#nerd time

[torchiiko]

found out plague flight is doing a reverse conquest where they try to stay at the bottom of the dom leaderboard & honestly i wish them .. success? unsuccess?? i hope they achieve their goal

[jak2gooberglub]

I JUST REALIZED HOW THE ECO TYPES FIT INTO DARK JAK

SO DARK ECO IS THE INVERTED COMBO OF RED, BLUE, AND YELLOW ECO.

AND IT FITS IN THIS WAY.

RED ECO = STRENGTH

IN DARK JAK ITS HIS (obviously) STRENGTH AND ANIMALISTIC LOOK.  AS WELL AS HIS DARK GIANT FORM GIVING OFF STRENGTH IN SIZE

BLUE ECO = MOVEMENT SPEED

THIS IS WHAT MAKES HIM RUN QUICK AND GIVES HIM THE LITTLE DARK BOLTS OF ENERGY COMING OFF HIM, AS WELL AS THE DARK BLAST WHICH SENDS BEAMS OF ELECTRICITY/DARK ECO SHOOTING AT ENEMIES.  BLUE ECO CAN ALSO BE NOTICED IN HIS INVISIBILITY ABILITY IN JAK 3, AS BLUE ECO IS LIGHTINING QUICK AND CAN ACTIVATE TECH LIKE THE ONE DOOR THAT NEEDS THE DARK JAK INVISIBILITY!! (it's a stretch but still...)

YELLOW = LONG RANGE ATTACKS/FIRE

THIS COULD BE SEEN AS EITHER THE DARK BOMB, BEING LONG RANGE MIXED WITH THE RED ECO STRENTGH.  OR THE WAY HES ABLE TO JUMP FROM ENEMY TO ENEMY WITH EASE (also blue eco but still).  BUT THE YELLOW ECO IS MAINLY VISIBLE IN THE DARK STRIKE IN JAK 3 WITH HIS LONG RANGE PLASMA BALL TYPE ATTACK.

Also to note, green eco is not present in dark eco, as it is a counter to it.  As well as light eco (obviously)

(I've been geeking out about the eco types and how they work within the games for the past few nights lol)

[tieitoffinlace]

my hungry ass could never be a librarian

[the-suicidal-lizard]

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Why Season 3 Would Be A Bad Idea… Nerd Time.

First look at those nerds, those dweebs, those goofs. I love them and want to squeeze them. Okay onward!

I’m gonna get hate for this… and I accept that. But, please hear me out. For personal reasons first of all, I’m happy how it ended because if Venus was introduced as fans theorised I’d be disappointed because Venus is my LEAST favourite character. (Probably because I really disliked the Next Mutation.) Now my personal reasons are out of the way with, let’s get technical.

Have any of you watched a TMNT show where it was consistently good? And I mean, up until the last seasons? Because I haven’t.

The 1987 version was non-linear, much like Rise is, HOWEVER Rise has a beginning and ending. 1987 didn’t, but that was from the 80’s and it was bound to be silly. It was made to sell toys and the episodes were made around the toys, so obviously it wasn’t going to be linear. Then it was cancelled without an actual ending (no shock).

Okay, so! 2003! They actually had a good arc! Season 5 was meant to be the last season, but they were in demand and made Season 6 (Fast Forward) and Season 7 (Back to the Sewers) in which it became ridiculous, repetitive and just boring. The designs were less dark and rough, and more childish and bright. Not to mention even the future ideas were dumb. Like, you offed Shredder plenty of times you don’t need him back! (Thought Season 6 has a soft spot in my heart due to the Dark Turtles.) So it was cancelled without a solid ending.

How about 2012? A similar thing happened. Half way through Season 3 it was already getting a bit silly, I mean they were to space, then there was Dracula, and it was just… so much… like they turned emo at one point! It was insane! (Again, the space arc is special to me due to the Journey into the Centre of Mikey’s Mind.) So again, this was cancelled with a sad excuse of a final episode.

Even the 1990’s Movies! By the third movie, it is agreed upon that that movie is the worst. And The Next Mutation didn’t get a second season, but the again it is generally agreed upon that The Next Mutation is a poor TMNT adaptation. (2007 never got that sequel with the focus on Mikey due to layoffs and the director leaving, and Astro Boy bombed, thus causing the studio to go bankrupt.)

So, what would have happened with Rise? The same thing. By Season whatever, it would become ridiculous, and stupid, maybe repetitive and it would be cancelled without enough time to make a good, solid ending. Rise got Character Development (something 1987 and 2012 didn’t get), a plot with goofy episodes showing the bond in brotherhood (something 2012 didn’t get), a final where everything’s resolved (something none of the previous shows got), and a movie which had a solid story, character development and it didn’t feel like it was for nostalgia sake or even a cash grab. (Something 2012 didn’t get.)

Turtles Forever is a crossover movie with 1987 and 2003, but the marketing was handled poorly and was released for TV rather than a full length movie in the cinema and it was poor due to the style changes for the 2003 gang. Though it is considered to be non-canon, unlike the Rise Movie, and again, unlike the Rise Movie, it wasn’t given a theatrical release.

Now, could there have been more character development for the Rise Gang? Oh definitely! Leo could show his leadership skills developing, Mikey could show his skills developing, Donnie could develop his emotional skills and Raph could help Leo co-lead and develop his skills to relax. Casandra could be given more screen time and character development, as could Draxum and Big Mama. But don’t forget, you guys got a theatrical release movie (at least in China) and the movie never had problems with that release like Turtles Forever (such as ratio problems and cutting time down), you guys got an actual ending to the series, with decent character development and story arcs, and new characters and places. And don’t forget, the seasons always got ridiculous after the first few seasons…

That being said I would still watch Season 3-however many seasons they would do of Rise TMNT, because I like TMNT… I’m just being technical.

[bee-1010]

Went to a con with @chibistarlyte and @hobbitunderthemountain. Got a couple of autographs, a cool tote and books.

Cheers to another con.

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[craniodedragao]

Actually Terriermon is a dog * nerd noises * for Plotmon is the same is a dog not a seal.

Another thing too is why they got a pic with fan made digimon on the Leomon evolution line? LOL

Digimon is more focused in pre-teens then kids but anyways.

Digimon evolution lines are like this:

I'm not going to spend my time presenting the almost infinite possibilities, otherwise I'm going to spend my whole life doing this LOL

Digimon are made of data, they can become whatever they want depending on the environment, how they are treated, etc.

This thread explains it very well:

listen I love Pokemon but this person is SO right

[stealingpotatoes]

well that odysseus guy never had to deal with a self checkout so if anything my grocery odyssey is actually worse than whatever he was doing

[redwyverndht]

nerd time: why is the gamma function equivalent to (x-1)! , do we need that asymptote on 0 so bad? why not have the asymptote at 1 and call it a day? there's so much weird shit with this function istg

[deoxyribovoltaic-acid]

Evolution of most major chordate lineages. Y’all mothafuckas ain’t ready for these Drepanosaur hands

the spn drama could take a whole year to explain in the least so i’m good

[torchiiko]

the worst kind of dragon is one where the colors never work all at the same time. prim & tert can match with the right genes, but not the sec. other genes make the prim & sec match, but now the tert looks out of place. id actually kill for a single color scatterscroll but a lot of players are against the idea :/

[marlynnofmany]

In the interest of not derailing this already-long-and-awesome thread, here are some more details! (Paging @sparrows-corner and any other interested parties.)

So in my first semester of college, I took an Intro to Psychology class. I didn't expect anything special; it was just one of those general education courses that everybody was supposed to take at some point. But it turned out amazing.

What the general public didn't know at that point was someone in the college administration had screwed up and forgotten to assign a teacher to this class. Until a week before class. When several students emailed to ask why that detail was missing in the online listing.

The administration panicked, scrambled for someone-anyone-omg-who-can-drop-everything-and-teach-this-class. They called recently-graduated owners of Masters Degrees in teaching.

They found Sandy.

She was qualified and available, and much older than the average recent grad, with the confidence to go with it. This was still a daunting task, though, and she agreed on one condition: that she team-teach the class with a friend of hers who was still working on finishing his degree.

Having no other choice and seeing no real problem with this, the administration agreed. And thus was born the most glorious educational comedy act in my entire academic career. The two of them were a delight. They knew all the stuff they needed to teach, and they knew a great deal more, and they delivered lectures in a way that had everyone paying eager attention. It was great.

This friend, by the way, was awesome in his own right. While Sandy was a curly-haired white lady around middle age, Wayne was a black guy who (1) dressed in impeccable suits and (2) had cerebral palsy.

I think a lot of 18-year-old minds were quietly enlightened about a few things just from watching these two banter back and forth, one with joints more wobbly than the other. Wayne told a memorable anecdote at one point about stopping by a grocery store in sweat pants instead of his usual classy wear. The cashier asked some gentle question about what he spent his time on, assuming that he had some sort of carer following him around. The expression on her face when he told her that he taught college was one I'll never forget, and I didn't even see it.

Anyways, at the end of this semester, the two teachers asked a few of us smart kids if we wanted to be TAs (teaching assistants) for the next semester. Since most of us had already become friends during the make-a-group-and-discuss-things portions of the class, this sounded like a party that would look good on our records later. And it really was.

I TA'd for that class a few times in a row, with my buddies and the two very cool teachers. We met up outside of class for holiday parties and everything.

And, since this was during the time the Lord of the Rings trilogy was first coming out in theaters, we all dressed up in costume and went to an early screening together.

Wayne drove. His handicap placard meant we got to park at the front, which was pretty awesome.

Now, I'd met people before who knew more LotR lore than I did, but they all paled in comparison to Sandy. As I said in the notes on that other post, she shared some stories of her youth with us. When she was fourteen, she ran away to join a hippie commune. She already knew fluent elvish, and she used that to help the commune's drug-runners stay out of the clutches of the cops, by translating their drug notes into a language the cops couldn't read. With a start like that, it was unsurprising that she still knew elvish now, along with all sorts of fascinating deep lore.

She had a limited edition book that looked shockingly expensive. She made beeswax candles for all the TAs as holiday gifts, with our names written on them in elvish. I still have mine somewhere.

I haven't heard from any of these lovely people in a long time, since college moves on and so does life, but I will treasure those memories forever. I hope Sandy and Wayne and the others are doing well. They deserve the best.

[markscherz]

Meet the seven new frog species we just named after iconic Star Trek captains!

Artwork by A. Petzold, CC BY-ND 4.0

At the right time of year along rushing streams in the humid rainforests that stretch the length of Madagascar's eastern and northern mountain ridges, otherworldly trills of piercing whistles can be heard.

Are they birds? Insects? Communicator beeps? Tricorder noises?

No, they're little treefrogs!

Boophis janewayae. Photo by M. Vences, CC BY-SA 4.0

Until recently, we thought all of the populations of these little brown frogs across the island were one widespread species, Boophis marojezensis, described in 1994. But genetics in the early 2000s and 2010s showed that there were several species here, not just one.

Now my colleagues and I have shown that they are in fact eight separate species, each with unique calls!

These whistling sounds reminded us so much of Star Trek sound effects that we decided to name the seven new species after Star Trek captains: Boophis kirki, B. picardi, B. janewayae, B. siskoi, B. pikei, B. archeri, and B. burnhamae.

Photos of all new species described by Vences et al. 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0

I subtly and not-so-subtly built some Star Trek references into the paper, but probably the best one is this one:

'Finding these frogs sometimes requires considerable trekking; pursuing strange new calls, to seek out new frogs in new forests; boldly going where no herpetologist has gone before.'

— Vences et al. 2024

There’s a real sense of scientific discovery and exploration here, which we think is in the spirit of Star Trek.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that there are at least two Trekkies amongst the authors (including yours truly). As fans of Star Trek, we are also just pleased to dedicate these new species to the characters who have inspired and entertained us over the decades.

On a personal note, this marks a milestone for me, as it means I have now described over 100 frog species! I am very pleased that the 100th is Captain Janeway's Bright-eyed Frog, Boophis janewayae (if you count them in order of appearance in the paper)—she is probably my favourite captain, and I really love Star Trek: Voyager.

You can read more about the discovery of these new species on my website! You can also read the Open Access paper published in Vertebrate Zoology here.

[shoulderscars]

dont mind me, but let's do some math here.

There are 36 episodes of Endeavour, through the whole series. 33 injuries/36 episodes is the likelihood of Morse being injured during an episode.

33 injuries/(9 season x365 days)+2 days for leap years gives us the probability of Morse being injured everyday he works....yes there are some flaws that i would NOT like to acknowledge such as days off, injuries happening off screen etc etc

The final two percentages are--

Likelihood of Morse being Injured during an Episode:

91.67%

Likelihood of Morse being injured while working:

1.01%

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The first precent is OBVIOUSLY EXTREMELY HIGH, while the second is actually high but we don't realize it lol

Endeavour Injury Report seasons 1-9

Season 1: Faints in the morgue, stabbed in the Bodleian Library, shot in the hip. [3 incidents this season]

Season 2: Beat up twice, shot at, falls through rotted floorboards, shot at in car, threatened at gunpoint, imprisoned. [7 incidents this season, 10 cumulative] Highest number of per-season incidents in the series.

Season 3: Hit on the head, tiger attack, hit with a gun, threatened at gunpoint. [4 incidents this season, 14 cumulative]

Season 4: Hit on head with brick, dosed with psychedelics, likely mild concussion and hearing loss (proximity to grenade explosion). [4 incidents this season, 18 cumulative]

Season 5: Smoke inhalation. Choked and held at knifepoint. Shot at. Head injury from grazed rifle bullet shot. Strangulation attempt. [5 incidents this season, 23 cumulative]

Season 6: Caught in building collapse [1 incidents this season, 24 cumulative]

Season 7: Hit by bicyclist, attacked/beaten by crazed bad guy, shot at. [3 incidents this season, 27 cumulative]

Season 8: Threatened at gunpoint, threatened at gunpoint again, hit by taxi while drunk, falls down bus stairs while drunk. [4 incidents this season, 31 cumulative]

Season 9: Beat up at roadside by County cops, beaten then knifed by Lott. [2 incidents this season, 33 cumulative]

(That’s a LOT of paperwork for the Oxfordshire Police Health & Safety division. “Oh god, ANOTHER ONE for Morse? Can’t he just have a desk assignment?”)

[gravitycoill]

lil comic i’ve had in my head for a bit