#Federation Sound

[bucephaly]

It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.

People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.

And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.

If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.

#and ive heard even dumber origins of the cherokee family myth #such as an ancestor having a silly sounding name so the descendents just go 'oh she mustve been an indian!!!' #i was one of the few people who had my ancestry done on the facebook and had genuine cherokee ancestry #[though i had found it before it was just really validating to get it double checked and i started finding cousins (:] #like. i was told once when i was a kid by my grandma that my dad had cherokee ancestry and i didnt believe her. its wild that so many peopl #will make it a Fixture of their identity [or even just smth they bring up ever] with Zero proof #at least for cherokees from what ive seen its usually considered really disrespectful to claim to have cherokee ancestry without #actually having the documentation [like ancestors on the rolls] #and no a dna test doesnt count. nor does 'my dad is Clearly not white!' or 'high cheekbones' or old family photos or anything #i had this discussion with someone recently whose dad had been calling himself 3/4 native but didnt know exactly what nation ???? hello? #and its like... sorry but ur dad is like. italian lol. #[and blood quantum is bullshit anyway im tired of the 'im 1/16 cherokee' comments its dumb #cherokee nation does not have a blood quantum requirement. its pointless bringing it up in the discussion of who is or isnt cherokee] #also mandatory disclaimer that im reconnecting. i didnt grow up connected to the culture of even knowing my ancestry #this is all from my looking into this stuff over the past year or so. i cant claim to be an authority over anything regarding this #this is p much all my repeating things ive heard said by people who know a lot more than i do haha #man. and this isnt even starting to get into the fake tribe stuff. the only legit cherokee groups are the 3 federally recognized bands #cherokee nation of oklahoma. united keetoowah band. and the eastern band of cherokee indians. #any others that are state recognized or not at all arent acknowledged as legitimate by any of the legit cherokee groups #anyway. my final message goodb.ye #cherokee #tsalagi

[royalarchivist]

Maxo: I haven't received an answer. Is there no one else on the island? Is it only us and The Federation?

How are we going to find answers about this mysterious island? This island, with a challenging but beautiful landscape, has pushed us to find out what hides in its depths.

With each sunrise our hopes to find life signs beyond our little community vanish... leaving a void in our souls. This is the story of people obligated to stay on an island looking for answers and a path or the truth... in the midst of an enigma that seems endless.

As days pass by, our courage and determination are being tested by the challenges of the island revealing secrets that threaten our view of reality.

The members of the Federation, an enigmatic and almighty organization, seem to be the only ones who possess any information about this place.

But their intentions and loyalty-

[Subscriber TTS plays]

Silence!

But their intentions and loyalty are questionable. Will they guide us to the truth? Or will they guide us further into the abyss of the unknown?

#AgenteMaxo #Maximus #QSMP #QSMP Federation #MAN. MANNNNNN. MAXIMUS IS SO FRICKIN COOL YOU GUYS. #Fell in love with his character during KarmaIand and haven't looked back since. Man's got such a great understanding of storytelling #also his voice ROCKS #when he did Sapo Peta I was like ''IS THAT HIS REAL VOICE??'' #then I heard his usual voice and I was like wtf that is. it's just a little bit deeper for Sapo Peta #wild #Anyways. This is a Maximus appreciation post #I did not translate nor subtitle this I yoinked this directly from the QSMP official updates account #but no one talks about Maximus on here so I'm rolling up my sleeves and doing my part #Not to sound like a Snob BUT- #[proceeds to sound like a snob] #I'm very picky about subtitles because some can be very hard to read #and one of the subtitling styles the updates accounts has been using sucks #it's way too bouncy for me #and distracting #they've dialed it down in recent weeks which I really appreciate #but I think this is my favorite format they've used thus-far #Thank you QSMP editors and updates accounts I owe you my life o7

[cocodavie]

Captain dukat save me… captain dukat. save me captain dukat.

*from this comic cover*

#star trek fanart #ds9 #gul dukat #dukat #son of star trek #my art #Dukat in the federation… Sounds cursed. #but i like it

[galmiahthepigeon]

Massive protest in Buenos Aires against severe budget cuts for free public universities. People sing "And now you see, and now you see, those who don't jump voted for Milei".

#i didn't take the best video #but i hope it's clear that this agglomeration I recorded here was not even close to the entirety of the people gathered up to protest #it was so massive you couldn't get to the plaza where the protest was meant to culminate #because there was so much people it was entirely occupied and it was physically impossible to advance #the subways were filled to the brim in both directions and you had to stand in line to use them. which NEVER happens #people who you could never even concieve of going to a protest were there. people ideologically opposed to protests were going. #people of all different political leanings were singing their own songs and suddenly united singing our national anthem in unison #you do NOT fuck with our public education. universidad gratuita pública laica y federal. #on a tangentially related note #there were basically no reports of repression even though they had been going crazy with police brutality in all the previous protests. #i think it's bc there literally weren't enough cops to handle this amount of people #a revolution is sounding reeeeeeally appealing right about now

[solid-six]

In most of the visits you make to the Oceanview Motel & Casino, there's a radio playing in the lobby. Here's a clip of it playing while you're standing right in front of it - this one is from the 'Clocks' side mission.

What's interesting, though, is that the further you move down either hallway, away from the lobby and the radio, the slower the music gets! The sound of the radio time-stretches more and more the further away you get from it.

Here's the same radio playing while you're standing in front of the first door closest to the lobby, (in either direction, doesn't matter which)...

...and in front of the second door from the lobby...

...and the third door...

...and then at the very end of the hall.

Here's a clip of Jesse walking from the end of the hall, when the music is completely stretched beyond recognition, all the way back to the lobby, (along with someone laughing hysterically somewhere?).

As far as I can tell, it's not that there are separate files/assets for certain distances away - it seems like it's a fluid change from regular speed all the way down - that it's actively shifting the speed on a curve, like turning up the reverb incrementally the further away from a sound you move.

I have to imagine that time-stretching is a pretty process-intensive effect to use like this, plus the fact that each time there's a radio playing in the lobby here it's a different tune, so they set this up to work in multiple instances with multiple tracks - that's a LOT of effort and detail for something so small. Unless it has an underlying meaning, (which, I mean, it's Remedy, so not unlikely), all of this is simply to add an eerie, other-wordly feeling to the location that you may not even consciously notice.

This is only one example of this, but I noticed it in every other instance of a radio playing in the lobby of the motel.

#control #control game #control remedy #remedy control #remedy entertainment #remedyverse #jesse faden #federal bureau of control #the oldest house #oceanview motel #video game sound design #video game soundtrack #sound design

[bumblingbabooshka]

Janeway visits Tuvok on Vulcan and they're waiting around for whatever reason when from behind them Janeway suddenly hears what sounds like a series of consonants interspersed with clicks and a shriek which somehow all together sound like the first steps of some undiscovered bird, stretching its wings for the first or perhaps final time. Tuvok looks up and turns toward the noise. "Yes?" This is his last name.

#I want Vulcan names UNPRONOUNCEABLE to the human tongue #I don't know if Schn tgai is Spock's canon last name but if it is then it's Federation Anglicized bc of Sarek's family's ambassador role #Vulcan last names were once persistent abstract images. Slen [floating ocean] vs Slen [barking animal] vs Slen [an upturned glass] #but over time (maaany years ago when records began needing to be kept) this evolved into a sound which would mimic the image #so most Vulcan last names are like 'sssserchclckckkaenrthaernglooHAGHNchclckclhlchck' #<- my personal canon #last names are merged upon marriage so Vulcans are constantly adding to the tapestry of telepathic images which consitute them #st voyager #Tuvok

[vern-a]

HORRIBLE NIGHT EVERYONE!! MY ASS WILL NOT SLEEP SOUNDLY

i got out of my comfy bed for this am so mad. FUMING

Phil and Forever fucking around while the server is down gave me much needed joy after the FUCKERY that happened. FUCK THE BINARY BITCH BINARY BITCH ENTHUSIASTS DNI!!! >:( /j

#forever sounded so sad and tired :(((( #tallulah my love my joy. sweetheart. angel. i love you tallulah you are doing so amazing sweetie #when i awake you best believe there will be a surplus of art of that binary fuck getting violently and graphically murdered #if dapper loses a life i will kill everyone in the islands federation and then myself #GOOD FUCKING NIGHT #this is just block game. this is just block game. #qsmp spoilers #qsmp fanart #qsmp #art bits

[alexanderpearce]

reading up about british government as an australian (or as anyone) is sooo fucked up literally.. what do you mean are there actually well over a thousand mps at a federal level? why do you genuinely actually have a house of fucking lords? why is your parliament building a palace? are you ever serious? please be fucking serious for once? 1428 mps in the two houses combined? why do you need that many? why do you need that many? are the lords actually controlling shit? are the 778 people in the hereditary house of lords that still exists in 2023 actually controlling things?

#so many questions that im not sure i want the answers to. look im not one for any of this shit i hope it burns but #at least australia isnt as bad as britain #is it around 220 or so mps at a federal level all up senate and house of reps combined? this sounds a lot less terrible #shut up ulrike

[preciousmetaltimeofnight]

I think it's fair that Bad kidnapped a federation worker actually. Like outside of Walter Bob not a single federation worker had been actually kind or acted like a proper person to him and the others before that.

Like he's trying to find his kids been questioning all the workers and getting no where. But the federation has in most situations known what's going on in the island and has kidnapped his kids before. Of course he thinks they have information.

And it's not like the islanders haven't tried to kidnap Cucurucho before. But that never works, so why not kidnap one of the workers, maybe they'll be easier to torture and question.

And originally when Ron was honestly saying he didn't know anything it probably felt like he was just saying the party line. Because when Cucurucho the person Bad would probably have wanted to kidnap didn't want to answer a question he would say "I don't know" or "Classified"

Like hindsight is 20/20 now that we know low level federation workers are probably treated worse than the islanders (I do not believe for one second any federation therapist is a good effective therapist and not just a tool to enforce conformity if a therapist even exists) Bad kidnapping and torturing Ron was obviously not the best choice. But I do think it was a reasonable course of action

#qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo #like what he did is 100% fucked up #but I think his reasoning if a bit extreme was pretty sound #like idk the only federation worker I remotely trust is Walter #also for reference I only mean the blank people as federation workers and like Cucuruchos #idk what was up with the early security guards and I dont care

[mishapen-dear]

what if they reintroduce jaiden to the qsmp by having her melt out of the ice too. what if thats how she comes back what if she impossibly comes out of the ice and she can't remember any of them. what if she's the ???? announced today listen ironmouse has a vtuber jaiden has a vtuber it's all connected look listen listen

#qsmp #she was the one to find the ice #but cellbit had to collect information about the timer dungeon in SECRET #why wasn't jaiden allowed to know anything if not for Secret Evil Federation reasons #and she said that one thing about her character and something about being bittersweet in a meta sort of way #which terrified me because it sounded like she was plotting a reason to LEAVE the qsmp #but no she seems to be having too much fun #it makes more sense to take a break from her character and come back with something new #im making sense im cooking so well listen

[cosmiccanidae]

@badmusejail continued from here

"Smart man," he said with a grin.

Raisu certainly knew better than to underestimate people based on appearance either. He'd seen it happen enough times. Easy for a more hot-headed person to not think much of the older man leaning on a cane.

This guy seemed interesting though. There was something in the way he was easily twirling that wrench without fumbling it betrayed practiced skill and developed coordination. There was also something familiar about him.

The canid snickered at that comment. "Only sometimes, eh? Lucky for me. I must say though, is my memory playing tricks, or have I seen your face somewhere before?"

#badmusejail #Reading over your space au page it sounds like it fits perfectly with the world I'd imagined so that's exciting #Our respective 'Federations' could even fit as the same organization #Though Raisu would hate any organization like that either way XD

[janesurlife]

Hello children, look what I found. Nothing Just Roger Federer annoying everyone cause he can't seem to miss the ball ☺️

#roger federer #those grunting sounds reminds me of someone #did i say that out loud? #it's Rafa Nadal #rafael nadal

[svtskneecaps]

cucurucho and the federation need to step up their game. what is up with those basic ass questions? what the hell do those tell you about a person?? nah. NAH. i have a LIST of questions on my phone that would tell you INFINITELY more about a person than their basic ass "what was your name / occupation / hobby / age" step up your scientific game you polar bear bitch. EXAMPLES:

what is your minecraft sprint keybind? (information gained: are you basic, normal, or are you wacked out of your FUCKING MIND)

what color is your elephant? (information gained: do they take things at face value or do they think more deeply [i.e. did they ask "tf you mean 'my elephant']? are they a basic bitch ("gray") or a quirky random sparkle sunshine (any other color) )

if you could get rid of one word from any language, what word would it be and why? (information gained: do they attack their language or someone else's? is it because of the word's meaning, or its pronunciation, or an outside factor?)

if you could choose a measurement system to use, would you use metric, imperial, or something else? (information gained: are they water (metric) or a human being (imperial) )

how fast can you type? (information gained: are they terminally online and/or a fucking loser for knowing their wpm)

at what minute does 3 o'clock stop being 3 and start being 4? (information gained: do they take things at face value, and where do they start rounding [ex. is 3:30 still 3? is 3:31 still 3? 3:40?] )

when i say 'chair' do you see a chair in your head? describe that chair. (information gained: do they think in images? psychoanalyze their chairs. steel chair? school chair? rocking chair? electric chair?)

which finger do you start counting on? (information gained: do they count with their culture or are they a class traitor)

are you a cowboy or a pirate? (information gained: are they a cowboy or a pirate)

#qsmp #FEEL FREE TO SOUND OFF WITH MORE LET'S PROVE THE FEDERATION AIN'T SHIT #basically what i'm saying is cucurucho feel free to consult with me i don't charge any fees #shut up vic #block game brainrot #for legal reasons this is both comedy and genuine curiosity #i wonder these kinds of things almost constantly #would love if the qsmp census bureau took its job seriously and came up with more than five questions #feels like a missed opportunity to me idk they've got a lot going on already ofc #but cucurucho showing up periodically with randomly unhinged and perfectly reasonable uquiz type questions #sounds fucking hilarious to me. like 'what's your favorite color? have you ever met god?'

[ufipa]

What is the UFIPA?

The UFIPA - or, United Federation of Interstellar and Planetary Anomalies - is a player civilisation in the sci-fi exploration game No Man’s Sky.

We seek to gather a group of Travellers who share our interest in exploration, documentation and Sentinel Hunting to help build a community that will, hopefully, one day reach Hub status.

Though the wiki states a particular set of motives, our civ is governed mainly by our citizens, and we hope to deviate from our original incentive to something that our community as a whole has shaped and tailored to fit the needs of everyone within it.

You can learn more here.

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#UFIPA #United Federation of Interstellar and Planetary Anomalies #no mans sky #no mans sky civilization #nms civ #see you in the stars traveller #sounding too serious again #Gek #Vy’keen #Korvax #Autophage #Anomaly #Traveller Anomaly #Traveller #korvax out

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tom Paris trying to talk to 21st century humans bc an away mission went wrong but the universal translator is damaged and he's speaking Federation Standard and Standard sounds nothing like English so to them he's just making noises. (Harry is in the background trying to fix the translator so it keeps coming in and out, leading to further hilarity as they all catch snippets of conversation)

#fake voyager episodes my beloved #Tom decided to give it a go bc he's the history nerd #He knows a few words of English but not enough #I want Federation Standard to just sound like alien noises incomparable to any Earth language #it sounds (in my mind) quite literally like a bunch of different planets decided on what would be 'Standard'

[internetstarlets]

god i miss aaron hotchner so bad i just want to see that sweet brown eyed man again :[

#like jack is college aged hotch could come out of retirement now #dont even have to put him in the field idc #aaron hotchner director of the federal bureau of investigation sounds nice #give me him back