#apex theory

[tintreach-cleite]

Is the Ark from Titanfall 2 the cause of the hurricane on Storm Point? I know that sounds crazy, but there is a surprising amount of evidence for it. To start, the ship that Bangalore and Jackson arrived on (the IMS Hestia) used a power source related to the Ark as a way to make a jump that would have taken 20 years to travel by normal means, in less than a year. After that, the ship crashed, and while most of the ship remained intact on land, much of the front seems to have washed into the sea.

Another interesting note is that we see no signs of the oddly colored storm in the prequel cinematic Gridiron, yet somehow, in the modern day it is so synonymous with the location that it is named after it and has three facilities dedicated to taming it.

There is also a teaser that is currently going on where the storm is just outside the map, and at its core is an odd glowing sphere with debris floating around the edges and swirls of lightning striking the center.

To anybody who has completed the Titanfall 2 campaign, this should look awfully familiar.

If you look closely at the storm, you can even see what appears to be part of one of the rings surrounding the Ark. And the final nail in the coffin? In the Titanfall 2 mission, "Effect and Cause," you travel between two points in time. One where the Ark has not been used, and one where it has been used to destroy Typhon's moon Orthros. In the past, the facility was nothing but bright and sunny. In the present, it is dark and stormy with a light blueish hue.

Credit to MaxLPQueen on YouTube for the first picture and the Titanfall wiki for the second. I also used the Titanfall wiki as a source to find much of this information.

[pinkpruneclodwolf]

Chapter 7 theories and Spoilers—

Considering the theory that Sebek may have something to do with the time crocodile from Peter Pan, is it plausible to wonder if Sebek may be able to summon Past!Lilia to help fight Malleus?

Not only that, but the entourage that trails behind Lilia?

Another theory I have is, Mickey and Yuu are connected through dreams. Especially when taking into account how Yuu was summoned to TWST.

If magic on Malleus's scale can mess with memories what other being could do so? Could it have been a subconscious call for help from Crowley? Or was it from Mickey?

My bet is that it may have been from Crowley and the Mirror.

I also find it odd how, when Mickey appears before Yuu and Grim a blot monster appears. Coincidence or not I do think it is notable to mention that; because it could lend credence to Grim Overblotting or Malleus summoning other blot monsters in battle to aid him.

Yuu not being included in Malleus' dreams dreamscape could mean a lot of things, but I do think of it as Malleus subconsciously believing that it was Yuu's fault that everything had spiraled out of control.

But it can also mean that Malleus does believe in the futility of what he is doing, and by not including Yuu he can keep his peace for a little while longer.

Yuu represents change and how everything that was once in the dark will come to light.

I also believe that S.T.Y.X will probably play a hand in their victory against Malleus, mostly because of their magic resistant armor. But also because Chaoter 6 themes of family and grief played a heavy hand and to see Ortho—the one who died but was reborn, reach out to Malleus, someone who is watching his father figure decay before his eyes....

I'm unwell.

[allegorymetaphory]

I'm not convinced Jean Jacket is an ET. I think it's the real apex predator of Earth, home grown.

The species could have been around a long time and we wouldn't know it because of how they hide and camouflage. Plus, the nature of the beast is such that if you see it you die. If you don't die, nobody believes you. The secret continues.

The nature of predators is to be territorial, and OJ proved it was. For a creature that can casually break the sound barrier, that territory must be huge.

Predators are generally vastly outnumbered by their prey.

If it couldn't handle a big balloon popping inside it, I doubt it could withstand the vacuum of outer space.

I think the evidence is on my side. Jean Jacket is no alien. Jean Jacket and its kin belong here. There's one in your area.

What do you think?

[spook5hadow]

With it really looking like the new Legend is from an alternate timeline, and somehow focused on Olympus, wouldn't it be fucking twisted if they were alternate universe evil Newton?!

Changed by the death of his mother, influenced heavily by Ash/Leigh, maybe even recruited by the Apex Predators? Ngl I kinda want to see this now.

[deus-primordialis-eternatus]

“But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.” ― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

Dino Battle //  Pouya Moayedi

[nyotasaimiri]

"uranium apex days"???? Please explain if you don't mind! This sounds amazingly weird.

Buckle up, my good anon!

So a good friend of mine (I can't remember his tumblr username right now, we mostly chat on Discord) went file diving and found folders assigned to each of the races, with another folder inside labeled with some chemical notation. I can't remember all of them but Hylotl had H2O, Glitch had Fe, Floran had CO2, and Avians had methane of all things. Apex were U for uranium. Maybe humans were oxygen. Can't remember if Novakid were in there or not.

Well it sort of makes sense for it to be an element they need somehow, hylotl need water to live, plants breathe carbon dioxide... who even knows for methane but yeah glitch are metal / iron, right? But. Uranium. What even?

Friend and I realized hang on a hot second, uranium has modern uses in genetic editing! What are apex but a genetically edited whole species?!

Nutter that I am, I took this a step further and suggested maybe they have specifically uranium 238 in their bloodstream instead of a cellular immune system like humans have. Because why not? It's more efficient on an energy basis (outsourcing the work), weak enough to not destroy cells that have adapted to it while still destroying simple viruses and bacteria, their thick skin and fur could somehow block it from radiating their whole environment, and the extra heat would be a beneficial adaptation on their preferred arctic worlds. Radioactive planets would still be a danger since it could make that U-238 transmute into highly dangerous plutonium 239, so it didn't break canon. Probably.

In case you were wondering why my apex are so nice warm and snuggly to be around~

Yeah, I'm a tad bonkers.

[elyiajade]

So the apex legends stories? Who the fuck are the two folks talking in the last scene.

One of them wanted the original revenant’s head and is paying a shit-ton for it. Their initial is “Z” in the logs. And the other “A” is the one who killed Loba’s friend to get the head? And they’re at Mirage’s party currently?

[da-riya]

Tried to be sneaky and just translate and copy the English wikipedia page but I feel this sloppy work would be found out

[whimseysthrone]

Characterization & Character Creation, WH40k Darktide

Characterization & Character Creation, WH40k Darktide

This is not a full-on review of the game. If you like the developer FatShark’s previous title Vermintide 2 (Vt2) or other games in the Left 4 Dead co-op genre, and you’re willing to experience the teething problems of a game that needs a few more updates for performance and stability, then you might enjoy this. It’s certainly the best L4D genre game I’ve played despite still feeling rough at…

[apexofthewrld]

ngl not a huge fan of apex of the world being the final boss theme for just azure gleam while scarlet blaze gets funeral of flowers... personal feelings aside the context of those two final battles in 3hopes don’t align at all with the thematic relevance of those two songs in 3houses and while it’s nice to hear new renditions of familiar tunes and it def would’ve been too much to ask for a completely new soundtrack i can’t say i’m not disappointed since the original context of those songs adds so much more weight to them yknow

[captainimbatmanus]

[amaliasnap]

Watch "The Bronze Age Collapse - Systems Collapse - Extra History - #4" on YouTube

You guys know systems collapse theory?

Ok so if you watch just the first half it is depressing/bleak but stay for the end.

And I would just point out that even if the global financial markets collapsed, or there were riots in some parts of the globe, or if coastal areas got inundated and there were food shortages --

--Humanity has done this shit before.

There is a reason that we are the apex predator of this planet and it's because we work together, and more so when the challenges are outside of human society.

And not all that stuff will happen at once.

Local groups will take over if federal powers fail.

A lot of people will tell you the world is about to end, but they probably mean global trade, and not the world literally. And they have been saying in front of me for all of my 4+ decades

And I think they are disappointed. Those people wanted it to end.

[spook5hadow]

My new theory is that Crypto was the one who tried to kill Jamie, and no one can convince me otherwise.

[paskvilnet]

The Apex Theory - Apossibly

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

What's most amazing about people who hate that birds are dinosaurs is that, without the discovery of birds being dinosaurs in the 1960s, none of y'all would have ever actually cared about dinosaurs

the history:

dino craze in 1800s. people thought, birds are very similar to these guys. Dollo fucked it up, made a bad theory, and people stopped thinking that

Early 1900s, dinosaurs deemed sluggish, stupid, pointless evolutionary failures. most people not really into dinosaurs anymore. this continues until

1960s: Deinonychus discovered. suddenly, dinosaurs interesting again: vibrant, lively, warm blooded animals. Also... birds might be dinosaurs?

from the 60s through the 70s, a slow buildup of dinosaur culture - both in crappy stop motion movies, but also in children's books and other media

80s cladistics revolution shows birds are living dinosaurs, though not without flaws. documentary after documentary is made, causing the major dinosaur boom of the late 80s and early 90s

the peak of this boom are the A&E and PBS documentaries, which both outright state birds are dinosaurs

cartoons like land before time and other dinosaur content keep coming out too, especially at the end of the 80s and the earliest 90s

the book jurassic park, referencing the birds are dinosaurs thing, is written in the late 80s. in the early 90s, is adapted into one of the greatest blockbusters of all time. now dinosaur interest is MAINSTREAM.

jurassic park isn't the start of the dinosaur boom, it is the apex

90s becomes the decade of dinosaurs, with tons of new discoveries, television shows, documentaries, and other programming

1996 first feathered "nonavian" dinosaur discovered. birds are dinosaurs is the closest thing we have to proven phylogenetic fact

1999 walking with dinosaurs premieres, revolutionizing the dinosaur-documentary genre.

early 2000s becomes the age of Period-Type Dino-Docu-Dramas

velociraptor is determined to have feathers

suddenly, dinosaur mania starts to die in the later 2000s

even though discoveries keep happening and we learn so much in the 2010s, the 2010s becomes a very regressive time - a sort of reactionary response to the birdification of dinosaurs and the dinosaurification of birds. the height of this is jurassic world

we may be in the middle of a dino-docu-drama revitilization thanks to prehistoric planet. stay tuned on that one

like, everyone was fine with the birdification of dinosaurs up and until they looked "feminine" on the outside, because of feathers.

It's just all such transparent misogyny and homophobia and people who react against feathered dinosaurs or birds being dinosaurs are just... so transparently parroting conservative talking points

Anyways, yeah. without birds are dinosaurs, you wouldn't have jurassic park. Sooooo

[macabresymphonies]

The Magnus Protocol Alchemical Theory Ramble

I've been really into alchemy recentyl due to it's connections to The Magnus Protocol (probably to woe of my thesis supervisor), but the more I read the more some stuff that already have happened is starting to make sense to me. This post will be probably due to an update once I get further in my research, but I wanted to get some stuff out of my system as it's still fresh in my mind (people also wanted an update on my previous post where I spoke how there is a lot of connections between history of alchemy and TMAGP so here it is).

Keep in mind this is very brief explanation cause history of alchemy is MASSIVE, so I will be mostly focusing on a brief period in 12-14th century where alchemy was kind of the talk of the ruling class (mostly church). I will also not be explaning much the alchemical goals, but the purpouse of this post I will say chrysopoeia (transmutation of metals into gold) and connected concept of a Philosopher's Stone were two of the main ones.

Natural vs Artificial

The main concern with alchemy in the eyes of the church at the time was the issue of "natural" vs "artificial" gold. You see there were few loosely documented cases where alchemists seemingly reached one of their main goals and trasmutated some metals into gold. The problem was this "alchemical gold" was either devauling natural gold (if real), which was also an issue of "playing God" it was by divine design a fixed amount of gold in the world existed, or an elaborate way to counterfiet coins (if not real). This combined with the concerns of using artificial gold in medicine pushed alchemy into an underground by a decree of pope John XXII by forbidding alchemists from selling this alchemical gold (and silver). Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus (known alchemists) were however both subscribed to idea that not only is alchemical gold equal to the natural one, it's actually better than natural one.

I see a connection here between "natural" fears (Smirk's 14) and "artificial" fears (clearly a faction of people who experiment on people, forcibly turning them into some type of creatures that resemble TMA's avatars). If we see Entities as apexes of their domains, these "offshoots" we've seen so far could be read as attempts of creating new entities by amature "alchemists" of this universe. This leads us very nicely into the second section.

Deckname, hiding in plain sight

You see, because alchemy was becoming quite controversial alchemists needed to hide their recipies. Deckname describes a way alchemists hid some of their exact recipies by using allegories, same names for multiple ingredients or (quite the opposite) one name for multiple ingredients. This concept wasn't new as in even in arabic writings on alchemy we can observer use of Deckname, but in ~13th century it was quite prelevant and even sometimes mixed with religious imagery (which will be important later). The general idea was to hide infromation with this type of "code", but not in such a way as it would be virtually impossible to decipher (as this would deem it useless). It also connects with the idea of "scattering" information (ingredients) as to send some scholars on this wild goose chase for Philosopher's Stone.

I don't think I need to talk much on how German way of hiding information might connect to the fact Freddie is a mysterious program written in German code that seemingly does not make much sense (with Deckname being intensively decribed by an arabist named KRAUS of all things). What I would like to point out that even very early on I believed that Freddie is used to crossreference attempts at creation of Philosopher's Stone and it's becoming much more likely this is a case, especially if you consider the next point.

The battle against the Antichrist

You see, alchemy wasn't like a one school of thought with a proper way to perform it, it was a science much like chemistry is today (alchemy is like a granddaddy of chemistry anyway). One of the concept that caught on, especially with the faction of Franciscan Spirituals (which is like hardcore Franciscans who liked to predict end of the world a lot) was the idea that Antichrist is coming and that all knowledge will be needed to stop him. Franciscan friar Roger Bacon even wrote a letter to the pope about it. This connected to with alchemy created a notion of a Philosopher's Stone as a tool in stopping the Antichrist which will be important later.

The Magnus Institute did tests on children that were mostly measuring three things: their developemnt, their empathy and how compliant they are. Given the history of the Institute in TMA it's hard to believe they were doing it for selfless and pure reasons, so I believe they were monitoring children to catch the possible "antichrist" and use their potnential for their own gain (note that I do not believe this "antichrist" is like a christian concept in TMAGP universe, I think it's something more aligned with entities or a purely symbolic title for some type of individual).

The torment of Messiah

For every Antichrist there's gotta be a-christ and alchemy actually did have a concept of one. You see, combining Deckname and the battle with Antichrist the Philosopher's Stone was very often hidden under the allegory of the Passion of Christ. Alchemists believed they are in a way tormenting metals by subduing them to all these processes (this is where the word crucible comes from by the way, it's "the little place of torment"), combine that with Antichrist theory and Jesus became a great allegory for creation of The Stone. Alchemists believe that metal (most often mercury) would have to go through four stages of torment before "ascending" similar how Jesus did (the incarnation, the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the ascension). This were in fact only believed to be instructions hidden in religious imagery.

I believe TMAGP does reverse of that concept. We've seen the Intitute use chemical terms like agent and catalyst do describe either the paranormal items or their wielders. I believe that the faction currently pulling the strings is using alchemical writings to experiment on people through tormenting them and exposing them to what is left of TMA Entities after traversing the universes. Some of those parts were used to make Freddie, that's why we got The Voices, but some are used to make eldritch abominations like we've seen so far. I'm not sure if Messiah in this sense is to be considered a benevolent concept, perhaps it's simply a being that will stop the apocalypse, but I believe that Antichrist is probably rebirth of The Prime Fear all Entities came from in TMA.

Closing thoughts

You can take that with a grain of salt, as I'm not a proficient alchemy scholar, but I won't deny the fact all of this so far fits pretty well and I can already see how this could play into many arcs (like how Celia has a baby that could be the "natural" antichrist and Sam with "chosen boy" issues could become the chosen "artificial" Messiah). If there are other points anyone with more knowledge on alchemy would like to mention in this post feel free to do so!