#Inventor Prof

[salkosafic]

Ditch the Price Tag: Free CAD Alternatives to AutoCAD & Inventor for Hobbyists & Pros (Without the Monthly Fees)

Let’s cut through the noise: talking about CAD software online is a minefield of hidden agendas, affiliate commissions, and people regurgitating opinions they’ve never tested. I’ll say it straight—most reviews you read are either biased, sponsored, or written by folks who’ve barely used the tools they’re praising. Why? Because honesty doesn’t earn clicks, and criticising popular software risks…

[mariocki]

Night Key (1937)

"Now, listen, Steve. Twenty years ago you robbed me of the patent rights of the system that you're now using. Perhaps there was some excuse for that: because it gave you wealth, success, position, all the things that tempt one man to rob another. But now that you have everything and I have nothing, what possible reason is there for you to do this to me again?"

[charmcoindied]

i used to be really into toontown rewritten and i kind of miss it it's such a fun game but unfortunately it falls victim to the classic mmo game woe of getting super duper grindy once you get late in the game just to keep people playing. like running hqs is fun but i never felt particularly compelled to keep pushing yk? i dunno though maybe i'll come back to it sometime anyway

[karagozkuyumculuk]

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[drnikolatesla]

A Night with Tesla: The Future of Electrical Resonance

(This narrative is a creative reimagining of a 1901 interview with Nikola Tesla, titled "Tesla's Twentieth-Century Views," originally penned by Frank L. Perry for the Western Electrician. Presented from a first-person perspective, this piece offers a fun and immersive experience while preserving Tesla's original words about resonance and the future of energy.)

Late one Friday evening in January of 1901, I found myself at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, sitting down with the legendary inventor, Nikola Tesla. The setting was grand, but Tesla seemed entirely focused, undistracted by the opulence around him. I had been eager to ask him about his latest thoughts on the future of electrical energy, particularly the concept of resonance, or as Tesla often referred to it, “electrical tuning.”

With a mix of excitement and curiosity, I asked, “From your own investigations with high-frequency currents and the transmission of electrical energy, it seems that there’s a great future along these lines. Does the question of ‘electrical tuning’ become a most important one? Will this direct the progress of scientific discoveries in the next decade?”

Tesla leaned forward slightly, his eyes bright with conviction. “You have put a question,” he began, “which not only is of great importance in many arts of the present day, but also throughout the mechanism of the universe. The phenomena of sound and light afford striking examples. I believe that ultimately even nerve action will be proven to involve the principles of ‘sympathetic response.’” His thoughts were as bold as they were profound, suggesting that the very nature of life and nerve function operated on the same principles as electrical resonance.

He continued, “In my own experiments with electrical and mechanical vibrations, I’ve been impressed by the tremendous possibilities. With a small engine capable of pressing a piston back and forth with a force of just two pounds, I once set an entire block of modern buildings into such violent swaying that people rushed out terrified. And this was done through precise attunement.”

As he spoke, I found myself captivated by the simplicity of his explanation, despite the staggering implications. Tesla didn’t stop with mechanical resonance. He went on to explain his even more astonishing work in electrical vibration. “In electrical vibration,” he said, “I have frequently obtained results that were even more wonderful. The tuning of electric circuits is becoming increasingly important as the arts advance and methods refine. The layman can only have a vague idea of what can be accomplished in this line by those who possess the knowledge and skill.”

I asked him about this skill—how one could master such an art. “Knowledge of the principles is easy enough to acquire,” he admitted, “and one of the best sources of information on the subject comes from Prof. Pupin, whose work makes it accessible even to a beginner. But skill—now that takes patience and untiring dedication.”

The conversation turned to the challenges of refining electrical circuits for optimal resonance. Tesla explained, “Many experimenters don’t realize that an electrical system cannot vibrate freely through an imperfect contact or high resistance. It’s like trying to get a spring to vibrate while holding it firmly—it simply won’t happen.”

He paused for a moment, as though he was envisioning the future even as he spoke. “The transmission of electrical energy through the earth offers the greatest possibilities of development. The time is not far off when electrical oscillations will speed through the globe, each separate and distinct, fulfilling its mission. It’s a seemingly simple subject, but as you advance, it feels as if the wide ocean is opening up before your eyes.”

As we concluded, Tesla recalled an experiment from five years prior, where he had successfully “tuned” 150 circuits, calling each one in turn without disturbing the others. “At the time, I thought I had mastered the art,” he smiled, “but now I see that I was only just beginning to learn.”

Leaving that evening, I felt that I had been granted a rare glimpse into the mind of a true visionary, a man who saw the universe as a symphony of vibrations, with every element perfectly attuned. What Tesla envisioned wasn’t just a technological future—it was a harmonious one. And as we move further into the twentieth century, I can’t help but wonder how much of his grand vision we’ll soon witness.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Fan of the original Disney characters may wonder why they're at real world tech levels in spite of Gyro and other geniuses such as doctor Statica, professor Spike Marlin (inventor of a working time machine, that he and the director of Mouseton's archeological museum use to send Mickey and Goofy to solve historical mysteries), and especially professor Einmug, who had a flying island and other advanced technologies in 1936.

Then you find out Einmug's technology is all incredibly advanced NUCLEAR technology, and you have to thank Pete for spooking him into not sharing and instead using a technology he hadn't shown at the time to create the Delta Dimension and escape there. You also get the answer: it's been empirically proven the world isn't ready (as Einmug himself stated when he returned), and they aren't sharing until they have made sure it is, with stuff like Gyro commercializing his inventions through Scrooge (who has the common sense Gyro lacks), Einmug releasing his tech a very small piece at a time while retaining Mickey on the ready in case something goes wrong (he saved him from Pete that time and didn't object when Einmug decided not to share, the prof knows he can trust him), and Marlin in the future creating the Time Police after his technology finally will become public (also, he gave up on his attempt to develop the time machine into a teleporter because the epic failure of the first test had made clear he didn't really have idea of what he was doing, but 23rd century wrist time machines can be used as teleportation devices so someone else finally solved that bit).

bro

[princetonarchives]

If you've heard of Morse Code, you've also heard the name of the inventor of the telegraph machine, Samuel Morse. Chances are better, though, that you have not heard of Princeton professor Joseph Henry, whose scientific discovery of electromagnetism made the invention possible.

On August 19, 1858, as Princetonians celebrated the successful completion of the laying of the "Atlantic Cable" that allowed for real-time transatlantic communication via telegram for the first time, professor Stephen Alexander complained about his colleague not getting the credit he was due as the world lauded Morse. The Nassau Literary Magazine summarized Alexander's comments:

"We are not disposed to detract from the established reputation of Prof. Morse, as an ingenious inventor, but only to remind him of his forgetfulness in not attributing to the man at whose feet he was once proud to sit as a learner, the merit of having first demonstrated the telegraph to be eminently practicable."

Portrait of Joseph Henry found in the Historical Photograph Collection: Individuals Series (AC067), Box 135, Folder 30.

[neo-exploded]

i know i keep ranting about fusionfall but DUDE ITS SUCH A COOL CONCEPT AND WHY THE FUCK WAS THE GAME CANCELLED I STILL WANNA PLAY IT😭😭😭

but if u didnt know, fusionfall is a game based around an alien invasion involving cartoon network characters of the 2000s or somewhere around that time frame (if i am correct tho, the academy storyline has characters from some 2010s shows?)

by the way, major spoilers for the game ahead

but what is interesting about that is the fact on who is participating in the game. because fusionfall is a story based around the concept of an alien planet invading earth, it causes a life threatening situation for the characters we are introduced to and basically placing them into a war

AND DO YOU KNOW WHO IS IN THAT WAR??? LITERAL CHILDREN. mostly. what i want to mean by that is when you play the game or at least watch playthroughs of it, there are not adults that you meet at first, the only few adults i can count is Prof. Utonium and Father but there's probably more. Instead when you first join, youre met with younger people (depending on whether youre playing on the future or academy version, it really doesnt matter because either way youre meeting someone younger than the age of 20 when you first boot up the game)

this is interesting to me because, once again, think about who's participating in the war against Fusion. its actual kids, like the KND is actually the main supplier or weapons and transport throughout the entire game, and there are literally so many more examples i could give but i wont

but thinking about it from their persepctive, its fucking terrifying. its a literal war theyre in right now, and half of the population of Townsville (or wherever the game takes place) is either dead or somewhere else because nobody is there but them. for all they know, kids could be thinking that their parents or friends died in the invasion, or vice versa.

also, these characters had to take on a huge role at such a younge age. another example, but in the game (for the future version) once you complete the first quarter of the game and are sent back to the past you have to choose a guide to help you advance in your story. for those who dont know, guides are characters that lead four different story lines rhat can be a potential way to help you defeat Fuse at rhe end. The four guides consist of Dexter, Ben 10, Mojo Jojo and Double D.

Out of the four, double d stands out the most since for one, ben 10 and mojo jojo are like superpowered or something cause they feel actually qualified to be leaders in a war. Dexter is like the main reason that FusionFall takes place so he also makes sense to be a guide. Double D however is most likely still 12 years old (or older), still a genius n inventor, but he's just a normal kid here. you could argue that Dexter is just a kid as well, but he has such advanced technology that basically cancels that out.

what im trying to get at here, double d is literally just an average child with nothing but extra braincells he stole from his friends and more resources than usual that made him a guide. at 12. and is participating in a war. just. idk its probably that its horrifying to be a war general at such a young age??

OH AND I DIDNT EVEN BRING THIS UP YET BUT FUSIONFALL SURE AS HELL AINT AFRAID TO LET CHARACTERS DIE

in one of the versions of fusionfall, maybe the academy version?? Buttercup is presumed dead after one of the ppg fights against mojo jojo and she is shot into the sea and disappeared for like a bunch of years. Blossom and bubbles obviously had no idea shes still alive, and spent almost everyday trying to search for her until they had to give up and accept her sisters presumed death and THEN get burdened with an alien invasion (buttercup does come back tho, sorry for spoilers)

and in the future version where your character is accidentially sent far into the future where youre able to see the devastating amount of destruction the invasion can bring, you meet a lot less characters than you do when you travel back to the past. the past part of the game probably has at least over 50 characters or less im not sure, but when youre in the future theres at least 10 characters left

now im not totally sure if every character died or not, but considering the change in environment from the future and past, its not that far off from a possibility. though, it could jist be a personal headcanon for me.

but if this were true, then the game just killed off like the majority of their cast, including the main ones like Dexter and left some behind, obviously so you know what to do in the game but like imagine it from one of the characters perspectives??

eduardo is the only imaginary friend we meet in the future, so he's all alone with none of his friends there

eddy's the only kid left from the cul-de-sac like dude what

numbuh 2 and 5 are probably the only KND members we meet

Ben is still there

basically, everyone left had to watch their family and friends die and thats a little idk dark maybe for a cartoon network game?? i mean just a little-

anywho i love fusionfall its a lovely concept and i really want to talk to people about it but NONE OF MY FROENDS KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CARTOON NETWORK AND IM GETTING SAD OF TALKING TO MYSLEF

goodbye

[scenekitt]

INTRODUCING MY OG PROJECT, "LABRATZ"

I only did fully ref sheets for the protag ( RATMAN ) and the antag ( Tanner ) as of now but in the future I plan to do more ref sheets for the rest of the cast.

ANYWAYS, HERES A BIT OF LORE / SUMMARY:

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Labratz follows a character known as RATMAN, a rat who as turned into a human, and his trusty ( totally not kidnapped ) human sidekick and partner in crime, Megan Zimmerman. RATMAN and Megan are both inventors though Megan has more experience in inventing to which her aid is often crucial to his plans.

After escaping the laboratory RATMAN was created from, he has the ultimate goal of ruling all of the people within the city of Rodentia ( the name of the city he's in ) as well as mankind with the assistance of rodents due to his hatred for the human race.

He wants to create a world where humans are the test subjects and rodents, who are often prey animals, to be the ones on top of the food chain.

However, since he's escaped to a greatly impoverished side of the city, his goals are constantly impaired by human financial issues and RATMAN still has a lot to learn when it comes to human behavior, social norms and customs in general.

On top of all of that, RATMAN's psychotic creator, prof. Tanner Schmidt, has been looking for him ever since he's escaped and will stop at nothing to retrieve his runaway experiment, the only experiment that he deems ' perfect ' in his eyes.

With the help of Tanner's team of scientists and security actively searching for his whereabouts, RATMAN's days are numbered and he is constantly on the move, not wanting to return to the same laboratory in which he was tormented in as a rat.

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TL;DR : Rat becomes human. Rat human runs away from lab. Rat human kidnaps actual human. Human rat man thing and human partner in crime. Creator of the rat human wants the rat human back. Rat human scared, doesn't like >:( Rat human hides away in poor side of town. Rat human can't understand actual human things but tries to.

Huamnhumanhumanhuman humanhmam

[starduct-tearsducts]

ꃅꍟ꒒꒒ꂦ, ꅏꍟ꒒ꉓꂦꂵꍟ ꓄ꂦ ꓄ꃅꍟ ꌃ꒒ꂦꁅ!

Professor Membrane, scientist, genius inventor, family man, he has it all! A wonderful home, lots of wealth, 5 beautiful children he adores so much no matter how green or into scary stuff they are. Things have gotten somewhat better since the tragic disappearance of Prof. Membrane's wife, Miyuki Nakamura, a mysterious woman who appear in Whiteham seemingly out of no where and started a family with him.

Zimothy Membrane, mostly known as Zim, plans to make this summer before he and his best friend and brother Dib are heading to their Junior Year an amazing one with all his family! Flynn, the school's popular guy in the basketball team, doesn't have practice, Mauve, the family's beloved influencer, is excited to have a vacation to make everyone die from envy, and Gaz, the upmost adorable baby sister of the family, is just okay to go anywhere as long as she can play her video games and not be bothered. So naturally when Zim gets to pick where they'll vacation, he decided to pick a little small town known as Gravity Falls to spend the summer in with his whole family.

Unknown to the Membranes, but they aren't the only ones stopping by the quant mysterious Oregon town. The Jones and Babcocks are having a nice little family vacation, Casper High plus the Fenton Family are joining a summer class vacation, Wirt and Greg are sent there first before their parents arrive later to have a nice simple vacation in an Airbnb, and of course Gravity Fall's heart stealing twins, Dipper and Mabel, are returning with more memories to make and even more mysteries to solve.

While there Zim, Flynn, and Mauve start really questioning their rare birth defects and conditions upon arriving to Gravity Falls after some strange dreams began to plague them, certain locations began to call them, and weird things started to happen. Maybe things are too much and need to stay hidden? Maybe this could answer what happened to their mother? Or maybe, just maybe, they should listen to the warnings from beyond the stars and not think about "Irk" anymore, especially when all your new friends have their own mystery to deal with inside and outside their minds...?

!! WARNING !!

This blog will cover serious tops such as:

PTSD

Trauma

Phobias (examples: claustrophobia, atelophobia, emetophobia, autophobia, mazeophobia, and thanatophobia)

Depression

Suicidal Thoughts

Unhealthy Coping Methods

Topics of Death and Greif

Smoking

Manipulation

Based off this post and the winning of the poll, I have decided to create a blog where you can get updates of the story, get illustrations, and you guys can ask the cast questions!

I do have the right to ignore or not follow any questions/requests if you push a limit or bring hate/spam!

ᛞᛟᚾ×ᛏ ᛏᚱᚢᛊᛏ ᚦᛖ ᚷᛟᛚᛞᛖᚾ ᛖᛁᛖᛊ

[mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea]

Mischief has received a tag!

@soliloquent-stark Tagged me to do this thing!

rules: list the first line(s) of your last 10 (or however many you have) posted fics and see if there’s a pattern!

1. May: Part 5 of Frost & Forge-Fire: A Year of OTP 2023 Frostiron 12 Month Anthology of a Relationship

The first time Loki sent Tony flowers, he was off on a mission with Steve, Thor, and Natasha while the inventor stayed behind with the others to worry about their significant others.

2. A place where sinners fall in love

Loki stared at the wreckage around the entrance hall of the palace, vases and other statues overturned and shattered across the once clean and shining marble floor.

(Note: That is not the exact first line, but it's the first line that's not just Loki's inner thoughts.)

3. Dancing in my storm

“Is this something the Avengers can and, more importantly, will help us with?”

4. To be in love with the masterpiece

“Loki! Where’re you headed? The studio’s back that way,” Steve called out when he saw one of his friends booking it away from the art building. He was on his way to the art studio from the parking lot and caught the swish of a short black ponytail bouncing in the opposite direction.

(Note: Okay, you got me. It's more than just one line.)

5. Eden revives in the first kiss of love

When Logan woke up, it was to the caress of sunlight on his eyelids and the warm breath of a kiss on his lips.

6. Under blue moon, I saw you

“Oh sweet fucking Norns,” Loki exclaimed.

7. You are the ghost behind my eyes

Steve had returned all of the Infinity stones as per his last mission as Captain America.

8. Heartache to heartache, we stand

Thanos’ army arrived like a swarm, decimated the compound, and left the sky black as if they’d put out the sun.

9. Take me back to the night we met

Tony bent over his scratched and dented Iron Man helmet.

10. Half past four and shifting gear

“You hear about Loki?”

Holy crap! I have patterns! Ones that my college creative writing profs would be so proud of me for. At least in these 10 fics (and very likely the ones following those), I start my fics either with immediate action or dialogue (speaking = action). I do remember when I started writing back in the Middle Stone Ages that I thought I needed to always "set the scene," especially with long rolling descriptions so anyone reading could 'see' where they were. I think I still sometimes try to set the scene, but it was 'gently' recommended by two of the profs I admire the most to start with action, dialogue, and one of them especially loved starting a story In medias res, and with "Under blue moon, I saw you," that was the start I gave it.

Who'da thunk that at almost 51, I'd finally grasp all those things my favorite writing profs kept encouraging? Go me!

Anyone else pick up patterns I haven't mentioned (or noticed)?

Tagging: @scottxlogan @mcfiddlestan @endlesstwanted @kleenexwoman @kedreeva @mistressofmuses @song-witch @stormxpadme @securitybreach @loni4ever @chaoticgardenbread @holistic-alcoholic @renlybaratheon-tyrell and anyone else who wants to play!

[averycanadianfilm]

Quantum Information Panpsychism Explained | Federico Faggin PhD.

Jan 31, 2025

CPU inventor and physicist Federico Faggin, together with Prof. Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, proposes that consciousness is not an emergent property of the brain, but a fundamental aspect of reality itself: quantum fields are conscious and have free will. In this theory, our physical body is a quantum-classical ‘machine,’ operated by free will decisions of quantum  fields. Faggin calls the theory 'Quantum Information Panpsychism' (QIP) and claims that it can give us testable predictions in the near future. If the theory is correct, it not only will be the most accurate theory of consciousness, it will also solve mysteries around the interpretation of quantum mechanics. 

[pentacle-artist]

Keys of Egress AU (AKA, the puzzle siblings get trapped in a video game)

Alfendi finds a video game under a bridge and decides playing it with his sisters is an amazing idea

They each pick a class, Flora chooses mechanic, Alfendi chooses detective (which Kat is *not* happy about), and Kat is stuck with witch since the fourth class is glitched out

They're each assigned to a different level based on their class. It turns out that random people showing up and solving problems is a thing people know can happen. It's also known that each person wound up befriending a resident of the world (an assistant, if you will).

Flora is placed in a very mechanical small town that has been taken over the mad inventor, Don Paolo. Her assistant is Luke, a wind-up doll robot who wants to find his friend, Arianna, and stop Don Paolo.

Alfendi gets the most grounded level, solving a series of murders in a city when the original killer is dead. His assistant is Lucy, a nosy schoolgirl who accidentally already got involved.

Kat gets a very stereotypical fantasy story. She needs to stop a dragon at the top of a mountain that's causing a magical rot. Her assistant is Ernest, a boy who lives alone just outside the town at the bottom of the mountain, grows plants, and makes potions.

Kat is having a blast, Flora is going along with it while having fun, and Alfendi is regretting his decisions.

Their ages are very different from canon: Flora is 18, Alfendi is 15 (so no placid prof), and Kat is 12.

They reunite (and bring their assistants along) in the level corresponding to the glitched class and find an absolute, corrupted mess. They have to figure out who broke the level and fix it.

After beating each level, they get a key that allows them to leave the level, and once they have all four, the game

[highway-35]

since nobody asked me about my ideal hwlr season 3 im gonna do it myself spoilers ahead obviously

under the cut bc its getting stupidly long and also 👉 mostly unedited rambling you have been warned

ok so for starters. rearview backstories are overhauled. i dont like professor rearview being a camper with dash originally, it doesnt match with his initial motivations of disliking cars if he's out for dash SPECIFICALLY. also its a lame and overused backstory especially in kids tv. so instead he's an outside force through and through who dislikes cars for multiple valid reasons, ie accidents, dependence on cars in infrastructure, poor urban development, lack of freedom etc. he's absolutely an r/fuckcars user (and i say this as someone who agrees with this viewpoint). he's big on bikes specifically (why else does he have the bike helmet lol) besides his monsters. im keeping the monsters bc like once you remove the monsters hes basically an entirely different character. i ALSO dont want to make him too much like dr. eggman bc hes kind of an eggman ripoff already. also 👆 since dash is an inventor/roboticist in her own right it adds a nice contrast between mechanical and biological inventions. ALSO also rearview and dash do NOT look the same age at all (dash is like 20-30 tops and rearview is 50-60) so it doesnt make sense for them to have been campers together (since the campers in the show are in the 10-13 range i think). to ME. also he seems like a cornelius to me. (he adopted rearview as a nickname yes i KNOW eggman already did this and that i SAID i didnt want him to be an eggman ripoff but this doesnt have to come up in the show ✋🤚)

once thats out of the way cruise is his not-yet-adopted nibling, not his child. rearview was single and childless (he preferred it that way), a biology/bioengineering professor somewhere outside hot wheels city. i see hot wheels city in the show as equivalent to manhattan so he'd be in like upstate new york or boston. but his sibling/s were killed in a car accident- he already disliked cars and hot wheels city, but this motivated him to take things into his own hands. he developed these large animal like monsters (more fleshy and realistic compared to dash's cartoony, stylized robotic obstacles) to ultimately destroy the ultimate garage and bring the whole city down. because he was cruise's next of kin, he got custody over them. cruise is rearview's nibling and not child here since like. coop has HIS dad and axle has HIS dad and its like the writers didnt have any other familial relationships on hand. also yes i know uncle larry's there but he doesnt have the same primary caretaker role coops dad and striker spoiler do

(now i COULD ALSO make cruise bioengineered that would be sick but mega wrex put a bad taste in my mouth so im gonna say no. do NOT bring up brights, she has a prosthetic, that's different. ALSO DO NOT BRING UP SQUEAKERS in my ideal hwlr squeakers is a decently intelligent roomba kinda deal that dash made as a companion but hes like. aibo level. and people just project onto him as people tend to do with robots)

with that out of the way CRUISE is this little orphan kid that just got adopted by their uncle. they go along with it bc a) that's their uncle like xe lives with them. b) its fun to make the other kids really mad (cruise was a bit of a bully but was defensive instead of offensive since they had like 0 friends and werent popular at all so they think everyone hates it). c) its fun to be evil and d) revenge for the death of xyr parents. instead of the street shrieker being a sports car, its a bike augmented with car power shit. not a motorbike bc i dont think rearview would be into those but a really souped up, high performance e-bike. with scale patterns (prof. rearview's has more of a sinewy, muscle texture).

professor rearview was initially reluctant to let cruise race but it appealed to his ego to let a bike user win against car racers so he relented but is still VERY concerned over cruise's safety. he's still shaken up by the accident while cruise shoves that shit down and is headstrong/stubborn. cruise gets super involved in the races when they happen and starts to really enjoy racing, rearview doesnt exactly enjoy that fact? but is happy cruise has something they like.

(i should mention here that while i do hc cruise as enby, they aren't out yet. everyone still thinks xe's a girl and refers to xem as such. cruise is still figuring itself out, especially now that it's growing into puberty (around 11-12yo). cruise doesnt feel safe coming out to either their family or the campers).

everything is mostly the same in seasons 2/3 except that i took megawrex out back. yeah theres no megawrex here he gives me. INCREDIBLE fury i want him torn to shreds. he pisses me off. if they REALLY want to include monster trucks make it a cartoon and the real megawrex has a human driver.

but when cruise wins the ultimate garage, they start to really like it. rearview thinks he owns the place and uses all the cars to cause chaos in the city, while cruise explores the insides of the garage. remember: theyre a very vulnerable, emotionally charged and orphaned kid who just won the keys to the city. when professor rearview decides to destroy the garage via self-destruct, cruise remembers that xe won the garage, not xyr uncle. so when coop goes to shut off the self-destruct, cruise gets there first and officially takes over the garage, kicking its uncle out in the process.

cruise's keeping of the garage is a little bit selfish (wants all the cool amenities for themselves), a little bit selfless (doesnt want people to be hurt in the collateral damage), but mostly they just want to keep racing and thrive off the struggle of their opponents. xe enjoys playing the heel! so cruise's plan is to control the garage, let the campers and other racers struggle to win it, and (eventually) pass it on when they felt like it. they didnt think this through all that well tbh.

also this is at the top of their game. cruise has the world in the palm of xyr hands (so xe thinks) and this is when cruise decides to come out. its very casual. axle just mentions like ugh its professor rearviews evil niece and cruise says "oh actually im not a girl." more softly than they'd like. the campers are confused ("wait you're a boy?" "it doesnt sound like you are" "maybe she's actually a monster in disguise!!") until xe clarifies they aren't a boy or a girl. they're nonbinary. have been for a while, but now that they have the ultimate garage, they're confident enough to say it out loud! after all, none of the campers can stop xem, and neither can xyr uncle. what's anyone gonna do about it? professor rearview gets all huffy like UGH im your UNCLE i CARE FOR YOU WHY DIDNT YOU TELL MEEE and cruise goes stfu you suck and are generally unpleasant to be around (he also tends to misgender them and thinks winning the garage got to their head which is why theyre nb now).

this goes on for another season bc hwlr NEEDS the extra runtime badly blah blah blah coop wins the garage back on some technicality. cruise thrives on technicalities xe loves technicalities and loopholes. and living at the garage has been nice and all but also very lonely. but they can't just give up now right? theyre not ready and cant ever be ready, not like this. coop offers to let them stay and they decide not to. cruise leaves their baggage in hot wheels city, goes back to their uncle's old place upstate, cat in tow. maybe go back to school, get into the trades, professional racing? there's so many more possibilities out there, when the road forks.

[hautsreadsmarvel]

“The Fantastic Four” (1961, issues 34-36) and the Torch-Thing torrid twosome (1961, 3 issues)

“A House Divided!”

Some charming Thing moments at the beginning, followed by the introduction of our villain.

He hires a bunch of people to make really contrived reasons for the Four to fight each other - like, at this point, they should be so used to mind control and deception and hypnosis and shapeshifters etc etc. and they have the tech to counter some of these things, it gets hard to believe they can’t just have a short convo and suss out that something’s wrong.

Oh, so he's the role model for most of today's billionaires. Got it.

Anyways Gideon’s son is a big fan of the F4, and when he overhears his daddy’s sordid plans he goes to warn them… unfortunately, Gideon’s intended finishing blow is a replica of DOOM’s time machine set up in the Baxter Building lobby…

…which gives us what might be the most unrealistic ending of all time (and yeah, this is a series with a nigh-omnipotent baby that almost incited Armageddon by reaching for the sun):

“Calamity on the Campus!”

Diablo is back. Glad to see my hunch was right and he could absolutely do alchemy inside his crypt. Also glad to see that his costume looks better here, mostly owing to the color change.

He strikes as the F4 are touring Reed and the Thing’s alma mater (which is just referred to as State U lol). There’s some brief shoehorned cameos of Prof X interviewing students and Peter looking to enroll after graduating from high school, but there’s also Super-Football, which is awesome.

Anyways the actual plot is that Diablo has improved his potions to no longer wear off (so he’s got like a zillion powers now, so long as he calls them “potions” and initiates the effect by throwing a bottle, basically). Diablo finds one of the professors, a superhuman-studying biologist, who has developed a statue of meteoric metal that would be “more powerful than anything that lives - including the Fantastic Four” if only it was animate. Diablo animates the “Dragon Man” and bids it defeat the F4.

The F4 barely survive it and Diablo’s onslaught, but Sue comes to a realization:

When they rematch with Diablo they distract him long enough for his control over the Dragon Man to slip, and it turns on Diablo, dragging him beneath the lake.

1) YES WE ESCAPED THE LOVE TRIANGLE EVERYBODY IS MAKING IT OUT OF THE SWAMP 2) hell yeah! happy for them

I liked this issue quite a bit, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed Diablo as the villain this time around. It leaves me wondering why Dragon Man is wearing pants, though - it’s a statue.

“The Frightful Four!”

Ok, that’s Sandman and Paste-Pot Pete. I’m also fairly sure the hair lady is “Medusa”, an inhuman, but aside from knowing her name and subspecies that’s all I’ve got. Did not recognize the helmet man as the Wizard, one of the Torch’s old super-inventor foes. Great to see villains color-coordinating, it puts them one step closer to parity with the heroes.

Speaking of the heroes. Here is all of them (and also Rick Jones (huegh)) at Reed and Sue’s engagement party. The Frightful Four politely wait until everyone has gone home to attack, and they’re ridiculously OP, which is a strange thing to say for a team that has the Wizard and Paste-Pot Pete in it. Between them, they have paste restraints, sand grappling, a sleep gas sprayer, hair grappling, and antigrav stickers, which is a ridiculous amount of crowd control. They subdue the Thing, Sue, and Reed in quick succession.

Johnny is elsewhere when Alicia fires the Thing’s flare gun, alerting him. He saves them from dying in space, although some credit should be given to Reed for his effort as well:

They fight the Frightful Four this time without the element of surprise, beating them. Sue is the MVP, forcing the ship the rest of the Frightfuls are taking to land with her forcefields and then subduing P3 and Medusa entirely on her own. However, while everyone is distracted the Wizard blows up his ship, knocking out the Fantastics and giving the Frightfuls the opportunity to escape.

This had no relevance to the plot but I also wanted to showcase it on account of it’s cool asf.

Torch-Thing Power Hour section

In MEH “Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch”, the titular mutants decide to consult with popular non-mutant heroes to resolve whether they should stay with Magneto as a matter of honor or leave as a matter of morality. Unfortunately having just seen the X-Men’s publicly released photos of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants on the television, Johnny and the Thing are primed to fight them on sight. Neither group prevails in their battle, and the mutants come to believe they can only be safe with Magneto. Waste of a good premise, but the action was fine.

In BAD “Meet the Beatles!” Johnny and the Thing do not meet the Beatles. Like, they’re there in the story, very briefly, and the action is about our heroes rescuing the Beatles’ payroll from some thieves, but I don’t even recall if the Beatles have any speaking lines. Also, our two heroes are so busy sniping each other and trying to impress their girlfriends they cause mayhem at such irresponsible levels it feels out-of-character.

In MEH “The Bouncing Ball of Doom!” the Thinker engineers a heat-resistant, pressure-resistant, remote-controlled ball to defeat Johnny and the Thing (as opposed to the entire Fantastic Four for… some reason). The logic behind it being ball-shaped and made of space shuttle-grade materials is sound but the name of this issue is so goofy. Anyways they fight the ball at a dam and have to deal with the structural damage it causes, resulting in a lot of fun environmental hazards.

Also, how do the villains keep making phony invitations to events they don’t even control?

Thankfully this issue explicates the fallibility of the Thinker’s predictions - they’re just “99.99999 percent” accurate, and he regularly can’t predict people because he has to input facts based on what he knows about them. It goes some way to making his plots feel less like asspulls.

[heimerdinger-fr]

You should meet Jinx! I think you’d like her. You met her in the other universe as Powder but this one’s different. She’s still amazing though, in an insane sort of way

Ah yes! Powder was one of the brightest minds I’ve seen! I’d be more than happy to meet a fellow inventor!

-Prof. Heimerdinger