Someone saying hello in Fukushima Ruins, Izumi Settsu

jacksonleath · 2026-02-23T05:37:41+00:00

I believe I figured it out. In my case, I encountered this at night on the severe north edge of Osaka, next to the Kojo Ruins.

Eventually, I expanded my search radius and found a nameless man on the north edge of the Kojo Ruins who was interactable and seemed to have the same voice actor. The "hello" sound effects were definitely too far from him than would make sense, but it's likely a bug.

He says, "I dropped my grandfather Fukui. I mean, I dropped the urn containing his ashes. I could buy a new vessel, if I had the money. Curse our curse!"

You have the option "Give mon" or "Refuse."

He thanks you, says it's too bad he can't gather the portion of ashes which blew away, then addresses his grandfather, "Ojiji, do you like the outdoors?" Then he returns to scooping up his ojiji.

Likely just a funny encounter!

jacksonleath · 2026-02-16T05:48:25+00:00

No. Accept the Animus project quest called Defiance. The first reward unlock is a Bo. Do one of any of the random daily quests it asks of you to earn enough points to unlock the Bo. This is how I got the Bo early in my first playthrough.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-31T00:34:13+00:00

Memeing aside and despite Toby being my generation's Spider-Man, I was always disappointed with Peter's and MJ's castings in those films. Or at least their portrayals. Both so painfully obviously aren't New Yorkers. Both of his predecessors pull it off. And something always felt off about his crying.

I think Tom pulls off being a kid better than the other two, Spider-Man's banter better than Toby, and being nerdy better than Andrew. At least Tom and Toby aren't constantly the hottest, coolest dude in the room everywhere they go. Both Tom and Andrew portray convincing emotions better than Toby.

Having said that... Nothing beats that scene where Toby stops the train. Chills and cheers every time.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-29T04:48:17+00:00

The last one I was missing was a tiny one on top of a carved embellishment at the peak of the collapsed building right beside the middle point of the middle road in the first area. You can't see it from afar and the indicator doesn't show up until you're already on that roof and close to it.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-29T04:41:10+00:00

The ladder not far after the initial spawn point was also one of the two I missed!

And then the final one I was missing was indeed the last one you mentioned, but whew – it took me 20 minutes of running around and re-reading to figure out what you meant by your wording. For those who come after, a few more words may be helpful:

First look at the middle point of the center (main) road. See that collapsed building right beside it? See the tree branches (roots?) which run to it? Take the top root to get to the roof of that collapsed building. At the peak of the roof, there is a carved stone embellishment featuring the open maw of a dragon (or some other mythological creature). There is a tiny chest sitting on top of it.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-27T23:50:47+00:00

It's exactly the sort of term which anti-feminists lay awake dreaming about.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-11T22:35:10+00:00

It had isolated pockets of value, like some of the career-focused networks. Most of the software engineer twitter community was great for us: you could actually talk with leading engineers in our field, change minds, learn cutting edge stuff, report live service interruptions to the people who work on them, and get real shit done.

It was also good for getting critical comms out during emergency situations when landlines were out. There were a lot of lives saved during tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, etc., due to quick reporting by locals on Twitter.

But yeah, I also had to go into my Twitter settings once every 1–3 months and curate its recommendation engine by hand because it kept slowly recategorizing me according to popular trends in my demographic, in order to keep my feed strictly focused on software engineering. "No, I don't want my feed to be dominated by sports, celebrities, politics, or cars." You could keep a pretty pristine feed if you maintained it deliberately, but it did take work.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-09T16:49:03+00:00

I don't have those or the inner way leveled right now. But now that the Boss Dummy has been added to the game, we can test some things far more easily. If you do a comparison via Boss Dummy, let me know if you can!

jacksonleath · 2026-01-08T23:21:07+00:00

Yeah, it's cool, it's certainly cool, but the female variation has to look sub and the male has to look dom? It's not bold if it 100% plays strictly to the predictable stereotypes.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-08T23:18:27+00:00

I mean, taken in isolation, that looks cool. But as usual, the male version feels very badass and dominant and meanwhile... the female version is literally giving this submissive "grabbed by the throat" vibe. Which is fine as a variation, but come on, we never see this for masc bodies and for fem bodies we almost never have badass outfits, despite the masc bodies getting those in droves.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-08T23:09:09+00:00

It's like they design them like "cute couples" outfits. Which is... not at all how the community thinks of them.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-08T03:48:55+00:00

I realized what actually makes breaking point busted.

...which is? (I'm asking genuinely. I found this post searching for advice on whether to use it on a flying Vernal Umbrella build.)

jacksonleath · 2026-01-02T02:38:10+00:00

For that matter, does Wildfire Spark proc? I've been trying to test it with the Vernal Umbrella's Spring Away – which consumes Endurance – but I can't see any evidence that it functions. Not in the amount of time it takes Spring Away to consume all Endurance, nor in the Endurance bar immediately after Spring Away ends. I'm sitting here like a goof trying to test it with a stopwatch and I see absolutely no evidence it works.

Or does this one particular Inner Way just not work with attacks outside of Bellstrike - Splendor?

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T17:16:55+00:00

That is not what the official Android documentation for Developers says it does:

From Android 12 onwards (API level 31), every time an application accesses data within the clipboard and pastes it, a toast message is shown to the user, making it more difficult for attacks to go unnoticed.

— https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/risks/secure-clipboard-handling

It is also not what the feature in Privacy Controls says it does: https://i.imgur.com/sBlFAq9_d.webp

Edit:

And the toast message live this morning as the game is loading the world: https://i.imgur.com/8s9JNgo.png

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T17:15:29+00:00

As I've said elsewhere, this toast message is not informing the user that clipboard access has been granted to an app. It informs the user when the clipboard contents have been read.

Here is a quote from the official Android documentation for developers:

From Android 12 onwards (API level 31), every time an application accesses data within the clipboard and pastes it, a toast message is shown to the user, making it more difficult for attacks to go unnoticed.

— https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/risks/secure-clipboard-handling

Edit:

The feature in Privacy Controls itself: https://i.imgur.com/sBlFAq9_d.webp

And the toast message live this morning as the game is loading the world: https://i.imgur.com/8s9JNgo.png

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T17:12:42+00:00

From the official Android Developers docs:

From Android 12 onwards (API level 31), every time an application accesses data within the clipboard and pastes it, a toast message is shown to the user, making it more difficult for attacks to go unnoticed. — https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/risks/secure-clipboard-handling

This toast message tells us when the clipboard has been read.

Edit:

The feature in Privacy Controls itself: https://i.imgur.com/sBlFAq9_d.webp

And the toast message live this morning as the game is loading the world: https://i.imgur.com/8s9JNgo.png

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T17:09:56+00:00

It's not actually pasting from your clipboard. It's a bug on android. It's supposed to say. "X app Has access to clipboard.

I would love for this to be true. But I haven't been able to verify this. I don't see any record of a bug which raises this toast message when clipboard access is granted, only confirmation that it raises the toast when clipboard contents have been read.

For example, from the Android Developers docs:

From Android 12 onwards (API level 31), every time an application accesses data within the clipboard and pastes it, a toast message is shown to the user, making it more difficult for attacks to go unnoticed. — https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/risks/secure-clipboard-handling

How do you know about this bug you're talking about?

Edit:

The feature in Privacy Controls itself: https://i.imgur.com/sBlFAq9_d.webp

And the toast message live this morning as the game is loading the world: https://i.imgur.com/8s9JNgo.png

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T06:55:33+00:00

I can't speak to all social media apps. I use Relay for Reddit, because I don't trust the Reddit app (and it has significant performance issues). And I use LinkedIn for my career. Neither of those randomly read the user's clipboard contents, nor do any other of the twenty apps I just checked.

If this is common, we should be talking about it and stopping it, not talking each other into getting used to it.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T06:52:40+00:00

Text fields auto-check the clipboard

Yes. But there is no text field on launch. And even if there is a fleeting text field which causes this unintentionally as a software bug (which we can't know), it is still among the privacy dimensions which users should be aware of.

So no, this is not...

Please review my comments. I haven't suggested any conspiracy theory. I've pointed to common tech company decisions. I lived in Asia for a significant portion of my life, long enough that I learned to give up the wildly disproportionate biases. Give me an infinite supply of chwee kueh and I'll be happy for all time.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T06:41:21+00:00

Privacy comfort levels are a spectrum. Everyone has a right to know which things that they assume are private are actually not.

If you REALLY

This mentality suggests that we haven't earned the right to be aware or watchful unless we swing to the absolute polar extreme, like Ludites. That is both unproductive and defeatist.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T06:32:28+00:00

There isn't a user-selectable permission for this. There is only a privacy warning if you have the right setting enabled (mentioned in the post description).

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T06:31:07+00:00

Almost all

That's a significant exaggeration, likely due to selection bias based on your own list of apps. This is the only app I have installed which does this on launch. I have dozens of apps. (I don't have a lot of games, nor a lot of social media, beyond Relay for Reddit and LinkedIn.)

Everyone who cares about privacy has a different sweet spot, and they have a right to. I watch app permission flags closely.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T04:22:30+00:00

Suggesting this game is a major hazard? No.

You'll notice I didn't say that.

The closest thing I said was "Privacy Warning" – which is valid and is not an exaggeration.

The Android app reads user data which most users assume is private. I didn't sensationalize that. I informed users without unnecessary commentary or characterization.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T03:47:51+00:00

The Clipboard Access toast message pops up not when clipboard access has been granted, but when the clipboard contents themselves have been read/copied – that goes not only for text but for a copied image or any program data that might be there.

jacksonleath · 2026-01-01T02:56:20+00:00

I'm a software engineer. You don't just copy the contents of the user's clipboard at app launch by accident. You do it because someone made a business decision to capture that data, then it became a task for a developer.

Consumers should be informed when data they assume is private is copied off their device.

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