fen @ShadyFennec@aleph.land

I guess I never posted an intro so here we are!

I'm Fen! I'm a computer science student from France. At the time I'm writing this, I'm looking to apply for a Ph.D in my university. I'm also a furry and an artist, and I sometimes take commissions.

I am non-binary, probably agender but I still don't use this label for myself so I just stay under the non-binary umbrella. My pronouns are they/them, but he/him are fine too.

I can speak French, which is my native language, as well as English, proficiently. I am currently learning Mandarin Chinese (I am a beginner still), and I know bits of Italian and Ancient Greek.

Politics wise, I'm obviously very left-wing, but I don't know exactly the term for my personal beliefs. Probably leaning towards anarchism and communism.

My research domain is NVRAM-related coherency problems in HPC contexts.

Feel free to follow me and talk to me, some people told me I look inaccessible/intimidating but really I'm just a little ball of stress and anxiety!!

And my reference sheet is done! It's a lot of work but I think the workflow is good enough so that I can maybe take one ref commission in the future. It would be quite a bit more expensive though, seeing the amount of research, experimenting and time it takes. We'll see!

In any case, I really like what I did here, I finally have a ref for my fursona 🧡​

currently in the most racist town of the region waiting for someone to pick me up

very disheartening to find so few acab graffiti

new curse: you do the banjo kazooie "guh-huh" at the end of every other sentence

time to go through the entire city to go to the only veterinary clinic that has a shop, just because my mom couldn't be arsed to buy tranquiliser for my cat for the move

yes i'm still fawning over this game's lore after a year of having played it sorry not sorry

This also means, that theoretically, you CANNOT stop the sun from exploding after un-powering the ATP, or the universe gets destroyed. Because the only reason the information that is the coordinate to the Eye exists is because the probe found it at its 7,000,000th something iteration.

Not that you can stop the sun from exploding anyways, because you know, end of life and no more hydrogen to burn.

If this seems outlandish, it's because it is! In this universe, the rule of causality isn't valid as a rule of the universe, as information and matter can exist in 2 places at the same time provided that, eventually, the event that leads to the annihilation of the original piece of information or matter happens.

This is also why you're able to destroy the universe: by firing the Little Scout in the black hole at the High Energy Lab, you make it travel back in time, meaning that for a brief instant, the Little Scout exists in two places at the same time. But this is fine, because *eventually*, the Little Scout gets annihilated by the black hole.

Except that if you remove this eventuality by closing the black hole as the two Scouts exist, you created a paradox, ending the universe.

This can repeat on and on, but remember: the previous launches never happened. It is the fact that the information *can* travel back that makes it that the information is recieved 22 minutes prior the hypothetical explosion of the sun.

Eventually, which means instantly, the probe finds the Eye; in reality, and in the perspective of the Nomai, the probe found it on the first try. This is of course bound to happen: every single trajectory of the probe is explored instantly as soon as the system is put into motion, and since finding the Eye has a non-zero probability, doing it an infinite amount of time instantly brings the probability of finding it on the first try to 100%.

My current understanding of the ATP is this: after having failed to pinpoint the exact location of the Eye with the locators built on the Attlerock and on Brittle Hollow, and after having discovered the time-travel when going through black holes, the Nomai designed a very clever way of finding the Eye on the first time by random chance.

The basic idea is this: using the Orbital Probe Cannon, they fire a probe in a quantum-random direction (meaning that even going back in time, this direction is different). The probe has a very, very small chance of finding the Eye. Its telemetry is stored in its mask in the ATP. After 22 minutes, the Nomai trigger the sun's explosion, which provides enough energy to form a black hole-powered information time travel to 22 minutes in the past. Thus, at the moment of the launch of the probe, it has already explored one launch.

One day I would love to write a complete timeline and explanation of the events in the game, from the earliest events such as the formation of the solar system, up to the end of the game

Alongside which explanations of the "time loop" (which is actually never happening and has never happened) and the ATP

okay, in all seriousness, I'd 100% accept to become an anthropomorphic animal, even if it's permanent

too tired for this shit. gonna light incense and slumber for 3-5 business days

so excited for holly to
- find out about the ATP
- subsequently realize what the fuck is going on
- find Solanum
- do the "break the universe" ending
- and finish the game

tempted to go to bed like right now

cool les vaccins pour tous la semaine pro

plus qu'à comprendre comment on prend rdv et où

in a weird mood where I'm hungry but I can't be arsed to cook anything cause that would mean Efforts I'm not ready to make