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Back to drawing important things

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Zodiac age jump scare

#balthier was one sexy lil bastard #loved him so much #also thought Basch looked like he would give amazing hugs #wanted to drop kick the dumbass puppy boy though #kid had one braincell #they all have one braincell #Larsa with his ultimate pockets in the OG version with infinite potions #the end game cutscene crashed my ps2 #nostalgia glasses give balthier such a nice ass #those glorious tight pants

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Here’s a thought I’m tucking into my metaphorical pocket for 2024: not every doodle is meant to be posted and if something is meant to be shared it doesn’t need to be the “popular thing”. If it makes like 1 person happy that’s good enough for me

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Much needed rest

Transcribed: ["Oh how I've missed the taste of you..." "Wriothesley..."

"It's been two weeks since the incident and I haven't got a chance to see you" "I apologise.. There was so much to a-" "Here~ You deserve a good rest after all that's happened~"

"Tonight, allow me to do all the work. I want to make you relax." "Wh-" "Hah, Don't worry. I am not going anywhere"

"I know how hard it is for you to just lean back and relax so I thought we could try something~ now where were they... Oh! Here we go~ Sooo~ How about we t-"

"Oh you..."]

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Snork mimimi

Transcribed:

[“What the- Uncuff me!”

“Not until you have solid 8 hours of sleep. (Sumeru data system, 6 letters)”

“You! (It’s “akasha”)]

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A little gift for a big otter man

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one track mind

determination

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omg thank you everyone for the massive responce to my last hk fanart!! i couldnt even imagine it would blow up so much hhhh

today i bring you ghost (and their sibs too)

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everything about this video

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i know most people have seen it but i cant emphasize how much this is literally my favorite breath of the wild clip of all time. also i can never fucking find this clip when i need it especially in high definition so here it is

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Some things that came to mind as I kept drawing him…

and all the innocent tumblr users just going about their day will look up and shout ‘SHUT UP ABOUT GOLLUM’…and I’ll look down and whisper ‘No.”

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he’s sensitive

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Num Num Cat TikTok Chain

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Ambient sounds for writers

Find the right place to write your novel… 

Nature

Arctic ocean

Blizzard in village

Blizzard in pine forest

Blizzard from cave

Blizzard in road

Beach

Cave

Ocean storm

Ocean rocks with rain

River campfire

Forest in the morning

Forest at night

Forest creek

Rainforest creek

Rain on roof window

Rain on tarp tent

Rain on metal roof

Rain on window

Rain on pool

Rain on car at night

Seaside storm

Swamp at night

Sandstorm

Thunderstorm

Underwater

Wasteland

Winter creek

Winter wind

Winter wind in forest

Howling wind

Places

Barn with rain

Coffee shop

Restaurant with costumers

Restaurant with few costumers

Factory

Highway

Garden

Garden with pond and waterfall

Fireplace in log living room

Office 

Call center

Street market

Study room from victorian house with rain

Trailer with rain

Tent with rain

Jacuzzi with rain

Temple

Temple in afternoon

Server room

Fishing dock

Windmill

War

Fictional places

Chloe’s room (Life is Strange)

Blackwell dorm (Life is Strange)

Two Whales Diner (Life is Strange)

Star Wars apartment (Star Wars)

Star Wars penthouse (Star Wars)

Tatooine (Star Wars)

Coruscant with rain (Star Wars)

Yoda’s hut with rain ( Star Wars)

Luke’s home (Star Wars)

Death Star hangar (Star wars)

Blade Runner city (Blade Runner)

Askaban prison (Harry Potter)

Hogwarts library with rain (Harry Potter)

Ravenclaw tower (Harry Potter)

Hufflepuff common room (Harry Potter)

Slytherin common room (Harry Potter)

Gryffindor common room (Harry Potter)

Hagrid’s hut (Harry Potter)

Hobbit-hole house (The Hobbit)

Diamond City (Fallout 4)

Cloud City beach (Bioshock)

Founding Fathers Garden (Bioshock)

Things

Dishwasher

Washing machine

Fireplace

Transportation

Boat engine room

Cruising boat

Train ride

Train ride in the rain

Train station

Plane trip

Private jet cabin

Airplane cabin

Airport lobby

First class jet

Sailboat

Submarine

Historical

Fireplace in medieval tavern

Medieval town

Medieval docks

Medieval city

Pirate ship in tropical port

Ship on rough sea

Ship cabin

Ship sleeping quarter

Titanic first class dining room

Old west saloon

Sci-fi

Spaceship bedroom

Space station

Cyberpunk tearoom

Cyberpunk street with rain

Futuristic server room

Futuristic apartment with typing

Futuristic rooftop garden 

Steampunk balcony rain

Post-apocalyptic

Harbor with rain

City with rain

City ruins turned swamp

Rusty sewers

Train station

Lighthouse

Horror

Haunted mansion

Haunted road to tavern

Halloween

Stormy night

Asylum

Creepy forest

Cornfield

World

New York

Paris

Paris bistro

Tokyo street

Chinese hotel lobby

Asian street at nightfall

Asian night market

Cantonese restaurant

Coffee shop in Japan

Coffee shop in Paris

Coffee shop in Korea

British library

Trips, rides and walkings

Trondheim - Bodø

Amsterdam - Brussels

Glasgow - Edinburgh

Oxford - Marylebone

Seoul - Busan

Gangneung - Yeongju

Hiroshima

Tokyo metro

Osaka - Kyoto

Osaka - Kobe

London

São Paulo

Seoul

Tokyo

Bangkok

Ho Chi Minh (Saigon)

Alps

New York

Hong Kong

Taipei

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Two recipes for fusion reactors

Time for another fusion reactor science lesson!  You can view the rest of my Fusion Science Lessons and also just cool stuff about my job under the #fusion tag.

So there are two broad techniques for building fusion reactors that have seen the most research:  Inertial confinement fusion, and magnetic confinement fusion.  Let’s dig in!

Inertial Confinement Fusion:

An inertial confinement machine fires an array of powerful lasers at a pellet of deuterium and tritium, suspended in the middle of a spherical chamber.  The fuel pellet is compressed to an incredible density, and releases enormous amounts of energy as fusion reactions take place. The biggest ICF machine in the world is at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, in California.  It looks like this!

Haha!  I have fooled you!  That was is actually an image of a fusion reactor from the hit television program The Expanse, based on the series of novels of the same name!  You have been deceived!

This is the actual chamber at the National Ignition Facility:

As you can see, they look quite similar!  The Expanse uses a dramatized version, but is otherwise based on actual science!  I highly recommend this series, it has some really excellent physics and a lot of heart.

The consensus in the broader fusion community is that ICF might be a bit of a dead end.  The fusion pulses are extremely brief, and extremely inefficient.  NIF hasn’t been able to achieve the output they hoped, and it’s unlikely that it will be economically viable.

Magnetic Confinement Fusion:

Magnetic confinement fusion uses powerful magnets to compress and heat a gas of hydrogen isotopes (deuterium and tritium) into a plasma, with the help of powerful radio waves and/or particle beams to add more energy.  Once it gets hot enough, fusion reactions in the plasma release enough energy to keep itself going.  That is called a “burning plasma,” which you can read more about in this post!

There are a few different types of magnetic confinement reactors, but the most common are stellarators (weird möbius ouroboros rings, read about ‘em in this post) and tokamaks (big donuts, and the type of reactor I work with.  Read more under my #fusion tag).

This is a tokamak:

Or is it?  No!  It is not!  Haha!  You have once again been duped! That was an image of the arc reactor from Iron Man! A work of pure fiction.  My clever ruse has bamboozled you!

This one is an actual tokamak:

This is ASDEX-Upgrade, a tokamak at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany. These two pictures are taken from the same port on the outside of the ring looking inwards, during maintenance and plasma operations.

The Iron Man one looks pretty good, but the Expanse version is much more accurate, and in my opinion it also looks way cooler!  The downside is that magnetic confinement fusion is where it’s at.  We’re expecting to get a burning plasma going in SPARC by 2025.

And finally…

The bit that science fiction always gets wrong: Explosions

Fusion reactors can’t turn into nuclear bombs.

Fusion reactors can’t turn into nuclear bombs.

FUSION REACTORS CAN’T TURN INTO NUCLEAR BOMBS.

That’s just not possible, at all.  Worrying about a fusion reactor turning into a bomb is like worrying that your chicken sandwich will turn into dynamite because they both contain carbon.  The technology involved is entirely different in every way.

FUSION REACTORS CAN’T TURN INTO NUCLEAR BOMBS.

And there you have it!  Fusion reactors are Cool and also NOT BOMBS WHY IS THIS ALWAYS A THING IN MOVIES

#guys #my chicken sandwich is gonna turn into dynamite now #i just know it

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The trouble with finally getting your sleep schedule on track with the help of low-dose over-the-counter melatonin is that if your bottle runs out and you don’t get a new one for a few days, your precious, tenuous circadian rhythm is immediately fuckaroo’d straight to Tartarus.

Luckily my shipment of a 12-pack of canned espresso energy drinks + a 1 month supply of melatonin arrived on Saturday, so I can plausibly bootstrap my schedule back into 8 hours of sleep per night by caffeinating myself through a day of Monday meetings, under the radar.

Knock knock amygdala, it’s time for socially acceptable stimulants via Starbucks.

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