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Don’t mess with my gang 😤

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The continuation of my earlier post. I had too many good ideas last night and I just had to do the rest of the song. I also added a few more scenes of Luke being short that I forgot to include in the original.

Also last time I forgot to say this, but I should thank @dearesthershel for his HD miracle mask and azran legacy cutscenes. Also eat pant, Puzzle Birb and Early Owl for their respective Luke compilations (all linked. Please watch them if you want to see more Luke being adorable and/or stupid).

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shocking news: very predictable woman introduced to character with her favorite archetype and gets attached

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might as well post the other memo pad drawings i do. jean descole everyone

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Desmond would love the jokes in Christmas crackers. Absolutely love them. He's sitting there cackling at the dinner table on Christmas day and the rest of the Layton family is like ?

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I had Tom Cardy's Perception Check in my head and then I was thinking about this post by @spaceistheplaceart about Luke's height and I guess this was the natural consequence:

The lyrics to the song are in the Tom Cardy video if you want to read them (the part I used is 0:56-1:18)

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Having studied high school maths, this was easy except the first time I tried to solve it I missed the "the bowl still has 2 cups left" bit and that messed up my answer.

When I say it's easy I mean it in the way 50% of Layton maths puzzles are just weirdly worded linear algebra problems and I got good at those in high school. I'm more noting that Layton maths puzzles are simple as a rule because there's not much else you can do. If you know how to turn words into equations, there's not much that can trip you up after that except miscalculations. (The other 50% of maths puzzles are trick questions that require no real math in case you wondered)

this is a perfectly suitable Layton puzzle. I'd give it 30 picarats because of the two unused bowls tripped me up. I would just advise rewording the line "the bowl still has 2 cups left" to "the pot still has two bowlfuls left".

My working out is below if you're interested:

50 = 2 + a + c/2 [i.e. the number of total bowls (50) must be equal to the number of uneaten bowls (2) plus the number of adults (a) plus half the number of children (c) since each child only eats half a bowl]

Also,

c = 4a [for each child there are four adults: if a=1, c=4x1=4, if a=2, c=4x2=8 etc etc ad infinitum]

Now, if we take the first equation and replace c with 4a:

50 = 2 + a + (4a)/2

⇒ 50 = 2 + a + 2a

⇒ 50 = 2 + 3a

⇒ 48 = 3a

⇒ a = 16 [that means 16 adults]

Now, we substitute a with 16 in the c = 4a equation:

c = 4x16

⇒ c = 64 [and thus 64 children]

Since the question wants total number of people, that's just

a + c = 16 + 64 = 80

So 80 people.

Mkay I adjusted the conditions of the puzzle in my fic so here goes.

A man and his wife bring soup to a family reunion. He serves himself a bowl, then passes the pot. His wife serves herself and passes it along, so long and so forth. Every adult takes a bowl, and every child takes one half of a bowl. The pot, when full, can hold 50 bowls of soup.

And by the end of it, the bowl still has 2 cups left. If there are 4 children to every adult, how many total people are there in the family?

The answer is meant to be 80. 48 total bowls / 3 bowls per 5 people (1/2 bowl per child*4 children + 1 adult) is 16 groups of 3 bowls (and 16 groups of 5 people).

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Straight spoilers for unwound future ending so I put it under cut come watch me deteriorate

bitches need to stop being to invested in tiny videogame people (I am bitches)

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so do we all agree that the future Hershel planned with Claire was to have a family with kids and that's why they both go around adopting anything that moves

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Mostly working on the pl gift exchange rn... so no art. Sadly. Not until I get up and finish that. but what (lower effort) non art thing should I post

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#for some reason when I matched them up I made Jerry water George earth Elaine fire and Kramer air

That's actually exactly what I was going to go with when I started writing this post and then halfway through I changed my mind.

Mostly because of George. But he really does have earth vibes (even the name George has 'geo' (Earth) in it). I just think I could imagine him doing the Ozai statue pose while yelling TWIX! (or whatever the avatar equivalent would be... Varri-cakes?) and that really convinced me.

He'd also work well as a non-bender, just angry at all the benders thinking they're better than him...

Also because it doesn't make much sense for a fire bender to run away from a fire.

But yeah for the others:

Jerry as water because he's kind of cool, aloof and obsessed with hygiene. But he's also completely unserious and isn't really 'rigid' in other respects.

Elaine as fire: I mean. have you seen her? The way she mercilessly tears off George's toupee and throws it out the window? I love her spunk. The only thing against her being fire is she dislikes hot weather (the heat! My God the heat!).

I feel the fact you really could wiggle things around to get any of them to fit any element just shows how arbitrary this can get, but it's more a matter of which aspect of their personality to you want to highlight thematically through the element.

Personally I always found Jerry the least 'interesting' character. he's the bread of the Seinfeld Sandwich (perhaps a nice marble rye, but still the bread). Things happen around him and the cast are pulled back to him like gravity. George is the meat (probably pastrami, the most sensual of all the salted cured meats). His stories are generally the big thing and are integral. Elaine is like the (big) salad: she's refreshing and cuts through the heaviness of George's anger-driven plots or Jerry's dry sarcasm. Kramer is the condiment (salsa. Not seltzer, salsa!) that adds a bit of fun to the mix but he's often ancillary to the plot (or a surprisingly key piece that goes unnoticed till the end). And that's why I think I'd stick to my choices because those elements best reflect those story/character roles.

Seinfeld in Republic City

Jerry would be an earth bender. Very particular and precise, doesn't really show his emotions. He's the solid ground that the rest of the characters bounce off.

George is a fire bender. He gets into rages easily. He's also still a bit stuck in his parents' wartime Fire Nation mentalities (he keeps yelling 'We're supposed to be living in a society!' and has internalised homophobia as he tries to deny his attraction to Jerry). George also likes his chicken spicy.

Elaine is a water bender. She's got that trait of alternating between the emotional and heartfelt role and the passionate or angry character, much like Katara (which I like to say is a reflection of how the sea can change from calm to stormy). And I mean, look at her smooth dance moves (sweet fancy Roku).

Kramer is an air bender. This was the easiest to pick because he just floats through life and exists with no clear tethers to the real or physical world. He 100% communicates with the spirits. He was a non-bender from a mixed marriage (his mother was from the Fire Nation) before Harmonic Convergence gave him air bending.

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Seinfeld in Republic City

Jerry would be an earth bender. Very particular and precise, doesn't really show his emotions. He's the solid ground that the rest of the characters bounce off.

George is a fire bender. He gets into rages easily. He's also still a bit stuck in his parents' wartime Fire Nation mentalities (he keeps yelling 'We're supposed to be living in a society!' and has internalised homophobia as he tries to deny his attraction to Jerry). George also likes his chicken spicy.

Elaine is a water bender. She's got that trait of alternating between the emotional and heartfelt role and the passionate or angry character, much like Katara (which I like to say is a reflection of how the sea can change from calm to stormy). And I mean, look at her smooth dance moves (sweet fancy Roku).

Kramer is an air bender. This was the easiest to pick because he just floats through life and exists with no clear tethers to the real or physical world. He 100% communicates with the spirits. He was a non-bender from a mixed marriage (his mother was from the Fire Nation) before Harmonic Convergence gave him air bending.

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I remember in White 2, you get introduced to Team Plasma around the same time as the movie studio

And I was like, Team Plasma can wait, I'm gonna be a star

pokémon game plots will forever be some of the wildest things to grasp for me. a bunch of environmentalists dressing up like pirates actually almost drown the world. oh yeah you can also dress up your pikachu in silly outfits and pick berries for them. jeff bezos creates a death laser using gods to try and destroy france. oh yeah you can also participate in cutsy pageants w your pokémon and yassify your poodle. meanwhile, in hawaii, aliens sent by your girlfriend’s abusive mom are trying to kill everything and many of them look like lovecraftian horrors. have fun surfing on manta rays though. meanwhile, in meiji era japan, you have to battle The Devil from The Bible TWICE because this loser who’s been Just There the whole game has religious trauma and wants to fistfight god. everything wants to KILL YOU and you’re getting paid minimum wage for groundbreaking scientific research. GOD from THE BIBLE gives you an iphone -11 reality is BREAKING NOW GO CATCH 20 BIDOOF AND THREE LAKE SPIRITS

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I was reading the comments for one of Fast Forward's Skippy the Kangaroo parodies (Skippy and the Nuclear Bomb) and saw this exchange in the comments:

This probably would only be funny to Australians who grew up between 1995 and 2003.

For everyone else's benefit, Humphrey B. Bear was the star of the Australian children's TV show Here's Humphrey. He was a guy in a bear costume and one of his key traits was that he never spoke.

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Starcatcher 🤯

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I want pictures on the mantle in the Layton household, and I’m debating on what’s feasible for them to display. I doubt Hershel would have too many formal pictures taken of himself. And I’m not sure if he’d want them displayed. Same with des.

That said, here are the things I’m brainstorming

Azran legacy end credits pictures (both. With Hershel and his parents)

Cropped photo of the bronevs or just one of the Bronev kids

Des family photo with his wife and kid

Des photo from when he’s younger (maybe w his parents)

Hershel and Claire

Photos taken by Emmy on the Bostonius (one with Hershel and des, maybe one with Hershel and Luke)

Photo (informal) of Hershel and Flora (and maybe Luke)

Some would cause emotional damage definitely but I’m unsure if it would actually be displayed by the Laytons.

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what i was imagining