#apple made geniuses

[lazyflower48]

Dazai and Ranpo: The Two Geniuses of the ADA

The thought about making a post about Dazai and Ranpo's teamwork has been plaguing my mind for a while now, and so I finally found some time and decided to go through with it.

So let's talk about one of my favourite underrated duos for a moment. The two geniuses of the ADA- Dazai and Ranpo. Two people who make a wonderful team and are actually, in my opinion, the backbone of the agency.

What I find interesting is that (though I believe that Dazai respects and admires all members of the ADA) Dazai openly admires Ranpo A LOT. He's always quick to praise Ranpo (basically fanboying over him and it's quite adorable to see Dazai gush over someone like that other than Oda) and in 'Dazai's Entrance Exam' we see him being surprised over the fact that Ranpo's ability is not actually an ability and we see him further praise Ranpo's intellect after finding that out.

Despite the fact that Dazai is a huge mystery, even to the people around him, Ranpo figured out that there was something up with Dazai in just a single glance (in 'Dazai's entrance exam'). And despite knowing that Dazai was probably hiding a sinister past, he didn't press him any further for details (probably in order to respect his privacy or his wish to not disclose his past OR maybe due to the the fact that knowing Dazai, he most likely wouldn't answer truthfully even if questioned about it)

What I also love is that even though both of them are extremely intelligent, their intellect differs in such a way that Ranpo is a master of deduction and Dazai is a master of manipulation (as stated by Kunikida in 'The Daily Routine of the Detective Agency'). However, one thing both of them share in common is that they both felt isolated due to their nature.

They may have limited interactions but their interactions are always my favourite, for instance-

1. Dazai's entrance exam - Dazai's admiration and respect towards Ranpo

2. Season 1 - Murder on D-Street - Dazai showing a good understanding of Ranpo's deduction process and acknowledging that Ranpo caught onto more details than him

3. Season 2 - "Mountains or sea?" " Sea. "

Showing their unspoken communication. They can read each other's minds at this point lol.

4. Season 3 - Ranpo basically acknowledging that Dazai would be a tough opponent to go up against by comparing Fyodor to him (sort of praising his intellect in a way)

5. Season 5 - The Strongest Man in the Agency- Ranpo

Dazai keeping an eye on Fyodor while leaving the rest to Ranpo

Dazai relying on his allies- trusting Ranpo to negotiate with Bram in order to undo the vampire curse.

6. Dead Apple - Ranpo seeing through Dazai's plan beforehand.

7. 55 minutes - Seeing through upcoming events beforehand, one thing Dazai made sure was to inform Ranpo about the whole fiasco on Standard Island in order to save the Agency in the end.

Also, sidenote: I found out that the Dazai and Ranpo duo is named Souheki, which translates to double jade. Now, I'm not sure if this information is fanon or canon (feels more like fanon tbh but I really like it because it's a pretty name)

Anyway, one thing we can say for sure is that as long as the two geniuses of the Agency- Souheki work together, the ADA will most likely remain undefeated cause no one really does it like them

Lastly, just some food for thought. I've always wondered how Dazai would react if he found out that Ranpo met Oda TWICE and the second time he met him was right before Oda went on to his certain death.

Honestly, I would LOVE to see more fleshed out and direct interactions between these two.

#i wish tumblr allowed more than 10 photos in a post cause I wanted to add so many more #cant believe this has been sitting in draft for like 6 months now #the two geniuses of the ADA>>> #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd meta #bsd analysis #bsd dazai #bsd ranpo #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #ranpo edogawa #souheki #bsd ramblings #bsd s5

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product

There’s something oddly comforting about the idea that “if you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product,” namely, the corollary: “If you can afford to pay for a product, you won’t be the product.” But it’s bullshit. Companies don’t make you the product because you don’t pay — they make you the product because you can’t stop them.

The theory behind “if you’re not paying for the product…” is that old economist’s saw: “incentives matter.” Companies that monetize attention are incentivized to manipulate and spy on you, while companies that you pay just want to make you happy.

This is a theory of corporate behavior grounded in economics, not power, a creature of theory and doctrine that never bothers to check in with the real world to see how that theory and doctrine map to actual events. Reality is a lot uglier.

Apple has blanketed the planet with billboards and print and online ads extolling its privacy-forward system design (e.g. “Privacy. That’s Iphone.”). There’s something to this: in 2020, the company made it very easy to opt out of third-party Ios surveillance, and 96% of its users opted out:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-out-of-app-tracking-in-ios-14-5-analytics-find/

That decision cost Facebook $10 billion in a single year, and the losses keep coming. Facebook launched a campaign that accused Apple of privacywashing an anticompetitive maneuver, claiming that Apple didn’t care about its users’ privacy, they just wanted to eliminate competition for Apple’s own ad brokerage:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/facebooks-laughable-campaign-against-apple-really-against-users-and-small

Facebook’s campaign poses itself as the true champion of its users, accusing Apple of shamming. It’s laughable. Facebook manifestly despises its users and proves that fact every day in a thousand ways, large and small. Facebook’s true objection to Apple’s privacy tools is that they reduced Facebook’s earnings by $10b. Obviously.

But that doesn’t mean that Facebook is wrong about Apple’s cynicism. Apple exercises enormous control over its users. It’s a direct control. Apple blocks you from installing software of your choosing or from using third-party repair services of your choosing. They pour millions into engineering to make this technically challenging, and lead a coalition of large corporations that kill right to repair legislation whenever it is mooted:

https://doctorow.medium.com/apples-cement-overshoes-329856288d13

Some of Facebook’s critics accuse it of exercising similar control, but via a far more insidious method: they say that Facebook’s voracious surveillance of its users, combined with machine learning, allows Facebook to control its users’ minds, stripping them of their free will and turning them into algorithm-addled zombies who do whatever Facebook directs them to do.

This is an extraordinary claim, given that every previous claim of mind-control turned out to be bullshit, from Mesmer to MK Ultra. The best evidence for these mind-control claims comes from Facebook’s own marketing materials, where the company assures advertisers that they should spend their money on FB’s platform because of its mind-control features.

When FB critics repeat these claims, they’re engaged in “criti-hype,” Lee Vinsel’s useful coinage describing criticism that serves to bolster the target’s own propaganda. If FB are evil geniuses, well, at least they’re still geniuses.

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

Some Facebookers doubtless believe their own hype, but that doesn’t mean we have to join them in self-delusion. We can criticize Facebook for seeking control over its users, and for using that control to do things that serve its own interests at the expense of its users’ interests.

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

That’s the true sin of Big Tech: using deception and coercion to control users. Companies that gain this control can be reliably expected to use it in whichever ways they can get away with. They are paperclip-maximizing artificial life-forms bent on devouring the human race, not ethical actors.

Apple’s commitment to privacy is best understood as instrumental. Apple thinks that protecting your privacy will attract your business, and they’re right. I would like to have privacy! But while Apple can increase its revenues by telling you they’ll protect your privacy, they can increase them even more by lying about it.

That’s just what they do. Earlier this month, a small security research firm called Mysk released a video revealing that when you tick the box on your Iphone that promises “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether,” your Iphone continues to spy on you, and sends the data it collects to Apple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JxvH80Rrcw

The data Iphones gather is extraordinarily fine-grained: “what you tapped on, which apps you search for, what ads you saw, and how long you looked at a given app and how you found it.”

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558

It doesn’t stop there: “The app sent details about you and your device as well, including ID numbers, what kind of phone you’re using, your screen resolution, your keyboard languages, how you’re connected to the internet — notably, the kind of information commonly used for device fingerprinting.”

The researchers had to jailbreak an Iphone in order to find this lie. Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make jailbreaking illegal. Apple claims that allowing users to disable the locks on their phones will make them vulnerable to bad actors who will install deceptive, coercive software.

That is true, but it’s also true that these locks make it impossible to determine whether Apple’s software is deceptive and coercive. The walled fortress that keeps you safe from third parties is also a walled prison that leaves you at the mercy of the warlord who owns the fortress.

Once a company attains a certain scale, it becomes too big to jail, and then it monetizes you however it can. If you think the future of technology is battle is between Google’s approach and Apple’s, think again. The real fight is between the freedom to decide how technology works for you, and corporate control over technology.

https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-the-digital-manor/

Apple and Google are like the pigs and the men at the end of Animal Farm: supposed bitter enemies who turn out to be indistinguishable from one another. Google also has “privacy” switches in its preference panels that do nothing:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/01/you-are-here/#goog

Indeed, there are so many places in Google’s location privacy settings where you can tick a box that claims to turn off location spying. None of them work. A senior product manager at Google complained to her colleagues that she had turned off three different settings and was still being tracked:

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1398359580275523590

Apple is now the subject of a California class action suit over its deceptive practices, which violate the California Invasion of Privacy Act.

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/LibmanvAppleIncDocketNo522cv07069NDCalNov102022CourtDocket

As Gizmodo’s Thomas Germain notes, Apple has a good — if self-serving — reason to spy on its users. It has launched its own ad network, and is selling advertisers the ability to target its customers based on their activities:

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-privacy-analytics-class-action-suit-1849774313

Companies will only protect your privacy to the extent that it is more profitable than not doing so. They can increase those profits by advertising privacy promises to potential customers. They can increase them more by secretly breaking those promises, And they can increase them even more by using privacy claims to block their rivals’ spying, so they’re the sole supplier of your nonconsensually collected personal information.

That’s what’s happening with Google’s endless proposals to “increase privacy” in Chrome that block third parties from spying on users, while letting Google continue to invade our privacy:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea

If we want our privacy, we need both transparency (so third parties can investigate companies’ claims to protect privacy) and regulation (so cheating companies will face consequences when they’re caught by those third parties).

That’s why it’s so exciting that the FTC has announced its intention to treat privacy invasions as antitrust violations:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/12/regulatory-uncapture/#conscious-uncoupling

For so long as corporations can use technology and law to hide their misdeeds and power to avoid consequences for those misdeeds, “voting with your wallet” is as useless as opting out of Ios tracking.

We had advertising-supported media for generations — centuries — without mass surveillance. The problem with advertising isn’t incentives — it’s impunity.

Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

[Image ID: An Apple 'Privacy. That's iPhone.' ad. The three rear-facing camera lenses have been replaced by the staring, red eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.]

#pluralistic

[cousticks]

back on my dazai is emotion & connection driven bullshit but. thinking about how his main strength, his major one-up on his fellow miserable geniuses (re: the dead apple triumvirate, arguably verlaine) is that he has friends. dazai "you wouldn't be saying that if you actually had friends" osamu. it's connections, genuine connections, with people that keep saving him. people that he knows have his back and he can rely on, not because he planned and analyzed his way but because he can trust they care about him and can care in return.

then there's beastzai who DOESN'T do that. who plots and schemes everyone into their places. but its driven by connection! a connection that isn't ACTUALLY there. beast, where his care for oda is one-sided. there is no trust, no reliance, on anyone, and that's what made beastzai so... like that. it all comes back to connections and trust and god all versions of dazai make me want to start swinging

#bsd dazai #beast dazai #white hill road #why we will never meet

[calyxthenerd]

Hmm…Raven x Dexter?

He forever regrets showing her how to play all his favorite games because she ends up decimating him in most of the competitive ones

They have a perfectly arctectually sound house on Minecraft, with two cats, named Lucifer and Beelzebub for Raven and three dogs, named Casper, Danny and Beetlejuice for Dexter (she named one of them, guess which one)

She drags him to protests, he drags her to conventions (they both secretly like it, but will deny it to their grave)

She’s the best in fnaf, seriously, it’s scary

It can get brutal pretty quickly when she’s gaming, but he finds it attractive so he enables her

She makes him listen to Once Upon a Down and he makes her listen to Sabrina Artisan, they both cry, for different reasons

His hands are permanently purple for how often she has him dye her hair, but he just can’t resist when she gives him The Look

She’s always slightly jealous when he helps other people with their technical issues, she’s territorial, it’s the dragon in her

They have this adapted drinking game where every time he introduces her to a royal as his girlfriend/fiance/wife and they faint, they share a donut, since they both don’t drink for reasons I might elaborate on later, you’d think the royals would get used to it by now

Their favorite date plan is pizza and trolling people on The Sims because they both hate going outside

Once she made a kid cry while they were playing Overwatch online and he forced her to find this kid’s house and go apologize (a tad bit creepy, but well meaning, he doesn’t have the best social skills, okay?)

She has sent several people to Hex & Curse treatment centers for flirting with him, trying to get the “easy way into the throne” since he’s got anxiety, his sister is famously only into political geniuses (really only Apple White, but no one is going to poke that particular bear) and if you don’t care about him, it’s hard to have the patience to pursue his brother when he won’t even look up from his mirror to listen to you talk (it’s his comfort item, okay?)

#raven queen #dexter charming #ever after high #thanks for the ask! #calyx writes

[minnesota-fats]

I was rereading a Dead Marvel x Danny Phantom crossover ( last updated in 2014, RIP ) called Marvel Phantom by Slayer Anderson, and here is the Summary.

So...the Fentons punch a hole through to the afterlife in their basement, and develop unparalleled hover technology and...they're crackpots?

In that fic, that gets played seriously because they showed their tech and a brief glimpse of the Ghost Zone to the News for an interview on their studies and everyone on the planet, from Companies to the Military, wants their tech.

Like they made a physic cancelers shd gravity inverters for their hover machines to study ghosts, not knowing that what they did went beyond groundbreaking and make every technology look like it came from the stone age.

That they are actually geniuses that do genius things despite being 'kooky.'

And you know what, that author is right. Are there any other stories out there where someone stops and says 'You built a what in your basement that did what?!

Sure, Amity is Amity which deals with weird supernatural shit, so they get a pass on not actually stopping and thinking that, but what's everyone else excuse?

Suddenly imagine everyone knows about FentonTech and what they can do.

Remember the Fenton Crammer that can shrink humans and inanimate objects? And if a ghost gets shrunk, their powers get weaker? That can be very useful to transport stuff that would had taken time and money.

Or how they have a what's basically a futuristic tank for a RV that has a lot of space?

Or that they have an Emergency Ops Center on their home that can turn into a hover vehicle.

All of the anti-ghost weapons.

I can go on and on, but things can get funny/ hairy real fast.

Wayne Ent, Lex Corp, Cadmus, every military will want a generous piece of that Fenton Pie, with the Fentons going, what's the big deal? We only made this for ghosts and shit. Whatever happened because of that was a happy accident.

Also imagine Lex Luthor about to pop a blood vessel, and holding himself back from throttling Jack during a talk .

Lex: 'Let me get this straight. You built a pocket-sized mini nuclear reactor that can power the US for six generations at full capacity and still have the juice to power an extra two, and instead of using that to for the betterment of mankind and showing those aliens ( cough Superman cough ) their place, you use it to power a pastry machine homemade peanut butter FUDGE!?'

Jack: Gourmet peanut butter fudge! :D it even makes pies and cookies. That nice Superhero with that A on his chest sure loved the Apple Pie it made!

Luthor: *collaspes and start to foam at the mouth out of rage, shock and disbelief*

Vlad that was sitting at a corner: *Sniff*. 'Welcome to my world.'

Bro this is HILARIOUS!!!!

This is the type of chaos I LIVE FOR!

I know little to nothing of Alex Luther other than the fact that he is a xenophobe…. And that he got cancer from being a xenophobe. (Ha! that’s how it should be for racists and such(jk cancer is actually really bad and not a joke))

He would just be MAD that these social idiots would have been able to go all of this with NO FUNDING!

Like seriously where did they get the money to do this crap????

Also Vlad crying in the corner is so funny to me, the grown ass man being a pouty bitch cuz he can’t have a woman he simpped for for 20 plus years!

Wish I could add more but I can’t possibly think of what else to add other than this.

#dc x dp #dc x dp fic ideas #lex luthor #bruce wayne #cadmius project #fenton parents #jack and maddie fenton #jack fenton #maddie fenton #they are mad scientist #also #they are mad for each other #hehe #cute #fun #:3 #danny phantom #danny fenton #dc x dp au #dp x dc prompt #dp x dc fanfic #dp x dc #dc x dp crossover #dp x dc au #marvel #marvel x dp #not my fave but you know #because yes #batman #Superman

[calisources]

CW'S   SUPERNATURAL   SENTENCE   QUOTES.   all   sentences   have   been   taken   from   mostly   the   kripke   era   (season   1   to   season   5)   of   erik   kripke's   supernatural,   mainly   season   four   and   five.   change   names/pronouns/locations   as   you   see   fit.

SEASON FOUR .

If you're going to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!

Please. Dean, maybe angels can pull you out of Hell but no one can do that.

So, you guys are like Mulder and Scully or something, and the X-Files are real?

It was beauty that killed the beast.

Anna may have sent the angels to the outfield, but sooner or later, they're gonna be back.

I suppose some dumb bastard stood here, felt a jolt of his holy juice and thought 'I'm going to build me a nun factory.' Well, it was the right idea... wrong angel.

Tell me something. Where's God in all this?

I'm not sure if he's my brother any more. If he ever was.

Are you under the impression that family's supposed to make you feel good? Make you an apple pie, maybe? They're supposed to make you miserable! That's why they're family.

If you walk out that door, don't you ever come back.

You don't know me. You never did, and you never will.

Congrats, Sammy. You just bought yourself a benchwarmer seat to the Apocalypse.

I serve Heaven, I don't serve man. And I certainly don't serve you.

Forever. The demons will never stop. You can never be with your family. So, you either get as far away from them as possible. Or you put a bullet in your head, And that's how you keep your family safe.

You know I finally get why you and dad butted heads so much. You two are practically the same person. 

I mean I worshipped the guy, y'know: I dressed like him, I acted like him, I listened to the same music. But you are more like him than I will ever be. I see that now.

Okay, so basically you're saying that every movie monster, every nightmare that I've ever had, that's all real.

He's a Winchester. He's already cursed.

It was too preposterous. Not to mention arrogant! I mean, writing yourself into the story is one thing, but as a prophet? That's like M. Night level douchiness.

Uriel's the funniest angel in the garrison. Ask anyone.

 I'm not a hero, I'm not strong enough.

 I know our fate rests with you.

I couldn't break him, pulled out all the stops, but John, he was made of something unique. The stuff of heroes. 

You need to learn how to manage a damn devil's trap.

Tell me something, geniuses. Even if you do break into the Veil and you find the Reaper. how are you going to save it?

SEASON FIVE.

The only thing you're going to see out there is Michael killing your brother.

I'm gonna rip you apart from the inside out. Do you understand me?

No doubt - endings are hard. But then again... nothing ever really ends, does it?

You try to tie up every loose end, but you never can. 

Dean, even for you, this is a whole new mountain of stupid.

Sorry if it's a bit chilly. Most people think I burn hot. It's actually quite the opposite.

Well, I got to ask. How old are you?

As old as God. Maybe older. Neither of us can remember anymore. Life, death, chicken, egg. Regardless - at the end, I'll reap him, too.

That's the beauty about improv, Sammy. You never know what's gonna come out of your mouth.

You are not the burnt and broken shell of a man that I believed you to be.

World's gonna end, seems silly to get all precious over one little soul.

Why? Because Crowley said so? Because we trust him now?

You think you own the planet? What gives you the right?!?

No one gives us the right. We take it.

You're not my father. And you ain't in my shoes. 

I mean, whatever happened to personal loyalty? How long have I worked for these guys. Five millennia? Six?

 It's funnier in Enochian.

 This creature has the power to take a human's form, read minds. 

And you think you know better than my father? The one unimportant little man. What makes you think you get to choose?

 It's a plan that is playing itself out perfectly. Free will's an illusion, Dean. That's why you're going to say yes.

Think of the million random choices that you make--and yet how each and everyone of them brings you closer to your destiny.

As it is in Heaven, so it must be on Earth. One brother has to kill the other.

Well, call it personal experience. Nobody gets that angry unless they're talking about their own family.

You know why God cast me down? Because I loved him. More than anything.

Now, tell me... does the punishment fit the crime? Especially when I was right? 

 Look at what six billion of you have done to this thing, and how many of you blame me for it?

Honestly, people don't need a reason to kill each other. I mean, you seen the Irish? They're all Irish.

#rp meme #sentences memes #meme call #roleplay memes #sentence meme #( cali meme. ) #rp memes #rp prompt #rp musings #roleplay prompt #roleplay meme

[lackadaisy-headcanon-supply-unit]

I adore reading the Headcanons y’all have made so far- if it wouldn’t be too much trouble could I request Nico x Male!University Student Reader?

OK, so I didn't read the ask right the first time and accidentally brewed up a few drops of a oneshot before I realized the order was for a crate of headcanons, so please enjoy this strange new hybrid of drink.

Y/N only came to St Louis for the university… and because his brother had told their mother that it was the safest place to be.

Safe, my ass.

There seem to be criminal activities everywhere he looked, from stolen apples to stolen cars, schoolyard fights to drive by shootings.

No wonder Y/N preferred to stay inside most of the time.

It wasn't too hard to pick out the culprit's either despite adamant police assurance that they had no leads in any of their cases. They were the ones, usually scarred, who willingly chose to linger suspiciously on dangerous street corners, aloof in stance but vigilant in piercing stares.

One of them in particular crossed his eyes often; a white and dove grey tom with a rolling musculature who lingered around the streets. Sometimes he'd be accompanied by someone French whispers between them identified as his sister. Student gossip claimed he was an infamous hijacker from one of the local speakeasies.

It only made the glances and grins he give Y/N that much more sickening to see. As long as he stayed away from the criminal societies of Saint Louis, he'd be fine.

…right…?

"Tutor me."

Y/N had made the grave mistake of sitting too close to the university gates. The smirk of a white faced feline pressed between the bars lining the walls.

"I… what?"

"I can pay. A lot."

"For what?"

"I told you, tutoring. You seem smart enough for the job, and brave. Ain't too many geniuses here who'd even talk to me for this long."

It was only then Y/N realized all his friends had left his side. Cowards. He couldn't blame them, though: he was close to running off himself. The revolver-shaped bulge in the tomcat's pocket made him swallow hard.

"Never was a book kid, never finished school properly either. Serafine said maybe I should take advantage of my stakeouts 'ere to pick up a little. Could be useful. I said I can pay. Deal?"

Y/N was honestly too frightened to say no.

The first week had Y/N panicking and trying to get into a routine.

Nico—or Mr Savoy, as Y/N's terror insisted on calling him—came along every other day, at the same time in the same place. With the barred wall between them, one taught and the other learned.

They went through everything from basic math to spelling, and even a touch of history and literature here and there. It was all a far cry from the master courses Y/N was at the university for in the first place.

Mr Savoy held his end of the bargain; a steady flow of money kept rolling into Y/N's account—god knows how Nico found it in the first place. It was a well paying gig, and for a couple of hours or so a week, it was a good one.

Y/N was never allowed to question his student about anything. He didn't ask where the staggering amount of cash came from, nor what happened when Nico would turn up battere, bruised, and still even bleeding from untended cuts. Y/N had learned the hard way when a worried hand tried to touch one on the back of his hand, and that same hand suddenly flew towards him with a growl. Thank god the metal bars were there.

Nico was smart, although not necessarily in the way Y/N expected. As he had said, Nico wasn't one to bury his head in books. His logic and intelligence was rather rooted in streetsmart instincts and on unbridled confidence, an assurance so sure of himself with every wrong answer that even Y/N had to double check his own lessons and notes. His panic must have showed far more than he had intended it to.

Nico would watch him scramble for his papers with a smirk. "Am I wrong, though?"

"That's not the kind of division I was talking about, Mr Savoy—"

"What will it take you to call me Nico, eh? Anyway, am I still wrong?"

"Technically, it could but—"

"There we go."

"—not in this case. This is mathematical division not literal…body…division, if you know what I mean."

He wondered if Nico was actually listening at all, with his sleazy face propped up on his sleazy paw and the cocky lash of his sharp tongue whipping behind his eyes and with every flick of his tail.

"You're very cute when you're like that, cher," he remarked idly.

Y/N choked on his words.

Nico laughed.

Nico left the lesson full of cheer.

Y/N left it still strangled and red in the face

That was not the first nor the last time Nico pulled similar tricks. Once he seemed to realize Y/N was vastly inexperienced with romance and blushed easily, he flustered him every time he could.

Compliments, fleeting touches, even a teasing kiss on the cheek as a goodbye from time to time.

And Y/N could still not let anything out but stammered nonsense.

He was a disruptive pupil, but not in an endearing and innocent, childish way.

Much more in a… seductive fashion.

Y/N had promised himself (and his whole family) that he wouldn't fall in with the wrong crowd, but Nico…

Oooh, that darn criminal...

He was something else entirely, and Y/N had a feeling he wasn't going to break the chains for a long time yet.

#🦉mod iphiko #lackadaisy #headcanon home brew #headcanon #lackadaisy reader insert #nicodeme savoy #lackadaisy nico #nicodeme lackadaisy #lackadaisy x reader

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

so, as mentioned before, 30XX is a lot of fun. (i'm going to get back to updates soon, this game has simply siphoned my soul and now i am a child again experiencing the entire spectrum of megaman emotions at once.)

but one thing that's really starting to annoy me is the story. or rather, the complete lack of it. i guess it's true to the source material, given that the story in megaman isn't really all that great either, but at least it's straightforward before we hit the zero series. you know what you're doing, you're a little guy about three apples tall and there's a bad guy sending out robots you have to shoot. then you hit the zero series and it's just someone forgetting their meds and thinking Mechanical Violator Hakaider was a good movie (it was ok) then you hit ZX and fuck it we Kamen Rider now

point is, it's all pretty firmly straightforward shit. we know what's going on, there's an evil scientist destroying things with his robots. stop him. pls

30XX doesn't really tell you squat.

spoilers below, in case you're a moron like me and you're deeply emotionally invested in the story of megaman-alikes.

the opening tutorial cutscene features ace dying to wake up nina, who just says there's work to do. and then you hop out, shoot a robot, and end up in a space station base where a tiny lesbian tells you there's work to do. also ace is ok, you can jump into a capsule to turn into him. either that or nina is the fastest transitioning icon in media but go her i guess (go him??? idk how trans-ing works) you jump into the levels, shoot the bosses, and see a tall lesbian that tells you she's doing work and that you can't stop her work, and then the second largest cock i've seen comes out of the interdimensional hole and you mount it and you fight AU tiny lesbian and Alpha 1.0 pre-transition Nina and Ace in there.

what the fuck?

what am i doing? why am i here? what is happening? what the fuCK IS GOING ON???? WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR?????????

the cursory idea is that you have to find the data terminals to learn what's going on in the world, but near as i can tell the tall lesbian isn't actually an evil scientist destroying things with her robots, because the world is already dying and so that's different because but it seems the more i get into things, the more lost i'm getting

characters will just randomly appear on the ship and i'm just expected to accept it. who is Delta, outside of being a dashing, charismatic, sexuality-threateningly handsome cool guy who likes a challenge? who is the scrap salvager, outside of maybe being Vika from 20XX? tiny lesbian says that if i vouched for them then they're all right to havE AROUND BUT I DIDN'T VOUCHE FOR THEM I HAVE NO CLUE WHO THEY UFCKING ARE!!!!!!!!!!

i suspect it's because of the expansion in scope in trying to make a bigger game. there's not really a lot of ways to really justify the plot of a roguelite, there's only so many methods you can explain away death and rebirth happening in-universe. last time i asked my doctor about the cycle of samsara he just told me "you have to wake up, the accident wasn't your fault". in 20XX, you're just a pair of flash-cloned experiments doing experimental runs. and that's really all the context you need; you have a setup, a goal, an antagonistic force, and a reason to do things there's the question about how the game world continues after you win the game and destroy everything and escape the space station, but i didn't say it was perfect. but it was good! it made sense!

meanwhile, 30XX seems to be about multiversal collapsing and each run is a separate world disparate from each other. there's too many worlds and each world is trying to share in the same place because the infinite universe is actually finite. and nina was demonized after 20XX because of her super-power because despite Sharp and Flat both being idiots they were actually, like, super-geniuses that made the strongest robots ever. (these are the same guys that mass-produced buzzsaw hamsters) oh, and everyone's already dead??? man this sure is some tonal dissonance from how fucking goofy everything is. not three minutes ago i saw the universe's second-largest cock plunge through time and space. midgard? more like midhard hah hah hah hahhhhhh

at the end of the day they're focused on the gameplay instead of the story. and that's perfectly fine. admirable, even, for a megaman-style project. a lot of megaman fanstuff creators (myself included) tend to masturbate text out with forces rivaling the niagara falls. oh baby, expand that wordcount. it's good to see something that just wants to focus on jumping and shooting instead of trying to write the next masterpiece exploring the nature of the human condition. but i'll admit it's a little underwhelming. i liked nina and ace and i cared about what they were doing, and 30xx doesn't seem to be willing to really flesh them out.

oh well, time for another run! 9/10 game tbh

#not megaman #megaman #30XX #20XX #inapplicable

[twogyuu]

hello holly my beloved ♡♡♡ can i ask about your vernon wips please? ^^

which one? all of them. hit me with everything you've got (or want to share) ♡

hello xan!!! i hope you're doing well 💙

i have TOO many vernon wips, it's a little concerning and unhealthy 😭😅 I'll just share my favorite!

but what if 'and' (vernon lol wtf r we doin' holly)

perhaps my favorite wip to date!

it's a summer fling!au in which vernon and oc meet at a 3-month beach getaway through mutual friends (read: booseoksoon) and agree to date just for the heck of it. neither of them have had a lot of dating experience despite being well into their 20s. they get along well enough and these two idiots geniuses are like 'hey! why not.'

alas, a love that works out well just doesn't last a summer . . .

the title pays tribute to the fact that oc often uses the conjecture of 'but' in her logic. for once in her life, vernon offers the possibility of 'and' to her reasoning :')

snippet (it be very rough - im sorry LOL):

Vernon had a funny way of bringing out surprises in you - a side people haven't seen, a side people didn't expect.

You loathed him for it as you disliked hypocrites, but he made you one.

Just like now.

Once upon a time, you would've been off by yourself, or maybe with Seungkwan, in a corner of the beach, scoffing at the groups of young couples lost in each other, scattered around the bonfire. You would wonder what it would take for you to love someone so much, your surroundings and everyone else would melt away.

Vernon’s arms wrapped around your waist, yours clasped around his shoulder, feet clumsily following one another in a beatless dance, starry eyes falling to each other foolish smiles, hovering merely centimeters from each other, you think just maybe you understand now.

Vernon pulled you closer; you readjusted yourself to better nestle into his hold, noses bumping in the process. You both chuckled softly.

He let out a long breath, breaking the peaceful silence. "Do you ever think about what would happen if this lasted longer than the summer?"

You did, but you didn't want to tell him - not yet at least. Not when summer comes to an end, the seasons change, and in comes a cold winter.

Vernon would be gone with the summer - like the summer.

You weren't sure if you were to let him go even then. It would be easier if feelings didn't linger.

"No," you fibbed.

Vernon winced back ever so slightly, though not letting go. In the distant flicker of the flame, you saw hurt flashing across his face. You turn your face away from him, noting in the corner of your eye the way his Adam's apple bopped up and down nervously like he was building himself to say something. The Vernon you knew was straightforward and honest, but he was not bold.

To your surprise, however, he finally did.

"I do."

Because whether you knew it or not, you made Vernon a hypocrite as well.

You brought surprises out of Vernon - a side people haven't seen, a side people didn't expect.

A side only for you.

#twogyuu:writing #twogyuu:ask games #vernon x reader #vernon scenarios #xan 🌌 #aceofvernons #just one bc ive been working a lot and haven't had a lot of chance to look through the other ones 🥲 #sorry 😭😭😭 just very tired today #I hope you still liked this one tho!!!

[faverna]

Ok so, stick with me here. When I played the sumeru archon quest ya know with the geniuses and the confusing ass plot I did not understand a thing. Then I watched my friend play it and we gave all the shit stupid names (ex. Akasha terminal=airpods, evil knowledge capsule thing=evil iPad pro max, scara=ipad kid, etc.) AND IT MADE SO MUCH SENSE??? I UNDERSTOOD? and all im asking for is a loki tv series review by someone who 200% understands but in menace to society terminology. I need ouchy apple pencils and blue shelled loki please

#Like i understand the basic idea and stuff #But i feel like im missing important nuance/details? #genshin #genshin impact #loki #loki season 2 #loki series #loki show #send help

[stinkyme]

Fedya theory Fedya theory Fedya theory!

What if Fyodor has a clone (his ability manifestation or smth) and since he apparently teamed up with some Meursault guards, it was possible for him to disguise as a guard himself and have his clone/manifestation be imprisoned.

So there was always “two Fyodors” in Meursault, and in the latest episode, one of the three guards (two of them disappeared somehow?) was Fyodor in disguise and somehow escaped or got away through a portal that Nikolai made while the Fyodor in the helicopter was his clone/manifestation.

That’s my current theory because I’m tucking devastated and cling to every straw, but yeah I just hope it’s true in some way because I miss my man :’’’(

guards could be bones forgetting to draw them LMAOO, I HAD TO COMMENT ON THIS FIRST

however, I heard this theory before and I really like it and I agree, there is a high high high chance we have two Fyodors or at least good portion of fandom hopes we do because it would be very interesting and... yeah :3

Two Fyodors would be the best way to unravel the story, explain certain plot holes, explain dead apple monologue, make his "death" to parallel Dazai's geniusness, etc., because imo, Asagiri truly nerfed Fyodor in prison arc and it's just eh..

anyways! I truly doubt Fyodor is dead, I didn't get any feeling that this was genuine ending of his, knowing Asagiri, he will pull out few more dead - rebirth/alive moves because it seems he enjoys that rn, LOL, so hopefully this theory is correct and deepens the lore even more :D

#stinkyanswers #i think this theory is true or at least i hope so #because it would the best course of action truly #and open up a lot of things for us #but we will see....in the pace this is going...i am not hoping for anything too much

[howaboutcastiel]

I wanna talk about my dream last night because

First of all, I was back in high school (yuck) with all of those kids plus some of my college friends. Apparently I was aware that it was an alternate dimension and the kids who were stem geniuses were given special treatment (and bulletproof vests, literally, because murica) and I was apparently one of them?? But I turned it down because of the responsibility or whatever. So anyway Apple Inc makes the apocalypse happen kind of. They release a zombie virus and the antidote is wearing an Apple Watch (I got no fucking clue lmao). Luckily I was already wearing one ??? But I had to run from zombies and I ran into the school bathroom where there was a secret entrance to like a cool hang out place and then I made out with a hot trans girl (happy pride lmao) and then the police caught us because Hey it’s The Apocalypse you can’t kiss in here

Anyway, if anyone knows how to stop having “I’m still in high school” dreams, lemme know

#dumb #throwaway #journal #Jonah talks about random things

[havnblog]

No, Apple — you’re not the main reason I buy Apple Products

In the court cases against Epic, this round of regulatory scrutiny from the EU, and other more, Apple has made their sense of entitlement abundantly clear. Every piece of business that happens on their platforms, is to their credit. And developers are lucky to be able to pay them almost a third of their revenue for the privilege of being on their platforms. If Apple understands that their relationship with developers is reciprocal, they hide it well.

I like all my Apple hardware. Heck, I even love some of it! I also like the operating systems, the general focus on privacy, and the way the different parts of the ecosystem work together. But I think I could enjoy a Framework laptop, Asus phone and some Sony earbuds as well! The things Apple makes and does isn’t the main reason I keep buying Apple products. It’s all the fantastic third-party developers, mostly indie, who make great software for the Apple platforms.

I know that Apple makes some great tools, APIs and frameworks to make this happen — so I’m not saying they shouldn’t get anything for their trouble. But this idea that it’s a one-way street, where only Apple gives other companies business, just feels so wrong to me.

So even though I know neither Tim Apple nor any other Apples, will read this post, I feel the need to give shout-outs to some people Apple is at the mercy of.

Great third-party software

Most of these apps are what I would call indie apps — but not all of them. 1 And I think most of them are only available on Apple platforms currently — but they might be available on, or on the way to, other platforms. I’ve tried all of them, but don’t necessarily use them regularly — but I do use many of them! I’ll also try to give social links to the devs I know — but you are welcome to contact me if some are missing or wrong!

A stock Mac, without utilities like these, feels broken to me:

Bartender, by Surtees Studios, keeps my menu bar tidy and good-looking, and Default Folder X, by St. Clair Software upgrades my open and close dialogs.

My trackpad becomes much more useful thanks to BetterTouchTool by Andreas Hegenberg of Folivora.ai, and all my keyboards do the same through Karabiner-Elements by pqrs/Takayama Fumihiko and Keyboard Maestro by Stairways Software.

Paste, by a small team based in Denmark, is my favourite clipboard manager — but Tapbot’s Pastebot, is also great. (Give Paul, Mark and Todd a follow!)

But I would probably be able to live with just using the integrated clipboard manager in Raycast, an outstanding launcher with a rich extension ecosystem. But Alfred, by Andrew and Vero Pepperrell, and LaunchBar, by Objective Development is also good! I do use Raycast for window management, though. However, if I didn’t, I would’ve been well served by things like Magnet (Crowd Café), Moom (Peter Maurer and Rob Griffiths of Many Tricks), Rectangle (Ryan Hanson) , Amethyst (Ian Ynda-Hummel) or Yabai (Åsmund Vikane)! (And John Siracusa makes some apps for the particular of us.)

Noodlesoft’s Hazel keeps my files tidy, Anybox holds my bookmarks, my board game collection is in Classifier by App Deco, and my digital games are in GameTrack. Menuwhere (Many Tricks again!) makes sure the top menu is always within reach.

PopClip by Nick Moore and SnippetsLab by Renfei Song help me manipulate text, Photomator manipulates photos, and what the geniuses over at Rogue Amoeba can do to manipulate sound, is simply remarkable (I especially like SoundSource and Audio Hijack!)

Some do wood working as a hobby — I do development

And even though I’m very far from being at a professional level, I really like the Zed code editor by the team behind Atom. Panic also has some great software, in Transmit, the Nova editor, and the new Prompt terminal. iTerm , by George Nachman is also good — but my favourite terminal app is Warp. And if I had coded more on my iPad, I probably would’ve used Runestone, by Simon Støvring, and Working Copy more! Oh, and my favourite browser, is Arc by The Browser Company — and if I’m there, in Safari or in Firefox, Jeff Johnson helps me StopTheMadness.

But there’s even more great ways to write notes and other texts

NotePlan, by Eduard Metzger is both my notes app and task manager, and I journal in Everlog by Wessley Roche. But I could very well have taken notes in Bear (Shiny Frog), Craft, Bike Outliner (Jesse Grosjean) or **Taio **(by the developer who also makes MarkEdit)! (Quick shout-out to Obsidian and Logseq as well — even though they are cross-platform.)

Text that I won’t save, starts in Drafts by Greg Pierce, while I write blog posts and more in Ulysses by a team based in Germany. (But MarsEdit, by Daniel Jalkut also supports Micro.blog!) And if I feel the need for a post-it note, I might jot something down in Tot, by Iconfactory, or do some calculations in Soulver by Acqualia Software.

(I’d love to be able to write my emails in Mimestream — but they have got to get on that JMAP support!)

There are also lots of great calendar apps and task managers

Since I have most my tasks in NotePlan, I don’t use other task managers as much. But I sometimes use GoodTask, as it uses the Reminders.app database, but gives a more powerful interface. Things 3, by Cultured Code and Omnifocus by The Omni Group is also great.

If you’re a calendar power user, Fantastical, by Flexibits, is where it’s at. I’m not, so I really like BusyCal, by Busy Apps, that sits somewhere between Fantastical and Calendar.app. I also have a soft spot for n.spektor’s Calendar 366.

Most of these have good mobile clients — but here are some other mobile favourites

Dark Noise, by Charlie Chapman, is a good noisemaker, and Callsheet by Casey Liss is what IMDB would be if it was made by someone who really cares.

His ATP buddy, Marco Arment, makes the app that’s active the most hours on my phone: Overcast And I check the IK Start og Arsenal scores with FotMob.

My favourite calculator, is the weirdly named SC-323PU by Thomas Öllinger., but PCalc by James Thomson is also great.

If I checked the weather in other ways than finding out when I step outside, I could’ve used apps like Carrot Weather by Brian Mueller or Mercury Weather by Triple Glazed Studios. (Here’s a pro tip from me: I use the Yr app, which is a weather app paid for by the Norwegian government — and it’s pretty great, and available in English!) And if I saved recipies, I could use Croutonby Devin Davies or Mela by Silvio Rizzi.

Silvio has also made a great way to experience RSS, with Reeder. NetNewsWire by Brent Simmons is another good option, while my personal favourite is Lire.

iOS also has some fantastic social media apps. I still miss Apollo, by Christian Selig, and Reddit’s policies have made me more or less quit the service. But Narwhal is pretty good if you still use it! Gluon, by Vincent Ritter is my preferred way to browse Micro.blog (also check out his Scribbles project!) For Mastodon, there’s an embarrassment of riches: Mona, Ivory (Tapbots), Mammoth and Icecubes (Thomas Ricouard), to name a few!

And that’s not even mentioning the cross-platform stuff that Apple’s platforms would be way less attractive without. (Looking at you, Vision Pro.) I enjoy YouTube Premium, my main music player is Spotify (testing Tidal currently, though), my main chat app is Telegram (by far the best user experience for personal and group chats!). While these don’t keep me on Apple platforms, the absence of them would’ve pushed away.

Again, Apple does deserve tons of cash and credit — but not all of it. People like the mentioned developers are the main reason I buy Apple products — and not Apple themselves.

And people’s definition of «indie» varies! ↩︎

[chocolatedetectivehottub]

baddest predict,

baddest predict,

Best baddest predict

Welcome to our blog, where we delve into the world of predictions and explore the baddest ones out there! We all love a good prediction - whether it's about the weather, sports outcomes, or even what the future holds for us. But sometimes, those predictions can be so off base that they become legendary in their own right. In this post, we're going to take a closer look at some of the most epic fails in predicting history. Get ready to be amazed (or maybe just amused) by these baddest predictio

baddest predict

In the vast realm of predictions, there are those that shine with accuracy and insight, leaving us in awe of their foresight. But then there are the baddest predict - the ones that make us scratch our heads and wonder what on earth were they thinking?

One such infamous prediction was made by Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, back in 1943. He boldly stated that "there is a world market for maybe five computers." Oh boy, was he wrong! Today we can't even fathom a world without computers - they're everywhere from our pockets to our homes.

Another example comes from none other than Albert Einstein himself. Yes, even geniuses can have off days when it comes to predicting. In 1932, Einstein declared confidently that "there is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable." Well, we all know how that turned out!

Let's not forget about some tech gurus who missed the mark too. Take Steve Ballmer's prediction about smartphones in 2007: "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share." Oops! It seems like Apple had different plans for revolutionizing the mobile industry.

Even esteemed experts in finance have stumbled upon bad predictions. Remember when Ben Bernanke famously said in 2007: "The subprime mortgage crisis is contained"? Little did he know at the time just how far-reaching and detrimental its effects would be on global markets.

[lowkeynando]

(260×324mm) for $199 (£169), and a "large" version measuring 13 inches by 16.25 inches (330×413mm) for $299 (£249), sold by Apple online and in some of its retail Apple Store locations. [2] The book was discontinued by Apple in August 2019, selling out worldwide by September of the same year. Infinite Loop is a non-fiction book on the history of Apple Inc., written by Michael S. Malone and published by Doubleday Business in 1999. The book is named after Infinite Loop (street), where the company had its headquarters, which were located in the middle of Silicon Valley, at 1 Infinite Loop,

Cupertino, California. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution is an overview of the history of computer science and the Digital Revolution. It was written by Walter Isaacson, and published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster. The book summarizes the contributions of several innovators who have made pivotal breakthroughs in computer technology and its applications-from the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, and Alan Turing's work in artificial intelligence, through the Information Age of the present. [1][2] In December 2015, Simon & Schuster published a revised electronic edition of The Innovators, which corrected significant errors and omissions in the original edition's Chapter 9, which covers Software. Isaacson - who in researching thes CLONES

[tinayublog]

Are E-Bikes Faster Than Regular Bikes?

Not really, most low-speed electrical bikes won't go over 20 miles per hour under motor power alone. You can always pedal faster than that or drop a steep hill but federal regulation limits this top speed in exchange for classification as a "bicycle". Some recent compromises have been made whereby pedal-assist electric bikes may reach ~28 miles per hour assisted but only if the rider is pedaling rigorously. A similar class of electric bikes called "speed pedelecs" exists in Europe and have become popular for commuters.

Take note however that efficiency drops off significantly as riders gain speed as a result of drag. That is "forces acting opposite to the relative motion of any object moving with respect to a surrounding fluid" or in this case air. The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of its velocity while "air drag" is approximately proportional to the square of velocity.

In short, as you go beyond 15 mph on an ebike, drag really starts to cut into the range you can achieve so speed comes at a high price!

Can I Do DIY Maintenance on My Electric Bike?

This is a great question! When it comes to electric bikes I usually recommend that people buy locally if possible. This is because the bike will be assembled properly, following specific torque ratings on screws and such, and will be fit to the rider for improved comfort.

In the bike industry, many shops that sell both traditional and electric will tell me that ebikes see 10 times the use. This is based on customer feedback and tuneups that they provide. People just ride electric bicycles more, and further, and faster! Some of that wear can be serviced by the end user but when it comes to throttles, batteries and computer systems things can get tricky.

Electric bikes marry mechanical systems with software and electrical complexities. There is a reason that Apple calls their tech support "Geniuses", right? Advanced knowledge and a specific toolset are required to truly maintain electric bikes as well, in my opinion. The most basic bikes that do not offer torque sensing pedal assist, LCD display readouts or frame-routed cables may be self-serviceable or simply disposable given their lower price point but the more purpose-built offerings really benefit from that professional touch and often times have locked computers with special diagnostic tools much like automobiles.

#electrical bicycle