Widdershins

I've got a interesting question for you guys. Who are your favorite youtubers and why?

I've got a couple that I watch on a regular basis

Great Mythical Morning w/ Rhett and Link: These shows got me through my final year or so of college. That and their antics always makes me laugh.

Markiplier: He's got such a calming voice and is such fun to watch, especially when he's doing his try not to laugh challenges.

Hey Widders, in my wider wanderings (Yes I'm looking at you) I came across some pictures that I figured you may enjoy as well! I near blinded myself in getting a few of these but I think they came out pretty nice. I hope you like them:

A procedurally generated planet orbiting UY Scuti, one of the largest known stars.

View from the above planet's surface.

This is the Cygnus X-1 system. The smaller bright light is something very special. It is the first widely accepted black hole system to have been found.

I don't think the accretion disc actually would get this thin, but I thought this was a nice picture as well. The two jets shooting out from it consist of matter saved at the brink from falling into the actual black hole.

The black hole from another angle. It's actively stealing matter from its host star.

I think my computer gave up on brightness at this point. The event horizon is obvious here. The bulge at the top is caused by gravitational lensing. The black hole is bending space around it, allowing us to see behind it while we stare at the front.

And that's it! I hope you enjoy.

….

Come on. You think I stopped there? Of course I had to get a shot of the inside of the event horizon:

Here, we see the entire universe from within the black hole. If you were to fall into a black hole, time and space as we know them cease to exist. It's likely that you would not only be blinded by brightness, but if you could see, you would witness not only the whole universe, but its evolution and eventual demise. 

And then you would be crushed down to infinite density and have your mass applied to the total of the black hole.

BE THE BLACK HOLE! BE IT!!!!

Merry Christmas, man.

Durant! DURANT!

 They'll eat you alive!

Durant! DURANT!

 They're the size of your hand, but they'll still tan yer hide!

Durant! DURANT!

 They'll steal your food & stun you to death, without a fight!

It's Durant! DURANT!

 YA DON' STANDA! CHANCE! 'GAINST THIS SUCKERPUNCHIN' ANT!!!

 DURANT! DURANT! Durant, Durant, Durant, Durant, Duraaaaant... Dumb ant.

  Geez, these little buggers! They have ONE weakness! You only have the slightest chance at winning or surviving against this pokemon if you just burn them alive with the biggest fire you got first turn! It doesn't even matter what level you got against them!

 I still remember! Wanted to max my Mewtwo's level in the only place high enough to... which was of course, swarming with Durants. Mewtwo is one of the biggest things out there in the game, too!

 The Master, my mewtwo, rears back with his Psystrike, a move so powerful it blots out the surroundings with its massive psychic power... and the wild Durant just stands there, chittering in mirth with only a third its health gone. Despite against a legendary,  with a forty level headway on it.

 And Master just starts twitching, I can tell. "I... am a... Cloned GOD. And I'm being... mocked...by a literal insect!"

  And so, Madness unravels! Durant dodging all around the cave, getting in free hits with Dig, more Durants swarming in out of their perverted amusement. Master going foaming mad into an game of Whack-An-Ant: "I have the IQ of a Million!This shouldn't...LOGIC FAILING!!" *Psystrike punching another crater into the ground*  "I AM A MAN!!!" *Uses PsychoCut*

And me, the Trainer, just walleyed, brain numb & drooling on myself as a tinkly banjo starts playing in the background...

It's silly, I know, but.. it's honestly making me cry.

 All these pokemon "fans" crying out that the new fossil pokemon are just cobbled monstrosities, like it made them less viable to be alive just because their anatomy & biology defy logic. That we're only gonna wait until they make the full, true *Actual* fossil pokemons later...

 Oh, like we don't already have pokemon perpetually sick to explain their magical powers! Or bodies of oddly angular, out of place proportions. To me, any other pokemon could live a healthy life just because it looked, for all the world to some outsider's opinion, that it had its head stuck on funny or shouldn't be able to support its own body systems.

...th-they're my precious, waddly, mutant children. They're bodies don't work, they feel constant pain, they d-don't fit in anywhere because their minds grew from an era & environment alien to what it is now... but they wanna be friends all the same and smile at you like any other buddy...

 ..J-just like me...

   ...please don't normalize us that don't belong. We're just making do with the life fate handed us... what we are, let us learn to live happier.

 Live well for what you are, not for what you're supposed to be.

Wooo... spooky drive home.

It’s still dark, and it’s overcast with fog. Part of the drive is though farmland.

No light except my headlights. All you could see was a bit of road ahead under a dome of pitch-black nothingness on all sides,

Was kinda cool! XD

Hey Widders, in my wider wanderings (Yes I'm looking at you) I came across some pictures that I figured you may enjoy as well! I near blinded myself in getting a few of these but I think they came out pretty nice. I hope you like them:

A procedurally generated planet orbiting UY Scuti, one of the largest known stars.

View from the above planet's surface.

This is the Cygnus X-1 system. The smaller bright light is something very special. It is the first widely accepted black hole system to have been found.

I don't think the accretion disc actually would get this thin, but I thought this was a nice picture as well. The two jets shooting out from it consist of matter saved at the brink from falling into the actual black hole.

The black hole from another angle. It's actively stealing matter from its host star.

I think my computer gave up on brightness at this point. The event horizon is obvious here. The bulge at the top is caused by gravitational lensing. The black hole is bending space around it, allowing us to see behind it while we stare at the front.

And that's it! I hope you enjoy.

….

Come on. You think I stopped there? Of course I had to get a shot of the inside of the event horizon:

Here, we see the entire universe from within the black hole. If you were to fall into a black hole, time and space as we know them cease to exist. It's likely that you would not only be blinded by brightness, but if you could see, you would witness not only the whole universe, but its evolution and eventual demise. 

And then you would be crushed down to infinite density and have your mass applied to the total of the black hole.

BE THE BLACK HOLE! BE IT!!!!

Merry Christmas, man.

Merry Christmas y'all horse friends

Merry Christmas / Happy Hearth Warming Every-pony!!!  ^^ (it just turned midnight where I am)  I hope you guys have a wonderful day today 

It's silly, I know, but.. it's honestly making me cry.

 All these pokemon "fans" crying out that the new fossil pokemon are just cobbled monstrosities, like it made them less viable to be alive just because their anatomy & biology defy logic. That we're only gonna wait until they make the full, true *Actual* fossil pokemons later...

 Oh, like we don't already have pokemon perpetually sick to explain their magical powers! Or bodies of oddly angular, out of place proportions. To me, any other pokemon could live a healthy life just because it looked, for all the world to some outsider's opinion, that it had its head stuck on funny or shouldn't be able to support its own body systems.

...th-they're my precious, waddly, mutant children. They're bodies don't work, they feel constant pain, they d-don't fit in anywhere because their minds grew from an era & environment alien to what it is now... but they wanna be friends all the same and smile at you like any other buddy...

 ..J-just like me...

   ...please don't normalize us that don't belong. We're just making do with the life fate handed us... what we are, let us learn to live happier.

 Live well for what you are, not for what you're supposed to be.

It's silly, I know, but.. it's honestly making me cry.

 All these pokemon "fans" crying out that the new fossil pokemon are just cobbled monstrosities, like it made them less viable to be alive just because their anatomy & biology defy logic. That we're only gonna wait until they make the full, true *Actual* fossil pokemons later...

 Oh, like we don't already have pokemon perpetually sick to explain their magical powers! Or bodies of oddly angular, out of place proportions. To me, any other pokemon could live a healthy life just because it looked, for all the world to some outsider's opinion, that it had its head stuck on funny or shouldn't be able to support its own body systems.

...th-they're my precious, waddly, mutant children. They're bodies don't work, they feel constant pain, they d-don't fit in anywhere because their minds grew from an era & environment alien to what it is now... but they wanna be friends all the same and smile at you like any other buddy...

 ..J-just like me...

   ...please don't normalize us that don't belong. We're just making do with the life fate handed us... what we are, let us learn to live happier.

 Live well for what you are, not for what you're supposed to be.

Merry Christmas! 

Morning everyone!! <3

 *Kicks down door behind you as you art. Barges in yelling, and thrusts a snowball, wormy Babu at you.*

PUT A TINY HEARTHSWARMING HAT ON THIS SNOM!!!

  Do it! The world needs this so our hearts will implode in D'aw! No time to explain!! Must Cute Faster!!

   ...or should I say... Happy Heart's Worming!!

 Cus it worms es way intwo yo heart!~

Hey hey hey and welcome to another episode of How To Survive a Maths Degree! I'm your disquietingly dapper droll, Duality!

I'm sure all of you already know the objectives of attempting such a bohemian subject. Learn numbers, enhance your mental ability, write groundbreaking papers on the nature of logic itself, survive the tenurewolves, all textbook stuff. However, it is few indeed who escape out the other side of university with their mental and physical integrity, mostly due to the terrible dearth of terrible-death-avoiding knowledge among the undergraduate rabble. Fortuitously for your fine selves, Dr Duality is here to help!

First rule of all maths degrees is coffee. Drink it with a teabag and tiny marshmallows. Anything less will provoke the Elder Ones. Exsanguination-flavoured bubble tea is also acceptable if you don't mind the premonitory hallucinations.

Second rule of maths degrees: You may define exponentiation however you choose. Multiplication may also be tampered with if suitable precautions are taken. Messing with the formal basis of addition, on the other hand, invariably enrages Causality herself and results in a janitor's nightmare worth of shredded organ puddles. This is generally not advised due to the resultant slip hazard.

Third rule of maths degrees: Do not let the number 17 out of your sight. It will escape.

Fourth rule of maths degrees: You just let it out of your sight. You incompetent urelement. Go and get a butterfly net and catch it before the number line caves in.

Fifth rule of maths degrees: You may look down on all other fields of study for 'being too applied' and 'falling short of the heart of reality' and 'is dum n stupd'. Philosophy does not count as a field of study due to not involving numbers. Numbers are perfection. Numbers are eternal. Numbers are the highest object of thought. It is legal to murder heretics.

Sixth rule of maths degrees: Don't put anything in the empty set or set theory will break again.

Seventh rule of maths degrees: Primes are evil. Infinities are evil. Diophantine equations are extra evil.

Eighth rule of maths degrees: 'Have you ever heard a pickup line about pickup lines? I've never meta girl who had.' is the only acceptable means of securing meiotic reproduction among mathematicians. Mitosis is hence the conventional method of propagating our genes.

Ninth rule of maths degrees: This is left as an exercise to the reader.

Tenth rule of maths degrees: The clocks go to thirteen in the maths department. Use the extra hours wisely.

Sixteenth rule of maths degrees: Rigorous ordinal succession requirements on rulesets are optional.

Seventeenth rule of maths degrees: IT ESCAPED AGAIN YOU FOOL GO GET IT

Eighteenth rule of maths degrees: The contents of these rules are 73% arbitrarily generated, 24% somewhat nonspecific, and have 59% less apparent ground in empirical reality than linguistics. This is either universal in mathematics or not at all universal in mathematics, depending on your philosophy. If you have a philosophy it is legal for us to murder you as a heretic.

Anyway welcome to university if you wish to escape you must either pay off a student debt larger than the national deficit or solve maths forever and become as a god among mortals

Oh hey!! I got my Santa Gift at work! They got me a Rarity toy (best Mane 6) and a The Cat Returns on DVD/Blu-ray!

 *Kicks down door behind you as you art. Barges in yelling, and thrusts a snowball, wormy Babu at you.*

PUT A TINY HEARTHSWARMING HAT ON THIS SNOM!!!

  Do it! The world needs this so our hearts will implode in D'aw! No time to explain!! Must Cute Faster!!

   ...or should I say... Happy Heart's Worming!!

 Cus it worms es way intwo yo heart!~

This is just great.

I mention I'm a huge fan of MST3K?

 Night of the Blood Beast! That's where I get that shtick from!

 "What? Me Steve, or Him Steve?"

 "You think i'm STEVE, don't you?!!?"

That's weird, Steve. I got it handled, Steve.

 This is no ordinary Steve!

"Steve?" "What is it, Steve?" "It's hard to trust a man not named Steve. Let's keep it between us Steves."

 This has Steve written all over it!!

Hey hey hey and welcome to another episode of How To Survive a Maths Degree! I'm your disquietingly dapper droll, Duality!

I'm sure all of you already know the objectives of attempting such a bohemian subject. Learn numbers, enhance your mental ability, write groundbreaking papers on the nature of logic itself, survive the tenurewolves, all textbook stuff. However, it is few indeed who escape out the other side of university with their mental and physical integrity, mostly due to the terrible dearth of terrible-death-avoiding knowledge among the undergraduate rabble. Fortuitously for your fine selves, Dr Duality is here to help!

First rule of all maths degrees is coffee. Drink it with a teabag and tiny marshmallows. Anything less will provoke the Elder Ones. Exsanguination-flavoured bubble tea is also acceptable if you don't mind the premonitory hallucinations.

Second rule of maths degrees: You may define exponentiation however you choose. Multiplication may also be tampered with if suitable precautions are taken. Messing with the formal basis of addition, on the other hand, invariably enrages Causality herself and results in a janitor's nightmare worth of shredded organ puddles. This is generally not advised due to the resultant slip hazard.

Third rule of maths degrees: Do not let the number 17 out of your sight. It will escape.

Fourth rule of maths degrees: You just let it out of your sight. You incompetent urelement. Go and get a butterfly net and catch it before the number line caves in.

Fifth rule of maths degrees: You may look down on all other fields of study for 'being too applied' and 'falling short of the heart of reality' and 'is dum n stupd'. Philosophy does not count as a field of study due to not involving numbers. Numbers are perfection. Numbers are eternal. Numbers are the highest object of thought. It is legal to murder heretics.

Sixth rule of maths degrees: Don't put anything in the empty set or set theory will break again.

Seventh rule of maths degrees: Primes are evil. Infinities are evil. Diophantine equations are extra evil.

Eighth rule of maths degrees: 'Have you ever heard a pickup line about pickup lines? I've never meta girl who had.' is the only acceptable means of securing meiotic reproduction among mathematicians. Mitosis is hence the conventional method of propagating our genes.

Ninth rule of maths degrees: This is left as an exercise to the reader.

Tenth rule of maths degrees: The clocks go to thirteen in the maths department. Use the extra hours wisely.

Sixteenth rule of maths degrees: Rigorous ordinal succession requirements on rulesets are optional.

Seventeenth rule of maths degrees: IT ESCAPED AGAIN YOU FOOL GO GET IT

Eighteenth rule of maths degrees: The contents of these rules are 73% arbitrarily generated, 24% somewhat nonspecific, and have 59% less apparent ground in empirical reality than linguistics. This is either universal in mathematics or not at all universal in mathematics, depending on your philosophy. If you have a philosophy it is legal for us to murder you as a heretic.

Anyway welcome to university if you wish to escape you must either pay off a student debt larger than the national deficit or solve maths forever and become as a god among mortals

Oh hey!! I got my Santa Gift at work! They got me a Rarity toy (best Mane 6) and a The Cat Returns on DVD/Blu-ray!

If you ever feel useless just remember that I am not even competent enough to handle wrapping gifts properly.

I shall now mimic the graceful cry of the pokemon, Mantine, as it leaps out of the water, its flappy wings spread wide to embrace the chilly northern air... *Ahem*

 DootDootDoot!!!

(To quote a wise man: "Indeed, some do do Doots.)

And to continue our enlightening tour of the calls of the world of Pokémon's nature I shall now do the territorial call of the wild Diggersby rabbit! …*Ahem*

 *artfully leans back and lets out a loose, loud, Wet Belch.*

(Trust me, you don't want to know how they do the Mud Slap move!)

  And finally, for your listening plea-sure, a treat that simply no collection is complete without... I present unto you, the beautiful, lasting, multi-tuned cry... of the Stunfisk!

 /Farts.

 Aaaaand, we've been taken off the Air! Again!

I’m pretty sure that whoever makes the desserts in the cafeteria at my workplace is just using it as a way to get rid of left over ingredients in the kitchen.

Usually by throwing it in layers in a cup and calling it a trifle. The funny part is that it almost always still tastes delicious!

Hello all you pretty people. 

I mention I'm a huge fan of MST3K?

 Night of the Blood Beast! That's where I get that shtick from!

 "What? Me Steve, or Him Steve?"

 "You think i'm STEVE, don't you?!!?"

That's weird, Steve. I got it handled, Steve.

 This is no ordinary Steve!

"Steve?" "What is it, Steve?" "It's hard to trust a man not named Steve. Let's keep it between us Steves."

 This has Steve written all over it!!