u/YuuTheBlue

I feel like there's a decent enough chance we get one more Kid Icarus Game out of Sakurai, eventually. Might be another 12 years, god forbid, but I think he might revisit it like he did Kirby Air Ride. And I thought I'd give my thoughts.

First: I want the general gameplay structure to be the same. I want 20-30 minute chapters, I want the fiend's cauldron or something similar, I want the same or a similar weapon system with fusions (and maybe most/all weapons returning), and I want the story to be told during gameplay in the same way. While I'd love to see new things done with the formula, I feel it's also a pretty tightly constructed thing with everything playing off everything else in a really nice way. Similar to how he did with Air Riders, I want a more polished and fleshed out version of the great ideas we're starting with, and potentially with extra ideas added on.

Second: Speaking of new ideas that fit well onto the current model: I would love to see dungeons that require exploration to be used in a small handful of land battles, as a throwback to the original Kid Icarus. I think it'd be a fun way to spice things up.

Third: This is gonna be potentially controversial, but I wanna see Pit having aged up. He went from a kid to a teenager in the 25 years between games, implying some slowed aging for angels, and I'd love if they carried that through and he's a very young adult in this new one. Pit was never really written as a child in Uprising, to be fair, but I do think a visual sign of the status quo progressing between games would be a good way to emphasize how this story is a sequel and departure from the last one, and it's also just something I'd like to see explored. Jokes about how he can't grow a beard, idk, that kind of thing.

Fourth: More storytelling within the out of combat gameplay sections. A lot of story and characterization is told in the chapters, and a lot is IMPLIED to happen outside. But I'd love to see stuff going down in palutena's temple that's full of characterization. Maybe Pit and Palutena are working together as part of the fusion process, and there are some little animations that play with it. Maybe there's some cooking minigame inspired by that one short, to give you a boost for one chapter or something, and it's got dialogue for the different recipes. Maybe with the new idol system there are jokes about Palutena being a gacha addict who pressures Pit to get good pulls, idk. Stuff like that.

Fifth: A smash-run/city trial style multiplayer mode where you have to fight through enemies in an arena to try and improve your weapon, with opportunities to like, engage in fusion or weapon swapping or what have you.

Six: A story thread I always thought would be fun is if a 3rd playable angel was introduced: some apprentice of Pit's who looks up to him, and maybe winds up getting disillusioned by his lack of professionalism on missions to comedic effect. This is my most fanfictiony request but, idk, it's something I've always thought about and it seems like a fun direction.

What about you all?

I can't find it online anywhere. But like, it clearly is a thing. Chapter 11 tends to drop divine bows, viridi palms, cragalanche cannons, etc. Each level clearly has its own pool, and I want to know what the pool is for each level.

Looking for a manga where one character is being intensely bullied (like, it should get genuinely dark), but then there's a second character who sees the world in them and winds up helping them emotionally heal. Ideally this love interest should already be in love with the protagonist, but them falling in love along the way is fine.

There was a recent manga with a similar premise, but the FL turned out to be a yandere, which took away from the fluff. Ideally, the relationship should be wholesome.

I also love it when 2 characters bond over their interests, or at the very least are very supportive of their partner's. Maybe the protagonist has interests others think are creepy but their love interest thinks they're cool, that'd be a huge plus.

Next week animal signal will have its 10th chapter, and it’s usually a 10 chapter gap between batches, so it should be the issue after this weekend’s where a new batch starts. Now obviously that’s not a hard and fast rule, but I’m curious when we’ll hear about the next batch.

I kind of hope that there’s a focus on romcoms. 2 big ones have left, and so I’m curious to see if they’ll try to replace them, and with Someone Hertz being such a success I wonder if that’ll influence what makes it to print.

This is an all time favorite. I’ve never read Tokyo ghoul, so I’m not familiar with his work, but this manga really was a blast!

The art is the strongest part for sure. Not only is it gorgeous, not only are the dark fantasy elements absolutely incredible to look at, but the paneling and action of fight scenes is so good! At times hard to follow, but filled with amazing framing and momentum. The fight between Tokio and Azuma really was incredible with how much the characters felt like they were really in their environment, for example. And the chase out of the tower was full of amazing double spreads!

The characters are really lovable and complex, too. If anything the issue is a lack of utilization.

It’s got some amazing fight scenes in terms of writing, too. I love all the battle iq moments, and all the creative ways powers are used.

One of its strongest elements is how good it is at being what it sets out to be. It has this unmistakable tone of a superhero story that is hit better than almost any manga, including those about super heroes, and it’s doing a similar thing with its war story arc. The author is incredible at getting you lost in a vibe. It’s hard to explain, but I just get lost in it, feeling the exact emotions he wants me to.

Amazing manga! It still seems to have a long life and I’m glad. The fight with Batista could have been a finale, but it’s so cool seeing our favorite heroes grow to be adults training the next generation. I love that trope so much, and it’s exhilarating to see it done so well. That’s what makes Choujin X so special: so many tropes I adore being done better than I almost ever see them done. A true masterpiece.

Was reading a paper on photinos and how they would interact with quarks via squarks and got curious what a super symmetric standard model would look like in terms of what interactions are allowed. Is there a list of vertices in the MSSM?

I'm trying to study scattering amplitudes, and there's a lot that I'm still trying to wrap my head around the math, but one thing that keeps confusing me is what I'm even calculating here. The concept of a scattering amplitude itself kind of eludes me.

See, I understand the state of particle to include information on probability. So, if you have the full knowledge of a particle's state, you also have full knowledge on the probability of finding it at any given position, at any given momentum, etc.. But I also understand the state to evolve deterministically. If you know what the state is at Time A, you can know what the state will be at Time B. Only measurement if probabilistic, that was hammered into me early on.

So when I hear "The chances of system evolving from one state to another", I really feel like I'm missing something. And I've seen scattering amplitudes described that way. So, what is this scattering amplitude that we're calculating?

I can follow the math of how you derive the electric and magnetic fields from it okay, but I’m sometimes confused as to how a vector potential is the same kind of idea as a scalar potential.

So, scalar potential I have a philosophical intuition for. When a charge moves from an area of high potential to an area of low potential, this corresponds to a proportional change in potential energy (the change proportional to the potential drop and the amount of charge). The reason this works is because both potential and potential energy are scalar values.

When I hear about a vector potential, my mind imagines that a potential change therefore cannot correlate with a change in a scalar value (potential energy) and should instead correspond to a change in some vector quantity. As a charge moves from a position with (x,y,z) magnetic potential to a position with (x’,y’,z’) potential, then some vector quantity should also change. And obviously this can’t be potential energy because potential energy is a scalar.

So, assuming my reasoning here isn’t flawed, what is this vector analogue to potential energy? If there is none, for what reason am I wrong here? And how does this all apply to electromagnetic 4potential?

I’ve seen it said that any massless spin 2 boson would function identically to gravity. But would this boson necessarily use mass as its charge?

Okay, so, how the math works out: if every batch of 3 flops and is only given 2 batches to live (around 20 chapters, so U19's fall under this), then there can be around 14 veteran series that are surviving instead of them. In other words, you could make an argument that, in the longterm, there's closer to 12-14 "real" slots in WSJ.

This makes it very stressful to have a lot of newbies you really like.

Let's do some counting.

First, let's talk about the vets that will probably be around like, 6-8 months from now.

One Piece

Kagurabachi

Ichi the Witch

Shinobi Undercover

Akane-Banashi

Nue's Exorcist

Me And Robocco

Someone Hertz

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi

That right there is 9! Now, let's count the newcomers I want to see last.

Under Doctor

Animal Signal

Roku's House of Oddities

HAL Formula

Cannon Master

Class 2-B Hero Destroyerz

Add them up, you get 15. Even if we assume one of the 9 vets is ending faster than we assumed, or if the manga is willing to go up to 21 series at a time for a period again, that still means that for them to live we need all the newcomers to flop.

And like, I want to make a case for all 6 of these.

Under Doctor is selling incredibly well already and is basically a shoe-in, but like, there's good reason for that. It has so much heart and emotion to it, the characters are so strong, and it has a very unique premise with the medical aspect that gives it even more of a niche amongst the magazine's many battle manga.

Class 2-B, while slow to start, is really picking up, and it is just bringing so much to the table. It has merit just on its comedy alone, but the manga is building up intrigue, a cast we're slowly growing to love, a cool magic system that's genuinely interesting, and most importantly: Really fucking good action, better than most action manga that get debuted in this magazine imo.

Cannon Master is then a third really incredible battle manga, with just so much X factor to it. It's interesting, the art and art design are out of this world, and the combat is impeccable, especially in that last chapter. It feels like one of those classics that will define the magazine eventually.

So, that's 3 really solid action manga, each with the potential to be quite big, and which are all different from each other and from the rest of the lineup in really pronounced ways.

HAL FORMULA is like, THE sports manga jump has been looking for. It's got that sauce and actually makes you hooked on the thrill of the sport on top of the hero's journey of growth. It's already turning heads and for good reason.

Animal Signal is reminding me of Someone Hertz; a cozy romcom that's bringing other genres to the table. In this case, some really unique stuff with the animal facts, but also it's on and off got a mystery thing going on which really adds some spice to a magazine without that genre. The cozy, wholesome vibes Haruhara is known for, alongside this artist everyone seems to love - it's just hard not to love each chapter that comes out. And like, we do need more romcoms after we lost 2, and this is one people seem to be getting quickly attached to.

And Roku's House of Oddities... I mean, we've all seen how people react. It is rare for any story to get people to care this much about a main ensemble this quickly, and that's on top of being incredibly funny. There's also the potential to switch between action and comedy for it, potentially something like Witch Watch or even Yozakura, which also makes it potentially add a ton to the table.

So, yeah. I feel like there's no way my heart doesn't get broken in like, october or december or whatever.

So, for tensor fields there's a pretty clear trend: Rank 0 tensor fields have spin 0, rank 1 tensor fields have spin 1, rank 2 tensor fields have spin 2, etc. Spinors are associated with spin 1/2 fields, but what about other fermionic field types? I've seen them described as spinor fields, too, which feels kind of odd to me. I feel like there ought to be a similar kind of increase in complexity of the field output, but that's just my novice intuition. What changes between spin 1/2 and other half integer fields?

....Because honestly, it'd probably be adapted at something close to an episode per chapter. I mean, these things are so dense, so dialogue heavy, and so much happens in each one. Not to mention the thriller-nature of the storytelling really benefits from a slow pace.

Also, rereading it, and my god the succession war is just so juicy. It's detailed in a way few writers would even dare to pull off, and it's really scratching an itch few other stories can. I'm a novice writer right now, and I've started thinking of stories to write purely in an attempt to scratch this itch. Togashi's writing is inspiring.

I learn physics mostly for the sake of becoming better at science outreach, which is a hobby of mine I'm trying to develop. I've been learning about hamiltonians and lagrangians as a concept since I've seen people ask about them. And I wanna check that my understanding of the philosophy behind them isn't misled. So, let's say I said the following to someone:

"The lagrangians in physics are mathematically concept, but the core idea behind them is something that might be familiar to you. We know that F=ma is a law of physics, and thus, because F=ma is true, 1/m * F = a must also be true. So, if we wanted, we could use that as our 2nd law of motion, and say that because 1/m * F = a must be true, F=ma must also be true. You might go as far as to say that they aren't even making different claims about the universe.

Lagrangians are a similar idea, just to a far greater degree. When someone sets the action equal to the integral of T-V over time and says that the action is stationary, that is just as equivalent to F=ma as 1/m * F = a is. All 3 make the same claim about the nature of our universe."

Is there anything in this explanation you would find incorrect or misleading? And if it's true, does the same apply to the hamiltonian? I understand that it probably does but I've barely touched on it, since I'm starting with Lagrangian mechanics.

Edit: Apologies for the confusion, I really explained this bad. There's a specific situation where I'd wanna use this kind of explanation, and it's not to give a complete overview. I mostly want to make sure it's not incorrect. I'm well aware that it's not a full overview, I just want to make sure I could include it without it being a lie, as there are some learners I feel might benefit from this framing.

Like, I understand every single individual step being explained, but I look back at the whole process and think to myself "That sure was some math I just got walked through". My main goal is to understand the relationship between the lagrangian and the hamiltonian, if that helps. I did internalize some points from wikipedia and the textbook I tried reading through (I forget which one, apologies); it has to do with conjugate variables, for example, though I'll admit I'm still not fully confident in my grasp on what those are. I'm also pretty sure that, like the fourier transform, performing the legendre transform twice gets you back to the original function you started with.

Does anyone have any pithy explanations of its significance, or any otherwise wetter-than-dry explanations that might snap things into focus for me?

The world established with the introduction of the dark continent, you’d need several series as long as Hunter x Hunter already is in order to cover it. Even if Togashi manages to conclude a full expedition to and from it, how do you feel that could be handled in a way that feels like a decent conclusion?

I feel like the way to do it is to make a personal finale for the characters like ging and beyond and pariston that just happens to be set there, while sating our appetite just enough.

Well, okay, it's 6 counting Witch Watch which I hear is ending soon. But other than that we have Roku's House of Oddities, Someone Hertz, Class-2B, Animal Signal, and Me & Robocco. That's a lot! 1 year ago, we had only 3: Witch Watch, Nice Prison, and Me and Robocco.

Now, to be fair, a lot of these bring more than just the gag comedy stuff. Someone Hertz is also a romcom, 2B does really competent fantasy action, Roku's got the whole found family schtick, and Animal Signal has an edutainment angle. Still, it makes me wonder how many will last? And also, do you think them trying so many might be a sign Robocco is ending soon?

My best guess personally is that 2B, Roku's House of Oddities, Someone Hertz, and Robocco will be the ones to continue while Animal Signal is axed and Witch Watch finishes. Though I personally would prefer Animal Signal over Robocco (just not a fan of Robocco, not my cup of tea).