#so like... things have improved even if they're not up to other folks' standards yet

[longroadstonowhere]

okay, big chunk of room vacuumed, with books put in a box together (for hanging out in the living room until i see if i need another bookcase) and trash gotten rid of

still have some chunk of the room i need to get trash from and vacuum, but that's just the bit near the close side of my bed

laundry's chugging along, and i think i wanna do my bedsheets as well, but i don't need to rush so i'm gonna take a longer break than i thought i might and just... continue resting my back

[helly-watermelonsmellinfellon]

As we all know, I really don't like Haruno Sakura for many reasons, but there is one thing I have always been offended on her behalf for... and it's the Chunin Exams. Specifically, the First Exam but typically all of them.

Up until that point in the story, we've been told that Sakura is brilliant. Top Kunoichi despite having none of the physical skills to back it up. Average in Ninjutsu, poor in Genjutsu and Taijutsu. How did she end up on the same team as Sasuke and Naruto if this is the case? She's smart. Yet all we get to see is proof that she's good at memorizing words when put in a certain order.

Memorization is not intelligence. Even a simpleton will remember something if they hear it enough times.

So when the Chunin Exams roll around, we FINALLY get proof that she's smart. The First Exam is designed to be so damn difficult you HAVE TO CHEAT to get answers, and 2 Chunin with all the answers were placed among the group of Genin to help test how well they could cheat their way through.

Sakura did not need to cheat. She took a look at the paper and her nerves vanished because she knew that she could do the work. Work that did not require her to quote some shinobi principle or whatever. Sasuke himself admitted he didn't understand shit on the paper. Top Shinobi of the Year, folks. He didn't know it and obviously Naruto wouldn't know it.

The whole time, up until this moment, we'd been forced to watch Sakura do nothing while Sasuke and Naruto pulled all the weight. She got Tree Walking for having next to no chakra and therefore having no need to struggle to control it when it's barely there are all. That doesn't signify intelligence.

But advanced concepts and mathematics? She got that shit down without anyone's help or the need to cheat. In fact, Ino had to cheat off of her specifically just to get her team the answers they needed.

The sensei for the Konoha 12 are literally watching the whole thing. They saw Sakura breeze through that shit.

WHY DID NO ONE THINK TO APPROACH HER WITH SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO IMPROVE HERSELF OR ANY FIELDS OF EXPERTISE SHE COULD FOCUS ON?!

I like Kakashi, I really do, but he is not a good sensei. I get Sasuke's personal issues requiring constant attention so he's not too much of a flight risk, but the village and their poor handling of traumatized children are why he's a flight risk in the first place. Kakashi sabotaged his other two students in favor of Sasuke. Naruto got shoved off onto someone else, who hated him, and in the end that fool couldn't even do shit. And Sakura? Nothing at all. In the end, Sakura gets the worst end of the stick no matter what.

Even if Sakura didn't make it to the Third Exam, he could have devised a training schedule for her or given her some kind of tips on how to improve. Could have encouraged her to seek out Medical or Cypher or T&I. Things that require understanding of advanced concepts not used in standard shinobi practice. She could have taken that month of time to work on herself and get a head start on anything.

And instead, she's just ignored.

I will hold Sakura accountable for shit things she did and said as a 12-year-old, because being that age doesn't excuse such behavior when she never changes during the whole story.

But how in the hell is a freshly graduated child who doesn't understand what being a ninja really entails, going to know where to go or what to look into for her own career? How is she going to get access to information when she has no connections and lacks the rank necessary to pursue such things on her own?

His job is to teach and guide her. All that shit to Iruka about 'they're my soldiers now' and he did next to nothing to prepare them. He sent them into the Chunin Exams without knowing how to Water Walk. At the very least it could have saved their asses a lot of time and effort.

Except Tree Walking, any skills Sakura manages to obtain have nothing to do with Kakashi. Her sensei. Her team leader. All that shit.

Finally get proof that she's super smart and capable in a certain area, and they just ignored it.

And that's why in my fics, Sakura usually ends up gaining the attention of the Cypher Division after the Chunin Exams. I like variety and I like it when someone actually acknowledges a character's strengths and then tries to help them.

[gummadianjani]

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[skaruresonic]

I never said anything about your fan fictions' quality, just about the egos of you, their creators,

Sorry, I forgot we're the only ones with egos in this Chili's. IDW staff never contrast their work to the games and find the games wanting.

Plus, it's not like every AU you encounter here is predicated on "improving" the games. Perish the thought.

---

...and I'm not saying it's bad to be happy with your stories, but that's it's obnoxious to parade your work as if you have some do-no-wrong talent.

Even when folks are doing nothing more than... (checks notes) ...talking about their fics? That makes mocking for mockery's sake okay? Because I've seen people mock Crusher merely for having an OC. That's it. Nothing else. You cannot look me in the eye and call that fair play. Even if it is the case that the flexing is being done solely to dunk on the comic and nothing else, literally who cares? Doesn't impact the book's sales, doesn't make IDW staff lose one wink of sleep at night, just makes lurkers mad and then they spread that shit around to rile people up. Not us. Besides, folks insist their work is better than the games all the time and nobody bats an eye. Just ignore it. It's not that hard.

In fact, I took down the public link to my Sonic VN because I was worried it wasn't good enough, and that was precisely because of the fear that people would dunk on it for the sole purpose of punishing me for being part of The Cooties Gang. Why would I limit my audience to a small circle of mutuals if I thought the work I produced was the next Shakespeare?

Are we internet nobodies no one takes seriously, or are we contaminating the well with our mere presence? Pick one. Because we literally cannot be both.

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"Victim-blaming", victim of WHAT?! People finding your hate train a little unhinged, it's so incessant?

I'm sorry, did you not hear about the stalking from multiple accounts, the name-calling, the endless hate anons, some of which included death threats (so Flynn is not even alone in that regard), the blocking and stonewalling despite any and every attempt to explain our points clearly, the wishing of dead mothers to burn in hell, and how people literally gave us a derogatory nickname in order to other us? How some folks have said we don't deserve to live? Did you miss the two mental breakdowns I suffered from harassment? How I sometimes have flashbacks when I encounter certain opinions phrased in a specific way online, but the folks who say my opinions made them uncomfortable are to be coddled? No? I'm the bad one, playing victim? Okay. Because every time I mention these things to people, they either say nothing, imply we deserved it, or are quick to pull the No True Scotsman card. They protest they're not responsible for those things, yet at the exact same time, they expect us to be lumped in with the crowd that "tolerates" death threats and is considered responsible for the most vitriolic hate IDW staff receives despite most of us having no-contact policies. That is called a double standard.

Time and time again I have tried to wander away from this fandom, have tried to wash my hands and move on. But I cannot step into any Sonic space without running into people thinking I'm the plague. To be clear, I don't want to be coddled. I don't care about my standing in a fandom like this, even, anymore. I want the basic human decency I am not afforded because people assume I am some kind of monster hanging out with other monsters. I want someone to look at this mountain of bullshit, anyone, and not have their first reaction be, "But that doesn't matter, because you did worse." It's such a simple thing to want. And yet.

(Because it can be; I wouldn't deny it if I were you)

Then don't look at it. There. Problem solved.

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Even if there are bad guys on the other side, sorry I can't share the vitriol towards them, but I don't know them as you do, and I'd rather stay away from maniacs like those.

There you go again. "Even if." Like it's questionable. I did not make any of this shit up. It happened. Period. Someone telling me to die over my opinions happened. Someone telling me that my mother wouldn't have died if I "wasn't such a cunt" on Mother's Day and causing me to delete my blog happened. Mauro Fonesca contacting me out of the blue in spite of my no-contact policy and ignoring my suggestions for an open communication in favor of lurking on our blogs because it was more convenient for him happened. This is not up for debate. You may want to think those things didn't happen; you may want to believe that it's warranted, or that our behavior automatically outweighs any need for restraint from others treating us like punching bags. You may want to believe this is entirely a one-sided story and we're just all crazed lunatics with an ax to grind.

Fine. But if you had any sense of fairness, you'd realize that there is nothing neither I nor my mutuals can do that will satisfy the masses short of total deletion.

You'd realize how unfair it is to lump us all in with the bad apples when we have, for the most part, taken measures to draw proper boundaries.

You'd realize how bullshit the double standard is if it was leveraged against you: if we suddenly started lumping you guys in with the anons who said "your dead mom is burning in hell." You'd realize saying "this isn't cool, stop that" in response to harassment isn't bullying. You'd realize that posting "this sucks" from within the confines of your kitchen, even loudly and "incessantly," is not tantamount to walking up to Ian Flynn and slapping him in the face.

I don't know how much clearer I can make my point.

https://x.com/Blueknight_V2/status/1803927166083829937 https://x.com/The14thDemon/status/1803619577596629442

daniel barnes rt this, what the hell?

How long were these people asleep at the wheel when literally every Sonic writer not named "Shiro Maekawa" was getting the same kind of unwarranted flak?

[workrockin]

Can we send electricity through wifi?

In one word, the answer is yes. If you want to understand how please keep reading. The concepts and principles that make Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) work are extremely simple. 

Theory

As the name suggests WPT is the transfer of power without the use of wires.  It works on the principle of electromagnetic induction. Oscillating electromagnetic fields generate current when received in a conductor. They can travel through free space without any need for a medium like a wave. Sunlight is the most common electromagnetic wave that we experience everyday. 

WPT has two forms

1. Near field

2. Far field 

Near field power transfer uses magnetic/electrical coupling to transfer power. It works at distances that are very small compared to the wavelength. 

You have most probably encountered near field power transfer in induction cookers and more recently in phone chargers. 

Near field devices use mostly use magnetic coupling. Power is transmitted via magnetic field over very small distances. If the conductor is not within this distance no power is transmitted. 

[At small distances of near field, magnetic and electrical components of the wave can be considered separate. In other words, the electromagnetic wave is not yet radiating ]

Far field devices uses radiating electromagnetic waves to transmit power. Focussed beams tend to behave like light rays. And they can be collected just like we can collect rays of the sun using a mirror on a focal point. High gain point to point antennas can deliver power several KMs apart. Enough to charge batteries. 

While far field power transfer is used heavily in communication it's use in energy transfer is limited. 

[Some folks want to send a satellite into space and beam solar energy to earth from space.  Due to the distance involved I'm not a big fan of the approach. But often crazy ideas seem to work so who knows?]

A huge business opportunity exists to couple radio wave's power transmission with alternative sources of energy generation for WPT on ground. 

About WiFI in particular 

Wifi is an electromagnetic wave. And like all EM waves it carries electrical and magnetic energy. A receiver like a phone connected to WiFi router converts this power into current that is then filtered by the chip to get useful data. This process is called demodulation. 

To transmit power over wifi all we need to do is skip the demodulation and store the current from the antenna directly into the battery. 

Although any radio wave can be used as a medium for WPT, wifi offers advantages that are hard to beat or even match. They are:-

1. Open spectrum. Wifi does not need any additional licenses from regulatory bodies. Being a part of the ISM band it's free to use by any one. This makes it friendly towards entrepreneurs and small business owners who would want to start a business in the field of energy. Or maybe researchers/college students who want to experiment in WPT systems to improve efficiency. 

2. Ease of learning and operation. Since it's so easy to get into more people can understand and work with the technology. Making skill acquisition as well as the professional support needed to get the infrastructure working easy. If someone starts a business it won't be too difficult to find or train staff.

3. Availability. Billions of devices are available to create wifi signals. No investment is needed to create new equipment. Standard off the shelf products are more than competent to do the job. Which is to take an input power source and create a wifi signal to be beamed into free space by a directional antenna.

4. Frequency spectrum. Among all the other alternatives wifi is the best way to transmit long distance power. The frequency is not high enough to suffer from atmospheric attenuation (scientific jargon for power loss), but also not small enough that it needs huge antennas (antenna length is related to frequency/wavelength of the signal) to be of any use. 

Difference between home wifi devices and ones used for power transmission 

It all comes down to antennas. Home devices use omnidirectional dipoles that scatter the waves. While this is good for communication it's not efficient for energy transmission. 

High gain parabolic antennas improve efficiency significantly for the same devices. 

[And before you ask yes these are readily available in the market]

Inside every big problem there's a small problem trying to get out. 

While the objective of WPT seems to be reducing the dependence on wires and batteries, a much more lucrative opportunity exists in integration as well as augmentation of existing systems. 

Rather than thinking of WPT as a technology that replaces /disrupts old things it's much more beneficial to think of it as something that creates new things.  

Things like efficient energy transport for alternative sources of energy. Today it does not exist. Energy is everywhere. Wind, sun, tides and hot springs. But it's not always easy to transport this energy. WPT can provide a solution. 

Local energy generated can be transmitted using highly focussed antennas. On the receiver these beams can be collected to generate current that can be stored in batteries. 

By the way, this does not mean that wifi can't transfer traditional energy. It certainly can especially when there's a surplus that might go to waste. But for traditional sources it can be a bit more expensive. 

The thing about renewable energy sources is that they're always creating power. Sun never stops. Nor does the wind or the waves. They keep on giving energy. More than we can ever use. We just need a way to transmit the power to where it's needed. As opposed to keeping it where it's generated. 

Microwaves like wifi travel at the speed of light. They may not deliver the same amount of power as wires but they drive energy very fast. Consistently. It adds up. 

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