Frankly, I've been sick and tired of that eating spree BULLSHIT they repeated on me ever since the last month and things had gotten worse with that idiotic trash from my home wanting to land me into whatever troubles she's caused. Not to mention, one technical trouble after another besides the non-technical ones like the charging cable's end being pulled out of physical contact and my computer's power adapter is going whiny and loose like it won't make any electrical contact from the inside. Do I have future plans to get those things replaced?
One contrary was that I've been a customer of the shops I buy things from like I shouldn't worry about anything bad stated above in the first place but things took for a worse on the second trip. Not only was the home renovation still on-going but also I feared that that troublemaker had the guts to manipulate my uncles and aunts to disrespect me again like the last time. Perhaps, my anxiety order over troubles still continues to this day. It's like her presence has been making me feel uncomfortable ever since the Lunar New Year of this year and such ignorance about what I do and what I suffer from is not allowed.
Refusing to listen or do something, or perhaps not listening? BULLSHIT, THAT IS AN ON-GOING IGNORANCE ABOUT THE FACT THAT I'VE BEEN IGNORING THE OFFENDERS! And manipulating anyone to disrespect us is WRONG! It's like you are not solving the attitude problem correctly! Can't you even tell the difference between a slacker and a hater? You can identify the attitude weaknesses of a slacker but not a hater because you must know the offending problems that haunt them.
Sure, that troublemaking garbage could deny all the offenses committed to me and take it that I was whining or some kind but ever since the renovation days, I already keep fearing of what is she up to. I also feared that complaining to the town council over this sort of bad behavior would worsen things for me as that would be considered a rash act.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Sound Voltex III E-Amusement Cloud First Impressions
Like other E-Amusement Cloud games, it is likely that this will be in Japan only as the features for this service probably make use of Paseli, Tickets or other stuffs required. For Beatmania IIDX Infinitas, it uses the monthly subscription model by credit card or Paseli. You may probably think that it is a PC game but this actually uses Cloud Gaming in a different way. The game data is stored locally with the player data being stored on servers similar to MMO games you play on the PC or consoles but the trick is that this sort of cloud gaming uses Paseli, Tickets or some other stuffs to start the game. To release this service outside of Japan is like Konami extorting you online through your credit cards to play their E-Amusement Cloud games but don't be fooled, it's still cloud gaming unless you're ignorant on what it means.
Like Beatmania IIDX Infinitas, Sound Voltex III had gone alpha-testing before getting finalized. Unfortunately, unlike Beatmania IIDX Infinitas, a controller for Sound Voltex III is highly recommended as it is painful and weird to play with the keyboard. Your skills feel crippled when playing with the keyboard so a Sound Voltex controller is a better experience you can get. One cool thing is that you can synchronize your play data between Sound Voltex III E-Amusement Cloud version and Sound Voltex IV for the arcades but that is when Sound Voltex III on E-Amusement Cloud has gone gold. As the game has gone alpha phase, YOUR PLAY DATA is NOT linked to the arcade version of Sound Voltex. It will be gone at the end of the alpha-testing.
Then, there was the legal warning message saying that the game is to be used in Japan only and yet, there are people outside of Japan who managed to play it. In theory, the service should be region-blocked. However, they can bypass that with VPN and who knows if there will be a lawsuit or not as that technically tells lies that you are from that country which I find it bad ever since I told the shopkeepers that concern about buying games from foreign digital stores. Sure, the company behind the services or digital stores won't find out about this but I think it's best that you buy from your local digital store and you're safe that way. Better yet, there should be Asian/US release of Beatmania IIDX Infinitas and Sound Voltex III but it won't be the same without cloud gaming stuffs and the way to start the game sounds fraudulent. Perhaps, the monthly subscription is the only way for Asian/US release of E-Amusement Cloud since there's no Paseli support. I told Bemanistyle on Twitter about these and region-locking this service may mean more disgusting cussing from those non-Japanese Bemani players. Sure, the arcades were revived in modern form in US thanks to Round 1 in which you get to play Bemani games there but to see future releases of Konami games on consumer systems is a difficult bet and especially that Beatmania IIDX Infinitas and Sound Voltex III are parts of cloud gaming platform, NOT consumer systems.
Lastly, like Beatmania IIDX Infinitas, Sound Voltex III for E-Amusement Cloud will have its own official controller but that will be out sometime in Autumn this year.
Like Beatmania IIDX Infinitas, Sound Voltex III had gone alpha-testing before getting finalized. Unfortunately, unlike Beatmania IIDX Infinitas, a controller for Sound Voltex III is highly recommended as it is painful and weird to play with the keyboard. Your skills feel crippled when playing with the keyboard so a Sound Voltex controller is a better experience you can get. One cool thing is that you can synchronize your play data between Sound Voltex III E-Amusement Cloud version and Sound Voltex IV for the arcades but that is when Sound Voltex III on E-Amusement Cloud has gone gold. As the game has gone alpha phase, YOUR PLAY DATA is NOT linked to the arcade version of Sound Voltex. It will be gone at the end of the alpha-testing.
Then, there was the legal warning message saying that the game is to be used in Japan only and yet, there are people outside of Japan who managed to play it. In theory, the service should be region-blocked. However, they can bypass that with VPN and who knows if there will be a lawsuit or not as that technically tells lies that you are from that country which I find it bad ever since I told the shopkeepers that concern about buying games from foreign digital stores. Sure, the company behind the services or digital stores won't find out about this but I think it's best that you buy from your local digital store and you're safe that way. Better yet, there should be Asian/US release of Beatmania IIDX Infinitas and Sound Voltex III but it won't be the same without cloud gaming stuffs and the way to start the game sounds fraudulent. Perhaps, the monthly subscription is the only way for Asian/US release of E-Amusement Cloud since there's no Paseli support. I told Bemanistyle on Twitter about these and region-locking this service may mean more disgusting cussing from those non-Japanese Bemani players. Sure, the arcades were revived in modern form in US thanks to Round 1 in which you get to play Bemani games there but to see future releases of Konami games on consumer systems is a difficult bet and especially that Beatmania IIDX Infinitas and Sound Voltex III are parts of cloud gaming platform, NOT consumer systems.
Lastly, like Beatmania IIDX Infinitas, Sound Voltex III for E-Amusement Cloud will have its own official controller but that will be out sometime in Autumn this year.
Sound Voltex Gameplay Report - May 22
Seems that I was already done with Beatmania IIDX in 2 days ago before this after attempting most of the songs from Lincle, Tricoro, Pendual and even Sinobuz that I eventually continued on Sound Voltex again. Needless to say, each run has already cost $2 for 4 credits like I already mentioned before or some sort although I was already making closer progress into attempting remaining songs from Sound Voltex IV that were never locked. Initially, all the intial songs from Sound Voltex IV were locked and you have to unlock them yourself in Music Select screen but sometime later, the newer songs were added and already unlocked for you you can save the amount of in-game currency for song unlocks. Also, at the end of the run, there are songs in higher difficulties being unlocked along with other items like the Sub-Crews. Obviously, there was a point in Crew Select stuff for the prequel as required for Battle Sequence System in later chapters of the story but that was grindy in the prequel and pointless in this game.
Spoilers: Things have not been relaxing for me on regular basis and that idiotic trash from my home had the elder manipulation on-going to continue their disrespect on me. Unlike the past days way back in 2009, this attitude weakness will be difficult to solve if they continue their ignorance. And going on an eating spree isn't the excusable reason on why I go to the shopping malls with them but they continue to underestimate my knowledge and mature-ness through their bad influence. Even worse is that the house renovation is still on-going until May 30 and even if my home is upgraded, it's not over for the others' renovation. Lastly, I have a bad feeling like I have the anxiety disorder/panic attack come back to me on a regular basis ever since last month. It is worse than the amount of panics I had back in 2008. I ended up panicking over whatever trouble I would land on for whatever I did but in fact, I wasn't in any sort of trouble by then. I guess that that isn't the only present-time situation I may panic over but still, doing the right thing is the key as a responsible adult.
Spoilers: Things have not been relaxing for me on regular basis and that idiotic trash from my home had the elder manipulation on-going to continue their disrespect on me. Unlike the past days way back in 2009, this attitude weakness will be difficult to solve if they continue their ignorance. And going on an eating spree isn't the excusable reason on why I go to the shopping malls with them but they continue to underestimate my knowledge and mature-ness through their bad influence. Even worse is that the house renovation is still on-going until May 30 and even if my home is upgraded, it's not over for the others' renovation. Lastly, I have a bad feeling like I have the anxiety disorder/panic attack come back to me on a regular basis ever since last month. It is worse than the amount of panics I had back in 2008. I ended up panicking over whatever trouble I would land on for whatever I did but in fact, I wasn't in any sort of trouble by then. I guess that that isn't the only present-time situation I may panic over but still, doing the right thing is the key as a responsible adult.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Sound Voltex Gameplay Report - May 19-20
Note that this post is linked to my gameplay report of Beatmania IIDX on the same days. Blog post to that is right here.
Okay, the difference between those two Sound Voltex machines is that one of them has the coin slot in addition to game card reader for credits. Somehow in May 19, some player forgot to bring his own game card so I guess that it was his turn after going through but I was already finished with the game by then.
The remaining goal will be to attempt the songs from Sound Voltex IV.
Okay, the difference between those two Sound Voltex machines is that one of them has the coin slot in addition to game card reader for credits. Somehow in May 19, some player forgot to bring his own game card so I guess that it was his turn after going through but I was already finished with the game by then.
The remaining goal will be to attempt the songs from Sound Voltex IV.
Beatmania IIDX Gameplay Report - May 19-20
Things were like in cramped shape at the arcades as if there were small spaces in between the music game machines. It looked like I was finished with Beatmania IIDX after having attempted most of the songs from IIDX Lincle, Tricoro, Pendual and Sinobuz but I have additional criterias, the song genre and the decency of the song. If the song is quite decent enough, the chance of it being manageable is good or great depending on the difficulty.
One great news was that I managed to clear Sweet Clapper in Another difficulty although the song level can be misleading to other players at times. However, I didn't know if I could clear it like that so I set the Groove Gauge to Assist Easy just in case I won't be able to clear the song with Easy Groove Gauge but it turned out that the Groove Gauge didn't drop that much.
The reason for this revisit is to make sure that the arcade machines aren't infected by the global cyber attack in the form of some ransomware everyone knows of. Indeed, the machines are still working fine although one of the Groove Coaster machines didn't start at all and it was stuck at "Starting Game" screen. Patching embedded systems like those machines is no easy task
One off-topic thing to note, the house renovation, needless to say, already started in May 19 so going back to my home in these renovation days is like seeking self-trouble as nearly everything was filled with dust but that is something I shouldn't worry about if I know what I'm doing. Furthermore, I already ran out of money inside my EZ-Link card and the left side of my earpiece is missing the cover as if I can't get clear hearing without it. I do have a backup one received from my niece's mother but I should learn to safeguard my earpiece and it may mean that I have to go back to my home to retrieve it. Needless to say, the relocation due to renovation isn't comfortable enough as the Home Improvement Program there is still on-going just like my home's and if I have to do some DJ practice for instance, I'm already out of luck. Not to mention that the idiotic trash from my home staying over with me has been causing irritations everywhere. I thought I caused some trouble because of her bad influence and going back to my home for check but I didn't as if I couldn't feel anything unusual when checking my stuffs and the machines I played in May 19. However, I have a bad feeling that this worry will come back again because of her stupidity. Also, the outer part of the fader for Filter part of IIDX machine had gone off. Whoever caused that might have done caused it to fall off accidentally so the amount of worries might not be that big. I don't know who did that when I saw the outer part fallen off. Lastly, who the hell came to the arcades with the scooter in May 20? That would pose a threat to the shopping mall if ridden around but at least they got escorted out.
One great news was that I managed to clear Sweet Clapper in Another difficulty although the song level can be misleading to other players at times. However, I didn't know if I could clear it like that so I set the Groove Gauge to Assist Easy just in case I won't be able to clear the song with Easy Groove Gauge but it turned out that the Groove Gauge didn't drop that much.
The reason for this revisit is to make sure that the arcade machines aren't infected by the global cyber attack in the form of some ransomware everyone knows of. Indeed, the machines are still working fine although one of the Groove Coaster machines didn't start at all and it was stuck at "Starting Game" screen. Patching embedded systems like those machines is no easy task
One off-topic thing to note, the house renovation, needless to say, already started in May 19 so going back to my home in these renovation days is like seeking self-trouble as nearly everything was filled with dust but that is something I shouldn't worry about if I know what I'm doing. Furthermore, I already ran out of money inside my EZ-Link card and the left side of my earpiece is missing the cover as if I can't get clear hearing without it. I do have a backup one received from my niece's mother but I should learn to safeguard my earpiece and it may mean that I have to go back to my home to retrieve it. Needless to say, the relocation due to renovation isn't comfortable enough as the Home Improvement Program there is still on-going just like my home's and if I have to do some DJ practice for instance, I'm already out of luck. Not to mention that the idiotic trash from my home staying over with me has been causing irritations everywhere. I thought I caused some trouble because of her bad influence and going back to my home for check but I didn't as if I couldn't feel anything unusual when checking my stuffs and the machines I played in May 19. However, I have a bad feeling that this worry will come back again because of her stupidity. Also, the outer part of the fader for Filter part of IIDX machine had gone off. Whoever caused that might have done caused it to fall off accidentally so the amount of worries might not be that big. I don't know who did that when I saw the outer part fallen off. Lastly, who the hell came to the arcades with the scooter in May 20? That would pose a threat to the shopping mall if ridden around but at least they got escorted out.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Ransomware that caused global cyber attack
This is a big one that happened globally this month and it put the previous malware attacks to shame during the Windows XP days and especially that even my previous computer was infected back then with things popping up out of nowhere, indecent computer performance due to something running in the background and other things that slow the computer down. That ransomware is called, the Wannacry/Wannacrypt, or whatever you may want to call it. I guess that it is both a ransomware and a worm, demanding victims to pay up to decrypt the data and get it back and the cyber attack spread so quickly like wildfire as a worm. I have some guesses that the attackers have the most mischievous and childish behavior. To put an end to their future one day may cause a serious emotional reaction from them like they can deny whatever childish shit they did. Anyway, there won't seem to be a point in paying up to get your data back but the best thing is that such attacks shouldn't happen to your computer in the first place. By having to pay up to the attackers, there may be a chance for them to plan another attack.
The cyber attack targeted systems running Windows including the servers and even embedded systems. I AM NOT KIDDING about even embedded systems becoming the victims! It had targeted tons of organizations including the standard users and the solutions by the tech companies and security researchers were already outpaced by the attackers by this time with the new version of the attack that goes against the kill switch.
Generally, without data backup, security patches and even the latest virus database, you're already screwed if your data is encrypted by the attackers. What do you do when that happens? Do you reinstall Windows or something? Even using the other hard drive isn't going to help and don't bother paying up the ransom.
This isn't the ordinary cyber attack everyone has discovered as the attackers might have used the tools that were leaked from National Security Agency. The tools were leaked by another cyber-attack group called The Shadow Brokers, without the agency's knowledge but from the amount of exploits discovered by Microsoft, they were fixed with patches you should get via Windows Update. Originally, before the leak, the tools had been used for surveillance but the leakage already opened doors for other cyber-attackers and investigation is going to take months or years to find the culprits behind the attacks.
Right now, I'm not infected with this cyber catastrophe but being vigilant from cyber-attacks is one important key as there's a chance of the malware being evolved after the solutions are discovered or something for instance.
Lastly, about embedded systems infected by this, there are already such cases like in these picture tweets for instance:
It's a cyber catastrophe at a global level and if the culprits behind it are not found ASAP, who knows what will happen next?
One more thing I forgot to mention is about disabling the SMB as the workaround to this extraordinary cyber threat. In addition, Microsoft already had released the important security patches that you should apply like I already did. Well, I sort of patched my computer with the April and May security rollup patches but it seemed that I wasn't able to get the January one. Not to mention that even Windows Defender/Microsoft Security Essentials has the latest virus database so it looked like Microsoft said that Windows 10 users are secure with it and the security patches. However, there is a fear/worry that this safeness will not last long. I can also hope that even the editions of Windows that don't support running EXE files should be patched as well. Lastly, needless to say, catching cyber-criminals is no easy task. Not only is the investigation taking months to years or something, but also the fact that they have to be careful in tracking down the cyber-criminals without violating people's privacy. Violating people's cyber-privacy is unacceptable even by mistake as there will be lawsuits against organizations or perhaps cyber-criminals.
The cyber attack targeted systems running Windows including the servers and even embedded systems. I AM NOT KIDDING about even embedded systems becoming the victims! It had targeted tons of organizations including the standard users and the solutions by the tech companies and security researchers were already outpaced by the attackers by this time with the new version of the attack that goes against the kill switch.
Generally, without data backup, security patches and even the latest virus database, you're already screwed if your data is encrypted by the attackers. What do you do when that happens? Do you reinstall Windows or something? Even using the other hard drive isn't going to help and don't bother paying up the ransom.
This isn't the ordinary cyber attack everyone has discovered as the attackers might have used the tools that were leaked from National Security Agency. The tools were leaked by another cyber-attack group called The Shadow Brokers, without the agency's knowledge but from the amount of exploits discovered by Microsoft, they were fixed with patches you should get via Windows Update. Originally, before the leak, the tools had been used for surveillance but the leakage already opened doors for other cyber-attackers and investigation is going to take months or years to find the culprits behind the attacks.
Right now, I'm not infected with this cyber catastrophe but being vigilant from cyber-attacks is one important key as there's a chance of the malware being evolved after the solutions are discovered or something for instance.
Lastly, about embedded systems infected by this, there are already such cases like in these picture tweets for instance:
- https://twitter.com/Sweet_Orange69/status/863780324756430848
- https://twitter.com/Lighting_Speed2/status/863552528377499648
It's a cyber catastrophe at a global level and if the culprits behind it are not found ASAP, who knows what will happen next?
One more thing I forgot to mention is about disabling the SMB as the workaround to this extraordinary cyber threat. In addition, Microsoft already had released the important security patches that you should apply like I already did. Well, I sort of patched my computer with the April and May security rollup patches but it seemed that I wasn't able to get the January one. Not to mention that even Windows Defender/Microsoft Security Essentials has the latest virus database so it looked like Microsoft said that Windows 10 users are secure with it and the security patches. However, there is a fear/worry that this safeness will not last long. I can also hope that even the editions of Windows that don't support running EXE files should be patched as well. Lastly, needless to say, catching cyber-criminals is no easy task. Not only is the investigation taking months to years or something, but also the fact that they have to be careful in tracking down the cyber-criminals without violating people's privacy. Violating people's cyber-privacy is unacceptable even by mistake as there will be lawsuits against organizations or perhaps cyber-criminals.
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