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💕 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 💕
QOTD: Who’s a woman you love and/or admire?
I adore my mum 🥰 I’m so glad we have a close relationship.
The “emotionally attached to fictional characters” candle is from Book of the Wick and you can use TEA10 to save at checkout!
It’s also very fitting because these books contain some of my absolute favourite fictional female characters 🥰
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Have you read Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (2021)?
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I have taken an interest in symmetrical arrangements of great circles, and have started making models of them by weaving strips of thin card. I have devised the following rules for the models:
1) The model must only contain great circles.
2) Any circle can be mapped to any other circle by a symmetry of the model.
3) No three circles may cross each other at the same point.
These rules result in different sets of great circles than those catalogued by Buckminster Fuller (his "25 great circles of the spherical octahedron", and "31 great circles of the spherical icosahedron"). The number of circles in a model ranges up to a maximum of 60 (discounting the infinite family with prismatic symmetry). We shall see whether I succeed in making any of that size!
Any model that satisfies the rules can be constructed as a strict weave (or braid), where the strands alternately go over and under each other. This is related to Alexander's theorem and it is a fun exercise to prove.
The zero-, one- and two-circle arrangements are not very interesting. Note that an arbitrary pair of distinct great circles automatically satisfies all three rules and has D2 symmetry.
The first model worth making has three circles in cubic symmetry. The circles follow the edges of a spherical octahedron. It is interesting that no two circles in the weave are linked even though the complete model is linked. It is topologically equivalent to the Borromean Rings.
Next up is the four circle model, also with cubic symmetry (the blue strips in the pictures). In this case the circles follow the edges of a spherical cuboctahedron. Finally, I made a six strip model with pyritohedral symmetry (the red strips). I had no idea this arrangement existed until I started my research. I combined the red and blue strips into a single arrangement because it made for a more attractive model. The combined model is very close to (but not quite the same as) a ten-strip model with dodecahedral symmetry.
B.J. Blazkowicz - I'm going to strap as many helmets and armors to my body to survive everything
Indiana Jones - FRUIT
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Is Exactly The Game It Needs To Be.
I find myself consistently surprised with the type of game that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle actually is. Like many people, I think I had defaulted to assuming that this new, big budget, Indiana Jones game would just be something akin to Uncharted or Tomb Raider. When it was said that the game as actually played from first person, I think we all thought it would be something closer to a Wolfenstein style shooter. We were all wrong, and how fantastic that is. Instead of being focused exclusively on action or climbing up things, Indiana Jones feels like a real deal adventure that slots right into the series I love so much. So much of this game is taking in sights, exploring nooks and crannies to find treasure, or otherwise doing the exact things we all expect Indy to do. It's made in a such a way that while the combat does come, it feels appropriate to the character and it doesn't take over the vibe the game is going for. Indiana Jones was never one for mowing down thirty Nazis in ten seconds, not at least in the same way Machine Game's other protagonist, BJ Blazkowicz is. While that works for that franchise, Indiana Jones has something different going for it. It has something unique all to its own, and it's making for a hell of a video game. It's remarkable to me just how much Machine Games understood the assignment with Indiana Jones. This is a game that, in spite of this sounding cliche, really feels like you're playing a brand new Indiana Jones movie. A new story of adventure in the prime of the character, designed with care, and zigging when it could always default to a zag. I'm excited every night after work just to see where another hour of this game will go. Thus far, I haven't been disappointed, whether I'm fighting off some fascists, or just taking some pictures around the Vatican. I feel I have so much of the game to go, but if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to looking for cat mummies and whipping fascists.
Floem
Dreamed that Some Mathematician was drawing chords through a circle on the board, giving them (after "diameter") exotic names and Greek-ish letters. One of them he called "Floem" (pronounced "fleem") and its symbol was like a phi crossed with an English lowercase i.
I woke up and I was like "This is very important for some reason!"
But it was gone. Now all I can do is name a character "Floem" and put in a footnote that it's "fleem" and not "floam," i.e. uses the dumb British "oe."
Machine Games' first foray outside of the Wolfenstein franchise holds its own (and snags its fedora on the way out).
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle finally delivers on the promise of Xbox Games Pass, delivering a high-quality and entertaining single-player adventure that fans of the series will absolutely adore. While it's not the most technically innovative game and it could use an upgrade in the combat department, it's still one of the most entertaining games of the year, and a much more faithful continuation of the Indiana Jones franchise than the most recent films in the series.
At some point she would have found the edge of her own courage. There is nothing for it but to adjust, be humbled. So she is not exactly who she had thought. So what. She will be someone different.
Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
