#server protection

[servermo]

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[noob2networking]

Server Saturday: The Importance of Antivirus Software for Your Servers

Welcome to another exciting edition of Server Saturday! 🎉 Today, we’re going to delve into the fascinating world of antivirus software and explore why it’s crucial for your servers. 🖥️✨ Why Antivirus Software Matters Imagine your servers as a bustling city, with data flowing through its virtual streets like busy commuters. Just like in any vibrant city, there are bound to be some unsavory…

[zarla-s]

Made a new spray for TF2 :B There’s nothing like a Heavy giving you their sandwich, you feel so special and cared for! right before you get sniped or backstabbed again

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[feroluce]

So I spoke somewhat about my thoughts on Emanator Sampo here, but I never really thought of it from a design point of view or what kind of powers he would have until just recently. But I actually kind of love leaning into it from a "stage hand" perspective?

Because like. Aha's body in THEIR official art is completely black, giving attention to all the fun brightly colored things around THEM. And that's so fitting for Sampo! He usually prefers to be a side character. He likes to act from the shadows. His is a much more subtle hand.

So I wonder if as an Emanator, a lot of his clothes are actually very dark? Not necessarily plain, still extravagant and needlessly detailed in things like cut and quality with lots of different fabrics and textures and ornamentation, but dark. Or maybe even his skin itself becomes blackened further down his body; his hands in particular are dark, as a sort of sleight of hand reference.

The motif of a lot of straps wrapped around him like in his canon design is still present, but they're all loose and flowing off of him like paper streamers now instead of restraining him or holding him together. He is no longer contained! Or maybe they're still a bit more rigid/heavy, but just draped more like red stage curtains!

And this is like. Fully self-indulgent, but I love inhuman designs, and there's nothing in canon to say I can't do this, so screw it! Go for broke!! Maybe it's not visible to normal people, but Sampo having a second set of arms would be really cool, as further sleight of hand reference. One set is almost normal looking, but his hands are a bright, attention-drawing white, and the other is dark, set almost in the shadows of the first arms, to act less noticeably.

He also has something of a broken heart design to him in canon (the front of his black shirt with its jagged shape down the middle; his coat looks like a full heart shape in the back), and I actually like him keeping that element as an Emanator, because I think it suits him. Sampo says his taste in aesthetics and views on Elation involve human dignity,

and the story he helps create in Belobog involves the long and winding road of resistance and survival and eventual triumph in the face of some very adverse, oppressing odds. (I'm pretty sure I heard he once called Wildfire "artless" though, plus the man acts like he thinks Shame is some kind of dessert, so like ndkdjzjskkd) But the point being!!

I think Sampo is someone who can appreciate heartbreak and angst and tragedy in a story, because it makes the victory at the end all the sweeter. And this would be another thing he shares with Aha, because I think THEY did bless the Mourning Actors partly just to be a little shit, but also because Aha does recognize tragedy as part of THEIR Path, too, and you can see it in some of the game. So a broken heart motif can still suit him, and I like him having elements of both comedy and tragedy. Like his clothing having a happy sun/sad moon (like the moon in Aha's art) or him having both of the traditional comedy/tragedy masks in his design.

And as Emanator, Sampo can maybe play with the stage settings environment, too. Like lights sometimes behave strangely around him, appearing blindingly bright to someone or dramatically dark. Sampo wills it and suddenly there seems to be a metaphorical spotlight right where he wants everyone to look. And when he doesn't want to be noticed, his face seems to be cast in shadow, he seemingly just fades into the background, no one notices or recognizes him and he sneaks away easily. He can create smoke or fog literally out of thin air without his bombs now, too, the air will just suddenly thicken until his stage is obscured, and Sampo can set the scene as he pleases or disappear without a trace.

And in line with being a stage hand, Sampo can direct attention like no other. He was already extremely good at this as a normal mortal, and becoming an Emanator only took it up to 11, past human limits. Sampo points, and all present feel compelled to follow his fingertip. He looks away, and they all follow his gaze. He can even affect the mood of an audience; he can influence everyone to be calm and placid or he can whip them into a feverish frenzy. Sometimes a crowd will start to become unsettled, agitation stirring until it boils over, until it incites a full on violent mob.

And in the middle of all that chaos will stand one perfectly calm figure, face cast in shadow, until they quietly slip away out of sight.

[svtskneecaps]

dude i fucking love how this server has communication as its premise and built into its fucking core. i fucking love that. bc it's one thing to be like 'this server is about multilingual communication and cultural exchange!!' bc that could present in any NUMBER of ways but like. with the federation and the eggs and a common shared goal they all decided WE ARE A TEAM. and like, ok,

when baghera was sus of jaiden because of the thing when pomme died and jaiden had been the reason baghera left her side for the only time that day, i wasn't even worried. i wasn't worried bc i was like "we just wait. because i know they will TALK TO EACH OTHER." and I WAS RIGHT. TWO DAYS LATER IT WAS ALL CLEARED UP AND BAGHERA WAS HELPING HER OUT WITH CUCURUCHO

and the ordo theoritas is functionally a secret organization. it would be SO EASY to gatekeep the lore, on grounds of "the federation is always watching and anyone could be a spy" and yet the ordo theoritas says that, like bad SAYS THAT, says OUT LOUD, "anyone could be a traitor" and then turns around and goes "hey person i've had a few days' worth of conversations with, here's a detailed rundown of everything we've learned about the island's mysteries, and the secret location of the ordo base". SOFIA was supposed to be secret from everyone, and for a little bit she was. but now like, the ordo theoritas is showing her to everyone. it would be SO EASY to hide things and to gatekeep things but they just. don't do it. here's the supercomputer!!!! don't forget to grab her waystone so you can come back anytime!!!

bad learns something. "i need to tell forever/cellbit/baghera". forever figures out a new way to protect the eggs, and he gets it to everyone within days. cucurucho tries to have a secret conversation and the entire server knows about it almost instantly and there are three people buried in the walls reading the subtitles and giving each other meaningful glances

i love it. i love it. miscommunication plotlines drive me up the fucking wall and the fact that i wasn't even SCARED when jaiden and baghera could easily have angled into an angsty tangled web of that and instead just MET WITH EACH OTHER AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING AND CLEARED THE AIR ALMOST IMMEDIATELY was so fucking breathtaking. and this is a multilingual server. this is a MULTILINGUAL SERVER. i love it. i love it so much i want to cry. it's a server for communication and people Communicate, it would have been SO EASY to slip into monolingual factions and stick to the familiar but they DIDN'T. they DIDN'T. WE GET TO HAVE A THEORY TABLE WITH SO MANY LANGUAGES SITTING AROUND IT. we get to have conspiracy walls in every language!!!! idk sometimes i forget how fucking CRAZY all this is, like the scale of what they've accomplished

so yea thank you to quackity and the qsmp admins for this, and thank you to the streamers for hearing 'this is about connections' and taking it ENTIRELY to heart, and also thank you to whoever the fuck decided to give quackity's school class the job to look after a fucking egg to learn about parenting. bc holy shit. holy shit.

[shadowfloofster]

There's something so sweet with seeing everyone on the server immediately panic over an egg getting knocked down

Like- Max, Vagetta, Roier and Foolish were all together and all panicked over seeing it, immediately all shouting about it.

Foolish immediately went to grab his warpstone and checking the map to find where they were, keeping an eye on chat to give the okay.

Roier immediately asking if everything was okay along with Pac and Mike (two Bad and Dapper haven't really interacted with other than a hand ful of times that I've seen)

Forever taking a bit to notice but immediately teleporting Dapper to the hotel (without telling anyone, which made Bad and Fit confused for a bit lol) to make sure he was okay.

And Fit and Ramón immediately making sure Dapper was okay while Bad was distracted by his stupid military grade alarm (change it Bad it nearly got your son killed!!) because it went off at the WORST possible moment

The sense of community the server has between everyone because of the eggs, even if they don't interact much, is amazing. Everyone immediately wanted to make sure Dapper would not die in their own ways (Foolish checking the map, Roier, Mike and Pac asking if he was okay, Forever teleporting Dapper away immediately (though that could of ended bad if Dapper was still knocked down) amd Fit and Ramón quickly moving to protect Dapper once he was picked up while Bad was distracted) and it's just SO nice to see.

Usually servers have people constantly fighting and arguing and not caring much for each other unless they're friends. Yet, in this server, they're a community that came together for two reasons. To support each other, but most importantly to protect their kids.

It's nice to see everyone join together, even if not exactly getting along all the time, to protect and support each other.

[boxesblr]

Rotating Etho's choice to protect his allies in my mind. Obviously they made incredible escapes and held their own but Etho also refusing to sell out Cleo and Grian meant that nearly everyone else died, some died multiple times, most lost additional hearts, hurt alliances (Scott: Gem has no band loyalty!), and did not gain something like 120 hearts total

Meanwhile, Cleo and Grian get to feel secure in their alliance, not go red, and actually finish their tasks. The playing field has obviously been levelled significantly and they still suffered, but Etho facilitated his alliance gaining the most where everyone else lost the most

Obviously it's a display his loyalty first and foremost but he also played the game, ran the numbers, and counted himself out of success knowing it would be diminishing returns to go after them and I just think that's neat

[horsemeatluvr23]

sashwammyvoid !!!! with alcohol marker and fineliners in my sketchbook :D i'm so so pleased w how this turned out n i had so much fun drawing all the little details

[cookie-cuttles]

Au posting to become I need to get it out of my head or I'll explode

Here's the full image bc it looks better all together

[icewitcher]

PGR NEW CHAPTER IN ISHMAEL PATCH PREDICTION

Gray Raven lounge

Lucia: What you got there, SKK ?

SKK, looking at Lucia while Chaos is in their arms playing hairdressing, not even back for 24h from whatever the fuck happened to them these past few months and has to deal with paperwork: A smoothie.

Lee, armement key ready to fire as he get flashback from the events of SoC while Murray is holding him back to not do something stupid: WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE ?!

Ishmael, ready to defend herself: HOW ARE YOU REMEMBERING ME !?

Liv, catching up with everything and focusing on the most important piece of information: SKK HAS A CHILD !? Where are the books that teach us how to take care of one ?

Strike Hawk, Cerberus and any constructs who know skk and wanted to welcome them back: SKK HAS A WHAT !? SINCE WHEN ? WHO'S THE OTHER PARENT !? DO WE NEED TO FORCE THEM TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT !?

Asimov, tired as fuck and not ready to deal with whatever the hell is going on in the GR HQ, bringing a stack of paper before Hassen, Celica and Nikola: This is my two weeks notice for vacation

Meanwhile...

Kurono: The Gray Raven SKK has a child that has a powerful connection with the Punishing Virus/Ascnet? Interesting. We should-

Luna, Alpha, Roland, Lamia: Not happening, you little fuckers. *proceeds to destroy Kurono*

[rosefires20]

God.

I love the QSMP so damn much.

All of the individual storylines, main plot points, and small interactions give me so much life.

It's just this close-knit community of characters that have come to love each other and become fast friends and family.

There's angst and drama and horror and mystery and just about everything else but there is always this core feeling of community and care that has been created.

It's not even exclusive to the server itself either. Seeing all of these different communities come together and get to know each other and become more comfortable with themselves has been so incredible. The streamers themselves have become such good friends they are all planning when they can next meet everyone or travel to someone's home country. It's just incredible.

The world feels so damn negative these days, but here is this Minecraft server actively standing a bright beacon of light. Yes. It's not perfect, but it's incredibly human and very enjoyable to be able to see and interact with.

Every admin and player who has even remotely had a hand in the QSMP has made something truly incredible, and we are shown that every day.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

AWH... I'm skipping through Roier's QSMP Day 1 VOD because I'm looking for a specific thing, and I just noticed that when Jaiden stands in front of the group to do her introduction and her mic isn't working, Mariana laughs (not in a mean way, I laughed too) and Roier immediately smacks him and tells him off for laughing.

[Timestamp ~36m 50s, volume warning for Quackity's awful mic]

It's such a little thing, but I think it's really sweet in retrospect, especially considering how Roier and Jaiden have become such good friends in recent weeks :')

[our-lesboy-experience]

something positive happened today whoo. I was talking in a queer safe space thing and someone must've checked my pronouns.cc or something ( I don't display being a lesboy in my bio or wtv immediately until I know it's safe ) because they started harrassing me ( on the usual stuff like I'm invading lesbian and womens spaces, I'm transphobic, etc etc .. ) which is NOT the positive thing but what was is like 6 other people came in and defended me, and loads of others too until the person got banned. And it was probably the safest I've felt as a lesboy in a non lesboy-centered space ever honestly. Gives me hope yk ( plus afterwards there was a couple people who asked questions since they didn't know what it meant and all, and I got to answer their questions which felt so hsbsysvs :]] )

oh my god that's great anon!! that's wonderful to hear, especially because something similar happened to me and I didn't get that defense. i'm glad you had people willing to stand up for you

[leviathiane]

Natural team dynamic progression over stream for Blue team (Soulfire) [Day One of purgatory]:

Split into two main groups—

Farming/base-bound: Tina, Missa, Lenay, Niki

Fighters/Runners: Bad, Tubbo, Pierre

Tubbo is main official leader, and Bad and Tina have been acting as co-leaders per their groups for the most part. Tina had been the biggest support leader and the main person keeping morale up within the group-- Missa, Lenay, and Niki being her main supply runners/farmers that she distributed tasks through. Pierre has become main runner who turns in missions, while Tubbo and Bad run distraction. Majority of plans are thought up by Tina, Bad, Tubbo, and Pierre, and are run through Tubbo before execution.

They’ve maintained lead the entire stream for the most part.

[everythingwasalreadypicked]

His spine isn't straight and neither is he

[kutekitty-43]

a collection of things i have found in the lambdagen discord server