hi! im currently a student at a fashion college in the uk studying visual communications and styling (i believe this is considered senior high level palang in the ph tho) im currently in the process of exploring my options for undergrad, and one of the courses that caught my eye is the fashion design nd merchandising program at benilde, for many reasons but main ones being: ik people who have gone to benilde and la sallians within the family that told me benilde is a good college overall, you can experience orgs, clubs, and so many events like a traditional uni compared to if i went to a fashion based school, and it would save me from like 10 years of student loan (basically if i continued to study here in the uk for uni)
i wanted to reach out to the to hear from current students or alumni who have experience within the ab fdm.

1. is the course worth it? what has your experience been like studying fdm at benilde? have you found the program to be valuable in terms of both education and career opportunities?
2. where are the graduates now? im curious to know where graduates of the program are currently working or what they're doing. are they pursuing careers in fashion design, merchandising, or related fields?
3. any advice for prospective students? for those who have completed or are currently enrolled in the program, do you have any advice or insights you could share with someone considering studying at benilde?
4. are there any scholarships that fdm students can apply for?
5. i also plan to do a gap year to work and save money before moving back to manila, would this make my experience way different from others?

i appreciate any input or personal experiences you could share. thank you sm!

Looking at some of the available devices currently made me wonder is it possible to use one mini pc as a home server as well as an emulation device. For example running pi-hole, radicale, wireguard (and any other self hosted services) but also having the video output of the device mainly used for emulation. Newer APUs certainly have the power to run even PS3 and Wii U games (According to batocera https://wiki.batocera.org/choose_a_desktop_computer#:~:text=guide%20page!-,Batocera%20v38,-CPU ) and I am not against using oculink either to emulate switch. I would rather not have to buy 2 mini pcs if possible.

I use Arch Linux on WSL2 on a Windows 11 as my main setup. I am developing an app that uses two containers, one is the backend(golang echo + SQLite) the other is frontend (golang echo + templ + HTMX + tailwindcss)
So far everything was going fine, I am able to properly start both the containers using podman-compose and a compose.yaml file and both the container start up without much problems.
The problem comes when I try to send an HTTP request from one container to the other. The backend is running on port 8080 and frontend runs on port 9090 while being in the frontend container I run the following commad:- curl http://project_backend:8080 It says it cannot resolve project_backend
And the same goes for trying to access project_frontend from the backend container
A few hours before when I made the compose.yaml file, everything was working properly for some reason, after that I never changed anything, I was testing with how the notifications work with various backend events on the frontend like updating a record in the database etc. All I did a few hours before was start the containers and update the user profile a few times to check the notifications feature and during that time everything was working fine and both the containers were properly interacting with each other. The only thing was that the websocket connection was not starting for some reason but atleast HTTP requests were happening. Then I just ran podman compose down and just shut my computer down.
Now, after a few hours, when I turned my computer back on and ran podman compose up -d --build again, neither the HTTP requests nor the WebSocket connection is working.
Here is my compose.yaml file ``` version: "3.8"
name: project
services: backend: container_name: project_backend build: context: ./backend dockerfile: dev.dockerfile volumes: - ./server:/ussrc/app ports: - "8080:8080" frontend: container_name: project_frontend build: context: ./frontend dockerfile: dev.dockerfile volumes: - ./client:/ussrc/app - /ussrc/app/node_modules ports: - "3000:3000"
```
Here is the output of podman info host: arch: amd64 buildahVersion: 1.35.4 cgroupControllers: [] cgroupManager: cgroupfs cgroupVersion: v1 conmon: package: /usbin/conmon is owned by conmon 1:2.1.11-1 path: /usbin/conmon version: 'conmon version 2.1.10, commit: e21e7c85b7637e622f21c57675bf1154fc8b1866' cpuUtilization: idlePercent: 98.36 systemPercent: 0.34 userPercent: 1.29 cpus: 12 databaseBackend: sqlite distribution: distribution: arch version: unknown eventLogger: journald freeLocks: 2044 hostname: Trash-Can idMappings: gidmap: - container_id: 0 host_id: 1000 size: 1 - container_id: 1 host_id: 100000 size: 65536 uidmap: - container_id: 0 host_id: 1000 size: 1 - container_id: 1 host_id: 100000 size: 65536 kernel: 5.15.146.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 linkmode: dynamic logDriver: journald memFree: 992231424 memTotal: 4109623296 networkBackend: netavark networkBackendInfo: backend: netavark dns: package: /uslib/podman/aardvark-dns is owned by aardvark-dns 1.10.0-2 path: /uslib/podman/aardvark-dns version: aardvark-dns 1.10.0 package: /uslib/podman/netavark is owned by netavark 1.10.3-1 path: /uslib/podman/netavark version: netavark 1.10.3 ociRuntime: name: crun package: /usbin/crun is owned by crun 1.15-1 path: /usbin/crun version: - crun version 1.15 commit: e6eacaf4034e84185fd8780ac9262bbf57082278 rundir: /run/use1000/crun spec: 1.0.0 +SYSTEMD +SELINUX +APPARMOR +CAP +SECCOMP +EBPF +CRIU +YAJL os: linux pasta: executable: /ussbin/pasta package: /usbin/pasta is owned by passt 2024_05_10.7288448-1 version: pasta 2024_05_10.7288448 Copyright Red Hat GNU General Public License, version 2 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. remoteSocket: exists: false path: /run/use1000/podman/podman.sock security: apparmorEnabled: false capabilities: CAP_CHOWN,CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE,CAP_FOWNER,CAP_FSETID,CAP_KILL,CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,CAP_SETFCAP,CAP_SETGID,CAP_SETPCAP,CAP_SETUID,CAP_SYS_CHROOT rootless: true seccompEnabled: true seccompProfilePath: /etc/containers/seccomp.json selinuxEnabled: false serviceIsRemote: false slirp4netns: executable: "" package: "" version: "" swapFree: 916111360 swapTotal: 1073741824 uptime: 1h 8m 20.00s (Approximately 0.04 days) variant: "" plugins: authorization: null log: - k8s-file - none - passthrough - journald network: - bridge - macvlan - ipvlan volume: - local registries: {} store: configFile: /home/axew/.config/containers/storage.conf containerStore: number: 2 paused: 0 running: 2 stopped: 0 graphDriverName: overlay graphOptions: {} graphRoot: /home/axew/.local/share/containers/storage graphRootAllocated: 1081101176832 graphRootUsed: 14620078080 graphStatus: Backing Filesystem: extfs Native Overlay Diff: "true" Supports d_type: "true" Supports shifting: "false" Supports volatile: "true" Using metacopy: "false" imageCopyTmpDir: /vatmp imageStore: number: 20 runRoot: /run/use1000/containers transientStore: false volumePath: /home/axew/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes version: APIVersion: 5.0.3 Built: 1715595915 BuiltTime: Mon May 13 15:55:15 2024 GitCommit: d08315df35cb6e95f65bf3935f529295c6e54742-dirty GoVersion: go1.22.3 Os: linux OsArch: linux/amd64 Version: 5.0.3
Here is the ouput to podman network inspect project_default [ { "name": "quark_default", "id": "85a2498bd3f1d9590cc18225004f5ea036e148c0ba3c33f2ef0e3b70f7b57dea", "driver": "bridge", "network_interface": "podman1", "created": "2024-05-15T14:52:28.020114452+05:30", "subnets": [ { "subnet": "10.89.0.0/24", "gateway": "10.89.0.1" } ], "ipv6_enabled": false, "internal": false, "dns_enabled": true, "labels": { "com.docker.compose.project": "quark", "io.podman.compose.project": "quark" }, "ipam_options": { "driver": "host-local" }, "containers": { "68b9a2c3eacb7cdb31b25d58140dc52206e31d826851ce026515956cb1771f65": { "name": "quark_client", "interfaces": { "eth0": { "subnets": [ { "ipnet": "10.89.0.5/24", "gateway": "10.89.0.1" } ], "mac_address": "ee:a7:b3:42:09:a8" } } }, "fd6ac91b87a1bed5825b74c2ba424a5fc9e7d480050716dbd4e9b3b1d4554233": { "name": "quark_server", "interfaces": { "eth0": { "subnets": [ { "ipnet": "10.89.0.4/24", "gateway": "10.89.0.1" } ], "mac_address": "5e:38:ac:5a:46:3b" } } } } } ]

Hi no matter what version you advertised your server as long as you based on 4.6 this is my thought.

• 4.6 is overused and same setup every server.

Despite level limited is 55(2.7) or 60(3.0) most of the servers give starter set which meant to be given at 4.6 event with max level 65 in mind. This created unpleasant leveling experience for 2.7 and 3.0 limited content servers especially. I don't know what cause mentality that all players want to skip all leveling process to rush to max level as fast as possible. All servers have weekend exp boost drop boost in mind. This is not Aion only but most likely happening to all game servers. My opinion is this is causing FOMO (Fear of missing out)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out
It's negative feeling it doesn't make players feel healthier or happier but rather forced players to stay home during weekend to play the game. It's a scumbag strategy. Let everybody enjoy your server any day not just weekend. I would support a server without exp boost weekend boost just because it gives a peace to players and slow life.

• 4.6 still plague with events

Ultima of FOMO, most of 4.6 events give the tempering solution as an ultimate prize from event. IMO tempering solution should be farmable from instances at decent rate but it was designed to be abysmal rate so they would rather hand out in events instead I can't blame this on private servers directly but rather how lame NCsoft designed this item after all. Still on some 2.7 server I see they adapted event from 4.6 change some loots. More events don't mean healthier server it just means more FOMO and more money for the server owner during more reset scrolls etc they will sell during events. I saw some servers planning to add more custom events on their servers and I was like "FUCK THEM" I'd rather playing nothing than playing a game with a ton of FOMO.

• Most players are not English speakers

Well you misunderstood if you think Euroaion are made up by English speakers population. Most are Russians. If you check out all servers. You will find most popular server is Moscow based + some influx from Chinese players during their close location to Moscow given low ping enough (I believed it's about 100ms from Hong Kong). So no Europeans do not make the most populate of server but rather Russian and no Europeans shouldn't discriminate someone solely based nationality or whatever their political of their countries. Unless they're so arrogant about it then report them and get them ban.

• All servers require VIP (at least drop rate buff) to get something decent from instances

Again this is not direct blame on private servers but rather scumbag strategy from NCsoft. They made drop rate on instances abysmal so they can sell drop rate buff. This can be simply fixed by rising drop rate permanently and don't sell VIP or drop buffs.

• Too few mounts in game too many in shop.

This is clearly P2W, Mounts obtainable in game are too few such as Kahrun, TS mounts. They should add some shop mounts in game and making them drops from 4.x instances at decent rate 5-10%. It's not a game breaking. Mounts are essential in order to chase someone or escape someone in PvP so everybody should have it not just shop.

• Remove EB/SWB from the game.

This instance do no good for anybody. It's just luna instances of 4.x. It's boring stressful no fun of it at all and potential unleash the nasty greed of human. It's better to make cera medals rewarded from Tia siege at 100% chance and from Dredgion for winning. Those are much more fun at EB. EB gears can completely removed no one will miss it if nobody can get it. So Glory Point will mainly coming from PvP.

• Make all mobs in Katalam, Danaria ,ID dropping IDE

IS/Kata should be easily access to everybody not just rich people if you can't get rid of key process of it then at least make material widely available to 4.x maps.
I have no experience about PvP in Aion so I won't comment about Arena , PvP instances anyone want to add comments about it please feel free to do so.
Conclusion if a server followed my suggestions you would see a paradise server and it doesn't even need updated content or anything it's just regular 4.6 with some modify. Read and comment if you like thank you :)

More info about the "Purge" franchise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purge
"Purge" is a dystopian thrillehorror franchise with some elements of drama and action, consisting of TV series (2 seasons) and 5 movies. Let's imagine that Punisher from MCU/Netflix has ended up there for whatever reason. Can he survive there?
Rules: Punisher has his body armor with a skull insignia on the chest and his weapons, but has no knowledge about the 'verse and about the "Purge" events. But he can do a recon work and learn new things about this new place where he is now. Punisher can cooperate with other people, team up if it's necessary and use any weapon and vehicles he can find there. Punisher's main goal is survive and, if it's possible, help the opposition of a "Purge" conception to overthrow the U.S. government and abolish the "Purge" law.

I want to develop a character who has DID derived from PTSD, which in turn arose from a four-day period of suffering different atrocities. The character has no explicit memories of this four-day period, but their subconscious locks it away to avoid the pain of trauma and develops disorders as a defense mechanism. In addition to the mentioned disorders, the character has developed a refusal to eat food due to an apparently irrational line of thought and sensation that if they eat, they would be hypocritical for something, and therefore, more guilty. The character has 5 personalities. So far, I've only been able to conceptualize 3: the assistant, the machine, and the monster.
The monster is the murderous and harmful personality. It's what the character most instinctively tries to avoid manifesting, even if they don't know exactly why. It's the embodiment of their potential evil, and its appearances are always accompanied by tension and suspense. Even if not actually manifested (or is it?), the mere fact of appearing in nightmares and hallucinations already triggers panic attacks in the character. This is the most mysterious personality because the character has doubts about the nature of this personality that doesn't offer many explanations beyond the simple fact that it knows everything about him and is playing and affecting him; Is it a personality or a distinct demon? Is it a delusion or is it real? Is it himself or a separate being pretending to be him to scare him? Is it capable of killing the personalities, and if so, why doesn't it do it immediately instead of leaving the personalities unharmed? Why psychologically torture him if the function of fragmented personalities is to help in self-preservation? If it's real, why does it let him escape at the end of its ''games''? This personality (or not) is physically the largest, the most technological, the most inhuman, and presents more feats of strength despite appearing less, all geared towards psychological torture mainly, a literal kind of haunting like Pennywise's. It wreaks psychological havoc on the character in each of its personalities, and the most sensitive one, which is the one the other personalities most try to avoid being impacted by the monster, is the assistant personality, the personality that personifies human essence and, being based on the Superego and Ego and reflecting the distant past spent with his deceased good mother whose values were transmitted in his childhood and adolescence, is the personality that tries to maintain order, predominate, and reunite the fragmented personalities, although this self-imposed role is not easy and it is difficult to deal with the fear of what could happen if people found out that he and the other four 'people' are actually the same person who has DID; it is difficult to represent order while his other parts are more inclined to chaos and there is no direct interaction between the personalities. The assistant personality has blindness, whose degree varies depending nuancemente on the external and internal security situation it feels, but is always present because it results from an unresolved trauma. Glasses are used, the only one who does this. Blindness is more present in the assistant personality and less manifested in the other personalities because they are more detached from humanity. The assistant personality is the most divergent from what the character was before DID. Its form is more human, shorter, and less cybernetic, precisely because it reflects a distant period from the current one of the character. (A side note: the character is, in a way, a shapeshifter, so its personalities have a distinct form, some more similar to each other and others less similar, and vice versa. The metamorphosis is restricted to the forms the character has already had in its life and afterlife, and those forms it did not have are a more adapted version of the personality concept). The assistant is the most sensitive personality and the one that most tries to be virtuous, and because of these characteristics, it is the most vulnerable to the monster.
The machine personality is the psychological barrier. A wall for any emotions. An internal shield for trauma. It looks like a robot, like a machine, both for sentimental and behavioral issues. It does not feel emotions, is extremely rational, and is very connected to technology. Indeed, it is the most technological personality in the purest sense of the word, while the monster personality is the most technological in the most monstrous sense. Its function is to offer a more impartial view of situations and, because of the monster, to be the most solid shield for the assistant personality not to be haunted directly (and possibly killed) by the monster.
There are 2 more personalities to develop, and I'm working on it since it's a new idea I had.
The character is Vox.
The conceptual ideas for this fanfic that I intend to create, combined with my hobby of self-studying psychology/psychoanalysis/psychiatry, made me realize that I attribute four disorders to Vox:
• DID: According to the DSM-5 criteria, to be considered DID it is necessary: ▪︎Two or more distinct identities or personality states are present, each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self. ▪︎Amnesia must occur, defined as gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or traumatic events. ▪︎The person must be distressed by the disorder or have trouble functioning in one or more major life areas because of the disorder. ▪︎The disturbance is not part of normal cultural or religious practices. ▪︎The symptoms cannot be due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (such as blackouts or chaotic behavior during alcohol intoxication) or a general medical condition (such as complex partial seizures).
• PTSD: Symptoms of PTSD fall into the following four categories. Specific symptoms can vary in severity.
Intrusion: Intrusive thoughts such as repeated, involuntary memories; distressing dreams; or flashbacks of the traumatic event. Flashbacks may be so vivid that people feel they are reliving the traumatic experience or seeing it before their eyes. Avoidance: Avoiding reminders of the traumatic event may include avoiding people, places, activities, objects and situations that may trigger distressing memories. People may try to avoid remembering or thinking about the traumatic event. They may resist talking about what happened or how they feel about it. Alterations in cognition and mood: Inability to remember important aspects of the traumatic event, negative thoughts and feelings leading to ongoing and distorted beliefs about oneself or others (e.g., “I am bad,” “No one can be trusted”); distorted thoughts about the cause or consequences of the event leading to wrongly blaming self or other; ongoing fear, horror, anger, guilt or shame; much less interest in activities previously enjoyed; feeling detached or estranged from others; or being unable to experience positive emotions (a void of happiness or satisfaction). Alterations in arousal and reactivity: Arousal and reactive symptoms may include being irritable and having angry outbursts; behaving recklessly or in a self-destructive way; being overly watchful of one's surroundings in a suspecting way; being easily startled; or having problems concentrating or sleeping. Many people who are exposed to a traumatic event experience symptoms similar to those described above in the days following the event. For a person to be diagnosed with PTSD, however, symptoms must last for more than a month and must cause significant distress or problems in the individual's daily functioning. Many individuals develop symptoms within three months of the trauma, but symptoms may appear later and often persist for months and sometimes years. PTSD often occurs with other related conditions, such as depression, substance use, memory problems and other physical and mental health problems.
The four tabs below provide brief descriptions of four conditions related to PTSD: acute stress disorder, adjustment disorder, disinhibited social engagement disorder, and reactive attachment disorder. Source: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/ptsd/what-is-ptsd • Psychotic Depression: Psychotic depression Some people who have severe depression may also experience hallucinations and delusional thinking, the symptoms of psychosis.
Depression with psychosis is known as psychotic depression.
Symptoms of depression Someone with depression feels sad and hopeless for most of the day, practically every day, and has no interest in anything. Getting through the day feels almost impossible.
Other typical symptoms of depression may include:
fatigue (exhaustion) disturbed sleep changes in appetite feeling worthless and guilty being unable to concentrate or being indecisive thoughts of death or suicide Doctors describe depression as mild, moderate or severe depending on your symptoms, how long it lasts and how much it affects your daily life.
Read more about the psychological, physical and social symptoms of clinical depression
Symptoms of psychosis Having moments of psychosis (when people lose some contact with reality) means experiencing:
delusions – thoughts or beliefs that are unlikely to be true hallucinations – hearing and, in some cases, feeling, smelling, seeing or tasting things that are not there; hearing voices is a common hallucination The delusions and hallucinations almost always reflect the person's deeply depressed mood – for example, they may become convinced they're to blame for something, or that they've committed a crime.
"Psychomotor agitation" is also common. This means not being able to relax or sit still, and constantly fidgeting.
At the other extreme, a person with psychotic depression may have "psychomotor retardation", where both their thoughts and physical movements slow down.
People with psychotic depression have an increased risk of thinking about suicide. Source for more information: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/psychotic-depression/
• An as-yet unidentified eating disorder: This is the only one in which I do not know which exact diagnosis it fits into. It is a consequence of the trauma from the four-day period - including this period being one of the biggest mysteries in history and a great source of theories for readers, as it is the root of Vox's psychological mess, the divergence point that originated the entire fanfic and which the protagonist DOES NOT want to remember - that resulted in the trauma of eating. He does not feel like eating, not even the SIN OF GLUTTONY is able to make him eat - he is immune to her powers - and feels an apparently inexplicable instinct of guilt and hypocrisy when trying to eat, as if he were the worst being in the universe if he ate a food and a huge hypocrite; why and what exactly this innate thought of judging himself as a hypocrite is another mystery in the plot.
In this story, at least in the initial arcs, no one associates all five as being the same person, at most they associate only one/two of them with Vox. With the climaxes (yes, it's in the plural) throughout the story, the characters will find evidence and suspect and associate more and more of the other alters (as I call Vox's fragmented personalities) with the same person, which increases the narrative tension. Being the assistant personality the last to be accurately associated by the other characters, although she was the one that had the most tension and care in NOT being associated throughout the story because she is the human essence of Vox, reflects more the fragility of his soul state and is not ready to deal with the harsh social consequences that the actions of the other alters and Vox before DID caused, needing solid support and not wanting to lose all the friendly social relationships, although fragile, that he built as a separate being from Vox and the other alters. It is easier to hate than to love. The assistant personality does not want to risk losing the little support he has built. These relationships are extremely valuable to him. He doesn't want to have this taken away from him anymore. The relationships he built are based on the inhabitants of Hazbin Hotel.
All alters have Vox's trademark: the TV as
a head. All... except the assistant personality. This alter is the ONLY one that has a human head and is the smallest, being even a few centimeters smaller than Lucifer. The size of his hair goes up to just above his shoulders, but he ties them in a professional hairstyle. His clothes are similar to those of an assistant, and they have a palette of blue, black, and white colors. The color of his hair, influenced by his powers as a Media Demon, is black with dark blue streaks and tips.
His human appearance reflects a period when Vox was human. In my story Vox is a trans man, which means he was born female and went through a transition at some point in his adolescence or adulthood. The appearance of the assistant personality reflects an episode during his 13/14 years. In this episode, he did a special show for his father's assistant at a fancy restaurant. It was her last night in his life as she would unfortunately be sent away without a chance to return, and he was aware of this. He also knew that his father was responsible for her being sent away, although his innocence at the time made him not immediately detect that she would be KILLED by a hired hitman hired by the father and mother. The assistant was a loved one by the teenage Vox. She was a loving mother he never had, and because of the emotional attachment to her, he decided to do a musical show, showing for the first and last time to anyone his talent for piano and violin. He, at the time still not going through the transition, dressed more masculinely, used the best appearance he could, and used a pseudonym to enter the restaurant and make the presentation without being detected by the family. He did not explicitly specify for whom the music was intended, but the assistant, secretly his true biological mother, knew it was for her. That was the last time he would see her, and he made every second of that night count.
Vox's human female name was Elizabeth. I chose this name because it is a beautiful name, it was the name of the former queen of the United Kingdom, and it was the name of one of Jack the Ripper's victims, Elizabeth Stride.
Vox, during his adult life as a man and even post-death, buried his past as a woman. It was not a source of pride, especially for the family abuses suffered and the transphobia of the time. If the Vees, the people closest to him currently, do not have a deep understanding of Vox's human life as a man, imagine their knowledge of the initial part of his life before the transition!
That's why being called "Elizabeth" during the direct and indirect appearances of the monster personality already causes genuine and unmasked panic in him. It is an indication of knowledge of his deepest layers.
The story has a suspenseful atmosphere, with some horror scenes. We follow the alters individually, and as the story progresses, we realize along with the protagonist some strange, wrong things. The alters do not communicate directly with each other and, therefore, the character does not immediately perceive the signs of having multiple personalities. It was as if there were four people in one body and none of them noticed, according to the perspective of the assistant personality, the alter that we slowly follow discovering the huge web of the situation he's in. There's something very wrong with Vox, more specifically his soul. But there's an invisible barrier that prevents the character from investigating further, like an elephant in the middle of the room. Each alter has its own course, all acting as if they were distinct people and not associating with each other. This is bad socially speaking in the long run, because sooner or later the clash of beliefs and values built among the alters will come into conflict and the individual consequences of their actions will negatively impact each other. The monster personality served to add more salt to the wound. It is by far the most harmful, appearing little but causing a huge mess in return. Don't think of it as a kind of Hulk, because Hulk is a destructive monster that his counterpart, Bruce, can try to control and turn into a hero, and everyone is aware of Hulk's nature, which is easy to understand and try to contain; whereas the monster personality is an enigma at the same time as it is a nightmare, there is no discussion with it, it causes psychological terror in Vox's alters, its apparently internal actions affect the external world of the alters, it is unpredictable, it is the literal meaning of hell. The monster personality has already caused physical harm to the alters, although they did not exactly remember, mainly the assistant personality, the most oblivious of all for a reason. I want to relate the monster personality to Roo.

See the title ^
If you want to help spread the word, please find the source code and easy to follow instructions below. And thank you in advance for your help in this effort.
5 easy steps:

1. Download and install python: https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/
   
2. Install praw (the library that lets you talk to the Reddit API), you could read the documentation but serious, just type "pip3 install praw" into your terminal and that's all you need.
   
3. Download/copy the source code from here into a file called something like "super_important_reminder.py", modify it per the comments, and save.
   
4. Go into the directory with the file, and run the bot with the command: "python3 super_important_reminder.py"
   
5. If you want to really prove your worth, use crontab or something else to automate your computer to run that script every day, or every hour, or whatever floats your moat. Or if that's too hard, just run it manually every day, or every hour, or whatever floats your moat.
   

enceinte: the line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place
See tree for enceinte: https://treegledictionary.org/define/enceinte

Here is the paper link:10.1109/LRA.2022.3143293.
The paper is about a method localize a capsule endoscope by external dipole. I implemented the algorithm according to the demonstration in the papers. My algorithm can work perfectly when there's no noise. But it failed when I added noise to sensor data. The estimated value is slightly fluncated by initial points which is different with what paper said. I need some help to modify my code. Thanks so much!
Here is my code:
capsule.py

import numpy as np class Capsule(): def __init__(self, axes_acc = 3, axes_mag = 3, radius = 400): self.axes_acc = axes_acc self.axes_mag = axes_mag self.g = 9.81 self.r = radius def generate_acc_data(self, ground_truth_ang:tuple): phi,theta,psi = ground_truth_ang Rx = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, np.cos(phi), -np.sin(phi)], [0, np.sin(phi), np.cos(phi)]]) Ry = np.array([[np.cos(theta), 0, np.sin(theta)], [0, 1, 0], [-np.sin(theta), 0, np.cos(theta)]]) Rz = np.array([[np.cos(psi), -np.sin(psi), 0], [np.sin(psi), np.cos(psi), 0], [0, 0, 1]]) g = np.array([0, 0, -self.g]) return Rz @ Ry @ Rx @ g def generate_position_data(self,num_points): radius = self.r min_z = -radius max_z = 0 positions = [] while len(positions) < num_points: x = np.random.uniform(-radius, radius) y = np.random.uniform(-radius, radius) z = np.random.uniform(min_z, max_z) # Check if within the sphere if x**2 + y**2 + z**2 <= radius**2: # Ensure magnitude constraint is met and z-component constraint pc_magnitude = np.sqrt(x**2 + y**2 + z**2) if pc_magnitude > 20*1e-3 and -z * pc_magnitude > 25.4*1e-3: positions.append((x, y, z)) return np.array(positions) #test if __name__ == '__main__': import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D capsule = Capsule() num_samples = 20 test_positions = capsule.generate_position_data(num_samples) # Set up the figure and axis fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d') # Sphere u = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 100) v = np.linspace(0, np.pi, 100) x = 400 * np.outer(np.cos(u), np.sin(v)) y = 400 * np.outer(np.sin(u), np.sin(v)) z = 400 * np.outer(np.ones(np.size(u)), np.cos(v)) # Only the lower hemisphere ax.plot_surface(x, y, z, color='b', alpha=0.1) # Transparent sphere # Plotting the test positions ax.scatter(test_positions[:, 0], test_positions[:, 1], test_positions[:, 2], color='red') # Axis labels ax.set_xlabel('X (mm)') ax.set_ylabel('Y (mm)') ax.set_zlabel('Z (mm)') # Set aspect ratio ax.set_box_aspect([1,1,1]) # Equal aspect ratio # Show the plot plt.show() 

dipole.py

class Dipole(): def __init__(self, radium = 400, mgt_m = 1): self.r = radium self.value = mgt_m 

simulation.py

import numpy as np from scipy.optimize import least_squares import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from capsule import Capsule from dipole import Dipole class Simulator(): def __init__(self, radium = 400, # mm num_samples = 10, axes_acc = 3, axes_mag = 3, mgt_m = 66.0, # A*m^2 noise=None): self.r = radium / 1000 self.num_samples = num_samples self.axes_acc = axes_acc self.axes_mag = axes_mag self.mgt_m = mgt_m self.capsule = Capsule(axes_acc=self.axes_acc, axes_mag=self.axes_mag, radius=self.r) self.dipole = Dipole(radium=self.r,mgt_m=self.mgt_m) self.noise = noise def magnetic_field_model(self,pc,me): mu0 = 4 * np.pi * 1e-7 norm_pc = np.linalg.norm(pc) norm_me = np.linalg.norm(me) if pc.ndim == 1: pc = pc.reshape(-1, 1) if me.ndim == 1: me = me.reshape(-1, 1) B = (mu0 * norm_me) / (4 * np.pi * norm_pc**3) term = (3 * np.dot(pc, pc.T) / norm_pc**2) - np.identity(3) b = B * (term @ (me / norm_me)) return b def rotate_vector(self,vec, axis, angle): axis = axis / np.linalg.norm(axis) cos_theta = np.cos(angle) sin_theta = np.sin(angle) cross_product = np.cross(axis, vec) dot_product = np.dot(axis, vec) rotated_vector = cos_theta * vec + sin_theta * cross_product + (1 - cos_theta) * dot_product * axis return rotated_vector def generate_rotating_me(self,): initial_dipole = np.array([0,0,self.mgt_m]) axes = [np.array([1, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 1, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 1])] angles = np.linspace(0, np.pi/2, 50) dipole_moments = [] for i in range(len(axes)): for j in range(i + 1, len(axes)): for angle_i in angles: for angle_j in angles: # First rotate around one axis intermed_dipole = self.rotate_vector(initial_dipole, axes[i], angle_i) # Then rotate the result around another axis rotated_dipole = self.rotate_vector(intermed_dipole, axes[j], angle_j) dipole_moments.append(rotated_dipole) return dipole_moments def calculate_angles(self,g): gx, gy, gz = g theta = np.arctan2(-gx, np.sqrt(gy**2 + gz**2)) phi = np.arctan2(gy, gz) return theta, phi def rotation_matrix(self,theta,phi,psi): Rx = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, np.cos(phi), -np.sin(phi)], [0, np.sin(phi), np.cos(phi)]]) Ry = np.array([[np.cos(theta), 0, np.sin(theta)], [0, 1, 0], [-np.sin(theta), 0, np.cos(theta)]]) Rz = np.array([[np.cos(psi), -np.sin(psi), 0], [np.sin(psi), np.cos(psi), 0], [0, 0, 1]]) return Rz.T @ Ry.T @ Rx.T def calculate_bm(self,pos, me, phi,theta, psi, type='x-y'): if type == 'x-y': P = np.array([[1,0,0],[0,1,0]]) elif type == 'y-z': P = np.array([[0,1,0],[0,0,1]]) else: raise ValueError("Invalid type specified. Use 'x-y' or 'y-z'.") b = self.magnetic_field_model(pos,me) rotation = self.rotation_matrix(theta,phi,psi) bm = P @ rotation @ b return bm def objective_function(self,x,pc,mes,ro_truth,type='x-y'): pos = x[:3] # Updated position psi = x[3] # Updated psi rotation angle g_reading = self.capsule.generate_acc_data(ro_truth) g_reading_noise = np.random.normal(0,0.002,3) + g_reading # Calculate angles from accelerometer data theta, phi = self.calculate_angles(g_reading) theta_n, phi_n = self.calculate_angles(g_reading_noise) residuals = [] mes_noise = mes + np.random.normal(0,10.6*1e-6,3) if self.noise: for me_noise, me in zip(mes_noise,mes): # me_noise = me + np.random.normal(0,10.6*1e-6,3) # Calculate modeled magnetometer data based on the current position and pose Bm = self.calculate_bm(pos, me_noise, phi_n, theta_n, psi, type) # Objective: minimize the difference between actual magnetic field and modeled field Be = self.calculate_bm(pc, me, phi, theta, ro_truth[-1], type) residuals.extend(Bm - Be) else: for me in mes: # Calculate modeled magnetometer data based on the current position and pose Bm = self.calculate_bm(pos, me, phi, theta, psi, type) # Objective: minimize the difference between actual magnetic field and modeled field Be = self.calculate_bm(pc, me, phi, theta, ro_truth[-1], type) residuals.extend(Bm - Be) return np.array(residuals).flatten() def simulate(self,): # generate test points test_positions = self.capsule.generate_position_data(self.num_samples) ro_truth = (np.radians(0),np.radians(0),np.radians(10)) results = [] for pc in test_positions: print("--------------------------------------") print("Ground Truth: {}".format(pc)) dipole_moments = self.generate_rotating_me() # x0 = np.array([110*1e-3,-30*1e-3,-81*1e-3,0]) # six init values X = [np.array([-81*1e-3,-81*1e-3,-81*1e-3,0]), np.array([110*1e-3,-30*1e-3,-81*1e-3,0]), np.array([-30*1e-3,110*1e-3,-81*1e-3,0]), np.array([-81*1e-3,-81*1e-3,-81*1e-3,np.radians(180)]), np.array([110*1e-3,-30*1e-3,-81*1e-3,np.radians(180)]), np.array([-30*1e-3,110*1e-3,-81*1e-3,np.radians(180)]),] flag = 0 for x0 in X: print("current test position: {}".format(x0)) result = least_squares(lambda x: self.objective_function(x, pc, dipole_moments, ro_truth, 'x-y'), x0, method='lm', verbose=2) if result.x[-2] > 0: for i in range(3): result.x[i] = -result.x[i] distance = np.linalg.norm(result.x[:3] - pc) if distance < 1e-4: flag = 1 print("the estimated: {}".format(result.x)) break if flag == 0: print("Don't find the global minimum") results.append(result.x) print("--------------------------------------") self.plot(test_positions,np.array(results)) return results def plot(self,truth_pos,estimated_pos): fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d') ax.scatter(truth_pos[:, 0]*1e3, truth_pos[:, 1]*1e3, truth_pos[:, 2]*1e3, c='b', label='Truth') ax.scatter(estimated_pos[:, 0]*1e3, estimated_pos[:, 1]*1e3, estimated_pos[:, 2]*1e3, c='r', label='Estimated') ax.set_xlabel('X (mm)') ax.set_ylabel('Y (mm)') ax.set_zlabel('Z (mm)') ax.set_title('Truth vs Estimated Positions') ax.legend() plt.show() if __name__ == "__main__": np.random.seed(1) simulator = Simulator(noise=True) # simulator = Simulator() results = simulator.simulate() 

"The assessment of tissue biopsies is an important part of the diagnostic work up of patients with NC-MCAS, mainly to rule out other primary causes of mast cell activation and medical conditions such as inflammatory disorders and malignancies. Criteria have been established for the indications to perform a bone marrow biopsy on patients suspected of having a clonal mast cell disorder and these include individually or a combination of the following: presence of urticaria pigmentosa skin lesions, tryptase >15 ng/mL, unexplained anaphylaxis, REMA score >2 (28), and presence of typical mast cell symptoms. In the absence of any of these factors, the diagnostic yield of biopsies for clonal mast cells in the bone marrow or other organs is thought to be low. In the intestine, patients with NC-MCAS have normal findings at endoscopy and the mast cells on histology are single and dispersed and found in similar numbers compared with a healthy control population (14). In a study that compared 100 patients with IBS with 100 healthy controls and 10 patients with MCAS, there was no clinically meaningful difference in the numbers of mast cells in the intestinal mucosa between any of the groups. Future studies may help to determine whether there are subtypes of NC-MCAS which may indeed have significantly elevated mast cells as 30% of the NC-MCAS patients had “increased mast cells “ (>25 per hpf) compared with 16% of controls (29)."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6049091/
"Other authors have suggested employing the number of MCs in tissue sections (eg, ≥20 MCs per high-power field) as a criterion of MCAS.<sup>31</sup>00676-0/fulltext#)<sup>, 32</sup>00676-0/fulltext#)<sup>, 33</sup>00676-0/fulltext#) However, many reactive inflammatory states and neoplasms, as well as individuals with no specific symptoms, may present with an increase in local MCs without MCA and without fulfilling criteria for MCAS.<sup>133</sup>00676-0/fulltext#bib133)"
https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(21)00676-0/fulltext00676-0/fulltext)

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I've been meaning to make this post for a while but life kept getting in the way.
There is a bunch of new (well, new to me) stuff I've discovered over the last few weeks, and wanted to share my thoughts with you.
Let's start with the "prequel" (although never canonically confirmed) to the Marathon series was a game called Pathways to Darkness. The backstory for this game is:

Sixty-four million years ago, a large extra-terrestrial object struck the Earth in what would later be called the Yucatan Peninsula, in south eastern Mexico. The dust and rock thrown up by the resulting explosion caused enormous climactic changes in the ensuing years, and many of the Earth's species became extinct during the long winter that followed.
The object itself was buried thousands of feet below ground, its nearly two kilometer length remarkably intact. It remained there, motionless, for thousands of years before it finally began to stir-- and to dream.

Hmm. Buried below ground. Finally beginning to stir and dream. Who does that sound like?
Let's keep going.

The heat of impact liquefied the rock around it, which later cooled and encased the dead god's huge body far below ground. As it began to dream, it wrought unintentional changes in its environment. Locked deep beneath the Earth, strange and unbelievable things faded in and out of reality. Vast caverns and landscapes bubbled to life within the rock, populated by horrible manifestations of the dead god's dream.

As it began to dream, it wrought unintentional changes in its environment.. Locked deep beneath the Earth, strange and unbelievable things faded in and out of reality.
Like Fingerrats? Or like Spider-wolves?

Vast caverns and landscapes bubbled to life within the rock, populated by horrible manifestations of the dead god's dream.

Caverns and landscapes. I want to expand this point here for a bit because it's also mirrored across Alagaesia.
Let's start with Helgrind.
For any FV enjoyers, I've previously speculated that Helgrind is a reliquary, or a previously living being that was transformed (a la Ctein).
But the curious thing here is the timeline of Helgrind and it's tunnel system, taken with the above context.

Q: Assuming it wasn't built by the Ra'zac themselves, was the lair inside Helgrind purpose-built for the Ra'zac and Lethrblaka, or did they appropriate it some time after it was built? If it wasn't built for them, what was its original purpose?
A: Partially natural formations (linked to tunnels elsewhere in Alagaësia), partly expanded by the priests of Helgrind and Galbatorix himself.

But... The Ra'Zac didn't inhabit Helgrind until at least after the Humans came over. So these tunnels underneath Helgrind existed before the Ra'Zac, or Galbatorix ever set foot on Alagaesia. Which, I don't know about you, but a massive network of tunnels does not smell entirely natural to me.
So.. where else are there "natural" formations that link to other tunnels elsewhere in Alagaesia?
We've seen these "natural" formations in Vroengard:

Q: The deeps under Vroengard, were they created by the riders or was it a previous system of caverns that they repurposed?
A: Previous system. I mean, there's been work done on them, but... 'It looks similar, parts of it feel similar to the caverns that we encountered in this book. They both have that hole in the cave which goes deeper, with something in the hole that's not clearly defined.' Yeah.

And we've seen similar depictions in the Beors, and Nal Gorgoth. So from the Beors to Vroengard, "natural" tunnels exist underground. I don't buy that they are entirely natural.
Given the context of the Marathon game above:

Vast caverns and landscapes bubbled to life within the rock, populated by horrible manifestations of the dead god's dream.

I think these tunnels came from Azlagur.
Let's switch gears here, I want to talk about another archaeological mystery in the world of Eragon - El-Harim.
I believe El-Harim was heavily influenced by the (not canon confirmed, but implied) prequel to the Marathon games, the Pathways into Darkness

Pathways casts the player as a member of a US Army Special Forces team sent on a mission to the Yucatán Peninsula. On May 5, 1994, a diplomat from the alien race known as the Jjaro appeared to the President of the United States and informed him that on May 13, an ancient godlike being sleeping beneath a pyramid would awaken and destroy the Earth. The only way to prevent this catastrophe is to prevent the god from awakening. The eight-man Special Forces team carries a nuclear weapon, with the goal of entering the ancient pyramid, descending to the bottom level where the god sleeps, and activating the bomb to stun the god and bury it under tons of rock.

Getting into a bit more of the backstory:

Only during the last few centuries has the god begun to effect changes on the surface of the Earth. Grotesque creatures have been sighted deep in the trackless forest of the Yucatan, and strange rumors of an ancient pyramid-- which is neither Aztec nor Mayan-- in the same area have been circulating in the archaeological community since the early 1930's.

Pyramid, eh? There are two different options here I can think of that equate.
The extended FWW Map
First, in the extended map from FWW, we can see a Pyramid-esque shape - Different color, different slope, etc.
Or, second (and probably more likely), it could be El-Harim:

It is a very bad place. It’s a place where some bad things happened at one point and it’s not a good place to go walking around. I don’t want to get into it too much more because again, it’s a good possibility for another story and I want to keep thinking about it a bit more. It is in Alagaesia and we’ve actually been close to the location.

Many speculate that the below vision from Eragon in Brisingr, which was never explained in the main cycle, is of El-Harim:

And he rested, and visions beset him of a circular stone city that stood in the center of an endless plain and of a small girl who wandered among the narrow, winding alleys within and who sang a haunting melody (A Feast with Friends, Brisingr).

If this vision IS El-Harim , it's super significant because of these two descriptors:

circular stone city
narrow, winding alleys

Fractals. The city itself is a fractal, like Nidus for any FV enjoyers.
The narrow winding alleys are significant because of the descriptors of the Vanished/Grey folk:

The spaces between the structures were narrower than the humans preferred; the proportions were taller, thinner, which matched the images she had seed of the Vanished...
The ancient outline of the city was - as she suspected - a fractal, and the shape of it contained meaning.... At the nexus of the apttern, where it coiled in on itslef like a nautilus shell" (Shards, TSIASOS).

Narrow. Circular (Nautilus shell). Winding. Fractal.
Whatever this city is, El-Harim or otherwise, it is/was a grey folk/vanished city.
And given the quotes from above - "Its a place where some bad things happened at one point", and "dangerous, creeping, ancient, evil thing" - My guess is that the event that caused the Grey Folk to bind the AL to magic happened here, in El-Harim.
Alright, moving along.
Let's talk about the Az and the God. There are a few parallels I've talked around, but the BIG link between the two are Dreams. This is especially important because of the release of the world map recently.

We are the devotees of Azlagur, the Devourer. Azlagur the Firstborn. Azlagur the Dreamer. He who sleeps and whose sleeping mind weaves the warp and weft of the waking world. But the sleep grows restless" (Obliteration, Murtagh).

Versus

As it began to dream, it wrought unintentional changes in its environment. Locked deep beneath the Earth, strange and unbelievable things faded in and out of reality. Vast caverns and landscapes bubbled to life within the rock, populated by horrible manifestations of the dead god's dream.

I could write a whole post about the parallels between the two and their linkage to dreams, but I'll cut it short here for now to save room to dig in to other areas. Specifically, the Dreams connection is especially important because of the relase of the world map recently - I have another post here that gets into more detail, but the translations from the World Map in the middle translate to:

where dreams and dragons dwell

Dreams (!) and Dragons.
Combine that with the Etymology of the words:

Alagaësia ala = land gaësia = rich/fertile
Alalëa ala = land lëa = a beautiful dream
Elëa = the dream itself

So the planet, named Elea, translates to "The Dream Itself". Very interesting.
This is even more significant when you take into account this tweet chain from Chris, a bit earlier in March

Darn it. Just invented a name in the ancient language. Googled it to make sure no one else had used it ... only to discover that I had used it in an earlier book. Lol.
Can we ask what name?
Edurna

I believe the name was a potential candidate for the name of the planet of Alagaesia, which is important because of the etymology of THAT name (All credit to Zora for digging this one up).

Edurna sounds awfully like Adurna and Edur
Adurna meaning water and Edur being a prominence

Prominence. And Water. You know what that sounds like to me? Plaintive Verge. Just food for thought.
Second-to-last Az connection I want to cover: Hunger.

Whirling darkness swallowed him, and at the center of it... lay a formless horror - ancient and evil and from which emanated a constant merciless hunger (Dreams and Portents).

Versus a quote about the cosmic entity in Marathon:

Now I fear what that weapon has unleashed will destroy us. I once boasted to be able to count the atoms in a cloud, to understand them all, predict them, and so did I predict you, but this new chaos is entirely terrible, mindless, obeying rules that I don't comprehend. And it is hungry.

Now, the last piece of Azlagur-related lore I want to cover here is the "Black Sun".
In all of the visions, a Black Sun precipitates Azlagur's rise.

"A black sun rimmed by black flame hung against a darkling sky... The beast rose rampant against the black sun - A wingless dragon, apocalyptic in size, terrifying in presence. Destroyer of hope, eater of light"

Before getting into the Black Sun a bit more, there's an additional connection here I want to touch on - usage of the word rampant in connection with Azlagur.

In Marathon, Rampancy is the enhanced self-awareness of a computer AI, causing a progression towards greater mental abilities and destructive impulses. The destructive impulses, however, are primarily caused by being threatened or harassed. There are three main stages, as well as a fourth and final stage that is rarely achieved, to rampancy, named by the primary attitude of the AI during those times: Melancholia, Anger, Jealousy, and Meta-Stability.

There are some overlaps with what we see from the Maw.
And Melancholia.. that's an interesting word. Especially when taken into context the meaning of the name:

A melancholy dream of great beauty.

Melancholy.. Dream... The pieces of the puzzle are coming together. And Rampant...
Chris also uses that exact same verbiage when discussing a deleted scene from TSIASOS:

Q: I just finished reading To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and I have to know: it sounds like the Wranaui fought the corrupted during the Sundering but if that's true and it happened almost 300 years prior.... Who created the old corrupted? I've been questioning this for days!
A: That was actually in material cut by editors (some of the dream memories). Another Seed/Idealis was damaged and, when the Old Ones tried to separate it from its host, the xeno went rampant.

The xeno went rampant. Very interesting.
Alrighty, I keep getting distracted, back to the black sun.
The reason the Black Sun is important is because it always precipitates Azlagur's rise, throughout several of Murtahgh's visions. In each of them, there is a Black sun.
So, by this, we can extrapolate that the sun needs to be Black in order for Azlagur to rise (which is hinted at at the "Day of Black Sun" celebrations near the end of the book).
But... what does it actually mean?
There is a parallel in Marathon, their weapon:

The trih xeem (also "tri xeem") is an extremely powerful weapon that can be used to force a star into early nova... it was originally conceived and built by the Jjaro [The Old Ones/Vanished equivalent]. Much of the Marathon Infinity story revolves around preventing the Pfhor from using the tri xeem and inadvertently releasing a W'rkncacnter that is supposedly trapped within the Lh'owon sun.

So, the story of the last Marathon games revolves around preventing the usage of the weapon to release the cosmic-level baddie trapped in the sun. So, effectively, the antagonist is imprisoned by the sun.
But.. how does that translate to Azlagur and Murtagh?
The Black Sun requirement for Azlagur's rise could be construed as "imprisonment" by the sun; Azlagur cannot escape until the sun is turned Black. But it only really starts to come together when you piece together these pictures.
First, early concept art for the Fractalverse
You see the black orb, heading directly for the glowing star? Sounds pretty similar.
But that's not the smoking gun; look at the depiction of the black orb in the concept art, and compare it to the trih xeem, the weapon in Marathon.
A black orb with a trail heading directly for the sun. Almost an exact match.
OK.. so I get that it has some relevence in fractalverse, but how does it translate to Eragon?
Well, because of the Beors. Specifically, a picture CHRIS HIMSELF posted about the Beors.
Here
I propose that THIS black orb, at the top of the Beors (which, suspiciously, no one has traveled to) houses the black weapon. After all, the depiction is quite similar - A large, circular, black orb. Looks pretty similar to the other pictures.
And given the above context that Azlagur can only rise with a "Black Sun", the pieces all start to fit together. It's not perfect, but there are definitely a lot of overlaps.
Alright. I've been waiting for this one. The last piece. Let's talk about Angela.
Q: Will we get Angela lore? I feel like she could have killed Galbatorix and just didn't feel like it.
A: For those who don't know Angela is based on my sister Angela, because she breaks the fourth wall to a degree she has. Not only does she have plot armor, she knows she's in a story and can break the story itself. So, yes, she could have killed Galbatorix, but that would have made for a very bad story. That said, I do have an entire book planned around Angela, and it's very high on my list of books to write because it takes place before some of these other big stories I want to write. And that's also the difficult thing. I have my big storylines, and then I have a couple of one off side books I want to write, and it's just a question of time, energy and effort.
She knows she's in a story, and she can break the story.
Based on that, and several other descriptions I will get into in a bit, I think her story is directly related to the Marathon Infinity game.

Marathon Infinity begins as the Pfhor destroy Lh'owon using a Jjaro-derived doomsday weapon known as the Trih Xeem or "early nova". Unfortunately, the weapon also releases a powerful chaotic being: The W’rkncacnter, which threatens to destroy the entire galaxy. Because of the W’rkncacnter's chaos or by means of some Jjaro tech of his own, the player is transported back and forward in time, finding himself jumping between timelines and fighting for various sides in a desperate attempt to prevent the chaotic being's release.

and

In Marathon Infinity, a W'rkncacnter is imprisoned in the sun of planet Lh'owon. It is theorized by some that the W'rkncacnter's powerfully chaotic nature may be responsible for the jumps between realities seen in the game. When the Pfhor use a trih xeem device to send the star into early nova, the creature is released, to the horror and destruction of the Pfhor.

Angela is the Eragon-equivalent of the player.
She can transport back and forward in time, jumping between timelines, and fighting to prevent the chaotic being's (Azlagur's) release. Let's dive in.
First:

Q: Is it canon that Angela the Herbalist is a Time Lord and did she make a cameo in To Sleep in a Sea of Stars?
A: Is Angela the Herbalist is a Time Lord? That would be copyright infringement, so I'm going to say "no comment", but she is in To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. And there is a canon reason for this. And you should have no problem spotting who she is in that book.

So there's a canon reason she's in the book. Interesting. When you take that into context with the next bit

Q: On your last AMA on reddit, someone asked if any fan had guessed the identity and history of Angela correctly. You said nobody has guessed correctly and there's not enough information in the books to do so. That puts every fan theory out there on her wrong, correct? She's not the soothsayer, a time lord, grey folk, etc, correct?
A: Angela: Some of the fan theories have gotten parts of her history and identity correct. However, there's a HUGE aspect to her nature that no one has guessed (or least, not in a non-joking way). And no, I don't mean her being a Time Lord.

So there's a huge aspect to her nature that no one has guessed (at least at the time of writing). She's self-aware, knows she's in a story, and can jump around in time. And, similar to the Marathon games, it appears like only she knows that she's in a story.
So, based on the Marathon inspiration, we can guess that she is trying to accomplish the same thing - To prevent the release of the cosmic-level villain. We know that she has some kind of relationship with the Draumar:

In Murtagh, it’s revealed that Bachel and “Uluthrek” (Mooneater, Angela’s given Urgal name) met with Bachel explicitly going out to confront her (a courtesy not even offered to a Rider like Murtagh)

So, by extension, she has some kind of connection to Azlagur. This is supported by other circumstantial evidence in FWW as well:

Since we know that the Dream Well in Mani's Caves is similar to the Well in Nal Gorgoth I can assume that Angela is revealing the existence of the Draumar to Elva there? I feel certainly feel as if you're setting up her for something in the future series.
Heh. Good Catch.

So, she is clearly working with Elva to do something related to the Dream Wells, and she also previously confronted Bachel, many years ago. So throughout multiple years across the WoE, she is connected to Azlagur and the Draumar; her story clearly revolves around them/Azlagur, somehow.
Putting the above pieces together, my guess is that she is jumping around in different timelines, trying to manipulate actions of the past to prevent the rise of Azlagur. Just like the player character in Marathon. There's another piece of circumstantial evidence to support this assertion as well.
In Marathon Infinity:

After multiple "jumps," the player (seemingly the only one who realizes he is being transported between possible realities)

Versus Angela:

As hours passed, the stars turned above, night chill drew the heat from my body, and I fell into a curious trance, not asleep but not fully awake... The world altered" (On the Nature of Stars, FWW).

I believe this world "Altering" was the first time she experienced an alternate timeline, without knowing what it was at the time.
We've also seen her create "Doorways" as well - Although it's not clear if this is fast traveling (a la a Torque Gate), or truly opening a path to another timeline.
In Eldest:

"As they landed, he noticed a patch of white on a small hill nearby. The patch wavered strangely in the dark, like a floating candle, then resolved into Angela, who was wearing a pale wool tunic" (A Sorceress, a Snake, and a Scroll).

and then later, more concretely:

"I traced a line on the wall, reached out, and opened a door that wasn't there. ON the other side - nighttime, a beach by a black ocean lit only by stars, so many, many stars, more than there should be. Of course, I would not take Elva to my home, not yet. But this was a waypoint, a place to build and learn and grow... She stared into the gap, the impossible portal" (On the Nature of Stars, FWW).

Still, as always with Angela, so many questions.
Alright, we've reached an ungodly wordcount, so I'll call it here. There are still more connections I'm uncovering between the two series (such as the potential connection between the Gedway Ignasia and the "warning" sensation from Marathon), so I might make a follow-up post in the future with everything else I uncover.
As always, thanks for reading! Let me know what you think in the comments, or if you've found any other connections between the two.

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Main_page - English page for ProleWiki, a free online Marxist-Leninist encyclopedia based on Wikipedia.
https://dnschecker.org/reverse-image-search.php - Website for finding HD images on Google, Yandex, TinEye and Bing.
https://www.ytfreedownloader.com/youtube-to-mp4/ - Free YouTube video downloader without pop-up ads.
https://redsails.org/ - Archive of lesser-known Marxist articles, interviews and speeches.
https://lemmygrad.ml/ - Forum for Marxist-Leninists.

import 'dart:convert'; import 'package:fluttematerial.dart'; import 'package:flutter_map/flutter_map.dart'; import 'package:flutter_map_marker_clusteflutter_map_marker_cluster.dart'; import 'package:latlong2/latlong.dart'; import 'dart:ui' as ui; import 'dart:typed_data'; import 'package:http/http.dart' as http; import 'package:testingmap/cluster_test.dart/animation.dart';

void main() { runApp(const MyApp()); } class MyApp extends StatelessWidget { const MyApp({super.key}); @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return const MaterialApp( home: MapScreen(), ); } } class MapScreen extends StatefulWidget { const MapScreen({super.key}); @override _MapScreenState createState() => _MapScreenState(); } class _MapScreenState extends State { List shops = []; late Map markerIcons; bool isLoading = false; String error = ''; late SlideUpWidget slideUpWidget; late VoidCallback toggleSlideUp; @override void initState() { super.initState(); markerIcons = {}; fetchShops(); slideUpWidget = SlideUpWidget( child: Container( height: 200, decoration: BoxDecoration( color: Colors.red, borderRadius: BorderRadius.only( topLeft: Radius.circular(20), topRight: Radius.circular(20), ), ), child: Center( child: Text( 'Shop Information', style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 18), ), ), ), ); toggleSlideUp = slideUpWidget.createState().toggle; } Future fetchShops() async { setState(() { isLoading = true; error = ''; }); const token = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6NTQsImlhdCI6MTcxMzIzMjQwOCwiZXhwIjoxNzI2MTkyNDA4fQ.hdJsGEMYRAAEs5y6RERuT2TNJTBUITkWy-7FarMc_C4"; // Replace with your actual token try { final response = await http.get( Uri.parse('https://api.carcare.mn/v1/shop'), headers: {'Authorization': 'Bearer $token'}, ); if (response.statusCode == 200) { final jsonData = json.decode(response.body)['data']; if (jsonData != null) { setState(() { shops = jsonData.map((data) => Shop.fromJson(data)).toList(); }); await loadMarkerIcons(); } else { setState(() { shops = []; }); } } else { setState(() { error = 'Failed to load shops (${response.statusCode})'; }); } } catch (e) { setState(() { error = 'Error fetching data: $e'; }); } finally { setState(() { isLoading = false; }); } } Future getMarkerIcon(String imageUrl) async { try { final response = await http.get(Uri.parse(imageUrl)); if (response.statusCode == 200) { return response.bodyBytes; } else { print('Failed to load image: ${response.statusCode}'); return null; } } catch (e) { print('Error loading image: $e'); return null; } } Future loadMarkerIcons() async { for (var shop in shops) { Uint8List? markerIcon = await getMarkerIcon(shop.thumbnail); if (markerIcon != null && markerIcons[shop.id]!.isNotEmpty) { markerIcons[shop.id] = markerIcon; } else { markerIcons[shop.id] = await MarkerGenerator.defaultMarkerBytes(); } } setState(() {}); } @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { List markers = shops.map((shop) { return Marker( width: 80, height: 80, point: LatLng(shop.location.latitude, shop.location.longitude), child: GestureDetector( onTap: toggleSlideUp, child: Container( child: markerIcons[shop.id] != null && markerIcons[shop.id]!.isNotEmpty ? Image.memory(markerIcons[shop.id]!) : Icon(Icons.location_on, color: Colors.red), ), ), ); }).toList(); return Scaffold( appBar: AppBar( title: const Text('Map with Markers'), ), body: Stack( children: [ isLoading ? Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator()) : FlutterMap( options: MapOptions( initialCenter: LatLng(47.9187, 106.917), initialZoom: 10, ), children: [ TileLayer( urlTemplate: 'https://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', userAgentPackageName: 'com.example.app', ), MarkerClusterLayerWidget(options: MarkerClusterLayerOptions( markers: markers, builder: (context, markers) { return Container( width: 80, height: 80, decoration: BoxDecoration( shape: BoxShape.circle, color: Colors.blue, ), child: Center( child: Text( markers.length.toString(), style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white), ), ), ); }, ),) ], ), slideUpWidget, ], ), ); } } class Shop { final int id; final String name; final String description; final String phone; final String type; final List additional; final String thumbnail; final List bannerImages; final List branches; final List schedules; final Location location; final List services; Shop({ required this.id, required this.name, required this.description, required this.phone, required this.type, required this.additional, required this.thumbnail, required this.bannerImages, required this.branches, required this.schedules, required this.location, required this.services, }); factory Shop.fromJson(Map? json) { return Shop( id: json?['id'] ?? 0, name: json?['name'] ?? '', description: json?['description'] ?? '', phone: json?['phone'] ?? '', type: json?['type'] ?? '', additional: List.from(json?['additional'] ?? []), thumbnail: json?['thumbnail'] ?? '', bannerImages: (json?['bannerImages'] as List?) ?.map((bannerImage) => BannerImage.fromJson(bannerImage)) .toList() ?? [], branches: List.from(json?['branches'] ?? []), schedules: List.from(json?['schedules'] ?? []), location: Location.fromJson(json?['location'] ?? {}), services: List.from(json?['services'] ?? []), ); } } class BannerImage { final int id; final String name; final String path; final String fileMimeType; final int fileSize; final int fileWidth; final int fileHeight; BannerImage({ required this.id, required this.name, required this.path, required this.fileMimeType, required this.fileSize, required this.fileWidth, required this.fileHeight, }); factory BannerImage.fromJson(Map json) { return BannerImage( id: json['id'] ?? 0, name: json['name'] ?? '', path: json['path'] ?? '', fileMimeType: json['fileMimeType'] ?? '', fileSize: json['fileSize'] ?? 0, fileWidth: json['fileWidth'] ?? 0, fileHeight: json['fileHeight'] ?? 0, ); } } class Location { final int id; final double longitude; final double latitude; final String address; final dynamic city; final dynamic country; final dynamic province; final dynamic subProvince; final dynamic street; Location({ required this.id, required this.longitude, required this.latitude, required this.address, this.city, this.country, this.province, this.subProvince, this.street, }); factory Location.fromJson(Map json) { return Location( id: json['id'] ?? 0, longitude: json['longitude'] ?? 0.0, latitude: json['latitude'] ?? 0.0, address: json['address'] ?? '', city: json['city'], country: json['country'], province: json['province'], subProvince: json['subProvince'], street: json['street'], ); } } class MarkerGenerator { static Future defaultMarkerBytes() async { final recorder = ui.PictureRecorder(); final canvas = Canvas(recorder, Rect.fromPoints(Offset(0, 0), Offset(100, 100))); final paint = Paint()..color = Colors.red; canvas.drawCircle(Offset(50, 50), 50, paint); final picture = recorder.endRecording(); final img = await picture.toImage(100, 100); final byteData = await img.toByteData(format: ui.ImageByteFormat.png); return byteData!.buffer.asUint8List(); } } 

Ok gals time to drop in your favourite sapphic AO3. For those who don't know AO3 refers to Archieves of Our Own which is a website where writers can publish their fanfiction or fanwork. It can be fanfic of an established series or an original work.
For me it has to be the 'Locker Room Lovers' series by witheredandwiltedrose. Now before I drop a link to it, huge huge disclaimar it is a very heavy story that involves a copious amount of SA, religious trauma and suicide. And everyone including our main character is fucked up (actually the MC is a special kind of fucked up). Read the tags befofe you read the series. Another disclaimar that the series originally started of as smut and the first few chapters are like that before the plot kicks in. But if you can power through it trust me it's one of the best original work out there and the plot is great.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/50454244
PS: the series is a bit hard to navigate. Some of them you need to click on the 'Next Works' button in the bottom while some of the works will have chapters of their own.

Main d’œuvre , travail translates to labor
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English: labor

1. hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like
   
2. to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations
   
3. servile toil; exertion; work
   

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Translations

• Catalan: treball
  
• Esperanto: laboro
  
• French: Main d’œuvre , travail
  
• Galician: traballo
  
• German: die Arbeit
  
• Portuguese: trabalho
  
• Romanian: muncă
  
• Spanish: trabajo
  

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