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Hackers Claim Breach of Senior Employee Account at Viz Media Alleged hack claims to have stolen 250GB of data including e-mails, NDAs, employee credentials & personal info

The CyberNews cybersecurity news outlet has reported that hackers have claimed to have stolen 250GB worth of corporate data from Viz Media, including e-mails, NDAs, employee info, licensing agreements, and more.

oh. okay.

Kyun! Vampire Girl
#Halloween #四条貴音

Tried to post a link to my article in the ANN comments for the latest This Week in Anime which is about the exact same subject of Crunchyroll subtitles. My account is still in forced moderation queue, but I would have expected the post to be approved eventually. But nope, got deleted instead. Laaame

Update on this: per suggestion by the ANN bsky account I sent a message to moderation asking why my posts got deleted. I was told I broke the rule of "Self-promotion is only allowed if it has value, is relevant, and creates discussion for this forum" despite my posts easily clearing those conditions

Important footage that belongs in a museum.

how grandpa starts looking at you when its april 2nd and you're still gay

6th gen options menus be like:

Rumble: [On]/Off

Sound: [Stereo]/Mono

Back

‘I don’t think it works’: GTA writer Dan Houser says Rockstar’s Agent never happened because spy games don’t suit open-world | VGC Houser says he went through five iterations of Agent before giving up…

Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption writer Dan Houser says Rockstar’s Agent was never released because the spy genre didn't fit the company's trademark open-world gameplay.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/i-dont-...

I know there's more nuance to this, but this is a self-inflicted Theramin argument for the studio's design ethos because they made the successful and well-received R* Games Presents Table Tennis three years prior to this announcement.

You don't HAVE to make open world games! It's your company!

Keep the dog quiet

a woman that vaguely looks like princess di is standing their with half her skeleton showing and half her organs showing through her skin. up the top of the screen is user interface (menus and a line of icons including a skull, body parts, organs, a male and female symbol, etc). to the right of the menu are the words 'skeletal system'.

bodyworks, title screen, dos (1993) www.mobygames.com/game/235691/...

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya

For some reason I've never watched this despite being a big fan of Fate, magical girls and Illya

This Indie Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Title Takes A Leaf Out Of Sonic's Book To Unlock A Bonus Game Sonic & Knuckles (& Arkagis Revolution)

This Indie Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Title Takes A Leaf Out Of Sonic's Book To Unlock A Bonus Game.

Do you consider visual novels to be video games?
www.resetera.com/threads/13...

Yes but also no

Visual novels are video games but I think they should be classified as an entirely new medium of art because simply calling them a video game genre does a disservice to visual novels.

In a World Series between an American and Canadian team, the real winner is Japan.

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.

We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Universal Studio Japan Issues Warning After Risqué Halloween Cosplay Photos USJ: “To ensure the safety & security of our guests, we ask that you cooperate with our rules & etiquette”

Well, maybe one limit.

Happy Halloween!!! 🎃🦇☠️
It’s a bit late but here are my recommendations for series with the Halloween vibes but not the horrors for my people that can’t do gore.
They’re mostly kid-friendly series, the BL is non-explicit too

SEGAと東京・有明聖火台

SEGA Bluesky / November 2025

Windows 11 preview build screenshot of the Wi-Fi control center. There is a speedometer button labeled "Test internet speed" next to the refresh available networks button, which supposedly by its name would bring the user over to an actual network speed test page.

The actual result after clicking the button is Windows opening a Bing search result page for "internet speed test". The results it produces are bogus, and were clearly generated by a language learning/artificial "intelligence" model.

the most recent Windows insider preview release added an internet speed test "button" to the Wi-Fi control center that actually just tells you to fucking Google it instead

i cannot take this bloody company seriously these days

And available now for everyone is this piece on PC Engine idiot 'em up Galaxy Fraulein Yuna! Absolutely delightful stuff:

kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/10/31/g...

Nintendo wins lawsuit against player who kept streaming pirated Switch games and taunted ‘I can do this all day’ | VGC Jesse Keighin told Nintendo’s legal team: “You might run a corporation, I run the streets”…

Nintendo has won a lawsuit against a player who kept streaming pirated Switch games before release while taunting Nintendo that "I can do this all day".

vgc.news/news/nintend...

The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)

A source familiar w/ internal workings at MasterCard notes the company does not plan to recruit additional call center workers for the Christmas season, as MasterCard does not expect higher call volume than usual. A resurgence of calls re censorship during the busy season would be huge strategically

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...

A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!

Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

YouTube video by Tantacrul Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius

I might as well mention that my work in this regard was greatly inspired by the vibes of high quality video essays, especially the works of Tantacrul, who does a fantastic job of talking about highly specific topics like music software usability in an approachable and engaging manner. Check it out:

Based on the text styling on the right they are using Funimation's tech stack for Blu-ray authoring, and the subtitling software involved in said stack is indeed a piece of flaming crap that can't do basically anything beyond placing text on top and bottom. In short, pure lack of care from higher up

Frame from Dress-Up Darling streaming on Crunchyroll: A sheet of paper covered in diagrams and handwritten notes for designing the Shizuku-tan cosplay. Every bit of Japanese on-screen text is overlaid with a full English translation positioned right on top of the Japanese.

Frame from Dress-Up Darling on blu-ray: The same sheet of paper as the web screenshot. The subtitles have two short snippets excerpted from the on-screen text, positioned at the top of the screen; all the other text is left untranslated.

Frame from Dress-Up Darling streaming on Crunchyroll: Panning to a different part of the sheet of paper. Again, every bit of Japanese on-screen text is overlaid with a full English translation; the text that was in the previous shot has been repositioned to match the pan, and newly visible text has properly positioned translations as well.

Frame from Dress-Up Darling on blu-ray: Panning to a different part of the sheet of paper. Again, the subtitles just have two random excerpts from the on-screen text positioned at the top of the screen; they're different snippets from the ones in the previous frame.

Dress-Up Darling episode 3

Left: Crunchyroll web streaming
Right: Blu-ray

The blu-rays are using PGS (image-based) subtitles, so it's not an issue of cross-device compatibility; the format can support text styled and positioned however, and it'll display the same in every player.