it is so funny in retrospect how much character development alphinaud gets in heavensward. It's like a laser focus 'on GOD we're gonna make you stop being such an insufferable prick' like okay! alphinaud is my best friend now I guess
In honor of our very first sneak peek of the movie Wicked, my nostalgia kicked into high gear and I'm honoring one of my earliest fandom crazes with a silly little comic I'm calling "Fiyero Doesn't Get Enough Recognition For All The Shit He's Been Through."
Enjoy Fiyero having the weirdest 72 hours of his life.
Gee ffxiv it sure is a good thing that we have two moons and only the first one was a fucked up spaceship. I'm so glad the other moon is just a normal moon and not a fucked up spaceship. Hold on I have a weird rabbit creature (who lives on the normal moon) trying to talk to me. Okay. Alright. Hmm, I see... WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS ONE IS ALSO A FUCKED UP SPACESHIP
Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
Watched the Transformers One trailer and immediately started designing some human versions of Orion Pax (Optimus Prime) and D-16 (Megatron) respectively ^^ They were so damn cute!! Its gonna be so sad when they split up 😭
I argue that if you take the silliness out of transformers then it’d lose its charm cause transformers has always been known to get a bit goofy and you really cant ignore that facet of the franchise