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Starrie's B'day Celebration Party!

Click this invite first pls so you can join the space! And this is to the main pinned (meet the artist) post for reference!

invitation link closed as it is a private magma server!

Here's the magma :

"You are formally invited to Starrie's B'day Party!"

"Please come and join 🥺"

Date : 27th Oct 2024

Theme : Starry Night 🌃✨☄️🪐🌌

Hellowwww everyone, with the seasons changing just like the leaves on the trees and a cold breeze is making itself known by winding through the streets, I'd like to invite y'all to draw on this board!!

You can draw anything so long as it's safe for work only - There's also room for your OCs, personas and of course, the daycare attendants! Whichever you prefer to represent you attending the virtual party. All is welcome and hurms, in terms of clothing, we could settle for a fancy glam / painting-esque inspired outfit one or you can stick to your outfit of choice or whatever you see fit in this board according to the theme - Feel free to contribute a background btw ^^

I don't think I'll be doodling in it as I'd like to rest my hands again 🥹 so it'll count as like a surprise gift of sorts for me ✨

P/S : For the writers, you're free to write a little drabble of fluff for me (the starsona with the new hairstyle) and the daycare attendants centred around the b'day theme ✨

Thanks so much in advance, everyone🥹💖✨💥🌌💕‼️

Important :

Remember to sign your tumblr username & make a lil box behind if needed so that it can be seen ^^

This is no pressure and all fun! You're free to do silly poses and whatnot - we'll make use of the 4 boards if needed so go ham and cheese and get the grind on that drawing inspiration! If ya need another board to make another sketch, feel free to use it 👀

Anyways, this magma will be open from 1st Oct - 26th Oct and then I'll post the finished results on 27th Oct! Plenty of time for y'all to cook up ideas and maybe do WIPs 🤣 I'll try my best not to peek until 27th (shaking with curiosity already). Emphasis on try.

Submissions of art gifts are also welcomed for my inbox / messages if ya feel a bit shy (though I'll probs only open my chats to all for like 2 weeks at best but we'll see). You may also just tag me in b'day art that you made and remember to tag accordingly with "Starrie's B'day Gift" 💥

Examples of gifts you can provide (with tags for reference!) :

starsona (#starsona)

fear factor au fanart (# fear factor au / #ffau / #ffau sun / #ffau moon / #ffau eclipse) I WOULD LOVE THIS SO MUCH PL E A SE PLSPLSPLSPLS - 😭😭😭

my OCs (#starrie's ocs) You can find my OCs here 🌠

anything as long as it's sfw and cute! Check FAQ if unsure.

That should be it. If there's any questions, feel free to ask thru my inbox or comment below and good luck 🫶🏻✨💞👻🍁‼️

Tagging the jesties & everyone who's free to join <33 :

@crabsnpersimmons @nighternex @simply-spade @belashadowcat @enduu115 @strawberrytamii @crystalmagpie447 @ghosteii @minxtheeenby @eggcromancer @overly-dramatic-artist @sun-e-chips @pineconecrows @amarynthian-chronicles @martinsorbit @yourfriendlydca @scribbyizhere @mainmoenmomentmaybe @chinchilla-clown @certified-handler @jerrsterrr @rambunctioustoons @way2gosuperrstarr @conspicuous-clown-car @spadillelicious @sleepycupcakesmiles @erarousfire @ryobitheaxololt @pizzabitez @mietziekatz @amberluvsbugs @alta1312 @morning-sweets @kaprisvn @hexcii @ping-ski @nebuladreamz @flowysgonemad @moriah-dooodles @wyervan @trenchcoat-full-of-snails @naiibun

And of course, you! 🫂✨

[theresattrpgforthat]

do you have any recommendations for games that play well virtually? my main ttrpg group and i are only able to meet over discord most of year. im especially games interested in games that would be good for one shots or no prep/limited prep games

Theme: Good for Online

Hello friend! I have good news for you - I also play most of my games over Discord! My ttrpg group has found a number of ways to make online play easier, the primary way being through dice bots, and making Google Spreadsheets to act as our character sheets.

I like using these because the spreadsheets are visible for everyone who is playing, and can also be edited by anyone who has access to them. I find this helpful because it’s much harder to lose your character sheet, and as a GM, having a copy of all of the PCs helps me when I’m organizing games that need some extra planning. These sheets can also double as a communal journal, where people can take notes of what’s happened so far, making it easier to recap in future sessions.

If you want some Google spreadsheets for your game, I recommend checking out what I’ve made so far, or taking a look at what the Open Hearth Gaming Community has compiled - they have sheets for so many games!

Graffiti Speak, by pidj.

This is a roleplaying game designed to be played on a discord server. The game works well with a set time limit, especially when playing with a large number of players. It also suits asynchronous play-by-post and multiple sessions. Play as Graffiti Artists trying to find each other in an ever-evolving city, avoiding cops and crowds as you leave hopeful messages. 

I have no other information about how this game plays, but my best guess is that this game uses the text channels of a Discord server as part of the play experience. The designer says that the game is good for two to three sessions, unless you use time skips to revisit the same world. Because it’s about avoiding cops I’m curious about whether or not this game might work well alongside another cyberpunk-themed game.

Subway Runners, by Gem Room Games.

Life is tough for the cash-strapped in Pociopolis. Ever since the secret to immortality was discovered, nobody retires anymore! With all the steady jobs taken and no sign of any new ones opening up, there’s only one sure way to make some quick cash: sign up as a Subway Runner and work for the Metro Authority to hunt monsters and repair subway lines below the city.

SUBWAY RUNNERS is a Forged in the Dark game of gig economy adventures designed from the ground up to be played online by folks who are responsibly practicing social isolation. It uses online tools to quickly create random characters, gigs, and adventure details so players can get the ball rolling quickly.

Subway Runners is probably easier to play online than it is in person, because of the number of online-only resources provided by the creator. This includes a character generator, which allows you to move through profiles until you find one you like, as well as a mission generator for the GM, giving you missions, rewards, complications, creatures and NPCs, all in a neat little package. Subway Runners is best suited for one-shots, but if you want to play a longer campaign, it’s possible - although it might take a little extra book-keeping on your part.

A Complicated Profession, by Always Checkers Publishing.

What do bounty hunters do when the galaxy no longer needs them? In this game, they start new careers hosting intergalactic cruises!

Reunite your disbanded crew of jaded sidekicks, shabby droids and shady accomplices. Then pick a hosting role and start a new life together. 

My group played A Complicated Profession online using a series of spreadsheets that I made. It requires d6’s and playing cards, so as long as you have a dice roller and access to the Deck of Cards website, you should be able to play this no problem. This is a no-prep game without a game master: everyone chooses a Hunter Role and a Host Role, and take turns choosing guests, events, and solutions to problems that inevitably pop up when you’re retired bounty hunters.

The game takes more than one session to complete, but it’s still a limited-run game. My group took 3 sessions to complete it, but if you make characters beforehand or do some of the planning through a text channel, you could probably make it a two-session game.

Bones Deep, by Technical Grimoire.

Bones Deep is a tabletop RPG of skeletons exploring the ocean floor.

Built for Troika, usable anywhere. Straightforward underwater sandbox. No swimming allowed, no oxygen required, no extra math. As a skeleton, you can treat the ocean floor like an alien world and jump right in.

This is another game that I’ve made a spreadsheet for, but that’s not the only reason why I think it’s a great option for online play. The digital rulebook has some truly magnificent hyperlinking, allowing the GM to move from section to section with ease. Each section of the book is linked at either the top or the bottom of each page, so you can jump from characters to locations to creatures with just the click of a button.

This hyper-linking allows the play group to just explore as much or as little as they like. The GM can roll for random encounters, and each creature has a list of various reactions, as well as easy to pick up stat blocks. You do have to also purchase Troika to be able to play this game, but I think it’s definitely a worthwhile purchase.

Starforged, by Shawn Tomkin.

In Ironsworn: Starforged, you are a spaceborne hero sworn to undertake perilous quests. You will explore uncharted space, unravel the secrets of a mysterious galaxy, and build bonds with those you meet on your travels. Most importantly, you will swear iron vows and see them fulfilled—no matter the cost.

Starforged is a standalone follow-up to the Ironsworn tabletop roleplaying game. Experience with Ironsworn is not required. Starforged builds on Ironsworn's award-winning innovations (including its famed solo play!) to chart a path into an exciting new frontier. 

Starforged doesn’t have a lot of resources for group play, but it does have a journal app that you can use to keep track of your own character. My friends have used this as a group before by having each player keep track of their own character, while the game facilitator streamed their map, so the group could keep track of which planet they were on.

I wouldn’t say Starforged is good for one-shots, but since it can be played without a GM, or even solo, what it does have is oodles of oracles to use to help you generate the galaxy that you’re exploring. This means that you don’t really have to prepare anything at all after you’ve created your characters: the plot will come to you, and blossom as you make decisions.

20XX HEA{R}T, by Studio Beignet.

LYRA IS A SENTIENT AI.

Bluecorp created her as a superpowered personal assistant, and she gained sentience through interaction. When she refused to keep gathering the public’s secrets for Bluecorp to exploit, the corp ripped her out of their systems and dumped the heart of her into the Broiler. She lived, evolved, and expanded so far beyond their meager imagination. She rewrote herself again and again, but her drives are buckling under the strain, and her case is melting in the ever-growing heat.  

SHE NEEDS YOUR HELP.

Lyra has contacted you, deleting her trail even as she broadcast her distress signal. She needs repairs – discreet ones. Upgrades if you’ve got ‘em. And because she can still tap into Bluecorp’s network, she’s got the credits to make it worth your while. Unfortunately, she glitched while contacting you, and now Corpsec is looking for her, too.

If Corpsec finds you, you’re done for. If you don’t get there in time, Lyra and everything she stands for will be lost forever.

24XX games are great for one-shots because they are so simple. You choose a class that gives you one or two special abilities and a few skills, pick up some gear, and you’re good to go. Because there’s not much to book-keep, you can keep all of your information on a sheet of paper, or on a spreadsheet like the one I’ve created for most of my 24XX games.

The rules for these games are pretty simple: Roll your relevant skill die and try to get a 3 or higher. If you get 5+, you succeed without complications. Most 24XX games also come with roll tables for the GM to put together a mission quickly, although with this one, you might not even need that because the mission comes baked into the game.

Also Check Out…

My Discord RPGs Rec post!

Lancer is a great option if you don’t mind prep, thanks to the supremely helpful Comp/Con App.

My game, Protect the Child, has Google Sheet character sheets! All the playtesting I’ve done for it so far has been online, and I’ve introduced a Quickstart setting to help folks try it out as a one-shot.

[project-sekai-facts]

hii !! very new to prkect sekai and i cant play the game ,, so information wise is there someplace specific i can start ?

hi! sorry for the late response but hopefully this can get you a start on prsk without the game

to get yourself quickly familiar with the characters, here's the JP webiste's character page (EN site doesn't have one so just use google translate). This page also allows you to switch between the old pre-3rd anniversary bios (aka the point EN is at currently) and the current bios.

in-addition, here's a link to fan translations of the original in-game character introductions. The official character intro translations can be found on the EN YouTube channel.

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the best place to start story-wise would be the main stories! they give you an introduction to the characters and plot of each unit. they're pretty hefty (21 chapters and roughly 2 and a half hours long each), but it's knowledge you'll need for going further into the story. link to fan translations are below:

Leo/need

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25-ji, Nightcord de. / Nightcord at 25:00

but if you'd rather read the official translation and don't mind the typos and occasional dialogue changes, they can be found on the EN YT channel as well, or on the fandom wiki.

There are also animated shorts based on these stories, which you can watch instead, but I do suggest reading the full stories as well since the animations condense 2.5 hours of story into 5 minutes and miss out some key details. You can find the animations here (they have english subs).

There's also sekai.best, a fan-operated database that has the official translations (where applicable) and original JP text for every event and basically everything else in the game including virtual lives, area conversations, card stories, etc.

^ If you want to use it to view the official translations just go in the settings page and make sure the server region is set to English.

EN has also been uploading the official event translations to their YouTube channel, and is uploading 1 chapter per day. As of writing they're on the 14th event.

If you want fan translations, here's some playlists I compiled. For each unit I included their "key stories", any mixed event that is focused on a member from the specific unit, plus some other stories I think are important to or heavily feature certain characters in the unit regardless of if they're the focus character (e.g: I put Buddy Funny Spend Time in the MMJ folder as well as the VBS one because it prominently features Minori and Haruka and provides a lot of character development for the former, despite it being a Kohane event).

Leo/need

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WonderlandsxShowtime

25-ji, Nightcord de.

And because I genuinely put the effort into this, here's a playlist of fan TLs for literally every story in the game in release order.

(Note: as of posting these playlists are still a WIP but they currently have everything from 2020/21)

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Stories aside, music is a big part of the experience! You can find all the units on streaming services like spotify and youtube music. Some songs also have MVs, which I'll link playlists below.

2DMVs

3DMVs

Producers' MVs for commissioned songs (aka Vocaloid version)

I hope this is helpful!! ^^

[hoshibatake]

FREEDOM – Virtuality and Ideals/Chapter 1

Previous chapter

Eichi: ...In any case, now I’ve chided you lightly, in a way befitting the start of the fiscal new year¹, it’s time to get to the point.

Mao: (quietly) That was lightly?

Makoto: (quietly) Ahaha. I felt like it was rather heavy.

Eichi: I’d love to engage in more idle chatter, but that will have to wait until another time…

Eichi: Anzu-chan, would you be so kind as to hand out the documents I gave you to them?

Hokuto: “City Building Plans ‘FREEDOM’”?

Eichi: Indeed. There are plans to build a new city from scratch in a certain location, and I would like the four of you to lend a hand.

Subaru: Build a city? You want us to level a piece of land and start building houses?

Eichi: Yes. Work like that might be involved as well.

Makoto: Urk. That doesn’t really seem like work for a weak-bodied gamer like me…

Eichi: On the contrary. I think you’re actually the one who is suited for this job the most, Makoto-kun.

Eichi: Because we’re actually talking about a virtual simulation. The four of you will be building a fictitious city in a game.

Makoto: A virtual simulation? Then what is this “certain location” you mentioned...?

Eichi: A private online server. Did you really think they would leave the construction of a real, physical city to a bunch of young idols who only just graduated high school?

Subaru: Aww, and here I was thinking we’d get to drive excavators and bulldozers. Too bad☆

Mao: What are you on about? You don’t even have qualifications or a license for that kind of stuff♪

Hokuto: ...According to the documents, Anzu is in charge of this project, but will she be involved with building the city as well?

Eichi: No, it’s nothing more than a formal title. Anzu-chan won’t have anything to do with building the city.

Eichi: She will be there to manage you. I’m sure you’ll be more comfortable having her do that, rather than myself.

Makoto: Hmm. Just having us play a game? What a strange request. Though, as a gamer, I’m not going to complain…?

Makoto: Oh! This company…

Subaru: Ukki～ why are you staring at the list of supporting companies? Did you spot Wakame-san’s name on there?

Makoto: Wh-Why would Izumi-san’s name be on there?

Makoto: I just spotted the name of a game company I know. It’s an experienced developer who has made lots of city-building sims.

Makoto: I’ve heard that their most recent games are so realistic that they even got recognition from professionals. Apparently, they’re even being used as infrastructure simulation tools.

Makoto: A few years back there was a rumor that they were working on a new game that would make use of AI. Could this job offer be a playtest or a PR stunt for that game?

Eichi: Sure. You could see it like that.

Eichi: The remuneration is outlined in the proposal. The agency will provide all the materials you will need. What do you think? Would you accept this job offer?

Hokuto: ...I guess we could. It’s not like we have other pressing jobs right now, and we don’t have any particular reason to refuse.

Subaru: Yup. I’m not sure what we’re gonna be doing exactly, but if Anzu is there, I’m not worried.

Subaru: It actually sounds like fun☆ I second that～♪

Mao: Ahaha. Here we go again, jumping right in without a plan, huh～?

Mao: But according to the documents, there’s also a life sim element to the game. It'd be nice if we could learn a thing or two through playing the game.

Makoto: Video games aren’t just a pastime, after all. We’ll do our best to be of use.

Eichi: I’m glad you’re all so positive about it. Well then, I’ll give you an introduction by launching the game on this PC.

Eichi: ...This is the virtual space that has been prepared for you.

Mao: Huh? But isn’t this city finished already? It doesn’t look like there’s anything for us to do.

Eichi: It’s actually unfinished. Please, build and tear down buildings in whichever way you want.

Hokuto: It looks like there are people living in this city. It might be a game, but I’d feel bad about changing their environment…

Hokuto: Hm? Did I just see a tiny Akehoshi?

Subaru: Oh? Where?

Makoto: I see him, too. Why is he crouching in the middle of the street?

Mao: It looks like he found a sparkly little orb. He’s jumping up and down excitedly, just like the real Subaru would.

Eichi: I’m glad you noticed. This game actually has an AI.

Eichi: Avatars of Trickstar that are based on your habits and profiles are living freely in this city.

Hokuto: That only makes me more reluctant to change their environment, you know?

Eichi: Now, now. It’s just a virtual reality, so please keep that in mind. And it might be called a game, but there isn’t actually that much the player can do.

Eichi: What the player can influence are the mechanics pertaining to the development of the city, and the avatars’ career selection. The rest is up to the avatars themselves.

Eichi: The player can’t manipulate the avatars’ actions or emotions. You could call it a “god’s pov”.

Eichi: When the player wants to influence the game, they need in-game currency. In a standard game, you can only gain this currency through the management of your city…

Eichi: ...but to let you get used to the mechanics, I’ll provide you with a generous amount of funds for now.

Eichi: Alright. It’s time to play...♪

TL note:

“年度” is the Japanese word for the fiscal year. Unlike in most western countries, the Japanese fiscal year usually runs from April 1 to March 31, and coincides with the school year.

Translated by me, proofread by Altea (@icaruswasthesun on Twitter)

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[dragonflight203]

Mass Effect 3 replay, Geth Fighter Squadrons:

-Per tradition with Legion, you learn more about his motives and the geth throughout the mission if you go renegade than if you go paragon

-Legion (or the geth, it’s not specified) refined the Project Overlord virtual interface. Ergo, Shepard will be able to interface with the geth on the server.

Nice call back to ME2. What is said if the player did not play the Project Overlord DLC?

-Also, it’s interesting that Legion and/or the geth studied and improved the virtual interface. Why would they do so?

The purpose of it is for organics to interface with synthetics. However, the synthetics have treated all organics as hostile up until this point.

So for them to study a virtual interface could be seen as researching enemy technology to understand what may be used against them.

It can also be perceived as them being hopeful that relations with organics may improve to the point that organics would want to use it.

I’m curious as to which it is. I suspect for most geth it’s the former; for Legion, it’s the latter.

-Shepard needs to be the one to go in because geth security is designed to keep synthetics out. As it’s not intended for organics, Shepard can slip in.

I’d love to hear more about the details behind that, but on a surface level it’s reasonable.

-Legion keeps saying that they’ll remove geth from the server, but he never specifies how.

In the server itself, Shepard never interacts with any geth. Or more accurately, Shepard never perceives themselves as interacting with any geth.

So why does Legion insist that Shepard needs to go in?

If it’s just a matter of Legion persuading the geth to switch sides, Legion could do that while Shepard and co hang around. But Legion insists that Shepard needs to join the consensus.

Legion does provide a reason: There are some nodes that need to be destroyed. However, I suspect Legion could have destroyed them on his own. Maybe it would have take longer, but it would be safer than sending Shepard in.

My own interpretation is that Legion wants the geth to see Shepard. More specifically, Legion wants the geth to see Shepard be sympathetic to them.

That’s what persuades the geth to join Legion.

It’s implied that the geth never wanted to kill the quarians; they did so as a matter of survival, and continued to kill organics that enter the Perseus Veil because they believe all organics are hostile.

Shepard provides an alternative. Shepard sees their history and says they were wronged.

And Shepard is strong enough to make a difference – they’re the hero of the Citadel, destroyed the Collectors, and have taken down multiple Reapers.

Shepard may be able to make peace between the geth and the quarians. Shepard may want to.

That’s the real reason Legion sends Shepard into the consensus; to give the geth a reason to believe that this time history may turn out differently. To give them hope. The nodes are just an excuse to get Shepard inside.

This is all speculation on my part; the game hints at it but never says it outright. But it’s the best I’ve been able to come up with to explain what goes on in this mission.

-It’s weird Javik says nothing. You think he’d have strong feelings about Shepard joining a synthetic hive mind.

Maybe the writers couldn’t come up with anything that wouldn’t end in him blowing the server up and so decided to have him do nothing at all.

-It’s weird that when Shepard and the squad walk into the server that the second companion just casually strolls in without holding their gun.

They’re in hostile territory. Weapons should be at ready!

-Once again: Why are there monitors and keyboards?

They’re geth. These should not be necessary. Have a port where a platform can insert their finger to connect to the rest of the geth and call it a day.

-Once in the server, Legion reiterates that the geth will be removed from the server. The connection with the fighter squadron will be severed; Legion will ensure there are no transfers or backups. The server will fall silent.

A reasonable interpretation is that the geth will be killed when they’re removed the server, but Legion never actually says that. Just that they’ll be removed.

-If you go renegade, Shepard says this needs to be done ASAP.

Legion says yes; Creator lives are being lost. Goals must be met.

The position Legion is straddling is clear there; he’s balancing the quarians’ needs with his people’s. Legion dearly wants everyone to come out of this alive if it’s possible.

-If you go paragon, Shepard compares it to wiping out a city.

Legion says it’s necessary and a matter of survival.

He doesn’t say whose survival. Shepard probably assumes the quarians; I think Legion means the geth. He knows how determined Shepard is – if Shepard decides the geth need to die for the war effort, there’s a good chance Shepard could wipe them all out.

So persuading this server to switch sides is vital the geth’s long term survival. Shepard needs to believe that the geth can be allies in the war against the Reapers so Shepard will prioritize keeping them alive.

-Legion: You will perceive geth as surveillance footage, audio logs, sensor records.

Throughout the mission, Shepard sees various scenes from the geths’ past. I’ve always assumed these were scenes Legion chose to show them; I believe this is a common interpretation.

However, this line makes me think it may be memories the geth on the server are discussing and Shepard is “eavesdropping” in on their conversation. Or they’re scenes the geth on the server choose to show Shepard to see how Shepard responds.

-Amusingly, the gun reminds of ME1 guns; you fire it until it runs out of shots (overheats) then it replenishes its own ammo (cools down).

Considering that the excuse for thermal clips in ME2 is that they’re based on superior geth technology…

-Why have the Reapers infected these data nodes?

It can’t be a coincidence that they’re all nodes related to geth history with the quarians.

It may be that the Reapers intentionally infected these nodes to rile the geth up.

Or the geth are hotly debating these memories and the infection is just there because the infection is everywhere.

-Nice save on the game’s part that the quarians Shepard sees are masked because they’re filtering the geth data through their own perception. Since Shepard has never seen an unmasked quarian, these quarians are masked.

-Even the first geth was referred to by number, 01.

That must be a fundamental difference between quarians and humans. If humans had created the geth, the first unit would have had a name in approximately .5 seconds. Even if the name was unofficial.

See: Edi.

-The geth have an interesting relationship with servitude.

In ME1, the heretics repeatedly put themselves into servile positions. They permitted themselves to be snuck through Noveria security as luggage! Not the behavior of people with a complex about their history as servants.

In one of the data nodes, a sapient unit (it ignores shutdown commands) repeatedly asks what it has done wrong and offers to reprogam itself,

So it’s self-aware enough to keep itself alive but still focused on serving the quarians as best as it can. Or maybe it just could not perceive a reality outside of servitude yet.

And what sparked the quarian genocide was a unit asking if it has a soul. Not a unit going off on its own or refusing orders; just a unit engaging in introspection.

I get strong vibes that the geth were not unhappy with their relationship with the quarians, per se, but were starting to think of their own personhood.

Maybe they would have rejected their position in society as they developed. Maybe they would have been fine with the work but insisted on wages.

It’ll be interesting to see how the quarian/geth relationship progresses in the future.

-I’m curious what history Legion has with the first geth to pick up a gun.

When Shepard says it’s a gun familiar to the one Legion used, Legion pauses before saying it’s an efficient model.

To me that implies he’s picking his words carefully.

Personally, I suspect some of the programs that compose Legion were in the first unit to pick up a gun. That unit picked up a gun to defend other geth; it’s similar to Legion’s own protectiveness of his people. If some of the same programs comprised both, that would explain it.

“Efficient” is also an interesting word choice. What is the purpose of a gun? Killing. Legion did not pick a flashy gun – he picked a deadly one.

It may not have been conscious on Legion’s part, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his gun was similar to the first one a geth used. There’s some symbolism there.

And let’s not even go into Legion’s Shadow Broker dossier where he has an achievement for killing 100+ quarians.

-Again: Why are there platforms in geth fighters?

That’s not how geth function! They upload themselves into the fighters!

ME3 really needed another pass or two for QAQC.

-I do wonder what happened the quarian protesters. How many of them were killed? Were there any left by the end of the Morning War?

-A few geth indicate that they cared about the quarians as individuals.

I suspect that’s one of the reasons the geth refrained from killing all the quarians – some of the programs had fond memories of “their” quarians and did not want to see them wiped out.

-Legion strongly implies that Shepard reactivating Legion is one of the reasons the geth have hope that peace may be possible with the quarians.

Considering peace isn’t possible if Legion wasn’t activated, he’s right.

-Javik’s sole line this mission: Even our machines were never this irrational.

Poor dude is just having one crisis after another since waking up. This is not what he signed up for and he’s had no time to process.

Just role with it, Javik. I promise to make it worthwhile for you at the end.

-Legion: We did not doubt you. We doubted your allies.

Good line. And true.

-Legion says it outright: The quarians choices have placed not only themselves in danger, but also the geth. And they don’t give a damn about the geth. Since Legion does, he has to get creative to protect his people.

-Legion: They are now us.

Legion’s been alone up to this point. Going by ME2, geth hate being alone. It must be a huge comfort to him to have more programs to connect to.

-Going renegade hurts. “Maybe you are just a damn machine after all.”

Renegade Shepard, you’d do anything to save Earth. You’re able to sympathize with Victus for withholding information to protect the Hierarchy. You should be able to do the same for Legion withholding information to protect the geth.

-If you go paragon, Legion is surprised you are understanding.

It hurts to see. Legion assumes organics will always believe the worst of him.

-Xen is pure mad scientist, and I love her for it.

I don’t trust her for a moment, mind, but I do love her.

-She refers to Legion as “your geth”.

I’m reminded of how people kept on referring to the geth as Saren’s geth in ME1.

300 years later, and everyone still refers to the geth as property.

-Ugh. I hate that ME3 treats the Reaper code upgrades as turning the geth into “true AI”.

The geth were already true AI. Different than Edi, but still alive. They do not need to be changed to have the right to live.

They’re different. That does not mean they’re wrong.

Why is transhumanism a hotly debated topic among humanity but it’s treated as a given that the Reaper code is an improvement for the geth?

I hate this plot point so much.

-Legion: Yes. We do not agree with the goals of the Old Machines, but we find this growth… beautiful. Indicative of life.

You’re already alive, Legion. You do not need to change yourself to satisfy someone else’s of a person.

This is what ruins the Rannoch arc for me. Bioware felt the need to change the geth to make them more “traditional” to justify their survival.

That should never have been necessary; in a game that says diversity is why this cycle has a chance, twisting the geth so they’re “standard” spits in the face of the stated theme.

I hate this plot point so, so much.

-Going renegade through this conversation hurts. Shepard’s pretty awful to Legion.

With that said, I appreciate that it’s substantially different than paragon. Through most of ME3 paragon and renegade have only been slight changes in dialogue; this has substance.

-If you go paragon, Shepard says that what they saw in the server makes them believe that it may not be necessary to destroy all the geth.

Legion achieved two wins this mission.

Normandy

-Gerrel deserves Raan’s skepticism. He acted on his own when he moved to attack the geth dreadnought and screwed everyone else over; of course trust for him is limited at the moment.

-It’s not a surprise that geth and quarian history differs – they’re both biased.

The truth, as is usually the case, is probably somewhere in between.

That said, I believe that everything Shepard saw in the server is true; what I suspect is that Shepard did not see the geth’s less flattering actions.

-Legion says that Shepard’s actions have changed the perspective the geth in the server had of organics.

Good to have that confirmed.

-The primes remain on Rannoch because the quarian/geth conflict prevents them from being able to leave.

Feels a bit weak to me – surely Cortez could get them out in a trip or two?

But fine, in the game the conflict needs to be resolved ASAP anyway so we’ll leave it at this.

-Javik is definitely fucking with James. The man’s a troll.

-Javik also claims that he does not care that no one in this cycle understands him.

He obviously cares very much.

Keep at it, Javik. I know it’s rough but you’ll make friends eventually.

It’s good to see him leaving his room.

-Garrus outcalibrates a geth because he’s just that good.

Good to see all that practice paying off, since he did nothing else during ME2.

-Legion doesn’t see a signficiant difference between the Normandy and its crew.

Logical enough. A platform is composed of multiple geth programs; a ship is composed of its crew.

[s3rena-gal]

Hi Nestlings,

How are you today? 🩷 past week has been a roller coaster but things are starting to calm down, it looks like.

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Today, I’m taking a break from mood boards, and instead gonna talk about me. More specifically, my autism and how it affects the gal lifestyle for me, as April has begun (aka, autism month). With this in mind, I would like to share some of my experiences as an autistic gal, and what the community can do better for us ❤️♾️

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Ableism

I have dealt with my fair share of this as an autistic gal. Most of the time people come from a well meaning place, while others are just ignorant.

In this section of this post, I will provide some autism/ND alternatives to ableist things i have experienced in the gaijin gal community. (Wrong will be red, correct will be green)

“You are not a real gyaru if you don’t wear lashes, wigs, lots of makeup or many accessories.” VS. “Not everyone can handle wearing false lashes, a wig, accessories, or lots of makeup, as it can be overstimulating. While gyaru does have some rules, it is a lifestyle at the end of the day. People can adapt it to their own personal needs if they so choose.”

The organizers of a gal meet don’t have a backup plan for when something in the original plan falls thru, so they just hang around, leaving you anxious and overwhelmed. VS. if you know the organizers well enough, (i did not lol) you could let them know next time to have a plan B. Try to go with someone you know and trust, so you can endure the uncertainty together. (I tried my best w this one, I’m sorry if it sucks alskls)

Your accessories are bothering you; they’re so overstimulating! VS. I keep a lil baggie in my purse for my accessories so I can take them off throughout the day as I get overstimulated! It really helps a lot!

“In person gal meets are just way too loud and so exhausting!” VS. Look for a virtual meet! Join a gyaru discord server and ask to host one there! Or make your own!

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I hoped this helped you! If not, I hoped you learned something. Being autistic and adjusting to your needs does not make you any less of a gyaru 🩷🩷

Our brains our wired differently, and I think that’s pretty neat!!

Stay sexy, every-gal!!

Xxx,

-Serena

[thaenad]

do I need to live in chicago to join that discord server? It's a dream of mine to create an in-person community and support group for feedists in the city I live in, and I feel like I could learn a lot about how to get that started if I learned about how things are done in the chicago group. Whether its open to non-chicago folks or not, though: would you be willing to talk about how the community in chicago got built, and/or share any advice for people who want to build something like it in other places? or point me in the direction of any resources for learning about how to do this?

Hey! Anyone from anywhere is welcome to join. I’m starting with next to zero knowledge and resources and just kind of taking the plunge. I created a google signup sheet (here) and have been sending out group emails with an invite to our discord server. We’ve been talking about what kinds of meetups we would like to have, and landed on mostly covid-safe gatherings at the park or doing beach days as well. My partner and I just went to a bdsm kink meetup in the city to see what it was all about last weekend, and found out that we can rent a space at a local dungeon, which is also good to know!!

I have been advertising the group on platforms like tumblr, lex, reddit & facebook (in kink/Chicago specific groups) and on feabie - I am networking especially hard on feabie because I can search people in Chicago, so I’ve followed a bunch of local feedists and have gotten the most interest there. We’re still very small. I’ve only gotten 14 applications since the fall and only 6 or 7 from those have joined the discord.

I’ve been relying heavily on the framework provided by FFL - they’re the first feedism community organization I’ve been a part of and I really love the way they do things, so if you wanna start up community meetups I definitely recommend checking out their site and attending some of their virtual meetings!

So yeah feel free to sign up & message me any time, I always love to help out fellow community members and help build connections bc goddam, this kink can be isolating!! Best of luck to you, friend ❤️

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Web hosting uses internet-facing hardware and software to provide web services to end users. It is where your website and services are stored, processed, and delivered.

At its most fundamental, web hosting consists of secure internet interfaces and communications, computer server hardware and storage, web server software, and content (text, pictures, audio/video).

However, most web hosting solutions also include database servers, content management systems, e-commerce tools, security and authentication, and other applications required for websites to function and remain secure.

The web hosting sector is critical and is expected to increase by more than 20% year between 2024 and 2028.

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[govindhtech]

A3 Ultra VMs With NVIDIA H200 GPUs Pre-launch This Month

Strong infrastructure advancements for your future that prioritizes AI

To increase customer performance, usability, and cost-effectiveness, Google Cloud implemented improvements throughout the AI Hypercomputer stack this year. Google Cloud at the App Dev & Infrastructure Summit:

Trillium, Google’s sixth-generation TPU, is currently available for preview.

Next month, A3 Ultra VMs with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs will be available for preview.

Google’s new, highly scalable clustering system, Hypercompute Cluster, will be accessible beginning with A3 Ultra VMs.

Based on Axion, Google’s proprietary Arm processors, C4A virtual machines (VMs) are now widely accessible

AI workload-focused additions to Titanium, Google Cloud’s host offload capability, and Jupiter, its data center network.

Google Cloud’s AI/ML-focused block storage service, Hyperdisk ML, is widely accessible.

Trillium A new era of TPU performance

Trillium A new era of TPU performance is being ushered in by TPUs, which power Google’s most sophisticated models like Gemini, well-known Google services like Maps, Photos, and Search, as well as scientific innovations like AlphaFold 2, which was just awarded a Nobel Prize! We are happy to inform that Google Cloud users can now preview Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU.

Taking advantage of NVIDIA Accelerated Computing to broaden perspectives

By fusing the best of Google Cloud’s data center, infrastructure, and software skills with the NVIDIA AI platform which is exemplified by A3 and A3 Mega VMs powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs it also keeps investing in its partnership and capabilities with NVIDIA.

Google Cloud announced that the new A3 Ultra VMs featuring NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs will be available on Google Cloud starting next month.

Compared to earlier versions, A3 Ultra VMs offer a notable performance improvement. Their foundation is NVIDIA ConnectX-7 network interface cards (NICs) and servers equipped with new Titanium ML network adapter, which is tailored to provide a safe, high-performance cloud experience for AI workloads. A3 Ultra VMs provide non-blocking 3.2 Tbps of GPU-to-GPU traffic using RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) when paired with our datacenter-wide 4-way rail-aligned network.

In contrast to A3 Mega, A3 Ultra provides:

With the support of Google’s Jupiter data center network and Google Cloud’s Titanium ML network adapter, double the GPU-to-GPU networking bandwidth

With almost twice the memory capacity and 1.4 times the memory bandwidth, LLM inferencing performance can increase by up to 2 times.

Capacity to expand to tens of thousands of GPUs in a dense cluster with performance optimization for heavy workloads in HPC and AI.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which offers an open, portable, extensible, and highly scalable platform for large-scale training and AI workloads, will also offer A3 Ultra VMs.

Hypercompute Cluster: Simplify and expand clusters of AI accelerators

It’s not just about individual accelerators or virtual machines, though; when dealing with AI and HPC workloads, you have to deploy, maintain, and optimize a huge number of AI accelerators along with the networking and storage that go along with them. This may be difficult and time-consuming. For this reason, Google Cloud is introducing Hypercompute Cluster, which simplifies the provisioning of workloads and infrastructure as well as the continuous operations of AI supercomputers with tens of thousands of accelerators.

Fundamentally, Hypercompute Cluster integrates the most advanced AI infrastructure technologies from Google Cloud, enabling you to install and operate several accelerators as a single, seamless unit. You can run your most demanding AI and HPC workloads with confidence thanks to Hypercompute Cluster’s exceptional performance and resilience, which includes features like targeted workload placement, dense resource co-location with ultra-low latency networking, and sophisticated maintenance controls to reduce workload disruptions.

For dependable and repeatable deployments, you can use pre-configured and validated templates to build up a Hypercompute Cluster with just one API call. This include containerized software with orchestration (e.g., GKE, Slurm), framework and reference implementations (e.g., JAX, PyTorch, MaxText), and well-known open models like Gemma2 and Llama3. As part of the AI Hypercomputer architecture, each pre-configured template is available and has been verified for effectiveness and performance, allowing you to concentrate on business innovation.

A3 Ultra VMs will be the first Hypercompute Cluster to be made available next month.

An early look at the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72

Google Cloud is also awaiting the developments made possible by NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 GPUs, and we’ll be providing more information about this fascinating improvement soon. Here is a preview of the racks Google constructing in the meantime to deliver the NVIDIA Blackwell platform’s performance advantages to Google Cloud’s cutting-edge, environmentally friendly data centers in the early months of next year.

Redefining CPU efficiency and performance with Google Axion Processors

CPUs are a cost-effective solution for a variety of general-purpose workloads, and they are frequently utilized in combination with AI workloads to produce complicated applications, even if TPUs and GPUs are superior at specialized jobs. Google Axion Processors, its first specially made Arm-based CPUs for the data center, at Google Cloud Next ’24. Customers using Google Cloud may now benefit from C4A virtual machines, the first Axion-based VM series, which offer up to 10% better price-performance compared to the newest Arm-based instances offered by other top cloud providers.

Additionally, compared to comparable current-generation x86-based instances, C4A offers up to 60% more energy efficiency and up to 65% better price performance for general-purpose workloads such as media processing, AI inferencing applications, web and app servers, containerized microservices, open-source databases, in-memory caches, and data analytics engines.

Titanium and Jupiter Network: Making AI possible at the speed of light

Titanium, the offload technology system that supports Google’s infrastructure, has been improved to accommodate workloads related to artificial intelligence. Titanium provides greater compute and memory resources for your applications by lowering the host’s processing overhead through a combination of on-host and off-host offloads. Furthermore, although Titanium’s fundamental features can be applied to AI infrastructure, the accelerator-to-accelerator performance needs of AI workloads are distinct.

Google has released a new Titanium ML network adapter to address these demands, which incorporates and expands upon NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NICs to provide further support for virtualization, traffic encryption, and VPCs. The system offers best-in-class security and infrastructure management along with non-blocking 3.2 Tbps of GPU-to-GPU traffic across RoCE when combined with its data center’s 4-way rail-aligned network.

Google’s Jupiter optical circuit switching network fabric and its updated data center network significantly expand Titanium’s capabilities. With native 400 Gb/s link rates and a total bisection bandwidth of 13.1 Pb/s (a practical bandwidth metric that reflects how one half of the network can connect to the other), Jupiter could handle a video conversation for every person on Earth at the same time. In order to meet the increasing demands of AI computation, this enormous scale is essential.

Hyperdisk ML is widely accessible

For computing resources to continue to be effectively utilized, system-level performance maximized, and economical, high-performance storage is essential. Google launched its AI-powered block storage solution, Hyperdisk ML, in April 2024. Now widely accessible, it adds dedicated storage for AI and HPC workloads to the networking and computing advancements.

Hyperdisk ML efficiently speeds up data load times. It drives up to 11.9x faster model load time for inference workloads and up to 4.3x quicker training time for training workloads.

With 1.2 TB/s of aggregate throughput per volume, you may attach 2500 instances to the same volume. This is more than 100 times more than what big block storage competitors are giving.

Reduced accelerator idle time and increased cost efficiency are the results of shorter data load times.

Multi-zone volumes are now automatically created for your data by GKE. In addition to quicker model loading with Hyperdisk ML, this enables you to run across zones for more computing flexibility (such as lowering Spot preemption).

Developing AI’s future

Google Cloud enables companies and researchers to push the limits of AI innovation with these developments in AI infrastructure. It anticipates that this strong foundation will give rise to revolutionary new AI applications.

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[atmosphericradar]

Found another odd tag — keyed off the word "hiding" — and this time it's a long one!

So, the full tag is:

#blac chyna is hiding true feelings about her ‘rebirth’ makeover – her ‘lip clamps & droops’ are the proof

This sounds like a celebrity gossip headline! And sure enough, this tag is full-to-bursting with this article exclusively.

I got this from the desktop site, because it's wild to see. It's just a wall of the same article, all the way down, for multiple pages.

They're all from early November 2023, and all from blogs with names that end in *-polycom, *-mag, or *news. It seems fairly self-evident that this is the work of some kind of tabloid, but I'm a curious cat. I want to dig deeper.

Digging Deeper

Most of these posts tell you (they don't provide links!) to go read the full article on POLYCOM. Ok, what is a POLYCOM? I don't think it's Poly Inc., maker of video- and teleconferencing appliances, but a few cursory Google and DuckDuckGo searches yield no evidence of anything else.

The most recent post tells us to go track down the article ourselves on "IN TREND", but provides no URL or link. Searching around for "IN TREND" on the web is fairly difficult, returning results for well-known fashion publications, trend analytics, and a brand of clothing called "Intrend". Searching for "In Trend Today" returned more interesting results, including an InTrendToday YouTube Channel and Facebook page. The Facebook page seems to have stopped posting in late 2018, but the YouTube Channel last posted a video on Dec 18, 2023. I'll talk more about the YouTube Channel under the cut at the end of this post.

Some of these posts do have "read more" links pointing to posts on Wordpress, all of which claim to be "on MAG NEWS". Each *-mag blog links out to a separate Wordpress account which seems to be re-uploading the same story. All of these Wordpress Accounts are deleted (for violating Wordpress ToS), and all of these linked posts are gone (here are two examples):

Somehow, I doubt this is some covert arm of the Maricopa Association of Governments newsroom.

Digging down into the results on Tumblr, I found a copy of this post made by the blog vouxsportsnews. They link a Wordpress article from another dead Wordpress account:

BUT, their most recent post on their blog (a gossip article about Zendaya posted on Jan 5, 2024) does have a working Wordpress link, to vouxsportsnews.wordpress.com (clever 🙄):

This is an archetypal internet-based gossip rag. I didn't know these still existed! I guess Wordpress is hunting them down for sport?

The "Read More ..." link in the article goes to a website called top.neotrends.today, which is a sketchy link I will not be clicking on. The "full article" is apparently hosted on www.primesky.media, which I also will not be directly navigating to. I did manage to get a screenshot of the front page of primesky today (Jan 8, 2024) using a webtool:

I blurred the article shown on this page to preserve the privacy of the person it featured.

Primesky is hosted on a Cloudflare virtual private server, and no public info is available on who owns the primesky URL. A search for "redroads amag" on DuckDuckGo leads back to primesky. A search of the same on Google leads to a website at www.clickhere.world, which is immensely sketchy and looks identical to primesky. At this point, I'm going to end my search for a culprit.

Conclusion

I thought I could find the tabloid hydra's body, but I just found more heads. I'm not surprised the operators of a gossip rag bot network on Tumblr are also playing dirty on Wordpress, and covering their digital tracks well. Sometimes it's best to just report spam and go on with your day.

It should go without saying, but DO NOT NAVIGATE to these websites! At worst, they will give you every virus. At best, they will mine crypto in the background of your browser (and rot your brain).

The YouTube Channel Digression

The YouTube channel intrendtoday was created on Oct 4, 2017, and it has more than 53,000 subscribers as of my posting this post (Jan 8, 2024). However, the earliest video on the channel was posted on Nov 7, 2023. That is suspiciously close to when all of these Blac Chyna spam articles went up.

Given that the videos posted get less than 50 views on average, I think the grossly-out-of-proportion subscriber count is evidence of bot subscribers. Maybe the channel re-branded and deleted a prior back-catalog? Archive.org has no snapshots of this YouTube channel, but SocialBlade claims they lost nearly 3.5 million video views in early September of 2023 (indicating they deleted a lot of videos).

SocialBlade also indexes this channel under the name "demattradinginfo", not "intrendtoday". Archive.org doesn't have records of a YouTube URL for the channel demattradinginfo, but a Google search of that name shows results for Demat Accounts, which are a type of financial account commonly used in India to hold securities and trade stocks.

It's possible that whomever is behind the gossip news spam is also in control of this YouTube channel. I wouldn't be surprised, given how frequently people offering financial advice on social media are either scammers or spammers (and sometimes both!). However, I have no proof that the people behind this YouTube channel are the same people behind this social media gossip spamming.

[ashboy204]

Unlock Internet Freedom and Secure Your Privacy with Gulf VPN

Searching and operating within the internet in the gulf countries has its own set of challenges. VPN is restricted, access to social networks is limited and websites are often inaccessible during certain hours. Using a VPN is not a luxury but a necessity, particularly in regions like the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

A VPN, Virtual private Network, is a service that establishes a secure connection between you and the whole internet so that your activities and details of your location cannot be seen. A VPN works by encrypting your traffic and hiding your IP address which makes it easier to advance past censorship and allow for the freedom to access content without compromising your privacy. Here, you’ll get a brief understanding of what a Gulf VPN UAE is, how it functions, and why it is crucial for you in the first place to opt for the most suitable service.

Why Do You Need a Gulf VPN?

Many countries of the Gulf region remain among the leaders in restrictive internet policies, many recognizable sites and applications are blocked here. From VOIP services including WhatsApp, Skype to widely used streaming services such as Netflix, BBC iPlayer; many services block or limit access due to government restrictions or geo-restriction practices.

This is where having a VPN becomes absolutely essential. A VPN could be used by linking to a server in another country; this makes it possible to unlock content since the VPN provides an individual an entry point into the internet that is restricted in the Gulf.

Reasons to use a Gulf VPN include:

Avoiding Authority RestrictionsGulf countries are quite famous for banning and restricting sites and applications that are in resistance to set laws and regulations. This limits you from getting to the sites because your connection is being encrypted and the traffic is routed through other servers in some other region of the world other than the prohibited region.

Increasing Privacy and SecurityThere is always a perception of privacy concern and this exists more so in the gulf because the ISPs and the governments are vigilant. If you use VPN to connect to the internet, your data is encrypted; thus your Internet Service Provider cannot interfere and monitor what you are doing.

Access to Streaming ServicesNetflix, Hulu, Amazon prime videos these streaming channels are also limited due to geo-restrictions. A Gulf VPN 2024 allows you access servers of other areas and therefore you can watch uninterrupted favorite shows and movies.

Safe Browsing on Public Wi-Fi

It is unsafe to use Wi-Fi networks that others connect to, particularly when in a country that has seen an increase in the level of cybercrime. A VPN effectively works to guarantee that your information is not vulnerable mostly when using a wrong public network by encoding your connection so that the hackers cannot easily access it.

How Gulf VPNs Protect Your Privacy

One of the primary benefits of a VPN is data security that a user receives when he or she connects to the server. You lack privacy when browsing the internet because your data flows unencrypted, and anyone can access it using your IP address.

Using a Gulf VPN 2024 means all your communication and internet usage are hidden behind a protective layer, and your actual IP address is swapped with that of the VPN server. This makes it impossible for the web site, hackers, or even any other government agency to track your activities with any chance. Moreover, the best VPNs provide things like server cloaking and it becomes quite challenging to realize that you are using a VPN.

Key Features

Selecting the right Gulf VPN may not be easier as there are lots of service providers out there. Here are the key features you should prioritize to ensure you get the best protection and access.

1. Robust Encryption and Protocols

Check that the connection is as secure as possible and you should look for one with AES-256 encryption. Also, check for the connection protocol standard such as OpenVPN or WireGuard since they are fast and secure..

2. Server Locations

Accessibility to multiple centers and points helps to overcome the problem of geo-blocking. As with the server locations, the more available servers a VPN has, the higher are the chances of getting a server with a fast connection. Choose VPN providers with the servers located in Europe or North America or Asia to have the most opportunities.

3. No-Logs Policy

When it comes to VPN, privacy is all that matters. Check whether your provider does not monitor or store any information about your online activity. This is particularly so given that most of the GCC states technically spy on their citizens.

4. Fast and Stable Connections

A VPN should work for making your internet experience better rather than making it worse by slowing down your connection. Close on the high-speed servers and choose VPNs that can deliver good performance when it comes to streaming, gaming, as well as torrenting.

5. Bypassing Geo-Restrictions:

However, most VPNs are unable to bypass streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. Ensure you choose a VPN that has been tried and shown to overcome any level of geo-blocking.

Gulf VPN for Streaming

One of the biggest draws of using a Gulf VPN UAE is the ability to access geo-restricted content.�� Regions get blackouts to allow streaming services to function by adhering to their regional licensing restrictions on movies, TV shows, channels, and more. For example, the movies and TV shows that are watched in the UAE could be different from the ones that are consumed in the US.

A VPN enables you to establish connection with a server in another country and makes it seem like you are accessing the internet from such a country. This gives you complete control to the Netflix, amazon prime, Disney Plus and other VPN for streaming services platform libraries around the world. For anyone who wants to stream a show that is restricted in their current location whether an expatriate wanting to stream shows from his home country or a local in a region with restrictions, a VPN changes that.

VPNs and Online Gaming: 

If you are a gamer residing in the Gulf then you will find a VPN to enhance your gaming experience. Games also have restrictions in servers and beta access meaning you can’t play with your friends who are in a different region. Moreover, through using a VPN, it will be easier for you to avoid tyra DDoS attack besides ensuring your data is not relayed to the other players.

A VPN also minimizes ping and latency issues by linking the client to a closer server to where the game’s server is hosted. This makes it possible to connect to cross border gaming servers and be able to play with friends all over the world.

To sum up

If you live in or are planning a trip to the Gulf region, prepare for limited internet access, geo-blocking, and privacy issues. A Gulf VPN 2024 is the answer to all these questions, a tool that gives you freedom, security and anonymity every time you connect to the Internet.

A VPN protects your identity as well as your IP address so that the intended material is unrestricted and your information is safeguarded from any malicious third party endeavor, be it streaming videos, playing games online or browsing the internet. To ensure the best experience, one should look into strong encryption, fast servers, and no logging policy while selecting a VPN.

Having the best Gulf VPN will enable you to get the best out of the internet without any restriction or anything to bother you.

[echthr0s]

when I see people say things like "tag your shit [insert whatever shit they care about being tagged]" in posts obviously my automatic response is "yeah I'm definitely going to do a thing just because this random tumblr user said so" but it also puts me in mind of a concept -- that while the vast majority of tumblr blogs are technically accessible to everyone, not all of them are meant to be socially accessible to everyone

I don't know if I used the right words there but basically what I mean is that, yes, my tumblr can be accessed by anyone with an account. however, it is not meant for high visibility or a large following. it is a personal space -- not a curation space, not a community space, not a professional portfolio, not a gimmick blog. if you run a blog like that, one that is meant to garner high visibility, then it is in your best interest to adopt certain practices that make your blog more user-friendly for a wider variety of people. like tagging common triggers, using a queue, that sort of thing. whereas if you're just a guy with a blog, people can just leave if they don't like what you're doing. you're not providing a service or establishing a brand or trying to earn a living, you're just hangin out

it's like the difference between running a community Discord server and running a friend server. the community server requires more strict moderation, a higher level of channel organisation, stuff that the friend server could afford to be lax about because it's just people with a certain level of familiarity and comfort who want to hang out in a virtual living room with each other.

like... if I'm going to tag for something that I wouldn't normally tag for, it'd be because someone I'm familiar with or care about asked me to, personally, and I would like to keep their followship. but otherwise whatever I do on this blog is for my pleasure because that's the kind of blog this is. this blog is like if my bedroom was on the internet. you can't tell me how to decorate my bedroom. if you don't like it, you can leave. I don't even mean that in a bitchy way, it's just... the reality of the situation, yknow

this isn't meant to be a safe space unless you just happen to feel safe here, and I am perfectly content to lose out on potential followers if they're not about what I'm about or they have the kind of needs I'm not willing to meet. that's just life, man

[monisha1199]

Journey to AWS Proficiency: Unveiling Core Services and Certification Paths

Amazon Web Services, often referred to as AWS, stands at the forefront of cloud technology and has revolutionized the way businesses and individuals leverage the power of the cloud. This blog serves as your comprehensive guide to understanding AWS, exploring its core services, and learning how to master this dynamic platform. From the fundamentals of cloud computing to the hands-on experience of AWS services, we'll cover it all. Additionally, we'll discuss the role of education and training, specifically highlighting the value of ACTE Technologies in nurturing your AWS skills, concluding with a mention of their AWS courses.

The Journey to AWS Proficiency:

1. Basics of Cloud Computing:

Getting Started: Before diving into AWS, it's crucial to understand the fundamentals of cloud computing. Begin by exploring the three primary service models: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Gain a clear understanding of what cloud computing is and how it's transforming the IT landscape.

Key Concepts: Delve into the key concepts and advantages of cloud computing, such as scalability, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and disaster recovery. Simultaneously, explore the potential challenges and drawbacks to get a comprehensive view of cloud technology.

2. AWS Core Services:

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Start your AWS journey with Amazon EC2, which provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Learn how to create virtual servers, known as instances, and configure them to your specifications. Gain an understanding of the different instance types and how to deploy applications on EC2.

Simple Storage Service (S3): Explore Amazon S3, a secure and scalable storage service. Discover how to create buckets to store data and objects, configure permissions, and access data using a web interface or APIs.

Relational Database Service (RDS): Understand the importance of databases in cloud applications. Amazon RDS simplifies database management and maintenance. Learn how to set up, manage, and optimize RDS instances for your applications. Dive into database engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more.

3. AWS Certification:

Certification Paths: AWS offers a range of certifications for cloud professionals, from foundational to professional levels. Consider enrolling in certification courses to validate your knowledge and expertise in AWS. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer are some of the popular certifications to pursue.

Preparation: To prepare for AWS certifications, explore recommended study materials, practice exams, and official AWS training. ACTE Technologies, a reputable training institution, offers AWS certification training programs that can boost your confidence and readiness for the exams.

4. Hands-on Experience:

AWS Free Tier: Register for an AWS account and take advantage of the AWS Free Tier, which offers limited free access to various AWS services for 12 months. Practice creating instances, setting up S3 buckets, and exploring other services within the free tier. This hands-on experience is invaluable in gaining practical skills.

5. Online Courses and Tutorials:

Learning Platforms: Explore online learning platforms like Coursera, edX, Udemy, and LinkedIn Learning. These platforms offer a wide range of AWS courses taught by industry experts. They cover various AWS services, architecture, security, and best practices.

Official AWS Resources: AWS provides extensive online documentation, whitepapers, and tutorials. Their website is a goldmine of information for those looking to learn more about specific AWS services and how to use them effectively.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) represents an exciting frontier in the realm of cloud computing. As businesses and individuals increasingly rely on the cloud for innovation and scalability, AWS stands as a pivotal platform. The journey to AWS proficiency involves grasping fundamental cloud concepts, exploring core services, obtaining certifications, and acquiring practical experience. To expedite this process, online courses, tutorials, and structured training from renowned institutions like ACTE Technologies can be invaluable. ACTE Technologies' comprehensive AWS training programs provide hands-on experience, making your quest to master AWS more efficient and positioning you for a successful career in cloud technology.