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Look at these beautiful poses. 10/10 photography skills!

Camel by Camel

HGAC WMS-03 Maganac

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Amazon is removing Download & Transfer option on Feb 26th 2025

Starting February 26, 2025, the “Download & Transfer via USB” option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the “Deliver or Remove from Device” option.

Basically, Kindle ebooks have to go to a kindle or kindle app.

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You folks are awesome

I have no idea what exactly happened, but my cup hypothesis post exploded over the past week, adding over 5000 data samples to add to my research.

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who participates, reblogs, gets their roommates and family and spouses to draw mugs, adds their own insights, adds even their own research and even blazes the post.

I will, of course, go through each and every one of the notes and asks, but it will understandably take a while to tally the results, especially since I have a very busy month ahead of me. Even Tumblr gave up after 245 email notifications about the comments. (there were 1300 lol)

I would like to express my special thanks to the wonderful @kelleygreenhare for blazing the post and @asexualreptile @indigostarblaster and @osterby for the amazing and meticulous info shared in the asks. I will reply to them in due time, but as you can see I got a little swamped, haha.

Does this mean I'm done with this study? No. Feel free to keep adding results, they will all be tallied! There are many interesting insights people often offer beyond the results and as neither my professor nor I are opposed to adjusting our assumptions, the louder the data will speak, the better.

Watch this spiral into a thesis lol

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I went hunting for the various Maguanac HGs because gunpla are cheap right now and instead stumbled over someone selling the full weapons Leo HG together with the newly released Altron HG.

Welcome to my collection, you ugliest of Wing suits. :D

I'm no fan of the Tallgeese series or Epyon, but nothing beats the eyesore that is the cluttered Altron. Why does it even have that shield on its shoulder? And the color scheme. It went from the beauty that is Shenlong to this.

Which is reflected in the price, by the way. This one sells for around 30 bucks newly released (which I got for twenty in the bundle), whereas Deathscythe has been out for a year already and they still want over 50$ for it.

Duo, stop being popular. You're driving up the prices. :(

I get Altron's design is paying homage to G Gundam and there is a lot of symbolism to this suit as well (which I'll get to in a separate post... eventually) but sigh it's still ugly and cluttered.

Oh well.

At least Endless Waltz made up for it.

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Oh, I know the pain of snapping tiny, protruding parts that are vital for the suit to stay whole and poseable. I snapped my MG Justice's right hip when I tried moving the leg into a different position...

The result was me having to buy tiny screws used for glasses and phones, an equally tiny screw driver to drill a hole into the busted part and then screwing the snapped peg back onto the leg joint.

It worked.

The patient is back to having a fully moveable hip!

Endless waltz was built after a little bit of drama !😇

Remember how I had two of the same kit? Yes well it’s a good thing because my first attempt was a fail. I was so demoralized lol. The red torso piece has a peg that connects it to the blue chest piece and for some reason my mind was like “oh that is a piece of the runner, you can cut that” soo… yeah... soon realized the mistake I had made but was like it’s fine it’s fine I’ll just keep going. But I got kind of flustered from that so I kept making more mistakes and needing to take it apart to fix and eventually one of the times when I was trying to take the head apart to fix the rubber neck piece, I snapped the clear internal piece that connects the eyes to the chin 🥲.

After crawling around on the floor for a while, I was able to find my pieces that snapped, but I ended up putting that box fully away and starting on the other one the next day. Which was super easy with no issues whatsoever -_- lol.. So I think I’ll buy a parts separator and some glue and just start over?

Are there any gunpla people with any suggestions?

(see clipped peg on red piece above :( )

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How did I never make the connection? I knew he looked familiar!

Nobody told me there was anime Leslie Nielsen in Gundam Wing!

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First Update!

Thank you to everyone who has participated in this experiment so far. Here's a first look for at the results I have been able to gather at this point in time.

Since I don't have enough data from non-Latin alphabet users yet, the following shows the distribution of only the Latin alphabet users.

The side of the bar represents how many people of a group opted for the handle on the left or right side.

We can see that the overwhelming majority of right-handed people choose to draw the handle on the right side. With left-handed and ambidextrous people the distribution is more even, though the low number of them compared to the right-handed group is too small yet to draw any real conclusions.

The exact numbers are:

Meaning:

20 out of 126 right-handed people (15.9%) drew the handle on the left side

106 out of 126 right-handed people (84.1%) drew the handle on the right side

14 out of 23 left-handed people (60.9%) drew the handle on the left side

9 out of 23 left-handed people (39.1%) drew the handle on the right side

I have seen some people in the comments and reblogs kindly voice concern over Tumblr not being ideal for reaching non-English speaking and therefore non-Latin alphabet using people, but that's absolutely fine! Because Latin alphabet or not, left-handed people are very valuable to both hypotheses in relation to their right-handed counterparts.

If my professor is right, then left-handed people should be much more likely to draw the handle on the left. So far, we're only at slightly more likely (61% isn't that much).

As far as my own hypothesis goes, many people have pointed this out already, and I, too, have discarded the notion that the presence of single letters within an alphabet is the reason for the handle choice and am instead now focusing on how the letters/characters are written. Latin letters are strictly left to right, Japanese, for example, also has a predominantly left to right stroke order (with exceptions, of course). Since most people draw the cup first and then add the handle, it could feel more natural for them to "continue" on the right, as that is what we usually do when writing.

(When our professor did the experiment with us, the person next to me drew the handle first, then the cup, and so ended up with the handle facing left.)

I have taken to various Discord servers to hopefully get some data from Arabic users, as I was told they favor the left side regardless of their dominant hand, as well as other groups, but so far all I've gotten are threats by mods to not self-promote when I asked them for permission to ask people to participate. lol

I'm allowed to throw money in return for promo at one though, so let's see how that works out.

Oh, and as a last note. I'm very sorry about the cup = no handle confusion because of paper cups. A "cup" in both my native tongues always has a handle because it's specifically the one made out of porcelain.

I had hoped having to specify "paper cup" would have prevented the confusion, alas. Sorry again.

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

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Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

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I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

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Peanuts, June 9, 1952

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Btw - in Spanish you can say por los jajas and it's like "for the lulz" or "for giggles" etc

Thought everyone should know

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You have no idea how right you are, OP. The original made the far better choices as far as symbolism is concerned. The amount of layers is actually crazy when you know what to look for.

Because putting a dragon motif on a red, Chinese-styled shirt is traditional wedding attire in China (though to be fair, the dragon would be gold, but still). See below:

The remake just made Ranma look extra Asian/kung fu fighter since it made his shirt black. The original has him resemble a groom. And what does he yell in front of everyone? That Akane is his fiancée and that he'll kill Mikado if he tries to kiss her again.

How fitting that the one who emphasizes their engagement is the one wearing the outfit resembling wedding attire.

As one can see above, the couple outfit would have been complete if Akane had worn red with a phoenix motif. But then they'd really look like they're about to get hitched and Akane wasn't there yet. Instead, she gets a butterfly motif, on a similarly Chinese-styled shirt.

Butterfly motifs remind Chinese people of the Chinese folktale of Liang Zhu (The Butterfly Lovers), often referred to as the "Chinese Romeo and Juliet" in the West. While it is similarly a tragic tale of two lovers, the connection to Akane and Ranma doesn't come from the tragic part, but from their meeting. Zhu wants to study, but to do so she has to disguise herself as a man, and it's in this disguise she meets fellow scholar Liang, with whom she immediately becomes friends (and then slowly falls in love).

Does this remind anyone of the first episode? Yes? Good.

The remake falls completely flat by comparison. Ranma's shirt is just over the top Asian and Akane's shirt has four butterflies, which destroys the reference to the Butterfly Lovers since those are only two. No hidden references to epic love or marriage going on there. Just a light/dark theme between Ranma and Akane. Not even a proper yin yang theme since Akane is missing the dark part and the genders are flipped. Boo.

Similarly, Ryouga and Ranma are completely mismatched in the original, as they should be. The complementary color to green is red, but Ranma's outfit is predominantly orange which fits better with blue. Zero connection there other than the arm guards. No motifs. Absolutely fitting, given how matched Ranma and Akane were.

Remake Ryouga and Ranma match, as you've already said. They use the same color palette and they even align the collars. The pankou, or Chinese frog closures (the "stitches" you meant), are both straight down, matching each other, just like Akane's and Ranma's vertical ones matched.

And the question is, why are they matching? The first thing they do is hit each other. It's not like they don't establish right away that they don't like each other.

So, yeah. The original is waaaaay better.

In general, in my opinion. Hah.

today i was existing as usual and realised how the 1989 version of the ice skating arc gets the outfits way better than the new 2024 version (im horrible at analysis so itll probably get very repetitive and wordy but i tried)

first lets look at the 1989 outfit combos

if we look at ranma and akane's outfits, theyre not too different if you remove the butterfly and dragon images. they're both red, with some yellow highlights, and both have the same shade of purple somewhere, like in akanes sleeves or ranma's ribbon thing. they both have the stitch (please tell me what its called sorry) in pretty much the exact same position. yes they're a bit of a mess and aren't perfect, but they still manage to work together pretty well and in the end when the goodbye whirl comes along, they trust each other enough and hold onto each other, showcasing theyre a good pair despite their flaws. compare that to ranma and ryogas outfits. they barely share the same anything really, ryoga being pretty much entirely green and ranma being yellow/orange and red. you could make the argument that the pink bow/charlotte thingy or that the yellow edges/yellow-orange top part or that the black cuffs on both link them together, but in the end if you look at the two outfits they dont mix. theres nothing to link the two together pretty much, showcasing how they absolutely hate working together and want nothing to do with each other and when the goodbye whirl comes along for them, ranma tries desperately to hold on but ryoga lets go, also showing their lack of trust in each other

compare this to the 2024 outfits

while ranma and akane's outfits do share some elements, such as the stitch and the light yellow, theres not really much else of note, and ultimately they dont look that similar, which doesnt really say anything about their partnership on the ice. id argue that somehow ryoga and ranma match better than ranma and akane. both have black as their outfits main colour and yellow and pink highlights sprinkled all around, only made even better by the fact in this version ranma has pink hair and not red. its giving the complete opposite impression than the original and idk i just prefer the original really

says a lot more about their relationships than the newer ones, which i guess you could say are more aesthetically pleasing but just missing that symbolism

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live action XXXG-01H2 Gundam Heavyarms Custom

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Y'all, I'm losing my damn mind. Some random Joan Cusack sitcom was out here in 2001, repping Gundam Wing Gunpla. Deathscythe, my beloved!

On a more serious note, it does kinda tell you where Gundam was in mainstream culture.