#Spectator Experience

[drchristophedelongsblog]

The Olympic Games : a veritable playground for technological innovation !

Each edition brings its share of innovations, aimed at enhancing the experience of athletes, spectators and organizers alike. Here are just a few of the technological innovations we can expect to see in the coming editions:

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

- Performance analysis: AI will be used to analyze athletes' performances in real time, identifying each competitor's strengths and weaknesses.

- Results prediction: AI models can be used to predict competition results, offering spectators an even more immersive experience.

- Training optimization: AI will help coaches to personalize their athletes' training programs based on their physiological data and past performances.

Virtual and Augmented Reality

- Immersive experience: Virtual reality will enable spectators to experience competitions as if they were there, offering 360-degree views and interactive experiences.

- Athlete training: Virtual reality will be used to simulate competition situations, enabling athletes to train under realistic conditions.

5G and ultra-fast connections

- Live broadcasting: 5G will enable competitions to be broadcast live in ultra-high definition, with no latency, offering spectators an exceptional visual experience.

- Real-time data: Athletes, coaches and officials will be able to access real-time data thanks to 5G connections, facilitating decision-making.

Drones and sensors

- Tracking athletes: Drones equipped with high-resolution cameras will be used to track athletes during competitions, providing spectacular images.

- Data collection: Sensors will be integrated into sports equipment to collect data on athletes' performance, such as speed, heart rate and strength.

Innovative materials

- Sports equipment: Athletes will benefit from sports equipment designed with innovative materials, offering enhanced performance and comfort.

- Sustainable infrastructure: The materials used to build Olympic venues will be chosen for their low environmental impact and durability.

Other potential innovations

- Biometrics: Facial recognition and other biometric technologies could be used to secure access to Olympic venues and facilitate the identification of participants.

- Blockchain: Blockchain could be used to guarantee data transparency and security, particularly with regard to doping.

These innovations are likely to evolve rapidly. The next editions of the Olympic Games will certainly be an opportunity to discover surprising new technologies.

In short, the Olympic Games are a formidable laboratory of innovation, where the latest technologies are put to the service of sport and entertainment.

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The Exciting Life of High School Mascots

The Joy of Being a High School Mascot Mackenzie Barnes has been a dedicated cheerleader since she was just 10 years old, so she’s no stranger to performing in front of enthusiastic crowds and energizing fans for games. However, her experience took an exciting turn last year when Mackenzie, now 15, stepped into the vibrant role of mascot for her high school in Lancaster, Ohio. This new position…

[blackkatdraws2]

[Achromatic Loop AU]

Animation in progress!

[Small Note Below] ↓

My fixation on the fandom is dwindling!! I am finally ready to turn both my AUs into Original Works. [They already were though the moment I decided to turn them into AUs though LOL]

I AM NOT LEAVING TSP!

Don't get me wrong, this isn't me saying I'm gonna leave the fandom HAHA! I'm not!! :3

I want to let myself free from the restrictions of having to strictly follow the TSP storylines and branch off with my own ideas, you know? Let myself have some fun too. [Because lately, the creative weight of having to bind myself down to TSPs original story has been troubling me~ no fun at all!!]

My AUs have really transformed into something really big!! Elements of The Stanley Parable are still there, but I also want my audience to acknowledge that a lot of the things I make for it are also my own stories and characters now! [Not to misunderstand as me 'claiming' TSP / its characters, I meant that I own the designs, original storylines, and lore for them.]

It's going to be an original work inspired by The Stanley Parable and will contain a lot of elements related to the game itself! [Think of Undertale AUs HAHAHA! The logic here is similar to those!]

I'm still going to make canon TSP related content here and there, but I'm largely going to focus on my two AUs, Achromatic Loop and Blank Scripts.

[clumsypuppy]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[arte-filosofia]

Theatre remains the only place

where the audience confronts itself as a collective. […] Theatre emerged as a form of aesthetic constitution – sensible constitution – of the community. By that I mean the community as a way of occupying a place and a time, as the body in action as opposed to a mere apparatus of laws; a set of perceptions, gestures, and attitudes that precede and pre-form laws and political institutions. More than any other art, theatre has been associated with the Romantic idea of an aesthetic revolution, changing not the mechanics of the state and laws, but the sensible forms of human experience. Hence reform of theatre meant the restoration of its character as assembly or ceremony of community. […] If theatre thus embodies the living community, as opposed to the illusion of mimesis, it is not surprising that the desire to restore theatre to its essence can draw on the critique of the spectacle.

– Jacques Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator (2009)

[incorrect-jojolands-quotes]

brainstorming a main villain for jojolands

I've yet to draw this main villain but I have one in mind that's also based on this post I made predicting the overall story. Given how villains mirror the theme of the story by being unable to realize it or fail at achieving what the theme requires for them to succeed, I made a villain that would represent this for The JOJOLands.

I had this duo Stand ability for a while that also pairs well with the villain too. To not delay any further: meet Venice "V" Vuitton.

V, at the start of The JOJOLands, is the sole head and former heiress of the Vuitton fortune. Known as "new money" in Hawaii's elite, the Vuittons gained their obscene wealth from being major players in the hospitality and tourism industry. Despite their status, they are well-liked by the more "old money" members and have rubbed elbows with families like Howler during their time in the business. The Vuitton hotel chain is seen on every populated island of Hawaii and has spread to states like California and New York in the past 10 years; recently, it opened a new hotel in Japan to begin its international expansion post-COVID. Much of the Vuittons hold varying degrees of power, wealth and status as socialites but a power struggle in the 1990s led to only a few remaining Vuittons to hold onto the fortune: the patriarch grandfather and his wife, their two sons and their wives, and one of the son's daughter Venice. Her family calls her V and never refer to her as anything else but that.

V was the only child of her parents and lived with a silver spoon in her mouth all her life. Despite the Vuittons appearing close-knit and having a reputation of being a loving family, V would describe her childhood as lonely and neglectful. Money was used to give her anything but familial love and her education was more focused on making her become a future wife and socialite than help her follow her dreams or create good memories with her family. The conservative nature of the family and their constant moving around the world also made it difficult for V to keep friends; many kept in touch with her simply because of her connections and wealth. Eventually, V became rebellious and engaged in crimes like petty theft and drug usage in response to the lack of love and connection pushing her over the edge. Rather than use their money to provide her therapy or understand their child, V's parents instead sent her to an involuntary residential treatment center in an island of Hawaii in hopes of "straightening her out".

V spent her remaining teen years there being abused by the staff and one evening planned her escape with other teenagers who had similar upbringings. These teenagers, who were the first and only genuine friends she had, died while trying to escape due to the currents of the ocean. V nearly died trying to escape with them as well but the event helped her discover her duo Stands she never realized until then and used that to save herself.

"Frame by Frame" allowed her to see ten seconds of the past at any moment, manifesting itself as a polaroid camera she activates by taking a snapshot. Its complementary ability, "THE WAITINGMAN", allowed her to drop what she would call an "anomaly" into the past as many times as she wanted. Said anomalies are random changes in the past that either result in no changes in the present (a small rock moving one inch to the left) or a drastic change instead (making someone change their mind about killing someone). On a whim, she used her abilities to save herself from drowning that night; the anomaly dropped was a driftwood that helped her float back to the shore.

Realizing how she could change the past, she used her Stand abilities again to first prevent her friends from dying, then to avoid certain abuse from the center's staff, and eventually to prevent her parents from shipping her and her friends off to the treatment center all together. She began dropping frequent anomalies as a means to rewrite her past so that her family, once cold and unable to show her love, now became doting and kind to her in the present. V could tell by the photos and home videos, now heavily altered from what it was before, that the anomalies worked to transform her family into one that she yearned for all these years. Unfortunately, changing the past doesn't mean altering the memories she had of it; she could only see those "good times" she supposedly experienced in the past through the screen and everyone else never knew about the "bad times" she seemed to only remember. Her friends, as a result of surviving and never going to the treatment center, never remembered the trauma they went through with her or even knew her beyond being another Vuitton in the elite circles, another rich girl with connections and money. Everyone else's memories have been altered by the anomalies- except hers.

In response to this, V decided to use her Stands to kill off her remaining family and friends affected and she became the sole head of the Vuittons at age 20 as a result. She did this by carefully putting various anomalies in the past so that people died in different ways at different times in history; the deaths were seen simply as a series of absurd events that made people sympathetic to V's curated tragedy. It's implied that "power struggle" mentioned earlier was caused by V's abilities and she played along with what the media called "The Vuitton Curse". Now the new head of the family and of the Vuitton estate, her young age and reputation as a party girl made the media paint her as a ditzy, bratty socialite during the 2010s who frequented the Hawaiian party scene and is surrounded by similar socialites who she called her friends or besties. However, those behind closed doors knew her as a savvy businesswoman who is milking the reputation of "famous for being famous" to her own use. V was now a brand, the precursor to the modern social media star, and able to make the world view her at worst a caricature and at best an icon. She actually has no genuine friends beyond those she pretends to be friends with for the photos and connections. She uses her anomalies to alter and experiment with the past so she could maintain her Vuitton revenue while pretending to be a harmless "celebutante" that gained a cult following of fans who find her aesthetics and opulent lifestyle pleasing or ideal. The world mostly see her as a pretty socialite who's persona has created several edits and online content by the netizens that see her performance as "iconic" and nothing more. Ten years later, at age 30, she would encounter and go up against Jodio Joestar in the story. Another case of Jodio's team trying to go after a rich person's fortune and not realizing they're up against another Stand User, she finds out he's able to see her abilities, how she was behind almost every aspect of his own life going down the drain. She becomes threatened with the possibility that her coveted powers are going to be taken away by him. That may be how her story ends: forgotten like the memories she altered, locked away in some form so no one could find her, and no longer having the ability that was supposed to save her.

Her current motivation in the story is boredom.

In her mind, she has already gained everything she wants and can get anything else if she desires within seconds if she wanted to. She has no use for achieving bigger goals, pursuing a better life, or finding new relationships to bond over when she can just use her Stands to get it almost instantly; she simply chooses not to. No one understands this about her and therefore no one is on her level or worthy enough to get on it. She is unable to make memories or experiences that are genuinely meaningful due to her Stands and therefore unable to share or bond with others over either. She doesn't desire to change anything for any reason other than to satisfy her boredom. Her days, if she's not partying or shopping or occasionally checking on her business ventures, are spent reading old news articles or history books to use Frame by Frame to find a point in time to manipulate and see what happens after she drops the anomaly (or several). At one point, she tried to use her powers for good and prevent global tragedies, but quickly became bored of "playing savior" and decided to just stick to only changing the past for her own pleasure instead. If you dig deeper, her fears stem from losing this upper status in life, this ability to supposedly play God, this boring and seemingly uneventful life disrupted. She knew what it was like to be controlled and lack agency despite being given everything on a silver platter- and she dare not return back to that.

While the ability results in altering people's memories, sometimes those memories of the previous past lingers on; people unaware of the Stand powers being used have cited the phenomenon as "Mandela effects". The most recent anomaly V dropped was making a certain bird trapped in a burning school bus.

So, yeah! That's all I have for V! Let me know what you think of her. You're also free to draw her as well if you like!

[unofskylanderspages]

Did you know? Although Gillmen are not actually fish, Spyro calls Gill Grunt a fish in the Beginning trailer.

[supercantaloupe]

what’s a fun fact about you that people may not guess

i am not anyone's idea of athletic. however since my social circle is like 90% other honors student orchestra losers, i technically qualify as a jock given that i have six years of experience playing field hockey

[iersei]

can i get an Alastor from hazbin hotel sketch?

[VOTE FOR GLENN CLOSE IN THE CURRENT ROUND OF THIS TOURNAMENT HERE AND GET A SKETCH REQUEST]

remember to smile!

[bumblingbabooshka]

In the mirror universe Tuvok is teaching Kes evil telepathy [Ex: Compelling people, giving them headaches, etc.] and he was so proud when she literally boiled his blood that one time. It was still an accident but he thought it was excellent. Just do that to OTHER people next time. You're my star pupil, Kes.

[hershelwidget]

Octonauts Skribbl.io Highlights

These get chaotic very fast I'm so sorry

The Hatsune Mikus First one was from K_K, second and third by Jarvis, and the rest by Gilb

The Autism Squad First by K_K, second by Debby, third forth and fifth by Iris, sixth by Jarvis, seventh by Debby, eighth and ninth by Iris

The most accurate Octopod Spirit image we'll ever get By Jarvis

Weezer By Tristan

Something in the biscuit By Gilb

Stain Edwards Jumpscare By Tristan

And. Tweak Consistently in a Stance All by Jarvis

There's PLENTY more but I already reached the image limit so the rest will be in a reblog :3

We had. so much fun. If any of the credits are incorrect I will adjust them to their proper owner, my memory isn't too bright but I am certain these are the correct people!

[ghostyboys]

I am trying to write a YouTube video summarising the Nemesis/Reborn/Subterra/Phalanx lore (as I realised while making my lore PowerPoint that getting the full picture is very hard and I wanted to help some people out) but it is taking so much effort not to go on stupid tangents and turn it into like a 10 hour rant

Of course if I ever finish it is another thing but it's not like I've not got time

[foxmulderautism]

my experience as an autistic writer is my silly little story honestly feels like an alternate version of this universe that i just have access to for some reason and spectate which is why it feels so real because as far as im concerned it is real what else would it feel like to have entire lives playing out inside your head? but i don’t think i can just say that to people unless they feel the same 👍

[bas-rouge]

@triangle-dog you put it far more eloquently than I could have. Exactly this.

[cosmicthrillseekers]

this i believe was my 98th show ive been to in general according to my incomplete document of every band ive ever seen so later this month we should hit the big 100

[hag-lad]

Who in the shitting hell actually watches family vlogs????? You only get one life on this beautiful earth, and you spend it watching random parents exploit their children for ad revenue???