#double-derivative

[mxmarsbars]

gave him an earring because my character designs are boring </3

headcanon that bdubs didn’t have his ears pierced and so he did a diy piercing himself (he didn’t ask impulse for help because he already went through the trouble of making the earring, bdubs wasn’t about to make him do more work) and yeah. YEOUCH.

also my interpretation of scars and wounds in regards to the life series is that if they had a mental or emotional impact on you, it stays after you respawn (sometimes even after the season is over). so yep part of his ear gets blown off and stays blown off because he’s VERY bitter about the whole “my (ex)husband and his weird friend get revenge on me” thing (I miss limlife session five)

[ra-vio]

im supposed to be studying

[no-significant-askblog]

Fav color?

" depends what kind of color you're asking about .

if you're asking about electromagnetic wavelengths like the last favorite-color asker , then ... my answer hasn't changed ! it's still yellow . "

" if you're asking about something more like a hex code , however — #DF576F , RGB values (223 , 87 , 111) . "

( sometimes i wonder if i'll ever meet an iterator with that color ID . it'd be quite a fun coincidence for sure ! )

[identitty-dickruption]

I miss calculus :(

I wish I could do a calculus elective during honours but alas. we get no electives and I have no time :(

[29625]

I’m currently watching Suiyou Doudeshou (水曜どうでしょう) which is a Japanese cult classic travel show from mid 90s-early 00s featuring four (idiot) guys, and they get assigned rooms with double beds all the time.

ALL THE TIME.

(Well, something about Suzui-san/Misutaa screams girlypop loud n proud so I’m not really surprised. Source: my gaydar.)

So…Slimav with “only one bed” arch, soon? Maybe they (+Ice, of course) travel to Las Vegas or somewhere, and there are two rooms but one is a single bed room and the other is like a (barely) double bed room. Sli and Mav just lost so bad at the casino (plus Mav lost his wallet) so Ice is like man you losers can just cuddle on the single bed while I dominate the bigass mattress and they are like no, please have mercy.

A double bed.

Well, Sli and Mav—they are super good friends at this point. They hit off pretty well and they may or may not have gotten attached to each other.

Sli would be so stoked, a sleepover in a fancy hotel! But Mav? Oh god he’s just an awkward mess. (Guys, is it gay to want to cuddle with a buddy on a double bed like my other buddy joked earlier?)

Bonus points if Slider is feeling it, too—but he’s just too repressed as a gay man in the military he keeps shaking it off, trying to convince it’s just a phase for Mav’s part—until that short dark handsome bastard drops the L bomb.

[kyeterna]

I had rewatched durarara a couple of months ago after like never finishing the second season when it first came out (I have always had a really hard time keeping up with ongoing shows) and assigned memes to some characters, here's the result.

[godsofhumanity]

They have Gods for every bloody thing:

https://youtube.com/shorts/P4rLldZ-M1g?si=nGqKQoIsNSOnXpTi

I wholeheartedly believe Morgan Freeman is a God, he appears in every movie I watched with his voice as the divine omniscient narrator

not me actually googling whether "Imbecilia" is a legitimate goddess or not LMFAOOOOO

[bookishbrigitta]

I have another plot bunny (Wookiee?), and Chewbacca needs a daughter. I can't figure out which ending sounds the best. The humans will call her Kirla most of the time.

You're my only hope

[teruthecreator]

i love that the rise of the internet is contributing to theatre culture on a whole, especially with bringing eyes to certain off-broadway or underground productions (speaking more directly about ride the cyclone). but i am very annoyed by the internetification of theatre in the way of like. fandom culture and forcing these poor actors to be permanently related to certain roles and having to pull back the curtain on certain things that should just always remain a mystery, bc theatre is all about that mystery and of letting the audience sit down unaware and be immersed in something completely new 

[pallases]

integration DIE

[vampacidic]

hilarious that my calc teacher can read me like a book

[genderkoolaid]

Because I was now a man, I could not speak about what it was like to be a woman. Because I had been a woman, I could never really speak about what it was like to be a man. Do the math: I could not speak. It was a double erasure, a double bind, in which every experience I had was false, and so nothing I said was credible. I could no longer derive authority from my experiences before transition, and shouldn’t even cite them — I had never “really” been a woman, so those things hadn’t happened — but those experiences could always be weaponized against me to prove I wasn’t “really” the man I claimed to be. They call it erasure, when this happens. I wasn’t prepared for how literal the term was. Every day, I could feel myself disappear.

— Eraserhead: On writer's block and being a gender traitor by Jude Doyle

[tillman]

nvm this ones on me i uploadaed the unorganized pdf instead of the final one.

[el-smacko]

So TikTok is getting banned in the US because its users are able to see the “Israel-Hamas War” for what it really is, a genocide,

WHILE

American mainstream media can uncritically repeat the most vile propaganda directly from the IDF, like the fake “intel” derived from torture that led to the defunding of the UNRWA.

I am once again reminded that the repugnant ethnoreligiously motivated mass detention of Uyghurs which the US was quick to identify as a genocide is several orders of magnitude less fatal (if fatal at all beyond lowering birth rate) than the ethnoreligiously motived genocide of Palestinians by Israel or the civilian death toll of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It’s not even a double standard. It’s whatever reality is most convenient to fabricate for their interests.

[prokopetz]

I'm spinning this off of the main thread about tracing the origin of the term "d66" because it's not strictly germane to the topic – none of these examples actually use the term "d66" to describe their dice-rolling methods – but I'm going to post it anyway as a matter of general interest: following a conversation with Tumblr user @notclevr, it appears that before tabletop wargames (and, nearly concurrently, tabletop RPGs) got their hands on the mechanic, the principal (though by no means exclusive) users of the old "roll a six-sided die twice, reading one die as the 'tens' place and the other die as the 'ones' place" trick may have been tabletop American baseball simulators.

The most notable example of the type – and the only well-known example still in publication today – is J Richard Seitz' APBA Baseball, first published in either 1950 or 1951 (accounts vary). In this game, a d66 roll is cross-referenced with a card representing the active player and a "board" representing the current situation on the field:

For example, with Carlton Fisk at bat, a d66 roll of 31 would yield a result of "8". Assuming for the sake of argument that the situation on the field is a runner on first and a grade C pitcher, consulting the "Runner on First Base" board, this corresponds to an outcome of "SINGLE—line drive to left; runner to third".

(This example is, strictly speaking, incorrect, as Carlton Fisk didn't have his major league debut until 1969 and I'm using the wrong lookup tables for any year in which he played, but you get the idea!)

Interestingly, APBA Baseball is not the first game to use this setup. It's heavily derived from Clifford Van Beek's National Pastime, a game whose patent was registered in 1925, though it wasn't actually published until 1930. Even at a glance, the similarities are substantial:

Indeed, though National Pastime's lookup tables are much simpler than APBA Baseball's, where they overlap they're often word for word identical. It's generally accepted that Seitz plagiarised National Pastime without credit when creating APBA Baseball (ironically, given his own famously combative stance toward alleged imitators!), though he was within his rights to do so, as National Pastime had fallen into the public domain by the time APBA Baseball was published.

We can go back even further, though. As far as I've been able to determine, the earliest known tabletop baseball simulator to use d66 lookup tables for resolving plays is Edward K McGill's Our National Ball Game, first published in 1886:

A copy of the game's 1887 US patent application can be downloaded here. This one uses an unusual 21-entry variant of the standard d66 lookup table in which the order of the rolled digits is insignificant, with doubles being half as likely as non-doubles rolls; it's unclear whether McGill was aware of this when he laid out the table. Unlike later incarnations of the genre, there are no individual player statistics, with all at-bats being resolved via the same table.

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

Honestly? Good for her for speaking up. It changes a lot of things and further undermines the credibility of basically anything that comes out of Israel.

Remember, Israel propagandists had pushed the narrative that Noa had been raped, beaten, tortured and was possibly pregnant as a justification for the IDF to double down on their destruction of Gaza in order to “eliminate Hamas,” resulting in thousands of civilian deaths especially babies and children. Only to have Noa discredit it entirely and instead, place blame on the relentless Israeli airstrikes for her injuries.

This serves as a reminder to never believe anything that comes out of Israel. Any piece of information put forth by Israel should automatically be considered a lie unless proven with irrefutable, unbiased evidence derived from international investigations.