#extrapolation

[art-of-mathematics]

If you know you know.

... Extrapolating from incomplete data be like...

[jt1674]

[sugar--brown]

It's 2am...

You know what that means...

The Mechanisms ramblings!

Erm erm. Today's topic:

Aurora and Jonny. Their relationship. Their places as the eldest both at the same time. Being siblings. Being attached to Carmilla.

A bit of background! We know that Aurora is an orphan sentient moon made of flesh and organic stuff. Carmilla adopted and raised as her kid. (Don't ask any questions for all this, I have no clue how it works). But at some point, she left or had been kidnapped by ciberians. Ciberians who decided that turning an organic sentient moon into a war spaceship was a good idea. Aurora went throught countless of body's horror and torture and then was used for wars by her tormentors.

Meanwhile! Jonny is kind of adopted by Carmilla after his father and his father figure. He's mechanised and becomes immortal. Somehow, he decided tosteal Aurora and claims her as his own.

What do you think happened next? Carmilla came aboard, right? No one else is here and Carmilla sticked around until Toy Soldier was recruited. And she's immortal so Aurora had to recognized her, right? And they would be both overjoyed to be reunited, right?

Until Carmilla made the presentations. Jonny feels threaten by Aurora because "what do you mean the ship is sentient" and "how did you raised a moon and you never told me". Afterall, he's travelling with her for a while now. They are - as much we know - the only immortals in the whole universe. She saved his life. He must be attached to her.

Meanwhile, Aurora had to feel threaten by Jonny. Because "you replaced me with some kind of wild racoon" and "how can I compete with someone who looks just like her and who can interact naturally with her". Her first impression of him was that he's cruel and violent. And she just got back her mum! She won't let anyone take her away from her!

Carmilla should have been stuck in the middle of tug of war, having to deal with two very traumatized young adults barely out of teenagers years craving her attention. Maybe they even fought (Aurora is winning because... well... spaceship.)

But it settled down. They bond, surely. Because Jonny is concerned with her safety in the track "Aurora's strike". Plus, they love their mum so foghting would make her sad.

And then... the others came in their family. And suddenly, it's not Jonny versus Aurora for Carmilla's attention. It's Jonny with Aurora for taking care of their baby siblings freshly mechanised. Who is the oldest? No one is sure.

But all in all, I think Jonny and Aurora share a very special, sweet, deep siblings bond.

TLDR: Jonny and Aurora are typical oldest siblings and it's a shame we don't have much about them

[languageboutique]

[jazzdailyblog]

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[lurks-no-more]

The relevant xkcd strip:

https://xkcd.com/605

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

a thing to remember is that when i say shit im piecing together knowledge i have on the fly which is why im sometimes wrong because i made an educated guess based on my existing knowledge this is called Extrapolation and most of the time im mostly right

[soweirdsonormal]

[qicktrick]

soon we will be playing 10 on UPL

[fashionfotorecccluse]

Extrapolations

[jt1674]

[sugar--brown]

It's one am so I can ramble semi-coherently! My current obsession: Glad0s, Chell and Caroline.

Look. I know that half of the community is fully onboard with the ship Chelldos. While the other half is more hyped the Glados is Caroline and Caroline is Chell's mother.

But! Hear me out. As an aroace who craves hurt/comfort and fluff, I have an alternative.

Caroline is both Chell's AND Glados' mom.

I mean... come on! I love the headcanon of Chell being adopted by Cave and Caroline (or at least Caroline) and become a test subject later. And the insults Glados is throwing at Chell remind me a lot of my own banters with my sibling: you are fat, you are stupid, you are adopted, I do everything in this house, I better than you, do this and I will give you my cake... Plus, the fact that Caroline is part of what makes Glados Glados and is her moral, it's very motherly themed.

So here's where I am currently in the wonderful world of headcanons:

Chell is left on Aperture Science's doorstep as a baby and Caroline decided to adopt her with the help of Cave because a woman without a man couldn't adopt a kid back then. Cave is pretty the absent father while Caroline is the overworked but loving mom. Chell grew up in a very smart lady since she was raised showered with Science.

When Cave died, Chell just reached her majority and is tricked by the scientists to enter the testing program since Caroline would have done everything to keep her away of that with how many deaths there were. She was put into crypsleep the same day her mother was put into Glados.

While Chell is asleep, Glados as a sentient being was slowly built with ai code, Caroline's presence into her system and a lot of unfair punishments from the scientists. Especially since they thought Caroline died since she didn't manifest as herself in Glados' body. The truth is that Glados blocked her the moment they started putting cores on her, treating all of it as parasites.

Portal 1 and 2 happens. And Glados, not forced by the mainframe to act as cruel and sadistic and without the power to keep Caroline away, the woman started to fuse with Glados' mind. Of course, Glados didn't like that. And she deleted Caroline.

Here comes my theory! Little disclaimer: I don't say any other interpretation is wrong. I don't shame people who ship Chelldos. I don't think what I'm going to say is canon.

For me, the opera turret is not sung vy Glados since she has her little ending credits song. No. The voice actor of Glados, Ellen McLain, interprets another character here: Caroline.

My idea is that Glados can't delete Caroline, this is the opposite of why she was built in the first place. I think she deleted her link to her to stop her for invading her mind, giving her full freedom in the Aperture's system. And Caroline sings for her first daughter as a finale goodbye, controlling the turrets. (I think Caroline was the one controlling the Oracle turret too, how would it know all about Caroline then?).

I would love to see (or write) more fluff about Caroline being set free and takkng care of both her daughters.

Chell is Caroline's daughter because Caroline adopted her and raised her.

Glados is Caroline's daughter because part of who she is as a sentient beingcomes from Caroline and Caroline gave her a moral compass like a mother would educate her child.

I love these women so much!

[guitarguitarworld]

Master John McLaughlin's Guitar Chord Techniques

Hi Guys, Today, a look at the late 60’s early 70’s John McLaughlin guitar chord/riff style of “My goals beyond” and “Extrapolation”. This is a great compositional vamp style that really brings out the resonance of the guitar. It has a sort of loose swing feel to it, that sort of gritty London soho jazz sound of the time. The vamp is based around the D6add9 guitar chord shape, with the open E…

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It will also be illiberal, dropping the West's rhetoric about universal human values; and statist, brooking no opposition to the powers of political rulers.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[swamibhoomanandatirtha]

The concept of God is an "inference" from the causality we observe everywhere in the world. I would rather call it an "extrapolation" that has to undergo drastic revaluation on deeper thinking and analysis.

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

www.bhoomananda.org

[sohannabarberaesque]

... and at the head of the stairs, Dottie's communications base.

Spremberg, Brandenburg.