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[pharawee]

"There it is. There's your true colors. This is who you really are."

[royalphantompain]

[sysig]

Wake up somewhere better, maybe (Patreon)

[ageless-aislynn]

Nowwwwww, I facetiously mentioned at the bottom of this post about the Halo: Reach achievement:

To do that, you have to go under or close to par time on pretty much each level ON LEGENDARY.

I have beaten Reach on Legendary but it probably took me closer to 30 hours than 3 because I did my slow, methodical strategies to get through. I did the par time achievement by running past everything I could on Easy. Can I combine the two successfully?

I decided to give the first level "Winter Contingency" a try (after watching some Youtube vids on getting this achievement, of course 😉). Par time is 15 minutes.

That was my third try, the first was 16 and some minutes, the second got it to 15 and some and then that one got under the par by 32 seconds! I should note that this is considered one of the easiest levels to do on Legendary and the guide I watched by the ever-awesome Halo Completionist did it under 12 minutes and you're going to need every spare second you can scrap together to give you a buffer for some of the long, difficult levels. But still!

It's silly, I know, but I feel so proud of me! I'm an old lady (well, middle-aged, if I'm being generous 😜) playing Halo with shaky hands but I made under par time on Legendary! 🥳🥳🥳

PS - Tried it again and got 13:55!

[celestialowlryx]

Back in the Admin's cabin I know you promised that we'd always stick together. But…the invite's still open if you want it. No pressure. ↳ Minecraft Story Mode: Season 2 Episode 5 - "Above and Beyond"

[bunnies-n-bowties]

Jay! The art director of poptropica loves your fanart for Reality TV!! https://twitter.com/jonathanpitcher/status/1658835002979672064?t=drmp9v1X8SI6-tIEsoDfWA&s=19

✧ JBHJDH- I don't know what to SAY- but I'm freaking out right now!! That's so AAAH!! Thank you for letting me know anon!! That's genuinely makes me so happy. ✧

[taibu]

okay but why has Piccolo not had a kid of his own at this point? we all know that pics is a great dad/uncle to everyone else's kids, so why hasn't he had one of his own yet? yeah, maybe he is just content baby-sitting/training everyone else's kids for now, but... what if he can't? not in a way that he is physically incapable, I mean... mentally, he cant. because no matter how you see it; piccolo being the re-incarnation of king piccolo, or just his son with all of his sire's memories, the fact is: Piccolo remembers the deaths of his sons/brothers. It is literally canon that father nameks can feel when their sons die. We saw King Piccolo feel it, we saw Guru pretty much dying because of the physical/emotional pain related to it! even if king piccolo didn't feel anything else but physical pain over their deaths, junior has become a person with a good heart, with empathy and sympathy. if he were to have a kid of his own, and they died, he would not just feel the physical pain of it, but the emotional as well.

maybe he can't bring himself to have his own child, because he still remembers the deaths of king piccolo's, and even if he didn't feel anything for them, he would for any child he would have now... and he just can't bring himself to have any because of that.

[mikimeiko]

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Eric Appel, 2022)

[yunwooz]

woosang ♡ for @miinsang

[witchofthemidlands]

BAD SISTERS || Chopped Liver

This reads like an incorrect quote but this is, in fact, an actual line from this show in a conversation between the two most serious characters in this series.

[teafiend]

Gifs credited to @Nungchae (Twitter)

Such realistically raw, gritty scenes. Love everything about this episode ❤️‍🔥 Especially the partial focus on Kang Gil Young (and her developing relationships with the men).

The accusations made by the possessed about Choi Yoon - and Kang Gil Young’s reactions - gave me chills more than all the wailing, curses and screams of the woman because it was the most “realistic” horror in this indelible segment. A brilliant combination of writing, direction and performance (lighting, set up etc too). 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[britishchick09]

@cestlefantome has the rewrite!!! :D

[cosmiquechatte]

What now? I just finished the Fionna and Cake spin-off series and it was so good from start to finish! I loved Adventure Time and was thrilled when the first episodes with Fionna and Cake aired. I'm so glad that they decided to make an opening for this spin-off to be born before the original AT ended. This spin-off tied things up beautifully, Fionna and Cake's world still exists, we see Farm World again post Ice Finn, a lot of foul language and flipping of the bird, and at long last we get a happy Simon Petrikov and some closure with the whole GOLB Betty situation. It was a great story with a happy ending, but part of me wishes for more. More of Marshall and Gary, Hunter and Fionna, and Simon enjoying life and going on his own adventures... sometimes there's not room for more, it could just pointlessly drag out the story and stop bringing joy. Whether we get more or not, I'm so glad Fionna and Cake got this wonderful spin-off series.

Now excuse me as I bury my face into one of my cats and figure out what to do with my life now.

[theroguequeen]

do you guys know the feeling that all your posts are shit and not good enough and you just want to delete everything because you feel like nobody really values or really likes what you do and that nobody would even notice if you where gone, like tumblr is hard sometimes. And at the same time you wanna write something but there are just not the right words and then you just wanna crawl into your bed or is this just me lol

[rozicheeks]

Your newest snap audio story made me cum so fast, your stories always do. Do pay her for snap, you won't regret it for a second. Best money ever spent, you guys.

[sirfrogsworth]

How do you take a photo of time?

I've been watching the track events at the Olympics since I was a wee lad. It was a tradition in our family. We'd gather around our ancient low-definition 19 inch CRT television and watch tiny blobs compete against other tiny blobs and root for our country.

It was a bit like watching YouTube on your phone in 144p.

Several heroes emerged.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee was amazing.

You can't forget about Flo-Jo.

And then the Olympics decided NBA players were allowed in the competition.

Which formed... The Dream Team.

Was this fair?

Well... they won each game by an average of 44 points.

So... no. It was not fair.

Though it became more fair as time went on.

But, umm... yeah. The other teams looked like the Washington Generals and the US looked like the Harlem Globetrotters if they stopped screwing around half of the game.

But my absolute favorite Olympian was a runner named Michael Johnson.

He was cool as heck.

For one thing... gold shoes.

But he also had this crazy, upright, Tom Cruise-ish sprinting style that just made him look like a running robot on the track.

And in the 1996 Atlanta games he just trounced EVERYONE. I mean, it wasn't even close.

Yikes. Those losing blobs are probably really embarrassed.

Last night I decided to invigorate my nostalgia and watch the track events again. And I got to see one of the wildest races in history.

It didn't even last 10 seconds but it was one of the most exciting sporting events I've ever witnessed. Almost every runner won the race.

After I saw that initially, I was like... who the heck won???

Even in slow motion I wasn't sure.

This was one of the closest finishes in history. There has never been a race where all 8 runners were within this margin.

The arena was silent as the winner was being confirmed. The runners just kind of paced around waiting for official word. My best guess was the Jamaican runner, Kishane Thompson. But then the loudspeaker announced Noah Lyles.

The last tiny morsel of American pride burst out of me with a big "Wooooo!"

I forgot what it was like to be proud of my country. I wish it happened more often. But this young man, despite being last place in the first 3rd of the race, turned on the afterburners and won in a photo finish.

And that's when my inner nerd took over.

Because when they showed the photo finish image, it looked super weird.

Why is the track white?

Why do all of the runners look all warpy like that QWOP game?

So I went down a research rabbit hole to figure this out.

Photo finishes are actually fascinating. The first photo finish captured the end of a horse race in 1890. But that was mostly luck and timing. The actual photo finish mechanisms weren't used until 1937.

Originally they would film the finish line through a physical slit.

And the first horsie head that appeared in that slit would be the winner. This technology ended a huge aspect of corruption in horse race fixing almost overnight.

But we have come a long way since then. And I'd like to introduce you to the Omega Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate.

This slow motion camera sits fixed on the finish line of every race. The concept of the photo finish has remained remarkably similar to the 1930s approach. The camera sensor is specially designed to only record a vertical slit.

Only the finish line itself is actually captured.

And because it limits what it records to only that slit, it can capture 40,000 frames per second to get amazing temporal resolution.

So why don't the photo finishes just look like, well... this?

That is because the camera takes a picture of time more-so than dimensional space. I guess it would be more accurate to say it *assembles* a picture of time.

As the runners cross the finish line, the camera combines all of the little strips of pictures into a single image.

It's almost like if you tried to reassemble a piece of paper after it had been shredded.

Imagine each strip of paper is a picture of ONLY the finish line, just at a slightly different point in time.

What if someone stopped on the finish line and didn't move... what would that look like?

Once they got there, the same part of their body would just be repeated.

So the right side of the photo finish picture represents earlier in time and it just assembles the image strip by strip as time passes and you literally get a picture of time itself.

NEAT!

Okay, but how do they determine the winner from the photo finish?

I mean, that shoe looks like it is ahead of Noah Lyles!

Clavicles!

The IAFF rules state the foremost part of the torso must cross the finish line first. And the endpoint of the torso is the outer end of the clavicle.

So if you get this bone across the finish line first, you win the race.

Two more fun facts!

The start of the race is actually just as carefully timed as the end of the race. There are sensors in the starting blocks of each runner.

The starting gun also has an electronic sensor.

They have determined the fastest a human can react to the sound of a gun is roughly 100 milliseconds. So if you start running before 100 milliseconds they know you didn't actually hear the gun, you just got antsy and started running too early.

And the final fun fact...

Did you notice the Omega logo at the top of the photo finish?

That isn't superimposed or added after the fact. That is captured by the camera.

But if this image is composed only of tiny little slivers, how did they get the Omega logo to show up?

That is a little display. And it is synchronized with the Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate to show a little sliver of the Omega logo for each frame captured.

So when the final image is stitched together, it looks like a cohesive logo at the top of the photo.

Pretty clever, Omega!