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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.
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I think the biggest grievance I have with severance season 2 was they still gave reghabi absolutely nothing and I think this goes along with the no black writers criticism quite well because you have this morally grey genius neurosurgeon who is also an older black woman so of course she literally just turns up to help the protagonist out of nowhere acts mysterious and then disappears again. We know nothing about why she turned against Lumon how she developed the reintegration technique how she managed to get in touch with Petey/convince him to reintegrate. It's a mystery show and we don't need all the answers straight away but even just some interiority for her would have been nice what are her beliefs is she feeling anything after the murder she committed how about after accidentally killing a patient does she have a family where has she been living all this time if she's on the run what's her history with Cobel just a crumb please
#my other grievance is the over reliance on romance subplots i kind of prefered the mystery/politics/character/ethics focus of s1#there was a whole world out there of dinner parties and political demonstrations and funerals and news programmes#now it's just like oh everyone is cheating but with a twist (the twist is severance) which fine but why sacrifice the other stuff for that#i did enjoy it a lot btw but i don't feel as excited about rewatching s2 whereas I'd watch s1 over and over#the gemma episode was a highlight because it was actually about the implications of severance technology same way as the birthing cabins#its like when they put a random ass love triangle in utopia and i was like okay sure can we get back to the ecofascism now lmaoooo#anyway yep i enjoyed it a lot but god some characters are so neglected i don't care about the goat people give me more reghabi!!!!!#severance#severance spoilers
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"I got into your system." -- Scenery for Praexon!
#lingrimm#artist#art#artist on tumblr#fox#anthro#psychedelyc art#butterfly#smoke#mysterious#technology
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Eluvians, Pre-DATV ->
A mystical relic of the past, inaccessible unless if you have the 'key' to it - knowledge or power. A device that allows you to enter the Crossroads, a place between the Fade and the physical world, allowing you to travel between these spaces that breadth the length of the ancient elven empire. So few people actually knowing it's name or purpose. The few working mirrors surviving in the most desolate locations of Thedas, the Deep Roads or Ancient Elven Ruins, long since claimed by the ravages of time and cut off from present day Thedas.
Merrill, spending a near decade pushing her knowledge of her people's craftsmanship and magic to the brink - seeking out the aid of a powerful demon, Audacity, bound to the Sundermount, to help her cleanse and reforge her small part of history. Giving up her home and position within her clan in the hopes of restoring some small part of their past. Turning to magic perceived as 'forbidden', earning the scorn of her own clan and the rest of the world, being branded as a 'monster' by the people she loved so dearly. Assembling the shattered shards and forging them together, using her clans Arulin'Holm that has been passed through the ages and guarded by them.
Eluvians in DATV ->
Two for one sale - in working condition - some minor scratching on the frame.
Come down to your local dock / semi-abandoned forest / emo underpass / temu crestwood / BEACH / fight club / assassins creed 2 hidden level for more information.
Our handy Veil Jumpers can fix your faulty eluvians in 30 minutes or less.
#listen there's a reason that use of the eluvians was limited in previous games - DATV killed the mystique and wonder of them#now they're just a fast travel hub - found in every major place in Thedas apparently - recognizable to everyone#all that carefully crafted wonder / the feeling of desolation and mystery is gone#which is weird considering trespasser did such a good job of building their mystique and showing their importance? especially in war?#Merrill you fixed yours with a potato / string / and your hopes and dreams (+blood / sweat/ tears)#no one else earned this discovery but you girl :(#merrill crawled through the ashes of her ancestors so that the Veil Jumpers could skip three centuries of technological advancement#Merrill's accomplishment was so diminished by this game - the entire world and lore was#datv critical#veilguard critical
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#ancient#art#concrete#brutalist#luddite#techno#history#sculpture#liminal#weird#back rooms#Oddcore#esoteric#artifact#weirdcore#weird stuff#objects#miscellaneous#cursed#off#mystery#aesthetic#old tumblr#technology
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#gene hackman#the conversation#1970s#francis ford coppola#film#art history#walter murch#movie#70s#john cazale#robert duvall#technology#movies#mystery#cinematography#tech#cinema#20th century#the godfather#films#frederic forrest#cindy williams#🎭
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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.
#squad 4#yasochika iemura#presumably i could contact the people at the bleach wiki somehow but i would never do that#wtf why would they have contact lenses in soul society THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE CAKE#who the hell is this rogue shinigami in the living world selling questionable medical technology? does urahara or isshin know him?#is squad 4 prevented from going to the wotl SO THEY DON'T DEFECT AND START OFFERING DISCOUNT MEDICAL TOURISM SERVICES???#i wrote 72 words of fanfic today. the first i have written in 2 weeks. would i have written more if this hadn't happened? it is unknowable.#the mystery of iemura's chapter sketch contact lenses
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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.
#opal says words#the mysterious benedict society#constance contraire#Toddler destroys world ending technology by the power of being a toddler
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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
#for the record the high entia are like this beautiful majestic mysterious race of long lived people#who live in the highest part of the world in a floating super technological city#with affinity for magic and with long beautiful bird wings on their heads#who dislike mingling with other races EXCEPT the nopon#and nopon are these SMALL ADORABLE race of furry creatures with wings too#who live right under the high entia#and that are known as merchants but also are constantly getting into illegal stuff lmao#anyway yeah high entia wars and nopon wind#miry's yapping
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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.
#Another one I've had in my drafts for way too long#Also I’m pretty sure the first TMBS book came out just before the iPhone so this wouldn’t have even been on the table#but still Curtain skipped several technological advances before he got to mind control#Go big or go home I guess#the mysterious benedict society#tmbs disney#tmbs#mbs s2#mbs disney#ld curtain#mysterious benedict society#ledroptha curtain#mr curtain#nathaniel benedict
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I went on the famous British Pullman train today - peep those gorgeous original furnishings from 1925!
#There was also a murder and ensuing mystery full of strange technology con artists and lots of double crossing#10/10 would train again
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guys. i need your opinion of this. because i'm genuinely so confused now
what time period is the professor layton series in?? the prequel trilogy and the main trilogy. when are they supposed to be taking place
i could've sworn one of the games (though i forget which) mentions that someone's been to the moon already which would put them at least in the late 60s into the 70s going by our world's timeline... but i don't know maybe space travel was discovered earlier in this universe???
#melonposting#professor layton#it would be useful if i just had a comprehensive timeline of events in this series so it would be easier to plot things out#but just for the sake of argument... just for funzies...#let's say randall disappeared in 1949#then miracle mask takes place in 1967 (18 years after randall's disappearance in 1949)#and then extrapolating backwards - if luke is 11 and hershel is 35 in miracle mask#then luke was born in 1956 and hershel in 1932#luke is 15 when katrielle is born. so she's born in 1971#he and layton go missing ten years later. that'd be 1981#and then it's another eleven years (when she's 21) that kat has her mystery-solving agency and finds her father and everything. so 1992#(which makes the more modern nonsense we see in her game/anime more plausible)#and just for the heck of it. if we're presuming alfendi is 29 at the same time that katrielle is 21 then he's 8 years older than her#putting his birth year somewhere around 1963#and then... hm... luke is 13 in unwound future. and the explosion in which claire died was said to have happened 10 years prior#so when luke was 3 years old... in 1959#and clive was 13 at that time. exactly 10 years older than luke. so he would've been born around 1946#of course it's hard to pinpoint exact dates when you don't know anyone's birthday or what month a game is taking place in#and of course this is making a ton of assumptions#among other things that the moon landing really did take place in 1969 in this universe#i don't even remember which game mentioned the moon landing! which is annoying!#i think it was unwound future so i tried to have it in the ballpark of 1969 (by placing miracle mask two years prior in 1967)#(going off of luke's ages of 11 in miracle mask and 13 in unwound future as reference of the time passage between them)#at the very least i'm sure the moon landing was referenced somewhere within the prequel or main triologies#so unwound future is the last game it could've been mentioned in. so either it takes place in 1969 or an earlier game in the timeline does#but i'm willing to allow for the moon landing to have taken place before 1969 in the laytonverse. their technology is very weird after all#if i place it somewhere earlier in the 60s then the dates can be pushed back. and this fic i'm reading would be totally canon-compliant!#cuz it describes angela & henry 5 years after randall's disappearance being somewhere in the 1940s#which would only be possible if the moon landing takes place earlier for the dates to be pushed back that far#(of course a minor decade discrepancy does nothing to ruin my enjoyment of the fic. i just think it would be nice to make it all work out)
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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?
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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
#angel the series#angel#you leave b:tvs s3 thinking that Angel is somewhat cool and mysterious and his show just points at him and goes 'LOSER'#he's not mysterious he's not cool and brooding he is LAME AS HELL and he DOESNT UNDERSTAND TECHNOLOGY#this is all said so affectionately#I love Angel he's a dork#he just wants to listen to Barry Manilow and be left the fuck ALONE
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Could I request a moodboard of my Mystery Skulls Animated OC, Giovanni?(He has a hobby of making animatronics/tinkering if that helps any)




Giovanni Affini @hunter-the-sad-skeleton
#livi’s moodboards#aesthetic#moodboards#moodboard#Oc#ocs#teal#blue#mystery skulls#tech#technology#cyber#cybercore#turquoise#stim#stimboard#gifs#computer#computing
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