As we enter December and look forward to the coming New Year, this is a time when many religions and cultures around the world celebrate major holidays. 2020 has been a really hard year all across the world. From pandemic to social unrest, from economic downturn to the food and housing insecurities created by all of, it has been an exceptionally trying time.
Now is when kindness, empathy, compassion, and understanding are more important than ever. We all need to try to come together, in spirit, to support one another. While most of us are having to stay physically apart to help protect each other from this deadly pandemic, it doesn’t mean that we can’t still be there to help one another. So many right now are suffering more than ever: fear of catching this horrible disease, anxiety over how to pay the bills due to lost jobs, loneliness at being isolated.
Unlike in the past, our global community is more connected than ever. Reach out to one another. Let people know that you care. Check on your family and friends. And if you’re one of the ones that is struggling, reach out to others* and ask for help. There is no shame in it. This is hard on everyone. Be kind and gentle with yourself as much as you can, because right now no one is at their best.
If you are able, donate. Donate money to your local food banks. Donate gently used items to local good works organizations. Donate your time to places that you have the ability to assist. There are many places that you can help while still remaining within your own home if it isn’t safe to go out (whether for yourself or for the community at large). Check with local volunteer organizations, they are more than happy to help match you up with somewhere that will suit your unique circumstances and abilities.
Please be kind. Be patient. Show grace. Understand that it isn’t the cashier’s fault that the store is out of the item you need. Realize that the delivery driver is just trying to survive, the same as you. Recognize that your favorite restaurant has had to pivot, and pivot, and pivot yet again to try to remain open in one fashion or another so they can continue to serve you. Support local businesses as much as possible.
Listen to the public health experts. Follow the advice of the scientists and medical personnel that are working at a feverish pace to understand and find treatments for this new disease. Yes, the advice changes from time to time. That’s because this is brand new. That’s how science works. As they learn about it, they figure out what works and what doesn’t. They are doing their best. Help them.
And please, hold a thought for our front line health care workers. They are exhausted. Please do your part. Stay home if you can. Wear a mask if you need to go out. Don’t gather in large groups. Wash your hands.
We will get through this, together. For the pandemic, hope is on the horizon. There are so many different vaccines that are showing great promise, at this point. As for the rest, if we hold to one another, if we care about each other, we can pull through. Humanity has always shown its best when things have been really tough but we’ve helped each other. Hold on. We’ll make it.
Dolby, myself, and all of our moderators, wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday season. May the new year treat us all well.
#Happy Holidays
#No School Snowdays
#Joyous Kwanzaa
#Merry Christmas
#Happy Hanukkah
#Blessed Yule
#Happy Krampusnacht
#Blessed Solstice
#Happy New Year
#Howly Wolfenoot
#Touched By His Noodly Appendage
#Joyous Saturnalia
#Happy Festivus
* If you are struggling with your mental health and feel like you don’t have anyone else you feel like you can reach out to, reach out to me (Cairenn). I am very open about my own mental illnesses (anxiety and clinical depression) and thus you needn’t worry that I will judge you for your own struggles. My PMs are always open.
From Dolby and I and all of our volunteers, we hope you have a happy and safe holiday season and that your new year is filled with peace and joy.
*Please note that due to the holidays, approval of addons or responses to messages may be slower than usual as everyone will be spending time celebrating the season with family and friends.
Issue #14: Call of the Nameless is now out! Six all-new main missions and assorted side missions await in the sands of Egypt. This issue is available from the item store and may be purchased with Funcom Points. Don't forget to check out the Collector's Edition! Will you answer the call?
GENERAL
A number of small fixes and adjustments have been made to the world design throughout the City of the Sun God.
City of the Sun God - The Jinns Adramelech and Carvanius have been seen exploring further away from the Hell portals.
City of the Sun God - Amir now has incidental dialogue.
City of the Sun God - The Black Pharaoh's Pride and The Guardian of the Valley no longer incorrectly gain stacks of Embalmed Evil while out of combat, and all stacks are now properly reset if the monster resets.
Kaidan - Fixed the Araneae Tyrant King having temporary text on one of his spells.
Fixed a few issues where using Nassir's dance could break character animations.
Fixed an issue that caused Sprinting 5/6 to be reapplied less reliably by Agartha portals than their 1-4 counterparts.
Fixed a typo on the Moon Raven pet description.
Equipping the Neo-Aztec arm band with will no longer cause hands to disappear.
Equipping the Desert Dress Casual will no longer cause forearms to disappear.
After a number of months of negotiations, Dolby and I have some very exciting news to share with all of you! Under our new company, Good Game Mods LLC, we have been able to re-acquire complete ownership of the MMOUI network (all of the interface sites and Minion).
What does this mean for the future of the sites? Well, I can tell you about some of the short term things that we already know: The next few weeks will be spent getting the sites transferred over to our own servers. Coming up soon ™ we will be rolling out a new layout for the sites. We’ve also decided that we are going to honour any existing Zam premium memberships for a while. What we will do about a new premium membership in the future has yet to be decided.
We are sure you may have questions for us, so feel free to ask them here. We will answer them as best we may, but please understand that we obviously don’t have all of the answers right now. Where things will go in the long term, well, we’ll just have to see.
The best news of all, at least in our opinions, is that we aren’t going anywhere. Dolby and I are still as dedicated to the UI communities we’ve built today as we were the day we opened the sites. You can’t get rid of us that easily.
From Dolby and I and all of our volunteers, we hope you have a happy and safe holiday season and that your new year is filled with peace and joy.
*Please note that due to the holidays, approval of addons or responses to messages may be slower than usual as everyone will be spending time celebrating the season with family and friends.
I didn't even know you were still here. I thought my addon was outdated and stooped working. But someone pointed to me that I was wrong, that it was still working as the days of it's last update and that you users was still using it.
I as quite amazed, but that was also meaning something : I had no reason to drop my addon, because I did have to adapt it for a new software, there were no big steps.
Since the original GHOST is a pain in the ass to use and mine is built to be better. I decided to override the original one with a console based interface.
When you will use it with a computer it will disable the command and will use the same command than the original interface.
However I'll add a command which will be use to save the log of the session in a file.
When you are not using the GHOST shell with a computer it will be possible to use few commands such as :
- list : to list all the files
- open : to open files in the right program (for now only in notepad)
- share : to share it via chat
- delete : to delete file
- calc : to open the calculator
- execute : to execute the file as a sequence of commands (won't be here at release)
The GHOST shell will take place in a separated window. So it will be possible to use other GHOST program at the same time.
For it first release it won't be "stand alone" the GHOST window will have to be opened to open the GHOST Shell one.
After some holydays I'll now continue updating my addon.
Since the last update I have lost the sources of the addon so I lost also my dev version.
But I decompilated the addon, cleaned the new sources, secure it into a git repo and I can now work on it.
I will for the future try to update GHOST at least 1 time per month.
I'm now doing a feature I name "remote action". It's a chat based way to share thing (for now only text and a secret stuff) and making an other GHOST do thing.
This feature due to chat limitation can't do things automatically the user must accept any action on his GHOST.
For four weeks now I'll go to the 42's "swimming pool".
42 is a new kind of school, free, and very different than usual french computer school. We won't have any teacher and we will just program project to learn to do them.
But the problem is the "swimming pool" it's a intense test during 4 weeks at 15 hour per day of work every days. So I probably won't be able to do GHOST things during this 4 weeks.
When I see here or on Curse that my work is appreciated, and even better when you, users you comment and get involved in my work, I just feel super enthusiastic and overcome the few drop of morale and laziness.
A simple comment boost me for hours or days. And after one I almost release something. I always have some little features fully done or just a little buggy, but with time I get demotivated by the magnitude of the task and development hindrance.
So don't hesitate and comment my work and post bug tickets.
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