Another week of responding to questions with links to our website and politely asking people to use their eyes because I literally can't explain the solution to their problem any differently or better than what is already on the site.
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There was a lot of discussion between the hypervisor method dev, fitgirl, and the mods of cs.rin.ru which is where a lot of these things get posted first now before private trackers. They agreed to certain warnings and were able to reduce the number of security features needing to be disabled, but is still so much more sketch than running a .exe that might be a Trojan back in the day. And none of them work on Linux. So for me, none of this shit counts or is worth it at all.
As OP mentioned, voices38 is the new person who just finished cracking all the 2024 denuvo games and moved onto 2025. They're the true torch bearer.
The abuse of co-workers isn't that they were assaulting people, but they were not very tactful in giving feedback, were sometimes incompetent, and created a hostile work environment. Saying "this is shit" about someone's idea instead of giving them constructive feedback and instead making people feel belittled or harming their mental health. Most of those stories are centered around Robert Kurvitz, the lead writer, and were talked about by Argo Tuulik in one of the documentaries released about the situation.
The fact that Robert is not a good boss and that reports about his behavior are factual was the excuse the higher ups needed to fire him and his closest associates, but their true intentions behind the firing were to take over the rights to the IP.
I hate long form video content as a primary source, but tbh the 2 year old People Make Games doc and the more recent follow up are the best comprehensive sources about the whole thing. They include a lot of interview footage from the involved parties.
The main writers who you are probably thinking of haven't released a game yet. They work at Red Info.
The various other splinter companies don't involve them but shouldn't be discounted entirely as it still took large teams to make Disco happen.
The tldr is that the suits behind Disco were corrupt and money hungry, but that the lead creatives also didn't have the best people skills when speaking to their coworkers and could have had more tact when providing feedback.
The severity of the actions of the two sides is obviously not the same, but disputes between the two sometimes rely on accounts of workers being mistreated by the lead creatives. Which isn't entirely untrue, but also not to the level of something like assault allegations you see at places like Blizzard.
I'm not a super lore master, but it's my understanding that a lot of Sauron's allies like some of the hill tribes join him because the people of the west were colonisers that kicked them out of their land in the first place. So obv Sauron is evil, but the kingdoms like Gondor gave people plenty of reason to want to fight them.
Trying to move out of a hell state, the only truck within 300 miles on the day we needed to move (after Uhaul called us to say they didn't have any for our reservation) was a 26 footer that took diesel and had those big air brakes. Drove it multiple hours to our destination and it was the most nerve wracking experience the whole way.
The single cargo plane Hasan flew in on was carrying something like 500k worth of solar panels. Everyone who went brought more food, medicine, electronics, or whatever than they are using while staying there.
An extra annoyance you would have found if the Bluetooth did work is that the input lag can make them not worth it anyway without the Microsoft dongle you mentioned. I have one with the dongle and it works perfectly on Bazzite, but I've read a lot of stories like yours about people having issues with them.
For sure, I'm not saying to ignore context entirely either. Just don't use it as an excuse not to get pronounciation correct first. Talking to other second language learners, I've met with several who will say things like "Wo shi meiguo ren" in a near-monotone when talking to other learners, as if they are not confident in their pronounciation and so lower their voice and de-emphasize the tones. Or they just do it because they know I am also not a native speaker. I know what they're saying based on context, but that isn't going to fly in more complex conversations when word choice can differ a lot more.
RNAi is correct. For example, when you have several words in a row with 3rd tones, they change:
HelloChinese doesn't really tell you this and you may notice it marking you incorrect in some lessons on a specific word and switching the tone markers on you.
To add on, I am also learning, and the best advice I've gotten right now is 'stop thinking of tones as separate things'. As in, many people get caught up in learning "is that 2nd or 3rd tone?" to understandably try and correct their pronunciation. Maybe this won't make sense, but I've started to try and think of the tone as just "the pronunciation of the word", which is why getting the tone wrong when speaking to a native speaker is confusing. Whereas people learning it as a second language will rely more heavily on context clues from the rest of the sentence while not paying enough attention to the pronunciation of the word.
So for me, I'm trying to think of 是 / shì as a completely separate word from 师 / shī as in lǎoshī. Not as "shi", but with 4th tone or "shi" with 1st tone.
I think you're asking good questions though when it comes to grammar, since there's a lot of rules like that that aren't explained very well or at all by a lot of sources.
I guess I don't really know why you'd even do a watch party for it when it is 100% what you've described. A vehicle meant to drive attention, engagement, and money to vampiric gacha devs and to an inherently cruel and abusive industry. Every time someone memes about Uma Musume characters, I die a little, because that shit has created a new generation of female fans in particular in addition to male anime gooners.
Not that we can't watch media made by/for bad people, but like my assumption is that the people watching are doing it to have a good time, participate in the zeitgeist, and by the end, maybe have their interest piqued in more Uma content? Which that last part seems to be the complete opposite of you'd want. It's not like watching a movie made by a director who later commits horrific crimes unrelated to the film, it's like showing prettified animal ag propaganda for something other than educational purposes.
To actually answer your question though because I really appreciate any attention being given to this (I mentioned it while complaining about Hasan Piker attending horse races), maybe you could keep the PSA brief but put together more resources for a thread/spoilered comment that you link to in the pinned threads? Assuming this is for Blorptube.
Something that doesn't get mentioned a lot is also the 'sports' ties to organized crime. This is an old article, but I'm sure I can dig up something newer. It's literally Yakuza/Sopranos stuff.
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The World's CHEAPEST Country To Travel To 🇮🇷 I S3, EP29 - Little Chinese Everywhere
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Sorry for the 
link but this isn't really picked up anywhere else. Predictably, the same disgusting people (referring to H3, Destiny, etc) who spread the dubious "Hasan shocked his dog" stuff don't care about this one, so it isn't all over the internet.
I'm not posting this to own everyone who said they like Hasan, but I do think it's an important thing to point out to any fans of his on this site that animal rights have always been a huge weak point for him. I'm a casual watcher who was tuning in for the China adventures, but 
so after the Panda zoo and this, I'm out for good.
Horse racing is such an obviously gross and abusive sport to anyone with sight to see it, so it's annoying seeing how many people (though admittedly in collapsed comments) in his community just don't care at all. Beyond the comments there, but in his chat in real time any time animal rights or veganism are mentioned.
Tangentially related, but 
s here should recognize that gacha slop like Uma Musume also funds horse racing (the franchise is basically PR for the Japan Racing Association) and is only a small separation from betting at the track. It was obnoxious seeing the wave of people talking about it at launch and seeing it plastered all over gaming sites, Steam, etc. Most people probably don't think twice about it because horse girls in anime just 'makes sense' in a vacuum, but I want to bring more attention to the cruel industry by using that franchise and Hasan as a springboard.
Please educate your favorite streamer, celebrity, or whoever so they don't use their platforms to promote animal abuse.
Edit: lmao their mods locked the thread that was significantly more supportive of the idea that races are abuse.
Cross-posting from .ml. Couldn't do it officially because it was posted by a .world user, so isn't visible from Hexbear.
I know this isn't the first strike for Proton either.
Edit: Andy replied on stormfront
The user who usually posts the weekly /c/games threads is absent/busy so I posted this on its own. I finished Dragon Age 2. And unfortunately, I think the gamers were right (it's kind of bad).
I beat Origins maybe 10+ years ago and really really liked it as someone who is also a fan of KotOR and other early Bioware/Obsidian games, etc. Veilguard just came out and I know that it has links to past games, even though you can only officially carry over decisions from Inquisition. But Inquisition lets you carry over choices from Origins and 2, so I decided to just pick up where I left off with the series to work my way up to the newest entry.
Spoilers below.
So much complaining about the Dragon Age games comes from 
talking about sex, gender, and what they would now call "woke shit". I could have a good faith discussion about how I think the player sexual characters are bad from a writing standpoint, but I think most of that gamer discourse started with Inquisition, which I've just started. Aveline, one of the companions of 2, explicitly rejects your advances and instead has you help her court another Kirkwall guard, who she ends up marrying. This was cute.
Dragon Age 2 is instead bad for a lot of design reasons.
It really does repeat the same handful of locations over and over and over to where I started recognizing areas that were supposed to be different. Most of the 'caves' are the same place as the Bone Pits mine 
, except with different doors filled with stone to block your access. There were like 4 'warehouse' locations, but were really all the same one. The Deep Roads locations were also the same. It's just all the same, even when it's supposed to be different. There were very few varied locales and the city of Kirkwall is just not very interesting, nor are the familiar sections like the Deep Roads, which were some of my favorites in Origins. The Dwarf Commoner start in that game was so cool.
The game also has some very weird difficulty spikes that were very frustrating. Most of the game was pretty easy and the main trick it has up its sleeve is just spawning 3 or 4 waves of goons. Once you think they're beat, more appear all around you, not usually from any specific direction. They just fall out of the air or jump over walls behind and beside you.
But specific enemies, like Qunari mages, can just one shot your whole party unless you focus them immediately upon them spawning in. Which is actually how you deal with most difficult enemies, by chain stunning and cc'ing them, if possible.
The other difficult enemies were in the DLC, with the final boss of The Legacy being difficult because of the boss mechanics needing you to navigate through obstacles with the atrocious AI pathfinding. This is the first time I've cheated in a game in 10+ years because I was stuck inside the DLC and couldn't just leave, power up, and come back later. After 6 or 7 attempts, I felt there was no chance I was going to 'get good' and turned on god mode because I felt like the developers who made this fight knowing their pathfinding was this bad did not respect me, respect my time, or have any sense of enjoyable boss mechanics. You'd probably find a dozen similar bosses in MMOs like WoW, but the big difference is that those actually have good movement mechanics and you don't have to corral 4 party members through them at the same time when they're determined to die.
I've beat all the Souls games, so I don't think was entirely a 'me' problem, even though I'm sure there are people who have beat that encounter on Nightmare difficulty.
The other final boss of the Mark of the Assassin DLC was difficult because you're forced to use Tallis, a terribly built rogue whose primary purpose is to showcase Felicia Day as an actress. Admittedly, the idea of other races being converts and followers of the Qun is an interesting idea that I want to explore more. But the character was actively detrimental to my party composition and just died a lot. This is mainly because the AI doesn't understand how to deal with characters like Tallis, a dual-wielding rogue that relies on building up combos, or using stealth, to do damage. It also can't play Blood Mages without killing them and trying to use Heal on them, when Heal doesn't work on characters in Blood Mage stance, without setting up individual Tactics that says "heal X party member at % health" and excluding the other Blood Mages. Anyway, I had to kite the boss around the arena for probably like 20 minutes with only my tank and my MC, a mage, alive to do damage.
The story had some ups and downs. It was a much more personally tragic story than anything like Origins, which had a lot more to do with saving the world. Instead, my main character's entire family dies gruesomely, one of her friends does some 
against the church (blowing up the entire thing and kicking off a civil war) and tricks her into being an accomplice, and they're left with essentially only (some of) their friends by the end of the game. I did like this more personal angle about a blight refugee trying to improve their standing in the world. But a lot of the side quests and companions don't land.
The big theme in the story is the Mage Question. In Ferelden, mages are forced into 'circles' when they are discovered to have a strong connection to the Fade (another universe created and abandoned by The Maker filled with jealous demons who want to control humans to experience their world and emotions). This happens even if they're children, and is done against their will, but often with the support of their families. This is because those mages with strong connections to Fade are susceptible to demonic possession without learning how to resist this. They're assigned their very own Church Officer known as Templars. In theory, the idea is to protect the mages themselves, society, and for the Templars to act as last resorts for the mages. They'll kill the mage if they end up being possessed. But certain factions within the templars are more like witch hunters, looking for signs of possession that aren't there, because they hate the idea of beings like mages existing at all. Their compromise is to magically lobotomize them, making them unable to use magic, but also doing away with all their emotions.
In Tevinter, a neighboring country, mages are in control under the title of 'magisters', which are particularly powerful mages. They also enslave their populace and turned their templars into bodyguards. The original magisters were mages who tried to enter the city of The Maker, defiling it, and starting off the first blight. They play the foil to the idea that mages are a universally oppressed class of people. While they don't feature much in the main narrative of 2, you do get a companion who was formerly enslaved by them, and who calls you out for showing too much mage sympathy. Such as by suggesting that the Templars shouldn't have treated the mages so harshly if they didn't want their church to get blown up. Sorry not sorry.
But the way this gets resolved is that you get to choose to help the Templars finally kill all the mages in Kirkwall, declaring them to be too far gone into the realm of blood magic and demons. Or you help the mages fight off the Templars to save their lives and hopefully get a message out to other Circles about how overboard the Templars are willing to go. During these final moments, your main mage contact, Orsino, turns into a stitched up gore demon because he feels like the cause is hopeless and that they're all going to die anyway. And as you fight through the city, you see countless demons corpses and fight them. Only once do you see a group of living mages that you can help fight off the Templars.
So in one way, the game tries really hard to get your to sympathize with mages and their plight, because they are oppressed and treated poorly. The Chantry is a disgusting organization that kidnaps children, bullies indigenous groups (the elves), and lobotomizes anyone that starts to question their leadership. But at the same time, it seems to say "hah, look at all these mages turning to demons, told ya so" with how the final battle is presented.
I still stand by the idea that the mages would not turn so freely to demons and blood magic if they were not treated lesser in the first place, and that individual blood mages are less of a threat to the world than an organization like the Chantry, or an organization of blood mages like The Magisters. Meaning the problem isn't mages, but the pursuit of power and the means by which someone seizes it (usually by stepping on the necks of others). But this isn't really consistent with the game and you're only given one dialogue option to really suggest that Templars are the cause of the issue for both them and for mages in Ferelden.
Instead you're laughed at for daring to help the people being oppressed by a tyrant woman (because it turns out all mages actually are demons afterall), Meredith, who turns out to be driven to greater levels of bloodthirst by possessing Red Lyrium that you came across earlier in the game. Which also ruins her character, as she at one point expressed frustration at her 'need' to kill all the mages, demanding that someone suggest to her a better solution and she'd gladly do it. Instead of a potentially complicated character with actual motivations, she's turned into an anime villain who backflips 20 feet into the air.
There were also a few bugs in the game I came across that were annoying. A certain robe that causes you to Stealth when hit turns off all your sustained buffs, which makes it entirely useless, because all my characters kept at least 2 that would affect the entire party. I don't think this was intended, as it was only equippable by my main character and it was made unusable for Blood Mages, since I had 5 different auras on through my essentially infinite mana pool. The game also crashed twice, but this could be due to playing on Linux through Proton.
I'm running out of steam so I can't recall anything else I wanted to say. I don't regret playing the game, but it's for sure a step down from Dragon Age: Origins in just about every department. Except movement. And I've realized this because I started Inquisition, which is where they've decided to give your character 'weight', meaning they turn slowly and control like you're driving a tank 
. It feels so horrible.
I swear she uses the main theme from Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura at 13:35 
It's neat hearing from people who have lived on the border for a long time.
"I can be your gay son, I can be your thot daughter" 
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Hiroyuki Sanada Becomes First Japanese Actor to Win Best Lead in a Drama Series for ‘Shogun’
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I've got a server with a lot of that set up and I still just use Bitwarden for passwords. It's worth for all the other stuff.
Check out Immich, Komga, Calibre-Web/Calibre-Web Automated/Grimmory(later, once they finish ripping out the AI slop from the original Booklore creator) for some of the other things you listed.