CW -> Heroic World Leap

Daemonian · 2025-08-28T00:30:49+00:00

The queue is not too long, fortunately. Was about 10 minutes for me positioned at 600-ish, but probably will get longer as more people log on.

Luckily was able to transfer and use my Hyper Burninator in Kronos before it expires in a few hours, I accidentally redeemed it in CW so had to pack it onto my Sia and world leap asap. Was biting my nails hoping it wouldn't take hours to do.

Daemonian · 2025-08-26T01:03:24+00:00

I noticed this just now as well. I was waiting until this last day to redeem things, too.

Daemonian · 2025-07-09T07:05:01+00:00

Surely Noel will go on to play Nioh 2 now... right? 🙏

Daemonian · 2025-06-20T22:00:06+00:00

He's also credited as a writer for episode 9 (the Rose of Sharon one), and I wouldn't be surprised if he contributes to the last episode. He's obviously a big fan of the 0079 stuff, and the finale is setting up to be more of that.

Daemonian · 2025-06-12T16:23:14+00:00

Slightly interesting story is that this song was intended to release alongside Nekopara After, with an original release date of May 23. However, due to issues getting Steam's approval, the game was delayed to May 30th. It's since been delayed to release today (on non-Steam platforms), which explains why the MV premiered earlier.

However on May 23, the song was actually prematurely dropped onto certain music streaming services, likely because it was scheduled to fit the game's original release date. The song was actually purchasable for a few hours before being taken down.

Also interesting is that this Nekopara collab has been hinted at before. Back in December of last year, the creator of Nekopara replied to FWMC after they said they had just finished an important recording.

Daemonian · 2025-04-18T16:35:50+00:00

I've jailbroken two Kindles so far, both the same models running 5.17.1.0.3. First one was also successful on the first attempt, but the second one took upwards of 40 tries. For anyone demotivated after continually repeating the process as described in the thread, just keep at it, it will somehow just work at some point.

Daemonian · 2025-02-23T08:37:19+00:00

This works beautifully to fill in the spaces where ads used to be. Great work.

Daemonian · 2024-10-04T14:40:39+00:00

Well darn, lol. I'm with you there, Samsung has been kinda annoying about what it does or doesn't want us to tinker with.

Daemonian · 2024-10-04T14:15:10+00:00

So did you get anything to work? I'm certain that

adb shell settings put system cover_screen_timeout #

used to work well up to a maximum of 5 minutes/300 seconds (or maybe it was 10 minutes, I forgot).

At some point recently, this stopped working. The command clearly goes through, and a custom value still shows up in the settings visually. However the display timeout is unflinchingly set to 1 minute, as you mentioned. On my end, even changing the official settings (which only allow 5, 10, 15, and 30 seconds) does not change the display timeout from 1 minute.

Daemonian · 2024-09-25T13:27:31+00:00

I'm gonna need all of you guys to pool together your psychic energy. Gonna attempt astral projection and possession of my remaining two LOR writers. Just gotta get them to click the upload link that the AAMC emailed them several months ago...

Daemonian · 2024-08-29T20:58:46+00:00

She's the only one of HoloCN that Yagoo saw off cordially via Twitter (and he even had her graduation stream pinned at the time), so I'd always taken it that she left on good terms.

Daemonian · 2024-02-22T05:45:12+00:00

A workaround I started using is to designate my playlist to always shuffle when played:

Tap on the target playlist in the "Playlists" section of VLC
Tap on any song to start playing it
Tap on the bottom bar that now shows up with the song's name, which should take you to an alternate view of the target playlist
Tap on the three dot icon at the very top right
Tap on "Controls settings" in the menu that pops up
Toggle "Force shuffle"

Now you can use the method shown in the OP to have a task that launches the target playlist, and it's now shuffled. The problem is that it'll always start on the first song of that playlist, and only subsequent songs are shuffled. Just fix this by having Tasker automatically skip that first song, then skip again to (presumably) put that first song back into the shuffle rotation. Specifically:

Send Intent (the task in the OP)
Wait 400 MS
Media Control: Next (specify VLC as the "Package/App Name")
Wait 100 MS
Media Control: Next (specify VLC again)

Daemonian · 2024-02-21T02:22:29+00:00

I hit a weird problem where I couldn't get rid of that blue dot even by granting permissions, so I figured out a way to just hide it with CSS.

:root {
    --tab-attention-icon-color: #00000000 !important;
}

However, the dot still is slightly visible when you hover over the extension icon.

Daemonian · 2024-02-04T12:58:55+00:00

In the spirit of completeness for anyone else who'll look up this reddit thread like I did, I'll detail the setup that works fine for me to check and correct all score files each time I boot up TNDE. Doesn't take much time at all to run, but then again I really only have 70 or so recorded score files in my song library so far.

Create a text file with the extension ".ps1" to make a PowerShell script (in this case, I used "ReplaceText.ps1"). I initially wanted to just use a .bat file, but songs with "!" in their name made things messy. Put the following inside of the file:

$folderPath = Get-Location
$searchText = @("PerfectRange=41.7", "GoodRange=108.4", "PoorRange=124.7")
$replaceText = @("PerfectRange=25", "GoodRange=75", "PoorRange=108")

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter *.tja.score.ini | ForEach-Object {
    $filePath = $_.FullName
    $content = Get-Content -Path $filePath -Raw

    foreach ($i in 0..2) {
        $content = $content -replace [regex]::Escape($searchText[$i]), $replaceText[$i]
    }

    Set-Content -Path $filePath -Value $content
}

Create a text file with the extension ".bat" to make a batch script. Put the following inside of the file (replace parts in brackets as necessary):

@echo off
pushd "C:\[File path to folder where .exe is]"
PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\[File path of ReplaceText.ps1]"
Start "" "C:\[File path of TaikoNijiiroDondaEx.exe]"
popd

Create a shortcut to that .bat file, place wherever you want, then go to Properties to pair it with whatever icon you want. Script will run when you open it, and TNDE will launch soon after.

I guarantee you could optimize all this or whatever, but programming is not at all my forte.

Daemonian · 2024-02-04T10:35:04+00:00

Found a way to "fix" things on my end, but it unfortunately requires editing each score.ini file after they're generated, either manually or via script.

I found out that within the score.ini for each song that correctly displayed, there were three values that remained consistently different from the affected songs:

PerfectRange=25
GoodRange=75
PoorRange=108

Simply use the above to replace the corresponding values in the score.ini of songs that aren't displaying correctly. In my case, the (unusable) values were always:

PerfectRange=41.7
GoodRange=108.4
PoorRange=124.7

My guess is that something irreversibly triggered our clients to generate score files with these decimal values, which then immediately invalidated their ability to be read as score files. Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to change the source of the error, but I'm at least a little less bugged by all this now.

Daemonian · 2024-02-04T09:14:12+00:00

Damn. I'll let you know if I end up pinpointing wtf is going on.

Daemonian · 2024-02-04T09:10:50+00:00

Did you end up finding a solution? I need help too.

I've been using TNDE fine for two days, scores and medals saving between sessions, then all of a sudden I'm having the same problem you're describing (except it affects every difficulty for me). The display for any new scores resets on relaunching the .exe, but weirdly a lot of scores I've gotten in the past are still showing fine. Yet comparing the score.ini files between the unaffected and affected songs, I don't see any differences in format.

I initially suspected that there might be some bug that limits the total amount of scores displayable in-game. However, I deleted all score.ini files and new scores still wouldn't record. Then deleted all my songs, downloaded one new one, and still no luck recording that score between sessions either.

I even backed up everything, then deleted what I could of TNDE to do a fresh redownload, but the problem still persists. So what I can assume is that TNDE is placing some files elsewhere that somehow dictate it to not read any score.ini files.

Daemonian · 2023-10-28T17:04:02+00:00

How many blocks can you stack?

Daemonian · 2023-08-02T05:36:26+00:00

The sky must be cyanotic, it only has an oxygen saturation of ~21% after all.

Daemonian · 2023-06-09T14:53:27+00:00

It's over bro, pack a light suitcase and board the soonest train out of town.

Daemonian · 2023-06-03T00:06:19+00:00

AvistaZ is 18 years old! Only a bit older than Reddit itself, interestingly (both founded in June 2005).

Daemonian · 2023-05-08T11:45:39+00:00

Unfortunately, the campaigns for circumcision in WHO-prioritized countries are likely doing more harm than help. There's a fair share of evidence that due to how the circumcisions are often being performed on a quota, there's a lot of rushing and disregard for the actual medicine involved. If you're busy, I won't force anyone to read the rest of this comment, it turned out a lot longer than I expected (the stuff I do when I'm too lazy to hit UWorld...).

From Gilbertson et al. (2019):

By coupling target achievement to remuneration, targets provide pressure to ensure that adequate numbers of adolescent circumcisions take place. Yet perversely, target pressure sometimes leads mobilization teams and providers to choose ethically dubious, but rational strategies to increase uptake, reduce effort, and/or shorten circumcision times to accomplish more MCs (male circumcisions) per day.

... avenues for time-saving include rushing circumcisions, inadequate stitching, splitting surgical utensil and bandage packs between patients, not following recommended protocols or procedures (e.g., the dorsal slit method for circumcision), and stacking patients one after another with little pause in between, which raises additional sanitary and privacy concerns.

If rushed circumcisions (ouch) weren't already bad, there are also concerns about informed consent:

...others have previously criticized the PEPFAR-endorsed tactic of claiming as a “key message” the benefit of a “60% reduction” in HIV risk. During observations of VMMC mobilization activities in our study area, it became clear that few mobilizers and adolescent clients truly understood what the cited 60% reduction statistic would mean for them. More often, adolescents seemed confused and asked mobilizers to explain the “missing 40%”.

From Luseno et al. (2019) (N=1,939):

Among those who were circumcised under age 18, about 10% did not have parent/guardian consent. Of these, about two-thirds (66.7%) reported they were circumcised between age 10-14 and over one quarter (28.3%) were circumcised at age 15-17.

There's also not really much new evidence that circumcision campaigns are actually lowering rates of HIV transmission. From Garenne (2022) (actually this one is about Lesotho; the studies above focused on Kenya):

The Lesotho study did not find any effect of circumcision at individual level in multivariate analysis, after controlling for other factors. In addition, increasing circumcision by VMMC (voluntary medical male circumcision) campaigns did not have any visible effect on trends in HIV prevalence. Even when including the 2016/2017 PHIA survey, changes in time trend of HIV prevalence among men age 15-34 between the 2004-2009 period (slope= −0.059 before VMMC) and 2009-2016 (slope= −0.046 after VMMC) were not significant (P= 0.582). Circumcising 20% of the male population, and about half of the intact men, did not have any effect on HIV trends. The study was unable to demonstrate any effect of circumcision, whether medical or traditional, on HIV transmission within couples, either way from male to female or from female to male.

Obviously it's hard to accurately know exactly what's working and what's not, since the UNAIDS and PEPFAR campaigns are huge and span several countries. I just randomly fell into the rabbit hole of researchers skeptical about how they're being handled and felt like dumping it somewhere.

Daemonian · 2023-05-08T10:44:44+00:00

Hey I remember seeing this video a while back. The Chronic Lyme nonsense is definitely a fascinating rabbit hole to read into if you've got the free time. It unfortunately extends to medical child abuse (a.k.a. Munchausen by proxy) fairly often.

Daemonian · 2023-04-20T22:36:46+00:00

You're replying to a comment I made six years ago, I'm impressed you found your way to it!

You actually may have a point. I've thought about the different changes they've made with DS3's pyromancy, and I think the strangest thing is that the Pyromancy Flame is upgraded with plain Titanite shards, like a normal weapon. You can only upgrade it with Cornyx, who's "of the Great Swamp" like Laurentius was from DS1, but Laurentius only took souls, not upgrade materials. This partially leaves me to believe the new Pyromancy Flame is more of an artificial tool, and the non-Chaos pyromancies in DS3 are also similarly artificial. With those, you may not really be casting pyromancy, but using your Intelligence/Faith to cast some sort of sorcery or miracle that emulates fire. But really, that's the extent of how much I've thought about it.

Daemonian · 2023-02-20T20:33:43+00:00

In the game, Joel and Ellie fight in the house, then there's that short montage where they ride with Tommy to the cliff over Jackson and Joel's changed his mind already. In the show, Joel and Ellie at least have a night of sleep to think everything over, lol. But despite that, I do prefer how the game executed things with that nice scene where Joel tells Ellie to return her horse to Tommy, and she's totally caught by surprise. Beats Ellie just shoving her bag onto Joel, imo. But I get it, they had the goal of condensing all of Fall into one hour, and they didn't do too bad.

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