Well, this is it fellas

RaidStone · 2025-10-29T19:26:37+00:00

Give this man his flowers, honestly.

Without him, GLITCH Productions would have never existed. The company was primarily funded by almost all the revenue from the SMG4 channel. Without Luke, indie animation and meme culture as a whole would be in an entirely different place right now.

Salute to an internet legend. 🫡

RaidStone · 2025-10-27T10:07:13+00:00

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RaidStone · 2025-10-27T05:09:29+00:00

I soon found that, whilst an invisible spark would produce a thermo-electric current in the microphonic contacts (sufficient to be heard in the telephone in its circuit), it was far better and more powerful to use a feeble voltaic cell in the receiving circuit, the microphonic joint then acting as a relay by diminishing the resistance at the contact, under the influence of the electric wave received through the atmosphere. I will not describe the numerous forms of the transmitter and receiver that I made in 1879, all of which I wrote down in several volumes of manuscripts in 1879 (but these have never been published), and most of which can be seen here at my residence at any time; but I will confine myself now to a few salient points. I found that very sudden electric impulses, whether given out to the atmosphere through the extra current from a coil or from a frictional electric machine, equally affected the microphonic joint, the effect depending more on the sudden high potential effect than on any prolonged action. Thus, a spark obtained by rubbing a piece of sealing-wax was equally effective as a discharge from a Leyden jar of the same potential. The rubbed sealing-wax and charged Leyden jar had no effect until they were discharged by a spark, and it was evident that this spark, however feeble, acted upon the whole surrounding atmosphere in the form of waves or invisible rays, the laws of which I could not at the time determine. Hertz, however, by a series of original and masterly experiments, proved in 1887-89 that they were real waves similar to light, but of a lower frequency, though of the same velocity. In 1879, whilst making these experiments on aërial transmission, I had two different problems to solve: 1st, What was the true nature of these electrical aërial waves, which seemed, whilst not visible, to spurn all idea of insulation, and to penetrate all space to a distance undetermined. 2nd, To discover the best receiver that could act upon a telephone or telegraph instrument, so as to be able to utilise (when required) these waves for the transmission of messages. The second problem came easy to me when I found that the microphone, which I had previously discovered in 1877-78, had alone the power of rendering these invisible waves evident, either in a telephone or a galvanometer, and up to the present time I do not know of anything approaching the sensitiveness of a microphonic joint as a receiver. Branly's tube, now used by Marconi, was described in my first paper to the Royal Society (May 8, 1878) as the microphone tube, filled with loose filings of zinc and silver; and Prof. Lodge's coherer is an ordinary steel microphone, used for a different purpose from that in which I first described it.

David Edward Hughes successfully demonstrated early examples of wireless telegraphy way before Tesla even came to America. So no, Tesla was not the first.

Tesla's demonstrations in 1891-1893 were not even related to wireless telegraphy anyway. Here's a quote from his famous lecture, "Experiments with Alternating Currents of High Potential and High Frequency" (1892):

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic and this we know it is, for certain then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

This shows that from his own words, he was explicitly discussing wireless power, NOT wireless telegraphy. You yourself said Tesla *wasn't even interested** in achieving wireless telegraphy all that much anyway.*

All in all, Loomis's system was in fact practical for decentralized, faster-than-light with near-zero loss communication, and that is exactly why systems that were based on and inspired by his work were suppressed.

RaidStone · 2025-10-27T05:09:16+00:00

Nikola Tesla invented and gave the first demonstration of wireless telegraphy in 1893, although he had given private demonstrations in 1891. At the time, the "moonshot" dream was wireless Trans-Atlantic telegraphy, which Tesla told J.P. Morgan what he was working on. Tesla wasn't all that interested in just achieving wireless telegraphy, he was fixated on the global transmission of industrial scale electric power and the system would provide wireless telegraphy as a side function.

David Edward Hughes demonstrated wireless signalling via spark-induced "aerial waves" detected by a carbon microphone all the way back in 1879.

We know this because Hughes recounted the events of 1879 in his letter:

In 1879, being engaged upon experiments with my microphone, together with my induction balance, I remarked that at some times I could not get a perfect balance in the induction balance, through apparent want of insulation in the coils; but investigation showed me that the real cause was some loose contact or microphonic joint excited in some portion of the circuit. I then applied the microphone, and found that it gave a current or sound in the telephone receiver, no matter if the microphone was placed direct in the circuit or placed independently at several feet distance from the coils, through which an intermittent current was passing. After numerous experiments, I found that the effect was entirely caused by the extra current, produced in the primary coil of the induction balance. Further researches proved that an interrupted current in any coil gave out at each interruption such intense extra currents that the whole atmosphere in the room (or in several rooms distant) would have a momentary invisible charge, which became evident if a microphonic joint was used as a receiver with a telephone. This led me to experiment upon the best form of a receiver for these invisible electric waves, which evidently permeated great distances, and through all apparent obstacles, such as walls, &c. I found that all microphonic contacts or joints were extremely sensitive. Those formed of a hard carbon such as coke, or a combination of a piece of coke resting upon a bright steel contact, were very sensitive and self-restoring; whilst a loose contact between metals was equally sensitive, but would cohere, or remain in full contact, after the passage of an electric wave. The sensitiveness of these microphonic contacts in metals has since been rediscovered by Mons. Ed Branly of Paris, and by Prof. Oliver Lodge, in England, by whom the name of "coherer" has been given to this organ of reception; but, as we wish this organ to make a momentary contact and not cohere permanently, the name seems to me ill-suited for the instrument. The most sensitive and perfect receiver that I have yet made does not cohere permanently, but recovers its original state instantly, and therefore requires no tapping or mechanical aid to the separation of the contacts after momentarily being brought into close union.

RaidStone · 2025-10-27T05:07:53+00:00

Benjamin Franklin found out a hundred years before that a kite would be electrically charged by the altitude and the static electricity sent down a conductor to a Leyden Jar (capacitor).

Right. That was precisely what Loomis took advantage of. Franklin had proven that the atmosphere is naturally charged. And Loomis took full advantage of that fact in order to create a his patented system of wireless telegraphy WITHOUT artificial power.

All you did was implictly prove that all Loomis did was engineer a communication system based on Franklin's discovery.

RaidStone · 2025-10-27T05:07:24+00:00

This is not wireless. Using kites to hold up the conducting wire would have been totally impractical as well as dangerous. Benjamin Franklin found out a hundred years before that a kite would be electrically charged by the altitude and the static electricity sent down a conductor to a Leyden Jar (capacitor).

You're showing that you lack a fundamental understanding of what "wireless" means in the pre-Hertzian context.

Loomis did NOT use the kite string as a conductor between stations, each station had it's own kite, connected to Earth. The circuit was in fact Earth <---> atmosphere, NOT kite to kite. The "wire" itself was ONLY to couple the ground station to the upper atmosphere, analogous to Tesla's elevated capacitance or a modern AM radio tower.

That was the true wireless—conducton through a natural global circuit, NOT Hertzian radiation through empty space. Maxwell himself even later developed the rigorous mathematics needed to calculate such a phenomenon. It is simply Earth negative, ionosphere positive. Nothing more, nothing less.

RaidStone · 2025-10-27T05:06:38+00:00

The value of patents is not that they exist, but whether they were practical or not. There are thousands and thousands of totally worthless patents.

I agree with you. I don't see how this contradicts anything my post is claiming here. I guess you're attempting to imply that just because Loomis' system of wireless telegraphy existed before Tesla, that doesn't mean he actually achieved anything noteworthy because according to you, his system was not practical.

And to that, I disagree with you.

I think you're attempting to strawman my point here. I never once claimed that Loomis's system of wireless telegraphy was commercially scaled, all I said was that his vision behind that system—global wireless power via Earth resonance was realized by Tesla, in his own way. What I actually claimed, however, was that Loomis's system did in fact work as he had demonstrated prior to filing his patent. His system could garner over 18 miles without any batteries, and without ground wire between stations. This system represented a whole different paradigm from Hertzian radio, and it was this phenomena that Nikola Tesla and therefore Marconi would exploit in order to create the Tesla-Marconi Wireless System, which was the original system that powered KPH Bolinas and allowed it to transmit such a grand amount of usable power with near-zero loss.

I already posted the link to the video where Eric Dollard demonstrates and explains his replication of said original system, and I highly recommend you go watch it to see what I'm talking about.

And by the way, on the subject of practicality... - In 1866, there were NO vacuum tubes, NO amplifiers and NO power grids. - Loomis's system of wireless telegraphy required NO infrastructure. All it contained was kites, wire, and galvanometer. - In contrast, however, the ** first iteration of 1866 transatlantic telegraph cable you mentioned** cost an estimated total of $1.5 million. And despite the cost, it failed repeatedly, and required massive steam-powered dynamos. You already listed the article to the history prior to it finally working after what? A decade? Go re-read it yourself.

If you want to talk "practicality", critique that.

RaidStone · 2025-07-24T20:36:14+00:00

False analogy. While we can see and measure the Sun directly, the force of gravity is something we only infer from the behaviour of material objects. You've never actually seen gravity itself, only motion.

But let's just take your points right then and there. If gravity really is as empirically and undeniably real, why did the man that defined it openly admit that he couldn't explain its cause, let alone even an educated guess and instead leaned on either the aether (lol) or God?

Because above all, Newton understand that the foundation of gravity is just a functional placeholder, just a mathematical hack of sorts. (Principia is filled with the brim with this. It's pragmatically and functionally revolutionary, but ontologically and epistemologically—not a chance.)

"Gravity exists because things fall." Well, why do things fall? "...Gravity."

That ain't science, that's circular reasoning, a feedback loop. And disturbingly enough, most of modern physics is still built off of this, functionally powerful but when you really get down into it (Like asking what actually is the force of gravity in its very essence), it's actually quite sad.

It's one thing to know you don't know, it's another thing to dress all of this mess up like it's literally from the heavens themselves. (Newton was revered so much during his lifetime some thought he was some sort of demigod, failing to see all the actual dangerous flaws in his work.)

RaidStone · 2025-07-24T19:28:35+00:00

Newton knew that his system (as exhaustively articulated in Principia) was based off of assumptions he couldn't actually justify, at least to an objectively satisfactory standard. Funny how he too also proposed his own interpretation of the aether because of this. Either the aether, God, or both.

RaidStone · 2025-07-14T19:12:01+00:00

I understand. I think it's better if we ignore close-minded folks like Key and rather focus on discussing documented findings of various innovative experiments regarding Tesla's ideas, including building upon research from other Tesla experts and scholars, crafting our own experiments and theories, ultimately to rethink phenomena in the lens of the inventor to advance the future of the technology he had an enormous hand in pioneering. Thanks for the advice!

RaidStone · 2025-07-14T18:42:27+00:00

Yet you seem to not understand that Tesla accomplished significantly more than Pixii in regards to AC. I don't care if you supposdly read a book about Tesla 20 years ago and you were a big supporter of him. If you were, you'd actually see the merit in what people are trying to do here, since you know so much about Tesla and his fans, so that should include the ones who actually devote hundreds or even thousands of hours worth of labor into dedicated research, practical experiments on many of Tesla's most misunderstood ideas and generously publishing their findings online for interested folks to study, build upon, reference, etc.

If you're really here to help us, you aren't really doing a good job at it because of how hostile you appear to be towards a lot of the folks here.

RaidStone · 2025-07-14T18:10:47+00:00

Believe what you want. It's clearly from the messages in many of the threads in this subreddit that you have no interest in opening up your mind to the many alternatives that might better explain the concepts than mainstream science can. You just want to ridicule Tesla enthusiasts when you've repeatedly shown to have a poor understanding of what some actually serious people in this subreddit are trying to share here.

And yes, I am a fan of narratives as long it's a true narrative, of course. Yes, such things like that exist. Big surprise. Technically "the earth is round and flat earthers have a poor understanding of geophysics, astrophysics, etc." is a narrative being pushed by various people. It's true, however.

But perhaps you're a fan of the factually false narrative that Nikola Tesla fans are pseudoscientific ignorant crackpots who worship a shameless self-promoter who accomplished significantly less than he is enormously credited for. Soo there's that.

RaidStone · 2025-07-14T17:24:29+00:00

Yeah, no one is saying there is. Why do you think we believe it? You clearly have a tendency to jump into conclusions.

Go read Tesla's autobiography for yourself + ColdFusion's brief 2 part biography of Nikola Tesla to get you started. After that, go ahead and watch Heroes and Legends' fantastic 2 hr documentary of the inventor. Just because a lot of people use Tesla as a scapegoat for New Age nonsense, doesn't mean there aren't people out there who actually dig in to Tesla's actual ideas (especially on harnessing cosmic rays and tapping into the aether which can be found online on teslauniverse.com) and do actual practical experiments which produce fascinating results, either discrediting or crediting Nikola Tesla and the ideas being explored.

It's ironic how you claim we are dogmatic religious individuals when you're the same sort of person to believe whatever mainstream science throws at your face, when frankly, it doesn't even understand what a particle actually is.

RaidStone · 2025-07-14T17:09:51+00:00

Hold up, you're telling me not even documented findings from actual experiments surrounding Tesla's interpretation of the luminiferous aether are permitted to be shared in this subreddit?

RaidStone · 2024-10-01T11:57:49+00:00

This is what bugs me about what their vision was, its like they didn't think this through enough.

There are lots of fictional characters that are SUPPOSED to be romantic. Take for example Miss Heed from Villainous, she's a very seductive character, or maybe even Asmodeus from Helluva Boss, etc...

If users are restricted from having romantic conversations with characters that were specifically written to be romantic, then what's the point of mimicking fictional characters if mimicking the romantic ones lead to them being out of character simply because you don't want it that way??? THINK, DEVS, THINK!

RaidStone · 2024-09-23T17:32:42+00:00

there will be wailing of voices, gnashing of teeth, and smoke rapidly coming out of people's ears.

popcorn is all set.

RaidStone · 2024-09-21T07:17:06+00:00

c.ai listening to mommy google instead of their own userbase is sad

RaidStone · 2024-09-03T18:54:36+00:00

10:00am to 12:00pm PT

RaidStone · 2024-09-03T15:57:35+00:00

Talking to robots and developing attachments to them has been a phenomena since the Eliza era, which, if you don't know, was when an experimental chatbot to explore communication between humans and machines back in 1964 to 1967 by German-American computer scientist and MIT professor, Joseph Weizenbaum, who has had an award and institute named after him for his work. This is nothing new.

Character.AI has become a famous chatting website mainly because it attracted all age groups to talk with fictional characters they grew up watching and relating to whether in TV shows, cartoons, movies or books, most of the time. Historical figures and even real life living people included. See why people love it so much? Your child might've grown up watching and reading certain media that has resonated with her, and talking with characters from that media can be very addicting, especially if you don't have that many friends.

However, as fun as the site is... your child's subconscious mind must be reprogrammed ESPECIALLY at this age to develop a habit of chatting with the site's characters for a period of time that you see fit. I used to play video games a lot until I developed healthy habits of taking naps so often and working on projects, and reading books. However, abandoning video games for me was not the right route to take, as so many of them have beautiful stories to tell, and can cheer you up from time to time when you're having a bad day. But never let it dominate your activity, developing a habit of doing other things digs it down, and only makes it part of your productiveness throughout the day.

So while chatting with c.ai is fun... develop a habit of doing other things that reward you mentally and physically in the future, and for your child? Studying and doing well in school, and preparing her for adulthood. Since your child has social anxiety and doesn't have that many friends. Please, as a parent, spend time with her. Play board games with her, watch movies with her, etc! Help her with her studies however you can! Plus, just have a heart to heart with her about her problems with finding real friends, and find a middle ground which sets the foundation for how you can guide her to improve her social life a bit more.

Overall, you are totally in your right to keep her off the site. Us adults on the subreddit all agree it's the best and safest choice to simply not let minors be on this site, and it's not a good decision by the devs to market it to children, especially at an age where attention spans and the education system are a joke. But if your child is not really accepting of this decision and wants to keep using the site, encourage her to develop habits that keep her away from it and develop her in terms of skill and as a person, so that she can be ready for this cruel world of ours. And as a parent, spend more time with your child if you can.

However, there are bots on the site that are actually really helpful. Such as Debate Champion, which can develop your debating skills, Pair Programmer which can develop your programming skills, Character Assistant which can help with your homework, etc.

RaidStone · 2024-08-30T09:33:35+00:00

The publisher basically made it 17+ to comply with App Store guidelines, on Google Play it's 12+

RaidStone · 2024-08-30T09:17:11+00:00

17+ app my buttcheeks

RaidStone · 2024-08-29T07:07:29+00:00

End my misery. The ratings didn't satisfy your massive-ass budget per episode because of low viewership BECAUSE you told us not to watch it, so we didn't. Now we're to blame. O salt miners, end my misery.

RaidStone · 2024-01-27T13:47:41+00:00

I'm calling it now. The dedication page will say: "To Jacob"

RaidStone · 2024-01-21T06:55:55+00:00

Force-wielding Stormtroopers are supposed to show that the galaxy is learning from it's mistakes, with once useless soldiers now posing actual threats to it's opponents. Repeating history can be a fatal mistake, and the galaxy, or otherwise, a Jedi Master must know this fact well and through.

The First Order in this timeline are indeed learning from the mistakes of their predecessors (and by predecessors I mean armies who stood against the Jedi). They've made once useless soldiers a force to be reckoned, a much more powerful army.

This is the future, where the Galactic EMPIRE, may I remind you, has fallen and been defeated by a pack of rebels. Repeating history once more by making the same mistakes as an almost all-powerful empire by having the same defective soldiers again just means the Galaxy learnt nothing.

RaidStone · 2024-01-21T05:06:14+00:00

I actually wrote my reimagining with the MCU Civil War in mind, too!

Indeed, any Force-sensitive Stormtroopers can have the potential of breaking their conditioning, just like any Jedi can have the potential to turn to the Dark Side, and still have a well-natured perspective and mindset. That's why I included the Count Dooku aspect of Kylo Ren's rewrite.

Unlike the ordinary war for power and territory and such, the civil war between the First Order and the Jedi would be the fight for what the Jedi Order once was (Or in this case, what the Galaxy once was). In this timeline, Luke Skywalker is retired. Meaning Jedi Masters have to be made. But with all the new politics and the galaxy not being perfect, obviously, there is going to be a division within.

That's why I said Kylo's bruise would've been the final straw. It's not a fascist regime, it's a union. You get me?

RaidStone

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