Another quick Procreate study of Loki <: I love him so muuuuch <3

Squirrel Girl: Uses the tesseract to turn into Sailor Moon

Loki, sobbing: THAT’S MY GIRL 😭

How to play nDimensional Time Travel chess:

Here's the updated art of the design I showed off in my latest video

A closed space in 2D is called a polygon, polyhedron in 3D, and polychoron in 4D. In math, calculations of multiple dimensions can be done with longer matrices; however, visualizing multiple dimensions can yield to very interesting observations. The tesseract is the 4D version of a cube, and even though it looks like a cube inside a larger cube, the tesseract is made up of 8 cubes with one of them wrapping itself over the entire shape.

Dracogon (Neuro/Spectral): Dracogons can shimmy themselves into tight spaces to avoid any predators, but they are slow at turning around. Dracogons often swim together, creating a wall of color that they themselves do not see at all.

Drachedron (Neuro/Spectral): Drachedrons hide inside a tough boxy exterior to scout their surroundings before changing their path of travel. Drachedrons can float directly up, down, left, right, forwards, or backwards, once they know where they want to go.

Drachoron (Neuro/Spectral): Drachorons use psychic energy to cover themselves with an additional layer then they are under attack. The webbing around Drachorons keep rising and falling as Dracorons can encase their whole bodies in the webbing.

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so from most of II’s drum cams i’ve seen, you can barely hear Vessel’s vocals… like do you think that ever makes him sad? not being able to properly hear his pretty siren voice on stage? :(

ofc feel free to ignore, i’m just a curious dude :)

Heeey, thank you for the ask! And I’d never ignore you or anyone else (on purpose, but my object permanence is as bad as a newborn's, lol) 🖤🖤

So, I have two answers for you. My first answer is that, yes, II probably does feel some type of way about not hearing Vessel’s amazing live singing (or even the Vesselettes, or III and IV). It’s obvious he’s a fan of the music he writes with Vessel, and he gets really into it during certain songs like Atlantic, where pauses between the percussion parts exist. But if it makes you feel better, II absolutely loves what he does and fully kills it every time he goes on stage. I’m sure it’s a sacrifice he willingly makes.

My second answer is much more technical and would apply to any touring drummer/musician, not just Sleep Token, so I’m just gonna shove it under a cut to hide my nerdiness, lol (and also not to shatter anyone's illusion with how much planning and work goes into live performances).

What we hear in II’s live drum playthroughs and what II hears while playing is a lot different. Performing musicians wear unique earplugs/earphones called in-ear monitors (I’ll abbreviate them to IEMs). The IEMs have several purposes, mainly to protect musicians’ hearing and allow them to hear themselves and backtracks while performing over everything else during a concert (because concerts are loud, obviously lol). But the IEMs also enable the musicians to hear other things, like the stagehands/sound techs can speak to them, they’ll more often than not have a metronome going, and they may even have spoken cues like, “Verse Two in 4 3 2 1.”

I can guarantee that II has at least a metronome going during all of Sleep Token’s rituals. Since none of the band really speaks on stage (I don’t count III’s yelling), II also might have either Sam (his drum tech) or an automated voice telling him what song he’s playing next, along with a numbered countdown for the beginning of the song. II might even get in-the-moment verbal queues from Sam, or Sleep Token’s FOH, Thom.

This isn’t Sleep Token, but the video below is an excellent example of what I’m talking about. I don't expect everyone to watch the whole thing but it's great, tempo changes, count-ins, and everything. Flash warning, just in case.

The two screenshots are from the same video and add a bit more information on what a musician might hear in their IEMs during live shows.

I might be alone here, but I really wish Sleep Token would release at least one of the live drum recordings with an in-ear mix like the video above. I’d nerd out so hard over hearing exactly what II or any of the other Eepy guys (especially Vessel during The Summoning, omg) are hearing live in their IEMs.

I know there are people who do mockups on YouTube of Popstar’s supposed IEM mixes and I swear if I had any musical knowledge or video editing skills it would be my self-proclaimed mission to put an in-ear mix into all of Sleep Token's live shows 😅😅

oh FUCK this guy who keeps calling himself the “Box Ghost” has the tesseract‼️‼️

Thanos : "Your optimism is misplaced, Asgardian."

Loki : "Well, for one thing, I'm not Asgardian. And for another… We have a Hulk."

Avengers : Infinity War

Lokitty <3

(This was requested by @/bookzofkay on instagram! Thank you for the request!)

Y'know, the franchise never really talked about the fact that Odin previously owned the Tesseract. The Red Skull finds it in Norway and describes it as "the jewel of Odin's treasure room". Why is it even on Midgard in the first place?

And how was nobody keeping tabs on it? Not even Heimdall, who sees all things in all realms? The Tesseract was in the wild for sixty years and nobody on Asgard even noticed until Loki got involved.

Odin claims Asgard to be the protector of the Nine Realms but he can't even keep track of his stuff. Why was this here? And how did you not have a single measure in place to notice that it was gone for decades? Odin has a lot to answer for, that the MCU just sort of forgets about.

AbsoluteSolver^4

"It's a... TESSAract" - yellow3682

Allowed by them to post this (arguably-good-as-a-wallpaper) art! Now that I think about it, it would be very fitting for Tessa if she somehow got an "upgraded" version of the AbsoluteSolver...

Kahhori is so cunty!!!

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a little tesseract

Why Pawns are the Worst 5D Chess Pieces

Pawns fuck everything up. They are my most favorite and most hated piece on the board. On one hand, they’re complicated, which is pretty interesting. On the other hand, they’re fucking complicated, which is infuriating. Let me explain why. Point one: Pawns are the only piece that make a distinction between “forward“ and “backward.“ When extending to higher dimensional space, the addition of extra directions begs the question, what does forward mean? Well, it depends on the layout of the board. Take this for example

We see that the x, z, and v axes do not bring us any closer to the opponents side, yet the y and w directions do. So should be allow a pawn to be able to move two “forward” directions (y-w) at once to capture? Obviously not! It breaks the balance of the game. Should we consider that restriction for all pieces? This is a fierce debate between me, and literally everyone I’ve every explained this to. I think we should. Point two: Pawns are a combination of 3 different pieces, each with unique conditions to their moves that almost no other piece has.

When actually coding an engine, you need to add all sorts of conditions that take this into account. The way I’ve done it is make the pawn a composite piece, consisting of a non-capture forward motion, a capturing forward-diagonal motion, or a starting double forward non-capturing motion. If we take this approach though, both queens, shogi pieces, and a check detector moveset can be defined as composites of other simpler pieces, with shogi pieces also utilizing “forward“ directions.

So complicated, but useful. Fine pawns, you win this one. Its interesting and actually not too hard, once you figure out all the fucked up conditions... for the most part...

Then you realize they can En Passant AND they’re the only piece to promote. Great, the promotion condition is made easy by defining extra-dimensional forwards, but the actual moves are worse. Not only is En passant only valid for one turn, but it also requires another piece be in a different location than the target motion, and captures a piece that it doesnt directly land on. No other piece capture works like this. Castling works fairly similar, and we can draw parallels to the two. You can view En Passant as first moving the pawn horizontally to capture, then moving it forward in a second command. Promoting is moving the pawn forward, and then moving a friendly queen on top of it. This also neatly applies to shogi drops. Castling is just moving the king and rook accordingly on the same turn, but like en passant requires another piece to be in a specific space other than where the king lands, and has non-checking conditions. Not that I want to think about Castling on a 5D Chess board, god forbid anyone fucking suggests it again. But what we learn from this is you need to break moves up into something smaller, that I call commands. A simple piece from ,piece to, coordinate from, coordinate to. By making moves out of these, they are also completely reversible. So great, moves are made of commands, we’re done here right? Not yet because this problem is made worst by the parallel universes.

See once we start introducing an actual multiverse, we start to need to perform multiple moves within a single turn, then submit our turn when all those moves are complete. Its not too bad if you’ve understood the move break down, but its still slightly annoying. Then comes the network. God fucking help me with the networking. Currently I’m writing a serializer that converts a turn into a series of integers and the nested structure is not conductive to that. This wouldnt be a fucking problem if it weren’t for the god damn pawns though. Note some of these are actually reverse pawns as well, so they can go the opposite direction around the torus.

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Vertical Revisits - Tesseract City

Revisiting Tesseract City - this time with a little fantasy mixed in. Actually, most of the this series was vertical alreay.