[renoga]

I have to say, among my favourite Steven Universe songs is one I have seen referenced not a single time anywhere outside of its original context: system/BOOT.PearlFinal (3).Info

Pearl sings delightfully, the musical exposition is done so perfectly -- those lyrics live in my head rent-free, and I admittedly use "and come in teams of three, or more" as a vocal stim on occasion.

The title itself is probably part of why it's not very commonly talked about, but at the same time such brings a revelation to the nature of Pearls (along with the song itself) -- of them being programmed and customised much more intensely than previously known (and to a greater extent than other gem species). I'm sure we'll hear more about that in Lars of the Stars.

I like every Pearl song. Despite focusing on everyone but Pearl, this song feels like the only real dedicated Pearl song; It's Over, Isn't It focuses on the Pearl/Rose interaction, along with Greg Do It For Her is principally about the Pearl/Connie interaction, though is also about Pearl/Rose. Strong in the Real Way is the closest to a dedicated Pearl song other than system/Boot.PearlFinal (3).Info (and I like it very much, I wish Pearl was as musical as I thought her to be after seeing 1x20 Coach Steven). It's about the Pearl/Steven interaction, but the fundamental framing of the show makes such feel still neutral-Pearl in the same way the show-don't-tell general gem exposition of system/Boot.PearlFinal (3).Info is revealing about Pearl's nature. But, at the same time, it doesn't reveal that much about Pearl, especially as it's other theme is, obviously, the mutual conflict with Sugilite. As an aside, I definitely prefer the Sardonyx drama from Season 2 over the one-episode Sugilite drama. I know nought about Nikki Minaj (¿spelling?) but I think it's mostly fine Sugilite was a one-off, given how Sardonyx is my favourite fusion, and how much better her situation was. Though I still think Strong in the Real Way > Tower of Mistakes. Anyways, all other songs with Pearl in it are distinctly secondary, thus truthfully, the only song which really feels about Pearl is system/Boot.PearlFinal (3).Info -- and it's a shame we don't see more singing from and about Pearl.

[shapeshiftingfolf]

New vocal stim unlocked:

♫"and come in teams of three, or more" ♫

[renoga]

Naturally, when mutually exposed, a linguistic difference will bridge. Two dialects will converge -- see: the internet's effects on accents and dialects. Two languages will creole, and eventually become the same language (In most cases I would presume) Overall, there is alot of interchange that occurs between languages.

I wonder what would happen if you got every human on Earth and enabled such mutual exposure. ¿What is the homogeneous language like? ¿How long does it take to get there? ¿How difficult or easy would that be to learn for any given language? ¿How much does population affect effect proportion? ¿How do we construct this Pit of Babel to house all of humanity?

Perhaps reaching for the devil in such a manner will provide us a unified Earth language, and cultural identity in the crossfire.

[shapeshiftingfolf]

New term unlocked: Pit of Babel

[shapeshiftingfolf]

Stress, please, leave me be. You're being actively unhelpful.

I mean yeah okay FINE I suppose that without you, I would not be as responsible as I am. Yes, I understand that I'm ADHD and would not do the things I have to do in certain timespans if you don't exist. But, like pleaaaazee

[shapeshiftingfolf]

Why do the engineers get all the good teaching

Context: I study at a mathematics program (which, when I applied, I didn't know wasn't pure math. It's actually "pure math" mixed with some data science) (and that "pure math" is just going the same math courses as the engineers, thus being dragged down to their level anyway... But there are also separate courses specifically for the engineers in the same field???)

Point is, I also have taken some courses in physics. Y'know, cause that's cool. The physics courses are led by the institution of physics which is dominated by the engineering programmes.

Point is, this institution has a bunch of tools and resources that I have simply never seen as a student of the pure math program

WHY DO THE ENGINEERS GET A LaTeX TEMPLATE AND NOT US?? THE MATHEMATICIANS!! WHY DO THEY GET RULES? WHY DO THEY GET STRUCTURE? WHY NOT USSSSS?!?!

Here's a list of the things I've just noticed they get that we do not:

accidentally added a quiz here whops gonna delete that when I'm not on a phone

thanks tumblr

why thooo, anyway.

Voting ended onMay 29

An introduction to LaTeX {I already knew of LaTeX and knew how to do this but you can't expect that of all first-year math students!!}

Rules for what template to use and what to include in lab reports {SERIOUSLY. AS A STUDENT OF THE MATHEMATICS PROGRAMME, ALL WE GET FOR OUR MANDATORY ASSIGNMENTS IS "Write a report". OCCASIONALLY THEY'LL SAY "oh, and turn it in as a .pdf" THERE'S NO STRUCTURE AT ALLLLL

A general LaTeX template and a document giving an example of how a report should look like in this institution {Nope nada nothing for me}

I can imagine tons of reasons why it's like this. But I don't like it.

Reason #1: The mathematics programme is tiny, like 20 people in each year, not the hundreds of engineers in each year. It's disappointing, but it's fun to have 0 competition.

Reason #2: "Freedom", whilst these engineers get structure, they are also *required* to follow this structure. They aren't allowed to do whatever they think fits best. Yeah, I get why you would try to force that on engineers. But like COME ON GIVE ME SOMETHING!

Reason #3: These professors and teachers probably expect each student to communicate a lot. They probably expect us to go "oh, hey, I want to make my report look nice and fancy. Can I have a template?" But like Noooooooo why are you expecting communication from me? There's no rules about how much I'm allowed/expected to communicate!!!

University, administratively, has been a pain for me

I am so gonna write a complaint email to the leader of my program... Eventually.

Also uh, sorry for mixing programme and program. I won't fix it tho.

[shapeshiftingfolf]

TADC theory: Kinger hated Caine

"I used to hate bugs, but... she somehow got me to like them" -Kinger

The thought is: Kinger hated Caine, he hated how buggy he was. He hated his creation. Kinger put him in a cage, forced to watch as they were training a whole new AI. But then after time in the circus, a *lot* of time, he doesn't hate him anymore.

It's just something I think about when I hear people talk about Kinger creating Caine, about how Kinger could have encouraged him. But, we don't know what Kinger was like before Pomni's arrival. We don't know all the character development he has gone through.

What we do know is that he *has* gone through lots of character development in that time. "I hated myself", and yet he doesn't anymore.

[shapeshiftingfolf]

Google keyboard, you sure are silly:

(2nd symbol list)

~`|•√π÷ק∆

£¢€¥^°={}\

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(1st symbol list)

@#$_&-+()/

*"':;!?

Welcome back, π∆ without changing language. Welcome back, ≈≠∞, welcome back √. How I've missed you all. (Other symbols from holding down on these symbols. Ex ∞≠≈ from =.)

[shapeshiftingfolf]

I believe people can tell by my recent reposts that I've been particularly traumatized about something

[shapeshiftingfolf]

Samsung keyboard tried to silence me, but you know what? I'm enabling gboard. Never again will you randomly crash for no reason! No idea why I didn't switch sooner. Probably just inertia

[sosa-frogg]

you know who you are

-

moana inspired fanart and some caine sketches

[shapeshiftingfolf]

Bad idea: Unary Morse Code

Just a giant string of beeps that sum to a number, a number that is then translated into a string of letters and spaces.

Example with alphabet "abc"

a, b, c, aa, ba, ca, ab, bb, cb, ac, bc, cc, aaa, baa, caa, aba, bba, cba, aca, bca, cca, aab, bab, cab, abb, bbb, cbb, acb, bcb, ccb, aac, bac, cac, abc, bbc, cbc, acc, bcc, ccc,

So the string "cab" has unary morse: 3*7+2 => "III III III III III III III II" => "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"

[secretmellowart]

Isn't that lovely, and isn't that cool? And isn't that cruel? And aren't I a fool to have...

[justislasart]

the world needs more Scratch fanart, and i'm happy to contribute to the shrinking of that deficit 🥹

[3hkowalski]

Reconciliation

love like you

[shapeshiftingfolf]

I adore Super Mario Galaxy (Game & Movie)

I just finished the main boss fight of Super Mario Galaxy at the center of the universe. It's been years since I've even played the game since my Wii died. It was glorious. I cried for a good few minutes as the end sequence played.

I loved the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. If I'm to be honest, I don't think the movie did the game justice. I think you could've made a much better movie based on a game such as this. However, the movie is still awesome. It's fanservice to the max and I am a fan who is serviced.

(I've heard people say that there's absolutely 0 plot and I disagree. I think the Super Mario Galaxy movie had a pretty neat plot and great characterization, even if it's not how the characters are in the game.)

I think that the beauty of Super Mario Galaxy is a point that has been explained by enough people, but I'll still give a short description a try.

and even just the soundtrack itself

These videos, that I only discovered pseudo-recently, (imperfectly) encapsulate my feelings about this game.

A lot of my feelings around this game are based on abstract autistic vibes. But for concrete things (which in my mind are enhanced by the more abstract feelings) is the look of pretty much everything in the game, with a special focus on the Comet Observatory itself and the Power Stars. The power stars are absolutely beautiful. As a kid, I was too young to understand, too young to truly see all the details in the sparkle of them.

My brain always assumes underlying context, fills in gaps. Rather, when it sees gaps, it declares that there's something in those gaps. Something, some purpose, something beautiful. I can't quite describe it...

I cried when finishing the run, and I am on my way to 100%ing it like my child self never could.

(I find it an enigma that I like Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Odyssey where both of them star a non-furry main character. I wonder just how I would feel about either of the games if it would've starred a fox instead)

[shapeshiftingfolf]

University studies : gifted kid edition

"OMG studying is so stressful I am so stressed I have so much to do I have so many exams and assignments"

"How many courses did I apply to? Why, 4, at a sum of 210% study pace, of course."

It's not really much of a surprise that I'm stressed out and have a lot on my plate, but, like... if I just worked perfectly and followed my plan then I would be golden.

I know that dropping a course would make me less stressed, but I also know my brain *loves* to waste time and fill empty space with nothing-work if I don't have a deadline close. I was hoping that adding more courses would make my brain work harder. Turns out that that doesn't work if the only available courses are concurrent.

[shapeshiftingfolf]

10 posts, huh?

Wow. So I have. Didn't I just start posting yesterday or something??

Still, 10 posts is a very small number to have a whole icon and everything for. Eh. I'm not complaining. Well, I'm not complaining too much. I ignored the 5 post one but that too is also just such a low number.

What? It's pretty. The smooth outline reminds me of Kurzgesagt's artstyle

[shapeshiftingfolf]

Tumblr's recommendation system is an enigma to me thusfar...

Given they use tumblr, I wonder how long it's gonna take for my friends to independently discover this account. Days, weeks, months? It be only a matter of time, I'm sure.