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[braixen]

do you guys have any favorite middle stage pokemon? i feel like most people like the first stage or the last. personally i like flaaffy the most out of the mareep line :3c

[eyelinerpal]

Data: *insists he's incapable of love*

Also Data: creates a daughter and gives her a name that translates to "beloved"

[unorcadox]

ok actually i'm putting this to a poll because i'm curious on the populace's takes

[kue-rangi]

I've been thinking about the kind of playstyle Axl EXE would have. I'm actually curious what kinds of chips he'd use most often xD

Oho , Axl.exe would be a fast navi :] , though he is pretty much low health for a boss

He mostly cycle through his buster gun and his scythe , he mostly like to dash when he uses the scythe and uses mostly sneak attacks ^^ ( comparison maybe spooky virus)

And Axl can make 2 shadow clones of himself like MMX Red ^^)9 , and his ability “A trans” where he can copy other navi and use their power ( but it won’t be as powerful unless he able to get that navi’s full data by defeating them or forcefully extract)

For chips , i think Red is pretty adventurous , though he gives Axl more ranged chip like shotgun or dash

But since Red is legally blind , Axl’s custom bar is slow

[viktor-leagueoflegends]

This is a work in progress but here's a list of all the creators currently catalogued on the archive and their alternate handles; haven't started on consolidating tags to their main handle but that's a goal.

Sheet 2 also has all alternate universes currently catalogued, I've started adding the catch-all "au" tag to them but am not done yet. Both sheets have links that click to the posts tagged on the archive.

[anghraine]

I find it funny to read your posts criticizing other people's Kirk (and Spirk) takes, because you seem entirely incapable of recognizing your own biased takes about "other people are always just being mean to him" Spock.

You are free to block a) my username, b) #st fanwank for general ST or ST fandom complaining, c) my specific Spock tag, #c: i object to intellect without discipline, or the Kirk tag, #c: who do i have to be if you find it "funny" (annoying) to see. If I forget to tag correctly, feel free to send more hatemail!

I've described Spock as smug, bitchy, and now and then an asshole to people just trying to do their jobs, but racism and xenophobia are still shitty and TOS mostly uses Spock to engage with those issues, so no, I don't think apologetics for it are unbiased, and b) that has no bearing on whether I'm right or wrong about Kirk.

[coefficiente]

Identifying Communities in the Top 50 HRPF Characters using the last 12 years of published works (Louvain Algorithm)

[ratcandy]

Ok I said I'd remake this poll out of curiosity so I'm doing it again. Sorry. My curiosities

indulge me

[lesbianvaljean]

les mis data ideas to come

test out separating narration from dialogue, see where narrator first uses certain words

interactive/hoverable character name flow map

stars hoverable dot plot in d3 — ideal is do you love the color of the sky-style stars scrolly (background of character name mention? or volume?)

experiment: can you do motifs with emojis on a graph? 🤔 stars ⭐️ vs garden 🪴vs bread 🍞 for instance

experiment: motif interactive app— pick a word, get it mapped and returned to you! 🤔

anything else folks are interested in👀

[baby-octopus]

i am ...starting to regret joining student gov....

[the-randydowager]

you know the viper being the black divine actually helps make some of his and tarquins conversations make more sense. like they were talking about knight-commander lenos being bought by the venatori and tarquin asked "can't you do anything about it, the templars are part of the chantry" which makes sense that he would ask the viper then huh. but like that's not mentioned in game? at all? so unless you KNOW that you're just like well what's that matter. not even a codex entry??????

[duckprintspress]

This is the best spam I've ever received.

idk, AM I the master mind behind it all? 🤔🤔🤔

...I might be... 🤔🤔🤔

I AM. I AM THE MASTERMIND.

[pink-and-yellow-petals]

Hello. The following is a message from the Teufort Census Bureau.

How would you rate your current employment?

Thank you for your co-operation.

@tf2-data-collection-agency

The Pyro found the letter, the thing starting to sun-bleach and collect dust. They couldn't help but chuckle, wondering just how long it'd been sitting out here, waiting for them to answer.

Their current employment?

Well, they'd been trying to get rehired, but they've been met with radio silence for the last... oh, couple of years now. But for the time they were employed, they had loved it.

They just hoped that when their letter finally reached this... data agency, they'd be a little closer to getting their favourite job back.

[thirtysixsavefiles]

Let's say you eventually die and get transmigrated/isekai'd, but you get to choose what universe you get put into and who you become when you get there. Where are you going?

Oh boy I cannot think of a good answer to this question. 😅

...wait I do have an answer, and it's to check out the Library of the Dreaming because I would love to know what the classification schema is there.

[itsvinzenzdarling]

Hello. The following is a message from the Teufort Census Bureau.

How would you rate your current employment?

Thank you for your co-operation.

@tf2-data-collection-agency

Vinzenz squinted at the print with mild suspicion. They wanted feedback? He had plenty to give but not enough space to write it. If they wanted an in-depth review, it'd be better to meet in person. So he resigned to writing his personal rating:

4/10

"My grievances are with Mann Co, therefore everything I list will be in accordance with their employment: The camaraderie is nice, but many things could be better. The food, the shelter, the equipment, and the administration," he added. "I'd also suggest hiring more competent people but that would mean opening Hale's fat wallet. If you need to reach me for further detail, call my office or wire Administration."

The Medic left the number to his medical bay at the very bottom, and signed his name:

Dr. Vinzenz Rieger

[destinationtoast]

Hello there! I'm currently combing thru various Hetalia character tags and counting the ships that appear for any individual character, and I'm considering doing a write-up like how I see you make them! I'd like to ask you how do you go about formatting/presenting the information? I made a pie chart n everything!

Hi -- that sounds like an awesome project! Very cool. :)

I'll share what I do for data visualization, but I'll also say that there are other ways to do all of this, and depending on your goals, other ways may be better. So this isn't a recommendation -- just insight into my own process.

I use Google Sheets (similar to Excel) to gather/analyze data and to make graphs. (Many other programs/methods would work and have various pros & cons, so if you have a different favorite/you've already made your graphs, no problem! I use Sheets in part because it's easy to share to make my data broadly accessible.)

To get the unified look of my fandom stats -- and because I often want to add additional notes on top of/next to my graphs -- I copy/paste the graphs into Google Slides and add notes/titles/etc there. I have a slide theme that I use to made to get my particular Toastystats look; here's a more generic template of it that you can edit/use yourself, if that's helpful. I like to use it to put a border around my slides (so that if it's on a white background you can still see the edges) and to put my blog credit and the date at the bottom (useful in case someone stumbles across it years later and doesn't realize the data is old, or wants to ask you questions). If you want to change any of the defaults in these template slides (e.g., change the colors or fill in the footer text), you'll need to use the menus to go to "Slide -> Edit theme".

After that, I export each slide as a PNG image ("File -> Download").

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I will also make a quick unsolicited suggestion about pie charts, which you can feel free to ignore: I use bar charts most of the time. I only use pie charts only when I have a bunch of different mutually exclusive categories that add up to 100% -- basically when I can think of the data as creating a "sensible whole pie."

So, for instance, imagine a possible pie here as "Fanworks where Character X is tagged." And I want to show how many of those fanworks have different ship tags. Well, multiple ship tags probably sometimes get used together, which means that actually some of the pie slices (i.e., the ships) should be overlapping, not separate -- and overlapping slices make for weird pie. :) Also, there are probably a large number of Character X tags that don't use any of the ship tags (which at minimum should mean I would also want a large "Other fanworks" slice of pie, if I did use a pie chart). Because of all this, I would probably choose to use a bar chart for that data.

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Feel free to ask more questions if you have them (I recognize that many parts of this could be be confusing, depending on your particular background), and good luck! :)