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Als ich in der ersten Klasse war, wollte ich Mitschüler:innen tätowieren für Geld. Ich hätte kleine Sachen auf die Arme gemalt für 10 Cent pro Tattoo. Ein Mitschüler, der eine Stufe über mir war, meinte, wenn der Tattoo-Stand dann zu ist, brauche ich unbedingt ein Schild, auf dem "Klosett" steht. Daher obiges MeiMei :)

It has been confirmed that Neople, a subsidiary of Nexon, has reassigned a large portion of the development team for its AAA action-adventure game "The First Berserker: Khazan,", which launched ambitiously in March last year but underperformed commercially.

According to the gaming industry on the 8th, Neople held an internal briefing this afternoon and informed employees of the decision.

"Khazan" launched globally in March last year and at one point reached nearly 30,000 concurrent players on PC, but sales later declined and ultimately fell below market expectations.

With this measure, a significant number of the roughly 100 developers on the Khazan team have been reassigned internally to a transition unit called the "R Team."

While Neople stated that this does not mean the Khazan development team has been dissolved, DLC releases and potential ports to other platforms that were initially expected are now effectively uncertain.

A Nexon official stated, "As the roadmap of the large-scale Khazan project has entered its final stages, we decided to separate personnel into those who will focus on completing the remaining tasks and those who will be reassigned to other projects that require concentrated organizational and human resources."

The official added, "We plan to actively support the reassignment of personnel who gained expertise in completing a global AAA title through the Khazan project, so they can apply their experience and capabilities to other projects."

Nooooooo, whyyy? :( The game is so good and it did so well on paper. What's with all these constant studio closures after such little time to prove themselves? Just another symptom of a sick game development industry, I guess.

From Khazan to Wukong to even Elden Ring: Long gone are the days of very methodical, deliberate combat like in Dark Souls 1 or even Dark Souls 3.

I'm not sure if it can be exactly pinpointed to it, but with the release of Bloodborne, the genre experienced a noticeable change towards fast-paced combat that doesn't give much breathing-room, considering DS3 as well as Elden Ring are noticeably faster with their combat compared to previous entries. Games like Khazan, Wukong or Wuchang take it even further, leaning more so in the direction of third-person action games like Devil May Cry.

Boss fights with huge strings of combos, wide-reaching attacks, leaving barely any time to prepare for the next wave of attacks, are what comes to mind. In Khazan, for example, I felt well-prepared for these because Khazan can be equally flashy with his combos - it's a more even playing field. However, in Elden Ring, I was struggling quite a lot, personally, because the tools I have access to aren't congruent with the amount of BS hurled my way with some enemies.

How do you like this evolution in combat? Do you prefer the slower, more methodical gameplay from earlier entries, or do you welcome the change of pace, adapting to modern audiences?

Hey guys! Like many of you here, I'm fed up with further encroaching enshittification and I'm tired of paying for subscriptions, so I decided to turn a 10-year old laptop I got for university into a home server. I've been tinkering with it for around a week now and I've spent many evenings and hours on figuring stuff out, but I'm at a point where I'm mostly set up and content with what I have. I thought I'd write down some of my experiences :)

• The laptop in question is an Acer Aspire E5 with a 1TB HDD, 8GB of RAM, I think an Intel Core i5 CPU and an on-board graphics card - very low-key stuff but sufficient for my setup. In order to make the server a little faster and snapper, I've removed the CD drive and instead added a 9,5mm caddy to connect the HDD via the caddy and a 2,5" 250GB SATA SSD as the main drive for a total of 1,25TB storage.
• The extra drive cost me 25€, the caddy another 7€
• I'm running Ubuntu Server LTS as my server OS and it's been working pretty flawlessly so far. I've had a few minor hiccups here and there (for example, my laptop won't just outright boot and always says that the boot drive isn't mounted correctly or something, so I always have to manually select the drive to boot the PC from; or sometimes when I boot the PC, it'll boot into emergency mode for some reason - a couple reboots and it goes away) but all in all it's fine
• I was mainly looking for a way to get rid of Netflix and maybe Spotify, so naturally, I gravitated towards setting up an Arr stack to get access to all the media I'd want.
• However, in order to not have to work with the terminal at all times, I installed Casa OS to have an intuitive UI to manage all the little self-host programs I could be interested in.
• To install all of this, I followed a guide on YouTube to get started in the first place as well as another guide to set up the Arr stack. It took me a whole while to get a grasp of things, and I've spent a lot of hours to figure out how I want the host and container volumes to be set up, but I got it now (mostly)
• Current programs I'm using: Prowlarr, Sabnzbd, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr to get access to the media I want to watch and listen to as well as Jellyfin and Navidrome for playback. I'm also getting my feet wet with Portainer because I want to host a Teamspeak server for my friends.
• Programs I want to set up in the future: a Minecraft server possibly, a network-wide adblocker, and Tailscale to access my media outside my home network.
• Little bonus tangent: before I started working on the server, we've been having problems with our internet - think constant outages where regular restarting of the router was required only for another outage five minutes later. A technician came by and fixed it, but I was told to get a new router because a newer router would be able to fix some of the common issues you get internet access on its own. That's what you see further to the back by the wall (50€ used, Fritz!Box 7510). Unfortunately, it only comes with one (1!!!!!) singular LAN port, so I had to buy a switch for 5 LAN ports in total (another 12€) which is sufficient for all the devices we use at home.
• If you've been keeping count, all this cost me ~100€ including a few subscriptions to get access to some of the content I'm downloading. Definitely a worthwhile investment considering Netflix costs us like 18€ a month or so? We'll get that cost back easily.

That's pretty much all I think of sharing right now! Thanks for reading and let me know if you have any tips for a newcomer :)

Honestly, I'm glad the game did as well as it did. Many people don't have it on their radar as much when it comes to soulslikes, but I feel like it's a very contender and it stands on its compared to contemporaries.

Kudos!

How dare I try to add another HDD to my build, expecting everything to work immediately?

For some god-forsaken reason, an LED lit up on my motherboard that never has that could either indicate some hardware connectivity problem or it could just be purely decorative. Why it would light up when it hasn't ever before and why it would light up, indicating that something is wrong with the build, whilst not having any issues with booting the PC and using it, is beyond me.

Apparently, updating the BIOS could help, but I've had no such luck. Back to the drawing board I guess

Edit: it's for fucking aesthetics. who in their right mind would think that a motherboard LED, that's usually used for diagnostics, would be a good place to show off your RGB shenanigans? I turned them off in the BIOS settings and now everything's fine again