#Scale Services

[fisheito]

devs are JERKkin me around- like, wELL-----

[goshyesvintageads]

Texaco Inc, 1960

[upsidedowneye]

not me thinking about how dh’s wet little dragon boy instincts might look into any gifts that you give him and see them as courting gifts. no sir.

[sergle]

hiii sergle do you have any thoughts on the 2nd try try guys thing? curious to hear your opinion!!

i'm so glad you asked bc i love giving my opinion..... first things first, this is REALLY FUCKING FUNNY, the way that Watcher fumbled the bag so badly when they made their announcement probably gave the tryguys a lot of data to work with. obviously everyone is comparing the two things, but in this instance, I actually think the streaming service thing makes more sense, and is done in a better way, with less guilt tripping and more like, Hype. so the most relevant thing, nothing about the youtube channel is going to change, no previously free content is going to be paywalled, new videos are going to keep airing. so somebody who missed the news or isn't inch rested isn't going to have a different experience at all. new shows are going to be on there, but also they're Already On There. like, a lot of episodes. stuff is going to be released earlier on there, uncensored videos, new people showing up (tryguys already has a lot of Talent), and live ticketed events that they normally charge for are gonna be included in the subscription. so like, this sounds justifiable as a thing that you'd Pay For. Watcher was going to put their whole back catalog behind a paywall, they only had a couple of shows plus One New Steven Food Show that was gonna go on their streaming thing, and they were going to stop posting to youtube except for the first episode from each new season of a thing. and the Watcher one was still priced a dollar higher. and they have a very small cast of talent. also, it was a Streaming Service, but it was still something you could only watch in a browser, not on a TV or anything. so it was just a website. the one that tryguys have is actually an app you can have on your tv. like on a roku or whatever. so I think that's another point in its favor. you can't launch a "streaming service" that you can't even watch on your tv.

overall, I think it tracks, they've been a business for a lot longer and they've started a bunch of new shows to go on there, the announcement video wasn't Whiny and Guilt Trippy, it seems like they put more thought into this. also I got a free trial to poke around, which, I do like that that's an option. timing could have been better, some people are being pussies about it in a major way, which is to be expected, and I am basically ambivalent to it, I don't plan on paying, but it seems like it's had a lot more thought put into it, and it could actually be sustainable as a platform running alongside their youtube channel. done correctly, it could be their Mythical Society. if it flops, they aren't alienating their youtube audience.

[ivie-online]

not a surprise but google is continuously getting worse. searches related to items that can be bought will return endless shopping options, then a few vaguely sourced blogs (made by or for businesses that link to even more shopping options). google scholar is fine for subjects that are broadly represented in western academia, but good luck getting past the abstract without an institution to sign in with, hundreds of loose dollars, or a 3rd party site that works roughly 20% of the time. an entire civilization that has compiled near endless amounts of information, but no unified way to quickly and accurately access it. shouldn’t be of any concern though. i’m sure

[snuffdoggie]

Btw I'm basically a personal sex bot. I usually don't even get undressed. I will finger and tongue at a girl until she's shaking and whimpering and telling me it's too much completely emotionless and unfaltering because she hasn't ended the program yet. I'm like if they made a rabbit a guy. You can even customize my personality :]

[leletha-jann]

How Big is a Kilometer-Long Airship?

Per this post from Phil, Castle Wulfenbach is a kilometer long.

This is Very Large. Upsettingly Large, even.

It's so large I had to think about starships to get a handle on how large that is.

Here is an Upsetting Diagram to illustrate just how big a 1000-m airship would be by comparison to other things normally considered big.

Everything is proportional to that 1000-meter bar along the top, but keep in mind that this view of Castle Wulfenbach is foreshortened.

Click for larger view until I can figure out how to upload the FULL-size image.

Everything is to scale; I did math.

Yes, that is the Hindenburg, the biggest powered craft humans have ever put in the air, on the far right, looking like a toy.

If you have not seen pictures of the Hindenburg in proportion to humans, go do that. I'll wait.

(I'll post a simplified version of this in a bit. This is the pretty version.)

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You know what, at this point I forgive Gil for crashing his flyer into Castle Wulfenbach back in volume 2. What else was he supposed to do? There's no more sky left to hit.

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Citations:

Castle Wulfenbach: Word of God as per @professorfoglio

Starships: The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Updated and Revised edition, by Michael and Denise Okuda with Debbie Mirek, and fan wiki Memory Alpha

Airships (and the Titanic): Hindenburg: An Illustrated History, by Rick Archbold

All other measurements and records: Wikipedia

Percentages: Percentage Calculator

[kulvefaggoth]

I miss kingdom hearts. The death of portable consoles really was a huge loss for a lot of japanese franchises but i feel no big franchise was hit as hard as KH. The only thing we have to look forward nowadays are fuckass mobile games and one big console title every decade. This sucks man...

[flowerakatsuka]

started thinking about the okipara museum artwork and i just realized what flower 18!kara is holding in it.

those are alstroemeria, which can mean perseverance and yearning for the future in hanakotoba....

[yourbitchystudentartist]

I'm about to sound stupid as fuck and I'm okay with that. AND I don't disagree with anyone who is mad about this. my problem is that as someone who is subscribed to dropout idk how to articulate the difference betwen Shane and Ryan of unsolved fame making their own streaming service and dropout doing the same once they got rid of the CH branding.

Is anyone willing 2 explain the difference to me 🙏🏾? And please be nice I ain't tryna defend them or anything I just want, Idk, more knowledge IG

[milkbreadtoast]

OC practice doodle... Siwon without jacket... he gets bigger every time I draw him lmao🫡

[trans-yllz]

queer liberals in ******** will claim to cater their small business to any characteristic you can possibly imagine and still "forget" homeless people

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

speaking of Eras (lol) I think my first homemade diy photo book attempt is going to be a book of my own show photos

[morninkim]

SV Timeskip - Zero Gang + their main teams!

Zero Gang without their Pokemon here!!

explanations under the cut!

Florian's team was built using Red logic of Gift + story-relevant Pokemon:

Skeledirge simply because I picked Fuecoco in Scarlet (it meant Nemona got Meowscarada and I really like Meow for her + Quaquaval for Clavell)

Perrserker's the G-Meowth from Salvatore

Great Tusk is the former Titan (catchable after the Academy Ace Tournament)

H-Arcanine is the H-Growlithe from Perrin after helping her find Blood Moon Ursaluna

Empoleon is hatched from the egg Jacq gives the player in Kitakami

Ogerpon's... well, Ogerpon's Ogerpon lmao

Arven's team is the same as in the base game + DLC, with one change - Mabosstiff is totally okay and healthy, to be clear!! He's just much older now and can't battle as much as he used to, so Arven subs in Snorlax, which evolved from the Munchlax Florian got from Ogre Oustin' in Kitakami. Thought that was fun since it still fits in with Arven's food-themed team and is a small nod to her friendship with Florian.

Nemona's team combines her Academy Ace team with her Special Coach team (mostly just replaces Milotic with Goodra) and adds a shiny Flutter Mane. I chose Flutter Mane specifically because it's the Paradox with the highest usage rate in Competitive Pokemon and I thought it'd be cute since shiny Flutter matches well with timeskip Nemona's color scheme. It also kinda parallels Florian's Great Tusk where both have unique traits (titan/shiny), a high attacking stat (atk/sp. atk) and a low defensive stat (sp. def/def). I just think that's a neat detail.

Penny has her same team as usual since it doesn't change between the main game, Academy Ace, Mochi Mayhem and being a Special Coach. I'm thinking about designing a special Stellar-type Eeveelution to give her, just for fun, but I'll need to brainstorm a bit more for that one. Regardless, I think she'd also have a baby Eevee, just for fun.

also since I couldn't fit him in the main image without it feeling cluttered, here's Florian with Koraidon as a bonus:

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I keep hearing people talk about objectivism but I've never understood what exactly that was, and google hasn't been helping, what exactly is it?

Basically this awful woman named Ayn Rand created a philosophy she called "objectivism" (as in "objectively correct", because she was incapable of admitting she was ever wrong about anything even when she openly contradicted herself) where she opined that being a selfish asshole is in fact the highest moral good, capitalism is the only true way, literally everything should be privatized (there's a scene in one of her books where in the capitalist paradise, people can't even borrow things from others because a cash transaction has to be made. Lending something to your friend is SOCIALISM.) , and CEOs are the pinnacle of human existence and all the plebs should just bow down and admit they're just jealous they aren't smart enough to be a CEO.

Obviously, this grew popular among the worst people for telliing them how being a terrible person who exploits those around them is actually a good thing and that any form of government aid was "the thieving poor robbing the deserving rich", hence why she's overstayed her welcome.

[1ore]

before i went to bed last night, i was a cocktail of ambient stress and black humor about the state of the world, and i was like. man. let me stress dream a sign or something to interpret so that my pattern-seeking brain has something to dissect that isn't itself.

anyway, i had a dream that i was a nervous little botanist man working in the rockies to recover a tree called Acyl pentatonic, and its more obscure relative Acyl fentanic, which was mysteriously disappearing despite aggressive forest restoration efforts. they were identical except that A. pentatonic typically had 5 petals to a flower, and A. fentanic had 7, and for some reason the flowers had parallel veins like a monocot leaf, but this did not bother me in the dream. and i guess the pollen grains were different under a microscope and there was speculation that they speciated by becoming polyploid, but for some reason nobody would confirm this. anyway, it was dire. The forestry service long suspected that A. fentanic was extinct in the wild, but had preserved seeds to raise in captivity. except it turns out the person who collected them had misidentified them, and they were actually A. pentatonic seeds, because the adults reared from the seeds flowered with 5 petals and not 7. it's chaos. the whole office is screaming and crying and throwing up. we lost A. fentanic we had ONE JOB!!!!!!!!!! im losing my mind. im considering crossing A. pentatonic hybrids to play stupid plant math to recreate the mutation that gave 7 petals, knowing full well it will not be the same.

in the pits of despair i stumble across a forest fragment with what appears to be an A. pentatonic sapling growing in the sunlight. this strikes me as odd because they're supposed to be shade-growing trees. it has flowers, and would you know it, they have 7 petals. unspeakable euphoria. apparently A. fentanic wasn't a genetically separate species, but a phenotypical variant that only appears in saplings reared in full sun. occasionally they would flower with 7 petals instead of 5. the reason they had become obscure to the point of functionally "extinct" is because nobody had logged here for years. nevermind that this doesn't make any sense.

so like... there's your sign, i guess.

reconstruction of the criminal ^^^