I would like to propose that there is an equation in which the amount of Kongou needed to erode sanity is as such.

Coef. of sanity= 1^1/(Kt/K)+((tKI*qKI)/KI)

Or, in English,

The coeficent of sanity is one to the power time exposed to Kongou divided by the number of Kongou are in the area plus the time exposed to Kongou Impersonators times the quality of the Kongou Impersonators divided by the number of Kongou Impersonators.

Now, if the number of Kongous and Kongou Impersonators are 0, then the coeficent of sanity is therefore 1, and total sanity is maintained. If there are no Knogou-class in the area but there are Kongou Impersonators, there is still a slight drain on sanity, however the ammount of sanity drain as exposed to Kongou Impersonators falls off sharply with incresing numbers as the sheer confusion and disbelief of there being so many Kongou in the area forms a protective shield over some infinetly tiny chunk of sanity.

EDIT: Fixed equation

You will have to fix the equation again, since 0/0 will not work. And it still seems you are raising 1 to the power of 1/(Kt/K)+((tKI*qKI)/KI), if we assume everything to the right of ^ is brackets. And even then, precedence of operators would cause some issues.
 
Florida apparently had to have massive amounts of work done to make the area more livable, as it was primarily swamp. So, in all technicality, it was probably an island at some point in the last two or three centuries
Look, I live on what used to be a swamp then someone drained it, and built a city here.
 
Florida apparently had to have massive amounts of work done to make the area more livable, as it was primarily swamp. So, in all technicality, it was probably an island at some point in the last two or three centuries
Nah, there were some landy bits in the northern part of the state. It's just that most everyone came by boat. And were generally nuts to begin with. The malaria just made it worse.

But yeah, the state is marshy enough that land is mostly defined by how wet your feet are, at that moment.

It's kinda disappointing none of the ships named after Floridian things ended up being any sorts of crazy.
 
That's because most of us are pretty sane, it's just that our crazies are the high-potency variety.
...and now I'm compiling a mental list.
The overlap of famous for crazy or weird and Key West resident overlaps a bit too much. Only sane conchs I can think of are Tennessee Williams and Jimmy Buffet.

God I love that debauched little island and it's fishing problem.

Edit: maybe we shouldn't be looking at Florida as island and more Florida^Island = magical places?
 
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I think there is a misunderstanding here.

I was saying that jersey and how blunt and fearless she is even if assholish I find refreshing.

I was calling her an asshole for the comment of not nuking Japan enough. The polandball pic was saying that nuking Japan is what caused the weirdness in the first place.

I'm not american. None of my ancestors had anything to do with WW2
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It's kinda disappointing none of the ships named after Floridian things ended up being any sorts of crazy.
Go look up USS Pensacola. It took two nukes, several sorties by the air force and finally the silent service to put her under after the war and her service as a target ship at Bikini.

For an old treaty cruiser, she and her sister did a hell of a lot of work in the pacific.
 
Look, I live on what used to be a swamp then someone drained it, and built a city here.
and then that city sank into a swamp. So they built another city.... and it sank into the swamp. So they built a third city! That one was struck by a hurricane, caught fire, fell down and then sank into the swamp but the fourth one! Aye, the fourth one stayed up!

have an internet cookie if you get the reference.
 
and then that city sank into a swamp. So they built another city.... and it sank into the swamp. So they built a third city! That one was struck by a hurricane, caught fire, fell down and then sank into the swamp but the fourth one! Aye, the fourth one stayed up!

have an internet cookie if you get the reference.
So any ship named after it would own... huge tracks of land?
 
So much yes. Sadly from what I remember, don't ships that were used as targets have a higher chance of coming back abyssals?
In Belated Battleships continuity, it's kind of doubtful whether that's actually a rule. Only 'Princess' Abyssals have enough personality that we can identify them as being the ships they came from. And in at least one case, we have canon evidence that Saratoga-the-shipgirl is still trapped in... wherever shipgirls stay before they're summoned. She seems none the worse for wear, and if it weren't for her knowing what had happened in the after-action report, she would seem unaware that Atomic Battlecruiser Princess, a Saratoga-based Abyssal, ever existed.

At least one Abyssal Princess corresponds to a ship that never existed (Habbakuk/Northern Princess). Another corresponds to a ship that never served or had a crew and wouldn't have a 'shipgirl spirit' in real life (Tosa/Battleship Princess).

And we've seen the Abyssals conjure up more ships based on a certain class (Nelson-class battleships) than ever historically existed of that ship class in real life.

So there's no real evidence that in this continuity, shipgirls DO come back as Abyssals. The Abyssals seem to have an entirely separate source of ships that may be related to, but is not the same as, the source the shipgirls come from.
 
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My own head cannon on Abyssals is like they're a negative space shaped like something more familiar.

A spirit-shaped hole.

But that's just, like, my opinion man...
 
You will have to fix the equation again, since 0/0 will not work. And it still seems you are raising 1 to the power of 1/(Kt/K)+((tKI*qKI)/KI), if we assume everything to the right of ^ is brackets. And even then, precedence of operators would cause some issues.

Well, the idea was to make sure that if any Kongous were in the equation, the one would be to the power of a fraction, thus keeping it between one and zero. Conversly, if there are no Kongous, then the exponent would be zero resulting in a 1/0 which should get rid of the whole exponential portion and thus make it 1^0 which is then 1.

I'm not a math guy, though.


The sane part hasn't finished digging a ditch between itself in and the insane part. If we want to be technical, you could probably get from the east to west in a canoe with no major portages, though.
 
One to the power of 'meh' is one, for all possible values of 'meh,' including things like "pi," "the square root of negative one," and "Admiral Richardson's pants."

Also, sticking a 1/0 into a formula doesn't make that part of the formula just disappear consequence-free. It makes the whole formula output "wait what I don't even know anymore."
 
There is a part of me that is very curious as to why Admiral Richardson's pants are part of a Kongou based sanity erosion formula.
 
I don't know.

All I know is that if you raise one to the power of them, you get one again.

Just like how a herd of elephants, divided by a herd of elephants, is the number one. Not "one elephant," just "one."

Math is like that. It has its own sort of dess, I suppose.
 
Why not a simple 1/(1+K+KI*Q) metric? Where K=number of Kongos, KI=number of Kongo impersonators, and Q=average quality of Kongo impersonators. At 0 Kongos and 0 impersonators, the coef. is 1. At 1 Kongo, the coef. is 0.5 (i.e., you've lost half your marbles). And so on. A quality of 1 means the Kongo impersonator is indistinguishable from the real deal (creepy!) and a quality of 0 means that the impersonator is easily distinguishable.
 
I don't know.

All I know is that if you raise one to the power of them, you get one again.

Just like how a herd of elephants, divided by a herd of elephants, is the number one. Not "one elephant," just "one."

Math is like that. It has its own sort of dess, I suppose.
Dammit math. It's hard enough without the dess.
Why not a simple 1/(1+K+KI*Q) metric? Where K=number of Kongos, KI=number of Kongo impersonators, and Q=average quality of Kongo impersonators. At 0 Kongos and 0 impersonators, the coef. is 1. At 1 Kongo, the coef. is 0.5 (i.e., you've lost half your marbles). And so on. A quality of 1 means the Kongo impersonator is indistinguishable from the real deal (creepy!) and a quality of 0 means that the impersonator is easily distinguishable.
This seems like a much simplified formula for everyday use.

But are we going to go with the Kongou class as an averaged whole or are we going to try and factor in the different Dess value of each. Or are the variations of maddess not significant enough to warrant their own variable?
 
Obviously, the mind-deteriorating effects of the Dess transcend too far into unknown realms of knowledge that it simply cannot be dess-cribed with contemporary mathematics.
 
, then the exponent would be zero resulting in a 1/0 which should get rid of the whole exponential portion and thus make it 1^0 which is then 1.
0/1= 0
1/0 is NOT 0. if you take the limit of 1/x as x approaches 0, you will find that the equation will approach infinity, and is thus undefined and is why we can not divide by 0.
long story short, you can never have a 0 in the denominator.
also, 1 raised to any power is still just one, so the 1/(1 +x+y*z) is the only one that works here,
However, Having just konngo (or one of her sisters) instantly halves your sanity, and having all 4 together is well under a quarter, and i'm pretty sure by that point our lovely tetoku would be in the loony bin. Hence, I propose that we alter this equation to 1/[(1+k+ki+q)/15]. In this current form, all 4 kongos together would reduce one's sanity by almost 25%. This seems a tad more reasonable when you consider on top of this admirals also have to deal with all the other sparkly magical shipgirl bullshitTM​ and no one has gone insane (yet). Aslo, it should be specified that q is a percentage value of how close the impersonator(s) are to that of the actual Dess boat. I'm sure I could develop a close approximation for q should the masses demand it.
I'm not a math guy, though.
take it from the sadist who just finished basic multi-variable calc :p
 
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I'm not a mathemetician or a physicist or anything, so as a former would-be lawyer, I instead devise The Kongou Rule:

The presence of Kongou is reasonable evidence of diminished sanity.

(I
have left out the arguing and case law as to what constitutes presence, and how much diminishing of sanity has been achieved. Generally assume the reasonable man in the street test for reasonableness.)
 
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