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My experience with Yakuza's karaoke might have made be overconfident. The game starts with calibration both audio and video cues. And I thought it was just a matter of pressing at roughly the right time. Third song, they already throw multiple key presses at the same time (but not all start and end at the same time!)

This game may have been too much for my green rhythm game experience.

I forgot to lock the door this morning, again.

My teammate got laid off today

Every move is made within a second. Can't even understand what's going on as a viewer, how come players do it?

Not a lot but definitely better. So far beaten up to Widow without any cheat. Though I did have to stay (mostly) in a corner for Widow's second phase. Too much on screen to track. It's probably Wander crest that kept me alive.

Moorwing still took the most tries and finished him with one HP. Sister Splinter first try. Let's see how I fare at Last Judge.

PS. Umm.. NoDoubleDamage.dll was still on, so no double damages. That probably helped.

Even with that I beat most of the bosses which is a sharp improvement over the last time. The only "too much" bosses are Savage Beastfly 2 and Lace 2. Um.. perhaps Grand Mother Silk, haven't tried. Didn't dare try First Sinner, Shakra or the lava brothers.

A 17 year old kid won champion in 2024. Two years later, an "old" kid, 20 years old, won Candidates 2026 to challenge him. Even if we won, he would not be the youngest champion ever. Gukesh on the other hand could gain an unfortunate record: youngest champion defeat.

I don't even play chess! A tournament of grandmasters, commentated by grandmasters or international master. Zero idea what's going on.

Learned that semi-hard way. While ACPI hooks still run, e.g. to hibernate the system on pressing power button. Upon resuming, it continues to... shut down.

It turns out, according to some random comment on the internet, and logind.conf, many ACPI events are intercepted by elogind as well. So doing this works, without messing around with acpid

[Login]
HandlePowerKey=hibernate

Not exactly sure how acpid is bypassed in this case though, because the defaut script will still try to power the thing off. Oh well, not curious enough to find out.

(from Going Postal)

Moist handed the paper to Miss Dearheart.

"He's going to walk away with it", he said. "He's just throwing words around. The Trunk's too big to fail. Too many investors. He'll get more money, keep the system going just on this side of disaster, then let it collapse. Buy it up then via another company, maybe, at a knockdown price."

"I'd suspect him of anything", said MIss Dearheart. "But you sound very certain".

"That's what I'd do", said Moist, "... er.. if I was that kind of person. It's the oldest trick in the book. You get the punt---you get others to deeply involved that they don't dare fold. It's the dream, you see? They think if they stay in it'll all work out. They daren't think it's all a dream. You use big words to tell them it's going to be jam tomorrow and they hope. But they'll never win. Part of them knows that, but the rest of them never listens to it. The house always wins."

"Why do people like Gilt get away with it?"

"I just told you. It's because people hope. They'll believe that someone will sell them a real diamond for a dollar. Sorry."

I remember not being to finish the very first puzzle, gave up after maybe an hour and the game stayed there for hmm... a decade? Looking back maybe the problem was I didn't even follow the tutorial because the very first few puzzles should be just "do as told".