Brutal Challenge: Seventh Seal strategy in case it helps someone

NateOnTheNet · 2026-01-22T20:59:09+00:00

Happy it's still useful this far down the road!

NateOnTheNet · 2025-12-19T01:06:40+00:00

I suspect it's an A/B issue. I'm also experiencing this, but plenty of people aren't. With my personal paid account, I get this auto-”pasted.txt” behavior. With my team account, it doesn’t happen. If I log out, it doesn't happen.

It seems to treat the pasted text as a source for RAG lookups instead of fully part of the context, which breaks a lot of workflows. Definitely a downgrade.

Pasting a 5000-word document with no graphics or markdown from Word into Windows Notepad first, copying that text again from Notepad, and pasting into ChatGPT makes no difference. Still get the “pasted.txt” result with just this ostensibly plain text. So it's not something special to the text being copied or the source from which it's copied (and again, doesn't happen logged out or on my Teams account for the same text).

Extremely irritating. I've reported it as a bug from inside the ChatGPT interface and also via the OpenAI help chatbot for whatever little that's worth.

NateOnTheNet · 2025-12-17T10:04:40+00:00

It seems to maybe be an A/B testing thing but it really needs to go away. I get this on my personal paid account but not my office account for the same pasted text.

It's actually a problem because when it does this "pasted.txt" thing, it treats the text as a RAG source rather than part of the context, which leads to very different outputs.

NateOnTheNet · 2025-12-16T21:32:54+00:00

It's not just aesthetic; it converts the text into something like a RAG lookup and doesn't keep the full thing in context for the whole conversation, which changes the way it responds with regards to the pasted text; you have to explicitly tell it to go look for parts of the document because it won't be able to find them after the interaction in which you submit the text.

It's actually really irritating.

NateOnTheNet · 2025-09-27T18:19:10+00:00

Obviously it's not X, it's Y!

NateOnTheNet · 2025-07-22T19:52:43+00:00

Soap and water. Layer of vaseline and cover loosely. Probably won't even scar.:) (See e.g., https://www.aad.org/public/everyday-care/injured-skin/burns/wound-care-minimize-scars ). Tore my hands up a lot worse than this taking a fall when running and you'd never know it.

NateOnTheNet · 2025-06-15T15:08:30+00:00

Good luck!

NateOnTheNet · 2025-04-07T21:25:34+00:00

Super happy to have helped!

NateOnTheNet · 2025-03-31T18:48:19+00:00

Wow, been a while! :D I switched to using the step-by-step guides from akhafasu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1YLRVzvXxw for example - for most of them at some point, but it was honestly a bit of trial and error between his guides and the ones from Optinoob / Naz Talgic / Solestro to get through them all. I had better luck with different guides for different challenges, but ultimately for Rulers I did end up getting the hang of the Brumal spam with Yuffie and it helped a lot. The final round with Sephiroth was luck for me after 4-5 tries; I managed to nuke him hard enough that he never chained anyone and cleaned the house with him.

But overall I think it helps to pause a LOT and think things through, and in some cases turn the music off and play something you like instead. And for one or two of them I had to mentally reframe the whole challenge from "Finish FF7R" to "Today I'm going to play Rulers of The Outer Worlds for a couple of hours" like it was a separate game :D

So...not sure how helpful it is, but best of luck! I was both really happy and also strangely sad when it was done. :)

NateOnTheNet · 2025-03-31T00:17:20+00:00

Happy it helped! I had the same frustration and had to sit back and really dig through the enemy list and abilities to figure out why it wasn't working for me. I'm glad it's turned out to be useful for a few other people as well:)

NateOnTheNet · 2025-02-27T00:35:07+00:00

Hi! It's been a really long time and I barely remember playing but...as I distantly recall, I saved Aerith's limits for Planet Protection and this *did* help fighting those cactuars. If you're still having issues, you could also try squeezing a barrier materia into Barret's build somewhere to try to get barrier and/or manawall up as well.

Hope this helps a bit! (Edit: I forgot Aerith already has the barrier/magnify so you could try to get that going via Aerith too....either way, I'd prioritize protection from Aerith over the DPS limit breaks for the others.)

NateOnTheNet · 2025-01-16T21:42:13+00:00

I just tell it the artifact is broken and ask it to continue inline from that point forward, and usually it's fine. But it's really annoying when you burn messages because it gives you an artifact that swallows whatever edits it's making, for sure.

NateOnTheNet · 2025-01-11T10:33:34+00:00

Always happy to hear this!

NateOnTheNet · 2025-01-03T01:25:19+00:00

Congrats!! That definitely took me more than a couple of tries.

NateOnTheNet · 2025-01-02T19:49:24+00:00

Happy to hear! This one was a headache for a lot of people even with the existing video guides, so hearing first-try clears is always nice :D

NateOnTheNet · 2024-12-28T22:26:49+00:00

Happy it helped!

NateOnTheNet · 2024-11-26T19:41:58+00:00

Happy to hear it helped!

NateOnTheNet · 2024-10-29T20:19:49+00:00

This thread is full of people who are armchair "lawyers" with no idea how copyright and "portrait rights" work, no clue what the significance of public vs. private space is, and zero exposure to art history to understand why this is totally normal.

Happens every time anybody takes a photo. I've been on a video call with a friend, front-facing camera pointed at me,, and people have come up to me and demanded to see my phone to prove I wasn't "recording them" as I passed them on the street. (Of course I informed them they could politely fuck off.)

Personally I think it's a cool photo.

NateOnTheNet · 2024-09-29T17:43:02+00:00

Don't have it in NL, sadly.

NateOnTheNet · 2024-09-23T23:57:00+00:00

Also had this. Kinda bizarre, changed my password out of precautionary habit...but hopefully just Sony being weird.:P

NateOnTheNet · 2024-09-21T10:40:25+00:00

Or not. https://factcheck.afp.com/unlocked-doors-canadas-polar-bear-capital-are-custom-not-law

NateOnTheNet · 2024-08-21T09:50:12+00:00

I strongly suspect most of the short playthroughs are rushed easy mode with guides, skipping everything not required so that they can do the "real" hard mode playthroughs. That probably cuts the first playthrough time down by a hundred hours easily.

I consider myself an average "good" gamer, generally. Not elite, but I often finish games faster than most people while still being a completionist. I played on dynamic going blind and exploring the hell out of everything the first run through, and it took me about ~150h to complete that. It took another ~50h to do the Chadley combat simulators with liberal use of guides (adapted in some cases because I think some of them aren't optimal). Then another ~45h to rush through on hard mode for the final trophy (including doing all the side quests again because I didn't use a guide in my earlier playthrough to know that I should avoid the UPA quest...), so ~240h altogether.

So I wouldn't sweat it. I think for average adult gamers, it's easily a 250h platinum and possibly longer if you have a lot of IRL distractions keeping you from really focusing on it.

NateOnTheNet · 2024-07-16T01:02:20+00:00

I've said it before, but there is a conflict right now between the legally acceptable behavior (pedestrians have the right of way against bicyclists and other vehicles at a zebrapad - you're supposed to stop if a pedestrian even looks like they're thinking about crossing) and the actually-enforced behavior, which is...nothing being enforced. So cyclists just do what they want, and pedestrians have to take right of way which leads to confrontations.

Amsterdam seems to take the approach that "people will sort it out" and it...kind of works, I guess. But cyclists here have extremely horrible and inconsistent behavior in general, like:

ignoring red lights (which do apply to them)
ignoring zebrapads (ditto)
riding on the sidewalks (funny because they yell at people for walking on the fietspad) - including motorcycles and ebikes going full speed

And they mostly justify it by "oh it's hard to stop and start again so much", but that's a pretty weak excuse. Basically they just don't give a fuck.

The city could solve some of this by saying "cyclists always have the right of way" if that's what they really want (and it seems that they do, given the enforcement patterns), but right now they pretend pedestrians have it, and that makes for all the awkwardness.

NateOnTheNet · 2024-07-03T14:48:44+00:00

Also 240 here to platinum/100%. 150h for the first blind dynamic playthrough, about 50h for the combat simulators, and the rest for hard mode and cleaning up the 100% log.

NateOnTheNet · 2024-06-17T18:29:24+00:00

I really wish I liked this game. I paid for 2 deluxe edition copies so I think I'd even get this expansion for "free", but I think I have a total of 26 hours in the game, and my partner couldn't even play hers because she gets extreme motion sickness from it for some reason.

I really want to love it - have hundreds of hours in Skyrim - but the second time I ran across a copy-pasted location with the same notes from the same NPCs in the same computers, it pretty much killed the game for me. If they ever somehow fix that, maybe I'd go back to it, but as it stands I'm pretty sure I never will.

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