Hector: Hey Silent
Hector: its been a long time, how are you?
Silent: Has been sometime, I'm doing pretty good, all things considered. How about yourself?
Hector: yea man i am good
Hector: So, any reason why you aren’t active on mpgh?
Silent: No particular reason why, just interests changing over time. Got some new hobbies, and lost some old hobbies. MPGH still means a lot to me, definitely played a big role in my life the past few years, be it for good or bad (lol), but it doesn't have that feeling that it used to have. All the new people, and old people becoming inactive. I suppose it's just the way it is.
Hector: indeed that's how life goes
Hector: How is the COVID-19 situation in your country?
Silent: Australia has contained the spread of the virus fairly well, relative to other countries at least. I believe we're around 7 thousand cases, with an average of around 25 new cases per day. Considering it came down from 300 cases per day at it's peak, I would say it is fairly contained.
Silent: Governments are currently working on relaxing some restrictions, opening cinemas, visitations for larger groups of people, and other similar things.
Hector: I also heard that Australia is planning to invite international students for the fall 2020
Hector: I know you used to code a lot, what are you doing during this lockdown?
Silent: I havent heard about Australia opening our borders to international students. I have heard about us opening our borders to NZ, but that's not really a surprise. We're both as isolated as one-another.
Silent: My coding days have kinda been at a decline the past 8 months or so. Around the time I started shifting focus away from MPGH, I kinda drifted away from coding. My ****** profile is quite funny, my commits were pretty much every day or every two days, and then you can just see a sudden stop. I've been meaning to get back into coding, but haven't brought myself to it yet.
Silent: As for my other hobbies, recently I've just bee relaxing. Movies, Games, Chilling with girlfriend, doing as little as possible.
Hector: oh great, no outdoor activities?
Hector: I mean before the lockdown
Silent: I'll go for occasional bike rides or walks. I think it's important to get some fresh air every so often. Though I admit, I probably should do more. But it's probably no surprise an ex staff from MPGH doesn't have too much outdoor activities.
Hector: haha at least you occasionally do it
Hector: If you are given a chance to infract someone on MPGH, who would it be and why?
Silent: hmmm
Silent: Depends if I'll get a reprimand again for 'staff abuse'
Hector: lol
Hector: Any chance you will be coming back to MPGH?
Silent: Honestly don't think I'll be coming back to consistent activity anytime soon. MPGH doesn't have that feeling that it used to. There's few people who are actually still active. I think the game cheating hype is kinda over, and the marketplace seems to be heading in a similar direction.
Hector: Do you have any suggestion to improve it from the current state?
Hector: what happened to MPGH VPN project?
Silent: I'm not sure what could revive cheating or the marketplace to what they once were. I suppose admins could pay developers to make private cheats and release for free and have like an advertising model rather than a pay-to-cheat model. But I don't think it would work too great. As for the marketplace, yeah I'm not sure either. I know it isn't dead, nor is IM. I think flengo and publicists/coders still have some plans that will bring some hope to MPGH, but otherwise I don't know.
Hector: let's hope for the best
Silent: The MPGH VPN project is sitting in a git repo kinda doing nothing. It's basically completed, all payment gateways, support systems, attachment systems, bug reporting, everything is more or less complete. But I don't see much hope for it. I was thinking of making it opensource as a portfolio project or something, but I'm still not sure what I want to do with it.
Hector: So when we normally chat, you kinda troll or insult me (ik its mostly for fun), but has the time changed that Silent?
Hector: now you sound more serious and mature?
Silent: yeah I think I kinda took a healthy step back from trolling. Self improvement ftw xD
Hector: great, shoutout to any user?
Silent: shoutout to @
Flengo for actually putting in effort to improve MPGH. Idk how much is known, but I know a lot of work is being done to improve MPGH by flengo and the teams he overviews and monitors.
[Last Tuesday at 4:41 PM] Hector: Finally I would like to thank you for accepting this invite for the interview
Silent: np hectard
Hector: all the best for your future endeavours
Silent: thank you, wish you the same.
Hector: cya soon on mpgh
Silent: bibi