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Today I presented my research project that I've been working on since September at a regional science fair. They had us set up our posters, two to a table, in a sort of gymnasium or conference or something room in a building at the big college in my city. I had been kind of nervous, but not that nervous. I was fairly confident in my presentation, though I'd never actually written it down. The first judges came for the first round, and my confidence waned just slightly as I presented. My presentation itself felt solid, and I felt I was able to answer their questions well. The first judge complimented my poster, saying it stood out and looked good. But both the first and second ones pointed out a lot of ways I could have improved the research, or at least continued it. They grilled me a little bit, which resulted in the minor confidence loss. We had a small break, then onto round two. At this point I should mention that all of the students in the high school division (probably about 30-40 of them) were all juniors and seniors from my science focus program that I attend except for two of them. So I was around a bunch of fellow juniors, and in spaces where judges weren't around we discussed and tried to figure out who the judges were visiting the most. I had three more judges come listen to me present for a total of five. They each had good things to say, and only one of them asked as many questions as the first two had. Afterwards they gave us lunch and some tours of the college campus. Then results. They gave six awards in the high school division, though in no particular order. And I was one of them! It seemed as though I had impressed the judges. Five of the six winners were from my school (which makes sense), and I was the only junior amongst those five. The rest were seniors. As we were cleaning up, one of the judges that had interviewed me came to congratulate me afterwards. She got a little quiet and said to me that some of the other judges had said things about my project along the lines of: "If I had been told this was a college sophomore or junior undergrad project at a conference, I would have believed it." So yeah. I can apparently do science.

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I'm not anxious today! At least not yet. My ankle pain is really high today, but I'll deal with it because I'm just like that ;P (I'm just kidding xD) We're learning about reproduction in Health (AKA watching Life's Greatest Miracle. There's a fine line between interesting and disgusting, and this movie keeps zig-zagging it). We're also doing blackout poetry in YAL, and of course I got a book page with the perfect words on it to be a dark poem... xD. Slavery in History, Holocaust in English, and parabolas in Algebra, which are kind of fun. Science, though, is kind of the holy grail of actually fun schoolwork. We're making up "superhero" babies (gene mutations)! I think we're starting the project today and it's gonna be a ton of fun. I don't have anything for the musical after school today, but I do have to stay after to retake a test. Idk why you guys would want to know any of this, but I felt like word vomiting. Anyway, that's life right now. Mom's in Europe, and I actually kind of miss her. Just a little bit. (Only a small portion of you actually know about my mommy drama right now, but all you other people need to know is that I have a little bit of mommy drama.) Have a good day peoples!

minecraft server has a new IP because many many many many many many technical issues (i am going to pull out my eyeballs) sharders.minehut.gg if any of you haven't checked it out yet you should its pretty cool.

So we know from RoW that even a spren as powerful as the Sibling can be corrupted given enough voidlight, essentially making it an Unmade. Following that, I belive there should be a way to Remade an Unmade with stormlight (or lifelight, I'm not picky). And I think it's quite obvius that's what Sja-anat will do, to free herself from Odium's influence. Or maybe not, 'cause the Sibling also said that being Unmade is the same as death. Aanyway, my own haedcannon until next book release is that Sja-anat will become a warlight Bondsmith spren (same as the Sibling is a towerlight spren), and I have two perfectly good and circunstancial proofs: Rlain said he could hear the Rythm of War from Tumi. Sja-anat's name is derived from a Semitic war goddess (according to coppermind wiki). So war goddess -> warlight spren. Irrefutable evidence. Thank you for listening my madman speech. Have a good day.

J'accuse the Aracle of running over the Ja (praise the Ja! Praise Warmmha!) with the Bus, leaving behind the Key Evidence of the Porch!

Something about both accusations being wrong, but the Investigators continuing to search. And them being a bit more enthused than when some random person that wasn't the Ja died. Cycle 2 has begun, and will end at 5PM Eastern Time on Thursday the 23rd! Link to Spreadsheet Oracle Clues: Also the spreadsheet since Aman keeps pasting it: Player List:

Storms Cellist! Why do you fall into this cycle of some improvement then considering yourself selfish? You're not annoying. I don't know to get through to you about this. Every folly you claim you have you really don't.

I has a Tumblr now. Literally the best decision I ever made. https://www.tumblr.com/zephyscosmere

I don't think so actually, we know that they are not immune to wind resistance, and at ~2000m/s, they would start burning up very fast, and their metalminds would melt. Fullborn could mitigate some of it, but still only up to a point. From reader's/writers perspective, if BoM was to give us a taste of what Fullborn can be like, then the authorial intent seems to be that even low Machs are a lot for Compunder. But I am incredibly excited to see what they can pull off actually (and to have some precise numbers!)

friend: "You better shape up!" me: "I'll shape up later, i'm trying to eat my cheeseburger."

Hi, this is my first post here, I have recently read the Lost Metal. I was thinking they could maybe effectively make Lerasium and Atium, by separating it using electric currents to the point where it organises itself into A & L. They could maybe split it with a Trellium spike the Intent to split it, maybe with a Command as well. It could make Lerasium and Atium in larger quantities, and make it more accessible? Please correct me if I am wrong.

... Yes.

The Keybear of Keys? I j'accuse the Aracle of killing the Ja with his GM Powers, and of leaving behind Keys as evidence.

Yes. I'm in the middle of something but the 24 hour countdown starts now.

Sure I can do it. My other option was Mat, Bands, Rotspren and I have an elaborate theory about how that would count as wilderness but I’ll try this one it’s better I am making an ACCUSATION U_U against Ashbringer. For he has used a Chasmfiend to commit murder and left behind a bloodseal as evidence.

Am I correct that Animal Lifeless are like Human Lifeless where there is the original (one-breath?) Awakening Command, and thereafter they can utilize skills from their life and take new complex Commands at least to the level of what they could have understood in life. At that point, lifeless hunting animals should be up to anything they could be trained to in life plus the advantage of getting a nice specific Mental Image with the Commands (as seen with Lightsong's Squirrel, I think). They can talk, so they are pretty far along the Sapience progression, at least once they are old enough. By that point, would a Lifeless Larkin be able to move without a Luckspren bond, if the living version couldn't? Or even weirder, what would the effects of having a Lifeless with a Gemheart Spren Bond, be that Larkin or Singer? Would a Spren even be willing? Could it be trapped like in Fabrial?

this here says night blood could become a shard therefore if I were ramen invested to the point of sentience then I would be able to. no no no no no NO!!!

I'm trying to remember whether or not I'm an insanely rich person happy to fly a bunch of people out to India for an event that sounds really awesome.

Or the more terrifying possibility that Sazed has gotten really good at lying

Calling all Gravity Falls fans! Join us as we journey back in time to 2010 and explore the mysteries of Gravity Falls, Oregon!

Cellllllist you're amazing! We dont interact much but you are truly a fun person to be on the forum with!! You are definitely not annoying

Cellist! You're awesome! I enjoy being on the same forums as you. You're super fun and NOT a pain that we have to deal with. You're not silly and selfish! You're not stupid either!

Okay here’s the thing, Cellist…anyone who knows me irl will tell you I’m not a nice person. In fact, I’m quite a mean person. You can ask @Being of Cacophony or @Wits instant noodles. But you are not annoying. You’re human, and there’s a big difference there. You don’t have to feel bad for being who you are. Some people will like you, some won’t. That’s just how life is. But you aren’t just…some bothersome annoying pest we all put up with, like you seem to think. You’re awesome!

Her perception was also sped up ~40-45x times (if moving at Mach 1), and even then she mentions she saw pockets of vacuum and only briefly. So if the vacuum formed only for ~0.0023 seconds, it would translate to 0.1 seconds of her perception which would still be noticeable. 500 m/s is good approximation for speed (it was freezing so the speed would be lower by ~5%), and in that time the air would travel 1 meter, so there is a discrepancy. Also, the pockets must have been small, otherwise they would have made quite noticeable sound. However, the gap is not that gigantic. Edit: Two more funny things: The air/vacuum shockwave actually moves far faster, typically around ~1700m/s, and she clearly was not moving at those speeds (the sonic boom would be huge). The speeds at which you can create not even vacuum, just even region of 1% air density are ~2-3000 m/s for large objects. For smaller object they would be magnitude greater (circa 20000 m/s). Basically, what happens there is incredibly out of order and the side-effects on people nearby would be basically deadly, if we take it at face value.

1 Mt nuke has a fireball radius of around 1 km, so you could "throw" that nuke, hide behind a very thick reinforce concrete wall (to avoid radiation, thermal blast, much of pressure wave and debris) and heal with F-gold, while being certain that everything within 2 km circle next to you is vaporized. But you don't need 1 Mt nuke to kill 1 person, you don't even need 1 kt nuke for that if you can deliver it directly on your opponent. Use Davy Crockett tactical 20 t nuke launcher that has a range of 2-4 km.

I already posted this in the Bad Day thread, but: My cat, Ivan, passed away today. It was extremely sudden. I got home from school and he was yowling. He's old(16)... and I knew it was coming at some point. Just... sometime later. Tomorrow. Not today. Sorry, I got distracted, not making sense. He was old, and he didn't do much but poop in the wrong places and puke on the carpet. But... he was snuggly. We got him to the vet, and they said he had either a stroke or a mass in his brain. He was disoriented, and he couldn't walk. So they said the kind thing to do was put him down. So... he's gone now. I'll be okay. It was just so sudden, and... I don't know. I'll be okay, but it's sad now.

“Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.”

SALMON MEERCAT OH HOLY IS THY FUR SO SLIMY AND SLIPPERY THE MOST DISGUSTING THAT EVER WERE!

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I understand that feeling, I keep swapping between it and not thinking at all.

Personality wise? If so then yup! @Wittles of Shinovar I imagine you kinda like your pfp, except around 14-15 age range. Brownish-black hair, blue eyes and a goofy grin. A bit lanky too I dunno

I hear that. I'm a full grown adult with a job, and I still can't buy all the books I want to. FWIW, I will second @The last Fae in the Woods when it comes to Terry Pratchett (both Discworld and Good Omens).

They are Lifeless, they are far more capable of understanding complex Commands than a simple Awakened object. They have brains. So whatever Command would be the best suited for this, they would execute it as you wanted. And you can program them with multiple Commands and responses. Lightsong commanded a squirrel to go to the palace, find the Returned who lived there, jump around her, make noise and bite everything - and it worked. You can command them to follow your prey, but keep separation between each other of at least 1 meter, and spread more to the sides of your prey. Then when they would feel a force pushing on them from above, they have to brace strongly against the ground, so you can have a stable anchor. Or something like that. Intent and visualization also play a big role, so with proper intent and visualization, you can give them just a simple command "chase my pray" and they will do what I've just described. You can Awaken Larkin. But it depends where his ability to feed on investiture comes from. If it's some sort of connection, then it's lost when Larkin dies. If it's something they can do solely because of their body, then you can do it. And it would eat when commanded, if you want to. You decide, you command. Larking seems to be even more intelligent than Whitespine, so it can execute even more complicated Commands.

I can be the kid! Name: Maddox Thompson Appearance: Fluffy red hair in a bob, round glasses, short-ish. Details: Nickname Madds. Lemon Demon and cartoons are their entire personality (i don't care if spirit phone was released in 2016 that is what they will be listening to. and anyway neil did the "it's gonna get weird" song so it's totally gf related). also they like to read but they keep that kind of to themself cause they don't want to seem nerdy (but they already do lol). Likes dogs cats and frogs :D Personality: Little unfriendly, but not necessarily on purpose. Pretty funny sometimes, pretty awkward other times. Skills: Can play the ukulele. is there anything i should add about them being Carrie's kid?

I have never seen Gravity Falls, but RPing is fun, and I like the premise Name: Gary Stu Appearance: 15 years old, popular (very), blonde hair, quite long, 5’11”, buff Details: Captain of the football team, captain of the basketball team Personality: None

Ah, the sharders of old. This guy had the second pos in the first forum game ever on the Shard! I think. The oldest one I can see, anyway. The Shard is pretty old!

Heck yeah. THE DREAM DEMON TRIANGLE IS MINE, PEASANTS. *insert Bill's laughter here* After consulting with others and thinking a lot... I have decided that the RPing concept proposed by @Szeth's Facepalm is the best we have and I really can't think of anything better. If you'll give me the rest of the day to think of some directions we can take it, I'll make a thread on the RPing forums and post it here to notify y'all. Also... THE AUTHOR OF JERSEY BOY SAW MY ART AAAAAAAGH I feel like Dipper right now: Fordtato: You've read my fic? Me: I haven't just read it- I've LIVED it!!

OUR FRIENDSHIP GOES BEYOND Edit: (guys it's a finish the lyrics thing cmon)

So, I'm going to pretend a lot of people are going to read this. In truth, there's a slight chance this'll be another swing-and-miss where no one reads (or reacts) to it. It could be that some of my followers read and reply. I would bet on a "people read but don't reply, just drop upvotes", considering this is the reaction to any status update that is longer than three paragraphs. So maybe I should just keep it short or something... Anyway, this time I'm going to do a "don't judge a book by it's movie" rant. You'd think it'd be wasted on the avid book readers who make up most of the Shard; that's what I think, at least, but why not ignore that too? I mean, if nearly no one reads this, nearly no one is going to protest and say they never judge a book by it's movie. They'll probably tell the truth. But today, I actually want to talk about average to good movies, that people don't know are adaptations. Fine, I'll admit it. Even though my list of books I've read is huge, I can't really say I've read many books which got this treatment. There's apparently a Jurassic Park book, and I've never read it or watched the movie. There are far more than a handful of others that got actually such good films as adaptations that the original was forgotten. Did you know the Prestige was based on a book? An example I can sadly note I've watched but not read. And that's a pity. I really should read this book. I'm not sure what's the situation with World War Z - maybe with that the book is just as famous, maybe not. But here, I want to lay down some films that're based on books that I have read, and that went to be better known than the source material: Howl's Moving Castle, the Secret World of Arrietty (the original book is called the Borrowers), How to Train Your Dragon and perhaps Home (originally the True Meaning of Smekday, too). With Arrietty and HtTYD I'm afraid I've found the books because of the movies, too. I'm not here to say those movies aren't good; but I'd defenitely say they strayed from the source material, far enough that I'll consider every one of them an independant work of art from the books that happens to share names and a small amount of charcterization from the books. So don't get me wrong - I loved most of those movies (Home being an exception here, but I'm not getting into that). But... When I read a book, and then I learn that it has been adapted, what I want is not a different story with similarly named characters and some plot points from the books. I want to see, as much as possible, the same story, translated to another medium. And it's true that at least three of those gave us amazing stories and the world will be lacking without them, but... I kind of wish those adaptations never existed, at least sometimes. Now that they're there, no one is going to make an actual adaptation of the book. Take the Jungle Book, for example. Or Peter Pan. Or heck, Alice in Wonderland is only out of place here because it's hard to say it has any plot in the first place. All three of those bring to your heads, almost immediately, the Disney animated movies. And if there's one thing I don't trust Disney with it's loyalty to the source material (though I hope this trend will change with Percy Jackson) - just look at the Black Cauldron, or Artemis Fowl, or heck - every single fairy tale these guys put their hands on. And the live action remakes just make sure that the image in your head is going to be that same image they placed there. So right, the exmples I brought were actually Studio Ghibli and DreamWorks. But that's because I don't want to start thinking over Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland or the Jungle Book to make sure the differences were significant, and considering the Black Cauldron thankful relative failure (I wouldn't want to see too much defiling of one of my favorite book series) it's hard to say the movie is better known than the book. And I didn't mention Shrek because I've never read the book. Pause while you gasp at the realization Shrek is loosely based on a book. Actually, I'm starting to sense a pattern. Maybe DreamWorks in general are great at expanding on existent ideas and making them work even though they changed the source material beyond recognition. Studio Ghibli seemed decent at it on two occasions so far at least, too! Anyway, there's the "there's never going to be a loyal adaptation" angle, which is sad in and of itself, but also... How many people have seen those movies and never even bothered thinking about the fact they're based on books? How many of my imaginarily large audience even knew all those movies were based on books? My eldest brother said he watched Howl's Moving Castle and so doesn't want to read the book. Maybe it's because he has a lot on his reading schedule and it really didn't catch his eye (and it probably says something about how much he trusts me when it comes to book recommendations), but in any case - he lost a story that, in my opinion, is great. And I'm sure I did too by not reading the Prestige, Shrek, and many other books I didn't even know existed. I just... really wish more people would know about the books, because they're awesome. Especially the True Meaning of Smekday, which I'm not sure could ever really be translated to the big screen. Anyway, that has just been your latest rant from a slightly depressed Trutharchivist. Hope you liked it. Maybe I should've tried making YouTube videos about it or something. Anyway, have a good day. Honestly, at this point, I should probably just go to sleep.

OMIGOSH THIS IS SO TRUE If you don't wear makeup or do your hair pretty, then you're "on the edge" or poor. If you don't wear short shorts or super short skirts, you're conservative and a disgrace to the younger population. If you don't have a boyfriend, or have never kissed a guy or like ANYTHING, then you are treated like dirt and excluded. Oh, and if you're not following some popular girl around like a mindless sheep, or fawning over the cutest guy, then you're useless and have no purpose. And yes, if you're wondering - I am the person who doesn't care about makeup, or doing my hair nice, I wear jeans EVERYWHERE, and have no interest in romantic relationships at my age. Stupid society. Fortunately, I have an AWESOME friend group who doesn't care about those things. It's just annoying and saddening to see others treated that way. It makes me want to summon a ShardPole and smack people over the head with it. STORMS YES just lemme grab my little wifi router and we'll be good

I think the point being made is that most of us have so little desire to fight a fourth oath Radiant that our minds immediate go to the "toss a warhead then pick a Shard and start praying" option. Frankly, I wouldn't feel safe going up against a Radiant even if I was in a tank, so I'd want more than that if I had to fight one.

Good somewhat glorious morning. Why glorious? No idea. Maybe because it's just a nice word. I could barely sleep at all last night, and I wonder if it's because my anxiety levels have been really high lately. Anyway, I'm chilling in health class currently because it's just a chill environment--which is good for a health class (that was extremely redundant but you get the point xD). Musical rehearsal yesterday was good--my alto 2 voice has to learn how to hit soprano 1 notes though... oh well! I'll be fine as long as I start drinking more water. And getting more sleep. And all that. Also... we're learning about slavery and they were showing us some pictures from the mind 1800s and there was one of a slave's back after having been whipped that just made my stomach turn. It was horrific. Anywho, on THAT note, I should skedaddle. Kajsa --> out

There are pros and cons to literally everything. If a girl isn’t smart, she’s an airhead with nothing to offer the world. If she is smart, she’s a nerd. If she’s athletic, she better be a dancer or cheerleader. If she’s not behaving in class, clearly she has problems going on at home. Likewise if you’re a boy, you can be athletic or you can be a nerd, and the to the teachers you’ll always just be a boy. screw it all humans are annoying we should all live with feral cats in the woods

There’s two ways. 1. You highlight the part of their post that you want to post and click the “quote this” bubble that comes up. 2. You can quote a post normally and delete the text that you don’t want

Hello all!! And welcome to my latest project :)) This is a short story I got the idea for out of nowhere while I was sick. The premise is; "What happens when a ghost has to watch his still alive lover fall in love again?" Now, the very observant (and slightly soul crushing) @DoomslugLuna noted that this has most likely been done before. But she suggested doing it in the fashion of the 21st century, instead of the more traditional 1700s-1800s time period. And so, I did that. I'll be posting three chapters in this OP, with more as I finish them. This project was also mentioned in my Report, which you can view through that link; it's an analytical report on all my writing projects, past, present, and future. Pretty cool There's also this spotify playlist if you'd like to listen to what I listen to when I write this. Anyways; Please enjoy the first three chapters of How To Love Again Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3

Also Argenti is silver in French with a spare i. Book recommendations? Well... Discworld, Satirical Humorous Fantasy The Three Body Problem, Hard scifi Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humorous Scifi Good Omens, Satirical Humorous Fantasy

Personally, my favorite is Sel, If I'm being honest, it's mostly because of Shai but the magic systems and whatever is happening to D&D's power seems pretty cool. Any ideas about what the third empire is? Thanks! (just a question, how do you quote a specific part of someone else's post?)

I know exactly when I figured it out, when the book outright told me Huck was Charlie, I suck at these kinds of things.