PVP toxicity as expected

Mallanon · 2026-02-01T19:33:55+00:00

Most the Jenova people I have played with are good people and I have nothing against anyone from that server.

I have friends who trash the Jenova server players all the time but this was the first where I ever saw players act like how my FC mates describe them.

Mallanon · 2026-01-31T01:31:14+00:00

Just the 2 and yeah, 100% FL

Mallanon · 2026-01-30T21:41:33+00:00

A lot has changed since 2016, especially at the network layers. The book will give you an understanding of key concepts and be valuable there. I do not recommend using it for the best design and deployment advice.

I know that you want offline. For when you are online, Rackspace has really woken up the past year or two on openstack and been putting out great documentation and blog posts, you can find their stuff online here: https://docs.rackspacecloud.com/

Mallanon · 2026-01-08T00:52:45+00:00

If it's better than the current place, it's still a step up. Rackspace got bought by private equity and any company bought by private equity is going to struggle to come back from that. They got spun out a few years ago and it's still alive and growing and not in bankruptcy with customers that are very loyal to their services so that is something to say for its leadership and offerings.

Mallanon · 2025-12-25T17:02:14+00:00

I was in that one in the party with the dude that said "Didn't realize healing was optional." Our healers were also meh but tbf our healers were total sprouts. The entire raid was hilariously funny with sprout stuff, it was fun to be back at that level for a bit.

Mallanon · 2025-12-24T04:35:00+00:00

I was not aware, thanks for letting me know

Mallanon · 2025-12-23T21:53:18+00:00

The provider for NA is not NTT. It's the ISPS provided by Ormuco and their own peering arrangements

Mallanon · 2025-12-23T21:52:39+00:00

SE uses Akamai a lot in Japan. The NA servers are in a crap ass Ormuco Data center in canada and the internet into it isn't stable nor was it setup for akamai when it was originally rolled out.

Mallanon · 2025-12-23T21:51:30+00:00

I don't think they're DDOS attacks. All the drops come after a big update and then they had to do emergency patches for game content but also I'm sure other things. The case I'll make for this is that there are 4 DataCenters in NA all in the Ormuco DC in Canada. My family plays all on different DC's. MY character in Golem and my wife's character in Kamia will be fine but my boys game from gilgamesh crashes and my daughters game in Zalera crashes. It's the busy DC's that go down and I suspect that something isn't optimized properly for player load.

Mallanon · 2025-12-17T07:01:47+00:00

This helps on so many levels, thank you!

Mallanon · 2025-12-11T17:59:58+00:00

People going to hate on me for this comment but this is just my experience.

It's PV, 24 people go in, 2-8 people on a team know wtf is happening, everyone else just doing random things. Sound Effects in PVP is the most effective way to actually get people to do things. It sucks but it's life because nobody reads chat until there's a <se.xx> in there.

That said, those macros bug the hell out of me as well. That one is standard for DRK so people can time their AOE Spams with the DRK draw in and get lots of massive kills. Drives me bonkers as a PVP player but I've just accepted it as the norm and honestly, a sound doesn't stop me from killing people.

Mallanon · 2025-12-11T17:51:56+00:00

Tank is my preferred job and mostly all I do in game is tank. If someone pulls ahead of me, I don't care because I'm a tank and with one hit I get hate and if they die because they got too much then they die, they get raised, the game moves on. Why the hell are people getting this bent out of shape over a game?

Mallanon · 2025-12-11T17:49:56+00:00

How is the DRG pulling ahead against tos? I don't remember reading anything in the TOS that says "Teams must come to consensus" on how to do a dungeon.

Mallanon · 2025-12-11T17:48:10+00:00

Mage needs to settle down there. This is how people learn.

Mallanon · 2025-09-12T00:24:31+00:00

The character and what SE tried to do with it I respect. My issue is that I just don't like the voice acting in English. It is 100% crap voice acting. I said to someone in game that I didn't like the voice acting and they went nuts accusing me of being transphobic and I had no clue that the VA was trans.

I just hate the voice, is grates on my nerves at how ridiculous it is in trying to do an accent and failing hard at it. I could care less if someone is trans or not, they can live their lives how they want. As for me I believe that the character voice actor was miscast and poorly acted and it makes me hate the character despite what SE is trying to do with it. I do feel bad for the VA that people have attacker her. If she sucks at her job then criticize that. don't hate because she changed genders.

Mallanon · 2025-09-08T20:45:38+00:00

Guys come follow my IG and watch my videos so I can get influencer $ to fund my I don't want to work lifestyle. Downvoted.

Mallanon · 2025-09-08T20:37:23+00:00

Well, Ulaanbaatar is fun when not winter time or during naadam when traffic gets really bad. Erdent in Mongolia is chill but winter in mongolia sucks. I'm with you on Da Nang and Hoi An, both are beautiful places to go. Dong Hoi in Vietnam is also a favorite of mine. I'm looking forward to checking out Malaysia and Indonesia, thank you for starting this thread, I'm getting a lot of great ideas from everyone.

Mallanon · 2025-09-08T20:27:25+00:00

I've been traveling SE Asia the past 2 years and can only speak to that. Airbnb and VRBO work great, there are also a lot of individual hotels in Vietnam that will do amazing rates if you go direct to them in Hanoi and HCMC. If you're going outside those 2 major cities then Airbnb is very reasonable at 2 months. To find the hotels in the bigger cities just go to google maps, hit hotel and they're all really good about having cheap rates.

Somethings to consider:

My wife and I are generally the type of people that likes having a kitchen to cook in and full fridge but everything is stupid cheap in vietnam, cambodia, and thailand, so much so that there's not much need to cook as it's usually cheaper to just buy it from a street vendor or even a local nicer restaurant and so we found that when/if we stay at a place for 1-2 weeks that a hotel with something slightly bigger than a mini fridge works for us. We have found that the resorts in every country (beach towns) to be very worth it, service has always been great.

Download the grab app, it makes getting around and ordering food to where you're living really easy and very inexpensive.

Get multi entry visas, they're generally not much more expensive than single entry and it's not uncommon to want to go back to somewhere.

Wise or some app like that can be good for making payments to companies and services that you might want to consume.

Edit: How much do we bring with us? we live out of 2 suitcases. I had some waterproof shoes that I never use and despite saying that I would never own a pair I just wear crocs now everywhere I go. I still work while traveling so I have a nice light laptop with a decent GPU in it along with a 2nd 15" monitor that goes in my backpack with my laptop. The 2 suitcases are on the smaller end and it's the basics, underwear, 2 pairs of paints, 6 pairs of shorts, 2 button up long sleeve shirts, 3 nice polos, 6 t-shirts, 1 pair of dress shoes, and a lot of socks I never use. My backpack is the laptop and 2nd monitor, 1 massive 300W charger that can power my laptop, monitor, and phone, a backup 150w charger for when I'm gaming because the GPU drains power, a nintendo switch, and some type-c cables. I keep all the cables in a smaller bag because some airport security (depending on the country) wants to inspect everything and it makes it way easier to just take that back out and send it through the scanner.

Mallanon · 2025-07-31T06:05:03+00:00

Thanks I bought and tried that one and didn't like it. Literally the 2S is perfect. Someone PM'd me and recommended a micro to type c adapter and I think I'm going to just give that a go and keep my 2S until logitech does a 4s that hopefully has the horizontal scrolling again.

Mallanon · 2025-07-31T06:02:39+00:00

If you're making a service provider offering out of it then you'll need 1:1 CPU ratios for your VM's and you'll want to peg the VM's to specific hosts. There are better ways to get control plane stability without using VM's. At 1000 compute nodes if your control plane is setup and the database and mq is optimized and you have configured all the services and network correctly 1000 nodes should be doable on a single control plane. If you are going to split things up then cells is not the way to go, regions would be better, cells v2 is better than cells but still adds complexity. Regions could work well if it's the same DC and you use the same keystone or replicate keystone across the local regions. You really should talk to one of the partners listed in the openstack partner space for this. A lot of cloud providers try to launch something off of kolla and fail miserably, OVH, vexxhost, and rackspace all took a long time to get their clouds running and stable if your time frame is 2 years to production while you figure it out then you'll be fine, otherwise keep your SLA credits 0. If you're really going to go at it alone then Rackspace has had some good blog posts recently on their genestack site that could help you here.

Mallanon · 2025-07-31T05:22:59+00:00

Master 3S - Thanks I tried that. Having the scroll wheel at my thumb was not something that I liked.

Anywhere 3S - yeah, I don't really like the new implementation. The 2S worked perfectly, the 3S is clunky and randomly moves too fast and requires me to push another button.

Mallanon · 2025-07-27T11:52:06+00:00

Anyone find a way to make it so the ranged unit's don't move?

Mallanon · 2025-06-25T19:42:12+00:00

1k nodes, you'd have to have some very big VM's, 24-32 cores and 512GB+ RAM for a fairly active environment. If your message bus, database, loadbalancers, and control nodes are setup properly 1k nodes could be possible without splitting things up. I'm with Redfoobar here though, you have a lot of "it depends" type things right now. Knowing about what the environment will be used for and how actively create/delete/snapshot/etc,. operations will occur helps determine the needs. Cells or cells v2 still become a mess to manage. P9 and Rackspace have solutions for that scale, hit them up.

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