#statistical table

[theywhoshantbenamed]

I forgot to add this in one of my recent headcanon posts but here’s some maps I found randomly

I’m tryna start some discourse /j

[mittland]

25 first cousins and not one of them is gay. even the goth is straight

[feelingtheaster99]

Fabian falling out the the van TWICE in TWO out of three turns when all he needed to roll on both was a TWO has me CRYING with laughter

[statistical-distr-of-polls]

the standard normal table is my hear me out

Honestly that is SO real. The standard normal table is just so good

[agentfuse]

Mojave Wasteland Employment Census

Welcome to the Bureau of Labor Statistics! You may recognize us from videos by YouTuber Any Austin, but we're here too!

Today, we will be doing an employment census of the Mojave Wasteland, or more precisely, the region around Las Vegas, Nevada.

To begin with, let's establish some rules and conditions for the census going forward.

With the rules established, now we will move on to the settlements we are going to be taking a census of today.

Let's begin!

Goodsprings

A quiet, peaceful desert town. Formerly a mining settlement, now it is largely an agricultural one, with a heavy focus on farming and a local bighorner trade. It's a good place if you're looking to settle down and start a farm or ranch.

Novac

A very promising town built along a major trade route and nearby to many sources of high value salvage. Though the area is somewhat dangerous, with Caesar's Legion, Viper Highwaymen, and Feral Ghouls causing the town some troubles, the snipers protecting the town keep it safe enough.

Freeside

A bustling city just outside the New Vegas Strip, built around accommodating travelers going to the Strip. However, with that comes danger to those very same travelers, with desperate and predatory individuals seeking to take the money of those wealthy enough to enter the Strip. With some better community infrastructure, which is being worked on by the local Followers of the Apocalypse, Freeside could have a very promising future.

Westside

A fiercely independent and self-sufficient settlement. Though the architecture is makeshift and rundown, the people living here make do, with organizations like the Co-Op ensuring that everyone who puts in some work gets fed at the end of the day. The local Militia keeps the community safe from threats like the Fiends.

North Vegas Square

A destitute community made up of people with nowhere else to go, there are individuals working to make this place better. Despite their efforts, the majority of people living here have no way to support themselves, and as such often turn to crime. If you're willing to deal with the violence and danger, North Vegas Square could be grown into a real settlement with a good amount of work.

New Vegas Sewers

Though this could hardly be considered a unified settlement, the Bureau made the decision to group all the disparate communities living in the sewers together for this census. This data shows that the Sewers is where those with no other option go, and has the highest unemployment of the entire Mojave Wasteland. The only employer in this region is the Thorn, a fighting arena that provides some entertainment and distraction for residents.

Jacobstown

Finally, we have a quiet mountain resort that's largely isolated from the outside world. The vast majority of the population here is made of Super Mutants, who are often distrusting or even hostile to humans trying to settle down here. If you're able to gain their trust, however, you could find a nice spot as a bighorner rancher, town guard, or even potentially an assistant to the Nightkin relief effort.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the three best economies in the Mojave Wasteland are Freeside, Novac, and Goodsprings, and anyone seeking to settle down in the Mojave should choose one of these as an option. Of course, all settlements and towns mentioned here are viable options, but understand that these three have the highest opportunity available with the least accompanying risk.

And that concludes this presentation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If you want to see more, go watch Any Austin's videos. Seriously, do that, they're great.

[kolic]

Word of the Week - Wednesday 7. 5. 2025

Kírða /kir.ðɑ/ [kiɾðɑ]

Game

For the past ~ two weeks, I've been working on a videogame for a uni course I'm taking, so I thought to make today's WotW topical. In-universe, kírða of course doesn't refer to videogames, since computers really haven't been invented yet in that setting. The word can mean anything from word games to children's play, board games, physical games and sports, covering basically the same semantic space as the English word. Actually, things like children's play might be an exception to that, as I'm not entirely sure how it works in English, but in Kolic, a kírða doesn't have to be any specific game, it doesn't have to have anything resembling rules. It just has to have the primary purpose of having fun.

Example sentence:

Hildjú, Gaeljú, kírði glúri kírðni nú jätta?

English: Hilda, Gael, what games shall we play today?

lit. Hilda, Gael, games which play we today?

gloss: hilda-DIM.VOC, gael-DIM.VOC, game-PL.ACC which-PL.ACC play-PL.ATEM 1PL today?

Note: notice the use of the diminutive gender on the names. This is sometimes used between adults (among very close friends or partners), but in this context, it most likely indicates that this was a sentence said when the characters in question were children, for whom the diminutive gender is almost exclusively used.

[burger-phan]

glad to see that the several hours I spend on this bit were worth it

(on @pseudophan's phannie minecraft server)

[chamerionwrites]

Laying aside the question of folks with full-blown genderfeels just for a moment, a thing I’ve always found lowkey interesting is how much more common it seems to be for cishet dudes to choose to play women in RPGs than it is for women to choose to play dudes.

(The flip explanation is ofc that if you’re a straight man who is going to be staring at a character for many hours it might as well be a hot lady, but ime the pattern holds true in tabletop as well as CRPGs, so.)

[sprinklecipher]

Ace Attorney Characters' Prominence In Game Canon vs In Fanfic

I got curious about how the amount of "screen time" Ace Attorney characters have in the games relates to how much fan fiction is written about them, so I crunched some a bunch of numbers related to characters' total in-game dialogue and how often they're tagged on Ao3*

*I acknowledge that neither of these are perfect measures of how much focus the series or fanbase puts on these characters, but they’re the numbers I can get :)

AA Characters With Much More Prominence in Fanfic (vs Canon)**

Here's a table of dialogue/tag totals for the 20 characters with the highest ratio of Ao3 tags to overall game dialogue:

**excluding characters with literally no dialogue

(LOTS more data below the cut)

A lot of the characters in the previous table have very little dialogue, so if you limit to characters with at least 500 words of dialogue, you get this:

(“Karma” is Manfred and “von Karma” is Franziska, btw)

AA Characters with Much Less Prominence in Fanfic (vs. Canon)

On the opposite side, here's the data for the 20 characters with the lowest tags: dialogue ratio:

Characters with Most Dialogue in-game vs Most-tagged Characters

Here’s some more tables, with the first showing the 20 characters with the most in-game dialogue and the second showing the 20 most-tagged characters:

Of note, Kristoph just barely sneaks into the top 10 most tagged AA characters (despite only having the 48th most dialogue), Manfred von Karma is the 16th most tagged character (vs 69th-most dialogue), and, most dramatically, Clay is the 20th most tagged character despite having less than 50 words of dialogue and a dialogue rank of just 165th!

On the flip side, the Judge doesn’t make the top 20 most tagged characters despite having the 4th most dialogue, and Justine Courtney / Verity Gavèlle is only the 109th-most tagged character despite being in the top 20 for dialogue (although the timing of the data collection played a big role for her in this data, since I pulled the numbers fairly shortly after the AAI Collection was released, and, glancing at Ao3 now, her total tagged fics has since increased nearly 7x since then)

Graphs!

For good measure, here’s a couple graphs that show the major characters’ Ao3-tag vs game dialogue data (including vs excluding the main protags, respectively):

The trendline basically gives an idea of the “expected” number of tags for a character based on how much dialogue they have: characters who are under the line have fewer Ao3 tags than expected based on how much dialogue they have, and characters who are above the line have more tags than expected. The further the character’s point is from the line, the farther away the number of tags is from what’s expected (like the poor Judge is VERY underrepresented lol)

Also, for any stats nerds reading this (hi!), there’s statistically a very strong correlation between characters’ in-game dialogue totals and how often they’re tagged on Ao3, R2 = .85, p < .0001. The main protags (sorry, Athena!) are driving a lot of that, however, so if you exclude Phoenix, Edgeworth, and Apollo, it drops down to just R2 = .39 (which is still a fairly strong relationship, all things considered).  

Data notes

For the dialogue totals, I included total dialogue across the mainline AA games (AA1-AA6) and the Investigations duology, but didn’t include PLvPW, since that has its own fandom tag in Ao3. The dataset is one I put together pulling from the AA wiki transcripts

The Ao3 tag data is as of 1/18/2025 (it took me a little while to write this up lol) and is for canonical character tags only

For the curious, here’s the whole data table in Google sheets

Note that there’s tons of identity shenanigans that goes on in AA that made it so that I had to use my judgment a bunch when deciding how to calculate the dialogue and tag totals, so if there’s an alter-ego-type character (or similar) that doesn’t show up in the data set, most likely I grouped their counts with the “base” character they’re associated with.

[nametakensff]

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[neonsbian]

different tasks at my job ranked from best to worst:

making excel sheets and organizing data (solitary task, no need to communicate with people unless something goes rlly wrong)

emailing ppl (written communication > verbal communication)

teams meetings (tolerable when i dont have to talk, miserable when i do)

phone calls (worst form of communication)

[thatfrenchacademic]

Legal scholars claiming causation when all they have is weak ass correlation with massive signs of it being spurious, endogenous or caused by a missing variable is what will give me an ulcer.

Or a very complex and nuanced villain origin story, as the jurist who turned against her own peers and companions, screaming "YOU ARE THE ONE MAKING ME DO THIS" to them, as she puts on the dark cloak of political science, now forever tormented by her torn identity and a massive imposter syndrome.

[the-physicality]

so fun fact: montreal currently has the highest win percentage at 61.54% [24 points earned / 39 possible points]. however, if you look at total possible points through the end of the season [current points + games remaining x 3] Montreal is also tied at first [ w/minnesota] with 57.

[ori12000artist]

Maths issues. [ID: Scanned sketchbook drawings of Professor Sada and Professor Turo from the video game Pokémon. They are both wide eyed and looking at the viewer in despair. Turo has both of his hands tensed while exclaiming, “I forgot about the chain rule!”. Sada is smiling and has her right hand tensed and her left hand on her head while exclaiming, “Tables!? I already flipped them all!” / End ID]

[aaronofithaca05]

Today I'm Odysseus and feeling like if I'm seeing the crew killed by Polyphemus.

Today I feel like mold in flowers

Today I feel the curtain has called

This is demorallizing

[1-50thofabuck]

Statistically Accurate Character and Crime Generation Tables for Baltimore City and Greater Maryland for RPGs - use for supers or any modern RPG to generate statistically accurate characters and random crimes.

While put together for a supers game in Baltimore City using the DC Heroes RPG(in a combined Marvel/DC universe), this could be used in any major city, or adapted based on your own city's statistics, for any kind of modern game where generating realistic characters and/or crimes(for patrol tables, etc) are useful.