Greetings, Echo Explorers!
Let's embark on our first journey into the forgotten corridors of history with the fascinating tale of the Voynich Manuscript.
The Voynich Manuscript is an ancient book that has puzzled historians and cryptographers for over a hundred years. Its origin is unknown, and it's written in an undeciphered script filled with beautifully bizarre illustrations. Some say it's a lost natural history book of a long-gone civilization, others theorize it's an elaborate hoax.
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What do you think the manuscript might be? An unknown language, an encoded text, or an elaborate joke?
I'd love to hear your thoughts, theories, or any lesser-known facts about other such undeciphered scripts!
Let the journey of our community begin with unraveling the echoes of this cryptic artifact from aeons past!
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/voynich-manuscript

I am installing a 3 prong power cord on my brand new 4 prong dryer because my outlet in my apartment is for 3 prong. The dryer model is GE brand GFD14ESSNOWW.
I have attached a link to a photo o the dryer with the 4 prong power cord still attached as I haven’t removed it yet and put on the 3 prong cord. Also including a photo of the instruction diagram on my dryer that shows how to install a 3 prong power cord. I am wondering what material and gauge ground strap I need. It looks like I hook it from the green ground screw to the neutral terminal?
I spoke to General Electric and they said they could not answer this question so I am worried about using the right ground wire/ground strap.

If this is inappropriate or unprofessional please feel free to take it down. My intentions mean well and maybe I’m just uneducated or need to reflect more on how I view things. I’m sorry if I’m being rude I just don’t understand—this is new to me within the Army and my personal life.
I’m in BH and the counselor asked me what my pronouns are and (respectfully) recommended I look into Reiki healing to help realign my chakras from sexual trauma. But! She said she’s still doing the other BH programs because she said it’s not her ultimate decision on what my treatment is.
Is this normal for professional practice?
For me this isn’t normal from my experiences—usually Army services are traditional/do not involve new modern ideologies and technologies.

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My passport book routine application was just put in-process last week with Locator 62, and I am in no rush because I have no immediate travel plans at this time. A few days later, I thought maybe I do want a passport card too, so I tried calling NPIC to add. First time, I was transferred, then on hold for 3+ hours, beyond the 7pm (pacific) closing time. I gave up. Second time I was transferred, on hold for 1 hour 20 minutes, then disconnected. Third time I asked rep if I was doing something wrong, he connected me with his supervisor (HIS IDEA!!), and she said they had been told they aren't adding passport cards if the caller is not within the 2-week travel window. Frankly that didn't make sense to either of us and she said she is going to look into that from her end, and I said maybe I would call again in a couple of weeks. She was a pleasant lady, and seemed relieved that I wasn't upset or calling about expediting.
Then I tried to call Western Passport Center, but there is an automated message saying they are not taking outside calls.
Like I said, this is not urgent, and I was borderline (heh) about the passport card to begin with, otherwise I would have included it on my application. I could just end up mailing in the application sometime after I get my new passport. Just wanted to share my experience with you all.

I 20 female has been with my bf 20 male for almost 4 months now.
He hasn't always been the best and each time i would try to communicate something i wasn't okay with in our relationship he wouldn't take it seriously.
Yesterday i was looking through his phone and saw messages with his friend talking about how he got a lap dance from a girl and that it was amazing. He also sent his friend a message saying he saw another friend's sister and whether he should shoot his shot, he said that was a joke since they all joke about that friend's sister because one friend is in love with her. What makes me mad about the "joke" is that after saying that he talked about how beautiful she was and how "thick" she was.
We had been together for all this time and he decided he'd just not tell me about going to a birthday party and then get a lap dance from some girl. What infuriates me also is that he talked about it with his friend who told him not to let his gf know. It feels so disrespectful knowing he was saying this to his friend when i'm doing so much for him.
He is now begging me to get back with him and is saying that he will change. He keeps saying he will give me his Facebook, insta and even whatsapp and will even leave his job and get a new one (because he said that at the start of our relationship he didn't take it seriously and was talking to girls there.)
He kept saying that since the beginning of this month he started taking our relationship seriously and that he even bought a promise ring for me. But i can't take and don't feel like i should take him back. What should i do? AITA?

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Looking for advice from R1T owners, new and used:
I had an R1T on order a long time ago and cancelled it because it was taking too long and bought another truck. But recently found a used one with less than 100 miles for a fairly decent price. Is it worth to buy lightly used and miss out on the tax credit or maybe order another new with no options and get the credit?

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Introduction

During the development of our card game Conflux we wanted to have an easy way to create various abilities for our cards with different effects and at the same time wanted to write smaller amount of code per ability. Also we wanted try and add a simple modding capability for abilities.

Format we introduced

Some of you may be familiar with MoonSharp LUA interpreter for C#, often use in Unity engine to add scripting support to your game. That's what we took as a base for writing the code for abilities. Each ability can subscribe to different events such as whenever a card takes damage, is placed on the field or ability is used manually on some specific targets. Besides having event handlers we needed a way to specify some metadata like mana cost of abilities, cooldown, icon, etc. and in the first iteration of the system we had a pair of JSON metadata file and LUA code file.
It was fine initially but we quickly realized that abilities typically have ~20 lines of JSON and ~20 lines of LUA code and that having two files per ability is wasteful so we developed a simple format which combines both the JSON and LUA.
Since LUA code could never really be a valid JSON (unless you are ok with slapping all the code into a single line or is ok with escaping all the quotes you have) we put the JSON part of the abilities into the LUA script. First LUA block comment section within the script is considered as a JSON header.
Here is an example of "Bash" ability in LUA (does damage and locks the target cards):

--[[ { "mana_cost": 0, "start_cooldown": 0, "cooldown": 3, "max_usage": -1, "icon": "IconGroup_StatsIcon_Fist", "tags": [ "damage", "debuff", "simple_damage_value" ], "max_targets": 1, "is_active": true, "values": { "damage": 5, "element": "physical" }, "ai_score": 7 } --]] local function TargetCheck() if Combat.isEnemyOf(this.card.id, this.event.target_card_id) then return Combat.getAbilityStat(this.ability.id, "max_targets") end end local function Use() for i = 1, #this.event.target_card_ids do Render.pushCardToCard(this.card.id, this.event.target_card_ids[i], 10.0) Render.createExplosionAtCard("Active/Bash", this.event.target_card_ids[i]) Render.pause(0.5) Combat.damage(this.event.target_card_ids[i], this.ability.values.damage, this.ability.values.element) Combat.lockCard(this.event.target_card_ids[i]) end end Utility.onMyTargetCheck(TargetCheck) Utility.onMyUse(Use) 

Inheritance for abilities

It may be a completely valid desire to have a way to reuse the code of some abilities and just make some small adjustments. We solved this desire by having a merge function for JSON header data which will look for a parent field within the header and will look for the data based on the ID provided in this parent field. All the data found is then merged with the data provide in the rest of the current JSON header. It also does it recursively, but I don't foresee actually using this functionality as typically we just have a generic ability written and then the inherited ability just replaces all it needs to replace.
Here is an example on how a simple damaging ability can be defined:

--[[ { "parent": "Generic/Active/Elemental_projectiles", "cooldown": 3, "icon": "IconGroup_StatsIcon01_03", "max_targets": 2, "values": { "damage": 2, "element": "fire", "render": "Active/Fireball" }, "ai_score": 15 } --]] 

So as you can see there is no code as 100% of it is inherited from the parent generic ability.
The way a code in the child ability is handled is that the game will execute the LUA ability files starting from the top parent and will traverse down to the child. Since all the logic of abilities is usually within the event handlers then no actual change happens during the execution of those LUA scripts (just info about subscriptions is added). If the new ability you write needs to actually modify the code of the parent then you can just unsubscribe from the events you know you want to modify and then rewrite the handler yourself.

MoonSharp in practice

MoonSharp as a LUA interpreter works perfectly fine IMO. No performance issues or bugs with the LUA code execution as far as I see.
The problems for us started when trying to use VS code debugging. As in it straight up does not work for us. To make it behave we had to do quite a few adjustments including:

• Create a new breakpoint storage mechanism because existing one does not trigger breakpoints
• Add customizable exception handler for when the exception occurs within the C# API. By default you just get a whole load of nothing and your script just dies. We added a logging and automatic breakpoint mechanism (which is supposed to be there but just does not work)
• Proper local/global variables browser. Existing one just displayed (table: 000012) instead of letting you browse variables like a normal human being.
• Passthrough of Unity logs to VS code during debugging. This one worked out of the box for the most part when errors were within the LUA code, but anything that happens in our C# API is only visible in Unity console (or Player.log) and when breakpoint is triggered good luck actually seeing that log with Unity screen frozen and logs not flushed yet (can flush the logs in this case I guess too?)

What is missing

While we are mostly satisfied with the results the current implementation there are a couple things worth pointing out as something that can be worked on:

• When you are done writing the ability you can't really know if the code you wrote is valid or if the data within the JSON header is valid. Linters within VS code I tried either complain about LUA code when highlighting JSON or ignore JSON when highlighting LUA code
• Good luck killing infinite loop within the LUA code (though same is true for C#). Execution limit needs to be implemented to avoid that problem, better to have invalid game state then having to kill the process.
• By placing the metadata of the abilities within the same code file you lock yourself out of the opportunity to have a unified place to store all your ability metadata (e.g. having a large data sheet with all the values visible to be able to sort through it and find inconsistencies). This can be addressed by having a converter from those LUA files to say CSV file or having a dedicated data browser within the game

Why not just write everything in LUA?

It is possible to convert the JSON header part into a LUA table. With this you get a benefit of syntax highlight and comments. The downside is that now to read the metadata for the ability you have to run a LUA VM and execute the script if you want to get any info from it. This implies that there will be no read-only access to ability information because the script will inevitably try to interact with some API that modifies the game state (at the very least adds event listener) or you will need to change the API to have a read-only mode.
Another point is that having a simple JSON part in the file let's you use a trivial script to extract it from the .lua file and it then can be used by some external tools (which typically don't support LUA)

TL;DR

Adding JSON as a header to LUA has following pros and cons compared to just writing C# code per ability:
Pros:

• Can hot-swap code with adjustments for faster iteration
• No compilation required, all the scripts can be initialized during the scene loading process
• Can evaluate the same code an ability would use within a console for testing
• Allows abilities to be modded into the game with lower possibility of malicious code (as long as exposed API is safe)

Cons:

• Requires compatibility layer between C# and LUA (you will still have to write API in C# to reduce the code bloat, but there is an extra layer that you need to write to pass this API to LUA)
• MoonSharp VS code debugging is buggier than using VisualStudio debugger for C#
• Doesn't really reduce the number of lines of code you need to manage. While you avoid boilerplate code, with smart management of this boilerplate code you can reduce it down to just a good base class implementation for your abilities with almost no overhead

So my story is about shapeshifting characters aiming to save the environment. I've tried to create a lore and backstory for how the planet Earth was created. It is based entirely on the theory of evolution, but I want to sprinkle in mythology of the nature gods being involved in the creation and evolution of the Earth and its creatures. It's going to be my prologue for my first book, sort of like Concerning Hobbits in Fellowship of the Ring, but shorter. Let me know what you think. How can I expand on the creation of the Earth by the nature gods?
Earth, our only home, the only planet in the galaxy that maintains life. It all started with the explosive birth of the goddess of the planet. In Her youth, Mother Nature raged as a heaping mass of hot molten gas and rock. Millions of years later, Her molten rage cooled down into a solid planet and formed the oceans that covered Her entire body. From the womb of the oceans, two stars fell from the sky into the waters, forming the souls of the first two beings that started life. Many more years later, land rose from the ocean and life moved from the oceans to form legs and walked on land with their own feet. For millions of years, as the continents broke apart, life evolved more and more from this common ancestor that connects us all into diverse creatures as it grew into the world we know now. From the high snowy mountains to the deep blue seas, to the savannah grasslands to the lush green forests and jungles, life survived and thrived for millions of years. And as such, evolved a new species from the Great African Rift Valley, humans. Since ancient times, humans lived side by side with nature and only took what they needed. They maintained their respect and reverence of the laws of survival Mother Nature bestowed upon the plants and animals on Her body. But as humanity’s intelligence evolved, so did their greed. And that greed became nature’s slow undoing. Humanity plundered and pillaged the lands of its resources and drove many species to extinction, placing themselves above the laws of nature. Overtime, humanity forgot their original connection with nature and saw value only in materials. But as humanity’s grew, so did their awareness. Certain groups of humans learned of the damage they have done to the Earth and seek to fix the planet. But before they can change the world, they must first change themselves. Among those humans have accepted a spiritual power latent within all humans that combines the power of beasts with the intelligence of man. For Mother Nature knew Her most intelligent creations have lost their inherent connection with Her and felt ashamed She ever allowed an intelligent creature to evolve, She granted humanity animal spirits and the power to unleash them through an animal totem, so humanity could recall their connection with the animals they share Her body with. With these totems, humans fight for the future of their one and only home for the next generation to enjoy. Can these humans fix the mistakes of their ancestors? The answer rests in their footprints.

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Introduction
After watching all 12 episodes of Brand New Animal twice (except for Ep 12, which I watched just once) and watching several YouTube videos reviewing the anime, I discovered that BNA's story desperately needs improvement. The show becomes a "meh" level of quality when its stunning art style and jaw-dropping action scenes are combined with poor worldbuilding and irrational character decisions. There must be a way to change the writing while still keeping all the parts that viewers love about BNA - the concept of humans turning into anthropomorphised animals.
I have an idea of how this might be achieved.
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Proposal
Note that this proposal focuses on fixing all the plotholes in the story, not how to best integrate the signature "Trigger" action into the writing.
Currently, its writing has tons of problems, meaning all the characters act irrationally and the plot is full of "pretzel logic".
For example:

• "Beastmen VS Humans" makes zero sense.
• Beastmen prefer to live like humans and appear in human form (they all have human forms) despite the war crimes that humans repeatedly committed against them.
• Beastmen keep attacking their own kind irrationally.
• Nirvasyl Syndrome (or "Angry Beastman Disease") defeats the theme of racism.
• Backstories make no sense/not elaborated.
• Michiru Kagemori is the dumbest protagonist ever.

But, the show also has a lot of good things that fans would like to see more of.
For example:

• Action-packed fighting between Beastmen resembling various animals.
• Beautiful art style.
• Potential for great conflicts and themes.
• Very cute protagonist (see Jackisboy's video).

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I might have a solution that can solve all the plot holes:
Instead of Beastmen and Humans always having been separate species, change the lore so that Beastmen and Humans used to be one and the same - normal human beings. Beastmen would be re-defined as Humans who have gained the ability to transform between a Beast form and a Human form.
This way:

• Humans hate Beastmen due to the impression of a diseased race of people.
• Beastmen prefer to live like humans and appear in human form because they are all still human at heart.
• Beastmen attack their own kind because they abuse their animalistic abilities, and it is not limited to just angry beastmen.
• Nirvasyl Syndrome - we can either do away with it, change it into propaganda spread by Beastmen haters, or change it into an artificially-made disease made by Sylvasta.

As for the protagonist's poor decision-making and lack of backstory, that can be changed by elaborating on her backstory in the first episode and tweaking her personality so that "heroic dumbass" is an explicit part of it.
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If I could re-write BNA...
... I would stretch the original plot from 12 episodes to 3 seasons with 12 episodes each.

Season 1
Michiru escapes to a island that has been transformed into Anima City. She learns to become comfortable in her own skin and gains friends there, including Shirou Ogami and "the bears", who are a basketball team (and NOT a baseball team)
In the background, Mayor Rose is doing a bad job at being the mayor of the city, which leads to lots of social-economic issues in Anima City, which leads to lots of crime.
[insert human terrorists here]
[insert beastmen mafia here]

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Season 2
A new religion has arisen in Anima City that claims to be led by the "Silver Wolf" god. Turns out it's just Michiru's high-school friend, Nazuna. Michiru faces off with Nazuna as she builds her religion.
Shiout Ogami reveals himself to just Michiru to be the true, original, Silver Wolf.
In the end, Nazuna's lie falls apart and all the beastmen rise up against her. Nazuna gives up seeking to become an "idol" and leaves Michiru's life once again.
In the background, however, Alan Sylvasta of the cooperation Sylvasta Pharmaceutical is running to be the new mayor. In the end, he is finally elected as the new mayor and Mayor Rose is kicked out.

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Season 3
After achieving a good research & development company and gaining political power, as well as the favour of the Beastmen, Alan Sylvasta can finally chase his ultimate goal: gaining divine power and becoming the god of the Beastmen.
He rebuilds a ton of infrastructure in Anima City, not just to improve it and serve its citizens better, but to replicate the appearance of the "first Animal City", which is where Shirou was from.
He also researches how to become a beastmen and uses Michiru's DNA to secretly turn himself into a wolf beastmen.
In the end, Alan Sylvasta builds a giant pentagram stage. He stands and the centre and holds a giant congregation all around the centre. He replicates the series of events that turned Shirou Ogami from a regular wolf beastmen into a deity and succeeds in becoming a big yellow wolf god thingy.
Shirou Ogami transforms into his god form and fights Alan Sylvasta. An epic flashy god fight ensues. Shirou wins.
The remaining beastmen who are still alive decide to flee Anima City because they no longer believe that they will ever get a good leader. However, Michiru convinces Shirou to lead the Beastmen and be the new-new mayor of Anima City.
In the end, Shirou reluctantly agrees to lead the small portion of Beastmen who still believe in Anima City.

Note that I'm not sure if a re-make of BNA should repeat all the storylines from the original. While that would give a lot of respect for the original, I am afraid that it might be boring to see the same thing playing out in a different way.
After all, this is a world that should be more about the tons of humans being discriminated against because they gained the ability to turn into animal-human hybrids, not a world where two people are trying to become God! A "furry" show should be about the "furry concept" and all its ethical issues!
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Additional Notes
BNA currently dances around many themes, but one theme that should stand out the most is "Identity". It is better for the show to focus on this central theme and branch off from it for different characters.

• Season 1: Michiru could struggle between choosing to rebuild her "human" life or to develop a new "beastmen" life.
• Season 2: Nazuna believes that because she has powers like that of a god, she ought to assume the social status of a god (to become popular).
• Season 3: Alan Sylvasta is power hungry??? The theme of identity does not fit very well here. Perhaps he thinks that a good leader should gain god powers or something.

Theme is very important. The YouTuber LocalScriptMan talks about themes much better than I can.
I'm not a writing guru. I only picked up writing as a hobby about a year ago. These are just my thoughts on the show. If anyone wants to pick up on this idea and re-make BNA, please do.
Credit me.
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Video Links
The YouTube reviews I watched:

• Bna (Brand New Animal) Worst Written Show This Season - LostTrigger
• How BNA (Brand New Animal) Handles Racism - LostTrigger
• Brand New FURRY Anime (BNA Review) - SonicHaXD
• Brand New Animal Isn't That Great - Kross
• BNA could've been better, I guess - Bruce Juice
• BNA (Brand New Animal) is terrible, and here's why - Jackisboy

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TL:DR - change BNA lore so that beastmen are humans that have become beastmen so the plotholes regarding "Beastmen acting like humans" are all filled up and so better conflict can be imagined.

Hi, I would greatly appreciate any advice you are willing to share.
I am a current student; I am set to take my boards this next month, and I officially am done in August. I started my job search a couple of weeks ago. I have had interviews with two hospitals (another hospital is in a few hours), and both so far have offered me positions, thankfully. One is .8 FTE, other is 1.0 FTE. Both full benefits day one, and they have good reputations.
The .8 is offering close to 39/hr. It is in a more expensive city, and it is a level 1 trauma center. I would get the opportunity to do transcranial doppler, procedures (my favorite), etc, but they also do quite a bit of physiologic exams, and anything with Parks are my least favorite exams to do. This isn't a deal-breaker, of course, but I do so many during the week now, and they can be quite time-consuming with some patients. I would be with another sonographer the first month, or at least have others available to help me during that time, but would have times that I would be on my own after that. I only interviewed virtually, but I have been to this hospital many times d/t family illness. They have new Philips machines, which are amazing and what I use at 2 sites now, and I prefer over GE.
The 1.0 FTE is offering around 35/hr. Great benefits, PTO, etc. I also really loved the atmosphere with the sonographers. This would also be a bit more "hand-holding" to start off. They rarely have procedures, and there is more OB, which I have less experience with. They do not have Parks machines, so no segmentals. Their machines are a mix of older and newer GE.
Both would require me to move, as they are both about 2 hours from where I currently live. I don't think either is a bad choice. I love the idea of the opportunities I would get at the larger hospital at .8, but the 1.0 is in a safer area with lower cost of living.
If I get a job offer from the other hospital, it is quite similar to the 1.0 FTE position. I don't know all of their benefits, yet, though.
I would appreciate any advice people are willing to share. My internship sites are not hiring, unfortunately, but they have been great experiences.

Hey guys. I've been posting up short roleplay machinima content now onto YouTube for a while with limited traction. Kind of demotivating but I love it coming from a theatre background and will continue to build the series over time. I'd appreciate some feedback.
There are currently three characters so far who all cross over into each others stories from time to time. There are cameo moments from other content creators such as Mongrel Squad, Backspaced and Scooter. I'm also trying to feed into the official lore as best I can.
COLIN, New Babbage Security - A wholesome character who helps people around MicroTech. Often improvised on live servers with no script. There is a storyline / theme growing which I'll develop.
LUCAS, an android lost in Space - Newest character. This is a mad android who's struggling to function properly after his ship was attacked where his master was killed.
CHARLIE - Homeless guy at Area 18. Again, very improvised. No script. Interaction with players in real time. But there is a story arc building and I recently spilled his story over with COLIN's
More characters to come. Loads of story ideas. Lots of silly stuff, especially with Colin.
My personal fav videos so far is Android #2 and Colin #4
Full playlist is here with the latest video at the top

I’m just very invested in the Pokémon franchise. My favourite time is the phase between a new game announcement to its release day.
The adrenaline I felt with PLA & SV back to back in the same year, watching all the speculation unfold was so fun.
The problem is I don’t really have anyone to share my excitement. People around me have a very surface level interest for the franchise.
I wish I had friends with whom I’d go and buy the game with on release day, chill together with our switches out as downtime, share my excitement for new content or releases with.
Other than the mainline games I enjoy content like fake Pokémon design channels, playthroughs, watching the anime and films.
I’m 24 & from the UK, so maybe it’s just not that relevant here in England I guess?

Hi everyone,
I intend to buy Kia and signed and agreement back in February with 8 months lead time. With every update from the dealer, my confidence in getting the car on time is fading away. Has anyone intended to buy a new car recently? What are the lead times in the market?