#operations centers

[radiumjuice]

so it’s been a minute…have some WIPs

here are some wips

thumbs up girl and the one next to her belong to my buddy ray @fifthgazelle. Check out their blog

[lonestarflight]

Interior view of the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Kennedy Space Center, during the move of Apollo 9 Command and Service Module (CSM-104) Gumdrop from workstand to transfer stand prior to mating to Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA-12A).

Date: November 30, 1968

NASA ID: S68-55032

[qoldenskies]

Head in my hands: the crossover between CC and Canon, with the CC brothers having Canon Donnie in their house . . a ghost walking their halls hhhgggggggghh

the way that metaphor applies to c!donnie in the cc universe than cc!donnie himself ,,, the way they cant help but look at him and think i missed you so much even though they've spent so long working so hard not to project that kind of grief onto cc!donnie because of how crushing the expectations to be something he can never be again were for him. cc!donnie will already feel like being in a universe where the only thing that's different is that the trauma that defines him never happened is some kind of sick joke, but im sure his brothers feel a little like that too. seeing a world where they never hurt him like that, the way its validating their deepest fears of being changed irrevocably and losing a happier future for good. cc!donnie sees a universe where his family is happier and thinks i'm the problem, and his brothers see a version of donnie who was never hurt by them and quietly think the same. this is what he could've been if they'd never done that-- if kitsune had never done that. sometimes when things get bad they forget not to blame themselves.

[dravidious]

Was curious about how they might have changed Triti in future Trauma Center games and it turns out that out of the 7 GUILTs, Triti is one of the only 2 that never returned in any other game in the series. The entire playerbase said "FUCK this stupid triangle I never want to see it again!" and the devs were like "yeah fair enough"

[giddydelphiresearcher]

IT'S TIME IT'S TIME IT'S TIME!!! The demo is done! I got the bandage working and added a good dose of polish and now it's an actual game! Play it! Here's the link: https://dravid.itch.io/trauma-center-recreation

[arkiwii]

i think maybe way too much about how useless Ch'en base skill is

there's literally only 3 operators in the LGD, and it's herself, Hoshiguma and Swire. yes, Ch'en alter is affiled with Rhodes Island, and Swire alter is affiliated with Lungmen

as for our three LGD operators, Ch'en's only Control Center skill is this one, her other skill is in the Reception Room. Hoshiguma has no skill in the Control Center, she only has a Training Room skill, and Swire has one skill in the Control Center, that doesn't even affect the moral of operators

i guess you could slap all three in the Control Center for a marvelous increase of +0.15 morale/hour, and that'll be the only effect they'll have with the +7 order efficiency from Swire

Ch'en. dear. why

[mickmathersartblog]

"The Men Who Invented DJ Scratching"

digital collage & digital painting by Mick Mather

(click image to view actual size)

[lonestarflight]

Space Station Concepts: Space Operations Center

"The SOC is a self-contained orbital facility built up of several Shuttle-launched modules. With resupply, on-orbit refurbish- ment and orbit maintenance, it is capable of continuous operation for an indefinite period. In the nominal operational mode, the SOC is manned continuously, but unmanned operation is possible.

The present mission management and control process is characterized by a people-intensive ground monitoring and control operation involving large supporting ground information and control facilities and a highly- integrated ground-flight crew operation. In order to reduce dependence on Earth monitoring and control, the SOC would have to provide for increased systems monitoring; fault isolation and failure analysis, and the ability to store and call up extensive sets of data to support the onboard control of the vehicle; and the onboard capability for daily mission and other activity planning."

"Like most other space station studies from the mid/late 1970s its primary mission was the assembly and servicing of large spacecraft in Earth orbit -- not science. NASA/JSC signed a contract with Boeing in 1980 to further develop the design. Like most NASA space station plans, SOC would be assembled in orbit from modules launched on the Space Shuttle. The crew's tour of duty would have been 90 days. NASA originally estimated the total cost to be $2.7 billion, but the estimated cost had increased to $4.7 billion by 1981. SOC would have been operational by 1990.

NASA's Johnson Spaceflight Center extended the Boeing contract in February 1982 to study a cheaper, modular, evolutionary approach to assembling the Space Operations Center. An initial power module would consist of solar arrays and radiators. The next launches would have delivered a space tug 'garage', two pressurized crew modules and a logistics module. The completed Space Operations Center also would have contained a satellite servicing and assembly facility and several laboratory modules. Even with this revised approach, however, the cost of the SOC program had grown to $9 billion. Another problem was Space Operations Center's primary mission: spacecraft assembly and servicing. The likely users (commercial satellite operators and telecommunications companies) were not really interested in the kind of large geostationary space platforms proposed by NASA. By 1983, the only enthusiastic users for NASA's space station plans were scientists working in the fields of microgravity research and life sciences. Their needs would dictate future space station design although NASA's 1984 station plans did incorporate a SOC-type spacecraft servicing facility as well."

Article by Marcus Lindroos, from astronautix.com: link

NASA ID: link, S79-10137

Boeing photo no. R-1859, link, link

[chambersevidence]

Search Engines:

Search engines are independent computer systems that read or crawl webpages, documents, information sources, and links of all types accessible on the global network of computers on the planet Earth, the internet. Search engines at their most basic level read every word in every document they know of, and record which documents each word is in so that by searching for a words or set of words you can locate the addresses that relate to documents containing those words. More advanced search engines used more advanced algorithms to sort pages or documents returned as search results in order of likely applicability to the terms searched for, in order. More advanced search engines develop into large language models, or machine learning or artificial intelligence. Machine learning or artificial intelligence or large language models (LLMs) can be run in a virtual machine or shell on a computer and allowed to access all or part of accessible data, as needs dictate.

[dan-whoell]

every twitter notification makes my heart stop

[nocternalrandomness]

Nightwatch airborne over Washington DC

[dravidious]

Got the laser, tool switching, and passive vitals damage working, polished the vitals display, and started on some level structure that also got me to finally put in a background. It's looking pretty decent now! It'll look even better once I find decent sprites for the Things

[cologona]

Imagining an animated series anti-villain Jason, who over an extended period of time becomes a conditional ally for the Bats. He goes from menacing Rogue to eventually becoming a difficult (sometimes annoying!) frenemy.

When disaster hits Gotham, it’s all hands on deck and Red Hood is working closer with the Bats than he ever has before. There is a tense moment when Joker is in their custody and it seems like Hood going to kill him, but at the last minute Jason lowers his gun. Everyone is relieved- there is hope for his redemption yet. This pretty much solidifies Jason rejoining the batfamily. Bruce is pleased. Jason is silent.

In the second part of this special it’s revealed that the Big Bad is actually a pit-mad Talia al-Ghul… And Jason won’t fight her. Bruce is aghast. Robin is baffled. Jason explains that if it weren’t for Talia he wouldn’t even be standing there today. He didn’t come back to life with his mind intact, and she helped him when he didn’t even have the ability to ask for it. He owes her something for that. Bruce takes it to mean Talia has blackmailed Jason somehow. Tim brings up that it’s irrelevant when Talia is currently trying to enact an Evil Scheme. Jason is unmoved. He let the Joker live for them, how is this different? Talia smirks, and holds out her hand. Jason takes it, and they leave the Bats together.

In the final part of the special, the Bats race against time to stop the Evil Scheme. Jason doesn’t have much in the way of speaking parts. Bruce’s death is narrowly avoided by a well placed bomb that gets them away from a more lethal attack. When Talia is inevitably defeated (and her immaculate appearance begins to break down) Jason appears on-screen to put a hand on her shoulder and lead her to escape.

In the epilogue we see Red Hood and Batman again, watching each other from across two different buildings in the wide expanse of Gotham.

Jason is still as loyal to Bruce and his family as he ever was beforehand- the Joker certainly remains alive- yet the trust has been broken. Bruce broods, and the other members of the batfamily make their distaste for Jason known in their now-rare interactions with him.

The season ends with a focus on Damian- the newest Robin. He entered the season ready to prove himself worthy of the Bat, now he’s seen his “older brother” refuse it, effectively going the exact opposite direction Damian did. What will choices will Damian make in his future?

[giddydelphiresearcher]

Imps! Now in 3 different colors! And now you get to pick them up by the tail hehe!

Sprites drawn by @quonit! Check them out in all their mischievous/grumpy glory!

One imp was so rambunctious that it accidentally tied ITSELF up with its own tail. Made our job easier!

If you like these imps, I recommend going to @quonit to commission some art for yourself! And if you don't like these imps, then you have bad taste

[canisalbus]

the moreI see Vasco the more I love him what a sunshine he is <3

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[vonlipvig]

Hooray! I really enjoyed that game and feel a sense of accomplishment from beating it that I haven’t got from a game for a very long time. I’ve unlocked some challenges, it’s very sweet of the game to think I could do them, however there is no plot carrot at the end of this stick, so maybe in a few years!

Speaking of plot, WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH ADAM!!?? Is he a corpse? Is he just very close to one??? What was that about one final GUILT strand called Bliss??? WE HAD BETTER NOT BE INFECTED! I AM NOT DOING SURGERY ON MYSELF NEXT GAME!

I was genuinely worried I was going to have to operate on Adam and that he would contain every type of GUILT know to man (and also whatever the fuck Bliss is), so I am very thankful to the game for not making me do that, because my play time is 18 hours long. This makes up for the cruelty of having a meeting between Victor and Dr Blackwell happen off screen rather than letting me see it. I want to know how they interact, dammit!

Anyway it was nice watching the sunset with Angie and knowing that those child test subjects are back to their normal lives. What a wonderful bastard of a game!

i'm so happy you enjoyed it! this game is so dear to me (and what i mean by that is that i remember the characters and the stories so fondly, while also making me seethe with white hot rage at the mere sight of a triangle. ahh, good times), and it's honestly such a hidden little gem, so i'm glad i could spread the word a bit (EVEN IF ATLUS HAS LEFT THE SERIES OUT TO DIE).

and oh, you think it gets crazy here? boy, you haven't seen anything yet. i will always appreciate this series' commitment to being absolutely BATSHIT CRAZY. grey's anatomy my ASS, this is some real doctorin'.

and yes, go take that well deserved break now...then come back when you're ready cause UtK2, hOO BABY! (and you have to meet my beautiful darling son aaaAAA).