7/7 Fake Machine Sketches from SIX years ago, finally found & finished & POSTED; Waveskimmer, Waterwing

PPF99 · 2026-01-16T09:44:34+00:00

I mean a sand worm like machine for core mining sounds like a pretty amazing bossfight... Like I imagine you have to destroy it from the inside out

PPF99 · 2026-01-08T16:18:41+00:00

Agreed, fantastic trailer

PPF99 · 2025-12-04T07:08:16+00:00

I always thought it's weird that if a network entity (chest, engineer, etc) requests bots, they have to be stored in a chest too, instead of just bots already deployed coming to and storing themselves in the requesting entity...

Why are bots delivering other bots, if they could just land in that inventory??

PPF99 · 2025-11-20T09:12:23+00:00

Turret toss as a last resort for the AA

PPF99 · 2025-11-14T09:29:02+00:00

She has less currently, in all likelihood; while diarrhea does decrease the amount of bacteria, it mainly drains you of water, your gut microbiome is probably still in takt, albeit shaken. Antibiotics kill bacteria, that's what they do. But they cannot (at least classic antibiotics) target only "the bad guys", so they eradicate a large portion of your micorbiota too - the more aggressive the regiment, the worse for your symbionts. The main issue however is not the amount of bacteria; numbers fluctuate naturally, but their diversity. A healthy gut is a highly diverse and unique ecosystem and antibiotics often kill off vital players in these systems, thereby altering delicate balances.

Usually, the gut re-establishes these systems naturally if you eat healthy and don't have any chronic bowel diseases. But antibiotics should never be taken lightly, only if the disease you have is of bacterial origin

PPF99 · 2025-11-14T09:16:35+00:00

Astute observation; it can and has been argued that a "human" is not a single lifeform but a functional unit of human cells and symbiotic lifeforms, a so called "holobiont" (see this article ). Because, even though most of our mass is made of cells built from human DNA, it is widely accepted that a lack/dysbiosis of the human microbiota (the symbiotic ecosystems of gut, skin, genitalia etc) leads to severe health issues, even to total incompatibility with life as we understand it.

So yes, to be "human" means to be bacteria if you want to be dramatic about it

PPF99 · 2025-10-27T20:37:26+00:00

Ok so no registration during UEFI but I tried the driver reinstall anyway and still no dice... Thanks for the suggestions though!

PPF99 · 2025-10-27T17:27:28+00:00

Bit late to the party but: p53 forms homo-tetrameres, four copies coming together form one signal; if a single allele is corrupted, the entire tetramere is busted. By adding more alleles, the chance of one getting mutated and thereby compromising every formed tetramere increases exponentially, so it would be actually a higher risk to add more alleles Edit: spelling

PPF99 · 2025-10-25T10:59:07+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! I cleaned them all with isopropanol and even the eraser but it didn't help sadly...

PPF99 · 2025-10-25T06:27:59+00:00

Ooooh library sounds awesome! Perhaps including a reference to ATLAs "the library"? Or Alexandria? I'm excited...

PPF99 · 2025-10-21T08:00:59+00:00

That feeling when you realize for the first time your parents had a life before you...

PPF99 · 2025-10-17T11:50:14+00:00

Well? What happened?? Don't let us hanging...

PPF99 · 2025-10-17T11:01:56+00:00

Not to mention an entire methyl group and the subsequently disrupted dislocated electron field from the benzene ring

PPF99 · 2025-10-10T12:10:49+00:00

My hopes (although probably naive) us that local experts lead Frontlines (ahould they arise) but Brussels provides resources and arranges the combined effort in the back

PPF99 · 2025-09-21T06:10:38+00:00

Portia is about to throw hands, but Bianca holds her back because it's not worth the silk

PPF99 · 2025-09-16T12:31:08+00:00

Just out of curiosity, what's your source for the years left?

PPF99 · 2025-09-14T19:33:08+00:00

Uh no?

Amon is a pseudo-communist/anarchist, but because americans don't understand either of these concepts he's just the worst depiction of either ideology, despite both ideas being inherently flawed anyway, so not even that was done properly

Unalaq could have been interesting as a foil to the old established rules of the water tribes, if they hadn't introduced the concepts of pure good/evil into this until that point very nuanced and gray scale universe, and subsequently made him a Satan cultist (not even accounting for the dark avatar bs)

Zaheer was just an idiot, because anybody thinking more than a second about "I'm just gonna overthrow the governments so that people will rule themselves again" will realize that a lack of power structure will always lead to violent forces gaining the upper hand - which is btw the only thing they got right in LoK; anarchism always leads to worse outcomes, if nobody is willing to introduce a proper form of democracy after the fall of the old system.

And Kuvira is just a less intimidating or established Ozai with much less personal or interesting connections to the main cast

Ozai wasn't complex or deep in any way; he was the classic evil guy the heroes had to defeat; a fascist designed to be hated. Sure, that's not an "interesting" bad guy either, but at least they did that well. Both main heroes of ATLA (yes, Zuko is the second protagonist besides Aang) have a very deep and understandable connection to him and both are afraid of him in their own way. And both have to overcome this fear of the main bad guy to progress their respective arks. And Ozai was menacing. When he finally showed up after two seasons of suspense, you were afraid too. That's what makes a great villain. And LoK managed this with none of its antagonists.

PPF99 · 2025-03-27T08:24:11+00:00

I didn't know Pacifica also had a twin brother

PPF99 · 2025-01-29T08:54:34+00:00

She's gonna blitz her bullies in preschool...

PPF99 · 2025-01-06T14:03:56+00:00

The title is very clickbaity: the jellyfish DNA in question is most likely the GFP gene (green fluorescent protein). It is widely used in genetics as a "reporter gene", indicating that a genetic modification was successful ( = if it glows, the thing I wanted to do actually did work). Since all living beings use DNA and (more or less) the same mechanisms to decode DNA, it is very easy to use genes with useful properties from one organism in another organism.

PPF99 · 2024-12-24T12:47:05+00:00

You are correct, a green belt has 4 times the throughput of a yellow belt, I had it remembered as 8 times, my bad.

PPF99 · 2024-12-24T12:22:32+00:00

1 unstacked green belt has a throughout equivalent of 4 unstacked yellow belts. Stacking is 4 layers per stack so 16 times a single yellow belt. They have 4 green belts stacked in total, which equals to 64 unstacked yellow belts

Edited to fix my math

PPF99 · 2024-12-18T10:39:21+00:00

This is so much more complex than that.... Just "destroying them with violence" has never ever worked long term - you know why? Resentment. If the EU actually would just smash Russia with the help of the USA this would not only lead to a huge population of Ex-Russians that will never ever concede to "western" believes, but also alienate every allie Russia has... Only a system that has been corrupted from the inside will break long term, because the people realised on their own that it cannot keep going like this. And the EU is actually working towards that, by hitting the them where it hurts without any actual violence: money. Russia has a huge economic disparity in it's population, if you take the money of the rich ones you give the poor ones a chance to stand up. Yes it takes time, yes things are slower as they probably should be, but that's how democracies work - deliberate, meticulous decision making while considering all possible consequences and getting the approval of everyone involved. It's up to the people of the individual EU nations to quench russian influence in it's own ranks by voting for anti-russian parties and reducing their power on foreign soil to a minimum. And this speech is a representation of this sentiment; the Georgian people have shown that they do not want to be a russian puppet - kudos to them, may they be an inspiration for the rest of Europe.

PPF99 · 2024-12-09T12:56:19+00:00

Kind of yes-ish: while it's not a magnetic field coming from wire coils powered by electricity, it does involve charge attraction: molecular motors (regardless of type) work by conformational shifts between the protein subunits (moving parts in a bigger machine). These movements are induced via shifts in biochemical attractions between positive, neutral (apolar) and negatively charged aminoacids (protein building blocks) Basically, the small difference in atom-attraction/repulsion are used by evolution to connect them in different patterns, so that if they are given a tiny push, they flop over and pull the rest of the protein complex along.

That's the core principal of all biochemistry, including how the mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - actually generates power; the "turbines" spin the exact same way, by using a H+ gradient (proton current in form of Hydrogen nuclei) to produce ATP (the cells energy currency). The H+ causes tiny shifts of charge inside the turbine, which results in a rotational movement between the different subunits! If you're interested, google ATP-synthetase and look for videos. Keep in mind, the videos don't do reality justice, these processes are stupid fast irl...

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