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Congratulations to Yume Nikki for getting on Steam! The queen returns!
This game is truly special and to those who have not played it be sure to check it out! It’s Free!
I’ve first found Yume Nikki about five years ago and with it I found a truly touching (if not bizarre) story and a very welcoming, kind and fun fanbase! In fact, it’s one of the main reasons I started drawing. It also helped me get out of not so great place in my life and has only impacted my life in a positive way. I hope that you, if you have not played it, may find a fun and interesting experience too!
Thank you to Kikiyama for making such a wonderful game!
And here’s a little bonus comic:
i saw a dude 100% cookie clicker. there are 600+ achievements.
i’m gonna do it too.
i am hungryyyyyyy. i drank protein but i still feel dizzy but i dont want to be fat either, anyway I want to finish drawing this but its my first time actually not being lazy.
HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY STEAM just wanted to share a couple of my favorites from the whole set! Can't believe that I got to draw these on company time baybeeeee 😎
Mewo-spider from Omori. I really want this game in Steam. If You don't mind giving it to me, l will be infinitely grateful to You. 🙏
In Steam I'm: cherry_misty (Sorry not Sorry)
DiRT 3 Brain rot
I usually do not post on this account unless I am posting a larger post, but I am hyperfixating on a game called DiRT 3.
Brief context
DiRT 3 was made in 2011 for the Xbox 360, Ps3 and PC by codemasters and it was removed off of steam in 2017 presumably to expired car licenses. And codemasters was acquired by none other than EA in 2021.
I got reminded that i had the game by a song that sounded similar to the DiRT 3 OST and so I listened to the DiRT 3 OST on spotify and I just fucking had to play it again, that was yesterday, or technically two days ago, it is fucking midnight but I must rave on about this fucking game, and today or technically yesterday I got the steam key as I wanted to play it with Jolly and Beeeq.
THERE WERE PEOPLE JOINING OUR LOBBY
a game that has been out for over a decade, removed off steam, has players in 2023. I mean people talk about how DiRT 2 was great and how DiRT 4 and DiRT 5 suck ass which to my knowledge do. but holy shit. And this shit does not look like a fucking Ps3 game I mean it's litearly fucking better than the sequels? it's 6GB and the complete edition was like 2,50€ something on G2A I saw in Google you can get it for free but my fucking download paranoia says eat pant and so getting the steam key was the best option.
GET THE GAME.
rant over~
I've seen some unhinged complaints in Steam reviews before, but I just ran into one that gave a game which contains no dialogue the thumbs down purely on the basis that it doesn't have voice acting.
Returning to the Deltarune
Testing new art style
I redesigned an old My Hero OC to fit his quirk better. I present you Steampunk. Quirk: Steam.
Today we successfully tested one of our RS-25 engines, four of which will help power our Space Launch System (SLS) to deep space destinations, like Mars! This 500-second engine test concludes a summer of successful hot fire testing for flight controllers at our Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
The controller serves as the “brain” of the engine, communicating with SLS flight computers to ensure engines are performing at needed levels. The test marked another step toward the nation’s return to human deep-space exploration missions.
We launched a series of summer tests with a second flight controller unit hot fire at the end of May, then followed up with three additional tests. The flight controller tests are critical preparation for upcoming SLS flights to deep space– the uncrewed Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), which will serve as the first flight for the new rocket carrying an uncrewed Orion spacecraft, and EM-2, which will transport a crew of astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft.
Each SLS rocket is powered at launch by four RS-25 engines firing simultaneously and working in conjunction with a pair of solid rocket boosters. The engines generate a combined 2 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. With the boosters, total thrust at liftoff will exceed 8 million pounds!
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Though we are growing a garden, which includes many different types of lovely flora and vegetable that we do try so hard to keep, there are other plants that we would happily uproot. These are of course the many types of weeds. Weeds, like aphids that we talked about in the last post, are a hazard and detriment to the garden, and are best removed as fast as possible. However, unlike aphids, weeds damage your garden in a different way. Instead of just basically using the plant as a breeding ground similar to the aphids, they instead grow along with them and sap important nutrients from your garden, which of course does not help your plants whatsoever in the long run. However unlike the aphids, weeds are generally easy to get rid of. You can just pluck them from the ground as they sprout up. However do try and be careful that what you actually pull is a weed and not your just sprouted plant for that would be embarrassing really really embarrassing.
Maintenance takes up the majority of our garden working time, and of that, pruning is the most crucial for plant health. By cutting away dead or dying leaves, branches, or even entire plants, we allow 100% of the water and nutrition from the soil to go into healthy, producing plants, not being siphoned off. We are very careful while timing pruning - wait too long and healthy plants could die, trim too soon, and you’ve just killed perfectly good plants. The same is true for the amount/location to clip. We try to keep out clippers sharp and clean, so that they make a nice, clean cut withe no tearing, which can damage plants and cause rot. In general, we are either pruning, or harvesting every few days, at least once a week, often more, because, despite our small space, we have many different varieties of crops growing.
[Hey, That’s Her] The Riemann Sphere is Her Mirror on the Wall
MBC 드라마 《신입사관 구해령》 (2019)
There may be such a woman.
For at least eleven hours a day, her analytical, artistic, emotional and ethical minds are collectively locked up in a Taylorist cell block where the mantra is familiarly simple: Don’t question, don’t tell. Every reasonable client is aware that this is a dog-eat-dog world, so it is up to him or her to look out for personal interests not yet covered by contract law or even fiduciary law. If you value your principles and dreams over your corporation’s needs, you are a selfish hypocrite. Oh, and complain all you want at the water cooler; just remember to put back your angel mask and keep your head low at meetings.
That much is not really astonishing. No one in this place is a one-day-old. What stuns more is the utterly dim calaboose she toils away at her daytime lockup to return her body to every night, where broken bottles and suspicious pools of liquids bedeck the streets, literal rock concerts never cease, homeless druggies openly spread their limp bodies on pavements, and drunken Cinderellas and Cinderfellas bang on random doors when the clock strikes twelve.
Change might come with time but, given a burgeoning workload and an increasingly creepy cardiac rhythm, it must come soon. So, one night, she decides that if all jobs are this suffocating, she might as well take the best-paid one. It’s time to head back to graduate school, except that, this time, economic logic shall prevail over passion and intrigue.
As part of her research on Wealth and Investment Management MScs, she hunts down sample class videos from different business schools. Nestled among the suggested clips accompanying one search result, though, is a familiarly curious title that hypnotizingly whispers to her, Shopaholic Louis-style. It is the name an adviser, frowning over yet another overloaded course plan from her, pressed her into canceling out all those years ago right when meeting times for the semester did not conflict with those of her core classes. And soon, before her eyes, is an entire playlist for her narrowly missed destiny.
What harm could playing the introductory video at 2x do? Business schools’ admissions websites would not vanish in 30 minutes’ time. Ah, that was a collegiate equivalent of a soulful tearjerker but covered mostly basics she learnt in other classes. Application deadlines are half a year away, so there is ample room for a second lecture. Cool! The plot thickened pretty fast. Her college and graduate school debts are still badly in arrears. Can she be certain that she truly understands everything without attempting an unseen problem? Fetch homework sets from the official homepage tomorrow. Had she been bolder in imagination, she would have gotten question 7 right. Try harder for lecture three’s assignments. She has run out of eligible guarantors for a third loan. Lecture 11. Course completed. What a satisfying visual feast! Hey, the blurb of the follow-up course sounds fascinating too. It is not that she does not love investment banking. How about challenging herself at that course while the material of this course is still fresh in her mind? It is that she loathes investment banking. Mathematical logic has trumped economic logic.
How do you hold every number up to infinity in the palm of your hand without a poetic soul? Scoop out a round piece of dough and fancy being able to spread it so thin that it stretches to infinity. But instead of actually spreading it, roll up the edge to form a sphere. Let the bottom tip represent zero and the top tip represent infinity. As a point on the surface moves up from the bottom, it can have components that are each positive or negative, real or imaginary, depending on which pairs of opposite longitudes you assign the real number line and imaginary number line (recall: e.g. …, -10i, -9.99i, … , 0, … , 9.99i, 10i, …, where i is the square root of -1) to. The rise in value of each component accelerates with height, such that the physical gap representing any given numerical difference shrinks infinitely on the surface of the sphere as infinity approaches, making it harder and harder to advance and actually reach infinity. You are now cradling a physical version of the Riemann sphere.
© Jean-Christophe BENOIST, modified under the permission of CC BY-SA 3.0. P(A), around 1.5 in value, on the sphere corresponds to A on the grid, which represents the same numerical system in a typical boundless, regularly spaced 2D format. Similarly, P(B), around -0.5 in value, on the sphere corresponds to B on the grid.
The macrocosm of universal random structures, infinite products, manifolds and many more is a dearly missed oracle that reveals her inadequacies for what they are, without miserliness, patronizing sugar-coating, or, ironically, calculation: her inflexibility, her inattentiveness, her impatience and her indolence. “Shortcuts and cookie-cutter approaches cannot be your default,” it states plainly. So long as they do not cross a certain line, tactful hypocrites, on the whole, seem to be treated better by their surrounding adult peers than sharp-tongued, straight-talking observers with pure intentions in her circle. Yet the more she experiences of the grown-up world, with the heightened stakes and heightened awareness of interpersonal dangers that deter verbalization of contrarian opinions on the one hand and massive clots of intractable ills on the other, the more she wishes to cherish many of those straight talkers. The ideal living beings are, of course, the severely scarce breed who efficiently marry the circumspection, civility and altruistic strategizing that come with tact with the determination to convey, where necessary, uncomfortable truths.
For all its uninhibited criticism, mathematics gives credit where it is due and those who converse with it are frequently safe in the knowledge that it means its flattery. It reassures this corporate internee who feels increasingly stuck in her ways that she still has what it takes to master new grammars and vocabularies. It rewards her finesse at plugging gaps in background knowledge by improvising from scratch techniques taught only in later, simpler courses. What if these skills could let her pivot directly to some sector slightly less lucrative but also less odious to her than investment banking, never mind exactly how competitively relevant her prior higher education and corporate experience are?
Far more certain is that her deliciously madcap approach to this discipline with a matchingly rebellious streak has magically quietened the rock concerts and the intoxicated fairy tales and almost erased the jail bars. Nonetheless, as the faded bars unveil more and more vistas stretching beyond the horizons, she starts to wonder if she will live long enough to look a little further, if she will ever squirrel away enough bucks—after all those deductions for debt payments, taxes, food, rent, basic maintenance and transport—to hike a little closer, and if her wrinkled, financially secure self will continue to have the visual and cognitive acuities to deconstruct or even remember the sights a little longer. The jail bars resolidify to some degree.
Still, if positive infinity and negative infinity have been rendezvousing in a dimension invisible until intrepid mind adventurers outed them, and if functions as diverse as trigonometric functions, inverse polynomials and logarithmic functions share the same class of undercover identities, i.e. infinite sums of terms with increasing powers, maybe, she thinks, escape hatches exist somewhere nearby after all.
There may be such a woman. There may be such a snowless ending by a grilled window.
Note: This work of fiction commemorating Pi Day was inspired by an old Dramabeans guest post campaign, a few heartfelt entries of which have appeared in the admin’s Twitter feed. There is no intention, however, to establish any kind of association with the site. Interested readers can find slightly similar math-life themes in the book versions of Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (82년생 김지영) and The Devotion of Suspect X (容疑者Xの献身).
Had a fun evening talking about the ISS and the NASA Artemis program! Grayson Elementary invited me to speak as part of their STEAM Night. The kids and parents were really into it. Thanks to Mrs. Frost for having me for a 2nd year! #explorepage #STEM #STEAM #Artemis #SLS #Orion #space #spaceflight #WeAreGoing #Moon #graysongeorgia #cityofgrayson #gwinnettcounty (at Grayson, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqCIae4OqMT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
I know it’s a very specific category, but I still can’t believe this! Thank you to my friends and family! #space #iss #internationalspacestation #childrensbooks #stem #steam https://www.instagram.com/p/CJZberVjUrF/?igshid=tb8xj1y7quxl
It’s here! My first children’s book for ages 4-7 is available on Amazon. “Mission, GO!” by Johnathan Brackett is available in Kindle form or paperback. Thanks to friends and family for the encouragement. #space #astronaut #stem #steam #spaceflight #iss #internationalspacestation https://www.instagram.com/p/CJJXR_njF53/?igshid=1gqq80oafbo1b
Looking forward to the launch of Perseverance as part of MARS2020. Hoping to continue conducting educational opportunities for students in my area. @nasa @nasajpl #mars #marsrover #perseverance #stem #steam #stemeducation @nasasolarsystem https://www.instagram.com/p/CDNrSYAHsR3/?igshid=1c5lo9rnvwtop
Virginia Middle-Schooler Takes Grand Prize at NASA Langley Student Art Contest
Anna Fox, a seventh-grader from Virginia Beach Middle School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, was named as the grand prize winner of Langley Research Center’s Student Art Contest.
“I was very excited when I heard that I won first place for my grade,” Anna said. “But when I heard that I won grand prize, I was speechless.”
A record 831 entries were submitted from hundreds of children in 39 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with 13 students earning first-place honors in grade levels K-12 and the opportunity to be considered for the grand prize, said Kristina Cors, Langley Student Art Contest coordinator.
“We hope this contest continues to grow and provide a place for students to explore science and technology through creativity,” she said.
“I was very excited when I heard that I won first place for my grade,” Anna Fox said. “But when I heard that I won grand prize, I was speechless.”
Credits: Courtesy of Anne Baker
The art contest theme, “The Next 100 Years,” was intended to illustrate how NASA research and innovation propels science to new discoveries.
“This year’s artwork was particularly remarkable, and represented the theme ‘The Next 100 Years’ with imagination and immense talent,” Cors said.
Anna’s winning piece shows a deep-space scene with an astronaut planting a flag on a planet’s mountain while watching a rocket fly off in the distance in a sky populated by stars, galaxies and a moon.
“When I started drawing, I had no idea what to do, so I had looked at a bunch of videos on how to do galaxies for inspiration,” Anna said. “After that I randomly placed colors together until I found something I liked. It all started coming together from there.”
Once she got an idea in motion, Anna did her work using old and new techniques.
“I created my artwork digitally on Photoshop,” Anna said. “I had started with basic colors for the background, including the explosion behind the rocks. Then, on another layer I created the rocks, planet, astronaut and rocket ship taking off. Later I added detail on all the layers to look more realistic. The last step was to add all of the stars and galaxies, which I did with a special brush.”
Anna, who has been an artist for as long as she could pick up a pencil, said she started drawing digitally when she was 11, inspired by her father’s work on a computer.
“I think the best part of creating art is having fun with it and inspiring others to do art as well,” she said.
Anna said she always had an interest in space and the art contest was a perfect vehicle to express that.
“I think that the coolest thing about NASA is that they help so many people achieve their dreams, and send people to do what not a lot of people get to do,” Anna said.
For her grand-prize victory, Anna received a certificate, and a NASA Exploration Package of posters, pens, stickers, patches and lapel pins. Her artwork will be displayed at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton, Virginia.
The 13 grade-level winners were selected by a panel of five judges from the Hampton Roads art community, and the grand champion was picked by Langley employees. Each piece was evaluated on originality, interpretation of subject matter/theme, creative techniques, composition and overall art appearance.
Eric Gillard NASA Langley Research Center
10 Days left and Poppy playtime chapter 4 will release! 🎉🥳 👁️(including chapter 3 having 1 year old )
Im so excited to know the new lore and the future of this game! : D
P.s: I hope that i could have it for the Nintendo switch 1 or 2 (of course when it release on console; i already have the 3 chapters)
