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[blumineck]

All these bows have the same problem*

The Hollywood Wobbly String!

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[mayhaps-a-blog]

There's something that bothers me a little about the complaints that the Preservation Alliance team aren't "professional" in the show compared to the books, and I think it's just... I have a different idea of what professional science looks like.

Even in the books, we don't actually see the team do that much science. They take some "samples", and SecUnit thinks of them as professionals, but other than SecUnit's internal monologue, they don't do that much more than in the show. They actually talk more about their work in the show than in the books!

I wonder if some of it is that the Preservation Alliance doesn't fit what people's idea of a competent scientist, particularly a competent scientist on TV, looks like. They're expecting the Big Bang Theory, or Gurathin bent over a computer terminal muttering "I'm in" as green code plays across his face, or Arada rattling off a bunch of jargon while dissecting an alien creature, or Bharadwaj IDing the alien remnant based on rocks or something. And that's not really how science actually... works.

Honestly, as a scientist, this is one of the more realistic depictions of actual science I could expect from a TV show, unless you wanted to watch several hours of people working quietly at their computers with expressions of various levels of exhaustion, annoyance, and stress on their faces, or sorting samples, or wandering around staring at the dirt, or sitting around debating the nature of "nature" and the ethical implications of terraforming or whatever (which would be cool, but also, not plot relevant, I'll just assume it's happening off-screen). I could sort half my coworkers by which character they're most like: the upbeat professor who's always trying to help (Bharadwaj), the hippy biologist who freaks out about disturbing 'natural processes' (Arada), the extra-friendly super outgoing possibly ADHD guy (Ratthi), and the overly cynical constantly complaining about capitalism and swearing over his grants analyst (Gurathin). I don't know who's got the open marriage because I prefer not to know about the sex lives of my coworkers, but I know some are in pretty messy relationships - that don't spill over into their work. Because they are professionals.

Basically, I look at this show and I see - my office. So when people say that they're not competent, that they're bumbling or not good scientists, honestly, it's kind of annoying. They're people, not just scientists, with stuff going on outside of their work, namely: someone's trying to kill them, something that absolutely none of them are prepared for. You don't learn how to handle that in grad school! Of course they're going to be messy and make mistakes - that's what people do. Scientists too.

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Aircraft

[fluffydeoxys]

some sketchies 2day. i need more hank practice

[magiturge]

NO, NO YOU'RE, YOU'RE JUST A PRODUCT OF MY FOOLISHNESS, YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO WALK NEVADA'S EXPANSE.

YOU ARE NEVER MEANT BEHELD. YOU NEED TO RETURN FROM ONCE YOU CAME, YOU CAN'T. YOU CAN'T.

[olessan]

Matthew Mercer: "😏🤭 hehehehehehe ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"

[redtalics]

the various wimblestages of a wimble-life

[docsbestkissedoperative]

object heads? i don't know man

[noodelzmop]

Check it outtt my miitopia . Um

[vigilskeep]

if you guys are going to keep recommending pillars of eternity you have to help me with character creation. i keep trying to play that but i have to decide so much upfront without knowing anything about the world and it spooks me every time. can anyone recommend me a class and also can anyone point me to solid non-spoilery information about all those places you can be from so i can make a character who makes sense

[sysig]

Do not separate them /threatening (Patreon)

[glfry]

Casual reminder that Deimos is canonically sensitive to loud noises

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[fluffydeoxys]

This is for Zero but I imagine this idea extending to the MPN player as well. The loops happen and everyone's memories are effectively wiped, til one day something broke somewhere.

Doc remembers every loop, and something breaks in him too. He will fix this. He will save you.

[mochitraveller]

is it just me, or is the tumblr side of the ace combat fandom feels so damn chill compared to the other site?

[strawberrystepmom]

very self indulgent but in canon au witch kendy eventually finds out she’s the head of a coven and most of the witches are quite literally like preteen and early teenage girls and some younger bc that’s when witch powers present themselves but selfishly i was imagining how good dante is with all of them earlier and sigh….they love that man they beg me for a dante day when im working them “too hard”

[queer-omens-in-the-archives]

we were literally thinking yesterday "if the challenge has a pose like [pose we envisioned that looked surprisingly like this one] we've gotta make it Mello" and. well. didn't really expect it to happen let alone so soon!! but It Did!! so yay :3