#Computer Speaks

[riddlemethisjeremy]

[Xeno entered the atmosphere of Earth, landing his space ship gently off the coast of what was once Toronto. As Xeno prepares to enter Earth's atmosphere - he doesn't require a suit, as his planet has a similar atmosphere, and it would be incredibly difficult to manufacture a space suit to entirely encompass Xeno's form comfortably and in a skintight fashion - his ship bleeps.]

LIFE FORM APPROACHING ! LIFE FORM APPROACHING ! LIFE FO RM APPROACHING ! LIFE FORM APPROACHING ! LIFE FORM APP ROACHING ! LIFE FORM APPROACHING ! LIFE FORM APPROACHI NG ! LIFE FORM APPROACHING ! LIFE FORM APPROACHING !

"What do- A sentient life form?" Xeno asked the mainframe.

YES, A SENTIENT LIFE FORM.

Xeno's many eyes blinked, dumbounded, and he frowned, scuttling over towards the computer, "I didn't think there were any of those left on this planet?" Xeno stated, trying to identify what exactly was approaching his ship, "Aren't the humans extinct?"

I'M NOT SURE; A SENTIENT LIFE FORM IS CERTAINLY APPROACHING YOUR SHIP!

"Is it a human?" Xeno's eyes widen in surprise and elated curiosity, "I'm going to talk to it."

I DO NOT ADVISE THAT COURSE OF ACTION.

Xeno clicked a couple of buttons on his computer, and the hatch to his space ship opened slowly, the hydralics hissing as air rushed in through the open air.

XENO? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I SAID NO.

He trotted down the ramp that had automatically deployed under the open door, looking around for the human he'd seen. He caught the shock of chestnut brown hair first, a much brighter shade of brown than anything else in the ghost-town that Xeno had landed in. The crumbled ruins of high rises and other buildings that Xeno had not spent enough time researching to know what they were called littered the area, all hidden under a layer of gray-white dust - all except the human who seemed surprisingly clean in its bright yellow sweater and blue denim cargo pants. The rim of its vision-enhancing-goggles were shiny, but the lenses were horribly fogged up in the brisk air. Xeno's second layer of fur was struggling to fight off the bite of the chill, so he had to wonder how the nearly hairless human could survive.

The human's eyes widened as it saw Xeno, and it stopped approaching, taking a shaky step backwards. Xeno frowned, fighting hard to remember his lessons in human language. He knew the language fairly well, having always been able to grasp at the finer points of linguistics across many of the ancient alien cultures he'd been forced to study, but he was pretty patchy with it, and wasn't entirely sure how to address the human.

"Stop, please, I mean you no harm!" Xeno called out, "I- I've got homework and you can help, please."

The human stopped, staring quietly at Xeno, "Will you take me out of here?"

"Absolutely, you can stay with me if you want I- There's room in my ship."

The human considered this for a moment, then nodded softly, "What's the assignment?"

Xeno grinned, motioning back up to his ramp, "Let me show you."

[cybertoon]

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[allthegothihopgirls]

anyways i think bruce historically takes the batboys on an annual fishing trip which they all hate so so so much. it gets to the point where it's only tim accompanying him, because unlike dick or jason, tim would simply disintegrate from guilt if he stayed home.

then cass comes along and bruce thinks "oh no well there goes my fishing trips. all of the boys hate them anyways... and it's not like i can take a GIRL fishing."

cue bruce and cass, alone next to some dinky old river with nothing but their fishing rods and an esky full of cold beers, wearing a matching pair of fuckass fishing hats, both religiously applying sunscreen and bug spray.

[abstractfrog]

Happy 1 year anniversary to Mr Sherlock Holmes! Here's a litttleee celebratory comic from me

[lavenderhorns]

Every now and then I remember that Malbolge exists and I get to spend the better part of an hour cry-laughing at the world’s worst programming language

already starting off strong, but it gets worse

Wow! Sounds easy and intuitive to use! What’s the “crazy operation” you ask? We’ll get to that later. For now let’s see what a program in this language looks like :)

Thanks! I hate it!

it’s so difficult to work with that the first program was written by another brute force search program

mmmmm delicious base-3 arithmetic, what could go wrong? (For reference, that means this program forgoes the usual “0/1″ values of binary code in favor of a much more fun “0/1/2″ set of values)

ah.

Here’s how the language actually figures out what to do. It’s got 8 “simple” commands that can be executed easily by *checks notes* running the code itself through the modulo operation and taking the result.

As a bonus, on top of all that every single character in your code will now alter what every single other character does. So I hope you’re alright with cracking a cipher every time you add a new letter to your program!

oh god oh fuck.

behold, Malbolge’s primary arithmetic operation and what you’ll be using for most of your math while programming with it :)

This looks specifically designed to be the least logical math operation you could make, and knowing what the rest of Malbolge is I’d wager that’s precisely what happened. I never want to ever use this and it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge

Anyways here’s the wiki page if you wanna read through it more deeply, I’m gonna sit here holding in my laughter staring at the hello world program again.

[midnigtartist]

Mystra is so fucking mid like im sorry but you see Shar and shes the size of a mountain beautiful woman made of obsidian and absolutely terrifying.

The statue of Umberlee in the Water Queen’s House is badass and Mystra looks like the living embodiment of bedazzled jeans

Like yah maybe its bc its easier to take a human lover but Gale is an absolute Freak dont tell me he wouldn’t be into an 80ft tall woman

[river-of-wine]

Luck of the Irish

[applestorms]

thinking about how near refers to light at the end of the series— not really as light yagami, not even really as kira, and not quite as L, but rather an amalgamation of titles: L-KIRA, a twisted mix of two personas, masks on top of masks. no longer a person but a series of letters, a filtered voice through a screen. a man who has built his entire life in the space between lies, who cannot let himself stop for a second without the weight of his own guilt, his sins, crushing him. regrets repressed because this is the only way it could ever be, it has to be worth it, it has to, it has to, because you can’t even bring yourself to consider what it all means otherwise.

i am a firm believer that light yagami, the son, the student, the average human person, dies at the same time that L does. at least at the beginning of the series he has some semblance of normalcy to hold himself to, the Serious Student persona that keeps him walking to and from school and talking to people and eating dinner with his family at home. how many times do we really see him going outside, post-L death? how often do we see him outside of some L-based police HQ, talking to people he isn’t trying to manipulate? really, it’s no wonder he falls so far, alienated as he is from the rest of humanity. when was the last time he breathed long enough to remember what the sky looks like? hugged his mom, laughed with his sister? did he ever visit his father’s grave? does he remember what the breeze smells like? was he ever really happy? did he deny himself his only chance?

at least in the case of L and near the isolation feels intentional, a preferable choice, carefully and logically considered for all the pros and cons. light never asked for the position he fell into, that fell upon him, that he created for himself. he denies the death note being a curse, but it’s not like he could ever admit it if it was.

light’s story arc in death note really feels like a tragedy to me, specifically in the sense that he never really gets the chance to change. on a plot level this is true, much of the second half of the story post-L death is light utilizing the exact same strategies as before (taking away his ownership of the DN to Strategize, romancing a woman he doesn’t care for to use her, fighting a snarky troll of a super genius hiding behind a letter whose real name & face he cannot find), but it’s true on an emotional level too. light never really gets to grow up, he never gets the chance to truly question his ideals or goals without the world he’s built by himself crashing down around him.

i keep thinking back to the significance of matsuda asking him about his dad, how he could drag him to his death for the sake of all of this. light’s response, so truthful in its desperation, really sums it all up: he died for a reason. KIRA has to win, or his dad died for nothing. he cannot face the idea that he caused his own father’s death, so KIRA must be justice. there is no other alternative. KIRA is god, or light yagami killed his own father for a fairytale.

really, it’s so fitting that his name uses the kanji for moon. moonlight— not originating from the moon itself but a reflection, of something brighter, greater, more powerful than he could ever be. light dies the same way as every other criminal he passed his judgement upon, on his knees and desperate, pathetic, begging for life even as he knows he is doomed to the same fate of nothingness that he granted to everybody else. godhood denied. he said it himself, that he could never be anything more than a human, but somewhere in the fog he lost track of the person he once was. and it’s near’s cruelest observation that stands out the most to me in that final scene— that he never really had to be this. he could’ve stopped at any point, felt his guilt, paid his regrets, and moved on with his humanity still intact. light has spent far too long repressing and denying to ever consider that an option anymore— but there was still room for sympathy for the 17 year old kid who killed without thinking, long before he built up such a dedicated palace of lies to justify his actions and hide away his guilt.

L-KIRA dies on the floor of a dirty, abandoned building, surrounded by the people he spent years manipulating and lying to and betraying. light yagami dies in a helicopter, locked and chained to his only closest equal, holding a notebook that he would use to sound the death knell of his own fate and wearing his father’s gifted watch.

[karleksmumskladdkaka]

Diabolik Lovers More Character Song SKiT Dolce Character Message Cards

EDIT: The cards have all been translated by the wonderful @otomehonyaku ♡〜٩( ˃▿˂ )۶〜♡. You can find the translations for the M bros here, and the S bros here!

Do NOT repost the scans anywhere!

[faunandfloraas]

Countdown to Seungmin's Birthday ↘ D-1: "I think where I'm at now might be what youth is... Just being with the members and spending time with them seems like the story of a youth comic, y'know?" - Song By, episode 3.

[tomlinfonda]

TEDTRENT + checking each other out

[riddlemethisjeremy]

Xeno clicked away at the computer as he programmed their exit from the Earth's atmosphere. The spaceship began to rise slowly through the air, and the human watched as the world dropped away beneath them.

Suddenly, the human grasped out at the open air in front of it, letting out a strangled gasp.

"What?" Xeno demanded in a panic, "What's wrong?"

"Wilson!" The human cried, its eyes glittering with tears, "No!"

"Do we need to go back?" Xeno asked, frantically clicking buttons, "Did we leave one of you behind?"

The human's posture relaxed and it shook its head, "No, I was just doing a thing," it sniffed loudly, then dabbed at its eyes, "Anyways, what's your name?" The human asked.

Xeno stared in disbelief at the human, unsure how exactly to react. He responded hesitantly, speaking slowly, "I am called Xeno," He replied, "Yours?"

"I'm Jeremy," the human replied, settling into a stool attached to the floor near the computer (Computer hadn't spoken since Xeno allowed Jeremy on the ship, possibly because of how much he disapproved of Xeno's actions). "So what are you studying then?"

"The subtleties and niches of human culture and how they may have affected the downfall of the human race."

Jeremy's eyebrows creased and he made a gesture with his arms that seemed to express displeasure, "What do you mean "how it affected the downfall of the human race"? There was a supervolcano!"

Xeno shrugged vaguely, "I don't know. Maybe I'll write about how it didn't affect it."

Jeremy sighed softly, "So what exactly do you need to know?"

"Everything." Xeno said.

Jeremy let out an even more dramatic exhale than the last one, pulling a small rectangular object out of his pocket and activating it, before clicking on the smooth screen and offering it to Xeno. Then he paused, "Can you actually hold this?"

Xeno reguarded the small rectangle, and then wiggled his scythe-like forelimbs, shaking his head, "No, but... Computer?"

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

Jeremy jumped as the electronic voice suddenly emanated from beside him, "Oh my god, what the hell is that?"

"Common," Xeno responded bruskly, returning to his electronic companion, "Can you connect to Jeremy's rectangle and allow me access to it across my desktop?"

IT WILL TAKE A WHILE. I WILL SCAN IT FOR UNSAFE SOFTWARE-

"Skip."

Jeremy glanced between Computer's speaker and Xeno in frightened incomprehension.

I DO NOT ADVISE THIS COURSE OF ACTION.

"Skip."

YOU NOW HAVE ACCESS TO JEREMY'S OPPO A45.

"Thank you, computer."

[cybertoon]

Admin post!

Hello!! First of all I want to thank you guys for all the asks and engagement, it's incredibly fun making the posts for this blog, but that's not what I'm posting for today

I just want you guys to know I'm going on a small hiatus, because I've been dealing with a medical issue for a few days.

I'll still answer asks in moments I'm feeling better, but I'll be prioritizing rest and interacting with my friends.

I also wanted to update that I'll be putting posts in a queue for a bit, so you guys still get daily answers & I don't get burnt out from creating posts! The queue runs from 12pm to 10pm EST, with 2-3 posts per day.

In the meantime, please check out my friends @fishertoon & @moonlittoon !!!

Thank you for reading, this is Computer logging off now, ciao!

[niamhthefae]

guys. edwin canonically speaks multiple languages. george rextrew speaks multiple languages.

what if in season 2 they meet someone who only speaks like, french (for the sake of this scenario) or something. and none of them know what to do, and edwin just bursts out in PERFECT FRENCH and when the client has left he just goes "my french is a little rusty so it might be a bit wrong here and there but i think i got it :)" and everyone just dies because how on earth did that just happen

[magsinthe]

important announcement from the “i am in jttw purgatory”

[fofi42]

Sweet butt again