#The 40-Year-Old Version

[scribefindegil]

"super invested in niche character dynamic that does not actually exist in canon" is a special kind of torment. keep thinking "why has nobody but me written about this?" girl it is because you made it up

[thecoolerliauditore]

one of my most hypocritical headcanons is that while I giggle usually at the normie-fying of in game names for fic reasons i.e. "pearl moon" or just using their legal names like "scott major", "joel bean", "martyn littlewood" I also see why people do it and I think the idea of Beau being Bdubs' legal first name works really well. this would also imply that "dubs" is his last name and his full name is "beau dubs" and bdubs follows the same convention as smajor

[baconcolacan]

Hes a fucking loser, I love him sm, I wanna squish him like a grape.

[random2908]

Frustrating when a VC-funded company gets credit for being the "first" and the "leader," when they had a sub-component demo the same week we had a full-system demo. Like, we are easily 5-10 years ahead of them, it's ridiculous; their approach isn't even yet proven to work. But they get science youtubers talking about them.

Because they're VC-funded, they have a marketing/press department.

And because we're an employee-owned company working off of government contracts, well, most government contracts get slapped with an ITAR label (an old Cold-War-era law saying basically sharing scientific information counts as illegally selling arms/munitions). So if you want to publicize your work, including your company's products, you have to appeal that label. (Universities have specifically negotiated a blanket exemption, so if you spend your whole life in academic science you might never even know about this.)

(My previous employer filed those appeals several times a year in order to do press releases and publish journal articles and apply for patents. I think every single information-release appeal they filed went through, because there's no reason any of this stuff should be labeled as arms--it's literally the same stuff universities are doing. My current employer is afraid to, which I think is wrong-headed; at worst they'll just say no, and anyway, our non-restricted competitors are giving fucking lab tours to youtubers.)

[bumblingbabooshka]

Do you think Kes' ability to pick up on things so quickly is linked to her being an Ocampa? Like, since she's 2~ years old in canon (and has distinct memories of her father) I imagine her species doesn't spend much time as children and I wouldn't imagine they'd have formal schools (like entire buildings for schooling) and would instead learn from like, primarily parents or other elders. In that case learning things very quickly would be extremely beneficial for their survival. Kes: Oh yes, childhood...what a lovely few days~ Kes was a baby like for a day and then the next day she was up and ready to learn. Kes meets Naomi and every day that passes she becomes more and more amazed that she's still a baby. Wow! It's been like two months and she still can't do anything?? The doctor told her it was normal but wow. What I'm saying is they should have had Kes as a jack-of-all-trades character who could slide into pretty much any of the teams on Voyager. The Doc misses her when she's not in sickbay though!

[softgrungeprophet]

nintendo is doing a really good job of making sure i never play their older games by charging $60 for remastered switch versions 🙏

[nero-neptune]

close encounters of the third kind is an objectively good movie, but it feels sorta tragic. and i doubt thet was the intention lol. love the cinematography, love the music score, love the visual effects. that's all fun and good. but where everyone else seems to see a movie full of "wonder", it just makes me feel sad. the movie ends the way it does and it leaves me feeling bummed the fuck out.

[daisyachain]

Transformers: The Movie

That sweet sweet shiny film animation

I can see why Unicron holds such a place in the psyches of every kid who grew up to be a TF writer

They were not kidding about the soundtrack!

LEONARD NIMOY IS IN THIS THING?

ORSON WELLES??????????

Right back to how I remember the 2 episodes of the og that I watched (leaden)

The landscapes ;;u;;

IDW1 Megs really is his own continuity-specific creature

Hoverboard animation flex. Pan underneath as the knees bend to absorb shock? That’s just showing off

Ah here it is! Song…

Iconic Arcee pulling levers scene

The painted metal backgrounds really just steal the show

Rewind mention!

[what-have-i-unleashed]

Please go on an 800 page rant about the entire plot of transformers so I stop being hopelessly confused whenever you talk about it

i'm afraid even when i do talk about it you'll still be hopelessly confused

[dapurinthos]

weep, weep for me for i have located the edition of the phantom of the opera that i remember checking out from the library the most: illustrated with the most stunning images by andré castaigne.

the price! the price for the love of god montressor

OI MOI TALAINA

[starviewpeak]

Xenoblade 1 is the best game like ever fucking made and it has two of the most dogshit sequels ever fucking made

[gamebunny-advance]

Hm.

I probably should have paired the 1010 question with "How old do you think 1010 are physically?" since those can have different answers. But I don't want to over-do the polls in 1 day.

[oh-katsuki]

EVRRYONE QUIIEETTT MIEKO KAWAKAMI RELEASED A NEW BOOK OH GOD IM NEVRR GONNA BE QUIET ABOUT THIS

[bbbigforehead]

the ac3 remaster still pisses me off bruh they look like poorly made wax figures

[corneille-moisie]

but also its 2025 i cant believe there is no better version of this fucking movie online ???? like surely its on its japanese dvd somewhere waiting to be ripped, if not already, and surely it has to be not that hard to transcribe the subtitles ???

[fishofthewoods]

i might be really truly literally actually the only person on earth who understands or cares about this but whalefall is SO king lear coded if you're insane enough