#there's data that's not making sense here

[wolfsteax]

Yes! I do in fact believe DBBQ is a prequel of sorts!

Might as well explain my theory-

I believe an experiment was done that revealed a look into the afterlife. When I wrote down all the Wanderers' audio, it tells a story of patients being connected to signals and asked what they see. It begins with a time of death.

I believe the humanoid Ena we see was the first truly successful patient, likely kept in a limbo state of dead and alive and connected to tons of computers. I don't think ENA is actually here name, but instead the name of the program being used.

I think whoever is conducting these experiments has a degree of control over Ena and possibly had her do something unforgivable in this new world OR she simply is seen as a problem because she's an invader of sorts.

I think the reason she has split personalities is due to one of the Wanderer lines stating there were intermittent data flow interruptions. This, coupled with the Shamans words about two minds, makes me think her mind has split into extremes from the constant flow of data. I think part of this comes from her ability to respawn in a mannequin after she "dies" also. I think she theoretically would wake up alive after a death in the afterlife. But, due to the program she's connected to, it just respawns her. This could also be causing her fracturing mind. Alternatively, these personalities could be remnants of former patients.

I believe Ena is somewhat aware of what she is. She knows she's tethered to something and craves her freedom. I could see this being especially bad if she was forced to commit a horrible act against her will. The Boss could be an entity that can provide her freedom. This might be provided by severing Ena's connection to her human body. I believe that would mean her human body finally dies in the truest sense and signals can no longer be accessed by those watching.

With her body no longer kept in limbo, Ena becomes truly free. She then slowly starts to change with time- Act a little more like series Ena each day. It's not an instant change, but I don't think she'd stay tormented forever. It's possible series Ena is closer in demeanor to her human self since she's no longer a puppet.

There are a LOT of aspects to my theory I kinda glossed over since I just woke up, but the TLDR is Ena is an artificially-produced soul made to invade the afterlife and she desperately craves her freedom.

some thoughts I had about a possible post-game Ena.

I like to think she starts to find some peace and gets to relax.

[rotzaprachim]

This is actually a fantastic article - yeah the geographic regions he made are a little screwy, but it makes absolute sense to

a) separate the urban and more liberal leaning areas of several states as well as the different general cultural zones from the general “state” death counts (ie on the idea for instance that coastal Oregon probably has more in common with coastal Washington and California than inland Oregon when it comes to gun deaths which is true)

b) FUCKING SCALE THE GUN DEATHS TO NUMBER OF PEOPLE oh my god of course la and nyc have a shit ton of gun deaths that’s where people LIVE

C) study both the total number of gun related deaths, and separate suicides from homicides

anyway there are an insane number of takeaways from this article,

but amongst all of them is sooo much data about the fact that

a) liberal leaning mega cities with large Black, Latine and/or immigrant populations have gotten massively blamed for being the source of gun crime in America because people are very racist and also cannot do the basic stats of scaling amount of crime to population. that’s where the fucking people are. Of course that’s where crime happens. Scaled to population, NYC, Jersey, Philly, San Diego, El Paso etc aren’t worse than rest of the U.S. but often as a whole substantially better

b) guess who isn’t the problem here? Immigrants! Notably the author actually separated the more latine border cities and communities from their more Anglo northerly counterparts and found out gun crime is consistently lower there. Imagine that

c) it’s about the fucking gun control, not hunting. Hawaii is an often fairly rural state, outside of Honolulu, with a strong hunting tradition and also SO MUCH FUCKING GUN CONTROL and hey would you look at that. It’s almost like gun control is the issue here

d) fascinating to see how these results line up with the political map of America on the state by state level in a way that only looking at whole data for states does fascinating

anyway here’s the data in particular against the smear that gun violence is about immigrants. It’s about guns and who has access to them and in what ways. Gun control now.

[spacemothsota]

Cassette player from Cassette?

You know, I love cassettes in Transformers. (I love them so much that if you woke me up in the middle of the night and asked me what cassettes Soundwave and Blaster had, I could probably list them all by name.)

Many people underestimate them because of their size and the fact that they transform into cassettes and they are often reduced to the "children's" equivalent, but listen.. Just listen. In my mind, cassettes are not children at all, no, not at all, to go through such a war and stay alive, you know guys, they are definitely adults. Maybe teenagers close to becoming adults or this stupid period when you are kind of an adult, but you still need a "More adult adult". Moreover, in the comics, Rumble and Frenzy were actually miners, so let's keep that in mind, okay? In short, cassettes are quite adult and independent, this will be useful to us in my subsequent words.

In general, it seems like the show and comics have never said how strong this connection is between the cassette host and the cassette. What kind of connection is this? How do cassette host and cassettes work? Like… I don't remember it being said directly, but obviously there is a connection. (Remember how Soundwave feels pain from Ravage's death, or from Rumble's injury? Obviously the connection is strong, but what kind of connection is it?) How do cassette players and tapes work? HOW?

How the fuck does this work???

Well I have a couple of ideas about it actually, it may seem unusual, but here are a couple of my ideas.

It's pretty obvious that it's similar to symbiosis, where one species helps another in some way. While symbiosis can be parasitic in nature, I'm guessing that for Cybertronians it's more like a mutually beneficial phenomenon. Usually, creatures of different species enter into symbiosis, be it clownfish and sea anemones, or butterflies that feed on animal tears (they need it to get sodium). I think that cassette player and cassettes are more closely related. Aside from the obvious symbiotic relationship, where the one offers the cassette safety, care, and a secure life in exchange for some services from other side (like recording information, spying/intelligence activities, etc.), it seems to me that this could have a deeper evolutionary mechanism, for example for survival purposes?

Ever wonder why there are literally only two Cassette Host in the show and comics? It's literally just Soundwave and Blaster (Soundblaster doesn't count, he's a clone. Sorry, fans of that guy). It's also not really clear what niche they occupied in the caste system the Functionalists founded, but it's probably not a very high one since Soundwave was found on the street by Ravage. I think the fear here might be precisely because bots like them are capable of this type of symbiotic relationship. They don't need mods for it, they are designed to share their space and path with trusted Cassettes. This connection itself must imply that you understand each other on some deeper level. Maybe like Gestalts, a common type of internal connection that other bots can't recognize? I think that makes sense. You're basically slightly in each other's heads. The Cassette Host not only takes on the responsibility of providing the cassette, but also of regulating this internal connection, both emotional and physical. In return, the cassettes provide an unlimited ability to store and accumulate data (I think this is connected to their altform, that is, Rumble and Frenzy can be quite smart, they just don’t need it. A striking detail in this regard would be Rewind and how he helped Tailgate reduce the bomb’s radius, but there’s a lot that can be said about him). Understand? This increases the likelihood that the Cassette player and the cassettes act as a single, well-coordinated organism, it’s no wonder that the functionalists were afraid of this. This symbiosis can resemble from the outside both a family unit and a business gang, where there is a boss and cronies. In any case, here’s another thought of mine, what if…

What if, under certain conditions, a cassette tape could become a cassette player?

I know this might sound weird, but just hear me out. You know, I often come across the idea that cassette hosts can create cassettes, and that's a possibility, because my idea is based on that. Could a spark of such a bot be predisposed to create smaller sparks to provide security and support for those cassettes that don't have the ability to become cassette players? Look, we have a cassette host, it can have its own cassettes that it created, or those that were reformatted into this altform and taken under its wing. If the host is hurt or killed, cassettes can remain destitute and forgotten until they die, but what if, due to the symbiotic relationship of these Cybertronians, they have some kind of evolutionary mechanism? What if one host has enough cassettes that it realizes that it strains the internal communication and does not allow time for each? Then one or two cassettes created by the bot and having a predominantly humanoid form and also access to comfort and resources, begin to gain mass of the protoform, form a cassette deck and so on. They become new cassette players, provided that they have always been in this altform and have not been reformatted, I think the second type of cassettes is not capable of this mechanism. Why is this an evolutionary mechanism? Well, because perhaps earlier these two types of Cybertronians really belonged to different groups, but in the process of millennia and millions of years they were simply close for so long that they turned into one group. You know what, in essence, cassettes would be like an axolotl from our world (like… Have you seen an axolotl? They are actually not an adult version of an ambystoma)

This mechanism would essentially explain why we know only two cassette hosts and so many cassettes. Probably, before the war there were a sufficient and diverse number of them, but during the war many could have died and Soundwave and Blaster essentially picked up the destitute, deprived of communication and scared cassettes. None of the cassettes had the necessary level of comfort, fuel and other factors that would contribute to the evolution into a new host, you understand? In essence, this means that Soundwave and Blaster were loaded with an additional level during the war (that's why they look tired, taking care of so many charges is tiring…)

I can just see how after the war, with the improvement in the quality of life, one of the cassettes finally decided that the conditions are good enough, but there are too few hosts… It's time to evolve into an adult version and become a cassette player.

I hope Soundwave can rest and this won't be another world.

[wolfchans]

mm i don't think it's wise i keep trying to solve this exercise, it's getting very confusing

[bittercafanddatapads]

Marshall Commander Fox is scarcely seen without his iconic helmet, even within the confines of the Coruscant guards headquarters. The freshest of shinies usually don’t see his face until a few rotations into their deployment, even then usually in private moments and passing chances. The very rare occasion Fox eats with his corries in the mess hall (the times he actually has time to), glances of Fox in the medical bay being treated after a sideways operation (only after everyone else has been cared for by his firm insistence,) the training assessments he’s able to schedule and be apart of and participate in (swift healing to the pride of cocky shinies he calls to the sparring mat.)

Rather, it’s not impossible that he’s most often unhelmed in the situations of senate view.

Talking down antsy senators is one thing, and there’s numerous reasons why Fox’s number one rule for his Corries to follow is to never remove your helmet in senate view. The ability to decorate yourself and make yourself unique is a freedom the Coruscant guard gets to indulge very little in. They can’t decorate their armor for their own safety, and still enabling them the freedom to decorate their bodies and hair Fox is thankful he’s able to allow. But Fox’s mismatched armor isn’t unique to be hypocritical towards his own rules and troopers. It’s to protect them.

When a senator finds yet another fickle complaint about the troopers in red, they can’t discern amongst a selective Trooper to pin the blame. But in the line of white and red, Fox’s red and white armor catches their eye. There’s someone they can funnel their frustrations towards. Fox’s scars, hardened eyes, and graying hairs is the only face they’ve seen helmetless, the face they think about when building their ire.

[wackywatchdotcom]

genuinely one of my fav things ot think abt wrt tadc is like. the technical side of things. like idrk a lot abt computer science but i know a little and also like sci fi so i can follow a little of it and its really cool to think abt. like to me? the reason why abstraction occurs is bc, in the circus, a person is effectively JUST their mind. the mind is in a computer and all the signals its got is being read and interpretted and thats what gets the player model and how the person percieves themself to be standing or smth. and then the computer just sorta puts them somwhere and goes from there. so then abstraction is those signals starting to get jumbled up and jumbled up until the computer cant read it anymore and it just... gives the person a mess of an avatar bc it cant interpret them any other way. and bc the persons mind is all mixed in w computer junk this process kinda... scatters them a bit? and the computer can only send signals to the mind and affect its perception, but once all the computer and the mind are too jumbled up the computer cant put it back together

[aecholapis]

Aegis, Helios and Proteus in a cuddle pile ft. the best digital brush of all time

[aeolianblues]

I'm not an extrovert. At all. In everyday life, I'm a yapper, sure, but I need someone to first assure me I am okay to yap, so I don't start conversations, even when I really want to join in sometimes! It's just the social anxiety acting up. God knows where from and why I lose a lot of my inhibitions when it comes to talking to people about music. I don't know where the confidence has suddenly sprung from. I've made a crazy amount of friends in musical circles, either just talking to people about common music or (since it is after all in music circles) talking to bands about their own music. I let out a sigh of relief any time an interaction goes well, because in truth it's going against my every instinct. I wish I could do that in everyday life

[bat-the-misfit]

sei não

[joelletwo]

[stumbling out of the tf fic giggling helplessly] wahahahahahah i loveeeeeeee. i love writing. i love writing. its so magical.

[nonstandardrepertoire]

finally finished my unhinged 9000-word fic about Data and friends causing a constitutional crisis in response to Commander Maddox's fucking bullshit so here it is if that sounds interesting to you!

[pallweople]

Pall Weople Family data

ok, in order to make a decent family tree and create some order I'm going to need info, so please copy fill in and reblog! :)

addressing @/your url

nickname: (how you want to be called)

pronouns: (preferred pronouns) (can be edited any time once the tree is up, so don't feel like it's final <3)

Wearsonal sign off: (tag you use in the pall weople post)

Wearsonal role: (ex: pall dweller, pall child, pall parental unit)

relations (both in the walls and in the HF in general)

parents: (who adopted you in the fams)

uncles/aunts/pibling: (who claimed you as nibbling)

siblings: (claimed siblings)

children:(who you've adopted)

tumblr-married to: (who you're tumblr married/ engaged to)

cousins: (facultative, the hf is chaos, I have no hope for anyone knowing who everyone of their cousins is, but if they were claimed only as cousins please fill in)

other (specify): (is there anything else? pets maybe?)

uncommented version to copy-paste!

addressing @/your url

nickname:

pronouns:

Wearsonal sign off:

Wearsonal role:

relations

parents:

uncles/aunts/pibling:

siblings:

children:

tumblr-married to:

cousins:

other (specify):

mine as example!

addressing @circusislife

nickname: circus

pronouns: she/her

Wearsonal sign off: circus juggles

Wearsonal role: pall parental unit

relations

parents: none

uncles/aunts/pibling: none

siblings: @6leafclover

children:@someluwritingghost @astral-catastrophe @hero-dualies-pog @frostedshadow @hyperfixatezz @mushr0oms-and-m0ss @ootlink-is-love @bzagender @callmeshinso

tumblr-married to: none

cousins: none

other (specify): unknown (who the heck am I coparenting with?!?!?)

arsonisticscholar astral-catastrophe hero-dualies-pog frostedshadow someluwriter hyperfixatezz justanotherhighlycaffeinatednerd ladye-zelda mushr0oms-and-m0ss is-apotato ootlink-is-love 6leafclover (hero-of-soup) xjgbhk bzagender

(if anyone wants to claim someone as relative in some way they have to ask the person in some way!)

(important notice: nothing is written in stone, once the tree will be up anyone can update it, in the meantime edit your own reblog of this! <3)

(*sighs* we're all going to get tagged a lot, but this needs to be done ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[echthr0s]

*tumbling Leviathan (Hellraiser), Leviathan (Mass Effect), Slaanesh, Nyarly, and Adrian Shepard around in my brain microwave* hold on. hold on let me cook

[bunnyboy-juice]

GRAAAAAAAH MISREPRESENTING DATA DOES NOTHING FOR ANYONE EXCEPT FEED TROLLS WHO ARE TRYIGN TO TAKE OYU IN BAD FAITH ANYWAY OH MY GD

[pierswife]

Oh yeah have the "manda should've been paying attention in class tonight but (s)he didn't want to" doodle dump before I pass tf out