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[–] 234 points 1 year ago
[–] 167 points 1 year ago (22 children)

FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.

It is very, very bad.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    It was never about Scooby Doo. IIRC, this was supposed to be an original show, but latching it to a successful 90s franchise must have looked like a sure money maker.

    Edit: did some fact checking, this was a theory. The show actually was an unfortunate reimagining of Scooby Doo since its inception.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Regardless of what the official story is, that's probably what really happened. Same thing with the Halo tv show.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don’t know. Seeing how modern shows like Foundation, The Witcher, or Star Trek Discovery, to name a few, have gratuitously walked over their own canon, I can understand how the producers thought Velma was a good idea for a new Scooby Doo show.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think Discovery is a little different. They had way too many producers and writers on that show, all trying to get their little ideas in so when they moved onto a new project, they could get a sexy "By the creators of Star Trek" tagline on it. The situation Walter Mosley described when he left STD made the writer's room sound like a viper pit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Foundation was so strange because it felt like the writers split into two isolated groups.

    The team that was trying and failing to "reimagine" the original story, and the team the totally abandoned the original story and was doing their own thing with the clone emperors story.

    Unlike other examples where the show felt like an existing story twisted into the framework of an unrelated franchise, Foundation felt like the clone emperors story came out of the talented writers getting frustrated by the quality of the adaption.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Scooby-doo is a 90s franchise now?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm terrible at making math jokes, but I don't have any proofs.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Coming from someone that memorized it in high school and hasn't used it since, I am enraged.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah if your field uses anything beyond basic math this bitch is hiding somewhere

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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 bitched and moaned about how useless it was in high-school.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    didn't get an animation job for the math skills

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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:

    1761354151808

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Did they use AI to generate that?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    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.

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  • [+] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [+] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't mean to discredit Dyscalculia as a thing. As a matter of fact, I transposed a bunch of numbers that I shouldn't have in high school math in spite of sound logic for how I went about the questions. I just have issue with the rest of the infographic being things you can identify with without them having a foundation in science. It tastes a little horoscopey.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Wrong formula aside, what is the meaning of dividing an entire equation? (x = b) / a

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Oh yeah was a bit sleepy and thought you could just put arbitrary expressions in the numerator instead of just the type.

    But consider this: heterogeneous propositional equality type of types x and b under equivalence relation a, which is bound somewhere else in the aether that we can't see in the screenshot

    Constructors of this equality type? No fucking clue but I'm sure there exist some to make the need for an equivalence relation make sense

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    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You know, I remember the formula, but I don't remember what a, b, and c are

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Why so... Negative? /s

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I mean maybe it's just some other formula

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've never seen an equals sign inside a term

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Are both sides being divided by 2a?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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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