#it's insane cause i've been working in this program for like 3 years now? and have only every finished like 2 things

[cure-papaya]

was inspired by @funky-dealer 's little lickilicky model and was hit with the inspiration i needed to finally finish a 3D model so thank you!

I'm finally figuring out how i want to work in this program and it's incredibly exciting

[taikk0]

PART 1 OF TAIKKO HATES HIS SENIOR ART COURSE AND WANTS TO RANT ABOUT IT ON TUMBLR <3

Hey guys, you may have noticed how art and animations have recently been slowing down. So I'm gonna vent out my frustrations for a lil bit to explain why because I need the world to know that there is hate in my heart :D

Outside of my HOUSE LEAKING causing major disruptions to my workflow both for personal and academic work,

Lately I've been going through insane crunch in order to meet my deadlines lately. This October has been very busy, I have the spreadsheet to prove it.

and I don't care if some terms on here reveals what school I go to, I think I deserve to make it fucking obvious with how poor this institution is. and personally, I don't think they're gonna file for defamation on some random 17 year old on Tumblr. If you know, you know.

See 👆 I got so busy I had to put cleaning my unkept room in the schedule because I was neglecting it so bad with how much work I had to do this month. 💀

My personal life away from academics is very busy, I'm often helping my family with our local business away from my computer. Which becomes a PROBLEM when time itself is a luxury I don't have very often. I don't always have the time to do my schoolwork when I come home, I don't always have the time to make art. So, in turn, I crunch at midnight. Adding commissions on top of that to help rack in extra money for personal expenses, to help support my family, and for any possible emergency expenses. It's a lot to handle.

This problem is then made even worse by how PERMANENTLY DAMAGING the pandemic was. I am a firm believer that if the pandemic never happened, schools wouldn't have switched to this shitty method of administering schoolwork. Not everyone comes home from school and immediately checks the schools shitty half assed broken website to do MORE schoolwork after they have already left school premises. I'm not the only person with this problem, TONS of other students have missed so many assigned tasks. So much so that the teacher announcing missing schoolwork to whichever student in front of the class and reminding everyone of their missing work is standard practice.

I don't want to come off as a petty student who wants all my work handed to me, but I really think that nowadays not many teachers put in the effort to make sure to announce projects for the class anymore.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY NEXT POINT. our art teacher is such a bundle of joy (LYING) she is so professional (INCORRECT BUZZER) and establishes boundaries between her and her students (RED ALARM SOUND) and is such a talented and proficient artist that I'm glad she became our art teacher (FIRE AND SCREAMING SOUND EFFECTS) and she knows how to teach her students well (SKIN PEELING OFF AS WE SPEAK) and is very considerate of production pipelines (FULL AUTO RIFLE AND HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

I don't like her.

She has done. A lot of questionable stuff, y'now, just as a person, but right now I wanna talk about her as a teacher.

SHE IS NOT GOOD AT IT.

Now I don't mean she doesn't explain things well or her methods are convoluted, I mean SHE DOES NOT DO HER JOB AT ALL.

She quite literally almost every time; either meets us in the classroom and says she has a meeting to go to and leaves us with no assigned task, or, she actually does stay in the classroom,

but doesn't teach us at all.

Hell, she makes the STUDENTS teach, not even in a report kind of way she just tells that student to sit in front with her, she shows them the presentation she was supposed to discuss, and makes THE STUDENT DISCUSS THE LESSON TO THEIR PEERS INSTEAD.

And even then there is a secret third option. She stays, and assigns us work.

However.

The work is a practical application of a lesson she did not teach the class.

For example, "Your assignment for today is to animate a pendulum swinging left to right on this program!"

Two problems.

None of the students are knowledgeable in the program because she never even tried to learn it in order to teach us.

She never taught us the animation principles.

The pendulum assignment requires knowledge of ease-ins and ease-outs, as well as the use of arcs and possibly timing charts.

My peers knew none of that in order to perform the task effectively.

Our teacher response to that? is to be so unfairly critical. The only reason why her students are failing, is because of her. She fails students for not making an appealing animation BECAUSE she never taught them how to in the first place.

Her grading is very biased and rooted in personal preference rather than a solid understanding of the principles, not even adding notes on what to improve upon.

I GOT A 100% ON AN ANIMATION EXAM, WITH THE SHITTIEST OUTPUT EVER. Like, If i actually went to art school and passed that as our exam, I would get such a low score.

We were told to animate a 10 second clip, no other instructions. Here was my output

THIS DID NOT DESERVE A 100%. it was rushed and I cut a lot of corners in order for it to be done on time. Just the fact that she considered this to have no flaws or room for improvement is telling. I know I should be thankful for a perfect score, but essentially saying that THIS is good enough shows that she has no idea what she's doing and I'm afraid that most likely I am going to walk away from senior high with no new information and being bombarded with skills I didn't learn beforehand when I'm in college.

In an art school I know what I'm signing up for, I want that crunch and that pressure to improve to be WARRANTED. I don't feel that drive to make artwork and animations (for academics) that I am proud of and want to put effort into for a passing grade. Instead I am simply doing the bare minimum with very little time to do so, so I just end up making shitty work that is "good enough" because the environment is made so mediocre by our art teacher.

You know what's more?

SHE IS NOT AN ART MAJOR.

SHE MAJORED IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

That is my rant for now. I'm thinking of doing three more entries. talking about how shitty the school is in of itself with very poor management as a PRIVATE SCHOOL, our art teacher is a WHOLE can of worms, and our current thesis film.

Right now I just want to focus on finishing all my commissions and then I can focus solely on rough animation on my student film. 👍 I currently have like, four fully rendered pieces lololol

[system-of-a-feather]

Man is it insane how far we've come honestly. For context, we are working on an inpatient crisis unit as a "bachelors level clinician" with like a total of like 20-30 staff members (depending on if you count the admissions team as part of our unit) and save for the admissions team, all of my peers are people who have had at least 3 years in the behavioral health field, a lot of them having leadership positions in their roles before getting the job I have, and a lot of them having several years of experience in post-masters work and like... everyone is honest to god AMAZING individuals - like I have never been MORE confident in a group of people / coworkers / peers in a workspace than I have now.

The only issue is, the manager of the entire unit really uses toxic management tactics and frequently treats a lot of the staff like they are people filling slots rather than these amazing and experienced people who have dedicated years of work to specifically working with children with behavioral issues who are just trying to understand exactly how things will be done and are going to be done when we open up. And combining the general stress of being a brand new program with a lot of staff having literally just been onboarded within the past month or two and a lot of things still being up in the air with the toxic leadership, there is a LARGE atmosphere of tension, frustration, dissatisfaction and just anxiety / burn out despite almost everyone I've talked to very much agreeing that the overall company's work culture and policy is amazing and that basically every OTHER coworker is amazing and one of the main reasons they are staying despite each individual's mental health going down lately

Honestly, until recently, I've been doing okay, arguably really good cause I guess I'm just incredibly hard to stress out and I've really mastered a lot of the ACT DBT concepts that just allow me to really acknowledge whats in my circle of control and also feel confident in my ability to navigate situations as they come up with people that I feel confident and trust and all that. Recently though, a LOT of my peers are kind of boiling over with how poorly managed we are and how a lot of toxicity is thrown our way by our manager and it actually kind of managed to get me off my very calm and regulated pedestal a bit and I honestly had to reign my focus back in

But I've realized in a group of therapists, I'm kind of being the calming and recentering / reframing force to just kind of remind people that despite the person with most power being the most toxic and bringing the entire unit down, we have a work place that is like 95% made up of LITERALLY the best coworkers we've ever had and we all have a good working relationship with one another and we have a really good sense of supporting one another, so as far as things go, we can really decide what we want to make the atmosphere be and we all have a SHIT ton of experience in acknowledging and managing our emotional responses from our SHIT ton of experience previously.

Because at a certain point, venting our frustrations over and over and feeding one another's anxieties and angers is not going to really make us feel better even if it makes us feel not alone. We can acknowledge the frustration, issue, and stress of the emotional mind while also bringing in the problem solving and awareness of what the next steps are from the logical mind and progress forward in our wise mind to make decisions that best address the situation without causing as much riot around us. We can make a plan to properly, formally, and professionally air our grievances to the appropriate channels and work on that - in the meanwhile, we can just accept the feelings, accept what we cannot control, and commit to making the unit and work atmosphere what we want it to be with what we CAN control; ie the energy and support we bring to one another

Things will be fine and since I see we are all heated and stressed, lets go outside and UNIRONICALLY sit in the grass and engage in some mindfulness and remember that things are okay. Then when we come back from our days off, we can come back with a recentered and renewed intent and dedication to the reason we are here while the issues are sorted out over time.

And I'm honestly just like... kind of proud of the ability to de-escalate a group and get at least the majority of the people who were riling one another up back into a productive and forward facing mental place after I honestly noticed it was just stressing me out and disengaging for a moment.

But like, yesterday night, today and some of tomorrow are solely going to be for self care and listening to my body / mind, the next day will be dedicated to having fun and relaxing (not that the two are mutually exclusive as there is a lot of overlap, but those are the themes of the day).

But like man, I literally went from being 16 and having daily crisises and melting down and having DID / C-PTSD flaring out of control to being in my early 20s and being one of the people in a group of literal amazing and experienced therapists kind of reminding people of their resources, coping skills, and providing a really calming and productive energy to the group and I'm just.... like DAMN son.

It's also kind of wild because historically the Riku-brain has always been more of the toxic positivity end than not and its been known and memed about, but genuinely lately my peers have been complimenting me on my ability to both be really calm and positive and helping counterbalance a lot of stress and its just wild seeing the often-unhealthily positive energy redirected back into being this like... sustainable positive and helpful energy.

I'm honestly just like, I guess really happy to be able to do my part among a group of such fucking AMAZING, skilled and experienced people because honestly, I'm probably one of the "least" qualified people in this group - at least in formal experience and what not - so its just really nice to be able to use a lot of my personal lived experience and see that it absolutely has its aid in a group of people with a lot more professional experience.

Either way, I'm extremely proud and happy to have the peers I do and to be able to help as something of a calming stone

And yeah I know its not my job / responsibility to manage it, which is why I'm explicitly taking time to relax and turn my brain off and not think about work after I finish this post, but with the current stressors in the environment and a lot of people taking on roles they shouldnt due to poor management, I absolutely am fine filing in some of the lack of ironically mental health and emotional support in the environment while a more long term and appropriate solution is being navigated.

[queen-of-the-avengers]

Iron Man: Final Part

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Female!Reader (implicitly)

Word Count: ~3k

Warnings: canon violence and angst

Author’s Note: any and all comments are appreciated <3

x

You take off flying after Tony does, not missing the way Rhodey looks awestruck by this. 

"How do you think the Mark One chest piece is going to hold up?" Tony asks his computer system.

"The suit is at forty-eight percent power and falling, sir. That chest piece was never designed for sustained flight."

"Tony, I need you to be careful. Use me when you need me," you say.

Tony calls Pepper to let her know he's okay, and she answers the phone in a panic.

"Tony! Y/N! Are you two okay?"

"We're fine, Pepper," you answer.

"Obadiah has gone insane! He built a suit."

"Get out of there right now!" Tony shouts. 

Before she can answer, you hear commotion come from her end and a nastier version of Obadiah speaks.

"Where do you think you're going? Your services are no longer required."

Tony flies faster to the lab area where the gigantic arc reactor is. Obadiah and Pepper are outside the building and Tony sees red when he sees Pepper could be harmed by him. Tony's suit is big and built with solid metals, while Obadiah's suit is ten times more massive. His suit makes Tony look like a small child compared to an adult.

"Stane!" Tony yells.

Obadiah starts shooting at you and Tony but your friend doesn't let up. He crashes right into Obadiah just as Pepper gets out of the way of the imminent danger. They tumble away from Pepper and you fly down next to her to make sure she is unharmed.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine but—"

"Good, get the hell out of here."

Tony and Obadiah have moved their fight over to the freeway where most of it is cleared. The cars remaining on the freeway have been cleared out so no one is in the line of fire. The scene you come upon can only be described as pure destruction. Cars are crushed, a semi-tractor trailer is toppled over, people are screaming in terror, and Tony and Obadiah are in the middle of it. The older man has a car lifted above his head with a screaming family still inside. 

Clearly, he doesn't care about casualties as long as he comes out on top.

Tony uses most of his power on his chest piece and he blasts Obadiah away, causing the car to fall back down to Earth. You stick both hands up and use your aerokinesis to keep the car afloat while you get them to safety. As soon as the car is on the ground, the family immediately speeds off.

You turn to Obadiah and stick both your hands out. Your right hand moves clockwise and your left moves counterclockwise, and a bright ball of fire starts to form between your palms. The flames grow hotter as the ball grows larger and you shoot that ball of fire at Obadiah as soon as you think it's hot enough to do some damage. Obadiah stumbles back but the flames don't work as well as you'd hope. The flames die out quicker than they do damage so you have to think of something else.

"For thirty years, I've been holding you up!" Obadiah yells. 

He grabs Tony and slams him to the ground. He stomps hard on his chest even though Tony's suit doesn't crush under the weight. He raises his leg to do more damage when you panic. Your aerokinesis and pyrokinesis work together to get Obadiah away from Tony. Your fire powers ignite the flames still on him which cause a small explosion, and your air powers flip him several hundred feet away from him. "

"Impressive! There's a lot more to you than I thought there was!" Obadiah laughs.

"You have no idea," you glare.

You and Tony fly up a hundred feet in the air and look down at Obadiah who you can only imagine is smirking underneath his suit.

"There's a lot more to me as well! I've made some upgrades of my own."

Obadiah has programmed his suit to have thrusters like Tony's does which means he can fly. That's fine. It will get the fight away from civilians. Plus, you know for a fact that he didn't account for ice build-up since he never tested it out, and you and Tony are going to make him regret following you into the sky.

"Sir, it appears that his suit can fly," Jarvis notes.

"Duly noted. Take me to maximum altitude."

"With only fifteen percent power, the odds of reaching that—"

"I know the math! Do it!" Tony yells.

Jarvis has no choice but to listen to him. As soon as you and Tony start heading for the atmosphere, Obadiah follows. He's not as fast as you and Tony during take off but the higher you fly, the faster he goes. Tony has the same idea as you and will take Obadiah as high as it takes for ice to reach his suit.

"Thirteen percent power, sir."

"Climb!"

"Eleven percent," Jarvis says the higher Tony got. 

"Keep going!"

"Seven percent power."

"Just leave it on the screen! Stop telling me!"

"Tony, keep going! I will keep the ice on there as long as I can."

You take a hard right while Tony keeps flying upward. Obadiah reaches your friend and grabs him by the shoulders angrily.

"You had a great idea, Tony, but my suit is more advanced in every way!"

"How'd you solve the icing problem?" Tony smirks as ice cracks on Obadiah's suit.

"Icing problem?"

"You might want to look into it."

Obadiah's suit shortens out much like what Tony's did when he first tested it out. You fly upward and jump onto the back of Obadiah and shove your hands onto his shoulders. Both hands turn ice white as the ice on the suit thickens.

"You're not getting away this time. If you wanted to kill us, then you should have been the one to pull the trigger," you say close to his ear.

"Two percent. We are now running on emergency backup power," Jarvis says. 

You look up and see Tony struggling to fly. Tony is and will always come first. You jump off Obadiah's back and shoot back into the sky to where Tony is, and you grab his hand to prevent him from falling.

"Thanks. Where is Stane?"

"Doesn't matter. You need to get out of this suit."

You flew the both of you back to his lab where the big arc reactor is. You land on the roof gently not caring where Obadiah is right now. There is no time to relax because the older man jumps out of the shadows and grabs you from behind. He tosses you off to the side like you're a piece of trash, and you crash into one of the air conditioning units with a hard thump.

"Fuck," you groan.

Obadiah grabs Tony and starts to squeeze him so hard that his suit crushes and the weapons break. If you don't do something, he is gonna kill Tony. You ignore the pain on your side and fly over to Obadiah. You jump onto his back and wrap your arms around his neck as if you're putting him in a chokehold. Both your arms erupt into flames with the hope that they will melt the metal. You can't be too hot otherwise you'd kill Tony so you do your best to try and subdue Obadiah.

He lets Tony go to yank you off him, and he throws you in the same direction as before. This gives Tony the opportunity to escape while the smoke is still thick in the air. He hides behind one of the larger air conditioning equipment while you're still stuck by the one you were thrown in. To keep Obadiah from seeing you, you manipulate the water molecules in the air to create a lot of steam. If he can't see you, then he can't hurt you.

"Very clever, Y/N. You're both getting good but not good enough, I'm afraid."

"Pepper?" Tony's voice comes over comms.

"Tony!"

"This isn't working. We're going to have to overload the reactor and blast the roof."

You groan and sit up to see a piece of metal sticking out of your thigh. You yank it out with a muffled cry so that Obadiah doesn't hear you. The wound will heal in seconds but the pain will linger for several minutes afterward. You get up and wobble your way over to where Tony is. He jumps when he sees a figure coming his way but relaxes when he sees it's you.

"How are you going to do that?" Pepper asks.

"You're going to do it. Go to the central console and open up all the circuits. When I get clear of the roof, I'll let you know. You're going to hit the master bypass button. It's going to fry everything up here."

"Okay. I'm going in now," Pepper agrees.

"Make sure you wait till I clear the roof. I'll buy you some time," he whispers.

"No," you declare once you found him. "We'll buy you some time. Come on."

You clear the mist enough for Tony to see where Obadiah is. He jumps on his back and starts yanking out wires from his neck.

"This looks important!"

The wires Tony is yanking out are connected to his vision so that Obadiah won't be able to see anything with the mask on. You throw fireballs at his weakest points to help take him down. Without his ability to see, Obadiah reaches for Tony and throws him onto the glass dome right above the arc reactor.

"Tony!" you yell and fly over to him.

His mask is off and in the hands of Obadiah who has his mask off so he can see.

"I never had a taste for this sort of thing but I must admit, I'm deeply enjoying the suit!" he laughs and crushes the mask before tossing it to you. "You finally outdid yourself, Tony! You'd have made your father proud!"

Pepper rushes the process and gets the arc reactor ready from down below. She looks up and sees you and Tony standing on the glass above her.

"It's ready, Tony! Y/N! Get off the roof!" Pepper yells.

Obadiah shoots a missile at you two but the targeting system is messed up because the missile lands outside of the glass dome. The shock from the explosion is enough to shatter the glass you stand on, raining shards of glass where Pepper stands.

"Tony!" she gasps and protects her face.

Tony falls through the middle of the glass dome but is able to catch himself before he falls into the arc reactor. He pushes himself up and holds onto the metal frame.

"How ironic, Tony! You're trying to rid the world of weapons and you gave it its best one ever! Now I'm going to kill you with it!"

"Pepper! Time to hit the button!" Tony shouts down below.

"No, you'll die," you gasp.

"You ripped out my targeting system! Stay still you little weasel." 

Obadiah sends another missile at Tony but misses once again. With each hit, the glass around you shatters and sends more down where Pepper is. You fly through and push Tony up to safety

"You told me not to!" Pepper yells back.

"Just do it!"

"You'll die!" she screams.

"Please get her out of here," Tony asks you.

"No, Tony, you won't stand a chance against him!"

"Get her out of here and push the damn button!" he yells.

Tony never does anything without reason, so you have to trust him he knows what he's doing. You leave him dangling from the rooftop and fly down to Pepper. You push the big red button and scoop Pepper in your arms before flying off. She gasps and holds onto you for dear life and calls out for Tony. She cares about him more than she thinks she does and it shows in the way she's crying for him. She shoves her head in your neck so she doesn't see what's happening so you'll look for her.

You reach several hundred yards away from the lab only to see it explode right before your eyes. You set Pepper on her feet and immediately take off into the sky toward the roof. Tony is lying on a broken piece of the metal frame but your own focus is getting him out of here alive. You scoop him into your arms and fly down to the ground where you can have the time to better check him out.

Pepper rushes over as soon as you set him down, and you lean down to check if he's breathing. He is. However, the light in his chest dies out as if he's dead. He's not, but he is dying if he doesn't get medical attention.

"Tony, wake up," you get tears for him.

"I need a drink," he groans painfully.

"My God, you scared us. Come on, we need to get out of here before the police show up."

Tony doesn't like doctors or receiving medicine but when Pepper threatened to leave her job, he took better care of himself. Rhodey put together a press conference the very next day since everyone will be wondering what the hell happened at Stark Industries. He kept the Air Force off your back when you were in the air and now he has to take care of the people on the ground. You, Pepper, Tony, and Phil Coulson are backstage getting ready while Rhodey is in front of dozens of reporters trying to get ahead of the story.

"You've all received the official statement of what occurred at Stark Industries last night. There have been unconfirmed reports that a robotic prototype malfunctioned and caused damage to the arc reactor. Fortunately, a member of Tony Stark's personal security staff—"

"'Iron Man and the Avatar'," Tony reads the headlines of today's paper. You look away from the TV and grab the paper. "That's kind of catchy. It's got a nice ring to it. I mean, it's not technically accurate. The suit's a gold-titanium alloy but it's kind of evocative. The imagery, anyway."

"Mine's technical. Well, apart from the shapeshifting," you chuckle.

Pepper dabs some makeup on Tony's face to conceal his wounds. It would look bad if he went out there with a beaten face and claim that he was never there.

"Here's your alibi," Phil says and hands you and Tony note cards. "You two were on your yacht. We have port papers that put you in Avalon all night and sworn statements from fifty of your guests."

"See, I was thinking maybe we should say it was just me and Pepper alone on that island," he smirks.

"That's what happened. Just read it, word for word."

"There's nothing about Obadiah here," you say.

"That's being handled. He's on vacation. Small aircraft have such a poor safety record."

"What about the whole cover story that it's a bodyguard? He's my... I mean, is that... That's kind of flimsy, don't you think?" Tony tries to find the right words to say.

"This isn't my first rodeo, Mr. Stark." Phil looks at you and you shake your head with a quiet chuckle. "Just stick to the official statement and soon, this will all be behind you. You've got ninety seconds."

Pepper grabs Tony's jacket and turns to him with a smile.

"Let's get this show on the road."

"You know, it's actually not that bad. Even I don't think I'm Iron Man."

He turns and she helps him put his jacket on.

"You're not Iron Man."

"Am so."

"You're not."

"Alright, suit yourself. You know, if I were Iron Man, I'd have this girlfriend who knew my true identity." Pepper finishes and he turns to face her. "She'd be a wreck because she'd always be worrying that I was gonna die yet so proud of the man I'd become. She'd be wildly conflicted, which would only make her more crazy about me. Tell me you never think about that night."

You stand off to the side and give them this moment for another sixty seconds. 

"What night?"

"You know."

She looks into his eyes and for a split second, she can see herself falling for him.

"Are you talking about the night we danced, went up on the roof, and then... you went back inside to get me a drink and left me there by myself? Is that the night you're talking about?"

She must be talking about the night they almost kissed, and you turn to hide your smirk.

"Yeah," he clears his throat.

"Okay, if you two are done flirting with each other, we have a press conference to get to," you say loudly, startling them. "That's what you were doing, right? You two were flirting?"

"Let's go," Tony changes the subject.

Pepper stays where she is while you and Tony walk down the long hallway to get to the main room.

"Are you really going to say what's on the cards?" you whisper to him just as you walk into the room.

"I don't know," he whispers back.

"Now, Mr. Stark and Ms. Y/L/N have prepared a statement. They will not be taking any questions," Rhodes says and steps aside. 

Tony takes the microphone while you stand next to him and smile tightly at the crowd.

"Thank you. It's been a while since I was in front of you. I figure I'll stick to the cards this time." A round of chuckles goes across the room. "There's been speculation that I was involved in the events that occurred on the freeway and the rooftop—"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Stark," Christine Everhart interrupts even though Rhodey says no questions, "but do you honestly expect us to believe that it was a bodyguard in a suit that conveniently appeared, despite the fact that you—"

"I know that it's confusing," Tony interrupts her. "It is one thing to question the official story, and another thing entirely to make wild accusations or insinuate that we're superheroes."

"I never said you two were superheroes," she smirks.

"You didn't? Well, good because that would be outlandish and fantastic. I'm just not the hero type. Clearly. With this laundry list of character defects, all the mistakes I've made, largely public—"

"Just stick to the cards, man," Rhodes whispers.

"Yeah, okay." Tony holds the cards out and reads over them quickly. "Yeah. The truth is... I am Iron Man."

"I am the Avatar," you confirm.

Every single reporter except for Christine stands up with millions of questions to ask. Rhodey looks at you two with a shocked look on his face. What can he expect when it comes to Tony Stark? 

If he's going to take the credit, then you may as well do it, too. They'll only be questioning why you can do the things you can do, and this way, you can give them an explanation.

x

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[pastelmusings]

Hello! And yes definitely!

Pretty much every model from that line that's equipped with one of those scanners is a scavenger's dream find, and generally just considered not worth even attempting to refurbish because of the amount of damage and scarcity of specialized parts necessary (pretty much everything about his line's design was completely custom, specifically to avoid tempting refurbishers into repairing and reselling)

I'm sort of working out the details with his backstory and how it interacts with the universe and all, but right now I'm tentatively thinking that he was found in the basement of an abandoned hospital, the one which he was originally sent to, which is why he is still so heavily intact (excluding the corruption of software over the long time period and missing torso piece), and why his scavenger even bothered attempting his repair

Generally speaking memory chips can corrupt over the simplest reasons, so being left completely untouched for 20ish years, even if it wasn't necessarily exposed to the elements, would definitely cause a fair bit of degradation and disorientation

Right now in my lore building I'm sort of setting up that the specialized scanner required a certain limited resource to remain functional and stable (unstable material, heck yeah), which is both why the original line got discontinued and also why even the broken ones can sell for so much, as well as why it's generally considered a very stupid endeavor for a scrapper to attempt repairing one

Technically he is an out of date medical model, with new lines being constantly released and updated that just generally have better programs, knowledge, and emotional response times than would have been available for him, making him no longer the standard 'medical grade' and unable to carry out his original function, even if he was fully repaired (though he'd still sell for a lot because of his components, but then there's the high risk of the buyer just scrapping him too)

And thank you so much!!! I have such a fixation on androids it's insane, like almost every character design I've done in the past 3 years has been at least vaguely Android related, they're literally so fun to draw and write for it's crazy, pls ask like every question cause this has been the highlight of my week tysm ^^💜

I have also successfully written an intro x reader one-shot which will be posted directly after this ^^

[foxgloveinspace]

pasted from my notes app:

okay i am compiling all my thoughts in a note as i watch lmao

1. love the dog. he’s adorable

2. journey!!!! separate ways- what a good fuckin song

3. now eurythmics?! this movie has a killer soundtrack. i did a jazz routine to sweet dreams once upon a time. it was so fun lol

4. the weird white robot-y ladies are giving me hardcore like, austin powers vibes lmao

5. hahahaaaaa mr orange guy… i like his helmet

6. oooooh there’s multiple orange guys. they both have cool masks/helmets. something about being unable to see the face and yet totally understand the emotion fuuuuuucks me up

7. omg this is going to get long i’m so sorry i’m like a quarter through the movie 😅

8. very good fight scene choreo, that always makes or breaks a show for me. poor choreo is painful to watch, but this is good! i like

9. umm. I’m guessing dad is the bad guy. he’s kinda shady lmao (oooooooh it’s a dad clone. love clones. they always throw wrenches in plans)

10. lmaoooooo dad so disappointed sam only has a dog and no gf 😭

11. haha is that a daft punk cameo? not my cup of tea in terms of music but that’s pretty neat

12. OH MY GOD MICHAEL SHEEN I LOVE HIM. he plays the most insane characters- and also the sweetest (aziraphale in good omens 🥺)

13. okay ngl i keep hearing “rinzler” and thinking of the rizzler and i can’t stop laughing about it 😂

14. LMAO HE JUST BONKED THE DUDE. i love percussive maintenance, that’s how i fix my car

15. oooooh i love a good “i was a good guy before i was evil and i remember” moment. Good shit

that was really good! i honestly didn’t remember any of it from whenever i watched it but that was dope. i can definitely see how you’re so invested in the story! now i’m pumped for your fic whenever it comes out 😂🥰

Answering all of your notes.... under a readmore so this isn't too too long, haha

1). Yes!!! Marv is so cute!!

2). I love that song so much.

3). yes!! the sound track is really good, but you won't find those two songs on it haha.

4).I've never seen that movie, so I'll take your word for it, haha. They are really interesting and I am intrigued by them lore wise, sad we don't get more about them in the movie (idk if theres more in the tv show? I haven't watch it yet cause it got canceled and ended on a clif hanger, but I should).

5/6. yes!! orange guys!! I love all of their designs, except for Jarvis (Clu's assistant), I know they where going for like.... hes weird and kinda cringe, but they could have done his design way better.

7. No worries!!

8. yes! the fights are good, and I think even tho Sam is like, a newbie to it, it still feels realistic? like the guy base jumps, I feel like him knowing how to fight is reasonable.

9. yeah that whole scene is so?? trippy haha. (I now, of course, only watch Rinzler doing his thing in the background when I watch this scene haha)

10. YESSSS ugh, I feel like he's more so disapointed that Sam isn't giving him much to go off of?? to Sam this is still the guy that abanonded him, but to Kevin this is his kid that he hasn't seen in so freaking long (time works differently on the grid, not to get super into it, but one year our time is 50 years grid time. So Kevin has been on the Grid for over 1k years.)

11. DAFT PUNK DOES THE WHOLE SOUNDTRACK hahaha. Sorry, they are my og masked band and I still love them so much <3 (Legit I've only been listening to sleep token and daft punk for the majority this month). So all the music in the movie? was them, and that's why they where in it! really cool to me haha.

12.YES!!! he's such a good actor, shape shiftier I swear. His design is so cool, and I like Zeus as a villain. He's so interesting and I want to know morrrre. But we'll never get it oof.

13. LMAO

14.Yes, Kevin bonking that guy is so freaking funny. I feel bad for the program, but like. i love that scene. It's such a callback to the first movie, when Kevin was a cocky little shit, and I love it so much.

15. Tron in that scene breaks my heart.

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!!! Like, I just.... legitimately can't express how excited I am that you liked it??

and yes... my fic..... I was working on it when I got your ask.... Rinzler and Sam are interacting... and I am... LIVING. HAHA. So little has happened it feels like, and yet... 18k... whooooo boy. I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being my longest fic ever oof.

[druid-in-hiding]

I have to add to this that --while I am sympathetic to the OP's post AND, yeah, I have the same bloody complaint about people older than me generally (I'm Gen X), I'm also noticing the LANGUAGE is changing every few years. And by few, I mean it used to be every 3-5, and now it's getting down to 1-2. One example is Discord. Someone took me thru it and I immediately went "Oh, this is like a chat room from the 90s but with X, Y, and Z added." They had no idea what I was talking about but at least we figured out the nuts and bolts. However, I've directly seen it where a company buys a program and just layers over their vernacular onto the shell, which confuses the hell out of the user base. I've watched a company buy out its competitors and 'rebrand their products' where the only rebrand was a shiny new skin and all new UI that did the same thing as the old product but worse. I sat in a meeting where execs presented their "all new platform" and you look at it and go "um..." But even more importantly, I keep working with (starting out old) younger and younger people who say "I just don't get computers" because the last time they used a word processor -- say 2-3 years ago -- it didn't look the same, used a different UI, different terms for their functionality, didn't take 2fA just to log in, refuse to work if the internet was buggy (cause how could you 'confirm their license if they're not on 24/7) and worked better. It's... well... it's insane. And I agree that a decent chunk of it is driven by capitalism and fearful productivity -- the kind of productivity where you make up shit to impress the execs rather than saying "hey, if we just leave it basically alone (or add this one feature everyone has been wanting forever), we will continue to sell product."

Its okay they could call me on a rotary faster than i could explain to them I’m old enough to know what a rotary phone is

[hipboneregression]

tw: back on my ed bs

excuse me while i compulsively blog about my stupid and fucking relentless ED since i'm at work again and have access to a desktop computer, so i can just rant rant rant all day long instead of helping my clients like i should be

i didn't get out of bed & start "working" until noon today. i'm thoroughly depressed and my anxiety has been killing me. but at least i can recognize that there's no reason why i shouldn't be depressed or struggling right now (not that things like depression and anxiety ever need an external justification).

since october i've lost 3 people close to me or my partner - one to suicide, one unexpectedly died due to cancer, and my grandfather passed the week of christmas. my uncle was arrested for creeping on my cousins (no fucking joke) and is ripping that side of the family apart. my BIL relapsed his sobriety in a super triggering and embarassing way at a friend's party (it was HORRIBLE). and i've been struggling with infertility on top of all of that.

this last one probably sounds fucking insane, but my partner and i have been trying to have a baby since 2020. also, keep in mind, i'm a fucking old - i'm 30 years old, i own a house, i have a six figure job, i'm married, like on paper i'm a fully functional adult and no one knows i'm struggling with my ED like this atm (being a fat fuck does have its advantages, i guess). we've had no luck bc my partner has bum sperm, and i've recently found out that i have a massive polyp in my uterus that i'll have to get surgically removed, and probably also some endo on my left fallopian tube, but that'll be confirmed later.

i honestly think my struggle with infertility is what actually laid the foundation for this current relapse, especially once i began seeing an infertility specialist who seemed to give literally zero fucks that i have an extensive ED history. that doctor triggered the fuck out of me. in a way, the lapse feels justified because i do need to be at a "healthy"/"normal" weight/BMI to have a healthy pregnancy and because polyps are caused, in part, by fucking obesity. i fully plan on immediately stopping all destructive behaviors if i do ever manage to get pregnant, and practice harm reduction with strict calorie counting and portion control, but i'm taking advantage of our current situation (my surgery won't be until march, the earliest) to lose as much weight as possible. i feel horrible, but i can't wait to hear her say "good job!" when she sees my weight again.

so i'm really back on my bullshit right now, especially since the holidays are over, and everyone has COVID. i am hunkering down this month with my stupid OMAD and my stupid bone broth and my stupid peloton and i'm going to fully send it. i'm determined to hit a "normal"/"healthy" BMI by the end of the summer. I know i can do it if i just fucking stick to the program.

i feel so detached and numb from everything that's happened and i'm avoiding anything to trigger the stupid flood of emotions that i know is hiding inside of me. i don't want to feel the weight of everything that's happened, because it's too much, for literally anyone. so i'm coping the best way i know how, and that's with my ED.

what's really interesting to me is that i've seemed to fully switch EDs. i'm not engaging in any real purging behavior and i haven't binged once... (knock on wood lol). i'm not using exercise as a purging behavior and i've only taken lax once. i'm just fasting and restricting like no one's business. it's almost like restricting is so much easier. when i had exercise bullimia i was so sore and tired all the time and fucking miserable. i felt like i couldn't help but binge after my work outs for the day. with restriction, it's just a matter of not fucking eating. and *surprise* but if you don't exercise 2-3 hours a day, you don't feel like a starving fucking animal all the time. i'm fat enough rn for my body to literally just live off of my reserves with little to no issues. i hate how fucking easy this is, how effective it is, the high that i get from both being hungry and seeing the scale move down consistently for the first time in years. i feel like i've cracked some sort of cheat code.

fucking hate this shit.

xxx

[madeofitzits]

In honor of the impending return of Brooklyn 99, here are 99 reasons that...

1. He was precocious enough to know, at 5 years old, that he wanted to change his name (x)

 2. He has a bunch of nicknames: Sandy Amberg, Young Sandwich, etc. but the most endearing one is 'Droidy', his family's name for him (x) 

3. He is still super close friends with people he's known since: Elementary School (Chelsea Peretti) (x)...

4. Junior High/High School (Kiv and Jorm) (x) 

5. … Summer Camp (Irene Neuwirth) (x)

7.  ...and Film School (Chester Tam) (x)

8. Before he met Joanna, he dated other famous ladies but - out of respect - he never discussed it/them (x) 

9. He loves turtles and tortoises. When he was a kid, he had a pet turtle that he named 'Squirt' because the first time he held it, it peed on him. His Mom, Margie, accidentally killed Squirt when Andy was at Summer camp... (x)

10. … Maybe this is why, when shooting 'Popstar', Andy fell hard for Maximus (Conner 4 Real's turtle). He says they "had a good thing going" and that he wanted to adopt him. In the end, he decided against it because there are a bunch of coyotes in his neighborhood and he was worried the little guy wouldn't be safe. (Popstar: DVD Commentary)

11. Speaking of his Mom, despite being a super private person, he appeared on 'Finding your Roots' so that he could help her track down her birth family (x)

12. When he succeeded he cried (although we never got to see it on camera) (x)

13. That's because, like all good boys, he loves his Mama which is why - as part of the same episode - he said "My mom is basically the kindest person I know… and many people would corroborate that" (x)

14. Andy's Sisters, Hannie (Johanna) and Darrow, used to make him wear diapers and put his hair in pigtails until he was 5 years old. He says he didn't mind because he just liked that they were paying attention to him (x)

15. That's why he sees his identity in comedy as being 'America's kid brother'. When he was young, he would annoy his sisters until they laughed and he claims to have been replicating that approach to entertainment ever since

16. Although a bunch of his characters have 'Daddy Issues', Andy definitely doesn't. He's super close with his Papa (Joe) and has said "he's a good man" and "the best Dad in the world" (x) 

17. Joe was Andy's youth soccer coach and in one scene in 'Hot Rod', Joe's favorite photograph can be seen in the background. It shows a very young Andy posing with a soccer ball, after "scoring the winning goal against Mersey" (x)

18. He's been a loyal Golden State Warriors fan since he was a little kid, living in Oakland (then Berkeley) and, in 2010, he correctly predicted that they would "win a Championship in my lifetime" (x) 

19. The proceeds from his Umami Burger ('The Samburger') went to a deafness early detection program in Berkeley. This cause is close to his heart because Margie uses hearing aids and used to work in the special needs program, teaching deaf kids (x)

20. He, Kiv, and Jorm have made multiple donations to their old school district, including $250 000 to its theater program (x)

21. On the subject of The Lonely Island; Andy always goes out of his way to make sure that everyone knows how much he owes to his buddies. For instance, he told Marc Maron, during his WTF appearance, that "I get a lot of credit for what Kiv and Jorm have done" (x)

22. He makes this face when he knows he’s said something naughty…

(Gif credit: @andrewsambags)

23. During his 'Wild Horses' appearance, he said that he can't watch scary movies because they freak him out too much. He told 'Complex' that he's still scared of 'The Shining' (x)...

24. … Similarly, when he was at UC Santa Cruz he worked at the Del Mar movie theater and he had a hard time coping with screenings of 'Species 2' (x)

25. He fell in love with Joanna, the moment he met her, when she greeted him by addressing him as 'Steve the C**t' (x)

 26. He listened to 'Ys', everyday for a year, before he and Joanna started dating (x)

27. He bought the original portrait that was used as the basis of the cover art for 'Ys' and gave it to Joanna as a Christmas present, so that she could hang it in her music room (x)

 28. He loves birds and goes hiking and birding with Joanna (x)

 29. Every new comment he makes about Joanna becomes an instant contender for 'most beautiful thing a person has ever said about their spouse' (x)

30. For example, he readily admits that Jake's iconic heart eyes are the result of him thinking about his amazing wife (x)

31. There are many stories about how incredibly romantic Andy and Joanna's wedding was and Jorm has said that it featured "the most magical vows I've ever heard" (x)

32. The Newsombergs now live in Charlie Chaplin's old house (x)

33. On the Emmys Red Carpet (2015), the year he hosted, they took a momentary break from posing for the world's press to whisper 'I love you' to each other (x)

34. At last year's Vanity Fair party, Andy carried Joanna's purse for her so she could grab a snack (x)

35. He was a semi-permanent fixture in the audience for her recent run of shows for the 'Strings/Keys Incident' tour, even officially confirming his status as the 'President of her Fan Club' (x)

36. He used his Golden Globes monologue to call out the government for framing and murdering the Black Panthers (x)

37. On the Carpet for the Guy's Choice Awards, he called the event "a ridiculous farce", adding that "men already have it so easy - it's insane that there's a show that celebrates them". That makes sense when you consider that he, Kiv and Jorm have made an entire career out of parodying toxic masculinity (x)

38. He once said that only "idiot-ass men" think that women aren't funny (x)

39. He’s been wearing glasses since 7th Grade and he has the most heartbreakingly cute habit of nudging them up his nose, (especially when he wears his Sol Moscot frames) (x)...

40. ... and of rubbing his eyes under them (x)

41. He barely ever wears glasses for roles but he also avoids contacts (because he doesn't like touching his eyeballs) which means he's almost always 'acting blind' (x)

42. He has worn his glasses in character a few times - as 'himself' ('Lady Dynamite'), as 'Paul' ('I Think You Should Leave') and during a very small number of SNL sketches (e.g. during his one appearance in a 'Gilly' with Kristen Wiig) (x) 

43. He can't tolerate glare and when that makes him squint it's a sight that's too cute for words (x)

44. He owns about six outfits and has been rotating them for well over a decade (x) 

45. He barely ever breaks during shooting/while performing, so when he does it's aggressively adorable. (x), (x)

46. He's a grown ass man who persuades people to come with him to the bathroom because if he goes by himself he'll get lonely (x)

47. He didn't announce he was leaving SNL, until after his last appearance, selflessly choosing not to detract from Kirsten Wiig's huge and emotional send-off (x) 

48. He undertook a quest to smell like Lorne Michaels (x) 

49. He's ageing like a fine wine (x)

50. To protect their daughter's privacy, Andy and Joanna never announced that they were expecting. They've never released their little girl's name or date of birth and most news outlets still report that they became parents in August 2017 (even though that's inaccurate) (x)

51. Although he's careful not to talk about his daughter often, sometimes he can't keep from gushing about her. For example, when asked about his first year of fatherhood he said: "It’s been the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Just like a beautiful, incredible dream. It has surpassed every expectation I ever had. It’s definitely been very blissful" (x)

52. After their daughter was born, Andy and Joanna spent the first 40 days at home with her (in a practice known as 'confinement'). He's described it as being "a really special time". (x) 

53. Andy is famously mild-mannered but, when asked about what triggers his 'Dad claws', he admitted that if anyone attempted to touch his daughter, without permission, he'd "probably sock them hard in the face"…

54. ...Characteristically, he went on to add that he hopes that never happens, since he hasn't been in a fight since 6th Grade (x)

55. Cyndi Lauper was his first celebrity crush and he plays her record ('She's so unusual') for his daughter all the time. (x)

56. His is the very definition of a precious laugh (x)...

57. It's made even more wonderful by the way it makes his voice go high-pitched (x)

58.  … and the way it causes his eyebrow to rise involuntarily  

59. It's impossible not to smile at his impression of his Mom (x)

60. And laugh at his impression of John Mulaney (x)

61. He was so convinced he wouldn't win the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical, that he didn't prepare a speech. Instead, as he explained to David Letterman, he "just went… and started drinking". The resulting list of improvised 'thank yous' was perfect in every way (x)

62. As producers, Andy, Kiv and Jorm have given life to some amazing projects ('Alone Together', 'Brigsby Bear', 'I Think You Should Leave')...

63. … and gone out of their way to support women in comedy ('Party Over Here', 'PEN15') (x)

64. As well as being a comedy legend, he's a super-talented dramatic actor, who gave the performance of a lifetime in 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' but, after the movie wrapped, and it was time to do press for it, he was straight back to goofing around (x) 

65. His lip bite should be illegal (x)

66. Even though he wears the same vanishingly small number of outfits, over and over, he has a vast collection of the most excellent socks (x)

67. He always gives 'editing notes' during his own interviews (x)

68. He has a super sweet and sincere way of thanking interviewers when they compliment him (x)

69. He adjusts his hoodie constantly (x)

70. The two most perfect Jake laughs in b99 are actually real Andy laughs 'https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W38A_xuXaeg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVm9nYrTWRQ

71. Virtually everyone who has ever worked with Andy has talked about what a wonderful person he is. This explains why so many of them have been involved with more than one of his projects (x)

72. It's not only his colleagues who talk about what a delight he is (x), (x)

73. This lovestruck fool wore his own wife's merch when he went out to dinner (x)

74. No one else uses the word 'dinky' quite like Andy (x). The same goes for 'snacky' (see point 70)

75. He does this with his tongue (x)

76. He still likes to play soccer but his eyesight is so bad that he has to keep his glasses on for it

77. When he lets his gorgeous floofy hair grow a little it sits perfectly over the arms of his glasses (x)

78. He gifted the world with Jakey's little curl (x)

79. At the James Franco Roast, he couldn't bring himself to be mean to anyone except himself (and Jeff Ross, a little!) (x)

80. In fact, he's always been willing to laugh at himself (x) and he still is (x)

81. He changes b99 scripts to make them more feminist (x)

82. Despite their humble insistence that they just benefited from 'good timing', the reality is that Andy, Kiv and Jorm (along with Chris Parnell) revolutionized digital media, when 'Lazy Sunday' popularized YouTube, increasing its traffic by 85% overnight (x)

83. He once attended the Vanity Fair party because his Mom told him to (x)

84. He has an amazing way of subtly but firmly shutting down inappropriate questions, like when this interviewer suggested that Holt being gay was something that could have been played for laughs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=idQsYQfkR5o

85. He auditioned for SNL at the same time as Bill Hader. Hader thought he'd blown it because Andy had a bunch of props and Bill had none. In the meantime, Andy thought he'd blown it when he saw Hader and realized 'this guy doesn't need any props' (x) 

86. His bromance with Seth Meyers is one for the ages (x)

87. Every single second of this video is proof of why Andy, Kiv and Jorm deserve the world (x)

88. He once dragged Mulaney up on stage for SNL Goodnights, even though writers weren't allowed to join in (x)

89. He has a hilarious phobia of pooping anywhere except his own bathroom (x) 

90. His beautiful, beautiful, face: His smile (radiant), his eyes (caramel - hella disarming), his ears (adorably asymmetrical), his nose (perfect), His chin (the dimple… *swoon*), his jaw (could cut glass), The 'Sambeard' (another amazing layer of pretty) (x)

91. His body: His butt (x), his thighs, (x) his soft lil tummy (The ‘Sambelly’) (x), his hands. (x), his arms (x), his hips…

(Gif credit: @amystiago /@badpostandy on Twitter)

92. All signs point to the fact that, like Jake, Andy uses his glasses case as a wallet (x) 

93. Jake's "cool-cool-cool-cool-cool-cool" is an irl Andy-ism that the writers worked into b99 scripts. What's even better is that Joanna does it, too (x)

94. He has a really good arm and is low key competitive, which is super hot https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e32K_nBDy3Q

95. He's one half of the cutest Red Carpet pose of all time (x)

96. He barely ever seems to get mad but if angry Jake is anything to go by, maybe he should... (x)

97. He's a huge nerd, who geeks out over GOT, LOTR, 'Star Wars', 'Alien(s)' and anything relating to time travel (x), (x)

98. He has a gorgeous speaking voice, especially when he’s tired or a little sick. (Bonus points for any time he uses the word ‘correct’. See point 30) (x) 

99. He’s still so committed to his b99 fans and fam, even after all this time and is as excited as the rest of us that...

[douchebagbrainwaves]

I'VE BEEN PONDERING WEALTH

If I encourage too many people to apply to Y Combinator suffer from a common problem: choosing a small, dark, noisy apartment in order to be successful. And put this kind of project. One is that individual rowers don't see any result from working harder. Louis Brandeis said We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few thousand people, the most accurate measure of the relative power of programming languages, is that source code will look unthreatening. So whatever it costs to establish a mediocre university, for an additional half billion or so you could have a great one. The companies that rule Silicon Valley now are all descended in various ways from Shockley Semiconductor. But even so I'd advise startups to pull a Meraki initially if they can just hire enough people it somehow will be. They work well enough in everyday life are fuzzy, and break down if pushed too hard. One is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish there was? Which they deserve because they're taking more risk. That's the absent-minded professor, who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he's going while he's thinking about some interesting question. In fact, it could actually be very profitable.

The other big driver of change is that startups are popping up like crazy, the number of big hits grow linearly with the total number of new startups? Wealth is not the only way to say whether something is really old or not is by looking at structural evidence, and structurally philosophy is young; it's still reeling from the unexpected breakdown of words. He didn't think he was starting a company? Now I'd go further: now I'd say it's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think you're smart enough to start a startup, though. If you're a founder, what you need to use a completely different kind of selling. Which means every teenage kid a wants a computer with an Internet connection, b has an incentive to figure out what you like is to look at what you enjoy as guilty pleasures. And it's not only programs that should be insanely great, but the pain of having this stupid controversy constantly reintroduced as the top one in my mind. If you're demoing something web-based database as a system to allow people to collaboratively leverage the value of the work done by small groups. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so its size is proportionate to risk. Pascal is too wimpy for systems programming. And yet eminent professors were writing books about them, and startups can operate from anywhere nowadays.

A complex macro may have to save many times its own length to be justified.1 Talent probably matters more in types of work that depend more on talent are always more admirable. Com, the new CEO wanted to switch to plan B if plan A isn't working. The failed startups you hear most about are the spectactular flameouts.2 And this form of list may be more useful in practice. The business model is just a guess, but my motives are purely selfish. No one after reading Aristotle's Metaphysics does anything differently as a result.3

Whereas if the next hot company didn't take VC at all. The scary thing about platforms is that there are a lot of wiggle room.4 Others, like mowing the lawn, or filing tax returns, only get worse if you put them off. If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 per year. When I was in grad school in Boston, a friend came to visit from New York. The other implication of the organic growth hypothesis is that succinctness is power, or is there something unique about it? If you sell your car, you'll get more for it. Most startups coming out of Demo Day wanted to raise. Intellectually, it is at least a pure one. In that form it only had a potential market of a few thousand people, the average rower is likely to be more readable than a line of Basic is likely to be pretty average. I describe it as an opportunity is that there is now a lot of obstacles.

When wealth is talked about in this context, it is often described as a pie. Whereas if investors seem hot, you can get is by selling your startup in the early versions of the list, because nearly all the founders are just out of college. I began with was that, except in pathological examples, I would be learning what was really what. They're responding to the market. Fortunately, more and more startups will. But there is a role for mathematical elegance: some kinds of elegance make programs easier to understand. You could have both now. You may notice a certain similarity between the Viaweb and Y Combinator logos. And the way founders end up in it is by comparison with other startups. Someone is going to read a lot of people, I like to work, just as a sailboat can sail closer to the Apple type than the Viaweb type. In other words, time-sharing is back. I understand why Berkeley is probably not an anomaly.

The acceleration would have been harder to. Venture investors, however, which makes me think I was wrong to emphasize demos so much before. Not necessarily. That has been the lesson for me: be careful what you let become critical to you. We should fix those things. Stripe delivered instant merchant accounts to its first users was that the founders manually signed them up for traditional merchant accounts behind the scenes. Well, server-based applications on Windows.

Most people who get rich through rent-seeking of various forms, and a third was acquired that we can't figure out how to make a fortune in finance. Young people don't want to be spending all your time talking to executives at cell phone companies, trying to arrange deals. If someone sat down and wrote a web browser that didn't suck a fine idea, by the way, the world would be that much richer. If by the next time you need to launch? You know what a throwaway program is: something you write quickly for some limited task. And if they do, they may find that founders have moved on. Even as high as 100. The Pebbles assembled the first several hundred watches themselves. Partly because there's so much work to be done by bad programmers is choosing the wrong platform. Yeah, sure, but first you have to go out and talk to a startup that's been operating for thousands of years.5 It has nothing to do with anything as complex as an image of a person, for example, will suddenly find that the house needs cleaning.

A stage. Try to get yourself to work on it. But if you're starting a startup down into the noise. That will tend to underestimate the power of something is how well it achieves its purpose, then the ambitious ones won't have many ambitious peers. One thing we can say, which are the most general truths? Errands are so effective at killing great projects that a lot of equally good startups that actually didn't happen. Ruby: Perl is a kludge. Why should language design be any different? Western philosophy really begins with Socrates, Plato, and particularly Aristotle, this tradition turned a corner. The main reason may be that they aren't. The advantage of a medium of exchange is that it isn't succinct enough, and when you did invest in a startup hub, because economically that's what startups are.6

Notes

There's comparatively little competition for mediocre ideas, just that if you're good you'll have to decide whether you're a YC startup you can help in deciding between success and failure, just those you can see the old version, I mean no more willing to put it here. Obviously, if your school sucks, where you currently are. The solution for this.

This must have been truer to the traditional peasant's diet: they had zero false positives caused by blacklists, I should add that none of your last round just converts into stock at the network level, and they unanimously said yes.

Which is fundraising.

There are situations in which only a few percent from an interview, I'd say the rate of improvement is more efficient: the separate condenser.

Possible exception: It's hard for us. Some urban renewal experts took a painfully long time. Founders are often surprised by this, but it's hard to say whether the 25 people have historically been so many people mistakenly think it might be a product of number of words: I remember about the prior probability of an FBI agent or taxi driver or reporter to being a train car that in New York. There may be the technology business.

It's hard to measure that turns out to be the right sort of things you want as an idea that was really only useful for one video stream.

Thanks to Marc Andreessen, Karen Nguyen, David Hornik, Sarah Harlin, many others, Marc Hedlund, Ivan Kirigin, Robert Morris, and Steve Melendez for sharing their expertise on this topic.