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Black to play
Praggnanandhaa vs Keymer
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=3036340&m=36.5

Black to play
Short vs R Sadhwani
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2573515&m=27.5

Black to play
D Recuero Guerra vs I Cheparinov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2175318&m=32.5

White to play
T Sosa vs Z Xiang
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=3134851&m=26

Black to play
M Ulybin vs Dreev
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1038931&m=34.5

>>7163
I was working on DingNing's OUROBOROS, but I abandoned it. I'll write some of my thoughts about it here:

You play as a girl Shi/Xi/夕 who goes to visit a hospitalized schoolmate in the place of your friend who turns out to be strangely similar to you. Shortly afterward, monsters begin appearing and attacking people.

The modern urban setting + monsters appearing everywhere + military lock-downs give it hard MegTen vibes.

The girl Xi/汐 who emerges from the sea appears to be a recurring element in DingNing's games, and is obviously taken up in Xiyan. Other themes are confused identity, yuri, and falling into the ocean.

There's also long infodumps about traditional Chinese folk religion which kind of remind me of the "evolution of animals" or "famine" sections in Xiyan.

Later on the story appears to focus on a millennial sacrifice which shifts the center of the world from the West back to the East, but I didn't get that far.

Gameplay is very traditional RPG. There's generally a story segment, a dungeon full of random encounters, and then a boss.
I found it pretty boring, but I'm not really into RPGs atm.
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>>7211
That's a shame. It seemed interesting. Hope you bring over Comet Moon or any other interesting CRPG game then. Thanks for the effort!

has anyone tried using the newer AI models to tl this and other chinese games? the xiyan tl here is pretty bad

Here is a release of Xiyan translated with more modern machine translation tools. Specifically, I used the most cutting edge public model at the time of writing (Opus 5.5) on high effort settings and then playtested it. My process isn't anything special, anyone could do this, and in fact future frontier models will undoubtedly do an even better job, but for now the patch turned out pretty well in my opinion. I played through the first chapter and found the writing very sharp and clear, so at the very least it should be better than the old TL (thank you regardless OP for your efforts with more ancient tools). There will probably be a 1.1 release if issues are found.

I've made two adjustments: one, I've included an optional patch to adjust the controls to more standard RPG maker affair. (Z to confirm and X to cancel instead of… up arrow key to confirm…). Two, I made the text advance faster because the default was like 1/3rd of my reading speed.

A walkthrough PDF is included, translated from a Chinese guide online.

Download: https://files.catbox.moe/g9s6gf.rar
>>7285
Me.

>>7287
very based, we will be reading

I made a small, old-web-style live text chat: https://potty.chat/

Pick a nickname and a room, talk for a while, and leave. There are no accounts, profiles, followers, or permanent chat archive; older messages get pushed out. The idea is a conversation you can leave behind rather than another profile to keep up. "Talk shit. Leave no trace."

Of course, anyone in a room can still save or screenshot what they see. Curious whether this kind of short-lived chat appeals to anyone here.

>>604
following the idea of this thread and putting this in here instead of making a whole new thread for myself

i'm auzzy, i make sad emo rap / alt rap and sing over my own stuff. no new album drop to spam today, the reason i'm posting is a contest — i made the Top 20 of The Next Music Star.

voting hasn't started yet, it opens tomorrow oct 15 at 9am EDT. after that it's one free vote per day, oct 15-26, Top 20 round, $10,000 grand prize.

bookmark this if you're willing: https://thenextmusicstar.com/2026/auzzy/

if sad rap isn't your thing no hard feelings at all. honest feedback on the songs is worth more to me than a silent vote anyway. thanks ubuu

i once called someone the nword and a bag of batteries mysteriously fell on my head

>>2082
About 15 years ago, when I was attending SHSU in Huntsville, Texas, I made a hobby out of visiting the old Martha Chapel Cemetery with my girlfriend. You drive five minutes out of town, then another ten down an FM road, and turn at an abandoned gas station. From there you drive down Bowden road, through the pastures and the trees until you reach an unmarked, wooded road with dense trees around and above it. At the end of that road would be a chain link fence and a small cemetery with graves dating back so far that some of them were for slaves. Crumbling tombstones, stone angels, frequently overgrown, a real perfect spot. It wasn't well known by the university students, but it was a common B-list ghost hunting spot for the state and you could find some ridiculous stories about it online that I assume were written by local teens. It was at least known enough that local cops knew to have a car sitting out there on Halloween to shoo away drunks. We never did Halloween out there but we used it as a fun, spooky place to take friends.
We had some weird experiences out there, but the major one was the time we brought two girls out there with us, one of which was a BPD arthoe that was thrilled by my gf's offer to try the Ouija board out at the cemetery. We had no lights, so the girls sat down in the grass and I kept my car running so they could use the headlights with the board. I stood around and basically just waited for them to finish because I didn't know how I didn't find the board enjoyable and was primarily just holding out for a possible threesome with arthoe. My gf and arthoe were giddy, but the other girl was clearly terrified of this and pissed off she'd be talked into it. They're having fun, laughing about it, getting a little spooked. After a few minutes, they find a line of questioning that gets them a bite. Every time they ask a question, the headlights on my car dim. The timing is so perfect that the jokes have stopped. That happens twice in a row before the third girl gets up, waddles angrily back to the car, and starts demanding we go now. Gf and arthoe continue for another few questions before getting too spooked themselves. We pack up and drive out down the dirt road back toward Bowden. They're all chattering and high off the thrill when a silvery light shoots out across the hood of the car. All three girls scream together at once, which is more shoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

When I was young, my family, along with my cousins, went camping in a rural area a few hours out of town. A few days in, my cousins, my brother, and I decided to explore the woods; deep, thick conifers. We saw some weird stuff, but nothing too strange: some stick huts, broken glasses, but then we got to some cliffs. They were maybe 70 feet? But we found a slope in the clay to get down. In the clearing, there was a chimney or something that looked like one, just in the grass. We even dropped stones down, and it was really deep.

Venturing on, we found an overgrown dirt road. Eventually, we found a fountain in the woods, just amongst the trees. Not like a water fountain, more the kind of thing you'd find in a park. This freaked us out, but we kept going. Then we encountered what can only be described as a gravestone? Unmarked and just sitting on a mossy old pallet. Us being kids, we were freaked out. Then we heard a screech. We ran the hell out of there, thinking we were about to be massacred, when it was probably just some animal.

Eventually, we got back to the town near the campsite, but it was deserted. No one at all was there.

Everything was probably explainable, but that expedition completely terrified me for years, and hopefully, it is paranormal enough for this thread lol.

I'll share one. Growing up, my grandmother's house had a hallway that stayed cold even in the middle of summer. At night I used to hear slow footsteps out there long after everyone had gone to their rooms. I told myself it was the pipes, or the house settling. Then one night I got up for water and saw a shape at the far end of the hall, roughly person-shaped, and the cold hit me like walking into a wall. I ran back to bed and didn't sleep until morning. Years later my mom admitted she never liked that hallway either and always hurried through it. I still can't explain it, and honestly I don't want to.

Interesting reading everyone's stories here. I've been trying to make sense of recurring patterns in my own experiences — strange coincidences and repeat sightings that seem too frequent to be random. Lately I've been looking into numerology-based tools to analyze those patterns, and I came across Destiny Matrix numerology, which maps out life path numbers and personal cycles. I used https://destinymatrics.com/ to run my own numbers and it lined up eerily well with the years my paranormal encounters were strongest. Might be worth checking out if any of you want a structured way to look at the timing of your own experiences.

yes many arts i art

>>6628
is towelket 1 a good place to start? ive heard good things abt the spinoffs but idk if theyre better w the context of the ogs or anything

>>6635
The playing order is a bit weird. The first game is actually 3. The thread for it here should have the playing order for it. The rest is my just my opinion but the first three mainline games, 2 and 1 especially, are good and worth playing. After that it becomes hit or miss with more misses than hits until the spinoffs where the quality starts to go back up again. As for your question about the spinoffs you don't HAVE to play the mainline first since the story isn't connected, but it's generally recommended that you do so since there are references and stuff you'll miss out on if you don't. Though unless you know Japanese the only spinoff you'll be able to play is Nekoashi-Otome since that's the only one with a translation.

One or two games per genre is ok?
2d shooter: Moon Buggy
3D Shooter: Doom, Wolfenstein
Hack & Slash: Crossed Swords, Shadow over Mystara
Platfomer: Ghost & Ghouls, Sonic
Puzzle: Bubble Bobble, Portal
Real-time strategy: Star Craft's Brood War, Command & Conquer
Raising: The Sims, Tamagotchi

>>29239
why not climb a tree? it's exhilarating.
or you could try to identify local species

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>>29239
Walk a lot. Then when you can't walk anymore, walk some more.

>>30661
Now my soles hurt…. ouch.

america san ?

with lvoe ,

current, future metnal hopsital paicnet

>>28593
USA hate China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

>>28592
Not well.

Helldivers II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oyURVk0zfg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC5EpJR0GBQ

>>25328
For democracy!

Marvel RIVALS looks good.

Playing PATH OF EXILE II

AION2 is a character creator pretending to be a game
https://youtu.be/BjGqZj9RHoM

Is getting to the point where certain foods suffer from the extreme heat and ended up damage or straight rotten. I'll never forget the abysmally poison smell of a rotten egg.

Summer time is always hot

>>30588
hmm

Those blue summer skies….

>>30634
Autumn is falling…

>> 17567

visually I see why geometry world might be disliked but personally garden world is what sticks out to me, even though the art looks professional it just hurts my eyes. I always avoid it

Thinking of coming back to explore the new qxy stuff but only god knows where my old save is lul

shadow gentleman my beloved

I do wonder if 2kki will ever stop development. The game is huge now and it feels more bloated than anything.