#howieduet

[lowlevelkoboldadventures]

Hi @howieduet, thanks for the input! Here's how it went, I tried my best!!! QwQ Anyone have any ideas on how I can improve?

(sound warning, sound's not essential tho!)

(also one of my dragons let me possess a human body for this training lesson, that's why I'm not purple and small!)

[heydocverdant]

Oh here's another question! Is there a reason Daisy chose the oversized hand she has for her replacement arm? Was it just what was available?

Good question! The short answer is that it’s what Daisy had available, the long answer is slightly more complicated and linked to Daisy’s backstory. I’m currently drawing some answers for different questions in my inbox, otherwise I’d draw something explaining this, but basically

Daisabelle is an outdated Audro-G3 hostess drone, installed on the Wellwisher to provide customer service

Unlike every other Audro model, Daisabelle accidentally developed a true artificial intelligence within her first few years of service

Daisabelle’s product line was fully decommissioned five years after her manufacture, making it extremely difficult (and expensive!) to source replacement parts for her. Technically the ship had other drones as well, but the parent company takes all the decommissioned drones whenever it updates the Wellwisher’s hardware, and Ol’ Joe is only able to hide so many compatible parts from the audit

Daisabelle was badly damaged in an accident roughly ten years prior to meeting Lee. Company policy technically considers her an appliance, so she would’ve been forcibly decommissioned if she was unable to meet basic workplace requirements. Since most of the damage was just cosmetic, Ol’ Joe prioritized helping Daisy assemble a makeshift arm to barely pass the requirements for custodial. It’s clunky and prone to breaking down, but it works

Daisy’s purchased a few replacement parts for herself over the years, but mostly cosmetic ones; she’s never bothered to replace her arm with a model that fits right. Could be cost, could be sentimental, could be she likes that it’s numb enough for carving doodles onto. Who knows?

Whenever she wants to have a fresh canvas for art, she always paints the replacement arm orange. orange was always the hardest color to find, anyway

Thanks for the ask!

[voskhodart]

Hello! I love your Turning Heavenward piece. However, I can't quite make sense of the last image. What is it, under the line beginning "but above all else"?

That image is of the sculpture Fallen Astronaut by artist Paul Van Hoeydonck. It was left on the surface of the moon by the crew of Apollo 15 to honor those who lost their lives in the pursuit of human space travel.

The names included on the plaque are Theodore C. Freeman, Charles A. Bassett, Elliot M. See Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Roger B. Chaffee, Edward H. White II, Vladimir M. Komarov, Edward G. Givens Jr., Clifton C. Williams Jr., Yuri A. Gagarin, Pavel I. Belyayev, Georgiy T. Dobrovolsky, Viktor I. Patsayev, and Vladislav N. Volkov.

(Notably, this plaque is missing the names of Valentin Bondarenko and Grigori Nelyubov (whose deaths Americans were not aware of at the time), Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (the first black astronaut), and Michael J. Adams.)

There have been some major controversies surrounding the sale of replicas, but I think the simplicity and message of the sculpture is still very powerful. It's an incredibly human thing to place a memorial on the moon.

[tigirl-and-co]

Oh! Your blog might have been where I first heard of the Sector General books. I just now read the first collection and enjoyed it immensely. I was not expecting to tear up reading the hovering dinosaur story.

omg yaayayayayayayayyyyy!!! I'm glad you're enjoying it, honestlyyyy they just keep getting better.

i love Conway bc he thinks he's the most normal guy ever and everybody has to be like

"sorry man you're actually our favourite freak"

[vergess]

For the Pokemon ask game:

One Direction

Okay now we're just going all in on the "watch Vees struggle" thing, I see. Let me first google what the hell One Direction even looks like I know it's a boy band...

So that's 4 Ellen Degeneres clones and a guy who clearly goes on a lot of yachts.

I don't think I even know any 5 part pokemon, like they usually have 3 bodies, or maybe 4... but 5??

WAIT I KNOW ONE GUY WITH THAT MANY BODIES

Who's That Pokemon!

Send me the worst descriptions you can think of for a pokemon, and watch me struggle to guess them!

[List of all pokemon] [Random Numbers]

[popfizzles]

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[revretch]

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Is it more than coincidence that those three groups have members that show high degrees of intelligence?

Well, our definiton of “intelligence” is basically just adaptability! A slime mold can solve in a day a problem that took humans a century, but we don’t consider it intelligent because its intelligence only applies to that one situation. Similarly, computers have long been able to beat us at chess, but the programs in question can’t expand beyond that particular programming.

Birds, primate, and octopuses can come up with new solutions to completely new problems on the fly, and that’s what we consider intelligent. Neural networks, which can adapt to new problems, are considered far more intelligent than programs coded by hand.

Whether that definition of intelligence is fair is another question.

[weirdchristmas]

Do you have any more cards from regiments like the 3rd Middlesex artillery and Tank Corps one? Seems like Christmas cards from military units were a thing back then?

There are a bunch of those out there. I have some. I know a couple people who specialize in military paraphenalia that have as many as they can find, but they don’t really scan them all in. Here’s some, tho: