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Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
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missing them
struggling to find time to finish this 😩 its almost done i promise
Tethered 💜🖤
"It's not exactly a car, Steve. It's not exactly mine, but, uh... it'll do".
Stranger Things | S04E08 - Papa
That's Pirate Hunter Zoro, worth 1.111 billion Berries. The reason he's calmly hanging back is because he knows he can slaughter you in an instant from that range. The same goes for the Demon Child behind him, Nico Robin.
HUNGRY DAYS × Vivi Saga
He's definitely mocking him 🌝
The beautiful original art I based this one is from the manga "Veil" from the artist Kotteri !
If you’re an adult, do the stuff you couldn’t as a kid.
Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.
I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.
I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”
I guess what I’m saying is, those impulsive things you wanted to do as a kid - see the dinosaur exhibit, play in the fountains with the other kids, lie in the shade for 2 hours - you can do when you’re an adult. You have to deal with a whole lot of other bull, but at least you can indulge your inner 8 year-old.
I can take my ass to the zoo any time I have the time and cash for it. Which is a lot more often than I 2as allowed to go as a kid!
ZOOOOOOO! I fucking love the zoo! When we moved to the city after graduation we lived in sort of walking distance if you hate yourself and we bought the annual pass, which pays for itself after 3 visits, and we went ALL THE TIME in the horrible gap where we didn’t have jobs yet. But checking out the cool animals, especially the ones whose exhibits had been updated, was so much fun. And they were actively working on continuing to make the zoo better for animals.
Right?! Right?! It’s such a good investment! So much entertainment!
Our zoo has done so much work! I hadn’t been in years and then bought myself a zoo membership so I could go draw animals and get some exercise. It looks amazing now, the enclosures are so nice!
COVID ruined my heat tolerance though, and I live in a really hot place, so I didn’t renew.
BUT THAT WAS FINE!
I got AN AQUARIUM PASS instead!!! It’s all indoors!!!
I am an ADULT and if I want to spend a reasonable sum on a year of infinite fish, I can do that! I can go in and instead of having to beg a parent to give me the $3 for a paper cup of room-temp cocktail shrimp, I can just slap down the cash and go feed the little stingrays! I can go and look at NOTHING but the sharks. I can PET HORSESHOE CRABS! I learned their carapaces feel like plastic?!
I get to do all that! I can go look at animals ANY WEEKEND I WANT.
Do things like this. Take the kid who you were by the hand and take them out for a treat!
crochawk gift for @/just_minhthi on twitter!! Royalty AU with my own medieval flavorings
i said 'explain physics to me like youre in love with me' and after a while of quiet he went 'everything sings'. so i get it now
today's stream drawing was Zoro and Nami from @calysto1395 's modern AU, because I just love these two and their dynamic.
More drawings (and more writing) of this AU can be found HERE and HERE !
Seems like they’re having a tough time out there, so I’m gonna go help!
HAWKEYE (2021) | 1.06 “So this is Christmas”
cleaned up a sketch of the Romance Dawn trio
So apparently the pro-Tetris scene is exploding right now because a 13 year old nerd just reached the game's true killscreen for the first time ever
So, basically, for much of Tetris's history, people believed level 29 was the "last" level of Tetris, as the speed of the blocks would get so high that no human could do anything but lose; the blocks would go so fast that human hands physically could not control them. However, Tetris does not get any faster beyond that point, so if you're capable of playing level 29, you're capable of playing hypothetically infinitely.
Except Tetris, the original version for the NES, is not a hypothetical. It's a physical object, an item you can touch and hold, and it has limits. Many classic arcade-style video games have honest-to-god killscreens, where the game breaks so badly that it becomes completely unplayable. Pac-Man, famously, has a killscreen that garbles half of the playing field and doesn't spawn enough dots for the level to ever end. Tetris was assumed to be no exception, but because of the presumed-impossible difficulty of level 29, the community considered that to be Tetris's killscreen, and all high-leveled Tetris play centered around level 29 being the absolute end of your run, no matter what.
But, and if you've heard literally anything about people getting insanely good at retro games, you'll know what comes next. Of course, someone figures out how to control the game past level 29. In 2011, Thor Aackerlund discovered a technique now known as "hypertapping" (which is exactly what it sounds like, tapping very very fast) - and became the first person to play level 30.
But hypertapping wasn't enough. It was still stupidly difficult to get to, let alone past, level 30. Then this guy named Cheez shows up and finds that using an even more absurd technique, called "Rolling", which was even faster than hypertapping. People weren't just hitting level 30, but then 40, then 50, and then all the way into the 90s. Since all post-29 levels have the exact same speed, once they mastered rolling, they were pretty much good to play forever.
With levels 29+ conquered, now players could face the real killscreen of Tetris. A Tetris-playing AI got the first crash, but since it was playing a very slightly modified version (to show a larger score number, because the vanilla score counter didn't have enough digits), it only kinda-sorted counted. So the community picked apart the game's code to find where the game could hypothetically crash while completely unmodified - and found the current human record was not that far off.
So the entire community fucking scrambles to be the first person to crash Tetris, but then were confounded by another technically-not-game-ending-but-still-pretty-much-impossible-for-a-human bug; after level 138, the game stops choosing the colors for the blocks from where it's supposed to, leading it to display some truly heinously color palettes. Most of them are just ugly, but a few make the blocks you're placing next to invisible. (This was actually known about before the AI even crashed the game, and part of the reason the AI could get so much further than humans; it didn't need to visually see the blocks.)
Just next to invisible, though. You could still sorta see most of the blocks, and when you pass the level, the game pulls a new color palette, so if you can tough it out long enough to get 10 lines, you're probably gonna be able to continue your game for a while after that. It's annoying as hell, but not impossible. So, of course, the runners start getting past them and brushing up against the crashable levels.
And by runners, I mostly mean a 13 year old boy who goes by the online handle Blue Scuti. He'd skyrocketed into fame in the Tetris community relatively recently by achieving scores and levels that most adults couldn't even dream of, so of course he was among the first people to get past both impossible-palette levels, and he was able to keep going.
The game doesn't always crash in one specific spot, though. It just starts having a chance to crash after a certain point. You might have to perform some specific actions in specific windows of time to get it to crash on purpose, and it's much more likely that you'll lose control and lose your run before you achieve that goal.
Blue Scuti missed the first crash opportunity in his run. He was the first person to get that far at all, so it'd be a record regardless, but he was determined to win. He somehow keeps his cool, despite being a literal child with thousands of eyes on him (this was streamed on Twitch, of course), and never loses control of his stack, all the way until he reaches the next crash opportunity all the way on level 157.
And he fucking does it. He gets a single line clear in the middle of level 157 and the game just stops. It completely crashed. A 13 year old boy nicknamed Blue Scuti is the first human being in history to crash Tetris in this way. He is the first person ever to see Tetris's real killscreen. This game is over twice his age, and he is the first to kill it dead.
This kid fucking rules.
(if you want more detail, I learned basically all of the above from this video by aGameScout, please watch it!!)