#android karr

[knight-battle-shield]

Gwen quickly tapped away on the keyboard of the computer. It hadn't been easy to get in this place, especially with the extra guards, but if she was right, the information they got from this place was gonna put a stop to a lot of bad people

"I'm in KARR. You ready for the upload?" She asked over the commlink, still keeping her voice low.

"I am. Send it quickly. I do not like how far away I am from the facility." He informed her

"I know, I don't like it either, but I'm working with the equipment they have they would pick up your scan... Oh God." She stopped mid explanation. "KARR, get out of here! It's a trap!"

"I am coming to get you!" KARR insisted starting his engine.

"KARR don't..." That was as far as she got before a loud crash and several gunshots accompanied by Gwen's cry of pain.

"Gwen!" He called over the com freezing.

"KARR... please." Gwen's whimpering voice came. She sounded terrified. "Listen to that self-preservation programming!"

"We all know he's not going to do that." A male voice that the AI did not recognize stated.

KARR could hear Gwen's panicked breathing, and he realized he couldn't tell if she was more terrified for herself or for him. None the less he was coming for her. His engine reveed as his tires kicked up gravel.

"KARR r....." That was all he heard before the line went dead.

He picked up the pace, fully intending to crash into the building to get her out when something struck him from the side, sending him rolling and making everything go dark.

KARR wasn't sure how much time had passed before his system rebooted, but when he came too, there were several foolish humans trying to not only restrain him but load him into a truck. He was having none of that. All at once, his form began to shift into his battle suit, eliciting several surprised screams from his would be captors. He took them out quickly and efficiently before rushing to the building where Gwen had been. He had been dangerously close to simply smashing through the building in its entity, but logic told him it was safer to do this differently. If Gwen was still here, he didn't want to risk hurting her more than she already was. Nanobots began gathering and clumping together to form what appeared to be a very large, very muscular human in the pilot seat. Once fully formed, he opened his amber eyes and stepped out of the vehicle. He quickly made his way to the last location he had on the commlink. KARR's eyes widened when he found it on the ground, broken by what appeared to be a gunshot. It was laying in a pool of blood. Analysis confirmed that it was Gwen's blood. While there was a lot of it, it alone wasn't enough to make him believe she had suffered a fatal wound. She was somewhere alive and hurt, and he needed to find her.

He picked up the broken commlink before he began hunting. Anyone he came across in the building, he demanded to know where they had taken her. When they did not give him an answer, he disposed of them violently. It was what they deserved, and their lives were meaningless to him. After going through everyone in the building, he finally returned to the vehicle. The broken comm was placed carefully in the glove compartment before the Nanobots dissipated back into the vehicle. KARR shift led gears and booked it out of that place. Aside from the little bit of information they had managed to steal, he had no real leads on where they might have taken his driver. It didn't matter. One way or another, he would find her.

[some-cyborg]

Currently, I'm in the making of Kitt's twin, Karr. Android version like the last post :]

[kevinjmann]

UKI - Episode 314

UKI: Episode 314 is now here on Mixcloud

This episode is featuring:

1. Drew Schueler & Herine - Whiskey Sour

2. Red Javelin - Fire

3. Saukar Fat Daddy - Love Is A Wave

4. Gavin Davies - Always Been The Same

5. Tareck - Feeding The Roots

6. Pierre Welsh & the Oaks - Mon Jumeau Mon Double

7. Bite The Boxer - Audrey

8. Lizzie Karr Music - Shadows

9. Elton Hendrix Project - Just A Girl

10. Comodoro Amigo - Polaroid Android

11. Alessandro Savino project - Don't Leave Me Alone

12. Georgia Ray - Regret It

13. Karolan Boily - Je Flanche

14. SEGANA - Mercy

15. Andy Smythe - Prodigal Son

16. Jalastair - These Days

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[retro-bunnybun]

height difference height difference height difference height difference height differen-

theres so much to fix here wow but it communicates the idea. Will probably finish this tomorrow i actually like how its turning out

[defcon-leppard]

Nobody asked for these, but you GET THEM ANYWAY AAHAHAHAHAHAAH

“Naked” versions of the Knight boys’ android looks as depicted by my mind’s eye.

 KITT is careful to wear his perfectly tailored suits when out in public and wearing his prosthetic arm sleeves to maintain the illusion that he’s human. Not that he really... “streaks” when he’s back home at the mansion, but he’d be more willing to wear looser clothing.

KARR only wears bear minimum gloves under a looser suit... and he only wears a suit cuz that’s all he escaped FLAG with. However if someone catches him with any metal aside from his neck showing.... well, he takes that as a threat and acts accordingly.

[contrabassconversations]

936: Phrasing on the double bass

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[that-banana-headed-bovine]

To Kitt and/or Karr: Thank you for answering our questions! I guess mine is, what's something you love about being an android?

[firebirdtransam68]

Sonic Characters I Ship

I have not posted any fanfiction or original stories yet; I am still working on plots and synopses, as well as learning to draw official characters with software like Microsoft PowerPoint before I start posting my work.  I am also trying to design my fan characters based on the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise.

Here are characters I ship:

- Sonadow (Sonic x Shadow)

- Sonamy (Sonic x Amy)

- Tailamy (Tails x Amy)

- Taiream (Tails x Cream)

- Taismo (Tails x Cosmo)

- Knuxouge (Knuckles x Rouge)

- Silvaze (Silver x Blaze)

- Sonourge/Scouronic (Sonic x Scourge)

- Jetave (Jet x Wave)

- Scourgiona (Scourge x Fiona)

- Sonally (Sonic x Sally)

- Sallamy (Sally x Amy)

- Metandroid (Metal Sonic x Shadow Android)

- OC x OC

- Chriselen (Chris Thorndyke x Helen)

- Infinilis (Infinite x Mephilis)

- Vectilla (Vector x Vanilla)

- Geoffershey (Geoffry St. John x Hershey)

- Soneezie (Sonic x Breezie)

- Manamy (Manic x Amy)

- Knuxikal (Knuckles x Tikal)

- Juladette (Jules x Bernadette)

- Eggella (Eggman x Katella)

- Robotara/Eggera (Dr. Robotnik/Eggman x Sara/Sera)

Now, here are characters I don’t ship:

- Sonelise (Sonic x Princess Elise)

- Shadaria (Shadow x Maria)

- Chrissonic (Chris x Sonic)

- Shadonic (Shadow seme x Sonic uke)

- Shadamy (Shadow x Amy)

- Sonilver (Sonic x Silver)

- Shadilver (Shadow x Silver)

- Mephadow (Mephilis x Shadow)

- Shadouge (Shadow x Rouge)

- Sonails (Sonic x Tails)

- Shadomega (Shadow x E-123 Omega)

- Knuxerald (Knuckles x Master Emerald)

- Shadikal (Shadow x Tikal)

- Sonetal (Sonic x Metal Sonic)

- Eggonic (Sonic x Eggman)

- Any Sonic character with yourself

- Sonic character x Avatar

- Most OCs/fan characters with official characters (like Shadula (Shadow x Nebula The Hedgehog created by GothNebula))

- Sonario (Sonic x Mario)

- Sondash (Sonic x Rainbow Dash)

- Shradow (Shadow x Shrek)

- Knuxulk (Knuckles x Hulk)

- Sonicky (Sonic x Micky Mouse)

- Sonac (Sonic x Pac-man)

- Amac (Amy x Ms. Pac-man)

- Shadlight (Shadow x Twilight Sparkle)

- Sonuli (Sonic x Fuli)

- ShadARR (Shadow x KARR)

- Sonurr (Sonic x Blurr)

- Shadscream (Shadow x Starscream)

- Knuxhide (Knuckles x Ironhide)

- Eggatron (Eggman x Megatron)

- Silvlebee (Silver x Bumblebee)

- Soniper (Sonic x Swiper The Fox)

- Shadolishor (Shadow x Demolishor)

- Knuxerno (Knuckles x Inferno)

- Sonflash (Sonic x The Flash)

- Sonrash (Sonic x Crash Bandicoot)

- Sonayato (Sonic x Hayato Kazami)

- Shadgin (Shadow x Gin Ichimaru)

- Sonchief (Sonic x Master Chief)

- Hell, ANY crossover ship whatsoever

Maybe sometime in the future, I can explain a little more on why I ship or don’t ship the characters listed above.  Right now, I am brainstorming plots and synopses for my future fanfics.  I will be posting some of my plot ideas soon.

This is FirebirdTransAm68 signing out.

[that-banana-headed-bovine]

OKAY YES I WOULD LOVE TO ADDRESS THIS SO MUCH-

As someone who has thoroughly developed though not put to paper because of course I haven’t a Human AU of sorts, I want to talk about this because I completely understand this perspective and, to some extent, agree.

See, I initially got the concept of the Human AU when I’d seen like, three episodes.  As a hobbyist illustrator that is such a fancy sounding term but really I just draw cartoon people and post them online who specializes in human characters, the thought of drawing fanart for this show was daunting.  Kitt was and is my favorite character, and I had no idea how to give expression to a voice modulator.  And every attempt I’d made to draw a car in the past had looked no better than a toddler’s.  The AU was, to start, just my way to get into the fandom and express the stories that bubbled up in my head.

However, I quickly realized that there were some scenarios that just didn’t work if Kitt was not a car.  When I envision my art of the character, I typically think of my android/human design, but when I think of him in his essence, it’s usually the car.  It’s odd.  I actually learned how to kind of draw a Trans Am, to the point where I throw him into comics at a variety of angles with no hesitation.  It may make my art look a little bit less polished since I am still quite shaky on car anatomy, but I like including the version of our boi that we see in the show.

My story with the AU, though, tries to take that very idea you presented and give it another perspective.  See, Kitt and Karr are still not even remotely close to human, their bodies and minds still function as robots.  The look is there as little more than a cover story.  However, while this minor change does very little to their outlook on life, it does a LOT to Michael.  Kitt, unintentionally, is very expressive in his new and rather unpredictable form.  Suddenly, what we always heard shining through in his voice that Michael continued to deny becomes clear as day.  Kitt has to deal with the thought that, now that he looks like a person, the outside world sees him as one.  He’s never considered himself a person, and he still doesn’t.  However, everyone treating him quite a bit better than they used to is, to say the least, a bit annoying and makes the poor lad realize that his problem all along had been the nature of what he is, the fact that he is a machine.  Michael’s adjustment is slower since he knows what Kitt is and still, for the most part, treats him that way.  But when he sees Kitt’s brows tug together sadly as he voices what he had always perceived as sarcasm and frustration alone, it always takes him a bit aback.  He doesn’t know what to do about it, or why everything seems so different to how it was before.

Karr has a very different take on humanity.  Like Kitt, he’s been treated as a person ever since he took on his new form, but he loves that.  He doesn’t like the increased vulnerability of the form but, at the end of the day, he’s safe for the first time in his life.  The last thing he wants is to be recognized as a machine because he has always known that he is more than that.  He knows that Kitt is, too, and in this very fluffy depiction of the bros, he actively tries to make both Kitt and Michael realize it once he’s on their “good side.”

This AU also allows me to effectively differentiate it from canon.  I love having the freedom to take a new spin on canonical and noncanonical events from the original show and film with my own interpretation of the characters.  Something about Kitt’s car form makes me feel like I have to stick a lot closer to what he is portrayed as and makes it harder for me personally to make him vulnerable.  And again, as a visual artist, making a car emote would just.  Be agony.

I guess the point is that, to me at least, having the bois as people makes it a bit easier to shift the focus away from action and a bit more onto their psychology and remedying the scenarios where we all went “Awww that was so mean, he must be so sad--”.  There’s certainly stories that could be more effectively be told in car form, and it’s possible that, if I was planning on writing the story rather than illustrating it, this would be one of them.  For now, I’m just more comfortable expressing it in a way that I’m familiar with.

Not to have a spicy take on my sideblog,,, but while I find attempts to humanize/androidize KITT admirable, is it really so bad to have him remain a computer in a car?? I feel it's important to his character to be presented as a machine that has to confront vulnerability and short comings that are not human in nature. It presents him and Michael as having parallels in their lack of control over circumstances without having the exact same struggles.

Again it's totally cool to see different takes on human KITT but idk maybe my taste is different. His humanity means more -to me- coming from a place of not experiencing what it's like to be human at all.

[knight-battle-shield]

KARR's forms

[tokupedia]

Kamen Rider 45th Anniversary File:Drive

2014-2015:

Godzilla returns for his 60th birthday to theaters in an American film adaptation reboot simply titled Godzilla. Unlike last time America did this stunt, the film was well done and was a success.

Fans celebrate and sing with Moon Pride with Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal, a modern reboot that fully adapts the original manga for the franchise’s 20th anniversary.

Ultraman Ginga got a sequel season on TV, Ultraman Ginga S. Ultraman X would come the following year and Tsuburaya would sign an exclusive streaming and simulcast deal with the California-based internet streaming company Crunchyroll to broadcast entries of the Ultra Series legally on the web. (despite Chaiyo being jerks and trying to stop the deal with the fake “We own Ultraman” thing again)

Zing Zing, AMAZING! As long as there is love in the world, Cure Lovely is invincible! Pretty Cure celebrates its 10th Anniversary with HappinessCharge Precure, which introduces the concept of non-super mode form changing to the shoujo series thanks to Kamen Rider writers on the staff.

The Super Sentai Series hits a rough patch with ratings and toy sales as ToQger and Ninninger come and go. Super Sentai celebrates its 40th year of existence on April 5, 2015 and for the first time ever, a Power Rangers actor cameos in a Sentai!

Japan finishes switching to full digital HD TV broadcasting. Now we can see all the pretty lasers, sparks and explosions in glorious high definition!

Shout! Factory shocked Ranger Nation with a bombshell, Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger was coming to DVD in the United States! Due to positive reception by fans and sales, the company would become the official distributor of Super Sentai DVDs in America!

Power Rangers celebrated 20 years of the franchise. The Mighty Morphin’ Red Ranger gets a spot in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as a balloon!

Power Rangers Super Megaforce frustrates longtime fans of the series, with reviews ranging from “meh, it’s okay” to fan rage of the highest caliber for the mishandling of such a special occasion as the 20th anniversary. It really is a divisive season.

Kikaider Reboot attempts to relaunch Kikaider for its 40th anniversary, but later Shotaro’s son and president of Ishimori Pro Akira Onodera would put the Kikiader’s licensing to Japanese filmmakers under indefinite lockdown as he was unhappy with the direction the film took.

Cyborg 009 comes to America again with a graphic novel adaptation in 2013, intended to be the first of a series of graphic novels featuring Shotaro Ishinomori’s super heroes (”The Ishinomori Universe Books” as they were to be called). After a year of waiting for the next one, fans are disappointed to hear from F.J. DeSanto that the next set of books were put on hold and then cancelled indefinitely due to Ishimori Pro’s “cultural issues” with the project. Thus, the planned Skull Man and Kikaider novels are cancelled during their early draft phase. 

The Garo Series turns 10 years old and a vast array of projects are announced and debut on TV, video and in theaters, increasing the franchise’s media output to levels never seen before.

The Patlabor franchise gets a series of live action films with Erina Mano (Kamen Rider Nadeshiko) as one of its stars.

When Drive was being planned; the producers had an idea of utilizing aspects of another cult favorite “Rider” show: Glen A. Larson’s cult 1980s TV show Knight Rider. In an interview, producer Takahito Omori even outright stated that Drive would be “Kamen Rider meets Knight Rider”.

Now imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but you need to be subdued to avoid lawsuits when you are dealing with TV. (Especially with tyrannical copyright strikedowners and suers like NBC Universal if you are simply doing a tribute). But the overall feeling is there in some regard: Rinna is Bonnie, we have a KARR expy on two accounts and a sentient A.I. in a car that accompanied a law enforcer. But that is where the some of the Knight similarities end as Drive tries to be its own thing, a quirky, sometimes goofy, sometimes serious show with sentient Hot Wheels cars, special tires that give the heroes super powers and a talking belt.

The planning involved Riku Sanjo, who fans remember from the beloved Kamen Rider W. He wanted a police procedural drama integrated into the action. Oddly enough, the original concept was to make the hero a former criminal and then revised into a crook turned cop!  This idea was bounced around before the TV Asahi network executives got into a hissy fit about an anti-hero as a lead and said/demanded that the hero should be “pure”. So they decided to just make the show about cops with the main hero being an officer of the leu. (as Peter Sellers used to say).

A second concept idea was the use of games but the staff thought the age demographic they were aiming for was “too young for that”. This will still come... eventually in another Rider show years later.

Another aspect that chose the direction of the show was a more somber one, the choice of a car as the main Rider Machine. Ishinomori famously claimed in an SIC story that “cars didn’t work” for Kamen Rider the last time they tried it. But according to the Asahi Shimbun in 2014, with the dwindling population and low birth rate of Japan, motorcycles are becoming less and less common in number on Japan’s roads. No extra babies being born means less future rebellious youngsters and some of those who have bikes registered are getting older and greyer. 

So the staff chose a car as 1: Cars are steadily beginning to rise in number on Japan’s roads and 2: small car toys like Hot Wheels are and always will be popular with the young male demographic. Plus the staff thought it would be “innovative” as unlike with Black RX, the car would be the main hero’s sole vehicle. Also helping the car motif was Carranger director Ryuta Tasaki being on the show as a consultant and episode director, who wanted to “break a few conceptions about Heisei Kamen Rider”. 

So after the decision, the production crew took a used 1992 Honda NSX, got some custom seating, racing style safety belts and trim from TS Tech, took her to a body shop and went to work. Several months of hard labor and custom parts made in-house and spare/modified parts donated from Honda later.....

We got a souped-up custom super machine! Sure, Tridoron doesn’t have a style that is to everbody’s taste, but in the show it can fly like a certain Delorean, turbo boost, shoot lasers and can go a little over 340MPH and drive itself!

The cars and speed didn’t stop with the main hero, as we got a TRON-lined high tech Mercedes-Benz AMG GT (the first non-Japanese manufactured car in the Kamen Rider series) and a modified Mazda Miata with machine guns as villain cars for the movies. 

Another cool aspect of Drive is the indirect Marvel connection, the main lead actor Ryoma Takeuchi is a fan of Marvel Comics. This shows as his portrayal as Drive is a sometimes Spider-Man-esque snarky superhero. But Ryoma also studied hard to learn English really for one purpose: To meet Stan Lee and tell him how much he loved Marvel. A year after his show ended, he did! 

(Yes, even in other superhero fandoms, Stan ”The Man” Lee will make that cameo! 94 and still awesome and kicking, God bless him!)

Word is Ryoma’s now trying to get into Hollywood to be a Marvel superhero on the American big screen or TV. If that doesn’t prove Ryoma is One of Us, what will?  (Good luck Ryoma! We’ll be cheering for you and we hope your dream comes true!)

Chris Peppler, a Japanese-American radio DJ was chosen to be the other half of Kamen Rider Drive: the KITT-esqe Mr. Belt. Since he was fluent in both Japanese and English, it gave him room to play around as an actor and his performance even spawned a Rider meme or two.

But now, let’s START OUR ENGINES! Cuz’ ALL WE NEED IS DRIVE!

DRIVE! TYPE: 45 File! 

The First Kamen Rider (Proto) Drive

Real Name: Roidmude Proto-Zero

“Those who are about to die do not need to know my name”

A scientist named Dr. Krim Steinbelt was working on a device called Core Driviars which he hoped could be used to benefit mankind.

His colleague Dr. Banno had borrowed his invention when his own research on advanced A.I. androids called Roidmudes hit a dead end. Krim wanted to help his friend and aided in the development of Banno’s research. But then Banno had other ideas and used the androids human mimicry ability to enact his revenge fantasies of destroying those who mocked or didn’t support his research without Krim’s knowledge. But Krim found out about Banno’s petty and sadistic behavior and ended their partnership.

Banno then intended to implant the negative emotions of humans into his creations so they would understand the concept of hate and violence and be used as his military force to conquer the world. 

However, Banno’s plan seemingly went awry as the 108 Roidmudes he built gained sentience and rebelled against their cruel creator and like so many films and TV about AI, they decide we fleshy meatbags are not worth protecting or keeping around.

However, Krim had a contingency plan if Banno’s evil work bore fruit. After his home was attacked and he was killed by a Roidmude, a protocol was activated to download his consciousness into a belt-like device and he reactivated an early Roidmude that didn’t have Banno’s programming installed into him. The evil Roidmudes initiated a disaster later referred to as the Global Freeze, where a large quarter of the Earth was slowed down by the Heavy Acceleration phenomenon the Drivairs in the Roidmudes created. Many people were hurt or died and thousands of buildings were destroyed, but then a savior came in the form of a black Kamen Rider. The Rider drove away the evil forces but could not destroy the Cores that keep them alive. The Rider eventually fell in battle when one of the stronger Roidmudes defeated him and discarded a helpless Krim aside. Some say he is dead....but is he really?

The second and current Kamen Rider Drive (Officer Tomari circa 2015)

Real Name: Shinnosuke Tomari

When all the Global Freeze ruckus was about to go on, two police officers were in pursuit of a suspect of the terrorist cell Neo-Shade. When one of the suspects tried to ambush Officer Tomari’s partner Hayase by cornering him, Tomari panicked and pulled out his gun intending to disable the crook. But then the Global Freeze wave hit and slowed Officer Tomari down, causing his bullet to miss and hit a flammable generator near Hayase. The generator exploded and Hayase fell with steel pipes threatening to crush him after he fell. Tomari tried to save his partner but was slowed down again unable to reach him. Thankfully, due to the slowdown, Hayase was still alive after the pipes fell but was badly hurt. But being the cause of his best friend’s injuries haunted Officer Tomari and he became a broken man, unable to focus on work and losing all motivation. 

He was transferred to a special investigations unit as Krim had a friend in the Police force who could pull the strings to find a candidate worthy of being the next Kamen Rider and formed the unit. Half a year later, Shinnosuke is still in that department but has a lax motivation to do anything at first, constantly being scolded for his slacking by his co-worker Kiriko. Upon hearing there may be a Heavy Acceleration case, he gets interested at first but is easily discouraged by his low self esteem. He keeps hearing a voice coming for the red car he drives telling him to not give up and offers him a chance to be a “warrior”. Shinnosuke is a bit weirded out by this but tells the voice he still refuses as he is a has-been. But the voice tells him he knows he has greater potential and then when Shinnouske finds where the voice is coming from, Krim attaches himself to Shinnouske which freaks him out. After investigating another attempted murder with Heavy Acceleration in the area, they find the suspect: Roidmude #029. Unable to save a bystander as even with the Shift Cars help, he cannot do much as he is ambushed by more Roidmudes.

Kiriko tells him he must use Krim and transform and the Shift Cars give him a brace and a red car to go with the belt. He uses it to become Kamen Rider Drive Type Speed.  After a bit of a learning curve, Drive makes quick work of the Roidmudes using his new powers. (though at least one survived the attack via his Core escaping to antagonize the hero next episode)

When the day is saved, Kiriko shows him their base of operations under the Kuruma Driver's License Center: the Drive Pit. She tells Shinnosuke they must keep the base a secret from the Special Investigation Unit and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. So Shinnosuke must investigate the cases of the Roidmudes to stop and eliminate them as the secret Kamen Rider of law enforcement and supported by his allies in the Special Investigations Unit.  Many twists and tuns happen along the way, with new allies, new powers and new dangers and mysteries around every corner!

Gear:

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Core_Driviars

The Drive Driver aka “Mr. Belt” - Krim’s current form and Shinnosuke’s partner. Unlike KITT from Knight Rider whom partially inspired his character, Krim can leave the car and be mobile to help his partner whenever and wherever he is needed and is a vital part of the Drive System’s functions.

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Shift_Brace

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Shift_Cars

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Shift_Car_Holder

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Tridoron Its full “Format Number” is the Tridoron-3000. 

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Tire_Specific_Items

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Handle-Ken

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Door-Ju

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Trailer-Hou

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Ride_Booster_Set - Go karts which combine with the Tridoron to change into hover conversion tech! Best of all, they were a free gift from Rinna, no $39,999.95 worth of body work needed!

Powers: 

Super Speed, enhanced strength and reflexes, weapons proficiency, Immunity to singularity events such as Heavy Acceleration if Shift Cars are on his person or his Core Driviar in his Rider Suit is active. 

The Shift Cars give a wide variety of powers:

Flame Generation and projectiles

Ninja based-powers such as cloning jitsu and throwing shuriken construct projectiles  

Spike projectile shooting

Entrapment of an enemy via a cage.

Twin Shields, Playing card projectiles and smokescreen/Coin projectiles, the coin ones depend on Drive’s luck though.

Teleports a fraction of Drive’s Body to another area or creates portals.

Enhanced power and defense

Gives Drive analytical power, enhanced reflexes and the ability to multitask and detect enemies from behind him. 

Enhanced Super Speed with rocket boosters and more power. Able to resist Super Heavy Acceleration.

Healing Factor, albeit a very painful one.

Self-repair to Drive’s armor

Nitro power boost to enhance speed

Hologram projections

A Drill that can pierce the Roidmudes!

Light projection to blind enemies

Grappling hook!

Spanner fist

chomping claws and elastic “tongue” on the claws.

freezing blast ability

Cement gun

Fire extinguisher and extendable robotic arm

Acme 10 ton weight and gravity distortions

lifting jack

Able to fuse the power of 3 Shift cars into one super ability or all of them. Able to resist all forms of Heavy Acceleration. Energy Shield

Also, like Fourze, Wizard and Deacde, Drive’s powers are compatible with Super Sentai powers as he can use a Ninninger Nin Shuriken to turn Tridoron into a Zord. Though that was just a one-off thing.

Signature Finishers:

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Full_Throttle_(finisher)

Weaknesses:

A big one is Shinnosuke needs Mr. Belt to transform and given that he is an A.I., that means he is vulnerable to hacking or tampering to make the once friendly scientist into a violent killing machine via evil programming and use Drive’s body in Type Tridoron to hurt others. 

The Shift Cars can be captured, immobilized or damaged. In some cases, the villains could even control them and use them against Drive.

Shinnosuke can be killed, even when in Rider form as the battle with Freeze seemingly showed. Meaning a more powerful opponent with devastating firepower can kill Drive if enough effort is put in or he somehow has no access to his defensive abilities. Despite being protected from singularities, he is not entirely immune to distortions in time and can be affected by them. (Though this was a bit inconsistent as he somehow remembered being a hero later when this happened.)

Stronger Heavy Acceleration waves can severely damage Drive or slow him down. But modifications and successions to his base Core Driviar system thanks to Dr. Hendrickson and Rinna in newer forms slowly negates this weakness to the point it is not an issue as he can maintain his movement. 

Enemies:

Roidmudes:

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Category%3ARoidmudes

Androids created by Tenjiro Banno and Krim Steinbelt who possess sapient, advanced level intelligence, human mimicry abilities and a wide variety of powers as well as the ability to generate Heavy Acceleration. 

In a nice nod to the original Kamen Rider, the low level types of Roidmudes are divided into three of the classic Rider mythology monsters: Bat Type, Spider Type and Cobra Type.

Roidmudes are capable of evolving to even stronger forms: Advanced, Giant, and the rare Super Evolved State, which grant Roidmudes new abilities and greater power and stronger Heavy Acceleration effects. Their goal is to create a utopia for their race by attaining The Promised Number of evolution.

Among the Advanced Roidmudes are several generals/leaders:

Heart 

Brain

Medic

Freeze

And their enforcer/reaper: the mysterious Mashin Chaser.

And secretly pulling the strings of these events from the shadows is.....

Tenjuro Banno/Gold Drive:

(The KARR to Krim’s KITT)

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Tenjuro_Banno

Tenjuro Banno was a horrible and insane human being and even worse as an A.I.. An abusive, petty, cold, manipulative, ego-driven, sadistic and narcissistic black soul who believed the world owed him tribute to his “genius”. Seeing those that help him as nothing but pawns, even his own family as his two kids need a therapist after all the stuff he pulled. He is the cause of the first Global Freeze as a “ test experiment” and planned everything, as the rebellion of the Roidmudes was no accident but planned by him. 

Like Krim, he uploaded his consciousness into an A.I. after being killed and slowly let his schemes come to fruition, even faking helping and reforming when reunited with his son and Krim to steal more tech Team Drive used and render it useless against him. He even managed to kill a Kamen Rider fans came to like over the course of the series. (I won’t say who though.)

He truly was a villain fans loved to hate for how dirty he played and demented he was, helped by the fact he was played by voice actor Masakazu Morita whom anime fans know can play crazy in a way that gives you shivers. He also was formidable as an evil Kamen Rider as he could pull off a wide array of powers, including swiping the weapons of the heroes away from them via teleport!

Neo-Shade: 

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Neo-Shade

A Terrorist group that Shinnouske was trying to track down before the series, they resurfaced in the final episode and were dissolved as their leader was captured. No seeming relation to the real Shade from Kamen Rider G other than its name.

Remember, the world has a drive that goes faster than ever, but as long as you yourself have a drive in life, you can be in Top Gear and go along for the Ride! 

Shinnosuke Tomari: A Kamen Rider’s flight into a dangerous world ...the world.... of the Drive Rider. *1980s synth music*

[retro-bunnybun]

Done! pls excuse my poor attempt at making a scenario

[defcon-leppard]

So brother dearest and I hung out tonight. Caught up, remembered things, joked and jabbed.

And started thinking up new ideas for Knight Rider, mostly the 08 remake

Here's what we came up with, much of which made us laugh ourselves silly:

KITT swears, everyone looks at him in horror. He acts innocently.

Not inherently silly, but Android body. KITT has to learn how to human, highlights include, in no particular order:

-"KITT GET BACK HERE YOU MORON YOU'RE NAKED!" this being followed by, "but I don't possess your anatomy." "YOU STILL HAVE AN ASS!"

-KITT being annoyed by Mike's constant flirting with womenon the job. He combats this by very intentionally acting like he's a very flamboyantly gay man, and Mike in his. Mike threatens to kill him. A lot.

-KITT playing video games with Mike and Billy; he masters the games quickly, and both humans find it unfair

-KITT gets filthy, Mike is stuck teaching this AI how to shower, and then KITT has the AUDACITY to judge his "junk". "KITT if you don't shut up I'm going to drown you." "I don't breathe, Michael."

-expertly executed pranks, such as popping limbs loose and having pouches of fake blood at the ready. He's given everyone in the Foundation at least one bad scare.

Now some of the not so silly ideas:

-the movie Herbie makes him cry.

-he finds he can much more easily assist/protect Mike during missions.

-can properly hug Sarah

-mentioning viruses causes him severe ptsd

-his claustrophobia is much more pronounced

-anything that can remind him of KARR also causes bad ptsd episodes

Other wholesome ideas we had were:

-Danny comes back to work for them, and KITT is all too happy to see him, or Danny is the one to help build his android body

-KITT exploring having emotions, and learning it's okay to feel, most importantly learning it's okay to feel fear and cry

[contrabassconversations]

935: Mark Gollihur on the bass business

Mark Gollihur is the owner of Gollihur Music, which has been serving the double bass community online since 1997.

We chat with Mark about his father Bob’s passing, how Bob built the company, the satisfactions and challenges of the business, and much more.  Enjoy!

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Probefahrt mit einem Auto mit viel mehr Spielereien via /r/de

Probefahrt mit einem Auto mit viel mehr Spielereien

Ich habe nachher eine probefahrt mit einem eventuell neuen (Tageszulassung, dadurch günstiger mit gesamt 7 Jahren garantie) Auto für mich. Ich habe jetzt eine Strecke ausgesucht die grob eine 50 min dauert, Autobahn, landstraße, bisschen rumgeeier in immenstädten. Ungefähr zehn Minuten für diverse parkmanöver geplant. Soweit so gut. Nun hat das Auto aber auch Spielereien wie Android Auto. Wäre es sinnvoll vor der Fahrt zuschauen wie ich mein Handy verbinde und dann einfach erstmal die Strecke die ich eh fahren möchte per Navi zu fahren? da das Auto dann auch eine eingebaute Freisprecheinrichtung hat, sollte man die mit testen? Also einfach zwischendurch mal kurz telefonieren? Gebt mir mal bitte ein bisschen input weil mein aktuelles Auto nicht mal einen AUX Anschluss hat. Mein Firmenwagen hat zwar eine Freisprecheinrichtung aber den habe ich nicht gekauft, das heißt ich kann mich drüber aufregen wie scheiße die Karre ist.

Da das Fahrzeug an dem ich interessiert bin noch mitten im verkaufsraum steht werde ich voraussichtlich das gleiche Modell fahren aber gegebenenfalls mit einer anderen Konfiguration (ich glaube es war nur die Ausstattung aber ich bin mir gerade nicht ganz sicher). Wie würdet ihr das handhaben?

Mein aktuelles Auto hat ein sehr ähnliches Gewicht und weniger Leistung (64 vs 110 PS), also müsste es doch eigentlich ausreichen wenn ich den bequem finde und genug Übersicht über das Fahrzeug habe oder?

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