Yeah, America's a creation of DC comics, which is why the hunger games takes place in the DC universe cause it pentions the place being founded on top of murica
Any time the us is mentioned in media it's actually just a reference to dc comics people who say they're "American" are like those people who say they're jedi
in the tng episode "datalore" from the 1st season, data mentions that he can tell some work station belonged to "dr. soong." to which both riker and la forge are like who? and wait, you don't mean NOONIEN soong right?
so from that dialogue, it stands to reason that the fact that noonien soon is the creator of data either wasn't known, or wasn't common knowledge. Since data is super unique and mentioned in several biomechanical textbooks, i feel its unlikely that riker wouldn't know about noonien soong, especially since riker said in read through data's file in the pilot.
ANYWAY, this sort of suggests that it wasn't known that dr noonien soong was the creator of data. which is a funny idea to me
BECAUSE
so in the first season of tng, data says he was found 26 years ago. we know from that episode that noonien soong failed to create a positronic brain, and disappeared. after disappearing, he was successful to varying degrees, with b4/lore/data. so i'm going to estimate that his disappearance happened about 40-50 years before the episode "datalore", and about 20-30 years before data was discovered right?
so imagine: you are a middle age cyberneticist working at star fleet. you remember noonien soong from a long time ago, as a weird but smart man who seemed to not be able to handle failure, but that was a long time ago, no sense thinking about it now. then you hear the news: an artificial being has been discovered, possibly one with sentience. This being has requested to join star fleet, and there are currently trials being conducted to determine whether or not to permit this. You think whoa! i gotta go check this out. so you see this mysterious android, whom no one seems to know the origin of, and you think huh......this guy
For the past months, I've been putting my time and effort into an interest of mine...Something that came upon my mind during one night at bed...Is it a life-changing book that I've wrote? A manifesto? Or perhaps, it might just be...
dear fellow huanlian fan i pray that nothing serious happens to your health 🙏🙏🙏 i have been following your tgcf posts since ep1 of the donghua s2 ~ truly a joy to see your posts so please be well and keep posting 🌸
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/starts sobbing/
thank you dear friend oh my god
i swear i am so scared every time i post because i actually have a huge self-image anxiety
i feel like i’m writing too stupidly, too loudly, too selfishly
but i haven’t had an opportunity to share my feelings on tgcf for so long
because i never found a fandom friend for brainrot chatting
and then i ended up here (ty @ardenrabbit) and figured
why don’t i post here
this way i won’t bother anyone in particular and no one is gonna read anyway
but then people did
and started liking and sharing and commenting???
and it’s such a confusing but nice feeling
this rush of big numbers
but the reality of it is hard to comprehend
aren’t people annoyed??? that manic manner of speech must be obnoxious
what if i wrote something good once but then people started noticing that it’s not, in fact, good at all???
it’s very scary
but
when i see such reaction posts from others
i feel true and deep joy
a feeling of companionship, probably
a happiness in seeing someone share your love for something
it amplifies the feeling
and maybe
if i can make someone feel something like this for a moment, then it’s all good, right? 💦💦💦
so thank you very much for writing this, kind person ❤️💦
I am so fucking mad that I'm in so deep for Terra (and Isa but only a little less) right now that I've debased myself to watching the stupid fucking Remind cutscenes because GOD KNOWS I'm not paying 30 dollars for that bullshit.
GOD Kingdom Hearts III was a garbage dump but I did get SOME crumbs out of it I fucking guess.
This whole thread from one of the early devs for SWTOR is fascinating on the development cycle and what didn’t make it into the game. But this one in particular he me shouting “I KNEW IT!!”:
Like I haven’t been able to get my hands on the art book yet, where I thought there might be eeeearly concept art shared that supported my hypothesis. See, the first set of comics has a bizarre and WILDLY different take on so many familiar NPCs from the class stories (I think most notably Satele, who looks like a Bastila clone, but the rest are also very head scratching), it led me to believe that they had completely redone the concepts of the whole cast at some point.
Given that tie-in media works on a different timeline than game production (and much longer than the layperson thinks), I had always suspected that the artists had been given early concept art, and at some point they revamped the character designs and either forgot to tell the artists — or they were simply too far along to change anything and had to roll with it. But this definitely explains the character design discrepancies between source materials.
Also, RIP this amazing concept (I’m guessing it was cut from the Trooper storyline?):