#3944

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writing tip #3944:

who cares if your protagonist is "likable"? how big is it

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I love that Sprites just have this power natively. My headcanon is that when they use it, the words physically appear in the air above them.

JADESPRITE: what did you choose? DAVESPRITE: i guess i made an unwitting choice DAVESPRITE: by deciding to flee

When John was learning about The Choice in LOWAS, I wondered what it would mean to make a real choice in the deterministic world of Paradox Space, and speculated that a Denizen’s Choice might allow you to violate this determinism. After all, if the future really is set in stone, then none of your choices actually matter, even when they're underlined.

If that's true, then perhaps Hephaestus could have helped Future Dave repair his timeline - but instead, he fled, and the Horrorterrors helped him replace it.

JADESPRITE: what happened when you saw him this time? DAVESPRITE: like i said he was awake again DAVESPRITE: but this time i wasnt in any condition to fight DAVESPRITE: so i didnt DAVESPRITE: and thats what i didnt get DAVESPRITE: hes this terrible angry monstrous guy but theres no need to fight him

It sounds like it’s always possible to conquer your Denizen without resorting to combat. This flies in the face of what John's Consorts told him, as they insisted that Typheus must be slain.

There is a little wiggle room there, I guess. It's certainly possible to slay a monster without actually fighting it - for example, by mounting some sort of surprise attack, and catching it unawares. I doubt that's what Davesprite actually means, though.

Besides, an argument could be made that you can't catch a Denizen unawares. It sure didn't work for John.

DAVESPRITE: so he looked me up and down all hard DAVESPRITE: saw the broken sword DAVESPRITE: and like before gave me the choice […] JADESPRITE: so it was the same choice? DAVESPRITE: no

DAVESPRITE: it was different DAVESPRITE: i think it must be always different DAVESPRITE: depending on the circumstances DAVESPRITE: i dont know what the choice is when you face him the way youre supposed to

Or if it’s even necessary. It sounds like the trolls completely ignored the Choice mechanic, but they were still able to win their game...

...for a given value of 'winning', I suppose.

Maybe you do need to make some Choices to win your game, then. Hephaestus seems to have been trying to help Future Dave, so maybe some of the trolls could have used their Choices to neutralize the threat of Perfect Jack before it was able to manifest.

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Quite pleased...

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🟡🔗❗to the new complete list❗🔊🔗🟡

Release: April 3, 1978

Lyrics:

Brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la

There's a brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la la

Brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la

She looks like a sugar in a plum

Plum plum

Show me your motion

Tra la la la la

Come on show me your motion

Tra la la la la la

Show me your motion

Tra la la la la

She looks like a sugar in a plum

Plum plum

All had water run dry

Got no way to wash my clothes

All had water run dry

Got no way to wash my clothes

I remember one Saturday night

We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

I remember one Saturday night

We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

Beng-a-deng

Beng-a-deng

Brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la

There's a brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la la

Brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la

She looks like a sugar in a plum

Plum plum

Show me your motion

Tra la la la la

Come on show me your motion

Tra la la la la la

Show me your motion

Tra la la la la

She looks like a sugar in a plum

Plum plum

All had water run dry

Got no way to wash my clothes

All had water run dry

Got no way to wash my clothes

I remember one Saturday night

We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

I remember one Saturday night

We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

Beng-a-deng

Beng-a-deng

Brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la

See, brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la la

Brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la

She looks like a sugar in a plum

Plum plum

All had water run dry

Got no way to wash my clothes

All had water run dry

Got no way to wash my clothes

Brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la

Look that brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la la

Brown girl in the ring

Tra la la la la

She looks like a sugar in a plum

Plum plum

Songwriter: Frank Farian

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A frenzy of stars

Discovered in 1900 by astronomer DeLisle Stewart and here imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, IC 4710 is an undeniably spectacular sight. The galaxy is a busy cloud of bright stars, with bright pockets — marking bursts of new star formation — scattered around its edges.

IC 4710 is a dwarf irregular galaxy. As the name suggests, such galaxies are irregular and chaotic in appearance, lacking central bulges and spiral arms — they are distinctly different from spirals or ellipticals. It is thought that irregular galaxies may once have been spirals or ellipticals, but became distorted over time through external gravitational forces during interactions or mergers with other galaxies. Dwarf irregulars in particular are important to our overall understanding of galactic evolution, as they are thought to be similar to the first galaxies that formed in the Universe.

IC 4710 lies roughly 25 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Pavo (The Peacock). This constellation is located in the southern skies and also contains the third-brightest globular cluster in the sky, NGC 6752, the spiral galaxy NGC 6744, and six known planetary systems (including HD 181433 which is host to a super-Earth).

The data used to create this image were gathered by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).

https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw

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Arcade adventure for young stars

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the young open star cluster IC 1590, which is found within the star formation region NGC 281 — nicknamed the Pacman Nebula due to its resemblance to the famous arcade game character. This image only shows the central part of the nebula, where the brightest stars at the core of the cluster are found, with part of the Pacman’s hungry mouth visible as the dark region below.

But Pacman isn’t gobbling up these stars. Instead, the nebula’s gas and dust are being used as raw ingredients to make new stars. However, the stars in IC 1590 are still plotting their escape from the Pacman Nebula, as open clusters are only loosely bound together and the grouping will eventually disperse within a few tens of millions of years.

IC 1590 lies about ten thousand light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cassiopeia (The Queen). Through small telescopes the core of the cluster that appears at the top of this picture shows up as a triple star, but the nebula that surrounds it is much fainter and very hard to see. The eagle-eyed American astronomer E. E. Barnard, using a 15 cm telescope, first recorded it in the late nineteenth century.

This picture was created from images taken using the Wide Field Channel of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Images though yellow (F550M, coloured blue), orange (F660N, coloured green) and red (F658N) filters were combined. The F658N filter isolates light from glowing hydrogen gas. The total exposure times per filter were 450 s, 1017 s and 678 s, respectively and the field of view is about 3.3 arcminutes across.

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https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw

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