So many worlds to explore....

so, in other words,

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So while it’s true that the Enterprise is not as big as people think, that goes double for the Falcon!

A good way of thinking about the relative size is by using a bridge comparison:

The Enterprise bridge has space for 11 people to work, as well as a significant amount of space between stations to move around comfortably:

[Bridge illustration by Tobias Weinmann via here]

And the whole thing fits in the nipple thing up on top of the saucer:

Meanwhile the Falcon (beloved weed bus) has a cockpit that seats 4, with only 2 main operational stations, and zero floor space:

And since Serenity was mentioned too…

Serenity has a bridge more comparable to La Sirena - with 2 stations at the front and quite a bit of floor space.

And for those interested in a visual comparison:

(Boeing 747 for scale as well as the Delta Flyer because Why Not)

To which every other civillisation immediately calls bullshit, because “Yo, what the fuck bro, your ‘lightly armed science vessel’ can go to toe-to-toe with our top of the line warships!”

With some book and TV quotes that I thought were very appropriate for what my eyes were and still are currently processing.

This sounds very red string of fate. Y’know the Chinese concept about soulmates who are destined to meet where the thread may knot or tangle but it will never break. Did NPSS really just drop 5k about how Heihua are soulmates actually. Is that what I’m reading.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. So Xie Yuchen and Hei Xiazi are a rare example of meeting the right person at exactly the right time???

“She used to say she was the kite and I was the line... without me she'd become untethered and she would float away... And then without her, I would just, you know, crash, just drop right down to the ground.” - Hugh Craine about his wife Olivia Craine in The Haunting of Hill House TV Series.

THIS IS A CANON ROMANCE AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED. The whole trying to push Xie Yuchen away to keep him safe… hhhhhhhh

LOVE CHANGES YOU FOR THE BETTER???

“What’s a soulmate?”

“It's uh... Well, it's like a best friend, but more. It's the one person in the world that knows you better than anyone else... It's someone who makes you a better person. Actually, they don't make you a better person, you do that yourself - because they inspire you. It's someone who you can carry with you forever. It's the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did... And no matter what happens, you will always love them. Nothing can ever change that." - Dawson’s Creek

Hey did NPSS just say that Xie Yuchen and Hei Xiazi matter more to each other than their own lives? I mean Mystery of the Abyss was basically that but I’m still staring at that bit about the other person mattering more than oneself and bluescreening.

THIS IS MY CHOICE ASS LINE???

"Mine is the choice of Lúthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter." - Arwen about choosing her lover Aragorn over an immortal life, The Lord of the Rings.

“Remember. This is my choice, not yours. You dont have to bear any blame or guilt.” - Ying Long to Bingyi in Fangs of Fortune

Also, I better get that story next because hey what do you mean Xie Yuchen went with Hei Xiazi on a suicidal revenge mission that Hei Xiazi desperately tried to keep him out of but Xie Yuchen was like, “no I’m coming with you and if I die it doesn’t matter because I’m with you”. Where’s that story? Like please for the love of all things say that either a book or a new movie is coming out with that story in it.

Oh and now they’re stars. Amazing. I’m having a fever dream. NPSS basically spelling out that Heihua are doomed without one another and need the other to survive or they’ll collapse. And when you relate that to the bit earlier about Hei Xiazi trying to push Xie Yuchen away to keep him safe… and how Hei Xiazi doesn’t think fate can be defied but Xie Yuchen does and when you put that into the context of Mystery of the Abyss??

"Their spirit names are Tui and La. Push and Pull. And that has been the nature of their relationship for all time… Tui and La, your moon and ocean, have always circled each other in an eternal dance. They balance each other. Push and Pull. Life and Death. Good and Evil. Yin and Yang." - ATLA

This binary star imagery is giving the Yin and Yang comparison of Tui and La and how they perfectly balance one another. And especially in Ultimate Note with how Heihua’s relationship seems to show how they get so drawn into each other until Hei Xiazi actually consciously tries to push Xie Yuchen away but then keeps getting pulled right back in.

Yes I’m very normal about all of this and I’m processing it amazingly what are you talking about.

NPSS WHAT THE FUCK. HE JUST WOKE UP AND SAID “HEIHUA RIGHTS”.

And don’t even get me started about the porcelain shard reveal and what that says about their relationship. The fact that Hei Xiazi unknowingly gave Xie Yuchen the piece he needed to succeed in the eyes of the Xie Family and become their head and he feels guilt over that moment because of what it put Xie Yuchen through but it probably saved his life???

My personal headcanon is now that neither Xie Yuchen nor Hei Xiazi actually realised that about each other when they met again until maybe Xie Yuchen opened up about the porcelain shard as a story from when he was younger and Hei Xiazi realised the significance of that one random moment.

And we get the reveal that although Hei Xiazi did eventually lose his eyesight he’s still alive with Xie Yuchen when the deer comes. And that may be an ambiguous ending for the two of them but given the whole theme of the story is that they are able to save one another over and over again - which has been the nature of their relationship for all time - I like to think that means they made it out alive and continue to be together.

But I’m still here sitting in shock. Im gonna be here in shock for a while longer.

Oh and don’t worry I’ll get to the Louvre Museum Date one as well. Because again - WHAT.

Anyway here’s the link for this one so you can all experience the absolute state of shock I went through first hand : https://merebear474765851.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/moving-forward-through-the-flowery-night/comment-page-1/?unapproved=19950&moderation-hash=5d2b73cac31f6dbdfd2f4621fb56f274#respond

You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.

Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:

He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.

Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:

And this:

Yeah this is also the guy from the truck thread going around. That's what prompted this post and in retrospect I should have said so explicitly.

He claims he just uses AI to translate his posts from Japanese. He also says the art on his website isn't AI generated. I think he is full of shit on both counts.

I only gave a couple of examples but even on a brief look through his twitter it was apparent that he posts a LOT about UK politics to the point where he's quite patently British. He is a Restore supporter which is a party that split away from mainstream far right party Reform due to feeling they weren't right wing enough.

It might not surprise you to hear he does not seem to know shit about Japan? Both the salsa story and the truck story failed the smell test for people who are familiar with Japan. There's also a story about going to a potluck where he seemingly couldn't come up with a single Japanese dish for the character to cook??

Episode 5 hurts because in RL no one came to the rescue. That poor woman did in fact hang herself in her classroom in RL and the case of how parents bullied her to death came to light afterwards (with very little to no consequence...some outrage that was pretty much it).

All in all ,"Teach you a Lesson" is a very satisfying watch though.

...sound on

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.