After ruin we learn that after many years The Mimic has been set free after Cassie follows a fake Gregory, but why did Gregory betray Cassie at the end? Well what if it wasnt The Mimic being the "big baddie" of Ruin, but in fact Gregory?! Well im here to explain why, Gregory is said to be a Robot by MatPat, right? and if we were to believe that theory, than what if it has something to do with Afton? now many people are gonna say that Glitchtrap is The Mimic, but in another theory I placed many facts that debunk that theory (See here) and there is more things that prove my first statement about Gregory being the villain, which is what I will explain now, you see people think that Gregroy is patient 46 and GGY, but people ignore that, but, this isnt about Patient 46, but GGY, GGY is a master hacker, and serves a strange bunny, but remember that, remember that for later, you see, Glitchtrap should be gone, now that Vanness and Burntrap is, right? WRONG, apparantly in HW2 hes still there, and thriving, but dont you find it strange that most SB characters are there, other than Gregory, strange huh, but now, lets talk about Ruin, we follow someone with the voice of a strange Gregory voce who turns out to be the Mimic, but what about Helpy, people ignore this too, Helpy apparantly was hacked by a strange purple energy, which isnt purple "So it cant be Glitchtrap, right" Maybe not him, but Gregory?! Gregory is mainly assosciated with Bright Orange, its the color of his eyes, the color of his hiding acheivment, and the color helpy is controlled by, now remember helpy helps Cassie throughout Ruin, while when Gregory uses it, it saves his spot, but its helpy right? Well if GGY servers a strange rabbit, and like Glitchtrap, GGY and Gregory are master hackers, right? the pieces start to fall together about the strange rabbit, huh? Its Afton, and explains why hes not gone, without a Physical Body, Glitchtrap cant do anything, however you might say HW2 was in VR, however In Character, its a testing place for fazbear employees, and Gregory serving the strange rabbit also explains why he sounds strange in the elevator, and you might say its The Mimic, but mimicking voices isnt something The Mimic can do, but also William Afton, but not just as Glitchtrap, he made an Anamatronic who can mimic the voices of parents, and thats the lovable Funtime Freddy, William is also the only person who knows how to hack, other than Vanessa HUH, and also both seem to only hack Anamatronics, and have some connection to Arcade Games HUH, and also, both people have different personalities when their around other people HUH, three coincidences, huh, but that one dosnt count, anyway GGy winning every game, aslo mainly has a high-score thats Yellowish Gold, "So it cant be Gregory, right?" Well the so does the "Dodge and Wave" Acheivment, and also, Gold is also mainly connected to things like Springbonnie, but thats not really important, and also If Gregory is a robot, it explains why he would be easier to hack, and also when Freddy says he senses he is broken, it dosent have to be because he is the Crying Child, but because he is fighting to gain control over his body, and becoming an entirely different person (GGY) broke him, just like Jeremy being a different person, broke him, but to the point to stop himself, he commit suicide, it also explains why he sounds infuriating at the start of Security Breach, and what would you know it, when the REAL Gregory shows up on the speakers, his voice sounds simple and fake, just like Tape Girl at the end AKA Vannessa, HUH, now thats four, and oh wait THERES MORE! even though simple and plain was The Mimic, there is no reason for him to speak to Cassie again convincing her that he was a threat to the world, and also, The Anamatronics going after him dosnt mean they want to kill him, they arnet possesed (Possibly other than Glamrock Freddy) and actually say they want to help him (But I do think that Monty did want to kill him) until he destroyed them, there is no reason for him to destroy them every time, and it seems a bit familiar, leading them into their own places, just to kill and dissasemble them, and Gregory shdent know how to install other Anamatronic parts, and also one more thing that confirms hes a robot, when Vanny gets close to him, his eyes get static, but can still see her, im not doing MatPats Crying Child Theory, but his eyes being Staticy isnt something Human, and the fact that he can be "Broken" is still a bit wierd, and the fact that Gregory is so aggressive, and has no reason to take Cassie down, even when The Mimic cant follow, to the place she was getting away from, Gregory having "Friends" makes no sense as he was only friends with Cassie, and you could say Glamrock Freddy, but he cant hack the comms, and also, how would he have access to them without hacking, he also can control GlamRock Freddy, you can say any child in him, but the fact that its all wiery, and he can use wires to charge freddy, and possibly control things, leads me to believe he didnt control Freddy because he let him, but because he controlled him, and on stage, most people presume its because Glitchtrap hacked him, MatPat believes that its because he saw Gregory as Crying Child, but despite his eyes scanning over the crowd, he was staring at a blank area, and his stomach hatch is the only place not glitching, and it says child detected,however it was the system that detects him, not Freddy, and with that, Gregory already was in the stomach hatch when he awoke, AND he already can control him, thats a bit strange huh? and finally, Gregory can hide in the charging station, which would presumably electrecute and kill a Human, and there is no "Good" reason for him to lie about his friends being destroyed unless he was manipulating him from the start, and with all that, I beleive that Gregory is the Villain, but hey thats just a theory a Game Theory! (Thanks for reading!)

(Sorry, this is going to be a longish read)
Arkane were one of my favorite developers out there. Dishonored 1 and 2 are among the best games I´ve ever played and Prey: Mooncrash is an amazingly brilliant little game.
I was looking forward to Redfall the moment I heard of it. Sure, making a multiplayer looter shooter seemed a little odd for Arkane Austin, but I figured innovation and experimentation lies in trying out weird new stuff, and while also not initially sold on the concepts that tie Mooncrash together, after trying it, I have to say it´s mechanically probably the best game they´ve put out so far (despite preferring the art, music and setting of the Dishonored series). So, despite already owning a PS5, I decided to purchase a Series X: I would get all the Dishonored games "for free" on GamePass, plus get to play Arkane´s future exclusives.
When Redfall came out and saw the whole debacle and read the reviews, I was bummed out. I tried the game for 5 minutes, saw it was janky and messy, and figured I wouldn´t ruin it for myself nor ask for a refund. I´ll wait it out: they´ll have to come around and fix it, and once that is done, it still won´t be Arkane´s greatest game, but I´ll try it as a finished product and evaluate it on its own merit. After all, if No Man´s Sky, a game made by 17 people at a tiny company could redeem itself and churn out an at least decent product then surely Arkane, backed by the might and wealth of Microsoft, could at least fix the game... I swore to not touch the game until they fixed it.
And so I waited... for over a year I waited, only to find out there will never be a finished product. They would never deliver on the things they promised. Hell, there would never be an Arkane Austin again... All those brilliant artists and game designers, fired...
So, seeing that finished product would never come, I decided to sit down and play Redfall as it currently stands. To at least see what parts of that Arkane DNA shined through a problematic product. This is my experience with it:
I boot it up, create a new character and start a new game. My first thought is that they seem to have fixed or tweaked the default camera movement. It still doesn´t seem perfect, it still seems a little too fast, but it seems better. Second thought is: wow, the Arkane character design and environmental art is like a cup of hot chocolate. This may be a messy, unfinished, janky game, but it still looks beautiful and the world looks somewhere between cartoon and realistic and brimming with magic and mystery.
I leave the ferry and make my way up towards the fire station. I evade some cultist goons. The stealth seems simplified and a bit silly but I don´t care, I´m enjoying myself. I get to the fire station, shoot up some goons outside. Again, the shooting is pretty simple, not brilliant, but I love the lighting and evironments, I love the little notes I find scattered around. This is nowhere near the MONUMENT that Dishonored 2 is, but it still feel´s like mommma´s cooking. I feel right at home.
I enter the fire station, clear up the various rooms and I´m told there is a vampire down in the basement. I get down there and I can see its shadow projected onto the floor as it devours its prey in an exaggerated fashion as it speaks in a "spooky", campy voice. Lol, so silly, I approach it from behind and fire my shotgun into it. Suddenly it zips to my left, then to my right, I´m searching for it with my flashlight, I realize that even though the game is campy and silly my heart is racing and I´m loving it. The vampire is upon me and I fire several shots into it, hitting a few and missing a few, and then I finally impale it and exhale a sigh of relief.
THIS IS BRILLIANT! I´m gonna tell my friends to download this. I love playing coop and this game may be unfinished and janky but it´s still gonna be a lot of fun!
I take on my first mission and leave the fire station. I think to myself: I need to save! Wait... What?!? I can´t save?!? Oh, right! This is one of those ALWAYS ONLINE games... Arkane Austin was days away from releasing a much requested offline mode but now they never will... Damn...
Ok, so the game will save itself at certain checkpoints... Well, that sucks but let´s roll with it. Let´s try to find those crashed helicopters.
I make my way down the spooky street, past broken-down ambulances and corpes strewn about and then all of a sudden...
I lose connection to the server and I´m back at the main menu...
Shit... I was having so much fun... This broke my immersion big time but I was having so much fun... Let´s get back inside.
I´m back in the fire station basement. Head upstairs, out onto the street, make my way down the spooky street, past broken-down ambulances and corpes strewn about. I reach a strange pillar and find a group of cultists around it. I easily put them down but a vampire is drawn to the gunfire. It drains my blood and almost kills me, but I manage to back away and heal. Now it´s coming towards me at full speed, I shoot it as it comes towards me and then... I lose connection to the server and I´m back at the main menu...
This time I´m slightly less enthusiastic to rejoin the game...
I´m back in the basement of the fire station, I head upstairs, out onto the street, make my way down the spooky street, past broken-down ambulances and corpes strewn about. I kill the goons and a vampire, I keep walking down towards a group of dimly lit houses only barely illuminated by a TV set emanating the speech of some monstrosity. It´s all very atmospheric and nice. And then I lose connection with the server again...
Fuck this game. I tried to enjoy it on its own limited terms, but even there it failed me.
And above all: FUCK MICROSOFT. I bought an Xbox when I heard they were purchasing Bethesda, the owners of Arkane, the best company for my favorite genre out there: immersive sims. Microsoft has all the money in the world, I want to see what comes out of this! Turns out they only bought the company to downsize? Should have never purchased Bethesda in the first place then. Fuck MS and fuck Xbox, crappy greedy company run by incompetent idiots lacking a clear vision for how to stand out in the videogaming market.

Hey, i am a minor whose been struggling their whole life with a bunch of stuff, and its only worse now, all my mental ilnesses have catched up to me and my mom has gotten way way worse, i dont know if im even doing this right i just need someone to talk to other then all my online friends, I've been homeschooled for about five years now with no way of having any social life and barely ever getting to go out, no vacations or anything, the most that happens is my cousin coming over once every few years, i have no way of getting to go out and i cant make friends in online school because i don't relate to any of them and they're all really rude for some reason, with the topic of school, i have been serverely struggling, and my mom wont leave me alone about it, she constantly comes into my room and screams at me for it, its gone to the point where if i hear someone by my room i just think its her and when i hear her voice i already know shes gonna yell at me, i even sometimes have hallucinations or bad nightmares about it, and some other past experiences too, i can barely do school and all my school does is give me more work when im already struggling, and they constantly email her which makes her more upset at me, ive told her ive been having trouble and they wont stop giving me more work but she doesn't listen to me, ive tried to attempt multiple times and shes even saw my self harm cuts because ive talked to a counselor about it when i was in person school and all she did was yell at me for it, even when my friend was over, now im scared to ever talk to any adult about this, i have none to talk to this about to even, ive even told her about the SA my cousin did to me and she didnt care, but she constantly makes innapropiate remarks to me like "youre gonna get trafficked if you wear that" and i barely even wear revealing stuff, i wear oversized sweaters usually, i hate showing my skin, i just hate my body, theres no point in even wearing anything "good" if i cant even go out right? i dont want to be by her. i really dont. she makes me feel scared and uncomfortable and she constantly treats me like i dont have emotions, i cant even talk to a therapist because she has to be there and always talks for me, and i dont want to. the only people i talk to this about is my online friends, and well, lets just say having your life always online isnt the best. and im not even talking about posting or anything, im talking about it being your ONLY life, i constantly get messages from pedos and i dont even know how they found me, and my friends are mentally ill like me and constantly tell me theyre gonna kill themselves, and that scares me so bad, i dont want to loose the only thing i have. my mom threatens to take away my internet and in fact she did once for two years, so i had no communication at all for two whole years, and one of the reasons i have such a trouble with school is because i helped my little brother who cant read with school for a year so i couldnt focus on my work so i was basically learning nothing, and i was already struggling since school is confusing for me, its hard to focus and get stuff, i feel like i need it to be explained in a way that i can understand, i dont even feel normal, i hate living a life that i cant control. the only actual comfort i have is my cats and theyre always in cages or outside, because we have a ton of cats and my mom wont give them to homes that will actually take care of them. she doesnt even have money to get them fixed. and on this topic of my home life, my mom has never been good to me, in fact shes been really neglectful all my life i even have memories of physical abuse and it still sometimes happens, sometimes she refuses to take me to the hospital, and i remember my dad hitting us with belts while we were naked, but my brain always tries to block this stuff out, and it was always for little stuff like crying too loud. and we always got shamed for crying too loud, i even remember my aunties telling me it wasnt normal for my mom to treat me like that but they never actually DID anything. i also remember my older sister being kind of sexual twoards me, and shes been doing weed for as long as i can remember, she also drinks achohol and my mom buys it for her since she has no job, i remember a lot of traumatic experiences with her drug use, i remember having to hide achohol from her with my mom and constant yelling in my house when i was younger, now its calmer since my moms almost always at work but when shes home shes either sleeping or yelling. i also have traumatic experiences with my online friends, ive gotten groomed multiple times, and i remember multiple of my friends killing themselves, even my REAL life friends have left me, the only one i had that still stayed left about a year ago. i still self harm because i feel like i have to be punished for everything i do, i talk to older people online because they make me feel safe and cared about even if they just want to see my body or talk about sexual stuff with me, i just want to feel. ive had so much physical, mental, verbal, and sexual abuse all my life, i am so close to just ending it all, i really dont want to do this anymore, but my friends make me feel guilty because i dont want to leave them, the only purpose i actually have is to make them feel happy. i want to do good in school but its basically impossible, if i even ever reach the age of an adult i want to be a phsycologist or a surgeon because i want to help people because ive never really gotten help in my life. i feel like im not even here, i dont know, i just feel lost in my thoughts all the time, i dont even feel real, it feels like every conversation i have with my friends are in my head, i have really bad hallucinations sometimes, and it feels like that almost all the time, i dont even feel like im me half of the time, i dont even KNOW who i AM. my mom constantly makes me feel like im being dramatic for all of this. maybe i am. i just need some advice, i dont want to go on another month, another week, another day. im really tired. just tired of it all. i cant even sleep usually, i only get a hour of sleep usually, then take a nap throughout the day, i always wake up constantly and try to sleep but i cant. i try my best to be a good person and a nice person to everyone even my mom, i even feel bad for existing becsuse i know if i didnt she would probably be happier, but its not like i can tell her any of this because one, she always disregards my feelings, and she doesnt even care. my sister sometimes tells her stuff but never does anything. i just want to break out of this constant torment, and my older brother is just living his life, he has a job and lives with his friend, but he was basically the only GOOD person i grew up, im attached to him and all my online friends, im jealous but happy at the same time because hes happy. i know i probably wont ever have that. i dont want to live to be 18. i really cant deal with this for that long. even if i do escape my mom my thoughts are enough to drive me crazy. i just dont feel like i should go on anymore, i have thoughts of hurting myself and people around me, ive had them for years, ever since i was as young as 5, i feel too mature for my age, i never relate to anyone my age, i feel like my mind is too old for my body, but sometime im just some scared kid who wants to feel loved and know what its like to have a parent who cares. i dont know if thats too much to ask for. i used to have a cat outside that i always talked to like it was a human it was my only friend and id go outside all the time and stay out there for hours everyday, i miss her so much because it felt like she actually understood me, it felt like someone did care, i remember when my mom told me she died due to a accident i was so sad for years and i couldnt do anything but cry everyday because of it. i dont feel like i belong anywhere. ive had eating disorders and i still do. the best thing thats happened to me in a while is finanlly getting a room, my sister cleaned out a room that my grandma used to be in so i could be in it since i just used to sleep in the living room with no privacy at all. so i have a place to finally have privacy, even though my mom just bursts in here a lot witout knocking. im just happy i have privacy. i know i have more to say but i cant even think of it right now, my brain feels so foggy, but i dont know if anyone will actually read this, its just a bunch of my stupid thoughts, i dont know. i just want to be gone

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Deep in the groaning halls of sinew and bone he awaited his audience with the god. At a wave of his hand the ribs which held up the ceiling contracted, tendons shifting within the pink walls of the chamber as the jagged, calcareous spurs that composed the doorway sank back into the spongy masses of tissue, revealing a passage curving down and out of sight.
Menash stood before the yawning portal and considered eternity. This was no an idle thought: here in the Dawning Chamber, the concept was very real. His father, Yulan, had stood in this exact spot times beyond count. When he was struck down in his prime by the Night Weaver and her Leaper offspring, torn limb from limb as he fought to defend Chthonis from a raiding party, Menash’s uncle, Aqavarr, had carried his broken remains over that grinning threshold to join the hosts of the dead, never to return.
A hot and heavy exhalation rattled up out of the depths, wafting in the acrid scent of the bonding pools and the wet slithering sound of the rebirthing canals. Menash felt a crackle of static in the corners of his mind before the signal sharpened and he heard It whisper distinctly:
“Enter…”
The familiar dread crept its way up the small of his back, and he gave a little shiver. No matter how many times he had communed with the Vitalus, he’d never been able to shake the feeling of his utter insignificance. But he persevered, walking bravely down the slurping passage, past the rows of broad antechambers lining either side of the hallway. Each one held a slumbering shape immersed in a cryogenic bath, towering hulks of muscle encased in ribbed and riveted plates of chitin. No two were alike in size or physiology, but all seemed to emanate the same primeval aura of dread that tickled Menash’s fight-or-flight-instinct, skewing it very much towards the latter response. These were the Hollowores, soulless avatars of the Vitalus, each one a tool capable of eradicating an entire species. As Menash approached, one of the living weapons stirred to life. A pronged, anvil-shaped head emerged from the bath, umbilical feeder tubes detaching from its armored flanks as the rest of its bulk followed, its mauve exoskeleton as sleek and shiny as amethyst. The Hollowore extended legs as thick as grown pine trees and lifted itself above him, its pairs of crushing pincers dripping amniotic fluids as it herded him towards the central room.
Bundles of white gossamer filaments spread all across the floor, encircling steaming pools of pus and acid. He saw arms and legs, sensory organs and entire exoskeletons being knitted before his very eyes, the amino acid chains being stitched on a layer at a time, the weeping pus evidence of microphages fighting off possible infections as the Vitalus did Its work.
These were the next generation of exomorphs, yet to be assigned to their hosts. It was here that Vitalus constantly improved the only thing that could ensure the continued survival of Menash’s subspecies. Exomorphs were bonded to Gallivants at birth, the organisms supplying their hosts with the means to breathe an atmosphere they was never meant to endure, and the strength to fight in a world that was red in tooth and claw. They were as swift as the summer wind and could multiply their host’s muscular power by up to twelve times their natural output.
But for all their God-given might, Gallivants were still mortal. They could and often did perish in the endless struggle for existence that the Vitalus called the Great Game. But even in death they could still commit their essence to posterity, passing down their defining traits through the malleable genetic code of the gilt helix. It was the Vitalus’ greatest boon; through the gilt helix a single individual could become a progenitor of an entire generation, becoming at one stroke the father of whole nations and peoples.
One day he too would prove worthy of the honor that Yulan had earned with his life. But he was not alone in that ambition. Menash was annoyed to find the crimson-clad Vezda and the cowardly Racek waiting for him inside, standing next to a large ball of filaments that hung from a tonsil-like growth hanging from the walls.
This node pulsed, emitting a small storm of bioelectric activity, networks of fungi conveying commands in the form of oscillating voltages to their communities of symbiotic bacteria, the latter containing greigite mineral crystals aligned in the shape of electromagnetic coils. Other networks hidden in the walls modulated and amplified the signals, and the three Gallivants steeled themselves for the onrushing flood of information as the Vitalus tapped into their minds.
He was a candle before the raging heart of the thunderstorm. For an instant Menash touched a fraction of Its intelligence, the divisions of time and space rolling back as they joined the ocean of shared consciousness, becoming one with the living systems of Arachnea. From the tiniest aeroplankton floating above the waves of the golden coastlines, to the herds of ultrapods munching their way through swathes of trees in the savannahs. Menash felt himself pushing up out of the soil, longing and lusting and reaching for the sunlight with a trillion green fingers uncurling, alive with the furious movement of life.
But what was that flicker of orange to the east? That searing heat, that prickling pain spreading like a cancer down his side?
The Vitalus scooped them up and hurled them headlong into hell itself. A roaring wildfire was sweeping into the heart of the eastern rainforests. Menash tasted ash and ruin, felt pieces of himself wither and burn, his branches tongues of fire, wood cracking from the intense blaze, sap boiling instantaneously upon contact and rupturing, splitting him right down the grain. He fled in terror, running, slithering, digging, swimming, flying away in crazed panic from the walls of red death closing in on him. As his skin flaked off in clumps of charcoal he looked back and saw it towering over the treetops, the epicenter of this howling vortex of destruction: the grey behemoth. Its burnished metal hide gleamed like copper, reflecting the fury of the conflagration burning well into the night.
Menash pulled his mind away before it was lost forever in the storm of electric potentials. He saw Racek and Vezda swaying on their feet, breathing hard and fast.
“Heart of the World,” he managed to gasp, “What is your bidding?”
The Hollowore maneuvered itself until it was facing him directly. Tiny beady eyes fixed him in their blank gaze. The node emitted a blue pulse and the creature shuddered as it received the signal. It opened a maw powerful enough to chew boulders into gravel and rumbled:
“This one is the alpha which survived first contact with anomalous variable. It will tell Us what occurred, and from whence this threat emerged.”
“It came from the karst mountain range, where the yellowjacket Amit live,” Menash replied, “It was destroying the largest mound in that area, massacring its inhabitants. It brought the mountain down on them—we’ve never seen anything like it. Zildiz was the first on the scene. She warned us not to approach, and that it was dangerous, but some of us,” here he cast an angry look at Vezda, “Some of us went ahead and tried to scavenge from the bodies of the dying. Then the behemoth ignited the air and burned scores of us to cinders.”
“Irrational. Why did you do this?”
“W-we thought that you had spawned the grey behemoth,” Menash stammered, embarrassed to say the least, “That it was the newest addition to the Great Game, another species of ultrafauna that would help perfect Arachnea.”
“Not so. It was made by an evil far older than the All-In-One,” replied the Vitalus, “It is called a Divine Engine. In cycles past, this evil sought to undo this world and all that inhabit it. In that, it almost succeeded.”
Menash felt his blood run cold at those words.
“Is it the only one of its kind?” Racek piped up. Menash and Vezda both bristled at his interruption; subordinates were only supposed to speak when spoken to.
“There were several deployed here in Our infancy. We had thought them all destroyed in the War of Creation.”
“Your Munificence,” Racek went on, heedless of the venomous looks he was getting from the other two, “Most of us survived because Zildiz persuaded us to dive into the river. She saved all our lives! But as I washed up on the riverbank, I saw the behemoth casting a seedpod into the skies. I did not see where it landed, but it was travelling in a high arc due east. Is this the behemoth’s method of reproducing? If so, then how many offspring can it generate from this one seed?”
The Vitalus met his questions with a minute of silence. Menash had never known It to take so long to respond to a query, and felt another stab of unease in his gut. Unless he was imagining things, the Vitalus seemed genuinely disturbed by the scenario that Racek has raised, enough to convince Menash that the danger was far from hypothetical.
“That is a distant possibility,” It said somewhat cryptically, “Regardless, We cannot allow the Engine’s continued existence.”
“Then it must be destroyed,” Vezda said, her barbed tail eagerly perking up.
“We are not certain that it can be,” the Vitalus said, and Menash heard Racek audibly gulp at the admission.
“But Your Omniscience, you alone are the arbiter of growth and decay,” Vezda said in disbelief, “Surely you can unmake this monster as well?”
“Perhaps. The Divine Engines were built to withstand the extremes of temperature, gravity, atmospheric pressure, acidity and irradiation found on semi-inhabitable exoplanets. Worlds of bareness and desolation, glassed by thermonuclear bombardment or infested with alien microorganisms. In the wars of Our youth, the Betrayers used tungsten-alloy warheads fired from space platforms to crack their bulkheads. Not even Our vessels, the Hollowores, could damage them in any significant way. We will need time to gather the raw materials and fabricate the weapons needed to end this threat.”
“What must we do?” Menash asked.
“If this variable is not dealt with, it could upset the delicate balance We have sacrificed so much to achieve. Already the wildfire it has caused will release close to 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and destroy 2.3 million acres of forest before Our countermeasures can stop it. Time is our limiting factor. If the Engine cannot be destroyed now, it must be restrained.”
“It hasn’t moved an inch since we last saw it,” Vezda said brightly, “Maybe it has already died?”
“Yes, and maybe your mother was a horka toad,” Racek said snidely. Vezda scowled and took a step towards him, then stopped as she remembered that she trod on hallowed ground.
“Not so. It has merely gone dormant. Having expended its fuel, it is now running on the bare minimum of its reserves. My children, you must ensure that it does not wake again. Establish a quarantine zone around the Engine and let none approach, on pain of death. The Leaper kindreds will secure the ground while the Gallivants patrol the skies.”
Vezda and Menash exchanged troubled looks. Nobody wanted Leapers establishing a foothold in what was essentially a buffer zone between their subspecies. Once allowed to settle in a habitat, it would not take long for them to adapt and become masters of their new territory. Ousting them would become a battle of attrition, and given the lower birthrates of Gallivants, it was not one they could long afford.
“Respectfully, we do not require assistance from our brother kindred,” Menash ventured, “We are more than capable of safeguarding the area ourselves.”
The node throbbed again, the bioelectric flashes taking on an angry purple hue. With a sound like the grinding of a millstone the Hollowore clashed its claws together impatiently. All three of the mortals took a hasty step back.
“The alpha will obey, or another will be found that can,” the Vitalus growled at them, “All subspecies will observe a general truce during this period. This is a temporary addition to the Great Game. Those that serve Us well shall be rewarded. We shall also enlist the aid of your terrestrial cousins, as well as the Cataphract clans to replenish the soil, and lone Saints who shall rove beyond the quarantine zone.”
Menash’s unease deepened. The Vitalus was bringing together four different kindreds, some of which killed each other on sight, in a move that reeked of desperation. The kindreds had worked together before, of course, on complex projects such as altering rainfall patterns and husbanding struggling species, but never so many at once. This was bound to end in bloodshed.
“Those that break the truce shall be chemically neutered, and their gilt helix purged from the existing gene pool,” the Vitalus continued, “You will maintain this quarantine until We have dealt with the Engine.”
“It is understood!” Menash and Vezda said at once.
“But what about Zildiz?” Racek blurted out, again risking his entire lineage by speaking out of turn, “She might still be alive out there!”
“He’s right,” Menash found himself agreeing despite his dislike for Racek, “She’s our alpha, after all. It would be a shame to lose her helix. Do we have your leave to send out a party to recover her?”
The Vitalus pondered the request for a moment, then crushed his hopes when it said:
“Regrettable, the loss of the female. Valuable stock for the breeding program. But it has not responded to Our signals—it is unlikely to have survived. The female Vezda shall take up its duties as alpha.”
“But Your Benevolence—” both men cried out in unison.
“It is decided. She has risked the Great Game, and must abide by its outcome. To speak more on this would risk Our displeasure,” the god warned.
“We can’t spare the manpower anyway,” Vezda pointed out, trying not to look too pleased at Its decision. She darted a quick look at Menash, long enough for him to see the selfish desire festering in her heart. He turned away from her in disgust, baring his blades by the slightest of margins to let her know what he thought of her, then asked the Vitalus:
“But what of the Engine’s seedpod? Should we search for it?”
“Negative!” the Vitalus boomed, its node reinforcing the word with a spike of activity that sent needles of pain spearing into their heads, “We shall complete this task. It is dangerous and can be entrusted to no other.”
The Hollowore angled its massive head towards the cavernous ceiling, armored flaps on its back sliding aside as it unfurled sets of rigid sixty-meter wings. A wide sphincter on the roof gaped open and Menash saw the evening sky awash with the stars in their milky multitudes. The Hollowore took a deep breath through the spiracles lining its thorax and abdomen, pumping air through a pair of hollow tube-like protuberances under either of its wings. Menash and the others quickly scampered to a safe distance. Seconds later there was a scream of chemical combustion and the Hollowore rose into the evening skies, leaving behind a long trail of superheated gases, the backwash almost knocking Menash off his feet. They watched as the Hollowore gained altitude, making straight for the columns of billowing smoke on the horizon, a sweeping shadow blotting out the light of the heavens.
The Vitalus’ mental presence receded with it. When it did not return, they took it to mean that they were dismissed and likewise took flight and headed for Chthonis. They were hardly out of the Dawning Chamber when Vezda seized the scrawny Racek by his wings and anchored her feet right up against his back.
“Funny little man, are you? Crack jokes at my expense again, and I’ll see to it that you’ll never fly again!” she snarled, yanking hard. Racek yelled as his wings threatened to pop out of their sockets.
“Stop!” Menash said, ramming his shoulder into her and knocking the smaller male out of her grip. Vezda rounded on him, blades out and her tail aquiver with rage.
“As for you! No one should speak to the Vitalus like that!” she shrieked, “Much less gainsay It! Are you trying to get us all killed? It is the source and continuance of life itself—”
“But the Vitalus doesn’t always consider the individual scale of things,” Menash reasoned, controlling his rising anger as he tried to defuse the situation, “Its scope of thought is beyond ours. Therefore it is up to us to look after each other. None of us can win the Great Game alone. We need people like Zildiz for the species to prosper.”
“Your logic is flawed,” Vezda spat, “Empathy is a sham devised by the selfish action of the gene, which seeks only to preserve itself. At least I am honest enough to look after my own interests. Your obsession with that whore is misplaced. Heed my words, Menash. What happened today marks a change in the Great Game. Only the ruthless will reap the rewards of this era. Think on that, and act accordingly.”
The female darted off in another direction, leaving the two behind.
“Thanks,” Racek said, rubbing at his sore shoulders, “My, my. She’s really taking her promotion very seriously, isn’t she?”
“This doesn’t make us friends,” Menash said shortly, “We share a common interest, that’s all.”
The two flew together in silence for a time, the dark canopy unrolling below their feet. Racek had always been a bitter rival for Zildiz’s affections. In the mating seasons he and Menash had flown the damsel-dance against each other countless times, racing and dogfighting at top speed through the dense bamboo thickets in an effort to impress her.
But each time she had always chosen Menash. Naturally. He was the stronger, the braver, the son of the Scourge who had slain hundreds on his lightning raids into Leaper territory. Their pairings had been brief and passionate, yet she had always laughed at the end and gone on her merry way, a rose petal borne on a scented breeze, the dalliance as meaningless to her as other concerns like eating or breathing.
But not to him. Right now, all that mattered was her. And Racek was the only one in the whole wide world who knew exactly how he felt. Did that mean he could be trusted? Menash considered the enormity of what he was about to do, and wavered. Then he saw her face in the darkness of his home, the face she wore when they were all alone together, and he took a deep breath before breaking the silence, saying:
“I’ll be in charge of the quarantine. I can arrange for you to disappear for a few days. I can have one of the younglings mimic your magnetosynaptic signal, make it seem like you’re with the rest of us.”
“You’d do that? For me?” Racek said in astonishment.
“Hah. Not for you,” Menash laughed softly. He looked Racek straight in the eyes and continued: “What’ll it be, then?”
If he so much as hesitates, I’ll have to kill him here and now, Menash told himself.
“Why, yes. Yes, of course!” the little brown male said vigorously.
“Good,” Menash sighed with relief, “She’ll be very grateful to whoever brings her home. I’d do it myself, but as an alpha I can’t risk being seen as disobedient.”
“Then why give me this chance? After all that’s passed between us?”
“I should have thought that was obvious,” Menash replied. Racek digested that for a bit, then out of nowhere said:
“If I find her—when I find her—I’ll tell her exactly who it was that sent me.”
“That won’t be necessary.”
“Bah! Just so we’re even, that’s all,” Racek grinned, his mouthparts slanting askew.
“Thanks, I guess. I’d…I’d appreciate that. You do understand what we’re risking here, right?”
“Sure. We’ll be total genetic write-offs if we’re caught. But it’s not like I wanted to see tiny ugly Raceks running around the house anyway. What about you, though? Why are you putting your neck on the chopping block?”
“You know why,” Menash said quietly, his thoughts still lingering on her face.
“Yes,” Racek agreed with a wistful air, “Yes, I suppose I do.”
And the pair spoke no more until they reached Chthonis.
Link for all the chapters available for free here: Engines of Arachnea on Royal Road

Hey, i would like you guys two cents about Arishem's deck, please theorycraft with me.
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this is the very bad deck i've built, if you don't care about text, i'll try to explain the reasoning behind each pick, and the feeling of the deck (sorry for my bad english, not my main language):
THE NON INCLUDED: I'm considering quinjet not working here as he does not works in thanos. i'm also keeping mockingbird out to slightly increase in blink quality, but i can see she being subbed in doom's spot.
ARISHEM: Mathematically arishem will add 3 and 2 costs cards more often to your deck (with 6 cost being the least likely), and due to his nature, any original card in the deck is half as likely to be draw, this data means two things: no combo will be consistent, and we can't consider arishem as a ramp card, since he usually will add few high cost cards, and the original ones you includes will be draw fewer times than any common ramp deck. With that information in mind, i've tried building a deck that diminishes the randomness and takes advantage of the extra energy by drawing cards.
COULSON: Coulson's randomness in common decks is actually less randomness in arishem's decks, as said previously, 2 and 3 costs will be the more likely outcome of most cards added to the deck, so coulson garantees you two less common costs (4 and 5), and also 2 extra cards for you to spend your extra energy, doing both things i wanted.
HOPE: If quinjet works, hope will be subbed by it, if not, hope serves the purpose of capitalizing on the extra cards played. To be fair, shes the 12th card in the deck, and could probably be subbed for rogue too, giving a fighting chance against darkhawk, since hope will most likely just float energy anyway due to the nature of the costs of random cards added by arishem and the limited board space.
CRYSTAL: This one is quite a weird inclusion, the reasoning behind it was "you will have more energy than your opponent to capitalize on the extra card" but one can argue that the quality of card draw will be so inferior than your opponent's one that its not worth the risk, and if thats the case, rogue is a suitable sub.
PHASTOS: A nobrainer add, phastos will most likely be the best card in the month and probably one of the best cards in the game, he is probably the cornerstone of the deck, making the extra card draws/add to hand work due to the cost reduction side of his effect. even if at random.
LOKI: Another easy inclusion, the extra energy pairs well with loki's discount, and the extra cards keep the hand at an ok size, i think loki is the way the deck would fall if (when) this "draw more cards" deck idea fails, adding more loki cards to the original deck, like snowguard and cable.
BLINK: Blink is the soul of the part of the deck that wants to reduce randomness, since the deck was crafted with a gap between 3 and 5 (broken by loki, but he is a core piece) the idea is playing one of your original 3 (or the commonly 3 cost generated ones) and switching then for one of the top end in the deck, wich, again, following the math, will be the majority of options available for swap, increasing the realiability of the deck.
ADAM: Yeah, i know he is a bad card, even when played a turn early, but hear me out: this whole list is bad, he is at home here... apart from that, the extra energy early not only gets you to adam faster, but also gives you a fighting change for board power, if there is any deck that would fit adam's lackluster effect, arishem is the one, and his onesided draw effect is actually very, very valuable here, i think he is in the upper half of card in the deck, not being cut first at all.
SERSI: Sersi is obviously not tested yet, and her random effect is probably not gonna make the cut in the normal decks, but Arishem should not be considered a normal deck, nor respond to the normal meta. The same as coulson, her randomness is heavily reduced here, considering you are not only playing more cards, but also higher cost cards, especially since the deck was built considering blink's effect (with mostly 3 costs cards with good effects but not stats), sersi could use this too, becoming a plan B to blinks, even mitigating a bad result from adam warlock losing the location by changing him into a 6 cost.
MAGNETO: Magento is just a good body with good effect, not much here, can be subbed by other six costs, but usually he outperforms most.
DOOM: Doom is actually pretty close to the cutting block, if my idea is anything close to reality, arishem will probably have board space issues, and if so, doom will be a bad pick, he may be subbed for mockingbird or any other high impact 6 cost.
BLOB: I don't have math to back this up, but i think Blob will most of the time have the effect of removing garbage from your deck, since the majority of random cards will be lower cost, and those usually have lower power, he will probably eat those more often than he will eat your magento (like the drawing chance of any card, the eating chance of a original piece is also halved).
My final thoughts about this list is, as you know if you read all the way, it's bad, and not optimized at all, but i think theres something in not considering arishem a "ramp deck", while slotting him as a tempo/board flood deck, and all cards in the list take advantage of that line.
thank you for reading this far, again i apoligize for spelling mistakes, and hope you guys spread some hate towards mt in the comments s2.

We started having issues with all our emails being blocked, by ANY vendocustomer with a yahoo email server provider, with a PH01.
However, we have DMARC, as well as DKIM enabled. Doing DMARC, DKIM tests from MX Toolbox all pass. I am confused on why our emails are still being blocked.
Specifically the Yahoo article points out, that DKIM, SPF and DMARC must be enabled and working. This is all correct. I implemented DMARC and DKIM when the issue started happening, but the issue persists.
I honestly, don't understand what's going on here.
Please ask me questions, if more information is needed.
Message not allowed - [PH01] Email not accepted for policy reasons. Please visit https://senders.yahooinc.com/error-codes
That is the error from the bounceback.
We have mimecast as a relay, and I implemented the DKIM key through them. Outbound emails are showing the DKIM signature now from them.

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I just want to test the waters @ 1080p gaming but want to be flexible for 1440p in the near future. Part recommendations please.
I'm coming from a 7-8y/o setup (i5 7500 + GTX1060 combo) and honestly content with 1080p. I just recently came back into PC gaming, and I enjoy a variety of game genres playing casually. CS2, CP77, Diablo IV, Civ6, Flight Sim, Forza. So, not much AAA titles but would want to get 60fps average just in case I wanted to (like Starfield or Harry Potter). I don't need all-ultra settings granted I don't have a high budget.
Budget: $1300-1600 total for the parts listed below only. With preference to be at the lower end of the budget. My priority is a balance of price-to-performance with a touch of aesthetics.
CPU: I'm set on the Ryzen 7600x unless the 7600 drops by more than $40 cheaper
CPU Cooler: Wanted an AIO for aesthetics but I am also considering the PS Evo RGB or AK620 digital. Not a fan of dual towers because of how bulky it looks and how it will block the RAM (or too close to the rear fan if placed there instead).
Motherboard: Nothing much to say about this one. I like to build an mATX for a smaller footprint, coming from a midtower ATX case.
Memory: The most recommended T-Force Deltas I find too bulky+loud (also quite high if ever I go dual tower CPU cooler). My friend might sell me his near-new G.Skill Z5 6400mhz-CL32 for $130. Honestly quite confused on the plethora of choices for this part. Open for suggestions.
Storage: Friend might sell his AORUS 7300 for a good price. Kinda set on this one, but open for similar suggestions if ever I go new.
Video Card: The 7800 XT is a stretch and only because I wouldn't feel the need to upgrade in 5 years' time by buying this. But I'm actually just leaning towards a 7600 XT or 4060 first just to test the waters. I honestly don't like the Nvidia 4xxx series and rather wait for the next-gen improvements if ever.
Case: The Deepcool CH360 Digital looks, err, cool especially the digital view of the CPU/GPU stats. Recommendations welcome. I'd like a similar aesthetic with a focus on compactness yet great airflow.
Power Supply: Again, friend might sell his Deepcool DQ750M-V3L 750W and honestly with all these Deepcool parts in this prospective build it kinda feels great to have the same brand in near-half of the parts. Probably will have better integration/compatibility? XD
Thoughts and suggestions, please? Thank you.

I've been playing GSW since roughly when the game became early access (mind you not a crazy amount I still have work and other things to worry about.) but I've noticed that the larger the games player base gets the more the game suffers from the big issues everyone is talking about, especially with the Ai. The issues also get worse at peak times 8-12 to the point that sometimes the game becomes almost unplayable. Last night I was out running missions and I died 5 times all either to one shots through armor or light wounds in the extremities or from a new issue I found which is the Ai being in one spot till you shoot them then teleporting away only to seconds later run through a door and spray you (Not Fun). And while I know that it wont fix everything beefing up the servers will at least hopefully fix the issues caused by D-sync issues ie: Ai being bullet sponges because of no hit reg, teleporting, that kind of thing. And while I know that not all of the games issues are caused by that Its the one thing that can be fixed without having to rework alot of the Ai coding, and at very least will make the game bearable to play consistently instead of being at the mercy of server load.
Regardless I think that the Dev team is doing an excellent job and have made one of the best games I've played in a long time. Most of the issues that they face are caused by suffering from success.
TL;DR the game is too good and too many people like it for the current servers to be able to handle it.

Hello everyone. I hope you're well and having a great day / night so far.
I am looking for someone who is honest and genuine and knows what they want, someone from the UK or within Europe preferably. I would like to start a new chapter in my life. I am tired of getting ghosted and blocked for no good reason at all. I'm a very empathetic person, I always try to think about other people's feelings before my own and treat them with respect, kindness and dignity.
I'll admit that if I like you I will text you non stop unless you say otherwise, and will always want to hear from you just as a thanks for giving me your time of day, if that's what you are looking for and would like then that is a win-win :)
I am looking for someone I can be myself around and send good night / good morning texts to. Someone who wouldn't judge me for who I am. Someone who is open to potentially building a future together. I'm looking for someone who is 20+ but not past the age of 30, and someone who is also childfree. (Since I'm not interested in being a parent in the future even though I am fond of kids.)
Other things about me: I am a British citizen born and located in England, UK who can only speak English but willing to learn new languages. I don't smoke or do any drugs, but I occasionally drink once every few weeks at the club, which isn't a bad thing if one is responsible with it. I am a straight male. I'm very loyal and faithful but also extremely cautious as I always end up getting hurt one way or another, and my zodiac sign is Cancer ♋ for those of you who are interested in that sort of thing; I was born on the 10th of July, 2000.
I'm not the best at talking about myself without questions being asked so feel free to ask me anything if you would like. Here is a few things I like that may help:

• Listening to music
• Cycling with others 🚲
• Playing different sports such as badminton, bowling, cricket, mostly bat and ball games
• Binging on action, drama / romance, comedy and horror movies / TV shows: MARVEL, Doctor Who, Hollyoaks (TV Soap), The Lord of the Rings
• Playing on PC games such as GTA, Red Dead, and Minecraft
• Going to the gym
• Cats (absolutely ADORED by me) (My black void cat who recently passed away is lurking on my profile somewhere.
• I also like the look and am quite fond of tattoos even though I don't have any. I am thinking of getting one on the back of both of my hands in the future.

If you have made it this far and would like to message me, feel free to as my DMs are always open. Let's get to know each other and see where it takes us!
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One more thing I want to address, since this is something that really irritates me, I am not a fan of talking on Reddit. In fact I despise it as I have lost contact with countless people for unconfirmed reasons, but I think Reddit is responsible for this by being glitchy and slow, stopping my and possibly other people's messages from sending to each other, sometimes mid way through a conversation with them, and sometimes, when they message me for the first time and I message them back, we instantly lose contact. Also, if people message me and they don't get a response back, that's not me ghosting them, that's the Reddit chat functioning poorly again by not sending them my responses. If you can, please send me a PM message instead of a Direct Message, since that functions better on Reddit apparently. Then afterwards, if you're interested and comfortable, I would prefer if we could message on better functioning chatting app(s) eventually, that would be great, but no pressure at all.

The president of my company has been working out of our second office in another state all winter and was due to arrive back in town Monday. Friday afternoon I took it upon myself to do a once over in his office, restarting his printer and docking station to make sure everything worked smoothly since he'd been gone for a few months. I hate when he comes back in the building and something isn't working as expected because it's been sitting stale for so long. Everything seemed in line and I didn't anticipate any issues on Monday morning.
I get into my office at 7:51 and at 7:52 he walks in saying "Hey, I need your help with something."
"Sure. What's up?"
"Can you help me get these basketball tickets on my phone?"
Not what I was expecting, but at least nothing is broken. Normally if someone asked me for help with something like this I'd tell them to get lost but this guys name is literally on the front of the building so I agree to take a look. A colleague has sent him playoff tickets via a link in a text message. He clicks the ticketmaster link and it gives him an error. "Session suspended, try another location or another device." I take the phone, copy the link out of Safari, and try it in Chrome. Same message.
I ask him if we can go try the link on his computer and he agrees. I send the link to himself in an email so it will be in his inbox. We walk to his office and I have him pull up Outlook. He's about to open the message and he says "Oh, he also already emailed it to me" and shows me an email from the colleague with the ticket transfer message.
So I'm thinking "oh, this explains it. the guy retransferred the tickets via email so the fist link in the text is probably no good."
We open that link on his computer and he's able to log into his ticketmaster account and accept the tickets. They are in his account now, he should be good to go. But there is a message on the page saying "Your phone is your ticket, login from your mobile device to add the tickets to your wallet."
We go back to his phone and i just try pulling up the main ticketmaster(dot)com website and to my dread see the same "your session is suspended, try another location or device" message. Well, now i CAN'T use another device, it has to be THIS device so i can get the tickets into his apple wallet. I clear the browser cache and cookies. Same thing. I try incognito mode. Same thing. I switch from wifi to mobile data. Same thing.
I start looking up the error and it seems like ticketmaster has some checks in place and if it sees suspicious browsing behavior, it assumes you might be a bot trying to snipe tickets and blocks you. The TM support page says it's temporary and to try again later.
I tell the president i think it temporarily blocked him after he opened that first link so many times. We should let it cool off and try again later. "No problem. the game isn't until tomorrow."
I didn't see him the rest of the day and he took off early in the afternoon so we didn't have a chance to circle back.
He doesn't get into the office until about 11am the next morning and hands me his phone. It's been over 24 hours at this point, the temporary block must be gone. I open up the TM website and see the same freaking error... uh oh... I tell him there's still a problem and I need to figure out what to do next. He blurts out the passcode to his phone and heads out to lunch.
I take the device back to my office and start doing some research. Everyone online that has this problem gets the error because they are trying to do some shady crap to buy or reserve tickets and nobody has an answer for how to release whatever block TM puts on you. TM support articles say you just have to wait. I can't wait. The game is tonight. If he doesn't get these tickets, he's going to be out thousands of dollars and it's going to be MY fault because my fingers are all over this at this point. Is any of this even my job?
I figure the next step is going to be to grab a spare phone out of my supply, have him log into his apple id (if he even remembers the password), and accept the tickets from there. I'm not entirely sure how the apple wallet works. If he gets the tickets on one phone will they show up on his other one? I figure, worst case scenario, he has to carry this second phone with him to get into the game.
I'm waiting for him to get back from lunch to explain this asinine workaround when I think to myself "screw it. lets just restart this phone."
I restart the phone and am lucky I am staring at it while it starts up because once it does I see a message in the corner. For 1 brief second it says "VPN" and disappears. I go into the settings and find out that while this guy was out of town, he subscribed to a VPN service and installed it on his phone. Once I disabled it, the TM website worked perfectly normally. Saved again by a restart!
He came back from lunch and I said "I didn't realize you had a VPN on your phone." He says "Oh yeah, i got that a couple months ago. why?" I told him that the TM website apparently doesn't play well with with his VPN service and that once i disabled it, i was able to get to the website and that he should turn it back on once we get the tickets into his wallet.
He logs into the site, sees the tickets, and adds them to his apple wallet. Then i show him how to turn the VPN back on.
Mission Accomplished!
Then he turns back to me and says "So now, how do i transfer these to someone else?"...

Hey everyone, I'd like to share a few things that I learned while trying to build cheap GPU servers for document extraction, to save your time in case some of you fall into similar issues.
What is the goal? The goal is to build low-cost GPU server and host them in a collocation data center. Bonus point for reducing the electricity bill, as it is the only real meaning expense per month once the server is built. While the applications may be very different, I am working on document extraction and structured responses. You can read more about it here: https://jsonllm.com/
What is the budget? At the time of starting, budget is around 30k$. I am trying to get most value out of this budget.
What data center space can we use? The space in data centers is measured in rack units. I am renting 10 rack units (10U) for 100 euros per month.
What motherboards/servers can we use? We are looking for the cheapest possible used GPU servers that can connect to modern GPUs. I experimented with ASUS server, such as the ESC8000 G3 (~1000$ used) and ESC8000 G4 (~5000$ used). Both support 8 dual-slot GPUs. ESC8000 G3 takes up 3U in the data center, while the ESC8000 G4 takes up 4U in the data center.
What GPU models should we use? Since the biggest bottleneck for running local LLMs is the VRAM (GPU memory), we should aim for the least expensive GPUs with the most amount of VRAM. New data-center GPUs like H100, A100 are out of the question because of the very high cost. Out of the gaming GPUs, the 3090 and the 4090 series have the most amount of VRAM (24GB), with 4090 being significantly faster, but also much more expensive. In terms of power usage, 3090 uses up to 350W, while 4090 uses up to 450W. Also, one big downside of the 4090 is that it is a triple-slot card. This is a problem, because we will be able to fit only 4 4090s on either of the ESC8000 servers, which limits our total VRAM memory to 4 * 24 = 96GB of memory. For this reason, I decided to go with the 3090. While most 3090 models are also triple slot, smaller 3090s also exist, such as the 3090 Gigabyte Turbo. I bought 8 for 6000$ a few months ago, although now they cost over 1000$ a piece. I also got a few Nvidia T4s for about 600$ a piece. Although they have only 16GB of VRAM, they draw only 70W (!), and do not even require a power connector, but directly draw power from the motherboard.
Building the ESC8000 g3 server - while the g3 server is very cheap, it is also very old and has a very unorthodox power connector cable. Connecting the 3090 leads to the server unable being unable to boot. After long hours of trying different stuff out, I figured out that it is probably the red power connectors, which are provided with the server. After reading its manual, I see that I need to get a specific type of connector to handle GPUs which use more than 250W. After founding that type of connector, it still didn't work. In the end I gave up trying to make the g3 server work with the 3090. The Nvidia T4 worked out of the box, though - and I happily put 8 of the GPUs in the g3, totalling 128GB of VRAM, taking up 3U of datacenter space and using up less than 1kW of power for this server.
Building the ESC8000 g4 server - being newer, connecting the 3090s to the g4 server was easy, and here we have 192GB of VRAM in total, taking up 4U of datacenter space and using up nearly 3kW of power for this server.
To summarize:

Server	VRAM	GPU power	Space
ESC8000 g3	128GB	560W	3U
ESC8000 g4	192GB	2800W	4U

Based on these experiences, I think the T4 is underrated, because of the low eletricity bills and ease of connection even to old servers.
I also create a small library that uses socket rpc to distribute models over multiple hosts, so to run bigger models, I can combine multiple servers.
In the table below, I estimate the minimum data center space required, one-time purchase price, and the power required to run a model of the given size using this approach. Below, I assume 3090 Gigabyte Turbo as costing 1500$, and the T4 as costing 1000$, as those seem to be prices right now. VRAM is roughly the memory required to run the full model.

Model	Server	VRAM	Space	Price	Power
70B	g4	150GB	4U	18k$	2.8kW
70B	g3	150GB	6U	20k$	1.1kW
400B	g4	820GB	20U	90k$	14kW
400B	g3	820GB	21U	70k$	3.9kW

Interesting that the g3 + T4 build may actually turn out to be cheaper than the g4 + 3090 for the 400B model! Also, the bills for running it will be significantly smaller, because of the much smaller power usage. It will probably be one idea slower though, because it will require 7 servers as compared to 5, which will introduce a small overhead.
After building the servers, I created a small UI that allows me to create a very simple schema and restrict the output of the model to only return things contained in the document (or options provided by the user). Even a small model like Llama3 8B does shockingly well on parsing invoices for example, and it's also so much faster than GPT-4. You can try it out here: https://jsonllm.com/share/invoice
It is also pretty good for creating very small classifiers, which will be used high-volume. For example, creating a classifier if pets are allowed: https://jsonllm.com/share/pets . Notice how in the listing that said "No furry friends" (lozenets.txt) it deduced "pets_allowed": "No", while in the one which said "You can come with your dog, too!" it figured out that "pets_allowed": "Yes".
I am in the process of adding API access, so if you want to keep following the project, make sure to sign up on the website.

Im a console player btw. Doom has been one of my favourite characters since his release, but I feel like Tank Doom is not only more healthy for the game, but also more fun.
DPS Doom felt like if you make 1 tiny mistake, you're throwing. This can make mastering him feel really good but when he already had so many bugs, it just felt unfair to die because you didn't know a bug existed.
He also felt so cheesy, he had 2 one shots (not counting his ult cause that is fine in terms of one shotting) and I would argue that his punch, which was already annoying to be one shotted by, is less annoying than his slam uppercut. Atleast with punch there is a windup, visual and audio indicator, and you can only hit one person. With slam uppercut it was more difficult to know where he was and it could easily take out 2 or 3 people. I also hated Dooms stalling on roofs to get a big slam, reminds me of when Widow stares at you waiting to headshot.
The only thing that is bad with Tank Doom is his block and empowered punch, but his slam and punch are massive improvements.
This is just the opinion of a plat console tank.

Hello! Hope everyone is having a great day :D I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone and make new friends! I play a lot of games like honkai star rail, Dead by daylight, World of Warcraft and tons of others. I'm just looking to find someone to play with that isn't rude or toxic!! :D i play games for fun and not to have a grown person screaming in my ear haha. please just dm me on here or add my discord GarbageWeeb :D hope to hear from you soon! :D
Also im EST and in the nicest way possible, please dont add me to ask if i wanna join your server, i dont. I feel bad saying no to people but i dont want to join your discord server :(

Seeing a few Sunday Ticket posts starting to form, so here are some common questions, answered. If you have any other questions, please leave them as comments to this post.
What platforms is NFL Sunday Ticket available on? NFL Sunday Ticket is available either as an add-on to your YouTube TV Base Plan or as a standalone offering through YouTube Primetime Channels. You can watch NFL Sunday Ticket content on the YouTube or YouTube TV app regardless of which one you purchase through. Current pricing and promotional offers can be found here.
What if I'm not seeing the promotional rates that are advertised for Sunday Ticket? If you've had Sunday Ticket before, you are only eligible for the returning subscriber rate. If you aren't seeing any of the advertised promotional offers for your account under Settings > Membership on a browser, then please reach out to support directly. https://support.google.com/youtubetv/gethelp
What exactly is included in NFL Sunday Ticket? NFL Sunday Ticket allows you to watch out-of-market Sunday afternoon games (those typically on around 1 or 4 pm ET). Local channels like your local FOX, CBS, and NBC affiliates are not included in NFL Sunday Ticket, nor are national channels like ESPN. However, these are available with the YouTube TV Base Plan.
Are preseason games or postseason games included with NFL Sunday Ticket? No, only regular season, out-of-market games from FOX and CBS are included in Sunday Ticket. To watch preseason games, you'll need to check with your local team's broadcast schedule to see where the games are airing. A lot of times, they can be found on local channels or NFL Network, most of which are available on the YouTube TV Base Plan.
Postseason games are aired nationally, and most are available via the YouTube TV Base Plan as well. The exception are those that air exclusively on other streaming services.
What about exclusive streaming games, like those on ESPN+, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, or Peacock? These games require independent subscriptions, and are not included with NFL Sunday Ticket, or the YouTube TV Base Plan.
What about other national games and the games on Thanksgiving? National games are not included in NFL Sunday Ticket, but are available with the YouTube TV Base Plan, unless the game has exclusivity with another service.
How many streams do I get with NFL Sunday Ticket? You'll get unlimited NFL Sunday Ticket streams at home and 2 additional streams for you and your household to use on the go. A few other callouts for YouTube TV:

• NFL Sunday Ticket streams are separate from your 3 Base Plan streams. Each add-on within YouTube TV has its own stream limits. You can check these out by going to your profile icon > Settings > Streaming Limits.
• Using the multiview feature only counts as 1 stream.
• If you buy the Sports Plus add-on, NFL RedZone will count towards your Sports Plus streaming limits.
• The 4K Plus add-on adds extra viewing options only for your YouTube TV Base Plan.
• DVRing doesn’t count towards your streaming limits unless you're watching the stream.

How can I get NFL RedZone? You can buy the NFL Sunday Ticket + NFL RedZone bundle as an add-on to your YouTube TV Base Plan or through YouTube Primetime Channels. You can also continue to buy the Sports Plus add-on which includes NFL RedZone.
Will you be offering a Student Plan? Yes! Student Plans are available for eligible students who sign up via YouTube Primetime Channels. With this, you can still view Sunday Ticket via the YouTube TV app, as long as you use the same account to purchase.
Will you be offering single team options? Currently there are no single team/individual game purchasing options.
Can I watch Sunday Ticket while traveling? Yes! You can continue to watch Sunday Ticket when traveling. If you're traveling to a different area, the available games will likely be different than what you can watch on Sunday Ticket at home.
And if you subscribe to the YouTube TV Base Plan and want to watch your local team away from home, you're covered, too. If the game isn't nationally aired, you can find them on a Sunday Ticket channel (unless it's exclusive to a different streaming service).
Will multiview be available and will I be able to customize the streams? Multiview will be available and there will be an extensive assortment of multiview streams every Sunday for you to choose from.
For the most control, start playback for a game you want to watch in a multiview stream. Click down twice and choose "Multiview" below the playback bar. Then click on the game combination you'd like to watch, or customize your own layout by choosing from the streams available.
If you have a YouTube TV Base Plan, multiview combinations will also include local NFL games for you to watch side-by-side with your NFL Sunday Ticket games.
Is complete customization available with multiview, if I want to watch some football alongside other channels? In terms of customization, the short answer is no. The goal with multiview is to make it available to everyone with a television. Since most devices don’t have native multiview capabilities, YouTube TV does the processing of video feeds on the server end. This means that every unique combination watched in multiview uses limited data center and computational resources.
Because each region has unique, local content, YouTube TV is especially constrained on the number of combinations we can create that include local feeds. They try to select the best combinations based on expected popularity, and are always improving our processes.
Can I pay for NFL Sunday Ticket monthly? Yes; subscribers in most states can sign up for NFL Sunday Ticket via a monthly payment plan.
Can I DVR games? As a reminder, you can watch NFL Sunday Ticket content on the YouTube or YouTube TV app regardless of which one you purchased through. And when you sign in to YouTube TV app, you have the option to record games.
Can I share NFL Sunday Ticket with my family group? If the family manager purchases NFL Sunday Ticket, family members can also watch Sunday ticket content. You can find out more information about family group requirements here.
What devices is playback supported on? Users can watch NFL Sunday Ticket on web and mobile devices that support YouTube TV. NFL Sunday Ticket playback will also be supported on smart TVs (made in 2016 and later), select older devices, and most newer streaming devices.

About six years ago my family bought a place in rural Indiana, just outside of town. We bought it for the machine shop, a huge industrial building with zoning, power and access for trucks. I had been a professional metal smith for about ten years but had to leave that work behind for financial reasons and the cost of proper space where I live. This new place was on 5 acres with a house, barn and a creek in the back. It was bordered by a neighbor with an extensive garden and orchard on one side and an empty field on the other. Two years after we moved in the field sold. The new owner stored trucks and building supplies there for two years before starting on a house. It took them quite a while to build it- they were building it themselves. They seemed decent enough at the time. Now, I am used to being viewed as nuisance- I run a blacksmith/welding shop. I try to mitigate the noise. The building is insulated, and machinery anchored to huge (and expensive) concrete footings that reduce vibration. I don’t crank the stereo to drown out the machines, I have headphones. I do regular noise audits and keep reasonable hours ( nothing before 7 or after 9, and no weekend work) When the new neighbors began nearing completion, they brought goats out and stuffed them into a chicken coop about midway down our driveway. They would come out to check on the goats every few days but sometimes the animals would go a while without anyone coming by. My wife and I would walk the dogs past a few times a day ( it’s our driveway) and after a few days of goats screaming at us, one of us would go over and give them food and water. This was an every other week kind of thing. I figured these folks were probably really busy and just getting hung up on driving the 45 + minutes to feed the animals- not a big deal really. As they began moving in, they built a fence, or rather, they had a drunk uncle build a fence. It was just a foot, or two or three from my driveway, and as it meandered toward my house veered into my carport. I tried to have a conversation with them about this, and was threatened with a lawsuit… ( my first altercation with them) I approached the county only to be told that it would be a civil dispute and I would have to go through an attorney to get anything done. Now the drunk uncle realized he was off the line when he got to the carport and just stopped. For 8 months they did nothing. Well, they did start collecting animals. 6 more goats, 16 sheep, 2 then 4 horses and 4 cows…all of these tied to posts in chicken wire fences… I did call animal control. Animal control informed me that this county is rural and they can have whatever animals they want, and do to them whatever they want… (damn Indiana… just??? ) this was about the time he decided to start “training “ the horses. This involved tying them to a post in front of my porch, blasting mariachi music, while whipping the horse- for about two hours a night…they lost three horses, and got 5 more…the half built fence blew over into our driveway last spring. I was out of town working and my wife took the dogs out and took some pictures of the fence in our driveway. The neighbor called the police and reported that she was stalking them, and taking pictures of their workers ( who were eating lunch at the time apparently, but ran off when they realized they had been seen) the police were not thrilled with the call and gave the neighbor a bit of a talking to. The following week they pulled the fence and rebuilt it straight. It now fully encloses their property and is not interfering with my carport. Now, I don’t trust these idiots, but hoped this was the end….far from it. They covered their property with flood lights, that are motion activated. We no longer have dark nights. In the fall they began building a 7000-8000 sq ft barn. Right next to my front porch. Now, at least the horses have a decent place…(right? ) they brought in a full time horse trainer and are “raftering” the horses. The new barn comes with a sound system, and the horse beating is now an 8 am- midnight 7 day a week affair. When the horses get unmanageable they trade them out. I have no count on the animals anymore, but at least I don’t have to watch the beatings anymore. Four times now he has charged me on horseback while I was walking the dogs. I figured he had no control the first three times but the last time he looked me in the eye and spurred the horse directly at me… starting in late January the manure began. They have 7 acres. They pile the manure right by my porch. I messaged her- she blocked me. I e-mailed both of them. From February to April they just piled it higher. In May I called the health department ( damn Indiana…) On the books, the pile shouldn’t be within 200 feet of a residence. The inspector said horse manure doesn’t count…. They responded… the inspection got them riled up. Apparently I am the asshole for wanting the poop piled on the side of the barn that is not right by my front door and dining room window…My second conversation with them ( in two years) was two weeks ago, and now they are going out of their way to pile it closer to my house. I haven’t complained about the noise, or called zoning on them for the unapproved event space They are building, or mentioned any of a dozen other obnoxious things they do. I am concerned that they seem to only want to escalate things. From the conversation it sounds like they are getting flak from other neighbors and thinking it is me. I am not sure they realize that there are houses all around them. She “rescued” a cat that belongs to one of the other neighbors which makes me think she hasn’t talked to any of them. And she kept going on about us calling the police, which I never have. I can hear the mariachi music, literally night and day , echoing through my house, and in the shop ( built for noise abatement) with doors closed and machines running) I am fairly certain that is not going over well with some of the neighbors.

So I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately, especially after I made my oviraptidon/volcanic break thread, and I've come to a bit of a surprising conclusion. After looking at the new set mechanics and theorycrafting about how they matchup into the current meta, I believe it is currently unnecessary to add any cards to the banlist, and that the new set will have no difficulty in reshaping the meta in its current state (whether or not it takes the meta in a healthy direction is yet to be seen, but I don't believe in pre-emptive bans of unreleased cards, so for the purposes of this discussion let's assume that there are no banworthy cards in the upcoming collab set). There are two reasons for this.

1. Two of the biggest threats in the current meta, turbo hydra and star dragon control, rely very heavily on spirits with destruction effects. These effects are heavily nerfed by the new keyword AT Field, which is present on a majority of new spirits and prevents them from being destroyed by such effects if they have soul core. Most notably, Deep Sea Hydra's destruction effect is completely and utterly blanked by AT Field, because you can just select the spirit that has it active and blank the destruction effect (you still mill and obviously it still needs to be blocked, but being able to blank the destruction effect is really good at limiting the damage you take).
   
2. Aside from just having mechanics that match up well into the current meta, the EVA set is not lacking in power. Phase 2 is easily on par with Siegwurm Ira in terms of power level and slots pretty cleanly into the purple core control shell, which has been the most consistently excellent deck archetype in the game from the very beginning. Second Impact is just a 1 sided board wipe and I'd be shocked if this isn't enough to push some kind of angel deck into the meta. Heck, even Red/Green Operation Yomato might be able to make a splash just by being the fastest deck that has access to AT field, potentially slipping under all the control decks that have been so dominate during the game's lifespan.
   
3. The set 4 meta is by far the healthiest meta we've had so far. Prior to set 4, high level games would regularly go to time during game 2, and actually playing out a full best 2 out of 3 set would take an hour and a half to 2 hours. The defensive power of cards like AIS and Thorn Prison were simply too good at blanking attacks, and the risk of the crackback was too high to risk declaring attacks unless you were guaranteed to remove a key spirit with it. The introduction of the double symbol boss monsters in set 4 has done wonders in breaking board stalls and ensuring games can actually end in a reasonable amount of time, because for the first time we have proper win cons. Simply put, I do not want to go back to a pre set 4 meta.
   

To be clear, this does not mean we don't need a banlist at all. Axebiter and Neatherworld Depths need to continue to stay far far away from the game, the former is simply a mistake that should have never been printed, and I assure you purple does not need any more help (we can prolly unban Ovi and Volc Break though...). I will also note that this post is made under the assumption that limiting AIS and/or Thorn Prison is not on the table, mostly because doing so would fundamentally alter the balance of the game and I wasn't prepared to delve into that rabbit hole. If we do ban/limit these key defensive pieces, then we probably should also consider banning some other threats, because all of a sudden the game just got a whole lot easier to just end.

I'm glad the devs are slowing down to fix the game because it's gotten SO bad lately.
Just today I've had bots shooting through walls, falling through the map, weapons not loading in, my mech exploding on entry, not being able to use stratagems at all, the ballistic shield not blocking ANY laser fire, and not being able to enter the Pelican (Not a destroyed Pelican, almost like an invisible wall).
I know games nowadays aren't ever going to be free of bugs but it's so frustrating to have 1. No friends to play with and 2. my experience ruined by bugs making the game unplayable.

Understanding NuGet Server Email Functionality

When managing a local NuGet Gallery server, one critical functionality often overlooked is its ability to communicate effectively through emails. This feature is pivotal for various operations, including account verification, package updates, and notifications. However, administrators frequently encounter challenges in configuring the server to send emails reliably. These issues can stem from a multitude of factors, ranging from incorrect SMTP server settings to network security policies blocking outbound emails. Understanding the nuances of these configurations and the common pitfalls can significantly impact the server's operational efficiency and the smooth dissemination of information to users.
Furthermore, troubleshooting email dispatch problems requires a comprehensive approach, starting with verifying the server's email settings, ensuring the correct SMTP server details, and testing connectivity. Additionally, it's essential to consider the security aspects, such as SSL/TLS encryption and authentication requirements, which can vary significantly between email providers. By addressing these issues systematically, administrators can enhance the reliability of email communication from their NuGet Gallery server, thereby improving the overall user experience and trust in the server's capabilities to manage package distributions effectively.

Command/Software	Description
SMTP Configuration	Setting up the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server details to enable email sending capabilities.
Network Policies Verification	Ensuring that network policies do not block the SMTP traffic necessary for email dispatch.
SSL/TLS Setup	Configuring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt email communications.

Troubleshooting Email Dispatch in NuGet Gallery

Setting up a local NuGet Gallery server to send emails efficiently involves a comprehensive understanding of both the software configuration and the underlying network infrastructure. The process begins with configuring the SMTP server details within the NuGet Gallery's settings. This involves specifying the host, port, and authentication details required to establish a connection to the email server. However, the challenge doesn't end with configuration. Administrators must also ensure that the SMTP server is accessible from the server hosting the NuGet Gallery. This can involve modifying firewall settings or adjusting network policies to allow outbound SMTP traffic. Moreover, the importance of securing email communication cannot be overstated. Implementing SSL/TLS encryption ensures that sensitive information, such as passwords and package details, are not transmitted in plain text over the network.
Beyond technical configurations, understanding the operational aspects of the NuGet Gallery server's email functionality is crucial. This includes monitoring email delivery statuses and being proactive in identifying and resolving issues that may arise. For instance, emails may be marked as spam by recipients' email servers, leading to delivery failures. In such cases, server administrators might need to work with email service providers to whitelist their sending IP addresses or domain names. Additionally, maintaining updated documentation on the email configuration and troubleshooting steps is invaluable for ensuring that the server can reliably send notifications, alerts, and other communications essential for the smooth operation of a NuGet Gallery server.

Email Configuration for NuGet Gallery Server

Configuration in NuGet Gallery settings

Testing SMTP Connection

Using PowerShell for SMTP test

$smtpClient = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient('smtp.example.com', 587) $smtpClient.EnableSsl = $true $smtpClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("yourUsername", "yourPassword") $smtpClient.Send("from@example.com", "to@example.com", "Test Subject", "Test Body") 

Enhancing Email Reliability in NuGet Gallery

Email integration in a NuGet Gallery server is pivotal for a range of functionalities, including user registration, package updates, and notification services. Ensuring the reliability of this feature demands attention to both software configurations and adherence to best email practices. The initial step involves correctly setting up the SMTP server details, which includes the server address, port, and the necessary credentials. This setup is crucial for the server's ability to send out emails. However, simply configuring these settings does not guarantee successful email delivery, as email servers and clients may have stringent rules to combat spam, which could affect the deliverability of emails from a newly configured server.
Moreover, the security of email transmissions is a significant concern that administrators must address. Utilizing SSL/TLS encryption for email communications is essential to protect sensitive information from being intercepted. Additionally, administrators should regularly monitor email logs for any failed delivery attempts, which can provide insights into potential issues with the email setup. Resolving these issues may require adjustments in the server's email configuration, negotiating with email service providers, or even changing the email sending strategy to ensure messages reach their intended recipients without being filtered out by spam filters or rejected by the recipient's email server.

Frequently Asked Questions on NuGet Gallery Email Issues

1. Question: Why are emails from my NuGet Gallery server not being delivered?
2. Answer: Delivery issues could be due to incorrect SMTP settings, emails being marked as spam, or network policies blocking SMTP traffic.
3. Question: How do I configure SSL/TLS for email in NuGet Gallery?
4. Answer: Enable SSL/TLS in the SMTP configuration settings of your NuGet Gallery server to secure email communications.
5. Question: Can firewall settings affect email dispatch?
6. Answer: Yes, firewall settings can block outbound SMTP traffic, preventing emails from being sent.
7. Question: How can I test if my NuGet Gallery server's email functionality is working?
8. Answer: Test by configuring the SMTP settings and sending a test email to verify if it is delivered successfully.
9. Question: What should I do if emails are being marked as spam?
10. Answer: Ensure your server is not on any blacklists, consider setting up SPF and DKIM records, and contact your ISP to whitelist your IP.
11. Question: How do I update SMTP settings in NuGet Gallery?
12. Answer: SMTP settings can be updated in the configuration files or through the administrative interface of the NuGet Gallery server.
13. Question: What port should I use for SMTP?
14. Answer: Typically, port 587 is used for SMTP with STARTTLS, while port 465 is for SMTPS (SMTP over SSL/TLS).
15. Question: Why is it important to use SSL/TLS for email?
16. Answer: SSL/TLS encrypts email content, protecting sensitive information during transmission over the internet.
17. Question: How can I troubleshoot SMTP connection issues?
18. Answer: Check your SMTP settings, ensure your server's IP is not blacklisted, and verify that there are no network or firewall restrictions.

Final Thoughts on Enhancing NuGet Gallery Email Deliverability

Mastering the art of email dispatch within the NuGet Gallery server environment is essential for maintaining a seamless operation and enhancing user engagement. The journey begins with a meticulous setup of SMTP configurations, ensuring secure transmission via SSL/TLS, and extends to navigating through the complexities of email deliverability and spam filters. The significance of these efforts cannot be understated, as they directly impact the trust and reliability users place in the NuGet Gallery server for package management and notifications. Moreover, the proactive approach in monitoring and troubleshooting email issues underscores the importance of a robust email strategy. It's not just about sending emails; it's about ensuring they reach their intended destination, fostering a reliable communication channel between the server and its users. In essence, the ability to efficiently manage email dispatch is a hallmark of a well-maintained NuGet Gallery server, pivotal for its success and the satisfaction of its user base.
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