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[that-house]

can you tell us more about dronestrike & the campaign theyre from?

just read thhe post about it & immediately became obsessed

(context: Dronestrike is my warrior cats OC, an american imperialist robot cat the size of a horse and equipped with enough firepower to wipe out the clans if it seems like they're at risk of falling to communism. in the oneshot he accidentally fired a nuke at the city of LA and blamed "every other country" in a phone call with Bidenstar to avoid getting in trouble)

it wasn't a campaign, just an 11-person oneshot in the single most chaotic discord voice call I have ever been in. so i haven't played him since then, nor will i ever play him again

i can provide you a variety of facts about him i came up with after the fact though because he's a funny enough character that i can't stop thinking about him:

his brain is composed of three parts with an equal amount of control over his actions: the soul of a vietnam veteran, an AI replica of a cat, and every single super bowl halftime commercial

he comes armed with combat knives for claws, a machine gun in his mouth, a high caliber sniper rifle built into his spine, a pistol that he somehow uses with cat paws, and a douglas air-2 genie air-to-air unguided nuclear missile

transition could not save him because all trans people are godless communists who bully him on twitter

Dronestrike acknowledges every independence movement if only so that America has more countries to eventually colonize

he has read Marx so he can misuse quotes and flex on any marxists who haven't read theory

his greatest wish is for america to have won 'nam

doesn’t really have any physical possessions because he’s a cat who doesn’t have pockets or a permanent residence. he does however have $8.6 million in Shell oil stock

Dronestrike if he played League of Legends: only plays champs who have america-themed skins, but doesn’t actually own the skins because that would be giving money to a chinese company. plays all of them jungle to poor results. iron 4 two thousand games this season

has no mouth but wishes he did so he could taste the burgers that honest Americans have died to defend

Dronestrike's dream world is world war 3, with the stipulation that there is an american flag superimposed over EVERYONE'S vision instead of just his

if he had 24 hours to live he would start a “second american revolution” by attacking England

he isn't a good kisser: no lips, he's a cat, and also george washington famously said that romantic connections weaken your spiritual link with The State

response to being trapped in a maze of mirrors: breaks through the mirrors without noticing, but also can’t recognize his reflection. Thinks he has to fight these teleporting commie clones of himself to save the United States of America

he's on Santa's naughty list

on Halloween he dresses up as George Washington and “trick or disappears” journalists

Dronestrike hates the reds, the brits, women, and most importantly, himself

prefers fundamentals over schmovement

favorite board game is Monopoly because watching people go bankrupt or be imprisoned is one of his hobbies

his happiest memory is his first glimpse of an amazon packaging facility and the horrible conditions of the workers

favorite season is summer: 4th of July babey!!! the holiday where you're allowed to blow shit upppp!!! he also frequently sets off fireworks in the off season to scare dogs and people with anxiety

doesn’t date but he sends tech billionaires unethically farmed flowers sometimes

doesn’t play video games but he has a simulated CoD lobby’s chat going at all times in his head. they call him slurs whenever he misses a shot

relates strongly to Patrick Bateman

he was in ShadowClan. they picked which clan he would be deployed into by having him take the official "which clan are you" quiz

sometimes he doubts that he has the heart of a true warrior

[mdhwrites]

so I've seen it in your fics so I just wanted to ask: what was the appeal of Clarvee?

There's not really a nice way to put this: It's Lumity 5178 for the TOH fandom. It's a weird, quirky-ish girl with a bully. For the brief moment it caught the fascination of the fandom, that was essentially the pitch but with one big addition and one big drawback: It had a fuckton more angst... But now you had to write an OC.

Part of what was compelling to me as a writer was this fact that it's kind of an original form of Lumity because we know very little about Vee and we knew fucking nothing about Clara besides her having been around for many of Luz's shenanigans. We didn't even know if she was actually a bully, just that she looks like a human Amity. Meanwhile, one of the big things we know about Vee is she wasn't maybe bullied like Luz... She was tortured. Literally. She grew up in agony and managed to escape. She has baggage, to put it mildly.

But also to be blunt, the TOH fandom doesn't actually like extreme angst. No one I ever followed seemed to actually do anything with Vee. I mean, more people did comics about Amity losing it at Hunter over Eclipse Lake than ANYONE ever did about the fact that Hunter probably was involved in Vee's torture as the emperor's right hand. Bare minimum, A Golden Guard had probably participated in it. The fandom likes the angst they put on the characters that reflects their own traumas and problems but engaging with actual fantasy issues and the like never really seemed to be as big of a part of it, bare minimum by the point of S2B. And that is important because you honestly already by then saw a lot less comics, WAY less animatics and just less more extreme output from most creatives in regards to TOH.

The other half of the problem is that the fandom had done so much Lumity already, including Boschlow which was already a Lumity clone, that even before it was canonical, a lot more people gravitated towards Veesha. After all, Masha is a goth, spunky, weird but also genuinely feminine and a teen and just overall a nice character that is already close to Vee. There's also more of an overt betrayal angle from confessing what Vee is that can mirror allegories to the LGBTQIA+ experience... With the plus side that Masha would be more likely to go "Would" to it than Clara would.

It was a blip of a trend for the fandom and if you actually read that work, you can tell that a lot of the inspiration came from being able to do whatever the fuck I wanted with Clara. That is was, even accidentally, a bit of me flexing my original writing skills as I did a lot of interesting stuff with how she views the world. I don't think Vee ever got a solo chapter, and probably stopped around the time it might have happened, because I just didn't find, nor even now, find Vee all that compelling.

But also Clarvee was also me coping for the fact that the end of Yesterday's Lie left a godawful taste in my mouth from its no win cliffhanger, which I fucking called wouldn't be actually followed up on or enforced by Camila. It was me trying to still love this and have the same passion I did... And well, a year later I'd be essentially done writing for TOH.

So much for that. See you next tale.

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I have a public Discord for any and all who want to join!

I also have an Amazon page for all of my original works in various forms of character focused romances from cute, teenage romance to erotica series of my past. I have an Ao3 for my fanfiction projects as well if that catches your fancy instead. If you want to hang out with me, I stream from time to time and love to chat with chat.

A Twitter you can follow too

And a Kofi if you like what I do and want to help out with the fact that disability doesn’t pay much.

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Heyy, sketchpage update

Starting from the left, we’ve got Jason Blood up top and Dragon!Etrigan at the bottom with Steppenwolf’s family. So Jason Blood is a composite character with Mordred here with some aspects from Gawain (specifically the Dev Patel version from the movie). Here, Mordred and Klarion were actually childhood companions, Klarion having gotten access to time travel at this point. The fall of Camelot plays out how one would expect, only now it’s Klarion who bonds Mordred to Etrigan after he’s abandoned by his mother. Wandering the Earth as a Demon Knight and even briefly reuniting with fellow shining knight Ystina, Mordred develops a deep shame and self-loathing over his actions and a complex, combative dynamic with Klarion, his mother, Merlin, and anyone else who survived the fall. Abandoning his old identity, Mordred became Jason Blood, eventually settling in America and attempting to live a quiet life...until Klarion and Etrigan inevitably appear to throw it into chaos.

Then we’ve got a string of New Gods with some elaborations: Drax and Uxas, who I’ve talked about before, though Darkseid’s going to need a more in-depth post at some point; then Steppenwolf and his ilk, Fury and Dream. Dream got their own post already, where I mentioned Fury, but Lyta’s kind of interesting because she was originally going to be the child of Diana and Johnny Sorrow until I changed Sorrow’s identity to [redacted] which doesn’t rule out him having a child somewhere, but he’s firmly enough Alan Scott’s wheelhouse now if you know what I mean.

Anyway, Lyta/Hippolyta is a complicated figure in the Headverse’s cosmology. She’s technically in Uxas’ high court, but shares her father’s enmity for her cousin, while also being a princess to the Amazons of Themyscira. I almost made her the headverse version of Grail, but I think I’m going to keep them separate and...basically archenemies? For a matriarchal society, having two characters (arguably unfairly) defined by their relationships to male relatives which, hey i guess includes Diana too kind of goes against the ethos of the thing, but I think the bigger them is Old Gods and New Gods interacting. I was trying to think of a good name to justify her being “Lyta Trevor” at some point, and I think I’ll probably just have her adopted by the Trevor family and raised as a human child, but she very much earns the title Fury as a teen and into her eternal adulthood.

Next is Booster, Scythian Torvial, and...Gary Green? Yeah, once I opened the door on Legends of Tomorrow with the Totem Arc, I was trying to decide to do with the non-superhero, non-comics members (Gary, Mona, Charlie, etc) and kinda settled on the idea that they’re Booster’s support team? Scythian is still a future incarnation of Katar Hol, though his upbringing makes him a little reticent to use “Hawkman” as a title for some time. Booster Gold is Booster Gold. I have kind of a fun idea where Mike is still blue collar janitorial staff, but Booster Gold is actually a beloved and well-regarded hero due to his actions in the 20th and 21st centuries, to the point that Mike doesn’t realize he’s the same Booster until after he starts pretending to be himself and Skeets has to finally clear it up

Next some Doom Patrol...villains? Torminox obviously, but the rest are a bit ambiguous. Doodle-Bug is Casey’s sister, Dana Brinke, instead of just an evil clone and (if you can make out the list) a member of the Zoom Patrol. They’re less a reverse Doom Patrol and more of a...sideways one? Evapora is actually a huge Coagula fan and Dr. Norman Caesar acts so much like a ‘60s Major Comics villain that no one takes him seriously. The Hoaxer was only ever in Flex Mentallo and I have other plans for him later. Last are Milkman-Man and Terry None. Eric Brinke is named after his grandpa, but is otherwise genetically Kryptonian with some quirks, while Teresa Morden is still Terry None, but takes over her dad’s identity as Mister Somebody. They’ll all get developed a bit more when I finish yet another iteration of the Patrol (the one that Dorothy leads and has most of the Way era characters added)

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All that amusement that had been there from caving that man’s face in only mere moments ago has been washed away and sucked up by this young woman. A strong exhale from her nose, and a brow raises near halfway up her forehead. Yawning, Donna stretches her legs out a little more, bending the counter to her weight and will, treating her with flippancy, annoyance. This little thing would be little more than a stepping stone.

“Oh? You are going to try and fight me?” The grin breaks again, a manic expression tearing its way through the scowl. Almost in utter disbelief of this sort of gall from any who were so beneath her.

Lifting her wrist idly, she motions with the curl of a single finger. Practically beckoning her to stand and fight. Certainly she would entertain her for a moment, breaking another young woman of the poisons of men’s world would be fun. Maybe she’d come around after Donna shattered a few bones, or ensnared her in her own lasso. “Come over here. You’ve piqued my appetite, little girl.”

Jayn tries not to notice how the Amazon stretches out, muscles flexing attractively. The scene reminds her too much of the first time when she visited Themyscira under Wonder Woman’s tutelage. Oof. 

But then Donna gives her a look that belongs right in the Asylum--it’s something savagely cruel and-and just pure insanity. Jayn herself is not 100% sane, technically speaking, yet she knows better than to beat civilians to a bloody pulp.

Sexuality and ferocity are not something that Jayn would ever associate with Donna Troy. She’s wondering if a clone stands before her, when the woman says a few unexpected words. Jayn’s blinking under her mask, surprised and...curious? Head in the game, girl. You’ve got to bring her in. Pay attention, forget the horns.

“I’ll stay over here, thanks.” Without another word, Frostbite turns the cold vapor in the surrounding air to ice, and launches a big chunk of it towards the not-Donna.

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Best cloud hosting services in 2019

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Server distributors push flex pricing to problem cloud suppliers

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Server distributors push flex pricing to problem cloud suppliers

For a while now, server unit gross sales have been steadily dropping for the key x86 server distributors as enterprises draw down their on-premises in favor of cloud companies.

The response from the distributors is for those who can’t beat ‘em, clone ‘em. Distributors are adopting a pay-as-you-go mannequin not in contrast to that of a cloud supplier, the place you pay for the way a lot compute time you utilize and hand again the if you find yourself carried out slightly than shopping for it outright.

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Many of the main distributors have some form of plan. HPE has Versatile IT Capability, plus it has the OpenStack Non-public Cloud providing along with Rackspace and it simply launched GreenLake, which bundles software program packages like Massive Knowledge, SAP HANA and edge computing. Dell EMC’s program is named CloudFlex. Cisco’s is named CloudPay. Lenovo is the one main x86 server OEM and not using a program.

Distributors wish to name it versatile consumption, which incorporates , software program and companies.

All of the plans function roughly the identical method: you signal a contract for a set size of time however slightly than pay every little thing up entrance, you make set month-to-month funds. Tacked on to the month-to-month price is compute time, which is metered. After the preliminary interval, normally one or two years, you’ll be able to return the gear or maintain it and funds go down because the ages.

“More and more, what we’re seeing related to the flexibleness of public cloud is clients coming to us saying they need flexibility round paying for what they devour,” stated Sven Jirgal, vp of worldwide gross sales and advertising and marketing at Cisco Capital.

He says the plan is widespread with seasonal companies reminiscent of retail that want on-premises infrastructure to fulfill peak demand, however solely pay for capability truly used, he stated.

Pay-per-use is smart to clients that need server use dealt with as an operational slightly than a capital expense, stated Mike Schaub, international account supervisor for HighPoint Know-how, a Dell EMC reseller.

“Utilization-based expertise permits clients to actually run that system as an operational expense and benefit from the tax advantages of doing so. Moreover, clients won’t have the funds, for instance, for extra space on their disk backup. Buying the expertise as an operational expense permits them to get the extra capability with out the funds constraints,” he stated.

For a lot of clients who’re simply beginning to use cloud companies, these plans supply a method for making a swish transition. “Prospects need the flexibleness to begin with a sure capability and scale as wanted,” he stated.

The success of public cloud companies is forcing the hand of distributors to compete by addressing among the shortcomings of cloud. “Our recommendation again to those distributors is the time is true as a result of increasingly more firms are placing extra workloads on public cloud that require extra storage,” stated Stanley Stevens, an analyst with Know-how Enterprise Analysis Firms. “They’re getting sticker shock as a result of after they replicated their surroundings within the public cloud, they realized a whole lot of that storage is inefficient and unused.”

The actual price of the cloud just isn’t the workload, however transferring round information, he stated. Cloud suppliers like Amazon and Microsoft cost you for information despatched as much as their information heart, storage, processing, and information despatched again right down to you. Try this with a multi-petabyte database and people cloud financial savings immediately evaporate.

As clients think about including extra workloads reminiscent of analytic they’re rethinking their IT technique, Stevens stated.

Burst capability, one of many major appeals of the cloud, is extra frequent with issues like DevOps than conventional workloads, and that’s nonetheless a reasonably small a part of the general workload of Dell clients, based on Chad Dunn, vp of product administration and advertising and marketing at Dell EMC.

“After I discuss to clients, one query I ask is what proportion of workloads are cloud-native at the moment. You normally get a whole lot of shoulders shrugging. Normally the reply that comes again is 1 %. So I ask the place will probably be in 5 years; they are saying we do not know in any respect,” he stated.

At this level you see extra exercise within the cloud with firms born within the cloud and with service suppliers, stated Dunn. “We anticipate we’ll see increasingly more of it, and for now it’s a case of, ‘How do I reconcile conventional workloads with cloud-native?’ Persons are not going to refactor conventional apps to be cloud native. There’s no level. Nevertheless it’s the model new issues you’re creating that go into the cloud,” he stated.

It’s arduous to get a measure of potential greenback financial savings as a result of there are such a lot of variables. Stevens estimates that clients can deploy as much as 4 instances the capability on premises utilizing flex pay than they might in a cloud surroundings on the similar worth. Not having to pay up-front capital prices is an enormous issue.

Flex pay is much like a lease however can come out cheaper. Schaub stated one buyer not too long ago selected a pay-per-use flex answer at $eight,000 per 30 days over a leasing possibility at $10,000.

It’s additionally financial over time for the reason that costs fall because the years go on. “For any buyer wanting past years two by 5, these clients will see good financial savings. For purchasers who need it for a yr after which get out, it’s not value it,” he stated.

Dell’s pitch is certainly one of no dedication, stated Dunn. There’s a 12- to 24-month dedication, however after that, the dedication ends and the funds go down or cease at any time. “You’re not on the hook for a full five-year or seven-year lease and there’s no massive up-front fee,” he stated.

Flex pay favors large-scale deployments as a result of it eliminates the large up-front fee that an outright buy would require. If you wish to begin a small infrastructure and develop it, you won’t use this mannequin, he stated.

It additionally will depend on how sure clients are about their particular near-term wants, stated Jirgal. “Prospects with absolute certainty over what they want over the subsequent 5 years are finest served by acquisition outright. However a buyer with uncertainty what their servers will appear to be, on-prem or within the cloud, will go for a extra versatile fashions,” he stated.

Hybrid cloud, then, is prompting distributors and clients to debate necessities for workloads and what the related fee profile appears to be like like, stated Jirgal.

“Sure, we’ve been speaking about TCO and ROI and tech obsolescence, however with cloud all of our clients are actually integrating that tech and econonomics dialogue into one much more than that was the case earlier than,” he stated.

Dunn stated the flex mannequin just isn’t set in stone and nonetheless topic to tweaking, particularly for vertical markets. “As soon as we now have the intelligence within the platforms to do automation, we’ll get extra refined in what we meter and the way we meter and what folks select to pay for. This might be underlying IaaS and PaaS and containers as a service with Kubernetes,” he stated. Jirgal stated Cisco is doing the identical factor because it adjusts for vertical industries and use instances.

Stevens stated his agency simply bought again the outcomes of a customer-adoption examine the place the corporate requested about curiosity in consumption-based pricing. He stated there was a substantial amount of curiosity as folks have a look at the place they place their workloads, within the cloud or on-premises.

“I’m not going to say that I feel flex pay will unseat the general public cloud or take over information heart world. It’s one other structure possibility that IT has of their equipment of issues to amass. So it’s not one or the opposite it’s a complement hitting a whole lot of the ache factors,” he stated.

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