#128 days by my math

[knightofkestrels]

I'm. Almost caught up with One Piece??? Like I have two episodes to go?

And I definitely joked about how long that would take and I made those jokes like. over a decade ago when the show was shorter. And here I am now.

Totally worth it. XD

[connormoving]

this is funny though i was right in the middle of sobbing about how ill have to work until the day i die and theres no time left for life blah blah blah but then the numbers

ok well i read one of my journals and it did indeed make me sad

[onlyangel4]

the very first night. dr3. smau.

newly weds!daniel ricciardo x reader

after getting married daniel and reader take a trip down memory lane on their social media reminiscing about when first started dating

author's note: the maths doesn't exactly add up with where daniel was racing at what time please ignore that, this is just a fictional piece of writing

faceclaim: melissa roxburgh

part two

taylor swift series masterlist.

y/ninsta posted a story

written: we are incredibly hungover post wedding day but i had an idea and i was wondering if you guys would like to see some unseen moments from when me and danny first met and started dating

user1 replied to your story: yes please !

user2 replied to your story: i would like nothing more

user3 replied to your story: oh my god this would be perfect

user4 replied to your story: yes please mother

this story has 128 replies

y/ninsta posted a story tagging danielricciardo

written: since that was an outstanding yes, i have managed to rope my husband (can't believe i'm saying that) into posting somethings as well

y/ninsta posted a story tagging y/bff

written: many of you know that danny and i met in 2014 at the british grand prix, my best friend is british actress y/bff and she was invited to redbull hospitality. i still have this picture of baby us from that day.

danielricciardo posted two stories

story one written: since my wife has decided to take a trip down memory lane here is a picture of me from the day that we met

story two written: this man is technically who introduced me to my wife. seb and i were walking down the paddock when y/n accidentally walked straight into seb and fell on the floor, i helped her up and then we just started talking and we hit it of. we exchanged numbers and continued texting and calling every day.

y/ninsta posted a story

written: due to my busy acting schedule in the usa and danny's constant travelling we did not actually meet in person again until six months later at the american grand prix. danny had invited me there and then after the race he asked me on our first date. this is what i wore to the grand prix, i remember trying on my entire closet before deciding on this.

danielricciardo posted two stories

story one written: and this is what i wore to our first date

story two written: and this is the first picture i ever took of my now wife, i sent this to my best mate and told him that i was going to marry this girl someday

y/insta posted a story

written: those of you that were about way back then will remember that we actually managed to keep our relationship secret for two whole years. that was until tmz began consistently photographing me leaving daniel's hotel room on race weekends

danielricciardo posted two stories

story one written: so sky sports hard launched us (before that was even a thing) with a set of photographs that made it look like i was fucking my wife's brother and not y/n

story two written: seriously what the hell were we thinking y/n looks like our third wheel

y/ninsta posted a story

written: after the shit show of an initial hard launch i dragged danny to a film premiere and then everyone believed that we were dating and not that he was shacking up with my brother

y/ninsta posted a story

written: now this image has never been seen by the public before. this is from the day abigail was born five years into our relationship. this picture still makes me cry to this day.

danielricciardo posted a story

written: this was the first time abi joined me in the paddock, she hated it, y/n had to take her back to the hotel

y/insta posted a story

written: this is still my favourite picture of daniel and a three year old abi

y/ninsta posted a story

written: we haven't ever told our engagment story because it is not very exciting but we were on a family holiday in spain and danny made abi run over to me saying "mommy mommy come quick" and the bam i found danny halfway down the beach on one knee

y/insta

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y/ninsta: that is enough reminiscing for one day. i just got the first pictures back from the best day of my life

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danielricciardo: i can't believe after ten years you are now my wife

y/ninsta: me too husband

landonorris: that was the best wedding ever

y/ninsta: we ricciardo's sure do know how to party

maxverstappen: p had the best time with abi

y/ninsta: them dancing together was the cutest thing

charlesleclerc: that picture of abi looking at your dress is so sweet

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[matti2k2]

16 Days 1 Year Expanded

No preview this time, sorry.

I've made a small change (other than name changes I substracted 1 toddler year and added it to the child stage, also tweaked a bit the pets lifespan) to my 16 days 1 year Lifespan originally posted here and also edited some existing mods to make the experience even better. I've put them all in a SFS folder so you can pick whatever you want to download. Always remember to use Age Correct.

All details below the cut.

The main scope is the lifespan itself. The changes I've made are:

New Sim Lifespan V1

Baby - Age 0 (1 year: 16 days) Toddler - Ages 1 to 4 (4 years: 64 days) Child - Ages 5 to 11 (7 years: 112 days) Teen - Ages 12 to 17 (6 years: 96 days) Adult - Ages 18 to 64 (47 years: 752 days) Elder - Starting from age 65 (min is 5 years: 80 days; max is 40 years: 640 days - if you download my edit of Lamare's mod they can live up to 45 years) New Sim Lifespan V2

Same as above, except: Child - Ages 5 to 12 (8 years: 128 days) Teen - Ages 13 to 19 (I gave it two extra years to decide if the Sim is going to college so 7 years: 112 days) Adult - Ages 20 to 64 (45 years: 720 days)

New Pets Lifespan

Small Dog Puppy - Age 0 (1 year: 16 days) Adult - Ages 1 to 9.5 (8.5 years: 136 days) Elder - Starting from age 10.5 (min is 2.5 years: 40 days; max is 4.5 years: 72 days)

Large Dog Puppy - Age 0 (1 year: 16 days) Adult - Ages 1 to 5.5 (4.5 years: 72 days) Elder - Starting from age 6.5 (min is 3.5 years: 56 days; max is 5.5 years: 88 days)

Cat Kitten - Age 0 (1 year: 16 days) Adult - Ages 1 to 9 (8 years: 128 days) Elder - Starting from age 10 (min is 3 years: 48 days; max is 10 years: 160 days)

The mods I edited to fit my lifespan are:

Piqiwi's Mood Swing + Midlife Crisis and Anniversary

Lamare's Random Elder Death/Longevity/Sickness (DL post here)

Nopke's College Dependant Adult Stage Days

Pick N Mix's Ask Age Social

I also edited Tunaisafish's Enthusiasm Overhaul's core package to edit hobby gain. Note that I made it faster than skill gain! I just think it makes sense.

In addition to that, I've decided to also add a list of recommended mods - they're not edited so I didn't include them in the folder - that would go great with this lifespan, too.

EvelynnMama's Shorter Seasons (duh!)

Inge's University Break (if you're interested in my 6 day semesters, otherwise skip this mod and download the original length from my MTS post)

Phaenoh's School Break (now your Sims get multiple breaks in their child/teen stage instead of just one)

Lamare's Lower Job Promotion Chance (10% version, although I haven't played as much to determine it's balanced enough for this gameplay)

Nopke's Fitness Decay and Fitness Threshold Changes (I was going to edit this one but I couldn't do the math properly and my mind blew up. I use the slow version)

Simler's Slower Fitness Gain (same as above, and at least in my version of SimPE every string was blank so I didn't know what I was editing)

Amura's Expensive House and/or Apartment Bills (I haven't played long enough to see which is the best fit but I use the 500% for house bills and none for apartment bills)

Smonaff's Period Hack (not as necessary but the fact that periods are every 4 days and every season is considered a month by Piqiwi's Anniversary mod, I think they'd go well)

Not as recommended (I know some would go crazy with a longer lifespan alone) but still worth noting a couple mods for slower days:

Chris Hatch's Time Controller

Lazy Duchess' Motive Decay Mod

Also see this guide to configure them properly.

Phew, that was a lot of links. (_ _) ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 Here's what you came for:

DOWNLOAD

SFS only. No MediaFire link this time, sorry for that too.

[most-unhinged-les-mis-moment]

WELCOME LOVERS OF LES MIS UNHINGED MOMENTS :D

I bring to you the Brackets, split into two sections of 64, because when I tried to do all 128 It kept crashing.

Google Sheets ended up being the easiest way for me to format it, since some of the moments were so long, but if you click on the cells, you should be able to read the whole thing! (thank you to @syrupsyche for testing this for me before I put it out here XD)

Once I get the polls going out, they'll last for one day, and when we get to the final result from each of the two brackets, they'll be placed in a final showdown, to determine the Ultimate Unhinged Les Mis Moment.

My Askbox is open for questions, or any Propaganda Submissions, or just cheering on your favorite moment you may want to send. I have a lot from the form, but more is always welcome!!

I'd like to extend special thanks to all who submitted Moments to the tournament, I did not realize there were so many Choices, both in the Brick, and Adaptations. XD As well as thanks to everyone who's been so patiently waiting as I go through the five stages of grief with Technical Difficulties called "I can't math" and "Oh Fuck I deleted the whole tournament".

Note that there were a few slightly nsfw submissions, which I will be tagging as #nsfw or #slight nsfw if you do want to avoid that! (Nothing Explicit, I am NOT putting a picture of the 2012 Santa Scene (which is definitely the most out there, but if you've seen LM2012, you've probably already seen it XD) lol, but I wanted to make a note on it just in case)

[athena-xox]

Alr second Charmitorium poll

The first one was about the front section of the Charmitorium and this is about the upper sections

In true hearts day we get this view of one of the upper areas and the section under briar and cupid is 8 x 16 meaning 128 chairs. We can assume all of the areas are this sized (besides the lower area of course).

So like one; I need to find out how many flags there are per floor (assuming it’s the same amount on each 😭😭) cause then I can do the math for that

But then I also need to figure out how many floors there are.

(Keep reading for more of my misery and to help a girl out 😢😢)

Because I know that there’s at least four however there’s this one floor (??) that has like the wall / border that out confirmed floors have except it’s on the ground and is only visible from the side. Like we see it in different webisodes but at the entrance it isn’t there. So does this even seat people? If it does would I have to count it differently?!?

View of this bottom wall thingie

View of it not being at the entrance

But also view OF it being at the entrance?!?!

And then I’m also unsure of how many higher floors there are because in certain places it LOOKS like there’s two more floors but they don’t have banners and I’m not sure if those are even floors or if they’d have less or or or or or or or or or or or

Views of the floors

Please reblog with your thoughts and also reply to the other poll too 🙏😭😭

Aaaaand if you want to figure out how many banners there are per floor and do the math for me… I will love you forever

Where the Charmitorium is seen is Maddie in chief, Blondies js right, true hearts day part one, the beautiful truth, rebels got talent, dragon games ep 1, epic winter ep 1/2 & meeshell comes out of her shell

(@james-preble)

[misfauxpas]

Slugcat of the Day #128

a little self portrait of a self portrait

I broke out a calendar today & did a little math, and realised my count of what day I'm supposed to be on was off. I'm still behind, just two days less than I thought. I feel like I'm back on a roll though

[garfieldfan032]

y’all know how to get more new items in tomodachi life???

I like went through my game and did the math n stuff I think I’m missing around 128 out of 1,113 (not including the special foods) and 45 of those are special items but I don’t really have much hope to obtain those since I get like one street pass a year and I don’t have a computer to mod my 2ds with yet lol

but like how do I get the other 83 items I’m missing????? I’ve had the current island I’m talking about for about 5 years now but the past year has felt like a nothing burger of items.

Am I supposed to like buy all the colors of an item I have before getting new clothes or something cause I feel like it’s just been showing me items I already have in all the colors for a couple days now I feel like I’m going cray cray

I’m sure it’s just a waiting game and that I have to be patient n shit but I’m lowkey miffed and feel like complaining about this rn 😭

[fynnite]

tumblr 2025 april fools math

okay so im gonna bullshit with my math knowledge here

buckle up im bored plus we have nothing to do given that there was a snow day for school today

so for starters, what is given here from our lovely post:

the diameter for the ball pit is 32 inches

the height is 8 inches

bananas, surely used for scale, are unfortunately not always an average

however each and every one of these paws is the same dimension and shape

THEREFORE:

we can use proportional data to figure out how wide each paw is

weve found the dimensions of the quadrilateral the triangle takes place in; unfortunately, since they're at an angle its needed to use the good ol pythagorean theorum to find the hypotenuse of the triangles in order to figure out the TRUE dimensions.

side-to-side measurement of the paw:

192 x 3

up-and-down measurement of the paw:

128 (thing tries to turn into a title !!! stop that !!)

up-and-down measurement of the ballpit:

39 x 531

now this SHOULDNT be too much math ,just regular stuff from geometry and algebra 1

so the measurements given are the legs, so we just gotta do a^2 + b^2 = c^2 in order to find the measurements !!!

so with the side to side measurement, we get:

192^2 + 3^2 = c^2

which gives us

c = 192.02343606966312173256562670422

which yeah you SHOULD ultimately round but for my sake i HATE rounding in the middle of a math problem since it WILL throw your number off (believe me)

now this is only the value of pixels !!!

now we've gotta find the ballpit, with the same formula

so we get

39^2 + 531^2 = c^2

c = 532.43027712555941759885570205114

now we DO know what the ball pit height is in inches, so we can set up our proportion! THIS PROPORTION is gonna be CRUCIAL for this image. ONLY this image, though.

putting it in ms paint for simplicity

now we just gotta cross multiply, and then divide; we multiply the 8 over, then divide by the 532 number (no way im typing that all out i ctrl c ctrl v that shit)

THEN!!!

x = 2.8852369118652437332597523402747

SO NOW we find out that the side proprtion seems to be ROUGHLY 2.9 inches! (NOW im rounding because we found the final number in this part to look for)

now we gotta find the dimensions for ALL objects, and ALL lines on the axis (x, y, z)

so:

THE PAW:

2.9 inches by 1.9 inches (1.9232565163804856873495609558997) by 1 inch (if we include the paddings, 1.5 ish)

volume: 8.265 cubic inches

THE CRAB:

(have to give a rough estimate, theres multitudes of the crabs)

2.3 inches (2.3178661240072937636078260102987) by 0.5 inches (0.3606105968213410663780426792312) by 0.6 inches ish

volume: 0.69 cubic inches (not a WORD)

THE HORSE:

now unlike the crabs they seem all the same !!!

1.5 inches (1.4131106241989042096675507208392) by 2 inches (2.1431673777740099488385859177373) by 0.5 inches ish

volume: 1.5 cubic inches

now we have the likeliness of each critters' volume!!! ofc theres definitely error within but whatever

now weve got to find the total volume of the thing (the items inside).

first, though, we've got to find the potential volume for the ballpit.

time for MORE diagrams!!!

outlining the potential cylinder that would be the WHOLE ballpit AS WELL as the filled in portion (mind you, giving a simplified version of the level; it is NOT level at all! as you can see)

it appears to be half of the full container seen here, give or take but VERY close

so we have the dimensions of the cylinder, too, for the inner part. however we MUST be mindful of how the inside cylinder has less of a diameter because of the wall of the ballpit, but well still keep it simplified

now, we can find the volume by multiplying the area of the circle. however, well have to find the area. radius is 16, since the diameter is 32.

so: A = π16^2

A = 804 square inches (804.24771931898706904643670611955)

then, multiply by 4; you get

3,217 cubic inches (3,216.9908772759482761857468244782)

now, lets show off the options per each poll:

paws:

crabs:

horses:

we can narrow this down with the total amount poll.

if you add them together, some wont be right!!

we can use process of elimination here, in a way. we can figure out which ones ARE most definitely notable!!

notable ones:

235 + 239 + 299 = 773

235 + 247 + 277 = 759

242 + 247 + 313 = 802

242 + 283 + 277 = 802

249 + 247 + 277 = 773

if we apply the volumetric data to these, we get:

1,942.275 + 164.91 + 448.5 = 2,555.685

1,942.275 + 170.43 + 415.5 = 2,528.205

2,000.13 + 170.43 + 469.5 = 2,640.06

2,000.13 + 283 + 415.5 = 2,698.63

2,057.985 + 170.43 + 415.5 = 2,643.915

they're all the same distance essentially to the estimate i got, but what seems to be the case is that!!!

there are 242 paws, 283 crabs, and 277 horses!! and the total, is 802 !!!

so there i hope you enjoyed my unemployed ass doing this

[grimalkinmessor]

Doing a little math again because I'm legit insane ✨✨ about Light Yagami ✨✨✨

THESE ARE ESTIMATES AND GUESSES DON'T COME FOR ME but I wanted to see how many people he'd killed by the time the broadcast happened!

I counted all the names on that one manga panel—thirty-two lines with four columns per row, which puts us at 128 names per page. There are obviously pages before the ones Light shoves in front of Ryuk, so that's already over 236 people dead.

Then the police say that all of Kira's kills are between the hours of 4:00pm and 2:00am—eleven hours total.

The average person can write anywhere from five to twenty words per minute; I took a guess and went with the upper bit of sixteen words per minute being Light's writing speed. NOW with this hypothesis (doing science in my DN headcanons now, watch me if-then), accounting for any breaks Light might have taken from writing between those hours by knocking two whole hours off altogether and making it a nice nine, given that he's shown to develop a bout of insomnia for that period—but not accounting for any names that are more or less words than two (which brings up the interesting question of if Light would need someone's middle name to kill them...hmm questions for another post)—Light fills about three and three quarters of pages per hour. That's 480 names per hour.

480 names an hour for nine hours is 4,320 names a day.

So in the frantic panicked haze Light would've been in during those five days before Ryuk showed up and told him he wouldn't be dying, Light likely killed somewhere around 21,600 people.

It slows drastically after this, because Light begins to calm down and think his kills through more thoroughly, developing an actual plan of action to justify all the people he's now killed. He starts getting proper sleep again, and likely does a lot more research because the "worst of the worst" (at least those in public eye) have already fallen under his pen. They had to have, given the number of them he nerfed in those first five days.

So he puts his sleep schedule back in place, starts doing more thorough research; that knocks his time down to about six hours a day to write names, give or take depending on the day. After Ryuk appears, there's only two more days before the broadcast. In those two days, using my prior calculations, Light likely killed around 5,760 additional people in those two days.

Putting his kill count as of the Lind. L. Tailor broadcast at a little over 27,000 people :D

(Then of course he levels out to twenty-four people per day once it comes out that L thinks Kira is a student, which is a FAR more drastic change from fucking over 4,000 per day. Really highlights how his priorities switched from cleaning the world to playing his fun new game with L lmao).

Do with this what you will ✨✨✨

[mysterycharacterbracket]

Full Tournament Recap

I've been doing one of these every three rounds, so why stop now? Here is a complete recap of everything that has happened in this tournament so far:

Submission Phase

Back in May of 2023, I noticed that bracket blogs were all the rage on Tumblr. So I decided to try my hand at my own. But I didn't like how sometimes I would vote for or against a character solely because I knew who they were. So I decided the identities of the characters in my bracket were going to be a mystery! I recommended propaganda to be vague enough that even fans of the same franchise might have trouble guessing, but at the same time specific enough that the character COULD be identified. I decided that, so that I could participate too, I would not look at which character matched which description until they were eliminated.

I opened submissions for the bracket on May 15th, and kept them open until the 24th.

Format

When all the submissions were in, I counted the characters to find that we had a total of 297. I then calculated that 297 / 3 = 99, and suddenly I had a formula for the bracket. The characters would battle in 99 randomized polls of 3. I would split up the polls into 9 batches of 11.

Then the 99 winners, and the 29 losers with the most votes, would be placed into a winners bracket (for an even 128 characters), while the remaining 169 characters would be placed into a losers bracket. This meant that I had to split them up further: the 82 losers with the fewest votes would compete in 41 first-round matchups, while the 87 characters in between would enter the tournament in the second round. The losers from the winners bracket would enter the next round of the losers bracket and be given a second shot.

First Round

So we cycled through each batch of polls. For each poll, I put the characters' descriptions in red, green and blue. I didn't want to wait until all the polls were finished in one batch to start the next one, but I also wanted each batch to have a buffer of at least one day on either side. So I posted the 9 batches of weeklong polls somewhat randomly, staggered throughout the week -- so one batch might be on day 5, while another batch was on day 3, and another was just starting.

In the process I decided that a tie for first or second place would trigger a 24-hour runoff vote. A first-place tiebreaker would only be used to determine which character won, but the vote count for seeding purposes would remain the same from the original poll. A second-place tiebreaker was just for fun.

Then once all 297 characters had been revealed, I received 3 messages stating that some people had problems submitting their characters. So I created a special 100th poll and adjusted my math slightly:

100 characters would win and go on to the winners bracket

28 characters would lose, but earn enough votes to move on to the winners bracket

84 characters would enter the losers bracket in the second round

And 88 characters would compete in 44 first-round matchups in the losers bracket

June 24th was when the round came to a close, but we still had some ties to break. So I created the...

Tiebreaker Round

At this point the characters were grouped as follows:

100 characters had won their polls and were headed to the winners bracket

26 characters had lost their polls but received 57 or more votes, and were also headed to the winners bracket

2 of those 26 characters were tied for 2nd place in poll #100, so they competed in a tiebreaker poll.

3 characters were tied with 56 votes. The math dictated that 2 of them had to go to the winners bracket and the other one had to go to the losers bracket, so I put them in a tiebreaker where you had to vote for one of the two winners. Then later I realized I could have done it so you could vote for the loser.

79 characters had lost their polls but received between 35 and 55 votes, so they were headed to the second round of the losers bracket.

9 characters lost their polls with 34 votes. The math dictated that 4 of them had to go to the second round while the other 5 went to the first round. I posted a single 9-way tiebreaker where the top 4 characters would get byes. Then I later realized I could have done it with 3 posts, where the winner of each post got a bye along with the top wild card.

The remaining 83 characters lost their polls with 33 votes or less. These characters were automatically entered into the first round of the losers bracket.

I also posted a poll to decide which colors I would use for each poll, and another one to decide how I would handle seeding. The choice for seeding was "keep the original numbers", and the choices for colors were pink and purple for the winners bracket, and green and blue for the losers bracket.

Once the 24-hour tiebreakers were complete, I also decided to re-randomize the characters within each round (which is why the numbers were all across the board).

Stage 1

Stage 1 was unique. Each character had just been re-randomized. No character was initially matched up against someone they had competed against in the first round. Now each poll only had two options, with the loser being eliminated from the winners bracket or the tournament at large no matter how much they lost by. And we started to cycle through the two brackets in a pattern: two losers bracket rounds, followed by one winners bracket round.

The first losers bracket round (L1) was unique in that it had 4 batches of 11 polls each, plus one 24-hour bonus poll to decide whether I should stagger the rounds as well as the polls. The answer was yes. So I did.

After the first round I switched to batches of 8 polls. This pattern remained in place until there were no longer enough polls in a round to do it. So round L1 lasted 4 batches of 11 polls, and rounds L2, W1 and L3 each lasted 8 batches of 8 polls.

Stage 2

Not much changed in stage 2. It included rounds L4, W2 and L5, which each lasted 4 batches of 8 polls. But because the website I used to make brackets could only create brackets of 64, I had to create 16 losers brackets, and round L5 was the semifinals for each one.

Stage 3

Because round L5 was the semifinals for each of the 16 losers brackets, round L6 had to be the finals. Then we took a break from that to play round W3. When we came back with round L7, the 16 remaining losers were in two new brackets along with the 16 losers of round W3.

Stage 4

At this point there were only 8 matchups remaining in each round, so I combined them all into one batch. I started a new pattern: round L8 started a day after round L7 concluded. Then round W4 started two days after round L8 started. Then round L9 started a day after round L8 concluded.

Stage 5

Rinse and repeat. This time with only 4 matches each in rounds L10, W5 and L11.

Remember what I said about the website only allowing me to make 64 character brackets? For this reason, there were two winners brackets. Round W5 was the semifinals for each. And round L11 was the semifinals for each of the second round of losers brackets.

Stage 6

This time, there were only two matches per round. Round L12 finished off the losers brackets. Round W6 finished off the winners brackets. Then we were ready for the final bracket that you see in the masterpost today. (Speaking of which, I kept that masterpost updated with links to each active poll, as well as a picture of each active bracket.) Round L13 was the start of that final bracket.

Stage 7

At this point, only one poll remained for each round. The winner of each poll would move on, and the loser would be guaranteed a certain place in the tournament. The loser of round L14 took 4th place. And the loser of round W7 moved on to round L15 to take on the winner of round L14. The loser of round L15 took 3rd place.

Which brings us to right now. March 2nd, 2024. The championship will be posted in just a few minutes, and it features the following two characters:

Character 5: She's a terrible driver even though she's been driving since before the age of 12. She only has 1 name. She's autistic. She's the best in the world at what she does. She's been searching for a family her entire life and when she finally found one that actually loves her she reciprocated that love by pushing them off of buildings. She's a terrible liar until her family teaches her how to lie (for fun and profit!!). She's a badass on paper but in reality she's the weirdest fucking person you've ever met.

And character 67: Is part horse. Can cause others excruciating pain with their own anger. Joins an illegal rebellion at age 13. 3 elves are all in love with her. One of them is her cousin. A grumpy short man tried to get her exiled from society because she has brown eyes.

Who will win? You decide!

[blood-guts-and-angel-cake]

How do you find the proof for an impossible math problem?

The Collatz Conjecture. The addition of a +1 in the odd number stage intrinsically alters the number, hence why you cannot 'track' the conjecture backwards. 1x2 is 2, 2x2 is 4, 4x2 is 8, 8x2 is 16, that much we can track without a doubt, but once you hit 16, was it (5x3+1) that got you there, or (32÷2)? (5) Is odd, and (32) is even. Not only do all the numbers lead to 1 eventually, they all must lead to 16 first. And considering that the conjecture only uses whole numbers, all numbers must be brought to either (5) or (32) to complete the conjecture. From there, we can say that (5) was derived from (10), as there are no other whole numbers that can be used within the rules to bring the number (5). We can also say that (32) came from (64) for the same reason. (10) can come either from (3x3+1), or (20÷2), where x=3, 20. (64) Came from either (21) or (128), same reasonings.

We could follow the conjecture backwards all day, until we have all numbers under 100, 1000, 10000000 listed, and they are all possible candidates for completing the conjecture. If all whole numbers can be even or odd, and all whole numbers can be multiplied, divided, or added into other whole numbers, there is no whole number that cannot be considered complete within the Collatz Conjecture.

This is my reasoning. No idea how to turn that into a proof, though

[androxys]

Androxys' 2023 Comics Wrapped

Happy end of 2023! To celebrate the turning of the year, I wanted to take a quick view back through the comics I read over the last twelve months. Turns out there's... a lot of them.

This isn't 100% perfect, mainly because I'm basing this off the metadata of when comics were added to my computer... I do think there are some comics I added at the end of 2022 but ended up reading in 2023. However, in the interest of being fair, this list won't count those, and is instead only the comics I can confirm I read in 2023.

By my tally, I read 977 comics in 2023 across 78 unique titles. If we assume each comic is 22 pages long, that's 21,494 pages of comics! Of course, some stories are shorter than 22 pages (as if they're splitting with a backup) and some are longer (prestige formats or one-shots). Based on some quick (and quite unscientific) math, I estimate that I spent around four days of my 2023 in the world of DC Comics. And you know what, I'll do it again.

Breaking down my Top 10 single titles, this year I read...

169 Superman/Adventures of Superman/Action Comics issues

128 Batman/Detective Comics issues

104 JSA issues

56 Suicide Squad issues

52 Birds of Prey issues

51 Manhunter issues

38 Harley Quinn issues

33 Aquaman issues

31 Azrael issues

27 Martian Manhunter issues

Here's the full breakdown of my reading, for those interested:

Arsenal (1998) #1-4 [4]

JLA/Titans (1998) #1-3 [3]

Knight and Squire (2010) #1-6 [6]

Monkey Prince (2021) #1-12 [12]

Poison Ivy (2022) #1-6 [6]

Shadowpact (2006) #1-25 [25]

The Question: Pipeline in Detective Comics (1937) #854-864 [11]

Trinity (2003) #1-3 [3]

Tempest (1996) #1-4 [4]

The Atlantis Chronicles (1990) #1-7 [7]

Aquaman (1994) #1-20 [20]

Aquaman: The Becoming (2021) #1-6 [6]

Azrael (1995) #23-46 [24]

Sword of Azrael (2022) #1-7 [7]

Batgirls (2022) #14-19 [6]

Batman (1940) #401-401 [7]

Batman: Cacophony (2009) #1-3 [3]

Batman: Death and the Maidens (2003) #1-9 [9]

Batman Chronicles (1995) #1-23 [23]

Batman: Gotham Knights (2000) #33-74 [42]

Batman: Turning Points (2000) #1-5 [5]

Batman: Killing Time (2022) #1-6 [6]

Batman: Urban Legends (2021) #23 [1]

Batman Beyond: Neo Year (2022) #1-6 [6]

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1994) [1]

Batman Incorporated (2011) #1-8 [8]

Detective Comics (1937) #469-479 [11]

Birds of Prey (1999) #22-55, #113-127 [49]

Birds of Prey (2023) #1-3 [3]

Infinite Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre #1-3 [3]

DC Festival of Heroes (2021) [1]

DC Power (2023) [1]

G'nort's Illustrated (2023) [1]

DCeased (2019) #1-6 [6]

Green Arrow (2001) #69-72 [4]

Green Lantern (1990) #76-77, #92 [3]

Green Arrow (1988) #104, #110-111, #125-126 [5]

Harley Quinn (2000) #1-38 [38]

JSA (1999) #1-87 [87]

Manhunter (2004) #1-38 [38]

Manhunter in Batman: Streets of Gotham (2009) #1-13 [13]

Martian Manhunter (1998) #0-17, #1000000 [19]

Martian Manhunter (2019) #1-12 [12]

Nightwing (1996) #107-124 [15]

Nightwing (2016) #100-107 [8]

Tim Drake: Robin (2022) #5-10 [6]

The New Champion of Shazam (2022) #1-4 [4]

Suicide Squad (1987) #31-66 [36]

Suicide Squad (2007) #1-8 [8]

Superboy (2011) #1-11 [11]

Superman: The Man of Steel (1986) #1-6 [6]

Superman (1987) #1-44 [44]

Adventures of Superman (1987) #424-467 [44]

Action Comics (1938) #584-658 [75]

Superman: Son of Kal-El (2021) #7-18 [12]

Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow(2023) #1-6 [6]

World of Krypton (1979) #1-3 [3]

The World of Krypton (1987) #1-4 [4]

Batman/Superman: World's Finest (2022) #1-11 [11]

World's Finest: Teen Titans (2023) #1-4 [4]

World's Finest (1990) #1-3 [3]

Swamp Thing Giant (2019) #1-7 [7]

Swamp Thing (2016) #1-6 [6]

Punchline: The Gotham Game (2022) #1-6 [6]

Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing (2023) #1-6 [6]

Wonder Girl (2021) #1-7 [7]

Nubia: Queen of the Amazons (2022) #1-4 [4]

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star (2022) [1]

Spirit World (2023) #1-6 [6]

Salvation Run (2008) #1-7 [7]

JSA All Stars (2003) #1-8 [8]

Dr. Mid-Nite (1999) #1-3 [3]

Animal Man (1988) #1-26 [26]

Solo (2004) #1-5 [5]

The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016) #1-9 [9]

JSA Returns (1999) #1-9 [9]

Teen Titans: Year One (2008) #1-6 [6]

Suicide Squad (2001) #1-12 [12]

[bqstqnbruin]

So today I got to school at 6:30 and go to print the quiz that I gave my sophomores today and didn't realize that I didn't have 'print double sided' selected so the two page quiz printed single sided and instead of wasting 128 pieces of paper I had to hand staple all 64 quizzes but before I could do that I had a child appear in my door for extra help at 6:50 and then by 7:30 I had 8 children in front of me including two who were taking a test for a math teacher because I was the one who was there so I had to rummage through her room to get them their tests because they never told either of us there were coming to take it early today and while my first period was doing a lab I realized I never reset the lab on Friday last period so I had to do it today while my girls were doing their lab and then I find out that my homeroom girls dates got drunk at the dance this weekend so I had to bring them to a meeting with our head of school instead of getting to reset it for my second period which I did manage to get done but then I had one lab group not follow the directions and because of that I burned my finger to the point where it blistered almost immediately but I couldn't get anything to cover it up because nothing in my first aid kit actually works for longer than three seconds and I can't legally leave the girls alone especially when they're doing a lab with Bunsen Burners so I had to wait until lunch to get something but then when I was down at lunch my most annoying child literally starts yelling at me outside the lunchroom because she sprained her ankle on the way to my class on Friday and now has to make up the lab she missed as a result and then during my free period I was running around trying to find the pH probes I need for Wednesday because we only have four but I needed 8 and then the bio teacher needed to take a bunch of stuff for a lab she was doing that I had the supplies for from other things so I had to find everything and run back down and bring it to her but a student comes to my room and asks why I can't help her when I was actively busy doing things and said I'm the reason she's going to fail her quiz last period today when she was literally one of my 8 this morning before school and then one of my students didn't finish a lab that was due for her on Friday that she didn't turn in so I said she could have until today which is already a five day extension as it is but she only did the first page so she stayed after with me for half an hour working on five post lab questions even though she already worked on the two page lab in front of me for an hour and a half because this child is just so SLOW at doing everything for my class no matter how much I help her or how many times I explain things to her and then I'm about to leave because I simply need to go home (and I don't get paid after the first half hour that I'm after school) and a child appears in my door and asks why she can't ask questions for her lab and I had to lie and say I was late for an appointment and told her to email me and then I was going to order food but then I get a letter in the mail saying I owe my dentist $500 that I didn't know about that was past due that I had to pay and checked my bank account and my rent also came out today and I've already gotten emails from five different students and a mom since I've been home and I adsijfoijfIEJOLIJGOIJ

[ellipsismark]

We have to stop fighting the future. The future is coming and it's going win just like it did every time before.

A.I. technology is on the raise and we have to do something in response if we're going to survive. I mean that in both continuing to live and continuing to be happy with being alive.

Below are four pictures. Three by NightCafe, and one by me. Can you guess which is which? Here's a hint, it looks it a novice about an hour to do.

Now here's the thing. This is not about my quality of art production. If you're response to this "You'll get better with time" you've already missed the point wholesale. (And if you say "you're already better" well you're a... fucking lair mate.)

The point is that I want to get better. I want to bring the pictures I see in my head to light. Sure, these ai pics are all better than my own, but none of them are what I want.

I want Runesir(the character) to have a look of disgust born from his superiority complex and to have this cool "I'm looking away because I'm so cool and I'm also anger that I'm so much better than you" look than a RNG painter can't guarantee.

I want to put in the effort needed to improve my skills, but that requires time and I have to work 40 hrs a week to earn enough to do nothing the other 128 hrs a week. Photoshop ain't free.

I would love to devote my time to improving my skills, but if I do I have to choose between necessities or luxuries. Time spent making subpar art to shapen my skill is time away from doing other time I like video games and anime.

And for what? To hopefully earn a living off of my art? Is that the objective? Well it has to be, because then what was the point of all this investment? To make art for myself? And then what? Just let it sit there? Why bother then?

And that's all without introducing the nature generative A.I., which by the way has nothing to do with the actual point I'm making, which is: Why are we trying to fight advancements so hard.

Take a step back. Away from the art scene. To average the worker. So much modern technology replaces the most basic of labor. I mean literally think of a cash register. Basic math skills use to be incredibly valuable, but now computers have replaced all basic mental tasks.

Use to be you needed nothing more than a willingness to swing a hammer to get a decent job. Now we have tractors, bulldozers, and cranes replace muscle. And aren't we happier for it?

Aren't we happier with a week worth of work of 200 men is done by 20 men in a day using diesel and oil? So why are we fighting so hard to keep the labor we have left. Why aren't we pushing for automation at every possible point? Why aren't fighting for the future we were promised.

The answer is simple. We all know it, but some won't admit it. They'll twist every fact of the world to defend some lie given to them about merit and grit, and all bullshit.

Why are we pushing back against the future?

Because the system only care about extracting value. To pay workers as little as possible, and charge customers as much as possible. And if the future comes under that system, with the power of hydraulics, diesel, electricity, silcon, and nuclear... then we're not going to survive the future.

The future is coming. Just like last time, and every time before that. The future is coming.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

I haven't taken a math class in quite some time and haven't used exponents much in my day to day life, so I'm going off memory here, but I do not know how that person came up with 128. Is 4 to the power of 2 not simply 4x4x4? Which is 64? I was thinking maybe I got that wrong and considered 4x4x16 but that's 256, not 128. And I'm still pretty sure I was right the first time.