#Tech Decision

[itcsssolutionandstaffing]

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[cabbagege]

[fatedroses]

zenos, but he's getting spammed by his weirdly tech savvy great-grandfather.

[sergle]

yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED. also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason

side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.

and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.

[praxis-app]

join the praxis discord - mastodon - github

[sciderman]

Yk, I hate that adaptations keep making Peter a high schooler, and not just because it means he never evolves, but because the adaptations now also include wider Marvel, whitch usually (thanks to the MCU) is at the modern day stage with legacy characters and new age teen heroes, meaning that Peter is taking up Miles' spot and you can really tell when they put him next to someone like Kamala Khan or Sam Alexander who are Miles' pals. Tho Peter taking Miles' stuff is just a modern issue overall, just look at MCU whitch just stole and re-skinned Miles' personality, characters, story-beats, even the costume to an extent and then made it worse.

agree 👏

[al-luviec]

compiled whatever this is (and I run out of tag space)

meh HoT gifs (3/?)

[call-me-strega]

Dc x Dp Prompt #11: High Tech Chastity Belt

I can’t remember where I saw this, but it just popped into my head and I immediately had to get it out.

I remember reading something and I can’t remember if it was actually pitch pearl or just Danny pretending he was dating Phantom to avoid an identity reveal but Jack and Maddie slap the specter deflector on him to keep Phantom away.

Word gets out and a lot of people are not pleased that Jack and Maddie have essentially placed their son in what is functioning as a high tech chastity belt.

And it made me think: in a dp x dc cross over would the same concept work on Jason(or some other character), assuming we make him at least partly ghostly/liminal? How would this situation come about? Who put the belt on whom and why? (It’d be funny if it was Bruce through a misunderstanding ) How affective would it be? Is this better for angst or comedy? (I vote comedy)

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

NO BUT SERIOUSLY it would have been SO EASY to include some semblance of actual closure for Tech's sacrifice in season 3. So easy! So many ways to do it, so much opportunity even accounting for time restrictions!

I mean, some shows have an entire "eulogy episode" dedicated to really highlighting how those who are left behind cope with loss: X-Men '97 has an episode after Gambit's sacrifice (which is especially interesting given that it's strongly hinted at by the end of the season that Gambit is coming back), Rebels has an episode after Kanan's sacrifice AND THEN even has another episode later in the season to really drive home that Kanan is NOT coming back.

But they didn't even need an entire episode for this. Superman and Lois provided extremely satisfying closure for Sam Lane's sacrifice with a voice over monologue that took less than a minute of screentime. Heck, Bad Batch itself had a cathartic scene for Mayday in season 3 that lasted less than 30 seconds!

For Tech, we get... nothing. NOTHING. Omega puts his goggles in the Archium, but none of Tech's brothers are there with her so it comes across as a scene being thrown in as an afterthought. Crosshair invokes Tech's name only in a desperate attempt to stop Hunter and Wrecker from going into danger. Wrecker alludes to Tech once; Hunter doesn't say Tech's name or allude to him at all. Echo mentions Tech in reference to skills that would have been useful in a given situation; Omega mentions Tech in reference to past lessons. Not a single mention is made that even obliquely connects Tech's sacrifice with his family's continued survival and eventual happy outcome on Pabu. Not a single mention is made that shows all of Tech's siblings have come to terms with his loss.

(The show's got the depictions of extended mourning - especially avoidance behaviors - down pat, I'll give them that.)

And hey, maybe Bad Batch really wanted to emphasize that death may occur before reconciliation can take place, and I fully respect that topic being tackled - except it wasn't tackled, because the very character who should be most affected by this lack of reconciliation is given no time to actually come to terms with it.

I just can't watch season 3 - especially that "Mayday moment" in episode 5 - without thinking over and over again that closure for Tech is aggressively absent, almost as if it's deliberately excluded. I mean, come on, the writers ABSOLUTELY know how to satisfyingly close out the loss of a character! So why wouldn't they do it for Tech?

Because Tech's alive, and he was meant to return. That's why.

(Personally I still would have liked some closure as if he really were dead because even though Tech did survive, his family goes through the entirety of season 3 without knowing that, so some of the character arcs and themes just... don't stick the landing very well. But hey, I can't have everything. And if closure for Tech must be sacrificed in order to bring him back, it's a sacrifice I will HAPPILY accept!)

[eelfuneral]

I’m checking the “tech lives” and “tbb tech lives” tags so that I can see fun fanart and avoid the constant funeral that is the main tag and I’m STILL seeing stuff about how dead Tech is.

Can we…not do that?

[itz-pandora]

Thinking about Shadow and Metadow and Metamyadow

[heyclickadee]

One of the fun things about Tech being so damn confident (and having the skill to back it up) is that, well, he’s a pilot. Of course he’s confident. I’ve known quite a few pilots. Pilots, like surgeons, are just like that.

[archivistofnerddom]

The reaction I imagine Wrecker, Tech, and Omega having when Hunter and Echo want to know whose brilliant idea it was for Tech to participate in (and win) that Riot Race on Safa Toma to save Cid:

[elvenbeard]

Spending some quality time each doing their own thing :3

[dinogirl123]

For those believing/liking the idea of CX-2 as Tech…

What happened during Hemlock’s conditioning that made Tech/CX-2 hate Crosshair so much? Their fight over the waterfall and the way CX-2 said, “you could have been one of us, but you chose the wrong side!” was so packed with emotion. This wasn’t just two strangers/acquaintances on opposite sides fighting.

It was personal.

Then the next time they meet, CX-2 TAUNTS Crosshair before he SLICES OFF HIS HAND.

“You should be more careful with your shooting hand.”

Maybe he did that because he knew what Crosshair was capable of if he got a hold of that blaster, but why go that far? If CX-2 planned to kill Crosshair, he could have just shot him there. Dead. If he wanted Crosshair alive, he could have stunned him then restrained his hands.

But CX-2 didn’t.

Like before, that decision was personal.

I could be over thinking or seeing something that’s not there, but Crosshair and CX-2’s interactions gave off a deeper vibe. There’s some backstory between them we didn’t get to see in the show.

And to think that CX-2 used to be someone that cared so much about Crosshair that he’d risk his life to save him the second he found out Crosshair was in trouble. Because Crosshair was his brother.

“We have not always agreed with Crosshair, but he is still our brother. We do not leave our own behind.”

“You could have been one of us, but you chose the wrong side!”

Do you think CX-2 felt betrayed when Crosshair refused the conditioning and left him behind?

[tootalltech]

FINALLY finished the bad batch. after being afraid to for months (which is ironic given, yk, my username and the entire reason my blog was created) so here's my brief angry thoughts before i pass out. if you're going to say "here's hemlock fucking around with dead(ish) soldiers bodies and turning them into his own personal assassins" AND WE HAVE A FORMER MEMBER OF THE SQUAD WHOSE BODY WAS NEVER SEEN BUT HEMLOCK APPARENTLY LOOKED FOR AND AT LEAST FOUND THE GOGGLES FROM. THEN WHY NOT DO SOMETHING WITH THAT. IT WOULDVE BEEN GOOD.