u/Alopllop

I don't have a query or anything, it's already lost and I made peace with it.
I needed more computing so I changed the instance type, then when I reboot I notice the IP change. I check, and indeed, no Elastic IP was associated and so the previous public IP is gone to the pool, never to be seen again.

So now I can only mourn it as I spend the next few hours emailing clients who were using it instead of the domain it had associated (Because of course) to allow it again.

I'll miss that IP.

Been a long time since I last frrquented these places, maybe it will help me structure this better if I share it and hear people's thoughts.

First an introduction short enough as to not derive into lore. Vies is the name of the system, one developped in modern times from study and reverse engineering of the practioners of ancient magics. Understood previously as separate arts they were found to all relate to the same simpler mechanics, and from them Vies was built.

But what are those and what is Vies? Everyone uses Vies, most uncounciously and unknowingly. Every great painter, every best athlete and every prestigious researcher has in its especialty an amount of Vies without even knowing. Unfortunately this widespread use is hard to teach and understand, so apprentices have to start with the specialized, modern applications.

Vies is force applied to matter through will and form. This, the most basic explanation of Vies, applies all the way to its most complex incarnations. An apprentices first exam is typically to move a Ro, just a wooden ball the size of a fist used for practice. Many struggle at first, holding it in their palm and not really knowing how to intuitively 'move it'. Prodigies or people who discovered it by themselves aside, students are first made to graps it fully, press it, feel its weight and how it reacts to the purely natural force if the body. Move it up and down and know the inertia. After a short time someone else will apply Vies to the Ro while they still grasp it. What could take years of study for someone to learn to apply Vies through reading alone seems to be so easily taught by feeling Vies directly applied, and in less than a week the student should be able to feel the Ro in his hand push towards where he wills it without him moving a muscle.

In this stage the student can move to Ronics. Named after the practice Ro, it is the study and practice of applying force to a discrete object directly with the purpose of controlling it with conscious deliberate thought. There are four traditional states of Ronics: The grab, the push, the throw and the float.

The grab is the first because it is the necessary first step many other techniques build upon, and is not so different from the more literal grab of the Ro the students are first forced to take. In short, to apply Vies to an object you need to have a connection or familiarity and 'grabbing' or later 'touching' for the more experienced normally achieves this. But pushing a Ro inside a closed fist is not very useful, and so the Ronic grab was developped. While inside the fist still where the student can apply Vies they are asked to apply it in opposite directions. Not being strong enough to damage the Ro still, this feels in the hand the same as no force at all and yet the apprentice can feel the difference because they are the source of Vies. Maintining this after dropping the Ro is easier than a single vector with which people struggle at first and allows them to 'feel' the Ro at a distance and thus apply further Vies even when not touching it. Practice makes the Ronic grab into more than two mere opposing vectors of force: The usual grab is more like slight pressure all around the surface, ensuring the object it is applied to doesn't break. Still, a student passes unto the next lesson only when they can apply the grab to a previously untouched Ro.

Ronic push or drag is easier compared to the grab and it requires no more teaching than saying 'do it' to the apprentice. It is what they have already been doing in the first stage of learning, a steady continuous force in one direction. While Ronic grabbing the Ro they are asked to move it atop a table, and normally they succeed. Otherwise they haven't internalized what the Ronig grab is. Anechdotally apprentices have an easier time moving it away or towards them than other directions, a fact explained by Vies mechanics taught later.

There is a saying that the easiest step in learning Vies is always the next in no small part because of the jump from push to throw. If an apprentice gets too excited they can apply too much force and move the Ro explosively, in turn losing the grab. This is the throw, force applied in a single instant. Far from a beginner mistake, the loss of the grab is taken to be a part of the throw with only experienced practitioners performing great throws and being able to exert Vies afterwards without reapplying the grab.

And lastly the float. Also built upon the push the classic use is to make something weightless, or in the teacher's terms, to apply the same force as gravity does on the Ro so that it is kept aloft in the air. At the start seemingly less versatile than its Ronic sibling techniques it nevertheless is an important last step to pass unto more advenced theory and practice of Vies for after some use the apprentice can implant a force on an object that is not quite subconcious but more like on the back of his mind. A vital skill in coming lessons.

Like their bodies but not correlated each practictioner will have different strength, endurance and finesse with their Vies. Good news is that also like their bodies these can be trained.

So those are Ronics of Vies, very little, simple and basic. If it doesn't annoy too much I will continue exposing it and its deeper mechanics here, maybe next will be elaborsting on why Vies students extend their hand to push and throw or what exactly Vies endurance entails.