After 60+ hours of play I finally found something that feels like it should have been patched out months ago: a wall gap near the eastern aqueduct in Act III that bypasses the Citadel section entirely. You still get the story beat — there's a short cutscene that plays at the transition — but you save somewhere between 40 to 45 minutes of corridor gameplay. For speedrunners this is massive. For casual players it's a useful shortcut on New Game+. The gap is located at coordinates marked in the screenshot I'll attach below. You need to be in light-armor loadout; heavy armor clips you back out before the transition fires. My questions for the thread: 1. Has anyone else independently found this? 2. Is there any dev comment anywhere confirming or denying it's intentional? 3. Does it affect the Act IV dialogue checks? I haven't noticed a difference but my test sample is small. Spoiler-tagging the route details in the replies below for people who want to find it themselves.

Took three complete relistens to fully appreciate how layered this soundtrack is. Yuki Kajiura wove leitmotifs from the original 2002 series into nearly every major battle track in a way that rewards long-time fans without alienating newcomers. Track highlights: **"Believe Again"** — the obvious pick, but for good reason. The choir arrangement in the third act version restructures the original melody in a way that hits completely differently once you know what's happening on screen. **"Infinite Justice II"** — the recurring motif from Justice appears four times in increasingly complex harmonic contexts. The final appearance with the full string section is the kind of thing you have to sit down for. **"Dawn"** — underrated. A quiet piano piece that shows up between the two biggest action sequences as a deliberate palette cleanser. Structurally it's doing a lot of work and most people skip past it. If you want to go deeper I recommend listening to the complete OST in the film's chronological order rather than the track listing. The emotional arc reads completely differently.

Both camps get loud about this online so I figured a comparison from someone who's run both setups simultaneously for three months might be useful. **Setup:** PS5 Pro (launch) vs custom PC build at roughly the same price point — RTX 4070 Ti Super, Ryzen 7 9700X, 32GB DDR5. **Where the PS5 Pro wins:** Plug-in experience is genuinely unbeatable. First-party exclusives look and perform spectacularly out of the box. DualSense haptics for games that support them properly (Astro Bot, Demon's Souls remake) are a genuine experience upgrade that PC can't replicate. Couch gaming comfort. **Where the PC wins:** Everything else, honestly. Mod support for games like Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Skyrim transforms the experience. Emulation covers a hundred generations of gaming. Multitasking. The upgrade path. Display flexibility. **The honest answer:** If you game exclusively and don't care about exclusives, the PC wins at this price. If you play PS5-exclusive titles and prefer the living room, the PS5 Pro is the right call. The tribalism around this question is boring — it's context dependent.

Visited 14 cafes over three weekends specifically to put this list together. My criteria: rig quality, food menu variety and taste, hourly pricing, general vibe, and — this one matters — whether the staff actually play games or just work there. The full tier list: **S-Tier:** Pixel Ground BGC — immaculate rigs, actual ramen on the menu, staff that know every game in the library. Slightly pricier but worth it. **A-Tier:** LAN Zone Katipunan — solid community regulars, great tournament space, food is mid but the atmosphere makes up for it. NextLevel QC — newer spot, aggressive pricing, good high-refresh monitors, improving their menu. **B-Tier:** (fine, nothing special) GameBase Makati, CafeRig Ortigas **C-Tier:** (avoid) Two establishments I won't name — overpriced, rigs are outdated, food is prepacked. Full breakdown with photos in the replies.

I went into this completely blind on the recommendation of someone in a previous thread here. I came out of it needing to sit quietly for about twenty minutes. Wim Wenders made something genuinely rare: a film about contentment. Not happiness — contentment. Hirayama, the protagonist, is a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. His days are structured, simple, repetitive. The film watches him move through these days with a patience that could read as boring and instead reads as profound. A few things that stick with me: **The tree photographs.** He photographs the same tree over weeks from roughly the same angle. The variation is minimal. He does this like it's important. It is. **What gets left unsaid.** His backstory is implied in fragments — a wealthy family, an estrangement, a choice made long ago. The film refuses to make drama of it. It was his life. He chose this one. **Komorebi.** The Japanese word for the interplay of light and leaves. The film keeps returning to shots of light through trees. Hirayama smiles at it every time. So did I by the end. Not a film for everyone. But if you've felt the particular burnout of modern life, it's worth the 124 minutes.

Been using both tools daily across personal and work projects. Here's where I've landed. Cursor's in-editor context awareness is genuinely better for large codebases. The Cmd+K inline editing and the way it understands your whole project structure beats Copilot's autocomplete-first approach for anything beyond boilerplate. Copilot's autocomplete speed and Copilot Chat's integration into VS Code is smoother for quick tasks. If you're writing tests or repetitive CRUD endpoints it's faster to not switch context. Net verdict after two months: Cursor for project work, Copilot if your team is already on the Microsoft stack and you want zero friction. The pricing difference matters if you're a solo dev.

Started this in December as a personal challenge. One character per week, consistent color palette, 64×64 canvas for each. Finished Karlach last weekend. The hardest ones to get right were Gale (the lighting on his orb was genuinely difficult to suggest at that scale) and Halsin (bear form vs human form — I went with both). The easiest and most fun: Shadowheart pre and post Act 3 as a diptych. The palette shift tells the whole arc without any words needed. Full set in the imgur album linked below. Feel free to use these as avatars, just credit somewhere if you post them elsewhere.

Did this itinerary last November and it held up well. Sharing because I couldn't find a concise version of this before I went. **Morning — Akihabara:** Start at Yodobashi Camera main building (opens 9:30). Floors 4–6 for gaming hardware and accessories. Then Radio Kaikan for retro games and figures. Super Potato if you're into vintage consoles — prices have gone up but the selection is still unmatched. **Afternoon — Nakano Broadway:** 15 min on the Chuo line. Smaller and more curated than Akihabara. Mandarake stores across multiple floors — good for older anime merchandise and sealed games. Less tourist pressure. **Evening — back in Akihabara:** Yaesu Book Center for gaming art books and strategy guides (some English sections). End at a game center for UFO catchers if that's your thing. Taito Station on Chuo-dori has the best machine selection. Budget in JPY: I spent roughly ¥40,000 across both spots. Half of that was one very good Saturn game I don't regret.