#zenith technology

[hartlesshart]

Aloy: HAH HAH! Seyka: OH SHI-

[object-yaoi]

was scrolling through this lovely website and drew some old computers <3

compys' featured:

Vector 1 Zenith Easy PC Intertec Superbrain ALTOS 586 Canon Cat

[forbiddenwestern]

a little testosterone would fix Beta I think

[bo1908]

YOONCHAE KATSEYE : TECNA WINX CLUB

[dandyads]

Zenith, 1975

Theme Week: Cutting Edge Technology 🤖

[of-fear-and-love]

Zenith G500 TransOceanic radio, 1949, designed by Robert Davol Budlong, as it appears in Love Jones (1997)

[lovelyllamasblog]

Tecna ⚡

Fairy of Technology

Guardian Fairy of Zenith

Zenith

Birthday: June 9 (4Kids) December 16 (Cinélume)

Fairy Sign: Elf (4Kids) Triton (Cinélume)

Star Sign: Gemini (4Kids) ♊ Sagittarius (Cinélume) ♐

[starborn-scene-demon]

gonna take a picture of my phone with my phone with my phone with my psp with my 3ds and finally with my phone

[k-chips]

HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST FINALE SPOILERS. BECAUSE THIS IS HOW I COPE.

Let’s just imagine the fight against Specter Prime went a little bit different or, how I like to imagine, let’s pretend this is how it CANONICALLY ENDED… for my broken heart 🥲

Our dear Tilda ended up with some serious scratches, even with that fancy Zenith technology of hers, but she was brought back at the base by Aloy because my girl is that good and they need all the help to stop Nemesis. And yes, Tilda and Sylens are besties!

Ok, for real, Guerrilla, why Sylens yes but Tilda no??? Well, my canon says she’s fine and get’s the “stop being delusional and insane for your ex” arc she deserves.

[c0tt0nballz]

The eltingville club as computers because i love old computers

Bill:

The most basic computer ever, there isnt anything special about it, i just dont see him being a very unique computer nor person, they think they are 1 in a million but they are actually a buy 2 get 1 free

Josh:

An apple lisa, considered a failure but also a glimp into the future, they were not reliable, it didnt have a lot of space for anything before it broke down, and people dont really like it, also gray reminds me of josh

Jerry :

A portable Zenith Data Systems, he follows you anywhere you go, i dont really have a lot to say about these computers, im not a technology geek, these guys are, he just looks like a portable computer that is very easy to break

Pete :

A nokia tracfone, not a computer, but a phone, im not even gonna try to sound smart here he is just the tiniest of them all, i want him to be pissed that he got an itty bitty tiny phone while everyone got the cool computers, could it be considered a burner phone? Probably not

Soon enough im gonna draw the club as their respective digital thingies

credits to one of my tiktok moots for finding these perfect picsss, i was gonna @ him but he said he didnt want to sooo, heyyyy

[bo1908]

TECNA WINX CLUB

[all-encompassing-hero]

One thing I love about the Horizon franchise is how both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West make it explicitly clear that while the current threat might be the machines and rouge AI threatening Aloy and her people, the true evil behind everything is and always has been capitalism and, to an extent, the One Percent.

[Spoiler warning for both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West]

Obviously, there's Ted Faro, a man who, through a combination of overinflated ego and massive incompetence, doomed the world twice over. First, accidentally, by designing war machines capable of consuming organic matter as fuel and programmed with code so complex, it took several hundred years to crack. And then, on purpose, by deleting thousands of years of human knowledge and history in some misguided attempt to help the future generations. A man who not only built the Torment Nexus from the book "Don't build the Torment Nexus" but then deleted all records of both his construction and the story from which it came so that future generations would not be able to learn from the mistakes of those who came before them.

Now, while the Zeniths are not as heavyhanded about the themes of the evils of capitalism compared to Ted Faro, they do still uphold that narrative. Remember that the Zenith crew was composed almost entirely of the rich and famous. Rich and famous who would rather save their own skins rather than try to help humanity in its final hours. When they managed to do the impossible and achieve immortality, what did they do with it? Squandered it by becoming lazy, only using it to essentially prolong their own pleasure. Some even became greedy enough to go beyond physical immortality, and when that greed caused the destruction of their home and threatened the new life that had begun on Earth, what did the remaining Zeniths do? Turned tail and ran. Because the only thing that matters to them is self preservation.

Tilda might actually be the worst of them. Because while the others may not care that they're in the wrong, Tilda is the only one who believes she is in the right. Tilda, the woman who was arguably the closest to Elizabet, who watched her choose to stay to help develop the Zero Dawn project rather than abandon Earth, who has been grieving that loss for over a thousand years, believed that, given a second chance, Elizabet would choose to abandon Earth. Tilda, who believed that she was doing the right thing even as she was attempting to force Aloy to abandon her people the same way she wanted Elizabet to abandon Earth. Tilda, who died believing that the woman she loved died a pointless death even after seeing the new world created by Zero Dawn.

The Horizon franchise is and always has been a story about technology. How technology can do so much good in the hands of the right people, but also so much evil in the hands of the wrong people. And it keeps telling us that the "wrong people" are the rich and greedy, the ones who only look out for themselves, the ones who would leave humanity to die if it meant saving themselves.

My biggest hope for Horizon 3 is that it continues this message. That it continues to show that technology can be used for good, but only when in the hands of people who have the best interest of others at heart rather than their own.

[of-fear-and-love]

1946 Zenith model 12H094 radio, as seen in The War of the Worlds (1953)

(source 1, 2)