#whampoa

[zirosou]

Discontinued bus terminals #hongkong #vanishinghongkong #nightshooters #streetphotography #urbanromantix #ファインダー越しの私の世界 #香港 #whampoa (Hong Kong) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkvWifhJwex/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hongkong #vanishinghongkong #nightshooters #streetphotography #urbanromantix #ファインダー越しの私の世界 #香港 #whampoa

[catherinecatarinaso]

[#STPCLIFE] * 11112022 * "Throwback of yesterday, I went to Whampoa for window shopping and had lunch with my new friends in school before back to school for English Lab (English Revision Class) 😊📝📔📚📑 I miss the memories while I was a primary school student 💜 Really stressed out and woke up at 1550 or sleep less than 4 hours lately. I also can't focus on lesson and day dreaming, hope I'll get better after meeting a counselor at HKBU 💤😪😴" -C 👠 #STPCSO. #11112022 #Life #Stressed #Troubled #StayStrong #StayPositive #Whampoa #HungHom #HoManTin #WhampoaBoat #BoatViewStreet #MeetFresh #Friends (at 黃埔號) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck1nAHcBzd04MRcD4C2eRCn9Ncba4-w-ww0aNk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#stpclife #stpcso #11112022 #life #stressed #troubled #staystrong #staypositive #whampoa #hunghom #homantin #whampoaboat #boatviewstreet #meetfresh #friends

[travelella]

The Whampoa (Shopping Mall) in Hong Kong, China.

#The Whampoa #Mall #Shopping #Architecture #Hong Kong #HongKong #China #Asia

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

#russia #china #taiwan #soviet system #political commissar #whampoa military academy #decade: 1920s

[ygtahoy]

Now that one of my cats has gotten over his medical emergency I’ve had time and energy to work at writing again, and I’ve been seeing people posting wip wednesday stuff so eh why not let’s give that a go.

The second that the topic turned to whether a certain localish group was selling out or not started is when Riptide clocked out mentally. Looking off to the side so she’s not staring Duncan or Gobbets shoulders down she looks at the stalls and the music on display.  Having no horse in that race left her completely uninterested in the current conversation, and she had no interest in trying to explain that no she’s not a hipster herself for saying none of them would recognize her preferred bands these days she’s just been living in a very different area from them that has wildly different popular music. That doesn’t really help make her sound not like she’s trying to be some kind of smug superior ass when really she doesn’t want to admit that she’s been listening to far far too much Stan Rogers music because his voice reminds her of Duncan. Taking a step away to look at the selection she unfortunately hears Duncan calling out to her asking for her opinion on their conversation and she takes a moment wondering if she should just admit that she wasn’t listening before giving that up and just shrugging.

“Honestly I don’t know who any of the people or groups you guys have been talking about, I’m more interested in boats that are painted green.” She says smirking and relying on the tried and true rule of when in doubt be a fucking shit and let the rest sort it out.

#Shadowrun Hong Kong #That one music dude in whampoa really made riptide have to admit she likes shanties way too much #She's referencing the song Lukey's boat for anyone curious #and if stan rogers can still be popular in the maritimes after 40 years I don't see how 30 more will change much #also poor Riptide is a human and just below average height at that #so she only comes up to most characters chests or shoulders #and yes duncan teases her mercilessly for it

[ltwilliammowett]

Four navigation scenes on the Yuejiang near Canton. By Yougua, 1840

a) Three junks in manoeuvre; b) Ningpo junk together with passenger junks in front of Whampoa Pagoda; c) Ningpo junk; d) River passenger junk in front of Dahuangjiao Fortress.

#naval art #chinese junks #mid 19th century #age of sail

[castelnou]

the whampoa

hong kong (china)

#urbe #ship #boat #hong kong #china

[calleryphoto]

日出前月出 🌙

我嘅好戰友 5DIII 多年前被激光打中 宣告退役，估唔到多年後 我廣州嘅好朋友認識維修技師，除咗幫佢復活之外 仲順便移除埋低通濾鏡 幫我轉戰天文攝影

移除 IR Cut Filter 優點係遇到紅色光線 會變到非常澎湃，但缺點就係摩爾紋會變得非常嚴重，當然係我夾硬攞佢嚟影風景先會咁樣，但的確用嚟影平平無奇嘅日出 相對會變得非常燦爛

但係摩爾紋後期係解決唔到 但佢話晒都係 Full Frame 相機，如果想用埋佢幫手影風景 就可能需要買返塊低通濾鏡俾佢 非常糾結 🤔

•

📸 @CalleryPhoto

📍 Whampoa, Hong Kong

🗓 2023. 07. 15

💻 Lightroom

•

Social:

IG. FB. VERO. Twitter. Flickr. Tumblr. Pinterest: CalleryPhoto

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

• Canon EOS 5DIIIa @canonhongkong

• Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM

• iFootage Gazelle FastBowl TC7 Tripod

• Leofoto G4 Geared Head

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

[pwlanier]

EUROPEAN SCHOOL, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Whampoa anchorage on the Pearl River

titled Whampoa Anchorage on the / Pearl River lower right

gouache on board

Sotheby’s

#travel

[lavaeolus]

The Hong Kong Minimum-Kills Run

Typical, isn’t it? You’re making a game, you add in a small little touch, and suddenly players are trying to build their whole approach to the game around it.

So it is with Duncan’s Subdue, which takes people out without actually counting as a kill; the only catch is that you need to reduce them to 0 AP and stun them first. Shadowrun: Hong Kong is a little on the easier side and it’s also the entry in the trilogy where talking and tricking your way past things is most supported. These two things in mind, I set out to beat the game with as little kills tracked as possible.

As you can see I didn’t quite reach 0 kills, but considering my first character had a killcount above 100 I’ll call this a success. You might find it interesting that all kills I couldn’t dodge come in the endgame, and none of them are people. I had to kill 8 Matrix ICs to free Raymond, and had to kill the final boss and their minions. Had I been a little faster removing the Queen’s ability to summon extra minions, I could’ve shaved off two kills there.

I’m told in original versions of the game you could actually Subdue the Queen and co., which is hilarious, but evidently no longer supported. I did still get the ‘best’ ending, but she’s nonetheless registered as a death on the stats. So for the RP-conscious amongst you, my hands are still pretty clean. The most questionable, kinda-lethal thing I did was refuse to side with either person during the Whistleblower mission. This ultimately resulted in a bloody fight where everyone but the two ringleaders (Subdue’d by yours truly) died. C’est la vie.

Build and playstyle

My character was a Mage and a Decker, but the emphasis was very much on the former; just enough Decking to save a party slot that might otherwise be spent on Is0bel. As you’d expect, my spell-choice focused on a dash of utility combined with sources of AP damage like Stunbolt. Note that despite its description, Petrify doesn’t seem to actually enable Duncan’s Subdue, although it’s still convenient to be able to disable people for a few turns.

Otherwise, if attempting something similar to this post, I’d advise grabbing a Shock Glove and Geichu himself (Metal Stance) from the Whampoa mission as your first run. Oh, and be aware sometimes you don’t actually have to stick around for a fight and can just walk to the mission’s exit.

Etiquette-wise, I used Gang, Shadowrunner and Socialite. In hindsight, swapping Socialite for Security might’ve let me bypass a guard in the final level. (As-is, I just had to KO him and the two others he summoned; Ku Feng lived, but was not taught to be a better monster.)

Tricky spots

This was done on Hard difficulty, but as mentioned Hong Kong isn’t a tremendously difficult game. Generally speaking, once I’d picked up AP spells my goals weren’t too unmanageable; when you and your team are entirely spec’d around AP, you can shut down people pretty hard while Duncan’s cooldown passes. There are a few tricky spots, though:

The opening: You just don’t have the tools at this point in the game. In the initial fight I tactically lured people into shooting me and Carter over Duncan. In the escape, I summoned a Shaman spirit solely to be a bullet sponge. I’m a hero.

Prosperity Tower: Specifically the fight to free Raymond. I brought Is0bel along because I wanted to keep my character available to Stun people, but that also means there’s just a lot that can go wrong: Duncan can’t go down, or you’ll be unable to Subdue people. The decker can’t go down, because they need to free Raymond. The decker can’t be detected, or you might have to add kills. You can’t go down, because you’re the main character. (You should also be aware that I metagamed a bit and just remembered passwords from a previous run, saving me some kills of software in the Matrix; things get complicated if you’re strict about doing it in a more legitimate manner.)

The final boss: The final boss is mostly the same as always. It’s just since you’re probably spec’d around damageless subduing spells, you might not be ready for the switch to Overt Firepower you’ll need in the second phase, to bring down the boss without taking down her healing sources.

What couldn’t be done?

I tried to be relatively completionist, but the following missions were left undone. If anyone has any thoughts on how to finish them up, I’d love to hear it.

The Feng Shui mission: I thought I had such a clever idea here. I wanted to use Gobbet to ‘Steal’ the spirits. Doing so seems to immediately end combat… releasing the spirit. Combat immediately restarts. Maybe you can make this work through cheese, but it’d be a pain.

The Dig: You can get the paydata and one of the two books required without fighting. The other’s in front of some monsters and if it were ever possible to Subdue them, it doesn’t seem to be so in my version of the game.

The Sinking Ship: Be careful not to trigger this one. You can actually get quite far here, if you’re willing to rely on NPCs to do your dirty work, but the doors in the basement of the ship automatically lock until you kill some rats.

Gaichu’s mission: I think this one might be doable. Sort of. You’ll always kill one person who you separate from the others, but because this isn’t done through combat it shouldn’t count in the stats. IIRC you can’t Subdue Ishida, but since he’s left alive for the cutscene it might be fine. The reason I’m foggy here is that for RP reasons I just didn’t do this one: yes, you can technically Subdue almost everyone and render the point behind the mission a little comical, but you’re explicitly setting out to kill some people. Now, it’s for justified reasons and to protect a crewmate, but we’re trying to avoid wetwork here.

How was it?

Always using Duncan’s Subdue feature can be a bit of a pain in the sense that sometimes the game knows to react to it, other times it’s all “Oh, so I heard you killed X”. The game generally assumes you’re a killer, of course, albeit perhaps a relatively nice and peaceloving killer, and the dialogue choices mostly reflect that. There’s some bits you might otherwise miss; I don’t think I’ve ever actually not killed the Talon before, since even if you’re planning to flee the fight early he immediately runs up and makes himself a prime target.

Still, it was fun looking at encounters from an alternate perspective. I used Duncan in my first playthrough and spec’d him around KOs, but obviously using him to take some people down is another matter entirely to trying to keep the entire battlefield in a constant state of paralysation. Actually getting past some of those mentioned tricky spots was pretty satisfying, of course.

I don’t always know going into a challenge how well the game will support it or how frustrating it will end up. Other than the intro and the missions I mentioned above, however, this approach was surprisingly viable; for a lot of the game it wasn’t so much a challenge as it was just an alternate playstyle. That said, while the vast majority of missions supported it, it was admittedly only metagame knowledge that prevented me from walking into or triggering a mission where it would've impossible to proceed. Still, apart from Gaichu’s and maybe Gobbet’s personal missions I don’t think I’d ever be forced to kill any ‘people’ (aka anything the Shadowrun setting would dub a metahuman).

I’m not so sure this approach would work as well in the game’s expansion. While we could still go through with a lighter-than-usual touch, I remember many of its enemies having Jolt Alert — a feature which automatically jolts them back from 0 to 1 AP, no-selling our main combat strategy. Could we still get through with clean-ish hands? A question for another day, perhaps.

This was originally published in 2021 to r/ShadowrunReturns on Reddit, but is now being crossposted here and on my WordPress blog along with some of my other posts, with a small bit of expansion.

#Shadowrun #Shadowrun Returns #Shadowrun Hong Kong #Challenge Run #Pacifist Run #Shadowrun: Hong Kong

[whattheabcxyz]

2024-04-08

Singapore

3 bodies in 1 week: More elderly living alone found dead in Whampoa, Clementi & Hougang

Data scientists see largest pay growth in tech sector

Former Tampines Regional Library turned into MINDEF "work-near-home" facility

Recommended pay under guidelines for social service sector jobs up by average of 8%

Former IMDA chairman to be new SPH Media CEO from 15 July

More Gen Zs look to hospitality & tourism industry for meaningful jobs

HDB resale prices rose 0.3% in March, with fewer units sold

Nature

Singapore: NUS study warns of dire consequences for plant diversity here if local hornbill population further reduces - but that's not gonna stop our smelly government from cutting down more forests

Politics

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warns an "alliance of authoritarian powers" including Russia, Iran & China are working against the West - but what's NATO gonna do about it?!

Lawrence Wong visiting Germany & France from 8-13 Apr

Society

Indonesian students duped into doing bogus internships in Germany

Art

^ Charles Schulz draws Charlie Brown in 45 sec

Travel

2 Malaysian cops arrested after allegedly extorting RM2K from man at JB checkpoint

Singapore-bound SIA flight delayed for 5 hours after technical issue force U-turn to Sydney

Transport

Singapore: Tower Transit bus driver takes wrong route in Sembawang & ends up making illegal U-turn

People

Heather Graham looking good at 54

#singapore #nature #politics #society #art #travel #transport #people

[zirosou]

at whampoa #hongkong #discoverhongkong #nightshooters #puddlegram #urbanromantix #streetphotography #ファインダー越しの私の世界 #香港 (Hong Kong) https://www.instagram.com/p/CixLzPgJtVJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hongkong #discoverhongkong #nightshooters #puddlegram #urbanromantix #streetphotography #ファインダー越しの私の世界 #香港

[n-afq]

Im proud to say that I did the design for Whampoa Park. Wish I could do better. In the future my kids would say “my mum design this park”

[weirdgoogleearth]

"Shipping" Mall

This is not a ship marooned on land, but a ship-shaped shopping mall in the Whampoa Gardens in Hong Kong. Name: “Shipping” Mall Lat, Long: 22.3039774,114.1895151 Location: Kowloon, Hong Kong

View On WordPress

#Architecture

[thenewsart]

Korean gaming firm Wemade owes $41M in taxes after launching $100M Web3 fund

Shortly after launching a $100-million Web3 fund with Singapore-based Whampoa Group last month, South Korean gaming firm Wemade has disclosed that it owes the country’s tax authorities 53.7 billion won ($41 million) in unpaid taxes in an unrelated incident. The amount is equal to approximately 10% of the company’s equity. According to a Jan. 3 filing with Kosdaq, the unpaid taxes pertain to WEMIX…

View On WordPress

[latest-breaking-news-video]

Watch Gaming writer Wemade, Whampoa float $100m web3 fund - Newest Gaming News