#Network Layer

[techgabbing]

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[whatudottu]

Introducing to you - made over the course of a few months - a visual guide to cybertronian pedipalps and proboscis!

The general gist and inspiration for such being of course the episode Thirst and the fact that, up until that point, dark energon did not have any mutagenic properties only (in the show) being utilitised to revive the dead. What if, instead of being a side effect of dark synth energon, dark energon just... reactivated dormant pedipalps (remnants of a more buggy pre-metamorphosis sparkling/protoform lifestage)?

A more comprehensive look is down below- and don't mind how it's exclusively 'Cons lmao :P

Starting off, I referenced CYLAS' canonical pedipalps to try and understand the shapes being used which resembles a lapping type mouth that bees have (so considering there is a tranformers character named Bumblebee it feels appropriate but he ISN'T HERE), let alone the flexible proboscis which I just made as a siphoning type from butterflies which; this is the wikipedia image I used to understand mouth parts :P

Breakdown himself wouldn't need to open his whole face in order to consume energon, given that he has an opening and closing jaw in addition to having the dexterity and power of limbs and a neck to not require lapping, but energon is still drunk through the proboscis like a straw.

Continuing onto characters that would NEED their pedipalps, vehicons and other faceless cold constructs (whether you have the belief every cold construct is faceless or they recently shifted to facelessness to save on costs) by technically did not metamorphose like forged mecha and thus their mouth parts have not gone dormant. Instead, their construction means they have not known anything other than pedipalps and proboscis, having no experience at all with facial expressions and thus not susceptible to phantom sensations.

Though their jaws do not have joints or at least do not have an opening to function like an enclosed mouth, vehicons still do have one on the basis of having a neck and a location to store their coiled proboscis when not in use.

Unlike other cybertronians - forged or constructed - empurata survivors have their heads and/or faces completely remolded and restructured where they do not have a functioning jaw. They have in it's stead a reconstruction of the original pedipalps formatted appropriately to the new head mould.

Monoptics like Shockwave do not have enough room in their helms to have a mouth-like structure at all, instead the neck is reconstructed to open with the pedipalps; the proboscis when fully extended appears longer in monoptics but that is due to the fact the opening is lower and closer to it's base. Nulloptics like Soundwave have their entire face replaced by their mouth, often covered up in seamless panels that give the appearance of a screen, up until the nulloptic actually replaces the panels to include the electronics necessary to protect and display visuals.

In average adult cybertronians however, the pedipalps remain dormant - at least in their use for eating - and are instead used to produce vocalisations alongside the proboscis (which still remains in use by function of the liquid energon diet), in addition to being used in expression in conjuction with the many servos operating within the faceplate. The reason why, despite the variety of things pedipalps can do now that they aren't being used to consume fuel, that empuratas and constructs cannot re/gain a face with the same ability and level of complexity of the average cybertronian is because of the hyperactive function of those very pedipalps.

Vehicons can - if they so choose - express visually through the exclusive use of their pedipalps, but factoring in a faceplate with all of it's own complicated servos intricately woven into each other, the faceplate lacks the ability to split along the seams of the pedipalps and would restrain their mobility and prevent the cold construct from refueling. Empurata have a similar issue with the addition of their lack of functioning jaws and their modified head structure preventing the synergy of a faceplate. Nulloptics' heads are functionally all mouth so the corresponding faceplate cannot have features for optics or ridges, and monoptics' pedipalp expression is on their neck and thus a faceplate that matches where the mouth in their case would be a very bizarre choker-

And that's all folks, hope you love my cybertronian pedipalps post :P

[3nigm4art]

Happy Birthday Johnnny Bravo (aka Valentine’s day)

[fricc-darn]

POV: You see this on your TV at 3 am. The cutest goobers that do no wrong! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

Here's an unfiltered image!

[mistyheartrbs]

hibike! euphonium (2015-2024) // i wish i could stop thinking about mr. brightside - james frankie thomas

[singlethread]

Anyone saying that they ruined Eddie’s character because he’s having these interactions with a woman who looks like his late wife while dating another girl needs to get some fresh air

[girl-debord]

"the working class knows exactly how it's being fucked over, it just doesn't have the resources to fight back" yes that's why the republican party has no membership in poor rural areas. that's why working class neighborhoods are never saturated with reactionary churches. "imagined relations to a real set of conditions" is only for the bourgeoisie

[rathayibacter]

hey so reading through disparateum and holy shit how do you come up with this it's insane

main question is though, have you ever played a game/campaign with it? i think i might get my friends to give it a try, but I'm unsure how it might go/how to expand upon the small business campaign, and would love some advice (assuming the seven plays doc is a leanly-written campaign)

thanks a lot in advance and please do keep cooking you're like the christopher nolan for ttrpgs for me <3

hey hey, really glad to hear you're liking it!

I have played Disparateum a few times, not yet for a longer campaign though. the number one thing I recommend is to play with a lassiez-faire philosophy. the rules and setting are meant to be evocative but open-ended, with plenty of tools meant to let you shake things up dramatically. let people propose absurd ideas, and see where they lead you!

as for starting points, you've got the gist! small business is a jumping-off point for a game, aimed a bit more at being a one-shot but you could certainly flesh it out across multiple sessions. once it's done it'll hopefully put you in a good position for a longer game too, since you'll have some characters, settings, and prior jaunts through the Disparateum to pull on for future stories.

Apoptosis, tucked away in the Knick-Knacks & Trinkets folder, is another little adventure module appropriate if you like your surreal adventures more psychosexual horror and less goofy shenanigans. it's very explicitly modeled after Pathologic, but you could also play Disparateum in a more Donnie Darko, Twin Peaks, or Being John Malkovich way too.

you could also just... ignore all that! the Ritual of Beginning is designed to give your group a forward push, and letting the rest of the game play out as it may! the first variation of it (on real-world page 5) gives the Knight a broad goal and then ties the Thief and Seer into their story. the second variation (on page 41) lets the Bard, Scribe, and Mage negotiate a pair of plotlines, with the player who "won" acting as connective tissue between them. both of these give your players a lot of agency, which can be good in that it pulls them in quickly and gets things moving, but bad in that it's harder to prep for and requires your players to come to the table already bustling with ideas. something to consider, depending on the kind of group you play with!

if you do end up playing, I hope you and your friends have a wonderful time, and I'd love to hear how it goes!

[dblsoul]

sweet dreams

[wereoz]

IS THIS THING ON?!?! anyway……….

[spooky-k1d]

i cannot tell you why but these are so shang tsung core

[sminny-wew]

Wow I love that Japanese series from the early 2000s about people who fight in battles with their own artificial customizable little guys, what was it called again? Battle Layer? Angelic Network? Eh it's probably not important lol

EDIT: Now in not-phone-quality!!!

[hyenabreezy]

What If There Was a Saturday Morning Fighting Games Cartoon?: Yomi Layer EX

Synopsis: In the year of 6236, there is no war, there is no prejudice, there is only...FIGHTING GAMES. The spirit of Fighting Games has spread through the entire planet, allowing only the very best of the best to form a spiritual connection to the characters they choose. These elite few do not simply play their characters anymore like everyone else. They eat dinner with them, see movies with them, train with them. They are no longer their main, they have come to life in the eyes of their player as MAINZ. After waking up from a centuries long coma, How will the bright-eyed newcomer known as DAYBRAKE adapt to this passionate new world?

[nosferatufaggot]

In the universe in which Bruce Wayne and Joker are in a public relationship and are a power couple, I gots some thoughts.

So, Bruce visits Joker in Arkham or whatever. Like brings him flowers or something, I dunno. And someone says something about how they cannot BELIEVE billionaire Bruce Wayne would spend his time with someone who is mentally unstable enough to be in Arkham. Well, said someone's buisness suddenly fails when for some unbeknownst reason, Wayne Enterprises stop financially supporting said buisness.

Some time later, Joker and Bruce are at a gala. Bruce Wayne expierences autism 100 moment and someone goes ableism about it. Just a passing comment. And then after the rich socialite party, maybe two nights after, Joker doesn't kill them, but he sure does psychological torture.

[imthebeast]

Amalgamating DBT elements and Deep Learning fundamentals into the mind-boggling principle "What if I thought before speaking"

[infosectrain03]

The Data Link Layer is the second layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, which serves as a conceptual framework that standardizes communication system functions. This layer focuses on the reliable transfer of data between adjacent network nodes over a physical link.