#loop ties

[srjsteel]

The Importance of Wire Binding and Construction Rings

Binding wire, an often-overlooked hero, holds together the intricate network of reinforcement that goes into every strong concrete construction. This necessary building component is vital to maintaining both structural soundness and high-quality construction.

Understanding Binding Wire Fundamentals

Binding wire serves as the crucial connector that holds reinforcement bars together before concrete pouring. Made from high-quality annealed steel, this versatile material ensures reinforcement components maintain their designed positions throughout the construction process.

Types of Wire Binding Methods

Different construction projects require specific wire binding techniques. The most common methods include:

Single Loop Binding: Perfect for light-duty applications, this method provides adequate strength while conserving material.

Double Loop Binding: Offers enhanced stability for heavy-duty applications where additional security is crucial.

Figure-Eight Binding: Provides superior grip and prevents slippage in critical structural elements.

Construction Rings and Their Relationship with Binding Wire

Construction rings work in tandem with binding wire to create robust reinforcement assemblies. These rings serve multiple purposes:

Maintaining proper spacing between reinforcement bars

Ensuring adequate concrete coverage

Supporting the overall reinforcement structure

The combination of properly installed construction rings and secure wire binding creates a stable framework for concrete placement.

Quality Considerations for Binding Wire

Several factors determine binding wire quality:

Material Composition: High-grade binding wire contains the optimal balance of strength and flexibility, ensuring easy installation while maintaining durability.

Gauge Selection: Different applications require specific wire gauges. Professional contractors understand when to use lighter or heavier gauge binding wire based on structural requirements.

Surface Treatment: Quality binding wire often features special coatings that enhance corrosion resistance and handling characteristics.

Installation Best Practices

Proper wire binding techniques significantly impact construction quality:

Preparation

Clean wire surfaces before binding

Ensure construction rings are properly positioned

Verify reinforcement spacing meets specifications

Execution

Maintain consistent tension during wire binding

Secure ends properly to prevent unwinding

Check stability after installation

Cost-Benefit Analysis

While material costs matter, considering the long-term benefits of quality binding wire remains crucial:

Reduced risk of reinforcement displacement

Better concrete consolidation

Enhanced structural integrity

Lower maintenance requirements

Safety Considerations

Proper wire binding directly impacts construction safety:

During Construction

Prevents reinforcement cage collapse

Maintains proper concrete coverage

Ensures worker safety during concrete placement

Long-term Safety

Contributes to structural stability

Helps maintain design specifications

Enhances building durability

Environmental Factors

Different environmental conditions affect binding wire performance:

Coastal Areas: Salt exposure requires special consideration for wire binding materials and construction rings.

Seismic Zones: Enhanced binding techniques may be necessary to ensure stability during earthquakes.

Temperature Extremes: Special attention to thermal expansion and contraction helps prevent future issues.

Choosing the Right Products

When selecting binding wire and construction rings, consider:

Project specifications

Environmental conditions

Load requirements

Installation conditions

Budget constraints

Future Trends in Construction Materials

While basic wire binding principles remain constant, innovations continue to emerge:

Enhanced coating technologies

Pre-fabricated solutions

Sustainable material options

Improved installation tools

Making Informed Decisions

The success of construction projects often depends on seemingly small details. Choosing appropriate binding wire and construction rings, while implementing proper wire binding techniques, helps ensure structural integrity and project success.

High-quality materials may initially cost more, but their durability, ease of installation, and long-term performance make them worthwhile investments. By focusing on proper material selection and installation techniques, construction professionals may create projects that last.

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[lucabyte]

Olive Branch

Wrong Move

[abd-illustrates]

YOU!! I DONT KNOW IF PEOPLE SEND ASKS ABOUT HEARTLESS ANYMORE BUT I RECENTLY RESURFACED BACK TO IT AND I JUST *EXPLOSION SOUNDS* /pos

BRO I cannot express to you how much I think about Doppel and Glass and their character concepts and their dynamic and just generally the story. Man, I don't know what it is about those two, but like...AJHSJHD!!

I really like thinking about angst and ways that you can make both of them complex and stuff, you know, separating from just "haha silly comic relief guys!" I like thinking about them and how their not the same, and how they're both technically separate beings kinda? And how they're different and stuff and AA-

ALSO I love they're character design man? Like, it looks...crunchy. that's probably a bad way to put it, but they feel like those sensory videos where people take wax and slime and crush it all up and its really satisfying and crunchy.

AUGH they're all so awesome and I love love LOVE thinking about Heartless as a story and how it would play out and stuff. Keep up the good work and stuff, sorry for word bombing you I just suddenly got a lot of feelings and had to get it out somewhere

sgssgfjsgh thank u so much for taking the time to send this ask dude!

Seeing any love for the Heartless gang always sparks more joy than I can convey, no matter when -- but ur timing is uncanny haha, these two have been on my mind a lot lately too! (Especially since the new Madds Buckley song dropped 'cause it's just sO--- 👀😩🤌)

I'm not very articulate rn but pls take this doodle as a big thank u for the encouragement and for sharing ur thoughts about 'em! 🪞💜

[spaciebabie]

i dunno i never draw him from the back so i did that

[spacetimegoddess]

Doodle! ☺️

[blueskittlesart]

*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?

tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.

[sillyabtmusic]

Camellia - Xion

[cheralith]

i have an itch to write about girldad kaiser

[lucabyte]

So does anybody else ever think about how Loop felt the need to demonstrate that the party's deaths wouldn't have any effect on the loops. I know I do but that's besides the point. Anyway I don't think Loop actually needs to bathe, they just like to feel included.

[1brickat-atimes]

This is my In Stars and Time Good Place AU! Basically when Siffrin first dies to the rock in the death corridor instead of looping back to the meadow they appear in an office. In this au Siffrin takes the place of Michael, and Loop takes the place of Janet (bc like Janet Loop is also forced to help people out). When the rest of the party dies in the house or from freezing or whatever happens if Siffrin isn’t there then they all appear in the Good Place as well. Siffrin wouldn’t want to torture his friends - so instead what they do is they try to make “the perfect” world for his party. Like Michael, Siffrin organizes activities and things to do to help their friends, but as time goes on the rest of them start to figure out that something’s wrong. Every time this happens, Siffrin “reboots/resets” or “loops” them and they start back in the welcome room. Shenanigans ensue, and the rest of the party continues to figure out something is wrong and Siffrin and Loop have to deal with that. I’m not sure how it ends yet - but I do have a lot of ideas!

[thelilylav]

and I love you so much, I’m going to let you kill me

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A little edit in honour of me destroying the relationship between these two in my fic

[rose-above-dark]

Day 1 of writing ultrakill: hehehe machine powered by blood!! Mankind is dead, gabriel wants to fuck that machine

Day ???? Of writing ultrakill: hell is alive. Hell is alive and we are the entertainment, marked by blood as the fuel. The terminals watch us: for they and we are ultimately what’s left of humanity. They are an archive of everything mankind has ever achieved and one of its last remaining idols. There is nothing left to consume but yourself. The loop will endlessly repeat until either entropy- or yourself finally, mercifully ends it. You and Gabriel are tools now without purpose and now you must find it. Through Gabriel are you able to reach peak performance, the penultimate version of yourself. Through V1 Gabriel is able to achieve a form of deliverance- ecstasy through a newfound freedom. This is a wretched, bloodied love story that’s alive with every player as its intestines and entrails- eating itself whole. By killing each other- you will destroy everything you have left. You must break the loop today or the loop will repeat tomorrow. Gabriel really wants to fuck that machine and V1 wants that angel BADLY

[xelidonia]

My appearance headcanon for Loop is that their body has the texture of a Minecraft end gateway block: A window directly to the void. The stars aren't a pattern on the surface of their body; their body is just three-dimensional emptiness, and the Universe is visible through it, so if they moved around you'd see different pieces of the night sky. Unfortunately this is nigh-impossible to convey in drawings

[mbti-notes]

Anon wrote: I am an ESTP, 17y. Even though I consider myself as an ESTP, I’m confused by certain aspects of my thought process that I associate with Fi. More specifically, I’m puzzled by my emotional reactions to certain things, which are quite hard to describe — I don’t fully understand their causes or nature.

I suppose it’s worth mentioning that, in terms of moral development, I’m at a stage where I try to maintain the approval of others. I believe this stems from emotional insecurity or, more precisely, a sense of inadequacy, which I attribute to my upbringing: I was a spoiled child, as my parents did everything for me and, as a result, failed to instill independence and a strong work ethic.

After comparing myself to others, I concluded that I lagged behind my peers in terms of emotional development and maturity. By this, I mean that I was somewhat aggressive (I infer this from the emotional harm I caused to some friends), stubborn, attention-seeking, and had a sense of superiority — I wanted to be better than others. I was also somewhat cowardly and, therefore, overly accommodating in social situations (because I didn’t know how to behave properly and was afraid of embarrassing myself).

I tried to correct these traits by aligning myself with public morality and seeking others’ approval. However, here lies a paradox: I was attempting to grow, but my motivation was the desire to be better than others, so every approval I received became proof of my superiority. In this sense, I equated intelligence with maturity, and thus viewed approval as evidence of my intellect. Later, I began to recognize this paradox, though I didn’t try to resolve it — I simply accepted it as a given, even though I worried that it might make my judgment biased or unreliable.

Why am I telling this? Because I believe it contributes to the “strangeness” of my thought process. I experience odd emotional reactions — physically unpleasant, strangely enough — when I see people doing things purely for profit or acting in a shallow, insincere way. I suppose the closest word for this feeling is resentment.

Why do I associate this with my moral development? I believe these reactions stem from my efforts to follow societal values and norms, which leads me to judge others based on those standards. However, this judgment feels automatic and involuntary — not something derived from conscious reasoning.

So, I wonder: are these reactions simply ingrained social values, or could they be better explained by the Fi function? In other words, might Fi drive me to maintain alignment between my behavior and personal identity, values, and preferences — such that insincerity or dehumanizing behavior triggers emotional resistance?

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You've described your thought process well enough that I understand the patterns. I don't believe any of it points to Fi, though I get why you would consider the possibility. There is actually a very distinct absence of Fi all along the way, from childhood until now. Realistically, there's no way auxiliary Fi would arise so suddenly and so late, even if you were to experience a huge life-changing event (which you haven't).

Even when people aren't very subjectively aware of their auxiliary function due to delayed development, from an objective observer's vantage point, evidence of the function will still appear to permeate judgment and decision-making. But there is no such underlying evidence of Fi in your case. There is for Ti, though.

A lot of people suffer from self-esteem issues, so it isn't specifically a personality type problem. However, type tends to make an appearance in how people choose to respond to low self-esteem, which is one factor I often examine when assessing type.

A common response to low self-esteem is compensation:

Compensation is a defense mechanism whereby a person attempts, usually unconsciously, to address a perceived weakness, flaw, or deficiency by "growing" in a way that serves to mask their insecurity about it.

Overcompensation happens when people strive too hard for a sense of superiority in one facet of life in order to cover up a sense of inferiority in some other facet.

By my understanding, compensation is a reaction to low self-esteem (feeling bad about yourself) and overcompensation extends beyond self-esteem into low self-worth (not feeling "good enough", e.g., to deserve acceptance and love).

In order to possess the self-confidence necessary to succeed in life, one needs to build up life skills, skills that help one meet challenges and adapt appropriately to changing circumstances. Life challenges and circumstances are quite diverse, so life skills are also quite diverse. To give you a bigger picture view of life skills and why they require lifelong commitment to improve, they include things such as:

analytical skills

caregiving skills

civic literacy skills

communication skills

community building skills

conflict resolution skills

creative thinking skills

decision making skills

diet management skills

emotional regulation skills

financial literacy skills

home maintenance skills

housekeeping skills

leadership skills

media literacy skills

networking skills

organization skills

planning skills

problem solving skills

productivity skills

relationship skills

research skills

self-care skills

self-directed learning skills

self-expression skills

stress management skills

teamwork skills

technological skills

time management skills

Why is over/compensation unhealthy? Mainly because it is a distraction that doesn't address the real underlying problem. Using your case as an example, you felt inadequate due to the fact that your upbringing didn't prepare you to succeed in life on your own. What your parents did is not your fault, but now you have a problem to deal with. How should one respond to this problem? Logically, one ought to pick up the knowledge and skills that one missed out on learning earlier in life as soon as possible. Doing this would gradually boost independence and self-esteem in a healthy way.

Many people don't know that throughout the history of psychology, "intelligence" has always been a controversial concept and very difficult to define properly. In the most basic terms, intelligence is the ability to learn new concepts in a timely manner and apply them effectively. From this perspective, increasing your skillfulness through learning and improving life skills is a legitimate expression of intelligence. A truly intelligent person is humble, in that they know what they don't know and then work to fill in the gaps appropriately. The notion of superiority/inferiority never enters the picture.

The "intelligence" you speak of doesn't seem to bear any resemblance to the above, does it? For some reason, you linked the concept of intelligence to social approval and feelings of superiority. Social perception and subjective feelings are not reliable measures, are they? Social perception changes with the times. For example, what was once socially acceptable becomes socially unacceptable a mere ten years later. Feelings can be fleeting and are not always an accurate representation of reality. For example, today you feel great because you got a good night's sleep, but tomorrow you feel terrible because you ate a bad dinner the night before.

When you stake your personal identity on murky things such as social perception and subjective feelings, don't be surprised that your existence eventually becomes very unstable. Mental instability creates phenomena such as intrusive thoughts, weirdly intense feelings, and inexplicable mood swings. And then a lot of mental energy gets wasted trying to manage instability, energy that could otherwise be spent on learning and growth.

To put it bluntly, you were creating an illusion of intelligence based on appearances rather than expressing genuine intelligence, unconsciously believing that compensation would cure low self-esteem. But relying on other people's validation to feel good about yourself is a problem because it puts you forever in the position of a passive victim, always at the mercy of external opinions, always reacting from behind. Is it possible to become a truly independent person by taking this path? Quite the opposite, taking this path is the road to perpetual dependency and, thus, chronic low self-esteem.

When people engage in over/compensation, they're not actually addressing the most pressing skill deficits (long-term solution) but, rather, merely trying to alleviate negative feelings such as shame or resentment (short-term bandaid). Best-case outcome is that their skills never improve and personal growth stagnates. Worst-case outcome is they pick up bad habits that increase the chances of mistakes and failures in life, such as putting ever more energy into keeping up appearances and neglecting actual growth.

While you were correct to emphasize the notion of intelligence, and your desire to grow in that direction came from a good place, the method you chose was ultimately unhealthy and could even become self-destructive. Basically, you calculated wrong because you didn't know any better, and I hope that my answering this question for you helps you to know a bit better. For what it's worth, the particular method of compensation you chose for responding to low self-esteem is consistent with tertiary Fe loop patterns that result from underdeveloped auxiliary Ti.

At this point in your life, you are almost an adult, so the call to independence is at its loudest. You have a choice to make: Are you going to choose the right means to become a truly capable and independent adult? Or are you going to keep relying on childish tricks and games to fool yourself into thinking you're smarter than you really are? If you keep choosing the latter, your life will eventually be dominated by fear of being exposed as a fraud or imposter.

If you're going to keep relying on what you call "public morality", you're going to keep running into uncomfortable contradiction after uncomfortable contradiction. Why? Because the elevation of public morality as the ultimate moral standard is problematic. Public morality is a fuzzy and transitory concept, so it cannot be any kind "ultimate" standard. However, public morality does have legitimate usefulness in terms of societal cohesion and advancement, so it should not be entirely dismissed, either. The issue is whether you eventually have enough intelligence to apply the concept more appropriately.

These disturbing "feelings" you're describing are related to the emergence of your own personal moral conscience, which is a vital step in moral development for all people. Moral development is a separate matter from type development, though they intersect at times. Becoming an adult should include developing an independent moral point-of-view, otherwise, you will always be easily tricked and manipulated by external forces.

And when personal values and public morality collide, what are you going to do? You need critical thinking skills to work out the conflict in the best way, which should be part and parcel of Ti development. If you are anything like other ESTPs, your line of inquiry is heading in the wrong direction towards Fi perhaps because you are unconsciously trying to shirk the responsibility of thinking more deeply on such matters? If you did think deeply, it would seriously interfere with the old Fe loop compensation strategy, and then life would become much more complicated and threaten you with Ni horrors?

Deep down, auxiliary Ti is trying to inform you that not every public moral stance is correct, reasonable, or defensible. The reason you're starting to see a problem out there is because it reflects a problem inside you, with your way of thinking that you just copied from the outside. Essentially, Ti is the voice that tells you when your thought process is stupid and in need of correction. It urges you to probe a little deeper and develop a more independent, critical, skillful, nuanced, sophisticated, substantive, and well-reasoned way of understanding issues and tackling problems. Will you listen to it?