#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!

[qilingxiong]

你係咪好悶呀，李神醫？(x)

[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.

[urban-lad]

ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʀsᴀᴛɪᴏɴ 1974

[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.

[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

[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.

[midnightfire830]

I did it!

Because Tumblr is weird I can’t put up the gif I made for the last ask so I had to record it through screen record. It reduced the quality but honestly at this point I dont care. I am proud of what I made and it would be so disappointing if no one will be able to see it so this is the next best thing! T.T

@sirensea14 bc this was for your ask!

[starry-nightengale]

Alexis Lexington, but you can call her Lexi!

Surely it hasn't REALLY been 10-ish years since I first drew this girl, has it???

[gazorninplat]

after watching the Star Wars hotel video, I'm convinced you could re-theme it to a 25th Ward experience with minimal effort.

I don't know if that's cool or creepy.