#data tables

[howgalling]

idk if I mentioned but I got to speak to JRO after the con at tfnation; specifically about the first aid plot line he didn’t end up getting to include in the mtmte comics!!

I missed the panel where he was talking about it, but one of my friends mentioned it, so I had to ask for more information!!!!!. First Aid essentially loses the plot for a while trying to find a way to bring ambulon back. it’s briefly mentioned as an off comment by (maybe ratchet?) that first aid has been isolating himself for months with ambulon’s dead body in the comics. Which is crazy btw lol anyway

first aid spends all that time between the plot failing to find ways to bring ambulon back to life. He fully repairs ambulons body, every fragment of him is visually perfect, /technically/ functional. He even repaints ambulon, touching up the patchy paint job Ambulon was known for.

But ambulon is truly dead. What made ambulon who he was, his memories, his personality, his knowledge, his friendship- was obliterated in the bisecting, as was his spark. It was a complete brain-death by cybertronian standards.

As far as I’m aware, the spark is just a power source, relative to the memory banks portion of their processors and whatnot, specifically the sections that store the bots actual personality and memories. Though it’s always worded differently. JRO didn’t give an exact time range (understandable lol) for how long they were on Delphi, but the general thought is that First Aid and Ambulon were on Delphi together for a decent chunk of years, relative to the timeline.

:((( first aid and ambulon really endured Delphi together and bonded throughout that, and to see him murdered so abruptly, (by their ex-boss who they watched descend into madness- no less!!!) was extremely traumatising, as much as it’s played as a joke by the fandom lolol. ambulon suffered what was essentially complete brain death at the moment of injury, non-recoverable.

The dynamic between ratchet, Pharma and first aid/ambulon is really interesting, other people can word it better than me but it ties massively into the feedback loop first aid gets lost in from that point. Watching his closest friend die in a hysterical power play between his two superiors would be helpless agony. And it hurts more because we know first aids temperament :(( he’s still soft, despite it all, and he’s the type of character that you just want to shield from the nastiness of it all. 😭😭

First aid goes as far tracking down the mechs that were involved in the faulty combiner experiment Ambulon was forced into. Looking for maybe even an echo or an imprint, faint traces in the data+code of the mech’s that might have had /anything/ of his friend left in it. Pieces he could put together to make him whole again. But there’s nothing, just surface level memories from a bond that never succeeded. MAN

Anyway, I’m going to try and draw something for it, please give me focus

[librawritesstuff]

Feral Fidget Friday: Late Night Edition

Someone please send me a Sharpie, I wanna play Connect-The-Dots

[cuttledreams-bugs]

Also website is almost done, I am tentatively excited to share it soon. I cannot believe my html/css learning dreams are coming true

Look forward to a handful of updates shortly!

[kanoyachi]

people have speculated about the impact the blue lock project has/will have on the mental health of the participants but no one is talking about how hard it must've been for karasu to be kept away from microsoft excel for so long.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

y'know it wasn't until i went to pull all my stats data off the nano website that i realized: it's not actually gr8 for grabbing things in one fell swoop, huh??

[hypokeimena]

all of the people who talk about how grad school is perfect size for put self inside are full of shit i'm making real progress on my thesis and i don't want to talk about anything else. philological analysis is like a drug. 2 me.

[bsideheart]

third night this week ugly crying over chemistry homework can i kill myself yet

[dasanye-wet]

The commodification of hobby-level art is the true villain here. And I say this as someone who does hobby-level art as my day job. All I truly want to do is sit around and draw stuff I like all day without having to worry if my basic needs for food and shelter are being met. Even when it was my sole income stream, I still gave out free art all the time because for me even when it's been about the money, it's always been foremost about creating. I want to create things because they're striking, not because I'm hungry. Capitalism really rotted our brains into thinking all of our talents need to be marketable side hustles because we're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires who just haven't had our lucky break yet. Meanwhile we're all too busy treading water trying to stay economically afloat to be rational about anything that threatens what little we DO have

[spotaus]

Sudden realization that when Pretender makes it to the surface he'd actually be a perfect social engineer/hacker. Send post.

[youkaigakkou-tl]

I've been racking my brain the whole episode, and tried to look on internet,

But I can't find who's voicing the villain trio.

Where can I find the complete cast of YoHaji?

Ranmaru is voiced by Morikubo Shoutarou,

Tenmaru by Kanze Noriaki,

and Bonmaru by Katou Wataru

(this is the sort of thing that ought to be on the wiki but im human and prone to being tired and lazy 😔 but in the mean time myanimelist and animenewsnetwork are pretty comprehensive about VAs even though they might get some character names wrong)

[stone-cold-groove]

Useful Information.

[dkettchen]

absolutely unintelligeable meme I made during bootcamp lecture this morning

[pancakeke]

where do people get off opening my files, editing the columns and rows used by my pivot tables, and then SAVING. like do they not consider I may have created those pivot tables for a specific purpose?

if you want to play with stuff and still save, make a copy of the fucking tab and title it "research" or something. or download your own copy of the whole sheet so you're not fucking with mine. it's not hard.

[obligatory-name-change]

a character's self-deprication being what keeps them from being in a relationship can be really good but mostly when the self deprication is 1. justified and 2. only no longer an issue because their significant other is Into whatever they're angsting about

[kingofthering-two]

Got distracted writing the article and didn't notice it was already well past 2am. Going to nicely put my computer away but the good news is, the article on Marc's track results (where does he perform best) should be ready to post tomorrow.

[foundress0fnothing]

hyping myself up to commit my semesterly excel crimes