#and this was at such a big event for nerds!!

[chodzacaparodia]

I went to a book fair and passed some girls. One of them told her friends something like that she had watched an anime where you don't have to like football to like an anime about football.

I stopped and asked "Blue Lock"?

She confirmed.

And I walked away.

Why am I like this?

[canisalbus]

What if I told you that RoobrickMarine went and wrote an entire novella starring my 16th century dog couple? It's very canon-adjacent, well researched and thoughtfully put together, has inspired me a ton during these past months and it's now publicly available at AO3. I highly recommend it.

✦ Separation ✦

[everypanelofizuku]

Chapter 95 - End of the Beginning, Beginning of the End

[nerds-yearbook]

The last episode of Larryboy the Cartoon Adventures aired on May 6th, 2003 (according to IMDB). The cartoons were first produced as stand alone videos, with this episode originally released on video on June 10, 2003 (according to wikipidia). Unlike the original VeggieTales and Larryboy shorts, the animated adventures used 2-D animation and was helmed by ex-Disney animator Tom Bancroft. The videos ended after only 4 videos as part of the fallout of Big Idea's bankruptcy. ("The Good, The Bad, and the Eggly!", Larryboy the Cartoon Adventures, Animation Event)

[silverislander]

working here is making me a little bit nuts abt antibullying again <3

[bigothteddies]

I know this is a porn blog and all but it's so hard to like. explain to people what Dave Mirra meant to the BMX community

[joleneghoul]

I know quests are just named as they are bc its a game and the game has quests... but I like the idea that since the courier does keep notes on quests that the fact so many quests are named after song titles/references to music and old movies that they just have a insane rolodex of musical/movie knowledge for no reason.

like yes sure its heavily implied they cant remember parts of their past but they remember their holo-mixtape playlist and favorite movies!! fuck everything else!

[the-acid-pear]

I need to draw Midori on my knees sobbing I miss my daughter chat

[broughttoyoubytheletterf]

Liv was so happy at the end of season 14. Just like content and happy with her career and Brian and finally past Elliot and just happy.

That scene at the beginning of Her Negotiation with her on the couch... Just carefree in a way I don't think we've seen since. It's a testament to Mariska's acting really. Olivia carries a weight now, even when she's happy. Her job was harrowing and she'd seen the world at it's worst but she could still completely compartmentalize. She lost that after Lewis, never again would rapists and murderers and abusers stay partitioned in her mind.

(Also it must be said she's fucking hot as hell in that white shirt and black leggings when she's first interrogating Lewis.)

In that scene when she fully meets Lewis' eyes for the first time, you can see the ice run down her spine. That might actually be the exact moment she became "after-Olivia."

[strixhaven]

truly nothing irritates me more than the mythologizing of the french revolution. the legacy of the guillotine and terror but zero awareness about the actual realities of what that entailed and Why it occurred. do you even know about the war in the vendee that killed hundreds of thousands of people and was a huge factor in fueling the terror. the september massacres and the killing of prisoners that preceded the terror. the wars france was fighting externally at the time. this occurred for very specific sociopolitical reasons guys please try to get a bit of context for everything that went down instead of just having a perpetual hard-on for you political killing fantasies.

[ectonurites]

I don't have fully formed thoughts on the matter but my brain has just been rotating these two images around next to each other for days. interpret that as you will

(Crisis on Infinite Earths #12, published December 1985/cover date March 1986)

(Stranger Things S4E9, takes place in March 1986)

[elaeomyxa]

Also on an ATSV note…

I'm like. Notoriously bad at recognizing unreliable narrators and the likes so I don't really have much place to talk, but like. I thought we all sort of agreed that "canon events" were bullshit, right?

Like the only proof we get is a vague personal anecdote (that could possibly be chalked up to the proven issues with dimensional travel) and something that happened immediately after a super-collider went off (which also has been established to have similar reality-fucking effects). Plus, the time frames are incredibly dissimilar- we can assume that Miguel had at least a few days with his wife and kid before the universe started tearing itself apart; meanwhile, Pavitr's dimension apparently goes to hell in a matter of minutes after a cop lives. And double meanwhile, we've been shown at least three universes (Gwen's and both of the Mileses') with averted canon events that are, at the very least, taking a enough time longer than Pavitr's to collapse to prove that the latter's was something other than broken canon.

Additionally, the apparently set in stone issue of glitching is able to be fixed with a wristband without tearing apart universes, so what would make broken canon that much different and unfixable?

[prigorie]

I haven't seen anybody on tumblr talking about how fucking awful the Paris 2024 pictograms are and I just need someone to complain to

[sirfrogsworth]

How do you take a photo of time?

I've been watching the track events at the Olympics since I was a wee lad. It was a tradition in our family. We'd gather around our ancient low-definition 19 inch CRT television and watch tiny blobs compete against other tiny blobs and root for our country.

It was a bit like watching YouTube on your phone in 144p.

Several heroes emerged.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee was amazing.

You can't forget about Flo-Jo.

And then the Olympics decided NBA players were allowed in the competition.

Which formed... The Dream Team.

Was this fair?

Well... they won each game by an average of 44 points.

So... no. It was not fair.

Though it became more fair as time went on.

But, umm... yeah. The other teams looked like the Washington Generals and the US looked like the Harlem Globetrotters if they stopped screwing around half of the game.

But my absolute favorite Olympian was a runner named Michael Johnson.

He was cool as heck.

For one thing... gold shoes.

But he also had this crazy, upright, Tom Cruise-ish sprinting style that just made him look like a running robot on the track.

And in the 1996 Atlanta games he just trounced EVERYONE. I mean, it wasn't even close.

Yikes. Those losing blobs are probably really embarrassed.

Last night I decided to invigorate my nostalgia and watch the track events again. And I got to see one of the wildest races in history.

It didn't even last 10 seconds but it was one of the most exciting sporting events I've ever witnessed. Almost every runner won the race.

After I saw that initially, I was like... who the heck won???

Even in slow motion I wasn't sure.

This was one of the closest finishes in history. There has never been a race where all 8 runners were within this margin.

The arena was silent as the winner was being confirmed. The runners just kind of paced around waiting for official word. My best guess was the Jamaican runner, Kishane Thompson. But then the loudspeaker announced Noah Lyles.

The last tiny morsel of American pride burst out of me with a big "Wooooo!"

I forgot what it was like to be proud of my country. I wish it happened more often. But this young man, despite being last place in the first 3rd of the race, turned on the afterburners and won in a photo finish.

And that's when my inner nerd took over.

Because when they showed the photo finish image, it looked super weird.

Why is the track white?

Why do all of the runners look all warpy like that QWOP game?

So I went down a research rabbit hole to figure this out.

Photo finishes are actually fascinating. The first photo finish captured the end of a horse race in 1890. But that was mostly luck and timing. The actual photo finish mechanisms weren't used until 1937.

Originally they would film the finish line through a physical slit.

And the first horsie head that appeared in that slit would be the winner. This technology ended a huge aspect of corruption in horse race fixing almost overnight.

But we have come a long way since then. And I'd like to introduce you to the Omega Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate.

This slow motion camera sits fixed on the finish line of every race. The concept of the photo finish has remained remarkably similar to the 1930s approach. The camera sensor is specially designed to only record a vertical slit.

Only the finish line itself is actually captured.

And because it limits what it records to only that slit, it can capture 40,000 frames per second to get amazing temporal resolution.

So why don't the photo finishes just look like, well... this?

That is because the camera takes a picture of time more-so than dimensional space. I guess it would be more accurate to say it *assembles* a picture of time.

As the runners cross the finish line, the camera combines all of the little strips of pictures into a single image.

It's almost like if you tried to reassemble a piece of paper after it had been shredded.

Imagine each strip of paper is a picture of ONLY the finish line, just at a slightly different point in time.

What if someone stopped on the finish line and didn't move... what would that look like?

Once they got there, the same part of their body would just be repeated.

So the right side of the photo finish picture represents earlier in time and it just assembles the image strip by strip as time passes and you literally get a picture of time itself.

NEAT!

Okay, but how do they determine the winner from the photo finish?

I mean, that shoe looks like it is ahead of Noah Lyles!

Clavicles!

The IAFF rules state the foremost part of the torso must cross the finish line first. And the endpoint of the torso is the outer end of the clavicle.

So if you get this bone across the finish line first, you win the race.

Two more fun facts!

The start of the race is actually just as carefully timed as the end of the race. There are sensors in the starting blocks of each runner.

The starting gun also has an electronic sensor.

They have determined the fastest a human can react to the sound of a gun is roughly 100 milliseconds. So if you start running before 100 milliseconds they know you didn't actually hear the gun, you just got antsy and started running too early.

And the final fun fact...

Did you notice the Omega logo at the top of the photo finish?

That isn't superimposed or added after the fact. That is captured by the camera.

But if this image is composed only of tiny little slivers, how did they get the Omega logo to show up?

That is a little display. And it is synchronized with the Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate to show a little sliver of the Omega logo for each frame captured.

So when the final image is stitched together, it looks like a cohesive logo at the top of the photo.

Pretty clever, Omega!

[nerds-yearbook]

On November 14, 2000, the team at Big Idea expanded beyond VeggieTales with the release of the first instalment of 3-2-1 Penguins. The first instalment introduced the twin children Jason and Michelle Conrad, their mom, dad, and grandmum, and the space adventuring penguins Zidgel, Midgel, Fidgel, and Kevin. According to the credits, Larry the Cucumber made a guest cameo providing the voice of a sentient vacuum cleaner. ("Trouble on the Planet Wait-Your-Turn", 3-2-1 Penguins, TV Event)

[mjdrawsalot]

was-

was x-men 97 on some sort of challenge to cover as many landmark x-events as possible??

it's only been 10 episodes and they've covered at least 6 of the most well-known TPBs