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So we know the yautja do have their own songs (Thanks Dan!). Their low growled voices producing chants and retelling stories of bloody hunts and violent conquests and defeat. But Human songs are complicated in a different way, both with the vast veriaty of stories and emotions, not only that, but their vocal patterns flow, rising and falling in strength and pitch. The yautja wouldn't be used to hearing human songs, they might not even know what it is at first, nothing more than birdsong with weird nonsensical tales, but it can be beautiful and the emotion conveyed would get to them all in the same.

Yautja can mimmic, but to i'd imagine they're like when corvids mimmic speech, the tone and pitch is always just a bit off. But luckily, humans have a habbit of singing and humming to themselves at odd hours, so if so it isnt long before they get to hear it again.

idk here is the image this ask gave me

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The yautja could hear the voice echoing through the ship. The rise and fall of the voice cutting through the low din of the ships equipment. He only one other onboard, a human being ferried along, nothing more. He wasn't bothing them, hoping they wouldn't brother him, but this drew his curiosity.

It wasn't a conversation, more so a story. He followed the sound with quiet footsteps.

The human was sat in the pilot chair, oversized for their smaller frame. Their shoes were propped against the side of the control board, rocking the seat side to side. They stared out into the dark of space expanding out forever. They sang to themself, softly and sweetly. Almost mindlessly but still each note was hit purposfully. He leaned against the door frame and just watched, staying unseen in case the human stopped.

Tal: Yes. For example, I will never forget my game with GM Vasiukov on a USSR Championship. We reached a very complicated position where I was intending to sacrifice a knight. The sacrifice was not obvious; there was a large number of possible variations; but when I began to study hard and work through them, I found to my horror that nothing would come of it. Ideas piled up one after another. I would transport a subtle reply by my opponent, which worked in one case, to another situation where it would naturally prove to be quite useless. As a result my head became filled with a completely chaotic pile of all sorts of moves, and the infamous "tree of variations", from which the chess trainers recommend that you cut off the small branches, in this case spread with unbelievable rapidity.

And then suddenly, for some reason, I remembered the classic couplet by Korney Ivanović Chukovsky: "Oh, what a difficult job it was. To drag out of the marsh the hippopotamus".

I do not know from what associations the hippopotamus got into the chess board, but although the spectators were convinced that I was continuing to study the position, I, despite my humanitarian education, was trying at this time to work out: just how WOULD you drag a hippopotamus out of the marsh? I remember how jacks figured in my thoughts, as well as levers, helicopters, and even a rope ladder.

After a lengthy consideration I admitted defeat as an engineer, and thought spitefully to myself: "Well, just let it drown!" And suddenly the hippopotamus disappeared. Went right off the chessboard just as he had come on ... of his own accord! And straightaway the position did not appear to be so complicated. Now I somehow realized that it was not possible to calculate all the variations, and that the knight sacrifice was, by its very nature, purely intuitive. And since it promised an interesting game, I could not refrain from making it.

And the following day, it was with pleasure that I read in the paper how Mikhail Tal, after carefully thinking over the position for 40 minutes, made an accurately calculated piece sacrifice.

TLDR: the 12th of August a new EU law goes into effect that forces every business to pay exorbitant fees per European country they want to ship to, under the guise of ‘encouraging packaging waste reduce’ (and there are 27(!) countries in the EU)

Which is a good idea in theory, but mostly meant for the big businesses who sent thousands of packages each month, not an artist who sends three keychains often already in recycled packaging 🤡

Same universe as Office Yautja.

I missed no context Friday but here's a good pair of panels whose context I think is pretty much unguessable! very tiny drawings are always fun.

just over two weeks left until we can all find out!!

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