My fellow gamers, for too long has our community suffered the indignation of an intolerable culture that has denigrated, besmirched, exploited, and has outright demonized our culture of unique individuals with a genuine love of a hobby that they see as profitable and progressive. They have taken beloved IP’s (Intellectual Properties) and twisted them into their own personal ideological crusade of undermining and humiliating the core aspects of characters they deemed as “Toxic” or “White Supremacy”. Through the guise and protection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) they have used our influence in the entertainment industry to push their narratives and agendas that have stigmatized our culture with numerous anti-consumer practices that they call “being progressive”. But the truth of the matter is they were never really looking to be a part of our community, they simply wanted to use our community as a tool of activism and propaganda in the entertainment industry as it was extremely profitable, and they wanted inclusion in that division. Ever since GamerGate & Female Frequency, we have had to endure the incursion of forced ideologies, xenophobic behaviors and inferior overpriced products that have never been in our best interest and have been flat out disgraceful towards foreign media.
Before Gaming had become a major source of entertainment, we were often categorized as anti-social or societies rejects where because we found more enjoyment in playing fictional characters and not spending as much time out and about, we never fully assimilated in society (which is a good thing if you ask me). From 1998 to 2007, at the height of innovation, creativity and production, Gaming had reached a golden age in which it had revolutionized society. Hollywood Execs who had ruined the movie industry turned their attention to video games as a source of income since video games had outperformed movies in terms of profit. No one was concerned about gaming, much less diversity or inclusivity until it became profitable. This makes people like SBI look extremely disingenuous as they were not interested in gamers as a community with its own culture. They simply wanted to use it as another weapon in identity politics.
Microtransactions; the hidden enemy to gamer progress and inducer to mental laziness of our community. Microtransactions have been around for a long time; however, it has never been more potent and apparent than in recent years. It has aided in the dismantling and segregation of players on the ideology of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and has created another sub-culture of gamers who have no real drive to be better outside of how much money they put into the game. This has degraded our culture as well as we have become “fat” off transactional gaming but at the same time we have been “starved” of purposeful gaming where our achievements were our sustenance. I am not saying that microtransactions are bad, but when they are exploitative and predatorial like they have been and don’t give gamers room to grow, we become lethargic and unwilling to improve ourselves as gamers. Oversaturated microtransactional games are one of the many reasons why we have become complacent and unwilling to fight against the exploitative tactics used by big brand game companies such EA, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard, NaughtyDog and so many other western business model companies. Western style games were not like this in the past, they had much more depth and actual effort put into them with the gamer in mind. This has not been the case for over a decade and our connection to western developers has been whittled down to just being transactional. That is one of the reasons why you see so many remasters and remakes in today’s gamer community. They have lost their willingness to improve as developers of games and simply accept corporate/share holder rules.
Game journalists also do not have any real integrity or purpose outside of being funded for their involvement in promoting IPG (Identity Political Games) in a positive light to the public whether it’s positively received or not. They are not interested in what we have to say, they all support the same agenda and that is why they are a dying breed. Within the next couple of years, they will be out of the job and more than likely they will not be able to stay in the industry giving how they have responded to past articles that have clearly been scripted on the premise of diversity and racism. Not only that, but most of them are also extremely hostile to the community as they stereotype and defame the individuals that are a part of the community they are supposed to serve. We have been mentally liberated from their lies and coercive tactics as we tend to laugh at their obvious attempt at virtue signaling while hiding their misdoings so that they can play the victim.
My gamer brothers & sisters, I would not suggest the following action that we must take now without good cause. I have weighed our options and the best option for us now is this…...CULTURAL SECESSION. Naturally this is a form of segregation where they would more than likely claim they are being segregated by the dominant culture of the gaming community but that is incorrect. For years now we have been the ones who are often marginalized and ostracized for the smaller portion of our community. And when we aren’t, we’re exploited for more funds so that these companies can stay in business only to subject us to low quality products that coincide with the “WOKE Agenda” that are often huge expenses to these big brands i.e. AAA/AAAA games that will eventually flop for its obvious forced diversity and bug infested product which will undoubtedly piss off the consumer to the point of wanting a refund. Losing copious amounts of capital and stock in the process, not to mention their reputation is permanently marred.
We must separate on every cultural level in terms of entertainment and ideology. We must reject everything from the west that promotes toxic western beliefs, practices, and exclusion from other cultures (i.e. Southeastern Countries such as Japan and Korea). Japan & Korea have been the targets of unjust discrimination from Western Developers, Western Journalists, Western Localizers (The Wokelizers) and Western Society Prejudice regarding their sense of aesthetics as Westerners hate the aesthetic sense of these countries. The reason why they resort to such base tactics isn’t just because it weaponizes the ideal female form but it’s also because they have deep-seated insecurities about their own looks so when they see attractive female characters, they use terms such as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized” to establish the moral high ground. But the truth is, they want to feel superior to that which is ideal, so they insult and dehumanize this figure that portrays natural female beauty because they see it as an insult to their own social superiority in what they believe is a hierarchy of them being at the top of all other women. Because of this and so many contributing factors, their movies flop harder than the Fat Chocobo landing on a group of enemies and their games seismically fail just as much if not more. We must sever our connection to Western Developers, Publishers, and ALL Western-Centric Entertainment for they seek to mentally enslave us to their Xenophobic ideology.
Let’s define Western Culture and its traits. Western Culture/Society is composed of more than several different ideologies that work in unison with one another to facilitate dominance over multiple aspects of society. Business, Social, Political, Technological, and sometimes even Global Affairs are affected by these ideologies that portray a specific mindset of Western beliefs. What are those ideologies you ask?

Perpetual Victimhood: By weaponizing the fact that they are marginalized and of a small portion of western society, they can push their agenda to absurd standards that ultimately ostracize the main demographic. And when companies don’t capitulate, they are labeled as anti-progressive/misogynist’s or cohorts of White Supremacy. They use this to cancel their targets and silence them through societal defamation to keep the public on their side. They also use this mindset to justify their own lack of self-agency as they tend to throw companies who do adhere to their demands but miserably fail to turn a profit under the bus so that they can maintain face in front of the public while denying their actual involvement. They will never accept “Sense of Agency” when it’s negative but will gladly accept it when a positive outcome shines on them as if they are entitled to it.

Official Wiki GamerGate Page)

Societal Terrorism: This is another form of ideology weaponization that they use in order to make companies “toe-the-line” with their agenda. By weaponizing cancel culture, they exert dominance over these companies but in exchange they also reimburse those companies with DEI & ESG funds that raise their credit score as well as having social status with the marginalized demographic. However; cancel culture has not succeeded in years and developers and publishers probably only want the money and the DEI ESG rating. But they have to maintain the image of having social economic power so that they can continue to strong-arm other developers into compliance and promoting financial benefits of DEI & ESG. In other words, if you are not for sale, they discredit and stigmatize you in the industry.

Asmongold Clips.
https://youtu.be/Iq86DnmX2xY

“Its not us, its you who’s wrong” Mentality: This mentality is especially annoying as they tend to use it to hide their incompetence. They often look down upon gamers who are not in the industry to hide their obvious lack of knowledge on game development thinking that their job title grants them special status that they believe gives them the right to be condescending. But the truth they never wanted revealed has already strangled their careers of all credibility. They were never GAMERS, they were INVADERS. Community Colonists that seek to indoctrinate next generational gamers into their hive-mind and brand previous generations of gamers as villains.

@GeeksandGamers
https://youtu.be/1HbrTkqQFuM

Double-standard Enforcement: By labeling something as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized”, they can claim this is morally wrong if it promotes traditional dynamics between men and women. Heterosexual relationships are condemned while at the same time Same-sex relationships are praised. Additionally, heterosexual relationships with main white male characters turn antagonistic and spotlight stealing. This is deliberate as to promote the “Girl Boss” ideology to indoctrinate women into the Feminazi state of mind. While at the same time, should a male character also adopt the “I don’t need male/female” ideology its seen as Toxic Masculinity which isn’t even a real thing. The idea of a strong male character is taboo while enforcing strong female characters is the ideal.

@MugenLord
https://youtu.be/to5Uciy_yeg
@EndymionTv
https://youtu.be/7TPTR8-qmbk

Dehumanization/Demonization: This is something that most military branches use in order to remove conscious inhibitions such as mass slaughter is wrong or categorization. By enforcing ideologies to denounce humanity in certain targets, it deactivates your conscience by saying this is not human therefore its ethically okay to treat this target without compassion and deny the fact it has sentience. We gamers fall under this category for journalists, developers, companies and society at large. This is a tactic we are familiar with to an extent as it implies that we are not normal when we do not do what everybody else is doing. “Geeks are the worse” or “Nerds need to fall into a pit of lava” are verbal dehumanization forms that most people in society say and we as Gamers tend to be relegated to those categories. This is their way of imposing the social hierarchy on us by establishing superiority. We know this as Gamers as we see it very often in the games that we play and some times experience it in real life.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#The_end_of_their_relevance

Deflection/Projection: This is basic psychology 101. By redirecting the conversation away from their mistakes and back on to the opposing view to avert blame and justify their innocence they can avoid criticism. However; deflection is a CONSCIOUS decision, meaning they have no real argument to justify their incompetence. If you can consciously process the situation, you have self-agency which means you don’t have a legitimate excuse. Projection is something else entirely. Most times, Projection doesn’t work on conscious decisions rather it is automatically deployed when feeling threatened, anxious or both. Instead of accepting accountability for feelings or actions that are deemed socially unacceptable they accuse others of committing that unacceptable behavior thereby exonerating themselves and proving that those feelings and/or actions are not their own.

@TheTrentReport
https://youtu.be/bPIPSKruYRo
These traits are so nefarious and unconscionable that I have a hard time believing that anyone could harbor them. However, given the social, political, and economic climate that we are in, those in power who use their influence on controlling society most definitely possess these insidious traits. Everything that they do is all about control and since video games are the biggest market in the world, they want control over it and the communities built around it to accrue more wealth and to use that wealth to subjugate other cultures. Mainstream media is a tool as well as mainstream organizations and sites to help accomplish this goal.
The government recently announced its intentions towards what they believe is “GamerGate 2.0” and now even the ADL has made an official appearance, referring to gamers as “extremist’s”. We know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore because they don’t think we are aware of their motives. This is just a pretext for them to exert even more control and we know why, it’s because they want the influence we as a community have to must serve them. So here is what we do my fellow gamers-
“In light of recent events and years of mainstream stigma, we the members of the Global Gaming Community [GGC] must officially renounce ALL TIES to the corporate western video game market. We have been financially exploited through predatorial monetization schemes, pelted with numerous articles of disdain and intentional misrepresentation from game journalists, news outlets regarding us as dangerous individuals and, even subjected to inferior products not only riddled with bugs but also products meant to push political agendas. For the preservation of our community and its unique culture, apart from a few select game development studios we officially sever all connections to western owned video game companies & their mainstream affiliates. From this point onward, we will no longer support western corporate developers, journalists and publishers that do not coincide with the goals of our community.”
Naturally this is completely optional. If you are okay with the state of the gaming community as it is, feel free to ignore this. But if you wish for real change and a break away from oversaturated monetization in the games you play and the push for radical ideological reform, then you are in the right place. Lets sever these rotted miasmic ties once and for all so that our community can be preserved and made better for future gamers. If you agree with this, share it with whoever you think might be interested. The more gamers who get involved, the easier it will be for us to finally break free from mainstream game companies and their associates.

My fellow gamers, for too long has our community suffered the indignation of an intolerable culture that has denigrated, besmirched, exploited, and has outright demonized our culture of unique individuals with a genuine love of a hobby that they see as profitable and progressive. They have taken beloved IP’s (Intellectual Properties) and twisted them into their own personal ideological crusade of undermining and humiliating the core aspects of characters they deemed as “Toxic” or “White Supremacy”. Through the guise and protection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) they have used our influence in the entertainment industry to push their narratives and agendas that have stigmatized our culture with numerous anti-consumer practices that they call “being progressive”. But the truth of the matter is they were never really looking to be a part of our community, they simply wanted to use our community as a tool of activism and propaganda in the entertainment industry as it was extremely profitable, and they wanted inclusion in that division. Ever since GamerGate & Female Frequency, we have had to endure the incursion of forced ideologies, xenophobic behaviors and inferior overpriced products that have never been in our best interest and have been flat out disgraceful towards foreign media.
Before Gaming had become a major source of entertainment, we were often categorized as anti-social or societies rejects where because we found more enjoyment in playing fictional characters and not spending as much time out and about, we never fully assimilated in society (which is a good thing if you ask me). From 1998 to 2007, at the height of innovation, creativity and production, Gaming had reached a golden age in which it had revolutionized society. Hollywood Execs who had ruined the movie industry turned their attention to video games as a source of income since video games had outperformed movies in terms of profit. No one was concerned about gaming, much less diversity or inclusivity until it became profitable. This makes people like SBI look extremely disingenuous as they were not interested in gamers as a community with its own culture. They simply wanted to use it as another weapon in identity politics.
Microtransactions; the hidden enemy to gamer progress and inducer to mental laziness of our community. Microtransactions have been around for a long time; however, it has never been more potent and apparent than in recent years. It has aided in the dismantling and segregation of players on the ideology of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and has created another sub-culture of gamers who have no real drive to be better outside of how much money they put into the game. This has degraded our culture as well as we have become “fat” off transactional gaming but at the same time we have been “starved” of purposeful gaming where our achievements were our sustenance. I am not saying that microtransactions are bad, but when they are exploitative and predatorial like they have been and don’t give gamers room to grow, we become lethargic and unwilling to improve ourselves as gamers. Oversaturated microtransactional games are one of the many reasons why we have become complacent and unwilling to fight against the exploitative tactics used by big brand game companies such EA, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard, NaughtyDog and so many other western business model companies. Western style games were not like this in the past, they had much more depth and actual effort put into them with the gamer in mind. This has not been the case for over a decade and our connection to western developers has been whittled down to just being transactional. That is one of the reasons why you see so many remasters and remakes in today’s gamer community. They have lost their willingness to improve as developers of games and simply accept corporate/share holder rules.
Game journalists also do not have any real integrity or purpose outside of being funded for their involvement in promoting IPG (Identity Political Games) in a positive light to the public whether it’s positively received or not. They are not interested in what we have to say, they all support the same agenda and that is why they are a dying breed. Within the next couple of years, they will be out of the job and more than likely they will not be able to stay in the industry giving how they have responded to past articles that have clearly been scripted on the premise of diversity and racism. Not only that, but most of them are also extremely hostile to the community as they stereotype and defame the individuals that are a part of the community they are supposed to serve. We have been mentally liberated from their lies and coercive tactics as we tend to laugh at their obvious attempt at virtue signaling while hiding their misdoings so that they can play the victim.
My gamer brothers & sisters, I would not suggest the following action that we must take now without good cause. I have weighed our options and the best option for us now is this…...CULTURAL SECESSION. Naturally this is a form of segregation where they would more than likely claim they are being segregated by the dominant culture of the gaming community but that is incorrect. For years now we have been the ones who are often marginalized and ostracized for the smaller portion of our community. And when we aren’t, we’re exploited for more funds so that these companies can stay in business only to subject us to low quality products that coincide with the “WOKE Agenda” that are often huge expenses to these big brands i.e. AAA/AAAA games that will eventually flop for its obvious forced diversity and bug infested product which will undoubtedly piss off the consumer to the point of wanting a refund. Losing copious amounts of capital and stock in the process, not to mention their reputation is permanently marred.
We must separate on every cultural level in terms of entertainment and ideology. We must reject everything from the west that promotes toxic western beliefs, practices, and exclusion from other cultures (i.e. Southeastern Countries such as Japan and Korea). Japan & Korea have been the targets of unjust discrimination from Western Developers, Western Journalists, Western Localizers (The Wokelizers) and Western Society Prejudice regarding their sense of aesthetics as Westerners hate the aesthetic sense of these countries. The reason why they resort to such base tactics isn’t just because it weaponizes the ideal female form but it’s also because they have deep-seated insecurities about their own looks so when they see attractive female characters, they use terms such as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized” to establish the moral high ground. But the truth is, they want to feel superior to that which is ideal, so they insult and dehumanize this figure that portrays natural female beauty because they see it as an insult to their own social superiority in what they believe is a hierarchy of them being at the top of all other women. Because of this and so many contributing factors, their movies flop harder than the Fat Chocobo landing on a group of enemies and their games seismically fail just as much if not more. We must sever our connection to Western Developers, Publishers, and ALL Western-Centric Entertainment for they seek to mentally enslave us to their Xenophobic ideology.
Let’s define Western Culture and its traits. Western Culture/Society is composed of more than several different ideologies that work in unison with one another to facilitate dominance over multiple aspects of society. Business, Social, Political, Technological, and sometimes even Global Affairs are affected by these ideologies that portray a specific mindset of Western beliefs. What are those ideologies you ask?

Perpetual Victimhood: By weaponizing the fact that they are marginalized and of a small portion of western society, they can push their agenda to absurd standards that ultimately ostracize the main demographic. And when companies don’t capitulate, they are labeled as anti-progressive/misogynist’s or cohorts of White Supremacy. They use this to cancel their targets and silence them through societal defamation to keep the public on their side. They also use this mindset to justify their own lack of self-agency as they tend to throw companies who do adhere to their demands but miserably fail to turn a profit under the bus so that they can maintain face in front of the public while denying their actual involvement. They will never accept “Sense of Agency” when it’s negative but will gladly accept it when a positive outcome shines on them as if they are entitled to it.

Official Wiki GamerGate Page)

Societal Terrorism: This is another form of ideology weaponization that they use in order to make companies “toe-the-line” with their agenda. By weaponizing cancel culture, they exert dominance over these companies but in exchange they also reimburse those companies with DEI & ESG funds that raise their credit score as well as having social status with the marginalized demographic. However; cancel culture has not succeeded in years and developers and publishers probably only want the money and the DEI ESG rating. But they have to maintain the image of having social economic power so that they can continue to strong-arm other developers into compliance and promoting financial benefits of DEI & ESG. In other words, if you are not for sale, they discredit and stigmatize you in the industry.

Asmongold Clips.
https://youtu.be/Iq86DnmX2xY

“Its not us, its you who’s wrong” Mentality: This mentality is especially annoying as they tend to use it to hide their incompetence. They often look down upon gamers who are not in the industry to hide their obvious lack of knowledge on game development thinking that their job title grants them special status that they believe gives them the right to be condescending. But the truth they never wanted revealed has already strangled their careers of all credibility. They were never GAMERS, they were INVADERS. Community Colonists that seek to indoctrinate next generational gamers into their hive-mind and brand previous generations of gamers as villains.

@GeeksandGamers
https://youtu.be/1HbrTkqQFuM

Double-standard Enforcement: By labeling something as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized”, they can claim this is morally wrong if it promotes traditional dynamics between men and women. Heterosexual relationships are condemned while at the same time Same-sex relationships are praised. Additionally, heterosexual relationships with main white male characters turn antagonistic and spotlight stealing. This is deliberate as to promote the “Girl Boss” ideology to indoctrinate women into the Feminazi state of mind. While at the same time, should a male character also adopt the “I don’t need male/female” ideology its seen as Toxic Masculinity which isn’t even a real thing. The idea of a strong male character is taboo while enforcing strong female characters is the ideal.

@MugenLord
https://youtu.be/to5Uciy_yeg
@EndymionTv
https://youtu.be/7TPTR8-qmbk

Dehumanization/Demonization: This is something that most military branches use in order to remove conscious inhibitions such as mass slaughter is wrong or categorization. By enforcing ideologies to denounce humanity in certain targets, it deactivates your conscience by saying this is not human therefore its ethically okay to treat this target without compassion and deny the fact it has sentience. We gamers fall under this category for journalists, developers, companies and society at large. This is a tactic we are familiar with to an extent as it implies that we are not normal when we do not do what everybody else is doing. “Geeks are the worse” or “Nerds need to fall into a pit of lava” are verbal dehumanization forms that most people in society say and we as Gamers tend to be relegated to those categories. This is their way of imposing the social hierarchy on us by establishing superiority. We know this as Gamers as we see it very often in the games that we play and some times experience it in real life.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#The_end_of_their_relevance

Deflection/Projection: This is basic psychology 101. By redirecting the conversation away from their mistakes and back on to the opposing view to avert blame and justify their innocence they can avoid criticism. However; deflection is a CONSCIOUS decision, meaning they have no real argument to justify their incompetence. If you can consciously process the situation, you have self-agency which means you don’t have a legitimate excuse. Projection is something else entirely. Most times, Projection doesn’t work on conscious decisions rather it is automatically deployed when feeling threatened, anxious or both. Instead of accepting accountability for feelings or actions that are deemed socially unacceptable they accuse others of committing that unacceptable behavior thereby exonerating themselves and proving that those feelings and/or actions are not their own.

@TheTrentReport
https://youtu.be/bPIPSKruYRo
These traits are so nefarious and unconscionable that I have a hard time believing that anyone could harbor them. However, given the social, political, and economic climate that we are in, those in power who use their influence on controlling society most definitely possess these insidious traits. Everything that they do is all about control and since video games are the biggest market in the world, they want control over it and the communities built around it to accrue more wealth and to use that wealth to subjugate other cultures. Mainstream media is a tool as well as mainstream organizations and sites to help accomplish this goal.
The government recently announced its intentions towards what they believe is “GamerGate 2.0” and now even the ADL has made an official appearance, referring to gamers as “extremist’s”. We know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore because they don’t think we are aware of their motives. This is just a pretext for them to exert even more control and we know why, it’s because they want the influence we as a community have to must serve them. So here is what we do my fellow gamers-
“In light of recent events and years of mainstream stigma, we the members of the Global Gaming Community [GGC] must officially renounce ALL TIES to the corporate western video game market. We have been financially exploited through predatorial monetization schemes, pelted with numerous articles of disdain and intentional misrepresentation from game journalists, news outlets regarding us as dangerous individuals and, even subjected to inferior products not only riddled with bugs but also products meant to push political agendas. For the preservation of our community and its unique culture, apart from a few select game development studios we officially sever all connections to western owned video game companies & their mainstream affiliates. From this point onward, we will no longer support western corporate developers, journalists and publishers that do not coincide with the goals of our community.”
Naturally this is completely optional. If you are okay with the state of the gaming community as it is, feel free to ignore this. But if you wish for real change and a break away from oversaturated monetization in the games you play and the push for radical ideological reform, then you are in the right place. Lets sever these rotted miasmic ties once and for all so that our community can be preserved and made better for future gamers. If you agree with this, share it with whoever you think might be interested. The more gamers who get involved, the easier it will be for us to finally break free from mainstream game companies and their associates.

This is what I posted on the board game community in Korea, and I'm also translating and posting it on Reddit!
The translation and text inspection took a long time, but I'm posting it because I think croquinol gamers from other countries will enjoy reading it.
(I don't know how to put pictures in between when writing on Reddit. If you're curious about pictures while reading, please visit the link below. You may not understand Korean, but pictures are visual information so they can be understood universally)
https://boardlife.co.kbbs_detail.php?tb=community_post&bbs_num=26766
Not long ago in early May, I ran a croquinol booth for students and parents at a Children's Day event (it was held on the grounds of the University of Education)
The head of the school affairs department suggested, "I heard you like board games, do you want to run a booth?" so I thought very hard. Actually, it was bothersome.
In the end, I accepted because I wanted to make good memories with children as well as selling croquinol. At first, I thought it was easy to take a few croquinols and play a few rounds.
It wasn't long before I realized that the idea was very wrong. This is because there were so many things to consider operating the booth. The program should be organized in consideration of the number of users and the number of people visiting.
The arrangement of objects and the movement of people should also be considered. I shouldn't think, 'I'm done explaining the game to the students in moderation and watching them play.'
I have to think about the details. I thought about it until the day of operation and right before it started. Now that it's been decided so far, I'll have to recruit staff to run it together (this was the most difficult problem)
Finally, find out the products to give to the visiting children and purchase them, purchase notices to be installed in the booth, and other things necessary to proceed or make them
For two weeks, I spent a lot of time and energy thinking about and preparing for how to operate the booth. I thought a lot about what to give as the prize, but it was finally decided to go down
(1) Pokémon Key Chain Pokémon is definitely a successful IP!!
I decided it right away because it looked so pretty and the quality looked good. There were some that were really cheap, but the quality was really... It was a pity, so I put in more budget
(2) ritter sport chocolate It's economical because there are 200 in a pack I tried one to see if it's poisonous What????? This chocolate tastes pretty good...
(3) Crockinol Pencil (Steadler + Engrave) Originally, I didn't want to give pencils, but if I imprint them and give them to students, I thought they could remember croquinol for quite some time, so I made it meaningful.
If you look closely at the pencil, you can see the image of a disc bouncing with a finger. (○ ● ☜) I made it using the basic characters on the keyboard. Haha.)
It took a long time to think of the word 'dream tree' in the engraved phrase. (Offered words: rookie, genius, child, master, king, god, etc.) Since there are no other people to help me, I planned and produced a lot of things by myself.... lol
I recruited the operating personnel as follows
Head of the school affairs department -> Recruit me (one-person planner and business manager): Let's compare and analyze croquinol sales and rest at home and then experience it. Decided
Me-> First cast (S teacher): A versatile teacher who has been in the next class since we met in the 6th grade this year He became interested after being introduced to Crockinol by me. Enjoying Crockinol at home with his wife. Canadian style. (He said he was doing it without giving it away.) After receiving a proposal from me, "I'll do all the preparations, so please come and let the children know the games without any burden," he decided to participate after much consideration. I'm playing with my kids in the classroom, and my croquinol skills are increasing rapidly. I'm planning to promote the entire 6th grade croquinol competition later.
Second cast (Teacher C): My younger brother who met as a manager and a staff member at my last school and became very close. The same person who said in an old article that he helped move the classroom!
Together, we played about 400 rounds of croquinol 1:1 match. He made a lot of mistakes in his early days, but after hundreds of editions, he became enlightened at some point. He has become quite a master.
His powerful shots made a lot of crazy scenes. Among them, he sent five discs of his opponent to a ditch at the same time. When he was asked by me to help him, he accepted without hesitation. (He is expected to participate in the next event.)
Third cast (Teacher K): I am a teacher from another region, and I am close to him because I got to know him in a club. She was the last to be recruited, and she suggested liter port chocolate and keychain among the product ideas. Pencils were also highly recommended when I was thinking about it.
Lastly, he volunteered after seeing me thinking about recruiting one more person.
She's the only teacher who doesn't have a croquinol, and she doesn't usually have a chance to train, so she's still a beginner's skill.
Rather, a person who is expected to revitalize the booth operation because of that. (If teachers do too well, all students lose.) For the record, she has a board gamer gene that can also play Arcnova board games.
※ In addition, there is a sad history of rejection and subtly falling over during the recruitment process.
And I started setting it up on the day!! Visit early with teacher C and install one croquinol on three tables in the tent
At first, I was worried because the table was in the shape of a rectangle, but I could put things here and there. If you put the croquinol at an angle on the table, it was possible to conduct a 2:2 team, so there was no problem.
After I finished setting up, I sat down for a bit and tried a croquinol test. Played without any problems. The shot was even better because I told them to cut their nails, including myself.
However, there was a lot of dust on the tables and chairs provided by the company, so I hurriedly cleaned them. The remaining two operators also narrowly joined, and a total of four people were matched.
After that, I had time to start operating the booth as a whole They're here...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The name of the booth was 'Gather up here if you're confident in flicking', but I think I drew some aggro. Other places looked healthy like making animal bracelets, but our booth was like, "You! Come if you're confident!"
The booth was originally planned like this Planning the rules of the game: - If you feel uncomfortable, you can stand and shoot freely - In the case of 1:1, the original use of the 1/4 shooting line based on North America and Canada, rather than the use of the 1/2 shooting line that changed the rules in Korean company Korea Board Games. - A student who is too young is forced to shoot with a line forward. Two places are experience seats and listen to and experience the rules 1:1 or 2:2 (Parents and friends can participate together) - The experience gift is one litre pot chocolate - Rule Description -> Shot Practice -> consists of a two-game friendly
If you have learned the rules through the experience, go to the challenge seat of one place and challenge 1:1 or 2:2 (you can also participate together) - If you win, you'll get a Pokémon keychain, even if you lose, you'll get a 1/3 chance of a keychain and a 2/3 chance of a pencil through a lottery - Using one chance card, we will proceed with two sets, and if the student draws or wins even one set, it will be considered a victory. - Re-challenge possible when you line up again The booth gradually gathered and filled the corner, and the line got longer
I repeated the explanation and game so wildly!
The first episode : Even though it was in the shade of the tent, the temperature was high, so the chocolate melted. The student said it melted, so I touched it and it was liquid! Unfortunately, we can't give these defective products to students, so we decided to go to the challenge seat without giving them away in the experience seat.
The second episode : Our classmates are here! I heard a voice saying, "Teacher!" and I can see the 6th grade girls in my class
Of course, we played the game. I tried to lose, but I thought that if I lost too much, the student would notice, so I made mistakes from time to time, but these guys made more mistakes!
It ended with me winning or drawing (I should have made it more clear and lost... lol) I said, "This is just an experience seat, so it doesn't matter, show your real skills in the challenge seat," and sent the girl to another corner
The third episode : People were buzzing that a very famous politician visited the booth next door. (He was Korea's presidential candidate.) I looked up and saw the face that I saw on screen Although I was curious, I had my day job as a board gamer, so I welcomed students and focused on explaining the rules. Later, I found out that he talked to a student who experienced our booth and passed by
The 4th episode : The booth operators were not given a separate lunch break! It was announced that they would take turns eating lunch boxes. There were quite a few people... and I barely had time to eat. One person will be in charge of one booth, and one person will take turns eating I'm the type to eat slowly while tasting the taste, but I didn't have much time to relax on this day, so I sat on the stand and came back in a hurry that I couldn't even feel the taste
The fifth episode : There are so many people, and especially in the case of the challenge seat, the waiting line is longer, so to solve the bottleneck, we decided to take both the place and challenge as an experience seat It was the same with the booth I was in. I don't know what this day is... I made more mistakes than usual and often missed shots because I was nervous dealing with children. Hahaha
The 6th episode : The operations staff at the next table said, "A kid came up with a challenge and beat me." He got the prize, of course But after that, the student was still in the viewing room and gave advice to other participating children, saying, "I win all of them," showing a lot of confidence Then the child triumphantly challenged the management staff again! He must have wanted to win again. What was the result? According to him, he showed the dignity of an adult with his skills to children Of course, he gave away a croquinol pencil this time!!
The 7th episode : I explained the rules so much that the script was automatically made "This game is a 150-year-old game of Canada known to have started in 1876.... "In Canada, it's a daily sport that many families have and play throughout their lives, from childhood to grandmothers and grandparents. The rules are simple: if you put it in here, it's 20 points, this is 15 points....." I can't remember how many times I repeated the script above! The eighth episode : There are people who waited for an hour to listen to it while organizing it I've already experienced it and moved to the challenge seat, but the challenge seat lines are too long... Did they feel like they were waiting for a long line in the amusement park... ㅠㅠ Parents were tired of waiting, so they asked to go to another booth, but the child said, "Since I've experienced it, I really want to try it. I want to take a Pokémon keychain!" and waited a lot. It must have been very boring for parents, but there was no other way. I thought the quality of the operation would be very low to just experience/challenge one game at a time 2 play experience + 2 play challenge was the minimum number of plays to feel a little croquinol
The ninth episode : After eating, I heard parents and children talking "This is where we play Alkagi(flicking). Shall we play Alkagi?" "Let's do it!"
If you had written the booth title, "Who wants to play croquinol?" no one would know croquinol, so accessibility would have been low But when the title said "Alkkagi", I was proud of him coming in without any pressure
The 10th episode : The official closing time of the booth was 4 p.m At around 3:50 p.m., I took a breath and looked at other places, and some places had already withdrawn, and I was usually cleaning up, so the atmosphere was clear But our booth is still full It lasted beyond hours Is this the power of crocinol?
The 11th episode : Time has been deleted I was worried about what if time went by during that long time of operating the booth, but it was a mistake. We were so busy explaining and playing that we didn't have time to look at the clock, and when we came to our senses, it was a time when the end was imminent. I couldn't even go to the bathroom for five hours. Because it was hectic, the operation ended without a comparative analysis of 'Are many people visiting other booths? How popular is our booth?' (When I saw the photos and videos later, I could see that our booth was more crowded than other booths.)
The 12th episode : I tried a lot to react to it in my own way. I really complimented the kid every time he hit the disc. I exaggerated a little bit like I became a YouTuber and shouted a compliment chant out loud A young girl who looked like elementary 1 or 2 sat down (around 7-8 years old) I finished explaining the rules, and asked her to practice shooting a few times. After that, we started playing the game. The girl said she would do it first, and she took the first shot of her life's first game. It went straight into the center hole. There was applause from all around. I said, "Even I couldn't put it in at first. It's amazing." Congratulations on your best experience." She's made a lot of mistakes in play since then, but it doesn't matter at all! There's nothing more touching than the first shot of 20 The parents who were nearby filmed this scene and will cherish this meaningful moment for a long time
The 13th episode : There seemed to be something interesting to see other crocinol tables also clapping, wow, oh, oh From the perspective of planning, all these reactions are a gift
The 14th episode : There were a lot of spectators while explaining/playing There were a lot of comments about the rules of the game "You have to hit the disc when it's on the surface" "Oh!" A male parent was glad to hear that he knew croquinol "I knew this game since it came out last year. It was about 110 dollars, but I didn't buy it because it was expensive." (It's more expensive now. It's about $140)
The 15th episode : We allowed a re-challenge in the 'Beat the Teacher' section, caressing the hearts of children thirsty for crocinol Some students tried again 3 times (The challenge itself takes about 1 minute and 30 seconds for the first round, 3 minutes in total, so it doesn't take much.)
The 16th episode : After 4 p.m., I looked at the other booth thinking about when to organize it, and a boy who looked like a fourth grade in the challenge seat was doing very well Her parents were also amazed by it The accuracy of each step wasn't unusual He said he came back to try it out and do it again Looking at the game, he unfortunately lost to Teacher S by 5 points when he made a mistake of 2 turns in the second half Teacher S told the student. " Try it with that teacher. He's the best While sitting down, I asked, "Do you want me to do it with all my strength or not?" I laughed and asked At first, the student said, "Please be generous!" but later changed his words to "With full strength." "Haha, okay. I'll go with all my strength!" The student said he would attack first and tried an open shot and went straight into the center hole "Wow... does this make sense?" I also chased along the disc in the center hole. That's how I tried to hit my opponent's disc in Hogan's alley and accidentally wasted three turns. The result is that the student who leads by 15 points wins... The child liked it very much and came home with a light step with his parents "Thank you for your hard work. Bye!" When I looked at the playground with the back of my family leaving after saying hello, the sun was slowly heading down, scattering light everywhere and giving the lawn a cozy view What could be a more peaceful landscape. He must have felt really good on his way home. I thought he lost well
Finish writing : When I was in college, I ran a different kind of booth when I was the president of a club, but it was the first time I ran it this way in relation to board games.
At that time, there were a lot of club members and the space was very spacious, so the event was held comfortably, but the croquinol booth was operated in a very minimal condition: 1 tent, 3 tables, 3 croquinols, and 4 people in operation
Still, it ended successfully as it exceeded the time without an accident, so considering that it is the first operation under this condition, it should be considered a great success.
The operation of this croquinol booth was planned by myself and prepared for the program, so I have a lot of attachment.
I'm grateful to the three people who ran it together (they were dispatched from each elementary school publicly and privately). As expected, people are the most important.
I'm willing to do it again if I have to participate in the booth event another month this year or if I have to run it again next year. I think we can do it in a better way than now
For example, I dream of running a mini-contest by installing more tables. There's a mini trophy, and I think the kid who got it will really like it. (Of course we need a lot more people than we do now...!)

So as title says, I don't need help with distro selection, or DE ... I will go with something simple. machine will be some recent middle-low level specs, 16GB ram for chrome, and that's it :D
What I tried to find are tips for software, and all threads here are old enough to be locked.

So first question is voice assistant. It would be like magic for them, and also their vision is poor so don't have to read would be great benefit. I found only abandoned projects, and some where the installation and update is complex so it would be prone to break. There is apparently possibility to integrate Google assistant API somehow, IDK if I want to do this, but should be more stable IMHO. I could maybe opt for some text to speech reader instead, not having conversation ability but could read from browser, so GPT chat can be then used for conversation. Someone succeeded in this?
Lot of usecases they have is to watch their and family photos, videos, and usually watch documentary films on TV. I would like some app that would just do this, catalog their local media, and offer some basic search and presentation. Playing youtube is not necessary, FF with adblock is OK for that. One app, big icons, thumbnails, so they can operate it on TV. I know only Kodi, so I would go with that, but maybe someone has another favorite media app that is good and lightweight?
Remote help. Everyone recommends nomachine, the thing is I have public IP on my router, their will be connected behind small city provider so they will not have it. So I need to initiate connection from their side, and I was not able to find if this is possible with nomachine. I can go with anything that can be scripted so they don't need to make any complex input, just click icon and that's it. Again, I know only basics, I can imagine ssh tunnel and VNC, but maybe there is some solution I don't know about?

So that's it. Thanks in advance for your tips.

so i want to try and game online with VPN, of course vless/trojan because of its nature of using TCP the ping is almost tripled to what i am used to, so i searched for other alternatives i found hysteria2 and tuic which uses QUIC protocol meaning they are UDP based and when i tried them the ping is amazing with only 10ms overhead or so
HOWEVER it doesn't stay perfect to the end
every single game/match in like say Valorant there has to be some random disconnects which of course is bad in online gaming
so i tried different VPS providers (linode,vultr,hetzner), different install scripts, tried different sing-box core versions and went as far as trying different windows client (tried nekoray,v2rayN,furious,hiddify)
but sadly there has to be that moment every 4-5 rounds where i get disconnected from the game
any idea, is there anyone who took the same approach and managed to outcome those issues or you didn't even had them in the first place?
could it be because i use warp (i have to otherwise riot games blocks my VPS IP)?

Hi guys, after losing brain cells trying to find information on how to install the Guppy screen, I wanted to show y'all how to do it on your own if you choose to. I may be wrong on some parts, but these are the things that worked for me. Thanks to wolfie_the_king_574 for telling me some of the steps on how to do it, but some of it didn't work for me. I also used Wiki for Creality Helper Script (guilouz.github.io) and ballaswag/guppyflo: GuppyFLO is a self-hosted service that enables local/remote management of multiple Klipper printers using Moonraker (github.com) and ballaswag/guppyscreen: A native Touch UI for 3D Printers running KlippeMoonraker. (github.com) on the steps for some of it and will be summarizing most of it. I will also be adding in the common downloads needed here for easy access as I was jumping all around to find it. [I'm not sure if you have to keep rebooting your printer during this process, but I'll take the safe way and do it anyways]
[Edit: I'm not sure why upon posting, that the numbers are all 1. but I can't change it so bare with me]

[1] Reset your entire Nebula Pad

Download and unzip this file: Creality_K1_Reset_Utility.zip
Open the file Creality_K1_Reset_Utility.html in your Internet browser.
Make sure your printer is on, and put in your IP address and click reset.
Reboot to make sure it has reset.
Turn off your printer now.

[2] Reinstall the firmware for the Nebula Pad

Download this Ender 3 V3 SE Firmware.
Add the Ender3V3SE_firmware.bin file into your SD card and plug it into the printer.
Choose the Ender 3 V3 SE logo on the next page. Put in your settings and update to the latest version.
Turn off your printer.

[3] Now you want to root your Nebula Pad

Click on this Destinal Root and download the first link in the description.
There should be a white usb that came with the Nebula Pad. Plug that into your computer and format it in FAT32 with 4096 allocation size.
Now copy the file into the usb and insert it into the side of the Nebula Pad.
Turn on the printer and there should be a popup to upgrade.
After it finishes upgrading, take the usb out or else it will keep having that popup.
You can reboot if you want, I don't think you have to right now.

[4] Install PuTTY and go into Helperscript

Click on this PuTTY Download and download the right one for you and install it.
Next, when you open up PuTTY, enter the IP address for your printer and press enter. The IP address can be found where your wifi settings are on the Nebula Pad.
It's going to say login as: and type in root
Now it'll ask for the password which is creality
Next, type in ./installer.sh to enter Helperscript

[5] Uninstall Moonraker, Fluid, Mainsail, and the Creality OS

Type in 2 to get into the remove screen.
Go one by one and type in 1 2 3 to remove each one respectively
Type in b to go back to the main screen
Type in 4 to enter the Customize screen and type in 3 to remove Creality OS
Reboot

[6] Update Helperscript

ssh back into the Nebula Pad using PuTTY
Type in git config --global http.sslVerify false to avoid encountering an issue, I'm not sure what.
Type in git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Guilouz/Creality-Helper-Script.git /usdata/helper-script to install the script in the usdate folder.
Type in sh /usdata/helper-script/helper.sh to run the script.
There's two different way to now update the Helper Script
- Go through the PuTTY, go through the user and password and enter ./installer.sh again and it should pop up with the update OR
- When you access Fluidd or Mainsail, update it directly there.
- You can access Fluidd by http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4408/ (replacing xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx by your local IP address).
  - Go in the Settings tab and go into Software Updates and click Update for Creality-Helper-Script.
- You can access Mainsail by http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4409/(replacing xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx by your local IP address).
  - Go in the Machine tab and it should be there as well.
Reboot

[7] Reinstall Moonraker, Fluid and/or Mainsail

Go back into PuTTY, go back in the ./installer.sh, type in 1 to the installation screen and follow along for the installation of those. I don't think I have to baby steps that now.
Reboot

[8] Update Everything

Depending on if you use Fluidd or Mainsail, go back into those websites and update everything in the update section if it's not already updated.

[9] Install Anything Else + Guppy [FINALLY]

Go back through PuTTY and into the Helper Script. Now you can also install anything you wanted to during. If you're unsure of what these mean, click on this Installer Definitions and look to the left side under "Install Menu" and look through whatever you want to.
Some of these you won't have since this is meant for a different printer.
You have to exit out of the Helper Script now by typing in q
Now type in, to install GuppyFLO wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ballaswag/guppyflo/main/installer.sh sh
Now type in, to install the Guppy Screen and it should change your Nebula Pad to horizontal format and have you calibrate it touching cursors.sh -c "$(wget --no-check-certificate -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ballaswag/guppyscreen/main/installer.sh)"

[10] How to Connect to it on the Internet (I copied this straight this)

Create a Tailscale account: Create Tailscale Account
Install Tailscale application depending device(s) you want to use for remote access: Download Tailscale App
Search up http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9873 (by replacing xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx by your printer's local IP address) to access the GuppyFLO Web interface
Then, click on authenticate link to register GuppyFLO instance to Tailscale
You will be redirected to the Tailscale website to connect device by clicking on Connect button
Go to to your Tailscale Admin console here: Tailscale Admin Console
There you will see the connected devices and their respective IP addresses:
- guppyflo → Your printer
- IP address assigned to your printer
- The devices you have connected to Tailscale (here my mobile phone)
- The IP addresses assigned to the devices you have connected
Go to Tailscale DNS settings tab and enable MagicDNS feature
Go back to GuppyFLO Web interface and click on Add Printer button
Configure settings and click on Save button
You can now connect to GuppyFlo Web interface remotely with http://guppyflo URL

Now this should be everything! Be sure to visit this Website or Demo Video or Website to understand how the screen works, how to connect to it with pictures, and whatnot.
Let me know if I did anything wrong, but these are the steps that worked for me.

🦑 Squid Proxy Manager Script

Hello fellow Python enthusiasts!
I've created a Python script that makes managing your Squid Proxy Server a breeze. If you're looking for an efficient and straightforward way to interact with your Squid server remotely, this script is for you. 🎉

What My Project Does

The Squid Proxy Manager script allows you to manage your Squid Proxy Server remotely using a simple command-line interface. Here are some of the key features:

Check Squid Service Status: Quickly check if your Squid service is running or not.
Start/Stop/Restart Service: Easily control the Squid service remotely.
View Logs: Access the latest entries in your Squid access logs.
View Configuration: Display the current Squid configuration file.
Update Configuration: Replace the existing Squid configuration with a new one.
Reload Service: Reload the Squid service to apply changes without restarting.

Target Audience

This script is designed for anyone who manages a Squid Proxy Server and prefers a command-line tool for remote management. If you are comfortable using Python and SSH, this tool will streamline your workflow and enhance your productivity.

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Installation:
- Ensure you have the required libraries installed: bash pip install paramiko termcolor
Running the Script:
- Use the script with appropriate arguments to manage your Squid Proxy Server. Here's an example command to check the Squid service status: bash ./squid_proxy_manager.py 192.168.2.111 22 username password --check-status
Updating Configuration:
- Create a new configuration file (e.g., new_squid.conf) with your desired settings.
- Run the script to update the Squid configuration: bash ./squid_proxy_manager.py 192.168.2.111 22 username password --update-config new_squid.conf

💻 Script Example

Here's a snippet of the script to give you an idea of its simplicity and functionality:
```python

!/usbin/env python3

import paramiko import argparse import logging import sys import os from termcolor import colored
class SquidProxyManager: def init(self, hostname, port, username, password): self.hostname = hostname self.port = port self.username = username self.password = password self.client = paramiko.SSHClient() self.client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

def connect(self): try: logging.info(colored("Attempting to connect to {}:{}".format(self.hostname, self.port), 'cyan')) self.client.connect(self.hostname, port=self.port, username=self.username, password=self.password) logging.info(colored(f"Connected to {self.hostname} on port {self.port}", 'green')) except Exception as e: logging.error(colored(f"Failed to connect: {e}", 'red')) sys.exit(1) def disconnect(self): self.client.close() logging.info(colored("Disconnected from the server", 'green')) def execute_command(self, command): logging.info(colored("Executing command: {}".format(command), 'cyan')) try: stdin, stdout, stderr = self.client.exec_command(command) stdout.channel.recv_exit_status() out = stdout.read().decode() err = stderr.read().decode() if err: logging.error(colored(f"Error executing command '{command}': {err}", 'red')) else: logging.info(colored(f"Successfully executed command '{command}'", 'green')) return out, err except Exception as e: logging.error(colored(f"Exception during command execution '{command}': {e}", 'red')) return "", str(e) # More functions here...

def parse_args(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Squid Proxy Manager") parser.add_argument('hostname', help="IP address of the Squid proxy server") parser.add_argument('port', type=int, help="Port number for SSH connection") parser.add_argument('username', help="SSH username") parser.add_argument('password', help="SSH password") parser.add_argument('--check-status', action='store_true', help="Check Squid service status") parser.add.add_argument('--start', action='store_true', help="Start Squid service") parser.add.add_argument('--stop', action='store_true', help="Stop Squid service") parser.add.add_argument('--restart', action='store_true', help="Restart Squid service") parser.add.add_argument('--view-logs', action='store_true', help="View Squid logs") parser.add.add_argument('--view-config', action='store_true', help="View Squid configuration") parser.add.add_argument('--update-config', help="Update Squid configuration with provided data") parser.add.add_argument('--reload', action='store_true', help="Reload Squid service") return parser.parse_args()
def main(): logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s') args = parse_args() logging.info(colored("Initializing Squid Proxy Manager script", 'cyan'))

manager = SquidProxyManager(args.hostname, args.port, args.username, args.password) manager.connect() try: if args.check_status: manager.check_squid_status() if args.start: manager.start_squid() if args.stop: manager.stop_squid() if args.restart: manager.restart_squid() if args.view_logs: manager.view_squid_logs() if args.view_config: manager.view_squid_config() if args.update_config: if not args.update_config.endswith('.conf'): logging.error(colored("The provided file must have a .conf extension", 'red')) elif not os.path.isfile(args.update_config): logging.error(colored(f"Configuration file {args.update_config} not found", 'red')) else: try: with open(args.update_config, 'r') as config_file: config_data = config_file.read() manager.update_squid_config(config_data) except Exception as e: logging.error(colored(f"Error reading configuration file {args.update_config}: {e}", 'red')) if args.reload: manager.reload_squid() finally: manager.disconnect() logging.info(colored("Squid Proxy Manager operations completed", 'green'))

if name == "main": main() ```

🌟 Benefits

Remote Management: No need to be physically present to manage your Squid server.
Ease of Use: Simple command-line interface for quick operations.
Versatility: Supports various Squid management tasks, from checking status to updating configurations and viewing logs.

📢 Get Involved!

If you find this script useful, feel free to give it a try and share your feedback. Contributions and suggestions are always welcome! Comments however, that are unhelpful and serve no purpose to better the script or the author in their python scripting abilities are not welcome! Keep the nasty to yourself.

Access the script

You can find the script here on GitHub.
Happy coding! 🚀

My fellow gamers, for too long has our community suffered the indignation of an intolerable culture that has denigrated, besmirched, exploited, and has outright demonized our culture of unique individuals with a genuine love of a hobby that they see as profitable and progressive. They have taken beloved IP’s (Intellectual Properties) and twisted them into their own personal ideological crusade of undermining and humiliating the core aspects of characters they deemed as “Toxic” or “White Supremacy”. Through the guise and protection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) they have used our influence in the entertainment industry to push their narratives and agendas that have stigmatized our culture with numerous anti-consumer practices that they call “being progressive”. But the truth of the matter is they were never really looking to be a part of our community, they simply wanted to use our community as a tool of activism and propaganda in the entertainment industry as it was extremely profitable, and they wanted inclusion in that division. Ever since GamerGate & Female Frequency, we have had to endure the incursion of forced ideologies, xenophobic behaviors and inferior overpriced products that have never been in our best interest and have been flat out disgraceful towards foreign media.
Before Gaming had become a major source of entertainment, we were often categorized as anti-social or societies rejects where because we found more enjoyment in playing fictional characters and not spending as much time out and about, we never fully assimilated in society (which is a good thing if you ask me). From 1998 to 2007, at the height of innovation, creativity and production, Gaming had reached a golden age in which it had revolutionized society. Hollywood Execs who had ruined the movie industry turned their attention to video games as a source of income since video games had outperformed movies in terms of profit. No one was concerned about gaming, much less diversity or inclusivity until it became profitable. This makes people like SBI look extremely disingenuous as they were not interested in gamers as a community with its own culture. They simply wanted to use it as another weapon in identity politics.
Microtransactions; the hidden enemy to gamer progress and inducer to mental laziness of our community. Microtransactions have been around for a long time; however, it has never been more potent and apparent than in recent years. It has aided in the dismantling and segregation of players on the ideology of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and has created another sub-culture of gamers who have no real drive to be better outside of how much money they put into the game. This has degraded our culture as well as we have become “fat” off transactional gaming but at the same time we have been “starved” of purposeful gaming where our achievements were our sustenance. I am not saying that microtransactions are bad, but when they are exploitative and predatorial like they have been and don’t give gamers room to grow, we become lethargic and unwilling to improve ourselves as gamers. Oversaturated microtransactional games are one of the many reasons why we have become complacent and unwilling to fight against the exploitative tactics used by big brand game companies such EA, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard, NaughtyDog and so many other western business model companies. Western style games were not like this in the past, they had much more depth and actual effort put into them with the gamer in mind. This has not been the case for over a decade and our connection to western developers has been whittled down to just being transactional. That is one of the reasons why you see so many remasters and remakes in today’s gamer community. They have lost their willingness to improve as developers of games and simply accept corporate/share holder rules.
Game journalists also do not have any real integrity or purpose outside of being funded for their involvement in promoting IPG (Identity Political Games) in a positive light to the public whether it’s positively received or not. They are not interested in what we have to say, they all support the same agenda and that is why they are a dying breed. Within the next couple of years, they will be out of the job and more than likely they will not be able to stay in the industry giving how they have responded to past articles that have clearly been scripted on the premise of diversity and racism. Not only that, but most of them are also extremely hostile to the community as they stereotype and defame the individuals that are a part of the community they are supposed to serve. We have been mentally liberated from their lies and coercive tactics as we tend to laugh at their obvious attempt at virtue signaling while hiding their misdoings so that they can play the victim.
My gamer brothers & sisters, I would not suggest the following action that we must take now without good cause. I have weighed our options and the best option for us now is this…...CULTURAL SECESSION. Naturally this is a form of segregation where they would more than likely claim they are being segregated by the dominant culture of the gaming community but that is incorrect. For years now we have been the ones who are often marginalized and ostracized for the smaller portion of our community. And when we aren’t, we’re exploited for more funds so that these companies can stay in business only to subject us to low quality products that coincide with the “WOKE Agenda” that are often huge expenses to these big brands i.e. AAA/AAAA games that will eventually flop for its obvious forced diversity and bug infested product which will undoubtedly piss off the consumer to the point of wanting a refund. Losing copious amounts of capital and stock in the process, not to mention their reputation is permanently marred.
We must separate on every cultural level in terms of entertainment and ideology. We must reject everything from the west that promotes toxic western beliefs, practices, and exclusion from other cultures (i.e. Southeastern Countries such as Japan and Korea). Japan & Korea have been the targets of unjust discrimination from Western Developers, Western Journalists, Western Localizers (The Wokelizers) and Western Society Prejudice regarding their sense of aesthetics as Westerners hate the aesthetic sense of these countries. The reason why they resort to such base tactics isn’t just because it weaponizes the ideal female form but it’s also because they have deep-seated insecurities about their own looks so when they see attractive female characters, they use terms such as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized” to establish the moral high ground. But the truth is, they want to feel superior to that which is ideal, so they insult and dehumanize this figure that portrays natural female beauty because they see it as an insult to their own social superiority in what they believe is a hierarchy of them being at the top of all other women. Because of this and so many contributing factors, their movies flop harder than the Fat Chocobo landing on a group of enemies and their games seismically fail just as much if not more. We must sever our connection to Western Developers, Publishers, and ALL Western-Centric Entertainment for they seek to mentally enslave us to their Xenophobic ideology.
Let’s define Western Culture and its traits. Western Culture/Society is composed of more than several different ideologies that work in unison with one another to facilitate dominance over multiple aspects of society. Business, Social, Political, Technological, and sometimes even Global Affairs are affected by these ideologies that portray a specific mindset of Western beliefs. What are those ideologies you ask?

Perpetual Victimhood: By weaponizing the fact that they are marginalized and of a small portion of western society, they can push their agenda to absurd standards that ultimately ostracize the main demographic. And when companies don’t capitulate, they are labeled as anti-progressive/misogynist’s or cohorts of White Supremacy. They use this to cancel their targets and silence them through societal defamation to keep the public on their side. They also use this mindset to justify their own lack of self-agency as they tend to throw companies who do adhere to their demands but miserably fail to turn a profit under the bus so that they can maintain face in front of the public while denying their actual involvement. They will never accept “Sense of Agency” when it’s negative but will gladly accept it when a positive outcome shines on them as if they are entitled to it.

Official Wiki GamerGate Page)

Societal Terrorism: This is another form of ideology weaponization that they use in order to make companies “toe-the-line” with their agenda. By weaponizing cancel culture, they exert dominance over these companies but in exchange they also reimburse those companies with DEI & ESG funds that raise their credit score as well as having social status with the marginalized demographic. However; cancel culture has not succeeded in years and developers and publishers probably only want the money and the DEI ESG rating. But they have to maintain the image of having social economic power so that they can continue to strong-arm other developers into compliance and promoting financial benefits of DEI & ESG. In other words, if you are not for sale, they discredit and stigmatize you in the industry.

Asmongold Clips.
https://youtu.be/Iq86DnmX2xY

“Its not us, its you who’s wrong” Mentality: This mentality is especially annoying as they tend to use it to hide their incompetence. They often look down upon gamers who are not in the industry to hide their obvious lack of knowledge on game development thinking that their job title grants them special status that they believe gives them the right to be condescending. But the truth they never wanted revealed has already strangled their careers of all credibility. They were never GAMERS, they were INVADERS. Community Colonists that seek to indoctrinate next generational gamers into their hive-mind and brand previous generations of gamers as villains.

@GeeksandGamers
https://youtu.be/1HbrTkqQFuM

Double-standard Enforcement: By labeling something as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized”, they can claim this is morally wrong if it promotes traditional dynamics between men and women. Heterosexual relationships are condemned while at the same time Same-sex relationships are praised. Additionally, heterosexual relationships with main white male characters turn antagonistic and spotlight stealing. This is deliberate as to promote the “Girl Boss” ideology to indoctrinate women into the Feminazi state of mind. While at the same time, should a male character also adopt the “I don’t need male/female” ideology its seen as Toxic Masculinity which isn’t even a real thing. The idea of a strong male character is taboo while enforcing strong female characters is the ideal.

@MugenLord
https://youtu.be/to5Uciy_yeg
@EndymionTv
https://youtu.be/7TPTR8-qmbk

Dehumanization/Demonization: This is something that most military branches use in order to remove conscious inhibitions such as mass slaughter is wrong or categorization. By enforcing ideologies to denounce humanity in certain targets, it deactivates your conscience by saying this is not human therefore its ethically okay to treat this target without compassion and deny the fact it has sentience. We gamers fall under this category for journalists, developers, companies and society at large. This is a tactic we are familiar with to an extent as it implies that we are not normal when we do not do what everybody else is doing. “Geeks are the worse” or “Nerds need to fall into a pit of lava” are verbal dehumanization forms that most people in society say and we as Gamers tend to be relegated to those categories. This is their way of imposing the social hierarchy on us by establishing superiority. We know this as Gamers as we see it very often in the games that we play and some times experience it in real life.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#The_end_of_their_relevance

Deflection/Projection: This is basic psychology 101. By redirecting the conversation away from their mistakes and back on to the opposing view to avert blame and justify their innocence they can avoid criticism. However; deflection is a CONSCIOUS decision, meaning they have no real argument to justify their incompetence. If you can consciously process the situation, you have self-agency which means you don’t have a legitimate excuse. Projection is something else entirely. Most times, Projection doesn’t work on conscious decisions rather it is automatically deployed when feeling threatened, anxious or both. Instead of accepting accountability for feelings or actions that are deemed socially unacceptable they accuse others of committing that unacceptable behavior thereby exonerating themselves and proving that those feelings and/or actions are not their own.

@TheTrentReport
https://youtu.be/bPIPSKruYRo
These traits are so nefarious and unconscionable that I have a hard time believing that anyone could harbor them. However, given the social, political, and economic climate that we are in, those in power who use their influence on controlling society most definitely possess these insidious traits. Everything that they do is all about control and since video games are the biggest market in the world, they want control over it and the communities built around it to accrue more wealth and to use that wealth to subjugate other cultures. Mainstream media is a tool as well as mainstream organizations and sites to help accomplish this goal.
The government recently announced its intentions towards what they believe is “GamerGate 2.0” and now even the ADL has made an official appearance, referring to gamers as “extremist’s”. We know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore because they don’t think we are aware of their motives. This is just a pretext for them to exert even more control and we know why, it’s because they want the influence we as a community have to must serve them. So here is what we do my fellow gamers-
“In light of recent events and years of mainstream stigma, we the members of the Global Gaming Community [GGC] must officially renounce ALL TIES to the corporate western video game market. We have been financially exploited through predatorial monetization schemes, pelted with numerous articles of disdain and intentional misrepresentation from game journalists, news outlets regarding us as dangerous individuals and, even subjected to inferior products not only riddled with bugs but also products meant to push political agendas. For the preservation of our community and its unique culture, apart from a few select game development studios we officially sever all connections to western owned video game companies & their mainstream affiliates. From this point onward, we will no longer support western corporate developers, journalists and publishers that do not coincide with the goals of our community.”
Naturally this is completely optional. If you are okay with the state of the gaming community as it is, feel free to ignore this. But if you wish for real change and a break away from oversaturated monetization in the games you play and the push for radical ideological reform, then you are in the right place. Lets sever these rotted miasmic ties once and for all so that our community can be preserved and made better for future gamers. If you agree with this, share it with whoever you think might be interested. The more gamers who get involved, the easier it will be for us to finally break free from mainstream game companies and their associates.

My fellow gamers, for too long has our community suffered the indignation of an intolerable culture that has denigrated, besmirched, exploited, and has outright demonized our culture of unique individuals with a genuine love of a hobby that they see as profitable and progressive. They have taken beloved IP’s (Intellectual Properties) and twisted them into their own personal ideological crusade of undermining and humiliating the core aspects of characters they deemed as “Toxic” or “White Supremacy”. Through the guise and protection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) they have used our influence in the entertainment industry to push their narratives and agendas that have stigmatized our culture with numerous anti-consumer practices that they call “being progressive”. But the truth of the matter is they were never really looking to be a part of our community, they simply wanted to use our community as a tool of activism and propaganda in the entertainment industry as it was extremely profitable, and they wanted inclusion in that division. Ever since GamerGate & Female Frequency, we have had to endure the incursion of forced ideologies, xenophobic behaviors and inferior overpriced products that have never been in our best interest and have been flat out disgraceful towards foreign media.
Before Gaming had become a major source of entertainment, we were often categorized as anti-social or societies rejects where because we found more enjoyment in playing fictional characters and not spending as much time out and about, we never fully assimilated in society (which is a good thing if you ask me). From 1998 to 2007, at the height of innovation, creativity and production, Gaming had reached a golden age in which it had revolutionized society. Hollywood Execs who had ruined the movie industry turned their attention to video games as a source of income since video games had outperformed movies in terms of profit. No one was concerned about gaming, much less diversity or inclusivity until it became profitable. This makes people like SBI look extremely disingenuous as they were not interested in gamers as a community with its own culture. They simply wanted to use it as another weapon in identity politics.
Microtransactions; the hidden enemy to gamer progress and inducer to mental laziness of our community. Microtransactions have been around for a long time; however, it has never been more potent and apparent than in recent years. It has aided in the dismantling and segregation of players on the ideology of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and has created another sub-culture of gamers who have no real drive to be better outside of how much money they put into the game. This has degraded our culture as well as we have become “fat” off transactional gaming but at the same time we have been “starved” of purposeful gaming where our achievements were our sustenance. I am not saying that microtransactions are bad, but when they are exploitative and predatorial like they have been and don’t give gamers room to grow, we become lethargic and unwilling to improve ourselves as gamers. Oversaturated microtransactional games are one of the many reasons why we have become complacent and unwilling to fight against the exploitative tactics used by big brand game companies such EA, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard, NaughtyDog and so many other western business model companies. Western style games were not like this in the past, they had much more depth and actual effort put into them with the gamer in mind. This has not been the case for over a decade and our connection to western developers has been whittled down to just being transactional. That is one of the reasons why you see so many remasters and remakes in today’s gamer community. They have lost their willingness to improve as developers of games and simply accept corporate/share holder rules.
Game journalists also do not have any real integrity or purpose outside of being funded for their involvement in promoting IPG (Identity Political Games) in a positive light to the public whether it’s positively received or not. They are not interested in what we have to say, they all support the same agenda and that is why they are a dying breed. Within the next couple of years, they will be out of the job and more than likely they will not be able to stay in the industry giving how they have responded to past articles that have clearly been scripted on the premise of diversity and racism. Not only that, but most of them are also extremely hostile to the community as they stereotype and defame the individuals that are a part of the community they are supposed to serve. We have been mentally liberated from their lies and coercive tactics as we tend to laugh at their obvious attempt at virtue signaling while hiding their misdoings so that they can play the victim.
My gamer brothers & sisters, I would not suggest the following action that we must take now without good cause. I have weighed our options and the best option for us now is this…...CULTURAL SECESSION. Naturally this is a form of segregation where they would more than likely claim they are being segregated by the dominant culture of the gaming community but that is incorrect. For years now we have been the ones who are often marginalized and ostracized for the smaller portion of our community. And when we aren’t, we’re exploited for more funds so that these companies can stay in business only to subject us to low quality products that coincide with the “WOKE Agenda” that are often huge expenses to these big brands i.e. AAA/AAAA games that will eventually flop for its obvious forced diversity and bug infested product which will undoubtedly piss off the consumer to the point of wanting a refund. Losing copious amounts of capital and stock in the process, not to mention their reputation is permanently marred.
We must separate on every cultural level in terms of entertainment and ideology. We must reject everything from the west that promotes toxic western beliefs, practices, and exclusion from other cultures (i.e. Southeastern Countries such as Japan and Korea). Japan & Korea have been the targets of unjust discrimination from Western Developers, Western Journalists, Western Localizers (The Wokelizers) and Western Society Prejudice regarding their sense of aesthetics as Westerners hate the aesthetic sense of these countries. The reason why they resort to such base tactics isn’t just because it weaponizes the ideal female form but it’s also because they have deep-seated insecurities about their own looks so when they see attractive female characters, they use terms such as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized” to establish the moral high ground. But the truth is, they want to feel superior to that which is ideal, so they insult and dehumanize this figure that portrays natural female beauty because they see it as an insult to their own social superiority in what they believe is a hierarchy of them being at the top of all other women. Because of this and so many contributing factors, their movies flop harder than the Fat Chocobo landing on a group of enemies and their games seismically fail just as much if not more. We must sever our connection to Western Developers, Publishers, and ALL Western-Centric Entertainment for they seek to mentally enslave us to their Xenophobic ideology.
Let’s define Western Culture and its traits. Western Culture/Society is composed of more than several different ideologies that work in unison with one another to facilitate dominance over multiple aspects of society. Business, Social, Political, Technological, and sometimes even Global Affairs are affected by these ideologies that portray a specific mindset of Western beliefs. What are those ideologies you ask?

Perpetual Victimhood: By weaponizing the fact that they are marginalized and of a small portion of western society, they can push their agenda to absurd standards that ultimately ostracize the main demographic. And when companies don’t capitulate, they are labeled as anti-progressive/misogynist’s or cohorts of White Supremacy. They use this to cancel their targets and silence them through societal defamation to keep the public on their side. They also use this mindset to justify their own lack of self-agency as they tend to throw companies who do adhere to their demands but miserably fail to turn a profit under the bus so that they can maintain face in front of the public while denying their actual involvement. They will never accept “Sense of Agency” when it’s negative but will gladly accept it when a positive outcome shines on them as if they are entitled to it.

Official Wiki GamerGate Page)

Societal Terrorism: This is another form of ideology weaponization that they use in order to make companies “toe-the-line” with their agenda. By weaponizing cancel culture, they exert dominance over these companies but in exchange they also reimburse those companies with DEI & ESG funds that raise their credit score as well as having social status with the marginalized demographic. However; cancel culture has not succeeded in years and developers and publishers probably only want the money and the DEI ESG rating. But they have to maintain the image of having social economic power so that they can continue to strong-arm other developers into compliance and promoting financial benefits of DEI & ESG. In other words, if you are not for sale, they discredit and stigmatize you in the industry.

Asmongold Clips.
https://youtu.be/Iq86DnmX2xY

“Its not us, its you who’s wrong” Mentality: This mentality is especially annoying as they tend to use it to hide their incompetence. They often look down upon gamers who are not in the industry to hide their obvious lack of knowledge on game development thinking that their job title grants them special status that they believe gives them the right to be condescending. But the truth they never wanted revealed has already strangled their careers of all credibility. They were never GAMERS, they were INVADERS. Community Colonists that seek to indoctrinate next generational gamers into their hive-mind and brand previous generations of gamers as villains.

@GeeksandGamers
https://youtu.be/1HbrTkqQFuM

Double-standard Enforcement: By labeling something as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized”, they can claim this is morally wrong if it promotes traditional dynamics between men and women. Heterosexual relationships are condemned while at the same time Same-sex relationships are praised. Additionally, heterosexual relationships with main white male characters turn antagonistic and spotlight stealing. This is deliberate as to promote the “Girl Boss” ideology to indoctrinate women into the Feminazi state of mind. While at the same time, should a male character also adopt the “I don’t need male/female” ideology its seen as Toxic Masculinity which isn’t even a real thing. The idea of a strong male character is taboo while enforcing strong female characters is the ideal.

@MugenLord
https://youtu.be/to5Uciy_yeg
@EndymionTv
https://youtu.be/7TPTR8-qmbk

Dehumanization/Demonization: This is something that most military branches use in order to remove conscious inhibitions such as mass slaughter is wrong or categorization. By enforcing ideologies to denounce humanity in certain targets, it deactivates your conscience by saying this is not human therefore its ethically okay to treat this target without compassion and deny the fact it has sentience. We gamers fall under this category for journalists, developers, companies and society at large. This is a tactic we are familiar with to an extent as it implies that we are not normal when we do not do what everybody else is doing. “Geeks are the worse” or “Nerds need to fall into a pit of lava” are verbal dehumanization forms that most people in society say and we as Gamers tend to be relegated to those categories. This is their way of imposing the social hierarchy on us by establishing superiority. We know this as Gamers as we see it very often in the games that we play and some times experience it in real life.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#The_end_of_their_relevance

Deflection/Projection: This is basic psychology 101. By redirecting the conversation away from their mistakes and back on to the opposing view to avert blame and justify their innocence they can avoid criticism. However; deflection is a CONSCIOUS decision, meaning they have no real argument to justify their incompetence. If you can consciously process the situation, you have self-agency which means you don’t have a legitimate excuse. Projection is something else entirely. Most times, Projection doesn’t work on conscious decisions rather it is automatically deployed when feeling threatened, anxious or both. Instead of accepting accountability for feelings or actions that are deemed socially unacceptable they accuse others of committing that unacceptable behavior thereby exonerating themselves and proving that those feelings and/or actions are not their own.

@TheTrentReport
https://youtu.be/bPIPSKruYRo
These traits are so nefarious and unconscionable that I have a hard time believing that anyone could harbor them. However, given the social, political, and economic climate that we are in, those in power who use their influence on controlling society most definitely possess these insidious traits. Everything that they do is all about control and since video games are the biggest market in the world, they want control over it and the communities built around it to accrue more wealth and to use that wealth to subjugate other cultures. Mainstream media is a tool as well as mainstream organizations and sites to help accomplish this goal.
The government recently announced its intentions towards what they believe is “GamerGate 2.0” and now even the ADL has made an official appearance, referring to gamers as “extremist’s”. We know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore because they don’t think we are aware of their motives. This is just a pretext for them to exert even more control and we know why, it’s because they want the influence we as a community have to must serve them. So here is what we do my fellow gamers-
“In light of recent events and years of mainstream stigma, we the members of the Global Gaming Community [GGC] must officially renounce ALL TIES to the corporate western video game market. We have been financially exploited through predatorial monetization schemes, pelted with numerous articles of disdain and intentional misrepresentation from game journalists, news outlets regarding us as dangerous individuals and, even subjected to inferior products not only riddled with bugs but also products meant to push political agendas. For the preservation of our community and its unique culture, apart from a few select game development studios we officially sever all connections to western owned video game companies & their mainstream affiliates. From this point onward, we will no longer support western corporate developers, journalists and publishers that do not coincide with the goals of our community.”
Naturally this is completely optional. If you are okay with the state of the gaming community as it is, feel free to ignore this. But if you wish for real change and a break away from oversaturated monetization in the games you play and the push for radical ideological reform, then you are in the right place. Lets sever these rotted miasmic ties once and for all so that our community can be preserved and made better for future gamers. If you agree with this, share it with whoever you think might be interested. The more gamers who get involved, the easier it will be for us to finally break free from mainstream game companies and their associates.

In light of recent discussions regarding the delivery of story in Penacony and how HSR is akin to a “visual novel” with narration, I thought it would be interesting to investigate how much of HSR’s story delivery actually takes place in a narrated visual novel style, since the game does feature that type of delivery, and whether or not Penacony has made any significant changes on this front. I'm tallying these because these tend to be the least interactive sequences to look at visually, leading to a heavily expository feel to the scene.
The scenes I consider a "narrated visual novel" sequence:

HSR has many sequences that feature a still pre-drawn picture, series of pre-drawn pictures, or a pre-drawn animated picture on screen, presented with story text and narration dubbed overtop. Basically this encompasses artwork that is not rendered by the game engine with 3D models and textures etc. For example, this still artwork of a bird in Robin’s hand with narration over it (screencap courtesy of Rubhen925's playthrough videos):

https://preview.redd.it/l0q5s2y3830d1.png?width=1844&format=png&auto=webp&s=c810723c1cc9d4ab6e75740df013ce02b2bdf519
What I do not count as a "VN" sequence:

Any sequence with live in-game rendering, such as still camera shots of in-game scenery or of characters standing and talking
Picture of an object (e.g. Sparkle’s flower buttons) since these are usually characters handing items to other characters.
Phone texting, in-game texts like books or letters, or dialogue sequences talking to NPCs without any audio. Even though it is the most literal “novel”-like delivery where the player must read to get story bits, they’re also usually optional and can be skipped rather quickly.

I’m only counting the times VN-style scenes are used in the main story quests of each patch and not any side quests, companion quests, events, or Simulated Universe.

THE TL;DR AND OVERALL CONCLUSION:

Penacony 2.1 and 2.2 has significantly more VN sequences, overwhelmingly so. I have provided a chart below depicting the number of seconds spent in VN sequences over the course of the patches. Penacony 2.2 alone has 4271 seconds (1hr 11min 11sec) of VN screentime, which eclipses that of all previous patches combined. Penacony 2.0+2.1+2.2 features 6237 seconds of VN screentime (1hr 43mins 57sec), which is 3.92x that of 1.X's VN scene usage (1590 seconds). Penacony also has more individual instances of VN segments, totaling to 27 scenes in 2.0-2.2, which is more instances than all of 1.X (18 scenes in 1.0-1.6).
https://preview.redd.it/2br8oonc830d1.png?width=1752&format=png&auto=webp&s=597d9ae079e6cecb37dfc522d8683bd9a4928a54
However, Penacony is also a much longer story, naturally leading to more dialogue and cutscene time than in previous patches. There aren't many ways to correct for this exactly to see proportionally how long is spent in VNs, nor easily done as it would involve parsing every instance of voiced dialogue or cutscene-equivalent in the main story. If we were to take some rough numbers though, Penacony Acts 2 and 3 are roughly 10 hours long in total playtime if just doing the story, with ~1 hour 43 minutes spent in VN sequences. This equates to roughly ~17% of the runtime being visual novel narration in the past 2 patches, which is fairly significant. By comparison, all of 1.0 content (Herta Station, Belobog, Luofu Act 1) would take roughly ~15 hours to complete if ignoring side content and SU and events, with only ~17 minutes of VN time, leading to only ~1.8% of the time spent in VN sequences.
In conclusion, Penacony definitely exhibits more visual novel style than the previous patches based on the amount of time spent in visual novel-styled sequences. Moreover, the VN style variety in Penacony is more limited than in previous patches, featuring largely still shots with some particle animations and no animations in the scene actors (see my breakdown below). This leads to Penacony’s VN style feeling more static than in previous patches, with a heavier emphasis on the narration rather than the visual presentation in these types of scenes.

The Breakdown

Ok so now for the breakdown. For all this “research,” I’ve used the HSR playthrough videos by the youtube channel Rubhen925, which have cutscenes on autoplay and thus pretty good consistency in cutscene timing behavior. I have also included linked time stamps for the start of these VN sequences in the respective playthrough videos in case people want to take a closer look. I’ve also included a brief note about each VN, as there is some variation in the artstyle of these pre-drawn VN sequences.
I’ll put a disclaimer here and say that I may have missed one or two sequences, as I sifted through the footage watching the videos at 2x speed and skipping through sequences of combat or active gameplay, so there is a margin of error here. With that being said, here is the detailed breakdown, with the total time count in each header:
1.0 Herta Space Station Main Arc – 0 minutes

None

1.0 Belobog Main Arc – 12 minutes, 48 seconds

Gepard recounts the founding of Belobog city (multiple pics) – 40 seconds 6:53-7:33
Cocolia under the influence of the Stellaron (multiple pics) – 62 seconds 1:10:21-1:11:23
Cocolia argues with the Stellaron (very animated with multiple angles) – 67 seconds 1:02:28-1:03:35
Svarog’s databanks about a previous Supreme Guardian’s Stellaron research (*background animated, multiple sequences) – 292 seconds 31:49-36:41
Natasha takes the orphans to the overworld (single still shot) – 77 seconds 1:25:53-1:27:10
Bronya’s inaugural speech as Supreme Guardian of Belobog (multiple pics) – 176 seconds 1:29:47-1:32:43
Seele and Bronya argue as the Express leaves (*very animated, almost a cutscene) – 54 seconds 1:47:27-1:48:21

1.0-1.3 Xianzhou Luofu Main Arc – 4 minutes, 15 seconds

Kafka talks about the script and our future encounter with Nanook (single pic) – 65 seconds 1:17:17-1:18:22
Luocha heals Xueyi (single pic, some particles) – 26 seconds 1:28:49-1:29:15
Fu Xuan recounts the events on the Luofu (game render screenshots with filter, also these are optional scenes for recap) – 164 seconds 4:32-7:16

1.4 Topaz Belobog Arc – 4 minutes, 46 seconds

Bronya recounts her conversation with Topaz about Belobog’s debt (single shot, old film stylizing) – 51 seconds 23:16-24:05
Topaz’s message to Bronya about her motivations (Numby animated) – 235 seconds 1:02:26-1:06:21

1.5 Huohuo and spooky Luofu arc – 2 minutes, 13 seconds

Cirrus recounts the feud between the General of the Luofu and Ignamar (single still shot, some action particles) – 97 seconds 48:12-49:49
Smol Huohuo (*adorable*) – 36 seconds 50:16-50:52
A general note about the Huohuo arc is that there is a large amount of in-game text that needs to be read for clues to solve puzzles, but this is less visual novel delivery and more just a gameplay mechanism

1.6 Ruan Mei and Dr. Ratio Herta Space Station arcs – 2 minutes, 28 seconds

Ruan Mei’s log about the bug (single shot) – 91 seconds 50:37-52:08
Ruan Mei talks about the cake cats (single shot) – 57 seconds 1:05:41-1:06:38
Note for this patch specifically – most of Ruan Mei’s logs are rendered cutscenes of her doing stuff with a filter over them, so I didn’t count these. There’s also the TV broadcast segments in the Dr. Ratio arc that don’t quite fit a VN description either as they are more akin to full-on animations and presented as recordings in the game world

2.0 Penacony Act 1 – 2 minutes, 12 seconds

Silver Wolf relaying Sam’s message to the express (some animations with Silver Wolf’s signature styling) – 107 seconds 4:16:06-4:17:53
Mourning Firefly getting unalived (single still shot) – 25 seconds 4:42:22-4:42:47
Firefly’s photo doesn’t count

2.1 Penacony Act 2 – 30 minutes, 34 seconds

RIP Duke Inferno (single still shot, animated fire) – 325 seconds 15:00-20:25
Kakavasha part 1 (single still shot) – 283 seconds 52:20-57:03
Kakavasha part 2 (single still shot, animated sky) – 245 seconds 2:09:14-2:13:19
Kakavasha part 3 (single still shot) – 209 seconds 3:09:52-3:13:21
Kakavasha part 4 ft. Jade (still single shot, but continues into a black screen while Aventurine has a monologue) – 366 seconds 4:01:35-4:07:37
Aventurine recounts the cornerstone plot and tricking Sunday (multiple pics) – 90 seconds 4:20:55-4:22:25
Kakavasha part 5 (multiple shots, animated rain) – 183 seconds 4:56:38-4:59:41
Acheron speaking to an unknown man – 133 seconds 5:24:44-5:26:57
Note for this patch – there are radio sequences from the IPC’s news broadcast, I don’t count these as VN sequences since they’re accompanied by black screens with no images and primarily intended to deliver audio playback as simply audio playback.

2.2 Penacony Act 3 – 1 hour, 11 minutes, 11 seconds

Firefly recounts the events from her perspective (multiple game render screenshots with filter) – 160 seconds 31:04-33:44
Firefly and Blade in the car part 1 (single still shot) – 228 seconds 35:13-39:01
Baby bird (single still shot) – 347 seconds 1:18:27-1:24:14
Acheron and the hooded figure part 1 (single shot, animated rain) – 385 seconds 2:20:44-2:27:09
Sunday goes to church (single still shot) – 449 seconds 2:27:15-2:34:39
Sunday’s quiz (interactive sequence of shots, the playthrough has all VN sequences conveniently back to back) – 340 seconds 4:12:29-4:27:09
Mikhail’s story (sequence of shots) – 528 seconds 5:03:20-5:12:08
Firefly and Blade in the car part 2 (single still shot) – 162 seconds 5:24:18-5:27:00
Acheron and the hooded figure part 2 – 362 seconds 5:29:00-5:35:02
Black Swan recounts the events and reveals the truth (sequence of still shots, interactive, video only includes the correct option dialogue) – 543 seconds 7:22:37-7:31:40
Baby bird, Robin’s perspective (single shot) – 50 seconds 7:41:10-7:42:00
Acheron and the hooded figure part 3 (multiple shots with some animation) – 379 seconds 7:53:17-7:59:36
Acheron and the hooded figure part 4 (single still shot, animated rain/smoke) – 158 seconds 8:06:04-8:08:42
Concluding monologue, Robin/Sunday flashback (single still shot) – 180 seconds 8:31:52-8:35:52
Of note, this particular act has a lot of dialogue that occurs on black screens leading into VN segments, so I have lumped them in the timings since the entire scenes together can be interpreted as a “VN-styled” sequence

Afterword

I spent way too much time on this but it was also entertaining rewatching old story :)
Edit: idk why it shows a youtube embed, reddit is weird :/

I've been playing TT under Linux for a very long time. Running Steam on Fedora. I had my install of Fedora 39 running quite well for an extended period, did an upgrade to 40 when it was released a few weeks ago, and since then the game crashes in the block shuffling part of the start-up sequence. I've updated everything, drivers, kernel etc. Removed and re-installed the game and verified that other games I have in Steam start and play normally. The only one I've found to have issues is TerraTech. just looking for some advice about what else I can to to troubleshoot. Here is the steam console output after trying to run the game -

ExecCommandLine: "'/home/use.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' 'steam://rungameid/285920'" ExecuteSteamURL: "steam://rungameid/285920" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to CheckShaderDepotManifest with "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to ProcessingInstallScript with "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to SynchronizingCloud with "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to ShowInterstitials with "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp waiting for user response to ShowInterstitials "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp continues with user response "ShowInterstitials" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to SiteLicenseSeatCheckout with "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitForStreamingEncoderConfig with "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to CreatingProcess with "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp waiting for user response to CreatingProcess "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp continues with user response "CreatingProcess" Game process added : AppID 285920 "/home/use.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=285920 -- /home/use.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- '/home/use.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/TerraTech/TerraTechLinux64.x86_64'", ProcID 11534, IP 0.0.0.0:0 Controller slots reset GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitingGameWindow with "" GameAction [AppID 285920, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with "" Game process updated : AppID 285920 "/home/use.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=285920 -- /home/use.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- '/home/use.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/TerraTech/TerraTechLinux64.x86_64'", ProcID 11535, IP 0.0.0.0:0 Game process removed: AppID 285920 "/home/use.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=285920 -- /home/use.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- '/home/use.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/TerraTech/TerraTechLinux64.x86_64'", ProcID 11535 ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 11658 ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 11638 ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 11637 ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 11634 ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 11535

My fellow gamers, for too long has our community suffered the indignation of an intolerable culture that has denigrated, besmirched, exploited, and has outright demonized our culture of unique individuals with a genuine love of a hobby that they see as profitable and progressive. They have taken beloved IP’s (Intellectual Properties) and twisted them into their own personal ideological crusade of undermining and humiliating the core aspects of characters they deemed as “Toxic” or “White Supremacy”. Through the guise and protection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) they have used our influence in the entertainment industry to push their narratives and agendas that have stigmatized our culture with numerous anti-consumer practices that they call “being progressive”. But the truth of the matter is they were never really looking to be a part of our community, they simply wanted to use our community as a tool of activism and propaganda in the entertainment industry as it was extremely profitable, and they wanted inclusion in that division. Ever since GamerGate & Female Frequency, we have had to endure the incursion of forced ideologies, xenophobic behaviors and inferior overpriced products that have never been in our best interest and have been flat out disgraceful towards foreign media.
Before Gaming had become a major source of entertainment, we were often categorized as anti-social or societies rejects where because we found more enjoyment in playing fictional characters and not spending as much time out and about, we never fully assimilated in society (which is a good thing if you ask me). From 1998 to 2007, at the height of innovation, creativity and production, Gaming had reached a golden age in which it had revolutionized society. Hollywood Execs who had ruined the movie industry turned their attention to video games as a source of income since video games had outperformed movies in terms of profit. No one was concerned about gaming, much less diversity or inclusivity until it became profitable. This makes people like SBI look extremely disingenuous as they were not interested in gamers as a community with its own culture. They simply wanted to use it as another weapon in identity politics.
Microtransactions; the hidden enemy to gamer progress and inducer to mental laziness of our community. Microtransactions have been around for a long time; however, it has never been more potent and apparent than in recent years. It has aided in the dismantling and segregation of players on the ideology of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and has created another sub-culture of gamers who have no real drive to be better outside of how much money they put into the game. This has degraded our culture as well as we have become “fat” off transactional gaming but at the same time we have been “starved” of purposeful gaming where our achievements were our sustenance. I am not saying that microtransactions are bad, but when they are exploitative and predatorial like they have been and don’t give gamers room to grow, we become lethargic and unwilling to improve ourselves as gamers. Oversaturated microtransactional games are one of the many reasons why we have become complacent and unwilling to fight against the exploitative tactics used by big brand game companies such EA, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard, NaughtyDog and so many other western business model companies. Western style games were not like this in the past, they had much more depth and actual effort put into them with the gamer in mind. This has not been the case for over a decade and our connection to western developers has been whittled down to just being transactional. That is one of the reasons why you see so many remasters and remakes in today’s gamer community. They have lost their willingness to improve as developers of games and simply accept corporate/share holder rules.
Game journalists also do not have any real integrity or purpose outside of being funded for their involvement in promoting IPG (Identity Political Games) in a positive light to the public whether it’s positively received or not. They are not interested in what we have to say, they all support the same agenda and that is why they are a dying breed. Within the next couple of years, they will be out of the job and more than likely they will not be able to stay in the industry giving how they have responded to past articles that have clearly been scripted on the premise of diversity and racism. Not only that, but most of them are also extremely hostile to the community as they stereotype and defame the individuals that are a part of the community they are supposed to serve. We have been mentally liberated from their lies and coercive tactics as we tend to laugh at their obvious attempt at virtue signaling while hiding their misdoings so that they can play the victim.
My gamer brothers & sisters, I would not suggest the following action that we must take now without good cause. I have weighed our options and the best option for us now is this…...CULTURAL SECESSION. Naturally this is a form of segregation where they would more than likely claim they are being segregated by the dominant culture of the gaming community but that is incorrect. For years now we have been the ones who are often marginalized and ostracized for the smaller portion of our community. And when we aren’t, we’re exploited for more funds so that these companies can stay in business only to subject us to low quality products that coincide with the “WOKE Agenda” that are often huge expenses to these big brands i.e. AAA/AAAA games that will eventually flop for its obvious forced diversity and bug infested product which will undoubtedly piss off the consumer to the point of wanting a refund. Losing copious amounts of capital and stock in the process, not to mention their reputation is permanently marred.
We must separate on every cultural level in terms of entertainment and ideology. We must reject everything from the west that promotes toxic western beliefs, practices, and exclusion from other cultures (i.e. Southeastern Countries such as Japan and Korea). Japan & Korea have been the targets of unjust discrimination from Western Developers, Western Journalists, Western Localizers (The Wokelizers) and Western Society Prejudice regarding their sense of aesthetics as Westerners hate the aesthetic sense of these countries. The reason why they resort to such base tactics isn’t just because it weaponizes the ideal female form but it’s also because they have deep-seated insecurities about their own looks so when they see attractive female characters, they use terms such as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized” to establish the moral high ground. But the truth is, they want to feel superior to that which is ideal, so they insult and dehumanize this figure that portrays natural female beauty because they see it as an insult to their own social superiority in what they believe is a hierarchy of them being at the top of all other women. Because of this and so many contributing factors, their movies flop harder than the Fat Chocobo landing on a group of enemies and their games seismically fail just as much if not more. We must sever our connection to Western Developers, Publishers, and ALL Western-Centric Entertainment for they seek to mentally enslave us to their Xenophobic ideology.
Let’s define Western Culture and its traits. Western Culture/Society is composed of more than several different ideologies that work in unison with one another to facilitate dominance over multiple aspects of society. Business, Social, Political, Technological, and sometimes even Global Affairs are affected by these ideologies that portray a specific mindset of Western beliefs. What are those ideologies you ask?

Perpetual Victimhood: By weaponizing the fact that they are marginalized and of a small portion of western society, they can push their agenda to absurd standards that ultimately ostracize the main demographic. And when companies don’t capitulate, they are labeled as anti-progressive/misogynist’s or cohorts of White Supremacy. They use this to cancel their targets and silence them through societal defamation to keep the public on their side. They also use this mindset to justify their own lack of self-agency as they tend to throw companies who do adhere to their demands but miserably fail to turn a profit under the bus so that they can maintain face in front of the public while denying their actual involvement. They will never accept “Sense of Agency” when it’s negative but will gladly accept it when a positive outcome shines on them as if they are entitled to it.

Official Wiki GamerGate Page)

Societal Terrorism: This is another form of ideology weaponization that they use in order to make companies “toe-the-line” with their agenda. By weaponizing cancel culture, they exert dominance over these companies but in exchange they also reimburse those companies with DEI & ESG funds that raise their credit score as well as having social status with the marginalized demographic. However; cancel culture has not succeeded in years and developers and publishers probably only want the money and the DEI ESG rating. But they have to maintain the image of having social economic power so that they can continue to strong-arm other developers into compliance and promoting financial benefits of DEI & ESG. In other words, if you are not for sale, they discredit and stigmatize you in the industry.

Asmongold Clips.
https://youtu.be/Iq86DnmX2xY

“Its not us, its you who’s wrong” Mentality: This mentality is especially annoying as they tend to use it to hide their incompetence. They often look down upon gamers who are not in the industry to hide their obvious lack of knowledge on game development thinking that their job title grants them special status that they believe gives them the right to be condescending. But the truth they never wanted revealed has already strangled their careers of all credibility. They were never GAMERS, they were INVADERS. Community Colonists that seek to indoctrinate next generational gamers into their hive-mind and brand previous generations of gamers as villains.

@GeeksandGamers
https://youtu.be/1HbrTkqQFuM

Double-standard Enforcement: By labeling something as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized”, they can claim this is morally wrong if it promotes traditional dynamics between men and women. Heterosexual relationships are condemned while at the same time Same-sex relationships are praised. Additionally, heterosexual relationships with main white male characters turn antagonistic and spotlight stealing. This is deliberate as to promote the “Girl Boss” ideology to indoctrinate women into the Feminazi state of mind. While at the same time, should a male character also adopt the “I don’t need male/female” ideology its seen as Toxic Masculinity which isn’t even a real thing. The idea of a strong male character is taboo while enforcing strong female characters is the ideal.

@MugenLord
https://youtu.be/to5Uciy_yeg
@EndymionTv
https://youtu.be/7TPTR8-qmbk

Dehumanization/Demonization: This is something that most military branches use in order to remove conscious inhibitions such as mass slaughter is wrong or categorization. By enforcing ideologies to denounce humanity in certain targets, it deactivates your conscience by saying this is not human therefore its ethically okay to treat this target without compassion and deny the fact it has sentience. We gamers fall under this category for journalists, developers, companies and society at large. This is a tactic we are familiar with to an extent as it implies that we are not normal when we do not do what everybody else is doing. “Geeks are the worse” or “Nerds need to fall into a pit of lava” are verbal dehumanization forms that most people in society say and we as Gamers tend to be relegated to those categories. This is their way of imposing the social hierarchy on us by establishing superiority. We know this as Gamers as we see it very often in the games that we play and some times experience it in real life.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#The_end_of_their_relevance

Deflection/Projection: This is basic psychology 101. By redirecting the conversation away from their mistakes and back on to the opposing view to avert blame and justify their innocence they can avoid criticism. However; deflection is a CONSCIOUS decision, meaning they have no real argument to justify their incompetence. If you can consciously process the situation, you have self-agency which means you don’t have a legitimate excuse. Projection is something else entirely. Most times, Projection doesn’t work on conscious decisions rather it is automatically deployed when feeling threatened, anxious or both. Instead of accepting accountability for feelings or actions that are deemed socially unacceptable they accuse others of committing that unacceptable behavior thereby exonerating themselves and proving that those feelings and/or actions are not their own.

@TheTrentReport
https://youtu.be/bPIPSKruYRo
These traits are so nefarious and unconscionable that I have a hard time believing that anyone could harbor them. However, given the social, political, and economic climate that we are in, those in power who use their influence on controlling society most definitely possess these insidious traits. Everything that they do is all about control and since video games are the biggest market in the world, they want control over it and the communities built around it to accrue more wealth and to use that wealth to subjugate other cultures. Mainstream media is a tool as well as mainstream organizations and sites to help accomplish this goal.
The government recently announced its intentions towards what they believe is “GamerGate 2.0” and now even the ADL has made an official appearance, referring to gamers as “extremist’s”. We know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore because they don’t think we are aware of their motives. This is just a pretext for them to exert even more control and we know why, it’s because they want the influence we as a community have to must serve them. So here is what we do my fellow gamers-
“In light of recent events and years of mainstream stigma, we the members of the Global Gaming Community [GGC] must officially renounce ALL TIES to the corporate western video game market. We have been financially exploited through predatorial monetization schemes, pelted with numerous articles of disdain and intentional misrepresentation from game journalists, news outlets regarding us as dangerous individuals and, even subjected to inferior products not only riddled with bugs but also products meant to push political agendas. For the preservation of our community and its unique culture, apart from a few select game development studios we officially sever all connections to western owned video game companies & their mainstream affiliates. From this point onward, we will no longer support western corporate developers, journalists and publishers that do not coincide with the goals of our community.”
Naturally this is completely optional. If you are okay with the state of the gaming community as it is, feel free to ignore this. But if you wish for real change and a break away from oversaturated monetization in the games you play and the push for radical ideological reform, then you are in the right place. Lets sever these rotted miasmic ties once and for all so that our community can be preserved and made better for future gamers. If you agree with this, share it with whoever you think might be interested. The more gamers who get involved, the easier it will be for us to finally break free from mainstream game companies and their associates.

Here we go Reddit. This one may hurt all those who read it.
I (44m) have been conflicted with how I left a friendship over eight months ago with someone (42m) I'd been friends with for the better half of a decade. We'll call this friend, Alan.
First off, to the younger readers, let me say how difficult it is to start, cultivate and maintain a new friendship into adulthood so, keep your good friends close and remind them what they mean to you as often as possible. Now to the beginning...
In February, 2016, I abandoned my comfortable single life to pursue a career with the entertainment industry over 3,000 miles away from my family and friends in Los Angeles. As an artist, in almost every aspect, I had faith I could find my tribe amongst the city of angles.
I had two old college friends already living there so I believed I'd be able to meet new people while still having a connection to my home and trusted comrades. I'd not found a place or job but had funds to hold me alone for at least six months. One of my buddies introduced me to Alan, who was from our hometown. He was living in a 2bd/2bt/2car apartment and would perhaps offer me the spare room until another one of his friends, who was promised the space, in six months. Six months of a cushion to find my own place? Awesome. Thank you. We met and had tons of things in common. Both musicians. Both actors. Both looking to make a new life and find their teams to last the rest of their lives.
I was/am introverted so I don't like to go out much. Unfortunately, he was/is an alcoholic and often went out and continued to drink alone at home, often until the sun broke. It's his life, in his home. He can do what he wants. I fully understand addiction and dependency and am not offering this as an excuse but, some understanding for the situation.
I lived with him for six months with no musical, writing or acting collaborations with anything further than me keeping the friendship alive. Honestly, I was trying to help him through his struggle with the sauce. After six months I moved out to a Studio apartment. Soon I discovered while he was charging me $900/mo, his total rent was $1235/mo, netting him almost $2,000 over the time I resided in his home. I saw it as a minor flag but was happy to be somewhere.
One day, my friend and I were texted by Alan. He was in the hospital after a car accident, most likely, under the influence. My friend and I visited and took care of him. While there, he asked we sneak him in some whiskey. We visited him without fulfilling his request. After our mutual friend moved to New York, I wanted to keep this new friend in my life and didn't mind knowing I had paid for the convenience of a living situation so quickly.
I found a catering job and referred Alan to apply. He was hired. After a year at my studio, I was able to move into Alan's complex. I now had my own 2bd/2bt/2car apartment for only $1250/mo almost next door to my new friend. Now, living so close, we worked Hollywood events while auditioning and trying to break into something good and saw each other often. But, besides carpooling, he rarely wanted to hang out.
Things were normal until our mutual friend contacted me letting me know Alan was back in the hospital after another terrible car accident and multiple surgeries. He was bad. During these multiple hospital visits, nurses would bring him a can of bud light. He was prescribed beer.
Time went on until one early Sunday morning, Alan called me from jail. He asked I pick him up 30 miles away. I confirmed the address and info and began my pre-dawn trek to retrieve him. After his release, within a minute of getting into my car, Alan asks if I'm mad at him. I say, "no". He smirks and asks if I'm disappointed. Once again, I state, "no". He then asks what I'm thinking about. I tell him that, of the top of my head, I could name 1,000 other things I'd rather be doing than picking him up from jail. First of which would be sleeping. Then I asked if he would agree, to which he did. After a shared sigh, he requested we stop by a liquor store. I explained I wasn't his father or parole officer so I would not restrict his freedoms but, would not want to consider myself an inebriator. So I complied with him knowing how i felt. January, 2020, I got a new job, still in events catering and brought Alan along with me. March, covid-19 shut down the world.
One night, Alan and I were hanging out, sharing drinks. I had concluded that I would focus on writing short stories and features as I had already written a horror trilogy I was proud of but, hadn't sold. Alan was also an amateur writer. We were talking about what "sells" and I brought up the obsession with anti-heroes, telling him I'd love to create a Breaking Bad type character. Alan says, "I'd always wanted to write (blank) from the bad guys POV." I quickly agreed and we spent the next few hours discussing the project. I pitched characters, arcs, scenarios, motivations and really thought it would work. I started writing it and asked Alan about completing it. He gave a nonchalant, "sure". The night ended with Alan telling me he wanted to get sober so, I offered as much advice, support and whatever words of wisdom I had. During lockdown, I would text, call and even knock on Alan's door asking if he wanted to write the shared story. He declined and lived his life.
I chose to focus my attention on a western feature I had previously shelved.
Time went on.
One night, as I was on a roll typing away on my laptop, working on my own story, without notice, Alan swings through my unlocked door and claims he's being robbed. I immediately freak out and attempt to figure out what's going on. I put on a shirt and flip-flops, grab my pepper spray and a broom stick, following him upstairs to his unit. He slowly opens his door and I follow him in. Alan then tells me a man's hand came through his jacket on the arm of his couch and a woman crawled in through his 2nd story widow. Knowing the impossibilities, I became confused and confirmed he was alone and nothing had happened.
I actually got mad at him, yelling he had no right to barge into my home and didn't respect my privacy. I went home and called complaining to a friend about what had just happened. This friend quickly asked if Alan was detoxing. I said I wasn't sure. They explained that when detoxing from alcohol, often times, people will hallucinate within 48 hours from their last drink. These can be vividly realistic and half of people who experience this return to the bottle just to quell the dream scenario and avoid/settle their delirium tremors.
Now, I felt bad. I went to his door, knocked and joined him on his couch. He confirmed he was getting clean. I hugged him and said I would be there in any way for support.
He said I saved his life. I explained there were no intruders so, no, I didn't. He then said I saved him from his dependency by telling him, "You only need 72 hours... just spend 3 days in hell and you'll be out. If you don't make this decision, you will never be allowed to make your own decisions ever again. Do you want someone else to tell you when to sleep? When to eat? You know the answer."
I was humbled, honored and proud. He did it. He went through hell and came out the other end with a leash on his beast.
For many people, the pandemic shut down society for a few months. Not Los Angeles. We were shuttered for 18 months. A whole year and a half. FML. I wanted to get into shape at our local park but, am really not a self-starter when it comes to physicality. So I would text, call and ask Alan. At the park, he would work out alone and preferred it that way, so, I didn't push it. I would ask if he wanted to hang out, play music and yes, sometimes I asked if he wanted to get together and write the shared anti-hero story. He would say 'no' and after a few months, maybe too many times of me asking about it, he told me it was his and asked I not write it as he was going to write it with his old college buddies. I was taken aback as I believed it was more my story as I pitched the whole thing as a digestible feature but, only told him I hoped he was joking. He said no and I dropped it. I felt scorned but not burned.
I moved to a new place, closer to my job further from Alan. There's a reason everybody in LA talks about traffic. Work returned to our city and now, I was only seeing him when we were scheduled on the same shifts. He was muscular and healthy. I, already overweight, packed on more covid pounds and honestly, was jealous of Alan's ability to work out independently. If I couldn't self start an exercise regimen, at least I knew I could begin anything creative on my own. With this reminder, I returned to the shared Anti-Hero story and decided to complete it by myself. Time went on and I finished the script and two rewrites. 114 pages done. Wow. Now, the title page. Written by: Alan & Me. It was, and I say 'was' a fantastic story. I hadn't seen Alan in sometime so after I finished it, I reached out to him with no text replies or callbacks. Then last September, at work, I approached him with "good news". I told him about the script and asked him to proofread and edit it. He replied with a stifled sarcastic "awesome..." and walks away. I was confused but, knew the conversation wasn't over. Within a minute, he returned to where I was with multiple other employees and immediately starts cussing at me. "Fuck you, man! That's my fucking idea!! You stole my intellectual property! You can't fucking take my fucking story, my IP, and then fucking tell me you did like it's your own. Fuck you!!!" I replied with things like, "Are you serious? Why do you think I'm coming to you about it? Like I already sold it and cut you out?! I'm not a thief and I won't allow you to call me that." He scoffed and left again. Coworkers were looking at me in confusion and all I could do was return a bewildered shaking head. He returned again with a lowered voice but, still cursing me out. He takes out his phone and shoves it in my face. "Here, look... notes from 2016 'Bad Guy'. I had that fucking idea eight years ago. You fucking stole it from me." Knowing we were on the job, him not calming down and truly being hurt by his words and accusations, I whisper, "No, fuck you. I'm no thief. We can talk later if you want but, I won't allow you to speak to me like that." I return to my work. The event is over and we are breaking down, preparing to leave for the night. I see him across the hall and open my arms. He approached, we hug and step into a private room away from working employees.
I ask him if he won't read the whole thing to at least look at the title page. Hoping he would agree, this is where he would see even though he didn't write a word of it, I put his name as the first billed writer. He rolled his eyes and I felt he wasn't listening to me. I asked again, "What do you think I would gain from telling you? Like I've already sold it and I'm rubbing it in? How do you think I felt when you told me you were gonna write it with some guys I'd never even met?"
Alan doubles down and once again, accused me of stealing his idea and calls me an asshole for doing so. This is where I snap and tell him how I felt about our one-sided friendship. I say, "You apologize to me or you'll never speak to me again." Now I walk away.
That night, I write him a text finally telling him his name was as co-writer and I wanted him to proof so we could make the best story and we would be partners, succeeding together.
He replied with, "I've read this text, I don't want you to think I'm ignoring you."
I follow with, "At this point, I don't care if you ignore me or not. It wouldn't be any different than the way you've treated this friendship since I've known you. You apologize or I'm done. Completely done. Then you tell people I didn't visit you in the hospital? I'm not really YOUR friend? That I never helped you? Like I didn't get you work and pick you up from jail? I don't know if you were too drunk to remember all the times I was there for you. I'm not trying to pick on your addiction, I'm genuinely concerned you don't remember or hurt that you're intentionally lying about me."
Silence. No reply. Ever.
The few times since we've worked together, he's attempted to say, "Hi" to me. I ignore the greeting and the only times we've talked has been me supplying a work request or event update. Just work and no more than a sentence at a time.
He's bad-mouthed me at work and I've since noticed his coworkers do not give me much respect, not just as a supervisor but even as a person.
A few nights after we fought, I deleted the script from my FinalDraft. I didn't want something like that to be so toxic in my life. I would have felt his vitriol every time I read it. I'll only be working there for another few weeks as I've given up on this city and my dream to be a working artist. I'll be moving back to my hometown but, really don't want to leave this city having burned a bridge.
So, Reddit, Am I The Asshole for telling my friend I would never speak to them again and demanding an apology?

I built this custom computer a about 2 years ago and the internet is completely fine then it will act up only on this computer. I don't know why but it always takes me a few troubleshooting steps to be able to get it going again. However, this time it did not want to connect to the internet. I did some troubleshooting on my end but still could not resolve the issue. Below are my troubleshooting notes. I still have not solved this and any guidance or assistance would be greatly apperciated. I think it may be an issue with my DNS settings but I don't know what I am doing wrong.
OS: WIndows 11 pro
Troubleshooting notes:
I cleared the browser cache on Chrome for all time.
I ran the network-reset script. Script contains the following commands below:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
route -f
ipconfig /renew
netsh int ip reset
netsh winsock reset
ipconfig /all
route print (this is the last command in the script).
Reinstalled network driver.
I restarted the computer.
Ran route -f
Ran ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew
Ran ipconfig. IP address was an apipa showing 169.254.30.98.
Checked control panel -> network and internet -> wifi -> IPv4 settings. Confirmed a static IP was not set.
I forgot the wifi connection and reconnected to the wifi.
Confirmed no other devices on the network was having any issues.
Tried running ipconfig /renew again but the command got stuck. I waited 5 minutes. Cancelled the run of the command.
Ran route -f
Ran ipconfig. IP address was still an apipa.
Ran ipconfig /release
Ran ipconfig /renew. Command failed with "an error occurred while renewing interface Wi-Fi: unable to contact your DHCP server. Request timed out"
Tested another device (My mom's computer upstairs) and confirmed it had working internet.
Went to control panel -> network and internet -> wifi setting -> ipv4 settings.
Set the following information on the TCP/IPv4 settings:
IP: 10.0.0.136
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 10.0.0.1
Preferred DNS server address: 10.0.0.1.
I clicked advanced -> went to DNS tab on the new advanced settings window.
I put in the DNS server address 10.0.0.41 on "DNS server addresses, in order of use"
I put hsd1.ut.comcast.net for the DNS suffix for this connection.
The radio button for "append primary and connection specific DNS suffixes" was selected with Append parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix checked.
The box for "register this connection's addresses in DNS" was checked.
I clicked ok to close out of DNS.
I clicked ok to close out of IPv4 settings.
I clicked ok to close out of wifi properties.
I clicked close to close out of wifi status.
I tried to ping google.com. As soon as I got the first request timed out response, I stopped pinging.
I tried to ping yahoo.com. I got 4 replies back.
I tried to go to amazon.com in google chrome. I could not reach the page.
I cleared my cache and cookies in Chrome for all time.
Restarted Chrome.
Tried going to amazon.com again within Chrome. "This site can't be reached"
I opened a new incognito window of Chrome.
I tried going to Amazon.com. "Amazon.com unexpectedly closed the connection" I could not reach the site.
I tried to ping google.com again. I got 4 replies back via IPv6.
I tried to ping google.com using IPv4 (ping google.com -4) I got 1 response and the rest timed out.
I pinged 172.217.164.14 (google.com) and received 4 replies back.
Went back to control panel -> network and internet -> wifi.
Opened wifi properties -> Opened IPv4 settings -> changed it back to "obtain an IP address automatically"
Changed DNS settings to obtain DNS server address automatically.
I clicked ok to close out of the network menue.
IPv4 connectiivty went from "Internet" to "No network access"
I ran ipconfig and found I had an APIPA address of 169.254.30.98
Restarted the computer.
Computer came back up without any issues.
Wifi symbol was a globe for about 30 seconds then changed to a wifi signal.
I ran ipconfig and I had an IP address of 10.0.0.136 /24.
Confirmed a default gateway was showing.
I tried to ping google.com. Ping could not find google.com.
I ran ipconfig /flushdns.
I ran ping www.google.com and received 4 replies back.
I ran ping www.google.com -4 and received 4 replies back.
I opened chrome and typed in www.google.com. "This site can't be reached. The connection was reset"
I tried to go to www.yahoo.com. "This site can't be reached. The connected was reset." or I will get "Yahoo.com's server IP address could not be found.
Out of curiosity, I ran windows network diagnostics. Troubleshooter could not find anything wrong.
End troubleshooting notes.
Thanks in advance.

Edit 2: SOLVED
huge thank you to u/MageLD for the help with the network and for discovering that my Malloanox card had a static IP instead of needing DHCP. They even helped me discover that the issue was caused by my server's 10g NIC because apparently the x520 is locked to Intel SPF modules only.
I found a forum online discussing this issue but struggled to understand it. Then, I was able to find a GitHub repository with a Python script. However, I discovered that the script itself wasn't working properly. Using ChatGPT, I updated the script to work properly.
Later, I found in the same GitHub comment section that the user bluerockny had updated it. All that I needed to do was to update the code, address the errors with ChatGPT, and reboot the server. Now, I've got 10g networking up and running.
https://preview.redd.it/4z6at5zt730d1.png?width=634&format=png&auto=webp&s=54b055007a3af27c805fc5c7447d77fd9dd99d11
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Edit: turns out the drivers corrupted for the 10G nic on the unraid server… now I’ve gotta figure out how to upgrade the drivers
Hi all, I need some help. Im trying to get 10g to work with my unraid server. I am currently using a:
Dell R730 with OEM quad port ethernet 2x 1G 2x SPF 10g (This turned out to be the Intel x520)
This dual SPF 10G switch
and a melloanox Connect x2 in my PC
My computer shows everything as 10GB/s but in unraid I only see the 1000mbps showing up
https://preview.redd.it/z188qajs3wzc1.png?width=633&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4c4ac3c556f9eb82d32852f671838b8829b1015
Im not quite sure what im doing wrong here.
https://preview.redd.it/p3h3qp714wzc1.png?width=2519&format=png&auto=webp&s=4c45a967f2e74a073bc7d761f5df92392b6d3ea7

My fellow gamers, for too long has our community suffered the indignation of an intolerable culture that has denigrated, besmirched, exploited, and has outright demonized our culture of unique individuals with a genuine love of a hobby that they see as profitable and progressive. They have taken beloved IP’s (Intellectual Properties) and twisted them into their own personal ideological crusade of undermining and humiliating the core aspects of characters they deemed as “Toxic” or “White Supremacy”. Through the guise and protection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) they have used our influence in the entertainment industry to push their narratives and agendas that have stigmatized our culture with numerous anti-consumer practices that they call “being progressive”. But the truth of the matter is they were never really looking to be a part of our community, they simply wanted to use our community as a tool of activism and propaganda in the entertainment industry as it was extremely profitable, and they wanted inclusion in that division. Ever since GamerGate & Female Frequency, we have had to endure the incursion of forced ideologies, xenophobic behaviors and inferior overpriced products that have never been in our best interest and have been flat out disgraceful towards foreign media.
Before Gaming had become a major source of entertainment, we were often categorized as anti-social or societies rejects where because we found more enjoyment in playing fictional characters and not spending as much time out and about, we never fully assimilated in society (which is a good thing if you ask me). From 1998 to 2007, at the height of innovation, creativity and production, Gaming had reached a golden age in which it had revolutionized society. Hollywood Execs who had ruined the movie industry turned their attention to video games as a source of income since video games had outperformed movies in terms of profit. No one was concerned about gaming, much less diversity or inclusivity until it became profitable. This makes people like SBI look extremely disingenuous as they were not interested in gamers as a community with its own culture. They simply wanted to use it as another weapon in identity politics.
Microtransactions; the hidden enemy to gamer progress and inducer to mental laziness of our community. Microtransactions have been around for a long time; however, it has never been more potent and apparent than in recent years. It has aided in the dismantling and segregation of players on the ideology of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and has created another sub-culture of gamers who have no real drive to be better outside of how much money they put into the game. This has degraded our culture as well as we have become “fat” off transactional gaming but at the same time we have been “starved” of purposeful gaming where our achievements were our sustenance. I am not saying that microtransactions are bad, but when they are exploitative and predatorial like they have been and don’t give gamers room to grow, we become lethargic and unwilling to improve ourselves as gamers. Oversaturated microtransactional games are one of the many reasons why we have become complacent and unwilling to fight against the exploitative tactics used by big brand game companies such EA, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard, NaughtyDog and so many other western business model companies. Western style games were not like this in the past, they had much more depth and actual effort put into them with the gamer in mind. This has not been the case for over a decade and our connection to western developers has been whittled down to just being transactional. That is one of the reasons why you see so many remasters and remakes in today’s gamer community. They have lost their willingness to improve as developers of games and simply accept corporate/share holder rules.
Game journalists also do not have any real integrity or purpose outside of being funded for their involvement in promoting IPG (Identity Political Games) in a positive light to the public whether it’s positively received or not. They are not interested in what we have to say, they all support the same agenda and that is why they are a dying breed. Within the next couple of years, they will be out of the job and more than likely they will not be able to stay in the industry giving how they have responded to past articles that have clearly been scripted on the premise of diversity and racism. Not only that, but most of them are also extremely hostile to the community as they stereotype and defame the individuals that are a part of the community they are supposed to serve. We have been mentally liberated from their lies and coercive tactics as we tend to laugh at their obvious attempt at virtue signaling while hiding their misdoings so that they can play the victim.
My gamer brothers & sisters, I would not suggest the following action that we must take now without good cause. I have weighed our options and the best option for us now is this…...CULTURAL SECESSION. Naturally this is a form of segregation where they would more than likely claim they are being segregated by the dominant culture of the gaming community but that is incorrect. For years now we have been the ones who are often marginalized and ostracized for the smaller portion of our community. And when we aren’t, we’re exploited for more funds so that these companies can stay in business only to subject us to low quality products that coincide with the “WOKE Agenda” that are often huge expenses to these big brands i.e. AAA/AAAA games that will eventually flop for its obvious forced diversity and bug infested product which will undoubtedly piss off the consumer to the point of wanting a refund. Losing copious amounts of capital and stock in the process, not to mention their reputation is permanently marred.
We must separate on every cultural level in terms of entertainment and ideology. We must reject everything from the west that promotes toxic western beliefs, practices, and exclusion from other cultures (i.e. Southeastern Countries such as Japan and Korea). Japan & Korea have been the targets of unjust discrimination from Western Developers, Western Journalists, Western Localizers (The Wokelizers) and Western Society Prejudice regarding their sense of aesthetics as Westerners hate the aesthetic sense of these countries. The reason why they resort to such base tactics isn’t just because it weaponizes the ideal female form but it’s also because they have deep-seated insecurities about their own looks so when they see attractive female characters, they use terms such as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized” to establish the moral high ground. But the truth is, they want to feel superior to that which is ideal, so they insult and dehumanize this figure that portrays natural female beauty because they see it as an insult to their own social superiority in what they believe is a hierarchy of them being at the top of all other women. Because of this and so many contributing factors, their movies flop harder than the Fat Chocobo landing on a group of enemies and their games seismically fail just as much if not more. We must sever our connection to Western Developers, Publishers, and ALL Western-Centric Entertainment for they seek to mentally enslave us to their Xenophobic ideology.
Let’s define Western Culture and its traits. Western Culture/Society is composed of more than several different ideologies that work in unison with one another to facilitate dominance over multiple aspects of society. Business, Social, Political, Technological, and sometimes even Global Affairs are affected by these ideologies that portray a specific mindset of Western beliefs. What are those ideologies you ask?

Perpetual Victimhood: By weaponizing the fact that they are marginalized and of a small portion of western society, they can push their agenda to absurd standards that ultimately ostracize the main demographic. And when companies don’t capitulate, they are labeled as anti-progressive/misogynist’s or cohorts of White Supremacy. They use this to cancel their targets and silence them through societal defamation to keep the public on their side. They also use this mindset to justify their own lack of self-agency as they tend to throw companies who do adhere to their demands but miserably fail to turn a profit under the bus so that they can maintain face in front of the public while denying their actual involvement. They will never accept “Sense of Agency” when it’s negative but will gladly accept it when a positive outcome shines on them as if they are entitled to it.

Official Wiki GamerGate Page)

Societal Terrorism: This is another form of ideology weaponization that they use in order to make companies “toe-the-line” with their agenda. By weaponizing cancel culture, they exert dominance over these companies but in exchange they also reimburse those companies with DEI & ESG funds that raise their credit score as well as having social status with the marginalized demographic. However; cancel culture has not succeeded in years and developers and publishers probably only want the money and the DEI ESG rating. But they have to maintain the image of having social economic power so that they can continue to strong-arm other developers into compliance and promoting financial benefits of DEI & ESG. In other words, if you are not for sale, they discredit and stigmatize you in the industry.

Asmongold Clips.
https://youtu.be/Iq86DnmX2xY

“Its not us, its you who’s wrong” Mentality: This mentality is especially annoying as they tend to use it to hide their incompetence. They often look down upon gamers who are not in the industry to hide their obvious lack of knowledge on game development thinking that their job title grants them special status that they believe gives them the right to be condescending. But the truth they never wanted revealed has already strangled their careers of all credibility. They were never GAMERS, they were INVADERS. Community Colonists that seek to indoctrinate next generational gamers into their hive-mind and brand previous generations of gamers as villains.

@GeeksandGamers
https://youtu.be/1HbrTkqQFuM

Double-standard Enforcement: By labeling something as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized”, they can claim this is morally wrong if it promotes traditional dynamics between men and women. Heterosexual relationships are condemned while at the same time Same-sex relationships are praised. Additionally, heterosexual relationships with main white male characters turn antagonistic and spotlight stealing. This is deliberate as to promote the “Girl Boss” ideology to indoctrinate women into the Feminazi state of mind. While at the same time, should a male character also adopt the “I don’t need male/female” ideology its seen as Toxic Masculinity which isn’t even a real thing. The idea of a strong male character is taboo while enforcing strong female characters is the ideal.

@MugenLord
https://youtu.be/to5Uciy_yeg
@EndymionTv
https://youtu.be/7TPTR8-qmbk

Dehumanization/Demonization: This is something that most military branches use in order to remove conscious inhibitions such as mass slaughter is wrong or categorization. By enforcing ideologies to denounce humanity in certain targets, it deactivates your conscience by saying this is not human therefore its ethically okay to treat this target without compassion and deny the fact it has sentience. We gamers fall under this category for journalists, developers, companies and society at large. This is a tactic we are familiar with to an extent as it implies that we are not normal when we do not do what everybody else is doing. “Geeks are the worse” or “Nerds need to fall into a pit of lava” are verbal dehumanization forms that most people in society say and we as Gamers tend to be relegated to those categories. This is their way of imposing the social hierarchy on us by establishing superiority. We know this as Gamers as we see it very often in the games that we play and some times experience it in real life.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#The_end_of_their_relevance

Deflection/Projection: This is basic psychology 101. By redirecting the conversation away from their mistakes and back on to the opposing view to avert blame and justify their innocence they can avoid criticism. However; deflection is a CONSCIOUS decision, meaning they have no real argument to justify their incompetence. If you can consciously process the situation, you have self-agency which means you don’t have a legitimate excuse. Projection is something else entirely. Most times, Projection doesn’t work on conscious decisions rather it is automatically deployed when feeling threatened, anxious or both. Instead of accepting accountability for feelings or actions that are deemed socially unacceptable they accuse others of committing that unacceptable behavior thereby exonerating themselves and proving that those feelings and/or actions are not their own.

@TheTrentReport
https://youtu.be/bPIPSKruYRo
These traits are so nefarious and unconscionable that I have a hard time believing that anyone could harbor them. However, given the social, political, and economic climate that we are in, those in power who use their influence on controlling society most definitely possess these insidious traits. Everything that they do is all about control and since video games are the biggest market in the world, they want control over it and the communities built around it to accrue more wealth and to use that wealth to subjugate other cultures. Mainstream media is a tool as well as mainstream organizations and sites to help accomplish this goal.
The government recently announced its intentions towards what they believe is “GamerGate 2.0” and now even the ADL has made an official appearance, referring to gamers as “extremist’s”. We know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore because they don’t think we are aware of their motives. This is just a pretext for them to exert even more control and we know why, it’s because they want the influence we as a community have to must serve them. So here is what we do my fellow gamers-
“In light of recent events and years of mainstream stigma, we the members of the Global Gaming Community [GGC] must officially renounce ALL TIES to the corporate western video game market. We have been financially exploited through predatorial monetization schemes, pelted with numerous articles of disdain and intentional misrepresentation from game journalists, news outlets regarding us as dangerous individuals and, even subjected to inferior products not only riddled with bugs but also products meant to push political agendas. For the preservation of our community and its unique culture, apart from a few select game development studios we officially sever all connections to western owned video game companies & their mainstream affiliates. From this point onward, we will no longer support western corporate developers, journalists and publishers that do not coincide with the goals of our community.”
Naturally this is completely optional. If you are okay with the state of the gaming community as it is, feel free to ignore this. But if you wish for real change and a break away from oversaturated monetization in the games you play and the push for radical ideological reform, then you are in the right place. Lets sever these rotted miasmic ties once and for all so that our community can be preserved and made better for future gamers. If you agree with this, share it with whoever you think might be interested. The more gamers who get involved, the easier it will be for us to finally break free from mainstream game companies and their associates.

Hi, Ive been updating DNS via the API for years and its always been great but for the last week ive been getting "Authenticated user is not allowed access" and I cant seem to find why? No matter what I try, even testing a newly generated key I have the same issue, any ideas why? Thanks
edit:
I ended up moving my DNS over to Cloudflare, the process was really smooth, even moved most of my records for me, only had to re-add a couple, so I decided to transfer all the domains too and I'm really happy with what Cloudflare offers, not to mention the fact it was anywhere from 50% to 75% cheaper on each domain!
If anyone is interested I put together a quick script to update the A record I needed, I'm sure it could be improved a lot but it does what I need for now

#!/bin/bash # Configuration cloudflare_dns_token="***" cloudflare_zone_id="***" cloudflare_record_id="***" logdest="local7.info" # Get current external IP external_ip=$(curl -s "https://api.ipify.org") # Get Cloudflare DNS IP for *** fetched_dns_data=$(curl -s -X GET \ --url https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/${cloudflare_zone_id}/dns_records/${cloudflare_record_id} \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${cloudflare_dns_token}") # Parse IP from JSON responce cloudflare_ip=$(echo $fetched_dns_data cut -d ":" -f 8 tr -d '"' cut -d "," -f 1) # Log current IP info echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - Current External IP is $external_ip, Cloudflare DNS IP for *** is $cloudflare_ip" # Update DNS if IP has changed if [ "$cloudflare_ip" != "$external_ip" ] && [ -n "$external_ip" ]; then echo "Your IP has changed! Updating DNS on Cloudflare" curl -s -X PUT \ --url "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/${cloudflare_zone_id}/dns_records/${cloudflare_record_id}" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${cloudflare_dns_token}" \ -d '{ "content": "'"${external_ip}"'", "name": "***", "proxied": true, "type": "A", "comment": "***", "ttl": 1 }' logger -p "$logdest" "Changed IP on *** from ${cloudflare_ip} to ${external_ip} (Cloudflare-***)" fi

I just fixed my K1 Max by replacing the main board for a bad X axis stepper motor driver and now my K1 started throwing a 3002 unknown error after updating from 1.3.3.8 to 1.3.3.23. I had just finished a print and got the notification of an update so I did it. Ran some errands and came back to this. Reboot, nothing error comes back, other than that, can't do much else because this error gates me from moving on. Can't find much online about this, can't communicate to the printer via IP at all. Is there a method to boot this thing into some type of diag mode to see what's going on? I know I can place a text file on a usb drive with a certain name to skip the initial setup. Maybe something like that to do a factory reset of diag mode?
Any help would be much appreciated.
UPDATE: The 1.3.3.26 update completely borked the software from the installer script. There was no fixing it, so I factory reset using the helper script and I'm back up and running. Thanks.

Hey all!
I understand I'm asking from some pretty particular advice, but I figured I'd try here first and if this isn't the place, I'll move my question elsewhere.
I've been working on an animated series for the better part of two years and I'm finally getting around to cobbling together artists, designers, animators, actors, and the like. While I'm fairly new in this industry, I am curious what documents I should be having these parties sign in regard to working on the project, rights and IP, NDA type stuff, etc...
My biggest concerns are the original content at hand, as I don't want my ideas, scripts, stories, etc...stolen from me. As I am putting this team together, working with people in freelance positions but also establishing a team of individuals who have genuine interest and a desire to work on it again going forward, what exact type of documents should I be having them sign? I've done audio-play type projects in the past where I've had the voice actors sign a release of their voice and likeness for that project only, but nothing else beyond that.
Thank you all for the advice and help. Again, if this is not the appropriate forum/subreddit, I'll move my question to the correct space.
Thank you!

My fellow gamers, for too long has our community suffered the indignation of an intolerable culture that has denigrated, besmirched, exploited, and has outright demonized our culture of unique individuals with a genuine love of a hobby that they see as profitable and progressive. They have taken beloved IP’s (Intellectual Properties) and twisted them into their own personal ideological crusade of undermining and humiliating the core aspects of characters they deemed as “Toxic” or “White Supremacy”. Through the guise and protection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) they have used our influence in the entertainment industry to push their narratives and agendas that have stigmatized our culture with numerous anti-consumer practices that they call “being progressive”. But the truth of the matter is they were never really looking to be a part of our community, they simply wanted to use our community as a tool of activism and propaganda in the entertainment industry as it was extremely profitable, and they wanted inclusion in that division. Ever since GamerGate & Female Frequency, we have had to endure the incursion of forced ideologies, xenophobic behaviors and inferior overpriced products that have never been in our best interest and have been flat out disgraceful towards foreign media.
Before Gaming had become a major source of entertainment, we were often categorized as anti-social or societies rejects where because we found more enjoyment in playing fictional characters and not spending as much time out and about, we never fully assimilated in society (which is a good thing if you ask me). From 1998 to 2007, at the height of innovation, creativity and production, Gaming had reached a golden age in which it had revolutionized society. Hollywood Execs who had ruined the movie industry turned their attention to video games as a source of income since video games had outperformed movies in terms of profit. No one was concerned about gaming, much less diversity or inclusivity until it became profitable. This makes people like SBI look extremely disingenuous as they were not interested in gamers as a community with its own culture. They simply wanted to use it as another weapon in identity politics.
Microtransactions; the hidden enemy to gamer progress and inducer to mental laziness of our community. Microtransactions have been around for a long time; however, it has never been more potent and apparent than in recent years. It has aided in the dismantling and segregation of players on the ideology of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and has created another sub-culture of gamers who have no real drive to be better outside of how much money they put into the game. This has degraded our culture as well as we have become “fat” off transactional gaming but at the same time we have been “starved” of purposeful gaming where our achievements were our sustenance. I am not saying that microtransactions are bad, but when they are exploitative and predatorial like they have been and don’t give gamers room to grow, we become lethargic and unwilling to improve ourselves as gamers. Oversaturated microtransactional games are one of the many reasons why we have become complacent and unwilling to fight against the exploitative tactics used by big brand game companies such EA, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard, NaughtyDog and so many other western business model companies. Western style games were not like this in the past, they had much more depth and actual effort put into them with the gamer in mind. This has not been the case for over a decade and our connection to western developers has been whittled down to just being transactional. That is one of the reasons why you see so many remasters and remakes in today’s gamer community. They have lost their willingness to improve as developers of games and simply accept corporate/share holder rules.
Game journalists also do not have any real integrity or purpose outside of being funded for their involvement in promoting IPG (Identity Political Games) in a positive light to the public whether it’s positively received or not. They are not interested in what we have to say, they all support the same agenda and that is why they are a dying breed. Within the next couple of years, they will be out of the job and more than likely they will not be able to stay in the industry giving how they have responded to past articles that have clearly been scripted on the premise of diversity and racism. Not only that, but most of them are also extremely hostile to the community as they stereotype and defame the individuals that are a part of the community they are supposed to serve. We have been mentally liberated from their lies and coercive tactics as we tend to laugh at their obvious attempt at virtue signaling while hiding their misdoings so that they can play the victim.
My gamer brothers & sisters, I would not suggest the following action that we must take now without good cause. I have weighed our options and the best option for us now is this…...CULTURAL SECESSION. Naturally this is a form of segregation where they would more than likely claim they are being segregated by the dominant culture of the gaming community but that is incorrect. For years now we have been the ones who are often marginalized and ostracized for the smaller portion of our community. And when we aren’t, we’re exploited for more funds so that these companies can stay in business only to subject us to low quality products that coincide with the “WOKE Agenda” that are often huge expenses to these big brands i.e. AAA/AAAA games that will eventually flop for its obvious forced diversity and bug infested product which will undoubtedly piss off the consumer to the point of wanting a refund. Losing copious amounts of capital and stock in the process, not to mention their reputation is permanently marred.
We must separate on every cultural level in terms of entertainment and ideology. We must reject everything from the west that promotes toxic western beliefs, practices, and exclusion from other cultures (i.e. Southeastern Countries such as Japan and Korea). Japan & Korea have been the targets of unjust discrimination from Western Developers, Western Journalists, Western Localizers (The Wokelizers) and Western Society Prejudice regarding their sense of aesthetics as Westerners hate the aesthetic sense of these countries. The reason why they resort to such base tactics isn’t just because it weaponizes the ideal female form but it’s also because they have deep-seated insecurities about their own looks so when they see attractive female characters, they use terms such as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized” to establish the moral high ground. But the truth is, they want to feel superior to that which is ideal, so they insult and dehumanize this figure that portrays natural female beauty because they see it as an insult to their own social superiority in what they believe is a hierarchy of them being at the top of all other women. Because of this and so many contributing factors, their movies flop harder than the Fat Chocobo landing on a group of enemies and their games seismically fail just as much if not more. We must sever our connection to Western Developers, Publishers, and ALL Western-Centric Entertainment for they seek to mentally enslave us to their Xenophobic ideology.
Let’s define Western Culture and its traits. Western Culture/Society is composed of more than several different ideologies that work in unison with one another to facilitate dominance over multiple aspects of society. Business, Social, Political, Technological, and sometimes even Global Affairs are affected by these ideologies that portray a specific mindset of Western beliefs. What are those ideologies you ask?

Perpetual Victimhood: By weaponizing the fact that they are marginalized and of a small portion of western society, they can push their agenda to absurd standards that ultimately ostracize the main demographic. And when companies don’t capitulate, they are labeled as anti-progressive/misogynist’s or cohorts of White Supremacy. They use this to cancel their targets and silence them through societal defamation to keep the public on their side. They also use this mindset to justify their own lack of self-agency as they tend to throw companies who do adhere to their demands but miserably fail to turn a profit under the bus so that they can maintain face in front of the public while denying their actual involvement. They will never accept “Sense of Agency” when it’s negative but will gladly accept it when a positive outcome shines on them as if they are entitled to it.

Official Wiki GamerGate Page)

Societal Terrorism: This is another form of ideology weaponization that they use in order to make companies “toe-the-line” with their agenda. By weaponizing cancel culture, they exert dominance over these companies but in exchange they also reimburse those companies with DEI & ESG funds that raise their credit score as well as having social status with the marginalized demographic. However; cancel culture has not succeeded in years and developers and publishers probably only want the money and the DEI ESG rating. But they have to maintain the image of having social economic power so that they can continue to strong-arm other developers into compliance and promoting financial benefits of DEI & ESG. In other words, if you are not for sale, they discredit and stigmatize you in the industry.

Asmongold Clips.
https://youtu.be/Iq86DnmX2xY

“Its not us, its you who’s wrong” Mentality: This mentality is especially annoying as they tend to use it to hide their incompetence. They often look down upon gamers who are not in the industry to hide their obvious lack of knowledge on game development thinking that their job title grants them special status that they believe gives them the right to be condescending. But the truth they never wanted revealed has already strangled their careers of all credibility. They were never GAMERS, they were INVADERS. Community Colonists that seek to indoctrinate next generational gamers into their hive-mind and brand previous generations of gamers as villains.

@GeeksandGamers
https://youtu.be/1HbrTkqQFuM

Double-standard Enforcement: By labeling something as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized”, they can claim this is morally wrong if it promotes traditional dynamics between men and women. Heterosexual relationships are condemned while at the same time Same-sex relationships are praised. Additionally, heterosexual relationships with main white male characters turn antagonistic and spotlight stealing. This is deliberate as to promote the “Girl Boss” ideology to indoctrinate women into the Feminazi state of mind. While at the same time, should a male character also adopt the “I don’t need male/female” ideology its seen as Toxic Masculinity which isn’t even a real thing. The idea of a strong male character is taboo while enforcing strong female characters is the ideal.

@MugenLord
https://youtu.be/to5Uciy_yeg
@EndymionTv
https://youtu.be/7TPTR8-qmbk

Dehumanization/Demonization: This is something that most military branches use in order to remove conscious inhibitions such as mass slaughter is wrong or categorization. By enforcing ideologies to denounce humanity in certain targets, it deactivates your conscience by saying this is not human therefore its ethically okay to treat this target without compassion and deny the fact it has sentience. We gamers fall under this category for journalists, developers, companies and society at large. This is a tactic we are familiar with to an extent as it implies that we are not normal when we do not do what everybody else is doing. “Geeks are the worse” or “Nerds need to fall into a pit of lava” are verbal dehumanization forms that most people in society say and we as Gamers tend to be relegated to those categories. This is their way of imposing the social hierarchy on us by establishing superiority. We know this as Gamers as we see it very often in the games that we play and some times experience it in real life.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#The_end_of_their_relevance

Deflection/Projection: This is basic psychology 101. By redirecting the conversation away from their mistakes and back on to the opposing view to avert blame and justify their innocence they can avoid criticism. However; deflection is a CONSCIOUS decision, meaning they have no real argument to justify their incompetence. If you can consciously process the situation, you have self-agency which means you don’t have a legitimate excuse. Projection is something else entirely. Most times, Projection doesn’t work on conscious decisions rather it is automatically deployed when feeling threatened, anxious or both. Instead of accepting accountability for feelings or actions that are deemed socially unacceptable they accuse others of committing that unacceptable behavior thereby exonerating themselves and proving that those feelings and/or actions are not their own.

@TheTrentReport
https://youtu.be/bPIPSKruYRo
These traits are so nefarious and unconscionable that I have a hard time believing that anyone could harbor them. However, given the social, political, and economic climate that we are in, those in power who use their influence on controlling society most definitely possess these insidious traits. Everything that they do is all about control and since video games are the biggest market in the world, they want control over it and the communities built around it to accrue more wealth and to use that wealth to subjugate other cultures. Mainstream media is a tool as well as mainstream organizations and sites to help accomplish this goal.
The government recently announced its intentions towards what they believe is “GamerGate 2.0” and now even the ADL has made an official appearance, referring to gamers as “extremist’s”. We know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore because they don’t think we are aware of their motives. This is just a pretext for them to exert even more control and we know why, it’s because they want the influence we as a community have to must serve them. So here is what we do my fellow gamers-
“In light of recent events and years of mainstream stigma, we the members of the Global Gaming Community [GGC] must officially renounce ALL TIES to the corporate western video game market. We have been financially exploited through predatorial monetization schemes, pelted with numerous articles of disdain and intentional misrepresentation from game journalists, news outlets regarding us as dangerous individuals and, even subjected to inferior products not only riddled with bugs but also products meant to push political agendas. For the preservation of our community and its unique culture, apart from a few select game development studios we officially sever all connections to western owned video game companies & their mainstream affiliates. From this point onward, we will no longer support western corporate developers, journalists and publishers that do not coincide with the goals of our community.”
Naturally this is completely optional. If you are okay with the state of the gaming community as it is, feel free to ignore this. But if you wish for real change and a break away from oversaturated monetization in the games you play and the push for radical ideological reform, then you are in the right place. Lets sever these rotted miasmic ties once and for all so that our community can be preserved and made better for future gamers. If you agree with this, share it with whoever you think might be interested. The more gamers who get involved, the easier it will be for us to finally break free from mainstream game companies and their associates.

I noticed weird usernames attempting to login on the skynode server that I leave up for my friends and I. No one was able to get on as I have a whitelist, but here is a list of the usernames UUIDs and IP's I collected and banned.
The Herobrine user is a little smarter than the rest and I think they tried spoofing my username last time. Now they're trying whatever this is? Copy pasting from skynode directly. Just want to make sure they were unsuccessful in whatever this attempt was.
The Children:
thivviyanhehehe ip84.67.227.9
serverseeker_net ip109.123.240.84
Herobrine ip129.80.82.129
MaybeScripted 4ba83e1a-5ff3-43f4-a050-61bd29e2ce80
Selfbomber ip95.222.31.121 c344665cf-9776-4c83-917f-7c33753e1444
Herobrine's weird attempt. What even is this?
[09:01:08] [Query Listener #1/INFO]: Query running on 0.0.0.0:25565
[09:12:32] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:41986 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[10:12:34] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:44208 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[11:12:33] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:36906 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[12:12:38] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:51900 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[13:12:38] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:50200 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[14:12:44] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:33080 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[15:11:37] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:54538 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[16:11:10] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:38322 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[17:11:20] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:37840 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[17:40:42] [Netty Epoll Server IO #2/ERROR]: Error sending packet clientbound/minecraft:disconnect
io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException: Sending unknown packet 'clientbound/minecraft:disconnect'
at zm.a(SourceFile:47) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at zm.encode(SourceFile:14) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wu.a(SourceFile:26) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wu.encode(SourceFile:12) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToByteEncoder.write(MessageToByteEncoder.java:107) ~[netty-codec-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:881) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:863) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:968) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:856) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter.write(ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter.java:113) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at wk$2.write(SourceFile:518) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:881) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWriteAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:940) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:966) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:934) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:984) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.writeAndFlush(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1025) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannel.java:306) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at wk.c(SourceFile:342) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.b(SourceFile:335) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.a(SourceFile:317) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.a(SourceFile:311) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.exceptionCaught(SourceFile:162) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:346) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:325) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:317) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.exceptionCaught(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1377) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:346) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:325) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireExceptionCaught(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:907) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.AbstractEpollStreamChannel$EpollStreamUnsafe.handleReadException(AbstractEpollStreamChannel.java:728) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.AbstractEpollStreamChannel$EpollStreamUnsafe.epollInReady(AbstractEpollStreamChannel.java:826) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.EpollEventLoop.processReady(EpollEventLoop.java:509) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.EpollEventLoop.run(EpollEventLoop.java:407) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:997) ~[netty-common-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) ~[netty-common-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583) [?:?]
[17:57:44] [Netty Epoll Server IO #2/ERROR]: Error sending packet clientbound/minecraft:disconnect
io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException: Sending unknown packet 'clientbound/minecraft:disconnect'
at zm.a(SourceFile:47) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at zm.encode(SourceFile:14) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wu.a(SourceFile:26) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wu.encode(SourceFile:12) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToByteEncoder.write(MessageToByteEncoder.java:107) ~[netty-codec-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:881) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:863) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:968) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:856) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter.write(ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter.java:113) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at wk$2.write(SourceFile:518) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:881) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWriteAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:940) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:966) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:934) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:984) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.writeAndFlush(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1025) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannel.java:306) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at wk.c(SourceFile:342) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.b(SourceFile:335) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.a(SourceFile:317) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.a(SourceFile:311) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.exceptionCaught(SourceFile:162) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:346) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:325) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:317) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.exceptionCaught(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1377) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:346) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:325) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireExceptionCaught(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:907) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.AbstractEpollStreamChannel$EpollStreamUnsafe.handleReadException(AbstractEpollStreamChannel.java:728) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.AbstractEpollStreamChannel$EpollStreamUnsafe.epollInReady(AbstractEpollStreamChannel.java:826) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.EpollEventLoop.processReady(EpollEventLoop.java:509) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.EpollEventLoop.run(EpollEventLoop.java:407) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:997) ~[netty-common-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) ~[netty-common-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583) [?:?]
[18:11:24] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:58956 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[19:11:26] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:59162 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[20:11:38] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:58538 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[21:11:34] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:51224 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'

I noticed weird usernames attempting to login on the skynode server that I leave up for my friends and I. No one was able to get on as I have a whitelist, but here is a list of the usernames UUIDs and IP's I collected and banned.
The Herobrine user is a little smarter than the rest and I think they tried spoofing my username last time. Now they're trying whatever this is? Copy pasting from skynode directly. Just want to make sure they were unsuccessful in whatever this attempt was.
The Criminals:
thivviyanhehehe ip84.67.227.9
serverseeker_net ip109.123.240.84
Herobrine ip129.80.82.129
MaybeScripted 4ba83e1a-5ff3-43f4-a050-61bd29e2ce80
Selfbomber ip95.222.31.121 c344665cf-9776-4c83-917f-7c33753e1444
Herobrine's weird attempt. What even is this? [09:01:08] [Query Listener #1/INFO]: Query running on 0.0.0.0:25565
[09:12:32] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:41986 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[10:12:34] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:44208 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[11:12:33] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:36906 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[12:12:38] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:51900 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[13:12:38] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:50200 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[14:12:44] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:33080 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[15:11:37] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:54538 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[16:11:10] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:38322 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[17:11:20] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:37840 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[17:40:42] [Netty Epoll Server IO #2/ERROR]: Error sending packet clientbound/minecraft:disconnect
io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException: Sending unknown packet 'clientbound/minecraft:disconnect'
at zm.a(SourceFile:47) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at zm.encode(SourceFile:14) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wu.a(SourceFile:26) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wu.encode(SourceFile:12) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToByteEncoder.write(MessageToByteEncoder.java:107) ~[netty-codec-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:881) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:863) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:968) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:856) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter.write(ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter.java:113) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at wk$2.write(SourceFile:518) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:881) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWriteAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:940) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:966) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:934) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:984) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.writeAndFlush(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1025) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannel.java:306) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at wk.c(SourceFile:342) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.b(SourceFile:335) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.a(SourceFile:317) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.a(SourceFile:311) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.exceptionCaught(SourceFile:162) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:346) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:325) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:317) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.exceptionCaught(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1377) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:346) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:325) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireExceptionCaught(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:907) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.AbstractEpollStreamChannel$EpollStreamUnsafe.handleReadException(AbstractEpollStreamChannel.java:728) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.AbstractEpollStreamChannel$EpollStreamUnsafe.epollInReady(AbstractEpollStreamChannel.java:826) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.EpollEventLoop.processReady(EpollEventLoop.java:509) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.EpollEventLoop.run(EpollEventLoop.java:407) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:997) ~[netty-common-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) ~[netty-common-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583) [?:?]
[17:57:44] [Netty Epoll Server IO #2/ERROR]: Error sending packet clientbound/minecraft:disconnect
io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException: Sending unknown packet 'clientbound/minecraft:disconnect'
at zm.a(SourceFile:47) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at zm.encode(SourceFile:14) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wu.a(SourceFile:26) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wu.encode(SourceFile:12) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToByteEncoder.write(MessageToByteEncoder.java:107) ~[netty-codec-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:881) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:863) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:968) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:856) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter.write(ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter.java:113) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at wk$2.write(SourceFile:518) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:881) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWriteAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:940) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:966) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:934) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:984) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.writeAndFlush(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1025) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannel.java:306) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at wk.c(SourceFile:342) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.b(SourceFile:335) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.a(SourceFile:317) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.a(SourceFile:311) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at wk.exceptionCaught(SourceFile:162) ~[server-1.20.6.jar:?]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:346) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:325) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:317) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.exceptionCaught(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1377) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:346) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeExceptionCaught(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:325) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireExceptionCaught(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:907) ~[netty-transport-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.AbstractEpollStreamChannel$EpollStreamUnsafe.handleReadException(AbstractEpollStreamChannel.java:728) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.AbstractEpollStreamChannel$EpollStreamUnsafe.epollInReady(AbstractEpollStreamChannel.java:826) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.EpollEventLoop.processReady(EpollEventLoop.java:509) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.channel.epoll.EpollEventLoop.run(EpollEventLoop.java:407) ~[netty-transport-classes-epoll-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:997) ~[netty-common-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) ~[netty-common-4.1.97.Final.jar:4.1.97.Final]
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583) [?:?]
[18:11:24] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:58956 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[19:11:26] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:59162 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[20:11:38] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:58538 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'
[21:11:34] [Server thread/INFO]: /129.80.82.129:51224 lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: Failed to decode packet 'serverbound/minecraft:hello'

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