Frustration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

 

Tag your favorites!

Here are some of mine:

• Ye is not pronounced ye. It's pronounced The. Because þ. (I knew this one neener-neener)
• Violent video games do not cause violence (take that, karens)
• Marco Polo did not import pasta from China (I didn't even know this was a thing people... like, thought about)
• July 4 (we really oughtta pick... literally anytime else for this holiday)
• Napoleon wasn't short (I like making fun of the people who argue that he was "average for his time")
• The dark side of the moon is regularly about as lit as the side we usually see (it's just that only one side ever faces us earthlings)
• When things reenter the atmosphere, they don't burn up because of friction (they burn by literally squishing the air molecules - kind of like Friction Plus)
• Bats aren't blind (and several actually have really good night vision!)
• Only one species of frog makes the ribbit noise (I looked it up on youtube to check)
• Snake jaws don't unhinge (instead they have another bone that allows their jaws to extend, which I just think is neat)
• Not all worms turn into two worms when cut in half (this one because THAT MEANS THERE ARE SOME THAT DO)
• Preying mantis ladies don't always eat preying mantis men! (which means that SOMETIMES THEY DO)
• BUMBLEBEES. CAN. FLY. (GAH.)
• Birds are dinosaurs! (Like, there isn't even any controversy on that)
• Glass is not a slow-flowing liquid (you smart-alek)
• Nuclear is one of the safest forms of energy (unless you're stupid and absorb neutrons with granite instead of water)
• Leprosy as described in the bible was probably another disease entirely (huh)
• Thomas Edison did NOT invent the light bulb (because  F - - -   THOMAS EDISON)
• 0.999... is apparently equal to 1 (in base ten, anyways)
• Vaccines don't cause autism (even though I vaccinate... and am probably autistic. Until I'm sure I'm going to assume that autism causes vaccines)
• People do not "only use ten percent of the brain" (only around 10% of neurons will be firing at a time - and using 100% would likely result not in psychic powers, but in a fatal seizure)

There are two types of speeches in fantasy:

"The orcs are coming! Will you abandon your lands, or will you stand and fight?"

Stand and fight, stand and fight... add that to my list of lines in fantasy I would like to never hear again. Up there with "we've got company" for the Least Engaging Set of Words award.

 

And then there are

"Arise, arise, riders of Rohan! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered! A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor!”

"A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship... but it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down... but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you, stand, men of the West!"

 

...I don't have anything more to say than that. Sorry.

Last night apparently I fell asleep writing. Woke up to the Iconar doc just chock-full of

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my persuasive speech i made for school:

-point 1, power points. Let’s get this over with, if we go by mainline game rules, most people end up siding with the lions by saying “pokemon run out of power points before they beat the lions and struggle to death/faint/loss”, while, yes, that is true, a smart player can sidestep that with a leppa berry, and the move recycle, which grants the user their held item back on use. (For the sake of simplicity, anything requiring a trainer to use, (mega evo, z-moves, tera, etc.) cannot be used, and the pokemon are wild.)[note: here to point 2 is rant.] While one might assume the right mon can’t spawn with the berry, let alone use this strat, you’d be wrong. Pokemon in the wild can spawn with berries, and there’s even a troll gimmick in comp gameplay that is banned from “anything goes”, the highest tier a pokemon can reach, put simply, if you have a slowbro use block on a pokemon without thief, knockoff, or other item removing effects, or a status inflicting move, then heal stall with heal bell (for slowbro) and heal pulse (for the target), you can make an inescapable battle that breaks the “endless battle” clause, having infinite pp thanks to a berry (specifically the leppa berry/) and recycle,

-point 2, spread/room moves. With the addition of multi-battles in gen 3, some moves (surf,brutal swing, discharge, etc.) can hit multiple mon in one turn, this is added upon in the mystery dungeon games, where some moves have an aoe effect. Speaking of which, there’s an event in those games known as a “monster house” where wild pokemon rain from the ceiling and flood the room, similar to this scenario. Said aoe moves are good at clearing out this event, because of the ‘hit multiple targets’ property.

3: dex entries: 

-arceus is the creator of the pokemon universe.

-macargo is hotter than the sun. (see 10000 lions vs the sun)

-solgaleo IS the sun.

-scyther, among other pokemon have insane speed and would last longer than normal thanks to flying around like a bullet heck protagonist.

4: abilities.

Primal groudon’s desolate land ability would let it get rid of lots of lions without doing anything, as well with pokemon w/ snow warning, because lions can’t stand such extreme weather.

Almost anything that messes with the weather would work. Wonder guard would be very effective at keeping arcanine alive thanks to burn up.

5(bonus): fan content.

EEeEE is a hackmon that does not care about “balance”, what his game says he can do, nor how much is a billion. I mean, if he can outright slaughter a team and several boxes of lvl 100 perfect stat pokemon and off the player character, ignoring plot armor, then possess a wii to spook the owner of his game, then he can beat up some annoying overly smart cats. Also he might be able to mega evolve using an eeveeite, as he’s still mostly eevee.

Fakemons tend to be ludacris in both gameplay and dex. (ex, uranium’s nuclear pokemon, or insurgence’s delta mon.)

Do I need to get started on the ACTUAL GLITCH? I mean come on this thing’s bigger than a wailord, tear in timespace or not. Also, missing number is one of the weakest glitch pokemon. for all the hyping it gets as most fanworks power level it akin to x, the antagonist of the creepypasta sonic.exe, when missingno. in it’s most recognisable form, is at best a lvl 0 glass cannon, and only then it will break your game when you put it in the pc. Yellow on the other hand can and will wreck your game if you so much as think about glancing at it.

yes i copy+pasted it from my google doc.

thank you to @Frustration for the help.

For the past several days

IIIIIII

have had

a horrendous amount of hives

 

It's awful

Just the worst. Ever.

 

My hunch is that it's something with my bedsheets. I'm now on the couch downstairs hoping that I'm right. My entire back is covered in them; it looks like I got hit by a firebomb back there.

so its like may 4th or whatever so i got something to say

star trek is better than star wars in every way

but also i just started andor and its really good

but not as good as star trek

that is all

Why did I think taking three finals on the same day was a good idea?

this vid about the wheel of time is so funny

 

 

Can we talk about the fact that the T.Rex is the perfect terrestrial predator for a second?

 

This thing could smell better thanand  a turkey vulture, see better than a hawk, and had incredible hearing. It could swim, run at up to 12 mph, while maintaing that pace for an incredible length of time, and had strong enough musculature to flip your car on its side and bite through it. And not only that but it was incredibly inteligent, and depending on what study you use could be anywhere from as smart as a crocodile, all the way to a chimpanzee.

 

Oh yeah, and it also weighed more than fifteen thousand pounds.

I sewed this chonker with my own two hands.

...and a sewing machine and a needle and thread and fabric and buttons and stuffing.

But I created this.

His name is Snoodles.

That is all, thank you.

Yes, you read that right. I joined this website ten years ago.

Ten. Years. Ago.

My, how time has flown, eh? In that span, I graduated high school, got my first job, got my second job, moved, and have had many wonderful experiences interacting with people on this site and in the real world, slowly but surely emerging from my shell. It's been hard. I don't always show that side of me here, but rest assured I've had my share of bad days. matter of fact I'm in the middle of a low-key identity crisis right now but that's fine

I've had a lot of casual conversations. I've had some deeper ones. I've had a lot of one-off interactions; I've talked with people who I'd consider genuine friends. I thought about doing the tagging thing, but there are so many people I owe in some way or another that we'd be here for years if I tried. So! I'll just say, to everyone I've met here, thank you. This place isn't perfect, but neither is anywhere else, so thank you for making this corner of the world that bit more bearable.

Good night, y'all. Take care.

happy twelve days til totk

also like your birthday n stuff

I finished the shadow rising.

I liked it, I really liked it. Well, except for one or two scenes with, um, lack thereof of clothing of a character or two. Specifically that one dream- that was so weird. If that scene wasn't in the book, I'd like it a lot more. 

I'm gonna wait a day or so before starting Fires of Heaven.

Gotta love it when my body decides to hate me (:

I finished the shadow rising.

I liked it, I really liked it. Well, except for one or two scenes with, um, lack thereof of clothing of a character or two. Specifically that one dream- that was so weird. If that scene wasn't in the book, I'd like it a lot more. 

I'm gonna wait a day or so before starting Fires of Heaven.

Gotta love it when my body decides to hate me (:

I finished the shadow rising.

I liked it, I really liked it. Well, except for one or two scenes with, um, lack thereof of clothing of a character or two. Specifically that one dream- that was so weird. If that scene wasn't in the book, I'd like it a lot more. 

I'm gonna wait a day or so before starting Fires of Heaven.

YouTube is just determined to drive everyone from their platform. First it was dozens of ads per video, then the shadowbans and the content suppression, then removing dislikes, and now the CEO is saying that their #1 priority is shorts, and channels aren't being recommended unless they post shorts.

 

I'm honestly kind of tired of them making the worst possible decisions I just want to watch some videos.

I don't like YA fantasy anymore

(Exceptions: Rick Riordan's stuff, Skyward saga, Hunger Games)

And I get that the whole thing about having a bunch of twelve-year-olds save the multiverse is there so a bunch of twelve-year-olds can get into reading. As a kid I sustained myself entirely on Brandon Mull - Five Kingdoms was my first real foray into high fantasy.

But now that I'm an adult? It just... hurts to read. There're always these grown adults sending these children into battle and making stupid decisions to make the kids seem smart and epic. And then some god-level monstrosity finally reawakens from his slumber and is defeated by the power of friendship.

Why am I thinking about this? Maybe because I'm watching Rebels? I really like the series, but the fact that they keep sending Sabine and Ezra into these tough-nut situations on their own usually breaks the immersion a bit for me. Some episodes less so than others - like the one where Ezra infiltrates a squad of Imperial Cadets, because Kanan is all "this is the dumbest idea I've ever had we need to pull him out of there" - but a lot of the time it's like "our plan is to have the mandalorian child run down a whole platoon of stormtroopers as a distraction" and I'm like ??? Child soldiers???

(I do really like Rebels though; not crapping on it or anything)

Maybe I'm thinking about this because I was thinking about some fantasy pet peeves I have - all of which tend to show up in YA fiction at some point or another:

• "We've got company!"
• "I'm not leaving here without [][][]"
• [Two sword fighters glaring at each other while their swords are crossed... like I can't hold eye contact with anyone for the life of me and you're telling me that these people hate each other so much that they can't bear to look away for one second?]
• "Believe in yourself. BELIEVE" (somehow they passed this off in The Lego Movie. I guess Morgan Freeman just has that effect)
• [Wisecracks amid the final battle between the protag and antag, including "oh yeah? well -"]

Objectively the worst thing to ever come out of any of these stories are when the twelve-year-old children form lifelong romantic bonds with each other. No, Harrison the sword boy and Verdi the tank top girl are not in love. No, they did not find their other half at the ripe old age of thirteen. If it's written by a christian then neither of these kids know how babies are made, and you're telling me that they're going to kiss at the end of the story and get married in time for the Era 2 sequel? If your prepubescent tweens are going to be kissing then you need to get an appointment with a psychologist. Meeting your future spouse at that age is called arranged marriage, not true love.

(I have some opinions about the very end of AtLA, in case you cannot tell)

And then these children are beating up the bad guy's soldiers left and right? "It's because they use their wits to fight, not just their muscle" man shut up. No tyrant-king of this fantasy world is going to maintain control over his empire with a bunch of brainless monkey guards. No army consists of a billion muscle machines and three characterized elite warriors. It's like in the Kenobi show how the good guys will whack a stormtrooper in the face and they'll just drop their blaster because reasons.

You want to show the protagonists being capable and thinking on their feet? Give them fewer guards to worry about. Instead of twelve on two make it four on three with tight individual v individual combat. You'll never establish the least bit of tension if the sword child can take out two dozen bad guys on his own.

I know, I know... it's YA. It's written for children. No one's forcing me to read any of it. It just bothers me that there are grown adults who are making the decision to send children into battle because they're their "last hope" or some crap like that. Like maybe if the child has some super powerful magical abilities and is practically incapable of dying (Mob Psycho 100 my beloved), but giving them a slim chance of success on some elite mission? It's not worth endangering these kids over, and it's probably even less worth endangering the mission by leaving it up to a bunch of kids.

Basically, I'm being very conscientious about what happens with my younger characters in the Iconar Collective.

I don't like YA fantasy anymore

(Exceptions: Rick Riordan's stuff, Skyward saga, Hunger Games)

And I get that the whole thing about having a bunch of twelve-year-olds save the multiverse is there so a bunch of twelve-year-olds can get into reading. As a kid I sustained myself entirely on Brandon Mull - Five Kingdoms was my first real foray into high fantasy.

But now that I'm an adult? It just... hurts to read. There're always these grown adults sending these children into battle and making stupid decisions to make the kids seem smart and epic. And then some god-level monstrosity finally reawakens from his slumber and is defeated by the power of friendship.

Why am I thinking about this? Maybe because I'm watching Rebels? I really like the series, but the fact that they keep sending Sabine and Ezra into these tough-nut situations on their own usually breaks the immersion a bit for me. Some episodes less so than others - like the one where Ezra infiltrates a squad of Imperial Cadets, because Kanan is all "this is the dumbest idea I've ever had we need to pull him out of there" - but a lot of the time it's like "our plan is to have the mandalorian child run down a whole platoon of stormtroopers as a distraction" and I'm like ??? Child soldiers???

(I do really like Rebels though; not crapping on it or anything)

Maybe I'm thinking about this because I was thinking about some fantasy pet peeves I have - all of which tend to show up in YA fiction at some point or another:

• "We've got company!"
• "I'm not leaving here without [][][]"
• [Two sword fighters glaring at each other while their swords are crossed... like I can't hold eye contact with anyone for the life of me and you're telling me that these people hate each other so much that they can't bear to look away for one second?]
• "Believe in yourself. BELIEVE" (somehow they passed this off in The Lego Movie. I guess Morgan Freeman just has that effect)
• [Wisecracks amid the final battle between the protag and antag, including "oh yeah? well -"]

Objectively the worst thing to ever come out of any of these stories are when the twelve-year-old children form lifelong romantic bonds with each other. No, Harrison the sword boy and Verdi the tank top girl are not in love. No, they did not find their other half at the ripe old age of thirteen. If it's written by a christian then neither of these kids know how babies are made, and you're telling me that they're going to kiss at the end of the story and get married in time for the Era 2 sequel? If your prepubescent tweens are going to be kissing then you need to get an appointment with a psychologist. Meeting your future spouse at that age is called arranged marriage, not true love.

(I have some opinions about the very end of AtLA, in case you cannot tell)

And then these children are beating up the bad guy's soldiers left and right? "It's because they use their wits to fight, not just their muscle" man shut up. No tyrant-king of this fantasy world is going to maintain control over his empire with a bunch of brainless monkey guards. No army consists of a billion muscle machines and three characterized elite warriors. It's like in the Kenobi show how the good guys will whack a stormtrooper in the face and they'll just drop their blaster because reasons.

You want to show the protagonists being capable and thinking on their feet? Give them fewer guards to worry about. Instead of twelve on two make it four on three with tight individual v individual combat. You'll never establish the least bit of tension if the sword child can take out two dozen bad guys on his own.

I know, I know... it's YA. It's written for children. No one's forcing me to read any of it. It just bothers me that there are grown adults who are making the decision to send children into battle because they're their "last hope" or some crap like that. Like maybe if the child has some super powerful magical abilities and is practically incapable of dying (Mob Psycho 100 my beloved), but giving them a slim chance of success on some elite mission? It's not worth endangering these kids over, and it's probably even less worth endangering the mission by leaving it up to a bunch of kids.

Basically, I'm being very conscientious about what happens with my younger characters in the Iconar Collective.

Show of hands:

Who would actually care (or even notice) if I left the Shard forever without notice

Okay four things. Two of them are poems (one's a slam and another's just a free verse), another is a complaint, and the third one is something I'm struggling with that I'm going to be rather obscure about.

We'll start with the complaint. My gym teacher is So. Scudding. Creepy.

I walked into gym class today to check in so I could flee to the library. He stood even closer to me than regular and said, "How's it going, Hon?"

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT'S SO WEEIRDDDDDDDDDD. Is that the thing that should be reported? I feel like I should report it. For context, he's probably 50 or 60 years old and should probably not be a PE teacher anyway. I feel harassed.

Here are my poems:

Slam poem--35

Poem #2 (school assignment--"I Am From" Poem)

Fourth thing... struggle.

So yup. 

there is a right way and a wrong way to eat fruit snacks and other color-coded gummy candies. 

join my cult.

It's important not to be a nazi

 

it's also important not to be like this person:

How many stars have we looked at?

Like, actually looked at?

Like, Hubble/Webb telescope looked at?

The fastest-spinning star we've ever found was a pulsar going at 700 RPM. However, some black holes have been theorized to be spinning as fast as 1150 RPM.

This matters to me (and therefore to you; no, I don't have any projection problems) because the speed of a black hole determines the Innermost Stable Orbit.

Fadran, what in the worlds is that?

You've all seen this image. The very first picture of a black hole. It was taken by applying a whole series of crazy equations to what's essentially just a really good cross-hatched image, and shows us the glowing accretion disk around the massive gravity well.

But SOMEONE ENHANCED IT WITH AI and so NOW YOU GET TO LOOK AT THAT

Beautiful.

Now, I could go on and on about how this was imaged and what each of the areas is and whatnot, but I made this SU about naked singularities and so you're going to hear about that.

So what if I asked you to point out where the Event Horizon was? Well surely, you'd think, it's where the dark part begins. Right around... here:

Makes sense. There's no glow here. It's completely dark. Clearly that's where the Event Horizon begins.

And you'd be  W R O N G

THAT, my friend, is the Innermost Stable Orbit for matter. See, black holes are spinning; and they're spinning really damn fast. So fast, in fact, that matter gets sucked in and starts spinning around them for the fun of it. They get pulled in and spun so freaking fast that they start to heat up and eventually glow, forming what you recognize as the accretion disk.

The Innermost Stable Orbit is the closest matter can get to the event horizon before it starts getting pulled in and eventually eaten. Past that any matter can practically spin around the black hole indefinitely, similar to how our moon doesn't fall into the Earth despite how hard we're pulling on it (it's actually falling away ever so slowly, but that's an SU for another time). But you can only ever spin matter so fast, so the Innermost Stable Orbit essentially acts as a secondary event horizon for matter only.

It's different for light, though. Light can move significantly faster than mass - that's its job, after all. So if it can move faster, then it can spin faster, meaning it can counteract a higher gravitational force and therefore be closer to the singularity than matter.

Surely this is the Event Horizon, then?

WRONG AGAIN

This is the -

...ah

...Idk if it actually has a name, but we'll just call it the VIP (very important photon) Innermost Stable Orbit.

The way to wrap your brain around this is to imagine what the Event Horizon actually is. It isn't just the point where "gravity becomes so strong that not even light can escape," it's "gravity becomes so strong that light moving literally perpendicular to the surface of the black hole cannot escape." We send ships into space by pushing them sideways in order to get that sweet sweet angular momentum for a stable orbit; this would be like trying to send a ship directly upwards against gravity and keeping it in orbit. Light is the fastest thing in the universe and even it can't put all of its energy towards escaping this bloody thing and win.

But what light would be moving perpendicular to the singularity in a black hole? All matter at this point is being invariably sucked in, and we know for a fact that black holes certainly don't give off any light of their own. This is a hypothetical inner limit where you stick a laser pointer on the floor and watch as literally no light escapes it. See, the light that actually would be hanging out here is coming in from elsewhere: such as towards the black hole. Obviously light heading right for it is gonna get sucked up, but spacetime is so warped here that light coming up beside it also gets sucked in after a bit of a bending. Light that's farther than that gets sucked in later, and light that's farther than that gets sucked in even later - such that there is a lot of black image around the event horizon where light heads in but eventually gets eaten.

The light that does barely escape is at 2.6 radii away, forming that little ring of technical visibility (though it's really kinda dark around there so you don't really see much of anything). Light coming at roughly that side will come out just skimming what we intellectuals like to call the Photonsphere, which is right around here:

Is that the Event Hori--

No.

The Event Horizon is here:

But that isn't important what's important is that  S P I N N I N G

See, the innermost stable orbit for mass and light COMPLETELY depends on how fast the black hole is spinning! In fact, these measurements I've been giving you are complete and utter gabbledygook because they are measurements for a schwartzchild black hole, which is fancy speak for a black hole which doesn't spin. These, in all likelihood, do not exist because they're formed from the likes of supergiant stars, neutron stars, and white dwarves, which are spinning before they collapse into black holes and continue spinning long afterwards.

Spinning, as I'm sure you're aware, is the best way to counteract gravity. You all know full well that there's no gravity in space, but when you look at the astronauts aboard the ISS they aren't floating around because their isn't any downward pull; they're floating because the speed at which they orbit the earth counteracts its gravity. In fact they're being acted upon with about the same amount of gravity as you or me, but the lack of an atmosphere and such makes it perfect for spinning around the planet really really fast and pretending like that gravity doesn't exist.

This means, of course, that you can get closer to a source of gravity by spinning around it faster; similarly, you can spin around it slower if you're further away. You might be seeing how this affects our Event Horizon and Innermost Stable Orbits: if the black hole is spinning really fast, then the stuff around it is spinning really fast, and if the stuff is spinning faster then the Innermost Stable Orbit gets closer.

How scientists measure spin in black holes is absolutely baffling in the sense that they made it really unfortunately overcomplicated. For some reason they measure it on a scale of 0 to 1? Like... huh??? Was RPM not good enough for you?

But anyways, black holes are spinning pretty fast. 

The problem is that they could hypothetically spin even faster.

Like I said, the fastest observed spinning black hole is going at 1.15k RPM. That, on these stupid physicists' scale, is 0.98 This means that its Innermost Stable Orbits are closer to the Event Horizon than they would be on other black holes: light could get closer to it without being sucked in, basically.

Now, this speed pretty closely approaches the speed of light, but not enough so to be particularly alarming in the Wonderful World of Very Fast Things. We've shot neutrinos and neutrons and such through vacuum tubes at much faster speeds than that. What scares the scientists, though, is the fact that a black hole could spin even faster - fast enough, even, that the VIP Innermost Stable Orbit could be smaller than the Event Horizon.

Scientists call this a Naked Singularity, because they're all children at heart.

We, of course, have no idea what this would look like. Seeing inside a black hole? Looking at a singularity? We haven't got a clue as to what the inside of an Event Horizon would "look" like, because there's so much bloody gravity that all our physics just stops making sense. But in this scenario, we could observe the goings-on in there.

Which brings me wayyyyyyyy back to how I started this SU: how many stars have we actually looked at?

Go outside. Right now. RIGHT NOW. If it's daytime you're excused (it's almost 1 AM here). Look up in the sky and stare at all those little red, white, and blue dots (...strange, how patriotic the sky can be). We probably haven't directly observed most of them. The big ones, sure. The bright ones, sure. The ones that do weird stuff, sure. But all of them?

And think of how many we've caught in the background of all our deep-space images and such. There's... a lot! Like, I don't even know what kind of number to begin with for how many there are. But to most of our images, they're all just big bright dots in the dark sky.

Which makes me think...

...wouldn't a naked singularity kind of just look like a big, bright dot to us? If we weren't looking at it real close, we'd just get its residual radiation to observe.

So what are the odds that one of those stars in the sky is actually a black hole that's spinning so blasted fast that you can see its singularity?