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rotomaton · 8 months

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Alignment Charts, Right?

So, Alignment Charts have some sort of strange, supernatural hold over me. I love finding cool ones online, sorting my friends and popular characters into them, and making them too.

I think it has something to do with the way they're a simple way to organize and categorize information/people in fun, uniform ways, and can mean as much or as little sense as you like.

In my "extensive research" of Alignment Charts, I have noticed that there are 3 main types of alignment charts.

The Grid Alignment Charts

The Graph Alignment Charts

The Tree Alignment Charts

The Grid Alignment Charts

This is probably the most common variety of Alignment Chart; a series of tiled geometric compartments. This includes the famous D&D Alignment Chart, as well as the far less popular Bear/Twink/Hunk Triangle.

The Square Variety either features two scales of different factors (lawful to chaotic / good to evil) or two collections of different things (preferred drink vs. sexuality is a common one).

The Triangle/Pyramid Variety, however, is a bit more interesting. Instead of having a label at the end of each row, there is only a label at the end of each vertex. As opposed to having the location of a compartment determine its exact value with regard to the chart, the proximity of a compartment to any given vertex determines how much that label applies to what is found in the compartment.

Fun Fact: A square Grid Chart has the same number of compartent as a triangular Grid Chart with the same side lengths! (i.e. A 2x2 square and a 2 layer triangle both have 4 compartments!)

This type of alignment chart is definitely better for smaller, finite sets of data, and allow for more specific and definable areas within the chart.

The Graph Alignment Charts

Graph Alignment Charts, while distinct from their Grid cousins in appearance, are practically identical in function. Again, like their grid cousins, Graph Charts come in both square and triangle varieties. Perhaps the most notable chart of this type is the "McDonalds Triangle Meme," seen here:

The lack of a grid/compartments allows for a lot more freedom when it comes to placing data points. Their lack of boundaries also allows for many more labels or points to be added in close proximity to one another, meaning that, unlike in Grid Charts, data points don't have to fight for a given spot, they can occupy the same niche in harmony.

The true graph Alignment Charts (As seen below), are an even better example of this category of chart.

While it shares the same labels as the classic 3x3 D&D Alignment Chart, it opts to turn the three columns of order and three rows of morality into axes, meaning one can utilize a greater range of positions, instead of relegating

These types of alignment charts are better suited to larger groups of data and work best when you're trying to relate data points more towards their relationships to a set of labels than more segmented, specific labeling.

The Tree Alignment Charts

This typing is somewhat loose and is more of a catch-all category. I only call them "Tree Alignment Charts" because the Tree Chart is the most structured variant of these charts, and most "Other" charts could be translated into the Tree Chart format and still work as intended. Really, these are the only types:

Tree Charts, which is just what I call the charts.

Freeform "Charts"

I don't think anyone else would call these "Tree Charts," this just looks like the Tree Charts I learned about in math class as a kid. You probably know the Tree Chart by its most famous version: the "When a bag is stuck in the vending machine" chart, seen below.

This is a somewhat prevalent version of alignment chart, but definitely not as popular as the classic 3x3 grid chart or the McDonald's-style triangle graph chart.

It's far less based on relation to values or labels, and is really just all or nothing and requires more broad, divided, and unrelated categories.

Finally, the Freeform Charts are just unorganized Tree Charts, as seen below.

This chart presents a similar format, with different categories of reactions to a singular prompt given in the title, this one just lacks the organization of lines.

There isn't really much to say about these Tree Charts as they are so open-ended.

These Tree Charts are best for displaying random assortments of data with only one set of labels, as opposed to the two sets of labels that both the graph and grid charts utilize.

Conclusion

I didn't really have a goal in mind with this post, I more just wanted to illustrate the different types of alignment charts and what they were good for. Also, I kinda just needed to get some Alignment Chart talk out of my system.

I have a lot of alignment charts saved up that I've found over the years, so I might post some of the more interesting ones at a later date.

Also, I have some varying charts and diagrams that I made as a form of personal indulgence that go into some deep specifics with regard to the values demonstrated within a given chart that I will post on another day.

If you want to hear more about what I think of alignment charts, please let me know or feel free to ask me any questions.

#alignment chart #alignment meme #moral alignment #dungeons and dragons #charts #graphs #grids

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shslpunkartist · 2 years

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SO YOU KNOW THAT ONE MCDONALDS MEME? THE ONE ON A TRIANGLE GRAPH WHERE IT HAD THOSE WHO ARE "MCDONALDS MCDONALDS MCDONALDS", THOSE WHO ARE "WE HAVE FOOD AT HOME", AND LASTLY THE ASSHOLES WHO ARE "PULLS UP TO ONE AS THE KIDS CHEER. ORDERS ONE BLACK COFFEE THEN DRIVES AWAY"? Where would any of the crew be on that graph? Oh and for Kim's characters, you might wanna ask her for her input for proper accuracy

Ooooh man, I need the pic so I can actually do it, that's a good meme

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digirainebow · 3 years

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been obsessed with filling these out lately and couldn’t find a monster factory one so i made. this

referencing of course boy-mayor, knife dad, and j’aam

#character alignment chart #character alignment meme #alignment meme #alignment chart #character alignment template #triangle graph meme #monster factory #polygon #digi'sedits

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abyssalshriek · 3 years

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So you know the triangle alignment meme? I made a version of that based on the Starcraft Factions and assigned characters from Persona 5 and OMORI to it.

I don't quite understand it myself, and its a mix of two very different niche things, but it makes sense...

Blank version under the read more.

#meme #starcraft #persona 5 #omori #meme template #triangle graph meme #starcraft triangle graph meme #i am not tagging everyone okay #too many characters #shitpost #post #editart #shortpost #abyssalshriek

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vixxenfox · 4 years

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#oh boy here I go with the memes #also uh can anyone tell me #about that bird thing #Bc I’ve heard about it #and I’ve taken the test #but I kind of just scanned over that graph #was she fed by a ton? XD #anyways #psat 2020 #psat memes #psat #psat 2020 memes #haha #funny #hide the pain harold #math #seriously I forgot everything about triangles #yes I wrote the exact question number so that I could remember

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iamanonniemouse · 2 years

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2, 9, 17 and 21 for the book meme!

ooh FUN Thanks alicia!! This (again, shockingly) got REALLY LONG so ITS UNDER THE CUT :waves hand:

From this End-of-the-year Book Asks List!

2: Did you reread anything? What?

Heh so many things, lemme see if I can list them all (I’m not gonna long summaries, I’ll just treat it like AO3 tags lolol)

These are just listed alphabetically by author bc that’s the order I was going through my storygraph on (btw storygraph is awesome i’ll save that story for another time but they make GRAPHS about the books you’ve read!!)

A Taste of Ink Series, Daniel May (smut, kink, cheating slash love triangle, complicated relationships, did i mention hot af?)

Him Series, Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy (hockey, bi awakening, best friends to lovers, coming out)

Omega Replaced (book 5 in Omega Reimagined), Tanya Chris (a/b/o verse, alpha/alpha pairing) (i know i said I wasn’t going to do summaries but this whole series is so creative, it’s so many twists on a/b/o, there’s a trans!omega, there’s an entire one about an omega prostitute and the idea that arguing to let omegas be in control of their bodies also means letting them sell their bodies if they want and there’s a poly one and--)

Uneven, Anah Crow (kink, power exchange, D/s dynamics without the prettiness, sadomasichism, age gap, younger dom) (this one is a long-term favorite of mine, it isn’t the...healthiest depiction of kink but everything is just so visceral between the two MCs that I can’t help but go back and reread it every once in a while)

The Last Sun (book 1 in The Tarot Sequence), KD Edwards (Fantasy, inspired by tarot cards, badass magic powers, plus a human who wears an entire arsenal and is so sarcastic, did i mention badass, found family, so many feelings amidst the badass, jUST GO READ THIS SERIES, but also read the trigger warnings, slash there is referenced past sexual assault)

Face Offs & Cheap Shots (book 2 in CU Hockey), Eden Finley and Saxon James (college hockey, enemies to lovers, but enemies in the competitive sense, no hate fucking or anything that always annoys me, classic tightly wound guy versus class joker)

Sanctuary (book 1 in Wrecked), Kelly Fox (a series about a gym for military vets, book 1 was my favorite in the series but then there’s an entire spinoff series called Wrecked: Guardians that is sharp-witted and badass about some of these vets going on their own sort of vigilante black ops missions and it’s great)

The Marked Prince (book 2 in The Darkest Court Trilogy), M.A. Grant (fae, Seelie and Unseelie courts, two loves who are so damn devoted to each other it’s insane)

The Iron Crown (book 3 in the Darkest Court Trilogy), M.A. Grant (still fae, this one is best friends to lovers, slow burn of literally like 500 years, because fae, badassery, an epic conclusion to a trilogy that start with a book that lowkey read like a fun crack novel)

Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall (so much english, aka london or briitsh or whatever-ish, romance that starts as comedy and then smacks you over the head with feelings holy crap, one of my literal all time favorite books, 1000/10 stars)

Dual Surrender (book 2 in Duality), Kate Hawthorne (established relationship, a kinky couple expanding their boundaries and getting kinkier, 24/7 dynamic, the trust these two have in each other is just so amazing, their safeword is ‘stop’ okay, also their scenes are hot af)

Captivating (book 2 in Elite Protection Services), Onley James (one of the mcs is a psychopath, literally, just getting that out of the way, again just love the dynamic between them, the author worked in a psych facility and writes characters with various psychological/personality disorders SO WELL in all their books)

Moonstruck (book 3 in Necessary Evils), Onley James (the entire series is about adoptive brothers who are all pyschopaths adopted by a famous guy who’s secretly conducting an experiment that pyschopaths can be trained to sorta be...successful humans by day and crime fighting killers by night? anyway, the dynamic in this book is ADORABLE, bb psychopath who just wants to do his best for his family but also hates how MESSY killing is, and his bloodthirsty boyfriend who is like ily cutie i’ll do the killing for you, you just sit there and look sexy while i gut a guy then we can make out afterwards) (im so sorry these are getting longer as i go omg)

Behind the Curtain, Amy Lane (ballet dancer and techie, virgin and sad, haunted boi, supportive af friends and family) (im being concise again :D :D arent you proud :D :D)

Beneath the Stain, Amy Lane (musician, rock band, really sad but so good, family, addiction and recovery)

The Locker Room, Amy Lane (basketball players, childhood friends to lovers, staying in the closet, then coming out, angst because closet and hiding their decades-long relationship for so long, but also so much devotion)

Chase in Shadow (book 1 in Johnnies), Amy Lane (porn stars, MC in the closet, internalized homophobia slash Cannot Be Gay, cheating (MC has a girlfriend and cheats on her w a boyfriend), so much fucking angst, read the trigger warnings, suicide attempt, bulimia)

King Me (book 7 in Forever Wilde), Lucy Lennox (ful disclosure I haven’t read the other books in the series, but his one’s about an art thief and the FBI agent who’s been chasing him for years, teaming up to stop another art thief, and feelings happen)

Bio-Mechanical (book 4 in Irons and Works), E.M. Lindsey (this whole series is great, it centers around people who work at a tattoo parlor but have a variety of disabilities, etc. This one is secret virgin who was son of a baptist preacher meets lovely, competent lawyer, the trust between them is beautiful, also virgin is a double amputee after a training accident when he enlisted to please his father)

Last-Minute Walk In (an Irons and Works novella), E.M. Lindsey (novella following Derek and Basil who were in book 1 Free hand which I’ve reread like 10 times, Basil is Deaf, Derek has PTSD, I love them both so much it hurts)

Wyn (a Monstrous Series novella), Lily Mayne (monsterfuckers unite, but seriously this series is SO WELL WRITTEN, post-apocalyptic monster/human pairings that are devoted to the point that they’re tying their life forces together for all eternity!!!)

Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston (First Son of the US falls in love with Prince of England, ‘enemies’ to lovers, bi-awakening, amazing humor, feels, so much love)

Love Limits & Love Unlimited (books 3 and 4 in Love Language), Reese Morison (Deaf culture, kink, asexuality, nb character, genderfluid character, polyamory, SO MUCH healthy communication)

Charlie Sunshine, Lily Morton (i adore pretty much everything by lily morton, best friends to lovers, epilepsy)

Out of Nowhere (book 2 in Middle of Somewhere), Roan Parrish (internalized homophobia, angst, coming out, so much angst, happy ending though, after all the pain)

No Shame (book 5 in No Shame), Nora Phoenix (polyamory, kink, so many different kinks, so many different relationships, pairings from earlier books in the series slash not a standalone, exhibitionism)

Healing Hand (book 3 in Perfect Hands), Nora Phoenix (daddy kink, demisexual daddy dom, sex-repulsed sub, read the trigger warnings, past sexual assault)

Jon’s Mysteries Series, AJ Sherwood (pyschic who can see auras plus his hot, protective, muscly partner who is originally brought in to protect the pyschic but they fall in lurveeee)

Upside Down, N.R. Walker (two asexuals fall in love, that’s right TWO ASEXUALS, you heard it here folks, adorable quirky romance)

Rebound (book 1 in Pucks & Rainbows), L.A. Witt (hockey, past abusive relationship shown on page)

HOLY CRAP ALICIA THAT WAS JUST ONE QUESTION OHMYGOD

9: Did you get into any new genres?

Eh, not really???? i mean if we consider my primary genre gay romance XD I guess the Mindtouch series was a branch out but I don’t really even know WHAT genre I would categorize that as :shrugs: i talked about that series in this ask, it’s so good :clutches chest and sighs happily:

17: Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

YES

Monstrous Series, Lily Mayne

So, again, the short summary I write up is ‘monsterfucking, but good’. The series is set in a post-apocalyptic word where a tear opened between our world and a monster world and earth went to shit XD and now monsters roam the earth. I read the first one thinking it was just gonna be erotica but it WASNT. These books are SO damn well-written it’s amazing, and each one gets better than the last, which i never think is possible and YET!!!

The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist, Ceinwen Langley

Sapphic beauty and the beast in 1867, featuring a young lady who is determined to become a famous adventure and naturalist and runs off to find proof of a wild animal in the woods to bring the proof to a national science exposition and instead takes shelter in an abandoned castle inhabited by a beast... This seemed adorable and I went into it holding my breath because period pieces aren’t often my cup of tea, but it was SO GOOD. SO. GOOD.

Fragile Remedy, Marina Ingrande Mora

Gave this a try for the hell of it and it was so good, it was 1000% character-driven in the sense that, if you look at the story JUST for the plot it isn’t groundbreaking, but the way Mora wrote the emotional depth of each character and the complicated, nuanced, sometimes twisted relationships between each other was GORGEOUS and the story stayed true to those relationships and I LOVED that because so often it seems that the characters go against their emotional grain in the name of plot, and this definitely did not happen in this book.

21: Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

Ahahahhaha nOPE I don’t even follow booklrs or booktubes or book-whatevers XD

In other news, thank god I don’t because this ask would’ve gotten EVEN LONGER holy shit alicia you opened pandora’s box i hope you have ZERO (0) regrets hahahahha

#omg i get asks now #mousie rambles #books #ask meme

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diwangpalaboy · 3 years

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DS 100 Padayon and Tindog

Form a group of 3-4 members. Use blue for the PPT template. Choose thirteen topics from the list provided below which your group intends to work on based on the lineup of tasks assigned. You are free to decide what topic shall correspond to a particular task. Note that the slides 3-14 of your should include the following elements: title, photo/illustration, text entry and name of the corresponding student who authored/illustrated the output. Note that this is equivalent to a major project. Submit on or before May 18 via e-mail as well as in the Google Drive that will be setup by Mr Warren (Padayon) and Ms Zaide (Tindog).

Slide 1 - Title, group members, subject and section, submission date Slide 2 - Table of contents Slide 3 - three six-word stories about _____ Slide 4 - three three-word stories about _____ Slide 5 - one quoted passage about _____ Slide 6 - one table/chart/graph about _____ Slide 7 - one editorial cartoon on ____ Slide 8 - one sociological cartoon on ____ Slide 9 - one Venn diagram on ____ Slide 10 - three call to actions on ____ Slide 11 - one tanaga on ____ Slide 12 - one tanka on ____ Slide 13 - one calligram on ____ Slide 14 - one original meme about ____ Slide 15 - five-item blog test (with answer) key about ____ Slide 16 - References

TOPICS TO CHOOSE FROM bungkalan women in prison bluewashing greenwashing hyperreality merchants of death/hazard merchants predatory journal obesogenic society deep democracy benefit sharing photo voice medical tourism iron triangle triangulation women in garment factories subalternity terminator seed Address by Gary Granada Dam by Gary Granada Bahay by Gary Granada Titser by Inang Laya Edberto Villegas Carmen Deunida Maita Gomez Sister Mary John Mananzan water activism alternative media communication activism communication for development (C4D) ICT for development (ICT4D) ridge to reef approach circular bio-economy sufficiency economy Buddhist economics Gandhian economics

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thecagedsong · 4 years

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Cool, so one of my fandoms is having a really bad day, and since I care about Fablehaven until this monster of a fanfic gets finished, how about some wholesome meta? I don’t really care what the drama was about, so don’t tell me. We’re all a little high strung, and I tend to take disagreements personally in a way that I’m working on, and don’t need to be involved in.

Now that that disclaimer is out of the way, who wants to talk about the Five crowns? Because I had a 14 hour car ride yesterday, listening to the second half of Evening Star and Shadow Plague, and I am so ready to let you all in on the code I cracked. I found the unifying magic diagram of the Fablehaven verse. The key to ultimate satisfaction, and if there was a magic research journal in universe, I would post this in and win the Top Magic Nerd of this Century award. My goal is to make this as accepted canon as possible, because I am ridiculously right. No characters involved, so no drama except of the scolastic kind, relying on heavy references to canon.

Ready?

SO, I made a pretty big claim. But I’ve been toying with this theory since before Dragonwatch three came out. I need some reviews before I inform Brand Mull that I’ve cracked his secret and won the game. If this symbol isn’t on the spine of the Journal of Secrets, what is even the point.

A good symbol does three things: identifies the pieces you are dealing with, helps the viewer reach a new understanding about the pieces, and map onto the cultural understandings of the audience. aka a cross with four quadrants of airplane, mitochondria, love, and toe nails is a terrible symbol. See common memes for usually pretty good symbols and graphs.

So you got five crowns right? That means you have a pentagon and a five pointed star, and the biggest trick was figuring out where each crown went, and how they related to each other.

Examine five-part belief systems, see where the crowns match, unifying symbol explains everything, move on. Easy.

NO.

You wanna know why?

BECAUSE FIVE POINTED STARS AS SYMBOLS ARE MORE WORTHLESS THAN AAA BATTERIES FOR WATCHING TELEVISION

Okay, a bit of an exaggeration, obviously they are very useful for things like organizing systems within a single body. Who functions as the head, the shield arm, the pivot foot, etc. But the point of that diagram is that they are equally important and dependent to every other part. Which doesn’t work when the different groups keep trying to break each other’s kneecaps (see b5: fairies v demons).

It also falls apart on the five-piece cultural scale. The most well-known 5-piece cultural scale is obviously the chinese elements: Fire Wood Water Metal Earth.

Now, I don’t pretend to be an expert on those at all. But it all broke down on fire, TBH. Were dragons fire? But a large point was that their breath weapons weren’t always fire. Were demons fire? Even the ones covered in sludge. Were demons earth? Was the underking earth? All I got were fairies as water, in the end. If someone wants to give that a go, be my guest.

I drew so many pentagrams trying to figure it out, and it never worked. No matter the arrangement, it never told me more about the crowns except that there were five of them. I was about to despair.

But then the muses sang: The Forgotten Crown.

(That’s the title of my thesis, btw)

Like I said, five pointed stars were trash for this system, but what if I added another crown, one that no one bothers to count, because by their nature, they can’t do anything. That’s right:

The Forgotten Crown of the Fair Folk.

The symbol slipped into place like sharp pointy things into Warren. And now I can get to the real meta after sharing this image:

Isn’t it beautiful? After I cracked this code, I showed it to my little sister. She smiled contentedly, calling it satisfying. It is so satisfying. It speaks to so many levels of understanding.

First, I depicted for you, we have the morality and the terrain triangles.

Morality triangle is the easiest, if you feel uncomfortable labeling drown-happy naiads as good and all demons as evil, congrats, thinking about the nature of good and evil is precisely what Mull was going for. Since I am suddenly one of those people, I’m going to be using the creation/destruction dichotomy, but acknowledge that both of those work.

Fairies can be most easily understood when Kendra asked the Fairy Queen what she should do with her life. She’s an unlimited fount of the Fairy Queen’s own power, allowed to do whatever she wants, and the Fairy Queen tells her to nurture life. Be fruitful, put good things in the world, help people grow. Their goal is to create, their magic is defensive, beauty is wonderful for its own sake. The better you are at respecting and nurturing life, the stronger your magic is. Dryads are responsible for the whole forest, and throughout the series they are seen as more powerful and serious than fairies, which can make the plants they interact with grow and hamadryads, who are connected only to their tree. Certainly more powerful than the petty, waterbound naiads.

Ganalus’s speech to Seth about his own nature is where you can understand demons in this world. They like to destroy and torture, they find amusement in things like plague and clipping live beings to their belts and dragging them around. They are driven by the need for more power and control. Their nature is to harm and break apart, and that has its place in this world, but we care about the stuff and people here, so mortals and fairies have got to keep these punks in check.

And of course, the Fair Folk. Here’s where this triangle gets fun. The worst of the worst gets to be Demon King, the best of the best get stronger fairy powers. That means the most neutral of the neutral get to be the leader of the Fair Folk. We’ve heard references to the main city of the Fair Folk: Selona, somewhere in Europe, and a mysterious exert that I’ve seen images of with Lord Dagrel that I’m trying to pin down. I’m posing that their powers come from being neutral. They talk about the terrible consequences of the last time they went to war, what if it the equivalent of their fallen state, when they break their neutrality, and changes them fundamentally.

This breaks down the most, but they are the Forgotten Crown for a reason. They hold themselves apart from issues of the other crowns. No one even remembers that they have a crown, because as Seth and Celebrant have shown, who cares? They aren’t going to do anything about it. Everyone collectively forgot/don’t care about them. But their abilities are equal in strength to the others, but different in use, and less valued by those who have battles to fight. Their neutrality puts them exactly between good and evil, creation and destruction. They take the choice not to act, and there is power there too.

Next is the Terrain Creatures.

Sky giants control the sky, obviously. Thronis and his ability to control the weather, their height, while their feet are on the ground, far as we know, everything important happens in the sky.

Underking gets under the ground, again, obvious. Different from the other two points of the terrain triangle in that there is a lot of creature classifactions in their domain, but think of how big the surface of the earth is, underneath it, all theirs.

Dragons, they dwell in the sky and below the surface, putting them in both. Water dragons and Dromadus both primarily function beneath the surface, and their wings let them be in the sky. while not stronger necessarily than the other terrain crowns in their own domains, they are top of the food chain for the creatures living on the ground, and could probably take out the undead that venture near the surface, and I have high hopes for seeing a Sky Giant v Dragon in the next book.

Cool, we got our organization of information. We learn something about them based on their placements within the triangles. But is that our symbol? No! Symbols are different than graphs, we should be able to squeeze ridiculous amounts of meaning from them, and we aren’t done yet. The two triangles map really, really well together.

What does the placement of the two triangles together tell us about the individual components?

a WHOLE TON. This is what makes this symbol the most satisfying, the triangles create two separate categorizations of their powers and abilities, but they inform each other. The morality of the terrain beings, and the domains of morality beings.

Dragons run the whole spectrum from creation to destruction. We see a lot more of the destruction dragons, because our kids are in a war, but Raxtus hits really close to the Fairies and can heal and grow with his breath weapon. We also have wizards, who chose mortality for the ability to use magic to create. All the way to effing Navarog, honorary demon. They run every shade of the creation/destruction spectrum. We also see dragons that don’t depend on destruction because we know that there are some that agreed to behave if it meant they weren’t shoved into sanctuaries.

Sky giants, the group we know the least about, are good enough that their queen was deemed able to be the caretaker of a dragon sanctuary, so no inherent thirst for destruction and chaos. But they run the neutral side of creation, they weren’t going to step in to stop the demons, they like magic and creating from what we know of thronis, but they fit right here.

Underking - fall between neutral destruction. The underking wasn’t orchestrating the opening of the demon prison. They crave life, its a food source, but more than that, they want to endure. They might fall closer to demons in their taste for extinguishing life, but they need their wanting of life to continue existing. They might have individual prizes and desires for life, but because they depend on wanting life for their own continued existence, they will never organize themselves into taking over the world. Congrats, you’re only half as destructive as demons.

The morality on the terrain is much easier to see blatantly. Fairies have wings, but in no way do they control the sky, and they live on the ground. Demons...I’m sure some of them fly, but they tend to prefer caves like Granulas and pits like Jubaya and Kurisok. Prefer the night, though the light doesn’t harm them. Fittingly, the Fair Folk do not have the ability to fly on their own, and they live on the ground, not under it.

sO SATISFying how those fit together. Are you weeping yet? This is harmony on the organizational level.

But I claimed this was the perfect symbol, the ultimate. There is one more layer describing how every piece relates to every other piece, per the best symbols.

Opposites

This is the least defined level of interaction, and each line is unique, while still being opposite its counterpart. We’ll start with the ones we have the least information about and go from there.

Demon/sky giant: We know nothing, at the moment. They have never commented on each other, and have never interacted. Why didn’t sky giants show up to the Zzyzx party? Who knows! So I’m going to speculate here, and propose that they just really can’t stand each other’s presence. Demons stay away from sky giants, because giants are way bigger than them, and it is hard to feel powerful when you only come up to their knee, and sky giants don’t like demons because...eww, demons.

Fair Folk/Dragon: We know that there are Fair Folk at all seven dragon sanctuaries. We know that the Fair Folk were there long before the sanctuaries were created. Fair Folk neutrality let both parties trust the dragons to part of their watch. It also seems that Dragons have a very difficult time staying neutral. We’ve seen a lot of flavors of dragon, but the one flavor we haven’t seen, possibly by its nature, is a neutral dragon. The closest we came was Dromadus, who was an abstaining pacifist for two books, but kept lending help to the innocent and those aligned with the innocent. His neutrality broke literally the week someone asked him to break it.

Fascinatingly, the talents of the Fair Folk are actually the closest analog to the breath weapons of the dragons. One unique ability, can be augmented by training, can do something unique to the characteristics of the user. This is enough to make their uses of magic foils for each other in ways that they can’t be with the other races. In fact, they take human shape, their wizards act a lot like the talents of the Fair Folk.

Their final opposite string: physical appearance. Fair Folk are attractive (symetrical) humans. Dragons are hulking reptiles of scale and claw meant to let everyone who can see them know who is the top predator around. Fair folk are disarmingly beautiful.

Fairy/Underking: The dichotomy that we know the most about because it’s the one the protagonists find themselves on opposite side of. I could double the length of this post talking about these opposite foils, but this is already ridiculously long, so I’ll keep it brief. Consult upcoming thesis for full analysis.

Most obvious aspect of this line? They literally cannot co-exist, one must overpower the other. Nova Songs are consumed by darkness, while crown-fueled Kendra literally turns the undead into bones and dust. The darkness and light can’t balance like the demon cursed area + Fairy shrine stone did in Shadow Plague, there is no middle ground.

While fairies and demons make the creation-destruction spectrum, Fairy and Underking make the Life-death line. Unicorns, who have so much life and youth that lectoblixes overdose to death on them, and the undead that give up the joys light and live to continue. Because Death lasts as long as life.

And finally my favorite line of opposites, their crowns functions in exactly the opposite ways. The under-crown does not share power. It accumulates, you become one of consciousness of the crown. They swallow you up, and you will never take power from them. They will continue. Meanwhile the Fairy crown has had several owners, as identified by Risenmay in dw2. And the Fairy Crown shares magic in a way that the other crowns don’t. The fairy Queen shared her magic with Kendra, yes, but she also shared it with her husband. All the male fairies fell with the Fairy King, turning permanently into imps. Unless the Fairy Queen isn’t being honest about how that happened, that meant that the male half of the kingdom was under the authority of her husband when he fell. Which makes sense for this crown. One person can’t make a new person on their own, they have to have a male and a female genetic coding. For the crown that is all about creating and preserving life, that power isn’t meant to be wielded alone. The Fairy crown can share, can give, while the Undercrown can consume and take. They are complete opposites in this.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading through this preliminary thesis. Counterpoints, additions, and commentary are welcome. I want to flesh this out a little more before sending my transcendent, beautiful, unifying symbol to Mull and have him announce that I have officially cracked the code. Really tho, the fact that I can pull this together into a unifying symbol is pretty cool in terms of Mull’s worldbuilding.

Well...only works if he acknowledges the forgotten crown. Dragonwatch 5: the Crown of Selona. I can’t wait.

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[ID after brief post] I’m making Season 1 Ninjago memes for a friend who’s still just barely finished S01E02: Home. What do you think?

[ID: the meme where people are graphed onto a triangle labeled “Children yelling: McDonalds! McDonalds! McDonalds!” The three points of the Triangle are “We have food at home,” “McDonalds! McDonalds! McDonalds!” and “*Pulls into the drive through as children cheer* *Orders a single black coffee and leaves*” The closer a character is to each point, the more likely they’re being said to have that response.

Zane: nearest to “We have food at home,” second closest to “McDonalds!” Wu: all the way OVER the line between “We have food at home” and “McDonalds!” but closer to “We have food at home” Nya: Between “We have food at home” and “McDonalds,” but further away from both than Zane or Wu. Kai: Between “We have food at home” and “Orders a single black coffee,” but marginally closer to the latter. Skales: Hardly different from Kai, but closer to “Orders a single black coffee” than him. Slithraa (the old general): Between “Orders a single black coffee” and “McDonalds!” but leaning toward the latter. Cole: Almost all the way in the “black coffee” corner, second closest to “McDonalds!” Jay: Almost all the way in the “McDonalds!” corner, second closest to “black coffee.” Lloyd: Over the edge in the corner for “McDonalds! McDonalds! McDonalds!”]

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Me pulling up the sponge bob version of the McDonald’s McDonald’s McDonald’s meme to explain how triangle graphs work to my geoarch group

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we need a new character chart meme that isnt one of those triangles or a graph with ‘distinguished’ and ‘disaster’ on it

#im talking 'can i copy your homework' style

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BNB Value Analysis: Precise $37 Level

Binance Coin has really found that a much wanted 40 percent pull back coming in your highs across 40,000 sats on the first day of June down seriously to current observable range service sitting in 25,000 sats. Short term price activity implies we can observe movement which might effectively propel BNB straight.

BNB/BTC Weekly Chart

Over the graph to get BNB/BTC we could observe that the strong service has become busted up. This service is due to the highs all close to Q4 of all 2017 as Binance Coin started to control the Crypto distance. Ordinarily throughout bull periods such as coins at Crypto, 40 percent “retraces” take place usually as a way to maintain these kinds of extraordinary expansion. Over the past couple of weeks to Binance Coin we now have found that, causing the up trend. Inspite of the up trend BNB remains trading inside an sideways selection onto the Weekly. 50MA napping to the 0.5fib in 24000 sats high lights at the bottom with the trading scope. Whether this amount is busted up consider that this type of signal if that degree stays consider shocking.

Quantity has stayed stable with small. This, followed with a pull back over the RSI, signals the purchase price motion is moving right through a pull back that is brand new to prolong that the progress BNB has witnessed throughout the past couple of decades. Weekly RSI seems to get shaped a reel type blueprint that is declining, and may crack providing short term price activity starts to recover momentum.

The absolute most recent go into the disadvantage to BNB is a consequence of BTC’s most recent slowed expansion. A reduction in cost actions for BTC will provide BNB a opportunity to recover term momentum. Far more insight as in where BTC can possibly be going during the next few weeks was reported earlier by Todayq the last week. It truly is essential to track BTC’s selling value tag actions when seeking to judge future or entries price moves on BTC.

BNB/BTC 30-Minute Chart

Short term price activity over the graph has shaped. Momentum is supported by service over the RSI. 200EMA, 50MA, and 20MA minimize throughout this triangle’s selling cost tag. This really is actually really just a indication that prices can start forming a solid up trend out of the following.

I will be watching to recover service depending over the graph round 36,000 sats. The fib degrees will create regions and target things of resistance/support to be on the lookout for.

*This is not an investment advice.

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Why You Can’t Future-Proof Your Gaming PC

UE4 Elemental demo, powered by DX12

Talk to anyone about building a new PC, and the question of longevity is going to pop up sooner rather than later. Any time someone is dropping serious cash for a hardware upgrade they’re going to have questions about how long it will last them, especially if they’ve been burned before. But how much additional value is it actually possible to squeeze out of the market by doing so — and does it actually benefit the end-user?

Before I dive in on this, let me establish a few ground rules. I’m drawing a line between buying a little more hardware than you need today because you know you’ll have a use for it in the future and attempting to choose components for specific capabilities that you hope will become useful in the future. Let me give an example:

If you buy a GPU suitable for 4K gaming because you intend to upgrade your 1080p monitor to 4K within the next three months, that’s not future-proofing. If you bought a Pascal GPU over a Maxwell card in 2016 (or an AMD card over an NV GPU) specifically because you expected DirectX 12 to be the Next Big Thing and were attempting to position yourself as ideally as possible, that’s future-proofing. In the first case, you made a decision based on the already-known performance of the GPU at various resolutions and your own self-determined buying plans. In the second, you bet that an API with largely unknown performance characteristics would deliver a decisive advantage without having much evidence as to whether or not this would be true.

Note: While this article makes frequent reference to Nvidia GPUs, this is not to imply Nvidia is responsible for the failure of future-proofing as a strategy. GPUs have advanced more rapidly than CPUs over the past decade, with a much higher number of introduced features for improving graphics fidelity or game performance. Nvidia has been responsible for more of these introductions, in absolute terms, than AMD has.

Let’s whack some sacred cows:

DirectX 12

In the beginning, there were hopes that Maxwell would eventually perform well with DX12, or that Pascal would prove to use it effectively, or that games would adopt it overwhelmingly and quickly. None of these has come to pass. Pascal runs fine with DX12, but gains in the API are few and far between. AMD still sometimes picks up more than NV does, but DX12 hasn’t won wide enough adoption to change the overall landscape. If you bought into AMD hardware in 2013 because you thought the one-two punch of Mantle and console wins were going to open up an unbeatable Team Red advantage (and this line of argument was commonly expressed), it didn’t happen. If you bought Pascal because you thought it would be the architecture to show off DX12 (as opposed to Maxwell), that didn’t happen either.

Now to be fair, Nvidia’s marketing didn’t push DX12 as a reason to buy the card. In fact, Nvidia ignored inquiries about their support for async compute to the maximum extent allowable by law. But that doesn’t change the fact that DX12’s lackluster adoption to-date and limited performance uplift scenarios (low-latency APIs improve weak CPU performance more than GPUs, in many cases) aren’t a great reason to have upgraded back in 2016.

DirectX 11

Remember when tessellation was the Next Big Thing that would transform gaming? Instead, it alternated between having a subtle impact on game visuals (with a mild performance hit) or as a way to make AMD GPUs look really bad by stuffing unnecessary tessellated detail into flat surfaces. If you bought an Nvidia GPU because you thought its enormous synthetic tessellation performance was going to yield actual performance improvements in shipping titles that hadn’t been skewed by insane triangle counts, you didn’t get what you paid for.

DirectX 10

Everybody remember how awesome DX10 performance was? Anybody remember how awesome DX10 performance was?

Anybody?

If you snapped up a GTX 8xxx GPU because you thought it was going to deliver great DX10 performance, you ended up disappointed. The only reason we can’t say the same of AMD is because everyone who bought an HD 2000 series GPU ended up disappointed. When the first generation of DX10-capable GPUs often proved incapable of using the API in practice, consumers who’d tried to future-proof by buying into a generation of very fast DX9 cards that promised future compatibility instead found themselves with hardware that would never deliver acceptable frame rates in what had been a headline feature.

This is where the meme “Can it play Crysis?” came from. Image by CrysisWiki.

This list doesn’t just apply to APIs, though APIs are an easy example. If you bought into first-generation VR because you expected your hardware would carry you into a new era of amazing gaming, well, that hasn’t happened yet. By the time it does, if it does, you’ll have upgraded your VR sets and the graphics cards that power them at least once. If you grabbed a new Nvidia GPU because you thought PhysX was going to be the wave of the future for gaming experiences, sure, you got some use out of the feature — just not nearly the experience the hype train promised, way back when. I liked PhysX — still do — but it wound up being a mild improvement, not a major must-have.

This issue is not confined to GPUs. If you purchased an AMD APU because you thought HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) was going to introduce a new paradigm of CPU – GPU problem solving and combined processing, five years later, you’re still waiting. Capabilities like Intel’s TSX (Transaction Synchronization Extensions) were billed as eventually offering performance improvements in commercial software, though this was expected to take time to evolve. Five years later, however, it’s like the feature vanished into thin air. I can find just one recent mention of TSX being used in a consumer product. It turns out, TSX is incredibly useful for boosting the performance of the PS3 emulator RPCS3. Great! But not a reason to buy it for most people. Intel also added support for raster order views years ago, but if a game ever took advantage of them I’m not aware of it (game optimizations for Intel GPUs aren’t exactly a huge topic of discussion, generally speaking).

You might think this is an artifact of the general slowdown in new architectural improvements, but if anything the opposite is true. Back in the days when Nvidia was launching a new GPU architecture every 12 months, the chances of squeezing support into a brand-new GPU for a just-demonstrated feature was even worse. GPU performance often nearly doubled every year, which made buying a GPU in 2003 for a game that wouldn’t ship until 2004 a really stupid move. In fact, Nvidia ran into exactly this problem with Half-Life 2. When Gabe Newell stood on stage and demonstrated HL2 back in 2003, the GeForce FX crumpled like a beer can.

I’d wager this graph sold more ATI GPUs than most ad campaigns. The FX 5900 Ultra was NV’s top GPU. The Radeon 9600 was a midrange card.

Newell lied, told everyone the game would ship in the next few months, and people rushed out to buy ATI cards. Turns out the game didn’t actually ship for a year and by the time it did, Nvidia’s GeForce 6xxx family offered far more competitive performance. An entire new generation of ATI cards had also shipped, with support for PCI Express. In this case, everyone who tried to future-proof got screwed.

There’s one arguable exception to this trend that I’ll address directly: DirectX 12 and asynchronous compute. If you bought an AMD Hawaii GPU in 2012 – 2013, the advent of async compute and DX12 did deliver some performance uplift to these solutions. In this case, you could argue that the relative value of the older GPUs increased as a result.

But as refutations go, this is a weak one. First, the gains were limited to only those titles that implemented both DX12 and async compute. Second, they weren’t uniformly distributed across AMD’s entire GPU stack, and higher-end cards tended to pick up more performance than lower-end models. Third, part of the reason this happened is that AMD’s DX11 driver wasn’t multi-threaded. And fourth, the modest uptick in performance that some 28nm AMD GPUs enjoyed was neither enough to move the needle on those GPUs’ collective performance across the game industry nor sufficient to argue for their continued deployment overall relative to newer cards build on 14/16nm. (The question of how quickly a component ages, relative to the market, is related-but-distinct from whether you can future-proof a system in general).

Now, is it a great thing that AMD’s 28nm GPU customers got some love from DirectX 12 and Vulkan? Absolutely. But we can acknowledge some welcome improvements in specific titles while simultaneously recognizing the fact that only a relative handful of games have shipped with DirectX 12 or Vulkan support in the past three years. These APIs could still become the dominant method of playing games, but it won’t happen within the high-end lifespan of a 2016 GPU.

Optimizing Purchases

If you want to maximize your extracted value per dollar, don’t focus on trying to predict how performance will evolve over the next 24-48 months. Instead, focus on available performance today, in shipping software. When it comes to features and capabilities, prioritize what you’re using today over what you’ll hope to use tomorrow. Software roadmaps get delayed. Features are pushed out. Because we never know how much impact a feature will have or how much it’ll actually improve performance, base your buying decision solely on what you can test and evaluate at the moment. If you aren’t happy with the amount of performance you’ll get from an update today, don’t buy the product until you are.

Second, understand how companies price and which features are the expensive ones. This obviously varies from company to company and market to market, but there’s no substitute for it. In the low-end and midrange GPU space, both AMD and Nvidia tend to increase pricing linearly alongside performance. A GPU that offers 10 percent more performance is typically 10 percent more expensive. At the high end, this changes, and a 10 percent performance improvement might cost 20 percent more money. As new generations appear and the next generation’s premium performance becomes the current generation’s midrange, the cost of that performance drops. The GTX 1060 and GTX 980 are an excellent example of how a midrange GPU can hit the performance target of the previous high-end card for significantly less money less than two years later.

Third, watch product cycles and time your purchasing accordingly. Sometimes, the newly inexpensive last generation product is the best deal in town. Sometimes, it’s worth stepping up to the newer hardware at the same or slightly higher price. Even the two-step upgrade process I explicitly declared wasn’t future-proofing can run into trouble if you don’t pay close attention to market trends. Anybody who paid $1,700 for a Core i7-6950X in February 2017 probably wasn’t thrilled when the Core i9-7900X dropped with higher performance and the same 10 cores a few months later for just $999, to say nothing of the hole Threadripper blew in Intel’s HEDT product family by offering 16 cores instead of 10 at the same price.

Finally, remember this fact: It is the literal job of a company’s marketing department to convince you that new features are both overwhelmingly awesome and incredibly important for you to own right now. In real life, these things are messier and they tend to take longer. Given the relatively slow pace of hardware replacement these days, it’s not unusual for it to take 3-5 years before new capabilities are widespread enough for developers to treat them as the default option. You can avoid that disappointment by buying the performance and features you need and can get today, not what you want and hope for tomorrow.

Update (6/4/2020): The best reason to revisit a piece like this is to check it for accuracy. After all, “future-proofing” is supposed to be a method of saving money. Nearly two years later, how does this piece hold up compared to the introductions we’ve seen since?

On the CPU front, all of the good gaming CPUs of 2018 are still solid options in 2020. This is more-or-less as expected, since CPUs age more slowly than GPUs these days. An AMD platform from 2018 has better upgrade options than its Intel equivalent, but both solutions are excellent today.

At the same time, however, chipset compatibility doesn’t extend infinitely far into the future. AMD is going to make Zen 3 CPUs available to a few X470 and B450 motherboards, but it’s an unusual state of affairs. You can plug a modern GPU into a ten-year-old motherboard, but CPU / chipset compatibility rarely aligns for more than a few years, even where AMD is concerned.

On the GPU front, Turing is a few months from its second birthday, and all of our predictions about how long it would take ray tracing to break into mainstream gaming have proven true. There’s a solid handful of RTX games on the market that show off the technology reasonably well, but Ampere-derived GPUs will be in-market before ray tracing establishes itself as a must-have feature.

This is only a problem if you buy your GPUs based on what you expect them to do in the future. If you bought an RTX 2080 or 2080 Ti because you wanted that level of performance in conventional games and viewed ray tracing as a nice addition, then you’ll replace Turing with something else and be satisfied with things. If you bought Turing believing it would take ray tracing mainstream, you’ll probably be disappointed.

Now Read:

Don’t Buy the Ray-Traced Hype Around the Nvidia RTX 2080

How to Buy the Right Video Card for Your Gaming PC

What is DirectX 12?

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