2mo ago

Velma can't math.

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FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.
It is very, very bad.
- One of the worst parts of it is that Scooby Doo has had tons of successful series and they've all been pretty good. Yet they somehow managed to fuck this up despite it being an incredibly simple formula for a show.
  
  The second season's arc is about uncovering what SCOOBY was within the show, and there were lots of goofy references to how silly the old cartoons were, and how silly cartoons are in general
  i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely
- it was designed as ragebait. but it failed even at that.
  
  You're talking about it
- FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.
  It was okay, better than the shitty Netflix adult animations. The worst part of it was the Velma character, if they got rid of or changed her it would be better.
  
  Don't you be talking smack on my beloved haunted hotel
  
  they got rid of scooby doo
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=inJUFqeJehE

A negative boy was unsure about a radical party.
The boy was a square, so he missed out on four awesome chicks.
And the whole thing was over by 2am...
- This is beautiful, as a mathematics major it brought me to tears. I’ll be reading this at my wedding
- I was just taught it to "pop goes the weasel".
- Thanks
- Now we just need this in song form which is how I was taught lol

Coming from someone that memorized it in high school and hasn't used it since, I am enraged.
- It's a formula very useful for a tone of engineering fields, electronic, mechanics, automatic control and probably a bunch more. I used it a tone in my early carrier, including the imaginary flavor.
  
  Yeah if your field uses anything beyond basic math this removed is hiding somewhere
  
  When I started Chem engineering in college, it blew me away that like 80% of lab math and analisis was just using the linear equation everyone removeded and moaned about how useless it was in high-school.
  
  The fucking what flavor.
  
  Tonne not tone < tonne is the measurement/a lot, whilst tone is sound
  Flavour not flavor, you don’t want people thinking you’re a gross American.

I'm terrible at making math jokes, but I don't have any proofs.
- Same here, but I'll suck it up and make one if I halve two.

When stupid people try to make a show about smart people.

Such an strange error. I'm not saying it's AI but here's my prompt:
Generate a picture of someone thinking and, to symbolize their thought process, show math symbols and equations around their head, these symbols have to include the quadratic formula
Here's the pic:
- I suspect it’s an OCR error.
  
  I'm guessing a typesetter was too lazy to add another textbox and although they knew how to type "√", didn't realize "²" is in Unicode too. They added a horizontal line as separate graphics to extend the square root symbol but only realized too late the whole thing is in a fraction: maybe someone reminded them and they misinterpreted the advice, or just decided not to split the text box to put the nominator higher.
  
  That makes about a million times more sense
- I stared at the square of the square root of the squared square root for far too long...
  that I almost missed the obvious E = / * A. Where would the field of mathematics be without that good old E = / * A? :-D
  
  Check out this bad boy.

Did they use AI to generate that?
- Neural Network (bad one)
- My guess is they lost the typesetting in a copy/paste. If you copy superscript or the unusual +/- character into an animation tool that doesn't have the font or doesn't recognize the typesetting it will drop the character or convert it to the nearest ASCII. If you've ever copied and pasted something into an email and had the formatting mangled, that's like what happened here.

didn't get an animation job for the math skills
- Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.

... Why not just copy the meme they're referencing? It's like they're intentionally trying to screw this up.

i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely, its okay if you didn't, but people got really carried away with just how much they hate ~~women~~ the show, it's a cartoon, enjoy it or dont, don't act like Rome is burning before your eyes
good jokes, inclusive characters, queer people that don't die in the first episode, fun subversion of expectations, meta humour about tropes, a fun mystery, cancelled too soon, but there's still 30something episodes
it made me reasses how I felt about Mindy Kaling's work as a whole, turns out I had been caught up in the misogynistic whirlwind in the past, I've really enjoyed her older stuff upon revisiting it since seeing Velma
- You gotta be trolling, right? I guarantee you "women" aren't the reason people disliked Velma. The Golden Girls ran for 7 seasons from 1985 to 1992, I personally really liked watching the reruns even in a seemingly random order.
  The reason Velma upsets people because the entire show is meant to upset those people. It's not a real show. It's a shitpost that targets racial and sexual majority groups. I'm sure they could have made a show if they wanted to and instead they made a shitpost. It's got the same appeal to the people who like it as white hoods have to the clan.
- I was a stupid ass teenager when it came out and people online convinced me it was the worst shit to ever grace any screen ever. Maybe I missed out.
- I really enjoyed Velma. I didn't really care, but wanted to show it to my terminally offline wife to see her honest reaction and she loved it from the first scene and we continued watching it.

I feel for Velma. I am so bad at math that sometimes I go into a corner by myself so I can hide what I'm working on from my coworkers while I scribble down very complex maladaptive strategies I've learned to solve simple calculations.
- I have textbook dyscalculia. I am a geospatial wizard, but I cannot remember my pin or calculate a tip.
  
  I was making grits the other day. The can had instructions for 1 serving, and 4 servings. I didn't want 1 or 4, I wanted 2. So, I wrote a quick interpolation program on my Casio. Once I ran it, I realized 2 is just double of 1.
  
  I feel like a number of the concepts in this infographic are loosely (if at all) defined. As in - they don't represent established concepts in education and they could have been made by a single party talking out their ass. Or maybe I just have dyscalculia.

why is she even thinking about this?
- She’s in high school in the show.
  
  never had that kinda math at my high school

If you told me the creator of that show didn't get the equation right because they had no idea what it was even called to look it up, I would believe you.

Wrong formula aside, what is the meaning of dividing an entire equation? (x = b) / a
- quotient equivalence under an equivalence relation "a" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient_type
  
  Okay, but even if we assumed (x=b) to be a very small equivalence relation, it should appear in the denominator position to form an equivalence quotient.

Animation software didn't have superscript, so no power ofs.

I used to be able to do calculus and now I don't even remember algebra

The new Velma show gave birth to THE best fanmade animation about Scooby Doo https://youtu.be/inJUFqeJehE
So while I didn't enjoy the show, I'm grateful for it

You know, I remember the formula, but I don't remember what a, b, and c are
- They're the coefficients of a quadratic equation! Y = ax^2 + bx + c
  
  0 = ax^2 + bx + c
- They are all superfluous if you know how to do quadratic expansion.
  
  Do you have a truly universal method for quadratic expansion that is easier to remember and compute than the formula? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy quadratic expansion and always give it a few shots before resorting to the formula.

Why so... Negative? /s

You ignoramus. This is what allows us artistic geniuses to freely unleash our gifts to the world, what we call “creative liberty”.
An insignificant thing like being wrong should not stop our creative juices from flowing unabashed.
- You're not getting your deposit back if those creative juices soak in.

On a sidenote, the rule 34 of her is top notch👌

I mean maybe it's just some other formula
- I've never seen an equals sign inside a term
  
  It makes the term into a boolean ☝️🤓
  
  I was trying to think what the funniest part was. I think it's the b2 - like just take your b2 vitamins bro, it's worth like squared a regular b.
  
  As someone terrible at math, I appreciate the explanation for what's so wrong here.
  
  Well I didn't spot that
- Are both sides being divided by 2a?
  
  Those are questions that mere mortals would ask. Be better: just "vibe solve" it. :-P
  
  You start by dividing both sides by 2a, and then you can multiply both sides by 2a to get rid of the 2a's from both sides. Doing this will give you a sense of accomplishment whenever you don't know how to proceed.

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