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Some thoughts on the dca design in the ruin dlc
So, the daycare attendant(s) mouth moves when they speak. Their eyes seem a lot more mobile too.
Did sun/moon have a mobile face when they worked at the theatre, and then fazco slapped a mask on them when they were moved to the daycare?
I can't find it rn but I remember either unused masks in the game or the theatre decorations for comedy/tragedy but it was their face.
I mean, it's a cheap and unfeeling way to prevent another bite of '87, which seems right up corporate's alley. No moving parts on the face where kids are likely to touch.
No reason to put that many moving parts under a static face unless they were there first, right?
So in a way all the fics that start with a face upgrade are actually restoration fics?
#ruin dlc spoilers#fnaf dlc spoilers#ruin eclipse#ruin spoilers#i hope i tagged it enough#fnaf security breach dlc#techno babble
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Technical papers are such a crap shoot. So many of them are written by people who clearly hate writing and believe that information should be inaccessible to people who maybe don't have the familiarity or formal training they do.
But I hope the full text of that study on tin whiskers isn't paywalled.
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does anyone else believe in short mechanic hegemol with big mecha robot thing or is it just me in this cold lonely world
#hegemol is but yAY BIG 🤏#hes just a little guy#a little fella#he will techno babble you to death#he would live in the armory and just build gadgets and some of them are deadly#no one but folk in the palace knows hes but a small pillbug#imagining how he got hired makes me chuckle#he just wants to feel tall#hollow knight#my pile of rocks#my rosy doodles#hollow knight hegemol#hollow knight the five great knights#hollow knight art#a red thread au#<- kinda
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Technobabble. Whatever you say, king.
#Tuvok#tuvok cam#so iconic of Neelix to say 'stop trying to impress me with your...techno-babble =_='#he said it!! he said the line!!!
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A quick guide to vaccines for scifi writers
(can you tell I've seen too many wildly innacurate bits of fiction this week?)
What is a vaccine for?
A vaccine is a fake disease. Its job is to pretend to be one very specific disease and con your body into fighting it, without risking you getting dangerously unwell. I compare it to fire drills when I'm talking to children. You have fire drills at school/work so that if there's a fire, everyone knows what to do and everyone can be safe. You have vaccines so that, if you ever meet this disease, your body knows what to do, and your body can be safe.
Important: Vaccines prevent. Vaccines very rarely cure. In almost all circumstances, you have to have had the vaccine you come in to contact with the disease, sometimes several weeks before. In a very small number of cases, in diseases with very long incubation periods (the time gap between catching it and getting sick), vaccines can be given in that long time gap and still work. Once you have symptoms, vaccines will not help you.
How long does a vaccine take to work?
It varies. The fastest one I've ever seen boasted 72 hours to onset of immunity, five to fifteen days is more normal
What is a vaccine made of?
Dead disease (killed vaccines), maimed disease (live or attenuated vaccines) fake disease (mRNA vaccines), or part of a disease (subunit vaccines). Dead viruses or bacteria, obviously, can't actually make you ill. But immune systems are suspicious gits, they'll still practice killing dead bugs most of the time. Subunit vaccines also are very safe, but small mutations (variations) in the bugs can stop the vaccines from working. Live vaccines tend to be very, very effective, but might be able to make you sick if your immune system is very weak. I could spend a long time explaining why mRNA vaccines are so, so clever (I thought they were likely to be impossible when I was an undergrad - like teleportation or universal translation software), but here is a nice readable explanation if you're curious.
But the disease in my story is a virus, so antibiotics won't work on it, so I need a vaccine, right?
Okay, yes, but also no. In face of a viral epidemic or pandemic, a vaccine is pretty much your only hope. But, as COVID showed us, vaccines are bespoke, slow to make, and don't work perfectly - vaccinated people still got COVID and, occasionally, still died.
But there are a whole lot of other disease on which antibiotics won't work. Fungal infections (like in The Last of Us, or murcomycosis in real life) are scary and we don't have many treatment options for them. In many cases, you have to cut the infected tissue out like it's a tumour. Parasitic disease is a big group of weird and wonderful stuff which (mostly) won't respond to antibiotics. There's some nightmare fuel in parasitic diseases! Malaria is a parasitic disease, toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease (and it rewires your brain a little), lungworms and heartworms are parasites. Some parasites even have the fun catch that, if you kill them quickly/in the wrong way, they release stuff that kills the host anyway. Stargate SG-1 had a go at this concept.
And, certainly these days, there are bacterial infections that are almost impossible to cure with antibiotics. Clostridium difficile, Pseudomonas aerogiosa...
Bottom line: Don't use vaccines as a ex machina fix for a disease in scifi. They only work for prevention, and take at least days to work, which is far too slow for most narrative purposes. Gross yourself out reading about unusual parasites or fungal diseases and come up with something more original and more horrifying than a virus.
And vaccinate your kids. And yourself
#science#on writing#creative writing#fanfic#the 'techno' in my username is a nickname earned for giving out scientific 'technical' advice to other fanfic writers#Yes i will write science babble for you if you ask
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Episode 32 B plot, or as I like to call it:
Eiffel is jealous of Maxwell flirting with his robot gf
#doug eiffel#alana maxwell#hera wolf 359#eiffera#tell me that techno-babble isn't how maxwell flirts#you can't#wolf 359#gay people
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Just how sentient is Mirage and how sentient is he intended to be? He can obviously learn and develop emotions.
I'm trying to decide if he's more like those chatbots who learn through the people who use them, or if he's genuinely "alive" and sentient.
#ask#ask blog#mirage program#mirage mew#mew oc#the gif#techno babble is not my strong suite#but let’s try lol#tldr he wasn’t intended to be emotional#he was preprogrammed with a few responces to be more palatable#but the intention was for him to be a very powerful research device#too bad he’s accidentally been researching emotions during the testing phase before he was released to being used#he’s not even aware of how much he’s learned but he has learned a lot and at this point I’d call him an emotionally aware being#sentient? that’s up for debate#being digital and all#that’s the fun of it#what’s the threshold for an Ai yo be alive versus just really good at copying?
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So parts of tumblr are holding elections/polls to decide the sexyman/icon/poor meow meow of [x] tumblr and I really wanna do one for EDM but I don't know how many of us there are that could participate
EDM crew rise up I know there's like. 5 of you at least
#this is a big joke but also.#lmfao#also i feel like itd be less sexyman and more....idk blorbo? the person whos music makes u go absolutely FERAL#itd probs be seperated by genre/country/etc#like. french touch/electro/house. and then like american dubstep and then the american vaporwave/nu-disco scene#those r the ones im most familiar with lmfao#oh and also a techno bracket would be cool but i do not know much abt them im afraid#im mostly talking out of my ass rn i just think itd be really funny to see Daft Punk v. Justice and the subsequent horror of discourse#that it would bring up#edm stuff#bird babbles
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Despite being a massive fan of JRR Tolkien and the fantasy world of middle earth, I really struggle to get into other fantasy. Like I’ll try reading or listening to the audiobook and as soon as I here “I am a Sta’Kai Greatest warriors of the last free realm Trabboor on the continent of Oudalin” I just can’t take it serious enough to continue.
And I’m not quite sure what the difference between Tolkien’s made up words; hobbits, Kazad-Dûm / Moria, Mordor, Minas Tirith, and other authors. But one I can take seriously and the other I can’t. Even though they are all made up words.
Maybe it’s the fact the the LotR movies did such a good job introducing me to the world as a world that could exist and that took itself seriously while not being an edge lord about it. Or that Tolkien wrote them under the imaginary filter of translating ancient text to more modern and familiar language.
The closest I would probably say is Game of Thrones or the Witcher. Both of which I only know from their tv adaptations.
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hey, to everyone who may be seeing this, I want you to know that it’s okay to grieve. that you’re not alone. and to cherish those who are around you, all those who you love and love you in return.
posting might slow down or stop completely for a while on my end, just so y’all know and aren’t worried. keep your heads up, and take it easy on yourselves. let yourselves grieve and process.
to anyone who may need or want a place to vent or talk, my DMs are open to you. I cannot promise good responses, but it’s a space to at least spew your thoughts to someone - and I know that can be helpful, just to send a text box of it all to somewhere
<3
#check technos latest update or my prev reblog if you’re confused. it is very heavy news#i just want y’all to know you’re not alone. and that it’s okay. okay?#keep your heads up maybe donate if you have the funds there’s plenty of links around#his merch for example as well#it’s. I’ve not fully processed this myself. fuck man#tell someone you love them today okay? keep on keepin on#will babbles
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A light tapping filled the diagram-filled room. Cold light from a screen served as the only illumination, bathing Najma in white and blue. Their optics were fixed on projections of wide expanded synthetic neural networks from a variety of different omnics, some awakened and others not.
Something distracted them though. A soft electrical whirring followed by a light click of metal against metal. They looked over their shoulder and turned their seat to get a better look of what was behind them.
Setesh stood dormant in one of the corners, statuesque like a decorative suit of armor. Their optics were visibility active, but the lights indicating it were dim, faintly blinking on and off like that of a computer on standby. They turned their attention down to the station next to Setesh. It was were Najma would be plugged in for post-test analyses. There was no reason for that to be making a sound, the wires were security stored away.
The sound came again. In the corner of their vision, they spotted something. Movement. They switched their focus back to Setesh. Specifically, to their head.
This time, they kept their optics firmly on Setesh.
There it was again, and this time they saw what it was. Involtary convulsions. Without any seeming intent, Setesh's neck actuation activated and very slightly angled their head upward like they were about to look up, just enough for one of their hard metal antennae to touch part of the wall.
This was unusual in omnics, especially the less human ones. It usually resulted from a fault somewhere within a unit's system.
Najma kept looking, considering their next course of action. It was basically the kind of standby where non-essential functions were put on hold to divert processing power to another task for increased efficiency. It was easy to break a properly-functional unit out of.
Perhaps, they could do something discrete to snap them out of it...
[ Sending direct device connection request... ]
There was no quick response. At least, not by Setesh's usual metric, but Najma wouldn't delve too deep into what the ramifications of this might be just yet. Shortly after Najma making a mental note of this, Setesh's head twitched ever so slightly in their direction.
[ Direct connection accepted... ]
> What is it you require, Najma?
> You were exhibiting involuntary tremors and head convulsions during deep memory processing. It is unusual...and concerning. Your neural network may have a faulty layer causing the stored memory being processed to be mistaken for active input.
> ...
> If you could inform me what you were processing before the connection request was made, it could help narrow down which section of your processing unit may be responsible.
> ...I do not wish to recall this information.
> ...May I ask why?
> You may not.
> I see. It could a series of different causes. For example, it could be the part of your processing unit that mirrors the function of the amygdala in humans, the component responsible for identifying threats.
> No.
> ...Peculiar response. If I could be allowed to perform a second party diagnostic, I could pinpoint the error. We could also run one during your deep memory processing.
> ...I will...think about it.
[ Direct connection terminated. ]
Once the connection was broken, Setesh continued to remain still for several minutes, seemingly staring ahead at nothing. Of course, Najma was aware their optics were advanced enough that turning their head to see most available visual data in the room was unnecessary and only served to place objects into direct view of their central optic. Setesh could, realistically, be looking at anything.
Najma kept their attention on them for a while, but eventually returned to their studies. As soon as their head was turned away, Setesh walked to the door. They could hear their heavy and notably hasty footfalls. Najma didn't turn to look when they heard the exit to their quarters open and close.
After having been linked with Setesh at least once well enough to walk one of their lived experiences before, they really didn't feel like it needed to be said. It didn't need to be said that Setesh had suffered tremendous damage on multiple occasions and witnessed things no person should. It didn’t need to be said that both left a permanent impact on them, both mentally and physically. Najma knew how to repair some of it, but this required a level of trust only the reckless tended to have... Setesh was far too on edge to be quite that reckless, even if they'd proven their skills on one of their own people before.
Perhaps, they simply needed time. Perhaps, they'd just grown used to this way of being. They would see.
[ Receiving direct device connection request... ][ Source: Sj-0000a. ]
[ Altering designation... ]
[ Source: Setesh. ]
[ Direct connection accepted... ]
> ...
> Is there something you wish to ask me, Setesh?
> ...Yes. I request that you keep what we previously discussed confidential. Suspicions of an internal vulnerability would be detrimental to the cause.
> Of course.
[ Direct connection terminated. ]
Well, it was... a step. Najma wasn't sure what direction a step it was, but it was a step.
#ic: najma#ic: setesh#drabble: setesh#drabble: najma#just some mindless writing ...from someone with limited ai learning knowledge forvive my unscientific techno babble#long post#set vc: no one can learn about this. Ramattra can't learn about this. Maximilien can't learn about this. OGUNDIMU DEFINITELY can't learn a-#naj vc: It's literally just the machine equivalent of a mild REM sleep behavior you aren't dying...
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I miss when ebay was actually like an online yard sale - collectibles, things they didn't need/want, stuff you could only get from other countries directly from real people, mystery finds from in person yard sales, etc.
Now you have to wade thru the muck of drop shipping from China and who knows if anything is really real.
Trying to shop less on Amazon but the search results are clogged up with temu. Clear out the temu, its all aliexpress, seeing, and similar mystery companies that may or may not be legit.
I just wanna buy second hand stuff from actual people! I want to give the things another chance to be loved! I want my home to contain things with character and history!
#techno babble#thrifting#second hand shopping#not even getting into thrift flipping/reselling because honestly that's always been a thing#just not to the degree it seems to be now#i want inanimate objects to get the chanxe to reach 100 yeara and gain their soul#if they haven't already
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technoblade’s death is still not really fully processing in my brain. for the past few days i’ve been looking at fanart and videos and even rewatching some of his videos and it’s all Technoblade Stuff, and he’s just so present that it’s so hard to process that he’s really gone. technoblade never dies?
#blast babbles#technoblade#death#?????#technoblade. TECHNOBLADE. DIED. he’s just such a Figure that it doesnt fully register#brain just knows there’s lots of techno content#i dont know what to do rn#its almost 4am lolllllll#maybe i’ll delete this in the morning
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William: You work fast.
Vanessa: It's not really a big deal, I'm just going in and repeating the process. So far there hasn't been any major differences.
Vanessa: Again so far. Others are different, basically will have to start from scratch.
Vanessa: But you can move about just fine, I don't have to do anything else on that front?
William: Nothing.
Vanessa: Right, you can
Vanessa: flit?
Vanessa: hop?
Vanessa: blink?
Vanessa: skitter?
Vanessa: Yeah we're going with skitter as the correct word for virus ambulation.
Vanessa: But you can just skitter in yourself.
William: Skitter isn't right either.
Vanessa: Well you tell me then.
Vanessa: Also be careful, the Malhare is hard to notice if you don't know it's there or what to look for but once you do it's easy to start seeing.
Vanessa: Actually watching it, you, sort of in action, that's a hop. Right this is why you were such a bitch to snare in the first place.
Vanessa: Still, be careful about anyone detecting that there's anything to be concerned about. I'd say more but I never exactly studied sentient worms.
Vanessa: I guess that would be the best thing to classify the Malhare under right now.
Vanessa: Technically isn't a virus since I don't think there's a root.
Vanessa: Unless that's me. Or you attached to me.
Vanessa: Should probably pick a better word for that too to make it clear it's the soul half.
Vanessa: Why the fuck are souls even real, who let my mom be right?
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William: Good news, Vanessa.
Vanessa: Yeah I'm packing up to head out. Great news for me. You kind of vanished on me there, everything's still fine?
William: Perfectly.
Vanessa: What did you do?
William: I was able to get quite a bit further than we expected, and turns out I can attach parts of the Malhare onto other machines.
Vanessa: You know what I'm going to just stay late to work on all of this a bit more.
William: You can go home, I don't need anything else from you and if I do, I'll say something.
Vanessa: I just need to take some notes down.
Vanessa: But you agree that half is called Malhare now?
William: Only because you're getting hung up on words today.
Vanessa: It's important, okay? You might want to have some idea how the Malhare functions technically at some point. It would help to start having some level of documentation.
Vanessa: Even if I have to use my sketch pad since I can't exactly type this up here.
William: At least I'm already dead this time.
Vanessa: ?
William: The last time I dealt with someone getting this excited it ended up with me in hospital for a fortnight.
Vanessa: Great. I just need to make up some reason I'm staying late. Stay there. Actually. You can go places now...
#The Chat log semi fic#Vanessa is fucking vibrating by the end of this#that adorable fucking nerd#and RIP me having to deal with any level of techno babble
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This time on “Hyperspecific and Often Projection-y Headcanons with Lilyminer” . . . . .
C!Philza misses the ancient Greeks and their billion different words for love. Cuz really, how can a immortal being cope with having to describe thousand year old relationships with others with one four letter word? It’s very inconvenient.
#he shares my thoughts exactly#someone asks him how he feels about Techno and he proceeds to make several weird hand gestures while babbling a loosely comprehensible-#-string of words before landing on: so like do you know the term Philia? it’s that! no? . . . damn this stupid tongue#mcyt#dream smp#dsmp#c!philza#philza#philza headcanon#dsmp headcanon#mcyt headcanons
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Ok I was trying to torment mutal with Poland au dsmp but it made me yearn for techno and philza in Bieszczady mountains...
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For those unaware, Bieszczady are farely low mountains but are considered to be a place to run away and live in your little hut ("a może by tak rzucić wszystko i wyjechać w Bieszczady? Rough translation: "maybe I should throw everything away and go to Bieszczady") ofc nowdays it's harder to go there to never seen or heard again but still most of areas are far away from eachother and signal is bad.
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That being said. That's the place for them. They would go on mountain tops to see sunrise, harvest wild berries and mushrooms :)
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