#Early Installment Weirdness

[stra-tek]

Favourite Star Trek "Early Installment Weirdness"

Spock as a Vulcanian, wearing yellow, with extra bushy and angled eyebrows and with "some human blood in [his] ancestry" [TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before"]

Headaches being cured and virtually unknown by the 24th century [TNG: "The Battle"]

That one and only time they referred to the ship as "The Voyager" and it sounded really weird [VOY: "Parralax"]

Shouting Spock! "THE WOMEN!!!!" [TOS: "The Cage"]

Captain Pike's dye job [DSC: "Brothers"]

Data showing emotions and using contractions [TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint"]

Troi experiencing the emotions she senses [TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint"]

Saru's homeworld originally being a brutal world of hunters and prey, before we visit later and it's all just high tech stuff and ancient traditions [DSC S1]

Pike using lasers in "The Cage" and the warp drive requiring lithium crystals in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", which would immediately be replaced with phasers and dilithium crystals

The weird way that phasers act like photon torpedoes (which IRL didn't exist yet), being pulses of energy that detonate at rage, in TOS: "Balance of Terror"

The Enterprise being an "Earth Ship" from the "United Earth Space Probe Agency" [TOS S1]

Add your own!

[tronmike82]

I’m replaying Combat Evolved right now, I just finished watching the ending cutscene for Assault on the Control Room; and wow Steve Downes’ first time as Master Chief was messy.

Jen Taylor is great, even with the wonky dialogue -calling the Covenant “clever bastards” when she sees them docking their boarding craft in the escape pod bays, or the ring’s data archives “glorious” when plugged into the core- but man Downes’ performance here doesn’t measure up to the later games.

[radiantrookie]

Pre-Lightish Red Donut

[littlepup93]

The difference between the order Star Trek TOS episodes were filmed vs the order aired is so damn funny to me. Like, the first episode aired shows the characters in the regular primary colored costumes that we're used to, and the characters all act largely how you'd see for the rest of the series. Notably Spock's a mild-mannered intellectual, and McCoy exists. There's very little exposition for what these guys get along like they do, so you're left to infer everything, on a plotline about McCoy's wife who will never come up ever again. Then 3rd episode drops, and suddenly everybody's wearing yellow and blue sweaters with nary a red shirt to be seen, Spock's brows are put on steeper than a ski slope, he shouts half his lines, and smiles. And McCoy is replaced by some other person. And then 4 hits, and everyone is back, and we get a weird episode dedicated to showing these characters uninhibited as a means of quickly showing deeper characterization. Only for McCpy to again disappear for another episode shortly thereafter. It's like they filmed these, put the episodes in a hat and drew them at random when they decided what to air.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Shout out to everyone cringing at the founding chapters of their longer works.

[krapsulkaiju]

THE TRAINERS - @gp329

[chikujoyt]

what version of style savvy do you like the best?

Personally, my favourite part of style savvy is checking the customers style, budget and order to my own stock (which has been chosen to be filled with the most versatile and pretty items possible if there's a strict limit). Finding the best combination of items and managing the boutique stock to make the most amount of money. I think the first game on the ds (style boutique, GIRLSMODE1 etc) is the best as the customers' style is more mixed making it harder but more interesting to find their style, the "take a look" and "try it on" options being more rewarding and less unfair, the sale and the leaflet options to manage stock better and the customers being able to buy clothes they've bought previously allowing the game to be replayed infinitely.

Obviously there are other games that make you do similar analysing or management, which I do think is fun in rpgs and other games. The difference is that style savvy has the charm and nostalgia associated with it that other games could never have. It's hard to explain, but the games feel dated in their aesthetics in the best way possible.

I love this series so much omd I could go on forever but I'll try to not explain the aesthetics before this gets too long

[cynicalclassicist]

This is one of those early odd bits.

jon snow: im a bastard. everyone hates me. i want to die. and im 14

tyrion for some fucking reason:

[virovac]

Peach the slave keeper...and Bowser has an inside man

Mips is or was officially Peach's pet rabbit, despite being a clearly sapient being with the ability to talk

“Yeeoww! Unhand me, brute! I'm late, so late, I must make haste! This shiny thing? Mine! It's mine. Finders, keepers, losers… Late, late, late… Ouch! Take it then! A gift from Bowser, it was. Now let me be! I have a date! I cannot be late for tea!” —MIPS, Super Mario 64

(The above text is from the Super Mario Wiki and is available under a Creative Commons license. Attribution must be provided through a list of authors or a link back to the original article. Source: https://www.mariowiki.com/MIPS)

Now...one wonders about if MIPS helped Bowser to be rewarded with a star

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

In their earliest appearances, the Circuit Chaps were shown to have embraced the necessity of using mechanical enhancements to allow them to continue living in an otherwise adverse environment,

but they quickly fell down the rabbit hole that led them to become soulless automatons.

[stra-tek]

I love how DC Comics put loads of cool looking tech in the warp nacelles instead of a generic blue glow in their first miniseries (it's also possible the artist never saw the model with all the lighting and effects added, since they had very little to go on)

[ultraericthered]

I hate/love how Vegeta's color scheme was so garish and ugly that all attention tends to go to that and not on Nappa wearing the exact same colored armor as Raditz, an error that went unfixed by Kai.

Redhead Vegeta and Nappa first canon appearance in the anime. ❤️

[t00thpasteface]

my favorite thing in the world is rough, off-model, loosey-goosey animation in early seasons of a cartoon, especially 90s cartoons that were drawn traditionally. there's an undeniable charm that's just totally incompatible with the kind of polish a tv studio will insist on doing once a show proves to be a hit

[noisesfrombeyondtheuniverse]

Really the ducktales reboots opening two-parter is a work of art. Characterization is so solid. Everything these characters do reflects something about them even when they are just, like, sitting in the background and preparing to be scolded.

[thegreatyin]

til that mr wines appears in the empress' shadow and it apparently gets really uppity about even the prospect of dating a human. so anyway now i need to play this story with the scoundrel for no reason in particular

[vampirebiter]

guts + despairing over griffith looking down on him