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HayDay Has Jumped The Shark
2023.03.29 11:49 LakeBum777 HayDay Has Jumped The Shark
I’ve spent way, way too much money on this game. I have a main farm (level 206) and a baby farm (Level 107). I buy Farm Passes for both plus all three helpers for both. I’ve spent a LOT of money for years upgrading my barns and silos. I literally blow through the diamonds trashing/reactivating Derby tasks and speeding up machines.
I usually play for an average 9 hours a day, no lie. I’ve not played either farm now for over 24 hours which is super rare for me. Even before this update, I had become increasingly annoyed at their complete lack of customer support. None of my issues ever get resolved and it’s damn funny that every single one always falls in their favor, never mine. (That’s IF I can actually get to a Chat menu to report my issue.)
I’ve told them of many bugs that have gone unresolved for over four years at least, i.e. the timer issue in the Bunny Derbies, the Bingo achievement doesn’t record our Bingo wins, and there’s been multiple times the Derby scoreboard hasn’t recorded our completed tasks causing us to lose 1st place.
I have a fully upgraded main farm and I was still collecting permits as I knew they would add more land to unlock eventually. Several months ago, they suspended my ability to receive any further permits and of course, BOOM, now I need them again. I.KNEW.THAT.WAS.GOING.TO.HAPPEN and I am way pissed it did. I would have stacked up a big pile of permits if they had been letting me collect them this whole time. That’s so not cool!
What has sent me over the edge, though, is the screwed-up functionality of this update. In keeping with prior updates, it appears zero testing went into this massive update. You would have expected someone, anyone, to have said hey, the ingredient list is ridiculous now and greatly slows down gameplay. You would have expected someone to say that hey, this thing messes up left-handed players now. But they didn’t, did they? They were too focused on further monetizing this legacy game—- a game that so many of us hold dear to our hearts.
I know they aren’t going to go back to the old format so it’s time for me to find another game to occupy my time … a game in which the Developers are still hungry to provide a quality product and who eagerly engage with their customers., not hide from them.
I won’t be spending another dollar with HayDay.
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I usually play for an average 9 hours a day, no lie. I’ve not played either farm now for over 24 hours which is super rare for me. Even before this update, I had become increasingly annoyed at their complete lack of customer support. None of my issues ever get resolved and it’s damn funny that every single one always falls in their favor, never mine. (That’s IF I can actually get to a Chat menu to report my issue.)
I’ve told them of many bugs that have gone unresolved for over four years at least, i.e. the timer issue in the Bunny Derbies, the Bingo achievement doesn’t record our Bingo wins, and there’s been multiple times the Derby scoreboard hasn’t recorded our completed tasks causing us to lose 1st place.
I have a fully upgraded main farm and I was still collecting permits as I knew they would add more land to unlock eventually. Several months ago, they suspended my ability to receive any further permits and of course, BOOM, now I need them again. I.KNEW.THAT.WAS.GOING.TO.HAPPEN and I am way pissed it did. I would have stacked up a big pile of permits if they had been letting me collect them this whole time. That’s so not cool!
What has sent me over the edge, though, is the screwed-up functionality of this update. In keeping with prior updates, it appears zero testing went into this massive update. You would have expected someone, anyone, to have said hey, the ingredient list is ridiculous now and greatly slows down gameplay. You would have expected someone to say that hey, this thing messes up left-handed players now. But they didn’t, did they? They were too focused on further monetizing this legacy game—- a game that so many of us hold dear to our hearts.
I know they aren’t going to go back to the old format so it’s time for me to find another game to occupy my time … a game in which the Developers are still hungry to provide a quality product and who eagerly engage with their customers., not hide from them.
I won’t be spending another dollar with HayDay.
2023.03.29 11:46 suhiab1 [Store]Store of TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache
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Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II
| Hero | Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II | Price(USD) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Void Spirit | Sublime Equilibrium | 35$ | |
| Anti Mage) | Brands of the Reaper | 25$ | |
| Treant | Grudges of the Gallows Tree | 20$ | |
| Phantom Assassin | Darkfeather Factioneer | 12$ | |
| Pudge | Cursed Cryptbreaker | 10$ | |
| Legion Commander | Bird of Prey | 10$ | |
| Night Stalker | Feasts of Forever | 8$ | |
| Doom | Dawn of Darkness Foretold | 8$ | |
| Techies | War Rig Eradicators | 8$ | |
| Huskar | Sacred Chamber Guardian | 8$ | |
| Vengeful Spirit | Acrimonies of Obsession | 8$ | |
| Ogre Magi | Freeboot Fortunes | 8$ | |
| Clinkz | Withering Pain | 8$ | |
| Alchemist | Darkbrew´s Transgression | 8$ | |
| Brewmaster | The Wilding Tiger | 8$ | |
| Oracle | Transcendent Path | 8$ | |
| Silencer | Grand Suppressor | 6$ |
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache I
| Hero | Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache | Price(USD) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primal Beast | Dark Behemoth (VERY RARE) | 45$ | 3 Sold! |
| Invoker | Angel of Vex (Rare) | 25$ | 1 Sold! |
| MARCI | Blue Horizons (Rare) | 20$ | 3 Sold! |
| Hoodwink | Shadowleaf Insurgent | 10$ | 1 Sold! |
| Spectre | Spoils of the Shadowveil | 10$ | |
| Faceless Void | Chines of the Inquisitor | 10$ | |
| Ursa | Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt | 10$ | |
| Riki | Scarlet Subversion | 10$ | |
| Terrorblade | Forgotten Station | 10$ | |
| Monkey King | Champion of the Fire Lotus | 10$ | |
| Snapfire | Whippersnapper | 8$ | 2 Sold! |
| Chen | Hounds of obsession | 8$ | |
| Clockwerk | Seadog’s Stash | 8$ | 1 Sold! |
| Phoenix | Crimson Dawn | 8$ | |
| Undying | Dirge Amplifier | 10$ | |
| Witch Doctor | Deathstitch Shaman | 8$ | |
| Dawnbreaker | Starlorn Adjudicator | 8$ | 1 Sold! |
Immortal Treasure 2022
| Hero | Immortal Treasure I - II 2022 | Price(USD) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoodwink | The Strings of Suradan Bundle | 40$ | 4 Sold!- 1 left |
| Bristleback | Blastmitt Berserker Bundle | 4$ | |
| Templar Assassin | Golden Seclusions of the Void | 4$ | |
| Centaur Warrunner | Golden Infernal Cavalcade | 4$ |
The Battle Pass Collection 2022
| Hero | The Battle Pass Collection 2022 | Price(USD) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | Molten Bore | 15$ | |
| Batrider | Charms of the Firefiend | 10$ |
Ageless Heirlooms 2022
| Hero | Ageless Heirlooms 2022 | Price(USD) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | Wings of Imperium **(Ultra Rare) ** | 20$ | |
| Medusa | Jewels of Anamnes(sa (Very rare) | 15$ | |
| Night Stalker | Twilight Legions (Rare) | 12$ |
Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache
| Hero | Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache | Price(USD) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ogre Magi | Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected | 12$ | 1 Sold! |
| Dragon Knight | Silverwurm Sacrifice | 10$ | 1 Sold! |
| Phantom Lancer | Scales of the Shadow Walker | 10$ | |
| Dawnbreaker | Perception of the First Light | 10$ | 2 Sold! |
| Clockwerk | Apex Automated | 10$ | 2 Sold! |
| Razor | Test of the Basilisk Lord | 10$ | 1 Sold! |
| Ancient Apparition | Secrets of the Frost Singularity | 8$ | 3 Sold! |
| chen | Perils of the Red Banks | 5$ | 1 Sold! |
| Grimstroke | The Chained Scribe | 8$ | |
| Broodmother | Widow of the Undermount Gloom | 10$ | 4 Sold! |
| Mars | Forgotten Fate | 5$ | |
| Rubick | March of the Crackerjack Mage | 5$ | 1 Sold! |
| Alchemist | Cosmic Concoctioneers | 15$ | 2 Sold! |
| Axe | Days of the Demon | 10$ | 2 Sold! |
| Abaddon | Blightfall | 10$ | 1 Sold! |
Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache
| Hero | Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache | Price(USD) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Witch Doctor | Footfalls of the Sporefathers | 27$ | 2 Sold! |
| Sven | Indomitable Legacy | 60$ | 9 Sold!- 2 left |
| Doom | Litany of the Damned | 10$ | 1 Sold! |
| Dark Willow | Twilight Hex | 8$ | |
| Enigma | Astral Terminus | 5$ | 1 Sold! |
| Enchantress | Caerulean Star | 8$ | 1 Sold! |
| Gyrocopter | Arcane Inverter | 10$ | 6 Sold! |
| Lycan | Creed of the Skullhound | 10$ | 5 Sold! |
| Nature's Prophet | Desert Bloom | 10$ | 4 Sold! |
| Oracle | Silence of the Starweaver | 6$ | 5 Sold! |
| Skywrath Mage | Eyriebound Imperator | 10$ | 4 Sold! |
| Tiny | Anthozoan Assault | 10$ | 4 Sold! |
| Winter Wyvern | Defender of the Brumal Crest | 10$ | 4 Sold! |
| Shadow Shaman | Red Sands Marauder | 10$ | 5 Sold! |
Collector Cache Sets 2020 1 + 2
| Hero | The International 2020 | Price(USD) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faceless Void | Claszureme Incursion | 70$ | 5 Sold! - 1 left |
| Pudge | Mindless Slaughter | 10$ | 3 Sold! |
| Sniper | Blacksail Cannoneer | 5$ | |
| Disruptor | Fury of the Righteous Storm | 5$ | 1 Sold! |
| Bounty Hunter | Heartless Hunt | 10$ | 2 Sold! |
| Enchantress | Songs of Starfall Glen | 10$ | 4 Sold! - 1 left |
| Enigma | Evolution of the Infinite | 10$ | 3 Sold! |
| Bristleback | Beast of the Crimson Ring | 12$ | 5 Sold! - 1 left |
| Timbersaw | Clearcut Cavalier | 5$ | 3 Sold! |
| Keeper of the Light | The King Of Thieves | 10$ | 3 Sold! |
| Chaos Knight | Talons of the Endless Storm | 10$ | 4 Sold! |
| Rubick | Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade | 10$ | 2 Sold! |
| Skywrath Mage | Secrets of the Celestial | 10$ | 3 Sold! |
| Phoenix | Blaze of Oblivion | 8$ | 2 Sold! |
Collector Cache Sets 2019
| Hero | The International 2019 | Price (CSGO keys) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Necrophos | Fowl Omen | 20$ | 4 Sold |
| Disruptor | Defender of Ruin | 15$ | 3 Sold |
| Pudge | Dapper Disguise | 15$ | 2 Sold |
| Warlock | Tribal Pathways | 5$ | 1 Sold |
| Clockwerk | Directive of the Sunbound | 10$ | 2 Sold |
| Bloodseeker | Fury of the Bloodforge | 20$ | 4 Sold |
| Broodmother | Automaton Antiquity | 10$ | 2 sold |
| Wraith King | Grim Destiny | 12$ | 2 sold |
| Tusk | Distinguished Expeditionary | 12$ | 2 Sold |
| Venomancer | Verdant Predator | 15$ | 4 Sold |
| Batrider | Prized Acquisitions | 8$ | 2 Sold |
| Abaddon | Echoes of the Everblack | 10$ | 4 Sold |
| Chen | Priest of the Proudsilver Clan | 6$ | 2 Sold! |
| Huskar | Pursuit of the Ember Demons | 15$ | 7 Sold- 1 left |
| Oracle | Riddle of the Hierophant | 10$ | 4 Sold |
| GrimStroke | Paean of the Ink Dragon | 10$ | 3 Sold |
| Slark | Appetites of the Lizard King | 15$ | 5 Sold |
| Tidehunter | Poacher's Bane | 12$ | 2 Sold |
| Undying | Curse of the Creeping Vine | 10$ | 2 Sold |
| Enigma | The Arts of Mortal Deception | 6$ | 1 Sold |
| Dazzle | Forbidden Medicine | 12$ | 6 Sold |
Collector Cache[1] + [2] Sets
| The International 2018 | Price (CSGO keys) | Reserved/Sold |
|---|---|---|
| Stonemarch Sovereign [Wraith King] | 20$ | 3 Sold - 1left |
| Pattern of the Silken Queen [Broodmother] | 5$ | 1 sold |
| Shimmer of the Anointed [Nyx] | 8$ | 3 Sold! |
| Molokau Stalker [Venomancer] | 10$ | 3 Sold- 1left |
| Pillar of the Fractured Citadel [Spirit Breaker] | 10$ | 1 Sold |
| Primer of the Sapper's Guile [Techies] | 10$ | 2 Sold - 1left |
| Loaded Prospects [Brewmaster] | 5$ | 4 Sold |
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2023.03.29 11:28 houstontexas2022 How a legal battle over an endangered chicken could reshape the Texas oil industry
 | POLITICS How a legal battle over an endangered chicken could reshape the Texas oil industry submitted by houstontexas2022 to TexasPolitics [link] [comments] Edward McKinley March 28, 2023 A lesser prairie chicken is seen amid the bird's annual mating ritual near Milnesand, N.M., on April 8, 2021. A lesser prairie chicken is seen amid the bird's annual mating ritual near Milnesand, N.M., on April 8, 2021.Adrian Hedden/AP A wild chicken species in the Texas Panhandle could stymie the nation’s oil and gas producers, industry insiders fear. After decades of advocacy from environmental groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week named the lesser prairie chicken as an endangered species. The bird, which lives in grasslands across five states, including the Texas panhandle, once numbered in the millions. Recent estimates suggest there are about 32,000 remaining. RELATED: Big Oil is making billions, but don't expect lower gas prices The bird was previously categorized as endangered in 2014, but a judge repealed that as part of a lawsuit from the Permian Basin Petroleum Association that asked for more time to prove that existing conservation efforts would work. Nearly a decade later, the service is trying once again. Industry groups and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton oppose the move and have sued, claiming the plan in place is working. An endangered species designation triggers stringent conservation rules to protect the animal and its habitat. Existing oil and gas projects, as well as certain renewable energy projects, could be grandfathered in, but new projects could be blocked entirely or require expensive additional permits. “This will add significant time and uncertainty to those permitting requirements," said Ben Shepperd, president of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association. “We’re talking about the most prolific oil field not only in Texas but in North America," he said. "And we think significant portions of oil and gas could be shuddered or negatively impacted, dramatically impacted, in such a way that it would disrupt the state of Texas’ economy, and frankly our national security and our energy security." The listing also affects ranchers, as livestock grazing in certain areas could be harmful to the prairie chickens. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller lambasted the decision as a power grab and overreach from the Biden Administration, and he suggested it could contribute to rising food costs. The decision to name the bird as endangered was announced last fall. Industry groups, including Shepperd's and several cattle groups, are suing once again to stop the listing. And Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing separately on behalf of the agriculture and energy arms of the state government. Are the birds rebounding? The current argument boils down to whether or not the existing conservation plan is working to save the birds. Known as the “rangewide plan,” it’s administered by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, which is comprised of the Texas Department of Fish and Wildlife and its counterparts from other states in the region. The effort began about a decade ago. Critics of the new designation say populations of the bird are either stable or growing, and its habitat is protected. The plan requires oil and gas companies seeking to develop land in the chicken’s habitat to invest in conservation efforts elsewhere to cancel out the damage from their projects. David Yoskowitz, director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, also disagreed with the decision, writing, "We believe that the listing decision jeopardizes years of voluntary conservation efforts by landowners and industry." But the national Fish and Wildlife Service said that active oil and gas wells in the chickens' habitat have increased by more than 80 percent over the last 10 years, a significant threat. "Voluntary conservation efforts have helped conserve key habitat for the lesser prairie-chicken," the agency wrote in its announcement of its listing decision, "but have not demonstrated an ability to offset the threats and reverse the trends of habitat loss and fragmentation facing the lesser prairie-chicken." An internal audit, which was shared as part of a federal public comment period, said the plan is on track to run out of money in the coming years, in part because funds were diverted from their intended purpose. For instance, it said, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies borrowed money from the supposedly permanent conservation fund, spending some on paying staff and more on a new, $650,000 headquarters building in Boise, Idaho, which is nowhere near the habitat for lesser prairie chickens. Michael Robinson, a senior conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, described the rangewide plan as a “scam.” “We’ve had a chance to actually look at how that plan that was supposed to obviate the need for a listing has played out,” he said. “It’s shocking, and the lesser prairie chicken has lost a great deal of habitat that was not replaced.” Robinson's group, which has since the 1990s petitioned the federal government to name the bird as endangered, says the chicken's habitat has declined over the past decade and that oil and gas companies are generating “phantom” restoration credits without actually preserving any habitat. For example, the group argued that the rangewide plan claimed to have restored 8,000 acres of chicken habitat by thinning out shinnery oak. But according to academic studies, those trees are “critical to conservation of some populations of prairie chickens.” “The lesser prairie chicken has been on a downward trajectory for a long time, and with that and many other species, it takes years and even decades to recover them," Robinson said. [email protected] Photo of Edward McKinley Written By Edward McKinley Reach Edward on Edward McKinley reports on Texas state government and politics from the Hearst Bureau in Austin for the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News. He is a 2019 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and a 2020 graduate of Georgetown’s Master’s in American Government program. He previously reported for The Albany Times Union and the Kansas City Star newspapers, and he originally hails from the great state of Minnesota. CBS |
2023.03.29 11:25 ixfox Where can I test ride a Fazua system?
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I'm looking at buying a Boardman ADV 8.9e. I'm risk averse so I want to be sure I'm getting the right bike for me, especially when spending such a significant amount of money.
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| Treasure Nr. & Year | Rare & Retro Sets | Hero | Price | Stock | Reserved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diretide 1. 2022 | Dark Behemoth | Primal Beast | 50💲 | 7 | |
| Diretide 2. 2022 | Sublime Equilibrium | Void Spirit | 45💲 | 1 | |
| Diretide 1. 2022 | Blue Horizons | Marci | 20💲 | 15 | |
| Diretide 2. 2022 | Brands of the Reaper | AntiMage | 35💲 | 2 | |
| Aghanim's. 2021 | Wrath of the Celestial Sentinel | Chaos Knight | 50💲 | 1 | |
| Aghanim's. 2021 | Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected | Ogre Magi | 45💲 | 1 | |
| Cache 1. 2019 | Gothic Whisper | Phantom Assassin | 125💲 | 1 | |
| Cache 2. 2019 | Cinder Sensei | Ember Spirit | 185💲 | 4 | |
| Cache 1. 2019 | Defender of Ruin | Disruptor | 35💲 | 3 | |
| Cache 2. 2019 | Fowl Omen | Necrophos | 20💲 | 5 | |
| Cache 2. 2018 | Cruelties of the Spiral Bore | Magnus | 80💲 | 2 | |
| Cache 2. 2018 | The Rat King | Chen | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Collection 2022 | Charms of the Firefiend | Batrider | 5💲 | 1 |
| Diretide Cache 2. 2022 | Hero | Price | Stock | Reserved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darkbrews Transgression | Alchemist | 10💲 | 2 | |
| The Wilding Tiger | Brewmaster | 10💲 | 1 | |
| Withering Pain | Clinkz | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Dawn of Darkness Foretold | Doom | 10💲 | 3 | |
| Sacred Chamber Guardian | Huskar | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Bird of Prey | Legion Commander | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Feasts of Forever | Night Stalker | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Freebot Fortunes | Ogre Magi | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Transcendent Path | Oracle | 10💲 | 1 | |
| Darkfeather Factioneer | Phantom Assassin | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Cursed Cryptbreaker | Pudge | 25💲 | 1 | |
| Grand Suppressor | Silencer | 10💲 | 3 | |
| War Rig Eradicators | Techie | 15💲 | 1 | |
| Acrimonies of Obsession | Vengeful Spirit | 10💲 | 3 |
| Diretide Cache 1. 2022 | Hero | Price | Stock | Reserved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hounds of Obsession | Chen | 10💲 | 14 | |
| Seadog's stash | Clockwerk | 10💲 | 12 | |
| Starlorn Adjudicator | Dawnbreaker | 10💲 | 13 | 1 |
| Chines of the Inquisitor | Faceless Void | 10💲 | 13 | |
| Shadowleaf Insurgent | Hoodwink | 10💲 | 12 | 1 |
| Champion of the Fire Lotus | Monkey King | 10💲 | 13 | |
| Crimson Dawn | Phoenix | 10💲 | 14 | |
| Scarlet Subversion | Riki | 10💲 | 13 | |
| Whippersnapper | Snapfire | 10💲 | 13 | 1 |
| Spoils of the shadow veil | Spectre | 10💲 | 13 | |
| Forgotten Station | Terrorblade | 10💲 | 12 | |
| Dirge Amplifier | Undying | 10💲 | 13 | |
| Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt | Ursa | 10💲 | 14 | |
| Deathstitch Shaman | Witch Doctor | 10💲 | 13 |
| Aghanim's Cache 2021 | Hero | Price | Stock | Reserved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blightfall | Abaddon | 15💲 | 3 | |
| Cosmic Concoctioneers | Alchemist | 20💲 | 1 | |
| Secrets of the Frost Singularity | Ancient Apparition | 15💲 | 2 | |
| Days of the Demon | Axe | 15💲 | 1 | |
| Widow of the Undermount Gloom | Broodmother | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Perils of the Red Banks | Chen | 15💲 | 4 | |
| Apex Automated | Clockwerk | 35💲 | 1 | |
| Perception of the First Light | Dawnbreaker | 25💲 | 3 | 1 |
| Silverwurm Sacrifice | Dragon Knight | 20💲 | 2 | |
| The Chained Scribe | Grimstroke | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Forgotten Fate | Mars | 15💲 | 2 | |
| Scales of the Shadow Walker | Phantom Lancer | 10💲 | 3 | |
| Test of the Basilisk Lord | Razor | 15💲 | 1 | |
| March of the Crackerjack Mage | Rubick | 15💲 | 1 |
| Cache 2. 2019 | Hero | Price | Stock | Reserved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endless Night | Abbadon | 15💲 | 1 | |
| Prized Acquisitions | Batrider | 10💲 | 2 | |
| Fury of the Bloodforge | BloodSeeker | 10💲 | 4 | |
| Automaton Antiquity | BroodMother | 15💲 | 3 | |
| Directive of the Sunbound | Clockwerk | 15💲 | 2 | |
| Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful | Drow Ranger | 20💲 | 3 | |
| Souls Tyrant | Shadow Fiend | 25💲 | 4 | |
| Distinguished Expeditionary | Tusk | 15💲 | 1 | |
| Verdant Predator | Venomancer | 15💲 | 2 | |
| Tribal Pathways⠀ | Warlock | 15💲 | 4 |
| Cache 1. 2019 | Hero | Price | Stock | Reserved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Echoes of the Everblack | Abaddon | 15💲 | 2 | |
| Priest of the Proudsilver Clan | Chen | 15💲 | 2 | |
| Allure of the Fadeshade Flower | Dark Willow | 25💲 | 2 | |
| Forbidden Medicines | Dazzle | 15💲 | 2 | |
| Soul of the Brightshroud | Death Prophet | 25💲 | 1 | |
| Scorched Amber | Dragon Knight | 25💲 | 1 | |
| Glimmer of Sacred Hunt | Drow Ranger | 85💲 | 1 | |
| The Arts of Mortal Deception | Enigma | 15💲 | 2 | |
| Pursuit of the Ember Demons | Huskar | 25💲 | 2 | |
| Riddle of the Hierophant | Oracle | 10💲 | 1 | |
| Appetites of the Lizard King | Slark | 25💲 | 1 | |
| Poacher's Bane | Tidehunter | 25💲 | 2 | |
| Curse of the Creeping Vine | Undying | 15💲 | 3 |
| Genuine Weather | Price | Stock |
|---|---|---|
| Ash | 8💲 | 1 |
| Snow | 5💲 | 2 |
| Rain | 5💲 | 2 |
| Moonbeam | 5💲 | 0 |
| Harvest | 3💲 | 7 |
| Spring | 3💲 | 2 |
| Pestilence | 3💲 | 3 |
| Aurora | 3💲 | 22 |
| Sirocco | 3💲 | 2 |
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2023.03.29 10:53 maherharp Chance Junior aiming for top universities for computer science or applied mathematics
Demographics: Male, Caucasian(Middle Eastern), Michigan, Public Magnet High School, Suburban, Low Middle Class (Low income for some colleges)
Intended Major(s): Computer Science or Applied Mathematics (depends on which major I would most likely get in with because computer science is very competitive)
ACT/SAT/SAT II: Don't have one yet but have been doing practice tests with 1530+, so rn assume Test-Optional please (worst case scenario)
UW/W GPA and Rank: UW: 4.0/4.0, W: 4.87/5.0, Class Rank: 1/330
Coursework: 17 AP Classes (Took all offered at school), 4 Dual Enrollment Courses
9th: AP USH (3), AP HUG(4), Algebra 2, Health/Wellness, Biology, Spanish 3, English 10
Summer: Pre-Calculus @ local community college
10th: AP CALC AB (5), AP STATS (4), AP ES (4), AP WH(4), AP LANG(3), Honors Chemistry
11th: Dual Enrollment courses - CIS-100 and Elementary Spanish I, AP CALC BC, AP CHEM, AP GOV, AP CAPSTONE SEMINAR, AP ECON (MACRO/MICRO)
Summer: Calculus 3 @ local community college ~~~if not accepted into summer program
12th: AP BIO, AP PHYSICS 1, AP LITERATURE, AP CAPSTONE RESEARCH, AP PSYCHOLOGY, Dual Enrollment courses - Calculus 3 (if not summer) and Linear Algebra [if i do take calculus 3 in the summer then linear algebra and differential equations]
Awards:
Personal Statement: don't know because I didn't write it yet but aiming for 10/10 :)))
Assuming from past applicants
APES TeacheResearch Advisor : 10/10. She is the best person in the world. She is the only reason why I am on this Earth, truthfully. Our relationship is amazing. She is known for amazing letter of recs in the past.
AP CHEM/Honors Chem: 7/10. Had for 2 years. Have a good student-teacher relationship. She allows use to basically 'write' our own but she changes it drastically because of FERPA
Counselor: 7/10. She uses the same format of letter of rec for every other student she has so there really isn't that much diversity. But, I am talking to her more to make sure my story really comes across.
AP Calculus AB/BC: 6/10. Had for 2 years. Was a sophomore taking ab and junior taking bc so I tried to engage myself in the classroom more with him. We have a good student-teacher relationship. Although he writes his letters of rec in under 2 hours (...LMAO) ik this from past students.
Schools: List of colleges, ED/EA/RD, etc
REA/EA:
University of Michigan -Ann Arbor (in-state)
Georgia Tech
Michigan State University
...more local/state universities
Harvard University
RD:
MIT
All ivies
Stanford
All UCs
Carnegie Mellon University
USC
I am only a junior so I have a long way to go. Genuinely, please chance me. I know people with better stats than me and get rejected hardcore. My AP scores are lacking big time so I am studying hard to hopefully get all 5s. Similarly for my Awards, does anybody have any advice to receive awards that are computer science base? Because all of them that I find are coding competitions and unfortunately i suck at those (trauma from 9th grade USACO training). Also, ik the SAT is weighted much more from the past years as TO applicants rise so having a good score makes your stand out more, that is my goal.
I will be deleting this post later today. Thank you.
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Intended Major(s): Computer Science or Applied Mathematics (depends on which major I would most likely get in with because computer science is very competitive)
ACT/SAT/SAT II: Don't have one yet but have been doing practice tests with 1530+, so rn assume Test-Optional please (worst case scenario)
UW/W GPA and Rank: UW: 4.0/4.0, W: 4.87/5.0, Class Rank: 1/330
Coursework: 17 AP Classes (Took all offered at school), 4 Dual Enrollment Courses
9th: AP USH (3), AP HUG(4), Algebra 2, Health/Wellness, Biology, Spanish 3, English 10
Summer: Pre-Calculus @ local community college
10th: AP CALC AB (5), AP STATS (4), AP ES (4), AP WH(4), AP LANG(3), Honors Chemistry
11th: Dual Enrollment courses - CIS-100 and Elementary Spanish I, AP CALC BC, AP CHEM, AP GOV, AP CAPSTONE SEMINAR, AP ECON (MACRO/MICRO)
Summer: Calculus 3 @ local community college ~~~if not accepted into summer program
12th: AP BIO, AP PHYSICS 1, AP LITERATURE, AP CAPSTONE RESEARCH, AP PSYCHOLOGY, Dual Enrollment courses - Calculus 3 (if not summer) and Linear Algebra [if i do take calculus 3 in the summer then linear algebra and differential equations]
Awards:
- 2022 Congressional App Challenge: Programmed an app about the future of AI/ML and was invited to U.S. Congress to present app
- FIRST Robotics: District 2021 Impact Award, District 2023 Impact Award, District 2022 Engineering Inspiration Award, State 2022 Engineering Inspiration Award, First-Time World Championship Qualifier
- 2x GLOBE IVSS Symposium 4-Stars, Top 1% of Research Papers submitted (international)
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- Tennis: 4x District Gold Medal, Rookie All Star, Coach's Award, 4x All-Conference Award
- idk lol im lacking
- GLOBE Research: 2x published research; Added Atmospheric Arduino Sensors (particulate matter, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ultraviolet light, and sound) onto NASA-sponsored; 2 year long project with 2 research papers.
- FIRST Robotics: Lead Programmer; Programmed the drive and autonomous period; First-Time World Qualifier
- Class President: 4 years; organized city-wide parades, homecoming, snow-coming, and senior prom; raised over $15,000 through fundraising
- National Honor Society: Parliamentarian (11) -> managed school courtyards and organized school-wide pink out and blue out raising a combined total of $14,000; Vice President (12) will be organizing community-wide blood drives and awards for 100+ members
- Key Club: Co-Founder; Media Director (10) -> created club website through HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT; Secretary (11) -> handled all members attendance and hours; Vice President (12) -> organized district-wide events with multiple service projects
- Science Club: President (12) -> created 5 student-led research groups; organized science equipment; helped groups on scientific procedures; raised funding for 10+ symposiums
- Varsity Tennis: Team Captain (11-12) -> 4-year varsity; lead team practices and drills; 1 Singles
- Independent Research Project: Emotion Detection through Euclidean distances on facial features; published; through summer program of Inspirit AI
- Community Religious Organization: Organized city-wide events with 50,000+ participants; (i don't wanna say the stuff bc i don't wanna dox)
- Independent Research Project: ChatGPT accuracy on different levels of difficulty of 5th grade subjects; published
- (for uc applications) Watershed Committee; Organized community-wide events to rehabilitate rain gardens
Personal Statement: don't know because I didn't write it yet but aiming for 10/10 :)))
Assuming from past applicants
APES TeacheResearch Advisor : 10/10. She is the best person in the world. She is the only reason why I am on this Earth, truthfully. Our relationship is amazing. She is known for amazing letter of recs in the past.
AP CHEM/Honors Chem: 7/10. Had for 2 years. Have a good student-teacher relationship. She allows use to basically 'write' our own but she changes it drastically because of FERPA
Counselor: 7/10. She uses the same format of letter of rec for every other student she has so there really isn't that much diversity. But, I am talking to her more to make sure my story really comes across.
AP Calculus AB/BC: 6/10. Had for 2 years. Was a sophomore taking ab and junior taking bc so I tried to engage myself in the classroom more with him. We have a good student-teacher relationship. Although he writes his letters of rec in under 2 hours (...LMAO) ik this from past students.
Schools: List of colleges, ED/EA/RD, etc
REA/EA:
University of Michigan -Ann Arbor (in-state)
Georgia Tech
Michigan State University
...more local/state universities
Harvard University
RD:
MIT
All ivies
Stanford
All UCs
Carnegie Mellon University
USC
I am only a junior so I have a long way to go. Genuinely, please chance me. I know people with better stats than me and get rejected hardcore. My AP scores are lacking big time so I am studying hard to hopefully get all 5s. Similarly for my Awards, does anybody have any advice to receive awards that are computer science base? Because all of them that I find are coding competitions and unfortunately i suck at those (trauma from 9th grade USACO training). Also, ik the SAT is weighted much more from the past years as TO applicants rise so having a good score makes your stand out more, that is my goal.
I will be deleting this post later today. Thank you.
2023.03.29 10:45 sportsgeek001 Top 3 Indian players to win most number of IPL Trophy
 | The Indian T20 League is one of the most celebrated and widely followed cricket tournaments in the world. Every year, the tournament attracts millions of viewers from across the globe, who eagerly wait to watch their favorite players and teams battle it out on the field. submitted by sportsgeek001 to everydaysportsupdates [link] [comments] Over the years, we have seen some players who have played an instrumental role in leading their teams to victory, winning multiple Indian T20 League titles along the way. Here are the top 3 players who have won the most Indian T20 League titles. 1. Rohit Sharma – 6 titles (5 with Mumbai Indians and 1 with Deccan) Rohit Sharma Rohit Sharma Rohit Sharma, the captain of Mumbai, is undoubtedly one of the most successful players in the Indian T20 League. He has led his team to five Indian T20 League titles, the most by any captain in the history of the tournament. Sharma won the trophy in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020 with Mumbai. Additionally, he also won one with Deccan Chargers way back in 2009. Sharma’s calm and composed leadership style has been one of the key factors behind Mumbai’s success over the years. He has also been a consistent performer with the bat, scoring over 5,000 runs in the Indian T20 League. 2. Ambati Rayudu – 5 Titles (3 times with Mumbai and 2 with Chennai) Ambati Rayudu Ambati Rayudu Ambati Rayudu, the versatile middle-order batter, has been a crucial member of both Mumbai and Chennai over the years. He has won five Indian T20 League titles, including three with Mumbai and two with Chennai. Rayudu is known for his ability to play match-winning knocks under pressure and has scored over 3,000 runs in the Indian T20 League. Rayudu won the coveted trophy with Mumbai in 2013, 2015 and 2017. Additionally, he won the trophy with Chennai in 2018 and 2021. 3. Hardik Pandya – 5 Titles (4 times with Mumbai and 1 with Gujarat) Hardik Pandya Hardik Pandya Hardik Pandya, the dynamic all-rounder, has been a key player for Mumbai Indians over the years. He has won four Indian T20 League titles with Mumbai and one with Gujarat. Pandya’s explosive batting and reliable bowling have been instrumental in Mumbai’s success over the years. He has scored over 1,500 runs and picked up 42 wickets in the Indian T20 League. Pandya won the Indian T20 League trophy with Mumbai in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020. The Gujarat-born player then went on to add another to his trophy cabinet when he won the trophy in 2022 captaining a young Gujarat side. |
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★ Butterfly Knife Freehand FN #1, B/O: $1867
★ Butterfly Knife Bright Water MW, B/O: $1098
★ Butterfly Knife Blue Steel BS, B/O: $907
★ Butterfly Knife Ultraviolet FT, B/O: $789
★ Butterfly Knife Stained FT, B/O: $695
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★ Bayonet Gamma Doppler (Phase 4) FN, B/O: $727
★ Bayonet Doppler (Phase 2) FN, B/O: $608
★ Bayonet Doppler (Phase 1) FN, B/O: $521
★ Bayonet Rust Coat BS, B/O: $253
★ Bayonet Night FT, B/O: $251
★ StatTrak™ Bayonet Lore MW, B/O: $751
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★ Karambit Damascus Steel FT, B/O: $774
★ Karambit Rust Coat BS, B/O: $537
★ Karambit Boreal Forest FT, B/O: $488
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★ M9 Bayonet Doppler (Phase 4) FN, B/O: $1008
★ M9 Bayonet Blue Steel FT, B/O: $534
★ M9 Bayonet Rust Coat BS, B/O: $449
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★ Flip Knife Gamma Doppler (Phase 1) MW, B/O: $509
★ Flip Knife Doppler (Phase 1) FN, B/O: $406
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★ StatTrak™ Flip Knife Bright Water FN, B/O: $332
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★ Falchion Knife Doppler (Phase 3) FN, B/O: $264
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★ Falchion Knife Bright Water MW, B/O: $133
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★ Stiletto Knife Slaughter FN, B/O: $569
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★ StatTrak™ Stiletto Knife Scorched FT, B/O: $172
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★ Gut Knife Fade FN, B/O: $204
★ Gut Knife Tiger Tooth FN, B/O: $138
★ Gut Knife Bright Water MW, B/O: $104
★ Gut Knife Freehand FT, B/O: $92
★ Gut Knife Urban Masked FT, B/O: $82
★ StatTrak™ Gut Knife Rust Coat BS, B/O: $93
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★ Shadow Daggers Doppler (Phase 3) FN, B/O: $165
★ Shadow Daggers Blue Steel FT, B/O: $82
★ Shadow Daggers Bright Water FT, B/O: $82
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★ Shadow Daggers Rust Coat BS, B/O: $74
★ StatTrak™ Shadow Daggers Marble Fade FN, B/O: $186
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★ StatTrak™ Classic Knife Stained BS, B/O: $163
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★ Talon Knife Scorched MW, B/O: $290
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★ Ursus Knife Night Stripe MW, B/O: $162
⎯★ Paracord Knife Stained WW, B/O: $125
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★ Paracord Knife Safari Mesh FT, B/O: $96
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★ Navaja Knife Scorched WW, B/O: $71
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★ Skeleton Knife, B/O: $909
★ Bowie Knife Boreal Forest MW, B/O: $106
★ Survival Knife Forest DDPAT FT, B/O: $97
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★ Driver Gloves Lunar Weave WW, B/O: $113
★ Driver Gloves Overtake WW, B/O: $88
★ Driver Gloves Overtake BS, B/O: $67
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★ Moto Gloves Polygon BS, B/O: $137
★ Moto Gloves Transport WW, B/O: $71
★ Moto Gloves 3rd Commando Company BS, B/O: $62
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★ Specialist Gloves Mogul FT, B/O: $295
★ Specialist Gloves Lt. Commander FT, B/O: $277
★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Web FT, B/O: $275
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AK-47 Bloodsport MW, B/O: $79
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AWP BOOM MW, B/O: $84
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Desert Eagle Cobalt Disruption FN, B/O: $58
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StatTrak™ USP-S Neo-Noir FN, B/O: $106
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P2000 Ocean Foam FN, B/O: $139
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2023.03.29 10:17 Throwaway2638382727 What do you think of this to justify my unemployment gap?
So, I'm in my early 20's and I have a 2 years gap due to many reasons including health issues. Two years ago I was applying to several companies and I almost made it, I was interviewed and I passed all the tests; but two years later I'm not even called or given a chance with the same resume and I think it's because of the gap.
I was thinking I could write down in the resume that I was taking care of my disabled grandparent. I mean it's true, I lived with my disabled grandparent and all this time I took care of them, I took them to the doctor, I did all their errands, I did the cleaning, laundry, helped them with their health issues... Other relative is taking care of them now so I'm free to get a job and live my life.
Do you guys think it is a good idea? Or should I just keep sending the same old, boring resume that says I worked and studied until 2021?
Thank you, and sorry for the weird question, it embarrasses me to be this ignorant but I don't have much experience or anyone to ask.
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I was thinking I could write down in the resume that I was taking care of my disabled grandparent. I mean it's true, I lived with my disabled grandparent and all this time I took care of them, I took them to the doctor, I did all their errands, I did the cleaning, laundry, helped them with their health issues... Other relative is taking care of them now so I'm free to get a job and live my life.
Do you guys think it is a good idea? Or should I just keep sending the same old, boring resume that says I worked and studied until 2021?
Thank you, and sorry for the weird question, it embarrasses me to be this ignorant but I don't have much experience or anyone to ask.
2023.03.29 09:52 Jasa004 Huawei Watch takes Bluetooth call priority (Car, headset...)
Was anyone able to fix the issue where the Huawei watch takes bluetooth call priority everywhere, if its headset i have on, or if its in a car. It just screws up the bluetooth call... My Watch: Huawei Watch 3 Pro
My Phone: tested on many Samsung A and S series.
For older watches its possible to downgrade the huawei health app to a certain version but that isnt possible for watches that didnt exist back then. This issue has been reported on forums in 2021 already with zero huawei acknowledgement. I am thinking of switching back to Samsung because of this. Using samsung's routines does not help.
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My Phone: tested on many Samsung A and S series.
For older watches its possible to downgrade the huawei health app to a certain version but that isnt possible for watches that didnt exist back then. This issue has been reported on forums in 2021 already with zero huawei acknowledgement. I am thinking of switching back to Samsung because of this. Using samsung's routines does not help.
2023.03.29 09:45 f1newsbot Plans for new British-based F1 team revealed
Formula 1 is a funny (70-year) old business: For all its secrecy, very little remains secret for long.
The reason is simple: F1 is a global sport which ultimately relies on a small world centred around an arc running west from Silverstone (Aston Martin) to Brackley (Mercedes) and Banbury (Haas) to Enstone (Alpine) and Wantage (Williams) before heading south to Woking (McLaren) and east to Milton Keynes (Red Bull).
Virtually all players are on first-name terms, having variously crossed paths along the way and most are eager to whisper about their successes since they parted ways with Team A to join Team C, with B having been where they worked with XYZ.
If they don't spill the beans while at the local hardware shop on (non-race) weekends, their wives surely do so while awaiting the 4pm school bell…
Thus, no sooner had we revealed progress made to date by the four candidate teams - including the Saudi-backed Formula Equal hopeful - who plan to enter F1 by 2026 under the FIA's Expression of Interest process, than various sources divulged details about Hitech GP's nascent project.
What these sources collectively shared with RacingNews365 about progress made to date by what is code-named H26 is nothing short of astonishing.
Indeed, one of our sources indicated that so far advanced is the project that wind tunnel testing is already underway using the former Mercedes (50%) facility situated in Silverstone and currently used by that team's Mercedes Applied Science advanced engineering division.
All this makes sense as another source suggested that Hitech is focused on a Mercedes powertrain (PT) partnership, which could see Hitech replace the upwardly mobile Aston Martin Racing operation as the de facto Mercedes 'B' team.
Relations between Mercedes F1 CEO Toto Wolff and Aston owner Lawrence Stroll are said to have soured, a situation not aided by the Green Team's current form using the same PT.
H26's aerodynamic preparations are understood to be focusing on 2022/23 models to verify data ahead of release of the first 2026 regulations – due in June 2024 as per the FIA's International Sporting Code, which demands that regulations "which affect the balance of performance between automobiles" are formalised at least 18 months before the start of an applicable season.
Equally, H26 has commenced design of a F1 chassis based on known crash test and load factors, with side intrusion panel, deformable structure and a roll hoop design allegedly also in process.
According to a H26 team member, the plan is to ensure the team are ready to hit the ground running once (if?) the FIA grants the green light once the selection process is complete.
Target date is 30 June, although some deadlines, including the closing date for EoIs are said to have slipped, the latter from 30 April to 15 May, 2023.
Whatever, said team member was adamant H26 have lodged all registration formalities well ahead of deadline.
H26 is headed by Dave Greenwood, an ex-Ferrari performance engineer with widespread F1 and WEC experience, with Mark Smith, formerly with Renault, Red Bull Racing and Caterham, as Technical Director.
Keith Barclay (also ex-Renault/RBR) is Chief Designer, with James Knapton (various F1 teams) as Head of Vehicle Science. Such folk do not come cheap…
The eventual plan is for H26 to operate out of a purpose-built 40-acre campus in Bicester – for which planning permission is said to have been granted.
Until the facility is completed, the 60-head-strong H26 operation is working out of two units in Silverstone, namely Hitech's former F2/3 base which became vacant after the feeder series team moved into bespoke facilities in Silverstone. More hires are said to be imminent.
Hitech team principal Oliver Oakes (pictured above with George Russell in 2016), world karting champion in 2005, has long eyed a move to the big league, much as Jordan, Williams, McLaren and Stewart (now Red Bull) did: one formula at a time.
Hitech was originally funded by Dmitry Mazepin (below) father of one-time F1 driver Nikita; however, sources close to Oakes are adamant the two split, albeit on friendly terms, even before the Ukraine invasion.
This, of course, begs the questions: Where does the funding to sustain at least 60 highly qualified (and expensive engineers) for three years come from; how to fund the entire operation going forward until it washes its own face?
Wolff recently opined that it now costs about a billion bucks to get a team up and running until it qualifies for prize monies in its own right.
Oakes is said to have sourced the requisite backing – one of the backers listed on the team's website is an Emirati oil company – and, while suspicions abound as to the source(s) of Hitech's funding, forget not that the ultimate beneficiary owner(s) of Williams is also secret.
Yes, Dorilton Capital owns Williams, but who owns Dorilton?
When the BBC in late 2021 wrote in its Frank Williams obituary that Dorilton "is led by [Guernseyman] off-shore banker Peter de Putron" these references were removed post haste.
Too close to the truth or totally wide of the mark? Who knows, but the fact remains that the source of the Williams team's funding is secret.
Under the circumstances the FIA and F1 would be hard pushed to disqualify H26 on that basis.
This leaves the FIA/F1 with the unenviable task of sifting through four candidate teams – Andretti, Formula Equal, H26 and Panthera – all of whom have unique selling points, then decide which, if any, qualify for two vacant slots.
Consider this: two Middle East-linked teams, one with a 50/50 gender split and the other working its way up motorsport's team ladder, Andretti/Cadillac which ticks US boxes, plus Asia-linked Panthera.
Either way, at least two will have blown enormous sums of cash on their dream of entering F1…
RacingNews365 has contacted Hitech and Mercedes F1 for comment.
Join Balve Baines, RacingNews365.com journalist Michael Butterworth and Dieter Rencken, Editorial Director of RacingNews365.com, to discuss the key talking points ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.
Source: https://racingnews365.com/plans-for-new-british-based-f1-team-revealed
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The reason is simple: F1 is a global sport which ultimately relies on a small world centred around an arc running west from Silverstone (Aston Martin) to Brackley (Mercedes) and Banbury (Haas) to Enstone (Alpine) and Wantage (Williams) before heading south to Woking (McLaren) and east to Milton Keynes (Red Bull).
Virtually all players are on first-name terms, having variously crossed paths along the way and most are eager to whisper about their successes since they parted ways with Team A to join Team C, with B having been where they worked with XYZ.
If they don't spill the beans while at the local hardware shop on (non-race) weekends, their wives surely do so while awaiting the 4pm school bell…
Thus, no sooner had we revealed progress made to date by the four candidate teams - including the Saudi-backed Formula Equal hopeful - who plan to enter F1 by 2026 under the FIA's Expression of Interest process, than various sources divulged details about Hitech GP's nascent project.
What these sources collectively shared with RacingNews365 about progress made to date by what is code-named H26 is nothing short of astonishing.
Indeed, one of our sources indicated that so far advanced is the project that wind tunnel testing is already underway using the former Mercedes (50%) facility situated in Silverstone and currently used by that team's Mercedes Applied Science advanced engineering division.
All this makes sense as another source suggested that Hitech is focused on a Mercedes powertrain (PT) partnership, which could see Hitech replace the upwardly mobile Aston Martin Racing operation as the de facto Mercedes 'B' team.
Relations between Mercedes F1 CEO Toto Wolff and Aston owner Lawrence Stroll are said to have soured, a situation not aided by the Green Team's current form using the same PT.
H26's aerodynamic preparations are understood to be focusing on 2022/23 models to verify data ahead of release of the first 2026 regulations – due in June 2024 as per the FIA's International Sporting Code, which demands that regulations "which affect the balance of performance between automobiles" are formalised at least 18 months before the start of an applicable season.
Equally, H26 has commenced design of a F1 chassis based on known crash test and load factors, with side intrusion panel, deformable structure and a roll hoop design allegedly also in process.
According to a H26 team member, the plan is to ensure the team are ready to hit the ground running once (if?) the FIA grants the green light once the selection process is complete.
Target date is 30 June, although some deadlines, including the closing date for EoIs are said to have slipped, the latter from 30 April to 15 May, 2023.
Whatever, said team member was adamant H26 have lodged all registration formalities well ahead of deadline.
H26 is headed by Dave Greenwood, an ex-Ferrari performance engineer with widespread F1 and WEC experience, with Mark Smith, formerly with Renault, Red Bull Racing and Caterham, as Technical Director.
Keith Barclay (also ex-Renault/RBR) is Chief Designer, with James Knapton (various F1 teams) as Head of Vehicle Science. Such folk do not come cheap…
The eventual plan is for H26 to operate out of a purpose-built 40-acre campus in Bicester – for which planning permission is said to have been granted.
Until the facility is completed, the 60-head-strong H26 operation is working out of two units in Silverstone, namely Hitech's former F2/3 base which became vacant after the feeder series team moved into bespoke facilities in Silverstone. More hires are said to be imminent.
Hitech team principal Oliver Oakes (pictured above with George Russell in 2016), world karting champion in 2005, has long eyed a move to the big league, much as Jordan, Williams, McLaren and Stewart (now Red Bull) did: one formula at a time.
Hitech was originally funded by Dmitry Mazepin (below) father of one-time F1 driver Nikita; however, sources close to Oakes are adamant the two split, albeit on friendly terms, even before the Ukraine invasion.
This, of course, begs the questions: Where does the funding to sustain at least 60 highly qualified (and expensive engineers) for three years come from; how to fund the entire operation going forward until it washes its own face?
Wolff recently opined that it now costs about a billion bucks to get a team up and running until it qualifies for prize monies in its own right.
Oakes is said to have sourced the requisite backing – one of the backers listed on the team's website is an Emirati oil company – and, while suspicions abound as to the source(s) of Hitech's funding, forget not that the ultimate beneficiary owner(s) of Williams is also secret.
Yes, Dorilton Capital owns Williams, but who owns Dorilton?
When the BBC in late 2021 wrote in its Frank Williams obituary that Dorilton "is led by [Guernseyman] off-shore banker Peter de Putron" these references were removed post haste.
Too close to the truth or totally wide of the mark? Who knows, but the fact remains that the source of the Williams team's funding is secret.
Under the circumstances the FIA and F1 would be hard pushed to disqualify H26 on that basis.
This leaves the FIA/F1 with the unenviable task of sifting through four candidate teams – Andretti, Formula Equal, H26 and Panthera – all of whom have unique selling points, then decide which, if any, qualify for two vacant slots.
Consider this: two Middle East-linked teams, one with a 50/50 gender split and the other working its way up motorsport's team ladder, Andretti/Cadillac which ticks US boxes, plus Asia-linked Panthera.
Either way, at least two will have blown enormous sums of cash on their dream of entering F1…
RacingNews365 has contacted Hitech and Mercedes F1 for comment.
Join Balve Baines, RacingNews365.com journalist Michael Butterworth and Dieter Rencken, Editorial Director of RacingNews365.com, to discuss the key talking points ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.
Source: https://racingnews365.com/plans-for-new-british-based-f1-team-revealed
2023.03.29 09:28 whatever336633 Glaucoma/Visual Field Defect/Optic Nerve Problems?
Hey everyone, this is my first post here and I was wondering if anyone else here is having any similar problems that could give any feedback or just feedback in general I would appreciate that.
I'm a 21 year old man with no health conditions, have a healthy BMI, and am fit, and had 2 pfizer shots in 2021, #1 in June and #2 September. In January 2022 I had excruciating pain that was on the right side of my head and in my right eye along with numbness that ran from the right side of my head down to my right hand/fingertips. The pain was honestly so bad I thought I was having a stroke and I would've went to a hospital if it had gotten any worse. I didn't think much of it afterwards because I just went to sleep and when I woke up most of the pain had subsided, so I thought it was just a really bad migraine because I used to have a lot of them when I was a kid.
In May 2022 I went to my optometrist because I had an eye twitch and eye itchiness that lasted for weeks and it wouldn't go away (I had a long hair in my eye that came out afterwards). He then said I had a corneal abrasion from rubbing my eye too hard and then asked if I had a family history of glaucoma, which I don't. I then had pressures tested with an iCare tonometer which was in the high teens in my left eye and low 20's in the right. That combined with changes that he saw in my right eye looked like glaucoma to him because I had an appointment with him the previous year in June 2021 and everything looked normal to him.
I had several appointment afterwards to see if the pressure was going down, which it did but only to 17 in my left eye and 18 in my right eye which is considered at the higher end of normal range (I also have thick corneas and I was quite nervous during the appointment which could've contributed to pressures being higher than in actuality). He then prescribed me latanoprost 1x in each eye daily which lowered the pressures in my left eye to 11 and right eye to 13. I had visual field testing and an OCT done in June 2022 and there is significant RFNL thinning/optic nerve damage in my right eye with a visual field defect in the bottom left corner of my vision next to my nose, but my left eye is mostly fine according to him. He said I most likely have open-angle glaucoma.
He then referred me to an ophthalmologist for an appointment in December 2022 who said the same thing and then referred me to a neuro-ophthalmologist, which I still have not received a referral for yet.
Sorry if this is too long... But I wanted to explain my situation clearly with detail. I've been extremely worried about this getting worse because I feel like I don't have any control over this because of past decisions. Thanks for reading this and again I would be really thankful if anyone could offer any feedback or experiences with something similar.
TL;DR: Extreme pain and numbness in right side of head which ran down to the right arm a few months after 2 pfizer shots and was diagnosed with glaucoma afterwards
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I'm a 21 year old man with no health conditions, have a healthy BMI, and am fit, and had 2 pfizer shots in 2021, #1 in June and #2 September. In January 2022 I had excruciating pain that was on the right side of my head and in my right eye along with numbness that ran from the right side of my head down to my right hand/fingertips. The pain was honestly so bad I thought I was having a stroke and I would've went to a hospital if it had gotten any worse. I didn't think much of it afterwards because I just went to sleep and when I woke up most of the pain had subsided, so I thought it was just a really bad migraine because I used to have a lot of them when I was a kid.
In May 2022 I went to my optometrist because I had an eye twitch and eye itchiness that lasted for weeks and it wouldn't go away (I had a long hair in my eye that came out afterwards). He then said I had a corneal abrasion from rubbing my eye too hard and then asked if I had a family history of glaucoma, which I don't. I then had pressures tested with an iCare tonometer which was in the high teens in my left eye and low 20's in the right. That combined with changes that he saw in my right eye looked like glaucoma to him because I had an appointment with him the previous year in June 2021 and everything looked normal to him.
I had several appointment afterwards to see if the pressure was going down, which it did but only to 17 in my left eye and 18 in my right eye which is considered at the higher end of normal range (I also have thick corneas and I was quite nervous during the appointment which could've contributed to pressures being higher than in actuality). He then prescribed me latanoprost 1x in each eye daily which lowered the pressures in my left eye to 11 and right eye to 13. I had visual field testing and an OCT done in June 2022 and there is significant RFNL thinning/optic nerve damage in my right eye with a visual field defect in the bottom left corner of my vision next to my nose, but my left eye is mostly fine according to him. He said I most likely have open-angle glaucoma.
He then referred me to an ophthalmologist for an appointment in December 2022 who said the same thing and then referred me to a neuro-ophthalmologist, which I still have not received a referral for yet.
Sorry if this is too long... But I wanted to explain my situation clearly with detail. I've been extremely worried about this getting worse because I feel like I don't have any control over this because of past decisions. Thanks for reading this and again I would be really thankful if anyone could offer any feedback or experiences with something similar.
TL;DR: Extreme pain and numbness in right side of head which ran down to the right arm a few months after 2 pfizer shots and was diagnosed with glaucoma afterwards
2023.03.29 08:57 itsmepingu TTC and curious about my bloat and cramps not subsiding. Pic of stomach currently
 | Actively TTC and need some outside options on what may be going on. This all ties together with this sub submitted by itsmepingu to tryingtoconceive [link] [comments] Not endo, and not PID, ibs or other issues. They have been ruled out by my GP with scans and testing. Had a post plan b bleed Feb 10th. Only lasted a few days Had my regular period (or so I think it was a period) March 10th but it was lighter with mild cramps. The bleeding wasn’t as dark red as it usually is. Before my period, my partner and I had had unprotected sex from the 19th to the 25th of February. I ovulated at some point that week. Experienced some minor bloating and cramps a week and a half leading up to the March period (it wasnt PMS). Bloating and cramps continued into and beyond the period. Tested negative for pregnancy before AF was due. But once the bleeding ended, I had a faint positive (not a dye run) test four days after it ended, but tested negative the day after that. Also had more unprotected sex last week. Since then I have continued experiencing bloating (it seems to be getting bigger?), cramps, fatigue and some issues with the way bathroom tap water and toilet water smell, which has never bothered me before. Also some lower back pain and feels tight/twingy when I walk. Tonight I noticed colostrum coming out of my nipples and white spots in the tip of the nipples. I haven’t had either since I stopped breast feeding my daughter in 2021. And a bit of acne. Was noticed by accident when I played with my nipples. I’m nervous about testing again too |
2023.03.29 08:44 _Chizz_ [Store] Cache sets - Nemstice 2021, Aghs 2021, TI10 Cache 1 + 2
Buyer Goes First, Sets delivered after 30 day gift hold after adding, Multiple sets can be bought in a discounted deal. Feel Free to add to discuss and start the 30 day cooldown. Reservation is required to keep timewasters away and will be atleast 1 key. Reservation value will be removed from final price. After the 30 days buyer will go first and sets will be sent afterwards. Only items accepted in trade for sets, preferably TF2 Keys. 1 Key = 2.5$
My Profile : https://steamcommunity.com/id/Chizz_/
Collections Avaiable: Nemestice Collector's Cache 2021, Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache, The International 10 Collector's Cache, The International 10 Collector's Cache II.
Nemestice Collector's Cache 2021
Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache
The International 10 Collector's Cache
The International 10 Collector's Cache II
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My Profile : https://steamcommunity.com/id/Chizz_/
Collections Avaiable: Nemestice Collector's Cache 2021, Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache, The International 10 Collector's Cache, The International 10 Collector's Cache II.
Nemestice Collector's Cache 2021
| Set Name | Hero | Price(USD) | Qty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twilight Hex | Dark Willow | 7.5$ | 4 |
| Litany of the Damned | Doom | 10$ | 4 |
| Astral Terminus | Enigma | 5$ | 4 |
| Caerulean Star | Enchantress | 7.5$ | 4 |
| Arcane Inverter | Gyrocopter | 10$ | 5 |
| Creed of the Skullhound | Lycan | 10$ | 4 |
| Desert Bloom | Nature's Prophet | 10$ | 5 |
| Silence of the Starweaver | Oracle | 7.5$ | 4 |
| Eyriebound Imperator | Skywrath Mage | 10$ | 4 |
| Anthozoan Assault | Tiny | 10$ | 4 |
| Vision of the Seraph Scion | Vengeful Spirit | 15$ | 4 |
| Defender of the Brumal Crest | Winter Wyvern | 10$ | 4 |
| Red Sands Marauder | Shadow Shaman | 10$ | 5 |
| Indomitable Legacy | Sven | 50$ | 4 |
| Footfalls of the Sporefathers | Witch Doctor | 25$ | 2 |
| Set Name | Hero | Price(USD) | Qty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blightfall | Abaddon | 10$ | 3 |
| Days of the Demon | Axe | 10$ | 2 |
| Cosmic Concotioneers | Alchemist | 15$ | 2 |
| Stranger in the Wandering Isles | Drow Ranger | 12.5$ | 1 Available 1 Reserved |
| March of the Crackerjack Mage | Rubick | 5$ | 3 |
| Forgotten Fate | Mars | 5$ | 2 |
| Widow of the Undermount Gloom | Broodmother | 10$ | 2 |
| The Chained Scribe | Grimstroke | 7.5$ | 2 |
| Perils of the Red Banks | Chen | 5$ | 2 |
| Secrets of the Frost Singularity | Ancient Apparition | 7.5$ | 2 |
| Test of the Basilisk Lord | Razor | 10$ | 2 |
| Apex Automated | Clockwerk | 10$ | 3 |
| Perception of the First Light | Dawnbreaker | 10$ | 2 |
| Scales of the Shadow Walker | Phantom Lancer | 10$ | 3 |
| Silverwurm Sacrifice | Dragon Knight | 10$ | 3 |
| Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected | Ogre Magi | 12.5$ | 2 |
| Set Name | Hero | Price(USD) | Qty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Origin of the Dark Oath | Night Stalker | 5$ | 3 |
| Ravenous Abyss | Underlord | 5$ | 1 Available 1 Reserved |
| Apocalypse Unbound | Ancient Apparation | 5$ | 2 |
| Beholden of the Banished Ones | Warlock | 5$ | 2 |
| Fury of the Righteous Storm | Disruptor | 5$ | 3 |
| Lineage of the Stormlords | Juggernaut | 15$ | 3 |
| Silent Slayer | Silencer | 7.5$ | 2 |
| Mindless Slaughter | Pudge | 7.5$ | 2 |
| Heartless Hunt | Bounty Hunter | 5$ | 3 |
| Herald of the Ember Eye | Grimstroke | 7.5$ | 3 |
| Fissured Flight | Jakiro | 5$ | 2 |
| Flashpoint Proselyte | Huskar | 5$ | 2 |
| Signs of the Allfather | Nature's Prophet | 5$ | 1 Available 1 Reserved |
| Glory of the Elderflame | Lina | 15$ | 2 |
| Songs of Starfall Glen | Enchantress | 5$ | 3 |
| Ancient Inheritance | Tiny | 10$ | 2 Available 1 Reserved |
| Forsworn Legacy | Mars | 15$ | 2 |
| Set Name | Hero | Price(USD) | Qty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evolution of the Infinite | Enigma | 5$ | 3 |
| Beast of the Crimson Ring | Bristleback | 5$ | 2 |
| Clearcut Cavalier | Timbersaw | 5$ | 2 |
| The King Of Thieves | Keeper of the Light | 5$ | 2 |
| Horror from the Deep | Tidehunter | 7.5$ | 0 Available 2 Reserved |
| Ire of the Ancient Gaoler | Arc Warden | 10$ | 2 |
| Talons of the Endless Storm | Chaos Knight | 5$ | 2 |
| Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade | Rubick | 5$ | 2 |
| Crown of Calaphas | Shadow Demon | 5$ | 2 |
| Wrath of the Fallen | Doom | 5$ | 2 |
| Blacksail Cannoneer | Sniper | 5$ | 2 |
| Secrets of the Celestial | Skywrath Mage | 5$ | 2 |
| Blaze of Oblivion | Phoenix | 5$ | 2 |
| Master of the Searing Path | Ember Spirit | 10$ | 1 Available 1 Reserved |
| Steward of the Forbidden Chamber | Templar Assassin | 12.5$ | 4 |
| Claszureme Incursion | Faceless Void | 35$ | 1 |
2023.03.29 08:04 yellowstars260 Doctor denied Endoscopy for GERD/LPR
I have been battling “GERD and LPR” since 2021. I was prescribed famotidine 10mg initially and it didn’t work. I was breaking out in hives which doctor said famotidine would help with that. Hives went away but my GERD and LPR continued.
Anyways doctor recommended a PPI Omeprazole in August 2022 which took the lump sensation in my throat away but the side effects were terrible which was bloating, excessive burping and flatulence continued . I choked on acid, mucus, cough , hoarse voice , exhausted, nauseous, staying up 24 hours or several days I can’t sleep. Missed a lot of work too. Doctor took me off Omeprazole immediately and represcribed famotidine again —10 mg 2x a day. Which worked about 2 months and stopped working. I made lifestyle style changes and now have anxiety and stress over this. Mostly eat leafs with seafood and poultry. No junk or fried foods, no gluten, no soda, alcohol, tomatoes. Apples are life. I don’t smoke. But I feel anything I eat or don’t eat I’m miserable. Even with the changes. Recently diagnosed with TMJ too.
I recently had a doctors appointment on Monday and I tried advocating for endoscopy. Doctor denied it informing me they cannot make a referral until I am on a PPI for a month without any relief. They prescribed me Omeprazole again and I let the pharmacist know I can’t take it due to the horrendous side effects and it didn’t help relieve my symptoms. Pharmacist recommended Nexium which is similar to Omeprazole.
I am really afraid to take PPIs as the side effects . I’m frustrated at this point and don’t want to take any PPIs my body has not been the same since I been on Omeprazole and I am not sure I want to take the risk in Nexium.
It’s been 2 years with no relief and I’m beyond frustrated my doctor won’t refer me to a gastroenterologist or endoscopy . My doctor can only refer me. So the only way I think I can get by is pretending to be on the PPI just to do the test to see what’s going on.
What else can I do???
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Anyways doctor recommended a PPI Omeprazole in August 2022 which took the lump sensation in my throat away but the side effects were terrible which was bloating, excessive burping and flatulence continued . I choked on acid, mucus, cough , hoarse voice , exhausted, nauseous, staying up 24 hours or several days I can’t sleep. Missed a lot of work too. Doctor took me off Omeprazole immediately and represcribed famotidine again —10 mg 2x a day. Which worked about 2 months and stopped working. I made lifestyle style changes and now have anxiety and stress over this. Mostly eat leafs with seafood and poultry. No junk or fried foods, no gluten, no soda, alcohol, tomatoes. Apples are life. I don’t smoke. But I feel anything I eat or don’t eat I’m miserable. Even with the changes. Recently diagnosed with TMJ too.
I recently had a doctors appointment on Monday and I tried advocating for endoscopy. Doctor denied it informing me they cannot make a referral until I am on a PPI for a month without any relief. They prescribed me Omeprazole again and I let the pharmacist know I can’t take it due to the horrendous side effects and it didn’t help relieve my symptoms. Pharmacist recommended Nexium which is similar to Omeprazole.
I am really afraid to take PPIs as the side effects . I’m frustrated at this point and don’t want to take any PPIs my body has not been the same since I been on Omeprazole and I am not sure I want to take the risk in Nexium.
It’s been 2 years with no relief and I’m beyond frustrated my doctor won’t refer me to a gastroenterologist or endoscopy . My doctor can only refer me. So the only way I think I can get by is pretending to be on the PPI just to do the test to see what’s going on.
What else can I do???
2023.03.29 08:00 Bumish1 Iron Mace just posed an info dump. Here's what it says w/ google translate.
Super Long Post! But this is a rather huge update that includes GitRepos.
I cover a lot of this stuff in my video found here - https://youtu.be/IxMLU15dUGw (It's like an hour long and goes over a lot of the stuff said here, before they even released this info. They even use some of the same stuff as evidence.)
Discord Link to info - To see the update in it's origional format. https://discord.com/channels/988365908009447485/988662112454836234/1090510064609140867
Full list of assets purchased to make Dark & Darker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16DjiRitUa_R3IkelPNKW0Q8F-H1KFuWXTxxw2q0SCQo/edit#gid=0
Git logs for the first year of development. The earliest entries start at the bottom of the document. It is a little embarrassing showing all our development mistakes and bugs but we believe that is further proof that Dark and Darker was built from the ground up. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qyRk3zyIMuwTOvL3E8zchxw9hiukpKWC/view?usp=sharing
- Although our company was officially founded in October 2021, our development logs go back to September 2021. This can be explained by our company history below.
- A bit of background history regarding IRONMACE. Several of our founding members started work as a development team starting in September 2021. The members worked for more than a month in a shabby jiujitsu gym without pay using our own personal PCs as a test of our resolve and teamwork, and also because we had no investors. Once we realized that our members could form the foundations of a viable company, the company was formally founded in late October 2021. The original funds were quickly exhausted and IRONMACE almost went bankrupt as we were unable to acquire investors. Luckily members rallied together and collected funds from over twenty friends and families to bankroll the company for another couple months. This was also quickly exhausted and IRONMACE relied on outsourcing work unrelated to game development to help it survive another month. It was only through grueling meetings and countless, countless, countless rejections that IRONMACE was finally able to find brave VCs willing to fund the studio in 2022. The studio made it point to accept as little money as possible to stay hungry and motivated to get to the current point.
1. Our Korean Response to the takedown claim - From Iron Mace
We are Iron Mace, a game developer in Korea developing the PC game Dark & Darker. Through this document, we will deal with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Take Down Notice (DMCA Take Down Notice) filed against us by Nexon Korea Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Nexon”), and our position on allegations of copyright infringement and leakage of trade secrets.
Through its own investigation, Nexon said, "Dark and Darker appears to have been developed by copying and stealing trade secrets and copyrighted information owned by Nexon." said. We want to make it clear that this claim is baseless. Our company, Iron Mace, has never owned or used Nexon's copyrighted materials or trade secrets.
Nexon belatedly registered the copyright related to the P3 project in February 2023, more than six months after Dark and Darker was released, and is claiming copyright infringement against it. The first point of their claim is that one of our members (then director, hereinafter A) illegally moved important assets to a private server “without permission”.
Our response to the above claim is as follows.
Due to the mandatory remote work policy implemented by Nexon in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, A received written approval from Nexon executives to use an external personal server to improve the team's work efficiency from 2020 to 2021. While developing using a personal server for about a year, A asked if it was okay to continue using the personal server. The head of the senior organization responded to the question by telling them to refrain from using private servers. A has agreed to discontinue use of the private server. Instead, we received an exception from the company to work in the office, circumventing the current remote work policy, in order to keep the team working efficiently.
In order to stop using the personal server, A moved the connected system and started deleting trade secret files, but the immediate hurdles (a kind of mid-term evaluation process in the game industry, and if the results are not good, the project may be suspended) , the migration of development systems to internal servers was not a quick and thorough process. As a result, some auto-upload scripts related to the build system were left running. And buildings around the office are closed due to corona expansion, so I can no longer go to work, etc. A made a mistake of using the personal server again without re-approval due to the anxiety of reduced work efficiency and the burden of meeting the schedule and achieving the goal.
At that time, all computers in Nexon's company were monitored using the endpoint solution, so the use of personal servers subject to approval and re-approval was known to Nexon during several months of development. However, during that period, A did not receive a single warning from the security team, and when answering to the head of the higher organization to refrain from using the server, he received an answer saying, 'It's a bit ambiguous to say that it's official/no', so he made a wrong decision. that was hit
A suffered the shock of his previous project being shut down in 2020, and several other projects within Nexon were canceled around the same time. A had doubts about the release along with various circumstances that could only be seen as lack of development support. Later, due to an incident, his trust with his boss was broken, and in June 2021, he finally decided to leave Nexon.
A revealed to members of the development team he had worked with for a long time that he would be leaving the company soon. He cited a lack of support for development as the reason for his departure, and further doubts about whether he would ever be able to launch the project. He also said he welcomes those who would like to join us for the next try. He's likely pushing for a project in a similar genre to the P3 project, but he's made it clear that everything needs to be developed from scratch. The above fact was also proven in the course of investigating a separate individual lawsuit filed by Nexon against A in the testimony collected by the police.
Immediately after Nexon's executives learned of A's plan to resign, their attitude suddenly changed to find A's fault, without any effort to amicably resolve the situation. He then sent an internal audit team to accuse him of stealing files, even though he knew the private server had been used for work for months. Seeing efforts to find out the fault somehow in this way rather than solving it through dialogue, the relationship of trust with the company was completely broken, and A consulted with a lawyer and said that since there are personal information on the personal server, there is no obligation to submit it to the company. After hearing the conclusion, instead of submitting my private server, I completely deleted everything in it.
A was fired due to a claim interpreted differently from his intention, and around August 2021, civil/criminal charges and lawsuits were filed against his house and other assets with omnidirectional seizure and pressure, and several seizures and searches were conducted. has been done up to A's personal case is still ongoing, and claims that he stole or misappropriated these files have yet to be substantiated. He actively cooperated with police investigations every time. Our company was also seized and searched several times during this investigation, but we responded to the investigation with the utmost cooperation in order to prove our innocence. If Nexon's trade secrets were really stolen or misappropriated, nine out of the more than 20 P3 project team members would not have risked joining Iron Mace.
The second issue in the DMCA notice filed by Nexon is the claim that Iron Mace CEO Terence Park abused the suspect's stolen trade secrets and copyrighted material to develop Dark & Darker for his own and Iron Mace's benefit. Our response to this claim is below.
The company's CEO makes it clear that no stolen trade secrets or copyrighted material were used to develop Dark & Darker. Indeed, Terrence Park has repeatedly stressed to his team that in order to maintain the company's vision and branding, third-party trade secrets must not exist by mistake and must be developed from scratch.
Subsequently, in the DMCA notice, Nexon claims that the only way to come up with an idea similar to the P3 project is theft, and as a basis, it claims that the P3 project has never been disclosed to a third party during this period. However, this claim can be proven unequivocally false. Nexon unveiled the P3 in a media showcase in August 2021, and has since written about it in numerous blogs and articles:
https://www.gematsu.com/2021/08/nexon-showcases-12-new-games-project-magnum-project-hp-mabinogi-mobile-more
https://pdf.irpocket.com/C3659/GbYe/dYzj/ICN2.pdf
https://www.donga.com/news/It/article/all/20210805/108384593/1
Nexon also claims in its DMCA notice that no other game has the same "concept, genre, and plot" as P3, claiming to have created an entirely new concept. But none of the P3 concepts are entirely new. A game already on the market called Expedition Agartha is a similar game in the three categories already stated.
Since then, Iron Mace has claimed without evidence that it is impossible to make a test version of Dark & Darker in just 10 months of founding without using Nexon's trade secrets. Our response to this claim is as follows.
The fact that a big game company like Nexon can't develop games this fast doesn't mean that other studios, big and small, can't develop at that speed.
Iron Mace's rapid pace of development was possible for the following reasons.
Iron Mace began development with 18 people, significantly more than the initial P3 team of about 11 people. The percentage of dual programmers doubled to 3 and 6, respectively.
We used as many 3D game objects as possible, purchased from the Asset Store, which account for most of the cost and time required for game development.
Also, with the permission of the artists, it was developed with a focus on game design and programming.
The server code did not exist because there were no server programmers on the P3 project team. However, Iron Mace was developed by employing senior-level server programmers from the beginning to create a stable server architecture.
Fortunately, we have evidence that clearly shows how we developed the game quickly and efficiently, and we will be making it public soon.
We'll soon publish a list of purchased assets used in Dark & Darker development, proving that almost all 3D assets were purchased from the Unreal Marketplace.
And we have tons of videos to see what major milestone builds look like, from early internal playtests to more recent tests. These videos will also be coming online soon, showing you how to quickly and efficiently develop the game from scratch.
Finally, for verification from a technical point of view, we will soon release the Git log and its file list, which is the development history from the first log in the Git repository to the work on the self-developed anti-cheat module. This is a log over a period of about a year or so. This will allow other developers to easily check our progress and check for stolen code or assets. In addition, since the P3 project was written while learning because none of the programmers had any experience using Unreal Engine at the time of the project, using the code and assets of the P3 project as a reference is a dark and darker project.
It wouldn't have helped you in your progress.
In the DMCA notice, Nexon compared and analyzed files from the Dark & Darker and P3 Projects and said, "The number of files with the same name is too many to be a coincidence." claims. And it claims to have found more than 2,338 files with the same name. Our response to this claim is as follows.
They attached the remaining 1,032 resources to Exhibit D, excluding files generated by using the same game engine. Of these, 950 files were either assets purchased from Unreal's Marketplace or files from plugins. The remaining 82 files (41 to be exact, because two files are created with the same file name) also have the same name because of the general concept and official naming convention recommended in the process of developing a typical first-person fantasy game. (See naming conventions and examples below)
Rules for Writing Unreal Engine Official Names
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en/recommended-asset-naming-conventions-in-unreal-engine-projects/
example)
Blueprint (BP_) + Arrow => BP_Arrow (Exhibit D 33p)
Material (M_) + Base (Base) => M_Base (Exhibit D 35p)
If Nexon agrees to provide the file, it is suggested to compare and analyze the actual contents of the files with the same name through a third party. We have provided a list of sources for all “same-named” resources listed by Nexon.
In addition, the DMCA notice claims that the two games' character designs, worldviews, and core gameplay are similar. In response to the above claim, we'd like to say that both games borrow settings from very traditional fantasy worlds. None of this is original, and the similarities to the pointed character classes and use of torches can be found in countless other fantasy games. Both games belong to the classic fantasy dungeon exploration genre, and the similarities can be explained.
In addition, Nexon claims that "Iron Mace purchased graphic assets, including character concept art, from the Unreal Marketplace, but the assets purchased from the Unreal Marketplace and Dark & Darker's assets look different, and there are many similarities with those of P3. ” claims. Our position on the claim is as follows.
Most of the 3D assets were purchased from the Unreal Marketplace, but most of the 2D graphic elements, including concept art and UI, were created in-house. The character concept artwork that Nexon claims similarities to is a reflection of a very traditional fantasy setting. In addition, the concept artwork of the two games was created by the same person, so the painting style is also similar. Soon, our concept artist will organize and disclose that the character concept of Dark & Darker does not infringe on the concept of P3. Through this document, Google image search shows artwork of other popular fantasy concepts, and Dark & Darker's concept art follows the general fantasy world, so it looks similar, but I want to prove that I did not infringe P3's copyright. .
The DMCA notice states that the two games' core concepts, genres, and storylines are so similar that "I am convinced that Iron Mace may have used Nexon's trade secrets to create Dark & Darker." Again, Dark & Darker's concept and settings are all largely inspired by traditional and popular fantasy RPG games. The gameplay of adventurers digging through dungeons full of monsters and treasure in search of riches is so common and common that it could be widely applied in many other fantasy games as well.
Just for fun, we asked ChatGPT to explain the definition of a typical PVP dungeon exploration game, and we got the following response.
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In this PvP dungeon crawl game, players compete against each other in dangerous and mysterious dungeons filled with traps, puzzles, and monsters.
Players choose their character from several classes, each with unique abilities and playstyles. They need to explore dungeons, defeat monsters, and solve puzzles to advance deeper.
But besides fighting monsters, players also have to face each other in intense PvP battles. They can attack other players to steal loot or gain an advantage, but you have to be careful not to be suddenly attacked by enemy players.
In the meantime, players can collect loot, weapons, and magic items to help them in their missions. They can also trade items with other players or buy and sell them at NPC shops.
Gameplay requires strategic decision-making, and players must decide whether to focus on attacking other players or progressing through the dungeon. They must manage their limited resources carefully, including weapons, spells, and stamina.
The ultimate goal of the game is to reach the deepest dungeon's floor and defeat the final boss. You should be able to beat other players while doing all of this. The game offers an exciting and competitive experience for players who enjoy both PvE and PvP gameplay.
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Finally, the common characteristics of the two games announced in Exhibit E are generally shared characteristics that can also be found in many other similar games.
Judging from the information presented, it would be difficult for Nexon itself to believe that Iron Mace infringed on the copyright of the P3 project. And Nexon does not provide evidence that Iron Mace used Nexon's trade secrets to make Dark & Darker, only circumstantial inferences.
Finally, Nexon is accusing Iron Mace of violating Valve's SSA and SOCR, preventing us from delivering our games to fans on the world's largest PC gaming platform. We want Nexon to stop making baseless claims.
In order to resolve issues quickly and definitively, we are willing to provide source code, produced assets, and design documentation for comparison between the two companies. We ask Nexon to make a positive impact on gamers and gaming communities around the world by actively working on resolving issues between the two companies.
That's all of that document. Translated by google.
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2. Concept Artist response:
Rebuttal to claims of character design similarity
Hello, this is Dark & Darker's concept artist.
Through this document, we would like to refute the allegation that the concept of P3 was stolen from Dark & Darker.
Nexon claims that Dark & Darker was developed using P3's assets, and claims to be suspicious because of their visual similarity. The contents below are intended to refute this and explain what parts we focused on in class design and why the claim that the results are similar is not valid.
Dark & Darker's classes are made up of classes commonly handled in Dungeons and Dragons and medieval fantasy games influenced by it, and aim for familiar classic fantasy concepts.
Therefore, it cannot be seen that it has the distinctive features of Dark & Darker in appearance or design.
Dark & Darker worked on the class concept based on the following three concerns.
What are the most familiar classes in the memories of classic fantasy fans?
What design can you accept without hesitation even if you are not a fan of classic fantasy?
What is the range that can be expressed with the assets you own (purchased assets)?
P3 and Dark & Darker have the same concept artist (i.e., because I worked on both), the way the characters are portrayed or the painting style may feel similar, but there are significant differences in detailed composition such as costumes.
The following will refute the claim that the classes of P3 and Dark & Darker are similar by comparing each class.
Class Comparison 1: Barbarian
When I started thinking about Dark & Darker's Barbarian, I initially tried to work with a barbaric warrior feel like Conan the Barbarian (movie). However, I had to use the purchased armor assets in common, so I had no choice but to switch to the current Nordic Viking feel.
To elaborate more, even if I drew concept art, I did not have enough time to create assets for it, so I changed the direction of the concept art according to the assets.
Images in document.
Figure 1: A draft of a Dark and Darker Barbarian that was scrapped in the works.
Images in document.
Figure 2: Barbarian used for loading image after drafting
Images in document.
Figure 3 below is various concept art of the barbarian that I referenced during work in this regard. Based on this, we focused on creating a barbarian that fits the worldview of Dark & Darker, and designing it so that there is no particular problem when using equipment of other classes in common.
Figure 3: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Nexon is claiming that P3's Barbarian and Dark & Darker's Barbarian are similar.
As explained earlier, Dark & Darker's Barbarian was created based on works from common fantasy worlds, and furthermore, those used in various games.
Figure 4: P3 and the Barbarian in Dark & Darker
Image in document.
Even in the details, of course, there are differences. P3's barbarian is more colorful than Dark & Darker's barbarian, such as horns, Nordic patterns of armor, beard shape, and cape, and the style is mixed. The shape of the helmet may look similar by adopting the design of the actual German helmet (Yelmo de Gjermundbu), but the detailed design is completely different.
Class Comparison 2: Fighter
Image in document.
Dark & Darker's fighter is a class specialized in melee attacks wearing typical medieval knight armor. The items in Figure 5 below are reference materials when designing fighters, and are also popularly used, heavy armored warriors specializing in melee attacks.
Through the items in Figure 6, you can see what process the current fighter design came out through
Figure 5: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 6: Fighter used for loading image after drafting
Image in document.
Figure 7: P3's Tanker and Dark & Darker's Fighter
Image in document.
Nexon claims that P3's 'Tanker' and Dark & Darker's 'Fighter' were produced in a similar form. However, as you can see from the picture in Figure 7, except for the open helmet, everything is different, including the appearance, armor design, weapon design, bag, and props.
The figure wearing an open helmet is just a type of expression commonly used to show a character's face because it is obscured.
Class Comparison 3: Ranger
In games and movies set in the Middle Ages, rangers were often depicted wearing hoods, and purchased assets also included hoods. The costumes depicted in the Dark & Darker illustration were designed with reference to the asset costumes you own.
Figure 8: Appearance by referring to the clothing on the left and the hood on the right
Image in document.
Figure 9: Ranger used for loading image after cyan
Image in document.
Figure 10: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 11: P3 and Dark & Darker's Ranger
Image in document.
Dark & Darker's Ranger has borrowed the overall color from common designs to keep the sensibility of the old fantasy intact. Also, in order to express the concept of a hunter who fights while hiding in the dark, the use of colors was limited and designed with low saturation.
As you can see by comparing the P3 and Dark & Darker's Ranger illustrations, they are not the same except that they wear hoods and have bows.
Class Comparison 4: Wizard
The design that became the basis of the Dark and Darker Wizard is Gandalf from ‘The Lord of the Rings’, and it is the most easily recognizable image of a wizard.
Figure 12: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 13: Wizard of Dark and Darker with P3
Image in document.
Like the image of the other classes described earlier, Dark & Darker's Wizard expressed a more traditional and classic wizard than P3's Wizard. Wearing a long and cumbersome robe for an adventurer's appearance, it was produced with the intention of taking the form of an old man who is old but wise and still capable of fighting.
Class Comparison 5: Log
Likewise, in the case of logs, other than wearing a hood, the P3 and Dark & Darker logs have different components such as weapons and costumes.
In the case of the rogue, we tried to embody the real thief's play, rather than simply wielding a fast weapon such as a dagger (it is actually possible to steal while playing), and for this purpose, the weapon was highlighted at the beginning, and finally It is made in the form of emphasizing the money bag held in the hand.
Rather, in the case of Rogue, the design was made to approach the essence of a thief more than a thief generally seen.
Figure 14: Initial log cyan
Image in document.
Figure 15: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 16: P3's Thief and Dark & Darker's Rogue
Image in document.
Like the images of other classes described above, P3’s ‘thief’ and Dark & Darker’s ‘rogue’ have different design goals.
Class Comparison 6: Cleric
In general, the class called Cleric is often designed with the Templar Knights as a motif. Dark and darker clerics also adopted a design with a tunic wrapped around chainmail to match this popular design. Also, like other classes, it had to be created based on the assets you have, so I designed it with reference to the assets below.
Figure 17: Polyphoria's assets referencing clothing design
Image in document.
Figure 18: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 19: P3 and Dark & Darker's Cleric
Image in document.
From that point of view, if you compare P3 and Dark & Darker's clerics, you can see that there are many differences in armor, costumes, and patterns.
Conclusion: P3 and Dark & Darker are different.
In this way, the design of the classes expressed in Dark & Darker is only the result of selecting the ones that are most suitable for Dark & Darker among one of the character designs that have appeared in various fantasy games that have been dealt with for decades, and are not designed by stealing P3's trade secrets. didn't
In conclusion, the allegation of theft is only a phenomenon that arises from the fact that the concepts of the two projects are oriented toward a medieval fantasy worldview. We, the development team of Iron Mace, focused on the direction of the game we were aiming for, designed and expressed it accordingly, and revealed that the game was not made by taking the parts that were produced in P3 as it is.
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I cover a lot of this stuff in my video found here - https://youtu.be/IxMLU15dUGw (It's like an hour long and goes over a lot of the stuff said here, before they even released this info. They even use some of the same stuff as evidence.)
Discord Link to info - To see the update in it's origional format. https://discord.com/channels/988365908009447485/988662112454836234/1090510064609140867
Full list of assets purchased to make Dark & Darker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16DjiRitUa_R3IkelPNKW0Q8F-H1KFuWXTxxw2q0SCQo/edit#gid=0
Git logs for the first year of development. The earliest entries start at the bottom of the document. It is a little embarrassing showing all our development mistakes and bugs but we believe that is further proof that Dark and Darker was built from the ground up. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qyRk3zyIMuwTOvL3E8zchxw9hiukpKWC/view?usp=sharing
- Although our company was officially founded in October 2021, our development logs go back to September 2021. This can be explained by our company history below.
- A bit of background history regarding IRONMACE. Several of our founding members started work as a development team starting in September 2021. The members worked for more than a month in a shabby jiujitsu gym without pay using our own personal PCs as a test of our resolve and teamwork, and also because we had no investors. Once we realized that our members could form the foundations of a viable company, the company was formally founded in late October 2021. The original funds were quickly exhausted and IRONMACE almost went bankrupt as we were unable to acquire investors. Luckily members rallied together and collected funds from over twenty friends and families to bankroll the company for another couple months. This was also quickly exhausted and IRONMACE relied on outsourcing work unrelated to game development to help it survive another month. It was only through grueling meetings and countless, countless, countless rejections that IRONMACE was finally able to find brave VCs willing to fund the studio in 2022. The studio made it point to accept as little money as possible to stay hungry and motivated to get to the current point.
1. Our Korean Response to the takedown claim - From Iron Mace
We are Iron Mace, a game developer in Korea developing the PC game Dark & Darker. Through this document, we will deal with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Take Down Notice (DMCA Take Down Notice) filed against us by Nexon Korea Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Nexon”), and our position on allegations of copyright infringement and leakage of trade secrets.
Through its own investigation, Nexon said, "Dark and Darker appears to have been developed by copying and stealing trade secrets and copyrighted information owned by Nexon." said. We want to make it clear that this claim is baseless. Our company, Iron Mace, has never owned or used Nexon's copyrighted materials or trade secrets.
Nexon belatedly registered the copyright related to the P3 project in February 2023, more than six months after Dark and Darker was released, and is claiming copyright infringement against it. The first point of their claim is that one of our members (then director, hereinafter A) illegally moved important assets to a private server “without permission”.
Our response to the above claim is as follows.
Due to the mandatory remote work policy implemented by Nexon in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, A received written approval from Nexon executives to use an external personal server to improve the team's work efficiency from 2020 to 2021. While developing using a personal server for about a year, A asked if it was okay to continue using the personal server. The head of the senior organization responded to the question by telling them to refrain from using private servers. A has agreed to discontinue use of the private server. Instead, we received an exception from the company to work in the office, circumventing the current remote work policy, in order to keep the team working efficiently.
In order to stop using the personal server, A moved the connected system and started deleting trade secret files, but the immediate hurdles (a kind of mid-term evaluation process in the game industry, and if the results are not good, the project may be suspended) , the migration of development systems to internal servers was not a quick and thorough process. As a result, some auto-upload scripts related to the build system were left running. And buildings around the office are closed due to corona expansion, so I can no longer go to work, etc. A made a mistake of using the personal server again without re-approval due to the anxiety of reduced work efficiency and the burden of meeting the schedule and achieving the goal.
At that time, all computers in Nexon's company were monitored using the endpoint solution, so the use of personal servers subject to approval and re-approval was known to Nexon during several months of development. However, during that period, A did not receive a single warning from the security team, and when answering to the head of the higher organization to refrain from using the server, he received an answer saying, 'It's a bit ambiguous to say that it's official/no', so he made a wrong decision. that was hit
A suffered the shock of his previous project being shut down in 2020, and several other projects within Nexon were canceled around the same time. A had doubts about the release along with various circumstances that could only be seen as lack of development support. Later, due to an incident, his trust with his boss was broken, and in June 2021, he finally decided to leave Nexon.
A revealed to members of the development team he had worked with for a long time that he would be leaving the company soon. He cited a lack of support for development as the reason for his departure, and further doubts about whether he would ever be able to launch the project. He also said he welcomes those who would like to join us for the next try. He's likely pushing for a project in a similar genre to the P3 project, but he's made it clear that everything needs to be developed from scratch. The above fact was also proven in the course of investigating a separate individual lawsuit filed by Nexon against A in the testimony collected by the police.
Immediately after Nexon's executives learned of A's plan to resign, their attitude suddenly changed to find A's fault, without any effort to amicably resolve the situation. He then sent an internal audit team to accuse him of stealing files, even though he knew the private server had been used for work for months. Seeing efforts to find out the fault somehow in this way rather than solving it through dialogue, the relationship of trust with the company was completely broken, and A consulted with a lawyer and said that since there are personal information on the personal server, there is no obligation to submit it to the company. After hearing the conclusion, instead of submitting my private server, I completely deleted everything in it.
A was fired due to a claim interpreted differently from his intention, and around August 2021, civil/criminal charges and lawsuits were filed against his house and other assets with omnidirectional seizure and pressure, and several seizures and searches were conducted. has been done up to A's personal case is still ongoing, and claims that he stole or misappropriated these files have yet to be substantiated. He actively cooperated with police investigations every time. Our company was also seized and searched several times during this investigation, but we responded to the investigation with the utmost cooperation in order to prove our innocence. If Nexon's trade secrets were really stolen or misappropriated, nine out of the more than 20 P3 project team members would not have risked joining Iron Mace.
The second issue in the DMCA notice filed by Nexon is the claim that Iron Mace CEO Terence Park abused the suspect's stolen trade secrets and copyrighted material to develop Dark & Darker for his own and Iron Mace's benefit. Our response to this claim is below.
The company's CEO makes it clear that no stolen trade secrets or copyrighted material were used to develop Dark & Darker. Indeed, Terrence Park has repeatedly stressed to his team that in order to maintain the company's vision and branding, third-party trade secrets must not exist by mistake and must be developed from scratch.
Subsequently, in the DMCA notice, Nexon claims that the only way to come up with an idea similar to the P3 project is theft, and as a basis, it claims that the P3 project has never been disclosed to a third party during this period. However, this claim can be proven unequivocally false. Nexon unveiled the P3 in a media showcase in August 2021, and has since written about it in numerous blogs and articles:
https://www.gematsu.com/2021/08/nexon-showcases-12-new-games-project-magnum-project-hp-mabinogi-mobile-more
https://pdf.irpocket.com/C3659/GbYe/dYzj/ICN2.pdf
https://www.donga.com/news/It/article/all/20210805/108384593/1
Nexon also claims in its DMCA notice that no other game has the same "concept, genre, and plot" as P3, claiming to have created an entirely new concept. But none of the P3 concepts are entirely new. A game already on the market called Expedition Agartha is a similar game in the three categories already stated.
Since then, Iron Mace has claimed without evidence that it is impossible to make a test version of Dark & Darker in just 10 months of founding without using Nexon's trade secrets. Our response to this claim is as follows.
The fact that a big game company like Nexon can't develop games this fast doesn't mean that other studios, big and small, can't develop at that speed.
Iron Mace's rapid pace of development was possible for the following reasons.
Iron Mace began development with 18 people, significantly more than the initial P3 team of about 11 people. The percentage of dual programmers doubled to 3 and 6, respectively.
We used as many 3D game objects as possible, purchased from the Asset Store, which account for most of the cost and time required for game development.
Also, with the permission of the artists, it was developed with a focus on game design and programming.
The server code did not exist because there were no server programmers on the P3 project team. However, Iron Mace was developed by employing senior-level server programmers from the beginning to create a stable server architecture.
Fortunately, we have evidence that clearly shows how we developed the game quickly and efficiently, and we will be making it public soon.
We'll soon publish a list of purchased assets used in Dark & Darker development, proving that almost all 3D assets were purchased from the Unreal Marketplace.
And we have tons of videos to see what major milestone builds look like, from early internal playtests to more recent tests. These videos will also be coming online soon, showing you how to quickly and efficiently develop the game from scratch.
Finally, for verification from a technical point of view, we will soon release the Git log and its file list, which is the development history from the first log in the Git repository to the work on the self-developed anti-cheat module. This is a log over a period of about a year or so. This will allow other developers to easily check our progress and check for stolen code or assets. In addition, since the P3 project was written while learning because none of the programmers had any experience using Unreal Engine at the time of the project, using the code and assets of the P3 project as a reference is a dark and darker project.
It wouldn't have helped you in your progress.
In the DMCA notice, Nexon compared and analyzed files from the Dark & Darker and P3 Projects and said, "The number of files with the same name is too many to be a coincidence." claims. And it claims to have found more than 2,338 files with the same name. Our response to this claim is as follows.
They attached the remaining 1,032 resources to Exhibit D, excluding files generated by using the same game engine. Of these, 950 files were either assets purchased from Unreal's Marketplace or files from plugins. The remaining 82 files (41 to be exact, because two files are created with the same file name) also have the same name because of the general concept and official naming convention recommended in the process of developing a typical first-person fantasy game. (See naming conventions and examples below)
Rules for Writing Unreal Engine Official Names
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en/recommended-asset-naming-conventions-in-unreal-engine-projects/
example)
Blueprint (BP_) + Arrow => BP_Arrow (Exhibit D 33p)
Material (M_) + Base (Base) => M_Base (Exhibit D 35p)
If Nexon agrees to provide the file, it is suggested to compare and analyze the actual contents of the files with the same name through a third party. We have provided a list of sources for all “same-named” resources listed by Nexon.
In addition, the DMCA notice claims that the two games' character designs, worldviews, and core gameplay are similar. In response to the above claim, we'd like to say that both games borrow settings from very traditional fantasy worlds. None of this is original, and the similarities to the pointed character classes and use of torches can be found in countless other fantasy games. Both games belong to the classic fantasy dungeon exploration genre, and the similarities can be explained.
In addition, Nexon claims that "Iron Mace purchased graphic assets, including character concept art, from the Unreal Marketplace, but the assets purchased from the Unreal Marketplace and Dark & Darker's assets look different, and there are many similarities with those of P3. ” claims. Our position on the claim is as follows.
Most of the 3D assets were purchased from the Unreal Marketplace, but most of the 2D graphic elements, including concept art and UI, were created in-house. The character concept artwork that Nexon claims similarities to is a reflection of a very traditional fantasy setting. In addition, the concept artwork of the two games was created by the same person, so the painting style is also similar. Soon, our concept artist will organize and disclose that the character concept of Dark & Darker does not infringe on the concept of P3. Through this document, Google image search shows artwork of other popular fantasy concepts, and Dark & Darker's concept art follows the general fantasy world, so it looks similar, but I want to prove that I did not infringe P3's copyright. .
The DMCA notice states that the two games' core concepts, genres, and storylines are so similar that "I am convinced that Iron Mace may have used Nexon's trade secrets to create Dark & Darker." Again, Dark & Darker's concept and settings are all largely inspired by traditional and popular fantasy RPG games. The gameplay of adventurers digging through dungeons full of monsters and treasure in search of riches is so common and common that it could be widely applied in many other fantasy games as well.
Just for fun, we asked ChatGPT to explain the definition of a typical PVP dungeon exploration game, and we got the following response.
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In this PvP dungeon crawl game, players compete against each other in dangerous and mysterious dungeons filled with traps, puzzles, and monsters.
Players choose their character from several classes, each with unique abilities and playstyles. They need to explore dungeons, defeat monsters, and solve puzzles to advance deeper.
But besides fighting monsters, players also have to face each other in intense PvP battles. They can attack other players to steal loot or gain an advantage, but you have to be careful not to be suddenly attacked by enemy players.
In the meantime, players can collect loot, weapons, and magic items to help them in their missions. They can also trade items with other players or buy and sell them at NPC shops.
Gameplay requires strategic decision-making, and players must decide whether to focus on attacking other players or progressing through the dungeon. They must manage their limited resources carefully, including weapons, spells, and stamina.
The ultimate goal of the game is to reach the deepest dungeon's floor and defeat the final boss. You should be able to beat other players while doing all of this. The game offers an exciting and competitive experience for players who enjoy both PvE and PvP gameplay.
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Finally, the common characteristics of the two games announced in Exhibit E are generally shared characteristics that can also be found in many other similar games.
Judging from the information presented, it would be difficult for Nexon itself to believe that Iron Mace infringed on the copyright of the P3 project. And Nexon does not provide evidence that Iron Mace used Nexon's trade secrets to make Dark & Darker, only circumstantial inferences.
Finally, Nexon is accusing Iron Mace of violating Valve's SSA and SOCR, preventing us from delivering our games to fans on the world's largest PC gaming platform. We want Nexon to stop making baseless claims.
In order to resolve issues quickly and definitively, we are willing to provide source code, produced assets, and design documentation for comparison between the two companies. We ask Nexon to make a positive impact on gamers and gaming communities around the world by actively working on resolving issues between the two companies.
That's all of that document. Translated by google.
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2. Concept Artist response:
Rebuttal to claims of character design similarity
Hello, this is Dark & Darker's concept artist.
Through this document, we would like to refute the allegation that the concept of P3 was stolen from Dark & Darker.
Nexon claims that Dark & Darker was developed using P3's assets, and claims to be suspicious because of their visual similarity. The contents below are intended to refute this and explain what parts we focused on in class design and why the claim that the results are similar is not valid.
Dark & Darker's classes are made up of classes commonly handled in Dungeons and Dragons and medieval fantasy games influenced by it, and aim for familiar classic fantasy concepts.
Therefore, it cannot be seen that it has the distinctive features of Dark & Darker in appearance or design.
Dark & Darker worked on the class concept based on the following three concerns.
What are the most familiar classes in the memories of classic fantasy fans?
What design can you accept without hesitation even if you are not a fan of classic fantasy?
What is the range that can be expressed with the assets you own (purchased assets)?
P3 and Dark & Darker have the same concept artist (i.e., because I worked on both), the way the characters are portrayed or the painting style may feel similar, but there are significant differences in detailed composition such as costumes.
The following will refute the claim that the classes of P3 and Dark & Darker are similar by comparing each class.
Class Comparison 1: Barbarian
When I started thinking about Dark & Darker's Barbarian, I initially tried to work with a barbaric warrior feel like Conan the Barbarian (movie). However, I had to use the purchased armor assets in common, so I had no choice but to switch to the current Nordic Viking feel.
To elaborate more, even if I drew concept art, I did not have enough time to create assets for it, so I changed the direction of the concept art according to the assets.
Images in document.
Figure 1: A draft of a Dark and Darker Barbarian that was scrapped in the works.
Images in document.
Figure 2: Barbarian used for loading image after drafting
Images in document.
Figure 3 below is various concept art of the barbarian that I referenced during work in this regard. Based on this, we focused on creating a barbarian that fits the worldview of Dark & Darker, and designing it so that there is no particular problem when using equipment of other classes in common.
Figure 3: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Nexon is claiming that P3's Barbarian and Dark & Darker's Barbarian are similar.
As explained earlier, Dark & Darker's Barbarian was created based on works from common fantasy worlds, and furthermore, those used in various games.
Figure 4: P3 and the Barbarian in Dark & Darker
Image in document.
Even in the details, of course, there are differences. P3's barbarian is more colorful than Dark & Darker's barbarian, such as horns, Nordic patterns of armor, beard shape, and cape, and the style is mixed. The shape of the helmet may look similar by adopting the design of the actual German helmet (Yelmo de Gjermundbu), but the detailed design is completely different.
Class Comparison 2: Fighter
Image in document.
Dark & Darker's fighter is a class specialized in melee attacks wearing typical medieval knight armor. The items in Figure 5 below are reference materials when designing fighters, and are also popularly used, heavy armored warriors specializing in melee attacks.
Through the items in Figure 6, you can see what process the current fighter design came out through
Figure 5: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 6: Fighter used for loading image after drafting
Image in document.
Figure 7: P3's Tanker and Dark & Darker's Fighter
Image in document.
Nexon claims that P3's 'Tanker' and Dark & Darker's 'Fighter' were produced in a similar form. However, as you can see from the picture in Figure 7, except for the open helmet, everything is different, including the appearance, armor design, weapon design, bag, and props.
The figure wearing an open helmet is just a type of expression commonly used to show a character's face because it is obscured.
Class Comparison 3: Ranger
In games and movies set in the Middle Ages, rangers were often depicted wearing hoods, and purchased assets also included hoods. The costumes depicted in the Dark & Darker illustration were designed with reference to the asset costumes you own.
Figure 8: Appearance by referring to the clothing on the left and the hood on the right
Image in document.
Figure 9: Ranger used for loading image after cyan
Image in document.
Figure 10: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 11: P3 and Dark & Darker's Ranger
Image in document.
Dark & Darker's Ranger has borrowed the overall color from common designs to keep the sensibility of the old fantasy intact. Also, in order to express the concept of a hunter who fights while hiding in the dark, the use of colors was limited and designed with low saturation.
As you can see by comparing the P3 and Dark & Darker's Ranger illustrations, they are not the same except that they wear hoods and have bows.
Class Comparison 4: Wizard
The design that became the basis of the Dark and Darker Wizard is Gandalf from ‘The Lord of the Rings’, and it is the most easily recognizable image of a wizard.
Figure 12: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 13: Wizard of Dark and Darker with P3
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Like the image of the other classes described earlier, Dark & Darker's Wizard expressed a more traditional and classic wizard than P3's Wizard. Wearing a long and cumbersome robe for an adventurer's appearance, it was produced with the intention of taking the form of an old man who is old but wise and still capable of fighting.
Class Comparison 5: Log
Likewise, in the case of logs, other than wearing a hood, the P3 and Dark & Darker logs have different components such as weapons and costumes.
In the case of the rogue, we tried to embody the real thief's play, rather than simply wielding a fast weapon such as a dagger (it is actually possible to steal while playing), and for this purpose, the weapon was highlighted at the beginning, and finally It is made in the form of emphasizing the money bag held in the hand.
Rather, in the case of Rogue, the design was made to approach the essence of a thief more than a thief generally seen.
Figure 14: Initial log cyan
Image in document.
Figure 15: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 16: P3's Thief and Dark & Darker's Rogue
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Like the images of other classes described above, P3’s ‘thief’ and Dark & Darker’s ‘rogue’ have different design goals.
Class Comparison 6: Cleric
In general, the class called Cleric is often designed with the Templar Knights as a motif. Dark and darker clerics also adopted a design with a tunic wrapped around chainmail to match this popular design. Also, like other classes, it had to be created based on the assets you have, so I designed it with reference to the assets below.
Figure 17: Polyphoria's assets referencing clothing design
Image in document.
Figure 18: Concept designs by other artists
Image in document.
Figure 19: P3 and Dark & Darker's Cleric
Image in document.
From that point of view, if you compare P3 and Dark & Darker's clerics, you can see that there are many differences in armor, costumes, and patterns.
Conclusion: P3 and Dark & Darker are different.
In this way, the design of the classes expressed in Dark & Darker is only the result of selecting the ones that are most suitable for Dark & Darker among one of the character designs that have appeared in various fantasy games that have been dealt with for decades, and are not designed by stealing P3's trade secrets. didn't
In conclusion, the allegation of theft is only a phenomenon that arises from the fact that the concepts of the two projects are oriented toward a medieval fantasy worldview. We, the development team of Iron Mace, focused on the direction of the game we were aiming for, designed and expressed it accordingly, and revealed that the game was not made by taking the parts that were produced in P3 as it is.
2023.03.29 07:56 roberestarkk Text to Speech Testing
There is a certain aura, a cultural meme, regarding the United Nations Armed Forces. A very particular version of events that is peddled across the galaxy, generally the result of an interstellar game of telephone. This aura is that of an unflinching, uncaring war machine. One that starts with the goal of total destruction of its opponents, and works towards that by any means necessary.
It is easy to see how this came about. Even putting aside the pre-Contact War conflicts, there is plenty of brutality to be found. The exploits of Spearhead Platoon during the Second Hekatian War, fighting it's way from the Susquehanna to the palace of the Hekatian Emperor, has particularly dominated the popular consciousness for many, and it is difficult to argue they did not experience some of the worst the war had to offer. A still frame of Corporal Heppell, gas mask concealing all but his eyes, half a second away from plunging his plasma-enhanced bayonet into a Hekatian platoon commander, has become one of the most reproduced images of the whole Battle of New York.
While plasma bayonets were only issued to a small portion of British units during the Second Hekatian War, melee fighting still occupied a disturbingly high proportion of the wars with the Hekatians a modern war. The Battle of London (both 2021 and 2025) saw civilians armed with little more than axes and clubs achieving at least some success against mechanised Hekatian forces in the tight urban confines of the city, with their contributions in the Second Hekatian War forming a part of the critical force that halted the Hekatian offensive. Less well commemorated, but by no means less brave, was the near-complete annihilation of the 8th Battalion Rajputana Rifles in the opening phases of the Battle of New Delhi. Caught out-of-position by the surprise landing of Hekatian forces, the soldiers rushed into battle against a far-superior Hekatian force. By the day's end, only 3 soldiers survived from the entire ordeal, but their counterattacks, waged with everything from rifles to chunks of rubble used as clubs, successfully held up the better part of a division for some critical hours. Doubtless similar stories exist across every front of the war.
Infantry fought with all manner of weapons, with KPA forces famously utilising shovels and large quantities of grenades while fighting from trench to trench on the slopes of Mt. Paektu. During the later stages of the Battle of New York, Gurkha units roamed the irradiated rubble of the city, wielding plasma-enhanced kukris: this was so extraordinarily effective that Hekatian units in the Brooklyn area had a bounty set on the weapons, on the basis that each collected meant another of the feared soldiers had been eliminated, and that soldiers would be more watchful in hopes of collecting said bounty. The actual effect was that the number of losses credited to Gurkha units went up, as their soldiers (now aware of just how effective they were) delved deeper and deeper into psychological warfare. Meanwhile, Hekatian soldiers became so jumpy that they often exposed themselves to Human forces by firing away at nonexistent targets, and were so nervous as to lose all composure when engaged. When the United Nations counterattack successfully trapped a large quantity of supply-starved Hekatians in the radioactive ruins of New York, an intimidation campaign of such ferocity was launched that even a century later headless Hekatians are occasionally located within the New York area.
There are, of course, other ways to be brutal than a bayonet or bullet.
The Second Hekatian War, for example, saw the mass deployment of nerve gas against Hekatian forces landing in Southern England, with this considered to be the single deadliest event in the history of warfare (excluding attacks targeted at civilian populations). True numbers on the death toll are hard to come by, but it is estimated these attacks alone killed roughly 100,000 Hekatians, unprepared for the gas as they were exiting their ships, with an unknown number severely wounded. This is at present the only confirmed deployment of chemical weapons in either war: rumours persist of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea having used significant quantities during the fighting across the Korean Peninsula, and into Northeastern China. To this day, neither the People’s Republic of China, nor the Korean Federal Republic have confirmed these rumours, and all files regarding the status of the DPRK’s chemical arsenal have been sealed away until 2155.
Chemical weapons were not the only weapons of mass destruction brought out in desperate defence of Earth. Biological weapons were deployed, albeit in significantly less flashy ways. Though continuously denied by the United Nations to this day, all evidence indicates that a modified form of Tularemia was deployed against Hekatian forces in the United States. By all accounts, this was extraordinarily effective in shattering Hekatian morale, along with generally degrading their ability to resist United Nations counterattacks. This disease, relatively minor as far as biological weapons go, was generally non-lethal, and thus believed acceptable to be used against the Hekatians without causing further escalation if discovered.
Currently, there is significant reason to believe the Hekatians may have deployed biological weapons of their own, which may later have morphed into the infamous Cincinnati Flu, though this is highly controversial amongst war historians, and is believed to have occurred independently of the use of Tularemia. It is also worth noting that declassified British documents speak openly of a large stockpile of anthrax being distributed across the island at the start of the Second Hekatian War, with the intent being to release it en masse as a form of vengeance should Britain fall. Still uncertain is why, even a century after the war and the collapse of the Hekatian Stellar Imperium, several Hekatian-majority worlds (including, most infamously, Kulabaddos) semi-routinely see severe outbreaks of a disease worryingly similar to H1N1.
The most destructive WMDs in pure terms were the InterStellar Faster-than-light Missiles. Effectively the old idea of the Relativistic Kill Vehicle, except with a hyperdrive strapped to them, they saw very little use across the war, except for a few carefully calculated deployments by United Nations forces. Using stolen missiles, the Muaytrov and Hualkinov anchorages were utterly destroyed, followed by the military staging post of Traxio.
But these are not the weapons of mass destruction thought of when the Second Hekatian War springs to mind.
In the course of the Second Hekatian War, nukes were tossed around in large numbers. City after city across the United States of America fell victim to Hekatian nukes, while American strikes (generally tactical in nature, directed at concentrations of Hekatian forces and key command and control sites) usually invited yet more retaliation. Historians are unable to come to much of a conclusion on the effectiveness of this strategy by the American military, in no small part due to the difficulties of credibly predicting what would have happened without it. It is arguable that these attacks were responsible for the collapse of Hekatian morale and eventual widespread mutinies: this can also be attributed to any of hundreds of factors. It must be noted, though, that the Hekatians began the nuclear game with the destruction of Washington DC, and that ultimately all responsibility lies with them.
After the war, there was much debate on the morality of this action, rather than just the efficacy. It was declared by some that Humanity, now no longer in an existential fight for it's liberty and potentially survival, was in a "post-nuclear" age, where it could step away from these insanely destructive weapons. While this did hold for biological and chemical weapons, it simply could not for nuclear weapons, as the reality of maintaining an effective military on the interstellar scale quickly caught up. Nukes are fielded in what could be described as a liberal amount: fashioned into Nuclear Explosively Formed Projectiles or Casaba-Howitzers, they form the backbone of the Stellar Navy’s anti-ship missile arsenal. Special forces units have routinely made use of sub-kiloton devices in the Rigel Campaign, and conventional forces maintain large stockpiles for tactical usage. Even the famous SIM-94, defender of the skies, is more commonly than not fielded with a nuclear warhead of some sort.
These are carefully calculated tactical uses, yes. A Casaba-Howitzer melting a warship is a far different thing than the nuclear bombardment of Los Angeles, both in scale and morality. But most commanders do still hesitate when they order a nuclear strike in an exercise. Failsafes abound for all devices intended for anti-ship purposes to prevent their usage in other ways, while devices for use as bombs are subject to hyper-strict command-and-control procedures. ISFMs are subject to even stricter control, since their misuse could devastate an unshielded planet.
The cumulative effects of such a war have continued to be felt for decades afterwards. The Second Hekatian War is believed to be the war with the single highest rate of PTSD amongst veterans. Post-war advances in medical technology helped to at least lessen the effects of physical wounds, and the general improvement in living standards that followed the wars has significantly helped many veterans, but some things can't be solved by getting to take a holiday to space on the cheap. This is of course not to mention the refugee populations of the former United States, many of them surviving by flukes while losing their entire family. It is a horror no one seeks to experience again.
Yes, the plasma bayonet is still technically fielded by both the Territorial and Stellar Army (though, notably, not the Orbital Infantry, who solely fight in the cramped confines of space stations). But it has not been used in combat in decades, and is widely agreed to only exist because of tradition, and also as a somewhat risky means of cooking food. To the average soldier, the idea of a bayonet charge is unthinkable, not least because it means a lot has gone wrong.
When the Hekatians were at the gates in 2025, it was necessary to project a certain image. The unflinching warrior, remorseless and unplagued by questions of morality. Even at the time, this had serious problems. Now, in 2150, things are different. That image is back in the box as far as the United Nations is concerned, even as the myth continues to spread. But the thing about boxes is that you can always open them up again. The only hope is it never will be.
Some may notice that there has been a slight retconning of ISFMs here. Originally they were intended to hit their target at FTL speeds: I have spent at least a year bothered by my earlier concepts of FTL. Firstly, the problem of where they got the energy to go FTL: this was covered by a "no one knows", which was eventually meant to be "no one knows but it's being siphoned from other dead universes and for some reason can't be harnessed by other uses", which was a cop-out to be honest. The second issue was that obviously any shield to protect against this would be absurdly powerful, so absurdly powerful as to render any planet basically invulnerable to everything. Thirdly, they had an interesting effect on space battles, in that they forced them to be more conducted in orbits of planets where collateral damage would prevent the usage of ISFMs. I really like this as a concept, especially since I think it's a kinda nice inversion of how anti-ship missiles work in reality (which force ships to get further and further away), but I realised that ISFMs were basically just too good at this. So I have decided to change it slightly, so that it's closer to a "slipspace" style. ISFMs are now just RKVs with the ability to go faster than light, then they drop out slightly before hitting the target. Still very powerful but less nakedly reality breaking. The point about forcing battles to be more in orbit still stands, but now those ships could better defend themselves or evade. Basically the difference between how hypersonic weapons are portrayed against modern carriers, and their current reality: still capable but not perfect. The same change applies broadly to regular hyperdrives, but they're not really that affected.
Anyway, if you enjoy my work, please consider buying me a coffee, it helps a ton, and allows me to keep writing this sort of stuff. Alternatively, you can just read more of it.
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It is easy to see how this came about. Even putting aside the pre-Contact War conflicts, there is plenty of brutality to be found. The exploits of Spearhead Platoon during the Second Hekatian War, fighting it's way from the Susquehanna to the palace of the Hekatian Emperor, has particularly dominated the popular consciousness for many, and it is difficult to argue they did not experience some of the worst the war had to offer. A still frame of Corporal Heppell, gas mask concealing all but his eyes, half a second away from plunging his plasma-enhanced bayonet into a Hekatian platoon commander, has become one of the most reproduced images of the whole Battle of New York.
While plasma bayonets were only issued to a small portion of British units during the Second Hekatian War, melee fighting still occupied a disturbingly high proportion of the wars with the Hekatians a modern war. The Battle of London (both 2021 and 2025) saw civilians armed with little more than axes and clubs achieving at least some success against mechanised Hekatian forces in the tight urban confines of the city, with their contributions in the Second Hekatian War forming a part of the critical force that halted the Hekatian offensive. Less well commemorated, but by no means less brave, was the near-complete annihilation of the 8th Battalion Rajputana Rifles in the opening phases of the Battle of New Delhi. Caught out-of-position by the surprise landing of Hekatian forces, the soldiers rushed into battle against a far-superior Hekatian force. By the day's end, only 3 soldiers survived from the entire ordeal, but their counterattacks, waged with everything from rifles to chunks of rubble used as clubs, successfully held up the better part of a division for some critical hours. Doubtless similar stories exist across every front of the war.
Infantry fought with all manner of weapons, with KPA forces famously utilising shovels and large quantities of grenades while fighting from trench to trench on the slopes of Mt. Paektu. During the later stages of the Battle of New York, Gurkha units roamed the irradiated rubble of the city, wielding plasma-enhanced kukris: this was so extraordinarily effective that Hekatian units in the Brooklyn area had a bounty set on the weapons, on the basis that each collected meant another of the feared soldiers had been eliminated, and that soldiers would be more watchful in hopes of collecting said bounty. The actual effect was that the number of losses credited to Gurkha units went up, as their soldiers (now aware of just how effective they were) delved deeper and deeper into psychological warfare. Meanwhile, Hekatian soldiers became so jumpy that they often exposed themselves to Human forces by firing away at nonexistent targets, and were so nervous as to lose all composure when engaged. When the United Nations counterattack successfully trapped a large quantity of supply-starved Hekatians in the radioactive ruins of New York, an intimidation campaign of such ferocity was launched that even a century later headless Hekatians are occasionally located within the New York area.
There are, of course, other ways to be brutal than a bayonet or bullet.
The Second Hekatian War, for example, saw the mass deployment of nerve gas against Hekatian forces landing in Southern England, with this considered to be the single deadliest event in the history of warfare (excluding attacks targeted at civilian populations). True numbers on the death toll are hard to come by, but it is estimated these attacks alone killed roughly 100,000 Hekatians, unprepared for the gas as they were exiting their ships, with an unknown number severely wounded. This is at present the only confirmed deployment of chemical weapons in either war: rumours persist of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea having used significant quantities during the fighting across the Korean Peninsula, and into Northeastern China. To this day, neither the People’s Republic of China, nor the Korean Federal Republic have confirmed these rumours, and all files regarding the status of the DPRK’s chemical arsenal have been sealed away until 2155.
Chemical weapons were not the only weapons of mass destruction brought out in desperate defence of Earth. Biological weapons were deployed, albeit in significantly less flashy ways. Though continuously denied by the United Nations to this day, all evidence indicates that a modified form of Tularemia was deployed against Hekatian forces in the United States. By all accounts, this was extraordinarily effective in shattering Hekatian morale, along with generally degrading their ability to resist United Nations counterattacks. This disease, relatively minor as far as biological weapons go, was generally non-lethal, and thus believed acceptable to be used against the Hekatians without causing further escalation if discovered.
Currently, there is significant reason to believe the Hekatians may have deployed biological weapons of their own, which may later have morphed into the infamous Cincinnati Flu, though this is highly controversial amongst war historians, and is believed to have occurred independently of the use of Tularemia. It is also worth noting that declassified British documents speak openly of a large stockpile of anthrax being distributed across the island at the start of the Second Hekatian War, with the intent being to release it en masse as a form of vengeance should Britain fall. Still uncertain is why, even a century after the war and the collapse of the Hekatian Stellar Imperium, several Hekatian-majority worlds (including, most infamously, Kulabaddos) semi-routinely see severe outbreaks of a disease worryingly similar to H1N1.
The most destructive WMDs in pure terms were the InterStellar Faster-than-light Missiles. Effectively the old idea of the Relativistic Kill Vehicle, except with a hyperdrive strapped to them, they saw very little use across the war, except for a few carefully calculated deployments by United Nations forces. Using stolen missiles, the Muaytrov and Hualkinov anchorages were utterly destroyed, followed by the military staging post of Traxio.
But these are not the weapons of mass destruction thought of when the Second Hekatian War springs to mind.
In the course of the Second Hekatian War, nukes were tossed around in large numbers. City after city across the United States of America fell victim to Hekatian nukes, while American strikes (generally tactical in nature, directed at concentrations of Hekatian forces and key command and control sites) usually invited yet more retaliation. Historians are unable to come to much of a conclusion on the effectiveness of this strategy by the American military, in no small part due to the difficulties of credibly predicting what would have happened without it. It is arguable that these attacks were responsible for the collapse of Hekatian morale and eventual widespread mutinies: this can also be attributed to any of hundreds of factors. It must be noted, though, that the Hekatians began the nuclear game with the destruction of Washington DC, and that ultimately all responsibility lies with them.
After the war, there was much debate on the morality of this action, rather than just the efficacy. It was declared by some that Humanity, now no longer in an existential fight for it's liberty and potentially survival, was in a "post-nuclear" age, where it could step away from these insanely destructive weapons. While this did hold for biological and chemical weapons, it simply could not for nuclear weapons, as the reality of maintaining an effective military on the interstellar scale quickly caught up. Nukes are fielded in what could be described as a liberal amount: fashioned into Nuclear Explosively Formed Projectiles or Casaba-Howitzers, they form the backbone of the Stellar Navy’s anti-ship missile arsenal. Special forces units have routinely made use of sub-kiloton devices in the Rigel Campaign, and conventional forces maintain large stockpiles for tactical usage. Even the famous SIM-94, defender of the skies, is more commonly than not fielded with a nuclear warhead of some sort.
These are carefully calculated tactical uses, yes. A Casaba-Howitzer melting a warship is a far different thing than the nuclear bombardment of Los Angeles, both in scale and morality. But most commanders do still hesitate when they order a nuclear strike in an exercise. Failsafes abound for all devices intended for anti-ship purposes to prevent their usage in other ways, while devices for use as bombs are subject to hyper-strict command-and-control procedures. ISFMs are subject to even stricter control, since their misuse could devastate an unshielded planet.
The cumulative effects of such a war have continued to be felt for decades afterwards. The Second Hekatian War is believed to be the war with the single highest rate of PTSD amongst veterans. Post-war advances in medical technology helped to at least lessen the effects of physical wounds, and the general improvement in living standards that followed the wars has significantly helped many veterans, but some things can't be solved by getting to take a holiday to space on the cheap. This is of course not to mention the refugee populations of the former United States, many of them surviving by flukes while losing their entire family. It is a horror no one seeks to experience again.
Yes, the plasma bayonet is still technically fielded by both the Territorial and Stellar Army (though, notably, not the Orbital Infantry, who solely fight in the cramped confines of space stations). But it has not been used in combat in decades, and is widely agreed to only exist because of tradition, and also as a somewhat risky means of cooking food. To the average soldier, the idea of a bayonet charge is unthinkable, not least because it means a lot has gone wrong.
When the Hekatians were at the gates in 2025, it was necessary to project a certain image. The unflinching warrior, remorseless and unplagued by questions of morality. Even at the time, this had serious problems. Now, in 2150, things are different. That image is back in the box as far as the United Nations is concerned, even as the myth continues to spread. But the thing about boxes is that you can always open them up again. The only hope is it never will be.
---Authors Notes---
Some points: the Korean Federal Republic is supposed to be the unified state that now comprises the Korean peninsula. The Rigel Campaign thing is something I have been meaning to expand on for a while now, and has been mentioned before, though not by that name. Fingers crossed I can sort out the relevant stories for that some time soon.Some may notice that there has been a slight retconning of ISFMs here. Originally they were intended to hit their target at FTL speeds: I have spent at least a year bothered by my earlier concepts of FTL. Firstly, the problem of where they got the energy to go FTL: this was covered by a "no one knows", which was eventually meant to be "no one knows but it's being siphoned from other dead universes and for some reason can't be harnessed by other uses", which was a cop-out to be honest. The second issue was that obviously any shield to protect against this would be absurdly powerful, so absurdly powerful as to render any planet basically invulnerable to everything. Thirdly, they had an interesting effect on space battles, in that they forced them to be more conducted in orbits of planets where collateral damage would prevent the usage of ISFMs. I really like this as a concept, especially since I think it's a kinda nice inversion of how anti-ship missiles work in reality (which force ships to get further and further away), but I realised that ISFMs were basically just too good at this. So I have decided to change it slightly, so that it's closer to a "slipspace" style. ISFMs are now just RKVs with the ability to go faster than light, then they drop out slightly before hitting the target. Still very powerful but less nakedly reality breaking. The point about forcing battles to be more in orbit still stands, but now those ships could better defend themselves or evade. Basically the difference between how hypersonic weapons are portrayed against modern carriers, and their current reality: still capable but not perfect. The same change applies broadly to regular hyperdrives, but they're not really that affected.
Anyway, if you enjoy my work, please consider buying me a coffee, it helps a ton, and allows me to keep writing this sort of stuff. Alternatively, you can just read more of it.
Note from roberestarkk
I am blatantly copy-pasting this from elsewhere to help test a text-to-speech issue2023.03.29 07:48 Natural-Town-67 Deciding between older Porsche Macan S vs New Audi SQ5
Hello,
My girlfriend and I were looking to purchase a car together and were pretty much decided on getting the 2023 SQ5. But recently, I got to test drive a 2023 Macan S and I actually really liked it, much more than I thought I would. But a new Macan S is out of our agreed price range. I saw there were CPO 2021 Macan S around the same/lower range than the 2023 SQ5. Is it worthwhile getting a macan in this case over just sticking with a new SQ5? Value wise as well, is it better to get new? Thanks guys.
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My girlfriend and I were looking to purchase a car together and were pretty much decided on getting the 2023 SQ5. But recently, I got to test drive a 2023 Macan S and I actually really liked it, much more than I thought I would. But a new Macan S is out of our agreed price range. I saw there were CPO 2021 Macan S around the same/lower range than the 2023 SQ5. Is it worthwhile getting a macan in this case over just sticking with a new SQ5? Value wise as well, is it better to get new? Thanks guys.
2023.03.29 07:44 No_Dawn_No_Day After months of doing well, here we are again.
I got a UTI from my now ex in 2021 which took 3 rounds of antibiotics to kill and damaged the nerves in my bladder according to my urologist. I was diagnosed in 2021, struggled on. Got the J&J shot and had no issues. I still struggled but with a new urologist and a pelvic PT things were looking up. Then I had Pudendal nerve issues which was devastating. Then I had a horrible reaction to the Moderna booster. It caused me to have the worst flare ever, of course no actual infection but my mom’s friend is a doctor so she managed to get me antibiotics anyway. It was an insanely traumatic time, having been almost completely symptom free and then having it all ripped away.
In 2022 I gained more control and felt pretty good about where I stood with my IC. I know my triggers, how to handle smaller flares that usually last maybe a day… but that Moderna flare left me traumatized. This year I’ve been able to eat more trigger foods. Then after getting back from a trip, BAM. The most debilitating pain I’ve had since 2021. I didn’t test positive but still got antibiotics. Feel like crap though. Has anyone felt like antibiotics make them feel worse?
Ordered some new aloe and an additional supplement to try. If I didn’t have my girlfriend in my life I honestly wouldn’t wanna be alive anymore. This is a kind of pain I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemies.
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In 2022 I gained more control and felt pretty good about where I stood with my IC. I know my triggers, how to handle smaller flares that usually last maybe a day… but that Moderna flare left me traumatized. This year I’ve been able to eat more trigger foods. Then after getting back from a trip, BAM. The most debilitating pain I’ve had since 2021. I didn’t test positive but still got antibiotics. Feel like crap though. Has anyone felt like antibiotics make them feel worse?
Ordered some new aloe and an additional supplement to try. If I didn’t have my girlfriend in my life I honestly wouldn’t wanna be alive anymore. This is a kind of pain I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemies.
2023.03.29 07:44 Anduin_Lothar New Ironmace evidence list posted on Discord
This is all from the announcement tab of the Discord server
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We will be releasing our evidence as we get them approved by our legal counsel. Here is our first batch.
- Our Korean Response to the takedown claim https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dZsTiRwCWLIquan5BK3VgoNowyQUwniSdiokZjO74XI/edit?usp=sharing
- Our Concept Artist's response to the copyright infringement claims. Please note that the document is written in Korean as that is our artist's native language. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ec1X-qcNLnmqXKIXm9WX7qENRFd7hipNdjq8UR9Z7VI/edit?usp=sharing
- A list of assets purchased to create Dark and Darker. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16DjiRitUa_R3IkelPNKW0Q8F-H1KFuWXTxxw2q0SCQo/edit?usp=sharing Thank you to the wonderful contributors on the Unreal Marketplace for making this game possible.
- Our git logs for the first year of development. The earliest entries start at the bottom of the document. It is a little embarrassing showing all our development mistakes and bugs but we believe that is further proof that Dark and Darker was built from the ground up. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qyRk3zyIMuwTOvL3E8zchxw9hiukpKWC/view?usp=sharing
- The only modifications to the logs are the masking of sensitive information: Personal names, Login IDs, Domains, IP addresses for security reason. All other info has been untouched.
- Although our company was officially founded in October 2021, our development logs go back to September 2021. This can be explained by our company history below.
2023.03.29 07:41 ruKawin Wednesday, 29th March 2023
 | This edition of The Daily Spin has also been published on Mirror.xyz and can be collected at: https://mirror.xyz/rukawin.eth/ShIWvF67_fe-HE7haDE1KmS38J0_bLdaw7gdmGOgFbo submitted by ruKawin to CoinwebDailySpin [link] [comments] The Daily Spin. ZK-Wednesday Edition. Zero. Knowledge. Proofs. Yesterday, three – I repeat, 3 – ZK Protocols raced to become the first to launch a ZK-based mainnet. Matter Labs won, successfully launching ZKSync’s “Era” mainnet for public use, followed by Polygon’s ZK-EVM rollup which also went live on mainnet; and Starkware, launched Ethereum-tested ZK-proofs on the Bitcoin blockchain. How coincidentally does such a big step forward for the entire industry happen all in one day? One thing’s for sure: this new narrative is taking center stage, right now. Binance’s CZ responds to CFTC charges, and while it still remains as a civil lawsuit there are elements of a potential criminal lawsuit ahead. The same play was made on Arthur Hayes, who ended up serving jail time in house arrest – coincidentally, right before the bull run of 2021. Does history repeat itself?? Let’s find out! Major bad news hitting the press, and BNB takes a measly 5% hit. BTC held firm at $26,800. DEXs vs CEXs volume ratio has reached its ATH. And more Bitcoin has been leaving exchanges than since December ‘22. If it smells like a bull… In other headlines, US Renewable Energy production surpasses Coal production, marking a significant milestone in ESG. The ECB president warns that central banks could “losing control” without CBDCs. Metamask warns of a fake token launch campaign, Kokomo pulls the rug for $4m, and Safemoon gets compromised. Telegram launches u/wallet bot to enable USDT transfers for users. XRP is up in the double-digits in anticipation of a favorable SEC court ruling. OKex becomes the latest exchange to apply for a Hong Kong VASP license. Sui raises $300m at $2B valuation. Circle’s USDC launches on Cosmos. And in today’s TL section, we have Gains Network, a podcast on Gnosis, stealth addresses, and Lighthouse from Metaverse Fashion Week (MVFW)… here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the market news with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane… Ongoings at Coinweb Coinweb’s Layer 2 marks 4 million transactions milestonehttps://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1638125472814092291?s=20 Coinweb Partners With Ceffu for Institutional Crypto Custodyhttps://www.ceffu.com/blog/coinweb-partners-with-ceffu-for-institutional-crypto-custody?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=cweb0321 Coinweb’s Fireside Chat Series, digitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equalityhttps://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1636676933361745920?s=20 “A Thread on Refereed Delegation of Computation” by Kawin on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1635952081302589441?s=20 Coinweb to bring cross-chain tokenisation to Layer 2https://cryptoslate.com/coinweb-to-bring-cross-chain-tokenisation-to-layer-2/ “A Thread on L2 Scalability, Network Efficiency and Throughput/TPS” by Anton on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1633424957693915137 A Leading Layer 2 Platform Looking To Tackle Crypto's Interoperability Issuehttps://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/23/02/31067514/a-leading-layer-2-platform-looking-to-tackle-cryptos-interoperability-issue “The Reality of Large-scale Enterprises Adopting Blockchain Technology” an article by Toby Gilbert for CityAM Magazinehttps://www.cityam.com/the-reality-of-large-scale-enterprises-adopting-blockchain-technology/ Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U “A Thread on Guaranteed Liveness and the Coinweb Routing System” by Anton on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1630052477579169793?s=20 “A Thread on Rollups, Monolithic, and Modular Blockchains” by Kawin on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1616342851507613696?s=46&t=BjBOK3soH3kOMbsWEa_jlg Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-Londonhttps://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c On the Radar WOW Summit, Mar 29-30 (Hong Kong)ASEAN Web3 Summit, Mar 30-31 (Singapore) Ethereum Shanghai-Capella Upgrade, Apr 12 (On-chain)Hong Kong Web3 Festival, Apr 12-15 (Wan Chai, Hong Kong)Consensus 2023, Apr 26-28 (Austin, Texas) Web3 Weekend, May 8-13 (Jakarta) AIBC Asia, Jul 19-22 (Manila) TOKEN2049, Sep 13-14 (Singapore) Blockchain Events curated by CryptoNomadhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KtyFTb_W282bQ1xoVA5rlTwTDz3QfhswWIVpXhpbQIc/edit On the Block(chain) Longest streak of Bitcoin leaving exchanges since December 2022https://cryptoslate.com/insights/longest-streak-of-bitcoin-leaving-exchanges-since-december-2022/ Binance CEO CZ reveals copy of letter to US Senators – weeks before CFTC lawsuithttps://cryptoslate.com/binance-ceo-cz-reveals-copy-of-letter-to-us-senators-weeks-before-cftc-lawsuit/ BNB Slips Over 5% Following Binance CFTC Lawsuithttps://decrypt.co/124738/bnb-slips-following-binance-cftc-lawsuit Ethereum Co-Founder Says Crypto Ecosystem Has Never Been Better or Strongerhttps://news.bitcoin.com/ethereum-co-founder-says-crypto-ecosystem-has-never-been-better-or-stronge?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications Bitcoin’s correlation to traditional assets raises red flagshttps://cryptoslate.com/insights/bitcoins-correlation-to-traditional-assets-raises-red-flags/ Accidentally burnt CryptoPunk #685 ‘resurrected’ – becomes first official CryptoPunk Ordinalhttps://cryptoslate.com/accidentally-burnt-cryptopunk-685-resurrected-becomes-first-official-cryptopunk-ordinal/ MakerDAO Ratifies Constitution Aiming to Decentralize DAIhttps://thedefiant.io/makerdao-ratifies-constitution-aiming-to-further-decentralize-dai-stablecoin Kokomo Finance Pulls Exit Scam, Takes $4 Million In Investor Funds With Ithttps://bitcoinist.com/kokomo-finance-pulls-exit-scam/ Telegram Users Can Now Transfer USDT Through Chatshttps://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/22/telegram-users-can-now-transfer-usdt-through-chats/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email MetaMask warns of fake token launch campaignhttps://cryptoslate.com/metamask-warns-of-fake-token-launch-campaign/ SafeMoon’s liquidity pool compromised; public burn bug to blamehttps://cryptoslate.com/safemoons-liquidity-pool-compromised/ MicroStrategy moves to Bitcoin standard – firm now up +77%https://cryptoslate.com/insights/microstrategy-moves-to-bitcoin-standard-firm-now-up-77/ XRP rises 10% against Bitcoin as USD value rises to five-month highhttps://cryptoslate.com/xrp-rises-10-against-bitcoin-as-usd-value-rises-to-five-month-high/ Competitive Landscape ZkSync Launches ‘Era’ Public Mainnethttps://thedefiant.io/zksync-era-mainnet-livehttps://blog.matter-labs.io/gm-zkevm-171b12a26b36 Polygon’s Zero-Knowledge Rollup Goes Live On Mainnethttps://thedefiant.io/polygon-zkevm-live-mainnet Tested on Ethereum, StarkWare’s Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are Now Live on Bitcoinhttps://decrypt.co/124715/tested-ethereum-starkware-zero-knowledge-proofs-are-live-bitcoinhttps://cryptoslate.com/zero-knowledge-proofs-now-live-on-bitcoin-a-new-era-in-cryptocurrency-privacy/ Teller V2 To Offer Fixed Term Loans Against ‘Any’ Crypto Assethttps://thedefiant.io/teller-v2-lending Layer 1 Blockchain Sui Raises $300M At $2B Valuationhttps://thedefiant.io/sui-raises-300m New Lending Protocol Boosts Optimism TVLhttps://thedefiant.io/sonne-boosts-optimism-tvl DEX vs CEX volume ratio is at an all time highhttps://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1639260598281068544?s=20&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Circle’s USDC to launch on Cosmoshttps://cryptoslate.com/circles-usdc-to-launch-on-cosmos/ The extreme concentration of BUSD: 99% of supply owned by just 1% of addresseshttps://cryptoslate.com/insights/roughly-99-of-busd-supply-is-held-by-the-top-1-addresses/ Open-Source Blockchain D-Ecosystem Raises $6M Ahead of March 29th IDOhttps://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/open-source-blockchain-d-ecosystem-raises-6m-ahead-of-march-29th-ido/ US. Coordinated Regulation Failures Binance CEO CZ Responds to US Regulator's Chargeshttps://news.bitcoin.com/binance-ceo-cz-responds-to-us-regulators-charges/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications U.S. Doubles Down on Crypto Regulations As Industry Pushes Backhttps://thedefiant.io/coinbase-tornado-lawsuit US Crypto Firms Eye Overseas Move Amid Regulatory Uncertaintyhttps://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/03/27/crypto-leaving-us/ Senators grill federal officials over lack of oversight into SVB, Signature Bank collapsehttps://cryptoslate.com/senators-grill-federal-officials-over-lack-of-oversight-into-svb-signature-bank-collapse/ Law firm Cooper & Kirk accuses US regulators of weaponizing bankinghttps://cryptoslate.com/abuse-of-authority-law-firm-accuses-regulators-of-weaponizing-banking/ World Renewables Surpass Coal in U.S. Electricity Generationhttps://www.statista.com/chart/1503/coal-is-still-americas-predominant-electricity-source/?utm_source=Statista+Newsletters&utm_campaign=4f746d2c03-All_InfographTicker_daily_COM_AM_KW13_2023_Tu&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_662f7ed75e-4f746d2c03-345164686 OKX becomes latest exchange to apply for Hong Kong VASP licensehttps://cryptoslate.com/okx-becomes-latest-exchange-to-apply-for-hong-kong-vasp-license/ Disney Cuts Metaverse Unit Amid Company-Wide Layoffshttps://decrypt.co/124725/disney-cuts-metaverse-unit-company-wide-layoffs Wassies NFT Prices Surge as Crypto Twitter Lore-Themed Hotel Opens in Singaporehttps://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/27/wassies-nft-prices-surge-as-crypto-twitter-lore-themed-hotel-opens-in-singapore/ Ticketmaster Debuts NFT-Gated Ticket Sales, Starting With Avenged Sevenfoldhttps://decrypt.co/124607/ticketmaster-debuts-nft-gated-ticket-sales-starting-avenged-sevenfold SBF charged with bribing Chinese government officials with $40Mhttps://cryptoslate.com/sbf-charged-with-bribing-chinese-government-officials-with-40m/ North Korean hacking group APT43 found to rely on cryptocurrency crimehttps://cryptoslate.com/north-korean-hacking-group-apt43-found-to-rely-on-cryptocurrency-crime/ ECB president warns central banks could “losing control” without CBDCshttps://cryptoslate.com/ecb-president-warns-central-banks-could-losing-control-without-cbdcs/ Thought Leadership What Is Gains Network?https://thedefiant.io/what-is-gains-network How Gnosis Has Endured (47mins)https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XqXv00vhddcsKTmA5VQ4S?si=mT3vPc5wQKq0CMYI8B-uXQ&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-03-29&utm_campaign=New+day+new+SBF+charge&nd=1 What Are Stealth Addresses?https://decrypt.co/resources/what-are-stealth-addresses Introducing Lighthouse: The world's leading open metaverse navigation enginehttps://lighthouse.world/ https://preview.redd.it/t55m8l5m8mqa1.png?width=835&format=png&auto=webp&s=50e206f07546f30ff846583b76c300da5c11dd5c |