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Paranormasight’s director says making a visual novel is always “messy work”
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries Of Honjo isn’t your average visual novel. There are some buck wild concepts in Square Enix’s game, including fourth wall breaks to manipulate characters’ actions and literally muting someone by turning voices off in the options menu, to name just two of the wackier features (and a big plot twist is discussed in this article, so beware if you’re planning on playing Paranormasight soon).
At the outset, though, Paranormasight loks like it is your average visual novel, with the player working away to prevent curses from claiming the lives of Tokyo citizens. Writer and director Takaya Ishiyama explains this was actually the starting point for Paranormasight’s inception. “I first decided what the final goal of the game would be, and from there I began to plot out the broad elements I needed to include, such as the Seven Mysteries,” he explains.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Players Are Making Really Long Bridges to Solve Their Problems
Pixel users report the Google app is making their phones overheat
If a Pixel phone is your daily driver, you may want to keep a charger nearby. An Engadget reader contacted us on Sunday to report that their Pixel 6 Pro has recently been overheating and excessively draining its battery. They suspect the culprit is the Google app and an update that began rolling out on May 12th.
“I haven’t touched my phone in the past hour. It’s just been on a standard wireless charger,” the reader says of a screenshot (seen below) they sent of their phone’s settings menu, showing the Google app burning through the 6 Pro’s battery in the background. “Still very hot, and if I didn’t roll back to a different version, I wouldn’t have a net increase on my phone’s battery.”
A visit to Reddit and the Google support forums shows other Pixel users are experiencing the same issue. “It just started yesterday. Massive battery usage from Google app and to a lesser degree Android System Intelligence. I just went through and did a factory reset, reinstalled most things and it’s still happening,” one Reddit user wrote. “Beyond the battery not lasting the phone is getting really warm so I know it’s harming the battery and potentially the CPU.”
Those who have tried contacting Google report the company’s support staff haven’t been very helpful. Some users say rolling back to an older version of the Google app hasn’t fixed the problem for them. “Actually ended up with an even older version from May 10, still draining the battery,” writes one Redditor. The reader who contacted us suspects the problem may be server-side. “Google app keeps wrecking the battery regardless of version, and I’ve rolled all the way back to May 1st,” they write. “I don’t know how to see if the app is trying to call home or on a loop with something like that, but the symptoms remain the same.”
Google did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request. If the Google app is at fault here, it wouldn’t be the first time a software update has caused headaches for Pixel users. Last May, Google had to patch the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro after an earlier update caused the phones to produce much weaker haptic feedback. The year before the company paused the rollout of its December Pixel update after users found it was making their phones drop calls.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/pixel-users-report-the-google-app-is-making-their-phones-overheat-193325112.html?src=rss
Please stop making Link do obscene things in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
As if the rite of passage for any game that has some flexible gameplay systems, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players are making Link do some obscene things.
A triple whammy of gameplay/ light story/ NSFW warnings for this one.
If you’ve read the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Creating a Champion book, there’s a good chance you’ve seen that drawing of a completely bare Link that shows he’s missing a particular kind of weapon. Why the developers decided to share this with us, I’ll never know, but obviously Tears of the Kingdom players have come to the conclusion that they have to remedy that in some shape or form. And so, they’ve been making Link create some obscene contraptions to compensate.
I Created a Biased AI Algorithm 25 Years Ago—Tech Companies Are Still Making the Same Mistake.
In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today.