#so many variables

[hawkp]

I love it when someone experiences media slightly differently to me like i love the west wing but i never gave will bailey a second thought but now i have secondhand love for him. Like awww my boy will bailey from hawkp tumblr post fame, love that guy

[tosahobi-if]

Am I crazy or did the drawing of ??? change

i changed the version from a b&w to a colored version! i'm still working on learning lighting (read: i have no idea what i'm doing) and decided i didn't like the way it looked. sorry if it startled you JSFSJFAFJ

[etakeh]

So I got this bumper sticker a while back, and I kind of forget it's there until someone pulls up along side and kind of...peers in my drivers side window.

Like they're checking to make sure there aren't really 700 rats driving my car.

But it got me thinking.

I know I know. It would depend on the type of rat, due to the variation in size, and how big the human skin was.

oh and also if there's some kind of internal framework to keep the rats from just forming a writhing puddle in the ankles.

[honeymoss666]

Guys I'm scared. I had an amazing interview last week, followed by an equally great working interview and tomorrow I'm expecting The Call. I want it sooooo bad it seems perfect for me and Im just so excited to work there but what if they call tomorrow and say no 🥺 send good vibes pls I am Afraid.

[kumori-love]

I don't post much here anymore but I still read a loooottt of fics. I want to start posting recs.

[theblackestofsuns]

"So Many Variables"

Unstoppable Doom Patrol #5 (October 2023)

Dennis Culver, Chris Burnham and Brian Reber

DC Comics

[snakegentleman]

Going over my perspective notes again and all the math is hurting my brain

[codewitch]

I love how graphics code demos look like nothing you’ve ever seen before because it looks cute and tidy and actual graphics code is the most hideous, illegible thing you’ve ever seen.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

#AUGH YES THIS#I LOVE PALEONTOLOGY SO MUCH BUT I LOVE ALL OF IT SO PICKING SOMETHING YO SPECIALISE IN FOR MY MASTERS IS SO ROUGH#I WANNA KNOW ABOUT HOW EVERYTHING INTERACTED WITH EVERYTHING#WAAHHHHHHHHH#paleo

*whispers* become a paleoecologist

join us

lose your mind on the regular

I Love Prehistoric Ecosystems So Much

yeah individual taxa are cool and everything but no species is an island. What did it live with? What did it eat, what ate it? Did it have "friends" (term used loosely)? What was the environment like, where did they get water, what was the climate?

Tell me the whole story

Tell me how they lived

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Another year has passed, and with it the opportunity to reflect back on all that has happened. While my growth was not as dramatic as last year, I can still see lots of positive change.

I'll never have enough ways to say thank you for all the love and support you have given me this year. On to 2025!

(2023 summary here!)

[multiseb21]

speaking of the Italian red teams, the juxtaposition between ducati and ferrari’s teammate pairings is gonna be so interesting to watch play out. because both teams have their “homegrown” boy who has, for all intents and purposes, made this HIS team, and then boom here comes this 7/8 time world champion, widely argued to be the best ever, who was once the team’s public enemy #1 (and also potentially the nation of Ita—), waltzing into HIS house accompanied by fanfare fit for a king.

Pecco is already out here proudly standing atop that gentleman hill he’s willing to die on. all while paul revere-ing that Marc can, has, and will be “the ungentleman” in battles. we all know him. the morally corrupt faye resnick marc marquez. Despite that. You can tell they’re trying. They’re cordial. Behaving for their Ducati daddies. Things will be awkwardly ok…until they aren’t.

Ferrari on the other hand? Already looks great. PR is great. Lewis is showing off the world’s most cinematic first day of work. Ferrari’s golden boy, Charles, is presumably chilling inside his gilded cage (the cage has no lock)(he put himself in the cage and refuses to get out). There doesn’t seem to be any awkwardness. We all know the “Helloooooo Lewis!” that shook the world. i mean, Lewis isn’t gonna shack up with him in that cage, but they’re in pretty good place. Much more outwardly stable than Marc and Pecco. Everyone say thank you Silvia. Lewis and Fred are going bald4bald just like Marc and Gigi are going eyebrow4eyebrow.

but unlike Pecco and Charles, Marc and Lewis were forged in fire. presumably fire straight from hell. experiencing the horrors of being Fernando’s teammate. as a rookie. and having the audacity to beat him. while BALD. And then Marc well. yeah. I’ll leave it at that. Builds character. Makes them certifiable psychopaths. Point is. they’ve got that dawg in them. marc’s dog is a weiner dog, but size doesn’t matter. lewis cosplays his dog on instagram. like I said. psychopath. Sure, Pecco and Charles are crazy, but I’ve yet to see them hit a level of crazy that registers on Lewis and Marc’s crazy bitch Richter scale.

All of that to say, I hope they all bite each other’s dicks off. amen? amen.

[kayleerowena]

new random haunted house generator just dropped!

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[lucabyte]

heres your highly requested fluff you fucking animals

[crossdressingdeath]

You know what? I think a lot of DAV's biggest plot weaknesses ultimately come back to DAI, because a lot of them can be summarized as "Why didn't they get into [thing that DAI set up]" and... the answer is that Bioware was never going to be able to meaningfully engage with those things, and they should've known that when they wrote them into DAI. The Divine, Kieran's existence, Urthemiel's soul, the Well of Sorrows, all that stuff DAI set up that people are mad DAV didn't focus on? All of those should have led to pretty big alterations in the worldstate, and the worldstate has to remain roughly the same for everyone. We were never going to get the massive impact those choices should've had, for the same reason the Warden's boon at the end of DAO was quietly forgotten about as soon as Dragon Age became a series instead of a standalone game: the writing just can't support choices that would create such massive divergences. Like... take Urthemiel. Whether or not Mythal got Urthemiel's soul (and by extension whether or not Solas potentially had the chance to take it) should have been a huge deal! It should've led to two pretty different paths! Except... it can't. Because Bioware can only write one story for each game they make, which means the critical path can't really change beyond flavour text and occasionally which character gets a cameo slot; Mythal didn't get Urthemiel's soul in every worldstate, so Urthemiel's soul can never be relevant to the main plot. And the thing is, they would've known that going in! DAI was the third game, they must have known that worldstate variation could never be more than flavour text and cameos! Hell, you can see Bioware scrambling to make all the Divine options more or less the same in terms of impact on Thedosian society in DAI, which was definitely done to make writing sequels feasible. So why did they write Mythal getting Urthemiel's soul into DAI? And it's the same for all those other big, story-changing choices. People have differing opinions on the merits of including variable flavour text just to say it's there but that's not what this is about; in terms of the actual plot the variables cannot be relevant (unless it's something like the Warden ally choice where every option is ultimately the same in terms of plot impact, and even that one's pushing it; it never is explained how Hawke ended up friendly with Loghain). I think when talking about choices from DAI that DAV didn't engage with it's important to take a second to ask yourself if Bioware could have written a version of events that worked equally well with every possible outcome of that choice and could be tweaked to engage with every variation without having any major impact on the main plot. If the answer is no I think it's better described as a DAI problem than a DAV problem, because it's not actually DAV's fault that DAI wrote checks it couldn't cash.

[infamous-if]

Sorry, am I stupid? Did I miss something? Who is E?????

E is your tour photographer you meet a few times and one of the sub romances. (It’s been a while since we read chapter 2 I understand pfft)

Sub-romances are Blake, E, Dakota and LA (you haven't met them yet). And that's it!

No more surprise ROs after this </3

If someone out there hates every RO and are now clenching their fist cuz they were hoping Amy would finally give them a good one I apologize *bows* /j

[skotiwolves]

Watching Andor reactions on YouTube and Eric from BlindWave made an interesting point on luthen and kleya

In reference to their conversation in the back of the shop in ep5, they’re the only people who can be truly themselves with each other and open about their stress and fear—and they know this. So many people are under Luthen’s “control”, if you will, and he’s always confident in how he speaks or approaches even people like Mon. But with these two, they have the ability to just let loose because they’re the only two to understand their side of things and who know each other so fine tune-ly to say the half of it. Bark that she talked him into it, yell at him for agreeing and saying he’s becoming insufferable… and then being able to reconvene and find a means through it