What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

Pretty much using it all day every day for gaming, browsing, uni work, etc. everything I used to do on my old laptop. I play pretty easy to handle games, mostly league of legends, world of warcraft and other online games.

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

My max is around £850 including keyboard and monitor and anything else required as I am starting from scratch.

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

ASAP

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

Everything besides a mouse, although I've heard that I can use an unlicensed version of windows for free for the time being so OS is not so necessary.

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

London, England, United Kingdom

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

Will be reusing only my old logitech mouse.

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

Don't even know what overclocking is if I'm honest.

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

Nothing specific.

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

Nope

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

Willing to use Windows unlicensed for the time being until I can afford a key so it should be fine for now to put the money towards more important parts.
Thank you

I'm aiming to get the 80V HP BRUSHLESS 42" BATTERY CORDLESS ELECTRIC RIDING LAWN TRACTOR this year and I'm wondering what kind of accessories should I consider? It appears to have two hitches and a good amount of storage. I live in a forest in Florida with just under an acre of land populated with a dozen or so trees. I'm not all that concerned about leaves, but I have been known to trim branches once in a blue moon that need to be hauled to the back of the lot. So I guess it'll mostly be used for mowing and maybe an occasional joyride in the yard.
Oh yeah, general accessories like seat covers, whole unit covers, and even a sunshade would be good to have recommendations of.

Automotive wiring harness market is anticipated to grow at a considerable CAGR of 5.2% during the forecast period. The growth of the market is attributed to factors such as the increasing demand for electric vehicles(EVs)along withthe growing automotive industry. Further, various technological advancements in automotive technology and the rising demand for improved connectivity and safety features in vehicles are also some other factors anticipated to fuel the demand for automotive wiring harnesses. Owing to this various market players are collaborating to launch a new technology for the wiring harness market to cater to the growing demand and stay competitive. For instance, in February 2023, Hero Electric partnered with Dhoot Transmission Pvt. Ltd. for sourcing new wiring harness solutions. Under the partnership, Hero Electric's products will be equipped with the latest wiring harnesses from the Tier 1 supplier. The partnership aims to develop new wiring harness solutions for Hero Electric vehicles.
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· Market Coverage
· Market number available for – 2023-2029
· Base year- 2022
· Forecast period- 2023-2029
· Segment Covered- By Source, By Product Type, By Applications
· Competitive Landscape- Archer Daniels Midland Co., Ingredion Inc., Kerry Group Plc, Cargill
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Market Segmentation
Global Automotive Wiring Harness Market by Component
o Electric Wires
o Connectors
o Connectors
o Others (Wire Spool Racks)
Global Automotive Wiring HarnessMarket by Application
o Body
o Engine
o Chassis
o Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
o Sensors
Global Automotive Wiring Harness Market by Vehicle Type
o Passenger Cars
o Commercial Vehicles
Regional Analysis
o North America
o United States
o Canada
o Europe
o UK
o Germany
o Italy
o Spain
o France
o Rest of Europe
o Asia-Pacific
o China
o India
o Japan
o South Korea
o Rest of Asia-Pacific
o Rest of the World
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o BorgWarner, Inc.
o Coroplast
o Fritz Muller GmbH & Co.
o Fujikura Ltd
o Hyundai Motor Co.
o Kia Motors
o Kromberg & Schubert
o La Cro Products, Inc.
o Lear Corp
o Leoni AG
o Motherson Group
o Nexans Autoelectric
o Optronicsn Inc.
o PKC Group Plc
o Bapcor Ltd
o QINGDAO SANYUAN GROUP
o Rapid Conn, Inc.
o Renhotec EV
o SAMVARDHANAMOTHERSON GROUP
o Specialized Products, Ltd.
o Amwins Global Risks Group Ltd.
o Yura Corp.
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Hello all, obviously don't expect you to read them all, but could you please confirm if this is a suitable list to revise to ensure I pass the Drive Stakeholder Value test? Questions in lowercase and answers in CAPS. Thanks!
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An organization is negotiating and agreeing with the service levels for a social media site. Which is an example of a measure of utility that should be included in the service level agreement? THE NUMBER OF PHOTO FORMATS SUPPORTED FOR UPLOAD.
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Most of the attention is given to how the subject affects the listener, what emotions it evokes, and how it compares with individual preconceptions. What is an example of? INTERNAL LISTENING.
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A consumer organization is making significant changes to the technologies used by its employees, and is discussing those changes with its service provider. How can the service provider BEST demonstrate the capability to meet the needs of the consumer organization? ENSURE THERE ARE ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS TO SUPPORT THE CUSTOMERS CHANGES.
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What is an attribute of a strategic partnership? CREATE BARRIERS TO EXIT THE RELATIONSHIP.
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A service provider is collecting requirements for a cloud-based document storage service. Which is an example of a utility requirement for this service? THE SERVICE WILL DISPLAY A LIST OF ITEMS UPLOADED BY THE USER.
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An organization maintains processes that support many different services. It needs to share information about how the processes support services with a wide range of stakeholders. What practice will MOST help them to share this information? SERVICE DESK.
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Services that have to be configured or customized to fulfil the needs of the service consumer. Which Relationship does this situation describe? COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIP.
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In the context of the ‘five principles of service design thinking’, which principle includes using “physical evidence or artefacts” to “trigger the memory of positive service moments? EVIDENCING.
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An organization is agreeing service target for a new service. The objective of the service is to “process sales orders successfully and quickly, while conforming to relevant legislation”. Which is a warranty measure associated with this objective? THE NUMBER OF SCREEN UPDATES THAT EXCEED 2 SECONDS.
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A service consumer organization has recently started to use a service provided by an external service provider. The service consumer organization would like to maintain a good relationship with the service provider. Which is an example of how they can encourage a positive service mindset for service consumption? REGULAR MEETINGS WITH SERVICE DESK STAFF TO RAISE AWARENESS OF ONGOING SERVICE ISSUES.
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Organization has a policy that users will be billed for incidents resulting from an error that users caused. The policy is to bill the user for a minimum of 1 hour charge. After listening to the dissatisfied user who has caused an error, a service desk agent is confident that the incident can be resolved within a min. the agent decided not to mention the policy and later reported the contact to the supervisor. Which TWO things that the supervisor should take? ANSWER: Encourage the agent to escalate this type of situation in future / Explain the reason for the policy & why it should be followed.
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A development team has received several sets of requirements for a new software application that share a similar priority. They wish to use the “weighted shortest job first” method to decide which job to develop first. They have calculated a development time for each job and a cost of delay that takes into account service impact, urgency and risk. Which should they do first? COST OF DELAY = 200. DEVELOPMENT TIME = 10.
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Which is an example of onboarding activities performed by a service consumer? OPTIMIZE VALUE STREAM TO MAXIMIZE VALUE FOR USING NEW SERVICE.
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An internal IT organization offers face-to-face support at a drop-in support centre. They need to maximize the use of support staff as the demand often exceeds the capacity. What is the BEST way to smooth the demand? CHARGE USERS EACH TIME THEY USE THE SUPPORT SERVICE AND INCREASE THE PRICE FOR TIMES THAT ARE TYPICALLY BUSY.
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Managing the user experience across all channels, touchpoints, and service interactions. What is an example of? OMNICHANNEL.
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A service provider has built a 'cooperative relationship' with a customer. Which activity are they MOST LIKELY to use to validate the services that are provided? JOINT SERVICE REVIEWS OF ACHIEVEMENTS OF SERVICE TARGETS.
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In a cooperative relationship to validate whether the service meets the service target, a joint effort is required from both the service provider and service consumer to review the service level target.
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Which concept refers to any event where a service consumer or potential service consumer has an encounter with the service provider and/or its products and resources? TOUCHPOINT.
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Which example shows that the service provider is building trust with the customer in a partnership relationship? DEMONSTRATE CAPABILITY TO ENABLE CONSUMER DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION.
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What is an attribute of a strategic partnership? TRUST NEEDS TO BE DEVELOPED.
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MoSCoW prioritization, also known as the MoSCoW method or MoSCoW analysis, is a popular prioritization technique for managing requirements. The acronym MoSCoW represents four categories of initiatives: must-have, should-have, could-have, and won't-have, or will not have right now.
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A modular application is an application that is divided into a set of loosely coupled functional units (named modules) that can be integrated into a larger application.
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An internal IT service provider does not have all the skills needed to create and deliver a new service, but could develop them with enough time. There are many external service providers who can provide this service. Which approach should the organization follow to decide if they should use the internal service provider or to source the service externally? START BY REVIEWING ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES FOR SOURCING SERVICES, THEN IDENTIFY THE MOST IMPORTANT CRITERIA FOR SELECTING A SERVICE PROVIDER, AND USE A 'DECIISON MATRIX' TO COMPARE SERVICE PROVIDERS.
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What is an attribute of a basic relationship? COSTS ARE USUALLY TRANSPARENT, BUT VALUE MAY BE HIDDEN.
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Resource constraints have slowed an organization’s efforts to expand into new markets. Which practice would recommend eliminating products and services that are not enabling value, so that the required resources can be made available? PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT.
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Different types of service relationships require different approaches to assessing mutual readiness. Which of the following statements is CORRECT? REDINESS TO COLLABORATE IS CRUCIAL FOR A PARTNERSHIP RELATIONSHIP.
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An organization is using a “decision matrix” to create a shortlist of potential service providers. They have defined tangible assessment criteria and they have identified how well each service provider meets each criterion. What should they do next? COMPARE THE SERVICE PROVIDERS BASED ON HOW IMPORTANT EACH ASSESSMENT CRITERION IS.
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Which charging mechanism is based on a break-even or cost recovery model? COST.
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Service is provided without the service provider and the user being in physical proximity. For example, a user may communicate with the service provider through texting. What is an example of? TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED.
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An organization provides an online portal that its employees can use to learn about and request standard services. Which practice would ensure that users can easily find information on the portal and that the information is kept up-to-date? SERVICE CATALOGUE MANAGEMENT.
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Number and percentage of transactions where users used the interface help. This is a Metric associated with which Experience criteria? EMOTIONAL CRITERIA.
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Focus is on the other person, not much attention is paid to the outside world. What is an example of? FOCUSED LISTENING.
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Practice. Success. Factor. (PSF) “A complex functional component of a practice that is required for the practice to fulfil its purpose.”. Formerly Critical Success Factors.
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A measure that either directly or indirectly indicates the situation or level of a specific aspect of service value. What is an example of? SERVICE VALUE INDICATOR.
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An IT service provider is carrying out an internal assessment, to identify opportunities to develop and improve their services. They have reviewed workflows and activities, the capabilities of their workforce, and supplier contracts. Which area do they also need to consider? INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY.
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Which TWO are activities of marketing in marketspace? 1. Giving presentation in conference 2. Advertising on social media 3. Launching a series of podcast 4. Hold a breakfast seminar. TWO AND THREE.
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Which co-creates value between SERVICE PROVIDER and SERVICE CONSUMER? SERVICE INTERACTION.
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Which concept is concerned with assess user skills and the available range of support actions before implementing self-service? SHIFT-LEFT.
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A team is evaluating commercial software products in an effort to improve communication and collaboration within the team. The members of the team cannot agree on the process that they should use to evaluate the products. Which step should the team complete LAST? DEFINITE REQUIREMENTS FOR CONFIGURING THE PRODUCT.
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An organization with many cross-functional teams is going to start using a new modular application to manage many different aspects of their business, including finance, HR, sales and other capabilities. What is the BEST way to plan and deliver user training? CREATE A SEPERATE TRAINING COURSE FOR EACH USER ROLE OR PERSONA, SO THAT THE TRAINING IS RELEVANT TO THE USERS.
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A customer has been using an organization’s service for many years. The customer has indicated that the service is no longer meeting their objectives. How can the service provider BEST determine if the original value proposition is still valid? BY CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY MADE ABOVE THE SERVICE.
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Which activity does a service provider carry out as part of the “explore” step of the customer journey? PROVIDING MARKETING MATERIAL TO POTENTIAL FUTURE CUSTOMERS.
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Where the vendor provides all services as well as the service integration and management function. What is an example of? SINGLE SUPPLIER.
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Identify the missing words in the following sentence. A [?] is a justification for the expenditure of organizational resources, providing information about costs, benefits, options, risks, and issues. BUSINESS CASE.
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Which approach is concerned when a user requests a service on a service portal, downloads an application, calls a service desk? PULL APPROACH.
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Service design thinking is an effective way of tackling problem-solving. Since the core of the method is to explore, prototype, and gather feedback from real users, it is a good example of value-driven, data-driven, and user-centred service design. It encourages users to define value and is a method that continuously gathers feedback on what is and is not working”.
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An organization has signed a contract to outsource its service desk function to a supplier. The organization wants to ensure that its customers and users will receive a seamless support service. Which activity would MOST help the organization at this stage? INTEGRATING SUPPLIER ACTIVITIES INTO THE ORGANIZATIONS VALUE STREAMS.
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Where the organization manages all vendors and coordinates the service integration and management function itself. What is an example of? RETAINED ORGANIZATION.
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What is an attribute of a Cost plus? THE MARK-UP (%) CAN EITHER BE SET BY THE SERVICE PROVIDER TO MATCH RETURNS ON OTHER INVESTMENTS.
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A piece of functionality described in a way that could be developed in a single sprint. What is an example of? USER STORIES.
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Which is a holistic method to conceptualize value-driven, data-drive services? DESIGN THINKING.
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What is the BEST indicator of mutual readiness in basic relationship? SATISFACTORY PAST PERFORMANCE.
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The line of internal interaction: This separates the employees in contact from those who do not directly support interactions with customers and users”.
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Which describes a value-drive approach to service design? AN INTERATIVE APPROACH BASED ON FREQUENT FEEDBACK, CONTINUAL EXPERIMENTATION, AND LEARNING TO ENSURE VALUE CO-CREATION.
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SERVICE PROVIDER has improved its users' engagement channel by adding a self-service portal to reduce the demand of telephone support. However, the service desk still receives many calls. How can it be solved? CREATE AN ONLINE TUTORIAL TO TRAIN HOW TO USE THE SERVICE PORTAL.
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Which concept is concerned with activities and resources within a service relationship that are visible to both the service provider and the service consumer? BAND OF VISIBILITY
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A service provider designs and delivers a portfolio of shopping websites that must comply with retail website regulations. The websites should also support the service provider’s reputation for high-quality applications that are easy to use. The service provider wants to assess the value provided by the websites. Which is the BEST set of measurement criteria for comparing services in the portfolio? USER SATISFACTION WITH WEB INTERFACES; NUMBERS AND IMPACT OF REGULATORY NON-COMPLIANCE.
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Which line separates the employees in contact from those who do not directly support interactions with customers and users? LINE OF INTERNAL INTERACTION.
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A customer is retiring a service and has terminated the contract for the service with the service provider. The service provider will continue to deliver other services to the customer. Which activity should the service provider include in the plans to offboard the service? IDENTIFYING AND MAKING REQUESTS FOR OUTSTANDING PAYMENTS FOR THE SERVICE.
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Services based on service offerings and products that have been planned and built in accordance with requirements specified by the customer. Which Relationship does this situation describe? PARTNERSHIP.
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“Service interaction: A reciprocal action between a service provider and a service consumer that co-creates value”.
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INVEST stands for Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Sized-Appropriately, Testable.
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A PESTLE analysis studies the key external factors (Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal and Environmental) that influence an organisation.
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Band of visibility: Activities and resources within a service relationship that are visible to both the service provider and the service consumer.
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In a partnership, the service provider and the service consumer may act as one organization coordinating activities across a great range of functions and processes
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A cost-plus contract is an agreement to reimburse a company for expenses incurred plus a specific amount of profit, usually stated as a percentage of the contract's full price.
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Cost Plus: “The mark-up (%) can either be set by the service provider to match returns on other investments or allocated by the service provider to meet strategic business needs”
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In building trust in service basic relationship, the customer will “check past performance of service provider”
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Which describes a value-drive approach to service design? AN ITERATIVE APPROACH BASED ON FREQUENT FEEDBACK CONTINUAL EXPERIMENTATION AND LEARNING TO ENSURE VALUE CO-CREATION
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Value-driven and data-driven service design implies an iterative approach based on frequent feedback, continual experimentation, and learning to ensure value co-creation in each step of the design process”.
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Retained organization as service integration and management: Where the retained organization manages all vendors and coordinates the service integration and management function itself”.
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Value stream: a series of steps an organization undertakes to create and deliver products and services to customers.
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Single supplier: “Where the vendor provides all services as well as service integration and management function”.
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Pull is when service actions are initiated by users. “This is a case the user requests a service on a service portal, download an application, call a service desk etc.”
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Business case: A justification for the expenditure of organizational resources, providing information about costs, benefits, options, risks, and issues.
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A sprint is a set period of time during which specific work has to be completed and made ready for review.
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A user story is a way of describing functionality required by the stakeholders, so that the piece of functionality could be developed in a single sprint.
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Which is an example of a user story? A HOMEWORKER CAN CONNECT TO THE COPRORATE NETWORK TO SUBMIT AN EXPENSE CLAIM.
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With the shift-left approach, work or service support is moved closer to the user. One of the key challenges in adopting a shift-left approach is users not having the relevant skills to use the technology tools.
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Marketspace is defined by all the possible channels made available on the Internet.
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What is a challenge when onboarding individual consumers? INDIVIDUAL OPINIONS DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE NEEDS OF A LARGER CONSUMER GROUP.
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Which is a valid description of the priorities when using agile development methods? WORKING PRODUCTS OVER COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION.
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Which is a technique for identifying customers that have common demands? MARKET SEGMENTATION.
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Which concept is concerned with a workload profile of one or more business activities? PATTERN OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY.
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When a user is not happy with how their query is being handled by a service provider, what would help to improve the user’s loyalty and trust? DEMONSTRATING EMPATHY.
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A collection of related user stories that represent a whole area of functionality or a capability that a product or service owner is interested in? USER STORIES.
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Which technique allows a service provider to target a customer with specific needs and desires? MARKET SEGMENTATION.
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Organization has introduced a new service, and feedback from users indicates that their expectation is not being met. The organization wants to ensure that subsequent revisions adequately reflect the user’s requirements. What is the BEST approach to go about this? DEFINE MINIMUM VALUE PRODUCT AND DEMO TO COLLECT THE REQUIREMENT.
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An organization wants to provide its employees with a limited set of self-services via an online portal. A requirement is that when employees log into the portal, they see only those services that are applicable to their status in the organization and that they have the authority to access. The organization also wants to provide employees with the ability to adjust the layout of the portal. Which service provisioning approach should this organization use? TAILORED.
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A service provider has recently released an upgrade to its payroll service. The service provider had told the customer that the upgrade would include functionality to copy information from various other HR systems, to reduce the amount of manual data entry. However, this statement was not documented at the time and the proposed functionality was not included in the design. Which practice includes activities which could have helped to avoid this situation? BUSINESS ANALYSIS.
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A bank provides an online banking service to external users. The bank measures the functional and non-functional aspects of the service in several ways and is meeting its targets. However, user satisfaction with the service is not as high as the bank would like it to be. Which is the BEST example of an additional aspect of the service that the bank should measure? THE NUMBER OF TIMES A TRANSACTION IS STARTED BUT NOT COMPLETED.
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An investment bank has outsourced its customer care helpline. It is keen to introduce experience metrics into its Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with the service provider for the helpline. It has asked for a re-negotiation of the existing SLA. Which is the BEST example of an experience metric that can be included in the SLA? CUSTOMER SATISFACTION WITH THE HELPLINE.
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An organization is undergoing a digital transformation and is conducting a strategic analysis of its customers’ needs. The organization uses agile methods to manage its digital products and a more traditional waterfall approach to manage its legacy systems. The organization is also considering introducing new products and services. Which is the BEST way for this organization to undertake this analysis? DEVELOP MODELS THAT HELP ANALYSTS PERFORM TASKS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE FOR GIVEN CONTEXT.
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User satisfaction with web interfaces, number and impact of regulatory non-compliances are good measurement criteria in comparing services in the portfolio.
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“Many experience metrics are related to the service interface performance, others may indicate user satisfaction with either interface, or the service in general”.
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“The line of internal interaction: This separates the employees in contact from those who do not directly support interactions with customers and users”.
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Retained organization as service integration and management: Where the retained organization manages all vendors and coordinates the service integration and management function itself”
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SERVICE PROVIDER has improved its users' engagement channel by adding a self-service portal to reduce the demand of telephone support. However, the service desk still receives many calls. How can it be solved? CREATE ONLINE TUTORIAL TO TRAIN HOW OT USE THE SERVICE PORTAL.
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The attribute of a Cost Plus: “The mark-up (%) can either be set by the service provider to match returns on other investments or allocated by the service provider to meet strategic business needs”
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User stories: “A piece of functionality described in a way that could be developed in a single sprint”
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service design thinking is an effective way of tackling problem-solving. Since the core of the method is to explore, prototype, and gather feedback from real users, it is a good example of value-driven, data-driven, and user-centred service design. It encourages users to define value and is a method that continuously gathers feedback on what is and is not working”.
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Pull is when service actions are initiated by users.
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An organization is deciding whether to develop a new service internally or source the service from an external service provider. A key aim is to ensure the new service would be compatible with the organization’s existing services. Which would the organization consider FIRST when making this decision? THE ORGANIZATIONS SOURCING STRATEGY AND GOVERNMANCE MODEL.

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A career in commercial refrigeration is the ideal career choice in 2023, providing job security, exciting work, and several financial benefits. Foodservice and many other industries offer immense job opportunities with a lucrative income for career development. A well-established Refrigeration Training Center offers advanced training methods and techniques to turn students into skilled technicians.
Many businesses rely on refrigeration technicians to install air conditioning and heating systems using the proper techniques and perform regular maintenance and repair to keep their systems in well-functioning condition. Depending on your experience, you can handle advanced HVAC systems, refrigerated storage units, ice machines, and beverage equipment in commercial facilities and keep them running smoothly.
Apart from these basic work, you will be well-trained to conduct numerous duties that directly impact the business, such as:

• Processing the work orders in a specific timeline.
• Contact the client regarding the tools requirements and order the supplies, repair modules, and more. Also, inform clients of repair costs.
• Install the climate control systems after testing them according to the business.
• Read and interpret blueprints and compliance schematics.

Therefore, commercial refrigeration is an exciting field that helps you achieve greater heights in your career with a high income.
Now, further in this article, we will give you major reasons why you should consider commercial refrigeration as your career. Let's have a look!

Commercial Refrigeration as a Career:

• Increased Demand:

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To prevent the loss, every business wants to hire well-trained and licensed technicians to keep their air conditioning, heating, and ventilation system in working order.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the projected growth of refrigeration technicians is 5% by 2031, and that's a solid reason to join a Refrigeration Training Center and learn advanced methods of commercial refrigeration systems.

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• Work Flexibility:

Another important reason for choosing commercial refrigeration training is its flexible working schedule and the freedom to work from anywhere. As a commercial technician, you do not have to sit in a cubicle and work a regular 9 to 5 job. Instead, you will get an opportunity to work outside the office and travel to different locations throughout the day, depending on the requirements of customers.
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My battery storage is full, or shall I say over the limit.
All my building are the top level, I got most of the pets, I got full upgrade of the tactical chip, I unlock all the items in projector and comic in Cafe.
I got my last heavy corp unit skill need upgrade atm.
But other than that I have no use of battery
Am I missing something?
Thank you

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?

My family lost a storage unit months ago, and I found the person who bought stuff from our unit reselling them online.
A few months ago, I recognized our furniture on there and the seller and I briefly messaged. He said he would call me the next day to talk about it, but he called with a no caller ID and I missed the call.
I grew up with family who struggled with hoarding for years. My dad has the disorder, but my mom doesn’t. She told me to not contact the seller again and leave it be.
Recently, I checked the site again and recognized Barbies and the doll furniture which belonged to a doll house we still have from childhood. I threw in a low offer for it, but I doubt he would accept it.
I’m mad at myself rechecking the site. I see so much of my dad in me. I’m going to school soon, and I’m struggling with letting stuff go. I don’t want my family to be burdened by me carrying down the dysfunction.
I feel terrible leaving the low offer. I don’t know how to cancel it. The seller seems nice, selling the stuff for charity profit. Our messages deleted off the site a while back, so I’m not sure if he remembers me. Stuff showing up on this site has been bothering me for months. I’ve been trying to listen to my mom and accept the stuff being gone, but it keeps coming back on my mind. I don’t know what is considered sentimental or not, or if it is the disorder clouding my thoughts. I don’t know if I should just leave it be like my mom said.

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?

Ok look, I just want to open by saying that this is gonna be long and kind of a vauge rant; but i wanted to post it somewhere just so that someone might understand where i'm coming from.
Im pretty sure i fall into a smallish minority of players of the Phantasy Star series. My first foray was Phantasy Star Universe; and while it seems to be a bit of a blacksheep of the series, as someone just discovering my first mmo outside of Runescape (and on a console no less) it was pure MAGIC. There was SO much to do, so many cool and unique items to collect, a fun and engaging community who was friendly and willing to help. You had branching paths, themed bosses; everything just felt so ALIVE to me as a kid. All these people here in this awesome virtual world all having fun, making real memories with real people through the joy of fun community features, and a shared love of finding the next exciting drop.
Jump forward in time a couple years after the PSU shutdown; I catch wind that PSO2 is playable in japan, and its possible to play from the US. Immediately, nostalgia floods me, and i start trying to rig the wonky launcher and super primitive english patch on some crappy 200 dollar walmart laptop i had (SO many hours spent doing captchas in hiragana as a dumb american... holy hell). I get into the server, and its like magic all over again; im a little confused about how the field lobbies are gone and how the layout works as a whole; but im having a good time. I settle in on ship 2, i do a handful of missions and happen to run across some english speaking players and boom; i'm in an alliance, here comes the sense of community again! Now, at this point i'm a little older and wiser; i've played a good few f2p mmos at this point, and so it isn't long before i notice the cash shop and start trying to figure out what i'm missing. So I start asking about in the voice chat of this alliance i'm in; and most people tell me that if i'm having fun that a premium set is the biggest thing worth having. However i would need to find a way to convert my money (which at the time was quite complicated, though it later got easier i'm told). So i kind of hit a stone wall and decide "Well im having fun, all these new skill trees are really cool and im enjoying the game and its combat especially vs PSU..... so how hard can it be to grind it out as a f2p?
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Well it wasn't the worst. I lasted a good 6 months and maxxed out 1 class, i survive through SG storage space, and learn that through shop tickets and room tickets i can get pretty much anything i want through smart grinding. At some point through the leveling process, the loop started to feel more rewarding the more you really learned combat; but the overall rewards just felt so slow and unsatisfying. I'm sure it didnt help that MANY items were untranslated; but so much of the loot felt so samey. There were no super cool special drops or anything outside of augments really that people wanted that werent AC scratch items; so i got to farming. Alot of my alliance members were very skilled and knowledgeable, and frankly carried me super hard in both knowledge and power (shout out to Cedric, Gorani, and Maileese). I started to learn and understand alot about the game outside of the fun community aspects that drew me in. I started bringing in ok money and got my character set up with a cool outfit; made my room nice and decorated so i could invite my alliance over to hang out. Overall, i managed to thrive as a f2p despite constant mid run banking, storage problems, slower xp, and shitty buff drinks. I stayed and learned to thrive, because it gave me the option to thrive as a f2p through learning the finer bits of the market (and being able to access it reasonably easy).
Jump forward like 5-6 more years; my crappy laptop is dead; I had long taken a break from pso2 JP when they started ip banning english players; and im playing on xbox as my main source of gaming entertainment. I had almost forgotten they ever promised to bring pso2 west nearly 10 years ago; but when i saw PSO2 at E3 of all things; needless to say I LOST MY MIND! i was beyond excited for it to finally touch back down; and whats more its even coming to the platform i have access too! so many years of content and things i missed! I was mentally preparing to lose myself in PSO2 for ages; but this time i was fully invested in "Min/maxxing" mentality. I know that lots of people are going to be playing for the first time, and that having already played a bunch myself; i have the advantage to some degree in knowledge; and can use it both to help myself and others. I like to think that overall i did pretty good; i ran an alliance with a good handful of friends who i convinced to play; and we all had a great time... for about 2ish weeks until we realized gearing peaked at revolsio weapons. I knew the content drip would be slow but steady; but there was such a renewed sense of community, that even though they began to trickle out; i couldnt help but stay.
I started getting into augementing and experimenting with builds; i start affixing units and weapons for profit, i engage in the community colored chair wars, i people watch on block 69; life is GREAT and im having a great time. Ofc i bought in for a founders pack and had premium and some cosmetics and stuff; i was actually an adult with money this time, and i mean hey; what's 30 bucks to support a game i love and get basically everything i need for one character? I occasionally grumble over the inability to trade people without premium, or that those without it level extra slow; but i know that if they just make it over a certain barrier that they can thrive no problem. I use photon capsule machines to trade friends gear; we do even more advance quests even more of the time to make sure people get the levels they need; and eventually they have a stockpile of tickets, and have a max level character; and start making money. At some point alot of them start having enough fun that they too buy into the game, some for a premium set; some full send whales. Now, the whales started being a double edged blade; because there were enough people making well affixed gear at steady enough of pace; but jussst slow enough at first that demand was still very much outweighing supply. So the market begins to skyrocket on perfect affixed units. Now me personally; i made alot of money on this. but for MANY of the other players who are just trying to get better gear and those who are chasing the "end game" so to speak; this became super punishing.
I could go on and on and on about how much stuff got super crazy on the market because of whaling. but as long as you were on the right side of it from a standpoint of affixes and material farming; you could make a fortune off of it; although at some point they even started making that not as good with premium capsules and whatnot. Soon capsules are best in slot across the board, shop tickets begin trickling out; The balloon breasts jump to like 2 billion meseta lol. so much stuff starts happening around me that im like "man this game isnt like... pay to win but SUPER pay to conveinence". but the reality was starting to get a little bit bleaker by the end of pso2 era for F2P players.
To come full circle here with what drove me to rant and rave about this al;l is how the model has progressed in NGS. We lived in an age where there was no player shop access for f2p (unless you were sitting on a dragons hoard of unsed 3 days from base game), there were no rooms, even premium benefits were basically nil outside of a shop. AC scratches were getting pumped at at an all time high, no concerts, no real entertainment of any kind; just fuggin resol forest all day. and finally we have come to an age of content where sega finally makes skill trees not cost money to change; but just sells you the ability to skip playing the game. and not only that but effectively spawn in the best items in the game for AC. It just feels so unfortunate that the content has dried up; nothing feels anywhere near as creative or fun. the combat is inch deep; as are the skill trees. theres no crazy combos; no 20 piece combo craziness. just the same 4-5 moves; on repeat; with mostly some % buffs thrown in.
I havent even begun to mention the mile long list of other stuff missing that even base game had. Bas egame had some genunely fun and challeneging content. there were fun missions to run and it made sense to do them. NGS is just devoid of any of the charm of fun that made any of its previous iterations great; and all while gouging you for more and more.
I know this trails all over the place and has a rushed conclusion, but i was just reading the patch notes considering dipping my toes back into the water again after skipping stia; and im just honestly so turned off by it. nothing has changed; no major interesting content has dropped; and now they are going full on pay to win. I'll be honest; i think ill just stick to clementine server or something; because at least there, the devs actually give a shit about the game. I feel like im in an abusive relationship im just waking up to after 10 years os PSO or something. and with that i dont have much else to say tbh. i love this franchise, and i want to love this game; but SEGA really just cannot do right with this game.

My family are immigrants to America from from Portugal. Grandma and Grandparents still take Latin language mass, believing it to be the only legit form of mass.......
Now my Avos are pretthy nationalistic, to the point they have been accused of white supremacy by modern woke crowds. Even discounting how seemingly patriotic they are about being Portugeuse, they hold many old views like homosexuality being a great evil, using condom condemns to hell, and so many "rightwing beliefs"..............
Yet despite that they will treat statue of nonwhite Jesus used by Brazillians with utmost sacredness, they had prayed to a Lady of Guadalupe statue without hesitation, and despite their bragging about Portuguese pride they treat everybody black, Vietnamese, and so on with complete respect. Even allowing my sister to marry a MidEastern person who attends an Eastern Catholic Church and treating one of my cousins who's dark skinned and half Guatemalan with utmost equality as a family member.
However as I said earlier they only attend Latin mass church. They genuinely believe that Language was the one sole thing that kept the whole Church united and Vatican 2 Open a permanent damage to the Church by creating more ethnic strife bby allowing the use of different langauges. That Latin as the sacred liturgy was what keep people from all different churches and races using a variety of art traditions from the stereotypical desert Hispanic design of architectural building to the Lady of La Vang who looks very Vietnamese.............. That the Church as united through Latin and the language effectively shut people from beinging controversial issues to mass such as illegal immigration from non-English countries and white supremacy and ethnic segregation in France and other nations where French is an official language.
So they believe despite John Paul II's benevolent intentions, officially allowing Vernacula Mass has destroyed Church unity and is a big reason why stuff like BLM and Latinos refusing to learn English are getting hacked into the Church.........
That said I know Eastern Orthodoxy on the fsurface seems dicided by ethnicity...... Yet any devoute Orthodox Christian shares the same views as my grandparents where despite being proud of their ethnicity, they'd ultimately believe we are all human and despite nationality, race, and ethnicity were are all equal under the banner of one church.... And that this is pretty much the stancce of the Orthodox council that all humans within the CHurch are ultimately all human beings equal under the eyes of God...........
SO it makes me curious. Oothodox Christianity from what I can read fromt he beginning had always been a supporter of the Vernacular and the Church believes local language liturgy reflects just how much mankind is equal in God's eyes and respectful of all the different cultures under Eastern Orthodoxy. I even seen some theologians in Orthodoxy point out to the Tower of Babel as proof that God does not want a united language in the united Churchh but wants a variety of language used in mass across the entire Orthodoxy.
Yet Eastern Orthodoxy is very rigid in art traditions. Where as you have Churches in Peru of Mary wearing Incan clothes and even the Biblical people being represented as different races in a single Church (like a church in Juarez having a white Jesus Christ yet all Mary statues are the nonwhite Lady of Guadalupe) as well as apparitions of Mary appearing as a black woman or an infant Jesus appearing as person from Prague..............
Eatern Orthodoxy demands all MAry icons to appear the same, all Jesus crucifixes with similar appearances, etc. Not only is the Orthodox Church's position is permanent about the racial appearance of Jesus in Church art, they even pretty much only allow one specific style of art. 2D art. Almost all entirely icon with a few glass stains and perhaps a sculpted stone work or two. But all are completely 2 Dimensional and created to show Jesus, Mary, and the Biblical figures looking like a Jewish Palestinians or Hebrew. Unlike Catholicism where you have paintings, marble statues, colored figurrines, and a whole hell of variety of art styles ina single church in addition to the diversification of Biblical figures to represent local population's cultures and ethnic demographs.
But somehow despite the reigid art approach, Eastern Orthodoxy is the Church that learned to appreciate vernacular mass centuries early on in Christian history while Catholicism was so harsh about a single language in mass and otehr sacred rites.. And one thats already been dead for centuries by the time of the Crusades, Latin......
So I ask why? Esp since so many people wrongly assume Eastern Orthodoxy is a racist denomination full of segregation or at least orthodoxy is full of ethnic strie in Churches. I seen people assume that they cannot go to a Serbian Orthodox Church if they are not Serbian because they think its a completely different denomination from Ukraine and based on bigotry whether you are Serbian or not sums up what people assume Orthodox Churches are like.
Despite what my grandparents believe about Latin being encessary for the Church's unity, I myself find it bizarre it took so long for local language to be used in mass considering how diverse Catholic art tradition is about different cultures and how Catholicism has a tradition of different nationalisies and ethnic groups attending a single parish even in very racist places like Australia.
Why did these trends happen?