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-Card Report: New features In addition to the existing features like the usage rate of a card, the card report can now include: Finisher Rank: Ranking of the number of times the monster reduced the opponents Life Points to 0 by battle or card effects. Win rate (when played: Win rate of Duels in which the monster was Normal or Special Summoned. Average battle damage: The average battle damage inflicted by the monster in one battle.

-New Secret Pack: Sisters of the Light Exorcise monsters with mystical power! The Exosister counters Graveyard-based tactics with a powerful and purifying effect. Furthermore, the holy Artifact armament excels in surprise tactics! This Secret Pack will be unlocked until December 5th (time zones applying), and until that time, you can get 1 pack for free.

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-New Accessories: Protector: Stake your Soul! A protector depicting a lightning bolt that signals the beginning of a fierce battle by fighters. Get ready to stake your soul! Price: 100 Gems

Icon: Vanquish Soul Razen An Icon depicting a fighter in a battle for his soul. Its specialty is its powerful kicks using the momentum generated by its equipment! Price: 50 Gems

Wallpaper: Vanquish Soul Caesar Valius Known as the Caesar, he destroys fighters mercilessly. His incredible powers are soul-crushing. Price: 250 Gems

-New Selection Pack: Singularity Warrior Behold, the destined future has arrived! In addition to Firewall Dragon Singularity, which has gained the power of the singularity, the archetypes Nouvelles, which uses amazing tactics to exploit the opponents monsters, and Vanquish Soul, which specializes in unique combos with specially selected allies, are here! Dominate the Duel with a new strategy that defies even the raging storms!

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Additionally, the following cards have been stealth-added to the Legacy Pack:

UR: Dont Slip, the Dogs of War

SR: Full Active Duplex

R: Rose Papillon

-New Event: Ritual Festival

The Ritual Festival will take place from November 13th to November 24th (time zones applying). You can earn medals by playing Duels and you can obtain the following rewards according to the number of medals you have: 50 to 11000 medal threshold: a total of 1900 gems 12000 to 21000 medal threshold: a total of 20 Legacy Pack tickets Additionally, at the following thresholds, you can get these rewards:

5500 Medals: Contract with the Abyss Field Parts Field Parts of a strange, ominous aura. You feel as if a horrific otherworldly entity could jump from within at any time.

22000 Medals: Ritual Festival 2023 Title A Title given to Duelists who have passed the Ritual of Contract and achieved noteworthy results. The souls that have been tributed and passed down will become a new power, elevating your tactics.

The following Secret Packs featuring cards and archetypes suitable for use in the event will be unlocked for a limited time: Souls of Sublime Gods (Cyber Angels and Shinobirds) Miraculous Advent (Heralds, Ruin/Demise, Sauravis, Megalith) Rites of the Mirrorworld (Nekroz, Gishki)

These packs are already unlocked, and will be unlocked until November 27th (time zones applying), which is just a little longer than the duration of the event.

The following Forbidden/Limited List will be applied for the event:

Forbidden: -All Fusion Monsters except: Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Dragon Master Knight, Master of Chaos, Millennium-Eyes Restrict, Thousand-Eyes Restrict, Patissciel Couverture -All Synchro Monsters, except Herald of the Arc Light -All Xyz Monsters, except Drytron Mu Beta Fafnir -All Link Monsters, except: Avendread Savior, Cross Sheep, Cyberse Witch, Dyna Mondo, Herald of Mirage Lights, Linkmail Archfiend, Nephthys, the Sacred Flame, Nephthys, the Sacred Preserver

Absolute King Back Jack Altergeist Meluseek Altergeist Multifaker Anchamoufrite Archlord Kristya Archnemeses Eschatos Archnemeses Protos Armed Samurai Ben Kei Barrier Statue of the Abyss Barrier Statue of the Drought Barrier Statue of the Heavens Barrier Statue of the Inferno Barrier Statue of the Torrent Bystial Baldrake Bystial Druiswurm Bystial Magnamhut Des Koala Dimension Shifter Dinomight Knight, the True Dracoslayer Dogoran, the Mad Flame Kaiju Droll & Lock Bird Eater of Millions Eldlich the golden Lord Endymion, the Mighty Master of Magic Eva Floowandereeze & Eglen Floowandereeze & Empen Fog King Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo Gadarla, the Mystery Dust Kaiju Gizmek Orochi, the serpentron Sky Slasher Gnomaterial Guard Dog Herald of Green Light Herald of Orange Light Jizukiru, the Star Destroying Kaiju Kashtira Fenrir Kashtira Ogre Kashtira Unicorn Keldo the Sacred Protector Knightmare Corruptor Iblee Jowgen the Spiritualist Inspector Boarder Lilith, Lady of the Lament Link Apple Maxx C Majesty Pegasus, the Dracoslayer Mudora the Sword Oracle Mythical Beast Master Cerberus Naturia Bamboo Shoot Ocean Dragon Lord Kairyu Shin Pandoras Jewelry Box Planet Pathfinder Qliphort Scout Radian, the Multidimensional Kaiju Retaliating C Sandaion, the Timelord Satellarknight Alsahm Sephylon, the Ultimate Timelord Servant of Endymion Serziel, Watcher of the Evil Eye Sonic Jammer Spell Canceller Stealth Bird Subterror Guru The Bystial Alba Los The Bystial Lubellion Thunder King, the Lightningstrike Kaiju Thunder King Rai-Oh Vanitys Fiend Vanitys Ruler Wannabee! Whirlwind Weasel Zap Mustang Zefraath

Card of Demise Cauldron of the Old Man Chain Strike Chicken Game Cybernetic Fusion Support Dark Snake Syndrome Dimensional Fissure Double-Edged Sword Fire Prison Foolish Burial Goods Generaider Boss Stage Hippo Carnival Into the Void Kashtira Birth Kashtiratheosis Kaiser Colosseum Kyoutou Waterfront Lair of Darkness Magical Mallet Messenger of Peace Misfortune Necrovalley Pacifis, the Phantasm City Pot of Desires Pot of Duality Pot of Extravagance Performapal Popperup Psychic Blade Reasoning Rite of Aramesir Secret Village of the Spellcasters Super Hippo Carnival Terminal World Terminal World Next That Grass Looks greener Upstart goblin White Veil

And the Band Played On Anti-Spell Fragrance Backfire Bad Luck Blast Bad Reaction to Simochi Banquet of Millions Blasting the Ruins Big Welcome Labrynth Chain Burst D.D. Dynamite Deck Devastation Virus Destruction of Destiny Dimensional Barrier Eradicator Epidemic Virus Extinction on Schedule Evenly Matched Grave of the Super Ancient Organism Gozen Match Invincibility Barrier Kozakys Self-Destruct Button Macro Cosmos Mask of Restrict Mistake Pinpoint Dash Powersink Stone Relay Soul Ring of Destruction Rivalry of Warlords Secret Barrel Secret Blast Simul Archfiends Skill Drain Spatial Collapse Spiritual Fire Art Kurenai Summon Limit Synchro Zone The Monarchs Erupt Trap Trick Welcome Labrynth

Limited: Drytron Alpha Thuban Drytron Zeta Aldhibah

Herald of the Arc Light

Cyberse Witch

Drytron Fafnir Mikanko Water Arabesque

Compulsory Evacuation Device Ice Dragons Prison Solemn Judgment Solemn Strike Solemn Warning Trap Tracks

The following Loaner Decks will be available for the event: -White Dragon of Chaos 1 Difficulty level 1 A Deck that uses Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon as its ace card. Send The White Stone of Ancients to the Graveyard with the effect of Dragon Shrine or other methods to quickly play a Blue-Eyes Monster. After making preparations with effects such as that of Blue-Eyes Abyss Dragon, Ritual Summon Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon. Then, utilize its high ATK and potent effects to strike all at once.

-Popped out of a Comic 2 Difficulty level 2 A Libromancer Deck that specializes in continuous Ritual Summoning. Libromancer First Apperance will be the key to deploying your tactics, so make sure to quickly line up cards such as Libromancer Origin Story. After making preparations, Ritual Summon cards like Libromancer Doombroker and Libromancer Fireburst, then launch and offensive strike. When doing so, by using the monsters on the field as materials, the Libromancer Ritual Monsters will activate an additional effect! Try it for yourself!

-Special Full Course Meal 3 Difficulty Level 3 A Nouvelles Deck that utilizes even your opponents monsters. Make preparations with cards like Nouvelles Restaurant At Table, while Special Summoning low-Level Nouvelles Ritual Monsters. Among them, Balameuniere de Nouvelles can Special Summon the ace monster Baelgrill de Nouvelles, so the first step to victory is to Special Summon this monster. Furthermore, if Hungry Burger is Special Summoned with the effect of Balegrill de Nouvelles, the powerful effect of Chefs Special Recipe in the Graveyard can also be activated. Keep that in mind when making decisive moves.

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Palia, an MMORPG that draws inspiration from beloved titles like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, has introduced an exciting update that brings a wealth of new features and customization options to its ever-expanding virtual world. With this recent update, players of Palia can expect to explore a deeper level of personalization and engagement, including the introduction of Starstones and much more.

Developed by Singularity 6, a studio comprising former talents from industry giants like Blizzard and Riot, Palia has steadily garnered attention since its announcement in 2021. Palia offers players an expansive open world brimming with activities such as crafting, farming, and resource gathering. Simultaneously, it encourages players to engage with a captivating cast of villagers and their real-life friends. When the game was unveiled, Palia also piqued the interest of Asmongold, a popular streamer known for his content focused on massively multiplayer online role-playing games. He expressed that it seemed like the game could introduce some refreshing ideas to the genre.

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Palia entered beta testing in August 2023, and developer Singularity 6 recently introduced a substantial update, version 0.172, to the game in November. This update brings a host of exciting changes and additions for Palians to explore. Notably, it expands the character customization options available to Palians, including 8 new skin tones, 16 more face options, 14 additional eye color choices, 11 new hairstyles, 8 more hair color options, 9 facial hair options, and 3 new glasses styles, which can be accessed at Jel's shop.

Moreover, this update introduces a new incentive for mining activities through the introduction of Starstones, unique gems of various rarities that can be collected while mining in Palia. These Starstones can be utilized by gifting them to villagers on a weekly basis or selling them in exchange for Palia's in-game gold. The gold earned from this can then be used to expand and enhance homebuilding, with significant improvements made to the homebuilding limits. These enhancements encompass an increase in the limit for placeable items from 2,000 to 3,000, and a raise in the limit for total housing add-ons from 15 to 30. Additionally, players can now place multiple Main Houses on the same plot of land.

Furthermore, Singularity 6 has unveiled new furniture sets, inspired by items discovered in Rummaging Piles left behind by chapaas. The availability of Palium nodes in Bahari Bay has been enhanced, offering greater opportunities for players, and fishing enthusiasts in Palia will experience improved hotspots and faster respawn rates in the area. The developers have also addressed and resolved more than 50 known issues in this patch, further enhancing the gaming experience.

Palia is an upcoming MMO adventure game developed bySingularity 6. The development team describes the game as a "community sim" and has emphasized how cozy the game's world will be to live in and explore.

Singularity 6 has also announced that the game will be free-to-play.

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Robby Krieger and The Soul Savages will release their self-titled debut studio album on 19 January 2024.

Robby Krieger knows that when you assemble the right bunch of musicians, and trust in the creative process, magic happens. As a founding member of The Doors, the guitarist intuitively understands the beauty of free-flowing collaboration and telepathic group interplay. This is evident on Robbys self-titled debut release from his new band, Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages.

Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages was recorded old school style with a bunch of friends jamming and recording in a relaxed studio setting. Tracked at Robbys own Love Street Studios in Glendale, California, it finds Robby stretching out over cinematic groove music inspired by classic soul, 1960s jazz, blues, rock, psychedelic rock, and beyond.

Ive had this studio for the last six or seven years, and its really made me branch out as a musician, Robby says. We wrote together, and soul music became a big part of this album. These guys are world-class playerstheyve worked with Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Kahn, Lenny Kravitzthey have that great groove pedigree.

Robby is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and he is listed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He wrote or co-wrote many of The Doors most enduring compositions, including Light My Fire, Love Me Two Times, Touch Me, and Love Her Madly.

Since the 1970s, Robby has emerged a successful jazz-fusion guitarist with a well-received catalog of solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated record, Singularity. Robby has also stayed active jamming with artists such as Govt Mule and Alice In Chains. Recently, he released the revealing memoir, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors.

Fans of the guitarists singular style will rejoice that his latest album is filled with Robby-isms. Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages brims with his celebrated fingerstyle fretwork, including Robbys adventurous jazzy and microtonal slide guitar playing; his slinky, funk-inspired rhythm work; and his silky Wes Montgomery-style octave playing. The 10-song album explores the soul-jazz, dirty blues, and noir-ish roots of The Doors while also furthering Robbys career as a jazz-fusion guitarist.

This band inspired a style of playing I hadnt done in a while, and it also inspired me to do new things. For example, in the past, I reserved my slide playing for more of the bluesy stuff, but I stretched out on the album playing slide over jazz, funk, and soul grooves. I want to keep evolving, and these guys really inspire me.

Joining Robby on this all-instrumental odyssey of psych-rock soul are top-shelf composers, instrumentalists, and bandmates. Bassist-songwriter Kevin Brandino Brandon co-wrote and recorded with Robby on the Singularity album, and he has won over half a dozen Grammy awards as well as three Emmy awards. His extensive resume includes credits with James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, and Beyonce.

Keyboardist-songwriter Ed Roth is a Grammy-nominee known for his work in jazz, rock, and pop, and a robust resume that includes working with Ringo Starr, Brothers Johnson, Coolio, Shuggie Otis, and Annie Lennox. And drummer-songwriter Franklin Vanderbilt brings savage to the bands soul with his fatback groove and jazzy nimbleness. Among others, his credits include drumming for legendary Chaka Khan, recording with fusion jazz pioneer Stanley Clarke, and touring worldwide with Lenny Kravitz.

Look for Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages on vinyl and onstage in the near future. Once people hear this music, they get really into it, Robby says. When the record comes out the connection with the audience will be even stronger.

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The video opens with a violent rush of water, Wow! Water! Nolan, a MrBeast minion screamed. Dreams do come true after all. The Africans could be seen arranged in a questionably perfect assemblage of kids. They had just gotten something they always wished they had but may have never had access to. Clean water. Very benevolent of this white, rich young man to provide them with this opportunity the luxury of tasting clean water. He then turned to the camera saying, Youre going to love this video, with the creepiest smile Ive ever seen in my 19 years of life.

The obligation he felt to civilize Africa by building wells and giving water is something that fascinates me greatly the white mans burden the idea that it is the white mans sole responsibility to uphold or bring rural regions to civilization. This should not be confused with philanthropism or humanitarianism; if he truly wanted to help, his camera would have had absolutely no business recording those folks in probably their highest state of vulnerability. Vulnerability is a very big thing that this video portrayed; we mostly see women and children. That was done intentionally to portray these people as innocent and harmless in an attempt to justify the validity of white supremacy.

MrBeast first shows us the really bad side of Kenya which he generally refers to as Africa. He shows the bad roads, the unsafe drinking water, the underdeveloped buildings all in an attempt to exhibit the stereotypical Africa. As soon as his point was made, he then began to explain how African kids lives are so limited, how their lives and health are in danger, just so that we feel a meticulously crafted amount of sympathy coupled with a sense of superiority.

MrBeast then continues the video by showing us how much progress his presence had brought to the continent. They showed water splashing in abundance (make it rain), women and children celebrating. They showed clean water and spigots this was done deliberately to prove the white mans effect on the continent, the idea that orderliness, cleanliness and civilization is affiliated with the white man.

The video also reduces Africa, physically and socially. We spent time building spigots, so that all the people of Africa can have water to drink, MrBeast said. This was an attempt from MrBeast to reduce Africa into a much smaller population and continent. He only built spigots in Kenya but he claimed that they would provide for all of Africa. He constantly repeats this behavior throughout the video, referring to individual countries as the African continent this may not seem like a big deal, but this plays a huge role in stereotyping. Many people will now, because of this video, only see Africa as a continent filled with thirsty black women and children. This is a method of essentializing and reducing the African continent into a singularity. They only show highlights of countries in the continent and proceed to reduce Africa to that single, in most cases negative, light. For a reason similar to this, Africa is always depicted as a smaller continent on world maps. Louis Fenech, a UNI professor said, This reduction of the continent in maps is done purposefully to project Africa as a not-so-powerful, not so important piece of savage land that fails to meet world criteria.

The power of this racism and imperialism lies in its ability to hide itself in our everyday lives.

In Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, Marlow said, We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. This was a sentence describes his journey further into the depths of Africa (AKA darkness). In this same likeness, MrBeast explains that as he moved deeper into Africa, things only got more difficult and dark. He shows kids walking miles to fetch water from a polluted stream, he explains how villagers walk long miles to school still essentializing the continent into only vulnerable and needy people. MrBeasts nonchalance during this video was also absolutely disgusting. He makes really unfunny and unhealthy jokes throughout the video. He even makes a joke about a well in his boots to mock the Africans need for water.

In summary, as long as this benevolence had to be recorded and shown to millions of people (mostly non- Africans), its quite obvious that this is not philanthropism or humanitarianism.

Its arguable that this was done for self-interest rather than to actually help the needy. This whole project of rich white guys going to Africa with their camera to save the Africans only gives hints of passive-aggressive supremacy and honors the acts of colonialism and imperialism.

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Generative AI has become firmly entrenched in the culture zeitgeist, and everyone from computer scientists to social media mavens is tuned in, looking ahead to the next great leap: the singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligenceand escapes human control.

Before the mainstream adoption of generative AI, and broadening worries about the dangers of the technology, experts and theorists have speculated that the singularity is decades away, giving humans time to prepare for a world transformed by artificial intelligence and supercomputers. But Ben Goertzel, CEO of AI and blockchain developer SingularityNET, believes the advent of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is years, not decades away.

I would say now, three to eight years is my take, and the reason is partly that large language models like Meta's Llama2 and OpenAI's GPT-4 help and are genuine progress, Goertzel told Decrypt. These systems have greatly increased the enthusiasm of the world for AGI, so you'll have more resources, both money and just human energymore smart young people want to plunge into work and working on AGI.

Goertzel is a prominent figure in AI, having spent years articulating the concept of artificial general intelligence (AGI). He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Temple University and has contributed to various fields, including AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Since 2010, Goertzel has served as Chairman and Vice Chairman of Humanity+ and the Artificial General Intelligence Society, respectively.

In 2017, Goertzel co-founded the AI and Blockchain company SingularityNET with David Hanson of Hanson Robotics, developers of the Sophia, Grace, and Desdemona robots.

The technological singularity is a hypothetical future point where technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, leading to drastic unforeseeable changes in human civilization.

Detractors and skeptics may balk at the idea of computers becoming as intelligent or even more intelligent than humans. Still, Geortzel says that developing AGI comes from the same drive that led to other human advancements, such as the shift from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural one. And such shifts are not always for the better.

Why did we develop agriculture and towns and cities instead of living in a stone age style? he asked. "According to some metrics life has improved since Stone Age times, but according to other metrics, life has gotten worseyou didn't have neuroses and mental illness like we do now.

Another factor pushing the development of AI, Goertzel said, is humanitys restlessness, adding that while the development of AI appears to be based on individual motives, it's building towards a greater goal.

The why for AI initially was partly curiosity, but probably militarythe US military funded AI, from the '50s up to the turn of the century, Goertzel said. So initially, the why was national defense.

Now the why is making money for companies, but also interestingly, for artists or musicians, it gives you cool tools to play with, he continued.

Beyond the brain

AGI describes artificial intelligence that can learn and perform any intellectual task a human can. Unlike specialized AI, which excels at one task, AGI has a broader understanding of the world, much like a human brain. However, achieving AGI is a challenging and so-far unfulfilled goal.

Those pursuing AGI include Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who launched xAI in July with the goal of an unbiased and transparent AGI. The company's first chatbot, named Grok, entered early public testing this past weekend.

The overarching goal of xAI is to build a good [artificial general intelligence] with the overarching purpose of understanding the universe, Musk said at the time. The safest way to build an AI is to make one that is maximally curious and truth-seeking.

AGI is one of the key mileposts on the road to the singularity.

Our vision is to drive towards a positive, beneficial, benevolent singularity for the benefit of all humankind, SingularityNET COO Janet Adams told Decrypt in an August interview. As Adams explained, robotics is essential in advancing toward the singularity.

While AI developers have pushed to instill human values in generative AI models, Goertzel cautioned that values change with time.

We don't want AI to do exactly what we think is right today, because what we think is right 20 years from now won't be what we think is right today, Goertzel said.

Edited by Ryan Ozawa.

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