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How to read you Moon Persona Chart - a quick guide

This is the last post that was needed for the Astromeda Romantic Week Special earlier this month!

so, the moon persona chart is cast for the purpose of understanding your emotional side better. it pulls the moon into the spotlight, showing your instincts, moods, and inner self in sharper detail. this chart reveals not how you present emotions publicly, but how you live them privately.

without further ado let's get into it, shall we?

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Ascendant in the Moon PC → the emotional mask. it shows how your moods first appear to others, the immediate “aura” people sense before words. this is your instinctive way of meeting the world when unfiltered — the style of your vulnerability, and the tone your emotions take on in first impressions. e.g.: ascendant in cancer in the 7th house may make you appear nurturing and receptive in partnerships, but with sudden emotional tides that others immediately feel.

Sun in the Moon PC → the stabilizer of your lunar body. here you find what gives your emotions direction and purpose, the conscious spark that steadies you when you feel overwhelmed. it’s the reason behind your moods, the anchor that makes your emotional cycles meaningful rather than aimless. e.g.: sun in the 4th house in leo may show someone who grounds their emotions by creating warmth and pride within family life or their private sanctuary.

Moon in the Moon PC → your rawest self. this placement shows your unedited instincts, your core needs, and the rhythm of comfort and insecurity that shapes your inner world. it often points to the emotional habits you fall back on automatically, and the ways your inner child asks to be cared for. e.g.: moon in aries in the 10th house can create emotional habits of acting bold or competitive in public, while secretly needing recognition for their inner child.

Mercury in the Moon PC → the voice of your feelings. this is how you process moods through thought and speech. the emotional info can be processed whether you journal, overthink, blurt things out, or fall silent. it shows how your nervous system and emotions intertwine, and the style of communication that helps you release tension. e.g.: mercury in virgo in the 2nd house may mean you process emotions by talking about finances and security, carefully analyzing what feels stable or not.

Venus in the Moon PC → the way you soothe yourself. venus here reveals the private pleasures, aesthetics, and forms of affection that bring emotional safety. it’s the kind of love and sweetness you crave when stripped of performance, and how you naturally offer comfort in return. e.g. venus in gemini in the 11th house may soothe emotions by chatting with friends, collecting beautiful ideas, or surrounding themselves with stimulating social circles.

Mars in the Moon PC → the reaction edge of your emotions. mars shows how quickly you flare up, what drives your passion, and how your feelings ignite action. it’s the instinctive fight-or-flight of your moods, and how you use emotional energy — whether impulsively or with control. e.g. mars in scorpio in the 6th house may respond emotionally with intense control at work, pouring passion into problem-solving but burning out quickly when routine feels stifling.

Jupiter in the Moon PC → the faith in your emotional world. this placement shows where you seek meaning, how you grow through moods, and the ways optimism lifts you out of heaviness. it points to the areas where your feelings expand, sometimes to excess, but often as a source of healing hope. e.g. jupiter in pisces in the 9th house might seek emotional freedom through spiritual study, travel, or compassionate teaching that expands the heart.

Saturn in the Moon PC → the discipline of your emotions. saturn shows where feelings may feel restricted, slow to form, or heavy with responsibility. over time, this placement builds emotional endurance, patience, and the ability to handle depth with maturity. e.g. saturn in aquarius in the 1st house can make emotions feel restrained in self-expression, but also lends maturity and wisdom to the emotional aura others see first.

Uranus in the Moon PC → the sudden shifts of your moods. it marks the flashes of intuition, the unpredictable rhythms, and the need for emotional freedom. this placement often makes you restless with routine feelings, craving breakthroughs and authenticity. e.g.: neptune in libra in the 12th house may show a tendency to dissolve boundaries in hidden relationships, craving harmony but struggling with illusions in intimacy.

Neptune in the Moon PC → the dreamlike sensitivity of your inner world. it blurs boundaries, heightens intuition, and shows how you merge emotionally with others. at its best, it brings compassion and imagination; at its hardest, it can cause confusion or emotional overwhelm.

Pluto in the Moon PC → the depth of your emotions. it marks the cycles of intensity, endings, and rebirth that shape your inner world. here, transformation is constant and you always shed old layers of feeling to uncover raw power beneath. e.g. pluto in capricorn in the 8th house may bring transformative emotional cycles around shared resources, power struggles, and the deep psyche.

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dear you, did you ever look at your moon persona chart?

if you are battling some hard emotions or feel like ' i cannot understand myself ' this is a good reference chart for that!

As always, feel free to share your experiences or situation in the comments!

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Love, Astromeda

Preview of Changes to Device Performance Requirements

Dear Traveler,

To support future version updates and optimize game performance, Genshin Impact will raise its device specifications starting with the "Song of the Welkin Moon" version.

At that time, both the minimum and recommended system specifications for the game will be raised.

Devices below the minimum specifications may still launch the game, but may experience performance issues including frame rate drops, instability, or crashes during gameplay.

#genshin impact #genshin impact updates #genshin impact news #official

[ 3:32 P.M., JANUARY 9, 1998 — PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: RECENT RELEASE ]

Hello, Space Cadets!

We’ve teased this release for a while, and after such an extended period of time keeping you all in the dark, We come bearing excited news!

C.A.D.E.T Corp’s long-awaited RPPC model is finally out, and earlier than anticipated! This launch includes C.A.D.E.T (PC), as well as, hopefully later on, Our older ███████████ model (PC), marginally reworked.

Due to the early release Our RPPC systems are still in a minor beta, which means for now We’ll only be selling a limited amount of them. Our 10.0 (beta) version is what will be coming with the current RPPC C.A.D.E.T model, with the 10.01 and later updates releasing upon the end of the beta releases.

With Our C.A.D.E.T model comes endless amounts of systematic customization—its own name, personality, languages, and so on—to ensure your personal comfort and optimal performance. These features will be expanded upon and fleshed out more in the later system updates. Later C.A.D.E.T releases will open up more opportunities for physical customization, such as monitor color, bodily color, and other features you will be able to interchange whenever you wish.

Again, C.A.D.E.T is in a temporarily LIMITED stock, so if you wish to get one for your own, better act fast!

Any damage your RPPC takes is refundable and replaceable via C.A.D.E.T Corp for up to 30 days, after which any damage will no longer be taken up on by C.A.D.E.T Corp. Please report any bugs or errors your RPPC potentially has or stumbles across to C.A.D.E.T Corp (contact information available below). C.A.D.E.T Corp does not take any responsibility for any potential leakage of data, discovered sentience of your RPPC, or complete data lossage.

Need help? Have a question? Contact Us here!:

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#RECOVERED CC #Submission statement: N/A #the stinkeri files

Something interesting that's come to light: Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is being developed in Unreal Engine. I can't find which version, but either way this is actually excellent news, since RF5 was made in Unity. I don't know how many people know this, but despite being a go-to engine until recently, Unity is a pain to optimize for the Switch by most accounts. RF5 had a number of development problems, but the choice of game engine definitely did not help. (It's also appropriate that they used a game engine favored by indie studios when it sounds like they had a really small dev team). This might sound like nerdy rambling, but hear me out. The fact that RF:GoA is being made in Unreal Engine 4 or 5 instead says two really encouraging things!

1.) This is an engine favored by larger studios with a bigger budget. Not that we don't see indie games using UE, but primarily this is what AAA studios use if they're not running on their own custom solutions. It's safe to say this is a sign that Marvelous is genuinely investing in the series and wants it to go places.

2.) Unreal Engine is without question a lot more powerful than Unity but needs more tinkering out of the box to get it running right. More importantly, it doesn't have Unity's reputation of needing a lot of finessing to work right on the Switch. Back in 2017, most UE4 games were just not coming out on Switch, because optimizing things enough to run at anything more than 12 fps was impossible. That has since changed enormously, but the key takeaway here is: If Guardians of Azuma is made in UE but is still coming to the Switch, we're 100% going to get better performance than RF5.

Also, this is much wilder speculation, but the release date of Spring 2025 coincides with when we're finally for sure getting details on the Switch 2. There's a very good chance this game is either going to get a re-release on the next gen system, or we're going to see it get a backwards compatibility patch adding DLSS which WILL FOR SURE improve performance like 100x over.

In conclusion, Guardians of Azuma has many signs that point positively to the future of the series, and to running well on the Switch and, since it deserves a place in the conversation, the Steam Deck. Solid performance on the PC is obviously a given. Just buy a GTX4090 and you'll never see less than 60fps ever again. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

#rune factory #guardians of azuma #rf:goa #is that a tag yet?#it is now

How to Fix PC Running Slow After Windows 10/11 Update

Introduction

Many users upgrade to Windows 10 or Windows 11 expecting better performance and features. However, a common issue arises—your PC runs slow after a Windows update. Programs take longer to load, startup feels sluggish, and overall speed decreases.

If you’re facing this problem, don’t worry. It’s not always your hardware. Most of the time, slowdowns are caused by temporary issues or software conflicts. Let’s explore how to fix it and make your PC fast again.

Why Does PC Become Slow After Windows 10/11 Update?

Several factors can cause your computer to slow down:

Background processes from updates still running.

Startup apps consuming too much memory.

Update bugs or compatibility issues.

Outdated drivers conflicting with new Windows versions.

Low disk space due to leftover update files.

Malware or antivirus conflicts.

Fixes for a Slow PC After Windows Update

1. Restart Your PC

Often, a simple restart finalizes updates and clears temporary files that slow down your system.

2. Disable Startup Apps

Too many apps running at startup can cause delays.

Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc → open Task Manager.

Go to Startup tab.

Disable unnecessary apps.

3. Free Up Disk Space

Windows updates leave behind temporary files.

Go to Settings → System → Storage.

Delete Temporary Files and Update Cleanup.

4. Update Drivers

Outdated drivers cause performance issues.

Open Device Manager.

Right-click devices → Update driver.

Update graphics and chipset drivers using official tools.

5. Optimize Power Settings

Windows may reset to balanced mode.

Go to Control Panel → Power Options.

Choose High Performance for better speed.

6. Check for Malware

Run a full scan using Windows Security or your preferred antivirus. Malware can slow down your PC after updates.

7. Optimize Hard Drive

If you use HDD:

Search Defragment and Optimize Drives.

Optimize your main drive.

(SSD users don’t need defragmentation, but can still run optimization.)

8. Roll Back Problematic Updates

If nothing works, uninstall the recent update:

Settings → Update & Security → Update History → Uninstall Updates.

Quick Fix Comparison

Method Best For Difficulty Restart PC General issues Easy Disable startup apps Slow boot time Easy Free up disk space Low storage Easy Update drivers Performance lag Medium Power settings Overall speed Easy Roll back update Major problems Medium

Extra Tips

Upgrade to SSD for faster performance.

Add more RAM if you use heavy apps.

Regularly update drivers and clean junk files.

Disable unnecessary background apps in Settings → Apps → Startup.

FAQs

Q1: Why is my PC slow after Windows 11 update? Because of background processes, startup apps, or outdated drivers.

Q2: Can I fix slow PC without uninstalling updates? Yes—optimize storage, update drivers, and disable startup programs.

Q3: Does upgrading RAM help speed up Windows? Yes, especially if you run heavy software or multitask.

Conclusion

If your PC is running slow after Windows 10/11 update, don’t panic. In most cases, cleaning storage, updating drivers, and disabling startup apps will fix the issue. If nothing helps, rolling back the update is the last resort.

👉 Try these fixes today and bring your computer back to peak performance.

#windows #update

Starfield and the problem in general

Intro

Hello fellow gamers out there in the galaxy. This will be my first ever review I done in the first blog I ever created so dont expect much there, but there is just so much fustration piled up in me about the gaming industry, that I have to write it out of me.

Disclaimer

First thing first, there are far worse games out there than Starfield, but this game was the trigger point that made me do a blog, so I will make a honest review from the game. I will only focus the problems here, as official platforms are not highlight them out enough, and since I did not played the game I cant say much about the story either. My review is based on what I seen from Youtube and other streaming platforms so if you want to hear an in depth version, you might look somewhere else.

But hey, you did not play the game, how can you do a review about it, you might ask the fair question. Well my answer to that, you dont taste poop either to know its gonna be bad. I will belive to my fellow gamers that this game has some potential and has good moments, but generally it is another product that was not created with a soul, with the desire to be good.

Technical issues

First of all lets state the obvious, this game was in development for 5-7 years. In 5-7 years they came out with a core game that can be done in about 30 hours, if you focus on the main story quests only. They used the same engine as they are using since eternity and was out of date already at the time of Fallout 4, so it shows its mark on bugs, glitches and on performance as well. While the game runs on a steady 30fps on consols, the PC version suffers a lot. With an upper mid range setup like an I5-10400F+RX6700XT and 32GB ram + an SSD the game barely runs at 40 fps on ultra at 1080p during city walk and gunfights. This is just ridiculus to say the least, while better looking games like CP77 and BG3 or RDR2 runs way above 60 fps all the time. You might think that it may be my system that is weirdly not compatible with the game, but even better rigs suffer from this.

What is more funny in a bad way, that Todd Howard said in an interview, that they put a lot of effort into optimalization and that you may need a better PC to experience this game to the fullest. I dont know about this guys, for me its just feels as a big fat lie onto my face, as said before, better looking games runs better than this. Its not ugly or anything but more like a buffed up Fallout 4 in space theme. Here is some examples:

While you may find better looking areas, your major part in the game will live with this.

Lazy work

Another point I would like to highlight is the use of AI. It was a bad idea back then at No Man's Sky and it was certanly a bad idea here as well. They put 1000+ planets into the game that was generated by the AI depending on where you land on the planet, and most of the time its barren, empty, lifeless. It feels like they gave out the order to the AI, to use these assets on planets and create 1000+ of them. What you can find on them are most of the time rocks, some creatures put into the area randomly and without any real purpose. And yes I admit, if you would travel to 100 planet you would probably find rocks and barren lifeless areas, but as a gamer its boring. It may be fun and interesting for the first couple of times, but it gets boring to the eye very fast. What I would love to see is more planets with life on it, more vegetation, more creatures, better and meaningfull stuff on the surface or marks of a fallen civilization. And we might see this later like 7 years or so just as in No Man's Sky was very bad at the start and they hammered it until it became a good space exploration game. As of right now however this game is without a soul. Also the harsh reality why they do not changing the engine they use, because they know they can create a base game, with a lot of empty suff, and then rely on modders whom will do the hard work and fill up the empty or missing elements for free. They say its a gamer/modder friendly attitude, but its just about saving money and resources which is unacceptable in my book. Create a good game then let the modders live out their hobby, but do not rely on them to make your garbage playable while only you profit on it.

Marketing vs Reality:

This game was marketinged as a very good space exploration + RPG game where you can freely explore hundreds of systems and planets and find interesting stuff on most of them. While on reality this game restricts you from exploring, since you cant land manually on a planet just everywhere (like in No Man's Sky for example), but you have to choose your landing location from a planet view, then loading screen, and you are there in your 4x4km barren field that you can explore with some point of interest you can visit on foot (Because if they would give you wehicle, then you would realise easier that how small the area they let you "explore") These point of interests varies between "kill some pirates, or creatures", "explore this cave with 3 loot nodes inside" or "scan this or that" "Explore the lab" type of activity. Again maybe the first 10 will be interesting, then why would I want to do stuff like this for hours? Where are the crypt like systems that Skyrim offered with full of interesting puzzles? Where are the npcs that did something in previous games around you? Where are the secrets you can discover? Where is the wilderness? Where is life? Its a game its not a space simulator that offers you the same kind of experience you would do in real life. It should be full of fantasy to sell itself. Again it was marketinged like this and not as "Empty planet viewer simulator 2023"

And after all of this, we arrived to the real problem that is not Starfield's only fault. Its the era where we live and what we get for our money. Im sure some of you have much better gaming rig than me and you dont even have to care what you spend on your 70-100 bucks, but there are people, whom like to do gaming and has to think twice where they put their hard earned money. And this game with many others in my eyes are not worth the full price. The general problem is that developers are probably forced to make the games to deadlines that are way too short. I accept that creating an AAA game is not 1-2 years now, especially if you want to make it uniq in some way. Developers are pushed to their limits, they dont have enough time to create something that has a soul nor they have the time to test the games properly looking for bugs and glitches, and they rely on technologies like FSR and DLSS to avoid the need of optimizing. All because the publishers are not gamers, they only looking for money, they dont care about you people. They put a lot of investment to marketing/false marketing to generate hype, and when they got their paycheck they are happy and get the conclusion, they can sell games this way too, why bother with all the details and polishment? Fanbase will always buy it, defend it, as I encountered this with Starfield too. I asked people, what makes Starfield better than even Fallout 4 if it has so many flaws and missing elements? They could not give me a correct answer. All they said it has a good story and ship and base building is very fun, and modders will make this game better anyways, so I will belive them that story may be better, but again its not up to the modders to polish a game or make it playable, interesting, especially not for free even if this was the general case with Skyrim, Fallout series in the past (except that those games had more content by default than Starfield). In other cases I was immediately banned from some forums for said reason "I was trying to generate flame" Well if asking the hard questions is flame generation then yes I was doing that. Is this what we will get from now on? That companies will sell their leftover soul for more money and the gaming industry will only have 2-3 games per 10 years that are really outstanding and was created with passion? What are your toughts about this? Tell me in the comments below.

#starfield #pc gaming #gaming #videogame #console #xbox #playstation #bethesda #fallout 4 #skyrim #elder scrolls #reviews

Writeup: Forcing Minecraft to play on a Trident Blade 3D.

The first official companion writeup to a video I've put out!

So. Uh, yeah. Trident Blade 3D. If you've seen the video already, it's... not good. Especially in OpenGL.

Let's kick things off with a quick rundown of the specs of the card, according to AIDA64:

Trident Blade 3D - specs

Year released: 1999

Core: 3Dimage 9880, 0.25um (250nm) manufacturing node, 110MHz

Driver version: 4.12.01.2229

Interface: AGP 2x @ 1x speed (wouldn't go above 1x despite driver and BIOS support)

PCI device ID: 1023-9880 / 1023-9880 (Rev 3A)

Mem clock: 110MHz real/effective

Mem bus/type: 8MB 64-bit SDRAM, 880MB/s bandwidth

ROPs/TMUs/Vertex Shaders/Pixel Shaders/T&L hardware: 1/1/0/0/No

DirectX support: DirectX 6

OpenGL support: - 100% (native) OpenGL 1.1 compliant - 25% (native) OpenGL 1.2 compliant - 0% compliant beyond OpenGL 1.2 - Vendor string:

Vendor : Trident Renderer : Blade 3D Version : 1.1.0

And as for the rest of the system:

Windows 98 SE w/KernelEX 2019 updates installed

ECS K7VTA3 3.x

AMD Athlon XP 1900+ @ 1466MHz

512MB DDR PC3200 (single stick of OCZ OCZ400512P3) 3.0-4-4-8 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)

Hitachi Travelstar DK23AA-51 4200RPM 5GB HDD

IDK what that CPU cooler is but it does the job pretty well

And now, with specs done and out of the way, my notes!

As mentioned earlier, the Trident Blade 3D is mind-numbingly slow when it comes to OpenGL. As in, to the point where at least natively during actual gameplay (Minecraft, because I can), it is absolutely beaten to a pulp using AltOGL, an OpenGL-to-Direct3D6 "wrapper" that translates OpenGL API calls to DirectX ones.

Normally, it can be expected that performance using the wrapper is about equal to native OpenGL, give or take some fps depending on driver optimization, but this card?

The Blade 3D may as well be better off like the S3 ViRGE by having no OpenGL ICD shipped in any driver release, period.

For the purposes of this writeup, I will stick to a very specific version of Minecraft: in-20091223-1459, the very first version of what would soon become Minecraft's "Indev" phase, though this version notably lacks any survival features and aside from the MD3 models present, is indistinguishable from previous versions of Classic. All settings are at their absolute minimum, and the window size is left at default, with a desktop resolution of 1024x768 and 16-bit color depth.

(Also the 1.5-era launcher I use is incapable of launching anything older than this version anyway)

Though known to be unstable (as seen in the full video), gameplay in Minecraft Classic using AltOGL reaches a steady 15 fps, nearly triple that of the native OpenGL ICD that ships with Trident's drivers the card. AltOGL also is known to often have issues with fog rendering on older cards, and the Blade 3D is no exception... though, I believe it may be far more preferable to have no working fog than... well, whatever the heck the Blade 3D is trying to do with its native ICD.

See for yourself: (don't mind the weirdness at the very beginning. OBS had a couple of hiccups)

Later versions of Minecraft were also tested, where I found that the Trident Blade 3D follows the same, as I call them, "version boundaries" as the SiS 315(E) and the ATi Rage 128, both of which being cards that easily run circles around the Blade 3D.

Version ranges mentioned are inclusive of their endpoints.

Infdev 1.136 (inf-20100627) through Beta b1.5_01 exhibit world-load crashes on both the SiS 315(E) and Trident Blade 3D.

Alpha a1.0.4 through Beta b1.3_01/PC-Gamer demo crash on the title screen due to the animated "falling blocks"-style Minecraft logo on both the ATi Rage 128 and Trident Blade 3D.

All the bugginess of two much better cards, and none of the performance that came with those bugs.

Interestingly, versions even up to and including Minecraft release 1.5.2 are able to launch to the main menu, though by then the already-terrible lag present in all prior versions of the game when run on the Blade 3D make it practically impossible to even press the necessary buttons to load into a world in the first place. Though this card is running in AGP 1x mode, I sincerely doubt that running it at its supposedly-supported 2x mode would bring much if any meaningful performance increase.

Lastly, ClassiCube. ClassiCube is a completely open-source reimplementation of Minecraft Classic in C, which allows it to bypass the overhead normally associated with Java's VM platform. However, this does not grant it any escape from the black hole of performance that is the Trident Blade 3D's OpenGL ICD. Not only this, but oddly, the red and blue color channels appear to be switched by the Blade 3D, resulting in a very strange looking game that chugs along at single-digits. As for the game's DirectX-compatible version, the requirement of DirectX 9 support locks out any chance for the Blade 3D to run ClassiCube with any semblance of performance. Also AltOGL is known to crash ClassiCube so hard that a power cycle is required.

Interestingly, a solid half of the accelerated pixel formats supported by the Blade 3D, according to the utility GLInfo, are "render to bitmap" modes, which I'm told is a "render to texture" feature that normally isn't seen on cards as old as the Blade 3D. Or in fact, at least in my experience, any cards outside of the Blade 3D. I've searched through my saved GLInfo reports across many different cards, only to find each one supporting the usual "render to window" pixel format.

And with that, for now, this is the end of the very first post-video writeup on this blog. Thank you for reading if you've made it this far.

I leave you with this delightfully-crunchy clip of the card's native OpenGL ICD running in 256-color mode, which fixes the rendering problems but... uh, yeah. It's a supported accelerated pixel format, but "accelerated" is a stretch like none other. 32-bit color is supported as well, but it performs about identically to the 8-bit color mode--that is, even worse than 16-bit color performs.

At least it fixes the rendering issues I guess.

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mind sharing your pc specs? i'm trying to configure my sims 3 game to run better on modern hardware

And I have a 64 bit operating system.

However, I also searched up some suggestions for how to optimize the sims 3 itself to help it play better. I believe I followed this performance guide, and it's definitely helped. Still have occasional lag here and there but nothing too painful.

I hope this helps!

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