#2.4.0

[tamapalace]

Bandai Releases Tamagotchi Uni Version 2.4.0 Update!

It’s time to update your Tamagotchi Uni, and this update will definitely increase the fun. Bandai has just announced that the newest update, version 2.4.0 which was briefly delayed as it was scheduled to be released earlier this week, is now available. The update brings four new things, which we’re really excited about!

First, the update prepares the Tamagotchi Uni for compatibility with the upcoming KAWAISOUNI! Tamaverse Ticket which is set to be released on June 19th, 2025.

Second, the update adds the connectivity between the Tamagotchi Uni and the coming Tamagotchi Plaza Nintendo Switch game! After updating, you’ll see a new “Plaza Link” option in the GO OUT menu, which will bring you to a mini game where you will be acting as Prince Hamahiko handing out flyers in the mini game “Hand Out Flyers”. Make sure the Shirotamas receive flyers, all while keeping goats from gobbling up what you’re handing out.

When the mini game ends, a tour code will display on screen, enter this code into the Tamagotchi Plaza game (once you have it of course). Select “Tamahiko Tour” from the code menu, and enter the code provided on the Tamagotchi Uni.

Watch a special animation and then receive a parting code which you will then enter into your Tamagotchi Uni, then you might get a special gift!

Third, the update brings the Honeymoon Racing event back to the Tama Arena for June, 2025!

Fourth, and last, the update brings adjusted and added effects for smoother a gameplay experience.

Be sure to update soon to take advantage of all the goodness and to prepare for the upcoming Tamagotchi Plaza game!

[pokemonblog]

New Pokémon Sleep update version 2.4.0 now live, official patch notes revealed

Read on below to learn more about a new Pokémon Sleep update: Update Contents (version 2.4.0) Thank you for playing Pokémon Sleep! This update includes the following improvements.You will need to update to the latest version through your app store. Update Contents New Features ■ Preparation for new eventsFor details, please see the event announcements posted at a later date. ■ Preparations…

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Offline Library

In light of all the Ao3 issues lately I'm gonna throw this up as something people should consider doing. Make your own library of your favorite fics and any you might like to read in the future/are currently reading.

How do you do this? To start: Calibre & ReadEra app

Calibre is a free ebook management software, available on windows, mac, and linux - but also comes in a portable version you can put on a flash drive. Ebooks are very small files, 100s of fics can easily take less than 1GB of space. You can create categories for everything and all the tags on the fics will stay attached to them. You can download directly through ao3, or you can use the browser extension Ficlab which can make the process a little quicker, plus give you a book cover(or you can add your own cover). Epub or Mobi format is best.

ReadEra, is a free reading app with no ads that you can tell to only access a single file where you keep your ebooks. It's open source and the Privacy Statement and Terms & Conditions are very short and easy to read. You can transfer files from Calibre to your phone, but this is also a good option if you don't have a PC to use Calibre. You can make folders to organize all your fics.

Quality of life plugins for Calibre: Preferences > Plugins > Get New Plugins

Look up: EpubMerge, EpubSplit, FanFicFare, Generate Cover (restart calibre once you've added them all) Fun fact, with FanFicFare, you can download new chapters to update fics that are currently in progress directly in Calibre instead of having to open up ao3.

Also, to be clear - back them up for yourself only, don't you fucking dare repost them anywhere.

You can also backup Kindle books (and you should) with Calibre, though that's a bit more complicated; instructions under the read more

Firstly what is DRM? TLDR: digital rights management (DRM) is meant to prevent piracy, however, this also means you never really own your ebooks. If Amazon decides to take down a book you bought? That's it, it's gone and it doesn't matter that you paid for it.

Removing DRM If you're on PC and don't have a kindle device, you'll want kindle version 2.4.0 or it won't work in Calibre.

In Calibre, navigate to Preferences > Plugins > Load Plugin From File - DeDRM - Use the latest Beta or Alpha release, follow instructions on the github page

Preferences > Plugins > Get New Plugins

Look up: KFX Input

You'll have to restart Calibre once you install so just add them all at once before you restart it.

If you need some troubleshooting help setting anything up just ask and I'll try to help!

[little-shiny-sharpies]

Happy patch day to Kalec!! Who on this day was put into the game 17 years ago in 2.4.0 Fury Of The Sunwell!

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ratatui - v0.27.0

Introduction - ChoRus

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Godot-Rust - June 2024 update

piggui v0.2.0

git-cliff 2.4.0 is released!

Observations/Thoughts

Claiming, auto and otherwise

Ownership

Puzzle: Sharing declarative args between top level and subcommand using Clap

Will Rust be alive in 10 years?

Why WebAssembly came to the Backend (Wasm in the wild part 3)

in-place construction seems surprisingly simple?

Igneous Linearizer

Life in the FastLanes

Rust's concurrency model vs Go's concurrency model: stackless vs stackfull coroutines

Rust Walkthroughs

Master Rust by Playing Video Games!

Tokio Waker Instrumentation

Build with Naz : Comprehensive guide to nom parsing

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Rust Data-Structures: What is a CIDR trie and how can it help you?

Rust patterns: Micro SDKs

[series] The Definitive Guide to Error Handling in Rust (part 1): Dynamic Errors

Research

When Is Parallelism Fearless and Zero-Cost with Rust?

Miscellaneous

An Interview with Luca Palmieri of Mainmatter

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Thanks to Jiahao XU for the self-suggestion!

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hir_typeck: be more conservative in making "note caller chooses ty param" note

rustc_type_ir: Omit some struct fields from Debug output

account for things that optimize out in inlining costs

actually taint InferCtxt when a fulfillment error is emitted

add #[rustc_dump_{predicates,item_bounds}]

add hard error and migration lint for unsafe attrs

allow "C-unwind" fn to have C variadics

allow constraining opaque types during subtyping in the trait system

allow constraining opaque types during various unsizing casts

allow tracing through item_bounds query invocations on opaques

ban ArrayToPointer and MutToConstPointer from runtime MIR

change a DefineOpaqueTypes::No to Yes in diagnostics code

collect attrs in const block expr

coverage: add debugging flag -Zcoverage-options=no-mir-spans

coverage: overhaul validation of the #[coverage(..)] attribute

do not allow safe/unsafe on static and fn items

don't ICE when encountering an extern type field during validation

fix: break inside async closure has incorrect span for enclosing closure

E0308: mismatched types, when expr is in an arm's body, don't add semicolon ';' at the end of it

improve conflict marker recovery

improve tip for inaccessible traits

interpret: better error when we ran out of memory

make async drop code more consistent with regular drop code

make edition dependent :expr macro fragment act like the edition-dependent :pat fragment does

make pretty printing for f16 and f128 consistent

match lowering: expand or-candidates mixed with candidates above

show notice about "never used" of Debug for enum

stop sorting Spans' SyntaxContext, as that is incompatible with incremental

suggest inline const blocks for array initialization

suggest removing unused tuple fields if they are the last fields

uplift next trait solver to rustc_next_trait_solver

add f16 and f128

miri: /miri: nicer error when building miri-script fails

miri: unix/foreign_items: move getpid to the right part of the file

miri: don't rely on libc existing on Windows

miri: fix ICE caused by seeking past i64::MAX

miri: implement LLVM x86 adx intrinsics

miri: implement LLVM x86 bmi intrinsics

miri: nicer batch file error when building miri-script fails

miri: use strict ops instead of checked ops

save 2 pointers in TerminatorKind (96 → 80 bytes)

add SliceLike to rustc_type_ir, use it in the generic solver code (+ some other changes)

std::unix::fs: copy simplification for apple

std::unix::os::home_dir: fallback's optimisation

replace f16 and f128 pattern matching stubs with real implementations

add PidFd::{kill, wait, try_wait}

also get add nuw from uN::checked_add

generalize {Rc, Arc}::make_mut() to unsized types

implement array::repeat

make Option::as_[mut_]slice const

rename std::fs::try_exists to std::fs::exists and stabilize fs_try_exists

replace sort implementations

return opaque type from PanicInfo::message()

stabilise c_unwind

std: refactor the thread-local storage implementation

hashbrown: implement XxxAssign operations on HashSets

hashbrown: replace "ahash" with "default-hasher" in Cargo features

cargo toml: warn when edition is unset, even when MSRV is unset

cargo: add CodeFix::apply_solution and impl Clone

cargo: make -Cmetadata consistent across platforms

cargo: simplify checking feature syntax

cargo: simplify checking for dependency cycles

cargo test: add auto-redaction for not found error

cargo test: auto-redact file number

rustdoc: add support for missing_unsafe_on_extern feature

implement use<> formatting in rustfmt

rustfmt: format safety keywords on static items

remove stray println from rustfmt's rewrite_static

resolve clippy f16 and f128 unimplemented!/FIXMEs

clippy: missing_const_for_fn: add machine-applicable suggestion

clippy: add applicability filter to lint list page

clippy: add more types to is_from_proc_macro

clippy: don't lint implicit_return on proc macros

clippy: fix incorrect suggestion for manual_unwrap_or_default

clippy: resolve clippy::invalid_paths on bool::then

clippy: unnecessary call to min/max method

rust-analyzer: complete async keyword

rust-analyzer: check that Expr is none before adding fixup

rust-analyzer: add toggleLSPLogs command

rust-analyzer: add space after specific keywords in completion

rust-analyzer: filter builtin macro expansion

rust-analyzer: don't remove parentheses for calls of function-like pointers that are members of a struct or union

rust-analyzer: ensure there are no cycles in the source_root_parent_map

rust-analyzer: fix IDE features breaking in some attr macros

rust-analyzer: fix flycheck panicking when cancelled

rust-analyzer: handle character boundaries for wide chars in extend_selection

rust-analyzer: improve hover text in unlinked file diagnostics

rust-analyzer: only show unlinked-file diagnostic on first line during startup

rust-analyzer: pattern completions in let-stmt

rust-analyzer: use ItemInNs::Macros to convert ModuleItem to ItemInNs

rust-analyzer: remove panicbit.cargo extension warning

rust-analyzer: simplify some term search tactics

rust-analyzer: term search: new tactic for associated item constants

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Mostly a number of improvements driven by MIR inliner improvements, with a small number benchmarks having a significant regression due to improvements in sort algorithms, which are runtime improvements at the cost of usually slight or neutral compile time regressions, with outliers in a few cases.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: c2932aaf..c3d7fb39

See full report for details.

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week: * Change crates.io policy to not offer crate transfer mediation * UnsafePinned: allow aliasing of pinned mutable references

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[disposition: merge] #![crate_name = EXPR] semantically allows EXPR to be a macro call but otherwise mostly ignores it

[disposition: merge] Add nightly style guide section for precise_capturing use<> syntax

[disposition: merge] Tracking issue for PanicInfo::message

[disposition: merge] Tracking issue for Cell::update

[disposition: \<unspecified>] Tracking issue for core::arch::{x86, x86_64}::has_cpuid

[disposition: merge] Syntax for precise capturing: impl Trait + use<..>

[disposition: merge] Remove the box_pointers lint.

[disposition: merge] Re-implement a type-size based limit

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for duration_abs_diff

[disposition: merge] Check alias args for WF even if they have escaping bound vars

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Ok, copy-pasting the comment from this link, with my notes for a Win 10 with Calibre 7.24 (since I'm a quasi-luddite whose favorite OS is Win XP; self-described as 'I know just enough to get myself into trouble, but not enough to get myself out of it', also I'm lazy and hate uninstalling/reinstalling if I can avoid it):

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(from @bearCatBird on Reddit)

HERE IS WHAT WORKS AS OF AUGUST 2024 (Windows 10)

Thank you to u/toobnugget for the versions and more instructions, it also worked for me. Here's additional information to help people out. Just do it all in this order.

NOTE: If any of the links are broken, try pasting the broken URL into waybackmachine.org and look for files from today's date (8/12/24) or earlier.

CONFIRM ALL SOFTWARE IS UNINSTALLED

If you had previous versions of the software installed, uninstall them.

Then confirm there are no lingering data files with user settings. For example, with kindle, remove these lingering directories if they exist. C:\Users\AppData*\Amazon; C:\Program Files\Amazon; C:\Program Files (x86)\Amazon; C:\ProgramData\Amazon) HA Note: Yes, check/delete all of these places. You might have to go to the View tab in Windows Explorer and check the Hidden Items in the Show/hide subsection. The other posts you'll come across will seem to imply that newer versions are ok to use for this process with the way stuff is worded, but no, you need to actually go delete the program and reinstall the older version. F***ing obnoxious, but here we are. Just save yourself my headache and do it right off that bat.

You can also clear your registry (as described here) but I would save this as a last resort and only do this if you're unable to get the full instructions from this post to work. HA Note: I didn't need to do this

CALIBRE INSTALLATION

NOTE: if you want to use a kindle e-ink device, see step 2 of u/OccasionallyPrincess's comments here and also u/SeniorSiesta's comment here.

Download and install Calibre 7.13 (download here) (Some people tested with newer versions (7.2.1) and said it works, but I haven't verified.) HA Note: I have 7.24, this worked fine

In Calibre install the KFX input plugin (see OP's instructions up top), restart Calibre HA Note: Easy enough to do, as written, should come right up with "KFX" in the search bar

Download the DeDRM v10.0.9 (download here, the zip file at the bottom called DeDRM_tools_10.0.9.zip, then extract the zip to a folder.) HA Note: Follow as written, yes you're only going to extract the single umbrella zip, leave the deDRM and Obok plugin zips alone. I extracted the umbrella zip file to a new folder next to my Calibre library so that it goes with me if I ever have to manually move files to a new computer. It will feel weird to extract one zip and leave the others, but just trust the process.

NOTE: Some people had better luck using the alpha version of DeDRM. See this post here for more information if v10.0.9 isn't working for you.

4) In Calibre install the DeDRM files (see OP's instructions up top), restart Calibre HA Note: Follow as written, you just select the deDRM zip (single left click, not double click), it should install just fine and be happy

KINDLE INSTALLATION

NOTE: Some people had to turn off WiFi and unplug ethernet so they were 100% offline when installing Kindle to avoid automatic updates before disabling it in settings. HA Note: Yes, you have to do this step. Obnoxious, but necessary, so have these instructions in a tab for reference that won't get refreshed until you're back online

NOTE: Mac Users, you can probably download newer versions of the kindle app, as confirmed by this post.

5) Download and install Kindle 2.4.0(70904)

See u/Tilduke 's response here for more information.

(Other sites: download here or here or here) HA Note: Somewhere amongst all the link hopping, what was supposed to give me 70682 or something like that gave me 2.3.70840. If 70904 doesn't work, 70840 definitely worked for me first try

6a) Disable your internet

Many people needed to disable their internet/wifi temporarily for step 6b HA Note: Yes, do this

6b) Launch Kindle (don't login if possible), then go to

Tools > Options > General > disable "Automatically install updates..."

Tools > Options > Content > define a new path to save the kindle books you download

Finally, re-enable internet and Login (For more information about this step, see this comment)

Select a book, right click, download HA Note: Yes, do all of these. I downloaded a single book to start with as a check

CONFIRM THE DRM IS REMOVED

8) Find the book you just downloaded from Kindle in the new path (it will be the files that are newest, since they won't have book titles), select the .azw file, and drag it into Calibre. (Do not use the "Add Books" function.) HA Note: I tried this a couple different times the wrong way. The trick here is when the book/file is being added to Calibre (either through drag-n-drop or the Add Book button on the menu bar, the progress bar will display the names of the files that are being imported as it's working on them. When you download the first book to see if it is working as intended, remember the name of the book. Then go to where your Kindle library is on your computer (location C:/***/My Kindle Content, or whatever else you name it), you'll see a folder with a jumble of letters/numbers ending with _EBOK. Click into that and you'll see a bunch of files that are also letter/number/special character vomit. There should be a file that ends with _EBOK.azw (<- this is the one you want). I tiled my Windows Explorer side by side with Calibre and drag-n-dropped the .azw into Calibre, and it did the rest by itself (no additional conversion steps needed). Back to the trick about checking if it's working properly: in Calibre itself, if you're getting the janky letter/character vomit of the encrypted file while importing after the drag-n-drop, it's not working. If you drag-n-drop the encrypted file, but it displays the actual book name in this progress bar, it's working.

NOTE: Some people had better luck NOT dragging in the file and instead loaded it from the menu. See this comment for more information.

9) Once loaded in Calibre, right-click the book > view > view with calibre e-book viewer (if the book opens successfully, then the DRM has been removed. Use pgup and pgdn to see the pages). Close the viewer.

HA Note: After I confirmed that the first one imported and was able to be displayed properly by Calibre, I went back to the Windows Explorer window and clicked back so that I was viewing the subfolders within My Kindle Content. Then, in the search bar at the top right, I typed "*azw" (sans quotes) to pull up everything with that in the file name. Then, sort by file type to get all the .azw files grouped together. Highlight all .azw files and drag-n-drop everything into Calibre in one fell swoop. My ~130 files took...idk 2? 3? minutes? Depending on the size of your library, it may take a while. My experience in the past with large processes like that is just go find something else to do off the computer and leave it to do its thing. Once everything's imported, you might get a duplicates warning if you're like me and it took a couple go-arounds to figure out, but all the new stuff should populate new lines at the top of your library.

And voile, your stuff is in Calibre. I didn't bother with the rest of this, since I'm using my Calibre as an archive and not transferring stuff onto a different e-reader, etc.

CONVERTING THE BOOK

NOTE: This example shows conversion to EPUB, but you can convert to any format you want.

10) In Calibre, right click the book > Convert books > convert individually

11) Choose EPUB on the upper right, then click OK to export

12) If you want to change the location where Calibre exports the book, go to preference (CTRL + P) > click "Run Welcome wizard" at the bottom > then define a new folder for your calibre books to be saved. This folder will be where the book saves when you drag in the .azw file and also where the .epub exports.

For more context, see: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/2024_guide_to_dedrm_kindle_books/lhtah7p/

Just a quick note from your friendly neighborhood bookworm/indie author

if you use kindle for the majority of your library, they will be shutting down the function that allows you to download your files and transfer them via USB on the 26th of February. Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but this also means that if a book is taken off Amazon for any reason—like it being banned—they can scrape it off your kindle as well. So maybe backup your library?

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Bandai Delays Tamagotchi Uni 2.4.0 Update & Honeymoon Racing Tama Arena Event

Originally announced by Tamagotchi US on Instagram, but now delayed. Looks like they had the posts queued up to announce both the Tamagotchi Uni 2.4.0 software update and the Honeymoon Racing Tama Arena event that was supposed to start on Thursday, June 12th, 2025.

Bandai Namco US has posted an Instagram story informing followers about the delays. No reason as been provided for the two delays.

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Pokémon Sleep maintenance currently underway until January 16

Pokémon Sleep: is continuing to add new content and updates on a regular basis. Read on below to learn more: Maintenance Complete Thank you for playing Pokémon Sleep!The app version has been updated, so maintenance is now finished.Thank you for your cooperation. Source: Official Pokémon Sleep news

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WOM: Restaurant Discovery app for iOS: Google OAuth Consent Screen: Incorrect App Name of wom.auth.us-east-1.amazoncognito.com

 iOS 18.3.1

WOM: Restaurant Discovery app for iOS (version 2.4.0)

03/03/2025

Description:

The WOM: Restaurant Discovery app for iOS has a problem. The WOM: Restaurant Discovery app has a Google OAuth screen. 

Unfortunately, on this Google OAuth consent screen, the app name is incorrect. Instead of displaying an app name appropriate to the app, an app name of: "wom.auth.us-east-1.amazoncognito.com" appears.

Here's a screenshot of how it currently appears:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Download and launch the WOM: Restaurant Discovery app for iOS

2. Select the app icon in the upper right of the screen

3. Select "Sign Up"

4. From the "Sign Up" pop-up menu, select "Google"

5. On the Google Sign in screen, note the app name of: "wom.auth.us-east-1.amazoncognito.com"

Result: The Google OAuth consent screen displayed by the WOM: Restaurant Discovery app displays an app name of: "wom.auth.us-east-1.amazoncognito.com"Expected: An app name of "wom.auth.us-east-1.amazoncognito.com" isn't user friendly and doesn't provide relevant information to the end user

After launching the iOS app, select "Sign Up"

Select the "Google" option...

Note the app name of: "wom.auth.us-east-1.amazoncognito.com"

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Backup Your Kindle Books!

Amazon is getting rid of the "download and transfer via usb" option on Feb 26th!

So what this means is you can no longer get hard copy files to your kindle device with this method.

Where to start:

Calibre is a free ebook management software, available on windows, mac, and linux - but also comes in a portable version you can put on a flash drive. Ebooks are very small files, 100s of books can easily take less than 1GB of space.

And if you want and alternative reading app for your phone:

ReadEra app is an ad free reading app that is a good alternative to the kindle app if you need it. They also have a premium version for a one time payment of $15 which has a few extra features if you want them.

How to backup your books:

Details on your options to get your files this post has the most updated information and links needed.

what is DRM? TLDR: digital rights management (DRM) is meant to prevent piracy, however, this also means you never really own your ebooks. If Amazon decides to take down a book you bought? That's it, it's gone and it doesn't matter that you paid for it.

Removing DRM (extra instructions if needed) If you're on PC and don't have a kindle device, you'll want kindle version 2.4.0 or it won't work in Calibre.

In Calibre, navigate to Preferences > Plugins > Load Plugin From File - DeDRM - Use the latest Beta or Alpha release, follow instructions on the github page

Preferences > Plugins > Get New Plugins

Look up: KFX Input

You'll have to restart Calibre once you install so just add them all at once before you restart it.

You can find the folders with your ebooks under documents -> my kindle content, each book will have it's own folder and you're looking for the .azw file. If it says .azw3 double check the pc app version because that format will not work with DeDRM. Download a single book first, drag and drop it into Calibre and double click it to open and test that DeDRM is working properly. You should be to convert all the .azw files to epubs or any other format you want. To do this, either look in the top menu for 'convert books' or right click on the individual file to convert it, you can do this one at a time or select to convert in bulk. If you have 100s or even 1000+ books? focus on getting the files backed up first, once you have the book files you can take your time actually getting them into calibre.

If you need some troubleshooting help setting anything up just ask and I'll try to help!

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Border Run Project Update

Hey, so recently i released the 2.4.0 update and now I'm satisfied as to what state Border Run is in, it took me a long time but I'm glad it's over. If you couldn't tell from reading this, 2.4.0 will be the final update. I will still continue to support it as new Minecraft versions release. I may occasionally release bug fixing updates if i find any. What's next? Stay tuned, i will release a blog post about what's next soon!

[lizzystoddard]

The Sims FreePlay - 11.6.0 Update

To celebrate The Sims’ 25th Birthday in The Sims FreePlay’s first update of 2025, they’re going back to where it all began. The year 2000!

What’s new:

- Starting 4th of February, the celebrations start with a new gift every day for 25 days!

- Land a job at the local café, beat your rival, and make a cheese toast.

- Personalize your Sims’ very first studio apartment.

- Help your Sim get famous by winning Reality Island!

- Explore the game’s history at the new FreePlay Museum in ‘Another SimTown’

NOTE: Starting with this version, for the first time since version 2.4.0 in July 2013, the FireMonkeys logo appears next to the EA logo. This is because the game was developed by FireMonkeys, as this was mentioned in the “About” page via the “Info” section from the game’s menu in past versions.

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