#toys made in Chile

[rinicakez]

My custom piece for arttoy.cl’s exhibition on May 6. They will be having an in person show in Chile and also selling the pieces on their website (arttoy.cl) 💖🌸

[palorvita]

feliz 18 de septiembre, dibujitos por fiestas patrias y mis peluchitos

[spiderman2-99]

Día De Muertos is supposed to be a celebration. When the dead return home, the day is filled with festivals, family, home-cooked food, and the bright smell of marigolds.

But Miguel O’Hara has no family, is too miserable to leave the apartment, and all the marigolds have gone extinct.

They’ve been extinct since 2095, actually. How hadn’t he known? That should've been something he'd figured out sooner, right? But no, he finds out a week before the day itself while he’s trying to make Gabriella’s ofrenda.

What does his beloved baby girl, who he would’ve given the world a thousand times over, get instead? Paper flowers.

Paper flowers instead of real ones, possessions that represented her instead of properly being hers, a half-done altar that was done in a manic, grief-fueled haze.

It’s paltry. Miguel knows it is. But it’s all he can give, and by God, he hates it. He tried to make it up in home-made pan de muerto and fresh fruit and her favorite dinners, in the carefully arranged papel picado garlands, in finding actual copal to burn… but it’s not enough. It could never be enough.

It’s been a long time since he’d last made an ofrenda, actually. He fell out of the tradition sometime when he was in college, when he was young and unburdened and selfish and so, so stupid, and had convinced himself he had much more important things to do with his time than honor traditions.

Sometimes, he wants to reach out to that little twerp and beat him senseless.

No, he wants to laugh, or scream, or pull his hair out. It’s a sick joke; a cruel jab at his expense, that he only started giving a shit about his own cultural holidays again after Gabi died, when he could no longer share the homemade food with her, help her learn about the significance.

It feels so wrong, being unable to share this with his daughter. Having the altar be dedicated to her, instead of her helping him set it up; teaching her how to make the banners and arrange flowers and bake bread, entertaining whatever thousands of questions she’d have about the holiday and her great-great-whoever’s they’d be celebrating. What would she have thought of the chicken and chile rellenos? Of the Calaveritas? The toys he left out?

Hijo de puta. A parent isn’t supposed to outlive their child.

It’s a pathetic altar too, as far as he’s concerned. Miguel hadn't done this in so long that he'd nearly forgotten how to; having to go on the internet just to remember the guidelines. Even then, there were so many conflicting answers that it left him confused and flying blind the whole damn time.

Did he do enough as a father to honor her? Did the ofrenda do her memory justice? Did he do anything right? Is there enough salt to purify her body? Enough water and food to provide for her long journey? Was the copal actually supposed to be incense, or did it have a different meaning? Are the purple candles placed correctly? Would tissue paper marigolds, devoid of scent and life, be enough guide her safely back home?

These worries swarm like vultures to a carcass, picking at and tormenting him to the point where he can barely stand to look at the stupid, thrown-together thing any longer. He should know how to do this— today is much more than just a holiday; Día de Muerto and all of its rich traditions should be a part of who he is, steeped in his identity, his culture. It should be more familiar than breathing.

But now it just makes him ache, seeing how he couldn’t even properly commemorate his own little girl.

In a brief moment of clarity, Miguel realizes he really just should’ve just taken more time to research and plan it out better. If only it weren’t for the constant high-stakes responsibilities, the needs of far too many all on his shoulders, the people, people, people.

Not like he didn’t try; Halloween and all day yesterday, Miguel had been rushing uncharacteristically through work, trying to get caught up enough to take time off. But of course, God had it out for him and practically half the damn Society wanted to barge into his office to badger him about something. He ended up with a shock-ton of random gifts and baked goods on his desk that he’d unceremoniously pawned off to Peter B. (save for a bottle of Don Julio, but the other man didn’t need to know that), enough sanguine well-wishes to last him a lifetime, and high blood pressure.

And the time and effort he scraped up still wasn’t enough to get it done right. It could never be good enough. He could never be good enough.

Miguel can’t stop second-guessing himself, can’t stop that all too familiar spiral of guilt and self-loathing that rots away at his insides like necrosis. He’s a scientist and an engineer, for shocksake— logic and reason should override his emotions, should stop them from clouding him at all. But all he can do is sit there, staring at the sorry excuse for an ofrenda with a lump in his throat and a throbbing headache that won’t go away.

Today couldn’t have gone any worse.

His joints pop viciously as he gets up from the floor just to prove him wrong. Cristo en el cielo.

The only bright side to this whole thing is that… well, no one is here. No one to see his embarrassment, or his failure; no one to question him, or ask him how he’s feeling, or try to give a hug, or any more goddamn food. It’s just him and his ever-spiraling thoughts and the grief that threatens to consume him whole.

Carefully, with a trembling hand, he lights the incense, then the candles, the golden glow dancing around his otherwise dark apartment. It… almost makes it look better. Less like a broken down man’s sorry attempt at repentance and more like a proper ofrenda.

Almost.

Día De Muertos is supposed to be a celebration, filled with festivals, family, home-cooked food, and the bright smell of marigolds.

But Miguel O’Hara has no family, is too miserable to leave the apartment, and all the marigolds have gone extinct.

[mindblowingscience]

A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these form. An international team of scientists used the NASA space telescope, TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), to discover the exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system), then made further observations with ground-based telescopes in Australia, Chile, and South Africa. The measurements placed the new planet squarely in the "hot Neptune desert"—a category of planets with so few members that their scarcity evokes a deserted landscape.

Continue Reading.

[cxhleel108]

LITG S8 Thots for this week: What a great day!

• Girl this compatibility test kinda made no sense like I’m just answering questions that so obviously correlate to Oakley or Shawn what is the point???😭

• And what guy would that be exactly?…

• Oakley being most compatible with me AHA! y’all are never tearing us apart idgaf😛

• She’s so me like why I’m kinda in love with her.

• Outfit time un!

• Ok um…roaring twenties!

• This is so Emel coded. Aw I kinda miss her a lil.

• That poem chile…Max you gotta go😭😭😭

• Claudia toying with Liam and Max lame asses ughh that’s my muva DOWN.

• Team Shawn and Kyle actually cuz Liam and Max fucking suck omg. Also yes Kyle romancers you’ve converted me a little bit, he’s cute.

• Pushing Liam in the pool wasn’t enough tbh like he needs to drown I’m sorry.

• “I can’t stop thinking about last night” You mean when I kicked you out and slept alone Shawn? Ok.

• Bro this same shit happened last season what the fuck did I need to put on a dress for just to go speak to niggas??? Fusebox will do anything for a bag😭

• Anyways, outfit time deux!

• Werk!

• Great! Now I have to deal with Liam for the rest of the season🙂

• Being forced to bring a boy back is actually so dumb. What is he gonna be there for other than to watch me ride Oakley’s dick constantly?

• As she should! Let’s not act like Theo wouldn’t JUMP at the chance to taste this coochie if I let him, please.

• Me just having the option to leave Shawn behind back at the Villa god I feel so bad. I still did it tho😛

• AHHHHH EXACTLY BOO EXACTLYYYYYY!!!

• PFFFFFFTTTTT BE FOR REAL BRUH🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

• BAD BITCH PARTY OF ONE! BAD BITCH PARTY OF ONE YOUR TABLE IS READY!

• I’m sorry but-

• So glad I get to let Shawn know right away that I’m a girl on a mission and he’s just gonna have to be okay with that.

• Bitch don’t make my girl already have to slide yo ass after being back for three minutes.

• The daybeds chat ughhkdkdksns just give him back to me already like y’all keep playing with me!

• Ok first off, I looooove Hazel already she’s so cutesy and fun and girlypop. Second off, I really don’t give a fuck what happened while I was gone cuz at the end of the day…Sienna is NOT badder than me…like at all.

• Outfit time trois!

• Cheetah print so I can show this ho just how fast I can reclaim my man oh exactly!

• Bea sis I love you but you can’t be mad at Liam for being an ignorant fool when you brought said ignorant fool in here like…

• Ooo wait this different scenario options for different LIs gave me Choices tease for a second…why they can’t do this more often???

• This shit had me giggling and kicking my feet god I love this man.

• Hazel and Hari are lowkey goals I love this.

• LMAOOOOOOO LAME ASS🫵🏽🤣

• Uhhhh Luna don’t be mad just cuz I got the attention of four niggas in here and you only got the attention of one. We may have made up but TRUST I got enough smoke for you and Sienna!

• Everybody just watched Oakley and I share this romantic ass, dramatic ass, chick flick ass kiss but they still gon act like there’s a chance I want somebody else I hate it here.

• Course it was Liam that started the big blow up.

• How dare y’all assume I’d rat my bestie Claudia out omg?

• Them bringing my name up in that argument between Theo and Claudia just for it to not even mean anything…like I said earlier anything for a fucking bag.

• You’re telling me Jin and Luna were actually able to end their pointless arguement in a time frame of under two minutes this time? Wow shit really is changing around here.

• AHHHHH YOU MAD🫵🏽😝

• Oh brother can we just tell Oakley that we’d never cheat on him and get to fucking already jesus why do we have to wait for that AGAIN???

[lov3rla03]

back in the early days of tumblr, there was also a wwe thirst confession blogs. its long since deactivated, but it has a lot of great hits. one that stood out for me, was an anonymous confession made by someone who is so sexually frustrated over not seeing cm punk wrestle for a long time that they start masturbating using cm punk's action figure as a .... well, as a sex toy. they said it felt good btw.

it was such an impressive ballsy confession that it lives rent free in my mind for months. like, h-how could someone do that? i mean, good for them but... why is every punk fan i see is wild like that? what did that guy do???

Chile idek, but now I don’t think I could look at a punk figure the same now🤣😭

[seabysiren]

Listen I need more of the streamer au👁️👄👁️, it’s pure gold. Like are the rest of the 141 team streamers too, what about Los vaqueros. What if they form like content creator house, could you imagine the absolute chaos😭

that's what I wanted the end goal to be. unite the 141 avengers style. having our dear reader as the editor and main camera man when they start doing more in person vlogs and videos.

this may be content like exploring a haunted house at 3am in the morning! soap and gaz scared out of their minds! simon firmly doesnt believe in ghosts. johnny and gaz on the other hand... are screaming and running away at any sudden noise. you and price often stand in the dark waiting for the two idiots to approach and scaring the living daylights out of them. simon who stands in a room of what used to be a child's nursery. grimacing from the dust and gently handling the toys left with respect. even if there was no 'ghost', he respects the area and where the child had been thought to have passed away from neglect. you who just slowly walks away from the group to do your own thing. you catch doors slamming by themselves. the blue bouncy ball rolling back to you despite you throwing it away a few moments ago. you just go. nope. 'i respect you ghost dude. but like, not today.' funnily enough, the ghosts stop when you ask them to. you eventually show the feed to soap and gaz who are freaking out and shaking you back and forward. why would you do that? what if you got haunted? what if you brought the ghost back with you????

que coming back at like noon to the hotel. soap and gaz are absolutely exhausted with all the screaming and messing around they did. price just seems overall unnerved, and ghost doesn't care. he just wants to go to sleep... and possibly share the bed with you so he can hold you close and cudde-

i mean wait what? or like homemade cooking with the Los Vaqueros, Alejandro and Rodolfo. simon absolutely getting destroyed by all the spices because british food is bland af.

you had hinted at alejandro and rodolfo that simon and soap may not have that good of a spice tolerance. that was a mistake because you saw them dump a lot of red, spicy smelling herbs in when soap and ghost weren't looking.

the food they made was absolutely amazing. tamales. chile rellenos. and a spicy chicken soup (chilate de pollo). soap absolutely butchering the names because he does not, in fact, speak spanish. you smack him upside the head for that. ghost is surprisingly quiet when he eats the food. soap is howling in the background for milk, gaz is laughing at him and price is just silently enjoying his food.

ghost's face gets surprisingly red. but he doesn't complain. even goes for seconds. but when the kitchen is cleared after cleaning everything up. you see him sitting down with a carton of ice cream, digging it straight out with a spoon.

(his favorite ice cream is vanilla bean.) soap and gaz making everyone have a pretty princess remake <3. forcing everyone, including price, who just signs and drinks out of his flask of whiskey, to paint their nails and wear dresses and stuff. the reader actually getting beat behind scene because they don't have to get a makeover... that is until simon locks them into a chokehold because he wants to see you all dolled up too :))

they all gossip about each other. telling embarassing stories. stories about ghost's initial confusion about streaming. all the works. the content creator house is a mess. but its a found family that all the viewers love to see.

[beautifulpersonpeach]

im so confused about that taekook pic. is jimin trolling? it's like he's toying with us? pls plss plss don't forget this ask bpp. pls answer my asks. i don't get why everything feels fake about jikook, tkk, jimin. is he even happy? it's like hybe is pulling the strings and trying to confuse jimin stans to frustrate us.

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Ask 2:

At this point I just feel like we're getting played with lol. By who and for what? I don't know. But I've felt this way ever since we got photos/video that jimin did in fact get a cake for his solo and I'm sure big hit saw what the fandom was saying about him not getting one and they still waited to announce that he did.

BTS just isn't fun anymore for me rn. There's just this tension surrounding everything. And not just with shipping. It's fandom wide blatant favoritism. Shifting confusing narratives from the guys themselves (Jungkook claiming he's not trying to shy away from the maknae image when that's all he's been saying for months now???). Tae doing whatever it is that he's doing (bless his heart chile). Namjoon seems to be a mess rn, I wanna give him a hug, he speaks like life is kicking his ass. And our jiminie, I can't get a read on but he seems happy. And the other 3 being in the army so they're not causing trouble lol.

These taekook pics from jimin, hmmm idk, maybe it's his way of telling people he doesn't care about the backlash, and tae bringing jungkook up constantly, and we should back off.

It's all a mess. I never thought I'd long for the day we'd get a real break lol. I WANT to miss them.

I don't hate them. This is just exhausting. It's like them and the company are trying to be strategic with everything and it feels a bit disingenuous? Idk if that's the word. Maybe disconnected is more the word. And I know they've always been strategic in the things they do, so idk why this feels different to me.

Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble in your inbox lol

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Ask 3:

Something feels wrong about suchwita. It feels forced. Am I the only one who feels Hybe is doing damage control with jikook to contain the fallout from Golden? BPP I'd like to hear what you think about vminkook's date, suchwita revealing the travel variety in context of all the controversies that happened lately. Does Jimin just not care about taekooker hate? He might be kind but he's still human.

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Ask 4:

I give up on Jimin. Tired of stanning a grown man letting himself get played for a fool. Hybe, you won. Gloat away BPP. You and the rest of the OT7 cows win.

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Ask 5:

BPP your asks about that RM - FACE credits controversy from Pjms reminded me of one debate I saw btw flat earthers and scientists. It's the most fascinating thing I've ever seen. The part that made me think of you is how flatearthers called the scientists uneducated, said they did their own calculations and made their own observations to arrive at fringe theories that disputed the wider consensus. I found it so strange how both scientists and flat earthers could observe the same thing but reach widely different conclusions. I know you've been going over and over with solos for some months so I hope this can make you laugh a bit BPP.

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yvvq-9ytE

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Hi Anon(s),

Lol, Anons in asks 1 through 4, why are you letting your minds torment you over things that should be obvious? Anon in ask 5, you sent me that ask last week, but it feels apt to post it now given the sort of asks I've gotten in the last few hours.

How many times can we go over the sort of conspiratorial thinking that plagues people who eventually become akgaes, thought patterns that have been shown several times this year to be completely misguided? If the only conclusion you can reach after everything we've seen in the last 10 months, after seeing Jikook, Taekook, Yoonmin, Vmin, and Yoonkook's conversations recently, is that 'someone' must be trying to pull a fast one on you, then maybe you should take a step back.

Honestly, in my opinion, you all fit the profile of people who should engage with k-pop very sparingly. Most times, I've observed these sort of views (also in the case of flat-earthers) are caused by gaps in foundational knowledge about the subject coupled with personal implicit biases. I see this happen all the time, and it's unfortunately the sorts of people who think like this who only get further sucked in, to the point they lose any semblance of a reference point. If you're still at the point you're asking these questions, especially Anon in ask 1, 2 and 3, there's still a chance. I'd suggest a clean break, a detox period, and very limited exposure going forward but starting from scratch and actually watching official content from the early years. A lot of people who joined the fandom post-2020 have only seen compilations and selected clips of BTS's formative years, and so they lack the background to better interpret everything that's happening in Chapter 2 - from why HYBE wouldn't respond to akgaes whining about cakes by posting it right away, to how vminkook have behaved throughout Chapter 2.

Listen to how you feel and please step back.

With flat earthers it's funny because in a bid to be skeptical, to 'question everything' so they aren't "played as a fool", they end up becoming just that. For most other people there's no joke, but for them the joke is always on them.

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Thanks for the video, Anon in ask 5. But rather than make me laugh, it did the opposite. The conclusion of the video is that no flat-earther, not one, changed their minds after debating with the scientists. I had a theory that the people who end up as akgaes were always going to be that regardless of any arguments that run contrary to their beliefs, because at the heart of it, it's not about the arguments but about them. But I hoped I could be wrong. Extrapolating the conclusion of this video to my theory, the suggested implication is bleak as hell.

Anyway, stream Golden and enjoy jikook jikooking. Sounds like we're about to get a full calendar of content.

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Astronomers discover a 'hot Neptune' in a tight orbit

A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these form.

An international team of scientists used the NASA space telescope, TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), to discover the exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system), then made further observations with ground-based telescopes in Australia, Chile, and South Africa. The measurements placed the new planet squarely in the "hot Neptune desert"—a category of planets with so few members that their scarcity evokes a deserted landscape.

The team, led by astronomer Emma Nabbie of the University of Southern Queensland, published their paper on the discovery, "Surviving in the Hot Neptune Desert: The Discovery of the Ultrahot Neptune TOI-3261 b," in The Astronomical Journal in August 2024.

This variety of exoplanet is similar to our own Neptune in size and composition, but orbits extremely closely to its star. In this case, a "year" on TOI-3261 b is only 21 hours long. Such a tight orbit earns this planet its place in an exclusive group with, so far, only three other members: ultra-short-period hot Neptunes whose masses have been precisely measured.

Planet TOI-3261 b proves to be an ideal candidate to test new computer models of planet formation. Part of the reason hot Neptunes are so rare is that it is difficult to retain a thick gaseous atmosphere so close to a star.

Stars are massive, and so exert a large gravitational force on the things around them, which can strip the layers of gas surrounding a nearby planet. They also emit huge amounts of energy, which blow the gas layers away.

Both of these factors mean that hot Neptunes such as TOI-3261 b might have started out as much larger, Jupiter-sized planets, and have since lost a large portion of their mass.

By modeling different starting points and development scenarios, the science team determined that the star and planet system is about 6.5 billion years old, and that the planet started out as a much larger gas giant.

It likely lost mass, however, in two ways: photoevaporation, when energy from the star causes gas particles to dissipate, and tidal stripping, when the gravitational force from the star strips layers of gas from the planet. The planet also might have formed farther away from its star, where both of these effects would be less intense, allowing it to retain its atmosphere.

The remaining atmosphere of the planet, one of its most interesting features, will likely invite further atmospheric analysis, perhaps helping to unravel the formation history of this denizen of the "hot Neptune desert."

Planet TOI-3261 b is about twice as dense as Neptune, indicating that the lighter parts of its atmosphere have been stripped away over time, leaving only the heavier components. This shows that the planet must have started out with a variety of different elements in its atmosphere, but at this stage, it is hard to tell exactly what.

This mystery could be solved by observing the planet in infrared light, perhaps using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope—an ideal way to see the identifying fingerprints of the different molecules in the planet's atmosphere. This will not just help astronomers understand the past of TOI-3261 b, but also begin to uncover the physical processes behind all hot, giant planets.

Fun facts

The first-ever discovery of an ultra-short-period hot Neptune, LTT-9779 b, came in 2020. Since then, TESS discoveries TOI-849 b and TOI-332 b have also joined the elite ultra-short-period hot-Neptune club (with masses that have been precisely measured).

Both LTT-9779 b and TOI-849 b are in the queue for infrared observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, potentially broadening our understanding of these planets' atmospheres in the coming years.

IMAGE: Artist's concept of "hot Neptune" TOI-3261 b. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC)

[wvbaandtheboys]

WOAH MORE BLORBOS!! WE GOT OUR MEN'S MINOR CIRCUIT EVERYBODY!

Teddy Tea Time! Boxing name’s that because he is painfully poshly British, and because of his equally wholesome nature. His real name’s Tripp Goodman, and he comes from Manchester, England, UK! Teddy’s a real angel in the grand scheme of the male boxer line up; he’s just a sweet older gentleman who used to be a fairly popular participant in the theater industry back home. Though he’s elderly and isn’t the best boxer in the world (the Glass Joe of the pack lol), he’s still fairly challenging to fight! With swift movements and a playful way of taunting you with the audience’s swooning for him, he certainly is a beloved character. Age: 62 Weight: 128 lbs Height: 5’5 Rank: #4, Minor Circuit From: Manchester, England, UK Record: 15-50 [4 KO]

Shelly Concheras! Boxing name’s a parody of his real name, cause he’s a sailor. His real name’s Sebastian Contreras, and he’s from Santiago, Chile. Sebastian’s one tough cookie despite being so low ranked, though that may be because he hasn’t been a boxer for nearly as long as the others, joining professionally at the age of 18. He’s… interesting, though. With quick movements and a fiery temper, ya definitely don’t wanna make fun of this little fella. Else he’ll make you sleep with the fishes. Age: 18 Weight: 198 lbs Height: 5’10 Rank: #3, Minor Circuit

From: Santiago, Chile Record: 21-15 [11 KO] Sea Brine! His name is Nikolaos Marinos and he is from Chios (dove on the island but lived in Chios Town), Greece. He is rather popular for his personality of being a graceful and fun loving boxer. Though be wary, he has definitely picked up an annoying gimmick; using water guns. He loves everything water related, and it definitely shows. Though, be wary. You might not want to upset him, else those harmless toy guns might actually begin to hurt. {Funny cause apparently the origin of scuba diving happened in Greece.} Age: 25 Weight: 180 lbs Height: 6’1 Rank: #2, Minor Circuit From: Chios Town, Chios, Greece

Record: 27-36 [16 KO]

Champion:

Majestic Marigold! His name is Duilio Valiente, and he’s from Guatemala. With a heart of gold and a fierce spirit, he’s definitely earned his place of being the champion. Despite being occasionally made fun of for his “odd” fashion choice of scoring a traditional Guatemalan skirt, he makes it well known just how much he loves his country. Don’t mess around with him! Or he’ll show you some serious flower power!

Age: 31 

Weight: 210 lbs

Height: 6’3

Rank: #1, Minor Circuit

Record: 41-24 [31 KO]

From: Guatemala

[l-1-z-a]

Will's Seminar on Failure + Learning + Games [17 February 2010]

Will Wright's "Why Games are (Good) for Learning", [2010]

Original description @ the NYU's website...

"Video game pioneer, Will Wright, the creator of "SimCity" and "Spore" will lead a discussion on how digital games encourage learning.

Wright has been called one of the most important people in gaming, technology, and entertainment. In 2009, he left Electronic Arts to form his own think tank, the Stupid Fun Club.

Sponsored by Games for Learning Institute and the NYU Game Center

About the Games for Learning Institute

The G4LI is a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research and a consortium of universities. The partners include: Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), Dartmouth College, Parsons, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Teachers College, and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as well as NYU. The Institute’s aim is to identify which qualities of computer games engage students and develop relevant, personalized teaching strategies that can be applied to the learning process.

Price: This event is free, but a ticket is required. To obtain tickets, e-mail tickets@g4li.org"

The media published here are exclusively dedicated to educational purposes. If one, for any reason, deems that they violate the copyright, please inform us, and it will be our care to remove immediately the posts accordingly.

Notes from Will Wright’s “What Makes Games (Good) for Learning?”

Earlier this week, legendary game designer Will Wright delivered his keynote speech at the Engage! Expo in New York City. In addition to talking about the potential of games as “toys,” he apparently blew up a Barbie doll and kept the lid (mostly) sealed on his Stupid Fun Club. While this event made a few headlines, he also made a less-publicized visit to NYU last night. Wright’s speech, sponsored by the Games for Learning Institute, undoubtedly covered similar material, but here are a few tidbits that I found interesting…

There were a few technical hiccups prior to the speech, so Wright offered to answer a few audience questions. When asked about why educational and serious games are typically lame, he replied that this is primarily tied to craftsmanship. Serious game developers are going for the most obvious depictions of real-world crises, but those are rarely the most fun. For example, he suggested that rather than controlling a Peace Corps member trying to prevent the spread of a deadly disease, it might be more fun to put the player in the “shoes” of the virus.

Wright talked a bit about allowing more opportunities for failure. While classrooms emphasize testing and theoretical understanding, games allow for more practical applications. He suggested that this requires trusting the minds of young people, but that games haven’t been around long enough for this to take hold in classrooms.

Another interesting comparison: Robert Louis Stevenson plotted out “Treasure Island” by looking at a map and playing everything out in his mind before ever setting a pen to paper. Wright followed this up by talking about his crazier experiences in Grand Theft Auto IV. Even looking at box art, the player creates rough adventures in his mind before making a purchase.

As for where Stupid Fun Club is heading, he was again tight-lipped, but he does believe that emphasis on immersion will be superseded, at least for now, by games like Wii Sports and Rock Band. Here, it’s as much fun to watch someone play as it is to play yourself. Also, more of the usual talk of turning players into creators. (Spore)

Unfortunately, Wright was then rushed off stage because he had exceeded his time limit. The guy speaks pretty damn quickly, but a lot of slides still had to be cut off. Oh well. If you’ve read any interviews with the guy, much of this is stuff he’s said before, but it was still exciting to hear this nerd hero.

Source of notes:

[niconiconwo]

So far I've found despairingly little information on CHECO. Cybersyn itself has four primary sub-components and each one has a lot more information out there.

Working from Medina's 2006 historical paper on Project Cybersyn as a jumping board, all I've been able to glean yet is that CHECO, the economic simulation program used by Cybersyn and the Allende government, made use of the DYNAMO compiler developed at MIT back in the 50s and 60s. Given the timing, I believe it was specifically the DYNAMO II variant. Cybersyn had two mainframes at their disposal via the state, an IBM 360/50 which had excellent FORTRAN support and a Burroughs 3500 which did not. Both however did support Algol-based languages, which DYNAMO II was written in a dialect of. Thus I believe it's sensible to assume DYNAMO II was used.

DYNAMO (not to be confused with a much newer language of the same name) itself has fallen into relative obscurity, and does not appear to have been used very much past the 1980s. It is a simulation language designed around the use of difference equations, and had several more successful competing languages. In an essential sense, DYNAMO really is only a tool for calculating large numbers of difference equations and generating tables and graphs for the user.

Generally, the work flow is to write a model of a system to simulate and then compile it. Provide data to the model and DYNAMO generates the output requested. DYNAMO while being a continuous simulation, typically was used in a discrete manner. Using levels and rates, computations can model systems albeit relatively simple and crude ones.

According to Medina 2006, CHECO was worked on both in England and in Chile with the Chilean team having reservations about the results. Beer believed that the issue was using historical rather than real-time inputs. Personally, I believe that the weakness of CHECO is directly a result of the crudeness of modeling tools of the time period, and DYNAMO more specifically. In fairness however, it was a very bold project and DYNAMO was more a tool to manage business resources rather than a sandbox tool to design an entire economy. Of the four components of Cybersyn, CHECO is likely the weakest and least developed even when acknowledging that Opsroom (the thing most people would recognise) was never actually completed or operational.

You can find both the DYNAMO II User Manual and the related text Industrial Dynamics on the Internet Archive if you want to look at the technology behind CHECO a little deeper. Unfortunately, it appears there are not any more modern implementations to toy around with currently.

[consoladores1]

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[lexijaynex]

🧼DAY 11 (9/14/23)🫧

This shift was a hot ass mess! Omg! Being in this industry has its ups and downs big time. Days like these make me rethink a lot of things! Mostly about my consistency, and the fact that I really can’t depend on a single shift to make my income goals. I really have to use multiple days, and even multiple shifts, out of the week to meet my goals, and by doing that maybe I can relieve the stress of trying to do everything all at once. Making larger goals are fine, but I’m gonna focus on getting online, trying my best to stay online, and focus on just reaching my minimum which is $186.

ANYWAYS chile, I was online for close to two hours, I made only $2!! I need to get up earlier, and work up until 9am because there are so many overseas girls online, and no shade to them, but I’ve seen their prices. If I’m online where the majority of girls are charging $1.99/min for private shows, and are already butt nude in free chat, then it’s almost no point in me being online at that time. I’ve noticed the more expensive streamers are online together and that usually means the money is online right along with them.

Don’t think I’m being a jerk for commenting on people’s prices. I do wish they would charge higher, but their customers are most likely coming from their region. So $1.99/minute might actually work for them where they live. I should educate myself on that more btw, instead of being critical. Most of my clients are from the UK or USA, so my pricing is pretty much in line with our costs of living.

I do enjoy showing the fluctuations of time vs money in camming though! Not everyday is going to be the same, it’s actually helping me to want do a better with my consistency, and realizing that sometimes no matter how pretty I look, how much I dance, how much I clean my toys (shade😎), it’s a waiting game. I have to be present regardless, and I need to work on that.

Anywho! I’m just going to do chores and just take care of myself today. I should keep pushing, but I don’t feel like it, I’ll push it tomorrow. It’s not the best thing to do, but I really don’t feel like it today. I may have let it discourage me today, but tomorrow, I’m gonna kick some ass!! I’m gonna split cam for sure and if it gets too slow I’m gonna move my set up to my bed or to my couch so I can be comfortable at least. Either way, I’m gonna give myself some grace, be nice to myself and realize certain things are just out of my control!

[sanjisblackasswife]

thoughts are being thunk tatebae,, thoughts are being thunk 🥴

imagine riding his face and using his nose to- yk, whatever doja cat said about big noses 🤫

A/N: WHEW CHILEE MY THOUGHTS ON RIDING HIS…..? SHEEESSSS

Let’s Talk About: Riding Zoro’s Face

Black Fem Reader in Mind

CW: Pussy Drunk Zoro

See that👆🏾

That’s a a man who doesn’t mind getting messy with his mouth.

Zoro cannot get over your smell or taste he really can’t. He compares his loves for it to sake.

He loves face sitting, but never admits it. He says, “It’s Just more training for my jaw.”

But the you knew it was bull, you knew he loved it more than you did probably.

Zoro’s hands will always be gripped on your ass tightly and massaging it once in a while to keep you steady and to encourage you to grind your sopping wet cunt in his mouth . You sometimes trace your fingers on the veins that begin to pop out on his bicep. He hums in content at the way you move your hips back and fourth because he literally cannot get over how hot you look right now.

His tongue was lazily laid out his mouth as you did all the work, but if you whine his name real nicely you may feel the tip of it flick itself inside you making you shiver just before he decides to suck his wet lips on your clit.

The one thing that is your favorite part about riding this idiot’s face was that moment where you were too lost into the pleasure that you begin to subconsciously scoot up his mouth on bump yourself on the tip of his nose.

It made you jump a little slowing down your movements. It was a really good random pressure you felt on you but when you looked down to notice Zoro’s face completely covered by your lower half, only seeing the top of hit forehead you panicked and pushed back on his chest.

He loved it though, his senses were drunk on you, he was able to really get a good taste and smell of you just like how likes so he forcefully pulls you back to his nose and makes you grind on it. He heard your protest about wanting him to breathe but a harsh slap to your ass had you quiet continuing his round big nose rub and bump on the top of your pussy.

Zoro gets so greedy when you sit on his face, creeping his middle and ring finger to rub harsh wet circles on your sensitive clit, to make you grind faster and harder. You worry that you’re ganna fall feeling your legs twitch and shake, but he just mutters inside you, “Don’t worry I got you, just stay up here until I’m done, sweetheart.”

His nose became your own little fuck toy <3

[noneedtofearorhope]

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first image is a screenshot of a tweet. screenshot reads:

Polemicist @PalmTreesnGz In 1994, when the EZLN launched its offensive on strategic urban centers in southern state of Chiapas, people clamored for "peace." Children wrote letters to EZLN calling for "peace." This was the Zapatista's written response: #FreePalestine

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A LETTER TO SCHOOLCHILDREN EZLN, Mexico, February 8, 1994 To the Solidarity Committee of Elementary Boarding School #4, "Beatriz Hemández." Guadalajara, Jalisco

Boys and girls, We received your letter of February 19, 1994, and the poem "Prayer for Peace" that came with it. It makes us very happy to know that boys and girls who live so far away from our mountains and our misery are concerned that peace should come to Chiapan lands. We thank you very much for your brief letter We would like you (and your noble teachers) to know that we did not take up arms for the pleasure of fighting and dying; it is not because we don't want peace that we look for war. We were living without peace already. Our boys and girls are like you, but infinitely poorer. For our children there are no schools or medicines, no clothes or food, not even a dignified roof under which we can store our poverty. For our boys and girls there is only work, ignorance, and death. The land that we have is worthless, and in order to get something for our children we have to leave home and look for work on land that belongs to others, powerful people, who pay us very little for our labor. Our children have to begin working at a very young age in order to be able to get food, clothing, and medicine. Our children's' toys are the machete, the ax, and the hoe; from the time they are barely able to walk, playing and suffering they go out looking for wood, cleaning brush, and planting. They eat the same as we do corn, beans, and chile. They cannot go to school to learn Spanish because work kills the days and sickness kills the nights. This is how our children have lived and died for 501 years. We, their fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers, no longer want to carry the guilt of not doing anything to help our children. We look for peaceful roads to justice and we find only mockery, imprisonment, blows, and death; we always find pain and sorrow. We couldn't take it anymore, boys and girls of Jalisco, it was too much pain and sorrow. And then we were forced to take the road to war, because our voices had not been heard. Boys and girls of Jalisco, we do not ask for handouts or charity we ask for justice: a fair wage, a piece of good land, a decent house, an honest school, medicine that cures, bread on our tables, respect for what is ours, the liberty to say what is on our minds and to open our mouths so that our words can unite with others in peace and without death. This is what we have always asked for, boys and girls of Jalisco, and they didn't listen. And it was then that we took a weapon in our hands, it was then that we made our work tools into tools of struggle. We then turned the war that they had made on us, the war that was killing us --without you, boys and girls of Jalisco, knowing anything about it-- we turned that war against them, the rich and the powerful, those who have everything and deserve nothing That is why boys and girls of Jalisco, we began our war. That is why the peace that we want is not the peace that we had before, because that wasn't peace, it was death and contempt, it was pain and suffering, it was disgrace. That is why we are telling you, with respect and love, boys and girls of Jalisco, to raise high the dignified flag of peace, to write poems that are "Prayers for a Dignified Life," and to search, above all, for equal justice for everyone. Salud boys and girls of Jalisco.

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast

CCRI-CG of the EZLN

Mexico, February 1994 Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

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