#what a team upgrade

[puppetmaster13u]

I am slowly rotating a what if oneshot or so of my What's Outside Au of like, Injustice or Justice Lords esque timeline. Like, Clark is one of the only ones who knows the batclan since they're cryptids, and the first meeting was entirely accidental. But Batman and his brood aren't a part of the League, even if the Wayne Enterprises do start help funding it and is still behind the Watchtower. So how would it work? How would things change, when Bruce is already more morally gray and no one knows for sure if the Bats even exist out of Gotham?

#cryptid batman #cryptid batfam #what's out there au #injustice #justice lords #batman #justice league #batman au #Au of an Au #Eventually the base au might be Superbat (platonic or romantic) so how would *that* influence the au #Why would the bats be perfect for a team of assassins of sorts #just thinkin #mechanical wings #Why can I see Clark giving them access to kryptonian tech to upgrade their wings even further #sleep deprived thoughts #gimme ideas #dunno what it'll be in the main AU but in an injustice or justice lord timeline it'd probably end up being Superbat

[maxpadelchampion]

is everyone but ferrari having problems again???? the curse of australia is still lingering in the air

#Charles not complaining about the car thank god for small victories #charles pole AND p1 so true #literally williams is a disaster #dr3 spinning out of control #idk what’s happening at mclaren and frankly don’t care enough #and red bull apparently caused more problems not less during there upgrades this week #fun times all around to everyone but charles leclerc who is here on a MISSION #f1 #formula 1 #japanese gp 2024 #charles leclerc #also Mercedes continues to be a mid team this season wbk #also hbd op81 hope u have a blast out there today

[piratespencil]

Man this episode also gave us FCG's secret past name/title being Faithful Care Giver... And we got a Fashion Montage ft. FCG and FRIDA getting matching coats and the girls getting matching corsets... And we got Fearne's ultimatum to Chet about going after Deanna... AND FCG's quantum tongue.

Fantastic episode all around.

#i feel like fcg's armour upgrades and everyone's fashion montage means that we're gonna get new character art soon-ish!! #probably once we see what team orym-ashton-laudna are up to and they get their own new looks #but ooh im excited #critical role #cr3 #c3e55 #cr spoilers #kk talks about stuff #kk watches cr3

[bogkeep]

the way the most recent pokemon games don't let you turn off the exp share or the affection mechanic bonuses is nothing short of maddening. i think they make great accessibility features If Only They Were Optional and the flavour text is cute, but i want to have a fun casual playthrough that's at least mildly challenging without having to make it a nuzlocke or something. i don't want to feed my starter bitter medicines to make her hate me :(

#JUST LET ME TURN IT OFF... PLEASE.... #i can't do nuzlockes i do Not have the willpower to stick to the rules and they stress me out haha #anyway i am a fool who's left all of my DS games in norway and i got a hankering for replaying sinnoh games #so i decided to get shining pearl right. figured it might be fun even if ill miss the 4th gren spritework something fierce #what ensued was a needlessly complicated process just to get a copy that was slightly cheaper than full price nintendo blood money #there's a store that listed shining pearl at a lower price. not brilliant diamond - just pearl #i feel like maybe it's by mistake since that's the price of a nintendo DS cartridge. so maybe wires got crossed #the norwegian version of the store does NOT have the price disparity. #anyway i can't order online without a swedish phone number. and the local store is out of stock #so i have several long walks to the store to get them to order it in for me and then to order it delivered to me etc #and then of course another long walk to pick up the mail BUT I HAVE IT NOW. I HAVE VIDEO GAME #and it's very nice and nostalgic with a couple quality of life upgrades #my first pokemon game was pokemon diamond. when i got it i was still learning english and had no idea what was happening at any time #good times good times #obviously no pokemon run is ever gonna be as challenging as my first ever run #it does not need to be! u can immediately tell that a lot of difficulty in earlier games is that leveling up your team was a hassle #and almost always required grinding. i do not miss that at all ! but the remakes seem to be Extremely Faithful #so they're not rly structured around how fast you can level your whole team #or that your pokemon are gonna start doing extra crits or hold on to last HP before u even get to the third gym #OH WELL #you know what's very exciting for me though. i have a misdreavous!!! they're pearl exclusive and not in platinum #ive always wanted to do a sinnoh run with a misdreavous on my team for some reason

[danthropologie]

since he hasn’t been in that car yet we can still live in delusion so can’t wait for daniel to get a podium in the AT this year so he’ll have gotten at least one podium at each team he’s been at except hrt

wow SO TRUE. i don't care if everyone else on the grid has to DNF for him to get up there, i will celebrate it like it's the most impressive fucking drive of his career

#when they start bringing upgrades/figuring out the upgrades just in time to make it a solidly midfield team for the back half of the season #THEN WHAT!!!! #dan #at23 #answered #anonymous

[mitskiesques]

taking book rhaenicent’s dynamic of petty but lethal rivalry between firstborn and step parent about to become a full on catfight at any moment now and giving it to jace and daemon instead. #feminism

#evil stepmother daemon targaryen is what i deserve #n #hotd #@ team black PLEASE work on your compartmentalization and repression coping methods #and by “work on” i mean claw at each other's throats like wild animals. make it worse #jacaerys targaryen i am BEGGING you to be more interesting and upgrade your cuntserving #the green kids are overshadowing u by full lightyears . your brother was eaten. Step Up. Go Insane

[solemntitty]

this is how i've cleared abyss to floor 11. welcome to my personal artifact hell

#jamie has made a statement #the fact that nahida's artifact is fucking geo is SENDING me #yeah it's EM stats #xiao being dendro is hilarious to me #as well as kaz and alhaitham being the fucking physical damage set #none of this makes any sense #i was looking through my elements bc i was like kazuha why do you have the physical damage series #and then i was like oh. all my characters r like this bc i go for main stats only #genshit blogging #asldkfjlaskjdf yelan's is def not her best one bc i think it's elemental burst damage which is ok but she needs ER #NVM I JUST CHECKED THE ONE I HAVE FOR HER AND ITS HP GOBLET WITH 11% DEF #HOW HAS SHE BEEN DOING THE NUMBERS SHE'S DOING #jk the def percent is uh. haha. it's fucking 25% it all rolled into def #every day i ask how i'm able to clear abyss #to be fair! i have only gotten to floor 12-1 #i do'nt like artifact grinding so i usually just upgrade what i have #artifact grinding is a sad ordeal #i've watched a lot of ppl who make genshin content be very specific about what they want from artifact RNG and i'm like. i could never. #as long as it has two substats i'm good w for the character and artifact i don't care #i used to swap artifacts around depending on abyss teams but now i'm just focusing on giving each character i actually fucking use their ow #goddamn set bc i'm tired of doing that shit

[malewifenico]

HI HELLO MICK TO MERC OH MY GOD

#I'm going to be out all afternoon playing dnd so I'm just here to yell about this briefly #ohhhh torn between the relief that mick's keeping his foot in the door as a reserve driver #and with a team that's a huge upgrade from haas for that matter #but the knowledge from laura of what happened last time merc signed a schumacher #toto if you even LOOK at my baby boy wrong I swear to god #auberon.txt

[f1]

F1 teams had big upgrades planned for Imola but what happens now?

One of the many disruptions the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix not going ahead has caused is that of the teams’ development programmes, with several squads having planned to bring big upgrade packages to the race. Formula 1 technical expert Mark Hughes explains what effect the event being called off will have on those plans – especially since the next round is at Monaco, an outlier in terms of circuit style... Mercedes, Ferrari and AlphaTauri had all confirmed their plans to introduce significant upgrades to their cars for the Imola race and it’s likely they would not have been the only ones. READ MORE: Hamilton ‘counting down the days’ until Mercedes upgrades arrive Mercedes’ update is particularly significant in that it’s the first one planned since the team acknowledged it had simply got it wrong with this car, that the aerodynamic concept it kept the faith in from last year was simply “wrong” in the words of team boss Toto Wolff. Front suspension, bodywork and floor updates for the W14 were due to appear at Imola, with the aim of providing a more stable aerodynamic platform for the car. The biggest shortfall of the W14 so far has been rear grip through high-speed corners and Imola would have been quite a good test of how effective the upgrade was in addressing that. This feature is currently not available because you need to provide consent to functional cookies. Please update your cookie preferences TECH TALK: How do Mercedes fix their car? | Crypto.com The upgrade will instead make its debut next weekend at Monaco. Although there is a distinct absence of high-speed sections here, the update will still be relevant and running this specification will give the team useful data prior to the Spanish Grand Prix the week after, at a circuit with plenty of high-speed sections. Likewise, Ferrari have revised upper bodywork as part of a package of changes which was initiated in Miami with the new floor. READ MORE: How Ferrari tried to tame their SF-23 with new floor upgrades in Miami There are also rumours of a revised suspension. The aerodynamic upgrades slated for Imola are expected to be seen at Monaco. The SF23’s shortfall has so far been a tricky, inconsistent balance through high-speed corners. But its speed into and through slow corners has been a real strength and Monaco should see it in its best light, especially so given Charles Leclerc’s renowned speed around here. Ferrari’s new floor (Miami, bottom, compared to Baku, top) features a more hooded outer edge in the forward section, revised vortex-generating shapes and a more pronounced ramp ahead of the rear wheels AlphaTauri continue to address a weakness in their car’s low-speed corner performance and the updates planned for Imola included another new floor (a development of that introduced in Melbourne) to improve the car’s aerodynamics at high rear ride heights. This will be particularly relevant for Monaco and the upgrade is due to be on the car there. TECH TUESDAY: 0.3s per lap and a sign of things to come – AlphaTauri's latest floor upgrades analysed There is always a greater risk of running new body parts around the street circuit with its unforgiving walls, but because the parts of all three of these teams were planned for Imola, they would likely have been on the cars for Monaco regardless. Imola not going ahead does mean the production departments of the teams will at least have been given a few extra days to make spares. via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

#F1 #F1 teams had big upgrades planned for Imola – but what happens now? #Formula 1

[keeps-ache]

frucken (? word ?) tired for days

#just me hi #had a headache earlier that only went away when i put pressure on the back of my head so i fell asleep again #??? #why am i so tired??? #i physically can't do anything cuz after a little while i feel like i haven't slept at all #like i keep trying to do things but body is just like 'uhhh hey dude? yeah. uhh no.' #like really this blows #i think i'm coming out of it now but dear goodness #... #on the verge of overthinking about it too so i think the tired is teaming up with the Black Magic #:/ #it just kinda sucks? not like 'almost fell asleep standing up in busy crowded mall' suck but you get what i mean #HEY you know what's funny is it's the day just before i get my Annual System Number Upgrade [try to guess what that means :)] #and i think yesterday was the worst of it so. we good #i think? lol #anyway! now that i Think i have something that's at least pretending to be energy i'm gonna #do things? i guess? #i have no idea i've got nothin #imma try tho and see what happens #ciao and te amo -u-

[my-fragment-of-peace]

Me, a Merc fan & Lewis fan fully realizing this is the final race before break and thinking about the last several starting grids and podiums:

Obviously, the results today will be very telling as well but 👀

#listen i’m not saying merc is going to win constructor’s and lewis will win wdc #but what i am saying is that they’re consistently doing better #and posturing themselves for even more wins once the break is over #i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again #the one thing they have over rbr and even ferrari this season is consistency #they’ve been able to figure out what hinders their performance as a team and what helps it #then change strategies and upgrade accordingly #so anyway after the break it’s going to be m*** d********* finally #f1 #formula 1 #lewis hamilton #george russell #mercedes amg

[uservaulty]

not gonna watch quali today, have fun everyone!

#green team promised upgrades but then again what's new #f1 #qualis #french gp #aston martin #personal

[nasa]

What We Learned from Flying a Helicopter on Mars

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history – not only as the first aircraft to perform powered, controlled flight on another world – but also for exceeding expectations, pushing the limits, and setting the stage for future NASA aerial exploration of other worlds.

Built as a technology demonstration designed to perform up to five experimental test flights over 30 days, Ingenuity performed flight operations from the Martian surface for almost three years. The helicopter ended its mission on Jan. 25, 2024, after sustaining damage to its rotor blades during its 72nd flight.

So, what did we learn from this small but mighty helicopter?

We can fly rotorcraft in the thin atmosphere of other planets.

Ingenuity proved that powered, controlled flight is possible on other worlds when it took to the Martian skies for the first time on April 19, 2021.

Flying on planets like Mars is no easy feat: The Red Planet has a significantly lower gravity – one-third that of Earth’s – and an extremely thin atmosphere, with only 1% the pressure at the surface compared to our planet. This means there are relatively few air molecules with which Ingenuity’s two 4-foot-wide (1.2-meter-wide) rotor blades can interact to achieve flight.

Ingenuity performed several flights dedicated to understanding key aerodynamic effects and how they interact with the structure and control system of the helicopter, providing us with a treasure-trove of data on how aircraft fly in the Martian atmosphere.

Now, we can use this knowledge to directly improve performance and reduce risk on future planetary aerial vehicles.

Creative solutions and “ingenuity” kept the helicopter flying longer than expected.

Over an extended mission that lasted for almost 1,000 Martian days (more than 33 times longer than originally planned), Ingenuity was upgraded with the ability to autonomously choose landing sites in treacherous terrain, dealt with a dead sensor, dusted itself off after dust storms, operated from 48 different airfields, performed three emergency landings, and survived a frigid Martian winter.

Fun fact: To keep costs low, the helicopter contained many off-the-shelf-commercial parts from the smartphone industry - parts that had never been tested in deep space. Those parts also surpassed expectations, proving durable throughout Ingenuity’s extended mission, and can inform future budget-conscious hardware solutions.

There is value in adding an aerial dimension to interplanetary surface missions.

Ingenuity traveled to Mars on the belly of the Perseverance rover, which served as the communications relay for Ingenuity and, therefore, was its constant companion. The helicopter also proved itself a helpful scout to the rover.

After its initial five flights in 2021, Ingenuity transitioned to an “operations demonstration,” serving as Perseverance’s eyes in the sky as it scouted science targets, potential rover routes, and inaccessible features, while also capturing stereo images for digital elevation maps.

Airborne assets like Ingenuity unlock a new dimension of exploration on Mars that we did not yet have – providing more pixels per meter of resolution for imaging than an orbiter and exploring locations a rover cannot reach.

Tech demos can pay off big time.

Ingenuity was flown as a technology demonstration payload on the Mars 2020 mission, and was a high risk, high reward, low-cost endeavor that paid off big. The data collected by the helicopter will be analyzed for years to come and will benefit future Mars and other planetary missions.

Just as the Sojourner rover led to the MER-class (Spirit and Opportunity) rovers, and the MSL-class (Curiosity and Perseverance) rovers, the team believes Ingenuity’s success will lead to future fleets of aircraft at Mars.

In general, NASA’s Technology Demonstration Missions test and advance new technologies, and then transition those capabilities to NASA missions, industry, and other government agencies. Chosen technologies are thoroughly ground- and flight-tested in relevant operating environments — reducing risks to future flight missions, gaining operational heritage and continuing NASA’s long history as a technological leader.

You can fall in love with robots on another planet.

Following in the tracks of beloved Martian rovers, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter built up a worldwide fanbase. The Ingenuity team and public awaited every single flight with anticipation, awe, humor, and hope.

Check out #ThanksIngenuity on social media to see what’s been said about the helicopter’s accomplishments.

Learn more about Ingenuity’s accomplishments here. And make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

#tech #technology #futurism #space #robotics #inspiration #science #planets #NASA #aviation #Youtube

[rubys-domain]

i had a much easier time clearing chi of yore this time around

#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo，ide yo !! #i actually failed the first time i did it on main #honestly it was probably because my team was a mess (chongqiunett + collei，and i was still running sac greatsword) #(sac gs isn't bad per se. it's pretty good for support chong. but it's not ideal for main dps chong) #(and i don't mean to slander collei i love her to bits. but that team was just not the way to go) #i remember spending allllllll of my mora on upgrading my artifacts in the hopes of beating it #it was getting in the way of another quest so i had to #i did on the second try. but it was still an ordeal and a half #now that my team has some logic behind it and i know what stats my characters actually need #this attempt on the alt went WAY smoother

[taconafide2]

scared of tl60 kinda

#how are you even supposed to upgrade a full team. with what resources?????????????huh??????????? #i feel like i should already start prefarming talent mats. . .for seele at the very least?? #bossess idt are worth it i heard talent drop rates barely change but bossess going from 4 to 5 per battle is huge #with current pace i feel like i might hit it by the end of june?