MoogleMaestro

Sequel to Trigun Stampede

Also includes excerpt of GQuuuuuux production timeline from his perspective.

Saw this in my RSS feeds and thought a blog post from one of the modern-day painting "masters" (wrote the book on lighting and materials) would be appropriate to share here.

I'm probably about an hour into Ni no Kuni, which I bought on sale years back on steam, but so far I feel a bit underwhelmed compared to the hype.

I will say that my biggest complaint is really around the writing and the snails paced intro. Even if you accept the beginning as being a "Ghibli Movie" preface to a JRPG, I actually feel the direction and story telling is much worse than your average Ghibli production.

I'm just past talking to the old tree, and completed what is likely the first dungeon. So far, the battle system is ok but a little bit drab. I feel like the mechanics would have to pick up to make me enjoy the game more.

Should I give it more time? Are there eventually more choices in the battle system or minion growth? Will there be any stand out characters that might alter how I feel about the writing?

Is there a way to type in a server name and view any visible (to the user, on their instance) feeds or communities in isolation?

Let's say I'm curious to know what the top content available from lemmy.world is for a given day from my instance, lemmy.zip. Searching seems like the right solution, but unfortunately it doesn't present the data the way i expect (not only posts from that instance) and there doesn't seem to be a way to sort by either activity or recency of a given post.

It would be nice if the user could set up feeds akin to local that target any posts visible to the user from an instance of their choice. I'm hedging on the side that this behavior might already exist in some form, but if not feel free to edit the title to feature request.

This is all basically hypothetical, but it's something I want a better idea about to improve my concept of networking, service providing, and etc. Additionally, I think services like Mastohost are healthy for the growth of the fediverse as it eases concerns for business use, enterprise use or even broader "community" use. I think it will be important for the future of a federated internet that many of these types of services exist.

Let's get the obvious out of the way: You'd probably need a lot of hardware to achieve this type of service. We're talking about either having a micro datacenter or renting a datacenter from someone else. You're probably not going to get away with doing this on a bog-standard VPS regardless of how much storage you buy (though, if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.)

I understand how virtualization via proxmox works (kind of, on a surface level) and I imagine that it would work similarly to that but with a preconfigured docker image, but how exactly does someone integrate virtual machine creation with client requests?

Normally I think about services running in a docker which would communicate with other docker containers or the host server -- so, for example, you can configure your Jellyfin to be visible to other containers that might be interested in sharing data between the two. But when it comes to requests for hosting new docker images that need persistent space, how would you manage such a task? Additionally, if we're talking about a multi-computer environment, how do you funnel a request for a new instance to one-of-many machines?

This seems like a basic, fundamental server hosting question and may not be appropriate for "self hosting" as it's probably beyond the scale of what most of us are willing to do -- but humor a man who simply wants to understand a bit more about modern enterprise compute problems.

Feel free to share any literature or online documentation that talks about solving these types of tasks.