And then, for a second, it seemed like maybe we could survive the child,
and then, 5 miles under the capital city, an evil homunculus was like, “I have a huge transmutation circle and I’m going to kill everyone to become god!” And before we could say
anything, the child was like, “If you even fucking look at Amestris,
I will punch you to death with my fists. I dare you to do it. I want
you to do it. I want you to do it so I can take my unresolved daddy issues out on you, I’m
so fucking crazy.”
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Sometimes it’s not a bad thing, just surprising. Like, “Today the child did alchemy without a transmutation circle,” and everyone is like, “Huh, I didn’t know he could do that.”
The creepiest days are when you don’t hear from the child at all. Those are the days when everyone is like “I think the child has finally calmed down,” and then the child is like “I just uncovered a government conspiracy. I went in that secret lab and snuck in there with my tiny body. I have a tiny body, but don’t you tell me that, or I’ll fuck you up,” and you’re like “That’s what I thought you’d say, you tiny fucking child.”
And then for a second we’re like “Maybe the government will fire the child,” and the child is like “I have dismantled the government.”
oh my god sokka rly just accepts zuko as a friend right away? he immediately just starts roasting him with jerkbending and his little dragon dance bless
Sokka was 100% on board for the friendship, not because Zuko redeemed himself, but because Zuko was easy roast material
Does anyone else remember the time that Bryke was mad at the Avatar toyline? Because the company just kept demanding more and more ludicrous ideas for action figures? (But still refused to make female action figures.)
And one day, the company asked them to make a battle outfit for Aang.
And Bryke was just like, “…The airbenders were pacifists?”
And the toy company was like, “Just give us something!”
So Bryke literally told everyone in the studio to come up with all of these ridiculous ideas and they actually combined them all together and made this:
Needless to say the toy wasn’t passed.
I think about this a lot.
this is just the classiest and most hilarious “FUCK YOU” ever
god i loved that scene. IIRC aang tried to take one step and then just fell the fuck over because of how impractical all that junk was
upload the nematode / lock it in a box / keep it there for fifty years / then see if it talks!
but, like, it’s a worm. its behavior isn’t that complex.
if it’s not accurately behaving like a worm, how would we tell?
^ an important point. IIRC they don’t even really have a complete characterization of the worm’s nervous system, so C. legogans here is at best a preliminary test. Still pretty cool, though.
I looked at the article, and to my mind the significant thing here is that the lego robot demonstrated consistent behavior with no programming. They didn’t program any stimulus-response behavior into it. They just gave it their best approximation of worm neurons, and it made up the behavior.
I may be misunderstanding some aspect of this but to me that feels kinda huge?
They made an artifical reactive set of neurons with consistent observable behaviors. Yeah, this is a big deal. It’s the first step towards ‘uploading’ minds.
Josephine Cochrane invented the first commercially successful dishwasher out of frustration at broke and chipped fine china. She also wanted to relieve tired housewives from the duty of washing dishes by hand, but most houses didn’t have hot water systems at the time so initially only hotels and restaurants were interested in the idea. She was said to have exclaimed “If nobody else is going to invent a dish-washing machine, I’ll do it myself!”
The first model was designed in the shed behind her house in Shelbyville, Illinois. Unlike earlier designs that were made out of wood and used hand-cranked scrubbers, Cochran’s design was the first to use water pressure to clean the dishes. She received a patent for her invention in 1886 and went on to show her invention at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she won the highest prize for “best mechanical construction, durability, and adaptation to its line of work.”
