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Arc Name: Wayward Son
Arc ID: 30287
Global ID: @takelgryph
This is a story arc I originally created back on the original servers. I made some minor tweaks for the Homecoming version.
Description: When a mysterious new organization appears in Skyway City hoping to assassinate Statesman, the search for the mastermind behind the plot leads you to the discovery of a timeless scheme that threatens to bring death to more people than just Marcus Cole.
(NOTE: This AE story takes place before the events of the Who Will Die? arc.)
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Nice, one of my badges got picked for Siren's Call.
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Everyone's missing the real question: is Jim Butcher still allowed to play as Harry Dresden?
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2 hours ago, Christopher Robin said:
Yeah I got that you used the Latin name for a common raven but there is no real consistent distinction
between a raven and a crow, they can even interbreed and produce viable young. I suppose
they are sometimes portrayed differently in media/culture so yeah raven if you prefer.
Nice.
I mean, I get what you mean: the most meaningful distinction among the members of the Corvus genus is size. There's one quote I like, and I forget who said it (although I suspect it was either Dr. Carl Bergstrom or Dr. Kaeli Swift if only because they're the two big corvid people I follow on Twitter), but it's something like "the best way to tell crows and ravens apart is that if you look at a bird and think it's too big to be a crow, it's a crow; if you look at it and go 'holy crap that thing's huge', it's a raven".
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56 minutes ago, Christopher Robin said:
An electric crow, neat. The posi head comic label is a nice touch too.
Raven, actually, but close.
And yeah, the Posi head was meant to evoke the "sticking Spider-Man's head on the cover instead of a UPC" thing Marvel used to do.
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I got this commission a few months ago (originally requested it back in May, but I didn't get the final until mid-June) and I still really like it. Artist is @ShenzaiBird on Twitter.
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I'm going to join the "don't reset progress" and "new content" bandwagons myself. I want to wreck the True Rikti with the power of storms, dammit!
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1 hour ago, crytilis said:
Edit: MRB_Setup.exe has been submitted to VirusTotal and only 2 of the smaller AV programs are providing a false positive which are Rising and Zillya. I will be contacting these AVs to have this resolved.
VirusTotal File Hash: cac1c5057f3818fd4a0761c0bd0fd8063235c88c3097c16aeb97ba218d64ebb2
Makes sense. I got an email a couple hours ago confirming that MRB_Setup.exe had been analyzed and had been confirmed to be an incorrect detection, and that Microsoft would be updating their AV definitions as a result. I can believe that other AV developers would follow suit.
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Most antivirus software does have a website where you can submit files as false positives. I've already submitted the installer, but for the record, the one for Windows Security (or Microsoft Security Essentials if you're on an older Windows version) is here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission
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The financial transparency is nice to see.
That said, it depresses me to be reminded that antimalware software actually gives as much weight to code signing certificates as it does, given the prevalence of fraudulently acquired certificates. I guess it makes some degree of sense for non-enterprise AV deployments, though, since there's still enough of a cost to getting hold of them that they're unlikely to be used for generic "thank you for spending $600 on an iPhone game, please open the attached notavirus.pdf.exe to view your invoice" mass emails.
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The app was probably hardcoded to the known server IPs/URLs.
The reason HeroStats won't work is more a matter of the memory addresses and other client-specific data. Right now, it can't even tell if City of Heroes is running.
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Closed Casket: (Bloody Bay, -2171 176 -2265) Lucas Colt, better known as the villain Haymaker, was buried here in 1987 after losing a fight to a young Captain Mako. His funeral was attended by very few people.
Hot Dog: (Siren's Call, 1473 0 -144) Although Nick has since set up shop at a new location on Talos Island, many former residents of Siren's Call still miss the atmosphere of the old stand.
Pride of the City: (Siren's Call, 115 -118 -979) Here, in 2003, a rally by advocates of same-sex marriage was attacked by the Fifth Column. Fortunately, the presence of the openly gay superhero Jack Frost ensured that the only causalities incurred were on the villains' side.
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The HeroStats developer actually posted about it in this thread.
What Auranyte is true, but additionally the game EXE has changed enough that the HeroStats scanner would have to be updated. That's a long and fiddly process involving looking into the game's memory space and looking for particular data structures. It's been years (obviously) since I last did it and I don't really remember all the specifics. I'm not excited about re-learning how to do it again!
On the other hand, now that the game code is in the hands of the community, it would be possible for someone on the coding team to simply add the functionality that HeroStats provided into the game client itself. The issue there, of course, is that you need someone on the current development team to focus on doing that, and they've got a lot of other things on their plates!
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In fact the message posted in the screenshot says that the Tequila connection is being re-directed not that Tequila is malicious.
And whether or not the OP hit on a false positive, that is something that should probably be looked into. At minimum, the manifest.xml and the downloadable files listed in it should be served over HTTPS to provide some additional protection against MITM attacks.
Weekly Discussion 58: Electric Blast
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As an Elec/Storm Corruptor, I like these.