#evulation of technology

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[beserkerjewel]

We need to find the balance between "children and teens should be allowed to have free reign of all parts of the internet with no guidance or supervision and any harm that comes to them is their own fault" and "children and teens should be forced to sit in a plain white room with nary a speck of technology on their person lest their innocent minds be corrupted by teh evul social media" because the way people act in regards to kids and the internet/social media/tech in general is ridiculous!

[greenyvertekins]

Sonic CD pro-environmental messages aged very well all things considered (unlike most 90s environmental messages). It didn't come off as cringe or preachy ala ferngully. Nor did it go down the route of "all technology is evul devilry" . Yes it has the bad futures being polluted cyberpunkish hell-holes but at the same time the good futures shows that technology can be used to help nature and live in harmony with it, creating a utopia💖

One thing I'll always respect Sonic Team for is how they've handled the series' green message in general and especially how they did so in CD. Even the choice of palette for each time period is genius. Compare the bright, eye-pleasing palettes often seen in good futures with the grubby, dark industrial palettes seen in the bad futures. What I also think is great about CD is how it portrays what an awful world ruler Dr Eggman would be. The future's he's wrecked are inhospitable for his own robots as all robots in the bad future are broken. Really gets across how important and right Sonic's opposition to him is.

[aquillis-main]

Even NICOLE's origin is evil. Ben Hurst once said that he originally intended for NICOLE to be created by Robotnik when he kidnapped a little furry girl and murdered her by uploading her mind/soul into a computer for absolutely no reason! So technology is still innately evul

Oh god, Iremember that. Complained about it, too.

[cant-blink]

Showa Ghidorah Backstory

I mentioned earlier that I would share the backstory of my Showa Ghidorah canon. I take no credit for this, as I read it in the book, “Godzilla vs The Space Monster” and liked it enough to make it canon!

Whilst one asked if my Monsterverse Ghidorah is a bioweapon, of which I say can probably say no, Showa Ghidorah is. His creators must’ve been an evul race then, yes? To create such a terrible sadistic creature that can only think of death!

Actually, Showa’s creators were a scared race. When they learned that other life exists out there, they were horrified. “What if,” they went “those races evolved the technology to come here and kill us all?”

They didn’t want that, and scared for their future, they came up with a plan. They would send crystals to each planet they found that had life, to monitor that life. They’re cool with everything, up until that life discovers weapons-of-mass-destruction, like nukes. It’s at that point, the alien race sees them as a potential threat. Best to eliminate them before they develop space travel and destroy their planet!

But how?

For that, they created Ghidorah.

Ghidorah is such a powerful creature, that is designed to wipe out any lifeforms he sees indiscriminately and with great pleasure. The aliens keep him under heavy sedation when not in use and mild mind-control when he’s active. They transport him to the target planet in his signature asteroid, said asteroid would crash into the planet to cause dinosaur-style mass extinctions and Ghidorah finishes off the survivors.

In the book, humans try to destroy his incoming asteroid, causing Ghidorah to break free pre-maturely, kill off the astronauts in charge of the mission, then circles the sun to gain extra power (because he’ll have a bigger task than usual without his asteroid) before coming in to destroy.

Showa Ghidorah never spoke to the native kaiju. He only laughed at them as he defeats all their opposition. They’re beneath him and likely, he wouldn’t know their language regardless. At one point, Mothra and Battra team on him and they were smart; they recognized Ghidorah’s wings as a weak point and targeted those wings heavily during the battle, establishing Mothra especially as the strategist among kaiju. After he had them both defeated and left for dead, Ghidorah retreats to Antarctica to regenerate the damage done in peace. Yes, he too has regeneration, just as Rebirth Ghidorah and Monsterverse Ghidorah. He seems to emit an energy field as he does, so the humans are unable to see what he’s doing while he’s vulnerable. 

Now, Showa Ghidorah is taken from planet to planet and monitored by an AI, but his mind control is mild as he seem largely in control of his own actions. He has strategies for both killing humans and defeating kaiju, and he performs acts of sadism towards the kaiju that defies him. At one point, he personally dismembers and rips off the tail of one of Godzilla’s friends and drops it at Godzilla’s feet to mock him.

Usually, when he’s done destroying the planet’s lifeforms, he goes to the spy-crystals and is placed under sedation again as the crystals is launched into space by the AI and he’s taken back home until needed once more.

In the book, Ghidorah’s attack on earth is ultimately a failure of course. His wings are broken and whilst wrestling with Godzilla, Ghidorah is shoved into the crystal and locked inside. He struggles furiously to escape and keep fighting but is rendered unconscious. The AI, having gained sentience and experiencing character development over the course of the book, tells the main characters that it will stop its fear-filled masters by turning Ghidorah on his own creators. Heavily implying the mass extinction of that entire race, the very thing they feared would happen, done by their own creation.

I love that.

My headcanon continues beyond the book. After killing off his masters, the AI would no doubt attempt to have Ghidorah destroyed so he can’t do anymore harm. However, Ghidorah is too powerful and destroys the AI and now flies free through the universe. He is the rogue bioweapon, continuing on his purpose and design by killing off any life he comes across. His entire being is dedicated to that and he knows no greater pleasure. In this case, the AI’s hope of ending the carnage fails.

Ghidorah however has a flaw. He was created to be susceptible to mind-control and any aliens savvy enough can do just that. Except those aliens were a bit smarter, ensuring Ghidorah was completely under their control. However, when that mind control is broken (often by the humans!), Ghidorah is left dazed and confused and often chased off earth. An exception was in “Invasion of Astro-monster” where Ghidorah is a clear winner against Godzilla and Rodan, but still chooses to return to space.

Because Ghidorah does not take kindly to being made a pawn. When he’s freed, he will seek out the race that humiliated him and destroy them. 

Just as he had destroyed his own creators.

[mentallydatingahotcelebrity]

@godlyicarus don’t hide in the tags. Put your headass takes out where everyone can read them.

Now that that’s done: you didn’t answer a SINGLE thing I asked you to. THEN, the (weak) argument you proffered as to why you dislike the Darkling ISN’T EVEN ACCURATE. It’s like you’re purposefully misunderstanding his goals so you can have an excuse to hate him. He wanted to CONTROL The Fold—increasing or decreasing it depending on which neighboring country had designs on invading/attacking Ravka. He didn’t want to “plunge the world into darkness”; that’s literally the stupidest and most pointless idea ever. He intended to wield the Shadowfold as a defensive weapon (similar to nuclear weapons). Specifically on nations that regarded Grisha as demonic, or useless, or dangerous. Which… in an age where technology was advancing so rapidly to the point it had begun to supersede Grisha power (thus giving the monarchy reason to consider them obsolete or inferior as assets to the crown)… IS INTELLIGENT.

You have no idea what you’re talking about; only hating the Darkling cuz LB told you he’s “evul”.

kinda hate that the shadow and bone tv show means that once again everyone's obsessing over the darkling and wanting alina to end up with him even though he's literally evil and manipulates her. their relationship is so toxic and yet it's 2015 and everyone wants them to be together for some reason. pls get a grip

[dennaliligo]

THESIS IT!

During our 2nd semester in our fourth year, one of our requirements was to produce a thesis paper. Our thesis paper is entitled “An evaluation on prorpietary technologies used in managing a large-scale event in one private university” which is about the technologies used in Paskuhan festivities of the University of Santo Tomas.

Out of the three awards, we were able to get the Best Presentation (Best Defense) and Best Thesis Paper (according to our adviser, we just fell a point shorter to get the Best Poster award but it’s okay though haha).

One of the hardest yet memorable part of my college life.

[aquillis-main]

SatAM broke its own moral of technology being inherently evul.

Yep. It indeed did!

[that-arwen-udomiel]

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.｡.:*☆ “He was never meant to get this old, I guess. It was the doing of the ring. Such an evul little piece, I am glad Frodo was able to destroy it, at least.”

He smiled a little and took her hands into his. “As for now, my love, would you  be able to tell me a little more about this city, so I can finally settle in?”

“I’m glad the world was saved, and that, somehow, those I loved survived it.”  Arwen smiled at him gently before he took her hands, giving his a light squeeze.  “This city...where to begin?  Settling in will take some time...there is an entirely different way of life here, with odd technologies and strange ways of speaking.  I’ve been doing what I can to learn, but it has been a slow process.”