#webside dev

[ophanimkei]

I've made a self-hosting guide. I wanted it to be easy to use, but setup is always technical due to needing to use the terminal in the beginning, but I tried very hard and will edit if I get feedback! ᓚᘏᗢ guide → https://ophanimkei.com/you/selfhosting ᓚᘏᗢ askbox → https://ophanimkei.com/personal/askbox

This tutorial is focused on installing a panel on a virtual private server. These panels are often made for multiple users to use, so if you struggle with setup, one friend who's good with linux can host everything. Or you can set up one central server for a doujin circle.

If people like/use this tutorial, I plan to make more tutorials in future because I think the solution to so many problems we have on the internet are people making their own servers. You can move from server to server easily, and you can always revive your files, even if your VPS goes down.

Lastly, I love to help. It makes me really happy, but I am prone to exhaustion so my responses may be slow, and well, if you ask me something, I need you to provide as much detail to me with what you're struggling with as possible or else I can't help you.

I don't have Tumblr asks open because I don't think Tumblr is going to survive and I don't really check my notifications here, so I really would prefer if you used my website's askbox for questions!

Moving existing sites to a VPS is easy for those on other hosts who want to move someday!

[spinningbuster98]

Mega Man Zero 2 Ending: In Mother's Light

Zero 2 has probably the hardest final levels in the series....which is why I like neutering 2 of them by using the two Cyber Elves that can instantly eliminate every enemy in a level!

Elpizo is pretty underwhelming as a final boss: his first phase can be a bit tricky but his final form is basically just a big target

Also Elpizo is...often not highly regarded as a villain and...yeah

He’s basically a better Sigma, sharing many of his ideological points (fun fact though: when Elpizo mentions a “world only for Reploids” that is most likely a reference to Iris) but with a more believably sympathetic motivation rather than just “I caught the evil virus lol” (also an optional npc conversation that I show even points out these parallels)

My issue is that we don’t spend nearly enough time with him pre-villany to establish him as a genuine good guy, in fact as soon as we meet him he’s already kind of an arrogant ass who’s way too sure of himself. Plus his final turnover where he understands too late that he’s been a fool happens too quickly and then he leaves just as quickly, almost like an afterthought.

The devs once mentioned that Zero 2 exists mostly as setup for Zero 3 and in this sense I guess you could argue that Elpizo was a sort of filler villain kinda thrown there just to have one. Being squeezed right between Copy X and his interesting parallels with the real X coupled with his potential implications of what X could have become without Dr.Light’s morality testing, and Dr. Weil and his....everything, it all really serves to further paint poor Elpizo as just a third wheel

Also X’s body has been destroyed

The very same body that we’ve been controlling throughout the X series, giving it power ups and weapons?

Gone for good

X is, at least physically speaking, dead

And no, the franchise won’t (fully) backtrack on this, he won’t just repair himself: the last and greatest creation of Dr.Light has officially been destroyed.

Speaking of X though: let’s talk about him

So ever since the first game we’ve been shown that X has become a Cyber Elf.

This game shows us that his consciousness has definitely been seperated from his physical body

The question is though: how did his consciousness become a Cyber Elf?

The series never truly answers but, for once, I don’t believe it’s really necessary: in this very scene we see that the Dark Elf has the power to turn Reploids into Cyber Elves. Since X had to use himself as part of the sealing mechanism for the Dark Elf it can be assumed that X’s current predicament is a consequence of having been....I guess in close contact with the Dark Elf? Which resulted in his mind being seperated from his body and turned into a Cyber Elf. I also believe that external materials confirmed this to be the case

I’m okay with this

What I’m not ok with is how certain materials decided to connect the Four Guardians’ origins with this

So the origins of the Four Guardians are never explicitly talked about in the games, they’re only ever alluded to in their character bios in Zero 3, which state that they were made from X’s DNA (a concept introduced by the late X series but never explained by the games themselves of course: basically it’s a part of a Reploid’s programming that contains all the important info on how a Reploid functions, much like how a human’s DNA contains all of their important genetic info). Apparently, according to the developers themselves, this had always been the intention, to the point that initially they wanted all 4 of them to be colored blue to further drive home the connection

Now all external materials of the Zero series mention this aspect of their origins

However there was one specific piece of material, namely the Zero Collection Japanese Timeline webside from 2010 (which is no longer up but you can read a translation on the wiki), which added another point:

it stated that, after sealing the Dark Elf, X’s psyche was shattered into 5 pieces: one is the one we talk to while the other four were used to make the Four Guardians

I...hope that this was just the website making shit up and isn’t actually canon because I don’t like it

First off: This is never alluded to ANYWHERE else, not in other materials and certainly not in the games themselves. They only ever state that the Guardians were made from X’s DNA

Furthermore: what does it mean for X himself? Is he an incomplete being? Is the X we talk to even the real one? Why doesn’t he seem more....upset about this?

But beyond all of this: would you really be able to tell?

It’s one thing to have the Four Guardians be essentially clones of X in a way but to have them actually be pieces of X’s personality?

None of them resemble him in the slightest! Especially not Fefnir and Leviathan!

Besides, if they truly ARE seperate pieces of X’s soul shouldn’t they have more....I dunno reservations about going around killing innocent reploids, taking orders from a Copy of their original self? (and they MUST know that he’s a Copy, Harpuia certainly does since he knew that Elpizo was going for X’s original body in Yggrdrasill)

Like In said: I hope that this was something that they made up out of nowhere and isn’t actually canon. After all, as we’ll see later, the devs have never been...completely consistent with the lore of the Four Guardians

As far as I’m concerned whatever the makers of a franchise may be canon officially (as long as it doesn’t explicitly contradict what’s on screen), but what happens on screen takes precedence over stuff that’s only in external materials, especially stuff that’s no longere even openly available

The in game text only says that they were made from X’s Dna and that’s what I’ll stick with for now