#it'll become cheaper as the technology ages

[qwuilleran]

There are quite a few barriers to adaption of new technology, not least among them, cost.

A recent history of under-floor heating

I live in new england and don't have them

[ilikekidsshows]

One thing that pisses me off not just about the miraculous fandom but modern fandoms is fans inability to consume long overarching stories.

Like so many people are complaining about how long the reveal is taking or why haven't certain characters outgrown this trait yet or why is this character arc botched or abandoned. Like guys we just got the confirmation this show will be 7 seasons long PLUS like 3 tv specials. We're only roughly halfway through the series.

Once the reveal happens half the tension in the show is gone! I'm not saying leave the reveal till season 7 and make us wait 9 years this isn't HIMYM but miraculous is not a fast paced story. It's a long haul story. I just wish more fans would be patient. Miraculous is in the extremely fortunate and rare position that it will have a conclusive end and not be suddenly cancelled. That was and still is a huge problem for shows and cartoons with dedicated fans but networks pull the plug for stupid ass reasons.

So miraculous fans please chill the fuck out on things not resolving right away. We still have 78+ episodes plus the tv specials. If we get the end to certain things now it'll be so boring.

I think the concept of Instant Gratification describes the issue with many modern fandoms today. I hate to sound like I'm anti-technology, but the constant stream of quick and short bursts of entertainment allowed by the information age has made people more impatient. It's not about waiting for the climax to get a deeper sense of satisfaction, it's about getting that instant gratification right this instant. It's why one-shot fanfics are all over the place, when multi-chapter stories used to be just as common and popular, if not even more so, and it’s also why people are less willing to read a fic that’s still a work in progress. It's why people refuse to watch Youtube video essays even as they leave comments on the topic based on the title and thumbnail alone because, while they couldn't be assed to watch a 20-minute video (let alone an hour long one), they sure can spend that time calling the Youtuber names and making arguments the video actually already refutes. It's why a lot of online arguments happen only because one party read nothing but the first and maybe the last paragraph of someone's post and skipped all the explanation for their point of view (if I've ignored an counter argument for one of my posts, it was either because I missed it or because said counter argument did this. I have attention deficit issues so I do genuinely forget responses sometimes, but I'm also not writing a second essay for someone who's proven to me they won't read it).

Of course, it's only by constantly consuming only fast-paced content that you can become this impatient. People have different ideas about stories based on what stories they have encountered in the past.

Another thing that influences the Miraculous fandom in particular is that, while I love to show off exactly how much Miraculous has done to build up the overarching plotlines, Miraculous isn't really a show that's about a single story. It's easy to understand why people think it is one though: there's one main villain, we keep discovering more about the mythology, one of the main plot threads is the romantic relationship between the leads and singular episodes and plot elements tend to get payoff later. What is the purpose of a show if not to progress the story? Because the heroes aren't getting closer to defeating Gabriel or getting together, people think that the story isn't accomplishing anything.

I'll do a comparison to illustrate why these things aren't as clear-cut signs of a continuous storyline as people think. In the Spider-Man comics, you can pick any issue up and the chances are that the villain will be a part of Spider-Man's already established Rogues Gallery, who's back for more after who knows how many defeats, and those past defeats might even get referenced in callbacks to previous issues. It's also very possible that Peter and Mary Jane's relationship is the central focus with them not being together yet, having relationship problems or even having broken up (in really old issues the girl might be Gwen Stacy and short-term options have also always been available for romantic entanglements). Does this mean Spider-Man is a continuous story where the only point is that all the villains get put away for good and Peter and MJ live happily ever after? No, it doesn't. Spider-Man is designed to go on indefinitely, so there's no clear ending point. So, what is the point of Spider-Man then, if there is no Ending?

It used to be the single issue, because comic books used to have every issue be a stand-alone story about the hero and their supportive cast. These days it's more every three-to-six issues, because superhero comics are written to have short story arcs that can then be collected into trade paperbacks. A superhero series is not a single story; it's a series that functions as a story engine, meaning the series can generate several shorter stories where the hero helps fix a problem or solve a mystery.

In the superhero genre a villain will never get killed off or removed from stories permanently as long as the writers think they can still come up with stories to tell about them. The hero's romantic life will never be completely smooth sailing unless the writer is using other things to ramp up the stakes. Everything always allows for there to be another adventure.

I think the huge success of Avatar: the Last Airbender made people think that a series that is a single story is always superior to a series with multiple shorter plots. When I was liveblogging Sailor Moon, a viewer offered to give me a list of all the non-filler episodes because they genuinely thought I'd feel like I was wasting time on the show otherwise. This attitude is simply not based on fact. It's not fair to compare Miraculous Ladybug to Avatar, because they're both setting up to do completely different things. Miraculous Ladybug is trying to become a brand, like Batman or Spider-Man. It is part of the "Zag Heroes" lineup, a series of French-created superhero franchises to compete in the America-centric superhero market. This challenge is good for the genre, because Marvel and DC have started resembling each other more and more as these companies stew in their old ideas and copy everything that worked for the other one. The superhero genre needs new blood.

Also, Avatar: the Last Airbender first became popular by doing episodic plots for almost the entirety of the first season because it's actually not a wise choice to expect the audience to be willing to commit to a story that'll only give payoff later when working with an untested IP. Very often shows with longer story arcs start with the episodic format to hook people first, and sometimes the more linear plot is introduced specifically because the audience for the show is now expected to be both dedicated enough and older and capable of keeping up. Because, here's the thing: you can't expect little kids to remember every episode or even every character you've introduced in your show. I'm not sure if people are ready to hear that but I'm throwing it out there anyway. Kids are not dumb, they can understand more complex storylines, but many kids are still training their memory, so they might not remember the details of complex storylines that go on for too long.

This is why the news that Miraculous Ladybug's fourth season was going to have a recommended viewing order originally had me concerned. Miraculous is being branded for kids. The plot requiring too much skill in memorizing story details will make it less accessible to kids and might put those two additional seasons at risk. However, it seems that the "constantly changing status quo" concept of Truth, Lies and Gang of Secrets was a fluke and the evolution of the show is more subtle, so they might not be cutting the amount of episodes for those final seasons because the show is getting too complicated for kids to follow all the important details.

Regardless, Miraculous Ladybug being an adventure cartoon TV show instead of a comic book or a more cheaper-to-produce TV drama does mean that Miraculous Ladybug isn’t expected to go on for decades like a superhero comic or a soap opera. Because of this, it can have evolution and changes and even a planned ending. The show is expected to end at some point, even by the people making money off of it, mostly because making a cartoon like this indefinitely costs a lot of money, and kids’ adventure shows tend to see a decrease in returns if they go on for too long.

[aterryben]

15 Things That Will Likely Disappear in the Next 20 Years

Dinosaurs. Latin. Smallpox. Typewriters. Phone books. container tapes. Parachute pants. Pagers. These are simply a couple of the infinite things that wont to be commonplace however has since dwindled, declined, or altogether disappeared. whereas it had been, at one purpose, arduous to imagine a world while not them, 

They have been relegated to relics. With a brand new decade on the horizon, one can not help however surprise what is going to be next to slip from presence into oblivion. Here are fifteen predictions of things that may seemingly disappear by the year 2040—if not sooner.

1Credit and debit cards

Next to your permit, your credit and debit cards are most likely the foremost vital things in your pocketbook. Soon, however, the plastic you employ to shop for everything from gas and groceries to vesture and concert tickets can be for good declined. Instead, expect digital payments to dominate. Not solely are they quicker and additional convenient than physical payments—there's nothing to hold, lose, insert, or swipe—but they are conjointly additional secure: Digital payments have intrinsic authentication, monitoring, and encryption that physical payments do not. If you have ever used Apple Pay, Venmo, PayPal, Google Pay, or Zelle, you recognize the transition is already current.

2Smartphones

Eight in 10 yank adults currently own smartphones. If you are one in every one of them, you most likely think about your phone your lifeline. you employ it to remain connected to your friends and family, to capture reminiscences with photos, to consume news, to order food, and even thus far. however if you think that regarding it, smartphones are not extremely as convenient as they appear. they are massive, as an example—clunky and arduous on each your fingers and your eyes. For that reason, tomorrow's smartphones won't be phones the least bit.

"Carrying around a mobile device could also be a rare sight," predicts Saint Andrew Moore-Crispin, director of content at mobile service supplier Ting Mobile. "Instead, users can be equipped with tiny, connected devices on their head, wrist, etc., permitting them to remain connected and perform each conceivable task while not having to press a button."

3Drivers

Although there is a considerable dialogue regarding once, exactly, they're going to roll into our lives, it's clear to see: Autonomous vehicles are returning. Ford, for one, expects to launch self-driving cars by 2021. therefore will Volvo. Tesla, meanwhile, says it'll have a completely autonomous vehicle by the top of 2020. And BMW and Gottlieb Daimler need to unharness their driverless vehicles by 2024. though it'll seemingly take decades for autonomous vehicles to replace standard cars on roads, it's attainable that drivers—including not solely average, everyday motorists, however conjointly professionals like taxi drivers, truck drivers, and auto drivers—will feel as antediluvian in 2040 as cobblers waste 2019.

4Traffic

Drivers are not the sole things that may go the means of the dodo as a result of autonomous vehicles. therefore can traffic jams, the frequency and severity of that can be greatly reduced by driverless cars that move endlessly and at a continuing speed. as a result of humans ar the leading reason behind traffic accidents, autonomous vehicles would possibly even eliminate fatal traffic accidents.

5Keys

They're significant, bulky, inconvenient to repeat, and simple to misplace. that is why additional and additional folks are putting in electronic door locks that permit them to ditch their keys. With a sensible lock, you'll lock and unlock your door victimization your smartphone—from anyplace. Cars are going keyless, too. Tesla, as an example, has an associate degree app that permits you to unlock you're automotive and begin it victimization your mobile device rather than a standard key or key fob. These days, you do not even want keys (or key cards, rather) for building rooms. It thus appears seemingly that by 2040, you will be able to lose your keys and ne'er trouble trying to find them once more.

6Privacy

In his dystopian novel 1984, Orwell foretold the increase of the police investigation state, whereby citizens' every move is monitored. Seventy years once the book was printed, his predictions feel ominously correct. In major cities, for instance, cameras monitor each crossroad. In sensible homes, cameras associate degreed voice assistants keep an equally open-eyed watch. (Although their makers promise they are secure, there is the reason for doubt.) life science, meanwhile—including facial recognition—is on the increase.

"We board associate degree age wherever digital identification could be a norm and customers appreciate hyper-personalized engagement. For this purpose, constant police investigation compromises sensitive activity information on a day after day, either within the kind of biometric identifications or digital training," says Damien Martin, a promoting govt at reconnaissance professional, a London-based supplier of artificial intelligence-based biometric identification services. "I believe this level of property can place associate degree finish to public obscurity as we all know it."

7Passwords

If there is any shred of privacy left in 2040, here's smart news: you most likely will not have to be compelled to study one more watchword to shield it, as a result of passwords are getting unstylish.

"Today's user authentication ways are getting archaic and impractical for each shopper and businesses," says choreographer Keve, chief revenue officer at Simeio Solutions, associate degree Atlanta-based supplier of identity and access management solutions. "New password-less technologies are commencing to seem … that may facilitate ease the management of authentication and access whereas making certain larger protection of private and company information."

8Cable tv

High costs and poor service ar simply 2 of the many reasons that folks detest their cable TV suppliers. Folks hate cable TV such a lot that solely common fraction of U.S. households presently subscribes it, that is down ten % from simply 2 years agone. of this UN agency have cable TV, one in 5 say they are seeming to chop the wire at intervals a future year. Meanwhile, nearly sixty % of American citizens currently subscribe to a variety of streaming services. alongside Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, there are new entrants like Apple TV+ and Disney+; the previous is anticipated to possess one hundred million subscribers throughout its initial year, whereas the latter attracted ten million subscribers at intervals one day. At this rate, cable's wire can be for good cut well before 2040.

"With the power decide|to select|to opt for} and opt for the TV services you are interested in—and then pick and choose precisely the shows and flicks you wish to watch—paying for a rich, wide TV arrange will not add up," says Or Goren, editor of wire Busters. "Netflix, Disney+ and also the alternative massive ones can become the 'new' cable corporations, however with completely different technologies, and loads cheaper than what we tend to wont to pay the 'traditional' cable corporations."

9Remote controls

Speaking of television: Your device would possibly find yourself within the garbage aboard your cable box because of voice computing. After all, you already will use your voice to vary the channel on your TV victimization your cable provider's voice remote; it's solely a matter of your time before you'll chuck the remote altogether and visit your TV—and the rest you management by remote—directly.

10Plastic luggage

Single-use plastic luggage ar impeding streets, sidewalks, streams, and oceans like hair in a very stopped-up shower drain. In response, cities, counties, and even states have enacted bans designed to rid of the globe of this environmental scourge. though there is the dialogue on the advantage of such bans, the growing urgency of demand world climate action and also the speedy development of plastic alternatives predict a future during which plastic is prehistoric.

11Charging cables

Thanks to wireless net and Bluetooth, you'll connect all of your favorite devices—your laptop, smartphone, printer, sensible speaker, and fitness hunter, simply to call a few—to the net and every alternative while not the necessity for cumbersome cables. If you wish to charge identical devices, however, you will find yourself swimming in cordage. By 2040, the tangled mess in your bag, on your counter, and below your table might finally be unraveled because of omnipresent wireless charging.

"In twenty years, or less, charging cables are a far off memory," predicts Chris Chuang, founder, and chief executive officer of mobile service supplier Republic Wireless. "Everything can all be wireless. No additional checking out missing phone chargers. Also, we're seemingly to appear back at this point and tease however the short battery life was for electronic devices. I predict a breakthrough with a charge lasting quite each day or 2."

12Checkout counters and cashiers

Amazon is that the company equivalent of an orb. Its on-line bookshop foreshadowed the increase of e-commerce, its Prime service helped popularize streaming media, and its Echo home assistant ushered in a very new era of sensible home technology. Amazon yet again donned its illusionist hat in 2018, once it debuted its Amazon Go chain of checkout-free convenience stores. rather than waiting in checkout lines and paying cashiers, customers scan their smartphones upon coming into, obtain their desired things, then merely exit the shop, at that purpose Amazon—which uses in-store sensors to trace purchases—automatically charges their Amazon account. If the remainder of the retail business follows Amazon's lead, checkout counters, money registers, and cashiers all can be extinct by 2040.

13Brick-and-mortar banks

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of American citizens access their bank accounts most frequently via online or mobile channels, in step with the yank Bankers Association, that says just one in six (17 percent) accesses them most often via a physical bank branch. It ought to return as no surprise, then, that banks are closing branches at a speedy clip. though that does not mean banks can disappear, it can be a signal that their physical premises can. Of course, some innovative banks could also be able to save their branches by reinventing them. It appears even as seemingly, however, that by 2040 the sole banks left are digital ones.

14Farmers

Us wont to be blanketed with family farms. Now, it's made-up of urban development and community sprawl. Between 1992 and 2012 alone, the state irreversibly lost nearly thirty-one million acres of farmland to development. that is like losing most of Iowa or big apple. Since then, of course, the bulldozers have unbroken on bulldozing—and therefore, ironically, have farmers, whose work has scoured soil such a lot that it's depleted a 3rd of the world's cultivatable land within the past forty years. If development and agriculture still cannibalize farmland, farms as we all know them would possibly stop to exist. rather than sprawling fields with rows of crops picked by hand, imagine big warehouses full of food that is big vertically below artificial lights and harvested by robots. If you raise indoor farmers, it is not simply possible; it's probable.

15Glaciers

Just this year, Iceland aforementioned good day to Okjökull, its initial ice mass lost to the worldwide climate crisis. at the same time, heat temperatures caused Kalaallit Nunaat to lose twelve.5 billion heaps of ice in a very single day. If global climate change continues at its current rate, scientists predict Arctic summers can be nearly iceless by 2040.