As he walks through the corridors of the Akademiya, his Invoker's spear in hand, the researchers and scholars bow down slightly to show respect. As the General Mahamatra, it is his duty to lead the Matra and discipline those who go against the Akademiya's rules.
You were a scholar too. But one can say that the two of you were almost.....friends. Almost. Acquaintance would be a better word. The TCG tournament allowed the two of you to exchange pleasantries in between rounds. He was a lawful enforcer, the one that held authority over the nine bows. But you did not see it that way. For you, he was just Cyno, a fellow TCG player. It was weird at first that even outside of a tournament setting you could be slightly frank with him, shocking your colleagues and Cyno himself.
He was interested in talking to you about more than just TCG and research and he even made an effort not to include his jokes in your conversations. But one day he was eavesdropping on your conversation with one of your colleagues did he finally understand the motive behind you getting close to him.
"Oh don't worry I'll talk Cyno out of suspending you from the Akademiya. He likes me he'll definitely listen to me"
Oh but that's not how it's gonna work. You must recieve punishment for even thinking that you can take advantage of him.
So with a Wolf's Swiftness, he began making arrangements for your punishment. Surely this will make you realise the consequences of you leading him on.
"On the accounts of plagiarism and delibrate destruction of another scholar's research, you are hereby suspended from the Sumeru Akademiya"
You couldn't help but be dumfounded. How did this happen??
"My research is 100% original. I have given credits where I did not cite my own data and I did not destroy anyone's work!! These are false accusations" right at that moment Cyno walks in and you felt relieved. He will surely get you out of this mess. "Unfortunately for you these are not false accusations, I have confirmed them myself. Please collect your belongings and empty your allotted room"
"But this is not fair where will I live Cy-"
"You have three days. Meeting dismissed"
With tear filled eyes you look back at the Akademiya that you so loved and wished to go back, but now you'll never be able to step foot again. With nowhere to go and stay, you went on your way to another nation.
Cyno looks at you from the window. He truly wished things could become more romantic between you two but your corrupt ways had to be corrected. He cannot allow Sumeru scholars to behave like this. Others got to know about your friendship with him, he could not let others think about being friends with people in the Matra to gain an advantage, so he delibrately suspended you.
bites enemies for 10-15 dmg to health, and pings for Cas9 on map
or
pulls multiple enemies to a center point (like ash's snare) for 5-10 dmg, immediate release
take stalk
attaches to first enemy to come by, alerts Cas9 pins outline to them for 5 seconds, can plant multiple stalks
(kind of like Hound, but is triggered rather than instant and can only attach to one player at a time)
(...so sort of like ash’s passive but better)
branch out
creates a small platform to walk across, up to 6(stealing Catalyst's concept tact because I’m still bitter)
thorn down
thorny patch that deals damage and slows because Alec was right when thinking of it first
(fucking catalyst)
aloe there
pulls players within range to 1-2M away, causes 5-10 dmg to enemies(after typing it out, i thought “oh fuck that's just Roadhog's hook”)(or path’s zipline if you attach it to an enemy)
at bay / bushed away / bush back
pushes enemies back a small distance (like 2-5M) for a small amount of damage, pretty much a punch at a distance(might rework this because the image of it funny as hell to me)
patched up
something something health
power plant
something something shields
names without abilities
bark's bite
rough patch
plot twist
thyme crunch
party thyme
hem locked
feeling vine
log in/out
I’m already dead set on his passive being called “Upsy Daisy” which, revives allies in a quicker time and gives them a small bonus of health
He was supposed to be named Catalyst because his ult relied on vials of catalyzing agents (technically they can also be called an enzyme). He holds out his bowl and you can choose to heal or harm and throw a distance (either the L or R button). Sort of like Moira? Only it doesn’t bounce around and is grounded, lasting for... 8-10 seconds? Not sure if that is a fair amount of time.
I remember when the dev’s were testing out abilities with the Dummy’s Day Out event. They had an ability that allowed an immediate heal for a certain radius. Problem with that included you being the center of the heal, and it also healing enemies (from this event, they fixed Mirage’s ult into ‘dance party’. remember seeing 6 mirages standing in a field? good times).
If you think it takes too much time, think of Newcastle’s, Path’s or Ash’s ults. You need to aim those strategically and can’t immediately spam throw them down without tact like you can with Lifeline’s, Caustic’s or Horizon’s. I mean you can, but it might not be as accurate if you want to plan things out.
The ult still needs a name though. Hm.. Vile vial? The plant’s named Captain Fuzzy Britches... Fuzzing around? It’s based on oleander (appearance), venus fly and guarana (as a mouth and center), lotus flowers (roots), and vine snakes (body). As well as a made up plant called “whistler reeds” (typha sibilus aurae) to explain the noises it makes. It sounds like when you blow through a leaf or grass to whistle. So like a chimera. I wanted to add more animal genes, but too much and it’ll be obvious. Nature’s course?
The subject of an English sentence sure looks like it starts off right at the top of the sentence. “Dan should play the lead” definitely seems to have Dan first. And yet, we’ve argued in past episodes that the participants in the activity that the verb represents start off inside the verb phrase. This helps explain why some languages seem to have both their subjects and objects showing up so low inside any given sentence. For example, in Welsh, the subject shows up between the verb and the object, suggesting it could be somewhere in the VP.
(1) Gwelodd Siôn ddraig
saw-3SGPST John dragon
‘John saw a dragon’
In English, the subject doesn’t stay down there; instead, it moves up into a higher part of the structure. Nevertheless, we can see that it sometimes leaves a bit of itself behind.
(2a) All the patients will [VP get better]
(2b) The patients will [VP all get better]
Now we’ve claimed in our most recent episode that, for both syntactic and semantic reasons, we shouldn’t visualize verb phrases as the monolith shown below, on the left. Instead, it’s better to think of the verb phrase as being split, into an upper part and a lower part. The lower half — the meat of the VP — contains the verb itself, and any objects that it needs to feel complete. The upper half consists of a kind of second verb phrase; it ends up encompassing the main one, not unlike how auxiliary and modal VPs sometimes do (e.g., “might have been switched”). And this new verbal region includes both the subject and, in languages with more well-rounded morphology, a special kind of affix that ties everything together.
But if you want to add in this structure, then you should probably expect to find some sentences without it, too. And we do!
So what does a sentence look like without this subject-introducing layer? Well, we should look for sentences that are short an agent — a doer to set the events described by the VP in motion. And when we search through our speech, it isn’t too long before we find just that.
One of the most familiar kinds of sentences that show up without an agent are passive sentences. With their familiar form of “be” and optional ‘by-phrase,’ their most notable feature is that they put their objects in subject position.
(3a) They took David’s sister.
(3b) David’s sister was taken.
And in our recent discussion on the relationship between active sentences and passive ones, we mentioned Burzio’s Generalization, which makes the observation that there’s a one-to-one connection between sentences that have no agent, and sentences which have no phrases marked with accusative case (e.g., the object pronoun “them” versus the subject “they”). We suggested this had something to do with the passive “be” and its accompanying affix “-en.” But when we get to chopping the verb phrase in two, we can develop a much more satisfying picture. To see how, let’s focus in on what the split really does.
In the episode, we said that one thing this new structure did was give ditransitive verbs like “put” some breathing room inside the lower VP, so that all objects — direct and indirect alike — could live in harmony.
Something else this does, though, is put the main object — which is something that normally shows up with accusative case (e.g., “put him in there”) — right beside our new, little ‘v’ and its agent-adding powers. And this puts us just a step away from understanding what’s going on: if we imagine for a moment that our little ‘v’ is in charge of adding agents and handing out accusative case to whatever’s right next to it, then we can ask what happens when it disappears.
Well, without little ‘v”, the agent for the sentence goes missing, and so does the ability to slap accusative case on anything! Two entirely separate things that shouldn’t really have anything to do with each other unexpectedly synch up, and we finally can make sense of Burzio’s Generalization. With that little ‘v’ pulling double duty, agents and accusatives actually go hand-in-hand.
Of course, passives aren’t the only sentences prone to pairing up with more object-like subjects. On top of alternating verbs like “roll” and “melt,” which we first used to introduce the idea of dividing things up, we find that some verbs always arrive agent-free. In “He deteriorated,” “he” plays no real role in what’s happening, and if you try to use an active subject, it just sounds weird.
(4a) He deteriorated.
(4b) *They deteriorated him.
And raising verbs like “seem” and “appear” work along those same lines; they don’t come with subjects of their own, and sometimes even resort to stealing one from the following clause. Splitting the verb phrase now just means that these verbs come without an upper vP.
(5a) It seems he’s psychic.
(5b) He seems to be psychic.
Even straightforwardly transitive verbs like “eat” and “sell” can drop their agents under the right circumstances, showing off what’s sometimes called the ‘middle voice.’
(6) This idea won’t sell easily.
Expressions like these have even found their way into the slogans of pop culture!
So passive verbs, certain intransitives, and even ordinary transitives can, and sometimes must, appear without this outer layer, fitting snugly into our new paradigm. And some languages even flag when this new structure of ours shows up, in spite of its often stealthy character. Italian uses a separate set of auxiliary verbs when in the presence of a vP (“ha” for “have”), as opposed to when not (“è” for “be”). And a similar verbal scheme can be seen at work in German.
(7a) Maria ha telefonato
‘Maria has telephoned’
(7b) Maria è arrivata
‘Maria is arrived’
(8a) Die Maria hat telefoniert
‘Maria has telephoned’
(8b) Die Maria ist angekommen
‘Maria is arrived’
Thus, the structures underlying all languages emerge little by little, not only by way of English, but through the lens of languages arranged in ways that pull apart and shine light on these otherwise guarded secrets!
Introduction to Capacitors: Basic Concepts, Working, Types and Applications in Circuits
Capacitors – the word seems to suggest the idea of capacity, which according to the dictionary means ‘the ability to hold something’. That is exactly what a capacitor does – it holds electric charge. But what makes it a common component in almost all electronic circuits? Let us break down the stuff behind capacitors to understand what it does and how one could use them in this article.
A Trimpot is another type of potentiometer that comes in small package. It has three leads and can be easily mounted on breadboard or perf board for quick prototyping. The value of the pot can changed by varying the knob on top of it.
Learn more about trimpots: https://components101.com/resistors/preset-potentiometer-trimpot-pinout-datasheet
Trim pots are also known as preset potentiometers used for adjustment, calibration and tuning purpose in circuits. They are easily mountable on PCB boards and adjusted by a screwdriver. The resistive track is made up of carbon composition or cermet. When replacing with normal potentiometers, remember their life span is not so long.
Learn more about trimpots here: https://components101.com/resistors/3296-trimmer-potentiometer-pinout-datasheet
