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Superman desperately scanning the street during a fight to find the most morally acceptable car to throw at his opponent, knowing that not everybody has insurance, and loss of transportation can ruin a life -

A wave of incredible relief washes over him as he spots the hard geometric lines and silver paintless sheen of a Cybertruck.

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Look, if you're having a bad day, here's a 6,000 year old pig-shaped pottery pot.

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(no children, the mountain goats/US politics)

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You never recover from being weird in middle school

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They should invent a way to sit hunched over doing crafts that is Good for your body

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Things That Were Not on My Bionicle Book Bingo (Bionicle Adventures Edition)

SCP Creatures

Kaiju city battle

Vakama breaking into Lhikan’s house (he's dead) to look at his diary all whilst getting yelled at by an old furry for breaking into Lhikan’s house

Rahi / animals suddenly ripping each other to shreds and jumping off cliffs and getting killed after the first 10ish books made sure to skirt around "animal" violence

Onewa turning his “here’s why you fucking suck” speeches on whoever the Villain of the Day is and it working with like a near 100% success rate

Nuju NOT being the cute, generic 2000s smart guy from the Miramax movie. Will canonically point a weapon at Matau’s head because his shapeshifting powers are freaking him out. “Change back.”

World’s most nonchalant reveal (not even in-text in the main books) that hey guys Real!Dume’s been fine all along yeah he just decided to stay back on Metru Nui after crawling out of his pod off-screen

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Decided to show you all my take on the whole Matoran numerals debate.

A lot of people have pointed out in the past that the 1-9 symbols we have for Matoran numbers appear to show an incomplete pattern, with a repeat on a new inner ring happening on the number 6, which could theoretically be extrapolated out to show the numbers all the way to 11, and then continued on with further inner rings for higher numbers.

This has always been pretty cool, both for the implication that Matoran count in base 6 rather than base 10 (always neat to see different counting systems in sci-fi/fantasy stories) and because it implies that a single symbol can be used for any number, unlike our system which requires multiple for numbers above 9.

The only problem with this though is that it gets really unwieldy, really fast. Getting up to 11-12 is fine. You can just about get up to 17-18 and still have it easily readable, but after that it gets increasingly more difficult to fit everything in and still have the symbol recognisable at a glance. There are number systems that allow for one symbol per number even for much larger ones (I think Cistercian numerals are pretty neat and worth a google) but the inherent design of the Matoran symbols just doesn’t allow for easily readable higher numbers.

That’s why I’m proposing instead of a base 6 system with only one symbol per number, the Matoran might use a base 12 system with increasing digits per multiple of 12. I think this gives us the best of both worlds: we can extrapolate out the repeating symbols hinted at in the canon version, but not to such a degree that the symbols for higher numbers become functionally useless. Plus, as counting systems go, base 12 is actually really useful. It’s highly divisible, whilst still being small enough to have an easy number of individual symbols to memorise (unlike the even more highly divisible base 60).

What do you think?

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that “presidential alert: the girls are fighting” image was literally made for this exact moment it’s almost too perfect

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they spent billions on this

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incredible. they're keeping secrets from each other while discussing whether they should keep secrets from the toa nuva. levels of secrecy that shouldn't even be possible.

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@afanofmanyhats Validation of our opinion that Whenua's movie voice missed the mark- even Greg didn't particularly like it.

Also, Greg thinks Whenua should sound old and wise even as a Toa. Sort of fits with my headcanon that he was considered old for an Onu-Matoran.

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Every day I learn something new about Bionicle's world building. What do you mean the entire story is, in-universe, translated from Matoran text into earthly languages

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new four temperaments are clown, 80s, cowboy, and goth.

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List of things the Piraka have done, according to non-canon Bionicle media

Shared a grubby bachelor pad where they had a cage specifically to put Hakann in

Invaded your parent's bedroom

Played on an unusually dangerous seesaw

Been non-fatally decapitated and used as hand puppets by the Toa Inika

Recorded a music video

Played strip poker

Kidnapped the All American Rejects and forced them to do finger painting.

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how it feels to stop tossing and turning and get up to piss