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6 hours ago, BabySofia said:
Not for the first time, she noted that the difference in size between her and her mother was nearly the same difference from her Connor!
In chapter 43 (on page 42) it says that the difference between Beth's and Connor's size is the same as the difference between Beth's mother's and father's sizes. That and the statement in this chapter can't both be true, since Beth and her father are not the same size, can they?
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3 hours ago, BabySofia said:
Beth sighed, knowing it wouldn’t stay secret forever, but she was also sure she had to be careful. “We’re just hanging out together. He’s a family friend, so I’m trying to keep an eye out for him as a favor to my mom, who was good friends with her dad in college.”
It doesn't really make sense. Shouldn't it be "my dad" and "his mom"?
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21 hours ago, BabySofia said:
“Oh,” Beth said. “Then where’s yours?”
“In the kitchen, I figured I’d give you two the chance to hang out with us old people around. Make sure you turn the lights out when you go to bed.”
You probably mean without?
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18 hours ago, BabySofia said:
She told me, “It’s a good thing these pajamas are waterproof, so hopefully, nothing made it into your cri… pod.”
‘She thinks they’re cribs too…?’ I thought.
No need to be surprised. Mackenzie already confirmed to Connor in chapter 13 that 'pods' are cribs.
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I don't understand why being sent to a different class is a problem. Jack may lose contact with Emily, but surely there are other staff in the other classes who could take over?
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18 hours ago, BabySofia said:
When we exited them and were led to a waiting room.
Then we exited them and were led to a waiting room?
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2 hours ago, BabySofia said:
Hannah sat me on the table in the range stall and sat down a box he was carrying. Sgt. Reynolds opened the box, and inside I saw what looked like a mini-Glock 9mm, “What kind of rounds does it fire?” I asked.
Who is carrying the box? Hannah or "he"?
2 hours ago, BabySofia said:“From what I was told, they’re modified twenty-two caliber rounds that somehow pack the punch of a nine-millimeter.”
That's hard to understand for non-weapons experts like me. 22 is more than double 9. How can they fit?
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2 hours ago, BabySofia said:
Caireen shifted me in her lap to where she and I could see her face.
Somehow I doubt that Caireen could see her own face.
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11 hours ago, BabySofia said:
I RUBBED THE sleep from my eyes as I felt myself get picked up. I blurrily looked up at Hannah and noticed she was already dressed in her uniform. “Good morning, Princess,” Hannah said with a smile.
“Morning,” I mumbled. Then, finally, my eyes began to focus, and I could see she was already dressed for the day. “You already showered?”
I seems that Sofia could already see that Hannah was dressed before her eyes began to focus.
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I got the impression that they would go straight from the dining room to the common room in Trident to watch a movie, but that Sofia would have to get changed first. So I was surprised that Camille and Sofia arrived at the common room before Esmie and Liz even though they were delayed by both diaper change, breastfeeding and clothes change. I also don't understand how Sofia got from the code name "Volango" to "monkeys". Is that a reference to something?
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55 minutes ago, BabySofia said:
before sending Hannah the picture of me standing in front of the rocking horse.
It was a rocking chair when the picture was made.
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10 hours ago, Ishigreensa said:
“How about I take Lauren to get her into a clean diaper, you two have some snacks, and then you start your reading homework right away, that way, I can help you with that before I have to start dinner?”
As I read Chapter 7, Lauren still wears diapers during the day when she is at home. I had understood from previous chapters that this was no longer the case, but perhaps this has been changed in the rewriting of some chapters?
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I think overall the rewrite of chapters 4 and 5 makes the story better and more consistent.
But are some things that now seem strange:
* According to the school counselor, the first tests the school did showed Lauren to be "very bright" and he even uses the word "genius". So it's not clear to me why the school thinks the result is 1st or 2nd grade level.
* Almost exactly (but not quite) the same math equations are in the first test at the school (5 + ? = 8 and 2 X ? + 6 = 12) and in the second test the day after (3 + ? = 8 and 2 X ? + 6 = 12). If it is the same test, the equations should be completely the same, and otherwise they should be more different.
By the way, I wonder if Lauren needs glasses since she can better write words from the blackboard when she goes to it.
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2 hours ago, Ishigreensa said:
As for Jack not knowing if she was to be in fifth or sixth grade, he is just a parent who has had one child with a birthday in a non-confusing part of the year, so he wouldn't know the exact rules.
I don't think I made myself clear before. What I thought was odd was that Jack thought the choice was between 5th and 6th grade when he had doubts about Lauren's ability to do 5th grade. In that case, I assumed the choice was between 4th and 5th grade. I thought (perhaps mistakenly) that she was to be placed in a grade based on ability and not age.
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2 hours ago, Ishigreensa said:
“April is still a little scared of people right now, so can you please please give us a little more time, Cindy?”
“Of course. You said that April had bad people around her.”
I think that should read Lauren instead of April in both lines.
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I just read chapter 4 (It rolled over and over and over) and think this is very good story. I like a friendly story with nice persons. I just have a few comments on what could be improved to make even better:
8 hours ago, Ishigreensa said:“She turns eleven in a few days, so I wondered if she would be in sixth grade or in fifth,” Jack told her.
“We could test her, but normally, we just put anyone who turns eleven after the school starts in fifth grade, and anyone who was eleven before the first day of school in sixth grade.”
“I would like her tested,” Jack told them. “The kid has had a tough three years or so, and I’m really not even sure she can keep up with the fifth graders.”
It seems inconsistent that Jack wonders if Lauren would be in sixth or fifth grade if he is not sure she can keep up in fifth grade.
8 hours ago, Ishigreensa said:“Lauren, they are worried that your language skills have not been developed very much, and that you might be talking like a second or third grader,” she told me. “Your math skills, however, are really high, and if it were up to your math skills they would be happy to put you in sixth grade, but they can’t do that since most of your subjects rely mostly on your language skills.”
I understand this from the plot, but it doesn't harmonize with the fact that the story is told in first person with very good command of language. The "I" person's language is much better than Lauren's language would be.
8 hours ago, Ishigreensa said:I sat back, thinking back to that time when I went to the first home ever. I had had to pee, kind of bad, and I don’t think I was there more than a couple of days. There was this one boy that was like two years younger than me. I was probably seven, maybe and so he was like five? Anyway, I had to go bad and I didn’t know about thinking about others at that time. I just ran right in to the bathroom.
She couldn't be seven as she lost her parents just after eight year birthday.
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1 hour ago, DiaperedPrince said:
hat chess set actually exists. Butchart gardens is a completely real place (the labs are made up), and I actually went there and played a game with the big pieces. Here's a photo sphere from Google maps of the board. When I went in 2018 (after the photo sphere was captured), the pieces were different (bigger and black and white)... they're half-filled with water so they don't fall over!
The pieces are set up wrong with pawns at both the first and eighth row in the photo. The photographed position is therefore not a valid chess position!
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8 minutes ago, BabySofia said:
If 16 is half the day, 8 plus that half of the day is 8. I know it's not divided by a specific amount. I'm not trying to use a multiplier there honestly. ( @DiaperedPrince has a chart that's more aligned with your thoughts - I honestly chose to stick with mine here.) Change it in your head to the other time if it works better for you. This won't come up often.
Thank you for your reply. I misunderstood the text. Yes, twenty-four hundred hours is 8 pm in the Diaper Dimension when using a 16 hour clock. I thought that he converted to Earth time.
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1 hour ago, BabySofia said:
We will put all of you in with some second-year students, so that curfew will be twenty-four hundred hours each night for you.”
I did the math in my head and converted that to eight in the evening, but no one else said anything.
Sorry, but I have another question about the mathematics of history. 24 hours is halfway between noon (16) and midnight (32). I would think that it is equivalent to 6 pm in our world. How does Connor arrive at that it equals 8 pm?
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12 hours ago, BabySofia said:
So you have arrived at one of the things I dealt with a long time ago when I started trying to figure out height/weight scales for my characters in the dimension. I originally just started by proportionally scaling both dimension and weight equally. What that didn't account for was the fact that weight isn't necessarily the same scale due to the 3 dimensional nature. I messed around for a bit before coming to the conclusion that if I utilized BMI calculations I could actually come up with things much closer to correct values (especially as characters scale up into Amazon sizes).
This is not to say I'm completely 100% right with this, but this is what I had come up with.
BMI is based on the height squared, where it would give more useful values to use the height cubed, because the body has three dimensions. Therefore, taller people always have higher BMI values than shorter people for people with the same build. Body proportions also change with age, which also affects the ideal BMI some.
When Connor's three-dimensional body is reduced equally in all three dimensions, his new measurements should be 48 inches and 40 pounds. His new BMI will be smaller because of the reduced height, but will not equal the BMI for children of the same height, since children and adults are not built alike.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Scaling and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912631/
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16 minutes ago, BabySofia said:
I didn't catch that flip on that. Thanks for the catch there! (And sorry for not switching to metric units... too ingrained by American society here)
Another thing: The arrival height (48 inches) is 61.5% of the pre-arrival height (78 inches). If he still has the same proportions, I would expect the same proportional reduction in width and thickness. So shouldn't the new weight be 170 pounds times 61.5% to the third power which rounded off is 40 pounds?
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On 6/1/2022 at 12:29 AM, BabySofia said:
Connor Stacy Slane
Age: 19
Pre-Arrival Height: 6’6”
Pre-Arrival Weight: 170lbs
Arrival Height: 48 inches
Arrival Weight: 58 pounds
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Blonde
Blood Pressure: 110/78
Pulse: 80 BpmI'm a little confused about the units. Aren't lbs and pounds the same thing? If so, why is it stated differently? And why is the pre-arrival height in feet and the arrival height in inches? I would think an automatic measurement system would be consistent. I'm already challenged by US units and the variation doesn't make it any easier.
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18 minutes ago, TerranV said:
Considering film is a theme in this one, maybe Connor won't truly change genders but only play a little girl in a movie?
That's a good theory. I didn't consider that.
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11 minutes ago, BabySofia said:
Did you know that there aren't any good commercial potty charts that tell a kid Oopsie...?
No, I didn't know that. That is not an area I have researched.
Lights! Camera! ...What?!? - Chapter 112 - 5/10/24
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Professor Ponce is first described as a woman, but at the end of the chapter is referred to as "he" unless I have misunderstood who is meant.