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I would never play a game that has this feature, and it seems that many people feel the same way. But when I say "many people," I really mean just people on niche internet forums. I really don't think the general population gives a shit at all otherwise all these popular games would already be history.

But it does make the case of VAC interesting. So many people including pro players are complaining about how Valve is basically useless when it comes to anti-cheat, and they're correct, primarily because they don't use kernel level detection. I recently watched this video that suggests Valve has some long term vision for their unintrusive software lol. I just can't believe it because e-celebs draw in views, money, interest, etc. and pissing them off as well as the players buying your shit seems counterintuitive. They gotta be cooking up something rightr?

It seems to me that the players who do want a stronger anti-cheat don't care whether or not the studio is watching them whereas those who are adverse to kernel-level anti-cheat will likely not complain about a game being full of cheaters much.

I'm curious if an open-source anti-cheat consortium would be successful, or if this is one of the few cases where security through obfuscation might be the only way to protect anti-cheat software.

Also found out that the high level CS league ESEA has kernel level anti cheat and was caught mining bitcoin lol.

Tian Xia is their 'Asian fusion' continent, has a lot of different regions and governments all dreamt up by a very wide cast of writers in Asia, but most seem to be from Shanghai and Hong Kong.

I am told that if you speak some Asian languages, these are very fun names to look at.

Big bads:

cw: spider

cw: spider

cw: spider

super saiyan cat

adorable forest fey

tanuki!!

racially diverse 'western' explorers and refugees, technically a 'hong kongesque' situation without brutal colonialism:

this is qin shi huangdi except the elixir actually worked

before anyone gets weirded out by the elves, all pathfinder elves look like this, even ones from 'western' or 'african' areas

fantasy korea

sassy snake deity

![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/413465a6-e269-4dec-9627-fcab9e5e6d5f.png

dragons

Check out his ~~silly getup~~ SICK trenchcoat, shades and bike. What a badass

This game has some really goofy scenes

Man, they just don't make games this stupid anymore

Where the first two Onimusha games felt very much like they were intended for a Japanese audience, Onimusha 3 has been really interesting in how it tries to pivot to appeal to a more Western one. You have the big name Western actor, the introduction of a modern-day Western setting (2004 Paris) and the introduction of a bunch of Hollywood tropes straight out of Roland Emmerich movies. There's the disaster movie opening where Nobunaga's demonic forces invade Paris as well as Jean Reno's character, Jacques, a divorced dad with an estranged son with whom he's trying to connect and who doesn't like his new fiancée.

I think this is the beginning of Keiji Inafune's famous push to capture the Western market

Also hit level 28. Modern EQ leveling is so much faster than classic it feels like.

https://eq.magelo.com/profile/4253939

"Unlike you snowflakes, I'm not so easily triggered."

Pictured: One of Yoko's alternate costumes that I initially took for cosplay

A few days back I made a post where I asked if there was interest among Hexbear users to get together to play Resident Evil Outbreak on the Outbreak Resurrection fan server.

Turns out there was interest, probably enough to fill two lobbies, in fact. Now I'm just left wondering what the best way to co-ordinate times with other players would be. I guess Discord is the default these days but I imagine many folks here do not either want to use it in general or just don't want to give their usernames out to randos.

Feel free to make a suggestion

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2389169

original english tl for comparison

Only to die but have someone nice resurrect me so I got my xp back.