Well first we've had this seal for over 1000 pages. So I'm betting the QM have had some time to think about it. It gives all the benefits of the alarm seals in creating earbusters but can also create the flashbang as well. It gives us a chakra detector as well which could greatly increase awareness. It lets us remotely trigger seals with LBF allowing us to throw out seal over every inch of the battlefield. It eventually could give us long range communications
Sure some of these projects will take additional research but the total number of avenues it unlocks as well as being relatively easy to research means it should at least be considered.
Especially considering how it gets you the same benefits as alarm seals while not being a dead end.
Well first we've had this seal for over 1000 pages. So I'm betting the QM have had some time to think about it. It gives all the benefits of the alarm seals in creating earbusters but can also create the flashbang as well. It gives us a chakra detector as well which could greatly increase awareness. It lets us remotely trigger seals with LBF allowing us to throw out seal over every inch of the battlefield. It eventually could give us long range communications
Sure some of these projects will take additional research but the total number of avenues it unlocks as well as being relatively easy to research means it should at least be considered.
Especially considering how it gets you the same benefits as alarm seals while not being a dead end.
Also, I am closing down any new addition to the action plan other than to fix problems by 11 PM.
The only argument that I am willing to entertain is how easy the seal is to research, and I don't give a damn about how useful or potentially useful the casino seal will be to our future effort.
The seal still looked like to me one of the harder seal to research.
Also, I am closing down any new addition to the action plan other than to fix problems by 11 PM.
The only argument that I am willing to entertain is how easy the seal is to research, and I don't give a damn about how useful or potentially useful the casino seal will be to our future effort.
The seal still looked like to me one of the harder seal to research.
If it helps, the sealing plan isn't about Hazō doing the most promising seal research in the most optimal order, it's about getting Hazō to churn through the least-effort seals and get some sealing progression in a chapter.
If you want original research, you'll have to wait the next chapter.
If people are ignoring HAI, I am going to aggregate all my plans into one.
[X] Action Plan: Forward Motion
Goal:
1. Research Seals.
2. Train.
2. Plan what to do.
Methods:
We're splitting the party to do several things.
Action Items:
Kagome-sensei and Hazō at Base: Sealing Research Plan.
Let Kagome-sensei finish the skywalker research. Once he's done, he should teach the seal to Hazō.
If Hazō finished his training and Kagome-sensei hadn't yet finish his skywalker research, do sealing research on Jiraiya reward seals given to him.
Have Kagome-sensei and Hazō go through the list together and rank each seal by the level of ease and discard anything that seemed even slightly too advanced for Hazō. Here is the list of seals ranked by the hivemind based on its perceived difficulty:
Alarm seal. Jiraiya said it's very basic.
Tunneler's Friend. Basically a slow version of the storage seal.
Banshee Slayer.
Silence Mine. Progression of the Banshee slayer.
Usamatsu's Glorious Life-Saving Purifier. Could potentially be a storage seal variant, but also complicated enough to differentiate air-like mixture and non-air like stuff.
Goo bomb. Unlike any other seal.
Keiko in the Summon Realm: Pangolin Society Research(See Spoiler).
Keiko will talk to Pandaa or go to the summon realm to do research.
Keiko will also clear any questions she might have with Pandaa to avoid getting squashed or offending the Pangolins.
Questions:
Who is the Pantokrator?
Why is sealing prohibited in the Summon Realm, or is that just limited to the Pangolins?
Why did the Condor started the first Condor war?
Just what is the Academy?
What the Pangolins have against the Taipir?
A list of allied and enemy summoners and their associated clans.
Mari and Noburi in Yuni: Merchant Empire Research andNoburi Medical Training (See Spoiler).
Goal: We want to help Noburi finish his medical training safely.
Steps:
Let Noburi know that Hazo is supportive of his ambitions as a medic-nin and that we want to help him on that path.
Discuss potential issues, and how we might address them.
Suggest that we should be cautious.
Supporting Information; Potential Issues
Hashimoto might not want to teach Noburi
Ask Noburi what things Hashimoto might want (ryo, Macerators...) and offer to help with getting these things.
Hashimoto might reject Noburi completely no matter the rewards.
Ask for referal to another medic-nin that the team could learn from.
Hunter-nin might notice Noburi and/or his barrel.
Bring up Noburi disguising his barrel as a travel sack or appropriate covering.
Suggest Noburi obfuscate his movement through clever Henge use:
Noburi + Inoue go to Hashimoto's.
When Noburi leaves, Inoue creates a Water Clone Henge'd as Noburi.
Inoue & clone leave.
Repeat when Noburi leaves (at a set time?).
Mari will strike up conversations with merchants where she can find them.
Get some news about what happening in the world for the last several months.
Learn about how merchant caravans work.
Learn about the challenges and rewards of being a traveling merchant.
Learn about the various caravans, who run them, their routes, and how long it takes to complete their routes.
Criteria for trading partners:
Not too nosy.
Don't drink or gamble or engage in other vice.
Don't divulge important information easily.
Know how to make money.
Not a cheating scroundel.
Once a trading partner is found or however many, make sure to remember their schedule and their route so we can visit them later.
There are two types of casino scroll; they generate light and sound respectively when someone moulds chakra in their vicinity. Hazō doesn't know how hard they would be to research
I'm having a hard time imaging an alarm seal doing a better job of busting eardrums than an explosive seal. There are definitely some niche uses for a siren, but any team with Kagome on it doesn't exactly have a problem making loud noises.
I'm having a hard time imaging an alarm seal doing a better job of busting eardrums than an explosive seal. There are definitely some niche uses for a siren, but any team with Kagome on it doesn't exactly have a problem making loud noises.
I'm having a hard time imaging an alarm seal doing a better job of busting eardrums than an explosive seal. There are definitely some niche uses for a siren, but any team with Kagome on it doesn't exactly have a problem making loud noises.
I believe physic-wise, the earbuster seals is about focusing all its energy on creating extremely energetic pressure wave, while explosive seals are focused...on well...explosives.
I believe physic-wise, the earbuster seals is about focusing all its energy on creating extremely energetic pressure wave, while explosive seals are focused...on well...explosives.
Thing is, explosives are pressure waves, or pressure waves insofar as they make matter, sometimes air, move rapidly enough in sufficient quantities to impart large amounts of kinetic force to things around them. So you could argue from a physics standpoint that if we can rupture eardrums with earbuster seals, we could just as easily hack explosive seals to burst eardrums at the same range.
What I'm skeptical of, though, is that arguing from a physics standpoint really works here. Seal difficulty seems to match a sort of vague intuition, which is likely due to it being chakra silliness, but it means that it could very well be that making an Alarm Seal to create sound waves intense enough to burst eardrums is easier than making explosive seals potent enough to burst eardrums, because chakra sees making sound as an easier task than making explosive force.
It could also be the opposite, but we shouldn't assume one way or the other.
Kiba are you just ignoring the quote from oliwhail saying it's as hard as a basic storage seal? I mean it is literally being compared to the simplest most common seals? Like what do you consider easy and difficult? I am literally baffled by your only considering difficulty but ignoring how difficult it will be.
Ok, serious instead of flippant answer: I'm using Perl 5.22(*) which is locale-aware, so the lc operator that I'm using automatically respects Unicode casefolding rules. (Modulo some handwaving about locales and etc.) I haven't done anything with normalization, and you're right that that's a wart. My test cases were all based off of actual text from the SV site and none of it was Unicode so I didn't pay much attention to the issue. The tests certainly weren't as thorough as they could have been, but we haven't had any issues in the last year so I'm not too bothered. Making it do the normalizations would be as simple as pulling in the Unicode::Normalize module and applying it to the text of the page before doing anything else, but I'm choosing not to do that because it isn't mission-critical and I'm very short on spoons these days.
It's a valid point, though. Thanks for the reminder.
(*) 5.24.0 came out last May and 5.24.1 on January 17, so it's about time for me to upgrade, actually. I typically wait for the .1 of anything before upgrading.
I was going to reply to your plan to critique it. I seem to have posted it accidentally without actually starting a reply. I never did finish the critique because I'm trying to get a regular sleep pattern going, which is messing with the late-night times I normally set aside for this stuff.
No matter, though, as the plan is looking pretty good right now.
I believe physic-wise, the earbuster seals is about focusing all its energy on creating extremely energetic pressure wave, while explosive seals are focused...on well...explosives.
Consider the difference in sound energy imparted by blowing really hard vs. using one's vocal cord with the same force. A pressure wave doesn't seem to carry that much sound; you need to set up an oscillation for this to work the right way. Explosion seals will be loud, but only because they're energetic enough that inefficiently converting energy into sound still puts a fair amount in. Doing so directly is much more efficient; think of how loud a man with an appropriate instrument, like a trumpet, or even church bells, can be, all because they put energy more efficiently into the air.
It's not a big deal here, seriously. The only reason I mentioned it at all was that this is something more programmers should be aware of, and I rarely turn down a humorous teaching opportunity.
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