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[alchemaxed]

@bigshot // Cont !

Is this what the Stars wanted when they limited his portals? For him to get accosted on the sidewalk by something even stranger than he is, trapped without a single hole of escape?

(He technically still has several spots at his disposal, but why should he have to waste one on something like this?)

"C'mon, man," he whines again, stutter-stepping this way and that as the smaller anomaly(?) cuts him off again and again. This is ridiculous. Maybe Spot should just try stepping over him...?

"Uhuh. Yeah. Real, uh, handy. ...how are you even talking like that, by the way?" It's weird. This whole situation is weird. Why does this sort of thing always happen to John?

He's just begun to consider using up one of his remaining portals to send his problem far, far away, when the stranger lands on the magic word:

"Employment?"

"Yes, actually! I'm a little strapped for cash-- dust, I guess-- at the moment. Haha. Wouldn't you know it, they bring you here and don't even set you up with a, y'know, a-- a job, or--! ...you want me? You wanna hire me?"

It makes sense that the only person willing to give him a chance anymore is someone like this, but he can't be choosy-- not when he's living somewhere that seems to rely exclusively on digital currency, making stealing to survive a heck of a lot harder than it was in NYC. Not that he was particularly successful there, either.

"What were you saying before? I wasn't really paying attention. You want to pay me for my holes?"

[rhapsoddity]

IMPULSE BE UPON YE

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Secret Santa gift for @aestheticallynotdeerlightful 💕

[kyonshi-8610]

lifes fleetin do whteve yu want & die 2be a buttrfly aftrwrds

Ta p in to no blurry

[edorazzi]

It's Tintin Day again!!! 💖

Bringing back Thunderbirds' Tin-Tin Kyrano for a cute outfit swap because I love her. Her pets sure are colder, scalier and snappier than Snowy! 🐊🐶

[hjansetv]

How we feeling about my new Uzi, N and V designs? :3

[officialrailscales]

Two-Tone Thursday Loadout 🎨

RSBM-P | OD Green

HTP MLOK Scales | Honeycomb Texture | OD Green

HTP MLOK Scales | Honeycomb Texture | Black

QDX Sling Mount | Carbon Black

CSMR Button | Apex Style | Carbon Black

- RS

[laltyxd]

FransMonthly: Cuddles

Esp: Holaa mi querida comunidad frans :D! Este es mi primer post acá en tumblr y espero que les guste :]

Ing: Helloo my dear frans comunity :D! This is my first post on tumblr and i hope you guys like it :]

@frans-monthly

(this counts as cuddles right? I hope)

[27dragons]

On learning languages...

I've been doing Spanish lessons on Duolingo for about a year now (because of reasons) and some lessons are harder than others (i hate gendered nouns so much) but overall it's going slowly but steadily. I've just about gotten to the point where I can read simple things if I've got a way to look up words I don't know yet.

The last couple of units have been on past tense, which is great, it opens up lots of avenues for conversation and reading. Except this unit.

The most recent set of lessons it gave me combined -- among other things -- the verbs ver ("to see") and venir ("to come"). Very useful verbs. Except THEY'RE SO EASY TO MISTAKE FOR ONE ANOTHER, especially when you get into the past tense and the 'e' changes to an 'i' or sometimes an 'ie'.

What even the FUCK. I got so fed up today I had to sit down and make up a chart.

Present tense: (ver) yo veo, tú ves, él ve, nosotros vemos, ellos ven (venir) yo voy, tú vienes, él viene, nosotros venimos, ellos vienen

and in the past (preterite): (ver) yo vi, tú viste, él vió, nosotros vimos, ellos vieron (venir) yo vine, tú viniste, él vino, nosotros vinimos, ellos vinieron

I'm sure I'll get them down eventually. BUT WHY DID DUOLINGO FEEL THE NEED TO GIVE THEM BOTH TO ME IN THE SAME UNIT???

(My Spanish-speakers are looking at me with that little frown that means "what are you talking about, these are perfectly clear and distinct words?" aren't you?)

[inbabylontheywept]

A Short Essay on Signal Reflections

The essay nobody asked for, but I've been reading about for around a week, and now can explain very easily and intuitively.

When electricity flows from a region with low impedance to a region with high impedance, a reflection of the signal passes back up the cable towards the source. This tends to make the most intuitive sense to people - after all, the high impedance region is easy to imagine as a traffic jam, and the ripple going up the line is just all the electrons having to slam their brakes. We've seen this before.

However, you get an identical ripple when going from a region with high impedance to a region with low impedance, which kind of mangles that analogy. You don't see traffic jams in regions where the speed limit goes up, just in places where it goes down.

And so for that, we're going to have to break the signal into two parts.

V=IR is bread and butter, but nobody accounts for those in time. Everyone does DC steady state analysis, and this is slightly weirder. So in a line with low impedance to high, you just look at how much V (voltage) you need to push the same amount of current (I). Since R is getting bigger, you now run out of voltage before you run out of current. So all the voltage gets used up, some of the current gets used up, and the current that no longer has enough voltage to get pushed forward can't enter the new material and thus bounces backwards up the line. The reverse happens with high to low. You now run out of current (I) before you run out of voltage (V) because R got smaller and energy must be conserved, so you get a voltage wave that bounces up the line. So any time R changes you have too much of either current or voltage and the extra gets sent back.

There are some weird implications to this! For example, a zero impedance ground would actually be hella noisy because it would accept 100% of the current into it, but reflect the entire voltage signal back. And an infinite impedance ground would eat the entire voltage field, but reflect 100% of the current back. An ideal ground for low noise needs to have the same impedance as the node its attached to.

[dreamconsumer]

The last kings and queens of the Capetian dynasty.

[alchemaxed]

"Why are you being so nice to me?" Spot asks, regretting his words as soon as they're out of his face-hole. He sounds so pathetic. He sounds as though the basic dignity of being listened to is something new and foreign, and although that's not altogether inaccurate, it's still embarrassing to admit.

"As a villain, I mean," he quickly amends. "You're a Spider-Man, aren't you supposed to do something about me? Not that I'm complaining!"

Spot himself is in no rush to trade blows with this latest spider-guy. This one isn't his Spider-Man, and Spot's already tried and failed to brush up on his skills against the first spider he's met here. At this point, he kind of just wants to be left alone to test the new limitations of his abilities in peace.

...but sharing pastries with Spider-Man outside the cafe Spot had been casing out isn't so bad, either.

@thwipthwipgo // starter call.

[just-a-whumping-racoon-with-wifi]

Grief

Sometimes it hurts to see people post art commissions. I’m happy for them but in pain that I’ll never see my character rendered by Moya again. I wish had every oc done. I’m so lucky I got 2 I’m so lucky I got doodles and requests and squiggles and got to see their art at all.

[yearnyt4twenty]

Ohhhhh ,,,nooo aha,,, getting high all by yourself, handsome????

[luxurysystems]

Death and Taxes

[bonesandpoemsandflowers]

i can do this i can do this i can do this (file my taxes a day late) i can do this i can do this if i consume enough coffee i can do this i can do this i can

[emma-dennehy-presents]

New hyperfocus just dropped. Got a couple burst beyblades at 5 below, and my partner gave me a bunch from their collection! :3 The one with the pistol grip launcher has limited IR controls! Probably won't go full Metabots with this (during the US COVID lockdown, I created a small price bubble on Ebay >_>) but definitely something I'll be getting too into for the foreseeable future.

Will probably start hunting out of box G1 blades, and saw a couple burst blades and accessories I need. Reserving judgment on Beyblade X until the line has time to mature. I like the launchers, so so on the initial blades. The x dash gimmick looks really fun.

Beyblade-Official has Beyblade, V-Force, and G-Revolution in both English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese (480p).