my ideal depiction of the von karma family soap opera is like incredibly hyperspecific but one of the most important notes is that, at the end of the day, miles & franziska have absolutely no idea how manfred actually felt about them and to be honest theyre not even sure if they Want to know. its about the ambiguity.

d+d comic

fuck it pronouns in BIOS

Undertale yellow fun event/genocide/ pacifist secret spoilers (trigger warning for implied gore / child death)

https://twitter.com/PHlebushka/status/1736155172227739724?t=UUVZmlIfBv-TmsKzNEZEfA&s=19

I've been thinking about this tweet (the images are not mine) on the fun events in the ruins and after first realizing that the charred pillar is integrity thanks to other commenters there , I think these pillars in order basically tell the story of their encounter with axis in some form--axis MANGLED the poor kid

But more specifically, when he did so, it was likely he took their head off based on that damage

No wonder Chujin got hesitant when he saw the results and wanted to hide his involvement...

But anyway Cut to genocide run with clover. And what do they do to axis after hearing he killed a kid?

I'm not sure it's really justice at that point, but god that's such a fascinating, sad, and disturbing parallel.

dungeon meshi fanart has two modes, 1) a silly little joke with some fun autistic people and wacky proportions and 2) some of the most gut-wrenchingly gorgeous paintings and images I’ve ever seen in my goddamn life that I feel could be studied for ages. And this is because that’s also just what the dungeon meshi manga is like

Twitch Integration Part A, Customer Swap Stories #3

Special Thanks to @changinghands for submitting these images!

Recently, Twitch introduced a new integration with Swap Tech Enterprise that when enabled, at the end of the stream the highest donator would swap bodies with the streamer for a predetermined amount of time on the streamers end. John had heard about this and immediately started looking for a stream that had this enabled so that he could potentially experience a real life body swap. As he looked through all the current streams happening with the feature enabled, he came across dollthighs stream.

As people joined his stream, he let them know about the new feature and that he has currently enabled it. He also informed them that once the stream ended, the top donator would get to spend 2 days in his body, allowing them the chance to lead a stream on their own before switching back. John knew this would be the body he wanted to experience for a couple of days and joined the stream. Immediately, donations started to pour in and before he knew it, thousands of people will jumping on the chance to have just a couple of days in dollthighs body. As the stream started to come to an end, John sent a donation for 5,000 dollars came in, the highest dollthighs had ever seen in his time streaming.

“Well it looks like we have a winner!” dollthighs said as the notification popped. He mentioned that he would be ending the stream now and that the donator could expect to be in his body within the next couple of minutes. Once the stream ended, a notification popped up on John’s end stating that dollthighs had accepted the terms and conditions of the swap, and now all that was needed was his acceptance of the terms and conditions as well. He quickly skimmed through the terms and conditions and accepted them. Before he knew it everything went dark. As he came to, John noticed he was no longer in his room, but in a room where the walls to the ceiling were covered in dolls! He knew the swap must have worked and quickly ran to the bathroom. Looking at his new reflection in the mirror, he began to rip off his clothes in excitement! 

“This is going to be the best 2 days of my life” John exclaimed as he ran back to computer to start up a stream and play some video games! 

tell me, what makes a human?

the fact of the matter is that given the current state of both the art industry and the legal landscape of copyright/ip law, there will not ever be legislation around AI image generation that restricts companies while benefiting independent artists. rather than pushing for formal legal weigh-ins on what does or does not qualify as theft by generative outputs (i still think there could be something to be said about what companies are legally allowed to input into their generative models) we really just need to continue to. well. use our brains.

i may be in the minority in that i believe there are plenty of ways to use generative models as a tool in your artistic process (rather than being a replacement for an artistic process) that doesn't infringe on the work or livelihood of your fellow artists. and rather than wasting energy on trying to shove this genie back into the bottle, which, will not ever happen, we should work on publicly discussing where these boundaries lie. and we should also, without question, continue giving major shit to companies who are using AI generated images to avoid paying artists.

Alan Wake (whose face and voice we find on Thomas Zane and Casper Darling, respectively) ends up in an antagonistic relationship with Alex Casey (whose face and voice we find on Sam Lake and Zachariah Trench, respectively).

Casper Darling and Zachariah Trench? By the end, their relationship was antagonistic.

The Casey-Trench voice was once a guide-friend for Wake-Darling.

And then, they were fighting.

One was suspicious of the other, thinking he was lying, hiding something.

While the other was unaware of the darkness that was growing and consuming the former's mind, his ignorance letting it fester. Feeding it, even.

The original faces, Thomas Zane and Sam Lake? In this latest iteration they've spoken with their own voices while in the Dark Place, only in the presence of a camera.

Alan Wake and Zachariah Trench? In the end, while in a nightmare dimension, both get shot by a woman who both of these men meddled in their lives, threatening the well being of their loved one.

At least one had a hand in his fate, willing it, accepting it. The other? He was fully gone, his will overtaken by the nightmare.

A version of Alex Casey did say it after all. He and writer, they were the same.

And finally, the real Sam Lake? By happenstance he offered his face for a collaborative project, and became a symbol. Even if he tried to fight it, tried to replace it, he had to concede. The story demanded it, as if writing it wasn't enough, the narrative claimed his visage.

There's no need to make overt mentions or put the image of the Ouroboros in posters. The serpent is interwoven in the fabric of the narrative itself.

showing off for the housewarden 🏀

Jacobson's Basic algebra 1 gives such a nice argument for why algebraic numbers have minimum polymials, making it a corollary of the fact that polynomial rings over fields are principal ideal domains. Consider a field extension E/F (i.e. a field E that contains a field F). For any u ∈ E we have in E the subring F[u] and the subfield F(u). These are defined as the smallest subring and subfield of E respectively that contain both F and u. If E = F(u) for some u ∈ E, then E/F is called a simple field extension.

Let F(u)/F be an arbitrary simple field extension. Consider the polynomial ring F[X]. By the universal property of polynomial rings (which is essentially what one means when they say that X is an indeterminate), there is a unique ring homomorphism F[X] -> F(u) that sends any a ∈ F to itself and that sends X to u (you can think of this homomorphism as evaluation of a polynomial at u). If the kernel of this homomorphism is the zero ideal, then F[u] is isomorphic to F[X], so u is transcendental over F. If the kernel is non-zero, then by definition there are non-zero polynomials p ∈ F[X] such that p(u) = 0 in F(u), so u is algebraic over F. Because F[X] is a principal ideal domain, there is a polynomial p that generates the kernel. In other words, p divides all polynomials q such that q(u) = 0 in F(u). Two polynomials (over a field) generate the same ideal if and only if they differ by a constant factor, so there is a unique monic minimum polynomial in F[X] for u.

Shitty Sir Integra Hellsing aesthetic: every cool hot girlboss has to have a fatal flaw to save her from the mary sue allegations, right? a shame that hers had to be the most damning of all: being english

the magic begins, when...

you start to say 'no'

you start to put yourself first

you start to treat & see yourself as the queen you are

Thank you for creating that header image. It lives rent-free in my head <3

thank you for noticing that header image, I... forgot I drew it

mbmbam safety town Marik

POV you're on the Perihelion's Space Tindr profile and it's making you pass a quiz about identifying Space OSHA hazard warning signage with a score of at least 90% before you can swipe right.

Sein oder nicht sein (To be, or not to be), Gustav Süs (1823-1881)

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