#Capture Pals

[fogaminghub]

🌈 Hey gamers! Are you exploring the vibrant world of Palworld? Check out our latest blog post on how to craft your first Pal Sphere! 🎮✨ It’s your key to capturing those magical Pals and boosting your adventures. Discover the materials you need and get ready to catch 'em all!  

[helenapsent]

My team in case the world is taken over:

1) Thrax - the leader of the group;

2) Ruber - a mountain of muscles;

3) Jester - a future traitor;

4) Pal Palych - adequate;

5) Schadenfreude - useless but handsome;

6) First Minister or Waldemar - megabrain;

7) Richard - will die first;

8) Buggy - clown;

9) Kesam - doesn't fucking do anything, but fucks up the most;

10) Sota - son of mom's friend;

11) Thriffit - the only one who believes in victory.

I've put together a pile of dorks, in case of moral armageddon

In fact, I could have swapped Kesam and Richard, but as we know, the sum does not change from changing the places of summands))

Original template:

[fern-brain-fart]

ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

LOOK AT THIS MASTERPIECE MY BEST BUDDY PAL MADE OF ME AS A POKEMON TRAINER!☆彡

his art tumblr is @fungeiful GO FOLLOW HIM ESP IF UR A KH FAN <3

[dujour13]

Siavash the Lark 🦋

Commission by the wonderful @mellifera38. Going with the wildcard for this one was the right choice. Thank you so so much 💕💕💕

[thesolemnhour]

Shine like a cursed star Show everybody exactly who you are

"Get Famous" by The Mountain Goats

An absolutely delightful Agria by @eurekq as a part of their sketch commissions for Palestine fundraiser! It's finished running, but here is a list of verified orgs you can donate to.

[braceletofteeth]

I must find out who he really is.

[plugnuts]

I wanna change my icon back to profile stan but I'm just so attached to my current one idk what to do

[hoodie-lum]

I got Palworld, the pokemon rip off with guns, and it's slowly becoming a fav game

[gratitudeflow777]

[fantasycorrupted-a]

some sea for munday

[jesperr-fahey]

[ID: fanart of Jesus in the style of the video game Hades. the first shows just Jesus- he's wearing a white tunic with light blue fabric draped around his neck, a crown of thorns on his head, and several satchels with papers and carpentry tools at his side. he's holding a large fluffy sheep over his shoulders and smiling peacefully.

the next two show him in the game, with Zagreus in the background and a dialogue box. in the first, he says, "Hello stranger! I seem to be a bit lost, could you point me the way out?" the second shows a dialogue box that reads, "Jesus offers one of several blessings," and lists three options: "three days," "living water," and "communion bread." END ID]

jesus in the hades art style

[helenapsent]

Now a little bit about why this particular choice:

Thrax - the leader of the group First of all, it is literally a disease that will bring down anyone, and secondly, Trax himself is a very punchy fellow, he has brains, charisma and leadership qualities, moreover, with one touch he can melt the victim in one minute.

Ruber - a mountain of muscles There's no need for explanations, you've figured it out from his title.

Jester - a future traitor He's just a life rat, he's true to his goals and will achieve them at any cost

Pal Palych - adequate Yeah, he's well-read, yeah, he's normal, as a dude with a fountain of ideas, he's fine.

Schadenfreude - useless but handsome In fact he doesn't create anything with his hands, and he is a master strategist, but in fact he is of little use, but for pretty eyes and a fur coat I will keep him

First Minister or Waldemar - megabrain A genius of planning and efficient economics, I have nothing more to add.

Richard - will die first Why? Because he can't control himself, and he's a very loud fellow. He'll turn himself in the first chance he gets. But he will leave behind a huge fortune and a bunch of new technologies that make life easier, and his contribution will be valuable.

Buggy - clown Actual clown, actual soul of the company, mascot of the whole team.

Kesam - doesn't fucking do anything, but fucks up the most Yes.

Sota - son of mom's friend In his hands literally everything turns to gold, he is very active, effective and bright, accomplishes all tasks in time, that's what he is and the son of mom's friend))

Thriffith - the only one who believes in victory Absolutely charged for success and absolutely confident in every step of the team, and in general, he will not be broken, he will go to the victorious one

[felikatze]

on day 65 or something of kg route now. if anything happens to tsubasa i'm killing everybody

[barryslighting]

[fogaminghub]

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[jcmarchi]

From refugee to MIT graduate student

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From refugee to MIT graduate student

Mlen-Too Wesley has faded memories of his early childhood in Liberia, but the sharpest one has shaped his life.

Wesley was 4 years old when he and his family boarded a military airplane to flee the West African nation. At the time, the country was embroiled in a 14-year civil war that killed approximately 200,000 people, displaced about 750,000, and starved countless more. When Wesley’s grandmother told him he would enjoy a meal during his flight, Wesley knew his fortune had changed. Yet, his first instinct was to offer his food to the people he left behind.

“I made a decision right then to come back,” Wesley says. “Even as I grew older and spent more time in the United States, I knew I wanted to contribute to Liberia’s future.”

Today, the 38-year-old is committed to empowering Liberians through economic growth. Wesley looked to the MITx MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) to achieve that goal. He examined issues such as micro-lending, state capture, and investment in health care in courses such as Foundations of Development Policy, Good Economics for Hard Times, and The Challenges of Global Poverty. Through case studies and research, Wesley discovered that economic incentives can encourage desired behaviors, curb corruption, and empower people.

“I couldn’t connect the dots”

Liberia is marred by corruption. According to Transparency International’s Corruptions Perception Index for 2023, Liberia scored 25 out of 100, with zero signifying the highest level of corruption. Yet, Wesley grew tired of textbooks and undergraduate professors saying that the status of Liberia and other African nations could be blamed entirely on corruption. Even worse, these sources gave Wesley the impression that nothing could be done to improve his native country. The sentiment frustrated him, he says.

“It struck me as flippant to attribute the challenges faced by billions of people to backward behaviors,” says Wesley. “There are several forces, internal and external, that have contributed to Liberia’s condition. If we really examine them, explore why things happened, and define the change we want, we can plot a way forward to a more prosperous future.”  

Driven to examine the economic, political, and social dynamics shaping his homeland and to fulfill his childhood promise, Wesley moved back to Africa in 2013. Over the next 10 years, he merged his interests in entrepreneurship, software development, and economics to better Liberia. He designed a forestry management platform that preserves Liberia’s natural resources, built an online queue for government hospitals to triage patients more effectively, and engineered data visualization tools to support renewable energy initiatives. Yet, to create the impact Wesley wanted, he needed to do more than collect data. He had to analyze and act on it in meaningful ways.

“I couldn’t connect the dots on why things are the way they are,” Wesley says.

“It wasn’t just an academic experience for me”

Wesley knew he needed to dive deeper into data science, and looked to the MicroMasters in DEDP program to help him connect the dots. Established in 2017 by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and MIT Open Learning, the MicroMasters in DEDP program is based on the Nobel Prize-winning work of MIT faculty members Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, and Abhijit Banerjee, the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics. Duflo and Banerjee’s research provided an entirely new approach to designing, implementing, and evaluating antipoverty initiatives throughout the world.

The MicroMasters in DEDP program provided the framework Wesley had sought nearly 20 years ago as an undergraduate student. He learned about novel economic incentives that stymied corruption and promoted education.

“It wasn’t just an academic experience for me,” Wesley says. “The classes gave me the tools and the frameworks to analyze my own personal experiences.”

Wesley initially stumbled with the quantitative coursework. Having a demanding career, taking extension courses at another university, and being several years removed from college calculus courses took a toll on him. He had to retake some classes, especially Data Analysis for Social Scientists, several times before he could pass the proctored exam. His persistence paid off. Wesley earned his MicroMasters in DEDP credential in June 2023 and was also admitted into the MIT DEDP master’s program.

“The class twisted my brain in so many different ways,” Wesley says. “The fourth time taking Data Analysis, I began to understand it. I appreciate that MIT did not care that I did poorly on my first try. They cared that over time I understood the material.”

The program’s rigorous mathematics and statistics classes sparked in Wesley a passion for artificial intelligence, especially machine learning and natural language processing. Both provide more powerful ways to extract and interpret data, and Wesley has a special interest in mining qualitative sources for information. He plans to use these tools to compare national development plans over time and among different countries to determine if policymakers are recycling the same words and goals.

Once Wesley earns his master��s degree, he plans to return to Liberia and focus on international development. In the future, he hopes to lead a data-focused organization committed to improving the lives of people in Liberia and the United States.

“Thanks to MIT, I have the knowledge and tools to tackle real-world challenges that traditional economic models often overlook,” Wesley says.