#mysterious technology

[tea-with-eleni]

There is a mysterious computer in one of the planetarium offices. When I found it, it was underneath a computer desk (normal). It did not have a plug (weird). It had a monitor on the computer desk and a keyboard (normal). They could not be plugged in to the computer (weird). It turns on, and I went looking for a monitor cable that would fit because the planetarium has a big bucket of monitor cables stored behind the dome. It seems to use some variation of a VGA cable; exact species could not be determined, and a cable that was the correct gender could not be found. (weird.) The computer seems to have been custom built and has a 2TB hard drive visible. I cannot discern its purpose.

My working theories are:

It ran the previous planetarium software prior to its current system.

It has something to do with the laser shows.

It's the backup drive for... something.

It has a label that says "PREFLIGHT"; this implies it was stolen off an aircraft somehow.

It's alien technology that, based on its bizarre assortment of ports, got punted out of an alternate reality.

Open to suggestions with how to deal with the thing.

[lingrimmart]

"I got into your system." -- Scenery for Praexon!

[spyboy2000]

ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʀsᴀᴛɪᴏɴ 1974

[recurring-polynya]

Hey, pals! Weird Bleach mystery time!!

So, I was perusing the Bleach wiki, as is my wont, when I found this interesting tidbit on the Squad 4 page:

Members of the 4th Division are not allowed in the Human World.

which is cited as coming from Bleach manga; Volume 13, Chapter 111, end of chapter sketch. But when I looked it up, it's this:

It's Squad 4-related, obviously, but it doesn't say anything about the World of the Living. (My copy is the Viz version, and I also checked, ummmm, an online copy that I know of that has a slightly different translation and a compilation I found that someone had made of all the chapter sketches and they were all the same.)

This anecdote is mentioned in more detail under Iemura's entry:

In order to increase his handsomeness, Iemura searched Soul Society for contact lenses but was unable to find any. When he heard rumors of a renegade Shinigami selling contacts for Shinigami in the Human World, Iemura used his self-proclaimed fame and handsomeness to get around the ban on 4th Division members going to the Human World in order to find the contact lenses seller. When the rogue Shinigami instead offered him laser surgery using tiny beams of Reishi, Iemura thought it sounded too good to be true. Upon seeing the machine that performed the surgery, and noticing the dark eyeshadow on the Shinigami's face that resembled burn marks, he chickened out. Due to certain unspecified problems, he can no longer go to the Human World, leaving him wondering what would have happened if he had tried the surgery and if he would still be single.

This is sourced to the chapter sketches accompanying 109-112, which are literally all just Iemura complaining about his job and Squad 11 and Captain Kyouraku, it doesn't say anything about this shaggy dog contact lens story.

Does anyone know what gives? Is it possible that the chapter sketches got changed or moved around when the chapters were collected into a tankouban? It seems too big a difference to be blamed on translation error, but then again, the picture is just Iemura writing in his dumb journal, so maybe the text could have been changed. I feel like I have the vaguest memory of all this nonsense--maybe it got adapted into a Shinigami's Cup at some point??? I don't know!! I just wanted to know if Squad 4 was allowed to go to the WotL, like, if some shinigami got a neck injury on a mission and shouldn't be moved, but now I'm invested. I'm in too deep. someone who is good at Squad 4 trivia please help me out. my family is dying.

[opalescent-apples]

Constance Contraire is the character of all time. She answers a standardized test in rhymes. She reaches the end of a giant labyrinth and instead of letting people know she just has a picnic. She breaks rules whenever she gets the chance and then demands candy. She destroys things just by being really fucking stubborn.

And then her friends are shocked to learn she's only three. Like on one hand she can write and solve puzzles, and she seems pretty self sufficient. On the other hand, it was really, really obvious.

[mirensiart]

Idk if I have any followers who are linked universe fans and also into xenoblade, but I've been thinking about warriors as a high entia and wind as a nopon all day long lmao

[nobodysdaydreams]

I love how in The Mysterious Benedict Society they have the tech for a brain sweeping and mind control, but everyone, including Curtain, is still out here using landline phones.

If Curtain wanted to be rich and powerful, all he had to do was make an iPhone, but nope. Not enough drama involved in that.

[fisheito]

Heeyyy Fiishhhh

So I decided to make a list of how Nu Carnival boys would react to unsolicited dick pics in their mail!

(yes those have to be what, photographs or portraits teehee)

Yakumo: loses his mind thinking that someone could have seen him hold the picture, drops it on the ground as if burnt, quickly snatches it back... (It stays in his panties drawer, (un)safely hidden because he can't make himself destroy it

Olivine: takes it quickly and hides it, looks at it in detail in his room after sermon, does a few *offerings*, jerks off to the memory every now and again (destroys the thing)

Garu: woofs! And goes show it to Eiden

Blade: it takes him a millisecond to determine it's not Darling on the portrait, he sends it in the trash

Kuya: sneers and burns it with his magic

Quincy: leaves it in his mailbox. Does he have one? Idk idk

Edmond: is very much scandalised, destroys the shtick immediately!!!!!🔥🔥🔥 Then thinks about it during lonely nights on patrol (would it be good enough? Too small? Too thin?)😅

Aster: sends out Morvay to find the owner and PUNISH HIM, no one dares messing with the great vampire tycoon!!!!!!

Morvay: his alone time is interrupted by a mad Aster who makes him do the unimaginable and actually go find that dick he's just gotten in the mail?! How come???? (The dick owner is going to come more times than is healthy ☺️ Morvay will make sure of that)

Rei: while he is trying to decide whether the person who sent him the tasteless thing is good enough to use as experiment material, the dick owner gets ambushed by Morvay AND TOTALLY BECOMES WORTH EXPERIMENTING ON yay

Dante: seethes (it's been days, the portrait is long burnt to dust and ashes)

Eiden: laughs and starts reminiscing about the olden days on twitter and such

the DEDICATION of someone sending and delivering a dick pic in kleinverse is ... something to be admired you gotta PAINT that shiet no instant snaps someone gotta DRAW THAT PEEN OUT in METICULOUS DETAIL wrap it up. maybe in a nice lil envelope with ribbons so it gets past the messengers wait for it to physically arrive at someone's doorstep and hope that no one other than the addressee opens the mail

[swan2swan]

Question related to technology:

If Wu's laptop had possessed a Mobile Hotspot, would it have been able to connect to the internet? Or does a Mobile Hotspot still need a bigger anchor station active nearby in order to connect to a satellite, like a cell tower?

[youngpettyqueen]

Angel the series absolutely has its flaws but it will always be iconic for taking Angel, who had 0 personality or character until sex made him evil for a bit before he reverted back to 0 personality and existing solely to be Buffy's angsty boyfriend, and spending 5 season unravelling all his mysterious brooding ways to reveal that he is literally just an awkward old man who has no idea how to interact with people because he spent decades in alleys eating rats

[lifewithaview]

Joel Kinnaman and James Purefoy in Altered Carbon (2018) Out of the Past

S1E1

In a distant future, in a dystopic society where people's consciousness and memories are stored in devices and then resleeved into another body, the Alcatraz prisoner Takeshi Kovacs is awakened 250 years after his death. He has recollections of his and his beloved companion Ava's deaths, and soon, he learns that the upper-class millionaire Laurens Bancroft is responsible for his awakening in a body of a strong man to investigate who has killed him.

*When Kristin Ortega removes the 'stack' from Dimitri Kadmin she refers to it as being "fracked". Tahmoh Penikett, who plays Dimitri, previously starred in Battlestar Galactica (as Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon), where 'Frack' is one of the show's alternative swear words.

[cosmicportal]

[nightfall-1409]

Im mentally chewing on the fact it's now Commander Scorch on his own working for Hemlock.

Like it'd be really fucked up if the reason he stayed and the others either didn't (as in they took a path similar to the books and got out altogether, they're some of the first clones eligible for retirement after all given their service records) is Sev and having to leave him behind. Or maybe the other's have since died. and he's the only one left to keep going. hooooo

[paperlovesadness]

I love how Alex being the super-private, vintage-loving analogue dude that he is makes us all regularly think things like:

"ah. So he knows instagram exists"

"he can use a smartphone???"

"...so he's... aware of googling"

"he actually knows that Lego movies are a thing??"

"he's SEEN clickbait videos [about monster trucks]?"

"the word tik-tok means something more than 'sound the clock makes' to this man???"

"he's watched Ted Talks apparently??"

Like this dude tricked us all into seeing him as this time traveling ethereal poet stuck somewhere between the 1900s and the early 1970s...

and I love it.

I truly cannot tell you how much I actually see him as purely that and how much I'm actually aware of the fact that he needs to know more about the modern world that he exists in than we believe he does.

[iniziare]

Hoyo, I either need you to let me turn off subtitles in general, or allow me to just... move them, or something. Sometimes I could make a perfect icon out of a specific still, if it weren't for those meddling subtitles.

P.S.: Fully unrelated, but damn do I need 2.5 to get here. For many reasons, for out of total and utter bias, I need to say: Jingliu. I got a millisecond that I initially missed because I quite literally blinked, but she's coming back, I can't believe it. She's back, WITHOUT BLINDFOLD?

[rif12services]

The Treasure of Samarkand (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1460900177-the-treasure-of-samarkand?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=kimoyandex In the scorching desert town of Zahran, a young tailor named Remi stumbled upon a mysterious map while rummaging through a dusty old trunk in his small shop. The map depicted a winding path through the dunes, leading to a mysterious X marked "Treasure of the Ancients." Remi's curiosity was piqued, and he couldn't wait to share his discovery with his shy but curious apprentice, Lila.