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[rashmislearningplanet]

Class 6 : Cyber Olympiad Quiz | PART - 1 | 24 Important Questions | Oswaal Books | Computer Quiz

[smahell]

What's ur favorite OBM audiodrama 😈

you have opened a CAN of worms because I LOVE the audio dramas (incl live at the house of lamentation! I count them as audio dramas cause they're pretty much live audio drama readings. but excluding the premium audio dramas you get when paying for VIP and the obey me asmrs. haven't managed to get around to those yet.)

Cooking's So Hard! - i think this is one i managed to rewatch the most and the plot still sticks in my mind. kyohei's voice for beel is a lot higher pitched here, and i think the dynamic between a slightly worried lucifer and a somewhat careless beelzebub is really funny here!! beel over indulging himself with the sauce, and lucifer saying "congratulations on figuring out the flavour" after hes finished just fucking kills me..

and the innocence behind his request that everyone has the "best meal ever" and the repetition of the basic ingredients… lucifer is tired!! he is growing grey hairs at this man!! i don't really like eating noises but honestly this drama was so comedic that i didn't really mind. yes i will taste test your taste test…. hajimimi….hajimimimi… hajimimimimi… is stuck in my head.

Asmodeus's New Hobby - my two fav characters are featured here, so i'm not sure what's not to like! the dynamics and asmo's vanity is sooo humorous here i just couldn't not laugh. "it's so pretty" ".. its too pretty.." "i think i'm in love." miura ayme you will LIVE FOREVER because i love this performance. this entire plot about robot legs and sumo sweat is so convoluted and funny. they're such opposites that asmo dwelling in such an otaku sort of interest in his own way is just hilarious.

Simeon's Tech Troubles - this audio drama is one i've come back to listen to time and time again. it starts out a little understanding and calming, but satan's anger quickly builds with simeon's naivety towards technology… it's so humorous here. hirata yu's performance here is absolutely lovely here - i've loved his voicework for a while but seeing him appear in this drama makes me feel a little lighter, if that makes sense. also some of the noises simeon makes here are…. questionable. but its fine.

the process of simply turning on the computer and the consecutive insults just adds to the layers of humor.. sumi shinya you will also live forever because i can picture satan's eyebrow twitching at simeon's attitude and fear at pressing a simple button. "there's nothing "whoa" about it". even though simeon acts like an overtired child at opening a computer( which i find quite weird now that i dwell more on it) i still feel like it was still shown in a more comedic and silly fashion rather than trying to infantilize his character. "satan, thats enough today" oh my god 😭..

Solomon Quiz - miura ayme's voice acting is such a treat here.. i love it, he's so hyperactive, and the little "heh.. heeeeh??" he does at solomon's answer is sooo humorous.

i have a feeling that koba wasn't actually able to make the recording for this, which is why he's present as a phone call, but i still feel the energy from just solomon and asmo interacting in themselves. i know this is seperate from the audio drama, but i really like the soundtrack in the background for this!

it's obvious asmo is a little bit.. daft: he doesn't know classical is a genre of music, he doesnt really know solomon "that" well, or doesn't care for him that much, but the passion and happiness he shows around him is still authentic. at first you can definitely tell that solomon finds the idea of doing a quiz about himself as "weird," but at the end kawata really embodies this happiness of being a quiz game host because he's so into this competition.

House Of Lamentation Lives

the confidence that asmo says "I have absolutely no idea!" is so humorous!! hhh its stuck in my head! "solomon question three solomon question three!!" rotates round my head like a baguette in a microwave because this entire audio drama is memorable…

Leviathan-Sensei's Otaku FM ep 5: A Living Landmine: now this episode i have TOO much to talk about. it already starts in media res and tension's already established at the beginning with sumi's spine-chilling delivery of "what did you say?". i love how the sound effects in the background just merge so well because it just paints this vivid picture within my mind and gets me so excited. and when the sound effects do cut off, its when a scared and somewhat awkward levi butts in trying his best to calm satan down, albeit it not working very well.

"we've got more trash lying around here than Lucifer and I have things in common." ouh!! harsh satan!!

sumi's performance and the chemistry both of the voice actors have creates this naturally flowing dialogue between the two of them and it just gets me again.. hyped the fuck up!! "KONO ORENO!! DOKUKANITERUTEI???" that line is STUCK INSIDE MY HEAD and i feel like after this sumi needs a nice cold glass of ice water because you then realize that sumi shinya has been screaming into his microphone for about 4 minutes.

"stuck-up, arrogant and scary looking is literally you though! hahaha-" oh leviathan… you poor sweet summer's child. and satan's "huh?" right after?? yeah i just know we're cooked but i'm laughing with them!! this is also a voice drama that includes mc somewhat, but at the same time it just includes mc really excellently within the drama because holy shit.. if that was me.. i'd burst out laughing like levi too…

"..uh oh" YEAH HE KNOWS WE'RE COOKED??? and the way satan responds so sadistically afterwards "hmm, how about you tell me more Leviathan". every syllable punctuated, the bgm rising to tense heights that nobody has ever seen before, i can FEEL the FLAMES of satan's anger through my cheap airbuds!! even the panic that fills leviathan as mc calls satan "sadistic and scary" when he's angry just like lucifer!! AND THEN THE LOUD "BAKA" AS LEVI SEEMS TERIFFIED AS IF HE'S BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH AS WE'VE ALLEGEDLY "ADDED FUEL TO THE FIRE"??? CRAZY!! AND THEN SATAN'S SADISTIC LAUGHTER AFTERWARDS AND LEVI TRYING TO SCRAMBLE WITH COMPLIMENTS??

and then the "super similar to lucifer" part. i've literally recited this part with friends because of how tense yet hilarious this moment is because satan is on the VERGE of crashing out, and we are nothing but PEDESTRIANS to the violent verbal onslaught we will hear next.

and then the pause in dramatic music "y-yeah in the best possible way" levi-chan. you've killed us. satan's taken the knife from it and stabed it into my abdomen and you have not only TWISTED it deeper by saying that, but you also let it push through the other side and left me dying in an alleyway. you motherfucker. "Oh no…".

sumi's performance here just screaming into his microphone.. with the bleeps and everything.. i wish we had an uncensored version but oh my godness the performance here is absolutely amazing… "this is your last chance leviathan. tell me the right answer." it's the desperation and fear in kada's voice as he's pretty much PLEADING FOR HIS LIFE and spluttering is PALPABLE. and the way the tension manages to go from BOILING to gentle simmering is just. amazing. "levi, and you do.. be careful next time." BE CAREFUL OF WHAT?? YOU WERE THE PROBLEM KING CRASH OUT??

i'm really glad that in this audio drama they said that they had fun, especially sumi. kada even comments on his energy and how he looked like he was having a blast acting. it's actually wonderful to know that there was passion absolutely dripping from every orifice from this House of Lamentation Live segment because it was an absolute pleasure to listen to!!

(so many audio dramas feature levi turning into a child.. not that i mind kada's impression anyways. he sounds very cute, especially when he's begging for lucifer to just spend time with him. i like to think that it's levi's internal dialogue since he finds himself alone a lot, but its very very adoraable..)

Otaku FM Anime and Chill Season 1 ep 7: Lucifer, One More Time!

it's popular for a reason, its basically Lucifer and the Factory Tour (which i WILL talk about later) with more humor and it gets real sweet near the end… but i really love the voice acting here as well. regardless i love the younger brother & older brother dynamic established here; levi being super grateful about his new earbuds, then all of a sudden forgetting about the forbidden properties of the book and turning into a three year old.

it's so RARE that you see a lucifer this desperate within an audio drama "Look, look. Peekaboo! Peekaboo!" this man is pulling out tricks from the celestial realm and levi is still crying. kada's crying actually improves the further you go into the audio drama.. it's still adorable.. and the "Hana Ruri Flash"… AHHH THIS AUDIO DRAMA IS JUST AMAZING!! AND THE HIGH PITCHED VOICE LUCIFER HAS?? HHH <33 yama-san's performance is just so amazing here and kada's baby "Hana Ruri Flaaachu", and the little "hey hey"'s for attention.. i'd love to see their expressions acting this out because this is soo adorable i love father and son dynamics i love baby levi i love thiss i love levi just being so needy as a baby because this audio drama is so amazing plot wise and acting wise.

"Earf looks yummy!" hes so. my baby. hes my little china doll. i need to wrap in bubble wrap and plastic tarp to keep him save in my arms. and the admission of him wanting lucifer to stay with him… and lucifer finding him adorable….so adorable… "I just wamted to pway wif you."

and the fact that lucifer cancels all his plans just so he can have time to play with him is just sooo heartwarming. whoever said "lucifer abuses his siblings" is a LIAR and a FRAUD because HE LOVES THEM SO FREAKING MUCH.

"Now you can play with your big brother until your heart's content. " hes so.. lucifer's so cute…wah…AND WHEN LEVI TURNS BACK THE NOISE LUCIFER MAKES IS LIKE A QUACK. "Huh?" and its so perfectly timed because he's done all that and now his brothers an adult recluse again…. part of me thinks that levi remembers the encounter, but is too embarassed but.. damn. one whole audio drama of baby levi and big brother lucifer please!!!

leviathan going first was a bad omen.. once he had his flub at the beginning it was like a non-stop train of flubs. he flubs like three times.. while ayme only flubs once which is like. wow. professional actor vs random gay musician. hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby but the coughing baby won.

Otaku FM Anime and Chill Season 1 ep 9: Give It to Me, Asmo!

i just liked the competition portion. i knew kada would lose because of the sheer hatred the producers have against him /j.

it sets up this basis that they're doing the impossible.

i feel like they were sort of half-acting half-unserious because i know for a fact kada was half DEVESTATED at the difference between times.

"i'm such a naughty demon" asmo you can do things to me… "all is fair in love and war" and im HOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO HIM!11!.

and the complaining the drama: "I don't wanna do this anymore" WELL IT'S TOO DAMN BAD. THAT WAS REALLY REALLY GOOD AND YOU BOTH TRIED YOUR BEST. even though miura won by 12 seconds, kada won by emotion and my heart, so they both did amazing <333

Otaku FM Anime and Chill Season 2 ep 1: Diavolo's Training Day.

again the dynamic between vas just elevates this performance even further!! (also i love dialevi..but thats besides the point) this idea of diavolo trying to give back to one of his role models is soo just.. its such a tangible idea yknow?? it just makes sense, and the humorous way that diavolo tries to read minds with this sort of PHYSICAL effort is so humourous. especially this explaination of barbatos's sort of "mythical" powers when it comes to telling what he wants (even though it is SOMEWHAT explained in another audio drama (Barbatos's Unepected Replacement)).

the fact that diavolo blatantly gives up, saying "I have no idea" and the way levi says the answer as if all-knowing.. very very humorous. even yamamoto conveys diavolo's sheepishness to levi's otaku ways quite perfectly here too.

HOWEVER. what's so amazing about this audio drama is the fact that they purposefully give him convoluted and crazy words and tongue twisters to work with.. which is probably why he audibly struggles here "Ono.. onono.." and then he SIGHS like he's being given 100kg whilst voice acting at the same time and his voice WAVERS and oh my GOD it just brings this realization that we're all HUMANS and i found his flub really really funny but KADA SATOSHI IS TRYING HIS BEST OKAY??? AND HE'S REALLY ADORABLE HERE

"Ah… No…" HES TRYING TO SAY LONELONE-CHAN AND MIMOMIMO-CHAN AND GYARIGYARI-CHAN!! LET HIM COOK.. and even though it isn't part of the drama, kada's deflated persona at the end of the audio drama just is a chef's kiss. acting as if takuhei-san planted those tongue-twisters in the script.. "Can you explain yourself?" i started laughing too, the writers for these are really really funny….

Leviathan-Sensei's Otaku FM ep 2: Mammon's Sixth Sense - i just think the "levi-chawn" at the beginning is neat.

Otaku FM Anime and Chill - Season 2 ep 2: Lucifer and the Factory Tour.

i don't like lucifer that much as a character but this entire audio drama felt so heartwarming. i really don't have that much to say about it but i feel like it's so interesting learning more about the interpersonal relationships between characters especially on Otaku FM.. this one just felt so much more authentic and fluffy, like genuine siblings have a good heart to heart. even though i don't have much to day, this audio drama still evokes lots of feelings that i never expected to feel..

honorable mentions list:

Otaku FM Anime and Chill Season 2 ep 3: Barbatos the Exterminator - the entire audio drama is like if someone from the anime writing team snorted even MORE crack and then started writing. /pos

Otaku FM Anime and Chill Season 2 ep 8: Luke and the Old Maid - it's the random giggling fit just before the drama as well as the dramatization of a literal card game for; luke is a LETHAL WEAPON.

anyways this was SUPER DUPER LONG, thank you so much for asking!!

[inthelittlewood]

Hey Martyn! So, I got into your lore because of Grian's Life Series, and now I'm just trying to find some stuff out. Anyways, I understand most of it, though I do have a couple questions.

What actually are LOOT shards/crystals? I know that they're soke aort of corruption in games of sorta, but how do they get there, how to they affect the game, and also how to disable them. It's just something I'm wondering about since I know you have to find the one piece, of treasure, but how does it actually help?

What are CHEST agents? I know that they're something almost as evil as Cruppy, which is really saying something, but what actually are they?

Are there any extra lore bits in Rats SMP that you can't get anywhere else? I just wanna know if I should grit my teeth and watch it sometime, when I'm done catching up on the VODs of Pirates (can't make it to streams for personal reasons, alas).

If you've come up with it, is there any way that the Watchers lore from the Life Series ties into the datastream hopper lore? Those two just seem a little incompatible to me - hopping the datastream, being captured by mysterious godlike entities... Or are they just two separate universes?

Do you plan on posting the New Life streams on your vods channel?

Who in Pirates is p!Martyn closest to in each faction, overall?

Also, I think you may have mentioned it on stream, but did you take the faction quiz and if so, which faction did you get? I kid you not, when I took it I got Kestrels all three times (with changing the answers to stuff that I would still do, but different than first time, I mean). Had to change it up just to see all the different faction descriptions...

Ok, I think that's it. Sorry if I have bad formatting btw, I'm typing this out on phone. Thank you for taking the time to read my questions! Absolutely love your work and lore, while at the same time having the humour some don't. Keep on doing an amazing job. Hope you find your one piece, of treasure.

Have an ice day!

That's something I want to unveil in the next lore drop, so I'm really sorry to say SoonTM but this lore doesn't have all that many secrets atm

2. C.H.E.S.T agents work are avatars controlled by human operators working for C.H.E.S.T and its evil underbelly. They're a known and trusted public computing corporation but the public doesn't know the full extent of their goals and resources

3. I try to be pretty concise and unavoidable when I do my lore stuff, so you should be able to find the Rats segments in this playlist with ease: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3MFbfp1zo8dooC57HqfbizRoc07PdlFQ

4. Maaaaaaybe, people have noticed some parallels / links and all shall be revealed one day for sure, even if I'm like gonna quit doing videos and streaming, I'd just lore dump whatever isn't revealed so it's out there ha

5. A lot of my New Life streams are me just doing the grindy parts of the SMP and with the server being somewhat inactive I want to save the crossover / collab content for the videos - I'm not sure people would flock to a 3 hour vod of me painfully and slowly building an outpost or hollowing out a mountain to make a factory ya know?

6. Kestrels - probably Sausage, with Oli as a close second. Herons - Owen or Water. Owen has an inquisitive gene like Martyn and Water likes all things musical. Nightingales - Ros is so different to Martyn that it makes for some wholesome and chaotic interations, you never know which you'll get. Kites - Bek is basically the only one he's interacted with, he had a little banter on the seas with Kuervo but it was brief

7. I did! I surprisingly got Kestrel, or I guess, not surprisingly huh?

[queer-lemons]

ok SO. Last semester I had a kinesiology and applied physics (KAAP) professor who was kind of a dick. He was very self important, his lectures were mostly him rambling and not in a very helpful way. I tried to look past this, but then he also caused issues with my disability accomodations.

I can't take exams on the computer bc of Issues™, so I have to take my exams on paper. I'm pretty much always the only student in classes of 100+ with this accomodation-- meaning that the prof only has to manually grade one 2-3 page test. I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's pretty damn close considering all other assignments are computer graded.

So this professor would administer the quiz on a Wednesday, and then two days later on Friday he would go over the entire test, explain the questions and answers to us, and answer questions about it. That was the entire 80min of class. But here's the fun thing. I didn't have access to my exam during the review classes, much less a graded version that would tell me what I struggled with. And he used a question bank, which basically means I couldn't just remember "oh yeah x question I chose y answer" because everyone got different types of questions.

So I was fucking screwed. Because the most constructive learning we got, I was nixed out of because he couldn't either grade my test faster, or wait to do the review sessions. But don't worry, it gets worse.

So we had 3 big exams and then a final. Exam 3 was about 3-4 weeks before the final exam, and you needed to be able to study exam 3 for the final. But even though all of my classmates got their exams back within a day of taking them, I didn't get mine back for weeks. I emailed him once or twice asking and I just got blown off. And the only disability advisor I knew didn't even reply to my email.

He actually got covid but was only sick for less than a week. Ok so it's a few days before the final, and I still don't have my test to study (my classmates have all had theirs for weeks). It's a class of at least 100 students. I decide I have to do something. So I raise my hand, and in front of the whole class I say (loudly, bc i'm a theatre nerd): "Hi, I'm a disabilities student, and you still haven't given me back our last exam from a few weeks ago. Can I get that so I can study for the final?" He fully froze for a solid five seconds, before saying "How?" as if he hadn't sent me two tests before this. Anyway, he ended up stumbling around a bit and saying "well I haven't been to the office because of covid" even though everyone knows well that he was in person teaching both before and after the covid *after* the test. Long story short, he was shitting himself and it was so obvious.

Anyway, you know what the punch line is? The class average on the final was a 71%, and I got an 88%. He emailed me privately saying he was impressed, that I was clearly a good learner. I replied thanking him briefly and then listing ways in which his class could be made easily accessible. He never replied.

So yeah, you can try to leave your disabled students behind, but they might turn out to be your outlying successes in the class. Oh and even if they still get F's, that's no excuse to not put your all into their education. And if you can advocate for yourself at all, please do it, because you will be so fucking proud of yourself and it will be a very good foundation for the struggles you'll face in the rest of academia.

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Buck doesn’t really know what to do. He doesn’t know how to be. This isn’t… This isn’t his strong suit. 

It might have been. He almost got there. With Abby. When her mother died, Buck had been all in. He tried to comfort her. Was there for whatever she needed, twenty-four seven. Helped with the funeral. All of it. But he supposes, now, that it wasn’t enough. 

He’s never known how to be enough. 

“Uh,” Buck mumbles now, watching Eddie. Who he doesn’t owe anything. Who isn’t expecting him to be anything at all. “Let me know if there’s any extra support I can offer to Chris, okay?”

Eddie nods. “Thanks, man.”

And that’s it.

He doesn’t see a lot more of Eddie Diaz that year. 

2020

ix.

“Okay, you ready for the study questions?” Buck asks. 

“Yes!” Chris replies confidently. 

“The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from which country?” 

“France!” Chris answers. 

“Nice,” Buck praises.  “Independence Day commemorates what event?” 

“The Declaration of Independence,” Chris says. “Duh.” 

Buck smirks. “Correct. In what year did the Civil War begin?”

“Uh… 1860?”

“Not quite,” Buck says. “Close though.”

“1861!”

“Did you actually know that or was it the next easiest guess?” Buck asks skeptically.

“Well, was it right?” Chris asks cheekily. 

“It was…”

“So I knew,” Chris says. 

Buck chuckles. “You’re trouble. But, trouble that’s ready for his American history quiz.”

“Yes!” Chris cheers. “Thank you, Buck.”

“Anytime, kiddo.”

Chris is still coming to the library several times a week. Buck has gotten pretty familiar with his classes and homework. He helps Chris more than any other kid. Not because Chris necessarily needs more help or isn’t getting it elsewhere. That’s not it. Just… They kind of have a good thing going. Buck understands how Chris learns best, and he has fun helping him research. From the fourth grade equivalent of a book report, to a science project on bugs, and now, for basic American history. 

Today, they’ve got extra time. It’s over half an hour after Eddie or Carla - or occasionally Christopher’s aunt, Pepa - comes to pick him up. Most of the other kids have gone home. No one has come for Christopher.

“Hey, Chris, who is coming to get you tonight?” Buck asks as Chris cleans up his history workbook. 

“My dad,” Chris says. “After work.”

Ah, okay. Firefighter shifts can be unpredictable, Buck has learned. You don’t just clock out in the middle of an emergency because your shift is over. You wait it out. Unlike the library. Which is closing soon. 

“He’s probably just stuck at a fire, huh?” Buck asks.

“Or a car accident or medical emergency,” Chris recites dutifully. 

“Alright, well we can be patient,” Buck says. 

“Yeah,” Chris says. “Can I read some comic books instead of homework?”

“Of course you can!” Buck says. “Homework help hour is over.”

Another half hour passes, and it’s time for Buck to close up the library. Chris is the only visitor left in the building besides Jackie. Jackie is an older lady who does puzzle books on the couch of the front foyer several hours a day without fail. She comes to a lot of the library’s special programming too. The kind that isn’t for families and kids, like author talks and craft nights. She’s pretty sweet, and always heads out as soon as Buck starts closing shop. Buck gives her a little wave, and she tells him to have a good night.

“See you tomorrow, Jackie!” He calls as she leaves. 

Buck gives it ten more minutes. Watches Chris reading comics in the kids’ section. Eddie still doesn’t show up. It’s dark outside. Rainy. Buck has heard thunder at least twice. He starts to get worried. 

He logs back onto the library admin computer and looks up Eddie’s number. He calls from his personal cell. It goes to voicemail. 

“Hey, Eddie. This is Buck. Uh, the librarian. You know who I am. Anyway, the library is closing and I’ve got Chris here with me. Just hoping to get an update on your ETA. Thanks.”

A few minutes pass. Eddie doesn’t return his call. He tries Carla. She doesn’t answer either. Buck doesn’t have Pepa’s number. This isn’t good. 

“Buck,” Christopher approaches the desk quietly. “Is my dad going to be here soon? I’m hungry.”

Yeah, so is Buck. It’s definitely past dinnertime. 

“I, uh… I haven’t heard from him.” Buck admits. “But let me make one more call and see what I can do, okay? Maybe I can order us some takeout.”

“Okay,” Chris mumbles. His voice is missing its usual spark of joy. He’s scared. Buck understands why.

But Buck has one more option. He doesn’t have Chimney’s phone number, so he steps away from Christopher for privacy, and calls his sister. 

“Evan?” Maddie picks up after two rings. “I’m on break. What’s up?”

“Hey, can you send me Chimney’s number? Or, like, call him for me?”

“Sure, but he’s working. He won’t pick up for a while. Why?” 

“Well, I’m here with Eddie’s son,” Buck explains. “The library is closing and no one has come to pick him up.”

“Oh, shoot. No one came? I guess that means you haven’t heard.” 

Buck’s stomach drops. “Heard what?”

“The call Chim and Eddie’s firehouse is at… It went kind of bad… It’s on the news.”

“H-how bad?” Buck asks.

“Well…” Maddie sounds nervous. “I don’t know for sure what’s going on. But I think…” 

“What, Maddie?” Buck presses.

“One of them, not Chimney, is trapped underground. I saw Chim being extracted on the news, rescuing a kid. There was a mudslide… It could be Eddie.” 

“Oh, fuck,” Buck says. Library language be damned. 

“Yeah…”  Maddie sighs. 

“Okay, listen…” Buck groans. “I can’t get in touch with any of Christopher’s approved pickup people. There are procedures for this, and I don’t like them. So… I’m going to break the rules.”

“What do you mean?” Maddie asks.

“I’m going to take Chris to grab dinner, and then I’ll drive him to the firehouse. Can you tell Chimney to tell Eddie? And update me if anything else happens?”

“Are you going to get in trouble?” Maddie asks.

“Only if Eddie files a complaint.”

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“So something is wrong with my dad,” Chris says, over a McDonald’s dinner. Buck could have probably done better than this; but he had no time to prepare and it’s not like anyone has ever taught him to cook. 

“Why do you say that?” Buck asks. 

“Because if he was just running late, he would have called you,” Chris explains.

Buck takes a sip of his Coke. He doesn’t know how to handle this. This kid lost his mother not even a full year ago. He’s probably terrified of losing his dad, too. 

“Well, okay, Chris… Something is going on.”

Chris pauses, midway through reaching for a chicken nugget. 

“What is it?” Chris asks. 

“Well, you know how my sister works for 9-1-1?” Buck asks.

Chris nods. 

“She says that your dad’s firehouse responded to a pretty scary call,” Buck explains. “So he’s out there being a brave hero right now. And that might take a while.”

Chris sighs. “Okay.”

“Are you still okay to hang out with me until we hear from him?” Buck asks.

Chris nods. “Yeah. Thank you for the Happy Meal.”

“Anytime, kiddo,” Buck says. 

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He gets the call from Chimney an hour later. They’re in the car, driving to the fire station. 

“Hey, man. Maddie says you have Christopher?” Chimney says when Buck answers the phone.

“Yeah, I do. Uh, you’re on speaker. I’m driving to you. Chris is in the backseat. He can hear you, okay?”

“Uh, okay. Hey, Chris. How’s it going, buddy?” 

“It’s good. Buck bought me chicken nuggets,” Chris says.

“Oh, that’s great, kid,” Chim replies.

“Uh, so, h-how is Eddie?” Buck interjects.

Chim takes a moment to reply. 

“Well, listen. He’s okay. But it was a hard call. And Eddie… Your dad, Chris, he was… He was underground for longer than we would have liked. He had some trouble getting out. So he’s pretty cold and a little banged up. But he’s gonna be just fine.”

Buck feels a wave of relief.

“That’s great, Chim,” he exhales. “Thanks, man. We’re on our way. We cool to stop by the firehouse?”

“Yeah. We’re on our way back, too. I think Eddie would really like to see Chris.” 

“I want to see my dad!” Chris exclaims. 

“We’ll be there soon,” Buck promises.

[studentbyday]

hello, i drafted an aesthetic studyblr post for today, but didn't feel like posting it bc today is an ugly rant kind of day. (more kermits under the cut)

AAAAHHHHHH STUPID FREAKING WINDOWS- 😩😫😭🤬🤬🤬 so i was working on my laptop for these past few days which uses a different ms office version from the computer i switched to today and all my work was LOST!! 😭😭 all the notes i took on OneNote (at least it was just the psyc notes i had done on the laptop - idk what i would do if biochem or mol bio notes were lost. i'd probably cry for real) and all the work i did on that biochem paper? GONE!! my brother uses LibreOffice so i finally switched to that (altho their UI isn't that nice). at this point, i might as well switch to linux (unless that would cause unforeseen problems if i still sometimes do work on windows? idk) 😅 any recs for free notes apps that have a small learning curve and are OneNote-like?

the STRANGEST part is, some of the notes and lost files came back as i was working?? i didn't do anything and i *swear* i wasn't seeing things, so like, WTF??? not that i'm complaining. i hope the entire week of psyc notes i lost comes back. if not, i'll probs rewrite them if i have time. i hope i have time. i really hate this.

also, good thing i didn't like the way i wrote the biochem paper so far. i rewrote the thing in a google doc instead just to be safe and i like the way it flows much better now. AND!!! it's super annoying that i had to do this, but my handwritten notes on the main article i'm basing my paper on were confusing me. like, in terms of the flow of the biochemistry. so i basically rewrote those notes, doing this huge web in paint and idk if i could've done that on the first read instead of the way i did it. i hate feeling like i've done double work.

after rewriting the paper (i'm not even done yet - there are several things i wanna add yet and some facts i wanna clarify) and my notes on the article for said paper, i was exhausted. i tried to switch gears by reading the instructions/background for the biochem discussion post due tmr (that i was supposed to write today 😒) but i don't get it. it's like i didn't cover lipoproteins at all! i don't remember anything! what am i here* for if i can't remember anything?!

update: i answered 1 question for the discussion post. i still have to answer 1 more but i need to finish reading the background info first.

ALSO! i was supposed to study for 6+ hours today. i have no idea how long i actually studied bc i kept stopping and starting the study with me video and i worked through the breaks anyway, so the dinging timers were just annoying.

*"here" as in at uni, studying, although if in the right mood, it could also expand to my entire existence 🙂 (luckily i'm too angry rn to feel philosophical 😒)

okay, let's try not to end so sour. good things that happened today:

physio exercises ✅

skincare ✅ (i have added lip balm to the list asides from lotion bc the chapped state hurts 🙁)

mol bio quiz ✅

journal ✅

tomorrow will be better. and if it doesn't start out right, imma fight it until it is and i won't be defeated 😠

[alln64games]

Jeopardy!

NA release: 25th February 1998

PAL release: N/A

JP release: N/A

Developer: GameTek

Publisher: Take Two

N64 Magazine Score: 9%

Similar to Wheel of Fortune, this got a scathing review from N64 Magazine and, once again, this is just fine. There’s not much too it, but it gets the job done. That said, it does have a few problems not present in Wheel of Fortune.

One odd thing I noticed (which isn’t really a problem) is that the menu music is a remix of “I’m a little teapot”, which is a bit random.

Jeopardy is a trivia game where everything is worded awkwardly so that the answers start with “what is” and the questions don’t have question marks. It doesn’t change the nature of the questions in any way, it’s just a pointless novelty to make them seem more interesting than they are. You pick from a list of categories and difficulties – if you don’t know much about one of the chosen categories, tough.

Typing out on the N64 is particularly awkward. It helps you by filling in the “what is/are” part so you just put in the answer (making it more obvious that it’s just a regular quiz show). You can set it to accept incorrect spellings or to show you potential answers. On the flip side, computer players type so fast you can’t see what they’re doing.

It’s a basic trivia game – but that’s all it’s trying to be.

To be able to answer Jeopardy’s questions you need to have enough sense to not spend pounds on a glorified quiz book.

- Paul O’Donovan, N64 Magazine #16

Remake or Remaster?

Like Wheel of Fortune, classic games should be in a Jackbox-style collection.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to play Jeopardy on N64

[aimlesscomposer]

Okay so you said you had a website for the extended extended zodiac for Returned: Null. I have a question:

How do you make a website? Is it free? What program? How much coding is involved? Just any tips that’ll help and also how much knowledge of coding do you need to know to make one?

Thanks! :)

If i said i had one that was a miscommunication i am *working* on one lol

there are a lot of ways you can do it, but i will answer with how specifically I am going about it, and then mention in places other things that differ.

So, because I am wanting to make the website look and function very similar to the official Extended Zodiac site (both because i think it would be neat to make it look as close to official as possible, and the fact that the official Extended Zodiac site is giving security errors is concerning me a lil, I'm not sure if that's a new thing or if I am just now noticing it, but Viz doesn't seem particularly concerned with HS, and with everything that happened with HS^2 et all, im just a non-zero amount concerned that the site might go down, so rolling it into my thing wouldn't be the worst) I decided to build the website using a LEMP stack.

So I'm using Linode to host a virtual server, and on that server I am running Linux, and I have set up some programs to let that server talk to computers that connect to the domain and stuff. This is usually how I set up websites, and it is not at all free. there are free options for sure, but i am just used to doing it this way, and if i have to do work, then i am going to spend the money in a way where i have as much control as i want over the sites I make.

So, there's not really a *program* per se. I'm not using like Wordpress or something. The gameplan is going to be:

Use Linux as an operating system to host everying (Ubuntu 22.04LTS specifically(that's the L))

Use NGINX so that when a computer requests "returnednull.com/whateveriputhere" it can see what I want it to see (that's the E(don't ask me why it's E(i do not know(FAC here, NGINX is pronounce ENGINE-X because computer programers are cringe and terrible sometimes so it's e because engine you're welcome))))

Use MariaDB as a way to use MySQL to host the information for the signs so that i can make the pages only be like, a handful of pages instead of having to make like 600 pages because there's just *so many* signs i really can't explain how many signs this is now

And then make a site using HTML and CSS and JS and PHP to basically build a quiz and those truesign pages and effectively do my best to replicate everything while also adding the new things I need to and justt making everything work good and stuff :3

so yeah, like for this thing there's just *so much* stuff i have to do, and there is a bunch of coding because the project is extremely specific and i have specific things I need to do.

Now! as for like, more general things:

there is free hosting for making websites, you can always just do something like neocities: https://neocities.org/

there are also zero-code options for making websites, like wordpress: https://wordpress.com

like at the end of the day, it really just depends on what you want to do, and how you want to go about doing it!

if you got any more questions feel free to ask tho :0

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[canmom]

This an interesting angle. I've never been particularly taken with trying to determine True Art from False Art on the basis of specific qualities of the piece.

(I did ok-ish but not exceptionally on the AI art quiz, probably with a slight bias for misattributing human pieces as AI ones - like many other respondees, I found the Impressionist pieces hardest to distinguish, since they very much play to the AI's strengths.)

There are many different ways you could describe "art" as a human activity, I'm sure there's a post somewhere where I make a list, but a really big one is its communicative function - one purpose of art is to somehow pass on some aspect of our 'inner world' to another person, through a lossy and limited channel.

That a signal can be easily imitated doesn't mean it doesn't carry contextual information. For example, I could ask a yes/no question of enormous emotional importance - "should I take the shot", "has the baby been born", "will you go out with me", "am I a good girl" - and be answered with either "yes" or "no". It would be trivial to generate a machine which randomly substitutes for this communication - that's basically all a magic eight-ball is.

The amount of information that can be contained in an image of a given size and colour depth can also be calculated. For example, the number of fullscreen images that would fill my current monitor at 8 bits per channel would be 2^(3440 × 1440 × 24) ≈ 3 × 10^35788372 - about 15 megabytes uncompressed. It's a number that seems astronomically huge, though effectively the amount of information is much less than you'd calculate since all the likely pixels are correlated. The same goes for other art forms, like novels (encoded as, say, UTF-8 strings or PDFs) or pieces of music (encoded as sound files, MIDI, MuseScore files, etc.). The exact number is complicated, you end up getting into Kolmogorov complexity and shit like that, but the point is that it's finite.

If we want to claim that all the information about a human life that Hofstadter describes (grief, despair etc.) is in there somehow, we're claiming that this finitely many bits is adequate to capture all the nuances of a human life. I don't know that that's true!

This, however, doesn't really seem to align with how we interact with art. Human production and exchange of "art" is a social act - I would describe it as being continuous with "play". When we observe a piece, we are opening a communications channel - at least a one-way channel. The person on the other side sends some information into the channel, and we process it somehow.

Since it is a lossy channel with limited information, we must infer various things about the other mind on the opposite side of it. If I show you an artwork that I made, we might have a conversation about how I did it, why I made the choices I did. If I feel something looking at the work, I might imagine that you felt something similar, and designed the piece to evoke it intentionally (a guess that will often be wrong but sometimes still productive). I might also look at what specific choices you have made, compare them to the choices others have made in the same medium, etc etc.

We form these inferences on the basis of experience - the more you learn about making art, the more you learn to appreciate other peoples' art and vice versa. And we project these experiences, usually plausibly, onto other artists.

(Perhaps I am saying all art is in a sense performance art? Seems like a tasty soundbite, though I'm not fully sure I wanna commit to it.)

I'm not meaning to claim that a computer couldn't simulate this kind of 'how did you make it' interaction too. This line of argument was anticipated by Turing in his original 1950 paper on the 'imitation game' that someone links in the comments above, where he describes a poet undergoing a viva voce test interrogating their word choices, and argues that a computer might be programmed to give convincing answers to such a test. I imagine he's right - for a paper written in 1950 he makes some surprisingly sharp predictions for how future AIs might be made, such as the idea that an AI could be built to be 'educated' like a child. (He also thought the evidence for ESP is 'overwhelming', but hey, can't win 'em all).

A lot of the context around art would be quite easy to forge, had you a mind to. For example, suppose I go to a film screening, and someone is introduced as the director so we can all clap them. Did they really direct it? I don't know! You could totally send an actor. Less conspiratorially, if someone says they made an artistic choice for x or y reason, they could be lying about it, or misremembering, or most likely oversimplifying a complex and inscrutable process down to a simpler story.

At some point you have to take something like that on trust, or else simply accept that being lied to about it is part of the game you're there to play! (c.f. Oshi no Ko.)

Anyway, the sudden arrival of a new process that can produce, at least sometimes, near-indistinguishable output to various types of communication, throws a spanner in the process. If we're feeling uncharitable, we could call it something like a DDOS attack, stuffing the channels with spurious inputs that don't fit our design assumptions. I think that goes too far, though. AI gen doesn't preclude communication, but it does need we need to think differently about what is being communicated.[1]

So to consider that last question, if art is like a game, could you train an AI art to produce art that is meaningful to humans only by 'playing against' itself, like AlphaGo Zero? I don't think this is so likely. The rules of Go are strict and well-defined; the rules of what humans find meaningful are inseparable from the history of interacting with other humans, which is why art constantly evolves. Training an AI on existing human artworks is training it to compress and interpolate/extrapolate that dataset; training it to optimise for "making novel art that expresses something in a form that its interlocutor could understand" requires it to be interacting with someone.

You could imagine a training process with an "artist" AI and a "critic" AI (a sort of more sophisticated GAN, where the adversary is optimising not to distinguish human/AI art but to judge it on aesthetic grounds) - but how would you get the "critic" AI? Whose taste would it express?

Admittedly, the developers of image generators are constantly refining their models in response to users, so they are being optimised to appeal to someone, not just interpolate existing artworks. But I think it would be very hard to remove humans from the equation entirely. And the present means of providing feedback to the AI are very crude.

For an AI to learn from interacting with other AI (and the world), I feel like you'd need a whole new process that isn't about minimising loss against input-output pairs. Romantically, I imagine it would be closer to how humans learn from life, but I don't really know what will 'work' in the end.

below: some other remarks that were excised from the main post.

[1] We can view AI image gen as another channel for communication between humans, with its own set of inferences to make. If someone shows me a picture they've generated with AI, there's no point asking why they painted this bit that way, but I might approach them more as a curator and ask why they chose this generation over others, or how they went about prompting it.

The AI artists who go to the trouble of finetuning their models with LoRAs for a specific end goal, or using more involved processes with multiple stages of generation, probably have most to 'say', either through the work they generate or how they'd discuss it. (I find it very endearing when someone trains an AI to serve up a hyperspecific fetish.) And the more I know about how AI images are generated, the more I can probably have a productive conversation.

In this light, the "problem" of AI is mostly one of deception, insofar as it tries to look like something else and thereby tell a misleading story. That's probably a big reason why why it brings the rancour it does, although it doesn't explain all of it. It's not (usually) a forgery of a specific human's work, but it is designed to forge spurious communications in this channel in general, so the channel is 'noisier' - and this could be thought to undermine many of the contexts, i.e. the operating narratives and social games, which are why we exchange art in the first place. Over time, we'll presumably end up renegotiating the 'games', and spawning new ones, as humans always have.

And of course, the issue of provenance and plagiarism in art - particularly when prestige and money get involved - long predates AI and is full of all sorts of bizarre contortions when you look at it closely.

More intriguing is whether there is some possibility for "real communication" between humans and AIs - that is, could there be an AI output that does respect the 'rules of the game' in some way. This is harder to imagine! Like, if you ask why we aren't solipsists, we could point to how much we resemble other humans and say, all things considered, seems very unlikely we aren't the same type of entity. But I only know 'what it's like to be' a human. Conversely, while I know a reasonable amount about how AIs work, the attention mechanism and latent-space vectors and so on (thanks 3blue1brown), the analogy isn't so clear anymore, so I don't even know how I'd determine whether there even is a 'what is it like to be' under all the 'noise' of communications aggressively optimised to fit the patterns of something a human might say. If there is, it's probably very alien to all of my experience.

Ironically I feel like the current model of 'AI', which teaches us to regard any generated output with suspicion of having 'nothing behind it', would make it harder for any 'real', agentive, subjective-experience-having AI to make itself known to us. But perhaps it's good that we're forced to sharpen our criteria of what we're looking for out of these things.

Anyway, all of this is probably just idle imaginings, because nobody can figure out how to make anything like enough money to justify the exorbitant costs of training and operating AIs, so at some point this whole speculative bubble will go up in smoke and whatever AIs continue to be in use will likely remain about as good as they are today, or stupider - at least until the next 'AI summer' when a new paradigm emerges.

Thinking about that that "slop accelerationism" post, and also Scott's AI art Turing test.

I also hope AI text- and image-generation will help shake us loose from cheap bad art. For example, the fact that you can now generate perfectly rendered anime girls at the click of button kindof suggests that there was never much content in those drawings. Though maybe we didn't really need AI for that insight? It feels very similar to that shift in fashion that rejected Bouguereau-style laboriously-rendered pretty girls in favor of more sketchy brush work.

But will we really be so lucky that only things that we already suspected was slop will prove valueless?

As usual with AI, Douglas Hofstadter already thought about this a long time ago, in an essay from 2001. Back in 1979 he had written

Will a computer program ever write beautiful music? Speculation: Yes, but not soon. Music is a language of emotions, and until programs have emotions as complex as ours, there is no way a program will write anything beautiful. There can be "forgeries"—shallow imitations of the syntax of earlier music—but despite what one might think at first, there is much more to musical expression than can be captured in syntactical rules. There will be no new kinds of beauty turned up for a long time by computer music-composing programs. Let me carry this thought a little further. To think—and I have heard this suggested—that we might soon be able to command a preprogrammed mass-produced mail-order twenty-dollar desk-model "music box" to bring forth from its sterile [sic!] circuitry pieces which Chopin or Bach might have written had they lived longer is a grotesque and shameful misestimation of the depth of the human spirit. A "program" which could produce music as they did would have to wander around the world on its own, fighting its way through the maze of life and feeling every moment of it. It would have to understand the joy and loneliness of a chilly night wind, the longing for a cherished hand, the inaccessibility of a distant town, the heartbreak and regeneration after a human death. It would have to have known resignation and world-weariness, grief and despair, determination and victory, piety and awe. In it would have had to commingle such opposites as hope and fear, anguish and jubilation, serenity and suspense. Part and parcel of it would have to be a sense of grace, humor, rhythm, a sense of the unexpected and of course an exquisite awareness of the magic of fresh creation. Therein, and therein only, lie the sources of meaning in music.

I think this is helpful in pinning down what we would have liked to be true. Because in 1995, somebody wrote a program that generates music by applying simple syntactic rules to combine patterns from existing pieces, and it sounded really good! (In fact, it passed a kind of AI turing test.) Oops!

The worry, then, is that we just found out that the computer has as complex emotions as us, and they aren't complex at all. It would be like adversarial examples for humans: the noise-like pattern added to the panda doesn't "represent" a gibbon, it's an artifact of the particular weights and topology of the image recognizer, and the resulting classification doesn't "mean" anything. Similarly, Arnulf Rainer wrote that when he reworked Wine-Crucifix, "the quality and truth of the picture only grew as it became darker and darker"—doesn't this sound a bit like gradient descent? Did he stumble on a pattern that triggers our "truth" detector, even though the pattern is merely a shallow stimulus made of copies of religious iconography that we imprinted on as kids?

One attempt to recover is to say Chopin really did write music based on the experience of fighting through the maze of life, and it's just that philistine consumers can't tell the difference between the real and the counterfeit. But this is not very helpful, it means that we were fooling ourselves, and the meaning that we imagined never existed.

More promising, maybe the program is a "plagiarism machine", which just copies the hard-won grief, despair, world-weariness &c that Chopin recorded? On it's own it's not impressive that a program can output an image indistinguishable from Gauguin's, I can write such a program in a single line:

print("https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gauguin,Paul-Still_Life_with_Profile_of_Laval-_Google_Art_Project.jpg")

I think this is the conclusion that Hofstadter leans towards: the value of Chopin and the other composers was to discover the "template" that can then be instantiated to make many beautiful music pieces. Kind of ironically, this seems to push us back to some very turn-of-the-20th-century notion of avant-garde art. Each particular painting that (say) Monet executed is of low value, and the actual valuable thing is the novel art style...

That view isn't falsified yet, but it feels precarious. You could have said that AlphaGo was merely a plagiarism machine that selected good moves from historical human games, except then AlphaGo Zero proved that the humans were superfluous after all. Surely a couple of years from now somebody might train an image model on a set of photographs and movies excluding paintings, and it might reinvent impressionism from first principles, and then where will we be? Better start prepare a fallback-philosophy now.

[broadcastgk]

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Computer Quiz with answers explained in fewer than 140 characters

Computer Quiz with answers explained in fewer than 140 characters

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[iubians]

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[thewriterthatghostedyou]

The First I Love You

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Hey everyone, so I’m taking a short study break to write something to just reset my brain and relax. Also thank you so so much for 100 followers! I hope that you all continue to enjoy my writing as much as I enjoy writing it!

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You stretched your hands slowly, to ease the ache in your fingers before returning to your computer and typing again. The essay you were working on being due tomorrow and you were still not even halfway done. Usually you felt so confident about your academic abilities, but after a few less than ideal quiz scores, your confidence had begun to fall and your anxieties rose.

‘A balloon-tipped pulmonary artery catheter is positioned into small pulmonary vessels in order to…’

You let out an aggravated sigh and ran your hands through your hair. It’s ok, just finish this paper… You reminded yourself before referring to your notes, a large notebook with endless scribbles and pages full of notes. You gave a slow nod as you found what you were looking for.

‘... carry deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.’

There. 6 pages done… out of 10. Your mind whirled around as you tried to type more with tears collecting in your eyes.

In the back of your mind, you heard the door to your off campus apartment open and close. Billy must have returned from basic training. You heard him walk through your front entrance, but paid no attention to him as he came into the small living room.

“Hey, babe.” He swooped in and gave you a quick kiss to the temple. “How’s the essay going?” He asked, dropping his duffel bag onto the floor and plopping onto the old couch the two of you had gotten from a thrift store.

“It’s going.” You said curtly, and again checking your lecture notes.

He gave a small affirming noise and let out a long breath. “Hey babe remember that Frank guy I met at the beginning of training?”

You typed away, not answering his question so he continued. “Well so we were doin’ this training course right? And we got this huge ass wall with this rope ladders on it and our drill instructor said-”

You slammed your hands on the desk and whipped around to glare at your boyfriend. “Dammit Billy I don’t care! I don’t fucking care about your stupid wall! Can’t you see that I’m busy?”

He froze at that. “Well excuse me for trying to make conversation!” He yelled back sitting up on the couch. “You know there was a time when you actually enjoyed talking to me!”

You groaned angrily and started packing up your books. “Because I wasn’t obviously busy at the moment.” You shoved your books into your backpack aggressively.

He sighed and gestured to your bag. “Baby where are you going?”

“Somewhere where I can actually concentrate!” You snapped, closing your laptop and shoving that in too.

Bill gave you a long look before speaking. “You aren’t very far in are you?”

You halted and glared at him again. “No Bill, I'm almost done! What the hell do you think?” You zipped up the bag so forcefully that the zipper broke off into your hand and you felt tears start to prick at the edges of your eyes again. “God fucking dammit.” You choked out, throwing the useless piece of metal to the ground.

Within seconds, you felt two strong arms wrap around the front of you and you relaxed into Billy’s embrace.

“It’s okay baby, it’s just a paper.” He said, soothingly rubbing your back.

You felt your anger flare up again and shoved away from him. “It’s not just a paper Bill, it’s everything! Every class, every assignment, every lecture I have to be the best! I have to be ahead of everyone to actually keep up with these classes! I have to be perfect!”

He blinked in surprise at you.

“My whole life I’ve been the smart one Bill, and now compared to everyone else I’m an idiot, behind the curve and not good enough. And on top of all of that, I have to work hard every single day with no breaks so that I can actually go to these fucking classes and understand the shit they talk about!” You laughed hysterically. “I mean just look at me, I’m yelling at you for no fucking reason and I broke my goddamn zipper!” Your breathing started to become heavy and you felt a panic attack coming on. “Well this is just fucking perfect!” You choked out, sliding down the wall next to your computer and burying yourself into a tight ball.

Bill said nothing as he sat down next to you and let you sob into your arms. “I’m sorry Y/n.” He said finally. “I’d say that I’d help ya, but I’m not like you. I’m not brilliant.”

You scoffed at that but said nothing. “I know you think that you can’t do this.” He continued. “That you aren’t enough and that you never will be, and I get it. I feel the same way. The marines are amazing.” He smiled at the mention of the branch. “But they’re the only option I have.” He reached over and pulled you gently into his arms. “But you? You’re going to go on to save lives Y/n. To be a fucking doctor!” He lifted your chin up to look at him and gave you a large smile. “I know you can’t see what I can, but you are brilliant.”

“And I can’t wait to see all the amazing things you do.” He rubbed your chin encouragingly.

You felt your pain and anger start to disappear as you looked into his dark eyes and you leaned in slowly, touching his lips to yours.

The kisses the two of you usually shared were as passionate as the two of you, but this one was soft and tender.

When the two of you separated to breathe, you wrapped your arms around him and rested your head on his shoulder. “Thanks Bill.” You said softly, savoring the moment of peace.

“Anytime sweetheart, now I think that you need a break.” He pointed at the old Tv you had also thrifted and smiled at you softly. “What about that Narnia movie?” He asked cheekily.

You laughed at that. “We both know the only reason you like that movie is because you look like Caspian.”

He got up from your spot and tugged you over to the couch. “Well I can’t help it that I look good enough to be a prince.” He teased, pushing you playfully into the couch and wrapping you in blankets.

“I really should finish my paper.” You said, knowing that there was no way you’d actually be able to pull yourself away from him.

He scoffed. “Hey, tell ya what. One movie, then I’ll let ya get back to work.” He laid down behind you and started cuddling into your blanket wrapped form.

“Fine.” You said happily. “But just one movie!” You tried to sound stern, but failed as he kissed your neck, causing you to laugh.

“I love you Bill.” You said, turning to look at him as the movie began.

“I love you too Y/n.” He said, his eyes softening as he committed the first time that the two of you saying ‘I love you’ to memory forever.