#path minimization

[todays-xkcd]

Of course you get an ice cream cone for the swimmer too! You're not a monster.

Path Minimization [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

Cueball stands on a beach. At a roughly forty-five degree angle to him a ways away is a swimming presumably in distress, and straight ahead of him and roughly the same distance is an ice cream stand.

Path that minimizes distance [A straight line from Cueball to ocean swimmer, bearing about 135]

Path that minimizes time [A line from Cueball to the waterline closer to horizontal, bearing about 120, then angling towards swimmer, bearing about 150]

Path that minimizes swimming [A line from Cueball to the waterline closest to swimmer, bearing about 115, then angling toward swimmer, bearing 180]

Path that minimizes time until you get ice cream [A line from Cueball to an ice cream stand manned by Ponytail, bearing about 90, then angling toward swimmer, bearing about 190]

Path that maximizes time [A line from Cueball away from the shore, bearing 0, fading and disappearing at the top of the panel, and reappearing at the bottom of the panel directly below swimmer]

[coldlaugh]

[hurrayforapathy]

This idea has been sitting in my head for like 2 weeks now. I'm glad I finally got to draw it. I really like being able to use super loud colors like the red here, and still make it look good.

Drawing Time Lapse Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/z8U6VIRNvzE

[mewkwota]

Two of Creatures

How long has it been since I've done an "UTAU x Game" crossover? Like a very-very long time.

I love little creatures with super simple faces, as do my brothers. So when they're playing that one popular game we like to point out the funny rotund fellas that appear throughout that world.

They remind me a lot of another perfectly-designed creature too.

[nana2009]

omg imagine, Yandere dave and mpreg karkat dream com true

well anony seems like you're one of the 5 people in luck! i'm gonna tell you something that probably a lot of people aint gonna like, so i'm spoiling a future ask ahead.

THAT IS ONE OF THE PATHS I PLANNED TO FOLLOW! AHA! >:D

danny would be their only child :3 yandave deserves to b a dilf too....he a lil crazy but he would b a good dad in the end....?

[megid0nt]

Hashtag my Cube

[lushthemagicdragon]

Corporate showed me two pictures (the breed of vampires in Fright Night 2011 and the breed of vampires in Sinners), and they were the same picture. Would fully believe these two films took place in the same universe.

[orangedogsquad]

Final trip of the day was a long, solo Koda walk!

[arizona-green-tea-absolutist]

Reflecting on the Ron White bit about how everyone is a little gay because they want the male actors in porn to be explicitly virile: that's not an accident of confluence, that's on purpose

Think about who makes porn

[ceramicbeetle]

actually first ep of Voyager where Janeway talks to Tuvok about how his family misses him is that when she says they Worry about him Tuvok contradicts her and claims that Vulcans don't do that but when she corrects and says they Miss him he accepts this and admits he misses them too; implying perhaps a pedantic difference between 'Vulcans do not Feel Emotions' (false) and 'Vulcans do not Act Out of Emotion' (accurate) -> 'Miss/Longing' is an emotion, but 'Worry' is an action one does out of emotion -> one Vulcans do; one Vulcans do not.

[chibishortdeath]

So, Simon’s Quest gets the mythical fandom status of being “completely unbeatable without a guide”, but I don’t really agree. My source: I never had to use a guide to beat it. I looked up a couple things like the number of days for each ending and not a whole lot else.

I think maybe a lot of people go into it with the idea they’re going to get the best/fastest ending on their first try. While you definitely can technically beat it like that, it’s very much a game that wants to you play it a couple times. It has three endings all with faster times AND it was a game that came out during the era of renting things: it was made to be replayed! Or at least just generally goofed around in—

To be honest, I had more trouble figuring out the blue crystal puzzle than the red. Just having the white crystal out makes platforms appear default, no other input needed. So when seeing a massive expanse of water and no effect just holding out the blue crystal, I thought I was going the wrong way and started trying to fight enemies I could not on the other side of the map 💀💀💀. It took playing it and failing a couple times before I made Simon crouch at the water in confusion and it worked lol. So later on in the game at the infamous Deborah Cliff, I first whipped at the cliff a bit and then crouched because that had worked before. First time I played the game I didn’t even know the hint books existed so I never looked for them. It was an absolutely bizarre experience when I eventually one, especially cause I accidentally pressed a button through the text and missed it 💀💀💀.

But yeah, the gameplay is just trial and error mostly. Talk to a guy, take his advice, turns out he’s lying, oh well that’s known for next run then. Go to a mansion, find out there’s no oak stake seller in this one, damn, guess next time I should get two at that other mansion. And sometimes it’s not even entire runs of the game, if you get in a bad spot, you can reset and try it over :3! It took me a good handful of tries to get the slowest ending, then about exponentially less to get the other two—

All this being said: I can see why a lot of people don’t like this kind of gameplay. In certain contexts, I don’t like having to replay a whole game just to get a better ending (Portrait of Ruin Stella and Loretta battle is kicking my ass but I can’t get myself to just get the bad ending and replay it ughhggg)! It’s grindy, it’s doing the same thing over again, and most people will just prefer being able to straightforwardly beat something. I just like the game cause I saw it as one big puzzle to solve and also enjoyed the grinding and the playing over and over the same way one might like a rogue-like or something like Vampire Survivors if that makes sense???

But yeah anyway whole point is that I didn’t find it to be an unbeatable game. It’s obtuse, it’s vague, it’s mean, and some of that was unintended, but a good 90% was. It’s a weirdly unforgiving but very forgiving game— like it purposefully leads you off track and makes you waste time, but it’s still a game that wants you to beat it—!!!

So, anyway, I’ve been told I should play Dark Souls— 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[gurenomuto]

Left-Handed Silence

To you— Who took beatings for being left-handed, Whose voice stumbled on every syllable. We haven’t forgotten you.

Sometimes, you fear your heart will finally surrender— And sometimes... Sometimes you wish you were nothing more than the yellow post-it across the room, waiting quietly for someone to scrawl their thoughts upon you, then press you gently against the wall, and simply walk away.

Copyright © [gurenomuto], edited by me.

[coldlaugh]

[hurrayforapathy]

I wanted to draw something weird this week, so that seemed like a good time to invoke the illusory moon. I had a lot of fun with the colors in this one. Official art gave me a lot to work with there. The colors on the illusory moon are really pretty.

If there's something you'd like me to draw I am open to requests! Don't hesitate to let me know if there's something you'd like me to draw.

Drawing Time Lapse Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/42xUa5zFzi0

[juliareed]

Sing, sing, won't you sing for me? Beast in your belly, you've got to let it breathe Breathe for me

[mieuxvautmonplaisir]

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