#.hack//20th

[blaze-n-rekka]

CC2 offering a special discount for the upcoming release of the .hack//20th Game Art Works Vol.3

Check it out! More .hack goodness available soon from the official CyberConnect2 Store! The next volume in the .hack//20th Game Art Works series is set to be released on April 29th! The 3rd volume in the .hack//20th anniversary series features a new illustration by .hack character designer Seiichiro Hosokawa, which you can see below. ▶︎ The Details Product Name: Game Art Works .hack//20th…

[mammahoggfromstrangetown]

Alienware PC Monique Hacked Computer

Happy 20th Birthday, Sims 2!!!

To celebrate this glorious day, I have turned the Alienware's "Everything but the Saucer" Gaming PC into a Monique's Hacked Computer.

Now if you are a dork like me, you really appreciate the animations in this game. The Alienware computer has some cool animations when it comes to playing games.

I am a newbie when it comes to modding, but I managed to keep the original animations!

Also the Alienware computer had some TRCNs so the BCONs have some labels that other modders may find useful for tuning computers.

Recently, Gummilutt updated the Monique computers' shop menu to be more dynamic so I used their version when modding the Alienware computer.

Also I recommend looking at this post from Renfree, they compiled a very nice list of computers that have been updated to Monique's Hacked Computers.

If you would like an updated Alienware computer that is updated for AL and is Monique Hacked, Download it from Simfileshare.

I want to say thank you to Gummilutt and Monique for making the code. This was a very interesting experience and I look forward to learning more about SimAntics.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In his How To, he lists the skills hackers should acquire first:

Learn C.²²

Learn just a little bit of x86 assembler.²³ You don't have to be great at this at first, but you need to sort of kind of know what the fuck is going on.

Work through Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Erickson.

Learn JavaScript.

Go through the big exploit archives. Star in the 1990s. Look through exploits. Figure out how they worked. Turn the clock forward to the modern era, so you slowly accustom yourself to newer exploitation techniques.

Get really good at x86 assembler, and learn IDA Pro and OllyDbg.

22. C is a general-purpose, machine-independent programming language that was used to write a range of well-known applications – from Windows operating systems to Oracle databases.

23. x86 assembler is a programming language used for time-sensitive applications and detailed software systems.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[thedreadvampy]

it's possible that it's just that prolonged depression is the best mental state in which to read midcentury American classics but you know what I'm feeling Fahrenheit 451 a lot more than I did as a kid as well.

[hellyeahdothack]

The second wave of .hack//20th Anniversary merchandise is now available for order on CC2's international store. The announcement linked here provides links to each product as well as pricing.

For international shoppers, remember to use the WorldShopping widget that appears at the bottom of the screen, rather than adding to cart directly on CC2's site.

[norsesuggestions]

Gotta love the 1970s printing press factories workers unions reactions to punch clocks (=stämpelklocka):

This tidbit about the punch clock is from a blogpost about some of printers unions of the worlds reactions when the introduction of computer technology put them all under the fear to lose their jobs.

Quoted below is a text about new ways introduced in the printing presses to make the workers work faster, and via that, have an excuse to fire them for being "too slow":

"MTM is a method of breaking down work processes into standardized sub-moments in order to be able to streamline and rationalize work efforts and personnel as much as possible.

The factory workers were rightly afraid that this would lead to every second if their work day being controlled. 

The printing press workers response to mtm was, among other things, to pour lead into the employers punch clock (stämpelklocka)."

Lol my grandpa was a printing press factory worker during the 1970s. I wonder if he poured led into the punch clock (stämpelklocka) at some point haha 😂

(Grandpa was very involved in that factories workers union, so it is not impossible)

Source of qoute, quickly translated to english by me:

Link

[bellamygate]

I think it's really likely phee and jin happened bc they were both rebounding from non and maybe they caught feelings maybe they didn't maybe phee is feeling guilty for that but like to ME regardless of how bad they feel abt it they're fucking on non's dead body and I'm petty enough to put away critical thinking and appreciating the nuances of media to wish them a very die

[aureliuzrex]

It is the 20th anniversary of Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green. In my opinion the most important Pokémon games due to how much the updates to these games effected the series going forward to this day.

Fire Red and Leaf Green are also the games you will find the most RomHacks built off of. Pokémon Radical Red pictured here on my Miyoo Mini Plus being a great example.

[hellyeahdothack]

Preorders available now through July 2nd for the Kite and Haseo plushes on CC2's International Store! Tsukasa and Tokio to come later.

LOOK AT THEM LOOK AT THEM

YOU WILL LOOK AT THEM

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Fuck Nintendo here how to emulate every FE game pre-Switch :

FE1-2 : https://www.mesen.ca/ for the NES emulator, https://www.romhacking.net/translations/6087/ FE1 EN fantranslation, https://forums.serenesforest.net/topic/97653-fe-gaiden-updated-namesfont-patch/ FE2 fantranslation It the NES, your computer can emulate it trust me

FE3-4-5 https://www.snes9x.com/ for the SNES emulator https://www.romhacking.net/games/303/, for the FE3 fantranslation (note that it use the European names) https://forums.serenesforest.net/topic/63676-fe4-translation-patch-open-beta-v7/ for the FE4 fantranslation, https://feuniverse.us/t/fe4-complete-fire-emblem-genealogy-of-the-holy-war-spanish-translation/27551 for the spanish fan translation https://forums.serenesforest.net/topic/90189-fe5-lil-manster-%E2%80%93-translation-and-quality-of-life-patch-for-thracia-776/, for the FE5 fantranslation. There is also a completed spanish version SNES9x was first released in 20th century, your computer can run it

FE6-7-8 https://mgba.io/ for the GBA emulator https://forums.serenesforest.net/topic/41095-fe6-localization-patch-v121-full-localization-with-new-features-including-support-conversation-reader/ for the FE6 fantranslation You can run mgba trust me again

FE9-10 https://dolphin-emu.org/ for the Gamecube/Wii emulator Dolphin is more demanding (but still very resonable), especially if you want to run the games on higher resolution. I recommend checking out the recommend specs and trying it out on your machine

FE11-12 Either DeSmuME or MelonDS for the DS emulator. MelonDS run better but require firmware files https://github.com/R-YaTian/DSiEnhanced_Translation_Revision/tree/main/FE12 for the FE12 fantranslation

3DS games Citra was an accidental victim of Yuzu going down so your best bet is to grab it from one of it fork, like here https://github.com/PabloMK7/citra. It require a strong computer to run it, and my experience is that it doesn't run the FE games very well. Another option is to simply hack your 3DS if you have one

For obvious reason I can't link the roms themself but they are easy to find, like on a certain subreddit that start with R

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[911bts]

"The sets of 20th Television’s Grey’s Anatomy and Doctor Odyssey will be dark today."

Meanwhile, 911 is filming today.

[le-pokerus]

LE-POKERUS’ GREAT EVENT POKéMON GIVEAWAY!!!

As most of y’all will know, Nintendo are shutting down their online servers for the 3DS. This means that it’s gonna be a hell of a lot more difficult for people to complete their Pokédexes. Unacceptable!

That’s why I’m doing a massive giveaway of event Pokémon from Generations III-VII! Mythicals! Shinys! Pikachu! All available!

The best part? All of these Pokémon are created using official Nintendo Pokémon distribution software, no hacks, no clones, no cheats. Rad!

There will be 50 winners, each able to pick any 10 Gen III-VII event Pokémon (excl. Let’s Go! and a couple of specific event mons) from any language, that’s 500 Pokémon up for grabs!

To enter, all you have to do is reblog this post, winners will be chosen on February 20th 2024, and I’ll message you if you’ve won!

(Trading will take place in Gen VI, VII, or HOME so make sure you’ve got these).

[marsmerizing-sims]

Hack-Z (Public July 20th)

via SFS

[melyzard]

Okay, look, they talk to a Google rep in some of the video clips, but I give it a pass because this FREE course is a good baseline for personal internet safety that so many people just do not seem to have anymore. It's done in short video clip and article format (the videos average about a minute and a half). This is some super basic stuff like "What is PII and why you shouldn't put it on your twitter" and "what is a phishing scam?" Or "what is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS and why do you care?"

It's worrying to me how many people I meet or see online who just do not know even these absolute basic things, who are at constant risk of being scammed or hacked and losing everything. People who barely know how to turn their own computers on because corporations have made everything a proprietary app or exclusive hardware option that you must pay constant fees just to use. Especially young, somewhat isolated people who have never known a different world and don't realize they are being conditioned to be metaphorical prey animals in the digital landscape.

Anyway, this isn't the best internet safety course but it's free and easy to access. Gotta start somewhere.

Here's another short, easy, free online course about personal cyber security (GCFGlobal.org Introduction to Internet Safety)

Bonus videos:

(Jul 13, 2023, runtime 15:29)

"He didn't have anything to hide, he didn't do anything wrong, anything illegal, and yet he was still punished."

(Apr 20, 2023; runtime 9:24 minutes)

"At least 60% use their name or date of birth as a password, and that's something you should never do."

(March 4, 2020, runtime 11:18 minutes)

"Crossing the road safely is a basic life skill that every parent teaches their kids. I believe that cyber skills are the 21st century equivalent of road safety in the 20th century."

[doctor-dorky]

If that picture doesn't sum all the FurAffinity hijacking that went on from late August 20th to the 21st, then I'll explain it.

FurAffinity got hacked by an individual(whose handles keep changing, so no official identity as of yet) who did this for a reason that was bound to fail: To scam people into purchasing a cryptocurrency literally no one cares about. This also went onto FurAffinity's official Twitter/X account(which has been reclaimed since), in order to shill his cryptocurrency.

The hacker hijacked their DNS(Domain name System) to redirect those who clicked fA's links to redirect them to a number of websites(its most recent being Kiwifarms) as part of a major cryptocurrency purchasing scam.

The moderators of Kiwifarms has confirmed that they had ZERO involvement in this hijacking, so now this crypto-scammer is going to get their just desserts and pay lots of bills. Need I also add that this person accidentally revealed their name/address and got themselves doxxed in the process?

Look me in my four eyes and tell me that the motivations behind all this are NOT stupid and petty. It's bad enough that crypto's already at a downturn, but this is just ridiculous!

[hellyeahdothack]

As part of the .hack//20th Anniversary celebration, CC2 released 20 desktop backgrounds from various eras throughout the series, including art that was previously only provided in SD format.