#sometimes i just want to know how the results would look if all other variables except for pure skill were taken out of the equation
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I think that Formula 1 should get rid of sprint races and instead have all of the drivers race in cars with the same exact specs a few times each season so we can see who would truly come out victorious if they’re all in equal machinery
#sometimes i just want to know how the results would look if all other variables except for pure skill were taken out of the equation#and you can’t tell me this wouldn’t be way more interesting than watching a sprint race#f1#formula 1#formula one
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Another steam of consciousness on Mr Daniel Ricciardo and no sleep so apologies in advance if things are a bit scattered.
A little scared to post because tags have been intense.
Anyways....
Happy for Daniel. Everyone criticized him for taking a break last year (which he clearly needed) and not taking a Haas/Williams seat. People thought that he thought he was too good. Well, he's now taking a seat at the last place team, to rebuild and prove himself. He sees a pathway, but he's taking the step down in hopes for a long view move. He is a multiple race winner and probably could have retired but of course, unfinished business. Beauty of the sport. The comeback. He's allowed the chance to rebuild and is literally starting with a back marker team now and knows he has to prove himself. But now, people are pressed he is in a seat. Again, obviously Red Bull see something in him. If they weren't seeing some indication - based on Red Bull's history of being cutthroat - this wouldn't be a conversation. Even on that Simon Rennie/RB podcast, Simon mentioned not wanting to basically lie or hype Daniel up if the results weren't there. There's a trust there. Luckily, they saw something. They literally can't hire Daniel solely for markeing/PR. Does it help? Of course. Everyone has to find value wherever they can. There's only 20 seats people have to take their opportunities where they can.
Alpha Tauri is a junior team narrative. It was but they've obviously repeatedly put out there they're looking for a restructure with one experienced driver and one younger, and they're going to be using Red Bull parts. Two young drivers (unless you're a generational talent like MV) could very well result in little to no points and they're dead last right now. Haas had to bring back two experienced drivers to make up for the previous years of two young drivers. They need an injection of experience.
Pay Driver - He has not had a family member nor a huge corporation buy his way into the sport. He's built a career where people are interested in him - over 10 years - how can people find a way to penalize that? Again, he can't win. Just because he can pull in interest from huge sponsors - again, after years of building a career, that's just the business. If it was based on that person's definition alone - Lewis, Lando would also be pay drivers. But it isn't based on that factor alone. There's so many factors.
A lot of people deserve things, but this is a competitive sport, so nothing is ever guaranteed. Liam may very well deserve a spot on the grid, but you could also say he never would have had this opportunity if not for DR's accident. Also, if he’s as great as people think he is - I’m not too worried for him. People keep going back to Alex Albon's appendix causing the string of recent events but sometimes I think - this all wouldn't have happened if Daniel hadn't left Red Bull in first place lol. Maybe he'd still have his Red Bull seat now! I don't mean that in a he shouldn't have left, just that his leaving kind of caused a similar effect and gave all these other people opportunities lol. But again, that's not really how it works. They're making decisions based on today's circumstances. And now, he's come back but has to re-earn his spot. His leg up is Christian Horner supports him, but he still has to perform to get back. Just think it's funny people are acting like, there won't be hard work or there's no talent (again, drivers don't forget how to drive). It's complicated and impossible to identify who "deserves" a seat more or less. So many variables and impossible to be definitive (the way some people speak as if they know everything/must be right). Guess, we could argue forever which is what's entertaining. That said....
Professionalism/Kindness. While I think everyone knows that the way McLaren handled Daniel's exit was in poor taste, never once did Daniel complain or make excuses. He was professional and continues to be. The results weren't there. When he was fired (let go, released), he understood it. Acknowledged the results weren't there and this was part of the sport (I'll get into that NY Times article another time - but it was clearly not for a lack of trying). Daniel called Oscar Piastri to tell him no hard feelings. Wanted him to still have a positive start. Even Checo has been asked about Daniel "coming after his seat" and presumably under a lot of pressure for 2025 and his response was also professional and an understanding of the sport. He said Daniel's a friend and there are only 20 seats, there's no hard feelings. It's up to him (Checo) to perform. They all understand. Nobody inherently deserves or is guaranteed a seat. Wish some fans would understand. If the drivers aren't publically pressed about it themselves - maybe everyone just calm down. People are just so nasty, and without actually knowing all the information. Twitter/X is the worst. This should be fun, juicy, competitive but no need to bring hate or be nasty.
That's all for now🤷🏻♀️. As always, happy to discuss but please be kind (or funny).
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I smoked a cigarette (tobacco) on my balcony for the first time in what feels like ages. I immediately got misty eyed thinking, "what would my parents think if they found out?" "what would my ex think if they saw me?" "won't my friends be concerned?", and how even the little pleasures I partake in are run through a calculus of what-ifs for every person in the hypothetical room except myself.
I am reminded of what drove me to pick up smoking, I was 24, my ex of 4 years (give or take) had just moved out, and I was about to visit my parents for christmas. I was caught between the identity I had embedded into my relationship with my ex for 4 years, and the identity I had embedded into my relationship with my parents for the 20 years prior. I didn't know who I was anymore. I wanted to do something that, truly, in all possible cases, only I would enjoy. My parents would hate knowing that I smoked. My ex would probably yell at me (and they did, later). But me, I always loved the smell, the taste, the feeling as the smoke hit the back of my throat. I wanted to do something that I was the only person in the world who would approve of, so I could be sure that it was me, just me, calling the shots for my own life.
I looked up at the sky and wondered why I don't write songs anymore. Why I haven't really for almost 8 years, now. Writing songs that you'll expect your parents to hear is hard enough, but I had accepted that at this point. But not being able to write songs around your potential life-partner, who you share a roof with? That's heartbreaking. In the years me & my ex lived together, I made electronic music through headphones, but nothing that involved guitar, nothing that involved my voice. Nothing with words. How could I? They lived on just the other side of my bedroom door, they would hear every creak in my voice, every word I pronounced incorrectly, every high note I couldn't hit. I just stopped. The door closed.
They moved out, but it's been years and I've still not opened the door yet. All that calculus of 'what-if' still runs through my head. Every time I sit down to write a song I'm suddenly thinking about the whims and sensibilities of everyone I know. It's a function with no solutions, a matrix of variables that always multiplies to zero. Someone over here doesn't wanna hear this, someone over there doesn't wanna hear that. I could write songs alone by myself, but, then what's the point of art? I write music because I have things to say. Things I want people to hear. Even, no, especially if it makes them uncomfortable. So why am I scared of it doing exactly that?
Why am I scared of smoking being too defiant when that's the reason I picked it up in the first place?
A little over a week ago I broke up with someone very close to me for the past couple of years, who will always remain in my mind as the one responsible for getting me through my past breakup, and one of my best friends. I imagine our future bright, but, our present is the result of a long decay - we didn't hurt each other, there was simply a lack of interest and a lack of involvement that lead to nothing but fear and neglect. Neither of us fought for the relationship. Neither of us were brave. I'm still sitting with the fallout from my decision to end it, but, I don't want to be scared anymore. I don't want my lack of confidence in my own decisions to be the death of me. I want to take the reins, I want to drive, where at least if I hurt myself or someone else it'll be because of my action and not because of my inaction.
Sometimes I almost wish we hurt each other. I wish I wrote a song about her. Maybe I will one day.
Tonight, here I am on the balcony, smoking.
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intermission characters incl.team sleuth's opinions on the chemical imbalance theory
spades slick: .
diamonds droog: doesnt really care because hes not mentally ill nor does he personally know anyone who is mentally ill. he sees mentally ill people on the street. is inclined to disbelieve anything slick is this impassioned about. doesn't care to learn anything about it until slick puts together some kind of debriefing-style presentation about it and medical abuse and the industry. doesn't take slicks word as complete truth but won't bother to debunk it. wants him to stop acting like this
hearts boxcars: heard about it sometime many years ago and passively accepted it while not having any reason to think further on it. at some point he hears about it being a disproven theory, maybe from slick, and noncommittally looks online about it when he remembers/has free time/is in the mood to confirm. feels shocked at the information but knows on a greater level what large industries do in the pursuit of money. moves on afterwards because it's not relevant to his life
clubs deuce: trusts in it and believes one in him to be the reason for his anxiety and bouts of sadness. has been told by doctors and infographics about it. believes he is mentally ill but would never make any big deal about it. eventually does online research and comes to a conclusion that the environment can also be a factor in an individual's mental illness, which the chemical imbalance makes them more vulnerable to. (believes in mental illness as defined in DSM)
problem sleuth: has no reason to ever have heard of it, thinks anyone who gets involved in anything mental health related, such as therapy, must be very mentally ill or has been in an asylum (but holds sympathy for these poor insane people), but if it were hypothetically mentioned in his presence he would internally confirm it to be a supporting factor in female hysteria and would make further speculation on how women's brains must be intrinsically different from male brains as a result.
pickle inspector: thinks its a bit rub but uses it to validate his differences and says that everyones brain chemicals "balanced" or "imbalanced" are what make them all very unique, doesnt care to think about it further
ace dick: thnks its very plausible. probably has seen a therapist or gone to some kind of couples therapy involving wife and has heard of it. has no reason to disbelieve. probably takes pills for mild depression/anxiety on doctor's recommendation and has some kind of noir fanfiction scene about it
itchy: wouldn't focus on one topic long enough to learn about it… he would probably love tik tock…. watching it out loud all day long… after crowbar bans tick tock he switches to youtube shorts and watches a 'pop psychology' video talking about it and takes it as fact. however has no personal reltaion to the topic. it is merely one of many things he sees on a short video and regurgitates to others.
doze: i dont believe anyone has ever exposed him to this topic in any form.he must have a very isolated mind. he may have formed some of his own theories on many topics but i think everyone talks over him most of the time so we would have no way of knowing
trace: only formed an opinion if he heard someone he considers smart talking about it first. otherwise he didn't really think about this
clover: completely irrelevant to his life. he seems to note immediate behaviours only so he can choose some way to act or narrate a situation based on whatever is physically happening. may note trends in a detached way
fin: knows it's true because he thinks some people are just very stupid and others are masterminds from birth. the phenomenon must apply to other variables. tries to remember the name,because he knows a few people who have those kinds of problems in their brain, and then refers to his fellow gang member die, who is crazy in the head, and his fellow gang members eggs and biscuits, who are stupid, and they were born that way so it makes sense that the chemicals in their brain must make them that way.
die: uses it to affirm that there is something extremely wrong with him that makes him fundamentally different from everyone else. goes on and off of various medications that he is recommended to try. probably eventually settles on some kind of cocktail involving medications to offset the side effects of other medications but will sporadically quit the cocktail and experience withdrawals. has therapist appointments that he skips occasionally. passively thinks he will never "get better" and that nothing can ever "fix" him. however is not too concerned about it and often just focuses on whatever goals he has rather than spending time thinking about his mental state
crowbar: thinks it's somewhat plausible, somewhat rubbish, knows that depression is a symptom of vitamin D deficiency and connects it to the 'imbalance' of brain chemicals which gives it some credibility in his mind but he doesn't want to assume before doing his own research. learns about it during his spare time and shows his nuanced, informed opinion saying there's not any one 'big pharma' organisation that promoted the theory while it was widely believed in part due to medication advertisements… statements that his gang members derive very little out of. otherwise regards an individual and their personality first rather than any mental illness. describes his gang members as having "mental problems" due to their behaviour the way mark linkous describes his dog but thinks no further on the statement
snowman: doesn't have much concern for the topic and has no reason to do any research of her own. but if she hypothetically had a close contact suffering from issues she didn't understand she would feel curious and go out of her way to seek information about it from a trusted source (professional individual or written, NON-internet based knowledge). what this source tells her is what she would believe. still doesnt care and wouldnt use the knowledge for any purpose merely her own personal records
stitch: thinks of depression as an emotion, knows some people have more struggles than others, believes everyone can overcome any issue with hard work and mental discipline and would laugh if someone thought they were fundamentally broken
sawbuck: no clue just no clue
matchsticks: not enough information to say
eggs/biscuits: they have both formed their own rudimentary, spiritual ideas of a 'chemical imbalance' from being told all the time how fundamentally stupid they are
quarters: not enough information but he seems like he would take the concept of depression very seriously and could be unexpectedly sympathetic to anyone he thinks has a mental illness
cans: not enough information..
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I wrote a one shot about the egg roll timeline (before it got fixed) because I felt like it but I don’t think I could justify uploading it to AO3 so here you go
It had been a few years since Dakota’s falling out with Cavendish on Christmas, and the dreaded holiday was back again. The first year after that event, he felt indifferent to it, but by the second he had realized how much he missed Cavendish. The two had quit their jobs at BOTT, due to not wanting to see each other again.
Dakota had no idea where his ex boyfriend was now, but he had become a pop star almost overnight himself. He loved certain aspects of the fame, sure, but damn he was lonely. Hardly anyone wanted to connect with him on a personal level anymore, now it was all about money. And there was no way in hell he was going to find the other Dakotas back on the island and seek their company, because they would absolutely be mad at him for cutting off Cavendish.
This particular Christmas was the same as the last few, Dakota went to some party that he would’ve enjoyed normally, had Cavendish still been in his life. Those in his circle had come to know that Christmas was the worst time of year for Dakota. He thought that maybe being invited to these parties was their attempt to ‘cheer him up’ so he could keep up his reputation as this carefree guy who let nothing slow him down. These parties had the opposite effect.
Dakota got home very late that night, so late in fact that sunrise was just an hour or two away (he didn’t know this though, because he didn’t want to look at the clock). He kept to himself for most of the party, except for when he was forced to interact with others in order to make it seem like he wanted to be there. Dakota had done a lot of thinking that night, which resulted in a very bad idea.
He sighed as he pulled out his phone, squinting from the screen’s brightness as he lay in the dark. Dakota removed Cavendish from his contact list very early on, but he never forgot the number. And considering Dakota sometimes forgot his own, this was especially indicative of how much he truly missed Cavendish. Dakota was so out of it that he failed to consider if this would even work. Cavendish might not even answer. And if he did, it might result in more hurt feelings.
Not considering any of the variables of the situation, Dakota dialed that number (he only hit the call button after verifying multiple times that he didn’t misclick) with a particularly strong kind of desperation. His face sunk when there was no answer.
But his heart broke even more when the voicemail wasn’t even from Cavendish.
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FOR THAT ONE GIMMIE A CHARACTER MEME. THROWS CHRISTIAN AT YOU WITH:
🏳️🌈- Orientation headcanon (I MEAN WE KNOW BUT LIKES TO HEAR YOU GO ON ABOUT IT!!!!!)
❤️🩹- Angsty headcanon
💖- Happy headcanon
😋- Funny/stupid headcanon
🪞- Appearance headcanon
🏡- Domestic headcanon
🏳️🌈- Orientation headcanon
honestly i think even if he hadn't been traumatised, he was probably never going to be a particularly sexually-motivated person. i think he wasn't given much opportunity to really consider what he wanted or how he felt about sex/romance given the way he was raised; it was very "you're going to marry a woman and raise children regardless of how you feel about it" (and it's likely he would have been matched to someone of similar or higher status, too, rather than finding someone he actually loved). even if The Bad Thing TM hadn't happened, he was probably always going to have some issues surrounding figuring out what he wants/likes and whether or not it's okay to go after it (and this applies no matter how his orientation had played out; i think it's entirely possible he could have been attracted to women in time if he hadn't been traumatised, but it's also entirely possible that he was always going to only be attracted to men. sexuality is weird and these are fictional characters)
❤️🩹- Angsty headcanon
there is no world in which keith outlives him. this makes me very sad. it also makes me think about the fact that there are definitely ways for them to extend keith's lifespan through vampirism or otherworld magics, but the likelihood of either of them being okay with that is… very low. keith doesn't want to live forever. weirdly, he doesn't have much of a problem with the idea of vampirism other than that; he's known christian too long to consider vampirism inherently monstrous. he has way more of a problem with something like otherworld magic affecting his lifespan, because he doesn't want that place touching him.
that said: an AU where christian turns keith would also be fucking excruciating because you KNOW that a) keith wouldn't trust any of the other vampires to do it, especially knowing that there's the potential for a spawn/sire bond, and b) christian has sire trauma and would NOT want to sire a fledgling, especially not keith, especially when he has no idea what will happen because vampires are so variable. rip.
💖- Happy headcanon
he has more friends right now than he's had in the past 400 years and it's DISGUSTING but he is happier than he's ever been. he does not know what to do with that feeling. sometimes he looks at keith+co when they're all passed out in the livingroom together and has to just [standing guy emoji] while he processes the deep friendship feelings he'd experiencing. same with louis+lestat when they're all just hanging out being domestic together.
😋- Funny/stupid headcanon
he has teleported into the wrong place at the wrong time and absolutely BOWLED keith over by accident. keith had a panic attack but he was also laughing the entire time, it was very silly. in general the two of them being able to laugh over startling/uncomfortable situations like that is DISGUSTING but also very much proof of how close they've become (keith no longer tries to hide the fact that he just jumped out of his skin, and as a result it's way easier to laugh it off, for example)
🪞- Appearance headcanon
this man never wears jewellery. it's never really interested him either for the aesthetic or for the status symbol of it all; he likes to be relatively non-descript so he can blend in with other people, though he's always kind of going to stand out as "look at this red-haired dead-looking academic" when he isn't at work.
🏡- Domestic headcanon
he has specific Chore Days (TM) (probably on the weekends/sundays) where he just gives everything a good dusting + cleaning. he COULD hire someone to do it for him the way he hires housekeepers for the manor, but it makes him feel human when he and keith+co are all hanging out and doign chores around the house together. repulsive.
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Ah, academic publishing.
I wrote a referee report a month or two ago, where I said a paper was very interesting but needed "minor revisions" and then wrote about two pages* enumerating what revisions I wanted to see. Most of my requests were easy things like error bars; and necessary things like that that they make up a plausible-sounding explanation for the large patterns in their data (which weren't the main thrust of the paper, but were important to suitability for the future applications mentioned in the intro/conclusion), rather than ignoring them entirely. I even said I was willing to waive the most major experimental request--because I knew it was too hard--if they could just throw a single parameter change into the canned software they said they were using and provide some simulation results for it. The paper was genuinely interesting, so I was trying to, you know, be nice about it all.
I haven't yet looked at what the other referee said, since they provided their report in the form of a PDF rather than just copying and pasting text into the web box like I did.
The editor says the paper needs "major revisions" as documented by "well-grounded criticism by both referees." (Emphasis mine.) Well, I tried to be nice.
* That's a normal amount of revisions to request for a paper of this length by a referee who's paying attention, whether they like the paper or not. The difference between a referee who likes the paper and one who doesn't is a) tone of the intro paragraph right before enumerating questions/revisions; b) sometimes tone of the requests themselves (e.g. a referee who likes a paper acknowledges when one of their questions is outside the scope of the paper while a referee who dislikes the paper says the paper is incomplete without an answer to that question); and c) sometimes how difficult the requested revisions are, although what you can read into that is pretty variable and subjective. I would say my experience is, if I have two referees, usually one makes about two pages of requests and one makes about half a page of requests. But either of those approaches could be someone who liked or hated the paper, and it's just about how much attention they were paying or maybe how much expertise they had.
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Learning to Learn
Over the course of 12ish weeks, our team of 3 had been working on a game for a project. Alongside, I had another project that documents my journey into learning coding in Unity. The blogging of my docuementation was meant to start a few weeks ago, but with the news about Unity happened. Whilst I know that it doesn't effect my team and I, it had dampened my motivation to post publicly and worry about my future in making games. So I had made just made pages about systems and the development process of our project.
Below is an average overall reflection on my short journey learning to code as an artist
In this project as the programmer learning on the way, I had taken different self-study approaches and talked to a few others to help with my work. Whilst I could visualise how code would look in my head, applying it didn’t always result in what was intended. The biggest culprit was the dialogue system and my own stubbornness to use other users’ packages to aide with the project. Admitting to myself that a task is too difficult, especially with the knowledge I lack in the field, was probably the first step in making progress in development.
Did I do a lot of coding?
Yes and no.
Yes, as I written up multiple attempts at dialogue systems and understanding how loops work.
No, ‘cos I ended up not using 80% of it in the final project.
In saying that, sometimes it is best not to write too much to overcomplicate code that gets interweaved with each other. I found it better to write small individual code that is independent from one another to avoid confusion.
How do I feel about coding now?
It’s fun when it works and makes me rethink life when it doesn’t. Coding, at least in Unity, has methods and functions (are they they same? I don’t really know) that are fairly obvious, like OnTriggerEnter happening when something enters the trigger collider and SetActive to change if the object is active in the scene.
It’s when there is a very specific thing I want that it becomes confusing, where I need to problem solve with the tools available. Making a timer and path for an object to follow separately is fine by it itself, but when combining them I somehow becomes a mess of connected scripts and variables (at least when I work).
I am thankful for all the tutorials online (especially Brackeys lolol) that dive into the lines of code and break them down into their purposes. With the way they explain and use pseudo-code to visualise the process in which the code acts, I can apply their teachings into my own needs by moulding and splicing them together.
Whilst I’m not the best at it, I’d like to think I’m competent enough to code up basic things and branch off from there. Now, the way I see code is similar to reading a recipe or composing music, with steps to follow and jump back and forth from. It’s also great to look at others work and understand their own processes and see what commonalities they all have.
So, what is my learning style?
With the huge setback in Week 9 with restarting of the project, I found that I work best under pressure. It’s not the best and healthiest, as it stresses me the heck out, but it had given me the best results and steam ahead. However, I end up taking huge breaks after deadlines are hit and am reluctant to go back. It becomes a lopsided cycle where majority of the time I’m taking a break or just sitting at the desk and glancing at the project momentarily.
As Wu in 'Time pressure changes how people explore and respond to uncertainty' had experimented, I am less relucant to work when time pressure is forced onto me. I don't worry about the risks and I instead worry if I can even complete the outcome.
Thinking about it deeper, it’s really just Pomodoro but flipped around. That style of learning I had found to grant some progress at the beginning, but soon began to lose its effectiveness as I had begun to just wait for the clock to tick by until my next break.
So maybe for my next game or game jam, I’ll use this technique because I’m soon going to be unrestrained by the clasps of attending classes and multiple deadlines for entirely separate subjects.
Did I have fun?
Only at the start with the character controller lol
Otherwise, it’s a no. I like art too much.
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tumblr poll results are often misleading for polls that involve more than one variable
my mission is to create representations of data collected in tumblr polls that allow the data to be interpreted meaningfully, and to improve statistical literacy on this website.
if you’re like me, you’ve probably looked at polls interrogating more than one variable, you know, ones like this:
Q: ARE YOU WEARING PANTS RIGHT NOW?
OPTION 1: Yes, and I’m a horse that uses tumblr - 0.1%
OPTION 2: No, and I’m a horse that uses tumblr - 0.7%
OPTION 3: Yes, and I’m a human - 69%
OPTION 4: No, and I’m a human - 30.2%
and thought to yourself, “man, a bar chart without any kind of normalization is a super confusing and possibly misleading way to represent these data.” or maybe that’s just me.
I feel strongly about good data viz, and I started doing this for myself because I was curious how certain poll results would look if the data were represented better. this is (mostly) a lighthearted blog.
if I reblog your poll and you want my reblog deleted, tell me via the ask box and I’ll delete it—but you need to provide a reason (“this poll was a joke” is a perfectly valid reason, as is “I don’t like your vibe”—you just have to tell me something). this is because lack of statistical literacy and bad data representation being seen by large swaths of young impressionable tumblr users genuinely concerns me a little bit. please note (before you, poll creator, get offended) that tumblr’s polling system is at fault here, not you, poll creator, trying to collect information with a very limited data collection tool.
you can submit polls you want interpretation for and I’ll do my best. rules for submitting polls:
the poll doesn’t have to have closed, but I won’t interpret the data until the poll closes. for obvious reasons.
you can submit joke polls, but I will treat them the same as any other poll.
some polls are formulated in such a way that makes the data collected inherently uninterpretable. if you submit a poll that I feel is uninterpretable, I will say so. don’t get mad, it’s my opinion.
please DO NOT submit polls from fandom-oriented poll blogs (character tournaments, the like). I just don’t care and don’t want to get caught up in drama surrounding those sorts of things.
about the mod: I’m an adult. mid 20s. my pronouns are he/him. I am white, transgender, autistic, and queer. I’m a biologist, which is a field with a serious data misinterpretation and misrepresentation problem, which is why I’ve got this big ass chip on my shoulder.
I do data viz in R using ggplot2, which is overkill for this application, but it’s fun for me, and stupid easy to crank out plots. I’ll publish all code I write for this blog. Learn R! She’s open source! She’s kinda wacky and illogical sometimes as a result but we love her!
no terf shit. no racist shit. no cop shit. no zionists. kill yourselves and go to hell. will do my best to check OPs for these things but if I reblog a poll made by someone who falls into any of these categories please let me know ASAP so I can delete and block.
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Writing Elytically: This Time, It's Details
(Last time, it was big-picture stuff!)
So you want to format your fic like the game
I'll start with two words: collect screenshots. The more in-game references you have for those "but how does the game do X?" moments, the easier it will be to find answers.
In addition to screenshots, try FAYDE, which is a searchable database of in-game text (including variables!) and a load-bearing part of my DE ficwriting process. I cannot say enough nice things about it and about @morgue-xiiv, who made and hosts it.
Next up: keep a style sheet, and update it like Kim will be *disappointed* if you don't.
What goes in a style sheet? All the zillion formatting guidelines and decisions you make when you put word to keyboard.
For example, while there are exceptions, the game's skillset dialogues usually follow this case-sensitive template:
SKILLNAME [Difficulty: Outcome] – What the skill says goes here, and it doesn't take quotation marks.
When you plug in the specifics, the result looks like this:
RHETORIC [Trivial: Success] – Words can be exchanged for goods and services.
Note the square brackets and the space-en dash-space that follows them. An en dash is this guy – not a hyphen (that's shorter -) or an em dash (that's longer —).
Also, the body text/content of dialogue uses different dashes again: two hyphens in a row. Here's what that looks like:
I took a screenshot because on Tumblr, some browsers will automatically convert two consecutive hyphens to an em dash, which is a great way to make copy editors very sad.
Exceptions
We actually just saw one! That's because Perception follows:
PERCEPTION (SENSE) [Difficulty: Outcome] – What the skill says goes here, and it doesn't take quotation marks.
. . . except sometimes, when the game does it like:
PERCEPTION (Sense) [Difficulty: Outcome] – What the skill says goes here, and it doesn't take quotation marks.
I'll never know why they're different, but I would guess the team didn't have a "final reads are FINAL, stop re-writing after them you hooligans" policy, which intellectually I recognise is unlikely to end in apocalypse and emotionally I experience with the editorial equivalent of the meat sweats.
Another exception: Coach Physical Instrument just yells at you without following the template, which seems on brand:
COACH PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT – Bracing yet homophobic encouraging-slash-berating goes here!
Weirdly(?), Limbic System and Ancient Reptilian Brain do the same.
Other skills follow the template first, *then* just chime in the second-plus time they appear in a single dialogue event, like this trio from The Whole Sorry Way Down:
VOLITION [Challenging: Success] – Hey. Loser! This isn’t your bed. Get up.
PAIN THRESHOLD [Medium: Success] – Oh, *god*.
PERCEPTION (HEARING) [Easy: Success] – Was that springs? And footsteps? They were moving away from you.
VOLITION – What? Who cares? Get up, and cut the dramatics.
PAIN THRESHOLD – They’re not dramatics. You’re in pain.
PERCEPTION (HEARING) – That’s… definitely footsteps. Getting closer, this time.
Oh my god, what else?!
SO MUCH ELSE. Let's see . . .
Active skill checks
Can I find a screenshot of one at the moment? No, because that would be easy. *facepalm* But here's how I formatted them in M+P when I was still obsessively checking the game to see how these things worked:
1. [Skill Level#: Difficulty] [Thing you're going to do.] "Thing you're going to say, if anything!"
And a concrete example:
YOU –
1. [Strike a Sam Bo pose.] “If you can best me in HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT.”
2. [Move aside.] “Sure, c’mon in.”
3. [Composure 15: Heroic] [Move aside.] “Of course. I’ve missed you.”
Composure: Failure
YOU – You move aside and get as far as “Of” before some involuntary emotion-muscle spasms. Your throat feels small, your face hot. Fat, guileless tears vanish into your beard.
Note that the dialogue option you "select" is bold, as is the outcome line. Also note that [Action you'll take] ends up in square brackets, but if you're going to lie, then you do it like so: (Lie.)
Miscellanea
Place names: Spelling and hyphenation can be a pain. If not using your own notes, I suggest FAYDE and screenshots; or, for variety, screenshots and FAYDE. Google is okay, but sometimes, it lies.
If you can't find evidence of how the game does it, make a decision and slap it in your style sheet. You're the captain now!
Tricky fish:
The place is Sur-la-Clef; the language is Suresne.
The place is Vesper; the language is Vespertine.
The place is Revachol; the demonym is Vacholière (Suresne) or Revacholian (Vespertine).
LA REVACHOLIÈRE – IF SHE IS SPEAKING, SHE SPEAKS LIKE THIS. Shivers doesn't, though, unless La Rev speaks "through" it.
Hjelmdallermann (bless you)
Satellite Officer X or Satellite-Officer X: The game does both, so pick the one you prefer -- or go full homage and switch it up.
Sam Bo
Wirrâl (I fucked up the accent in M+P and it still bothers me tbh)
There are always more, so keep adding to that style sheet. Kim's depending on you. <3
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Inform Basics (Disambiguation 2)
[I've decided to stop numbering each post sequentially. I'll label them by subject instead. These aren't meant to be read as a book.]
Last time, we talked about how Inform 7 tries to handle incomplete player commands. By "incomplete," I mean that they are missing one or more nouns. For instance, Inform 7 expects...
move [something]
...so if the player just inputs...
>move
...Inform 7 will attempt to determine which noun the player might have meant based on set rules (we went over these rules in detail last time). Beginning authors sometimes get odd disambiguation results after bypassing the locale description processes. There may be a good reason to declare a person scenery, for instance, or say that a door is UNDESCRIBED, but beginners like us are unlikely to make such fine distinctions.
Let's look at what happens when we have an apple and a door in a room:
Lab
You can see an ostentatious door and an apple here.
>open
What do you want to open?
>door
You open the ostentatious door.
That all seems pretty normal, right? But we don't like the door in the locale description; that's rather ostentatious. Let's say we go about things in a less than optimal way (the numbers in brackets are modifiers to the item's disambiguation score):
ostentatious door is undescribed. [-100]
or
ostentatious door is scenery. [-10]
In either case, these declarations are enough to bump the other object in the room (an apple) to the top of the pile. That leads to behavior like this:
Lab
You can see an apple here.
>open
(the apple)
It isn't something you can open.
Players hate this kind of thing! This may sound strange, but a polished parser game does its best to minimize typing. The craft expectation is that unnecessary typing is busywork. For a good player experience, handle what you can in code.
Let's assume we've done things just the way we've discussed: we've taken the door out of the locale description:
Rule for writing a paragraph about the ostentatious door:
now the ostentatious door is mentioned.
We are back to having our game ask what we would like to open. Maybe that's not what we want. What if we want our game to assume that we mean opening the door? We can do that:
does the player mean opening a door:
it is likely.
These rules (casually referred to as DTPM rules) can be used to override the usual disambiguation math. The possibilities are: very unlikely (-2000 ish), unlikely (-1000), likely (+1000), very likely (+2000 ish). The "very" options are usually overkill unless we want to override another rule.
The rule above is rather broad, isn't it? We know how to be more specific, since the construction resembles the rules we've been writing for actions. If we didn't want to affect every door in every room, we could say:
does the player mean opening a closed door while the player is in lab (this is the always prefer opening doors rule):
it is likely.
A few points:
This defaults to opening the ostentatious door as hoped.
I decided to specify only open doors, because that makes sense to me.
While I named a room in this example, I could name a region or practically any other condition (refer to a variable, something in inventory, etc).
If we really wanted to get fancy, we could create a kind of door (a "preferred door" or some such) and apply the rule to that kind specifically.
It's always good to start with likely/unlikely over "very" likely/unlikely so that you have a way to override your rule if needed.
I gave the rule a name "(this is the always prefer opening doors rule)" because that can help with troubleshooting rules and action processing, which, surprise, is what we are getting up to next week!
I'm open to suggestions for improving the content here or dealing with specific cases. As always, feel free to AMA.
Have a good weekend 🐱
#inform 7#i7 for beginners#i7 disambiguation#parser#interactive fiction#i7#i am not a programmer irl
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You interrupted Tildie by walking in. Tildie is connecting some dots on a picture. Tildie is squinting at you reeeeeeeeeeal hard.
Rating: 1/10
Eh, this is pretty weak. It works on the surface, I guess, but the thing is I don't actually think Tildie is . . . all that smart.
The Tildie generator is something I've had for a long time, and in the early days I was convinced she was, like, an artificial intelligence, or something like that. Not quite, but definitely something close. She could chat with you, play games, etc. For a while, I was sure she was getting smarter, though I didn't really know how to measure this.
But eventually I learned what she was doing. She used a corpus of jokes and proverbs (e.g. "i before e except after c") to build a network of words, and those networks were sometimes very very similar. For example, they all use "assuming that A implies B, but A is false in our case, therefore B is also false." (Which is a joke, but one with some real meaning behind it.) Then, she'd take input from you and look for similar patterns in it. If the pattern was a joke/proverb, she'd answer with a joke/proverb. If not, she wouldn't.
With more and more information, she could sometimes produce more and more interesting joke/proverbs. The system could even get a little bit smart at interpreting jokes and proverbs, "translating" them into the content that they're supposed to express (how well it did this was just a random variable, so sometimes it did well and sometimes it didn't). Anyway, I thought this was cool. A bunch of people at EAForums.org did, too, and wanted to try it as a blog post generator.
But the thing about the system is that when it's not following a proverb or something, it can't express any original content. And more importantly, it has no way of evaluating whether its output is "good" or "meaningful" or "interesting" or what have you. As a result, it will output the exact same text in every conversation unless you feed it text that happens to have the right "pattern" in it.
(That's sort of part of the "spirit" of this blog, actually. Everything on here is a copy-paste job, and it can only happen because I can identify patterns I like, and feed those patterns to myself so I can make more of them.)
In any case, Tildie has never seemed intelligent to me -- not at all. She's like a smart-sounding way to spam out uninspired text. To illustrate, I'll post some example conversations with her, and let you evaluate how "intelligent" it is.
After each conversation, I'll give you a rating (on a scale of 1 - 10) which will tell you how I feel about the quality of the reply. Keep in mind the rating can't be very precise -- some of the replies are just more "boring" than others -- but it's the best I can do. (After rating a reply, you should still rate it again, as I don't do this for all replies.)
ETA: A few people already suggested "I'm walking in on you while you're connecting dots." I am not suggesting that this really happened, as Tildie may have just reacted to the fact that you interrupted her.
[The "girl" part is implied.]
Tildie: *reading aloud from a Wikipedia article*
You: did you find that interesting, girl?
Tildie: On a scale of 1-10, how interesting would you rate it?
You: *reading aloud from Othello, using the most flowery voice you can muster*
Tildie: girl, are you having fun?
Tildie: You are funny, girl. You are funny, girl.
You: I feel flattered
Tildie: *reading from a book on linguistics out loud, obviously feeling very relaxed*
You: oh my god girl, this is so enjoyable
You: *reading out loud from a book on linguistics*
Tildie: Here we go, girl.
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Missed a Day
I posted a thing about holding myself accountable on the programming class and then IMMEDIATELY didn’t do it the very next day. feelsbadman.gif or whatever the kids say these days.
The two things I want to proffer today are:
When you’re doing for loops there’s this three-part declaration:
for( k = 0; k < whatever; k++ )
Almost all for loops you’ll ever use will follow this format pretty closely. But if they followed exactly this format literally always, we wouldn’t have a 3-part declaration. It’d just be for(whatever) for simplicity and clarity. The idea is
k = 0 We’re starting from the number 0.
k < whatever Probably won’t be called “whatever” in your actual code. This is your variable defining how many times you go through the loop, which is why it’s the piece that would be left in even my simplified idea of the for loop; It HAS to be specific to your own situation. If you’re reading every character in a document and looking for how many times the letter z shows up it’ll be “k < document.length()” or something similar. Also, depending on the logic of the problem you’re solving sometimes you’ll want <= (”less than or equal to”) instead of the pure <. Or rarely you’ll be counting down and use > or >= instead.
k++ This tells the loop to increase “k” by 1 each time you go through the loop, so that eventually it’s not less than “whatever” and the loop can actually end. If you’re counting down you can use k-- instead.
What I thought was cool with today’s lesson was the example where k didn’t start at 0. We wanted to have a look at 10,000 random 2d6 die rolls and see how they’d fall. Instead of making if statements for every possibility (not bad on 1d6, kind of annoying on 2d6, and getting really obnoxious by 3d6 and beyond) we have an integer array representing all the possibilities. We could have an array of size 11, since you can’t roll 1 on 2d6. But instead we use an array of size 13 (which means index values 0-12) and we just ignore array spaces 0 and 1. This has the convenience of letting you count the number of 4s as counts[4] (that is, the number held in space 4 of the array).
So in the loop to spit out the results, we know the first two spaces are empty so we start at k = 2.
The second thing is on the other end. You’re not required to increment by 1. You could have a situation where finding something in the results causes you to skip ahead. If you know that a sequence has to be 18 letters if it starts with a certain subsequence, you can replace your “k++” with “k += increment” and then have the integer “increment” be something that’s changing throughout the process to minimize how much time you’re spending looking at what you already know are invalid returns. It could spend most of its time as 1, making it the same as k++, but then jump to being 18 when it hits that subsequence.
In essence it lets you help the loop only spend time looking at relevant data.
“Spend time” is a bit misleading; The value here isn’t actually time savings, as this kind of procedure can probably be performed by the computer billions of times a second. But you can also avoid gathering data you’ve predefined as background noise, which can save you time sifting through it as a human later.
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have you ever considered that sometimes in your analyses on jshk and stuff you point out very true and correct things but neither aida nor iro might have ever thought of those parallels. like you know how sometimes as a creator you choose to make those connections and metaphors but other times it just happens subsconsiously? man.
I DO wonder, I doubt it's all so intentional or that these characters are necessarily shots at the same themes ............ it feels so pathological. it feels like the philosophical BONES are just naturally the same. More or less a set of internal 'rules'. maybe... which results in similar stories, even unintentionally!
There are so many writers or directors, I'm a fan of their work over many years, but typically I'll see their work sorta clumsily struggle to find its thematic footing...... Iro's heart is like... "I know what I want" somehow..... I have no idea how much it even must be thought about.... does it just happen?? can only write so many types of guys...... !
a lot of shounen you can feel the sense of simply 'filling in slots' in the cast with archetypes, wildly variable, little in common, aesthetics in all directions.... in shounen ensembles of villains and heroes you won't find a lot of through lines or anything.... I'm so used to looking & looking & turning up empty.
Aida & Iro are at least self-aware of things like .... always writing stories containing at least 1 shota, liking yandere, liking tsundere, and joke around about this back on their old blog... very "yep, I'm doing this again"....... I'm sure Iro walks into every other story cracking knuckles like, "and how will I convey this one's yandere?"...... Iro's self-aware of only being able to write misery too, and has a sort of... guidelines about what 'makes' a yandere..........
ところでヤンデレキャラって、強いか頭良くないと成り立たない気がするのですが、その両方に当てはまらないレントはヤンデレが出来ないって事になりますね。
押し倒そうにも力が無い。陥れようにも頭脳が無い。
ああ……。ヤンデレたら頭脳指数も上がるんでしょうか。語彙が増えそう、とは良く言われます。
From an entry here. I believe the image was Rudolph taking off Lent's goggles, wondering if there's a change in personality.... also, Iro is using this nasty word.... get a load of those connotations in action.
'By the way, I think a yandere has to be both strong and smart enough to accomplish anything, and Lent can't meet these requirements. He can't be a yandere.
If he wants to push her down, he doesn't have the strength to. Not smart enough to make her to fall either [i.e. by trickery].
aah….. I wonder if I'd be smarter if I were to ascend to yandere. I'm sure my vocabulary skill would increase.'
.....I think having Aida there probably helps Iro be more self-aware or thoughtful 'cuz she has commentary to add? All their little conversations about "what if this, what if that, would this character do this?" feel like honing/sharpening Iro's definitions, or challenging them..... for all the rambles, it's all so consistent with the modern-day.... it's scary....
Really, they feel so self-aware so early on.
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Conceptions of Outsourced Bookkeeping and Financial Controller Services
More and more small businesses are shifting gears and outsourcing their bookkeeping and accounting these days. However, when it comes to outsourced accounting services for small businesses many people still have certain mis-beliefs in their minds. They are hesitant about it and spend their lives dealing with the complexities of accounting on their own. Where they could outsource it to the accounting firm that is highly educated in a wide variety of the best technological processes to get the job done and has the singular goal in mind of providing you with the most accurate, up-to-the-minute financial information, as well. Gone are the days of needing an in-house accountant, with a ledger, monitoring every single transaction performed. It no longer takes an entire day’s worth of work to sort out key performance indicators for your business and generate the financial insights necessary for CEO’s to make decisions. Today’s technological advances have changed the way finances are handled, even the simplest of financial software can offer a more in-depth, accurate financial look at where your business is headed. Throughout the course of history, much trust has been placed in the hands of CPA’s leaving the business owner in the dark with not many options other than to simply trust that their CPA is handling everything correctly. But what is good if you don’t really understand what all that data mean? No matter how accurate, if you don’t quite comprehend what you’re looking at.
At this point you’re probably thinking, my in-house accountant is great and I don’t really need to outsource. Maybe that’s true. But maybe it’s not just the same. Any time you have a single in-house accountant there is a myriad list of potential business hazards just waiting to happen. Here the list of few risks of having one person managing your accounting and business financials:
• Lack of experience
• Limited internal controls
•Additional responsibilities and duties which detract from accounting and financial reporting
• Overhead costs
• Ongoing costs for hiring, training, and management of staff
• Variable (sometimes) unreliable performance and skill sets
• Fraud.
So what’s the value of outsourcing? Well here’s a list of some of the biggest advantages:
• You get a remote expert right at your fingertips
• You illuminate the possibility of fraud and minimize mistakes
• Also, in-house accountants often require continuous training and oversight, whereas a remote expert doesn’t and often brings a greater level of expertise and dependability without additional costs.
• Easily-accessible data-driven decision-making
• More time to focus on business growth, not confusing financial data
• No scaling issues! If your business takes off overnight, you’ve got your accounting ready to go where you grow!
• And let’s not forget the biggest advantage: saving money!
When you compare, outsourced accounting is the way to go. An outsourced accounting team typically cost anywhere from $2,000-$5,000 a month on average for a small business. Business-In-Focus offers monthly fee range between $200 to $900. When you put it in perspective hiring an in-house accountant it is far more costly. In-house accountants come with an annual salary, benefit costs, continuous training, and education, and even upgrade costs for software and technological changes within the industry. Outsourcing comes with none of those expenses and far more accurate and timely results, as well. If you’re debating on the better option for your small business and still have questions, email us! We are always here to help. At Business-In-Focus we are about your business. We understand your needs as a small business owner and want to see you succeed.
While thinking of outsourcing accounting services for small businesses, business owners often go on to believe that it would be way beyond their affording capability. You need to know that when you outsource accounting for your business to Business-In-Focus, you pay just monthly fee to have your month-end reports in forms of Income Statement and Balance This sounds really sensible and economical!
It is Difficult to trust. This is probably one of the biggest delusions that business owners have during outsourcing accounting services for small businesses. They think that it would never be safe to trust an outsider in the affair of accounting as it includes delicate matters of a transaction of money, company’s facts and figures and other confidential information. Although it is never like that. Accounting service providers are professionals who know how to handle your files with utmost confidentiality.
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Less = More With Kawaii Fashion
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