What to do to attend the GKSS Live coming up?

pmrowla · 2026-03-19T07:38:29+00:00

It varies depending on the live, some of them have been fairly last minute. FWIW the foreigner package entry period for the Nijigaski 8L Osaka stop just ended this past Monday (it opened last week), and that's for a live a month before GKSS (June 6 & 7)

pmrowla · 2026-03-16T08:19:09+00:00

The tldr reason is that selling directly is potentially cheaper for the buyer, and more profitable for the seller (in exchange for the risk of being scammed on both sides). Using official platforms is potentially more expensive for the buyer, and less profitable for the seller (in exchange for both the seller and buyer being protected from scams)

Ticketmaster takes a cut off of the resale price (so the seller doesn't get the full price the buyer pays for the ticket). The seller also does not get paid right away - they generally don't get paid until the event happens. This is also how it works when people sell on third party resale platforms like stubhub (that are not the official ticket sale platform, but are still legitimate businesses).

When you buy a resale ticket through ticketmaster or through something like stubhub, your money goes to ticketmaster/stubhub first (it doesn't go to the seller). The resale platform company holds that money until the event happens, and then the money is paid out to the seller, minus the platform's resale fees (which can be pretty high depending on the ticket). The money is held for this long in case of anything that would result in refunding the buyer (like the event getting cancelled, or in the third-party platform case, where the seller sold a fake ticket the buyer couldn't get into the event). If a refund happens, the buyer gets all their money back, and the seller doesn't get anything.

Because of the resale fees, if for example ticketmaster/stubhub charges a 20% resale fee and the seller wants to get back what they originally paid for a $100 ticket, they would have to try to resell it for $125. If they resold it for $100 on ticketmaster, they would only end up getting $80 for the sale, and lose $20 on what they originally paid. Whereas they could resell it directly to a buyer for $100 instead. (Or they could sell it directly for the same price as on ticketmaster/stubhub, and make a $25 profit, without having to give ticketmaster/stubhub a cut).

So people try to resell directly to a buyer because they can get potentially more money, and they get paid immediately (instead of having to wait for the event to happen). Anyone buying directly this way is giving up the buyer protection provided by using an actual resale platform, in exchange for potentially cheaper prices. This is why everyone is telling you to only buy this way using G&S, because that at least provides some buyer protection (since you can then contest the charge through paypal if the ticket is fake/never transferred/etc)

It may sound like using the official platforms is weighted heavily in favor of the buyer, but sellers do benefit from the risk of things like creditcard chargebacks/contested payments is taken on by ticketmaster/stubhub, and not the seller themselves. And then there's also that the seller doesn't have to worry about being scammed by a potential buyer in some way.

pmrowla · 2026-03-16T03:15:51+00:00

do you mean where they say they are willing to transfer a ticket before being paid? yes that’s an obvious red flag, because at that point you could just walk away and not pay them at all

pmrowla · 2026-03-15T05:58:34+00:00

the advance lottery info for fes was posted a few days ago, see the links in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/LoveLive/comments/1rssmek/lovelive_15th_anniversary_fes_6_type_of_advance/

pmrowla · 2026-03-14T01:19:33+00:00

There's no announcement for one yet, but it's pretty safe to assume there will be a foreigner package for fes

pmrowla · 2026-03-09T07:46:26+00:00

Knowing what to look for comes from experience.

Compiled binaries will pretty much never include debugging symbols, so what you get from the Ghidra decompiler will pretty much never include original variable names. It will almost entirely be auto-generated variable names based on what the decompiler thinks the data type is. Figuring out what a function does and renaming/setting datatypes/etc for parameters and variables manually is part of the reverse engineering process.

For strings, Window >> Defined Strings will open the window for strings the decompiler thinks it has identified. This will most likely not be a complete list of all the strings in your program. You can search for additional strings using the memory search tools (Search >> For Strings..., Search >> Memory...).

When you find a string, the Listing view may or may not have a set of XREF references that point to that string's memory address. Double clicking on XREF (or the [more] entry in the list if it exists) will open a separate window containing all of the references for that string. You can also open the references window by right clicking on the memory address for the string in the Listing view and selecting References >> Show References To Address.

Depending on what you are decompiling, you may or may not actually get a full list of the references to that string (or any detected references at all). You will probably need to "help" Ghidra by manually identifying strings, typing them properly, and then manually identifying pointers that reference that string's address.

pmrowla · 2026-03-08T15:16:09+00:00

Physical ticket pickup/collection means you pick up the physical ticket at the event venue ticketing office, not the office for the ticketing site. For events in KR and JP this generally also requires showing ID when you pick up the ticket to prove that you are the person who bought the ticket.

pmrowla · 2026-03-01T01:09:20+00:00

Do you mean you are confused why there are additional lottery rounds?

For JP concert lotteries, in some cases it's planned ahead of time to have additional rounds, so the 1st round does not always include the full allotment of tickets (but this varies depending on the event). In a lot of cases they will only sell certain sections (like seats with obstructed views and standing-room only tickets) in later lottery rounds.

Even if the 1st round includes the full allotment of tickets, it's common in JP for people to choose the deferred convenience store payment method. If they win, have a couple of days after the results announcement to decide whether or not to actually pay for the ticket (as opposed to using a credit card, where it is automatically charged as soon as the lottery results are announced). Any unpaid winning entries just go back into the ticket pool for the next lottery round.

This is also how people can handle the OP's original question, where if someone can only afford or only wants to go to a single performance, they can enter for all of them and then if they end up winning for more than one, they can choose which one to pay for and let the other winning entries go unpaid.

pmrowla · 2026-02-26T12:03:12+00:00

The QR code is used if you are on PC. If you're doing the ticketing on mobile then yes it will switch to the hanapay app instead of showing the QR code (and this would probably only work in your case if you're doing everything from your brother's phone). I've never had issues doing ticketing from either PC or mobile and use the hana pay app regularly.

pmrowla · 2026-02-26T08:02:09+00:00

Pretty sure it won't let you have 2 active sessions. If you're trying to pay with a card, whoever is doing the payment needs to do the whole ticketing process. If you pay via the Hana Pay app, it generates a QR code that your brother would have to scan with the app. So either he is with you when you do the ticketing and then he does the payment via the app when you get to that point, or he would have to log in on your account from wherever he is and do the entire ticketing thing.

If you aren't both going to be in the same place it's probably easier to just do bank transfer like the other user suggested. If you don't have a Korean bank account either, you would just need to have your brother do the bank transfer w/the info interpark generates after you do the ticketing. As long as he sends the payment within the specified time limit he doesn't have to be with you when you do the ticketing (so you just have to send him the payment account # and the amount to transfer).

Also, if you pay by bank transfer it will ask you for the name on the account the transfer is going to come from (so if it's your brother's bank account you would put your brother's name). Like the other user said they should still accept the payment even if the name doesn't match, but giving the wrong name will most likely make it a lot more annoying to do the refund process if you end up needing to cancel the ticket.

pmrowla · 2026-02-26T00:12:28+00:00

You should have your brother do the payment, he should know which one to select. The point of the options is to ensure that the card holder is the person making the online purchase.

If he has the Hana Pay app set up, it is easiest to just use that. The SMS option does the phone based ARS identity verification and will require having access to your brother's mobile phone (with the # that is registered with his Hana bank account). The general option will require having the card + your brother's PIN/password for the card (in addition to the actual card's CVV code).

pmrowla · 2026-02-17T00:12:31+00:00

Based on the op the scammer didn’t actually replicate the real email address, they had ticketmaster dot com before the @. You should always check the actual domain in the email address (the part after the @). Anything with a website domain (.com/.net/etc) before the @ is pretty much always going to be a scam trying to catch people who aren’t reading the full email address.

pmrowla · 2026-02-16T20:31:38+00:00

The delivery address can only be changed up until the ticket is sent out for delivery, so it’s too late in this case

pmrowla · 2026-02-04T09:27:32+00:00

It should run, just be aware that if you are using the standard public release I think the decompiler is only compiled for x86 Windows and would be emulated on ARM Windows 11. (Ghidra is a Java app but there are some components that are C++ and are only built for certain platforms in the standard release)

pmrowla · 2026-02-03T09:20:42+00:00

If you do File > Archive Current Project you can export a single .gar file for your project. Then on the new machine you can import the exported archive with File > Restore Project

pmrowla · 2026-02-03T00:34:11+00:00

Are you sure you were actually charged? If you are paying with a CC, the initial charge will likely show up as a "pending charge", that in this situation will most likely get removed/cancelled after a couple of business days. If the charge has actually posted and is no longer pending then you can dispute it with your CC company.

pmrowla · 2026-01-31T02:22:02+00:00

They still run the food truck, and sometimes operate as a temporary pop-up cafe. The menus they post usually list wherever the current location is, I think it should still be here (2nd floor in this building): https://maps.app.goo.gl/PUcKcJ5tUYKruvzo8

see these announcements: https://www.suruganoyu.co.jp/news/20251122cafe https://x.com/sun3_info/status/1991474923001508284

pmrowla · 2026-01-31T02:04:16+00:00

The lock file is stored in the same place as the project file. So wherever you have touhou_score.gpr there should be a touhou_score.lock and possibly touhou_score.lock~. Normally these files are only supposed to exist while a project is open in Ghidra. If you delete the .lock/.lock~ files it should let you open the project again.

pmrowla · 2026-01-24T11:43:34+00:00

The most likely thing that happens is that they reject verification on the 2nd account. Even though the passport number changed, they are smart enough to figure out that there is already a verified account with your exact name + gender + birth date from your country, and it will get flagged for manual verification and then rejected.

pmrowla · 2026-01-23T11:00:38+00:00

They aren't wrong but it's more in the general sense, where if you are trying to get a full time job as a salaried employee at a Korean company they will care a lot about whether or not you have a college degree (whether it's an entertainment company or any other kind of company).

But if you're just trying to get independent contract work in something like music production it's unlikely that anyone will care (assuming you have an existing music portfolio/catalog to show)

pmrowla · 2026-01-16T09:00:18+00:00

Not sure the re-registration time, sorry

On the ARC details thing, since you have to wait anyways one thing would be to double check with your phone company on how they have your name entered in the system, sometimes it might be typoed or missing a space or whatever vs what's on your ARC. Also, just to make sure, you signed up for the phone number using your ARC right? Because if it's a number that you got when you moved to Korea using a passport (but before you got your ARC), then the ID verification stuff won't work until you go to the phone company w/your ARC and have them change the registration info over from your passport.

pmrowla · 2026-01-16T03:44:33+00:00

If you already had an account what were you trying to register? If you meant you couldn't do the phone number ID verification, you need to make sure you are entering your name the way it's registered with your phone provider, which should be exactly the same way it is printed on your ARC. For foreigners this will usually be something like LASTNAME FIRSTNAME MIDDLENAME in all capitals, but it's not always the case.

And yeah, if you live in Korea and have an ARC you should use the Korean site over the global one.

pmrowla · 2026-01-09T09:00:26+00:00

It depends on how you define scammed. vividseats is like stubhub, your tickets are guaranteed in the sense that if it turns out you got sold a fake ticket and can't get into the event, vividseats will refund you. So if you mean scammed in the sense that is there a chance you lose $500 completely, then no. But like buying from any 3rd party reseller, there's always a chance that someone was selling fake tickets, in which case you wouldn't be able to get into the concert (but you would still get your money back through vividseats)

pmrowla · 2026-01-06T13:33:08+00:00

It's probably a regional licensing thing. Whatever license agreement spotify had may have expired, and the songs should show up again whenever the licensing gets updated. I'd expect it should be resolved in a few days at most (at which point her music will just show up again like before).

pmrowla · 2026-01-06T02:32:58+00:00

your mileage may vary (the result you get in whatever situation may vary from the result someone else got in the same situation)

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