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Velma can't math. (mander.xyz)

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[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 244 points 6 days ago

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 169 points 6 days ago

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

It is very, very bad.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 196 points 6 days ago

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 72 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

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

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 12 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

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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[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

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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[-] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 days ago

it was designed as ragebait. but it failed even at that.

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[-] hayvan@feddit.nl 40 points 5 days ago

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

[-] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 76 points 6 days ago

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...

[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 27 points 6 days ago

This is beautiful, as a mathematics major it brought me to tears. I’ll be reading this at my wedding

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[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago

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

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 5 days ago

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

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 43 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[-] Marz157@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Same here, but I'll suck it up and make one if I halve two.

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 days ago

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

[-] m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 30 points 5 days ago

I suspect it’s an OCR error.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago

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

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

Check out this bad boy.

1000043807

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[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

Did they use AI to generate that?

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[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

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

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days 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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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

didn't get an animation job for the math skills

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[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

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.