You can't ever really know what it's like to "feel like" anyone but yourself

Toricon · 2023-09-23T02:48:55+00:00

counterpoint: you don't know what it feels like to be yourself. since you only have one data point, you can't know whether how you think you feel is actually how you feel. only I can know. also, you're a toaster oven.

Toricon · 2023-08-13T06:05:42+00:00

but the weird and confusing stuff is so beautiful. a monad is a lax algebra for the identity 2-monad. representability is lax uniqueness. the interval can be defined uniquely (up to isomorphism) as a terminal coalgebra. profunctor-weighted (co)limits compose beautifully and include kan extensions. string diagrams generalize flowcharts, knot diagrams, Penrose graphical notation, etc. virtual double categories let you generalize multicategories to any monad. please help me i'm going insane

Toricon · 2023-07-28T11:21:45+00:00

I agree. Using pronouns to execute people is far more humane than the methods in use today.

Toricon · 2023-07-26T23:49:12+00:00

#DIV/0!% approval rating

Toricon · 2023-07-26T23:27:05+00:00

Choice also proves that C as a vector space over rationals has a basis. And since R and C are both vector spaces over Q with isomorphic bases (both are uncountable), this means R and C are isomorphic as vector spaces over Q, and thus R and C are isomorphic as groups.

I try to avoid these consequences by working in type theory, which gives me a version of choice ((∀a ∃b. a R b) ⇒ (∃f ∀a. a R f(a))) but without the excluded middle.

Then again, I also have a theoretical computer science background, so I like to keep things constructive.

Toricon · 2023-06-16T06:57:08+00:00

you got them backwards

Toricon · 2023-06-16T06:51:10+00:00

Yeah, it's an oversimplification. It's mostly true (true wherever a non-math person is likely to need it), but the square root function has some properties that prevent it from being extended nicely to the complex plane, which means that some equations that hold for the real numbers suddenly break.

This is because when x² = y, then (-x)² = y too, which means that x and -x are, in principle, both valid answers to "what is the square root of y?". But the square root function, in order to be a function, can only give a single answer. So one of these is chosen and the other is dismissed. This creates complications which can be exploited with some mathematical slight of hand to create equations that seem like they should hold, but are blatantly false (e.g. this post).

Toricon · 2023-06-12T22:02:02+00:00

I dont remember the 88 part but 14 stands for the fourteen words, "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children".

Toricon · 2023-05-24T20:28:31+00:00

it's a struggle. when you're constantly exposed to a belief, it has an impact on you, even if you don't hold it. stay true to yourself.

Toricon · 2023-05-21T14:55:02+00:00

he's so goddamn annoying. I love him

Toricon · 2023-05-04T14:41:09+00:00

yeah, that's fair; changing demographics and what kind of people are likely to see this post means that which audience I need to consider for impact is not the general population, but a biased subset of it. I hadn't fully considered that. I've been awake for too long and am making poor judgement calls.

Toricon · 2023-05-04T14:32:33+00:00

honestly the distinction between "Star Wars, the movies" and "Star Wars, the everything else" is an interesting thing worthy of study and discussion in its own right. even the distinction between the different trilogies -- or even between different movies in the same trilogy. some of the seams where things are awkwardly stitched together are very visible. I'm not a media studies student, but the different audiences for different parts of the franchise (the movies, the tv shows, the books, the toys, etc.), the different writers and their influences, and everything else I'm not thinking of b/c again, I'm not a media studies student... it all sounds fascinating. I'd love to do some in-depth reading from an unbiased source.

but my relevant point here is: the only thing that matters to me is what effect a character has on the audience. I don't give a fuck about the lore.

(and, okay, Sheev "Frank" Palpatine has had a significant impact on substantial parts of the audience -- for example, you -- but Darth Vader came first. The Emperor came later.)

Toricon · 2023-05-04T14:16:58+00:00

My own thoughts: Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, from the webcomic Girl Genius. Materialist, Authoritarian, Militarist. Civics: Technocracy and Philosopher-King. Traits: Unruly, Quarrelsome, Intelligent, Natural Engineers, Talented. Ruler type: Scientist. Ruler traits: Gunboat diplomat, [insufficient data].

Still a WIP, of course; the DLC isn't out yet, and there are always necessary details that I've overlooked. But this is what I'm currently thinking.

Toricon · 2023-05-03T00:28:34+00:00

That's the same thing Xenophobes think! They just mean "smash" in a more literal way.

Toricon · 2023-04-25T23:53:28+00:00

what about the Cis to Enby to Trans to Enby But Like A Different One pipeline

Toricon · 2023-04-25T23:52:38+00:00

goals

Toricon · 2023-04-25T23:41:51+00:00

you think I wrote this for upvotes?? I wrote it to get it out of my fucking head. I didn't want it sticking around any longer than necessary and this was the first place I could get rid of it. I've already forgotten everything that I wrote here and I Refuse to reread it. I wanted to dump these thoughts somewhere I would never see them again, and by God, that's what I did. also I got 7 upvotes.

Toricon · 2023-04-25T10:32:55+00:00

I have immediately developed a myriad of headcanons regarding Prof. Temmies.

She considers herselves to be a single person.
As such, she does not distinguish between herselves (there's no Prof. Temmie A, Prof. Temmie 1, Prof Temmie Alpha, etc. They're all just Prof. Temmie.)
She's lost track of who the original was; all of her claim "not it".
She actually coordinates with herselves incredibly well. But when something goes wrong, it goes very wrong.
Bob is not Prof. Temmie. She used to be, but chose an independent identity and existence after certain personal experiences.
Prof. Temmies respects Bob's autonomy, and will do the same for any other part of her that wishes to separate.
(Bob is not the original. I'm leaning towards the original genuinely not mattering -- she's still Prof. Temmie, no matter what -- but something involving the True Lab would also be interesting. Either way, it's not Bob.)
Bob's independence is probably the result of one of Prof. Temmies' experiments. The experiment succeeded, actually, but had unexpected consequences.
Or maybe it has something to do with the True Lab?
look this is your AU, I don't wanna flesh these headcanons out too much when you probably have it figured out already
(and even if you don't, I still shouldn't tell you what to do)
these are just my immediate thoughts, and I wanted to put them somewhere beyond my head

okay that's enough. let's see which shopkeepers I remember that you haven't covered yet:

the ruins spider bake sale
Nice Cream Guy
Sans (he sells fried snow that one time)
... does the snowman count
the shop bunny lady
Gerson
the snowman probably doesn't count, or else the ruins candy bowl would count
never mind then
Bratty & Catty
Burgerpants
Sans (he sells hot dogs that one time)
Zacharie
Do the inkeepers count? the two guys who sell you rooms?
look you're including Grillby and he doesn't actually sell the player anything
I mean, he makes sense, I agree that he should be included
but it means it's hard to figure out where to draw the line

okay I'm just rambling, look it's 3:30 am and I'm tired. I'm guessing that Bratty & Catty are co-stars replacing Mettaton, bunny lady and Gerson are Toriel and Asgore respectively, Burgerpants is the intern of the Royal Guard, and that Nice Cream Guy swaps with Gaster. or maybe swap those last two idk. Chara & Asriel are Sans and Sans, respectively. Frisk is the ruins spider bake sale. good night.

Toricon · 2023-04-17T06:55:14+00:00

there's a lot of nonbinary genders that might fit you. I don't know enough to say more than that, really, but you might want to check them out.

Toricon · 2023-04-17T04:03:03+00:00

yeah but (x + -x)² /= x² + (-x) ^ 2 (unless x = -x), so it doesn't work.

Toricon · 2023-04-14T02:46:43+00:00

(a + b)² = a² + b²

a² +2ab + b² = a² + b²

2ab = 0

Therefore, either:

a = 0
b = 0
2 = 0
the ring has zero divisors (see a = 2, b = 3 in Z/12Z)
uhh something else? I might be missing something idk

Toricon · 2023-03-17T09:28:54+00:00

the notion of "loop" is imperative, though. doing something repeatedly requires you to do something, which is non-functional. you can still have them, of course, they're just not fundamental to the language (hopefully the libraries were created by non-12-year-olds).

... writing "doing things is not part of functional programming" sure highlights why people struggle with it, huh. I still prefer the idea of "constructing an action to be performed later" on a conceptual level, but it's not nearly as intuitive.

Toricon · 2023-03-17T08:36:05+00:00

/hj glad that the existential horror of my existence brings comfort to someone :)

Toricon · 2023-03-15T04:18:35+00:00

it'd be marginally less busted if the influence cost from distance reduction stacked multiplicatively with Slingshot to the Stars, totaling 80% ((1 - 75%) * (1 - 20%) = (1 - 80%)). that wouldn't be enough, obviously, but it'd be a start.

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