Saw Brandon this morning!

Yes, Praetor Quintus himself! I was at the local ComicCon with my brother and sister, when she spotted him. After we realized that was who it was, our collective reaction was, "No. Way. It's actually him!"

One thing we asked him was what his favorite scene to film was, and he said it was the interrogation scene from S2E7. "Flesh & bones." (He couldn't remember the episode, but remembered it as "between [him] and [Jonathan]") And did he have a story!

He said he thought he had a full week to memorize his lines, but last moment they decided to shoot the scene a week early. So he just had ONE NIGHT to! They shoot the scene... to his surprise the crew was all there.

In his own words, (tail end of the scene) "that was fun."

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 1 month ago

[Book series] AITJ for leaving my daughter for 8 years? (Spoilers for basically the entire source material)

This is supposed to be an in-universe post, originally from r/TurnMoviesIntoPosts.

>!Ok, hear me out. When I (M, 18 at the time but 38 at time of writing) was in high school back in '88, I met this girl, call her S, who was one of the most talented students in our grade. We were into each other fast, and yes, we ended up together.

Fast-forward 12 years: the afternoon of April 9, 2000, S, our daughter A (who had turned 4 just 6 days prior), and I go camping. We camp near a river, and A falls in. The problem? A can't swim, so she unfortunately drowns. S has a surprising idea: she knows it'll cost her _her_ life, but she decides to revive A.

From that point until November '08, A almost never sees me again and goes to live with S's mom until A herself gets accepted to the same school. [not sure if he knows A did, but that's what happens] The whole time, I'm obsessed with trying to get S back... but A doesn't know.

AITJ?!<

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 1 month ago

[Book series] AITJ for leaving my daughter for 8 years? (Spoilers for basically the entire source material)

&gt;!Ok, hear me out. When I (M, 18 at the time but 38 at time of writing) was in high school back in '88, I met this girl, call her S, who was one of the most talented students in our grade. We were into each other fast, and yes, we ended up together.

Fast-forward 12 years: the afternoon of April 9, 2000, S, our daughter A (who had turned 4 just 6 days prior), and I go camping. We camp near a river, and A falls in. The problem? A can't swim, so she unfortunately drowns. S has a surprising idea: she knows it'll cost her _her_ life, but she decides to revive A.

From that point until November '08, A almost never sees me again and goes to live with S's mom until A herself gets accepted to the same school. [not sure if he knows A did, but that's what happens] The whole time, I'm obsessed with trying to get S back... but A doesn't know.

AITJ?!<

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 1 month ago
▲ 5 r/aurebesh+1 crossposts

Pangrams in Aurebesh

Are there Aurebesh equivalents to "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" that at least include all 8 extra phonemes? (Not necessarily all punctuation or numbers, but if there is I'd be happy to see it. And multiple sentences would be fine: just put it in regular English and indicate when to use enth, onith, krenth, nen, orenth, shen, and/or thesh if it's not obvious)

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 1 month ago

6 Degrees of Separation challenge

(Paraphrase of the challenge at the beginning of https://youtube.com/shorts/YDupwWwTNds?)

Someone is going to give you $1 billion if you can successfully get a message to Messi, Elon Musk, and/or Taylor Swift in 6 connections or less without internet. Do you think you could?

u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 2 months ago

Mando Mercs time periods: what are the concrete numbers?

I remember there's at least 3 distinct time frames an MMCC member's character can be from, but what are the exact numbers? (At least one break between two consecutive periods isn't exactly stated: like, which period would Rebels-era be?)

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 2 months ago

Song similarity I can't unhear

I noticed after I watched TBOSAS that "The Ballad of Lucy Gray" sounds almost exactly like a major-key version of "Lasses & Lads" from Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves." Anybody else notice this?

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 2 months ago

Geoguessr score constants: what are they depending on the map?

Specifically I'm talking about D in 5000e^-10d/D. (The score at d meters away is that rounded) I know D(world) is 14916.862 km or 14,916,862, but what about the other maps? The US, for example?

And when you play a set of 5, does it add up all *exact* values 5000e^-10d/D and only round the *result?*

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 3 months ago

HT in airplane luggage?

Planning to take a trip with family, and intend to take my HT with me. What should I do/how would I? (And if I don't know where a copy of my license is, would showing that I'm in the FCC database be close enough?)

Edit: the trip's on Saturday, and again on the Friday following

Edit 2: for anyone wondering about the battery, it's a Yaesu FT-65 radio (I looked up the battery power and it's less than 20 Wh)

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 4 months ago

Perfect pitch and early neurological problems

Don't have perfect pitch, but I had a few questions: does it correlate with early neurological issues on any way? (Stroke survivor around 1 month old, have lived with epilepsy since, but have been seizure-free since about September '19)

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 4 months ago

(Book) AIO for nearly thinking I didn't belong at boarding school?

(META NOTE: fictional age, not age of the Redditor)

July of one year, I (at the time 12F) attended a boarding school (conservatory-style) entrance audition. (By which I mean, at least 243 of us were auditioning and I was one of them) A bit scatterbrained, I had to go off of memory because literally 15 minutes earlier I had burned the paper up that I was going to use. Let me tell you, I was panicking during the audition so hard that I couldn't focus on the right thing the whole time, and almost everything turned out wrong!

Fast-forward to the last Monday in August/first in September, (don't remember- was one of those, but it doesn't matter) when I got to the school. When I arrived, the staff (some of them had been at my audition, BTW) got confused and thought I "wasn't the right girl there." They thought it was supposed to be another girl (call her M) the same age... with the same name! No wonder the faculty got confused.

Mid-September, I started seeing a ghost girl in my dorm, who I thought was M come to haunt me for making it here. Eventually I found some videos online of M together with (to my surprise) D, my roommate.

WIO (this is a "was I," not an "am I") at the end of October when I didn't *feel* like I belonged but the faculty gave me another chance?

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 4 months ago
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Bluetooth voice

This may sound random, but does anyone know who's the voice behind the Bluetooth connection on specifically the Tune 520BT headphones? Here are my two candidates:

Tawny Platis (@thetawnyplatis on YouTube) Example of her: Spotify - "Watch this short video" soundbite

Kristen DiMercurio (@kdimerc)

In last month's episode of String & Tell (Tawny's podcast) featuring Kristen, everyone was trying to figure out which of the two their Bluetooth voice was.

(I ordered myself a pair of Tune 520s last night and just want to be able to identify the Bluetooth voice right away when I get them.)

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 4 months ago

Reality shifters of Reddit, what are your DRs?

And if you have a script, what does it look like? I'll start.

Don't think I've successfully deliberately shifted, but if you're a fan of Harry Potter, you might like my DR, Mystwick School of Musicraft. (If your DR happens to be Mystwick too, use this emoji combination if you want: 🎵 🐱, as they're the "Mystwick Musicats")

WR: would probably be hardest for this one- maybe CR house, as the DR is a worldwide boarding school instead of just the UK like Hogwarts is

DR is: like I said, Mystwick School of Musicraft (like Harry Potter with a twist)

Name in DR: (first, middle, last) [won't change]

Family in DR: CR family

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Age: 12 (I'm getting the rest of this part from when I was about that old)

Height: probably 5'3"

Weight:

Habits:

Hobbies: Running, math, amateur radio (I'll pretend I'm already licensed- I wasn't until right after 7th grade)

Zodiac: Sagittarius

Smell/scent:

Skills:

Instrument: Piano, pennywhistle, ukulele (this is key [no pun intended], or why are you here?)

Personality:
Outgoing, friendly, studious

I am the 4th addition to the Mystwick "Golden Trio" parallel, i.e. the main trio (the story happens, but I'm also there)

Birthdate/birthplace: CR birthDAY, but 1995 to line up with the series

Physical description:

Hair: dirty-blond (probably)

Eyes: brown-hazel (always been that way)

Arrival date: 8/25 or 9/1/08 (probably- first day for Mystwick 2008-09)

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 5 months ago

Which ChatGPT voice is this?

I've seen in various comments on stuff by Tawny Platis, "you're my ChatGPT voice," so I'm wondering, "which voice is Tawny?" I've tried to find her on the examples, but I'm stumped!

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 5 months ago

Is this theory plausible?

I have a theory that the willow tree used to make Ron's true wand (Prisoner) wasn't just any tree- that it was the Whomping Willow on campus! It's like mid-term, the Willow was apologizing for beating the Weasleys' Anglia up: "Fine, Ron... you win. I'll let Ollivander make a wand out of me, and I'll make sure it chooses you."

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 5 months ago

Is this a coincidence?

So... bear with me. This is gonna be a doozy.

From 1938-45, Voldemort was at school and had a gang called (at least sometimes) the Knights of Walpurgis.

Now here's the thing. *Walpurgisnacht* from which the term "knights of Walpurgis" was probably derived, is the night from April 30-May 1.

Next the Battle of Hogwarts, the final battle in the 2nd Wizarding War, was the night of May 1 (c. 8:30) through the morning of the 2nd (c. 5:30 or 6). Did JKR mean to have the War decided the night directly after Walpurgisnacht?

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 5 months ago

There seem to be 2 major "schools of thought" about how to play an any-size balanced version of Rock, Paper, Scissors with 2n+1 elements.

Part 1: assign the numbers 0-2n (or 1-2n+1) to the elements.

1: (my primary) Now the players pull out two numbers A, B. If A=B, that's obviously a tie. If A=/=B and A > B, look at by how much they differ. If A-B is even, B wins, and otherwise A wins. (This also leads to a satisfying way to increase the n in the game by 1 at a time: add one element of minority parity that defeats exactly those of majority parity, then an element that defeats the new guy and all of like parity *to* it)

2: (probably more logical) Look at A-B mod/amod 2n+1. If the number is 0 or 2n+1 (depends on the range and which of those two it contains), that's a tie. If 0 < A-B mod 2n+1 <= n, A wins. If it's more, B wins.

How far does each "school of thought" let the average person go (in terms of n) while remembering the number/element mappings, before it just devolves into "what're the odds?"

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 5 months ago

If you pick 2 random natural numbers x & y, how often will l(x)l(y) (i.e. the product of the Calkin-Wilf terms with those indices) be less than 1? Upon intuition, the answer feels like it should be 50% but it's probably less.

If you're wondering about how this relates to Heronian triangles (where the sides and area are all integers), the half-angle tangents obey this formula with at least tu < 1. (The formula's the HAT form of A+B+C=180⁰) tu+uv+vt=1. You can rearrange it as follows to see that picking t & u forces v: 1-tu=v(t+u), or v=(1-tu)/(t+u). If you scale a regular Heronian triangle down by a factor of the circumdiameter, thus equating the sides and opposing sines, you can define the whole triangle in terms of t & u.

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 5 months ago
▲ 18 r/DanLeBatardShow+1 crossposts

Actually 2:

  1. In the 1976 single, which is the version of "Wreck" I'm referring to if I don't specify, is there exactly 29 of anything to match the 29 fallen sailors? The closest I got was that the lead guitar has that many "primary" bars in the song before "Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings..." where it and (if the drums are there) them are the only instruments really played.

  2. What parallel mode of B major is the song in? We know by/on the words "to the lake" that it's either Mixolydian or Dorian (G# but A natural - "chip" of "Chippewa" is on A, "the" in "to the lake" on G#) but... does he ever sing a D or Eb? If so, which one? D natural means Dorian, Eb (D# in this context) means Mixolydian. In other words, if the 1 chord he used wasn't a sus2 and was a regular major/minor triad, which one would he have used? (The "does he sing either of these notes" question, D vs Eb, applies to here too as the middle note of the 1 chord)

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 — 6 months ago