Agung Paramtapa's Journal

 I've been using the Format Factory for quite a long time, it seems, since the day I made a mod of Blood Prison video mod for GTA IV, until... Believe it or not, VirusTotal seemed to pick this software as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Software) across 19 security vendors, including Windows Defender. Idk what's wrong with this software having being so malicious about; I'll dig about it when there is time. Truth is, this has been picked up by the Defender, like... since 2020 or so. The Defender flagged the Format Factory and its uninstaller as PUPs, but the AVG doesn't ring any bells. Idk why the AVG installed on my PC doesn't seem to ring any bell if FF (Format Factory) is going to be a PUP as if you install a BonziBuddy on your PC. Heck, by the time I want to use it, the executables are gone (of which the system is looking for the files, it seems). I can't uninstall it too since the uninstaller EXE was gone. Probably the Defender took measures without my knowledge...

 Okay, a quick dip announcement; Idk if people still reads my blog, but get this. Somehow I'm getting less and less interaction with this blog because of my interaction with Blaze's Discord server. Not gonna lie, ever since I contributed like... my time spent is dedicated to my love to the Ace Combat community, I've somehow becoming a moderator of that place, observing the conversation of the server channels and report any activity to the other moderators, which are the fellow Ace Combat players such as Knight Valfodr. I spared a bit of my time to post this because, seriously, here goes the new chapter of my life, of which I'll tell you shortly. Judicial Defense By the time I signed up for judicial, the call for the defense was in place before the deadline. Well... it was an ordinary meeting with pre-graduate students like me being called out to have the students' scores mentioned out. Somehow, I kinda liked the end results, but I'm pretty jealous with them tha...

It's real. Someone's already used the mods to make Blaze to think again about his doing on releasing the mod tools to the public. And it's becoming a widespread talk across the Ace Combat community. I told him that releasing the mod tools can affect the entire course of Ace Combat modding, but he said before, "eh, it's fine". Ik this was supposed to be a fun thing for everyone, but it seems like this ability was abused by irresponsible people, purely to ruin the mechanics of multiplayer fun entirely. Not even a week and someone's already abused it. At some point, the day before yesterday, people have noticed about this unknown player coming around and literally f*ck a guy using unlocked PSM, in an F-4E Phantom. Now Ik that this is unusual, and it was a real surprise that the guy he's fighting in, was using Blaze's name. He has given the clarification that he owns only 2 accounts, with one being mistakenly banned by the developer, but not with a...

 This old post in a nutshell See, this is practically the next place I want to find my groove, but apparently, after the last scam on that year, I became insanely skeptical. I trust no one but the family and the people inside Kingdom of the Skies Discord server that run by a nice guy I first met in Steam Forums named Molthus. Here's the skepticism going on for like, an entire year, doing thesis, not knowing how much time has passed, getting revisions... until I found my groove on Blaze's Discord server that provides something that is like... home. A place specifically for the Ace Combat community, practically one-sided and other than r/acecombat server that, from the people that have been there, it has becoming... different . Glad I'm not a part of them. KotS and one other server managed by AceMarshal, my old buddy, has becoming weirdly silent and like a ghost town; barely with new posts. And I'm not a type to join in on another server dedicated to what on YouTube has ...

 After that last video about me jousting players in Blazededge RZ's stream and I joined his Discord server, I finally found my groove of meeting new people; not just local, of which there are a few or so, but also international, and also, be a part of Ace Combat community that started up since the Assault Horizon days. Now, you guessed it, I'm in the stream with Blaze and other popular players that a.k.a. "the boys". You might be asking, why I took part of this. I'll explain this in a nutshell: loneliness and popularity in a particular community. Loneliness I like to be left alone and do whatever I want, but I'll be honest. One day, I woke up, almost crying, of which for some reason, I felt the sadness in me that... the only friend I can count on when "home alone" is the Boruto Uzumaki action figure I have; the SHFiguarts one. I'll say this in the simplest way possible. You like to have a me time where no one wants to bother you, right? What if...

 I was holding this mod back for few years now and, while I just finished on doing new uploads of Trigger to Boruto Skin Pack, I took my time in publishing this mod. What you read right now isn't mistaken. Thanks to the guy behind the CC2 Decrypter and CPK Unpacker embedded all in one , I managed to get my hands on Boruto, Sarada, Mitsuki, Naruto RtB, Sasuke RtB, Momoshiki, and Kinshiki Ultimate Jutsu Finish Cut-In images bundled as XFBins. I modified those that have similarities or, depending on my interest, replacing them with the new one so that it'll be in line with the current anime series that's still ongoing. If you wonder how does this edit happen, I managed to stumble across a guy in the Steam Forums a while back. There's a tut video there that pointed me to how to edit Finish Cut-In images from the hex level (the only method that works up until now, provided the image is in correct format and resolution and DDS-compressed). Currently tho, I stopped watching...

  I have no idea what was going on here. After GTAGaming (and GTA4-Mods), LockOnFiles suddenly go away. It's just like NarutoGet website I visited back then; no confirmation or news whatsoever whether it's going to disappear. I was just checking this out on a whim to see if my LOF profile still hold up. Turns out, LOF gone off the grid, and all mods pertaining older or even newer Eagle Dynamics games ( Lock On , DCS: World , and many others) will be lost forever, just like GTAPoliceMods that was on the same generation as LOF. Weirdly, tho, Google still track that website if you put in lockonfiles.com into the search query. However, any links it offered will simply go to nonexistent LOF website I mentioned earlier. I'm thinking that, probably it's about domain change that who knows what, or the website admin (probably Tom_Weiss?) can't maintain the prices he has to pay in order to keep the servers alive. It's one of two or many reasons why, as like with GTAPolice...