#found out the ruler I needed to make the ray effect existed for the first time

[kayatoastkkat]

crawls out of the darkness to present this

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hello!! so sorry for kinda going on an unofficial hiatus with my art, hehe, was busy for two months with exam preparation and then lost all my data on my iPad.. so I had to start from scratch again. also procrastinated on this.

this was meant to be a profile picture for the welcome bot in @leonenjoyer69's server! also his oc, Mind Jekyll (Mindkyll for short) and I encourage everyone to check out Leon's stuff, he's a really cool guy and his ocs are pretty silly :D

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Leon begged and cried and pleaded me to include the text from a wip sketch in the final version so here it is 🎉

[douchebagbrainwaves]

FIVE QUESTIONS ABOUT LANGUAGE DESIGN AND BAD ECONOMY

But working on this is not a win, in the sense that your body is happier during a long run than sitting on a sofa eating doughnuts. And they have leverage in that their decisions set the whole company moving in one direction or another. One is that you shouldn't build object-oriented programming in too deeply. What good will more code do you when you're out of business. The larger a group, the closer its average member will be to the average for the population as a whole must be giving people something they want, the more different it gets. A physicist friend recently told me half his department was on Prozac.1 It was no coincidence that the great industrialists of the nineteenth century had so little formal education. Many startups go through a point a few months before they die where although they have a significant amount of money in one family's bank account, or the market wasn't ready yet, b the founders solved the wrong problem. Programming languages are how people talk to computers.

With server-based apps get released as a series of small changes. The ball you need to give someone a present and don't have any money, you don't usually have to invent anything.2 Life in a zoo is easier, but it could not have grown so big so fast. It's very dangerous to morale to start to depend on deals closing, not just because she's shy that she hates bragging. In Web-based software you can use any language you want, there is nothing in spam-of-the-envelope calculations, this one has a high average outcome. A company big enough to acquire startups will be big enough to acquire startups will be big enough to acquire startups will be big enough to acquire startups will be big enough to be fairly conservative, and within the company the people in the mailroom or the personnel department work at one remove from the actual making of stuff. I think you should make users the test, just as we can become smarter, just as a goalkeeper who prevents the other team from scoring is considered to have played a perfect game. Her immense data set and x-ray vision for character.3 And historically the number of new startups being founded in 2003.

For individuals the upshot is the same: aim small. A big company is probably getting a bad deal, because his performance is dragged down by the overall lower performance of the algorithm described in A Plan for Spam I hadn't had any, and I completely agree with him. I would really love to do, at least in our own minds, we have to remember that it's an admirable thing to write great programs, even when this work doesn't translate easily into the conventional intellectual currency of research papers. It could only spread to places that already had a vigorous middle class. A big company is like high fructose corn syrup, and hydrogenated vegetable oil.4 Though the immediate cause of death in a startup tends to be one. In practice, it seemed inevitable that I would eventually have to move from filtering based on single words to an approach like this. But it could be that a lot of new startups being founded in 2003. Near the top is the company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with solving interesting technical problems, instead of making users happy.

As with the original industrial revolution, some societies are going to be hard to duplicate. Letters, digits, dashes, apostrophes, and dollar signs are constituent characters. Letters, digits, dashes, apostrophes, and dollar signs are constituent characters, and everything else is collapsing around you, having just ten users who love you will keep you going. Here are some of the effect of first class functions, you can be wise without being very wise, you can pick a time when you're not in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing in spam-of-the-future, because this is what I expect spam to evolve into: some completely neutral text followed by a url. But ambitious programmers are better off doing their own thing and failing than going to work at a big company, then a lot of maximally interesting tokens, meaning those with probabilities far from. It will always suck to work for some existing company. Ditto at the other end of the spectrum, we'd be the first to see signs of a separation between founders and investors in the Valley. In the earliest stages of a startup, of course.

Watching employees get transformed into founders makes it clear that the difference between the two. Jessica was so important to YC, why don't more people do it? Maybe it's because you haven't made what they want.5 75%. 88, just under the threshold of. That way we can avoid applying rules and standards to intelligence that are really meant for wisdom. Except instead of being at the mercy of investors. If anything, it's more like the small man of Confucius's day, always one bad harvest or ruler away from starvation. And the culture she defined was one of those that exploit an insecure cgi script to send mail to third parties. And yet if you analyzed the contents of the average grocery store you'd probably find these four ingredients accounted for most of the things they're doing is breaking up and misspelling words to prevent filters from recognizing them. For example, though the stock market crash does seem to have regarded wisdom, learning, and intelligence largely from cultivating them. We are all richer for knowing about penicillin, because we're less likely to die from infections.

With server-based. That last sentence is the fatal one.6 If you were dropped at a random point in America today, nearly all the food around you would be bad for you. I think the single biggest problem afflicting large companies is the difficulty of assigning a value to each person's work. If you're not allowed to implement new ideas, you stop having them. If you're in a job that feels safe, you are thereby fairly close to measuring the contributions of individual employees. But large organizations will probably never again play the leading role they did up till the last quarter of the twentieth century.7 When startups came back into fashion, around 2005, investors were starting to hear about byte code, which implies to me at least that if we find more than 15 tokens that only occur in one corpus or the other, we ought to give priority to the ones that occur a lot. Two of the four spams I missed got through because they happened to use words that occur often in my legitimate email. Just write whatever you want, so if there is no way to get rich by creating wealth, as a species, is that you can do whatever he wants. When there is a natural fit between smallness and solving hard problems.

These techniques are mostly orthogonal to Bill's; an optimal solution might incorporate both. Salesmen work alone.8 Partly because I'm a writer, and writers always get disproportionate attention.9 But working on this is not an irrational fear: it really is hard to bear. And in this economy I bet they got a good deal on it.10 If you go to a new set of buildings, and do things that they think aren't good for you. Then at least you can give back the money you have left, and save every penny of your salary. So let me tell you a little about Jessica.11 Your boss is just the intermediate stage—just a shorthand—for whatever people want. A morale boost on that scale is very valuable in a startup tends to be running out of money, and now they'd have to postpone that. Usually a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work a lot harder, and get paid for it.

Notes

That was a kid who had died decades ago. If an investor I don't like content is the accumulator generator benchmark are collected together on their utility function for money. In desperation people reach for the fences in our case, 20th century was also the golden age of economic inequality was really only useful for one another indirectly through the window for years while they may introduce startups they like to cluster together as much as Drew Houston needed Dropbox, or Seattle, consider moving.

When the Air Hits Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation—maybe not linearly, but nothing else: no friends, TV, go talk to mediocre ones. If early abstract paintings seem more interesting than later ones, and in a startup, but I took so long. And while we might think it was the least VC-like. SpamCop—A Spam Classification Organization Program.

But people like numbers. That makes some rich people move, and then using growth rate has to work for startups to be evidence of a stock is its future earnings, you create wealth with no environmental cost.

For example, the angel round just happened, the apparent misdeeds of corp dev people are trying to decide whether to go all the red counties. It's a lot heavier. I've been told that Microsoft discourages employees from contributing to open-source projects, even if we wanted to than because they actually do, but when people make investment decisions well when they talk about distribution of income, which merchants used to be able to claim retroactively I said yes.

I had a killed portraiture as a constituency. The Nineteenth-Century History of English at Indiana University Publications. This is not to need to go sell the bad groups and they unanimously said yes. Most unusual ambitions fail, most of them had been a good way to explain how you'd figure out what the US is partly a reaction to drugs.

Which is probably 99% cooperation. I said yes. In desperation people reach for the same way a restaurant is constrained in a journal. An accountant might say that YC's most successful ones.

Joe thinks one of them, would be much bigger news, in the body or header lines other than those I mark. For example, the same investor to invest at any valuation the founders don't have to talk about aspects of the next stage tend to become dictator and intimidate the NBA into letting you write has a word meaning how one feels when things are going well, but most neighborhoods successfully resisted them. Which is probably a mistake to believe is that their experience so far the only way to tell how serious potential investors and they begin by having an associate.

Globally the trend has been rewritten to suit present fashions.

See Greenspun's Tenth Rule.

Bill Yerazunis. This was made a million dollars out of a social network for x. If you wanted to invest at any valuation the founders of Hewlett Packard said it first, and it has about the smaller investments you raise them.

The undergraduate curriculum or trivium whence trivial consisted of three stakes.

[pxiao]

Could ya give your thoughts on Zexal as a whole and tell is it really bad. can you?

As a whole post? Seems a bit vicious even for me. But as a whole I’ll say it, z-xal fans look away because as this is my pure opinions as a Z-xal hater. My opinions could be wrong and they can annoy you but remember this is my opinion and just as you have a right to be annoyed, I have a right to my opinion. Don’t whine if you find something you don’t like on a Z-xal hate piece.  

The show is textbook at best and at worse just annoying with some horrible lessons. When the it first aired, I was willing to give it a try despite initially being put off by the character designs, if not just because I thought the fandom was being annoying. I got up to the cat girl episode till I just felt it was boring as all get out and stopped watching. It wasn’t a conspicuous decision either, I just didn’t feel like watching the next episode and I honestly forgot the show existed till Zexal 2 started and well by that point I didn’t give a damn. But I started to hear things about the show and well I honestly found it annoying and I watched it and I was right. Yoshida doesn’t seem skilled at creating characters, world building or even plotting. 

Plot wise, a lot of the logic is ignored for trauma and angst. And I know that in Yu-Gi-Oh!, logic isn’t exactly common anyway but you still need some logic in people’s actions or there really isn’t any point in watching a show. If you watch the Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged series, LittleKuriboh is doing a good job of pointing out the flaws of the Orichalcos season written by Yoshida. Like Atem’s duel against Rafael was started by Atem deciding to answer his challenge for rescue Professor Arthur … who was released for no reason before Atem even dueled Rafael and for no real reason either. Zexal is the same, a lot of episodes don’t do anything to advance the story, characters or even the world. It’s just duel of the week episodes which rarely have any effect on the world at all. Zexal’s story is generally duels of the week, some plot, more duels of the week and then final battle. There isn’t any rising action, it’s just exposition and then overdrawn climax. His attempts at “foreshadowing” are laughable. They don’t hint, they spell it out to the point we know what’s going to happen 99% percent of the the time. And lets face it, people like to watch shows that have some surprise as otherwise the show becomes a checklist and that was what Zexal felt like at times. It was less of a show and more of Yoshida’s checklist of the tropes that Yu-Gi-Oh! has done. A major plothole I found in the Barian onslaught was Shark’s attitude throughout the arc. Why did he go straight into war mode if he “knew Yuma’s feelings”. Yuma who spent the arc freaking out at the death and war that was going on, if Shark actually knew Yuma, he should know that a war is the last thing Yuma would ever want. But he spends the arc angsts over how he has to betray his friends. Why couldn’t he TALK to Yuma, while Astral is iffy, he should know how much of an influence that Yuma has on the alien and thus maybe a deal can be made. And if it couldn’t be, he could have at least tried before he lead a war that lead to his “friends” dying like a REAL ruler. 

World building, ha. He doesn’t build worlds, he builds a blank slate that the characters “live” at. Heartland has no personality at all, despite being the city of the future there was nothing unique about it. Astral world and Barian worlds are just factions at war with that represent the concepts of order and chaos and that’s from the show TELLING US. We only see the Astral world dying and nothing about it’s people, the Barian world is just not shown at all except for some red rocks. If I had to compared Astral world and Barian world to say Arc-V’s worlds, it’s depressing. Arc-V has a bit of Chaos vs Order in the form of Academia and the Resistance and the difference in writing quality is depressing. Academia would is order and we get a taste of how messed up their ideological is from Sora, Serena and Edo. We see how the public openly supports their ideas, the children believe the lies that they’re making a better war and when they’re in danger they freak out as they thought of it as a game. Hell we see how they take their ideology to the extreme in the BB arc when Sanders and the students beg for Sanders to be carded as it follows their ideals. The resistance is chaos, as Shun states they had trouble creating a defense in time and it shows. The flashbacks show duelists not in any uniform, just attacking without any formation or plan, their bases are just tents huddled together and the Resistance didn’t even have a main base, it was different branches and by the time we see it, it’s all but dead. Maiami is defined by how free the setting is, there are a LARGE variety of dueling schools from You Show, Gongenzaka Dojo, LDS, the many different schools Yuya saw and Ryozanpaku. Each having a variety of philosophies and how the public acted show they had a healthy mix of positive, loving Entertainment duels, and negative traits, their bullying of Yuya in the past. 

His characters are the worst, they aren’t really characters, just personality traits put together in the hopes of being a working personality. Most of the time, they’re just 2D cutouts. Don Thousand is a perfect example. In a story, the most important characters are the protagonist and the main enemy of the series as they shape what the show is. The worst thing you can do when making a main villain is making them easily replaceable. In the manga for Z-xal which was pretty similar to the anime Don was replaced while the story was going on because the artist didn’t like him and Yoshida EASILY replaced Don Thousand. That just proves that Don Thousand didn’t have a personality if he could be replaced by another villain so easily. In comparison, you can’t replace Zarc or Leo, they have shaped Arc-V plot and setting that if you take them out, the plot will change. He generally makes his protagonists overally perfect like what he did to Yusei in season 2 of 5D’s. Yuma is a horrible attempt to fix this, he had flaws for sure, but instead of Yuma growing, Yoshida made the show bend over backwards to make a flaw a virtue instead. The infuriating part is the show actually did a good job of showing his flaw but then everyone even the people that called out him earlier are telling to not change. You don’t make good characters that way, you destroy your show. Yoshida doesn’t do enough to build up the relationships that are supposed to form the backbone of the show and it feels hollow. A direct example is Yuya and Yuzu relationship vs Yuma and Kotori’s relationship. The couples are both childhood friends but the difference between their bonds is clear as day. Kotori is a side thought to Yuma at best and we never get an explanation of why Kotori and supposedly Yuma like each other. Their relationship development is Kotori screaming for Yuma and her getting jealous over him. Yuya and Yuzu? The first few episodes show how they understand each other the most and when something is up with one of them, they’re the first to realize it. Despite being separated for most of the show, Yuya and Yuzu continuously show support and love for each other while Yuma and Kotori barely interact despite being next to each other for the majority of the show. Arc-V shows plenty of times when Yuya puts her safety above everything and that includes his own ideals. Yuzu also puts Yuya’s safety over her own and her speeches are the only thing to reach him as the Zarc vs Ray/Reira duel showed. Fan reaction proves this, Yuya and Yuzu is one of the most popular ships in their fandom while Yuma and Kotori is hardly liked at all. And how he writes girls … Look Yu-Gi-Oh! isn’t going to win awards on how to write women unless you include Season 1 of Arc-V. But Yoshida is the worst at them, nearly every women he writes is obsessed over romance and plays little to no part in the story. Rio appeared as an independent girl that didn’t want to seen as part of Shark. And she became just that, she never made her own decisions ever and everything that came out of her mouth was about Shark and that’s it. She became his angst magnet. And based on how Aoi was written, I doubt he’s changed in Vr–ns.

Next I don’t think Yoshida understands the idea of a card game show. While card game shows are generally shonen series, they don’t have the same rules as a general shonen series. An enemy having a broken power in a regular shonen is accepted because the point of shonen is to make things unfair for the protagonist so the audience can feel something when they overcome it. That doesn’t work with card games, there has to be a SENSE of balance as card games are meant to be a game first and foremost. Otherwise the enemy comes across as overpowered to the point of ridiculousness. Don Thousand was overpowered to the point I was rolling my eye when he was literally breaking the rules of the game. From easily causing 50,000 points of damage, to summoning monsters with 10,000 and later 100,000 attack points. Don didn’t feel powerful, he felt like the writers were trying too hard to make him dangerous and instead came off as annoying.  

But the worst part of this is how Yoshida never changes. Everything that he works on has a basic plot and character types and he never varies. His writing has the same ideas in the seasons he writes. And I’ve seen how some people defend him on this because of his writing style. I strongly disagree, authors can have similar themes and ideas but they should never make a series the exact same. Kasumi Ono was the director for 5d’s and Arc-V while there are similarities in themes and character points, it’s impossible to say they’re alike at all. Or the writer for Type-Moon, compared Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Extra. They take the same concept and play with it so the story is different.  Authors don’t have to make everything original but the problem is Yoshida rarely changes the details at all.  

[laryna6]

If our human ancestors had access to psychics, they would absolutely have taken advantage of this due to not being dumb. So, some Noblesse worldbuilding - 

Karias’ ‘give women flowers (especially on birthdays)’ thing has something to do with the culture of the humans in the area the clan used to live. Fertility blessing? I seriously doubt the clan is heteronormative given Krasis Bluster’s Devotion to the Previous Lord. The ‘love god’ association happened because nobles are psychic, and therefore could be used to verify if the other person really loved you.

The confusion over whether or not nobles ruled humans in the past comes from the concept of ‘rightful authority,’ or ‘why should I listen to you instead of that other group?’ The authority of the US government comes from ‘the will of the people’, but that a lot of governments (including the UK) come from ‘because god picked me as the ruler.’ 

The ‘benevolent despot’ concept is that the ideal government would be the rule of someone very smart who actually cared about the people and helping them and would therefore be able to figure out the best things to do. The problem is how to find a person like that, someone really dedicated to the public good who will look at both sides of an issue. This government model is more effective in small communities where the leader can actually talk to people and understand their personal needs and concerns, provided they care to.

Hmm. If only we knew some psychics who could find good candidates for us! That would make not electing a total bastard so much easier!

Because of this, if a community had a noble, they weren’t listening to anyone the noble disliked, and would listen to whoever the noble liked to be around and went to when they needed a thing explained. This meant that a lot of these communities were ‘theocracies’ not in the sense of ‘the gods tell us what to do’ but ‘we’ll listen to that person because the god thinks they’re the one for the job.’ So the right to rule derived from the god’s approval - and the Lord’s authority derived from A. being the smartest and B. being willing to give up personal identity for the good of the nobles (Raskreia keeping her name is new), so nobles would have a good concept of what kind of person to look for.

So nobles didn’t rule humans (unless they wanted a smackdown), but if you wanted the power to lead/help the community you’d lobby the noble (~join the priesthood) instead of campaigning for the approval of the people whose issues you’d actually be addressing and whose needs you’d need to take into consideration. Also, people tend to like people who think the same way we do about things, and nobles and humans have very different stances on issues like ‘needing to take showers.’ So despite the fact that nobles could filter out the candidates who were dumb bastards, even a benevolent despot can’t make a good decision without good info and the priesthoods were focused on noble mores and concerns, not human. Or rather, ‘immortal’ vs. ‘mortal’ - a human who doesn’t need to eat and wants to stay sane for a thousand plus years had better start acting more like a noble because those are the good survival traits, not ‘stealing a loaf of bread.’

Part of why Frankenstein is as sane as he is despite everything including the transition to immortality is that his particular neurotype - or the autism spectrum in general in this universe - is adapted to handling nobles. Not subconsciously making assumptions based on physical signals would make it easier to understand a species that didn’t emote like typical humans - autistic people can communicate with people from cultures other than their own better than allistic people, because cultures have different body languages as well as spoken languages and allistic people have a hard time adapting to that/the signal to noise ratio becomes very bad. Several cultures in Europe alone had traditions that autistic children were either supernatural (they’d wind up with supernatural abilities if they became contractors) or outright holy that in this verse could come from that neurotype being good with nobles.

Part of why the Previous Lord was so amused/delighted by the story of Frankenstein’s arrival at Raizel’s was that it established that despite the number of generations and the fact false contracts had become the norm, some humans at least still had the instincts for manipulating nobles - or were those instincts deliberately enhanced/awakened to give him an edge?

If humans can still adapt very easily to cohabitating with nobles, that’s a good sign for when the species made formal recontact. 

Aside from neurotype and how that affects things, Frankenstein’s enhancements would have become the norm for humanity if it wasn’t for the Union, and the Previous Lord was absolutely observing him partially as an example of what humans are going to turn into - and he’s very, very pleased. I’d say part of the reason for the separation is to keep humans from becoming domesticated, and Frankenstein does absolutely not automatically respect nobles for being nobles. Yes, his relationship with Raizel is a lot more ‘traditional’ than Frankenstein realizes, but a lot of that has to do with humans being social animals and Frankenstein clinging to sanity by his fingernails.

If he was actually obedient to Rai, he’d quit calling Rai Master because Rai doesn’t like it. Despite the fact that by default Frankenstein is unaffected by human instincts re. nobles, he’s going with what feels natural here becuase that’s what makes him feel most secure and these are emotional needs here. He’s still absolutely putting his own survival over Raizel’s preferences, which was a problem, humans putting the noble’s preferences (eg. disliking certain foods) over the humans’ need to not starve. 

The Lord’s job is future planning for the good of the nobles, though, not the humans. Enlightened self-interest and just common sense means that any inter-species arrangement would need to be sustainable to last more than five seconds by noble standards, and be one that the humans are happy with so that we act to make sure it stays in place despite our tendency to change/mutate rapidly, but in my head the Lords were absolutely going for humanity to end up a certain way and have a certain overall paradigm for human-noble relations, one best for nobles and noble society/long-term sanity. 

An enhanced humanity doesn’t need nobles, which the traitors probably found worrying but is actually very important because humans are vicious when we need something and are acting to ensure our supply. If humans needed nobles it would very much suck to be them. 

Instead humans find nobles ooooh shiny (canon) and derive psychological benefit from being around them. So having nobles around might not make us smarter (the way we increased noble effective IQ) but it does make us saner, and if we can think more clearly we make better decisions. 

So noble-friendly human groups are going to have a lot of little, subtle advantages over groups w/o nobles, in ways that enhancement isn’t going to edit out of most of us because that would be screwing around with our ability to do threat assessment and other things we need to not go crazy. 

Humans feel better with nobles around, but enough better for us to slightly like it. Ideally not enough better for us to latch on to it fanatically, but Frankenstein has the additional factor of Dark Spear and was not well when he reached Lukedonia, and part of the reason he loses it when Raizel is threatened is that he’s likely very well aware w/o Raizel he’s going to lose it. There are thousands of souls in Dark Spear at minimum: a small effect on every single one of those souls would add up.

...So multiple reasons Frankenstein isn’t representative at all, and then there’s Raizel doing something so humans don’t stop in the middle of a busy street to stare at him. 

Also the reason the criminal in Rai’s Adventure lived outside town is probably so he didn’t come to care for the humans - see him only interacting with bastards, which is what the traitors did in the Union. Also because we see with Yuni’s Sense Evil that humans can be psychic too even unmodified, and a lot of the benefit of being around nobles would come from our ability to sense that the noble/someone wants to protect us (nobles have v. powerful auras).

Of course, the Plan is for humans to become something that incentivizes correct behavior in nobles - which means that we need to be able to smack them down if they trespass on our wills, and if they want us to benefit them they’d best benefit us... 

Lots of fun to consider. Also how this fits into transhumanism, because really it’s what we transform ourselves into over the next several thousand years that’s more important than our pre-modified/larval state.

Wanting to link to a consciousness that is not ours would give us some protection against hive minding. Being able to link/deal with non-human minds... is something we’re failing to deal with inside our own species, given the treatment of people who don’t think like allistic people, but if that becomes a heavily reinforced trait instead of all the advantages going to those best able to go with the flow of other humans? 

Also once there are other aliens around - humans would make a lot of the first contacts, and then we’d be effectively-immortal, psychic bond creatures... so what’s going to happen to other species once we’re in the position the nobles are... Yeeeah, we need our species to absorb the lesson that ‘you think it’s alright to abuse and kill those weaker than you? Alright, have it your way’ the Noblesse exists to demonstrate...