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Ghost of Tsushima releases 18 minute State of Play video for the PS4
Earlier today Sucker Punch Studious released a State of Play video for their upcoming PS4 title, Ghost of Tsushima. The video features over 18 minutes of in game footage, which you can check out in the video above,
Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! | Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running on PlayStation 5
Unreal Engine 5 empowers artists to achieve unprecedented levels of detail and interactivity, and brings these capabilities within practical reach of teams of all sizes through highly productive tools and content libraries.
Join Technical Director of Graphics Brian Karis and Special Projects Art Director Jerome Platteaux (filmed in March 2020) for an in-depth look at "Lumen in the Land of Nanite" - a real-time demonstration running live on PlayStation 5 showcasing two new core technologies that will debut in UE5: Nanite virtualized micropolygon geometry, which frees artists to create as much geometric detail as the eye can see, and Lumen, a fully dynamic global illumination solution that immediately reacts to scene and light changes.
Also present in the demo are next-gen features already available in Unreal Engine 4.25, such as Niagara VFX improvements, Chaos physics and destruction, animation system enhancements, and audio advancements. Unreal Engine 4.25 also includes support for next-gen consoles.
Learn more at unrealengine.com/blog/a-first-look-at-unreal-engine-5
Back in XCOM with the Squad bustin at ‘em in City31! simple intro animations in Adobe Animate later - find the stream at twitch.tv/qilobytes
back live for this evening, until up to at least 10.30pm EST, maybe longer, continuing with XCOM Chimera Squad and then some basic stream animations with Adobe Animate.
Live with XCOM Chimera Squad for the next 3 hours at twitch.tv/qilobytes, currently pursuing the last of three enemy factions in the game, feel free to come swing by and say hi and watch a little Live P.D - UFO Edition.

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Back in XCOM with the Squad bustin at ‘em in City31! simple intro animations in Adobe Animate later - find the stream at twitch.tv/qilobytes
back live for this evening, until up to at least 10.30pm EST, maybe longer, continuing with XCOM Chimera Squad and then some basic stream animations with Adobe Animate.
Back again on a Wednesday evening with XCOM Chimera Squad, updated the intro sequence a little earlier today in Adobe Animate.
A Secret Look Inside a Chinese Labor Program for Uighurs | Visual Investigations by The New York Times
China is relocating Uighurs and other Muslim minorities to urban areas as part of a contentious labor program. The Times obtained rare footage taken inside one.
Just so we’re aware of what “Made In China” really means.
Uyghurs & Other Muslim Minorities Forced into Labor Programs to Work in Chinese Factories
In China, a shocking new exposé has revealed that Chinese authorities are systematically forcing Muslims — mostly Uyghurs and Kazakhs — into labor programs to supply Chinese factories with a cheap and compliant workforce. The New York Times investigation, based on official documents, interviews and visits to the far-western region of Xinjiang, reveals a sweeping program to push poor farmers, villagers and small traders into sometimes months-long training courses before assigning them to low-wage factory work.
The programs work in tandem with indoctrination camps where an estimated 1 million adults from the Uyghur community are being imprisoned. China claims its labor programs are “vocational training centers” designed to combat extremism and alleviate poverty, while Uyghur activists say they are part of China’s ongoing campaign to strip them of their language and community and to carry out cultural genocide. We speak with Austin Ramzy, a New York Times reporter who co-authored the recent exposé, and Nury Turkel, a Uyghur-American attorney and board chair at the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
What’s important to note that the Uyghurs and Kazakhs have become a minority in their own indigenous lands (where they’ve been for thousands of years & long before china invaded) but they weren’t for most of human history. This has come about due to CCP (Chinese Communist Party) engaging in full scale colonization of the region by importing in Han Chinese by the millions. This is while Uyghurs and other ethnicity’s are not even allowed to flee China but are being forced to undergo the persecution of the CCP
A recent New York Times exposé on Uyghur slave labor revealed how people were being forced to leave behind careers and business so that the CCP can claim the unlivable pittance of s salary these people have to take is poverty alleviation - just like they have to smile for the camera in public and claim they have freedom while in reality they can’t leave these labor programs.
This is the reality of what “Made In China” really means.
Currently Streaming - Shadow Tactics - Blades of the Shogun
An epic tale of honour and betrayal! currently in menu, game starting in 10 minutes of this post!
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made a huge error of judgement - should have set the voice acting to Japanese audio, will see to it next stream!
stream over for today, some teething problems, but was a lot of fun, thanks to all who tuned in, till next time (tomorrow)

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Facebook still refuses to ban political ads, including false ones
While Google and Twitter have recently taken steps to directly tackle the undermining of elections, the effects of misinformation and election interference, Facebook has recently announced that it will not be taking any such steps of similar measure.
Google has decided to prevent its services from being used to target specific groups of people for political ads, and Twitter has outright banned political ads on its platform. Facebook has not outlined any similar steps in its recent statement on political ads on the platform, instead it is offering a library of political ads to browse and more user control over the number - and not accuracy or honesty - of the ads they see.
Facebook’s inaction on this matter has had very real negative practical effects on peoples lives and nations around the world, from the US, UK, EU and elsewhere. One of the most egregious uses of the Facebook platform the company has allowed was for the spreading of rampant xenophobia and misinformation used to motivate the genocide against the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
Facebook argues it should not be the one regulating political ads but government should, which is something made difficult by the lack of federal standard on the matter in the US. Both Daniel Kreiss, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina and Sam Jeffers, co-founder of Who Targets Me, an advocacy group researching political advertising both agree that it should not be up to any individual company to decide which limits to set on political ads and whether to allow them or not, but instead should be decided by journalists, academics and other forms of accountability.
Image - “Humans drink water” by Nyszka Lutek
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Taiwan’s powerful “Speak Up” Political Ad (with English Subtitles - click CC)
Taiwanese President Tsai's released a video urging Taiwanese citizens to vote during this Saturday(1/11)'s presidential election. The Ad comes at a time when much is at stake for the island nation. Revelations about interference and infiltration by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) among the nations political entities have rocked the nation.
This was while major protest took place not far away in Hong Kong over the CCP’s attempt to subvert the rights of Hong Kongers through an extradition bill, which would pave the way for the territory to be subjected to violations like the genocide the CCP is committing against the indigenous Uyghur people of East Turkestan, a nation the CCP seized in 1949.Today an estimated 1 to 1.8 million Uyghur people are forcefully held in concentration camps re-labeled by the CCP as “re-education camps”, where they undergo torture, starvation, sexual assault, medical experimentation, organ harvesting, brainwashing and more. A further 1 to 2 million Uyghurs are believed to be held in outright detention centers and prisons, with 500,000 Uyghur minors forcefully held in “boarding schools”.
The Ad touches on both these realities the CCP is responsible for by using footage related to both realities, which are understandably of great concern, but even more due to the designs the CCP has publicly stated it has for Taiwan (denying its rightful independence from the CCP, and intending to bring it under CCP rule), contrasting the disparity between the lives of the Taiwanese and those suffering under CCP oppression, effectively making the point for what’s at stake if CCP agents are allowed to seize control of the nation.
Monster Hunter World
by Ajin Lee
Super Mario RPG . SNES25 Tribute
by Cassio Yoshiyaki
New Decade, New Beginnings
In a previous post, we alluded to the return of the blog (then known as Kilabytes), today, and with this post we can confirm the blog is back one again, but also with a slightly different direction (and branding) to kick off this new decade with.
For one, there’s the name, now going by qilobytes, distinct, succinct, perhaps a little disruptive.
Then there’s the direction - qilobytes is designed for the digital native, covering all digital and tech related topics and issues that are relevant for today and tomorrow’s world. Like the name, the goal is to be sharp, concise and informative throughout.
General areas of interest you can expect coverage on would be on topics like gaming, tech, surveillance, privacy, climate change, digital art and design - with more to follow in due time.
For now let’s keep the re-introduction brief, I’ll leave you with these following links for where you can find qilobytes around the web -
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Monster Hunter World Iceborne launches on PC today!
The massive expansion for Capcom’s smash hit is finally out on PC later today - supposedly around 5pm GMT / 9AM PST. If you’ve pre-ordered the expansion then you should be receiving a free layered armor set along with the expansion, which itself will feature many new equipment pieces.In the mean time we’ll be streaming Monster Hunter World while we wait for Iceborne to drop, feel free to drop by in chat!
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