#incomplete is not 0. its not Good. but its more than 0

[m---a---x]

Welcome to the premier of One-Picture-Proof!

This is either going to be the first installment of a long running series or something I will never do again. (We'll see, don't know yet.)

Like the name suggests each iteration will showcase a theorem with its proof, all in one picture. I will provide preliminaries and definitions, as well as some execises so you can test your understanding. (Answers will be provided below the break.)

The goal is to ease people with some basic knowledge in mathematics into set theory, and its categorical approach specifically. While many of the theorems in this series will apply to topos theory in general, our main interest will be the topos Set. I will assume you are aware of the notations of commutative diagrams and some terminology. You will find each post to be very information dense, don't feel discouraged if you need some time on each diagram. When you have internalized everything mentioned in this post you have completed weeks worth of study from a variety of undergrad and grad courses. Try to work through the proof arrow by arrow, try out specific examples and it will become clear in retrospect.

Please feel free to submit your solutions and ask questions, I will try to clear up missunderstandings and it will help me designing further illustrations. (Of course you can just cheat, but where's the fun in that. Noone's here to judge you!)

Preliminaries and Definitions:

B^A is the exponential object, which contains all morphisms A→B. I comes equipped with the morphism eval. : A×(B^A)→B which can be thought of as evaluating an input-morphism pair (a,f)↦f(a).

The natural isomorphism curry sends a morphism X×A→B to the morphism X→B^A that partially evaluates it. (1×A≃A)

φ is just some morphism A→B^A.

Δ is the diagonal, which maps a↦(a,a).

1 is the terminal object, you can think of it as a single-point set.

We will start out with some introductory theorem, which many of you may already be familiar with. Here it is again, so you don't have to scroll all the way up:

Exercises:

What is the statement of the theorem?

Work through the proof, follow the arrows in the diagram, understand how it is composed.

What is the more popular name for this technique?

What are some applications of it? Work through those corollaries in the diagram.

Can the theorem be modified for epimorphisms? Why or why not?

For the advanced: What is the precise requirement on the category, such that we can perform this proof?

For the advanced: Can you alter the proof to lessen this requirement?

Bonus question: Can you see the Sicko face? Can you unsee it now?

Expand to see the solutions:

Solutions:

This is Lawvere's Fixed-Point Theorem. It states that, if there is a point-surjective morphism φ:A→B^A, then every endomorphism on B has a fixed point.

Good job! Nothing else to say here.

This is most commonly known as diagonalization, though many corollaries carry their own name. Usually it is stated in its contraposition: Given a fixed-point-less endomorphism on B there is no surjective morphism A→B^A.

Most famous is certainly Cantor's Diagonalization, which introduced the technique and founded the field of set theory. For this we work in the category of sets where morphisms are functions. Let A=ℕ and B=2={0,1}. Now the function 2→2, 0↦1, 1↦0 witnesses that there can not be a surjection ℕ→2^ℕ, and thus there is more than one infinite cardinal. Similarly it is also the prototypiacal proof of incompletness arguments, such as Gödels Incompleteness Theorem when applied to a Gödel-numbering, the Halting Problem when we enumerate all programs (more generally Rice's Theorem), Russells Paradox, the Liar Paradox and Tarski's Non-Defineability of Truth when we enumerate definable formulas or Curry's Paradox which shows lambda calculus is incompatible with the implication symbol (minimal logic) as well as many many more. As in the proof for Curry's Paradox it can be used to construct a fixed-point combinator. It also is the basis for forcing but this will be discussed in detail at a later date.

If we were to replace point-surjective with epimorphism the theorem would no longer hold for general categories. (Of course in Set the epimorphisms are exactly the surjective functions.) The standard counterexample is somewhat technical and uses an epimorphism ℕ→S^ℕ in the category of compactly generated Hausdorff spaces. This either made it very obvious to you or not at all. Either way, don't linger on this for too long. (Maybe in future installments we will talk about Polish spaces, then you may want to look at this again.) If you really want to you can read more in the nLab page mentioned below.

This proof requires our category to be cartesian closed. This means that it has all finite products and gives us some "meta knowledge", called closed monoidal structure, to work with exponentials.

Yanofsky's theorem is a slight generalization. It combines our proof steps where we use the closed monoidal structure such that we only use finite products by pre-evaluating everything. But this in turn requires us to introduce a corresponding technicallity to the statement of the theorem which makes working with it much more cumbersome. So it is worth keeping in the back of your mind that it exists, but usually you want to be working with Lawvere's version.

Yes you can. No, you will never be able to look at this diagram the same way again.

We see that Lawvere's Theorem forms the foundation of foundational mathematics and logic, appears everywhere and is (imo) its most important theorem. Hence why I thought it a good pick to kick of this series.

If you want to read more, the nLab page expands on some of the only tangentially mentioned topics, but in my opinion this suprisingly beginner friendly paper by Yanofsky is the best way to read about the topic.

[askzloyxp]

i'm 55 minutes into your mega-episode and i remembered how cool your timelapse music is. sooo could you drop a playlist pretty-pretty-pretty please? not even just TB6, i am humbly asking for a Sloy music-dump. please🥺?

Okay, let's rock out! Here's a wastly incomplete list of stuff I recently used in videos, with a playlist I should keep updating later for your convenience

Pluffaduff - Ain't Nothing Like A Funky Meme (used a the Let The Bodies Hit The Floor bit from here in the TB6-0) Shaxicula by DjCummerbund- This is where the "Dig through the ditches" joke came from, not the original Dragula XD Bendy And The Ink Machine Instrumental by The Living Tombstone - It pains me whenever I use this tune, but it's possibly the best intro song I have! We Are Number One But It's Electro Swing Remix by The Musical Ghost - Kinda same, but it's absolutely my favorite gag. Served me well through the Create series, cause Electroswing is real steam-punky feeling Show Your Style by Miracle Of Sound - Mostly is here as a reminder of the fact that all Miracle Of Sound music is safe to use in streams and stuff. They're just really cool like that Papercut Machete by Pluffaduff - Honorary mention, it's just a really cool sounding mash up I'm listening to right now. Can't use this one in a video but daang

Punch Deck - The Sound Consumes - Very groovy, love this one Punch Deck - Can't Stop - Epic, Rocking, if you want AMV music? this is it! Punch Deck - Fluid Dynamics - Pretty sure this is a Use With Attribution, but I had it flag on my vids a few times?? Must've been me messing up and not crediting right. Either how, a banger. Punch Deck - Night Shift - Nice melancholic melody, very lovely

Minerva - Colors - I really enjoy editing ANYTHING to this song! Wontolla - Holo (Ampyx Remix) - Unofficial theme of Truly Bedrock Season One. Apyx Holo and its remixes served me super good in that time. But this one is by far the best version of that song! Wontolla - Lighter Than Air - One day I will create a build timelapse worthy of this song, until then, I will keep trying DOCTOR VOX - Paranoid Empire - massive and evil sounding tune. Great for timelapses of anything with skulls on it, really No Escape (Ft. @T_en_M and @LaudividniYT) - bouncy and Minecrafty sounding music meant as a fan-made music disk Digital Math - The Musky Thrust - fun and pranky music I keep reusing whenever things go completely off the rocker More to come some time in the reblogs, and thank you for trusting my taste in music! And remember: if all else fails, simply listen to Linkin Park Hybrid Theory on repeat for 10 to 15 years!

[esorxy]

remembering all the insanely long marauders fics ive brainrotted over because i kinda forgot all of them. roughly in the order i read them.

Whatever happened to the young, young lovers?

355k, jegulus wolfstar rosekiller. post war (ended by regulus) where they just hang around grimmauld place all day. i literally cant remember anything that happened. but i liked how they stayed home and didnt go outside, because i relate to that. it was alternating chapters between post war and pre war, honestly i dont even know it was just so much relationship angst and regulus being incredibly competent and hurt.

All The Young Dudes

526k, the character development and buildup, its like the level of the actual series without the annual voldemort attack. i was DESTROYED by the ending, it lived in my brain rent free for like a week. why did it have to be canon compliant???! the way they spent so much time pining, so much time apart, and so little time together. but that theyre literal soulmates, which is so sad for grant (he suffered true emotional damage) lmfao. I guess this is the basis (canon??) of marauders era

we can be heroes, for ever and ever

102k alternate happy ending to atyd - yes PLEASE this is what i needed to heal the pain after reading atyd.

choices

624k. lowkey feel the same way towards this as atyd, except it didnt live in my brain rent free for a week. in that i respect that it's good and got heartbroken when everyone died and they didn't get their happy ending, but it did get me into jegulus so I'm not complaining. IDK it's just sad, but i love regulus and evan and cerci. even though i deadass can't remember anything else.

crimson rivers

865k actually SOBBING this fic is everything. so much plot and so much hurt, it is amazing and painful and intense. it has the most picturesque scenes, beautiful happy ending. but i did kinda get sick of it near the end cos its so fuckin long, and i was not into the girls in the fic so i was kinda cbs

holding onto the self

76k and it was so good i felt so sad for sirius. this is the type of fic which makes me jaw drop and suck in breath like poor baby honestly. no summary needed cos ill never forget what its about lmfao....

just lovers

321k fake dating au. this is GREAT. its so light hearted which is a great change from the akckdjebakzj. this is the climb to the top for regulus being my favourite character. lowkey can't remember shit but i liked it and i need more fics like it because it was creative and there's not much room for that in marauders verse

only the brave

645k and The fic of my dreams. this is everything and i loved every second of it. every character is so great, and it got me into pandalily!!! perfect amount of hurt (a lot), and such good plot. it has every ship i like, i was like drowning in a hot spring of happiness while reading this

ecliptic

147k, oh it's so creative and new. it was so suspenseful cos we got 0 answers, and the fic is deadass incomplete wtf!! i love how everyone is sad but mostly rational. the jegulus was really really nice, and i liked how the cruciatus was made out to be a big deal so the hurt/comfort is better. i feel like the plot is better than the delivery

wolfstar my one true pair, jegulus my second true pair, evan®ulus has a special place in my heart, marauders fanfiction a permanent space in my mind for at least the next few weeks

new edit: shit! i forgot to update and i read so many more long fics and can barely remember them now

mastermind

311k i cant even remember anything that happened ... except i liked the dynamic between narcissa and regulus, and narcissa is so damn pretty. this was the one where regulus made james and sirius go with him to the cave, and then james had to force him to drink the potion, so much angst arghhhh.

all along there was some invisible string (tying you to me)

103k spiderman AU + high school and all i can say that its an original setting... the pining was great, and the spiderman kiss!! but other than that like it was good, i guess

I adored you madly, extravagantly, absurdly

243k Victorian AU with arranged marriage trans regulus. I loved regulus' character, he was so spiteful and petty but also down bad, and jegulus matched so perfectly together. i want his life so bad because his literal job was being married, like deadass he didnt do shit all day except read, play with his cats and pine for his husband...

a violent kind of spin

212k not going to lie, my favourite/most striking parts of this fic were the $h scenes... and i just finished it last night so I dont even have an excuse. james asking sirius to turn around and not even waiting for him to do it??? oml hes unhinged and it was so well written. the bathtub scene when he was on a timer and then just walked out like everything was fine!!! help it was so angsty im in love. i feel like i speedran this fic and didnt read it properly, which is probably accurate

Im not gonna teach him how to dance with you

122k. rosekiller is the BEST. i love the whole plot tbh and it was so well paced. love that for evan because nobody else is gonna keep by with barty's crazy. i would have liked it more if it had crack undertones but yknow whatever, cant have everything. i thoroughly enjoyed all the romantic tension in the leadup, the way they were both so in love im gone.

All the young dudes - Sirius' Perspective

628k, let me tell you, canon has no right being that sad, and the beloved author just fed off that like a parasite. i should have expected how this fanfic would destroy me, but the delivery made it so much more painful. i sobbed reading the Halloween and Azkaban chapters. and sirius,,, like why did you have to be so angry all the time. and so obsessed with remus from day 1. it was great. although like halfway through i just felt like ... wolfstar is so basic. jegulus once jegulus forever i guess.

whatever our souls are made of

157k hanahaki where we really gotta work for the happy ending. OML it was so beautifully sad. reggie 💔💔. sirius said nobody on the earth deserves his baby brother, but if he had to pick someone, it would be James 😭😭 I'm a broken man

oml i havent updated in 2 months... its ok i didnt read that much cos i was too tired with uni and work. anyway i found all my fics through tiktok, tumblr, or thru the author cos this gold mine is too big sorry chief. which is like. someone recommended this following fic :skull:

I'm not okay (I solemnly swear)

107k and unfinished :000 cant believe it i read something unfinished but when i read the tags i was like ok yeah im in. my secret is that i read fics like these!!! and most of them are not well written but this one is. and so was that other one about sirius but it was only like 78k so i didnt write it up. anyway poor reggie is going through it, and idk if its ever getting finished cos the poor author might be going through it too. additional note: idk if this is the one but bestie has so many problems like get help fr.

the veil of secrecy

100k but its unfinished and let me tell nobody i was devastated. omg it was so sad so the summary is after reggie defected voldymouldy found out and like --- got all his remaining horcruxes and stuffed them inside his chest and abdominal cavity in some crazy ass surgery. and then he sewed his mouth shut and broke his fingers and kept him around him like some porcelain doll/pet and thats the punishment????? oml how do u think of that... anyway so he dissociates into his fabric walls of occlumency so voldy doesnt know where the locket is. ok whatever they escape and he falls in love with jamie idk. its unfinished.

to the boy who...

238k its similar to the previous one (written by the same author ibbsterkisster) and i found it to read to cope with the first one not being finished. yes this is like 3x as long sighs we all know how it is. anyway its similar except reggie is like his boy toy instead... which is even worse. anyway i cant remember anything about the jegulus but i DO remember that evan was so sweet (as he is) he like stroked the bruise on reggies wrist very gently :facepalm: and that scene lives rent free in my brain.

blood on my shirt, heart in my hand

22k and id just like to say, this is the kind of horror that i like. its kinda a mystery at first but its not so creepy, and the jegulus endgame is stronger than a bulletproof vest. so james is having dreams which are vaguely murderous, and when he wakes up the events like kinda match up. turns out hes like having some repetitive dissociative episode every night at 12.37am and getting up to murder people. and after the first time reggie was just like 'well if ur in then im in too' and straight up helps him murder people ?!? i loved it. murder husbands.

the long game

250k and this is the most unique fic youll get here. modern high school au where reggie is like this god genius talented painter and they work on a musical set together, and reggie gets an art show and idk why this stood out to me but he drew like a green soft and a purple cushion and was like... this represents me and evan, cos were ok separately but great together. i read this so long ago i cant even remember what i thought of it

jealousy, jealousy

85k + unfinished again!! anyway so bartylus fake date so james and evan can get jealous and then they both end up together. i just remember it was so cute because they would just hug each other like constantly all the time, and cry at the smallest inconvenience, then their friend/boyfriend would go and lie with them in bed and hug them and that was like a very significant portion of it. and im not even complaining this is the type of physical affection they deserve

pathological people pleaser

114k but it passed so fast?!?! james is so fuckin unstable man like get a therapist. ok i actually enjoyed this so much because for some reason i was really into horror (it was literally 2 days ago) and this wasnt horror but they did not reveal like why james was so fucked, and which parts of his narration were unreliable until quite a bit in. also there was more than a month gap between me bookmarking this one and the last one and like i dont even know what i did with myself??? (actually i lied i read more fanfiction i just forgot i did cos i forgot to bookmark it) (summary: summer holiday where starchaser fall in love also effie died in a car crash on the way to james after he called and was like mom im gonna kms. ok but it was really well written and full of suspense)

anti-hero

237k and i just finished it so its fresh in my mind (for once) ok now that i think about it i have no idea why regulus lived that first time... maybe i didnt read closely enough but like when fics are that long i kinda just miss some stuff or forget it and they all blur together anyway. ok so firstly i want a story of james and regulus in this universe when they were still at hogwarts because like having a secret relationship for 2 years and also doing drugs.. just the hurt comfort ahhh maybe without all the hurt and yelling but whatever. cant have it all. anyway this was so well written i always like narcissa tbh. glad james and regulus sorted out their shit eventually even though it took so. fucking. long. anyway yikes (summary: reggie lives after the cave and they go horcrux hunting and kill voldy but then reggie fucks off to america and becomes a drug addict again but comes back, and james has anger issues but only when it comes to regulus anyway they kept hurting each other that i didnt even feel sad anymore when it happened) addition: oml reggie being an addict + nic in beautiful boy the stars aligned finally i get some visual scenes in this fandom

doing a word count sum of the above and its: 6 million and 476 thousand...

meetings that start in the dark

656k and oml i was SEMI HOOKED. honestly like why did it take them so fucking long to get back together like the moment Voldemort dropped dead James should have been unable to stay away from regulus. anyway love how they're obsessed with each other, love how Luna and Harry are playing matchmaker. and i especially love how Sirius was the lame embarrassing parent ahah. also the amount of bs evan has to put up with from reg and barty... jesus christ i loved them in this except for how he was buff girl no evan is a twink and this fic wont change my mind

sometimes, running away does solve all your problems

15k so reggie literally walks out of his house and his parents dont even notice and he runs away and meets james and they live together it was perfect omfg i loved it so so so much. it had the same sad, resigned tone as the dsmp fics that i was obsessed with before and would reread over and over. and the small village quiet life is a dream

27 club

27k and why was it so heavy oml like i didn't sign up for this sadness. ok so reggie is DEAD but before that he and James were like lovers and drug buddies but also lacked healthy communication. james is like bye imma get clean without u, the literal love of my life. the whole thing was so sad because it would be like one bit of 'oh and they were in love and making music' and then another bit of 'james was mourning so hard he couldnt get out of bed'. it was lowkey magical to read except for how hes dead.

you missed my heart

100k and omfg im in shock tbh. like what the actual fuck. I'm in shock in an "im unsettled and creeped out" way. i don't even know why because ive read serial killer jegulus fics before and it was all peachy, but maybe this one was so creepy because we were in the dark, and the killing isn't unrealistic and romanticised. James was so smitten with regulus too I'm crying i was actually convinced that reggie wasn't the killer. i need soft regulus fluff to cope with this. to erase the image of reggie being a psychopath. omg Sirius after finding out the truth.. poor boy was like catatonic. I'm never reading unhappy ending fics again I've become weak my heart can't take it

I'm going to start including the shorter fanfics that i read and are memorable as well because i don't discriminate

which means i have a lot of catching up to do

the moment and the sound

29k so james runs away with harry to escape voldemort and meets reggie by chance. they live together and james is like straight up depressed. i liked this fic but also forgot what it was like.

raise hell

30k it's basically about them being angels and demons and working together to idk stop the world from ending. i liked the tone of the fic in that everyone was like set in their ways and was like wtf at everyone else but also i wish it was longer and there was more about each person's like representation like Sirius being the angel of justice. also it was so funny regulus the angel of diligence and James the demon of lust.

blackpool

63k and omg it was so well written but i was so confused the whole time cos i have no literary ability. like regulus being a straight up unreliable narrator?!?! deadass in shock half the time reading this tbh

calm before the storm

51k and i could draw a graph of the shock factor of this fic and it would look like a staircase with 3 steps. at the start it was so happy and cute and i was like omg why did i click on this again and then sirius dies and james loses his memory and reggie is like fucked up that's the first step up and then they heal whatever but then reggie straight up starts murdering people and making a show out of it i read it all like 😳😳. unhinged fr, and also everyone tried to kts at least once like besties go see a therapist please

pink lemonade

121k band tour au where they sing (i think mostly) arctic monkeys songs and kudos because the lyrics all fit so well to whatever clown ass miscommunication situation jegulus have going on. it was relationship angst and maybe i would have enjoyed it more if i read it earlier but rn i need action and thrill. i was like to my irl friend like miscommunication angst isn't enough for me anymore i need murder and she was like girl wtf.

youngblood

75k basically jegulus were roommates in juvenile detection and they had such a deep soul connection in the 2 months and then never reconnected until like 9 years later. ok anyway my favourite part was James and how he was so unhinged. like literally provoking bullies so they hurt him is his form of sh... girl get a grip honestly but also respect for the idgaf factor

mercy

36k so james gets possessed by a ??demon called mercy and reg is an exorcist... so its very obvious what drew me into this. anyway james lives at regs house while hes figuring out what the fuck is wrong with him and they just ??? fall in love. ok slow burn was not really burning at all more like a ticking bomb but the horror was cute. also i found it at night and then read it all at like 8-9am in the morning before getting out of bed so i cant remember it but it was well written and the demon was lowkey cute too he was just out for drama which i can relate

[19thperson]

19th's Steam Next Fest Impressions Feb 2025 Edition - Day 5

Day 0/Day 1/Day 2/Day 3/Day 4

Maze Mice

Pac Man Vampire Survivors from the creator of Luck Be A Landlord.

It's specifically pac man championship edition. Run around in a maze, gathering XP crystals with sleeping cats next to them. Once you run past the cat, it becomes a chaser. As you kill cats you start getting chased by ghost cats that can ignore the rules of the maze.

This is a combination I'm surprised no one had thought of earlier. Both are about kiting enemies and both are about collecting small doodads on a looping map. It works smoothly and efficiently.

My first complaint is one that's probably only for the demo: For a survivor like-the upgrade selection feels really limited, especially the minimalist loadout before you start unlocking things. I was starting to see the oppurtunity for "builds" near the end, but then I was cut off from any more tools. This will probably not be the case for the final release.

Second is probably a more contraversial complaint, core to the game's design: Its implementation of the Superhot rule. Time only moves when you do. I get it. This rule slots really well into a survivor-like, both in terms of "gives the player a breather" and "adds tension to the incredibly tight squeezes that the late game provides." But it looses the kinetic feel that made Pac Man Champion Edition exciting. I kinda hope the final release will have a hard mode that removes this handicap.

Also music is good.

Whisper of the House

An Unpacking-like. You're a new resident in Whisper City, and open a housekeeping business. Help your neighbors move in and organize their spaces.

As expected from the robot assistant, this game takes place in a less grounded and open setting than Unpacking. While I do like being able to actually explore the town instead of just straight jumping from house to house, there is something lost from a less focused framing. Not a single owner through several houses, but several owners in the same town.

That isn't to say the game doesn't go for any narrative. After the first job, helping a dog lover decorate her new apartment, you're contacted by a super-scientist type to try his new time machine. His grandfather had gotten ill after overexerting himself moving house, and he wants you to avert that. While the premise is silly, there's a gentle melancholy to the whole proceeding.

The game also lets you use it to revisit previous houses, and there's a newspaper system where you see stories about the characters you've helped, so I'm guessing variable outcomes to your jobs will be the norm.

I do hope they up the "houses have hidden secrets" aspect the trailer plays up. Either I was missing a lot, or the demo doesn't really push that too hard. The first one had one hidden room as a gag, and I couldn't find one for the 2nd.

Centum

Centum is… kind of hard to describe. The simplest answer would be "a point and click adventure about escaping a simulation" but I feel like that answer is incomplete, if not entirely false.

The game starts with a computer loading up, and you're faced with several text files. Complaints about how a simulation needs to be kept running, how someone is sabotaging the project, and instructions to run a .bat file if something goes wrong. You do so and wake up in a medieval looking prison cell, being interrogated by a multi-headed judge. Both the questions and answers available are vague.

Which leads to my first complaint. The prose is… edging into purple. Everyone is speaking in flowery metaphor and it feels like lines could be shaved down a bit. I'm still getting the general gist, but I can see its voice being a turnoff for a lot of people.

From there it's 3 days of imprisonment. Three days of questioning, three days of incredibly simple puzzles, until judgement is passed on you. Once done so, you're returned to the desktop, with new files on the screen. repeat.

I will sing the praises that the game is incredibly reactive. I said the puzzles were simple, but that's because each one had several solutions at hand. Even though it always ended the same, they felt like branch points. I played through it multiple times and got a lot of different text and imagery each go through. I can see this game being good for people who like to secret hunt.

The art direction and pixel art is beautiful and grotesque. While the prose might be flawed, the visuals more than make up for it.

It's up in the air if it'll stick the landing, but it's got a few good flips in so far.

Everhood 2

I really liked the first everhood, even if I think it didn't quite stick the landing with it's thematic stuff in its closing act. I was genuinely interested in seeing where they went from there. "Everhood 2" was a genuine surprise.

It is kinda funny. Everhood was, in a lot of ways, a direct response to Undertale. Everhood 2… opens with a questionnaire about your personal tastes and fears. You know, like Deltarune.

The game is an immediate step up from its predecessor on a mechanical level. The beatmaps feel better to dodge, especially if starting on hard, and you get a fully fledged retaliation system right away, something Everhood only played with at the very end.

dodge on the beat map, absorb notes of consecutive color, launch them back at the opponent. At least one color will do super effective damage. The longer your absorb chain, the more damaging the move, but attacks can also clear bullets in front of you, and getting hit causes you to drop your "ammo," so to speak. There's a push-your-luck aspect going on that works really well. There's apparently going to be a weapon system but the demo doesn't touch on it.

My main complaint is that, in Everhood, every fight you enter is for the most part unique and plot important. There's now a leveling system and, for lack of a better term, filler fights, repeated enemies who have the same beatmap pattern.

Other complaint is that, compared to Everhood 1's opening, this one has much less of a plot hook. Despite all the psychadelics and cosmic intrigue in the first one, it opened with a simple conflict. Your arm was stolen by some shit guys, get it back.

Here you basically jump into a hole, are attacked by a monster, saved by a character named raven who is a raven who gives you the tutorial and tells us we need to prove we're strong enough to help him. And we do that by retrieving a crystal he specifically hid. There isn't a sense of a driving conflict yet.

Of course you can also read this as confidence. "We proved ourselves with our first game, we're willing to have slower setup." Still looking forward to it either way.

Strand

Time loop puzzle game. You wake up in a seemingly empty space station, your memory implant having failed, and all machinery at low power. Find out wha happun.

A lot of the puzzles are variations on "what's the password?" The kind of info that can carry across loops.

There is some item combining but they tend to be the inbetween step of a puzzle. not something you need to redo every time.

There is a very "english as second language" feel here but that mainly only comes through the VA accents and a bit of odd wording here and there. No translation trainwrecks this time.

It's alright. Not sure the scale they're going for, though. Could be a game that's only a couple hours long, could be one that goes for well over a dozen.

Sliding Hero

Pseudo-metroidvania exploration puzzle game where the entire world is an elaborate sliding puzzle.

Depending on who you are this sounds like an interesting conceit or it sounds fucking intolerable.

Our Jester-Ass hero is stuck in an expansive Venitian villa filled with the undead, and for reasons not thoroughly explained he can't walk like a normal person, sliding until he hits a wall.

I will admit, I am a fan. I like that this game turns the most basic of traversal into something of a brain teaser. Since you'll be backtracking with upgrades metroidvania style, though, a lot of those exploration puzzles will have to be done twice, front to back and back to front.

The combat is just a more advanced version of this dynamic. Enemy rooms have weapon/tools lying around. Find a way to land on the weapon tile to pick it up, and then ram the enemy. You only have a set number of times until it breaks, and you'll also sometimes have to rely on an enemy being there to stop you early and make an impossible turn possible. Thankfully enemies don't respawn, so these only need to be tackled once.

I like it's macabre/Italian Blasphemous aesthetic, although it clashes with the peppy Zelda-ish chimes when you get correct answers.

I didn't finish it, but not becuase I wasn't having fun, just out of a combination of time pressure, getting the gist, and being a bit mentally worn out for puzzles.

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

Curious to hear about Sandstorm in your rewrite. At least tell me she gets a cooler death

Sandstorm, the future Patron of Food Security! Prayed to, to keep Clans fed and hunts successful.

She gets a silly little moment with Firepaw when they first meet. Love at first sight from him, angelic choir, sparkles, hearts and all that... Only for her to hiss at him about "having to sleep next to a stinky kittypet"

She was sometimes jokingly referred to as Redtail's daughter, and it gave her a very complicated relationship with him. He was nice, and honorable, and everyone liked him... But he wasn't her parent, she didn't see him like that, he just found her, and she didn’t want to be in his shadow. When he died, it gave her emotions a bit too big to handle, and she took it out on Firepaw, a very easy target. Her bond with his mate, Runningwind, only came in after Redtail's death, and even then, that story never gets a complete ending, Runningwind dying too soon for Sandstorm to resolve how she feels. She has 0 connection with their adoptive/surrogated son, Stemkit/Stempaw/Stempelt.

It's about the What Might Have Been. Moving on from an incomplete puzzle that might not have even been one in the first place. She has No Discernable Heritage.

While she is still not given Tawnypaw to mentor, it isn't because of "Oh I don't wanna put her in danger" bs. Fireheart saw a sweet connection between Tawnykit and her aunt, Mistfang. He wanted to foster that. Also, Sandstorm being injured in the same patrol that Runningwind was killed in.

Skipping a bit forward, I can tell you that the one line in The Ultimate Guide about having wanted more kits but never wanting to bother Firestar was heartbreaking... and stupid. It's Sandstorm for goodness sake! If she has a thought she will express it! Instead, WCR!Sandstorm is mote than happy with her little family. She loves her daughters and the 4 of them are a perfect family in her mind. She actively doesn't want more kits. Also, she is pregnant during Firestar's Quest.

Her death in WCR!AVOS is different. I refuse to let her die in camp, but I also refuse to "thin the crowd" with a pathetic death for such a loved character. Instead, that death goes to Molewhisker. Molewhisker dies during The Apprentice's Quest, Sandstorm getting a cool scar on her shoulder.

She dies in the second book, when The Kin shows up and begins its insidious recruitment, drawing in cats of all backgrounds. Clan, Loner, Kittypet, and Rogue. When it becomes more clear what Darktail is doing, Sparkpaw fights back against him, and Sandstorm watches Darktail manage to grapple on top of her granddaughter. No one else knew she was there, as Bramblestar kept insisting she stayed in camp...

Sandstorm lunges at Darktail. Bowling into him and winding him. She rips his ear badly and puts deep scratches into his muzzle, urging Sparkpaw to run as Darktail reels from the injuries. Sparkpaw gets a front row seat as Darktail lunges for her grandmother one last time. He kills Sandstorm with a bite to her throat, but is tackled off by Hollyleaf and Lionblaze. Sparkpaw brings Sandstorm away from the fight and stay with her until she very quickly bleeds out.

It's the 'spark' that starts a chain reaction in Thunderclan. Sandstorm is honoured as a hero, and many cats fight in her name. Sparkpelt is.... Traumatized.

Sandstorm is also one of Skyclan's Patrons, along with Firestar, Smudge, and Scourge. Patrons of Rebirth.

[shiningwonderland]

Masato Hijirikawa (Repeat)

Translator: Raz (Twitter: agnadance)

Proofreader: Nadie (Twitter: NmoniaG)

Editor: Mae (Twitter: itoshimaegirl)

QA: Rei (Twitter: wolfe_raine)

January - New Satz

In order to make up for the time we’ve lost, we’ve been focusing on practicing. 

We have continued preparing our song during the winter break in the classroom and the recording room.

I've been wondering how far I can push Hijirikawa-sama's voice and what its strongest point is.

I want to try everything. Hijirikawa-sama's singing voice is just so wonderful…

I keep thinking that he can do more and have a wider range of expression–I want to aim even higher. 

Haruka Nanami: Do you want to try singing one key higher?

Masato Hijirikawa: Isn't that too high? I guess it's worth giving it a try. Try playing the song.

Haruka Nanami: Got it!

Every day, we practice like this late into the night. 

Masato Hijirikawa: Hm? It's already so late… Let's wrap it up for today.

Hijirikawa-sama is looking at the clock. It's already 9PM. It's late, but I think that we can still do a little more.

We didn't spend much time together during November and December…

I'm having fun spending so much time together right now. I'm happy just being near him. 

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もう少し。Let’s keep going. (+5 Love, +10 Music)

Masato Hijirikawa: Let's start from the top one more time.

Haruka Nanami: Okay!

We go through the song one more time and then we go home.

また頑張れます。We can still do our best. (+10 Love, +5 Music)

Masato Hijirikawa: It's good to do your best, but…

He grabs my arm and pulls me into his chest.

Masato Hijirikawa: What if you get sick? Today's colder than usual, so you might catch a cold. 

Masato Hijirikawa: … You're freezing. You shouldn't let your body get this cold. You're a lady, after all…

Hijirikawa-sama pats my back gently.

そう・・・ですね。Yes… You’re right. (+0 Love, +5 Music)

Haruka Nanami: Understood. Let's stop for now.

Masato Hijirikawa: Yes, that's good. Let's hold hands and go back. I don't want you to slip and hurt your hands…

Haruka Nanami: Thank you, but I don't trip that often.

Masato Hijirikawa: Don't say that. I just want to be careful. You're clumsy, after all.

He grins at me.

We step outside and see the heavily falling snow. We share a large umbrella and our  shoulders touch.

Haruka Nanami: Ah… It's snowing. It was just sleeting this morning… Hehe, I'm happy!

Masato Hijirikawa: Does it make you want to sing…?

Haruka Nanami: Yes. I love singing in the snow, especially the moment it turns from sleet to snow.

Masato Hijirikawa: You may not remember, but we met before on a snowy day.

Hijirikawa-sama firmly grips my hand.

Haruka Nanami: Huh…?

Masato Hijirikawa: I've told you this story before, how a girl healed my heart… It was you, Haru.

Haruka Nanami: I… saved you, Masato-kun?

I call Hijirikawa-sama “Masato-kun” without realizing it.

Masato Hijirikawa: Yes, but I didn't realize at first that you were the girl who gave me a dream…

Masato Hijirikawa: March of two years ago, you were singing outside on the street as the snow was falling. No one noticed you or turned to look at you, but you seemed to be having so much fun.

Masato Hijirikawa: I was so surprised and thought you were so strange for singing outside in that kind of weather, but I never forgot your song.

March… Is that when…

Masato Hijirikawa: You said you wanted to sing in the snow because sleet, which is neither snow nor rain, finally became snow.

Masato Hijirikawa: You told me once that you're insignificant and incomplete, but eventually you want to take shape, like how sleet becomes snow. 

Masato Hijirikawa: I felt the same way. I've always wondered what a shallow person like me is capable of.

Masato Hijirikawa: You said that anyone can become snow if they put their mind to it. I was so moved by your song that I began singing too, which was when you said that it would be a waste if I didn't become a professional singer.

Masato Hijirikawa: Your words touched my heart deeply. That was the first time anyone praised me for being me. I was so happy.

Haruka Nanami: Ah…

I see, it was that time. To think that person was Hijirikawa-sama…

That day, I was so happy that the sleet became snow that I began singing outside.

Sleet isn't snow nor rain–it's an incomplete, insignificant existence.

It would be able to pile up if it became snow, but it melts the moment it touches the ground.

I also felt insignificant back then.

The moment the sleet was chilled by the winter cold and transformed into snow, I felt confident.

No matter how painful and tough life could be, if I keep trying, I could transform into something like snow… 

My parents tried to stop me, but I grabbed my keyboard and went outside to sing.

I kept singing outside in the snow for a very long time. At some point, someone began singing with me and praised my song… That's as far as I remember.

But, after that, I got a fever… and was bedridden for a week.

A part of me thought all of that was just a fever dream, but…

It was all real. Now, that person is here right in front of me.

He's the one who praised my songs and gave me the courage to become a composer…

I would've never thought it was Hijirikawa-sama…

Could this be destiny? It was the red string of fate that brought us together, right?

Masato Hijirikawa: I was able to work this hard thanks to your words. I found my dream, went against my parents' wishes and came here.

Masato Hijirikawa: If I didn't meet you, I would've rotted away on that road that day. At the very least, I think my heart would've died.

Masato Hijirikawa: You gave me the will to live… I've always wanted to thank you. It seems we have reunited without even realizing it.

Masato Hijirikawa: The first time we met, your hair was long, and you looked very different compared to now. I didn't notice you were the same person. 

Masato Hijirikawa: That day in August, I saw you sing… and I knew the song you were singing–the same one that girl sang that time…

Masato Hijirikawa: That moment, I realized you were that girl, and I felt lightheaded from joy.

Haruka Nanami: Summer… Ah, that time… You suddenly hugged me… My heart was throbbing.

Masato Hijirikawa: I see, I'm sorry about that.

Haruka Nanami: No, it's fine. I also…

Haruka Nanami: I gained the confidence to become a composer because you praised my song. Thank you so much.

Haruka Nanami: But… you should've told me if you knew that time…

Masato Hijirikawa: Yes, it would've been great if I could have told you that time…

Masato Hijirikawa: But if I told you that and knew for sure that you were that girl from that time, then my feelings would have become unstoppable.

Masato Hijirikawa: I've always wanted to meet that girl again and have her listen to my singing again… Her words have always supported me…

Masato Hijirikawa: My feelings of admiration become similar to feelings of love. I would feel the need to sing if that girl was in front of me. I would have to love her.

Masato Hijirikawa: That's why I couldn't tell you this entire time. But now… I have confessed my feelings to you at last.

Masato Hijirikawa: That's why there's no reason to keep it secret anymore. Let me thank you again. I am so grateful to you.

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こちらこそありがとうございます。 No, thank you. (+20 Love, +0 Music)

Haruka Nanami: I was only singing because I wanted to… I don't remember that time very well… So…

Haruka Nanami: I got a fever because I was singing in the snow, so I couldn't tell how much was real or just a dream…

Masato Hijirikawa: It was a chance encounter out of a dream, but it was real. The proof is that I'm here right now.

He draws me closer to him by putting his arm around my shoulder.

Masato Hijirikawa: Now I can feel your warmth. This is my treasured reality. I've fallen in love with you twice now.

出会いって不思議ですね。 Meetings are so perplexing. (+10 Love, +0 Music)

Haruka Nanami: I gained confidence because you, Masato-kun, praised my music.

Haruka Nanami: The reason I wanted to become a composer was because I wanted to make songs for the idol HAYATO-sama, but…

Haruka Nanami: But I was insecure and doubted whether I should aim for that or not… but your words saved me.

Masato Hijirikawa: I see… Our words saved each other.

Hijirikawa-sama slides his arm around my shoulders and pats my head.

Masato Hijirikawa: Our meeting was a miracle and our destiny. Us becoming partners is also destiny… This has been the meeting of a lifetime.

Haruka Nanami: Yes, I think so, too…

そんなことないです。 Not at all. (+0 Love, +0 Music)

Haruka Nanami: I am glad to be of use to you.

Masato Hijirikawa: You're not just that–you saved my life. You should be proud of that. I want you to keep playing music for me.

Haruka Nanami: Yes, I'll do my best.

We've continued making music together.

Our song is the only one of its kind in the world… 

There are no lyrics yet, so Hijirikawa-sama is making up the lyrics as he sings, but…

Masato Hijirikawa: I think it'd be easier to grasp the mood if there were lyrics.

Haruka Nanami: I agree—let's think of them together.

Masato Hijirikawa: Ah… well, I actually have a draft written up.

Haruka Nanami: Really?

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見せてください。Show it to me. (+15 Love, +0 Music)

Masato Hijirikawa: But… it isn't exactly… finished yet…

Haruka Nanami: What kind of lyrics are they? I'm sure they're fantastic…

Masato Hijirikawa: I don't know what kind of lyrics you're expecting. I don't think you would expect these lyrics coming from me…

Haruka Nanami: Lyrics I won't expect? I'm so curious! Can you show them to me?

Masato Hijirikawa: … Well, umm… I wrote about my hidden feelings for you…

Haruka Nanami: Hidden feelings…?

Masato Hijirikawa: Correct… It's… like a love letter.

Masato Hijirikawa: I can't show you an incomplete love letter. I'll finish them by the audition, so… can you be patient for me?

Haruka Nanami: Of course, but please show them to me once you're done.

Masato Hijirikawa: Yes, it's a promise. These lyrics are dedicated to you, after all.

聴かせて欲しいです。Please sing it for me. (+10 Love, +0 Music)

Masato Hijirikawa: That's what I'm planning to do, so can you wait for me a little longer?

Masato Hijirikawa: I… need courage to sing this… I need time to mentally prepare myself.

Haruka Nanami: Understood. I'm looking forward to it.

もしかしてあの時の・・・Could it be from that time…? (+20 Love, +0 Music)

Haruka Nanami: Umm… but you've dropped them once in the hallway, right?

Now that I think about it, Hijirikawa-sama was in quite a panic.

Masato Hijirikawa: Yeah, you're right. I wasn't planning on writing lyrics at first.

Masato Hijirikawa: However, I wanted to get my thoughts sorted out, so I started writing about my feelings for you, and it became a song without me realizing it.

Masato Hijirikawa: Every time I think about you, melodies form in my heart. The words naturally connect to each other. 

Masato Hijirikawa: But, this is… I didn't know your feelings at that time.

Masato Hijirikawa: I saw my feelings as self-centered and tried to hold them in, but this time it's different.

Masato Hijirikawa: There's a bond between us. Our hearts are connected.

Masato Hijirikawa: This isn't what I should be singing right now. I want to rewrite these lyrics to match my current feelings.

Masato Hijirikawa: Then, I want to sing this love song to you…

Hijirikawa-sama strokes my hair as he whispers to me.

Masato Hijirikawa: I want to change this incomplete affection to love and present it to you. Can you wait until then?

Haruka Nanami: Of course, I'll wait as long as it takes.

Writing songs and lyrics…

I know that's important.

But we shared our feelings, we kept to ourselves from the time of the school festival up until now.

What we are feeling and thinking…

What we're struggling to give up and struggling to grasp…

Lastly, about how we're here.

We can't easily summarize two months of feelings in words.

Sometimes in song, sometimes through piano, our music together…

We forget to eat or sleep…

We talk to each other endlessly to fill in the blanks from when we didn't meet.

Masato Hijirikawa: Did you wake up?

Haruka Nanami: Nn…

Masato Hijirikawa: It seems we spent all night together.

Hijirikawa-sama whispers into my ear, chuckling with a grin.

Haruka Nanami: Ah…

I notice that it's already morning and that I fell asleep on Hijirikawa-sama's shoulder.

Haruka Nanami: I-I'm sorry!

Masato Hijirikawa: There's no need to apologize. I'm also guilty of sleeping. Also…

Hijirikawa-sama puts his palm up to shade his eyes while looking outside through the window.

Masato Hijirikawa: The sun's so bright.

I've heard that the sunlight is deathly bright if you pull an all-nighter, but…

I would've never thought the winter sun was this bright and piercing.

My body is weary, and I don't want to take one step, but…

I feel sunny in my heart, like the scorching sun out there that's shining down on us.

Just having Hijirikawa-sama next to me is enough to give me courage and energy. 

Masato Hijirikawa: Last night was so valuable… I am full of regret that I didn't spend time talking to you the past two months.

Masato Hijirikawa: It was a problem that could have been solved if we just worked things out… Please forgive me… 

Hijirikawa-sama touches my hair and looks at me with gentle eyes.

Masato Hijirikawa: … Everything about you is precious to me. Your hair, eyes, lips… I want them all, even your heart…

Haruka Nanami: Masato-kun…

I want to reach out and embrace him.

But I can't. I mustn't…

Jii: Young master! Young master, where are you?!

Haruka Nanami: Wah!

J-Jiiya-san?!

Masato Hijirikawa: Jii…? You returned to the mansion before the New Year… Ah! Oh, last night was…

Hijirikawa-sama's expression clouds over, sighing from bewilderment.

Haruka Nanami: What happened?

Masato Hijirikawa: There was a family conference at the beginning of the year… I completely forgot.

Masato Hijirikawa: I'm the eldest son, and yet I didn't report that I wouldn't be present. This isn't good… I've let my guard down…

Jii: Young master! I know you're here! Please come out, young master!

Jiiya-san's voice is closing in on us.

Masato Hijirikawa: We have to escape from here.

Haruka Nanami: Huh? Escape?

Hijirikawa-sama grins, takes my hand, and runs away.

Haruka Nanami: U-um…

Masato Hijirikawa: You may find it odd that I'm not acting like a man, but I'll sacrifice my pride to protect what I need to protect.

Masato Hijirikawa: If they find out we were alone together and the reason I wasn't present yesterday…

Masato Hijirikawa: They'll force me to go back. It's my mistake, but I want to avoid that at all costs.

Masato Hijirikawa: I don't want to lose this time I have with you here.

Masato Hijirikawa: Love is a mysterious thing. It makes people so stubborn… Do you hate me for being like this?

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そんなことないです。Of course not. (+5 Love, +0 Music)

I know that in reality he's very earnest and kind.

Masato Hijirikawa: … I see. I'm glad.

 嫌いになんてなりません。I would never hate you. (+20 Love, +0 Music)

Haruka Nanami: I'll love you no matter what happens.

Masato Hijirikawa: No matter what happens…? You're strong…

Haruka Nanami: That isn't true…

Masato Hijirikawa: I need to become stronger so I can protect you.

Masato Hijirikawa: I'm not going to spare any effort for the sake of protecting you, my one and only.

・・・好きです。… I love you. (+10 Love, +0 Music)

Haruka Nanami: I love you, Masato-kun.

Masato Hijirikawa: I… I see… Um… I'm a little embarrassed being told that directly…

Masato Hijirikawa: Over here…

We enter the recording room. Hijirikawa-sama puts his arm around my shoulder, and we hide in the shadow of the sofa.

Haruka Nanami: U-umm…

Masato Hijirikawa: Shh, quiet…

He presses his index finger to my lips.

The grip of his hand around my shoulder tightens, pulling me in close enough where our cheeks start touching.

Jii: Young master~! Hm, are you here?!

Masato Hijirikawa: … He left…

Hijirikawa-sama lets out a sigh of relief. Then…

Masato Hijirikawa: Ah…

We exchange glances and Hijirikawa-sama's cheeks redden.

Our lips are close enough to feel each other's breath…

His eyes are filled with melancholy–I almost want to touch them.

At that moment…

Thud! 

The boards in front of us open up and Jiiya-san appears.

Jii: You were here, Young Master? I've been looking everywhere for you!

Jii: !!!

Jiiya-san takes a look at us, and his eyes widen so much that they look like they'll fall out of his head.

Jii: W-w-w-w… WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Masato Hijirikawa: … Practice.

Jii: What can you be possibly practicing while secretly having an affair with that lass?! 

Masato Hijirikawa: Singing practice, of course. Can't you see this is a recording room?

Jii: You don't need to be touching a lass to sing a song!

Masato Hijirikawa: We're only hiding because Jii was making so much noise…

Jii: Are you saying this is my fault?!

Jii: The only reason I'm here is that the young master was missing during yesterday's evening meeting…!

Jii: Ahh! Young master, you were such an honest and sweet child, why would you make up such excuses…

Jii: AH! Could it be that lass is deceiving you?!

Masato Hijirikawa: No… That's not it.

Jii: Hrrrm… It's outrageous that you, a mere peasant, deceive the young master! 

Jii: This is a different issue from that time I lost our duel as composers. Now it has come to this, I refuse to lose to you again, even if it costs me my life!

He leans in, his face close to mine.

Haruka Nanami: Huh…? U-umm…

Masato Hijirikawa: Jii, stop! I won't forgive you if you lay a finger on her.

Jii: What's that?! Are you challenging Jii, the master of the assassin's fist?

Hijirikawa-sama silently nods, holding his glare at Jiiya-san.

Jii: … I must report back to the master.

Jiiya-san leaves, his shoulders trembling as he goes.

Masato Hijirikawa: …

Haruka Nanami: Masato… kun…

Masato Hijirikawa: … I'm fine.

As he says that, his face goes pale and his balled up fist starts trembling.

The following day, we are called to the principal's office.

Masato Hijirikawa: Excuse me.

Shining Saotome: HA HA HA~ Excuse YOU!

Masato Hijirikawa: Umm… What have you called us for…?

Shining Saotome: I'm not the one who called YOU. This guest did!

Masaomi Hijirikawa: You're late…

Masato Hijirikawa: … Father…

Masaomi Hijirikawa: Masato, you're returning home.

Masato Hijirikawa: … One year hasn't passed yet. We agreed that if I didn't produce results after a year, then I'll go back.

Masaomi Hijirikawa: I know what the results will be without seeing them. What are you planning to become attending this pointless academy?

The principal's eyebrows shoot up at the words “pointless academy”.

Masato Hijirikawa: At least I can be a human being here. I can be myself.

Masaomi Hijirikawa: … Your future has been decided. You're taking over the Hijirikawa family. That's your destiny. Haven't you had enough fun?

Masato Hijirikawa: Isn't destiny something we create for ourselves? There's no worth in a dream that has been forced on me. I'm not your puppet.

Masaomi Hijirikawa: You're talking like you know everything. Who do you think is the reason you've survived up until now?

Masato Hijirikawa: I am grateful for you raising me, but I decide my life on my own terms.

Masaomi Hijirikawa: The life you decided for yourself is this? I heard from Fujikawa that you were covering up playing with a girl by saying it was music practice.

Shining Saotome: Hrm?! I can't let that slide! Relationships between girls and boys are prohibited!

Masato Hijirikawa: You're misunderstanding. Jii kept chasing us, so we were hiding…

Masaomi Hijirikawa: There's no reason for you to hide if you weren't doing anything shameful. Also, why weren't you present during the family conference? 

Masaomi Hijirikawa: It's unbecoming of a Hijirikawa family member to cancel plans without notification.

Masato Hijirikawa: My sincerest apologies, I did not remember.

Masato Hijirikawa: I will be careful to not repeat the same mistake again.

Masaomi Hijirikawa: You don't have another chance.

Shining Saotome: Hrrrm? I'm being ignored over here?

Masato Hijirikawa: That's not for you to decide, Father.

Masaomi Hijirikawa: How dare you… Who do you think let you attend this stupid academy?

A vein bulges on the principal's head at the words “stupid academy”. 

Masato Hijirikawa: Grandfather is the one who helped pay for the academy fees. Also, we agreed that I will pay back my debt within half a year after graduating.

Masato Hijirikawa: If I can't return the debt within half a year, then I will accept that I'm unworthy. I'll give up and inherit the household.

Masaomi Hijirikawa: No matter how skilled you could be, that isn't the amount of money that you can pay off just by graduating from this academy. It's pointless.

Shining Saotome: HRRRRRRM? I hate being ignored! AND my academy is number one in the entire galaxy!

Shining Saotome: Being able to debut from here is a BIG BANG achievement! Mr. Hijirikawa is a student with great potential! Insulting him is NON NON NON NON NON NON NON allowed here!

Masaomi Hijirikawa: As his father, I would know more than anyone if he had talent or not. 

Masaomi Hijirikawa: I also know what would give him the most fulfilling life. Strangers have no right to meddle in our affairs.

Masato Hijirikawa: Father… I am me. I'm not you. I want to build my life on my own terms.

Masato Hijirikawa: Why don't you understand me?

Masaomi Hijirikawa: You don't understand anything… We're going back home.

Shining Saotome: NON, the one going back is YOU!

The moment the principal snaps his fingers, several kuroko–traditional Japanese stagehands dressed in black robes and black veiled masks–appear out of thin air.

Masaomi Hijirikawa: W-who are you people…? Wha! AAAAAAH!

They lift Hijirikawa-sama's father onto their shoulders and carry him out of the room.

Shining Saotome: HA HA HA~! I'M the one who makes the rules here!

Masato Hijirikawa: Principal… why…?

Shining Saotome: HA HA HA~! YOU are one of my adorable students! It's a teacher's duty to protect their pupils!

Shining Saotome: AND I hate getting ignored! I was HMPH, so he got POOFED!

Shining Saotome: BUT breaking the romance ban rule is ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY FORBIDDEN! Take that to heart!

Masato Hijirikawa: Understood.

Haruka Nanami: Understood.

We've been saved by the principal, but…

The feeling of unease remains in my heart…

We return to the classroom and silently stare at our music sheets.

I occasionally turn to look at Hijirikawa-sama and see him staring at one point of the sheet with a stern face.

Hijirikawa-sama…

Even though the principal rescued him, he must still be upset that his father disapproved like that…

What can I do for him right now?

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ピアノを弾く。Play the piano (+5 Love, +10 Music)

I'm not good with words, but I can play music.

As I continue to play without speaking, Hijirikawa-sama grins, sits next to me, and starts playing the piano with me.

We don't need words. The time we have together is everything…

歌う。Sing (+10 Love, +10 Music)

I begin playing the piano and proceed to sing to my heart's content.

If I can sing my feelings that I can't express by just talking…

Hijirikawa-sama begins singing with me as well.

As our voices overlap, I feel like our spirits do as well—my heart feels so much lighter now.

I'm not alone because I have someone who I can truly share my feelings with.

That thought reassures me.

 手を握る。Hold his hand (+0 Love, +0 Music)

I put my hand over Hijirikawa-sama's hand to cheer him up, if even a little.

Hijirikawa-sama gives me a sad smile and pulls his hand away.

… Ah, I see… The principal just told us that romance is forbidden.

I have to be careful…

No matter who is against us or whatever kind of situation we might get into, we must keep going.

The graduation audition is so soon, we don't have any time to waste.

MINI GAME

Ringo Tsukimiya: Are you close to finishing your song? You're in trouble if you don't have a rough done by now.

Ringo Tsukimiya: Ah, I just remembered. If you're stuck, you should try performing your song and then listen to a recording of it.

Ringo Tsukimiya: You should be able to notice things you didn't notice before. Now that I think about it, how about you let me hear your performance?

Ringo Tsukimiya: I'm your teacher, after all. I can give you advice on your song, so please play it for me.

Ringo Tsukimiya: Okay, so let's begin. Are you ready? Start!

RANK S

Masato Hijirikawa: When I'm with you, I forget the passage of time. I understand that's not good of me.

Masato Hijirikawa: However, I can't stop my feelings for you.

Haruka Nanami: Umm… I also lose track of time when I'm with you, Masato-kun. I get lost in a daze…

But I have to be more careful.

Chapter End

[forthedancingandthethriving]

I have spent. An insane fucking amount of time looking at MLP infection aus because a couple caught my attention. And now I have IDEAS and I need them OUT.

All under a read more because it's very rambly, and there's talks of body horror and stuff.

FUUUUCKING.

CODE ROT INFECTION AU.

It only targets those with high enough code densities. So Programs and Viruses are able to be infected, as are Code Manifestations and Offshoots. Guardians and Avatars can be infected, but they aren't adversely effected. NPCs and Abyss-borns are the only truly immune ones.

So;

Able to be infected/unimmnue

Programs

Viruses

Offshoots

Code Manifestations

Able to be infected/immune to adverse effects (carriers)(if it mutates, it could affect them..)

Avatars

Guardians

Completely immune

NPCs

Character-level (for now? Depends on how I feel)

Code Deities

Code Rot comes from beings with incomplete code. In an attempt to try and make itself whole, it basically tries to.. take control the host and force it to find anyone who may have the slightest bit of similar code and take it by.. forceful means.

Code Rot Stages

Beings with feelings of itchiness and pain flares. Nothing too bad, but the infected down have occasional thoughts of being imperfect. But it's nothing that can't just be chocked up to as stress.

The itchiness and pain flares get worse. The infected begins to scratch, sometimes drawing blood. They'll report a feeling of imperfection and needing to fix it, but unaware why. They're a bit more finicky during this stage. They start to avoid people and feel like their mind isn't their own.

It goes from concerning to horrifying. They being to self-mutilate. The feelings of imperfection grow. Their code nearly has full control over their mind, and is deadset on finding perfect code to replace the imperfect. The infected is basically a walking host, becoming aggressive towards anyone who tries to stop it. They occasionally black out.

The infected continues to self-mutilate, and their body begins changing as well. Extra limbs, eyes, anything start appearing. The code is trying to be perfect. It can't be. The infected can't be saved.

There's nothing but a husk left at stage 5. The body is unrecognizable at this point. The Code Rot has full control, and it won't stop until its 'perfect'.

Infection can only be done through two ways; an open wound getting corrupted code into it or someone's incomplete code turning into Code Rot. So..

Who is the Patient 0?

WRONG, MFS! IT'S WHO ARE THE PATIENT ZEROES! THAT'S RIGHT! THERES MULTIPLE! BECAUSE ANGST IS MY FOOD!

So! Our Patient 0s are Juliano, Root, and Entropy. Their situations should all be self-explanatory.

Juliano was the first to realize something was wrong. Remember that he isn't fully an Avatar, but only has semi-Avatar code. So when different pains started coming up, pains different than the usual flare ups, he knew he shouldn't hide this one.

Entropy.. is just straight up fucked. There's no way around it. She's such a bad Failed Fusion that it's a miracle that, in the main au, the wireframe scars are her only problem. And if you remember.. she does have all those Programs and Viruses in those glass balls..

Root actually got attacked by a Virus with Code Rot in the code world. (I'm leaving this ambiguous for when it takes place, only that Root is on good terms with everyone.) She was incredibly freaked out by it. It was less that she was attacked and more than she got hurt, with the open wound on her shoulder to prove it. In her panic of being attacked, she accidentally cut her shoulder. The virus had some unrelated corrupted code that dropped into her, and it facilitated the Code Rot's spread.

Root and Juliano both reported what they were feeling to Vitality, coincidentally at the same time as Entropy reached about Stage 4 (her broken code made it very easy) and just started a massacre. She released all the infected prisoners she had, and the code world was thrown into absolute chaos.

Juliano and Root are both kept somewhere very secure. Juliano is allowed to free roam in the area where he and Root are kept, but Root is not. She understands why and is completely accepting of it.

They're not allowed visitors, except for those who are trying to figure out Code Rot and those confirmed to be immune.

With their limited knowledge, it's unfornately an extremely short list.

Juliano does his best to be there for Root, but as her stages progressively get worse.. he's kept away for his own safety.

Root's more 'virus-like' features come out during this time due to her slowly losing control of her code. Her antlers, her tail, her claws.. it's slow, but it's there. Meanwhile, Entropy is causing absolute chaos. Infected are running amuck, and no one has any clue what to do. It's anarchy.

AND THAT. IS ALL I HAVE.

I don't know who the full list of the immune, unfornately. Only the obvious.

[nettakrim]

Cooking show concept:

its a well known fact that too many cooks spoil the broth, so we can make a 2x2 grid relating "quality of broth" with "presence of cook" and it would look something like this:

. | No Cook A | Cook A

No Cook B | Bad | Good

. Cook B | Good | Bad

with no cooks, the broth is never made, so its bad, with just cook A or just cook B we get a good broth, but with two cooks the broth is spoiled, everyone knows this

now anyone whose familiar with logic gates probably noticed that this is an XOR gate!..

which begs the question, how do we convert a good broth into the presence of a cook in a later XOR gate, since this would allow us to chain logic gates

the obvious solution: Gordon Ramsay.

Gordon Ramsay tastes the broth, and if the broth is good, the cook moves onto the next round, if the broth is spoiled, no cooks move on (ofc regardless of the lack of a good broth, no cooks move on when there *are* no cooks)

unfortunately, just XOR gates arent enough for turing completeness, which is of course the goal here, so what else can we construct?

well first of all, you can make a NOT gate by just having a cook in the XOR kitchen already, so now we just need to find either an AND, OR, NAND, or NOR and we can construct everything we need using De Morgan's laws

thankfully, this is already a solved problem, Regular Cooking Shows!

if no cooks enter the kitchen, noone leaves, if theres any amount of cooks, theres always exactly one winner! this is an OR gate! We can of course reuse Gordon Ramsay for this

(note that an "implicit OR" by just letting all cooks through would "overload" later XOR gates, spoiling the broths)

now the obvious issue with this is that the kitchens cannot reused, since cooks are left behind or exit permanently, but this is fine as long as logic is purely sequential

sequential logic *is* a lot easier to deal with though, and it actually helps solve another issue - the fact that a NOT gate cook could finish cooking their broth before another cook comes in to spoil it... the solution...... Gordon Ramsay!

we give him a list of kitchens to judge one by one, and thats the order the logic gates are evaluated in, since its sequential this naturally leads to the idea of defining our logic in the same order its evaluated in, something like:

0. OR -> 2

1. XOR -> 2

2. OR -> 3

3. NOT -> out

where NOT is built as an XOR kitchen with a cook already there

so following this notation here, we would build an OR and XOR kitchen connecting to a 2nd OR kitchen, then connect the exit of that kitchen to a NOT kitchen, then the exit of that is our output, then to run the cooking show we tell Gordon Ramsay to judge the OR kitchen, then the XOR kitchen, then the 2nd OR, then the NOT!

the eagle eyed reader, however, may have noticed that this is pretty impractical...- since we cant have one kitchen output to more than one other!.. this would mean we need to duplicate all our inputs and logic at every split, which would be a pain!!!

so we want something where when a cook completes one challenge, a separate cook is allowed into a later challenge...

luckily, the solution is another cooking competition! consider this:

the kitchen is split in two with a divider, with holes for passing of ingredients, each half of the kitchen has an incomplete set of ingredients, and in the other half there is a pre-existing cook

if no cook enters the empty half, the other cook wont be able to beat the challenge, so wont be allowed through when Gordon Ramsay judges them - if the cook does enter, then both cooks win, and their respective doors open

this challenge also doubles as an AND gate if you only let one of the cooks out and have both cooks as inputs instead of having one there already!

interestingly, both the AND and OR kitchens generalise nicely to more than 2 inputs, for OR you just add more contestants, for AND you add more dividing walls

XOR generalises as only true if theres exactly one cook, but there isnt really a set way XOR is supposed to generalise

this does help simplify our notation, as we dont need to confirm that there are only 2 inputs to each kitchen

so now with all of that established, i present a full adder:

0. A -> 3 (input)

1. B -> 4 (input)

2. C_in -> 5 (input)

3. SPLIT -> 6,10

4. SPLIT -> 6,10

5. SPLIT -> 8,9

6. XOR -> 7

7. SPLIT -> 8,9

8. XOR -> S (output)

9. AND -> 11

10. AND -> 11

11. OR -> C_out (output)

like earlier NOT is built as an XOR kitchen with a pre-existing cook, SPLIT is likewise an AND kitchen with a pre-existing cook for each additional output

this means we can count the total number of cooks we need, there arent actually any NOT kitchens, but we do have 4 SPLITs, with 2 outputs each, so thats 4 cooks, and then theres at most 3 additional cooks for each of our inputs, so let's say 7 contestants

we can also count the number of rounds (perhaps call them episodes) pretty easily, since its just the number of gates (there is no parralisation) in this case its 9

these two stats would be what you would want to optimise for

given how common SPLIT is, we could simplify our notation for humans at the cost of needing a compilation step by combining the splits into the outputs of gates, like this:

0. A -> 3,6 (input)

1. B -> 3,6 (input)

2. C -> 4,5 (input)

3. XOR -> 4,5

4. XOR -> S (output)

5. AND -> 7

6. AND -> 7

7. OR -> C (output)

but be aware that for this to be a valid cooking show you need to run it through some program first to uncompress the SPLITs

its also worth noting that an AND gate going into a SPLIT is often useless, unless you need to output to more kitchens than the AND gate has inputs, you can just use the inputs to the AND gate as your SPLIT outputs, this reduces how many cooks are needed, and could be included in the compilation (along with shortcuts for NAND, NOR ofc)

none of the cooks in the cooking show need to know the layout of the circuit for it to work, and neither does Gordon Ramsay

~The Producers~ just need to give him the list of what kitchens to judge in what order - the layout and challenge type of the kitchens and the doors control the flow!

so uuh... if you ever have a lot of kitchens and a lot of cooks and a Gordon Ramsay, now you know what to do?

[heliosphoenix]

State of the Planet: 2023 Edition

Here we are once again. Hours to go until the new year is upon us. Even though when you read this you may very well be in the future, it's time once again to use the few hours we have left in 2023 to take a look at the state of the planet. And...what a state it is. I said last year that 2022 may have very well been the inflection point for this decade, the moment that the 2020's truly began to come into their own. I think that's held true for this year, even though it still feels like folks are trying to find their feet in some aspects. But even in all this confusion and uncertainty, there is still progress to be had. So let's take a look back at some of the good things that happened this year:

The European Parliment commited to ending the sale of petrol and diesel fueled vehicles in the EU by 2035 in an effort to push the adoption of electric vehicles.

The High Seas Treaty was signed by the member states of the UN, this treaty commits to the conservation of 30% of the world's oceans by 2030.

The ozone hole continues to shrink, projections have it on track to recover to 1980's levels by 2050.

Finland became the 31st member of NATO.

The World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 and Monkeypox are no longer a global health emergencies.

The first synthetic human embryo was created from the use of stem cells.

The African Union became the 21st permanent member of the G20 (wouldn't it be G21 now?).

Katalin Karikó & Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their contributions towards the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

The FDA approved of a treatment for sickle cell disease involving the use of the gene-editing technique Crispr.

Scientists announced the ability to use AI to decode people's thoughts from brain scans.

King Charles III ascended to the throne in the UK.

Pope Francis decreed that Roman Catholic priests would be allowed to bless same-sex marraiges.

Mexico decriminalized abortion at the federal level.

Despite projections of a recession, the United States economy experienced it's biggest growth since before the pandemic, adding 2.5 million jobs and inflation decreasing to 3.1%.

Spain won the Women's World Cup for the first time in a 1-0 victory over England.

SpaceX's fully stacked Starship flew twice this year, the largest rocket to ever fly (now if only they can get it to stop exploding).

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) was launched by the European Space Agency, it's expected to arrive at Jupiter in 2031.

The European Ariane 5 rocket flew its 117th and final mission.

India's Chandrayaan-3 landed at the Moon's south pole, the first spacecraft to do so.

Oppenheimer and Barbie released the same day in theaters and the internet had a lot of fun with that.

Michigan went 13-0 agian and won their third straight Big Ten championship (BEAT BAMA!)

The Pistons actually won a game before the end of the year.

Remember all that? It's okay if you didn't. But once again, this is where I'm at right now.

You are in the future. Every single word on this post is already confined to the history books. How you remember this year is ultimately up to you, but keep in mind that the reason I make these posts is a counterpoint to the many forces out there who have a lot to gain if everyone is under the impression that everything is always terrible all the time.

And that leads me to my word of the year. It's a bit unusual but I think it fits:

The word of the year is: Perception.

At our core, all of us are truth seekers. Whether it's objective truth or personal truth, we all want to find it. One of the benefits of the internet age that, in my opinion, gets taken for granted is that we now have more information available to us than at any time in human history. Our ancestors had to deal with incomplete and contradictory information, but now we can find out pretty much anything in a matter of seconds.

But with that information comes a host of issues. We unfortunately live in an age where a commitment to objective truth is being overshadowed by a desire for personal truth. We're putting less emphasis on what is true and more on what we want to be true. Unfortunately, as Carl Sagan once said, our preferences do not determine what is true.

And there are those who seek to exploit this. There are people in this world that are willing to alter your own perception on how things are. But not to benefit you, but to benefit them. They wish to take advantage of your desire for your own beliefs to be validated for time evermore and turn that against you, so that they can create a better world for themselves even at your own expense.

But you can stop them. All you have to do is be aware that perception doesn't always equal reality.

2024 will be a consequential year. For one thing, it's an election year in the United States which means the stakes are high enough as is. There will be a lot of consequential events over the next 366 days (yay for leap years!), and a lot of people that you've never met will be trying to tell you how to think and what to believe.

Remember that at the end of the day, the most important values are the ones you hold dear. Just because something gets a lot of engagement on your socials doesn't mean it's the best way to contextualize something. Don't allow your beliefs and values to be compromised for the sake of fitting in with trends or trying to cash in on some vague notion of importance; especially when there's people trying to exploit that at your expense.

The first step to healthy civic engagement is a body politic that is informed and questioning. It will do you no harm to read up on whatever topic is trending on the socials. It will only make you informed and then you will be able to decide if a position or a policy is truly the right one for you, based on what you hold to be important.

Knowledge can be scary at times. It may cause us to reevaluate our position, as well as come to realize that something we felt or believed or even wished to be true now has to be totally re-examined in a new light. But all that is what helps us grow, that's what helps us evolve and become stronger.

They used to tell us that "knowledge is power." I can tell you that knowledge only makes you better.

Remember these words as you head into the new year. Rather than wishing for your perception to be reality, base your perception on reality. And then those who thrive on the exploitation of ignorance will have no power over you.

Have a great New Year's Eve, friends. And I'll see you all in 2024.

Helios.

[gaykarstaagforever]

I really want Concavenator's butt-hump to make more sense than it does, but so far it just never doesn't look like that.

I want it to be the high part of a full fin that runs from the back of the head down to the tail, but there's really no indication that there's anything along the spine until it just has a fin there, and then a hump.

Unless it was feathered on top, and there was some kind of row of long feathers along there that tied into it visually. But we know it had belly scales, and everyone is still arguing about what the bumps on its arms mean (maybe feathers or quills, but if so they're in a weird place. But they don't make sense as anything else.)

I think we only have the single holotype specimen of this? And it's in pretty good shape but looks like the bones right around the hump are incomplete, so what did that structure even look like?

Plus I think humps are only a thing in mammals now, so what did a dinosaurian hump look like and even do? Assuming you could even see it. What if the animal was built like a chicken?

Idk. This image from Deviantart at least makes it look like something:

The popular rendition is of a therapod with a shark fin (or two) on its butt. And that doesn't look reasonable to me.

It looks better feathered, honestly.

[emergingindiaanalyticsnoida]

Exploring The Intriguing Impact Of Fuzzy Logic On The Advancement Of Artificial Intelligence

Are you ready to dive into the fascinating world of fuzzy logic? It’s the secret ingredient behind the mind-boggling capabilities of advanced AI systems, and we’re here to unravel its mysteries. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast or just curious about how machines can mimic human reasoning, this blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding fuzzy logic – the powerful foundation that enables AI systems to make complex decisions in an uncertain world. Get ready for a journey filled with captivating insights, mind-expanding concepts, and real-world applications that will leave you in awe of what artificial intelligence can truly achieve. Let’s embark on this adventure together!

Introduction to Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy logic is a type of AI that deals with imprecise or uncertain data. It relies on a set of rules known as fuzzy rules to make decisions. Fuzzy logic is different from traditional AI in that it does not require complete, accurate data to make decisions. This makes it well-suited for dealing with complex, real-world problems.

Fuzzy logic was first developed in the 1960s by Lotfi Zadeh. Since then, it has been used in a variety of fields, including medicine, engineering, and finance. In recent years, fuzzy logic has gained popularity as a tool for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).

There are many benefits to using fuzzy logic. It is tolerant of imprecise data and can deal with complex problems. Fuzzy logic is also scalable, meaning it can be applied to problems of any size. Fuzzy logic is interpretable, meaning that humans can understand the reasoning behind the decisions made by fuzzy systems.

Despite these advantages, there are some challenges associated with using fuzzy logic. One challenge is that designing a good fuzzy system can be difficult. Another challenge is that interpreting the results of a fuzzy system can be difficult for humans.

How Fuzzy Logic Works

Fuzzy logic is a type of AI that deals with imprecise or incomplete data. It can be used to create systems that are more human-like in their decision-making.

Fuzzy logic is based on the idea of set theory, which is the mathematics of dealing with groups of objects. In fuzzy logic, sets can have partial membership. This means that an object can belong to a set to some degree, without being a member of that set completely.

For example, consider the set of all animals. A cat would be a member of this set to a high degree, since it is an animal. However, a dog would only be a member of this set to a moderate degree, since it is not as animal-like as a cat (it does not have fur, for example). A rock would only be a member of this set to a very low degree, since it is not alive and does not have any characteristics that are similar to animals.

Fuzzy logic allows for more flexibility and nuanced decision-making than traditional AI systems. It can deal with imprecise data and make decisions based on probabilities rather than certainties.

Fuzzy logic has been used in many different fields, including medicine, engineering, and finance. It has even been used to create robot vacuum cleaners that can clean around obstacles and furniture without getting stuck!

Applications of Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence

Fuzzy logic is a form of artificial intelligence that is based on the concept of degrees of truth. Rather than the traditional binary system of true or false, fuzzy logic allows for a continuum of truth values between 0 and 1. This makes it possible to deal with imprecise or incomplete data, which is often the case in real-world situations.

Fuzzy logic has been used in a variety of fields, including medicine, engineering, and even financial decision-making. In medicine, fuzzy logic systems have been used to diagnose diseases, identify potential drug interactions, and develop treatment plans. In engineering, fuzzy logic has been used to control robots and other automated systems. And in finance, fuzzy logic has been used to develop stock market trading strategies and assess credit risk.

There are endless possibilities for the applications of fuzzy logic in artificial intelligence. As our understanding of this technology grows, so too will its potential uses.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Fuzzy Logic

There are many advantages and disadvantages of using fuzzy logic. Some of the advantages include:

1. Fuzzy logic can handle imprecise or incomplete information better than traditional logic systems. This is because it uses approximate rather than precise reasoning.

2. Fuzzy logic can deal with complex problems that are too difficult for traditional logic systems to handle.

3. Fuzzy logic is more flexible than traditional logic and can be adapted to changing conditions more easily.

4. Fuzzy systems can often be implemented more efficiently than traditional systems, since they require less processing power and memory.

Some of the disadvantages of fuzzy logic include:

1. The flexibility of fuzzy logic can also be a disadvantage, since it can make a system harder to design and understand.

2. Fuzzy systems can be more difficult to debug and test than traditional systems.

3. In some cases, the use of fuzzy logic can result in sub-optimal solutions to problems, due to the approximations used in the reasoning process.

Examples of Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy logic is a type of AI that can deal with imprecise or incomplete information. It can help systems make better decisions by taking into account the human factor.

Some examples of how fuzzy logic can be used include:

-Autonomous vehicles: Fuzzy logic can be used to create safer autonomous vehicles by helping them to better understand and react to their environment.

-Weather prediction: Fuzzy logic can be used to improve the accuracy of weather predictions by taking into account variables that are difficult to measure, such as cloud cover.

-Medical diagnosis: Fuzzy logic can be used to help doctors diagnose diseases by taking into account symptoms that are not always easy to interpret.

Conclusion

Fuzzy logic is a powerful and complex tool that can be used to create advanced AI systems. It provides the ability to represent uncertain information, making it easier to build more accurate models and make better decisions. Understanding fuzzy logic is important for anyone interested in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning, as it forms an important foundation of these fields. With this knowledge, developers and scientists can continue researching new applications of AI technology while using fuzziness-aware methods to develop even smarter algorithms.

[gamecrag]

IdleOn is a relatively new game that focuses on cutting out the worst parts of modern gaming. Instead of spending time counting the money in your wallet, you can spend time actually enjoying the game without having to pay for every other weapon or item. While the gameplay loop is not too different from other RPG games where you fight monsters and collect loot, you can get to the more interesting parts of the game faster by employing characters other than your own to complete quests for you. That means that even when you're away from the game because life gets you down, you can always come back and see that you never stopped progressing. Guilds are a great multiplayer feature of IdleOn, as it lets a group of up to 210 people complete a set of goals and earn rewards and bonuses for all members of the guild. Doing the daily and weekly tasks to level up the guild is important, but it's also important to know which bonuses the best are to invest your precious time in. Here are some of the best guild bonuses to go for so that you and everyone in your guild can reap its benefits. Two is a company, three’s a crowd, and two hundred and ten people in a team is just tons of fun. And when a bonus helps the entire guild, that feels so much more special than gaining bonuses all by yourself. So, let’s take a look at the best ones! 10) Bonus GP for Small Guilds The total capacity of Guilds in IdleOn may be huge, but that does not mean that every guild is going to be that large. And in that case, your bonuses and gains are small. Fortunately, the Bonus GP for Small Guilds is a Guild Bonus that increases your total GP points if your guild has a small number of members. For example, if your guild has 11 members or less – you get 96.08% GP. And the bigger your Guild gets, the lesser the rewards become. At 60 members, the GP drops to 0 and then this bonus is useless. 9) Star Dazzle Star Dazzle is exactly what you’d expect it to be. It gives you a boost in the Star Talent (also known as Special Talents) points that you earn. The more you level it up, the more points that you’ll earn. And then, you can invest those points to get stat boosts and other kinds of bonuses. 8) Gold Charm This list of Guild Bonuses would be incomplete without something that increases the Total Drop Rate of things. After all, better loot is a win in anyone’s books no matter what their playstyle is like. With the Gold Charm bonus, you get a boost in your drop rate right away. And the more you level it up, the luckier you get. 7) Guild Gifts What good are Guild Gifts if you’re not getting a bunch of them? Even without a birthday, you deserve some special treatment. Although you do get some gifts by default, the quantity is not always that satisfactory. Fortunately, we have the Guild Gifts bonus, which raises your chances of getting an extra Guilt Gift to be added to your inventory. So, it’s very much a no-brainer to add this to your bonuses. 6) Power of Pow When we increase every other stat of our characters, it’s easy to forget about Weapon Power at times because we tend to go for the best ones that IdleOn has to offer. However, just the base WP of a weapon is not all that you can do in the game. Almost every type of stat booster in the game has at least one option that gives you a WP boost. So, when you combine something like the Power of Pow Guild Bonus with the power that your weapon already has – you end up with something very dangerous. 5) C2 Card Spotter Cards in IdleOn are a great way to gain stat boosts to become stronger, faster, and better. And if they’re passive, then they don’t even need to be equipped to do their magic. So, a Guild Bonus that increases the Card Drop Rate in IdleOn is certainly a very useful bonus to have. After all, a lot of the cards have specific requirements for dropping and it’s always a good idea to have better chances of getting them when you put in the effort.

4) Rucksack The Rucksack Guild Bonus feels like a gift from the heavens for anyone who is a fan of the RPG elements of IdleOn. It increases the total carry cap of the player, which means that your inventory gets bigger when this bonus is equipped. The more it’s leveled up, the more your total carry cap increases – which is an amazing advantage to have by your side. 3) Multi Tool Skill Efficiency is a great thing because it helps you get better at everything that you do. And IdleOn is a game that’s all about getting better at things and then doing them more efficiently – so it’s no surprise that Multi Tool is a great Guild Bonus to have. It gives you a boost to your Total Skill Efficiency, which you can then increase by leveling it up further. It’s a pretty decent boost that makes your tasks smoother. 2) Sleepy Skiller What’s better than gaining skill XP? Gaining it when you’re AFK of course. And most players are always looking for ways to make this experience faster. Fortunately, the Sleepy Skiller Guild Bonus is perfect for this as it boosts your AFK Skill gain rate. It starts off very simple, but the bonuses become too good to pass on once you max it out. 1) REM Fighting No matter how much we like fighting actively in IdleON – it’s undeniable that idle farming is incredibly fun too. It’s like coming home to a freshly cooked meal after a long day of work. And the best way to get AFK gains is having your troops fight mobs, which leaves tons of loot for the player to grab. That’s where the REM Fighting Guild Bonus comes in, which boosts your AFK Fight gain rate. The more you level it up, the more it boosts your gains, so there’s nothing not to love here. That’s all for our list of the top 10 best IdleOn Guild Bonuses that everyone should have. We hope that you found this guide helpful and let us know if we missed anything that you consider crucial. While you’re still here, make sure to check out many of our other helpful IdleOn guides too!

[mystybelle]

plug in bound- ?

I kinda built world seed with that issue in mind. It's not really much in the grand scheme of the system, also by design, because combat is intentionally not the only way a player should be able to interact with the world of any game built on World Seed.

All Characters share the same fundamental characteristics unless they have Abilities that change their specific capabilities, and one such fundamental characteristics is Vitality and HP. Literally just, "You have [x]HP, and when it hits 0, you can't take Actions anymore. If you spend a Vitality point, your HP refills and you can act again. If you have no Vitality to spend you're dead."

It's basically just making all Character entities in a given game built on World Seed, bosses with multiple HP bars, but it allows the satisfaction of dropping an enemy to 0HP without feeling like you've given up something.

World Seed is an engine for games, not a full game itself, and though I'm focusing on how combat could be played out using its systems, it's not purely focused on that. So a good chunk of games may not interact with Vitality at all. An animal crossing rp character probably isn't going to be hurt by anything more than a bee, much less lethally. But they might lose Vitality if their island gets too messy, to symbolize a weakening commitment to their island, until an ultimate "game over" state. Meanwhile a Soul Eater rp character might be knocked out a couple times during a fight, and lose Vitality to get back up again. A MHA rp character might have Abilities that let them spend Vitality to empower themselves, for PLUS+ULTRA moments. A Food Wars rp character might lose Vitality every time they're blown away by a dish, until they [Food Wars] all over the kitchen. A Priory of the Bookworm rp character, might die of dysentery after losing Vitality every week they're sick.

A lot of players who get into ttrpgs today are coming from video games, and in video games, a character doesn't die when they hit 0 HP all the time. Bosses have multiple phases, some NPCs stop being hostile, Pokemon just faint, etc. But they still hit 0HP regardless. So even if a player doesn't want to kill an enemy, and Pathfinder/D&D doesn't technically requires that you kill all enemies to end a combat encounter; if everyone on the enemy team doesn't hit 0HP, the game feels incomplete.

Vitality allows for these kinds of eventualities, without losing the feel of dropping an enemy's HP completely, so players get the feel of completing a challenge. Since the rule applies to player Characters too, players can take major losses without the requirement of a TPK either. You can build stories together with a group that can have more dynamic back and forth between protagonists and antagonists that way!

So like D&D isn't great for producing a conventionally satisfying narrative because in modern Western storytelling stories of the action genre (where D&D is firmly planted in) don't generally feature the main characters having an unbroken streak of victories against their opposition (a feature of modern D&D) but feature defeats and setbacks. When D&D is the most highly opinionated about combat and rules as written death is the main consequence of losing in combat and what you want is characters being able to suffer meaningful losses while not always being at the risk of death, you have tension between the needs of the narrative and the game mechanics.

But more than that, when a group does patch the rules to be more conducive to that and fudges the rules and manages to somehow force the game into producing a conventionally satisfying narrative, given that a lot of that was done in spite of D&D it feels like it would be giving credit where none is due to attribute that story to the game and not the group's efforts in spite of the game.

None of that is to say that D&D played on its own terms can't produce good narratives. In fact, I think the best stories related to D&D are not the sort of stuff you see in actual plays, but the sort of perfect alignment of system, fiction, and chance that can only happen in a medium that utilizes those three things. "A player figured out how to utilize the rules of the game in a way that made perfect sense in the fiction and produced an unpredictable outcome that significantly altered the course of events" is a much cooler story in the context of D&D than "The GM funneled the party into an encounter with the bad guy and the bad guy had an epic speech prepared."

And this applies to pretty much any RPG, to be fair. Even the weirdest, most obtuse RPG can produce lots of really cool unique narratives if taken at its own word. What that sometimes means is reconsidering what kinds of stories you think are good, and instead of forcing a game to produce the exact types of narratives you want letting the game take the driver's seat.

[number-1-kuaidul-fanboy]

Not quite sure how I feel about season 0 yet

I’ve definitely enjoyed the first three episodes. Retrospectively, parts of it work really well as a prequel to the original Yugioh series. Like Joey/Jonouchi (might go back and forth on their names since I watched DM in dub) going from a bully to a friend to Yugi and Yugi completing the puzzle, two things that were only ever mentioned in DM. It was neat actually seeing those events onscreen. I know they weren’t in DM because they didn’t want to be too derivative of this series and that’s totally fair but it still made DM feel incomplete in some places.

Apart from the “prequel-y” bits though, this has a very different feel from the rest of Yugioh. So far at least, it’s very episodic. The pilot gives some set ups and the next two episodes (and seemingly the next one based on its preview) are really loosely connected filler stories following these characters, with the occasional horror vibe when Yami Yugi shows up. Every episode so far has followed the same “some guy beats up weak Yugi so Yami Yugi appears in the last few minutes to punish them with a shadow game” narrative. Which is fine, it’s just entertaining enough to keep my attention for a couple episodes at a time while I eat. Season 0 feels different from every other Yugioh series but as a result, it lacks the charm of the other Yugioh series, at least for me.

It has its own merits though. Like its characters, some of which are superior to their depictions in DM.

Okay not all of them. I still don’t really like Honda (never have) and Miho comes off as kind of manipulative but the others are all pretty good. I like Jonouchi’s more gruff yet still loyal persona in this show, that could just be a sub vs dub thing to be fair but I quite liked it. He’s about on par with his DM self. Yugi Muto meanwhile gets a lot more screentime in this series than he does in DM and as a result, I actually like him right off the bat, unlike DM where it took me much longer to care about either of the Yugis. Yami Yugi...

...is not as twisted in this as I was lead to believe he was, at least at the point I’ve seen. His voice and design are honestly more weird than creepy which I will admit does disappoint me a bit. I do like how he feels much more like a legit alter ego to Yugi in this than he did in DM, where he was definitely his own person. That worked in its own right but I really like the whole “Jekyll and Hyde” vibe Yugi and Yami have in season 0, as though he’s actually a darker personality originating from within Yugi. Not sure if that’s what they’re going for yet but I enjoy it.

And my favourite season 0 character so far is Anzu.

No you ain’t trippin, season 0 Anzu is the best interpretation of this character I’ve seen. Dark Side of Dimensions is a distant second place in this regard since it showed her achieving her dream by leaving to study dancing in America (the only bit of character she had that wasn’t related to her relationships in DM) and in episode 2 of season 0, she’s willing to break school rules and get a part time job to raise money for that dream. You go girl. She’s also just generally more enjoyable. I don’t know, the writing here makes her come off as more sassy and no nonsense rather than DM where she just felt... for lack of a better term, like a stereotypical nag. Also, she and Yugi are actually kind of cute in season 0. I like the scene where she sticks up for Yugi when he’s being bullied and Yugi just looks so incredibly happy to see her:

And this one where he excitedly talks to her about the puzzle:

They actually seem like genuine friends in this series, a fact that never really came through in DM for me because of how little screentime Yugi got compared to Atem. Anzu’s character revolved around him way too much in DM  and while that could still become a problem in season 0 (in fact it almost definitely will considering the pattern of DM-VRAINS) but I’m glad that for the first few episodes at least, Anzu was allowed to have more of a personality. And she and Yugi have much easier chemistry.

It’s a decent show so far I’d say. If it had been my introduction to Yugioh, I almost definitely wouldn’t have gotten as into it as I have but looking back on it as a “prequel” or the series’ roots in general makes it kind of interesting.

[mariana-oconnor]

The Greek Interpreter pt 2

We have literally 0 plot to theorise on so far, just Mycroft in all his Mycroftian glory.

"I have had something quite after your own heart--a most singular problem--submitted to my judgement. I really had not the energy to follow it up save in a very incomplete fashion, but it gave me a basis for some pleasing speculation. If you would care to hear the facts--"

This is a bit like when my Mum tells me that I should look at the crossword she's started. Mycroft wants to share his enjoyment with his brother. Such a good older sibling. Also, he's too lazy to actually do the legwork required. But that's what younger siblings are for, isn't it? Or at least that's what my older brother tells me.

"This is Wednesday evening," said Mr Melas. "Well then, it was Monday night—only two days ago, you understand—that all this happened. I am an interpreter, as perhaps my neighbour there has told you. I interpret all languages—or nearly all—"

...He interprets all languages.

All languages.

All languages. Or nearly all. That's a lot of languages, my dude. I know some people who speak a lot of languages, but none of them comes close to speaking all languages. 5 or 6 I think is the most I've ever encountered, and only fluently in 3 or 4. There are definitely people out there who speak more, but nearly all. This man is officially the most knowledgeable person who has ever appeared in a Sherlock Holmes story. He's a linguistic genius.

The Internet tells me that historically the person who is said to have spoken/understood the most languages was Sir John Bowring, a 19th century governor of Hong Kong. He understood 200 languages and spoke 100.

The person who currently holds the record lives in Brazil and claims to speak 59.

The BBC website tells me that there are up to 7000 different languages, although 90% are spoken by less than 100,000 people. But Mr Melas does not specify that he speaks all the common languages or all the popular languages. He says he speaks nearly all languages.

Yes I am taking this literally purely to be difficult. It's more amusing that way. I know this is a case of hyperbole for fiction's sake, but I like the idea that Mr Melas speaks 6000+ languages. This is another case for random supernatural occurrences within the stories.

"I was not surprised, therefore, on Monday night when a Mr Latimer, a very fashionably dressed young man, came up to my rooms and asked me to accompany him in a cab which was waiting at the door. A Greek friend had come to see him upon business, he said, and as he could speak nothing but his own tongue, the services of an interpreter were indispensable."

First, I like the note that Mr Latimer is a fashion-conscious man. Second, how did he and the Greek man come to be friends if they could not speak each other's languages at all. Have they always spoken through other people? Maybe you should try learning some Greek, Mr Latimer.

"It was certainly more roomy than the ordinary four-wheeled disgrace to London, and the fittings, though frayed, were of rich quality."

Mr Melas is a cab snob. 'Four-wheeled disgrace to London' is a delightful turn of phrase.

"I had ventured some remark as to this being a roundabout way to Kensington, when my words were arrested by the extraordinary conduct of my companion. "He began by drawing a most formidable-looking bludgeon loaded with lead from his pocket, and switching it backward and forward several times, as if to test its weight and strength. Then he placed it without a word upon the seat beside him.

Well, this can't be good. Shenanigans are afoot. I like that Mr Latimer is very clear about this, though. Oh yeah, I'm a bad guy. Look at my bad guy credentials. There's no beating around the bush, just straight up threat of violence. Clear. To the point. No need for words.

"'This is very extraordinary conduct, Mr Latimer,' I stammered. 'You must be aware that what you are doing is quite illegal.' "'It is somewhat of a liberty, no doubt,'"

This is such a polite exchange. 'Uh, you are aware that kidnapping me is illegal, sir?' 'Yes, it's a little rude of me.'

So casual, so matter of fact. If I were kidnapped I wouldn't say 'hi, you know this is illegal, right?' But then i don't speak 6000+ languages, so what do I know about talking?

Realistically, this is terrifying, but Mr Melas' account is hilarious.

'I beg you to remember that no one knows where you are, and that, whether you are in this carriage or in my house, you are equally in my power.'

Less hilarious. More terrifying.

"'Well done, well done! No ill-will, Mr Melas, I hope, but we could not get on without you. If you deal fair with us you'll not regret it, but if you try any tricks, God help you!' He spoke in a nervous, jerky fashion, and with little giggling laughs in between, but somehow he impressed me with fear more than the other."

Yep, this guy seems unstable. Also 'no ill will'? You literally kidnapped him with a threat of violence. Yes ill will. Much ill will. I don't think you know what ill will means.

"'But say no more than you are told to say, or--' here came the nervous giggle again--'you had better never have been born.'"

Yep... this is the sign of a totally stable and reasonable person and absolutely not a creepy murderer. At least we already know Mr Melas survives to relate this tale, or I'd be certain he was about to be buried under the floorboards.

"'You are to ask the questions, Mr Melas, and he will write the answers. Ask him first of all whether he is prepared to sign the papers?'"

The fact he is not allowed to talk indicates that something about his voice would give something away. If they don't know Greek then writing and speaking are pretty much interchangeable for getting information across, so there would be no need to stop him from speaking because he can write incriminating things just as easily. Unless, one of them can read Greek, in which case why get an interpreter? So I stand by my thought that his voice must be incriminating. Or he's mute. Always possible.

"I took to adding on little sentences of my own to each question, innocent ones at first, to test whether either of our companions knew anything of the matter, and then, as I found that they showed no signs I played a more dangerous game."

Resourceful and intelligent. He tests the water first with non-incriminating stuff, then gets more in depth.

"'Harold,' said she, speaking English with a broken accent. 'I could not stay away longer. It is so lonely up there with only—Oh, my God, it is Paul!' "These last words were in Greek, and at the same instant the man with a convulsive effort tore the plaster from his lips, and screaming out 'Sophy! Sophy!' rushed into the woman's arMs Their embrace was but for an instant, however, for the younger man seized the woman and pushed her out of the room, while the elder easily overpowered his emaciated victim, and dragged him away through the other door.

OK, so Sophy seems to have been having quite a pleasant time of it all told. While poor Paul's been going through it. Kind of dumb of them to let her walk in on them, though. I assume that they had a plan to avoid that which somehow went wrong. Also, if she's being held of her own free will, this seems like it might put an end to that? Unless she's very gullible.

So, brother? I'm thinking relative because he has to sign something before she can get married? Or he wants her to be married? Presumably there's some sort of fortune involved.

"'We should not have troubled you, only that our friend who speaks Greek and who began these negotiations has been forced to return to the East. It was quite necessary for us to find some one to take his place, and we were fortunate in hearing of your powers.'"

'forced to return to the East' is that like saying he's in the cellar looking for a cask of amontillado? Maybe he just had a family emergency... maybe?

Also 'your powers', yes. Mr Melas's linguistic skills are clearly a super power.

"if you speak to a human soul about this—one human soul, mind—well, may God have mercy upon your soul!"

This threat clearly worked well, considering Mr Melas has so far told at least two souls about the situation, with great glee. I get the impression that Mr Melas is a stifled adrenaline junkie and this is the best thing that has happened to him all year.

"I cannot tell you the loathing and horror with which this insignificant-looking man inspired me. I could see him better now as the lamp-light shone upon him. His features were peaky and sallow, and his little pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished. [...] The terror of his face lay in his eyes, however, steel grey, and glistening coldly with a malignant, inexorable cruelty in their depths."

Sounds delightful.

Honestly, it's the little pointy beard that clearly marks him as a villain, though. Everyone knows that.

Although if he doesn't put more care into maintaining it, the league of villains will have him cast out for failure to maintain proper villainous standards.

"Any steps?" he asked. Mycroft picked up the Daily News, which was lying on the side-table. "'Anybody supplying any information to the whereabouts of a Greek gentleman named Paul Kratides, from Athens, who is unable to speak English, will be rewarded. A similar reward paid to any one giving information about a Greek lady whose first name is Sophy. X 2473.' That was in all the dailies. No answer."

Well now they're definitely going to know he said something. Subtle.

"In the meantime, Mr Melas, I should certainly be on my guard, if I were you, for of course they must know through these advertisements that you have betrayed them."

You don't say? No, seriously. I'd be worried if I were him. But apparently he's just got absolutely no fear.

"Then the brother--for that, I fancy, must be the relationship--comes over from Greece to interfere. He imprudently puts himself into the power of the young man and his older associate. They seize him and use violence towards him in order to make him sign some papers to make over the girl's fortune--of which he may be trustee--to them."

OK, so clearly that's entirely wrong because it's Watson's thoughts on the matter. So back to the drawing board. Not to disparage Watson, at all... but there's no way it's right if it's his theory.

"I really fancy that you are not far from the truth."

Really??!? That's probably the biggest surprise of this whole story so far.

Sophy seemed to have no inkling of any crime or ill-intent on the part of the bad guys, so they're clearly being subtle with her. Or they were. You don't just wander around a kidnapper's house going 'I came to find you Harold, because I was so lonely all alone up there'. Unless you're actually a character in an erotic thriller novel, then I guess that probably is a thing you would do.

I don't think this is an erotic thriller, however.

Did Watson really get this one right? I guess we'll find out next time.

[zorilleerrant]

Hello yes let me talk about Monkey Prince, my favorite superhero. He is a Monkey and a Prince. He didn't know this until one day when Pigsy (the same Zhu Bajie from the novel) came to his school and was like: surprise! You have to fight demons or else. His name is Marcus Shugel-Shen and he was adopted by a loving couple named Laura and Winston who take very good care of him because they love him very much, they're just also evil, unfortunately. He gains monkey powers and associated Monkey Rage and he has to be trained to fly, clone himself, fight with sticks, etc.

Here is the reading list (from memory so I'm sorry if I miss anything I'll check back later):

Festival of Heroes - The story where he's introduced to the DC universe, but not chronologically the first story in his saga. This is the only story with Billy in it, unfortunately. Good overview of his powers, personality, relationship with Pigsy, and outlook towards heroes and heroing in general.

Monkey Prince #1-12, also collected into two bound volumes now (they're super pretty) - His solo title, now complete, but open ended to leave room for more installments somewhere down the line. #1-4 are set in Gotham, where Marcus meets Robin (Damian) and has to save Batman and co from demons. #5-8 are set next to Dragon City, Atlantis, where Marcus runs into Aquaman and also a bunch of dragons that live within his domain. #9-12 are set in Metropolis but involve Supergirl (Kara) and Superman isn't there. The first two stories are standalone and can be read by themselves as complete stories. The third flounders a little at the end because it got caught up in the Lazarus Planet event and had to run laps to keep the stories going at the same time. But they still have a lot of character, relationship, and worldbuilding for the delightful Monkey Prince and his sidekick (teacher) Pigsy.

Lazarus Planet: Alpha and Omega - The series under this title is confusing because it's actually an anthology. Many of the short stories in it are good (it contains the first story with my beloved Xanthe (Spirit World), and it also contains Cameron Kim (City Boy) and Jules Jourdain (only in this and the Pride issue so far)) but it doesn't have anything to do with Monkey Prince. Alpha and Omega, however, do contain a two part story about the Monkey Prince trying to deal with the end of the world, and each also has a second story where he learns more about the history and fate of Sun Wukong. Those stories are good, but the main event is a megacrossover and feels like it.

Batman v. Robin #5 - Marcus appears to frighten Damian again! He's a side character in this story that has extremely different vibes than most of his stories, because it's a Damian Robin story. I felt like it didn't completely mesh and you probably have to do a lot of background reading to figure out what's going on in the story, so you may want to skip this installment.

Monkey Prince #0 - This one is free in various places online, but I keep losing track of it. I wish they'd upload a digital copy to their archives at least, so I don't have to go to random other comics site to see it. It's a bit more of the Sun Wukong backstory, and felt incomplete on its own, but fits in with the two Lazarus Planet B stories to make a triptych of sorts.

The Other History of the DC Universe - Okay so he shows up on one page of a collage of heroes of color. He doesn't say anything and it's not even about him. I read through the entire story before I figured that out, because that page is at the end. I had my issues with this story and since it's not really about Marcus, I would suggest giving it a miss. It's also really hard to read digitally because the panel by panel programming doesn't work due to the weird stylistic choices. But he's there if you're a completionist, and it's pretty good art of him.

ANYWAY the really important part of this is that it cements Journey to the West as canon in the DC universe. This was established previously (say, at the end of Lucifer, where God tells Lucifer about the time Wukong peed on Buddha) but it was unclear how true it is or how it meshes with mainline DC properties. Now we have very specific answers to how all of that works. Wukong does actually show up several times! If you're excited to see him he's in the Monkey Prince #0, Lazarus Planet: Alpha, Lazarus Planet: Omega story set, as well as toward the end of Monkey Prince.

~Monkey Prince is Monkey King Jr. and this is him:

The marvel family asked Kid eternity to spar with them by summoning powerful mythical figures, but this time, it’s a bit too much