#plus Schrödinger's cat is an experiment

[black-lone-knight]

I love the idea of Tim and Bruce being the two smartest people in batfam; So they occasionally say weird things that only they can understand.

Dick, panicked: OH MY GOD! I asked Kory out. What should I do now? What if she won't like me?

Bruce: Schrödinger's cat.

Dick:

Dick: ...what?

Tim: He's saying you won't findout unless you actually try it and go on a date with her.

Dick: Aww! That's so nice. Thanks, B.

Jason: Who's Schrödinger's cat?

...

Tim, with soaked shirt:

Duke: What happened?

Tim: The driving frequency corresponded to the resonance frequency of coffee, therefore the sloshing amplitude reached its maximum.

Duke: Say what again??

Bruce: He spilled his coffee.

Duke:

Duke: ...right.

Jason: Fucking weirdos.

[ckret2]

if the thing needs to be powered with a paradox, why not write "this sentence is false" and use that?

Powering the thing isn't a problem. They can already power the machine with any paradox:

Fiddleford pointed at the trash can. "And in here I've recreated the environmental conditions of the Dontium's native paradox universe."

"Amazing," Ford said, crouching down to inspect the pipes. "How did you do that?"

"I stuck a cat in a box and stuck the box in the trash can."

They're gonna switch out Schrödinger's cat for another paradox—but that's the easy part, they're not even concerned about that. They aren't struggling to power it; they're struggling to make it generate fuel. That doesn't require just "a paradox."

"Now! Dontium's properties change dependin' on whether it's observed or not. To synthesize it, it needs to be observed, and not. You followin' so far?" [...] Now, in the paradox universe, I reckon one fella could just doublethink his way into producin' Dontium. But we've got to do it with two brains that are as near to identical as possible. [...]

Fiddleford turned to Ford. "I need you lookin' right at the particle accelerator, at all times, to keep it under observation—but not think about it! [...] "And Stan, I need you to not look at the accelerator at all costs, but don't stop thinkin' about it once. You 'n' Ford's thoughts and non-thoughts will work like the plus 'n' minus poles on a magnet; it'll attract the mental energy outta Ford, into the accelerator between you two, and jump start the matter synthesizin' process."

They need, specifically, for a single person to both observe the experiment without thinking about it and think about it without observing it—or at least something as close as possible to that. "Have two twins do it" isn't as-close-as-possible enough.

[phantomdecibel]

Tell me more about the girl losses-

HOLY FUCK NEW BANNER

wHEEEEEEEZE–

fun fact about the the banner; that scene might not make it into the final draft of wcbwe sadge. fun fact 2! two thirds of the characters in the banner have been redesigned XD

okaaaaaay the girl loss moment! it’s gonna be so fun >:3 (<- I’m making an animation meme of kinda like Willow’s backstory/Willow and Stella’s falling out, I’ve changed it a lot since the last time I told u about it XD)

(^ idk if I told u about their original meeting but n o w Willow is a puppet/construct kinda like Schrödinger! Willow was made as more of an experiment to see if the puppets could actually behave like living cats, which is what makes her more of a ‘construct’ and less of a puppet made to be a soldier, like Schrödinger. she and Stella were childhood friends and stayed pretty close as they grew up, until Willow got into and accident and nearly got destroyed. she’s made to grow and learn but she’s still a construct and not meant to be capable of dying, so the Incident reeeeally rattled her and she started looking into ways to ‘become immortal’ or get deified to Avoid That (she doesn’t know she’s a construct/puppet at first btw), often at the cost of her health. her and Stella get into a lot of arguments over this and start kinda falling apart

(coincidentally, around this point in time Stella Dies and due to a combination of luck and intervention is deified, and Willow is desperate to figure out how – which is what finally fully drives Stella away. she ends up travelling with the two new characters, Wander and Gray, while Willow continues her experiments

(eventually Willow starts getting increasingly desperate, and starts working with Ash and a group of powerful magick users who are working to Kill Death, hoping this could help cull her mortality. Unfortunately the group’s target is Gray, and Constellation and Wander aren’t going to let anything happen to her without a fight, which places Willow and Stella on opposite sides of the battlefield.

(Willow tries to just kinda. avoid Stella, but Stella ends up taking a hit for Wander and is really badly injured, which is her big girl loss moment in what I’m working on rn :3 originally I was gonna give her a girlboss moment instead, but what I drafted worked better with causing her pain >:D

(aaanyways that kinda makes Willow feel a bit guilty over the whole thing, and decides to abandon the cause and continue her research on her own. The group is still, mostly, successful though (which causes Problems later on), and later on she’s contacted again by Ash, leading to her last confrontation with Stella before the official timeline starts – in which Stella is Very Concerned (but still not happy at all with Wills) over the way Willow has started to… degrade, who of course insists that nothing is wrong.

(Which Is another animation I’m working on lmao! The whole thing kinda changes the Foxglove incident so I’m still finagling those details bc I think it’s important that he dies. Willow fucks off for a second time to follow new leads and also hide from Stella, where she eventually meets Arceli :>

(so TECHNICALLY that’s THREE girl losses smile. plus Wander gets traumatized bc he looses both his friends at once. this is gonna be so fun–)

[fairybaby777]

im thinking the magic for humans dude went to the void, manifested to be able to do illogical magic tricks when he wanted bc how tf he making seeds grow in seconds and hundreds of marshmallows come from a plate? PLUS HE LITERALLY HAS A WHOLE EPISODE ON THE POWER OF THE MIND & YOUR WORDS !!! 🤔 update: HE TALKS ABOUT SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT WHICH IS BASICALLYAN EXPERIMENT PROVING THAT CREATION IS FINISHED AND ALL THINGS POSSIBLE EXIST IN THE PRESENT MOMENT

[squishmallow36]

Quantum Gender: The Essay

Before we get started: I took an intro to quantum computing class two years ago so I’m a little rusty on those details, and I’m not going to pretend I know how gender works. I was just avoiding going to sleep and thought of this. It’s been rattling around inside my head for the past many months. I think it kind of started when I was trying to drive into my brain that gender is not a spectrum so let’s add a whole nother dimension and quantum weirdness.

    Any questions because I explained something the most complicated way I possibly could? Please come ask. I’m happy to ramble and then make no sense you tune me out and then just nod and say it answered your question when it absolutely did not. 

    Now, on to the actual essay!

    Today, we’re gonna learn about quantum computing, then we’re gonna realize that the Bloch sphere can be applied to gender. I’m gonna put the bulk of this under the cut. 

@winterfireice you encouraged me to do this, and here it is.

So. Quantum computing. Step one: get a theoretical understanding of how classical computers work. 

    Classical computers include things like phones, tablets, laptops, computers, even things like handheld calculators. I’m almost willing to bet if you don’t know what a classical computer is, that’s the only kind you’ve interacted with. They all work with a system of 1s and 0s called bits (8 of them is called a byte), and these bits are manipulated by logic gates. I could go into all of the gates (not, and, nand, or, xor, nor) and their truth tables, but that’s kind of a waste of both of our times. 

    An important one is the NOT gate which if 0 is input, 1 is output, and if 1 is input, 0 is output. This will be analogous to the pauli X gate we might encounter later. This is the only one of the classical logic gates that has that ability, because you can take the output and find the input with complete certainty. The others lose information which is uh not ideal. Or possible. Conservation of quantum information and all that. (A fancy word for a reversible operator is Hamiltonian operator) 

    Okay, that wraps up that unit. Instead of bits, quantum computers use qubits. Very creative naming system. And instead of 0s and 1s, qubits can be this whole mess, stolen from the one, the only, wikipedia: 

    No, don’t run away! It’s not that bad, I promise! It’s only a bloch sphere. 

    I did edit it a bit because it’s easier than trying to direct you to things while you have no clue what’s going on. The Bloch sphere is a sphere with radius 1. If you remember the unit circle from like trig, this is just the more annoying 3d cousin of that. 

    At the top and bottom, there are labels |0> and |1>. These are pronounced ket 0 and ket 1. The reason why is called bra-ket or Dirac notation, and kets means that it is a column vector. I’m not going to type that here because it would be difficult and it really doesn’t matter. A bra would look like <0| if you find the need to know that. In terms of quantum computing, it’s used to signal when you’re talking about a quantum state. 

    This is the z-axis if I refer to it sometime later, and |0> and |1> are orthogonal to one another. I know that normally means it’s 90 degrees apart and no amount of not-to-scale geometry problems can get it /that/ wrong, but it’s a Hilbert space which just basically means we can do whatever we want. It also means it has an inner product, which is a math thing with, like, vectors and stuff that I don’t want to deal with right now. 

    Then let’s go to the x-axis. This is where typing things out is gonna start to get messy, so I have added another picture of the |+> and |-> (read as plus and minus. I thunk tumblr autocorrected to an arrow but it should be a minus sign) states. 

    Oh wait, I forgot to explain superposition! Sorry, sorry. If you’ve heard of Schrödinger’s cat and feel confident, you can skip over this. If you haven’t, hold on, I’ll explain it. So this is a THOUGHT experiment (no cats were harmed in the making of this experiment) where a cat is put in a box. Also in this box is a radioactive element and some poisonous gas. There is a 50/50 chance at the radioactive element decaying, which will release a hammer, breaking the glass and killing the cat. 

    Then, when you remember to come back, you don’t know if the cat is alive or dead, so in quantumland, it’s both alive and dead until you open the box. (The qubit is the cat and |+> and |-> are alive and dead). Opening the box is measurement, which destroys the quantum state, collapsing it down to |0> or |1>. The 50/50 number is only true along the horizontal dashed equator-y line on the bloch sphere, elsewhere, it’ll have different numbers depending on the…latitude? Z-component? You get the idea? 

    There’s a whole thing with square roots and amplitudes and just, like, don’t ask. I don’t know anymore and I’m not sure I care. It has something to do with the math of everything and I don’t like math. I have a math test tomorrow I’m ignoring. 

    Then the y axis and its |i> and |-i> states are very similar except there’s an i in front of the |1> on my beautiful drawing. We didn’t really go into a lot of detail on this one. And you can kind of ignore the theta (θ) and psi (φ) in the middle. Don’t worry about those. 

    Brain hurt yet? Me too. 

Gender time. You can probably see where some of this is going already. 

    So |0> I’m gonna assign to female and |1> I’m gonna assign to male. One can initialize a qubit to either of these two values (theoretically, experimentally it goes to 0 and then a pauli x gets it to 1) but it isn’t a perfect system and it sometimes doesn’t do what you want it to do. That’s kind of a theme with anything quantum. (That is the part that’s analogous to agab) 

     Binary trans men and trans women would be taking the initialized qubit and applying a pauli X on it. Nonbinarity is where things begin to get a little messy with my analogy and I apologize if your personal identity doesn’t work with this. If you can see a way to improve it, you know how to rb things. The plus state could be thought of as bigender or another multigender or pangender identity. Then, the minus state could be thought of as agender. 

   I’m not sure what I can do for the |i> and |-i> states, partially because the i does stand for imaginary, and I’m sure you can see why that could be a little iffy. But I feel like one of these could be genderqueer in the way S describes it, as not quite nonbinary but also not quite binary? I’m not entirely sure how to describe it, but it’s not a linear combination of gender or completely genderless nonbinary that the trinary is creating. 

    Then the other one I’m gonna say can be xenogenders? I know there’s a lot of them, but this metaphor can be adjusted as necessary for whichever one you’d like to implement. Like I said, we didn’t really work a whole lot with the y axis, so this isn’t quite as together as the rest of it. (That was a lie nothing is ever together) 

    If you remember the measurement bit from above (no you don’t, it went in one ear and out the other, i’m sure) you can kind of see that this is how people will perceive a cisn’t identity, minus the part where the quantum state is lost. That doesn’t seem to be how that works. 

    Then, I think finally but who knows, I’m gonna have to explain a little more quantum. I’m sorry for my existence, I thought this was done too. Basically quantum teleportation is a thing and I don’t wanna go find my old notes. Input will be α|0> + β|1> and a pair of entangled qubits with one at one place and one in another, and the important thing at the end is that there are four possible states which are α|0> + β|1>, α|0> - β|1>, α|1> + β|0>, and α|1> - β|0> and it requires two classical qubits to tell the receiver to mess with the qubit that’s sent over. 

    It’s a big long thing but it’s basically just embodying the fact that you can know details about your gender but not exactly know what it is. That’s me. 

    Okay, I lied. One more thing. Qubits can decohere, meaning the Bloch sphere might not be so much of a sphere anymore. So nothing makes any sort of sense. 

    Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. I didn't reread this at all.

[ondotmediallp]

The Physics of Future-ready B2B Content

It’s entirely possible to get stunned by the term ‘physics’ used with content, but it will be a surprise to see how many of its core attributes relate to the content.

Schrödinger's Cat Experiment:

A cat is put in a box and subjected to life-threatening situations and will be considered both dead and alive until the box is opened. This can be applied to content in terms of engagement. It is said to occur only when the content is seen by the target audience. 

Information Constructs Reality:

Scientists have proved that reality is built on information and in the digital space, content (knowledge) is the basis of reality. Therefore, the content acts as information and also creates data. This metadata helps design effective customer experience data models where it’s easy to know what consumers want, need, and do throughout their buying journey. 

The Many Worlds of Content:

Quantum mechanics has suggested the concept of a multiverse, and this analogy can be used for B2B content activation, which helps clients during the sales process. The engagement should be achieved diversely as the buyer lifecycle is never linear. The content must be produced with technology, skills, and processes that make it discoverable, relevant, adaptive, and actionable to facilitate the concept of the 'multiverse.' Such B2B content can then be actually future-ready.

If businesses want to be future-ready then they must follow the below-given things:

Increasing their metadata and classification proficiency to enable effective personalization

Utilize delicate data plus insights to optimize customer experience

Train AI engines for specific and independent decision-making ability

If you’re looking for lead generation, demand generation, content marketing, and brand enhancement services then contact us. With our global-scale experience, we at OnDot Media can help to deliver the desired results.

Also read: 

How Effective Content Marketing Strengthens B2B Marketing Strategies

Best Formats B2B Marketers Use to Distribute Content

[iseetheangel]

Oddly enough, I don’t have much to say about the making of this piece. It was one of my pieces that I would like to call original, by which I mean that it was not inspired by any fandom, instead it was invented by my sleep-deprived brain. If you didn’t catch the reference, this piece was actually inspired by Schrödinger’s Cat. I, unfortunately, understand very little about this thought experiment, aside from the fact that Schrödinger must have been pretty passive about animal experimentation. I always thought there was something oddly poetic about a cat whose life hangs in an uncontrolled balance. Is it alive, is it dead, why has no one checked on this poor cat?

With the amount of effort I had focussed on the skeleton, I wish I could have added the same detail to the fur, but I can at least be thankful that the anatomy is correct. While the pug’s face, from my Dreamer sculpture, was definitely harder, the cat’s face was no picnic. On the plus side, I got to look up a lot of cute pictures of cats in boxes while researching.

This will be in my shop, as soon as I get a chance update everything. This semester is killing me a little, so I will try to post things weekly but don’t be surprised if I miss a week once and a while. Thanks for your patience!

[fedorasaurus]

Now THAT'S what I call a satisfactory conclusion!! 

(9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors "True" Ending thoughts below)

We did it! Boy, have we come a long way from the basic shock-horror ending that was the Axe Bad End. Finally, all has been revealed! And I think I understand it... mostly.

So, for some reason, 9 years prior, Akane and Aoi were put in Group A rather than being split up like the other siblings were. I guess no one knew it at the time, but it wasn’t meant to be a sibling-telepathy bond as much as it was... I guess a love bond between Akane in the past and Junpei in the future. So their connection was so powerful that it transcends time, which is pretty neat. This is the legit superhuman power that the creators of the Nonary Project were hoping to unlock, but I guess the twist of it was, it’s not just danger and violence that causes the powers to bloom, but empathy and love as well, which is actually a way stronger medium for accessing the morphogenic field. So I guess, while I didn’t really get into the romance between Junpei and Akane (largely in part to Junpei’s creepy dialogue and June flopping around helplessly for half the game), their feelings were genuine and I should respect that. I mean, damn, get you a partner who loves you enough to change history to bring you back from the dead by sheer force of mind.

Well... no, I don’t know that it was a “change history” thing... I sorta think there’s a Mandela Effect situation going on, though they haven’t really expanded on it, so I’m not for sure. Or maybe it was this weird... “meant to be” thing about it? Almost a Schrödinger's cat scenario? Akane is both dead and alive, and all that...

I keep thinking back to the 9 Years Ago incident, like, golly, Akane, if you hadn’t run back for the silly voodoo doll, you wouldn’t have gotten re-captured, and everything would’ve been fine! But, I dunno, I like the symbolism of it, at least. And hey, she was just a kid. Plus, I enjoy the idea of the doll being a... spellcasting focus of sorts.

Now let’s talk Hongou’s motivation! It turns out that, at least for him personally, he wanted to be able to distinguish/interpret human faces as others do. His condition aside, I feel like what he really wanted was the ability to have empathy, and that’s sort of a whole other can of worms. Is empathy something humans are born with? If not, is it something that can be taught? Was Hongou actually just trying to find an excuse for his crappy behavior toward others? There’s more constructive ways of coping and improving yourself, my dude. Why must you be so extra as to develop a big immoral experiment like some kinda mad scientist?

Sidenote: young Hongou is fly as hell in that pinstripe suit + fedora. Once again, being incredibly attractive is the only good thing I can say about him at this point. But you know... if the True Ending has him being arrested rather than killed, then maybe he’ll have a long time in prison to think about and finally atone for his actions. Maybe he can finally... redeem... himself?

Ah, what else...

OH! Allice! Was that Allice hitching a ride at the end? Boy I hope so. There’s a lady on the box art for Virtue’s Last Reward who sort of resembles the frozen priestess as she was drawn in the story segments. It would be neat to see them come back to that, especially after the disappointment I felt over there being nothing but a mandragora root in the coffin all along. Still, I suppose it makes sense for plot purposes.

Another note about the desert: I KNEW IT. I FREAKIN’ KNEW IT. Even on my first playthrough, I thought, “wow, Zero sure did put a lot of effort into covering the windows and controlling the flooding. How crazy would it be if they weren’t on a boat at all?” Not that I expected the Nevada Desert that early on, but it totally made sense by the end of it.

Wow, this post is getting long.

I guess one more quick comment on the puzzles: I had a really, REALLY difficult time with one of the puzzles in the Study (the puzzle where you had to turn the numbers on and off to equal the letters in “ALL”), but the rest of them weren’t too bad. Even the final puzzle of the game wasn’t too stressful. I’d go as far as to call it “relaxing,” even. Normally, easy-ish things at the end of a game are a buzzkill, but I genuinely enjoyed this one. First of all, it took a few minutes of focus and careful thinking to solve. Also, the chillness of the puzzle went along well with the mood of the story at that point, whereas some of the other puzzles in the game sorta... yanked me out of the story real hard. “I just want to find out what happens next, and they’re bogging me down with frustrating puzzles??”

OH MAN, and how about that “flipping the DS around” trick? That was neat. It didn’t blow my mind the way I was thinking it would based on the Internet’s excitement over playing the DS version, but it was a cool, unexpected touch that I appreciate. I have to wonder how they did it in The Nonary Games version. Flip your tv/monitor over? EDIT: It didn’t occur to me when I originally posted this, but I get it now. It wasn’t just Akane on the bottom screen toward the end of the game, her perspective has been on the bottom screen all along! In retrospect, it should have been obvious! So, yeah, that’s actually an amazing twist. Incorporating the DS’ capabilities into the storytelling is damn brilliant.

And yeah, I’ve got a copy of The Nonary Games for PS4, so I think I’ll start VLR on it this weekend while I’m still hyped up from 999.

Well played, Zero Escape. I’ll be back for more.

P.S. is it safe to look at the tag yet?

[shell-senji]

Otome games & reader-response criticism, part 1

Oddly enough, this is something I’ve been thinking about for a while now, but a brief discussion of Schrödinger's cat, of all things, with @impracticaldemon prompted me to revisit it. So, buckle up, bitches. We’re talking literary theory.

Disclaimer—I am *not* a literary theorist—my areas of expertise are rhetoric and composition, plus all the grammar/mechanics/style/punctuation that comes with being an editor. But I was an English major, so I feel I can at least speak *in general* about the topic.

*Edit: originally this was going to be just one post, but it began to get a bit out of control, so I will split it into another part to be completed at a later date. 

[more below the cut because for those of you who don’t give a rat’s ass about this, it’s liable to seem lengthy and dry 😊]

Reader-response criticism is very much as it sounds—it is “an approach to literature that focuses on the reader rather than the work itself, by attempting to describe what goes on in the reader’s mind during the reading of a text. Hence, the consciousness of the reader—produced by reading the work—is the actual subject of reader-response criticism. [...] Thus, there is no single definitive reading of a work, because readers create rather than discover absolute meanings in texts. However, this approach is not a rationale for mistaken or bizarre readings, but an exploration of the possibilities for a plurality of readings. This kind of strategy calls attention to how we read and what influences our readings, and what that reveals about ourselves” (Meyer 2011, 2140-41).

Phew. Still with me? 

Sorry for the huge quote definition, but I’d only muck things up if I tried to provide my own paraphrased one.

One of the things I recall from one of my myriad literature courses was a professor explaining that per reader-response theory, someone can pick up a book when they’re ten years old and then again when they’re thirty and have a completely different reading experience, because they are a different reader than they were the first time they read it. Hence the whole “plurality of readings” thing. The text is not a “fixed” item—it is constantly changing depending on who is reading it or, to use the example of the same reader revisiting a work years later, when. Obviously the text does create certain constraints, somewhat like a sandbox we as readers must play in, but while one reader is building a sandcastle, another is burying their friend and making him into a mermaid. 

What does this have to do with otome games? Well, think about it—each fan of whatever game (we’ll use Hakuouki for the moment) tends to have a personal favorite character. Or one or two they lean more in favor of. Why? Sure we can argue physical appearance, voice actor, supporting characters in their routes, plot quality, etc. But what about people who disagree? Are they wrong? Are we right? Is my experience more “canon” or “valid” than someone else’s? 

No. And reader-response supports this. [Caveat—don’t ignore the part in the definition that says it does NOT justify a wacky cracked-out bizarre interpretation.] As readers, we come “to the work with certain expectations and assumptions, which are either met or not met”  (Meyer 2011, 2060). So as individual fans, we all have very very different personal lives and personal life experiences, which impact the way the game and its characters feel to us. Also, our personal social and cultural contexts affect our reading—it is highly probable an American fan of Hakuouki playing the English version has a different experience than a Japanese one playing the Japanese version, as much for the reason of translation as the reason of one’s environment.

(The rhetorician in me is screaming about the importance of context in all things. Quiet, you. Wait your turn.)

One of the reasons this has been bouncing around in my head for a while is that it has interesting applications to us as a fans, and by extension, the fandom. IF (and I’m not saying the theory is infallible...none are) we buy into reader-response criticism, then what we should be focusing on is less about “right” or “wrong” readings or opinions, and more about sharing and discussing our experiences with the game, and exploring the possibilities. “The text remains the same; the readers do not” (Meyer 2011, 2061). Ten years from now, we could all replay Hakuouki and have vastly differing impressions and opinions than we hold now. 

An example—and I’ll throw myself under the bus, yippy skippy—using Hakuouki. I find Toudou Heisuke to be a charming character. He’s cute as a button, cheerful, struggling to find his way and make his own path, yet full of hope for the future. I enjoy his character immensely. 

Yet he is pretty far down on the list for my “favorite” matches for Chizuru. Why? Well, at the end of the day, try as we might, Chizuru is at least a teeny bit of a MarySue. We’re supposed to slip into her shoes somewhat (if not entirely, depending on if you change the character’s name). Given that, I just don’t find him a “romantic” match—BFF? Sure. Romantic partner? Not really. He’s just...so...young compared to his compatriots.

Now, now, before you come at me with pitchforks, yes, I know he’s the same or close in age to Saito and Souji. BUT when I say “young,” it’s more than just the number of years we’ve survived on the planet. He feels less mature, more idealistic, less worldly. Saito, for all that at times his stoicism makes me want to scream, is more mature, more realistic, and more appealing (though he’s not at the tip-top of my list either LOL). 

Now, does this mean that anyone who prefers Heisuke and/or hates Saito is wrong? Nope. Not a bit. And I’m not saying that in a “I’m being open-minded” way—if we are using reader-response criticism as a jumping off point, my perspective is merely one of the many that make up the fandom’s plurality of readings. I come to the table with certain biases and personal experiences that affect my preferences in an otome game that another reader will not have, be my age, race, gender, sexual preference, job as an editor, the fact that I have a personal penchant for profanity so our foul-mouthed oni no fukucho is quite appealing, whatever.  

Right, well, this is enough food for thought right now. It’s late, I’m losing coherence, and I may or may not continue this in a part two at a later date. 

Source: Meyer, Michael, ed. 2011. The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

[king-lilerz]

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okay one go to this website if you are struggling to find out your romantic orientation or if you would like to know more about other romantic orientations. (You can have more than one! ! !) https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/119238-a-list-of-romantic-orientations/

and two i’ve been looking for this for a while and i so excite because ive found a lot of them that relate to me and eeee I’m kinda of scared because i can make it official now and that means i have to 100% acknowledge it but that might be a good thing.yeah. these are my romantic orientations.( besides being just being demi-romantic)

Alterous - Is someone who can't be described as neither being (entirely/completely) platonic nor romantic, & is an attraction best described as wanting emotional closeness without necessarily being (at all or entirely) platonic &/or romantic, & is used in the place of -romantic or -platonic (so say bi-alterous instead of bi-romantic).

Someone can be both alterous & romantic &/or platonic & can have varying degrees on attraction, ultimately feel discomfort / unease / or just a sense of inaccuracy in calling it wholly romantic or platonic.

plus:

Sapioromantic - Is someone who is attracted to intelligence or human minds.

Schromantic - Is someone who is aromantic and romantic at the same time, or some mix of the two. (describing romanticism in terms of Schrödinger’s cat as having the possibility of being romantic and aromantic at the same time).

Skilo/Ceteroromantic - Is someone who experiences romantic attraction towards non-binary genders.

Though instead of saying this all the time i’m still just going to by demi-romantic :)

[an0thernoob]

Esta semana hay descuentos en Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2, Destiny – The Collection, Forza Horizon 3, Red Dead Redemption, Skate 3, varios Call of Duty y mucho más; aquí tienes la lista completa:

Xbox One

Boom Ball 2 + Squid Hero (40%)

Commander Cherry for Kinect* (60%)

Destiny – The Collection* (35%)

Destiny: The Taken King* (40%)

Earth’s Dawn* (33%)

Final Fantasy XV Digital Premium Edition* (40%)

Final Fantasy XV* (40%)

Flinthook (25%)

forma.8 (30%)

Forza Horizon 3 and Expansion Pass Bundle (10%)

FRU* (50%)

Gryphon Knight Epic (33%)

Horse Racing 2016 (40%)

I Am Bread* (33%)

Let’s Sing 2017* (not available in all regions) (50%)

Lovely Planet* (50%)

Mantis Burn Racing (25%)

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst* (67%)

Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty (67%)

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2* (60%)

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition* (60%)

Pure Hold ’em* (50%)

Pure Pool* (50%)

R.B.I. Baseball 17 (15%)

Schrödinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark* (75%)

Team17 Indie Collection* (85%)

Uncanny Valley (33%)

Wheels of Aurelia (50%)

Worms Battlegrounds* (75%)

Xbox 360

3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures retrocompatible (40%)

A Kingdom for Keflings retrocompatible (75%)

A World of Keflings retrocompatible (75%)

Age of Booty retrocompatible (75%)

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare retrocompatible (75%)

Alice: Madness Returns retrocompatible (75%)

Alien Hominid HD retrocompatible (75%)

Anomaly Warzone Earth retrocompatible (75%)

AQUA retrocompatible (75%)

ARKANOID Live! retrocompatible (75%)

Army of Two retrocompatible (67%)

Assassin’s Creed retrocompatible (75%)

Assassin’s Creed II retrocompatible (67%)

Assassin’s Creed Revelations retrocompatible (67%)

Assassin’s Creed Rogue retrocompatible (67%)

Assault Heroes 2 retrocompatible (40%)

Astropop retrocompatible (75%)

Banjo Kazooie: N and B retrocompatible (75%)

Banjo-Kazooie retrocompatible (75%)

Banjo-Tooie retrocompatible (75%)

BattleBlock Theater retrocompatible (75%)

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Battlestations: Midway retrocompatible (75%)

Bejeweled 2 retrocompatible (50%)

Bejeweled 3 retrocompatible (50%)

Bellator: MMA Onslaught retrocompatible (75%)

Beyond Good & Evil HD retrocompatible (67%)

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 retrocompatible (75%)

BioShock retrocompatible (50%)

BioShock 2 retrocompatible (50%)

BioShock Infinite retrocompatible (65%)

BioShock Infinite Season Pass (50%)

Blood Knights retrocompatible (75%)

Blood of the Werewolf retrocompatible (75%)

BloodRayne: Betrayal retrocompatible (67%)

Blue Dragon retrocompatible (75%)

Bomberman Battlefest retrocompatible (75%)

Boom Boom Rocket retrocompatible (67%)

Borderlands retrocompatible (50%)

Borderlands 2 retrocompatible (50%)

Borderlands 2 Season Pass (70%)

Bound by Flame retrocompatible (75%)

Braid retrocompatible (75%)

Bully Scholarship Edition retrocompatible (50%)

Burnout Paradise retrocompatible (67%)

Cabela’s Alaskan Adventures retrocompatible (50%)

Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013 retrocompatible (50%)

Cabela’s Hunting Expeditions retrocompatible (50%)

Cabela’s Survival: SoK retrocompatible (50%)

Call of Duty 2 retrocompatible (50%)

Call of Duty 3 retrocompatible (50%)

Call of Duty: Black Ops retrocompatible (50%)

Call of Duty: Black Ops II retrocompatible (60%)

Call of Duty: Black Ops II Season Pass (40%)

Call of Duty: World at War retrocompatible (50%)

Call of Juarez Gunslinger retrocompatible (75%)

CAPCOM Arcade Cabinet retrocompatible (75%)

Carcassonne retrocompatible (50%)

Cars 2: The Video Game retrocompatible (75%)

Castle Crashers retrocompatible (75%)

CastleStorm retrocompatible (75%)

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night retrocompatible (75%)

Catherine retrocompatible (75%)

Centipede & Millipede retrocompatible (75%)

Comic Jumper retrocompatible (75%)

Commanders: Attack of the Genos retrocompatible (40%)

Crystal Quest retrocompatible (75%)

Dark Void retrocompatible (75%)

de Blob 2 retrocompatible (85%)

Dead Rising 2: Case West retrocompatible (75%)

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero retrocompatible (30%)

Dead Space retrocompatible (67%)

Dead Space 2 retrocompatible (67%)

Dead Space 3 retrocompatible (67%)

Dead Space Ignition retrocompatible (50%)

Deadliest Warrior: Legends retrocompatible (75%)

DeathSpank: Thongs Of Virtue retrocompatible (75%)

Destiny: The Taken King (50%)

Destiny: The Taken King – Digital Collector’s Edition (50%)

Destiny: The Taken King – Legendary Edition (50%)

Deus Ex: Human Revolution retrocompatible (75%)

Discs Of Tron retrocompatible (75%)

Domino Master retrocompatible (75%)

DOOM retrocompatible (50%)

DOOM II retrocompatible (50%)

Double Dragon Neon retrocompatible (67%)

Dragon Age: Origins retrocompatible (67%)

Dragon’s Lair retrocompatible (75%)

Dungeon Siege III retrocompatible (75%)

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara retrocompatible (75%)

Earthworm Jim HD retrocompatible (75%)

Eat Lead retrocompatible (75%)

Encleverment Experiment retrocompatible (75%)

Escape Dead Island retrocompatible (75%)

Every Extend Extra Extreme retrocompatible (75%)

Fable II retrocompatible (75%)

Fable III retrocompatible (75%)

Faery: Legends of Avalon retrocompatible (75%)

Fallout 3 retrocompatible (67%)

Fallout: New Vegas retrocompatible (67%)

Far Cry 3 retrocompatible (60%)

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon retrocompatible (67%)

Feeding Frenzy retrocompatible (50%)

Feeding Frenzy 2 retrocompatible (50%)

Final Fight: Double Impact retrocompatible (75%)

Flashback retrocompatible (67%)

FLOCK! retrocompatible (75%)

Foul Play retrocompatible (75%)

FunTown Mahjong retrocompatible (75%)

Garou – Mark of the Wolves – retrocompatible (75%)

Gatling Gears retrocompatible (75%)

Gears of War retrocompatible (75%)

Gears of War 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Gears of War 2 Season Pass All Fronts (75%)

Gears of War 3 retrocompatible (75%)

Gears of War 3 Season Pass (75%)

Gears of War: Judgment retrocompatible (75%)

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved retrocompatible (75%)

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 retrocompatible (50%)

Ghostbusters retrocompatible (75%)

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime retrocompatible (75%)

Gin Rummy retrocompatible (40%)

Go! Go! Break Steady retrocompatible (75%)

Golf: Tee it Up! retrocompatible (40%)

Grand Theft Auto: IV retrocompatible (50%)

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony (50%)

GRID 2 retrocompatible (75%)

GripShift retrocompatible (75%)

GTA IV: The Lost and Damned (50%)

Guwange retrocompatible (75%)

Half-Minute Hero -Super Mega Neo Climax- retrocompatible (75%)

Hardwood Backgammon retrocompatible (75%)

Hardwood Hearts retrocompatible (75%)

Hardwood Spades retrocompatible (75%)

Haunted House retrocompatible (75%)

Heavy Weapon retrocompatible (67%)

Hexic 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Hitman: Absolution retrocompatible (75%)

Hydro Thunder Hurricane retrocompatible (75%)

I Am Alive retrocompatible (67%)

Ikaruga retrocompatible (75%)

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet retrocompatible (75%)

Interpol retrocompatible (75%)

Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad retrocompatible (75%)

Jetpac Refuelled retrocompatible (75%)

Joe Danger 2: The Movie retrocompatible (75%)

Joe Danger Special Edition retrocompatible (75%)

Joust retrocompatible (50%)

Joy Ride Turbo retrocompatible (75%)

JUJU retrocompatible (75%)

Jurassic Park: The Game retrocompatible (75%)

Just Cause 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Kameo retrocompatible (75%)

Kane & Lynch 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Killer is Dead retrocompatible (75%)

Lazy Raiders retrocompatible (75%)

Left 4 Dead retrocompatible (75%)

Left 4 Dead 2 retrocompatible (75%)

LEGO Batman retrocompatible (50%)

LEGO Indiana Jones retrocompatible (75%)

LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game retrocompatible (75%)

LIMBO retrocompatible (75%)

Lode Runner retrocompatible (75%)

Lost Odyssey retrocompatible (75%)

LUMINES LIVE! Standard Edition retrocompatible (75%)

Luxor 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Mad Tracks retrocompatible (75%)

Madballs Babo: Invasion retrocompatible (75%)

Mars: War Logs retrocompatible (75%)

Mass Effect retrocompatible (75%)

Medal of Honor Airborne retrocompatible (67%)

Meet the Robinsons retrocompatible (75%)

Metal Slug 3 retrocompatible (75%)

Metal Slug XX retrocompatible (75%)

Midway Arcade Origins retrocompatible (50%)

Might & Magic Clash of Heroes retrocompatible (75%)

Military Madness: Nectaris retrocompatible (75%)

Mirror’s Edge retrocompatible (67%)

Missile Command retrocompatible (75%)

Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine retrocompatible (67%)

Monday Night Combat retrocompatible (75%)

Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge retrocompatible (75%)

MONOPOLY PLUS retrocompatible (50%)

Ms. Splosion Man retrocompatible (75%)

Mutant Storm Empire retrocompatible (75%)

MX vs ATV Reflex retrocompatible (90%)

NBA JAM: On Fire Edition retrocompatible (67%)

NEOGEO Battle Coliseum retrocompatible (75%)

NIN2-JUMP retrocompatible (75%)

Oblivion retrocompatible (67%)

Of Orcs and Men (not available in all regions) retrocompatible (75%)

Omega Five retrocompatible (75%)

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising retrocompatible (75%)

Outland retrocompatible (67%)

Peggle retrocompatible (50%)

Perfect Dark retrocompatible (75%)

Perfect Dark Zero retrocompatible (75%)

Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds retrocompatible (75%)

Planets Under Attack retrocompatible (75%)

Plants vs. Zombies retrocompatible (50%)

Portal 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Portal: Still Alive retrocompatible (75%)

Prince of Persia Classic retrocompatible (67%)

Putty Squad retrocompatible (75%)

Puzzle Quest 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords retrocompatible (75%)

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix retrocompatible (75%)

QIX++ retrocompatible (75%)

R-Type Dimensions retrocompatible (75%)

RAGE retrocompatible (67%)

Rainbow Six Vegas retrocompatible (67%)

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 retrocompatible (67%)

Rayman 3 HD retrocompatible (67%)

Rayman Legends retrocompatible (67%)

Rayman Origins retrocompatible (67%)

Red Dead Redemption retrocompatible (60%)

Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare Pack (50%)

Red Faction: Battlegrounds retrocompatible (75%)

Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien retrocompatible (75%)

Sacred 3 retrocompatible (75%)

Sacred 3 retrocompatible (75%)

Sacred Citadel retrocompatible (75%)

Saints Row IV retrocompatible (75%)

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space retrocompatible (75%)

Sam & Max Save the World retrocompatible (75%)

Samurai Shodown II retrocompatible (75%)

Scarygirl retrocompatible (75%)

Scrap Metal retrocompatible (75%)

Shadow Complex retrocompatible (75%)

Shadowrun retrocompatible (75%)

Shadows of the Damned retrocompatible (75%)

Shank 2 retrocompatible (67%)

Shotest Shogi retrocompatible (75%)

Shred Nebula retrocompatible (75%)

Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution retrocompatible (75%)

Skate 3 retrocompatible (75%)

Skullgirls retrocompatible (75%)

Skydive retrocompatible (75%)

Small Arms retrocompatible (75%)

Soltrio Solitaire retrocompatible (75%)

South Park: The Stick of Truth retrocompatible (60%)

Space Ark retrocompatible (75%)

Space Giraffe retrocompatible (75%)

Spelunky retrocompatible (75%)

Splosion Man retrocompatible (75%)

SSX retrocompatible (67%)

Stacking retrocompatible (75%)

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed retrocompatible (75%)

Strania – The Stella Machina – retrocompatible (75%)

Street Fighter IV retrocompatible (30%)

Stuntman: Ignition retrocompatible (75%)

Super Meat Boy retrocompatible (75%)

Supreme Commander 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack retrocompatible (75%)

Texas Hold’em retrocompatible (75%)

The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match retrocompatible (75%)

The King of Fighters ’98 Ultimate Match retrocompatible (75%)

The Maw retrocompatible (75%)

The Orange Box retrocompatible (75%)

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition retrocompatible (75%)

The Splatters retrocompatible (75%)

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition retrocompatible (75%)

Ticket to Ride retrocompatible (75%)

TimeShift retrocompatible (50%)

Torchlight retrocompatible (75%)

Tour de France 2009 – The Official Game retrocompatible (75%)

Tower Bloxx Deluxe retrocompatible (75%)

Toy Soldiers retrocompatible (75%)

Toy Soldiers: Cold War retrocompatible (75%)

Toy Story 3 retrocompatible (75%)

Trials HD retrocompatible (75%)

Triggerheart Exelica retrocompatible (75%)

Trine 2 retrocompatible (75%)

Tron: Evolution retrocompatible (75%)

Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon retrocompatible (75%)

Unbound Saga retrocompatible (75%)

Viva Piñata retrocompatible (75%)

Viva Piñata: TIP retrocompatible (75%)

Wolfenstein 3D retrocompatible (50%)

Word Puzzle retrocompatible (75%)

Worms 2: Armageddon* (75%)

XCOM: Enemy Within retrocompatible (75%)

Zuma retrocompatible (50%)

Zuma’s Revenge! retrocompatible (50%)

Recuerda que todos estos descuentos estarán disponibles hasta el 22 de mayo para todos los usuarios Gold de Xbox Live. Los que están marcados (*) también están disponibles para los que tienen Xbox Live Silver. No olvides que los descuentos están sujetos a cambios y pueden variar por región.

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[angstandhappiness]

LMAO YES

I love the idea of Tim and Bruce being the two smartest people in batfam; So they occasionally say weird things that only they can understand.

Dick, panicked: OH MY GOD! I asked Kory out. What should I do now? What if she won't like me?

Bruce: Schrödinger's cat.

Dick:

Dick: ...what?

Tim: He's saying you won't findout unless you actually try it and go on a date with her.

Dick: Aww! That's so nice. Thanks, B.

Jason: Who's Schrödinger's cat?

...

Tim, with soaked shirt:

Duke: What happened?

Tim: The driving frequency corresponded to the resonance frequency of coffee, therefore the sloshing amplitude reached its maximum.

Duke: Say what again??

Bruce: He spilled his coffee.

Duke:

Duke: ...right.

Jason: Fucking weirdos.