I FUCKING LOVE CHARACTER DESIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TIL Megalovania has been used in actual published scientific research

Read the paper here

I’m losing my shit over this

YEAH

I think “arousal” here means emotional activation in general so excitement counts too. Basically they’ve proven that megalovania fucking slaps

The aforementioned scream isn't even a song or anything. It's just a straight-up scream from some person.

This funky fellow was used to assess responses, the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM):

(They’re coming to get ya!)

The top row is Valence, whether the elicited emotion is positive or negative, 2nd is Arousal, how much the elicited emotion is “activating”, 3rd is Dominance, if the participant feels “in control” of the emotion.

Megalovania scored 70.02, 72.89, and 54.05 respectively which is science talk for SHIT SLAPS BRO

abandoned space elevator

What makes this even funnier is if you’re a rich guy and do this the actual poker players will shower you with praise and stroke your ego (especially when you win hands through sheer variance) and say you’re great and to keep doing what you’re doing because they’re just siphoning money from you and want you to keep it up. Like, that’s the original definition of a “whale” in the gambling sense

Either people need to learn how to tell the difference between an “I’m sorry” that takes direct responsibility and an “I’m sorry” that signifies sympathy, or I’m gonna start responding to unfortunate information with a solemn nod and a “Sympies,” because I am tired of receiving a “Why? It wasn’t your fault” every time I try to vocalize compassion.

I'm forwarding all of you my next therapy bill.

Can I propose the XKCD method instead?

XCKD 945, ID in Alt

boys: jacking off

girls: jilling off

non binary : ferching a pail of water

anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

Wow I don’t understand math at all

‘if you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%’ is a line I hear alot.

It goes up from .5% to 1%

I think my brain just stopped working

100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.

Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic

This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.

I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.

just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.

Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick. If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.

Reblogging again for that last addition.

So, my spouse has been exploring his gender lately; he also just built himself a new laptop. Today he told me that he in an attempt to process some genderfeels through metaphor, he made a post on a trans forum along the lines of: "I'm a lifelong Windows user and I think I'm pretty good at it. I want to find out what Linux has to offer but I'm afraid I wouldn't be any good at it. And how do you choose the right Linux distro, anyway? Do you have to try them all?"

The responses, he said, were a mix of useful advice about feeling out your gender and useful advice about choosing a Linux distro.

I love trans people so much

Spouse (still he/him for now) recently decided to pick out some more feminine glasses -- he was going for the librarian look, he said. He noted his pick was "subtle enough" he'd "probably" feel comfortable wearing them at work. Of course, he's been wearing his old glasses while waiting for the new ones to be ready.

Well, today these two things happened while he was at work:

I don't usually read coincidences as signs, but,

Update: She really liked Linux

(Also, her name is Eve now)

this makes me happy thank u for posting this <3

The spouse is getting curious about tumblr

With the amount of DMs and tags I see of folks talking about how some prompt chains originating from my blog are so long that it instantly crashes their app when it loads? Yes. The indeed beat you up

UPDATE

I've given him an accessory to enhance his beauty

ROUMD

Someone captured the solar eclipse on an airplane

they should make a pill that makes people in their 20s feel good about where their lives are going

this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

as a cis woman who's had a hysterectomy and partial oophorectomy, this would be helpful for me, too! it'd be pointless to try to diagnose me for disorders that affect organs I don't have anymore, after all.

being inclusive helps us ALL. 💖

Yes, exactly this. My OBGYN was forced to give someone a pregnancy test because she was AFAB, despite the fact that she was 70 and hasn't had a uterus for 30 years.

UPDATE THE MEDICAL SYSTEM

It's not just that this would 'work better', all studies of whether using "AGAB" as a predictor in medical contexts have indicated it results in worse outcomes because the categories are far too broad and overlapping on every conceivable axis that you might as well roll dice to make your assumptions about human bodies

My mom would benefit from this. She's had to take testosterone treatments for about a decade now (worked so hard that her body just stopped producing any), and recently had some key organs removed due to a natural-born complication. If she ever ends up in a hospital with doctors and staff who don't know her, this would save a lot of struggle, if not potentially her life.