#special interest triggered

[pixlime]

I am not joking when I say please play Outer Wilds

The art style is stunning, the physics engine is pretty easy to get a handle on (the game says a gamepad is the best way to play, I found keyboard and mouse just fine to use), the main mechanic is one of the more fun things I’ve dealt with, the final story makes me cry every time. The soundtrack is breathtaking. 

Like do yourself a favor and just listen to the track titled “Travelers”. It’s one of those songs that inspires a sense of nostalgia for something you never experienced. 

I will give two warnings though: If you have any form of motion sickness, or issues with hydrophobia/thlassophobia/any intense phobia related to anything underwater, you might not be able to play. The movements of the ship and space travel are pretty floaty and I can se if triggering motion sickness if you’re prone to it, and there are some... very intense underwater sequences. 

[risaceofhearts]

I like (special interest time) how the "built-in kill switch" that is "literally not natural" that "science has proven we can turn off with the right treatments" are telomeres, and

A) are very much natural, every creature that has DNA that they replicate has telomeres afaik

B) are not a built-in kill-switch, but just a natural (see) extension (get it) of how DNA replication works (telomeres are the very end of your DNA and because of how replication works it falls off at the end of a cycle). Telomeres are a SAFETY MEASURE. They're there because if they weren't, your actual DNA would start being broken down. When the telomere runs out, the cell commits apoptosis (programmed cell death) or goes into a state where it can no longer replicate.

C) also, ever heard of entropy?

D) the "treatment" in question is telomerase, a protein that lengthens your telomeres. Lobsters have this, it's why they are "biologically immortal". Stem cells have this, because they need to replenish your regular cells (like your blood cells). You know what other cells tend to have this? Cancer cells.

Turning on the DNA that makes telomerase is one of the main things that gets cancer to develop, because cancer cells replicate so quickly that if they didn't have telomerase, they'd die from telomerase failure well before they can cause cancer.

E) aside from protecting your DNA from being broken down, measures like telomeres that run out are one of the many safety guards your body has against cancer. The more your DNA replicates, the more likely it is that there will be critical mistakes that slip through your safety systems and cause cancer.

All this to say that, yes, maybe we could create biological immortality with telomerase. But there are several problems with it and a lack of understanding of those can cause this brand of stupidity where you think aging is unnatural and we are not unlocking our full potential by not applying an unnatural cure.

Anyway aging is beautiful and natural and now you know why, biologically.

Source: I'm studying biomedical sciences and this is taught to us during the second quarter of the first year.

scrunching my face real hard rn

[aztrokraut]

[unopenablebox]

maaay also have picked out engagement rings.... we're sitting on it for a week to think about it but we did reserve stones 😌

[appendingfic]

Ishmael: You see, if you change almost every detail of the story of St George and the Dragon, you will see he fought a whale and thus whalemen are EXACTLY AS NOBLE AS HIM

[theultimatekamehamehavoc]

Bathrooms/Restrooms in THH (specifically THH)

The fact that no one ever needed to use the restroom ONCE during the trials is insane when you think about it. Those trials are for several hours, no sitting area, no break, just standing there to figure out who done it. So, the fact that none of these idiots accidently drank too much water at any point before the trial is a damn miracle. Hell, I think these punks weren't drinking as much water as they should honestly!! I bet they're all dehydrated and honestly haven't been taking good care of their bodies. For one, it's a killing game. Lotta stress, lotta murder, prime setting to have physical health to not be the biggest priority aside from ensuring one's heart was still beating. So, at the very least, the bare minimum was at least somewhat met to some extent for the cast. At the same time though, even the bare minimum can have it's holes. Which leads me to this whole ramble to begin with! Moreover, still on topic but a bit different, the more I think about it, I wonder if, after Chapter 1, Makoto would be using the restrooms outside of his dorm. Or, at the very least, for the majority of the killing game. Of course he's still attempting to use the shower's and all in the dorm room (gotta get clean somehow) but also, there IS a bath house that gets opened up. So, the more I think about it, kinda a missed opportunity in a way? Though that might just be me. Though, that restroom, that dorm restroom, that must have haunted his mind at least for a good while anyway! Not that Makoto isn't allowed to concur that. Of course he can! I do think it'd be an interesting angle though of Makoto's mini journey of going from the full on dismay of going back into that restroom to slowly taking it all head on. Who knows. Maybe him taking a shower before he and the rest confront the mastermind has it's own power to it. However, for both of these ideas of mine, I feel the realistic topic of these people in this killing game and their bodily needs isn't really something that's ever really brought up (which makes sense. not like there needed to be a pissing mechanic in the dang murder game). But, damn it! I just like thinking of the logistics of this stuff. At the end of the day, the cast still have those teen mentalities. They're all still people and vulnerable and prone to getting diarrhea like the rest of us! I refuse to believe that all of them were 100% treating their bodies right and eating enough fiber and in the right headspace to even be taking care of themselves right in the first place! Hell! Not all of them can even cook (talking to YOU specifically, Byakuya!!) Whether some were coping by using all their energy to work on finding the mastermind (cough cough Kyoko) or just getting by with the basics or even stress eating to gain some sort of comfort during the grueling times of the killing game, it had to have been effecting them all in some sort of a deeper level. Perhaps more than just a feeling of dread but one of the many side effects of despair.

[foone]

SO, allow me to be nerdy for a sec: These aren't floptical!

Despite both magneto-optical and floptical being "what if we combine optical and magnetic media" ideas, they work completely differently.

So, first, Magneto-Optical: This is a rigid disc that's written magnetically and read optically. The way this works is that the laser is used to heat up small spots on the disc, then an electromagnet is used to write to them. As for why you do it in this complicated way... So there's an inherent problem with magnetic media where you want to stuff your magnetic domains as close together as possible, for greater density. But then you run into the problem that they interfere with each other, unless you use materials that are very resistant to magnetic change. This is called coercivity: the ability for materials to resist external magnetic fields. But if you have high coercivity materials, how do you write to them in the first place? You have to make your electromagnetic write head stronger... and you end up writing to neighboring domains! So it's always a balance between field strength, domain density, and write-strength. Anyway, with that background, Magneto-Optical media cheats: It uses a laser. See, many materials have a "Curie point", a temperature at which they lose their magnetic field, and become susceptible to external magnetic fields re-magnetizing them. So MO disk drives use a laser, not to write to the disc, but to heat up a small part of it, then it uses an electromagnet to write to it. Since the rest of the disc is cold, it doesn't change. Only the spot heated up changes. This means they can stuff the domains closer together!

The really cool trick is that for MO discs, the read/write methods aren't symmetric. To read the data back, you just use the laser, not the magnetic head. This works because of a cool trick called the Magneto-optic Kerr effect. Basically, if you bounce a laser off a magnetized metal surface, the light comes back polarized. So you can read the MO disc with only a laser, but you need a laser+magnetic head to write it. This is why MO discs got used for the Sony MiniDisc format: Players just needed a laser, making them cheaper than player+recorders, which needed the laser+magnetic heads.

OK so that's how Magneto-Optical discs/disks (both are correct, in different ways) worked. So what about floptical?

So floptical technology fixes a different problem that floppy disks have: Where are the tracks?

Optical discs like CDs have a "groove" that is followed optically, allowing the reader to determine where the tracks are (and to be pedantically correct, they're not really tracks: they're a spiral, like some weirder floppy disks)

Floppy disks, on the other hand, usually are designed with tracks, a bunch of concentric circles of data. But where are they on the disk?

The way cheap/mainstream drives (like 3.5"/5.25"/8" disks) handle this is by just having the tracks be big and sloppy. This means they can use a stepper motor to move in known-size tracks and it'll get close enough to hitting the same tracks at the same time, so it can be read and written from different drives, without problems (unless they get out of calibration, which can happen). This isn't the best for density, but it is best for being cheap and reliable. You end up with about 100 tracks per inch on the disk, or ~80 tracks per side.

But if you could fit your tracks closer together, you could store many more by using a much smaller read/write head. Floptical technology solves that by having "servo tracks". Servo tracks are special markings made on the disk surface that can be read by an infrared laser, but they don't store the data for the disk: instead they store positioning information.

Basically, there's a bunch of servo tracks saying "this here is track #NNN", so the magnetic head can just seek somewhere and figure out where it is, then adjust its position. That lets the drive use a voice coil that can be positioned more accurately than a stepper motor (since it gets feedback about where it's positioned) and thus a smaller magnetic head that reads and writes smaller tracks.

So, remember I said most floppy drives fit about 100 tracks per inch? Floptical drives fit about a thousand per inch. that's 10x as dense.

Insite was the original company to produce floptical disks, in 1991. (Fun fact: it was designed by Jim Adkisson, who had also worked on the 5.25" disk at Shugart Associates!)

While these floptical disks never caught on big (SGI used them for SGI Indigo and SGI Indy machines, but those were high-end workstations), one of the companies that floptical tech was licensed to did go on to make a quite successful floptical format: The Iomega Zip Disk

There were a number of other formats built on floptical tech: Imation's LS-120/240 formats, Caleb's UHD144, and Sony's HiFD. Zip is the only one that really caught on, and it never hit the mainstream like 3.5" disks did, and eventually CD-Rs and then USB sticks killed off floppy (regular and floptical) and magneto-optical disks.

oh my god, Signalis has literal Aperture Cards in it?

That was NOT on my bingo card of retro media to show up in a scifi game

[lylahammar]

I keep randomly bursting into tears today just thinking about the dunmeshi anime existing dhf;ldkhf the op song came on my spotify while I was writing thank you notes for christmas gifts and I instantly started blubbering

[dinklebat]

pretend I have the water filter

Okay I totally understand what OP meant and I agree adults simping for teenagers is weird AF. Don’t do that. Weirdo behavior.

but I was honestly really hurt seeing this post because I’m an adult (20) who acts like this. It’s not because I want to, I have severe disabilities that make it difficult to regulate my emotions. I’m in therapy and on medications but I still relapse. The idea that having a mental breakdown is immature is uncomfortable to me. Especially when people with autism like myself are infantilized as it is.

seriously no hate to OP (which is why I made this a separate post) . Anyone who bothers them over this is uncool

[le-agent-egg]

idc what anyone says no matter what pokemon type he would main mondo would have a rockruff

LOOK AT HIM he would totally have one and name it chuck and it would be his best buddy

side note- what pokemon types would daiya and takemichi use? i’m personally leaning towards steel for daiya but idk about michi

fun fact w/ my previous statement: steel is super effective against rock… >:)

[coke-600]

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[ne0nwithazero]

I love you hypercube

[shameboree]

“ive never had a hyperfixation ever in my life” i say having been neurotically obsessed w prions and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies since i was actually for real 6 years old. i think about protein misfolding once a day at MINIMUM. blorbos come and go but prions are Literally forever

[love-laugh-daydreamarevolt]

I've been dancing around my room like eddie diaz in that last scene

The Queer Autistic joy go brrr

[glitterdustcyclops]

okay but no i'm legit fascinated by that post on "big purchases is a laptop activity" being a millenial trait, like from a ux perspective

one of the things i'm most interested actually is how different generations need different ux designs because of their different lifestyles

like i lowkey wanna legit study this

[eclaire-went-bam]

this is like my second post abt this in a row within 5 minutes but npd + autism is knowing more about your friends special interests than they do & correctly fact-checking them on their own outdated info numerous times, or just never saying anything abt it bcs u feel like some wise intelligent above-the-others soul letting the kids have their fun