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Maple Hinata
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On all other levels except physical, I am a catgirl. She/Her
Gun acquired.
(though i have no backgrounds on my TW account, this is so ass, help me)
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 AM
My lord is finally here <3
Nikki is so handsome ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶`̶m̶ ̶d̶e̶a̶d̶.̶
January 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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this is how every outlet should refer to X
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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looking at hair mods for men in the xma, oh look its that dude's hair from the game the girls are obsessed with

love and milkshake or something
January 4, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Why is there a OS X PowerPC crash dump posted on the wall of the student council
January 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between

"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"

and

"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"
December 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
But sadly, when it comes to latency, whenever VPNs work is entirely reliant on your ISP and it's just kind of a gamble, not just on Brazil but pretty much everywhere, they can only mitigate bad routing, and if you have bad routing to their servers too or general internet issues, it's doomed.
December 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
imo at 180-ish of ping, it doesn't make sense to use a VPN unless you need to mitigate packet loss or want the extra stability, while there's gains relative to the theoretical best (assuming you live in SP here ofc), they are so small, it's just not worth it, you will not notice the -10ms lol.
December 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
But when i started using it, i was on a pretty crappy local ISP with terrible routing (they were the first ones to offer Fiber in my neighborhood) and Mudfish did actually give me some major latency gains, from like, 230ms to 173ms.
These days, I use mudfish because of leftover credits + stability
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I have never used Tim so i can't comment on that, but while these days i no longer use Vivo Fiber as i had to move, Mudfish did use to lower my latency with it from 182-184 -> 169-170, though at that point i used it not for the latency gains, but for the better packet stability.
December 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
So unless ExitLag has somehow found a magically faster route from São Paulo to US West and kept it exclusive to themselves, which is unlikely, the number it says is bullshit and should not be trusted.
December 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
One thing, when i tried ExitLag, it said my ping was 117, but that's a lie and i'm quite certain it's your ping to their servers and not to the game itself, because A) PingPlugin couldn't verify this, but also B) Not a single soul on the entire internet was able to get a ping this low to US West.
December 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
And...unsurprisingly, I can get almost those results with Mudfish + a GCP node (don't recall which, the auto RTT thing should pick it though).
Due to what i presume is OpenVPN overhead + my latency to mudfish servers, the ping i get is 170ms, but still, almost perfect.
December 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I got this result from a GCP node in São Paulo to both the XIV game server and other servers in the area not hosted by NTT, and this connection was fiber all the way.

I also found that similar testing done by others found the same results, this seems to be a limitation of distance and infra.
December 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I did a lot of testing on trying to get the lowest possible ping to XIV from São Paulo, and i tested many VPN servers and even hosted my own VPN server on every major cloud provider with free credits just to see what happens.

And the lowest ping from SP to Sacramento is 168ms in the real world.
December 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Is it not..?
Granted this stuff is all heavily ISP dependent, but I've been using Mudfish on XIV since 2019 across a wide range of ISPs and connections types and it always worked great for me.

From Vivo's dogshit ADSL to their Fiber service and 5G, to random local ISPs offering Fiber.
December 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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final fantasy xiv players when they see a bugged thing
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Merry Almost Christmas! 🥰🎄
#aceattorney
December 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code.

(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).

therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...
Ten Years of D3D12
For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for nearly ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has be...
therealmjp.github.io
September 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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COOL SEX TIP: if you are close to orgasm, don't say "I'm close" or "I'm gonna cum"; instead, declare riichi. this way, if they get you off, you can ron, but if you have to get yourself off, you can tsumo, indirectly indicating dissatisfaction with your partner's sexual performance
December 15, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I scored 13/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

I knew email was cursed, but not this cursed, wtf???
Email is Easy
Everyone knows what an email address is, right?
e-mail.wtf
August 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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performance minded developer:
hey is X or Y more efficient?

dev whose computer has triple digits of cpu cores:
don't worry kitten

performance minded developer:
ok 💗
yay 💗
August 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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VICE's owner Savage Ventures has requested the removal of my Collective Shout articles. This is due to concerns about the controversial subject matter—not journalistic complaints

Effective immediately, I will no longer contribute to Waypoint. I suggest letting VICE's owner know if this upsets you
July 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM