contracts with publicly traded biotechnology companies can be labeled as anti-vax and equated to a public health threat. Just as someone who is skeptical that children can base a decision from gender Marxism is equated to a murderer/criminal as anyone who does not support "semitism".

#shower-thoughts : conflation with an extreme

I had a lot of dreams in September.

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September Dreams, 2024

Antares' dream journal for September 2024. This month, I had "multiple" dreams in one night and vivid recall around the middle of the month.

#blogroll #dream

I read ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza by Yuval Abraham

#israeli-hamas-war

Lavender learns to identify characteristics of known Hamas and PIJ operatives, whose information was fed to the machine as training data, and then to locate these same characteristics — also called “features” — among the general population, the sources explained. An individual found to have several different incriminating features will reach a high rating, and thus automatically becomes a potential target for assassination.

The AI assigns targets based on social media connections, phone contacts, photos and what appears to be most data socially shared.

Also posted at https://shitposter.world/notice/Al6mlBYmh3VMDrPWIy under #blogroll

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hanvon-linux

I wrote a userspace driver for a very old pen tablet (Hanvon Graphicpal 0504) and used it to scribble in Krita.

Dream journals are back. This time I abused my AMD video card and got some renders that approximate what I saw. (So many things want NVIDIA and CUDA.)

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August Dreams, 2024

My dreams of August 2024. I had good recall at the beginning of the month then started slacking off towards the end.

#blogroll #dream

If no one is allowed to be wrong, then narratives are not allowed to be contested because the canon of the status quo is the accepted truth regardless of its basis in reality.

#shower-thoughts : musing https://bluedwarf.top/cackle/view-post.php?post_num=3843

I played a "light puzzle" ("find-the-thing") indie game. Waiting for Episode 3 to come out.

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[Review] The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

Antares plays an edgy indie game following a rascally girl and her lethargic older brother languishing in quarantine. (To be updated for future episodes.)

#blogroll

だれか は 寺に 行ったitta。

https://shitposter.world/notice/Al6mO9BLMwGIBdSdVo

壷阪寺の境内は、インド製の彫像やレリーフ(1枚目)がたくさん

壷阪寺 (=jar, heights, buddhist temple; tsubosakadera) 'no' grounds 'ha' インド (=I-n-do, India) 製=('se-i', made-in) (no) sculpture 'ya' レリーフ(=re-ri-fu, relief) [1 枚目=(photo, 'ma-i-me')] ga takusan (= many)

= Tsubosakadera's premises have many Indian statues and reliefs (1st photo).

3,4枚目は境内ですやすや寝てたねむねむにゃんこ。無防備 だ なぁ

3,4 photo (ha) grounds (de) soundly sleep-teta nemu nemu nyan ko. 無防備 (= defenseless, mubobi) de na'a

= The third and fourth photo, on the premises, a kitty kat soundly sleeps. So defenseless.

#jp

I'll be adding a comments section for each blog through Pleroma.

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Pandoc Filter: Pleroma Comments (Demo)

Test page for a pandoc filter that creates a comments section based on replies from the Fediverse through Pleroma.

#blogroll

I collected achievements in Halls of Torment and wrote a review. #blogroll

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[Review] Halls of Torment

Antares collects loot and achievements in a danmaku-inspired roguelite where every quest is an achievement. (The game is currently in Early Access.)

I read How Israel helped create Hamas by Mehdi Hasan and Dina Sayedahmed.

• https://archive.is/https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
• https://archive.is/iBdqJ (archive snapshot of October 11, 2023).
• https://yewtu.be/watch?v=o7grSsuFSS0 (supplementary video)
• http://web.archive.org/web/20090926212507/http:/online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html (cited)

The article describes the Israeli occupation of Gaza and a divide-and-conquer operation by the Israeli government and military to support the Palestinian Islamist faction (Sheikh Yassin) against Palestinian secular nationalists (PLO, Fatah Party, Yasser Arafat). The former grew into Hamas.

#israeli-hamas-war

Le 30 avril, l'etudiants à l'UCLA ont protesté le guerre sur Gaza. Mais les manifestants en favorable à Israel ont attaqué les tentes installées.

Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday night, after pro-Israel demonstrators attempted to forcibly dismantle an encampment of dozens of tents set up by pro-Palestinian protesters who have been camping on the school's Dickson Plaza, a central green space on campus.

Un manifestant favorable à Israel est identifié comme un soldat en service actif de l'Israel. Un internaute signale le département de police de Los Angeles a refusé d'arrêter le soldat étranger qui a failli tuer trois protestataires.

BREAKING: LAPD refuse to arrest FOREIGN SOLDIER who nearly killed 3 protesters during the UCLA encampment last week. Eliran Bismut[h] (sic) pictured below is an IDF soldier who attacked pro Palestine protestors with metal rods and 2x4's on the UCLA campus.

#israeli-hamas-war #fr

For the past week, I attempted to get Spectral Fists Specialist, an achievement-quest in Halls of Torment. That and Lightning Strike Specialist took me more tries than usual.

For those two quests, I had to forgo selecting other abilities. In every other case previously, I took advantage of any tome or scroll I could get. So these quests indicate it is entirely possible to playthrough a level with only one ability.

The quest Spectral Fist Specialist was driving me crazy at some point. The criteria:

Hit 500 enemies for 25,000 damage or more. Overkill damage counts.

I was starting to doubt whether I had to hit a group of 500 enemies such that the damage sums to at least 25,000, or that I had to hit for 25,000 damage 500 individual enemies.

  if (spell_damage * enemies_hit >= 25,000 
  and enemies_hit >= 500)
    then complete quest;

or

  if (spell_damage >= 25,000) 
    then eligible_hits +=1;
  if (eligible_hits >= 500) 
    then complete quest;

It is the latter though. I triggered quest completion during a boss fight when there were sparse spawns.

Making progress on Halls of Torment. Each character has a set of related quests. The quests aren't stories; they usually follow the format of "Deal x damage with a skill within one run".

So far I played

• Ranger
• Swordsman
• Cleric
• Warlock
• Sorceress
• Norseman

Of them, I did 100% of the quests for Warlock and Sorceress. I'm one quest off for Cleric, meaning I either need to find a way to turn off her health regen or to play for 20 minutes without taking a single hit.

I've been playing Halls of Torment.

The Cleric is very strong. She deals 2000 damage with her Holy Sceptre meanwhile Swordsman deals 100 damage with his Zweihander. Additionally, the Cleric applies the debuffs Fragile and Affliction. The two debuffs respectively increase damage taken by 5% from Direct Attacks and Effects.

Before I unlocked the Cleric, the first level gave me some trouble. It took me at least 5 tries (maybe 10, lost count) to beat the first level. Then after unlocking the Cleric, it took me 1-2 tries to beat subsequent levels.

Also screenshotted the Warlock, who deals 45 damage with Ravaging Spectres.

J'ai vu un vidéo "They Want GamerGate 2" par Kneon et Geeky Sparkles (Clownfish TV). "They" (ils) sont les journalistes de jeu qui travaillent a les médias d'entreprise.

• https://clownfishtv.com/they-want-gamergate-2/
• https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fb8tOwikmzQ

Dans le vidéo, Kneon et Geeky Sparkles supposent que les journalistes de jeu voudraient un deuxième "GamerGate" parce que les journalistes ont désespérément pour les visites de pages (@4:50). Le vidéo discute un articlé par NicheGamer aussi.

American tax dollars are now going to defending Sweet Baby inc. in the wake of backlash to an employee’s harassment campaign against a Steam user (Kabrutus).

L'argent des impôts américains est alloué pour défendre Sweet Baby inc. après un réaction d'un campagne de harcèlement d'un employe contre un utilisateur de Steam (Kabrutus).

#fr #sweet-baby-inc

ils ne s'arrêtent pas...

Consultant en développement de jeux Richie de Wit promet détruire les carrières de employé de compagne de jeu vidéo si ils critiquent les politiques de DEI (diversité, égalité, inclusion)

https://archive.md/https://thatparkplace.com/game-developer-consultant-richie-de-wit-promises-to-destroy-careers-of-video-game-company-employees-if-they-call-out-dei-policies/

Mark Kern (ancien chef d'équipe pour World of Warcraft) a fait une capture d'écran un poste de @richiedewit.

I love it when they reveal that “yes, it’s true, we ARE forcing DEI crap into games OR ELSE YOU WILL NEVER WORK HERE AGAIN!”

This is exactly what we are talking about, Richie. Thanks for taking the mask off and confirming everything.

I’ve been seeing more and more hateful Gamergate-esque opinions. I want be clear on where I stand. I won’t tolerate any harassment, violence, or threats towards devs, minorities, and women in our industry in any space that I own or have control over.

I don’t care about your opinions and won’t go into discussions with you. I’m not interested in explaining to you how little you know of the workings of our industry, and I will report and block your account.

Le poste de @richiedewit semble être un portrait malhonnête de le situation parce que cela déforme le sujet pour le faire paraître comme étant autre chose. Il utilise la prétendue victimisation des minorités, femmes, developpeurs comme bouclier pour cacher la tentative de faire taire un curateur de Steam.

#fr #sweet-baby-inc

私 は チャットGPTの会話 で どんな 人造人間の方言 を 学びます か ?

人造 ＝ jinrou (じんぞう)

人間 = ningen (にんげん)

方言 = hougen (ほうげん)

#jp

En plus, un employé de Sweet Baby Inc. Chris Kindred a essayé de faire taire un curateur de Steam (Sweet Baby detected) avec son armée personnelle pour déposer des rapports.

https://archive.is/https://bsky.app/profile/chriskindred.bsky.social/post/3kn2plxmyik26

https://archive.ph/https://thatparkplace.com/sweet-baby-inc-employee-begs-followers-to-report-steam-curator-that-tracks-sweet-baby-inc-s-involvement-in-video-games/

(2/2) #fr #sweet-baby-inc

I don't think anyone would be concerned about female, black, homosexual, Kirby, etc lead characters if the vocal proponents of "diversity" weren't massive bullies (cancel culture, media megaphoning). So the gimmick about "diversity", "inclusion", "innovation" appears more as a trojan horse for control over and propagandization of entertainment media.