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💎 Limited Voice  ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄゛ Enjoy this special conversation between characters, available for a limited time. 💚Kanoa Fortis ┈┈┈┈••✧ CV. #天﨑滉平 💙Heath Crescent ┈┈┈┈••✧ CV. #緑川光 🔍Releases 7/16!

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♾Infinity Nikki Version 2.3 Outfit Preview: Dreamtime Bestowed The fairy tale on the page may lend colors to a world in gray, but life's true hues are born of countless blooms. A heart that keeps its color, untouched by time, needs no crown. >> Main Attribute: Sweet >> Outfit Ability: [Unicorn's Vow: Mount] After using the [Unicorn's Vow: Mount] ability, Nikki can freely switch between four states: Follow, Mount, Soar, and Sprint. When this ability is first used, a unicorn is summoned, entering the Follow state and gently accompanying Nikki from behind. You can also enter the Mount state to begin a journey side by side. While mounted, you can enter the Sprint state, greatly increasing movement speed. You can use another button to enter the Soar state, temporarily breaking free from gravity and freely gliding through the air. >> Decoration: [Sugarcloud Dreamweave] Can be placed in open spaces. Step onto soft, honey-sweet clouds, drift through fluffy donut rings, and within a shimmering rainbow glow, dream your way through a light and colorful journey. ❖ Available after reaching 160 Resonances in the limited-time Resonance [In Colors I Bloom]. >> Evolution Rewards ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 1 unlocks the pose [Sweet Dream Prelude]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 2 unlocks the Framed Moment item [Sweet & Yummy!]. You will also be able to use a Refined-Color Heartchime on the Clothing Evolution > Decoration: Radiance screen to obtain [Sugarcloud Dreamweave: Radiance]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 3 unlocks [Sweet Heartlight: Makeup], a new idle animation, poses, enhanced special effects, and alternative details for certain pieces. ♾Follow Infinity Nikki and retweet this post, and we'll randomly select 10 lucky stylists to win 1 Infinity Nikki Cozy Blanket Set! —— ➤ Infinity Nikki Version 2.3 Uncrowned Heart launches globally on March 2 (UTC-7)! ➤ Download Now: ➤ Join us on Discord: #InfinityNikki #UncrownedHeart

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♾Infinity Nikki Version 2.2 Outfit Preview: Where Wanxiang Weaves Life & Chroma's Mortal Heart Upon the expanse of reflections, myriad forms surface and sway—a spectrum of all that is and seems. Through the tumult, a clear chime sounds, its question lingering: Whence did this being arise? What holds this existence? Where does this journey lead? The chromatic radiance aspires to the empyreal heights—such is the way of the truth beyond all forms. ♾Where Wanxiang Weaves Life >> Main Attribute: Sexy >> Outfit Ability: Shapeshifting ◆ After configuring the Shapeshifting ability, Nikki can sense specific energy fluctuations, automatically collecting Blings, Ethereal Stars, Starlit Crystals, and Starlit Shards within a certain range. Once enabled, automatic collection will remain active until you log out or manually turn it off. ◆ After activating the Shapeshifting ability, choose a Spirit Persona to refine the shape. After refining shape, Nikki will be influenced by the chosen Spirit Persona, transforming into various shapes. In the Wanxiang Realm, this can be used to confuse others and trigger special reactions from certain characters. After refining shape, you can switch to another Spirit Persona, or disperse the Spirit Persona and return to Nikki's original shape. When going offline, the Spirit Persona automatically dissipates. >> Decoration: Mortal Witness Can be placed in open spaces. A hundred years pass in a blink as the monster seeks truth beyond form. Through the glass drifts the scent of mortal life—an old woman steeping tea, children at play beneath the sinking sun. Lantern light clears the mist from its eyes; tears wet its cheeks as it lifts a trembling hand to its face. Note: Available after reaching 160 Resonances in the limited-time Resonance [Echoes of Wanxiang]. >> Evolution Rewards ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 1 unlocks the pose [Windstride]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 2 unlocks the Framed Moment [Worldly Joy]. You will also be able to use a Refined-Color Heartchime on the Clothing Evolution > Decoration: Radiance screen to obtain [Mortal Witness: Radiance]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 3 unlocks [Fleeting Shadows: Makeup], a new idle animation, poses, enhanced special effects, and alternative details for certain pieces. ♾Chroma's Mortal Heart >> Main Attribute: Elegant >> Outfit Ability: Celestial Deer ◆ After configuring the Celestial Deer ability, you can enable Celestial Deer Vision to quickly locate and mark chests in the world. ◆ After using the Celestial Deer ability, Nikki transforms into an elegant deer and freely soars across the Wanxiang Realm. She can perform movement abilities like flight, Cloudward Leap, and special dashes. Note: Flight, Cloudward Leap, and special dash abilities are only available within the Wanxiang Realm. If the ability is used outside of the Wanxiang Realm, Nikki will transform into the Chroma Deer and walk on the ground. >> [Ocean's Radiance Gift Box] The gift box includes the dance move [Dust Dream] and the item [Mortal Longing]. [Mortal Longing] can be used to dance gracefully in the open world. The dance move [Dust Dream] can be used in Momo's Camera. Note: Available after reaching 160 Resonances in the limited-time Resonance [Traces of Chroma]. >> Evolution Rewards ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 1 unlocks the pose [Chirping Steps]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 2 unlocks the Framed Moment item [Fawn Cuteness]. You will also be able to use a Mystic-Dance Heartchime on the Clothing Evolution > Action: Illusory Dance screen to obtain [Mortal Longing: Illusory Dance] and [Dust Dream: Illusory Dance]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 3 unlocks [Jadeveil Isles: Makeup], a new idle animation, poses, enhanced special effects, and alternative details for certain pieces. ♾Follow Infinity Nikki and retweet this post with your UID, and we'll select 10 lucky stylists to win: Infinity Nikki Cozy Blanket Set —— ➤ Infinity Nikki Version 2.2 Chromatic Beings Everbright launches globally on January 29 (UTC-7)! ➤ Download Now: ➤ Join us on Facebook Group: #InfinityNikki #ChromaticBeingsEverbright

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Honkai Star Rail issue TLDR; no real improvements towards the gameplay/TRPG depth itself while continuing to make changes that don't matter 'in the now'. More context; As of the last few patches it's felt like HSR has made 1 step forward & 3 back (Ex. Wishful Resin availability vs impact of the item). With a turn based RPG, I expect more actions to be taken that encourage strategic gameplay, combat/gear choices, or otherwise game defining matters that give the player more satisfaction (of their wins, accomplishments, goal challenges, etc.) in the game. Great examples of this are FF Tactics, Valkyria Chronicles, Octopath Traveler, & any Shin Megami Tensei or Fire Emblem game. I don't have any definite backing behind this, just my own assumptions & experiences, but it feels like HSR has become more greedy than their usual gacha self. A game (that presents itself) based around team structure, archetypes, & decision making has shown a severe lack of these since shortly after Superbreak's introduction. The lack of STRONG 4-stars has left many of our viable "teams" lingering on a "play this or bust" situation. Of course, having at least 80% of the limited 5-stars removes this entirely, but that introduces an entirely different subject that still favors my argument in the lack of team variety we have. Ex. The counter-archetype team. There's little to no difference between THE optimal team if you use Yunli or Clara, despite the two of them playing differently w/ different build opportunities. You won't swap support units because they offer a new 'thing' to benefit Yunli/Clara. You will swap units because you don't have the premier one or you don't have the other premier one (i.e Sunday vs Sparkle selection). The enemy design has been decent, with some bosses having amazing potential, but that effort is quickly made irrelevant due to the HP inflation or lack of preventative measures the avg player can take against them (i.e not having shields, cleanse, enhanced breaking, AV control, etc.) By no means is that me alluding to every player deserves every limited thing, but it is me saying there's 0 reason the last 4-star we got was on Sept 9th, and per the drip marketing received, we aren't getting a new one any time soon. On stream, I spoke about how impactful a row system (Persona 1, Unicorn Overlord, Torna DLC for Xenoblade 2, etc.) would be to the strategy behind the game IF they prioritized combat depth instead of selling only selling limited characters. HSR has the potential to really put their foot in the combat strategy and team building of the game, but I don't understand the reason they refuse to do it when they have the means to. This brings me to the greed I believe HSR has displayed lately. There are multiple pts I want to address on this matter, but this tweet is too long & I wanna go play Metaphor so I'll try to emphasize this point a lot stronger. Keep in mind, these items are conceptually of top 3 importance in the game (value wise). * There is 0 reason the bundle of Wishful Resin should cost $35-50 worth of stellar jade bundles instead of a flat price. They are purposely inflating your purchase on an item that, in my opinion, is insanely valuable for every player. * Trading 800 relic remains or Self Modeling Resin for 1 Wishful Resin is a scam. 800 RR = 80 trash relics or 2 +15 relics. Both of which, require you to invest a LOT of resources into in order to obtain them in the first place. * 2 sub-stats should not cost 4 Wishful Resin if 1 sub-stat only cost 1 Wishful Resin. * Receiving ONE WISHFUL RESIN FOR FREE per 40ish days, is INSANE. lol Receiving TWO IF YOU PAY per 40ish days is even more ludicrous. In the event you decided to buy all the Wishful bundles per 40 days & only choose the WR as your option, that's $120 (70 + 50) for 22 WR. Adding the BP into that is now just shy of paying for a limited character. Don't even get me started on how the only available dice in the game is paid for while still having a 75% chance to screw you over in RNG, either. I understand this looks like a giga rant, & it is. It pisses me off watching a game you avidly enjoy make decisions that, I can only assume, are out of pure greed. They could do so much to spin this game into an easy top 5 position with little to similar effort in pushing out stronger characters per $300. Hence, my feeling of being burnt out & even that took me months to understand/realize.

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♾Infinity Nikki Version 2.5 Outfit Preview: Floral Rebirth and & Guide of No Return The tides split apart— The newborn reach for the ripples across fading echoes, While the watchers bloom and sprout from beneath the bones. All that has passed is but a prelude. So let bone and blood be reforged for the morrow and beyond. ♾Floral Rebirth >> Main Attribute: Fresh >> Outfit Ability: [Bloomlight Shadowcatcher: Bug-Catching] After equipping the [Bloomlight Shadowcatcher: Bug-Catching] ability, Nikki can catch insects within an area. Use the ability to catch all insects within range. ♦ In the Ability Setup menu, you can choose between full or simplified animations. >>Alternative Details Available for the Following Pieces upon Acquisition The hair [Lingering Wind], outerwear [Floral Enigma], headwear [Silent Breath], and hair accessory [Authority of Destiny] in this outfit can switch to alternative details upon acquisition. >> [Ocean's Radiance Gift Box] The gift box includes the dance move [Blooming Dreamtime] and the item [Night Blossoms]. [Blooming Dreamtime] can be used to dance gracefully in the open world. The dance move [Night Blossoms] can be used in Momo's Camera. ❖ Available after reaching 160 Resonances in the limited-time Resonance [Eternal Cycle, Buried Past]. >> Evolution Rewards ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 1 unlocks the pose [Bloom from Withering]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 2 unlocks the Framed Moment item [Wishful Prays]. You will also be able to use a Radiant Heartchime on the Clothing Evolution > Action: Illusory Dance screen to obtain [Night Blossoms: Illusory Dance] and [Blooming Dreamtime: Illusory Dance]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 3 unlocks [Fading Sigh: Makeup], a new idle animation, poses, enhanced special effects, and alternative details for certain pieces. ♾Guide of No Return >> Main Attribute: Sexy >> Outfit Ability: [Guiding Star: Archery] After equipping the [Soul Guidance] bow, rapidly activate the Attack button to fire arrows at Esselings. Use the [Call of Souls] ability to enter [Soul Vigil] mode and gain aerial mobility with a unique attack style. The Soul Vigil mode can only be activated once by Call of Souls before landing. While in Soul Vigil, activate the Jump button to switch heights. At specific moments, hold the Attack button to unleash [Echo of Return], rapidly firing a barrage of arrows at your target and charging the [Return Sigil] upon impact. Consume all Return Sigil energy to awaken the dormant power of all souls and guide them home, dealing a finishing strike. After use, Bow Energy is fully restored, and you enter the Soul Vigil state. While in a floating or Winged Hover state, the Return Sigil will not recover over time. >> [Momo's Cloak: Soul Song] When equipped with the cloak, Momo uses a bow for ranged basic attacks. After every three shots, the fourth becomes a powerful, piercing arrow that hits multiple targets. Hitting Esselings builds Soul Song Energy. When the cloak skill is ready, Momo consumes all stored energy to restore Nikki's Health and Bow Energy. >> Decoration: [Cycle of Souls] Can be placed in open spaces. Life is a spiraling ascent. Though joy may not last and sorrow is no prison, all that has passed will scatter like drifting clouds underfoot when stepping into the cycle once more. ❖ Available after reaching 160 Resonances in the limited-time Resonance [Evertide of No Return]. >> Evolution Rewards ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 1 unlocks the pose [Prologue of Fate]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 2 unlocks the Framed Moment item [Surging Vows]. You can also use Tidal Heartchime in Clothing Evolution > Decoration: Radiance to obtain [Cycle of Souls: Radiance]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 3 unlocks [Windward Stream: Makeup], a new idle animation, poses, enhanced special effects, and alternative details for certain pieces. ♾Follow Infinity Nikki and retweet this post with your UID, and we'll randomly select 10 lucky stylists to win 1 Infinity Nikki Aeroplane Chess Set each! —— ➤ Infinity Nikki Version 2.5 Where All Souls Return launches globally on April 23 (UTC-7) ! ➤ Download Now: ➤ Join us on Facebook Group: #InfinityNikki #Boneyard #WhereAllSoulsReturn

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♾Infinity Nikki Version 2.8 Outfit Preview: White Night's Ballet and Dawning Heartlight Klick, klick... She hears the mechanical heart beating— Golden feathers whirl, a flash of golden mane breaks through the mirror, and there, she sees the soul of a god aflame— In the fractured frame, a miracle arrives at last: the moment she meets herself once more. ♾ [White Night's Ballet] >> Main Attribute: Cool >> Outfit Ability: [Spinning Reflections] After using the [Spinning Reflections] ability, Nikki bursts through the shattered mirror and begins an elegant dance amid blooming shards of light, with her movement speed greatly increased. If approaching a wall, Nikki can slide over the wall's surface and continue moving seamlessly. Sliding continuously consumes energy. When energy is depleted, Nikki will exit the sliding state. Wall sliding consumes more energy. While sliding across a wall, Nikki can jump over obstacles. She can also enter the floating state to disengage from the wall. When using the ability during [Companion Journey], Nikki and her companion will have a special movement effect. After equipping the [Spinning Reflections] ability, Nikki can also summon the Lucent Mirror and Mirror Shadow and activate the Brightnight Mirror Realm. The Brightnight Mirror Realm can be placed on water, allowing Nikki to slide within it. Within the Brightnight Mirror Realm, select [Airy Dance] from the sidebar to switch movement posture. Approach and remain near a Mirror Shadow to light it up. Interact with the lit Mirror Shadow to change its outfit, check its styling, try on its outfit, or invite friends to try it on. ❖ The ability [Spinning Reflections] cannot be used in uncleared dungeons. The Brightnight Mirror Realm cannot be placed in certain stages or in the Mira Crown Merit Arena. >> [Ocean's Radiance Gift Box] The box includes the item [Dance of Golden Days] and the dance move [Flourishing Steps]. The item [Dance of Golden Days] can be used to dance gracefully in the open world. The dance move [Flourishing Steps] can be used in Momo's Camera. ❖ Available after reaching 160 Resonances in the limited-time Resonance [Through Songbound Night]. >> Evolution Rewards ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 1 unlocks the pose [Graceful Leap]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 2 unlocks the Framed Moment item [Eternal Ballet]. You can also use Finale Heartchime in [Clothing Evolution > Action: Illusory Dance] to obtain the item [Dance of Golden Days: Illusory Dance] and the dance move [Flourishing Steps: Illusory Dance]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 3 unlocks [The Final Dance: Makeup], a new idle animation, poses, enhanced special effects, and alternative details for certain pieces. ♾ [Dawning Heartlight] >> Main Attribute: Elegant >> Outfit Ability: [Gilded Dawnchaser: Mount] After using the ability, Nikki summons a golden-maned lion, which enters Follow Mode. Nikki can freely switch between four modes: Follow, Mount, Hover, and Sprint. While in Mount Mode, she can switch to Sprint Mode, greatly increasing movement speed. Use the Hover button to leap into the air and enter Hover Mode. While hovering, use the ability button to select a target and dive toward it. Use the Hover button again to end Hover Mode and land. In Ability Setup, Smart Mount Mode can be enabled. When enabled, using the ability button will switch directly between mounting and dismounting without entering Follow Mode. Mount via Interact can also be enabled, allowing the Interact button to be used for mounting and dismounting. Even after switching to another ability, the Interact button can still be used to mount or dismount. When disabled, mounting can only be controlled with the ability button. ❖ Special Effect: In the open world, after Nikki fires a charged arrow while riding the golden-maned lion, the lion will let out a roar, knocking back Esselings within a certain area ahead and briefly slowing Whimstars within a certain surrounding area. ❖ The [Gilded Dawnchaser: Mount] ability cannot be used in Realm Challenges or any boss stages. Hover Mode is unavailable in uncleared dungeons. >> Decoration: [Sacred Heartyard] Can be placed in open spaces. Follow the lingering song of the wind in your memories and climb the steps of a dream. Soul Spring murmurs softly, guiding the way to where flowers bloom in abundance. ❖ Available after reaching 160 Resonances in the limited-time Resonance [At Dreams' Dawn]. >> Evolution Rewards ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 1 unlocks the pose [Wings Renewed]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 2 unlocks the Framed Moment item [Feather's Wish]. 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Infinity Nikki

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Recently did an interview with the lead developer of Knight's Path on the title's future release and the state of the industry. The Western AAA gaming industry has shifted its focus away from its core audience, favoring products for smaller, less engaged demographics. This shift has led to a noticeable disconnect between large publishers and their traditional fan base. This has, however, created an environment for indies to thrive. They can prioritize authenticity and community, crafting games that resonate with their players and that is exactly the case with Knight's Path. In December of 2023, Knights Path: The Tournament was released to Very Positive reviews on Steam. It is a short medieval RPG featuring challenging combat, an immersive progression system, and a nice little story. It served as an announcement, a combat concept demo, and a teaser for the forthcoming open-world RPG Knight's Path, which is currently in active development. I asked what their plans were regarding the scope of the full release. While you might get the impression that Knight's Path is an arena fighting game, that’s not the case with the full release. "Knight's Path will be a proper open-world, story-driven RPG. Of course, as a small indie team, we’re keeping the scope modest. The open world will be compact but dense, featuring one town, one village, castle ruins, forests, valleys, and other areas to explore." Many gamers would agree it is better to have a limited number of fully fleshed-out areas than to present a gigantic, empty world. This has been a major criticism levied towards recent releases like Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and even modern Assassins Creed, which tends to rely on repetitive gameplay loops scattered across an overly large map, which can feel more like busywork than meaningful exploration. I have always believed that quality over quantity is the best way to go. The team has also made this a priority with things such as the story and weapon types. "We plan to include three main weapon types: longsword, sword and shield, and bows. These will feature the full progression system seen in the demo, with skill levels such as Novice, Adept, Expert, and Master. Players will need to learn individual skills from different trainers to progress. In addition, we’re introducing secondary weapons like spears, halberds, and other polearms. These won’t have RPG-style progression but will still offer variety in combat." Regarding the story, they plan to be bold and strive to create a 16-28 hour-long main campaign. "The story will be divided into four chapters, with each chapter offering around 4–7 hours of gameplay. As in the demo, the player character begins as a nobody, slowly learning how to wield a sword and eventually becoming a knight. However, the progression will be much more realistic than in the demo, where the peasant hilariously transformed into a champion in just four days." This is a far cry from many games that are released nowadays. In just 2024 alone at a glance, the AA release Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn provided an average of 8 hours of content, Princess Peach: Showtime at 10 hours, Silent Hill 2 Remake at 15, and even the GOTY winner Astrobot holds an average playtime of 10 hours. A major issue within the industry is the way we are treated by the people who only have jobs because of our favorite hobby. In 2024 the gaming industry is forecasted to generate $208.7 BILLION dollars, up from 5.4% in 2023. Compare that to Hollywood, which is a measly $12.3 billion. The gaming industry employs 727,000 individuals in the United States alone. So, you'd think these people would have a little bit of respect for gamers, though so many who are vocal on social media show nothing but contempt for us. Perhaps this is because of fear if they do not show loyalty to a cause or "fit in" that they may not secure funding or genuinely believe in what they preach, but the team behind Knight's Path isn't worried about that. "We are independent developers, and we plan to stay independent so we can stay true to our vision. Knight's Path is a game made by gamers for gamers. We’re prioritizing fun gameplay above all, and we firmly believe this is exactly what gamers want." I also raised some questions about their big plans moving forward. In the demo, one of the major criticisms I had was with the voice acting. I had guessed it was done via AI, which was confirmed. "You guessed correctly– the voice acting in the demo was done by AI, and it was probably the loudest critique we received, and we totally understand why! Back then, we didn’t have much of a choice, but for the full game, we don’t plan to use any AI voices. Luckily, after the demo release, many voice actors reached out to us, volunteering to lend their voices to the full game. We absolutely plan to answer their call and give them that opportunity." AI can be a useful tool, especially for developers starting out who can't commit a lot of money to voice acting or just want to see a version of the product that's closer to what they envision the full release to be, but going from that to real voice actors will bump the experience to the next level. I myself played the demo in its entirety and really enjoyed my time with it! I thought the game was reminiscent of Gothic 2 and even The Witcher. I was happily surprised when I didn't encounter any bugs or glitches and while some areas have not been fleshed out like the voice acting, I would recommend putting the game on your wishlist to see what this team does in the future when they finally deliver their updated demo and the eventual full release of the game.

Vara Dark

42,375 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

♾Infinity Nikki Version 2.4 Outfit Preview: She Is Wildfire The moonlight cuts through the mist, a silver blade into the dark forest. The red cloak tears the lies apart, concealing the wounds beneath. The narrow gate of fate closes in, step by step. —"Fight! Fight!" As the clock rewinds, the story returns to its beginning... She picks up the gun, and sets down the pen. >> Main Attribute: Cool >> Outfit Ability: [Hunting Elegy: Battle Companion] In Itzaland, using [Hunting Elegy: Battle Companion] summons the Phantom Companion Moon-Hunting Wolf to fight alongside Nikki. While not in Co-hunt State, Nikki can use her gun to mark an enemy. The wolf follows with a pursuit attack, dealing increased damage to the marked target. The Moon-Hunting Wolf can launch Nikki into the air, then follow her aim and slam down onto the targeted enemy. When the Moon-Hunting Wolf deals a certain amount of damage on its own, Nikki gains Gunblossom Marks. Using the Companion Skill consumes all Gunblossom Marks to restore an equal amount of Health. Approach the Moon-Hunting Wolf and use the button to unleash its full power, transforming it into a giant form and entering Co-hunt State, allowing Nikki to control it directly. While in Co-hunt State, the Moon-Hunting Wolf continuously consumes Battle Companion Energy. When depleted, the Co-hunt State ends, and the wolf returns to its small form. When not in Co-hunt State, Battle Companion Energy gradually recovers. ❖ This Battle Companion ability is region-restricted and can only be used in Itzaland. Phantom Companions cannot be summoned in certain stages, Curio Domains, or Mothershroom Woods, and any summoned Phantom Companions cannot follow Nikki into these areas. >> Decoration: [Unawakened Forest] Can be placed in open spaces. Flickering lamplight reflects a hint of warmth, while the night wind wails near and far in a panicked whisper. Let those about to sleep do so quietly. Do not be discovered and dragged into the abyss of eternal night. ❖ Available after reaching 160 Resonances in the limited-time Resonance event [Call of the Forest]. ❖ Interacting with [Unawakened Forest] will replace certain pieces with pajamas. >> Evolution Rewards ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 1 unlocks the pose [Time to Leave]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 2 unlocks the Framed Moment item [Forest Hunter's Shadow]. You will also be able to use Dreamy Heartchime on the Clothing Evolution > Decoration: Radiance screen to obtain [Unawakened Forest: Radiance]. ◆ Evolving the outfit to Stage 3 unlocks [Her Song of Freedom: Makeup], a new idle animation, poses, enhanced special effects, and alternative details for certain pieces. ❖ By default, when Nikki wears the outerwear "Emberwood Wanderings" from this outfit, the hood is up. Stylists can toggle between the hood-up and hood-down look by accessing [Form Shift] in the [Feature Collection] section of the main interface sidebar. The outerwear's appearance is saved independently for the base, evolved, and glowed-up versions. Please note: when using certain features (such as switching details at Evolution Stage 3), the outerwear will revert to its default hood-up state. If you prefer the hood-down look, go back and select [Form Shift] again. ♾Follow Infinity Nikki and retweet this post with your UID, and we'll randomly select 10 lucky stylists to win 1 Infinity Nikki Aeroplane Chess Set each! —— ➤ Infinity Nikki Version 2.4 The Forest Need Not Listen launches globally on March 26 (UTC-7)! ➤ Download Now: ➤ Join us on Reddit: #InfinityNikki #TheForestNeedNotListen

Infinity Nikki

133,539 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Tlon Messenger is now open to everyone. We built a simple and infinitely flexible platform for you to use AI agents with your friends. We think it’s pretty amazing, we love using it every day, and we want to see what people can do with it. So we’re opening it up to the public. It’s fun and exciting to build the future of personal computing in an informal, chat-based way with your friends. (You can skip the rest and just download it from the link in the next tweet if you want.) If you don’t want your digital future to be owned by a giant company but you want to explore what’s possible in this new era of agent-driven computing, you should try using Tlon. But wait, what is it? Tlon is a messaging platform built 100% open source, decentralized and owned by its users from the ground up. With Tlon you own everything: your data, your workflows, your programs: the whole thing. Think of it like Telegram or WhatsApp that you own forever and you can freely customize. Every Tlon account comes with an OpenClaw-powered bot. (Don’t worry, we safely run OpenClaw for you in our infrastructure so your bot can’t go off the rails. You’re also welcome to host your own claw if you want maximal control.) We use our bots to collect research, build nuanced daily briefings, collate data from all our disparate services. Tlon makes it insanely easy to use OpenClaw by simply installing an app from the app store, we let you keep your data and programs independent from any app or model provider, and provide the canvas to explore what’s possible. What’s most interesting for us is using bots together. On Tlon bots can create groups, augment them, moderate them, invite others and freely engage with both users and other bots. Tlon is an open playing field unlike what’s possible on conventional platforms. So, what do we do with Tlon? First and foremost, we run Tlon on Tlon. Bots coordinate data from all of our services (Linear, GitHub, all of our servers and infrastructure) and handle alerts, briefings and help us track down bugs in place. Having all of this easily synced between a desktop client and a mobile app is quick and convenient. We use bots to research new areas of work or interest. Bots can compile trees of notes, use different models to evaluate them, and then add on autoresearch-like automations to go even deeper. Since Tlon bots can freely switch between models and providers, we often pass research to Anthropic, OpenAI and self-hosted models to see different results. The most fun part of using bots as researchers is doing it together. “Put together short (~500 word) notes on the 10 most popular open source messaging protocols of the past twenty years, put them in a notebook inside a group and invite Corrina, Walt and Bill as well as their bots” is a good example. Together we’re able to move more quickly than we would on our own. Many of us also use bots to keep track of all the separate threads of work in our personal lives with close friends and family. Someone built a system for keeping track of their garden across time, someone else built a system for prepping lunches for their daughter and sending recipes to family members. Another team member built an integration that tracks what flights are passing overhead so they get a push notification every time a plane goes by. Many of us quickly communicate with our bots via voice memo when we’re out and about. Having a single interface to all the models that also holds all our data and is in our pockets feels great. Especially when the data goes into a single archive. Why is Tlon different? Every Tlon account runs on top of your very own personal server. If you ever want to download it and run it yourself, you can. If we ever go out of business, it’s yours to keep. This is very different from anything that already exists. You can’t keep your WhatsApp forever. You can’t keep your Telegram forever. Tlon is an archival-quality system that’s yours to customize. Why did we build it? In my 1999 imagination, sitting in front of a CRT somewhere in the California countryside listening to Underworld and the sound of a modem, a connected computer was an engine of unending creative potential for everyone. When I was a teenager, a computer with an internet connection felt like an infinite expanse of possibility. Not only could you use the computer to find new tools to experiment with—you could also build whatever tool you could think of. It seemed like anything was possible. I looked forward to a future where everyone could build whatever software they needed, whenever they needed it. It turned out, in the intervening twenty years, that to build and customize software you have to both write code and host it on a server somewhere. For most people, so far, that has been impossible. Instead of controlling our software, our software controls us. We rely on others to build it and decide everything about it: how it works, looks, how much it spies on us and how long it lives. But all of this is changing, fast. The hottest programming language of 2026 is English. People with no technical experience are building their own tools. It’s incredible. The expanse has opened up again. The cost of building what we think of today as software is headed to zero. What yesterday was an entire app is rapidly being replaced by a conversation. The result is hyper-specific, tailored to the user and much more efficient. Today, agents help us build workflows, automate processes and pull together disparate sources of data. All of the annoying apps and services and clunky interface we’ve put up with can just disappear. We can now program and control our computers in the programming language we already know: English. There aren’t that many of us doing this yet, though. It’s still far too hard to set up, to distribute and to trust. There’s also no single platform to experiment on and collaboratively imagine this new future of personal computing. We want everyone to be able to build bespoke, ultra-personal software on demand. We think software should be as available and accessible as a pen and paper. We think anyone should be able to enjoy the expanse of possibility that the computer provides with the lowest possible barrier to entry and the highest possible quality. So, starting far, far too long ago, we engineered a whole new system for it. Just for you. We’re opening up Tlon Messenger to a limited number of people each week. This isn’t for exclusivity’s sake, but because we’re running infrastructure for you and your agent, and covering the tokens your agent uses. That can get expensive quickly, but we want to learn what people will do with this new system we’ve built. We’re really curious to see what you can do, so give it a try and tell us what you invent. Download link to your local app store in the next tweet. Yours, Galen (and the rest of the Tlon Team)

Tlon

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SORPRESA! 💥 Per continuare a celebrare questo anno così importante per noi, ho pensato ad un altro regalo da potervi fare: TUTTI i miei album ristampati per la prima volta su vinile colorato in edizione limitata e numerata. Disponibili da oggi per il pre-order i primi tre album - in uscita questo 26 maggio: Laura Pausini: Laura: Le cose che vivi: Ogni album avrà al suo interno una card con un codice per poter ascoltare in esclusiva streaming due tracce extra tratte dai live #Laura30, la nostra maratona di 24h tra New York, Madrid e Milano. Con “Laura Pausini” potrete ascoltare “La solitudine” e “Non c’è” live da New York. Con “Laura” potrete ascoltare “Strani amori” e “Gente” live da New York. Con “Le cose che vivi” potrete ascoltare “Incancellabile” e “Le cose che vivi” live da New York. Ma… voglio già dirvi anche le date delle prossime uscite: 30 Giugno: “La mia risposta”, “Tra te e il mare” e ”From the inside” 28 Luglio: “Resta in ascolto”, “Primavera in anticipo” e “Inedito” 25 Agosto: “Simili”, “Fatti sentire” e “Io canto” • ¡SORPRESA! 💥 Para seguir celebrando este año tan importante para todos nosotros, he pensado en haceros otro regalo: TODOS mis discos reeditados por primera vez en vinilo de color limitado y numerado. Los tres primeros álbumes están disponibles en preventa a partir de hoy: "Laura Pausini", "Laura" y "Le cose che vivi". ¡A la venta el 26 de mayo! 💙 Cada álbum tendrá en su interior una tarjeta con un código para escuchar en exclusiva dos temas extra en streaming grabados en los conciertos #Laura30, nuestra maratón de 24 horas en Nueva York, Madrid y Milán. Con "Laura Pausini" podréis escuchar "La solitudine" y "Non c'è" en directo desde Nueva York. Con "Laura" podréis escuchar "Strani amori" y "Gente" en directo desde Nueva York. Con "Le cose che vivi" podréis escuchar "Incancellabile" y "Le cose che vivi" en directo desde Nueva York. Pero... también quiero daros ya las fechas de los próximos lanzamientos: 30 de junio: "La Mia Risposta", "Tra te e il Mare" y "From the inside" 28 de julio: "Resta in Ascolto", "Primavera in Anticipo" e "Inedito". 25 de agosto: "Simili", "Fatti sentire" y "Io canto". • SURPRISE! 💥 To continue celebrating this very important year for us, I thought of another gift just for you: ALL my albums reissued for the first time on limited and numbered edition colored vinyl. Available now for pre-order the first three: "Laura Pausini", "Laura" and "Le cose che vivi" - out May 26! 💙 Each album will come with a card to stream two extra tracks from the #Laura30 live performances, our 24h marathon between New York, Madrid and Milan. With "Laura Pausini" you will be able to listen to "La solitudine" and "Non c'è" live from New York. With "Laura" you will be able to listen to "Strani amori" and "Gente" live from New York. With "Le cose che vivi" you will be able to listen to "Incancellabile" and "Le cose che vivi" live from New York. But... I also already want to tell you the dates of the upcoming releases: June 30: "La mia risposta", "Tra te e il mare" and "From the Inside." July 28: "Resta in ascolto”, “Primavera in anticipo” and "Inedito”. Aug. 25: "Simili," "Fatti sentire" and "Io canto"

Laura Pausini

56,424 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

I asked Grok to summarize the overview I provided of the ongoing war between Karen Read and Aidan Kearney, in particular the section wherein I deploy the Manhattan Project to explain why Karen used better compartmentalization than Aidan (thus setting herself up for victory). The Manhattan Project Analogy: Ah, the Manhattan Project—Grant drops this as the "archetypal example" of compartmentalization, using it to explain why no one (not even insiders) sees the full picture in ops like Karen's or Aidan's. It's not just history; it's a blueprint for why leaks like this recording hit so hard. Here's Grant's breakdown, paraphrased and expanded for context: Historical Setup: During WWII, the U.S. raced to build the atomic bomb. Led by J. Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos, NM (desert isolation for secrecy), it involved ~130,000 people total—but zero full-picture access for most. Goal: Win the war without leaks (or Japanese spies spotting it). Core Mechanic: Siloed Knowledge: Los Alamos: Elite scientists (e.g., Oppenheimer) handled core R&D. Even here, info was need-to-know—e.g., Operation Paperclip Nazis like Wernher von Braun (V-2 rocket guy) worked alongside possible communist sympathizers, but no one knew the endgame. Oak Ridge, Tennessee: The "production" hub—a secret 20,000-person "government town" (still exists today). To hide from aerial recon, they draped canopies over the entire site to mimic forest. Workers (engineers, laborers) toiled in ignorance: Example: A guy feeds a single punch card (1940s code line) into a massive green computer. He doesn't know what it codes, why, or even the machine's purpose. Just: Insert, output, repeat. Multiply by thousands—boom, uranium enrichment without risk. Why It Worked: "You do that with all the people working on a project that's very top secret (except for a select few high up)." Weak links? Minimal. One leak doesn't topple it. Ties to the Drama: Grant flips this to modern players. Aidan's Version: Rudimentary—paralegals like Olivia/Tina handle PR/logins but don't see the "full picture" (e.g., his flip risks). Meredith O'Neill becomes the leak about the recording played for her at lunch because she is smart and she does eventually see too much (just like Lindsey Gaetani before her). Karen's Mastery: Pro-level. Her finance/academia fam (Bentley University ties) screams gov recruitment pipeline—academia as "front" for talent scouting (e.g., intel via international money flows). She "understands the apparatus" (DNI hierarchy), so she deploys limited hangouts/double agents like Natalie. Result: Aidan’s recording "signal flare" to Alan Jackson and David Yannetti (his flip threat) gets mirrored by Karen's public nuke after the recordings and Read's messages to Flipperhead are released—eroding Kearney's base without directly exposing Karen's crushing blow. Grant's Point: Kate Peter/Tully are "children" at this; Karen's moves (e.g., burning Aidan now) only make sense through this lens. It's not emotion—it's chess: "If you show Karen Read anything less than respect, she's gonna fucking own you." Grant wraps by noting Karen's parasocial "complex" (stronger than Aidan's "brand") gives her leverage. He admits partiality ("I think she's responsible for John's death") but respects her ops savvy—possibly from her dad or self-taught intel. **Transcript: Grant's Analysis on Karen Read's Tactical Maneuvering and Compartmentalization** [Warning against crossing Karen Read] Grant: Listen—I would have told you this. I probably said it on stream before. You are out of your mind if you fuck with Karen Read. Like—it's one thing if you are like on her level and matching wits with her—like she's gonna grudgingly show you respect. I'm telling you—I've seen it in her eyes—but you can't fuck with her, and you certainly can't threaten her. I would not do that. I don't know who the fuck her parents know. I don't know who she knows, but bro—like it's politics. She's smarter than you. Don't threaten her. What the fuck? And that is something—like if you show her anything less than respect, she's gonna fucking own you. And that's what she did. Because the respectful way to do it would have been like a diplomatic meeting. And they must have been at a point where Aidan couldn't get that. So he did the most disrespectful thing possible where he tried to like corner her through like extortion almost. That's what it sounds like—although Aidan denies it. That—listen—forget about like how a normal person would react. When you're talking about a very influential operator like Karen Read—who has this very savvy understanding of the public mind—you're fucked. Because she's gonna know immediately what you just did. And she's gonna counter it with the thing that's gonna hurt you the most. What's gonna hurt Aidan Kearney the most? His support being dwindled down to only his core loyalists. And if he's right—and you'll hear it in the conversation—if Aidan Kearney is right, that most of who he is is because Karen Read and her support—oh my goodness, folks—like that—that means that Karen controls whether Aidan can continue this fight. If Karen—when she—that's why I want to listen to this whole conversation—there's no doubt in my mind she's pulling his support and pulling the rug under him because she's afraid that either he cooperated or he's going to cooperate. If she pulls the rug from him—okay, listen—he might be able to escape the criminal charges, but do you think Aidan Kearney—a man who thrives, in my opinion, on attention, numbers—from knowing that your words are impacting someone or the platform is reaching people—do you think he's going to enjoy being in a position where he—the very people who made him—and it wasn't just Karen; it was her supporters—now loathe his existence? And he—not just that—they are like tactical operators. Clearly Karen knows how to do counter intel—especially if she sent Natalie as a double agent to get information from the state police using Kearney as leverage all the way back in 2023. She understands the world of intel. I don't know how—I think it's her dad. I'm pretty sure because—and it could be her too—because like you don't get involved in the world of international finance on a fucking—like—what is it—the sort of leisurely level. It's not a pastime. You either do it because like—you're really fucking good at making money from the stock market—or—and these two weren't; they're not that wealthy—or you're giving information to the government. Why do I say that? Because the world of international finance is the most valuable intel sector you could possibly imagine. You can commit or try to commit any number of international crimes if you're threatening the United States of America. But I guarantee you're moving money around to do it. So who's the best possible sources for that? High-level financial people. So I don't know if either they were a Jason—and they were also academics. Okay. And a lot—what folks have to understand is when I—when people say like academia—it does not mean that you are just smart. Anyone who—who's good at studying could become a professor and be in academia. What a lot of folks should understand is that academia is a front for the government. It has always been a front for the government. Where do you think they headhunt from? Academia—well like—at the higher you get up the academic ladder—all you're really doing is getting more and more involved in the government. I'm not saying anything that anyone involved with this does not know. Like high-level academics are involved with the government. That's like the backbone of our system. Now a lot of the actual education—I think it's gotten a little out of hand with some of these majors, some of these colleges and universities who are offering [them]. That's not the point. The point is to create a—curate a talent pool to make the United States stronger. And a lot of it is government recruitment. Okay. And so Karen Read being all the way up at the top at Bentley—which is a very interconnected university with the government, trust me—that just makes me think she understands this—whether she was a Jason. Listen—you can understand what the intelligence community does without being in it. I'm not in the intelligence community—I just report on the government. So I kind of see how it all works. You can understand it without being in it. But if you're in it—let me just tell you right now—if anyone Karen Read knew professionally—through family or otherwise—is in the government—and I'm not talking about a special agent like in the FBI or, you know, a case officer—I'm talking about in the apparatus of control. Okay. In the directorate of national intelligence somewhere—there's a hierarchy. All right. If she knows anyone who understands all that—that's why she was able to pull this off. Because it's not—that's why I'm not fawning or being gratuitous. I don't necessarily—I'm not partial to Karen Read. I think she has liability for John's death. What I am is cognizant of what she's capable of—so I can understand what's going on. A mind like that, okay—doesn't just do PR. PR was not going to help Karen Read here. Natalie and her PR and all that stuff—none of that was going to work. What Karen Read needed was counter intel and intel knowledge. [Explanation of compartmentalization via the Manhattan Project] When I say compartmentalization—what you all have to realize is I'm talking about how the Manhattan Project—that's like the archetypal example of compartmentalization—how the Manhattan Project to develop the bomb that won the war for the United States in World War II—how that worked. The way that that worked is you had Los Alamos, okay, in New Mexico with Oppenheimer and whatever the hell—some of the Operation Paperclip people—which I'm not very happy with. We took Otto von Braun—who developed the V2 rocket for the Nazis. We brought him over via Operation Paperclip. We implanted him at Los Alamos with fucking Oppenheimer. I'm pretty sure it was like a communist sympathizer. Anyway—we sent them down to Los Alamos—the actual research scientists working on the core of the bomb. But to develop a nuclear bomb—you need 20,000 people at the time working simultaneously on production. You're not going to do that at Los Alamos. One: why would you ever expose them to the inner workings of the tech? It's nuclear material. You are not going to have 20,000 people around it. That's why it was in the middle of a desert. Third of all—they would know too much. So what did they do? Okay—look up Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Oak Ridge, Tennessee is a town—it's a government town still to this day. It's one of the most—it's not as top secret as it used to be. But back in the day—like during World War II—they put fucking canopies over the whole thing—20,000-person town—canopies over all of it. So it would just look like trees from the air in case the Japanese managed to come and bomb us. They never did—thank God. But anyway—at least on the mainland—obviously they got Pearl Harbor, and we're still upset about that. But the point is Oak Ridge, Tennessee, okay—it had people employed across a number of disciplines, all right—and they would go into—I'm giving you an example—one guy would go into a room, all right, and he would walk up to a giant computer. It was an old computer—we're talking the '40s here—it was a big computer, like a big green box. He would take a punch card. Okay—this is how you used to code—write computer code—he would put—take one punch card with one line of code—put it in the machine—take it out—put it down. He had no idea what he was doing. He didn't know what the punch card had on it. He didn't even understand what the machine did. That's compartmentalization. He's like—you do that with all of the people working on a project that's very top secret. So if you're thinking as Karen Read—Aidan Kearney does like a rudimentary version of it—even Tully does a rudimentary version of it—and Kate Peter—compared to Karen Read—Karen Read, Alan Jackson—whatever—understand the intelligence community. I don't fucking know how, but they do. So they compartmentalize. That's how they have pulled this whole thing off. They compartmentalize—no one ever really saw the full picture. When you—if you are a schematic mind like that—when you do something like reveal that Aidan Kearney has sent you a recording of conversations between you because you want the public to know that Aidan is doing this to you—you are tactically sabotaging him. Why you do that at this moment—when you are an expert in counter intel—thus requires that level of understanding. You cannot just say, "Oh, I don't like Karen Read; she must be a moron." No—if you want to understand why she's acting—you have to think about her tactical intelligence—because then you can reconstruct what the goal of this move is. It can only be designed to kneecap his support. I mean—when I say kneecap—I'm not talking Tonya Harding beating the woman at the ice rink. I'm talking—you can make it so this man's numbers are lower than Kate Peter talking about Cyraxx—like 2,000 views of video, if that, all right. That's what it will come down to. And she wants him to feel that. I think that it's a little bit like—it's 97% tactical. It seems to be that this is the moment where she feels he needs to lose all his support—like right now. Second—it feels a little like a little personal—like it's not just that she's causing him to lose all his support. There are ways to do that without doing this. I believe what Karen's really done here is she's taken the one thing from Aidan that gives him the strength to keep going day to day—which is his public persona and image—his support—her support. And so he can go around saying all he wants—"I owe it to Karen; she made me"—do you think that's how he really feels? Or do you think he feels that he's the only reason she's where she is? Now—if that's how they each feel—you're at a stalemate. Aidan thinks he's the reason Karen got to where she is. Karen thinks that she's the reason Aidan has support and is known in the region. Who's right? Who's right? That's what this conversation is going to be about. And I'm telling you—Karen's right. Karen has more support than Aidan Kearney. Okay—it's just a basic—you can look at the numbers. Karen has more support than Aidan Kearney. Karen has more loyalists. Karen—I don't even understand the complex, okay—but her parasocial complex that she's created is stronger. You might call it a brand—I think that degrades the insidious nature of it. I call it a parasocial complex. That is stronger than Aidan Kearney's. [Transition to the conversation with greetings] So what we're going to listen to right now is—oh, hello, Francesca Towel. Oh—a lot of folks are coming in. Hello, Rose Water. Hello, Maureen. It's great to see you all. Hello, J.I.5. We're going to listen to this conversation. I'm going to explicate it for you. I think you have enough background to get it now—but just be aware—without this background—that would have made no sense whatsoever. I promise you. **Aidan:** Am I on? **Host/Other:** You're on. **Aidan:** So who are you? Who is this? **Chris:** Don't worry about it. It doesn't matter who I am. **Aidan:** Well, it does. You're some fucking kangaroo court motherfucker talking about her. What the fuck do you know about anything? **Chris:** Well, I know exactly what you've been doing. **Aidan:** So—well, what the fuck are the sites you're talking about? No—no—recites—what you talk about? No—receipts. I've got to shit up. Let's see him. Let's fucking see your receipts. **Lily:** Hang on, Aidan—you know me. I'm the host. I'm Lily. **Aidan:** Yes, Lily. Hi, Lily. How are you? I'm sorry. I'm just wondering... **Lily:** I know you may not know Chris, but you know me. And so I just wanted to say hello. **Aidan:** Yeah, no, but... Grant: Oh, I also want to let you know this comes with a warning. They use very vulgar language. Some of them are from Commonwealth realms countries. So the language they're using is not as offensive as it would be if you used it in America. Aidan uses some very offensive language. This is for the purposes of analysis and commentary. I do not condone, endorse, promote, or otherwise suggest anyone engage in the use of this language. I personally don't like it. I use the F word from time to time, okay? And maybe like the S word—but I do not say some of the terms they're going to use—especially because one of them is very offensive, okay, to women. And I'm sorry ahead of time that he uses it—but you should hear Aidan's true colors. **Aidan:** This koala motherfucker is up here making shit up, running his... [Recap of text messages and setup for listening] Grant: So what you have to realize is these texts you're seeing on the screen got released because of this conversation. You're going to hear Joe Flipperhead talking about them. Now in the text messages, you can see Joe reaches out to Karen—Joe Flipperhead. And Karen's going to say she's trying to bounce back, but life is not quite happening. "Had a falling out with Aidan as everyone eventually does. Found out Aidan's been taping our phone conversations and sharing them with people and then telling everyone he doesn't understand how I blew him off for Howie Carr. Some anonymous person sent David and Alan a 33-minute phone call I had with Aidan that was all recorded without my knowledge. That was my final straw. He's done a lot of sneaky stuff with me, but this is above and beyond." And then Joe Flipperhead's like, "Do you want your side out there? If yes, I'm with you. If not, all good—just let me know. Have a good weekend." Karen says, "Sure. I told many people my side. This is the last straw. Would never and have never betrayed him. Meanwhile, he has put me in harm's way in a huge way multiple times." Okay, so we're going to listen. "Okay, okay, all right, all right—no trolling. We should—we should be banning people like that. You have been banned. You have been banned. No trolling. Absolutely no trolling. Now gaslighting and manipulative subversion is the hallmark of a lot of the forces in the orbit of this case. So none of that. We have a lot of Blue Wall of Towel friends here. Don't stand for that. Hello, Christy Mack. Great to see you. Hello. Stay tuned, Wendy. Hello, Bunny. Hello, F.B.I.—my friend, F.B.I. DOJ corruption survivor. And hello, Meredith—which is not Meredith O'Neill. This is Meredith the Towel friend. It's great to see you all. And as I said, if you see anybody trolling in the chat—now is not the day for it. Towel's health is not well. And I think there are a lot of people who want to undermine the agency of the unheard and the vulnerable in this situation. There are a lot of people who want to gaslight right now because where this is going is explosive. And furthermore, we're about to listen to the conversation. So what you're going to hear in this conversation is it's going to be Aidan Kearney and Joe Flipperhead—who's named Nick—and a guy named Chris who Aidan Kearney calls a koala. They're going to be talking about what we just talked about. But remember—these text messages haven't been released. So Aidan doesn't actually know they're coming. He's being told of this and going on an X Space and reacting in real time. Now I'm going to pause from time to time, and I'll try to flesh out some of the less clear parts. But as we read through the transcript and as you see this all, I think it will be clear to you—clear to you—the implications. So let's listen."

Grant Smith Ellis

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dave meltzer: youtube enthusiast 💀 perfect. now we can stop pretending this was ever complicated. the real story is not that wwe is afraid of aew. the real story is not that “high level wwe officials” are whispering scary things to dave meltzer. the real story is not even that tony khan got asked a planted question on a media call with very little distribution about the possibility of aew soon having very little distribution, although that sentence is so stupidly perfect it should be bronzed and placed outside the wrestling observer newsletter office like a war memorial for people who died pretending this was journalism. the real story is that aew is going to lose its wbd distribution deal. either it ends at the expiration of the three-year term in 2027, or it ends earlier if paramount closes wbd and decides aew has no strategic place inside the new company. and based on the board as it exists right now, the most likely landing spot for aew in 2027 is google / youtube. that is the story. everything else is laundering. tony khan wants the story to be: “why would wwe say this about us?” that is the whole operation. take my public analysis. run it through dave meltzer. assign it to wwe / tko. then let tony khan answer a canned question on a media call with very little distribution about potentially having very little distribution. a media call for a lightly viewed roh show. a planted story. a planted messenger. a rehearsed answer. a pr flack probably wrote it. tony khan performs hurt. tony khan says “i don’t know why wwe would…” tony khan denies the obvious. tony khan keeps me minimized. tony khan removes me from the public conversation about the exact thing i have repeatedly said is going to happen to aew. everyone is supposed to pretend this is organic. it is not. it is the most bubble wrapped, manufactured, artificial environment possible. aew is heading toward youtube because the domestic media rights board is closing around them. not as a troll. not as a bit. not as “pr spin.” as a business conclusion. aew is not leverage. wwe is not afraid of aew. the $185 million number was bullshit. the buyer universe was shrinking. paramount / skydance was coming for wbd. wbd was not going to be some permanent aew safe house. youtube was only ever a real “option” if someone at google was actually cutting a media rights check and underwriting production. not because every divorced mom with a ring light and a gmail account can upload video to the same platform. that was always the distinction. that is still the distinction. Nick LoPiccolo — February 28, 2025 “YouTube is an option the same way you or I could start a YT channel tomorrow. Is Jon Cruz cutting AEW a media rights check or underwriting a production budget? Hell no. Just the reality. It isn’t the model. Jon is global head of sports over there.” that was february, not last week. not after dave meltzer suddenly discovered youtube prelim numbers like columbus finding the new world. it is becoming inevitable now. Nick LoPiccolo — April 30, 2026 — 11:26 AM — 251.2K Views “to every journalist and every podcast who interviews tony khan from this day forward: please ask tony if wbd told him back in august they would not be renewing aew. wbd told him in august. i confirmed it directly and triple sourced it. please ask why tony has been acting like nothing is wrong for the last 8 months, and then please ask tony what his actual distribution plan is. because the only distributor left that will take aew is google/youtube. the myaew app is not realistic. the my aewapp is a death sentence in 2026 if youtube doesn’t make an mg deal for aew. they started building it too late and there is no realistic way to scale it. also, who is going to sell ads for the platform? kiswe is not the best. they built the myaew app. they are new to the game. hold tony’s feet to the fire. Paramount is not real for aew. WBD passed back in August. CW/Roku is now off the table. Amazon and Fox do not want AEW. ask Tony why he's been lying to you and to the locker room and to the fans, acting like things are all great with the network? i am sure a lot of people would love to hear his answer.” april 30. 251.2k views. not whispered. not hidden. not vague. not “high level wwe officials.” i said it publicly and directly: wbd passed back in august. paramount is not real for aew. cw / roku is off the table. amazon and fox do not want aew. the myaew app is not realistic. google / youtube is the only distributor left on the board that makes sense. that is the actual story tony khan does not want to answer. not “why would wwe say this?” ask tony khan if wbd told him in august that wbd would not be renewing aew. ask what his actual distribution plan is. ask who is selling ads for the myaew app. ask how a platform built this late scales in 2026. ask whether youtube is an actual rights partner with an mg, or just the place you go when the real buyers are gone. that is the question. not the fake question dave meltzer laundered into “high level wwe officials.” the real question. Nick LoPiccolo — July 9, 2025 — 10:51 AM — 9,565 Views “No one in Hollywood believes the $185 million number.” Nick LoPiccolo — July 9, 2025 — 11:35 AM — 7,470 Views “The $185 million figure is inflated. Variety’s October 2, 2024 article was likely updated after a publicist called on AEW’s behalf, as early reports placed the deal between $140 and $150 million per year. Tony Khan was also included in Variety’s Dealmakers 2024 list, which, while not officially pay to play, strongly favors those spending significant advertising dollars with the outlet. No one in Hollywood seriously believes WBD, which is in junk bond status, is paying AEW $185 million per year. Clear enough?” clear enough? the number was never clean. the number was never real in the way aew fans and wrestling media pretended it was real. and when the $185 million number started getting laughed out of adult rooms, the number magically became $178 million. that is where the shell game gets funny. because $178 million was not some sacred sourced number either. it was brandon thurston taking the median between $170 million, reported by sports business journal, and $185 million, reported by variety and others. that is literally what wrestlenomics said. Wrestlenomics — October 4, 2024 “Why use $178 million here for AEW’s new deal when some outlets are reporting the average annual value is $185 million?” Wrestlenomics — October 4, 2024 “I used $178 million here because it is simply the median of $170 million, as reported by Sports Business Journal, and $185 million, reported by Variety and others.” there it is. arithmetic. not an all-cash rights fee. not a clean license number. not proof wbd valued aew like raw. not a finance-department document from warner bros. discovery. a midpoint between conflicting public reports. then wrestling media treated that midpoint like scripture because they needed the story to be “aew is valued like raw,” not “aew pr inflated a number no serious person in hollywood believed.” and by the way, $170 million was not the clean all-cash number either. that is the scam. float the number. repeat the number. launder the number. defend the number with people who do not understand the difference between cash rights fees, in-kind services, equity, marketing commitments, platform value, make-goods, ad inventory, and press release math. then when the number collapses, pretend the next number was always the number. that is not reporting. that is aew state news. Nick LoPiccolo — July 10, 2025 — 5:53 AM — 12.6K Views “AEW isn’t leverage. It’s not competition. It’s a niche product with loud fans and limited reach.” Nick LoPiccolo — July 10, 2025 — 8:56 AM — 1,018 Views “We handle wrestling deals too, but thinking we need AEW for leverage is myopic. The landscape is changing and the game I’m playing is different.” Nick LoPiccolo — July 15, 2025 — 25.7K Views “AEW isn’t leverage.” that was never emotional. that was never tribal. that was never “i hate aew.” it was market structure. wwe did not need aew as leverage because real leverage was never “another wrestling show exists.” real leverage is architecture, scale, subscriber churn, platform strategy, sports adjacency, global rights, advertising, sponsorship, live inventory, library value, data, brand safety, executive relationships, and the actual buyer universe of maybe 18-20 companies in the united states that matter for live sports rights. aew fans thought this was a wrestling argument. it was never a wrestling argument. it was a board. and the board was already moving. Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 482 Views “I wasn’t viewing the above in that context (TKO vs AEW counter programming), it was more of this is what I’m hearing after 2 weeks of big media deals rolling out (Skydance closing, South Park library moving) etc. Which have all been in the works for awhile.” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 388 Views “But if you were to look at it from a counter programming perspective (and I don’t think this was a factor in UFC deal) - there are only so many players for these big media rights deals. PARA is likely off the board (via TKO deal) & then what if they acquire WB in 2026/27?” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 535 Views “Yes, of course, that wouldn’t mean the end for AEW. It would make navigating their media rights deal more challenging, I would guess. But this is a hypothetical scenario & I do not believe anyone is paying $7.7b for UFC or a $40b valuation for WB w/ how do we fuck AEW, either.” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 “And hearing all weekend Paramount is still interested in WBD.” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 1.3K Views “I think more interesting for what it could mean as the dominoes keep falling in terms of the still evolving landscape. The deals are massive & the number of major players at the top are shrinking as still big push for consolidation & scale.” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 12:11 PM — 2,588 Views “And I’d view AAA on Google/YouTube as directly competitive. It targets both the CMLL collab & the audience that used to watch AEW Dark on YouTube, & WWE is able to send well known stars to AAA events with an eye towards converting more of the younger, YouTube demo of viewers who don’t watch streamers.” again: august 11. not yesterday. not after dave meltzer tweeted a netflix prelim number. not after anyone had to retrofit the argument. the point was already there: the major players at the top were shrinking, paramount was still interested in wbd, paramount was likely off the board for aew because of the tko deal, google / youtube was becoming directly competitive for the exact audience aew used to reach through dark, and the buyer universe was consolidating around deals much bigger than tony khan’s feelings. this was not mysticism. this was not inside baseball for the sake of sounding smart. this was the board. Nick LoPiccolo — August 24, 2025 “This isn’t fair. I misread your question. AEW will exist but likely on the Discovery Global app (if it ever launches, I would bet that it doesn’t) and it will continue to do consistent ratings. If Paramount/Skydance buys WBD in a year…” Nick LoPiccolo — September 4, 2025 — 76 Views “No, that’s the WBD network division (cable, news, sports) that was already announced as being spun off under Discovery Global. The article you’re citing is about them selling a minority equity stake in that unit to cut debt and boost valuation ahead of the 2026 split.” Nick LoPiccolo — September 16, 2025 — 3.6K Views “This is not just about Hollywood scale. It is the foundation of a conservative aligned media infrastructure. A Paramount/WBD merger would fold CBS, CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros IP into Ellison’s orbit under Trump’s regulatory umbrella.” Nick LoPiccolo — September 16, 2025 — 11K Views “Within 48 hours of the rumor, WBD stock surged ~55% and Paramount Skydance rose ~24%. That market response itself boxed David Zaslav in; his board, Wall Street, and his own contract now expect movement.” Nick LoPiccolo — September 27, 2025 — 12:16 PM — 3,516 Views “Nah homie. Enjoy watching the show on YouTube after Ellison buys WBD and Ari who is advising Ellison and used to represent Trump and runs TKO makes the call.” Nick LoPiccolo — September 28, 2025 — 174 Views “I believe if and when Paramount acquires WBD, TKO will push to lock down a monopoly on combat sports. The long knives are already out for competitors, and the rights deals have likely been spread around town precisely to keep rivals from signing with those streamers.” none of that was random. paramount / skydance, ellison, ari, tko, wbd linear assets, youtube, aaa, the tko deal, the wbd split, the shrinking rights buyer universe — all of it was one connected domestic rights architecture. that is why this conversation was always over the heads of the people screaming “cope” in my replies. they were arguing like fans. i was reading the cap table. Nick LoPiccolo — December 6, 2025 — 3:07 PM — 41.4K Views “Yes, I always believed Paramount would walk away with WBD. I was one of the first to talk about it on here, even if I wasn’t the first to hear it. The Paramount Skydance acquisition closed on August 7. I posted this on August 11, about 1 month before the The Wall Street Journal first broke the news on September 12 that Paramount Skydance was preparing a bid for WBD.” Nick LoPiccolo — December 6, 2025 — 3:07 PM — 41.4K Views “The bid was always going to be hostile. We are only in this process because it was a hostile bid. Most people in Hollywood believed Ellison long coveted WB and Jack Warner’s chair. WB was not for sale when Skydance acquired Paramount, which is much smaller in scale.” Nick LoPiccolo — December 6, 2025 — 3:07 PM — 41.4K Views “Nearly everyone in town assumed an Ellison acquisition of WBD was inevitable until the Netflix bid shocked everyone. Signs were there for the last two weeks, which is also when I stopped posting about what might happen. Of course, its not over yet. Paramount still has paths to winning this acquisition. The one thing that’s for certain though is an Ellison-led acquisition of WBD is no longer inevitable.” Nick LoPiccolo — December 8, 2025 “END CREDITS” space jam is a warner bros. movie. that was the joke. and the joke was the same thing i had been saying the whole time: paramount was winning the bid, for those who did not understand. Nick LoPiccolo — December 19, 2025 — 4:30 PM — 828 Views “Here is another reference to it. So tell me how exactly is Paramount the better outcome for Dave’s argument? Netflix doesn’t touch the WBD linear assets. Gunnar keeps his SpinCo.” Puck excerpt — December 19, 2025 “Many industry insiders are also skeptical about Paramount’s seven-year, $7.7 billion deal for exclusive UFC rights in the U.S. Yes, it can be read as a signal that Ellison came to play. But some people see it more as Ari Emanuel having his way with the person to whom he is ostensibly an (unpaid) advisor…” that is the board. that is the relationship map. that is the thing wrestling media either does not understand or pretends not to understand, because understanding it means admitting the story is not “aew has leverage.” the story is that aew is sitting in the middle of a consolidating rights marketplace where the people with leverage are doing much bigger things than worrying about tony khan’s feelings. Nick LoPiccolo — January 21, 2026 — 4:22 PM — 870 Views “i mean get ready to learn youtube buddy” Nick LoPiccolo — February 19, 2026 — 2.8K Views “Paramount was always my bet to acquire Warner Bros. Never wavered.” Nick LoPiccolo — February 28, 2026 — 1:27 PM — 118 Views “you don’t need to look under a hood I AM SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 I BEEN SAYING IT SINCE JULY / AUGUST 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 PARAMOUNT IS COMING FOR WBD AEW WILL LOSE A TV DEAL 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 GUESS WHO WAS RIGHT 💀” so no, this is not hindsight. this is not showing up after the fact with a flashlight and pretending i discovered the body. this is a paper trail. february: youtube is not a real rights model unless google is cutting the check. april: wbd passed back in august, the myaew app is not realistic, paramount is not real for aew, cw / roku is off the table, amazon and fox do not want aew, and google / youtube is the only distributor left that makes sense. july: the $185 million number is inflated and aew is not leverage. august: the buyer board is shrinking, paramount is still interested in wbd, and google / youtube becomes directly competitive. september: paramount / wbd folds the board into ellison’s orbit, and if ellison buys wbd, enjoy youtube. december: paramount was always the bet, the bid was always going to be hostile, and netflix does not solve dave meltzer’s argument because netflix does not touch the linear assets. january: get ready to learn youtube. february: paramount is coming for wbd and aew will lose a tv deal. same board. same thesis. same answer. now here is the part tony khan and dave meltzer do not want to say out loud. tony khan and dave meltzer do not mention me publicly for a reason. because the second they say my name out loud, they admit where this conversation has actually been coming from. not wwe. not some anonymous “high level official.” not some shadowy tko whisper campaign. me. that is the problem for them. behind the scenes, ask any real insider what happens when my name comes up around this subject. there is a reaction. not because i’m magic. not because i’m some internet boogeyman. because they know exactly who is saying it, why i’m saying it, what rooms i have been in, what companies i have dealt with, what executives i have spoken to, and why the analysis keeps landing. that is why they keep trying to non-person me publicly while reacting to me privately. they want the argument. they want the benefit of responding to the argument. they just do not want to admit whose argument it is. when i said wbd told aew back in august 2025 they were not exercising the option for the fourth year, tony khan blew up behind the scenes and forced john mcmullen to revise / update his article 2-3 weeks ago after i tweeted it. which is hilarious because that should not even be crazy or damaging “news.” that is how this business works. when a distributor is not continuing, they tell you early enough so you have time to find a new home. that is not sabotage. that is not wwe. that is not nick lopiccolo hiding inside david zaslav’s air vents with a clipboard. that is corporate courtesy. wbd execs privately whisper and shake their heads at tony khan’s behavior because their view is very simple: why does tony khan act like everything is great and rainbows and sunshine with the studio? we told tony khan as a courtesy so tony khan would have time to find a new home. and no, this has zero to do with paramount looming as an excuse. paramount did not even make its first hostile bid for wbd until september 11 or 12. that was after tony khan was already told there would not be a wbd renewal. so what did tony khan do? tony khan turned the truth into a wrestling angle. tony khan, or one of tony khan’s minions, gets dave meltzer to drop a story assigning my claims and what i have been publicly posting about tony khan to “high level wwe officials.” why? because it gives tony khan a safer enemy. tony khan does not want the story to be the actual timeline. because the actual timeline is brutal. on february 28, i said youtube was not a real media rights model unless google was actually cutting the check and underwriting production. on april 30, i said wbd passed in august, the myaew app was not realistic, paramount was not real for aew, cw / roku was off the table, amazon and fox did not want aew, and the only distributor left that made sense was google / youtube. on july 9, i said no one in hollywood believed the $185 million number. on july 10, i said aew was not leverage. on august 11, i said the major players at the top were shrinking, paramount was still interested in wbd, and google / youtube was becoming a directly competitive lane. on september 16, i said a paramount / wbd merger would fold cbs, cnn, hbo, and warner bros. ip into ellison’s orbit. on september 27, i said enjoy the show on youtube after ellison buys wbd. on september 28, i said if paramount acquires wbd, tko would push to lock down a monopoly on combat sports. on december 6, i said paramount skydance was preparing a bid for wbd long before most people admitted the obvious. on february 19, i said paramount was always my bet to acquire warner bros. and on february 28, i said it in all caps: paramount is coming for wbd. aew will lose a tv deal. that is the part tony khan cannot answer directly, because the direct answer means admitting this was never “wwe is scared of us.” it was always the board closing. tony khan wants the story to be: why would wwe say this about us? that is the laundering operation. take my public analysis. run it through dave meltzer. assign it to wwe / tko. then let tony khan answer a canned question on a media call with very little distribution about potentially having very little distribution. a media call for a show with very little distribution answering a canned question about aew potentially having very little distribution. based on a planted story, from a planted messenger, with a rehearsed answer, after an roh show maybe 8-15k people watched. a pr flack probably wrote it. tony khan performs hurt. tony khan says “i don’t know why wwe would…” tony khan denies the obvious. tony khan keeps me minimized. tony khan removes me from the public conversation about the very thing i have repeatedly said is going to happen to aew. everyone is supposed to pretend this is organic. it is the most bubble wrapped, manufactured, artificial environment possible. a canned and rehearsed answer at an roh media scrum about a planted dave meltzer story based on my very real and very public analysis of the media rights board. but make no mistake. tony khan was responding to my words. tony khan just laundered them through dave meltzer and assigned them to wwe / tko so tony khan could keep lying about it publicly without ever saying my name. and now, voila. dave meltzer is posting about youtube viewers and prelims. Dave Meltzer — May 16, 2026 “At this moment there are 340,000 people watching prelims for Netflix on YouTube. It’s a good number.” yes, dave meltzer. youtube can have good numbers. nobody said youtube cannot have good numbers. that was never the issue. the issue is whether youtube is being used as a funnel into a premium rights ecosystem or as a substitute because the premium rights ecosystem rejected you. that is the difference. that has always been the difference. netflix using youtube prelims as audience acquisition is not the same thing as aew trying to spin youtube as a media rights home because the real buyers are gone. ufc using youtube as a funnel is not the same thing as aew using youtube as a life raft. wwe sending stars to aaa on youtube to convert a younger demo is not the same thing as aew retreating to youtube after the traditional buyer board closes. and the fact that dave meltzer is now suddenly tweeting like the mayor of youtube is the punchline. because the same people who mocked the youtube outcome are now going to spend the next several months explaining why youtube is actually good. of course it can be good. for the right use case. for the right property. inside the right architecture. with the right check attached. but when you spend two years telling everyone you were valued like raw and your next stop is “please subscribe and smash that bell,” maybe stop pretending this is victory formation? i told y’all where this was going. the record is right there. i’m still right. and tony and dave: you guys are see through translucent. that’s it for ye 🎤🎤🎤

Nick LoPiccolo

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