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On the 15th April, 2021, around 8:31 PM, The Westside 57 Neighborhood Crips and The Westside Barrio Eighteenth Street got into a altercation. It ended with members of the Neighborhood Crips dissing the 18th Streeters by sending disrespectful slurs towards them: Such as "Faketeens". Affiliates of the Barrio Eighteen Street responded, dissing the Neighborhood set and their dead affiliates. Around 10:31 PM, the same day, the Westside 57 Neighborhood Crips gathered up as they got into a vehicle and headed towards Forum Drive. Multiple armed men got out of the automobile as shots rang off. Two affiliates of the Barrio 18th Street were struck by projectiles. One was left in a critical condition while the other made a quick recovery in the local Davis Medical Center. The night of the shooting left Forum Drive residents shocked. The LSPD was working hard to try and solve the case when more than a dozen authoritarian vehicles were on the scene. Three days later, on April 18th, Andre "Ghost" Morales, a 18th Street member, spotted Kemoy Davis outside of a local corner store on Carson Avenue. Kemoy was talking to a female when shots began flying. Andre, armed with a Glock .17 acquired his target. Davis was announced DOA (dead on arrival).

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One small bump in the road. Keep it up lads.

Short description: Port the listed hairs below for MP Female use. Detailed description: Always felt female characters were lacking short haircuts and a lot of the male ones would work perfectly - seems pretty simple to port hairstyles between genders as everything above the neck seems to be identical and we had the female mohawk ported to male easily. All listed pictures below were taken IG with the MP Male character model, their face modeled after a female one. Commands to add: N/A Items to add: N/A How would your suggestion improve the server? More options for character customization, overall a good change. Additional information: Listed haircuts, their "ID" and what they look like IG - give them a moment to load as they're high-res pictures hosted through discord. May be another @Oggymoment.

Short description: Port both MP female Decals: 124 and Accessories: 135 to MP male. Detailed description: Same as above, port both stated decals and accessories to MP male for use on male characters. Commands to add: N/A Items to add: N/A How would your suggestion improve the server? More customization overall. Additional information: Pictures of both the decals and accessories for reference: Might be best tagging @Oggyfor this, don't chew my ear off if not, thanks. ✋👀✋

As usual with every security events impacting the server, I always try to make a write-up on what happened to give you full transparency over the issue. You'll find below a timeline (CET) of the events : 11:15 : OVH alert about a DDoS impacting our main game server. Impact : Players cannot connect anymore with the following error : 11:20 : Our internal monitoring triggers an alert regarding an unusual decrease of player compared to the average, I arrive on computer and check discord and notice this error. 11:25 : Initial thought is that the DDoS attack was targeting Rage services directly, and OVH decided to fully block Rage's ports until their mitigation blocks the attack. 11:30 : I notice that Eclipse Roleplay are also impacted and immediately create a group discussion with NBDY (their owner) to investigate the issue 12:00 : OVH mitigation stops, I decide to restart the server to see if the ports would be available after a restart and to allow everyone to login : big fail, no one can connect. 12:15 : Since OVH mitigation wasn't responsible for the error, we decide to fully analyze the network traffic and discover that we're being attacked on two front : 1) Thousands of Amazon AWS EC2 instances, Google Cloud and dozens of other providers are massively DDoSing Rage's 22006 port which is used to download files by downloading the files on their instances and thus completely block the traffic. 2) A denial of service attack is also ongoing on Rage's 22005 game port, this time with UDP requests in order to spam the gameserver and ensure that players cannot properly connect to it / play. The analysis confirms that this is an advanced targeted attack by someone who knew perfectly how to attack RageMP and prepared its attack with cloud instances to download files. RageMP team is also immediately contacted for support on the issue. 14:00 : We blacklist every IP ranges of known cloud providers from being able to access port 22006 with no luck : the amount of random hosts is still too high and players cannot download files at all. 15:00 : Rage's main developer joins our discord group and gives us multiple advices in how to handle it. 15:30 : 16 servers are purchased from OVH to split the incoming traffic and redirect the traffic in case one server goes down. 16:30 : The new mitigation infrastructure is deployed, along with an UDP packet filtering to only whitelist valide UDP rage packets and thus prevent a denial of service on the gameserver service itself. Players can finally start to login slowly. A rage security setting is also deployed on port 22006 to blacklist DDoSing IP. 18:00 : Players who do not need to download any files can properly login, but others are stuck in "Loading server resources" phase, the download is ultra slow due to the security measures, thus no one can really download the files. 21:00 : We disable the Rage's security setting on file download and recode our own thanks to Rage's tips, the game server is restarted and everyone can finally login properly / download files. 21:30 : The DDoS is still ongoing but no impacts at all anymore for players. 7:00 am the next day : Finally caught up with all my IRL work I had to put aside for few hours. 8:00 am: Back to IRL work of the next day! This has been the most advanced DDoS attack we've received since GTMP's era in 2017 where we fought for months with an attack. I can't thank Rage's owner enough for all the help which allowed me to fully block the attack. With this new mitigation infrastructure we're ready to face major future attacks that might happen due to new competitors.

Less immigrants from Australia, Britian, or Europe in general. Every time I come across a character that's from those backgrounds they're most usually self inserts, which is weird. More Americans in America, please. 🙂

Interview with President Pro Tempore Frank Ernst BY DENNIS SIDWELL Los Santos, SA - On the 17th of April, 2021, the LSNN team conducted an interview with President Pro Tempore Frank Ernst. This is the written version of the interview which was held on air, in the LSNN studio. Frank Ernst and Dennis Sidwell in the studio Dennis Sidwell: I'm pleased to announce my guest tonight. Tonight with us in the studio is President Pro Tempore of the Senate of San Andreas, Mister Frank Ernst. Frank Ernst: Pleased to be here with you Dennis. Dennis Sidwell: Mister Ernst, welcome to the studio. The pleasure is mine. To begin with, let's talk about the elections. The elections are behind us. The Republicans won by votes, albeit with a small difference. For the citizens who are watching us, if anyone didn't follow the results, allow me to remind you of the exact result again. 457 votes for Republicans and 445 votes for Democrats. Standing at five-five seats in the Senate. Now, in your opinion, what does this mean for the Senate? What if an issue arises, what if the Senators can not agree on a certain change? Frank Ernst: Well, first of all. I'll just say that the Republicans are very pleased with the results. After all, San Andreas has historically leaned Democratic. This election was a referendum on Democratic leadership over the state, and the voters have spoken. I'm happy to continue to deliver results in the Senate, working across the aisle to get things done as well. However, as you mentioned... despite one side getting more votes, we were given an even number of seats, due to San Andreas' electoral system. This'll mean that the Secretary of State will need to break votes in situations where we have a tie. That first instance happened today, with the Secretary breaking a vote in favor of the Republicans. Dennis Sidwell: Can you please elaborate on the situation from today? Frank Ernst: We held a vote on amending hunting laws to correct some wrongs we saw in standing law. This includes eliminating a hunter blacklist and modifying some definitions in the law. The Democrats voted against the law, although they didn't specify why in public. From what I understand it had something to do with not referring the bill to committee first, however, they didn't object to the motion to bring it to a vote. It's a good question to ask them. Dennis Sidwell: Now that you've mentioned the Secretary of State, Miss Chang... In an interview for the LSNN, she has stated that you are her favourite politician. Frank Ernst: Well I'm flattered that the Secretary has a high opinion of me. So far she's been a pleasure to work with and I look forward to more positive interactions. Dennis Sidwell: Is she your favourite politician? Frank Ernst: I'd say Ronald Reagan's my favorite politician, but hey... Secretary Chang has been doing a well job, so we'll see what comes! Dennis Sidwell: Mister Ernst, you got voted to become the President Pro Tempore of the Senate again. However, the voting was interesting. You voted for yourself, Democratic Senator Diana Jones voted for you. Then you won at six-four. Miss Jones has said the following: "Because we're working together. Frank Ernst is a splendid candidate, with experience and seniority above anyone else in the Senate. We sat down together, as we often do, and discussed the potential ways forward. We could fight it out, force a tiebreaker to come in and decide for us, or we could decide together. Now, the Republican party had a majority in its votes, even if only by twelve votes, so it was important to set a precedent, too. We came to an agreement together. I discussed this with my party, and voted for Frank." Let's hear your side now. Frank Ernst: Well, she summed it up pretty well. We cannot effectively govern the Senate with no clear side in control. So we set a precedent that the side which attains the most votes in the election controls the Senate. That isn't to say that the Democrats didn't get concessions. For example, Democrats now chair the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, as well as the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. It was a good compromise and a gesture of good will from Senator Jones. Dennis Sidwell: Let's talk about the elections again. Are you satisfied with the results? The exit polls were showing six-four for the Republicans. What happened? Frank Ernst: Absolutely. As I mentioned before and on election night, the Republicans were satisfied with the results and eager to use the outcome as an opportunity to continue our work. If you look at the history of San Andreas, Democrats have dominated this state, so from our view... this was an upset. We didn't have a solid indication that we were going to win going in. Dennis Sidwell: Why was Edgars Gudlevskis outed? Frank Ernst: Can you clarify what you mean? Dennis Sidwell: Well, he was campaigning as a part of the Republican Party, as a Senate candidate, but he wasn't a part of the final list. Furthermore... In a brief statement for the LSNN, he has said the following: "The Republican Party did that to me, I don't want to comment on it, they did what they did. They know why, I guess." What happened? Frank Ernst: Well, we had a long list of candidates vying for Senate positions. From our pool, we were only able to select five. Edgars was not one of those candidates. Just as some Democratic candidates didn't make it into a Senate position. Take the current Democratic Chairman for example. Dennis Sidwell: What was the selection based on-- Ah, that was going to be my next question. Allow me to ask you this first. What was the selection based on? Frank Ernst: Policy knowledge, campaign work, community connections and public reputation to name a few variables. As for his specific case, I can't really comment on that. It'd be best directed to the GOP Chairman. Elections have consequences, and sadly... we can't all make the cut. If Republicans had won by wider margins, perhaps, yes. Dennis Sidwell: Republican Senator Kevin Seong has been a guest in the LSNN studio a week ago. He stated the following: "Rudy Benson was a very solid candidate with a bipartisan mindset, who was sadly left out of the final list." After the elections, Benson became the Democratic Party Chairman. What's your view on it? Frank Ernst: I don't really have a comment, because I'm not very familiar with Rudy Benson. Although, I'll admit, some of the candidate selections on the Democratic side did surprise me. It's no secret about our concerns with individuals like Chloe Knight. For example, her baseless accusations of corruption thrown at me to undercut Republican performance in the election. I still haven't received an apology from Ms. Knight about that. It's no secret that her temperament has held her back. It's not going to win her any friends across the aisle, and it'll counteract her efforts to advance a legislative agenda. Now I hear she's targeting the Secretary of State. She's just very bad at making friends and allies. Dennis Sidwell: When it comes to Acts and Bills, what's next in the Senate now? What's in the works? Frank Ernst: We are forming a Special Committee on Organized Crime to begin drafting a RICO bill to give law enforcement the tools they need to tackle organized crime in the city. It'll also be nice to establish rapport between the Senate and our law enforcement bodies. Especially considering the Republican agenda of taking on waste, fraud and abuse within the government, and the public and private entities we work with. You know... The Democrats like to go on and on about the Halford scandal, and try and make Republicans out to be these boogeymen, when in reality we've been leading the charge to tackle corruption and organized crime. I haven't heard them peep a word on the fact that the city continued its relationship with tainted businesses. It seems they only care about corruption when it suits their political agenda. Dennis Sidwell: Frank, I know this question will sound like a cliche now, but can you choose one Democratic politician as your favourite? Frank Ernst: I hate to sound like a broken record, but Minority Leader Diana Jones has been a gem to work with. I really like her. She's sharp, motivated and doesn't get caught up in political bomb throwing. In fact, I might say that Diana Jones is my favorite politician. Dennis Sidwell: Frank, it was a pleasure to talk to you on air. Thank you for coming to the studio. Frank Ernst: Thank you Dennis. > Comments are enabled Username: Comment:

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Nothing But Hustlers (NBH) is a fictional concept. Us as a group, we concentrate mainly on quality over quantity in all perspectives. In this concept, we always focus on our development, which conclusively connects the faction. Before joining, I advise you to do some research on LA gangs/DTO's or any other African-American illegal criminal organizations. When role-playing around the faction, your character should have some type of valid reason for hanging out around the group. Most of the time, the character grew up on the block with somebody associated with NBH, attended schools in the neighborhoods NBH supplies, may have relatives or family members involved in other gangs and therefore already knows how things go down in the area. You probably won't see the group as a criminal organization but as a tight-knit hood group that you met. Characters with consistent motivations will be much more acknowledged; portraying a believable character that stands out is essential to this. Role-play your approach as you would it in real life: nobody would engage in the gang's activities by directly going to the NBH associates. Contact myself @Trap-Money Scoobyor @slim.if you are interested in joining.

Hi! I would like to hear your opinions/suggestions/comments about the massive events in our community and between the members. What are your experiences, expectations, wishes and etcetera. Feel free to share your thoughts.

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Well ngl i feel that the surplus of women on the server (by surplus i mean any amount over 0) is why we have to roleplay car crashes all the time That and if there werent any women characters i would feel safe leaving my 15 dollar a month (real money) dog outside Otherwise fax dont care

straight characters are minorities in ls

s/o to all my tdot guys in this, putting these gewfs in check aha