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He's in the town center in the room down the hallway. Next you need to talk to the mayor/village chief. Oyama: He will have a (!) on him in his hut. Then simply reach the end of the summer and confess to Ryoka during the class trip. Each location will appear as you complete the previous. Go through the crystal until you reach the sparkling spot to trigger Ryoka Memory. Basically by going to the Cave, Storehouse, Mountains, and then Summered Colored beach. Happy True Love Ending: Don't start any of the other routes and get Ryoka memories. Normal Ending: Simply don't complete any of the routes. Lastly, you can also find a photo left outside the homeless shelter at the upper right of the park slum. After that there will be a scene the next time you visit them outside, after which the heart will keep appearing on the tent to the right. In the park/slum, talk to the homeless guy that's next to Saki with the (!) on him. Then go to the exam-prep facility at the south of Downtown and past the Vagrant. Wednesday and Sunday: To start this route you need to go downtown. Once you have given the item simply wait until 2 PM so that the two of them go up stair and the pink heart appears. The last item (Bride Stealer) can only be bought by the hooded figure in Downtown (He's on the far right, same pathway to get to the love hotel and mixer bar). Most item are at the convenient store in town. Just talk to the old man behind the desk and he'll has for an item. Tuesday and Thursday: To start this route you just need to visit the shop (last house on the upper left, Just before you get to the bridge leading out of the left side of village). After a couple of time the door will be lock, simply head to the bathroom on the right and you'll be able to interact with the (!) to climb up and peak on her from above. On the 3rd time you enter the building on a day she's working, she will be in the large empty room surrounded by a bunch of men (on the right side), just interact with the door and you'll initiate the scene. Monday and Saturday: To start this route you need to visit the town hall and interact with Saki (!) on days she's working. The schedule for these routes is posted on the cabinet next to the fridge in the kitchen of Ryoka's house The main character must be alone to get to view the scene for Saki. Saki has 3 routes and you will see her scene as soon as you interact with the pink hearts for her scene. Just a general overview of getting the route started and a few tips for the part where the game don't tell you where to look or go. Note you can trigger all of Saki routes without any worry because she's on a fix schedule so it easy to predict when each of her events will take place.įinal Note: I won't go step by step into each event. ![]() But again it kind of random so you may want to just trigger 1 route at a time if you want to see all the events for that route. I recommend only triggering 1 character route and then proceeding with his route until you hit the point when they first sleep with Ryoka, afterward it seem like that route will have precedence over other routes events. At time it seem random which route H-events will trigger when playing a game where multiple antagonists' routes are triggered. The H-events for each route seem to overwrite other route H-events. I'll go over more on triggering start each route later on. Most of the time these (!) will only appear while Ryoka is with you. Introductions to the routes.To trigger the route for one of the antagonists you must interact with the characters with the exclamation marks (!) above their head. Otherwise you can just use your mouse move around by click on where you want the character to go.Īlso note: Moving into and out of a building can forward time by 25 minutes.
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Lax greeted me warmly, speaking with a faint Midwestern twang. He is not the only magician gaming the viral video economy (a British rival called Julius Dein operated his own empire in Mexico for 18 months), but he is arguably the most determined.Ī few months later I drove to Henderson, a wealthy town outside Las Vegas, to meet Lax (he has since bought a larger property in the same area). And I’ve turned my fiancée and all our friends into fb influencers too.” It was a characteristically bold introduction. “Randomly, I’m the most-viewed influencer on Facebook. He contacted me in 2020 to congratulate me on the book I’d just published, a sociological study of elite nightclubs, and suggested that perhaps I should look at the “new creative elites” next. It was Rick Lax himself who led me to become straw-deep in toilet milkshake. “I love being low-key and flying under the radar, and just getting rich.” Entering the viral-content game involves a certain surrendering of artistic aspirations, but Rothfuss says she doesn’t care. A year later she bought her first mansion. At one point she worked as a nanny in Los Angeles to make ends meet between sporadic bookings.Ī friend was making videos for Rick Lax, and invited Rothfuss to join in 2019. She downplays this ambition now, but for years she bounced between different gigs, including a stint on a cruise ship. She studied music and once dreamt of becoming a jazz singer. Rothfuss is tall and slim with dark hair and a pale, angular face (she was amused when one commenter described her as looking like “a pretty donkey”). One of these, posted last summer under the heading “Ultimate Spaghetti Trick!!”, featured a woman dumping pasta and tomato sauce onto a shiny white marble counter, mixing it up, then proudly proclaiming this to be the authentic Italian method. ![]() The network is best known for what you might call appalling cooking videos. He also posts his creators’ videos on his own Facebook page, which has 14m followers. He releases new instructions every time the algorithm changes substantially, and offers feedback on people’s videos. In exchange, he gives them online tutorials about how to make viral content: everything from how to hold the camera to which metrics matter to Facebook. He takes a slice of the ad revenue that creators earn. Lax manages his network like a cross between a Hollywood agent and a schoolteacher. Most fall into genres: diy, crafts, hazards, adultery and proposals. Though the clips usually look like authentic user-generated material, all are scripted. They produce short videos timed to last the precise number of seconds that Facebook requires a clip to run to be eligible for an ad (this used to be three minutes but recently went down to one). Rothfuss and Flom are among the 180 video-makers (or “creators” in the industry’s jargon) working with a Las Vegas magician called Rick Lax. And that method is designed by magicians. Though that formula isn’t perfect – you never quite know what the algorithms of the different platforms will favour or what will strike a chord with viewers – a group of people have come as close as anyone to creating a method for going viral. But it turns out that there’s a formula to getting people to watch you on social media. On a good day, one of these short clips could earn Rothfuss enough to buy a Tesla.īefore I started looking into this corner of the content economy I assumed that the videos that went viral were made by Gen Z-ers playing around and occasionally surfing a serendipitous wave. 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For a production knife they are at the very top of the desireability scale (together with the ZT 0560 and maybe the Hinderer XM-18). However, whenever they become available they still sell out in minutes and are extremely sought after on the second hand market. Every custom Dauntless have had their makers special twist to the original concept and then in 2012 TAD announced that they would make a production version, purified to the very essence of the Dauntless and at least slightly more available than the 10-12 knives usually made in each batch of custom knives. It basically stipulates a folding knife with a 2.5-4” modified spearpoint blade with a single fuller and a clean handle featuring TADs three fullers. The Dauntless is in essence a concept or framework and not a specific product by TAD. TAD’s knife collaborations have reached iconic status and every once in a while they announce a new special run from either a custom maker or some well-regarded production company where thousands of persons enter a lottery for a chance to win a spot to buy one of the knifes they release. Strider has made a small run of SNG’s with Digicam blade and the TAD signature fullers that was sold exclusively through TAD. Triple Aught Design is not a knife maker per se but have had collaborations with different knife makers for quite some time. Triple Aught Design Dauntless MK3: G10 in green. Every design and engineering decision points to a knife made to stand up to hard use, and if you search on YouTube there are many who have tested to find the breaking point of their Striders without succeeding. The scale and backspacer is milled from a single piece of G10, together with the beefy pivot and the 0.165” thick blade stock that makes for an overbuilt and robust knife that still only weighs in at 125 grams. The shape is surprisingly ergonomic and let’s you apply vast amounts of pressure if needed. It has a large forward choil and jimping on top of the blade which means that you can really get down on the blade if needed. The Gunner Grip SNG we have here has a ¾ hollow ground spear point blade with a medium stone wash finish in CPM S30V with Coyote brown scale. In addition it’s available as a custom by Mick and Duane Dwyer (also of Strider Knives) in other materials with more or less wicked and experimental grinds (it was Mick Strider that coined the term “Nightmare grind” since it was so difficult to grind the compound forms). ![]() Not all finishes are available for each version, the tiger stripe blade is not available on the Gunner Grip, for example, and some are some more unusual finishes (like the Digicam pattern). There’s the basic “Lego” version (known so for it’s brick-like scale), the Gunner Grip with machined contouring and dimples on both the frame and scale to increase grip and finally the Concealed Carry which has a smooth contoured handle and no pocket clip. The SNG is available in a few variations as a production knife with different grips and finishes and a number of stores has had special runs made for them with other steels and blade shapes. The SMF has a 4” blade which makes it just a bit bigger than necessary for most people and that’s why the SNG is the overall more popular choice and 3.5” blades have become the de-facto standard in the tactical/general use folding knife category. The SNG is basically a smaller version of the SMF (“Strider Military Folder”, NSN 1095-0), the first folding knife ever issued within the USMC and the first in over 60 years to an individual unit (Detachment 1 of the MARSOC). What’s certain is that his knives have been a runaway success and are known for a rock solid construction, light weight, nice ergonomics, cool design and, of course, the military connection. Mick Strider is somewhat polarizing figure with a “military” background, but no one seems to be sure what he’s really done either in the military or as a contractor. Both are high-end production knives with 3.5” CPM steel blades, titanium framelocks, G10 scales and serves the same purpose as general purpose hard-use knives for the field. Two of the most iconic knives of the tactical folder knife frenzy the last few years are the Strider Knives SNG and the production Dauntless from Triple Aught Design. |
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