#yangyang short users

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[reverberation-layla]

This notion that character design and animation in Wuthering Waves is somehow less then Genshin is ridiculous.

First off Genshin has 5 character models and 3 (maybe 4 eye) styles they reuse. Which makes total sense because it save their team a lot of time, but it also leads to a lot of characters that look the same face wise.

Wuthering Waves has unique face shapes, noses and eyes for most characters. This is just a fact, though the females can look a little samey here as well.

Listen, Genshin puts a lot in to their clothing because they don’t have a lot to fall back on in other areas, but if you’re telling me that you could tell Navia was a defacto mob boss, Lisa was a librarian or Garou (or Cyno or Kokami for that matter) are leaders of an army just by looking at them you are a fucking liar.

Gaming? He’s just a kid in street clothes that doesn’t fit in with the fantasy setting that is Genshin and he most certainly doesn’t scream lion dancer by looking at him.

You know these things because you were told these things. Let’s be honest. These characters always appear in game before banner and if not in game they are plastered over every YouTube video, livestream and drip marketing.

For fucks sake. You’d have to have your head in the sand to not anything at all about these characters before release.

Next the super special Genshin animations that take oh so long to do.

Most characters, especially outside of 5* characters (and even then some of the 5*) use the same attack animation at varying speeds. It’s noticeable in everyone, but most of all archers and lancers.

Again, it is to save time and that is understandable, but we are not going to pretend that Genshin does not recycle assets to a degree that characters are beginning to blend together visually as well as play wise. After all, you only have 3 buttons to utilize.

Buuut Layla, there is only so much you can do with a bow?!? Yeah sort of. I guess and if it was just limited to that I would understand, but it’s not. Heavy attack broadsword? Spin.

Go ahead. Tell me I am wrong. I have played Genshin and I played it for a very long time.

In comparison Aalto, Chixia, and Mortefi all feel and look different in their movements. Aalto feels and looks like he flows with the wind, Chixia playful and fast, Mortefi flashy and arrogant and it shows in their animation.

As for catalysts they too play different. Verina rides her vines on heavy attack, Baizhi uses her bird thing, and Encore literally lobs sheep.

Short swords. Everyone I have poked at is unique. Yangyang has a quick step with very purposeful moves, Spectro Rover quick finesse, Havoc Rover slow and sweeping. This also turns in to a scythe by the way. Danjin girl a mix of low and high stance and she stumbles a bit on heavy.

Broad sword. Jiyan uses both his sword and a flipping lance to fight as well as his whole body. He kicks and there is very little wasted movement. Cal I have not tried yet, but I promise you none of them heave attacks involve spin to win as is the case with every great sword user in Genshin.

The most unique characters so far in Genshin is Wrio and Heizou. Both catalysts and both punch boys. Lingyang punches and Yanwu kicks and they are both unique. Neither requires spam plummeting to play.

Lastly, Genshin recycles movement in talking cutscenes. Characters, if they have a mouth, are not visually expressive a lot of the time due to the limitations of their game. Pretending otherwise is being disingenuous.

WW has not only facial expressions, but unique animations that coincide with the words coming out of faces which have mouths, noses and sync animations.

Clothing is not personality (behavior, expression and even the way they fight is) and the characters and their designs do tell you a lot about them if you bother to actually play the game.

There are 2 known regions in this game, these characters all look like they come from one of these two places and they all fit in to the world that has been built. You shouldn’t need over the top outfits to carry your characters, but this “I can’t tell anything about them” bull shit is from people who haven’t touched the game.

Little touches like Yangyang’s feathers, Jiyan and Mertefis scales, Lingyang as a whole, Verina’s vine tail? That tells you nothing? lol

If you can’t tell anything about them by looking at them it’s because you haven’t played the game or bothered to learn about the world and thus it is a you problem and your “criticism” is invalid.

Everything can always be better and Wuthering Waves is far from perfect, but at the end of the day this shit is from Hoyo bots and it simply holds no water.

[urjwo]

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[fruitz]

greetings, boner killers. i see i’ve caused quite the commotion as of my last ramblings. i’m pleased to have had an impact. you may be surprised i wasn’t here to bask in the glory of my successes: the live readings, the begging for markhyuck and chanbaek renditions, the... friendship requests? i saw all of it, and, i couldnt give a rat’s ass. in fact, i want nothing to do with you squealing, horny mouth breathers. so why am i back, you ask?  this spine-chilling, retina melting image right here:

i have not slept. it was august 2, 2020. i remember it all so vividly. four men smiling at me, but something is terribly off. the hair on my arms rose to new heights. my throat began to itch. my ben wa balls even rattled a bit with... excitement? fear? arousal? let’s pop open the hood and give her a look. is it jaehyun? other the the fact he looks a bit more like the mask from courage the cowardly dog than usual, everything seems to be running smoothly. winwin... oh winwin. what have they done to you. my boy. his sweet face is slowly starting to show the signs of early onset “living with queer eye and their cats” syndrome... nothing out of the ordinary here. i’m almost terrified to shift my eyes to this individual. just the sight of his face fills my body with such a pure unbridled rage, i can’t help but anticipate that its his doing, you know, my aforementioned intense nausea stirred by this image. but alas! 10 is looking nothing short of his usual kurt hummel. fantastic. i see lucas and think to myself “beautiful boy. you’ll never wrong me” and move on. so what it is it? what is it about this john hughes movie cover (1) that makes me want to reenact the human centipede with jimmy carter and rap monster than to ever see it again? 1: look up pretty in pink, gestational sacs. ten is molly ringwald btw. the answer dons on me somewhere between jimmy carter and rap monster: qian kun. it’s always qian fucking kun. hey hey hey wait user sorryjohnny! didn’t you bring qian kun into your last essay for no reason too?! and that’s where you’re wrong, my sweets. it’s not for no reason. today, it’s ALL about qian kun. 

where the FUCK did things go wrong?  black on black promotions. before the eternal jaekun beef had been initiated. before the jung jaehyun as we knew and loved was snatched from us in the night right before our very own virgin eyes. following the new surge of interest in the haphazardly thrown together sad excuse of a collaboration era we refer to as “NCT 2018,” SM decided it was high time to reward their “underdog” boy group (funded by a $44 million company). after spending thousands on ten’s nose & yuta’s multiple chin surgeries, SM was honestly running out of members to senselessly inject w/ polymethylmethacrylate. all that was left was the harrowing sounds of kun and jaehyun going at each other’s throats like two feral wildebeests. would lee sooman decide to spend his remaining NCT budget on jaehyun’s facial reconstruction surgery or kun’s gastric sleeve? (my vote is neither, blow the cash on strippers for him and that old haggard choi siwon. who still wants to have sex with him, really?) 

  you decide, reader. and that was the day jaehyun and kun fell apart. he walked into SM headquarters with that perfectly sculpted nose. a jawline touched by a million fat little cherubs. and is that.... cheekbone filler? i was there, and, i shit you not, kun flipped a folding table of hors d'oeuvres on top of little trainee liu yangyang. august 2, 2020. a day i detest. a day kun dreaded for weeks. inkigayo. jaehyun. gastric sleeve. weight watchers. oprah winfrey. YOU GET A CAR! jawline surgery. yangyang. 찢겨진 데시빌 on the 32nd beat 한계 없는 gain my mix straight bang like.... the words rang through kun’s dementia ridden mind. inkigayo. jaehyun. gastric sleeve. weight watchers. oprah winfrey. YOU GET A CAR! jawline surgery. yangyang. (you see, you can slowly start to picture this to the tune of chicago’s (2002) “cell block tango�� do it with me it’s fun)  inkigayo jaehyun gastric sleeve weight watchers oprah winfrey YOU GET A CAR jawline surgery yangyang jaehyun ten.... ten? lucas?????? winwin???? kun is brought down from the astral plane of trauma by jaehyun’s cheshire cat-like grin, he undeniably got his veneers whitened and polished with leftover superm money.  baekhyun and taemin’s pussy secretions smeared the floor of ellen degenerate’s GOP funded stage just to pay for a walking mannequin’s dentures. all kun wanted was to lose 5 pounds.  yangyang, having sustained the injuries of pre-therapy KUN ANGRY KUN SMASH, noticed kun’s descent into madness as they watched their group members smile ear to ear next to korea’s jesse eisenberg. scanning the room for any nearby folding tables, yangyang pat kun on the back.  “i’m sorry, qian kun.” said yangyang. but not me. i’m not sorry. i’m not sorry for jaehyun, either. i don’t know who i’m sorry for. me, i guess.                    

[anniekoh]

elsewhere on the internet: coronavirus, part 1

Reading a ton these days about the coronavirus, from all sorts of angles: humorous memes, local governance, border politics and xenophobia, Chinese social media, journalistic freedom/censorship, Taiwan, open science, the indie music scene etc etc.

Wuhan: a tale of immune system failure and social strength (TJMa, Feb 4, 2020)

In the confusions of the seal-off, three Wuhan Weibo users posted descriptions of what their aunt had experienced. The suspected coronavirus patient was turned away by overcrowded hospitals. Her conditions worsened rapidly at home, was finally admitted into an Intensive Care Unit, and died two days later. She never had the chance to be formally diagnosed. When her nieces posted about her death, they understandably expressed dismay. One of them described gruesome scenes at hospitals, some of which she heard about from interactions with an ambulance driver. This became her sin. As influential Weibo accounts picked up the story, they were displeased and irritated by the distraught posts... Quickly, a narrative of “bad elements” trying to sow mistrust about government disease response began to develop around the three cousins. Discrepancies of their accounts were highlighted. Suspicious wordings were scrutinized. The most eye-catching theory was that they were internet agents hired by the Taiwanese regime to stir up discontent on the mainland, based on their occasional language usage. Piqued by such storylines, thousands of Weibo users descended on the cousins’ Weibo space to insult them. “Disgusting bitches!” they cursed. When Weibo belatedly verified the identity of the three women, a few accusers made public apologies. Weibo later suspended some leading accounts in this episode.

The cousins were not alone. All over Weibo, desperate help seekers from the epicenter of the contagious disaster were being chased and attacked by “truth guards” for spreading rumors and misinformation. The bullying was so widespread that a user came up with a satirical guideline advising Wuhaners asking for help on Weibo to self-humiliate and apologize preemptively to the truth guards for their forgiveness.

By Jan 26, 3 days after the official seal-off, the spectacle had grown into a national concern, prompting bloggers to openly call for a calm-down of the frenzy: “Wuhan people are not our enemies.” More concretely, a plea went out to stop leaking the personal information of people from Hubei. Apparently, vigilantes in the system who had access to information such as hotel check-in registries were passing it on so that others could avoid, report, or drive away those associated with Hubei province.

As ordinary people were being chased, isolated, bullied, silenced and pushed around, the other line of questioning, after those responsible for the fiasco, was struggling to keep its focus. In a bombardment of outbreak-related information, public anger acted like the small ball in a roulette game. At any given moment it may land on top of the Wuhan Municipal Government, Hubei Provincial Government, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States CDC, or the World Health Organization (WHO), depending on which media story or blog post was trending at that time. The outbreak and the Spring Festival holiday together created an unprecedented online time-space where hundreds of millions of Chinese, all off work, had nothing else to do but watching one of the country’s worst public health crises unfolding on their mobile phone screens. Every actor’s every action was scrutinized and commented upon by millions online. At one point, 10 million people were watching the live stream of the construction site of an emergency hospital, assigning nicknames to bulldozers and excavators.

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The sealed-off megacity was also kept afloat by an advanced network of internet-based service providers and mobile-organized support groups that were both non-existent 17 years ago. It was Alibaba’s online shopping platform, Didi’s mobile taxi hailing, SF’s courier services and Meituan’s food delivery system that kept the basic life-supporting functions of Wuhan operating when all its public services were either stopped or severely stretched.

The Digital Radicals of Wuhan Guobin Yang (February 3, 2020)

After Wuhan was closed down, a genre of writing called “diaries in a lockdown city” began to spread on Chinese social media.

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Internet censorship and control did not start now, but they look particularly cruel at this point. Many people are stuck at home after the city is locked down. They depend on the internet for information and to keep in touch with families and friends. We become isolated islands without the internet.

As a social worker and activist, Guo Jing tries to rediscover her place in an isolated city, to paraphrase the title of one of her essays. She explores the streets and the food marts in her neighborhood to see how the lockdown and the illness have affected the city. She talked to the street cleaning workers to find out about their lives. In her diary on January 28, she wrote:

I interviewed eight street cleaning workers, six women, two men. They work for about seven or eight hours a day. Their salary is about two thousand and three or four hundred Yuan, which is less than two thousand after tax.... Every day they could receive “84 Disinfectant” and reusable gloves. They had no disposable gloves and were all short of masks. The lucky ones among them may receive 20 masks at a time and can go back for more after using up. One poor guy received only two masks since the city was locked down.They are all very kind people. Some don’t have disposable medical masks, so they would use their scarves to cover their mouths. I had three disposable medical masks with me in case I might need them outside. I gave the masks to them …. I asked them whether they are worried. One big sister said of course. She was already living separately from her son and daughter-in-law. They don’t go out, and she would buy things for them and deliver them to their door.

See also the Jan 29 story by Zhong and Palmer: Wuhan's virus and quarantine will hit the poor hardest

I’ve been riveted to the coverage of the coronavirus, and very very aware of how much the U.S. media (and non Chinese-language media) generally misses in terms of the context and the nuance. There are major exceptions to this, such as Li Yuan at the New York Times (Feb 4, 2020)

So many officials have denied responsibility that some online users joke that they are watching a passing-the-buck competition. (It’s “tossing the wok” in Chinese.) The Chinese people are getting a rare glimpse of how China’s giant, opaque bureaucratic system works — or, rather, how it fails to work. Too many of its officials have become political apparatchiks, fearful of making decisions that anger their superiors and too removed and haughty when dealing with the public to admit mistakes and learn from them. “The most important issue this outbreak exposed is the local government’s lack of action and fear of action,” said Xu Kaizhen, a best-selling author who is famous for his novels that explore the intricate workings of China’s bureaucratic politics.

Those officials could often be corrupt, but even the party’s fiercest critics sometimes acknowledged that they got things done. Liu Zhijun, the former railway minister, is serving a lifetime sentence for taking bribes and abusing power. He also oversaw the creation of China’s high-speed rail system, which vastly improved life in the country.

Journalist William Yang has been giving updates on the coronavirus 

Chinese infectious disease expert Tseng Guang said in an interview that China’s disease control system only has the authority to collect and analyze data, and it is not a decision-making institution. He said that the disease control agencies play a weak role

Qingqing Chen has also been a key media conduit

Eight Wuhan residents praised for "whistle-blowing" virus outbreak Global Times (via Qingqing_Chen, Jan 30, 2020)

In an exclusive interview with Global Times' Editor-in-chief Hu Xijin, Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist at the CCDC, said those eight residents should be highly regarded as they turned out to be correct about the viral outbreak, even though the information they spread "lacked scientific evidence".

The eight residents were briefly detained by Wuhan police after they circulated online "rumors" that cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the viral respiratory illness that battered China in the spring of 2003, were detected in some of Wuhan's hospitals.

The residents were released shortly but news about the arrests angered many in the country as the novel coronavirus continued to spread in the country. Many termed that detaining the eight whistle-blowers as evidence of local authorities' incompetence to tackle a contagious and deadly virus.

Questions about a health care system that immediately was overloaded.

In Sickness and in Health Yangyang Chen, (Jan 29, 2020, SUPchina)

Despite a population of 1.4 billion, there are only a few million medical practitioners in China, most of whom have a bachelor’s degree or less. The problem of extreme shortage in qualified staff is compounded by the country’s size and uneven distribution of resources. Outside of first-tier cities and provincial capitals, well-trained doctors and modern medical facilities are few and far between.

Despite the overwhelming demand and staggering medical costs, the basic income for most doctors in China is relatively meager. Overworked and underpaid, many accept bribes to complement their salaries. With weak regulations and insufficient compensation for its workers, the Chinese government has incentivized the prevalence of “gray income” in the medical industry, a major source of public resentment.

Moreover, without adequate access to care or relevant education, the general public has a poor understanding of medicine, and can develop unrealistic expectations for its efficacy. A string of highly publicized scandals damaged the reputation of the medical profession, further sowing distrust between caregivers and their recipients.

Chinese Storytellers chinesestorytellers.com has also been a huge resource, sharing “stories about hospitals being understaffed and patients being turned away have prompted people to start online volunteer networks to help patients who have no choice but to quarantine themselves at home.”

And of course about the legitimacy crisis in Chinese politics

How Much Could a New Virus Damage Beijing’s Legitimacy? Taisu Zhang, January 29, 2020, Chinafile

THE TRUTH ABOUT “DRAMATIC ACTION” Da Shiji (达史纪) | Jan 27, 2020, China Media Project

But is it fair to regard this case of large-scale quarantine also as a “Chinese miracle” in public health?

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Everyone must understand, first of all, that this epidemic was allowed to spread for a period of more than forty days before any of the abovementioned cities were closed off, or any decisive action taken. In fact, if we look at the main efforts undertaken by the leadership, and by provincial and city governments in particular, these were focused mostly not on the containment of the epidemic itself, but on the containment and suppression of information about the disease.

 Comic relief: Quarantine makes life better, MessyCow.com

[Quarantine makes life better, MessyCow.com

[pixiefaith]

<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/22860979"><strong>back 2 u (am 01:27)</strong></a> (16207 words) by <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/leeminho2828"><strong>leeminho2828</strong></a><br />Chapters: 13/?<br />Fandom: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/NCT%20(Band)">NCT (Band)</a><br />Rating: Mature<br />Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings<br />Relationships: Huang Ren Jun/Lee Jeno/Na Jaemin, Lee Taeyong/Qian Kun, Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul | Ten/Suh Youngho | Johnny, Jung Yoonoh | Jaehyun/Kim Dongyoung | Doyoung, Dong Si Cheng | WinWin/Nakamoto Yuta, Kim Jungwoo/Wong Yuk Hei | Lucas, Lee Donghyuck | Haechan/Mark Lee, Park Jisung/Zhong Chen Le, Liu Yang Yang/Wong Kun Hang | Hendery/Xiao De Jun | Xiao Jun<br />Characters: Huang Ren Jun, Na Jaemin, Lee Jeno, Mark Lee (NCT), Kim Jungwoo (NCT), Kim Dongyoung | Doyoung, Lee Taeyong, Jung Yoonoh | Jaehyun, Dong Si Cheng | WinWin, Nakamoto Yuta, Park Jisung (NCT), Zhong Chen Le, Moon Taeil, Suh Youngho | Johnny, Lee Donghyuck | Haechan, Xiao De Jun | Xiao Jun, Wong Kun Hang | Hendery, Liu Yang Yang, Wong Yuk Hei | Lucas, Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul | Ten, Qian Kun<br />Additional Tags: taeil is ace sorry guys, sprite!xiaojun, sprite!hendery, sprite!yangyang, Polyamory, dryad!renjun, Vampire!Jaemin, werewolf!jeno, Ghost!Mark, angel!taeil, dryad!donghyuck, faerie!Sicheng, faerie!yuta, shapeshifter!jungwoo, bunny hybrid!Doyoung, demon!Ten, How Do I Tag, I hate tagging, norenmin rights, Cat Hybrid!Taeyong, warlock!Kun, Hanahaki Disease, Oop, Fluff and Angst, Angst, Fluff, Angst with a Happy Ending, Vampire!Jaehyun, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, komiho!jisung, Shapeshifter!Chenle, Vampire!Johnny, she's a long one, buckle up lads, short and long chapters, my creative juices are NOT flowing, werewolf!Lucas, probably slow updates, Huang Ren Jun-centric, Fantasy, Hybrids, Cat/Human Hybrids, Bunny/Human Hybrids, why is that not a tag, lapslock, renjun is babie, i changed it so hanahaki is where u cough AND puke up flowers, Not at the same time tho, like in the early stages u cough, and then gradually as it gets worse, you start to puke, Yikes, everyone is whipped for renjun<br />Summary: <p>the pack crowded around the crying boy, covered in flowers and his own blood. “why wouldn’t you tell us?” someone croaked out, voice breaking slightly. the boy on the floor lightly coughed, another petal fluttering out of his mouth. “i’m sorry, i didn’t know this would happen- that i would die,” the boy softly spoke, voice so quiet the others almost couldn’t hear him. “d-die?” the boys eyes fluttered closed. </p><p> </p><p>nct as a pack of wildly mismatched supernatural creatures because i felt like it :3</p>

[lovexdejun]

NCT MASTERLIST

boyfriend series

taeil•johnny•taeyong•yuta•kun•doyoung•ten/chittaphon•jaehyun•winwin/sicheng•jungwoo•lucas/yukhei•mark•xiaojun •hendery•renjun•jeno|pt2•haechan/donghyuk •jaemin•yangyang•chenle•jisung

group reactions

their gf having really short hair

edits

dream user icons

chenle—kitty user icon

jaemin+jisung—blue

yuta—stars

chenle—hearts

jeno+haechan—serene

jeno+mark—restored/hearts

taeil

nothing yet

johnny

nothing yet

taeyong

nothing yet

yuta

nothing yet

kun

nothing yet

doyoung

nothing yet

ten/chittaphon

nothing yet

jaehyun

nothing yet

winwin/sicheng

nothing yet

jungwoo

nothing yet

lucas

making out w him

mark

his bed, 1:19am

xiaojun

nothing yet

hendery

nothing yet

renjun

nothing yet

jeno

nothing yet

haechan

nothing yet

jaemin

your kitchen, 12:07am

yangyang

nothing yet

chenle

your front porch, 7:32pm

jisung

nothing yet

Social Media AUs

finished☀️ in progress🌤 hiatus☁️

coming soon

Texts

soft bf!jisung texts—loving yourself💗

general masterlist

requests are always open!!

[scienceblogtumbler]

Researchers Generate Attosecond Light from Industrial Laser

University of Central Florida researchers are making the cutting-edge field of attosecond science more accessible to researchers from all disciplines.

Their method to help open up the field is detailed in a new study published today in the journal Science Advances.

An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second, and the ability to make measurements with attosecond precision allows researchers to study the fast motion of electrons inside atoms and molecules at their natural time scale.

Measuring this fast motion can help researchers understand fundamental aspects of how light interacts with matter, which can inform efforts to harvest solar energy for power generation, detect chemical and biological weapons, perform medical diagnostics and more.

UCF physics associate professor Michael Chini leads a team that is making attosecond science more accessible.

“One of the main challenges of attosecond science is that it relies on world-class laser facilities,” says Michael Chini, an associate professor in UCF’s Department of Physics and the study’s principal investigator. “We are fortunate to have one here at UCF, and there are probably another dozen worldwide. But unfortunately, none of them are truly operated as ‘user facilities,’ where scientists from other fields can come in and use them for research.”

This lack of access creates a barrier for chemists, biologists, materials scientists and others who could benefit from applying attosecond science techniques to their fields, Chini says.

“Our work is a big step in the direction of making attosecond pulses more broadly accessible,” Chini says. “We show that industrial-grade lasers, which can be purchased commercially from dozens of vendors with a price tag of around $100,000, can now be used to generate attosecond pulses.”

Chini says the setup is simple and can work with a wide variety of lasers with different parameters.

Attosecond science works somewhat like sonar or 3D laser mapping, but at a much smaller scale. When an attosecond light pulse passes through a material, the interaction with electrons in the material distorts the pulse. Measuring these distortions allows researchers to construct images of the electrons and make movies of their motion.

Typically, scientists have used complex laser systems, requiring large laboratory facilities and clean-room environments, as the driving lasers for attosecond science.

Producing the extremely short light pulses needed for attosecond research – essentially consisting of only a single oscillation cycle of an electromagnetic wave – has further required propagating the laser through tubes filled with noble gases, such as xenon or argon, to further compress the pulses in time.

But Chini’s team has developed a way to get such few-cycle pulses out of more commonly available industrial-grade lasers, which previously could produce only much longer pulses.

They compress approximately 100-cycle pulses from the industrial-grade lasers by using molecular gases, such as nitrous oxide, in the tubes instead of noble gases and varying the length of the pulses they send through the gas. In their paper, they demonstrate compression to only 1.6 cycles, and single-cycle pulses are within reach of the technique, the researchers say.

UCF physics doctoral student John Beetar is the lead author of a new study that details a method to make attosecond science more accessible to researchers from all scientific disciplines.

The choice of gas and duration of the pulses are key, says John Beetar, a doctoral student in UCF’s Department of Physics and the study’s lead author.

“If the tube is filled with a molecular gas, and in particular a gas of linear molecules, there can be an enhanced effect due to the tendency of the molecules to align with the laser field,” Beetar says.

“However, this alignment-caused enhancement is only present if the pulses are long enough to both induce the rotational alignment and experience the effect caused by it,” he says. “The choice of gas is important since the rotational alignment time is dependent on the inertia of the molecule, and to maximize the enhancement we want this to coincide with the duration of our laser pulses.”

“The reduction in complexity associated with using a commercial, industrial-grade laser could make attosecond science more approachable and could enable interdisciplinary applications by scientists with little to no laser background,” Beetar says.

Co-authors of the study also included M. Nrisimha Murty, a preeminent postdoctoral associate in UCF’s Department of Physics; Tran-Chau Truong, a doctoral student in UCF’s Department of Physics;  Garima C. Nagar, a graduate student at Binghamton University; Yangyang Liu, a postdoctoral scholar in UCF’s Department of Physics; Jonathan Nesper, a doctoral student in UCF’s Department of Physics; Omar Suarez and Federico Rivas with UCF’s Central Florida Physics Research Exchange Program; Yi Wu, a postdoctoral researcher with joint appointments in UCF’s Department of Physics and UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics; and Bonggu Shim, an associate professor of physics, applied physics and astronomy at Binghamton University.

Chini received his doctorate in physics from the University of Central Florida and his bachelor’s in physics from McGill University. He has a secondary joint appointment in UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics and joined UCF’s Department of Physics, part of UCF’s College of Sciences, in 2015.

source https://scienceblog.com/518083/researchers-generate-attosecond-light-from-industrial-laser/

[arcanakrp-blog]

NAM JAEHYUN – THE HIEROPHANT. AGENT 05.

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//: LOADING PROFILE: NAME HERE ...

international age: 22 birthplace: seoul, south korea arcana: the hierophant team number: 4

//: LOADING MUTATION: FIRE MANIPULATION ...

application one: pyrokinesis — in which jaehyun can create, shape, and manipulate fire. essentially, it’s the exothermic chemical process of rapidly oxidizing a material at will. this includes but is not limited to generating, projecting, augmenting, and pressurizing fire. jaehyun can burn and melt tangible objects through manipulation. depending on the substances alight, in combination with any external impurities, the color of the flame and the fire’s intensity will vary. more conducive to the fire’s properties, however, are jaehyun’s mental and physical strength

application two: combustion generation — through which jaehyun can cause matter to burst into flames and explode. the kinetic energy of molecules within a concentrated area is increased, inducing combustion. the user can transform matter and objects into fire at his own volition, with material rapidly undergoing massive changes in carbon content. because the ability relies less on restraint and more on resolve, combustion is generally easier for jaehyun to apply, and as of now is his most adept application

application three: pyrokinetic constructs — or the ability to create tools, objects, weapons, armor, and appendages out of fire. these materials and objects are of varying permanence and are paired well with physical combat. a short list of possible constructs includes fire animation, fire shield construction, pyrokinetic blades, bullets, and fortifications or imprisonments. shaping it, however, requires a strong mental state and is sometimes physically exhausting. for now, jaehyun is limited to creating constructs that mimic that natural shape of flames, such as swords or shields

overall strengths and weaknesses: — fire, at all ends, is a construct of power. it both conciliates and consumes.

its strength comes from a place of versatility. jaehyun carries the singular choice to either restore or destroy. here, the line that separates good and evil is blurred. 

the most pressing weakness appears to be the complications arising from fire immunity. because he is only immune to fire that burns up to about 1200 degrees celsius, jaehyun must take exceptional care in order to avoid injuring himself. only somewhat immune to his own fire, he’s basically subject to being burned by any flames that rise above his resistance capacity. oxygen, moreover, is needed for fire to even exist. other elements such as water or merely unfavorable external conditions may inevitably hamper his ability to generate fire.

because fire manipulation is a somewhat new addition to his bodily system, its applications are often volatile and generally subject to capricious sentiment. jaehyun carries a lighter with him to supplement the fire when he lacks the condition to get it started on his own.

fire, additionally, falls subject to imbalance due to its naturally unpredictable characteristics. until he has a stronger understanding of his ability, jaehyun limits himself in order to avoid catastrophe.

control, discipline, and restraint are ultimately the most important core principles when using fire manipulation. especially strong emotions and impulsiveness can wreak havoc when paired with this mutation.

//: LOADING HISTORY ..

PRE-MUTATION

SIX was his mom running water over the gashes on his knees and then carefully sticking those fat bandages over them. she tells him that if anyone says that to him again, it’s best that he keep on walking. with mom, it was always about quiet courage.

it’s a sweet moment, because often mom wasn’t home. from the prosecutor’s office, she tells jaehyun, his older brother, and their younger sister over the phone that jaehyun can have the tv for thirty minutes if yoona can have it for thirty minutes or else no one is getting the tv at all. then an i love you, and i’ll be home soon. his older brother ruffles jaehyun’s hair and tells him he talks on the phone with mom too much, to which jaehyun responds with a growl and scrunched nose.

THIRTEEN meant clenched fists and bloody knuckles. they were going to have him psychoanalyzed and all, because he broke all the windows in the garage with his fists the night after his older brother died. he even tried to break the windows of the station wagon his dad had that summer, but his hand was already broken. it was stupid, he’ll admit, but he hardly even knew he was doing it. he just felt his eyes wetting and throat closing up.

jaehyun misses him like hell, especially because he was about a thousand times nicer than the people he knows that are alive and all.

SEVENTEEN was defined by the occasional joint and a newfound affinity for this cheap rice cake stand from around the corner. only he couldn’t swallow anything very well. the thing is, if you get very depressed about something, it’s hard as hell to swallow.

with heavy eyelids and a heavier heart, he must admit that the weight of some memories are too much to bear. cold empty spaces must be filled with warmth. if anything was going to burn him with such purpose and desire, it’s his duty to be reduced to ashes by it.

so jaehyun plays with lighters and dreams about fire.

TWENTY was some hot shot college with his hot shot major and his dancer girlfriend. the death of his brother seems so far away, but sometimes he still can’t seem to fall asleep. one night, he steps outside for a breath.

six, thirteen, seventeen, twenty—it’s all flipped upside down after the meteor shower. god, why couldn’t he have just gone to sleep?

POST-MUTATION

when he snaps his fingers, there’s flame. he runs his hands up the thighs of his girl and burns her. she’s rushed to the hospital in tears.

they find him in a heartbeat.

it’s probable that it wasn’t particularly difficult for them to do so, especially when he’s arrested for misconduct and plastered all over local news. college pyromanic sets decades-old trees on fire. it was an accident; he was just taking a walk, trying to figure out what the hell was going on with his body. when asked what he used to do it, jongin responds that he doesn’t know.

unsurprisingly, the ARC gets him out of it. then they promise him answers. pretty soon he’s living on the AR compound in yangyang county with twenty-five other individuals who’re perhaps just as confused as he is.

where the hell are you supposed to go from here?