#suboptimization

[corviiids]

tbh au where L just doesn't seem to zero in on light as kira at all and light is smug at first but then starts to get increasingly frustrated as L keeps taking swings and missing completely. gets kinda close and then announces the biggest suspect is sayu yagami. don't worry about the older one, he's just an ordinary boy. L never even makes contact. light's dropping signs and L is picking them up but completely misinterpreting them. light's like this guy's a fucking idiot lmfao?? i could get away with this forever. but then he gets bored with no one to play with and he's irritated that L keeps giving credit to every random idiot for being kira. light starts dropping more and more brazen clues trying to see if this stupid detective can take a hint and then L arrests him off the massive trail of evidence he's been leaving for months

[essektheylyss]

I actually love that one of Travis's pieces of advice is to sometimes do or say the fucked up thing, or the really bad idea, even if it's a little bit contradictory to the character—because that's actually so much of why Travis's characters feel real and fleshed out!

People are inherently contradictory, they do things they don't mean or wouldn't normally do, so if you stick to your character type too tightly, your character doesn't feel like a real person making real choices.

[hanalghilan]

I could do more than woo you. I could wow you.

[tpwrtrmnky]

yeah so i didn't draw stick figure comics today because i was busy tabletop roleplaying as a robot who used to be a person and is now extremely full of herself because she's convinced she's the most intelligent being in the universe and- oh no this is another accidental reference and it's the worst

[voidedjuice]

Lilia, ragdoll of the great void

[muffinlance]

Toddler, protesting that he has been baby-gated into his bedroom after wandering the halls shouting at bedtime: TAKE DOWN THE GATE, THIS IS NOT PART OF LIFE

[lightkrets312]

i sincerely believe that anyone who says "oh you can't cook with a microwave, you should only be cooking with the stove / toaster oven, everything you make in a microwave is gross" has never bothered to actually learn how to use the microwave for cooking.

[wonboos]

favourite seungkwans — [2/?]

'rock with you' m/v behind the scenes

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

I see a lot of discussion in the DR fandom on some characters that die early having "missed potential", and while I agree that definitely a few of them could have been written better or differently, part of me wonders if that missed potential is kind of the point? A character is shaping up to be something, so you get invested in their story, which then makes their early death all the more tragic. I mean, of course it's still a tough needle to thread to get it to land as tragic versus falling flat, and I'm not sure how closely some of these characters hit the mark. But I Do think some characters aren't actually "missed opportunities" and instead played their role in the plot how they were meant to, if maybe a little suboptimally.

[joehills]

A photograph of Joe Hills wearing a shirt with the word “suboptimal” screen-printed on it. Hills bites into a sub sandwich in front of a painting of a herd of beautiful wild ponies running free across the plains.

[qqueenofhades]

Etc etc yay prospective book chapter accepted for publication, boo horrible gross terrible now I have to actually write it.

[ectonurites]

writing tumblr posts is easy because i can be as incoherent as i want and a certain number of people will probably like it anyway (<3) however writing emails makes me feel like i'll be hunted for sport if i phrase anything in a suboptimal way

[the-dao-of-the-zerg]

If believing in false things is so bad, you'd really expect the atheists to be winning a lot more Nobel Prizes. Like, look at the number of deeply religious people at the height of scientific progress. I'm not saying "some scientists are Christian." I'm saying even Einstein was religious and made scientific arguments based on his faith (famously, "god does not play dice with the universe").

Now take everything you know about Bayes rule, evidence, and so forth. Does science really support the conclusion "false beliefs will horribly corrupt your thinking process"?

Or is that just a false belief you cling to for other reasons?

[essektheylyss]

I really want Ashton to level up their Intelligence next ASI. He's really earned it; they're keeping up with Milo on arcane weirdness and explaining the leyline problems to them and I am LIVING for it. It's phenomenal. Really out here brute-forcing his way into being one of the clever ones in the party, I'm so proud.

[transmechanicus]

I am the Machine God’s wisest priest

[catgirltitties]

it sucks that AI bullshit has made reddit the go-to source for answering questions cause those nerds dont know shit