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Where did she go? She was with Wyldfire when since she was a baby and took care of here with Heatwave. But when Heatwave was captured and Wyldfire left to free him, she stayed there. She must be so worried about Wlydfire and Heatwave and sitting waiting and waiting for them to come back, while Wlydfire is becoming a ninja with Heatwave.

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I bet these fandom tags love me :)

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Dude, I love old ninjago🍰

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Yo what if you went off about s3, it'd be cool

The love triangle, the quick tech development, whatever you want, I wanna know what you think

(I saw you in the tags of that post, please gimme the analysies. pretty please)

The entirety of my thoughts on Ninjago's technology are long and vast and complicated, and I could probably make a full video essay on just that topic alone. But for the sake of simplicity, and also because I'm too lazy to write a 10k-word essay with screenshot evidence on why Ninjago tech isn't actually anachronistic, I'm going to just focus on the season 3 issue for now.

Now, one criticism that often gets lobbed at Rebooted is the matter of the technology. How did Ninjago suddenly become a hyper-futuristic technoscape in the span of what couldn't be more than a year? At first glance, I can understand how that might feel unrealistic. I used to feel the same way! But it actually makes total sense when you realize that this technology probably already existed, if only in a beta form, for years before s3 started.

But wait! If the technology already existed in some form, then why wasn't it used? Why did Ninjago only become a cyberpunk dystopia during s3??

The answer to that question is something that sounds like a no-brainer, but should probably be said anyway: just because a technology exists, doesn't mean it is democratized. That is to say, just because a society has made certain technological advancements, doesn't mean everyone in that society can actually access those advancements. Look at any country in our contemporary world - richer and more industrialized communities typically have better access to cutting edge developments, whereas more rural communities may not even have reliable internet access. Even Ignacia, which is one of the most rural communities we've seen in the entire show, was depicted as having landlines and telephone poles in the very first scene.

Moreover, it's reasonable to assume that robotics and digital technology has existed - and fairly advanced - for decades in-universe.

My evidence? The creation of characters such as Zane and Unagami. Both were invented roughly 40 and 20 years pre-canon respectively. Coding, and especially programming an AI like both characters are classified as, requires the existence of a computer. Which means that computers existed as early as the Serpentine War. (Unless Zane is the product of magi-tech, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Especially since Zane's original body also has other functions that, to my knowledge, wouldn't be possible without programming. For now, I'm proceeding under the assumption that Zane was created purely with technology.)

For these reasons I would argue that certain technologies, and in particular digital technology, have existed in-universe for a lot longer than we might think at first glance - but due to what appears to be some very extreme wealth disparity, technology has only recently become more widely accessible within the last few decades.

Think about it. Most human settlements we see are fairly small and rural, except for Ninjago City. Ninjago City is the only city we've seen on-screen in the entire series (with a few small towns here and there, but it's mostly just villages). And even then, the cost of living in Ninjago City itself is astronomically high. There's clearly something funky going on with this country's distribution of wealth.

With that in mind, it makes total sense that the tech we see in s3 was at least in development a lot earlier than anyone might realize. It's just that it was too expensive and exclusive for anyone in the general public to actually use it.

Now, let's look at this in the context of Rebooted.

Imagine you're a multi-millionaire tech mogul and the CEO of a very powerful tech company. The city is in shambles in the wake of an apocalyptic battle against Lego Satan. You take this opportunity to spearhead the reconstruction efforts. On top of being an impressive PR stunt, this is also great for business as it presents you with the perfect opportunity to populate the city wholesale with your own products: flying cars, holographic floating streets, AI vending machines, elaborate VR and AR setups, mechanical spider wheelchairs, the whole nine yards. The government probably even writes you a big check to make this process more accessible to your consumers - I mean, to the citizens of your the shiny new corporatocracy you may or may not have stumbled into creating. Whether or not you employed lobbyism to get this check is neither here nor there. After all, this is for the greater good! And to finally seal the deal that this city has become a Borg Industries outpost, you rebrand Ninjago City to New Ninjago City. This isn't just a city anymore, it's a corporate asset. It's an ad campaign. It's a way of life.

This also explains why all the tech mysteriously vanishes after s3 ends: supply and demand. A robot apocalypse is, among other things, bad for PR. I don't wanna think about the existence of a Lego Stock Market because that will hurt my brain, but a robot apocalypse is definitely what I would classify as a "black swan event" (an unpredictable crisis that severely disrupts the stock market). The company starts faltering financially because of all the public backlash, people stop buying and investing in their tech, their stocks start to crash, and Borg Industries has to roll back on their infrastructural monopoly. And so the technological status quo is (mostly) restored.

The theme of s3 isn't "technology bad" - at least, it shouldn't be. If you're as brainrotted as I am then the theme of s3 instead becomes, "maybe you shouldn't let one sole company have a total monopoly on your society's infrastructure because they might accidentally start a cyberpunk dystopia". And that is a...disturbingly apt moral for our current day and age (cough cough Amazon).

...can you tell I've been listening to The Fine Print by Stupendium on loop for too long?

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Luh-loyd art compilation:

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A tale as old as time

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AHHHHHHHH I FORGOT I WAS TAGGED AND THEN REMEMBERED I WAS TAGGGGGEEEDDD WRRAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

just made myself, picked the hairstyle that was closest to "messy plaits not done in a month" (I wear a hat and it's been a crazy semester)

thanks for the tag!! sorry it took so long!!!

@kokoasci @registered-morro-simp @doodle17 @rotten-dan @merpy-a

or whoever lol :p

I made a picrew!!!!!

I’ll add more parts later! You can always tell me what kind of parts you want. Send suggestions into my inbox.

Also please send me your sona(s) using this picrew, I want to see them

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I mean, thems the rules ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rule

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I'm built different. like incorrectly i think

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Hey if we're bringing some old elements back into the series, could we see Gravity or even Gravis again? I miss him and his funky hat :(

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The “spring forward, fall back” mnemonic still doesn’t help me. What’s moving, the world or the clock?

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"HOLY CANOLLI!! lloyd and garmadon in a face off!! 😱 nooo what is he doing??? 😟" JAY WALKER SHUT YOUR TRAP RIGHT NOW. WHAT ARE BABBLING ABOUT.

the recaps were so funny pop music blasting in the backround as nya gets kidnapped.. "NOOOOO- JUMP UP KICK BACK WHIP AROUND WITH THE FIRE EFFECT.

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I keep forgetting the Overlord is meant to be a powerful menace I've essentially manipulated myself into thinking he's literally just a fucking Joke now because of Lloyd's Conduit powers, and the existence of Ras' Master, who is infinitely more powerful than him...

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me when i wanna talk about my special interests but i got the vampire autism where you gotta invite me to talk about smth first, otherwise i wont say shit or dont know what to say because i feel like im annoying

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“plasmashipping is top tier” i say into the mic.

the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence of the room.

“he’s right” they say. i look for the owner of the voice. there in the fifth row stands: vincent tong himself with michael adamthwaite nodding beside him.