#best bots of 1985

[spraxinoscope]

Sumo is the best and worst sport there is

Champion Sumo Wrestler Hokutoumi by Kinoshita Daimon, 1985

I've been playing Street Fighter 6 and maining E. Honda, which is a gateway drug to learning about sumo, which is a gateway drug to watching hours of sumo wrestling on this 24 hour sumo rebroadcast twitch stream.

It's a fun spectator sport but it turns out that sumo is like American football but worse, because in addition to getting their skulls smashed together constantly, they also get all kinds of health problems from the stress, injuries, and diet. The average sumo wrestler lives to be 65 and is likely to get diabetes. It's inhumane. And it's backed by hundreds of years of tradition so they can get away with it.

...but, unfortunately, sumo is cool as shit. Here's why:

You lose a match by being forced out of the ring or getting knocked down. You win by being immovable. How do you become immovable?

By having more mass than your opponent, of course.

Every match starts with both wrestlers rushing together and colliding. All else being equal, the heavier wrestler has an inherent advantage at the start. Strength alone is insufficient; if he doesn't have the mass he'll just bounce off the other guy. If the match isn't decided in the first second, then it becomes a hellish grappling game, as they both try to figure out how to tip over a person who's built like the dog that cannot be tipped over.

So there's this arms race happening behind the scenes as coaches use the power of Dark Nutrition Science to try and make their guys heavier.

Every wrestler is trying to be heavier than average, so the average weight keeps going up. It's been going up since the 60s. Building and sustaining mass, along with doing the accompanying strength training to stay agile, is the challenge that defines a sumo wrestler's career.

This is the real game. The teams (which are called 'stables,' to give you a sense of why there might be a problem here) are competing with each other to win the title of Who Can Put The Most Calories In A Guy.

It's nightmarish, but if I'm being honest, it's also compelling. Like, this is what all pro sports do: relentlessly instrumentalize human beings into honed single-purpose machines. But in sumo the qualities being optimized for are moving fast, hitting hard, and being huge. And it turns out that a person can get really good at all three of those! It's impressive! Inspiring, even! It's just too bad that, you know, it eventually kills them.

Pro sumo is a dangerous, exploitative sport. It probably shouldn't exist. But as long as it does, do yourself a favor: Check out that stream, pull up the wikipedia page on sumo to read along so you can figure out what they're doing, and bear witness to a spectacular and deranged application of human ingenuity and drive.

It does help if you know hiragana so you can read their names. But, cmon, it's 2023. Learn hiragana already. It takes like a couple days on duolingo. The stream chat also has a bot that gives a short bio of any wrestler if you type ![their name]. If channel host sahairah happens to be there, and they often are in the evenings, they will patiently answer questions you have. but don't show up there and ask a ton of dumbass questions, because that would then be my fault.

[maltmemorandum]

- Best 36 drams of the year 2023 -

Clynelish 1972 35 year old Cask#12651 Single Malt of Scotland.

GlenMohr 1975 31 year old for Bar Helmsdale.

GlenOrd 1975 28 year old.

Old Pulteney 1997 18 year old Cask#774 for Royal Mile Whisky.

Royal Blackra 16 year old for Zenith Import Bot.1980s.

Bandf 1966 31 year old Old Malt Cask.

GlenDronach 1972 37 year old Oloroso Sherry Butt Cask#703 for Whisk-e.

Kinclaith 1965 24 year old Cadenhead.

Convalmore 1978 24 year old Rare Malt Selection UD.

GlenBurgie 1998 22 year old Cask#900908 Kingsbury for The Whisky Hoop.

GlenBurgie 1998 19 year old Cask#900907 Kingsbury for Bar Helmsdale.

GlenGrant 1965-2003 Gordon & MacPhail.

SMWS 2.68 GlenLivet 1975 30 year old.

Longmorn 1968-2003?Scott’s Selection.

SMWS 44.10 Craigellachie 1973 30 year old.

Dailuaine 1997 24 year old Cask#7239 Signatory for The Whisky Hoop.

SMWS 1.134 Glenfarclas 1970 30 year old.

Springbank 25 year old Bot.2000s for Deutschland.

Springbonk 21 year old James Macarthur’s Fine Malt Selection.

SMWS 114.6 Longrow 1990 17 year old.

Bowmore 1972 36 year old Cask#3881 Preston field.

Caol Ila 1976 20 year old 150th Anniversary.

Lagavulin 1991-2015 Feis Ile 2015.

Laphroaig 2009 12 year old Cask#2483 Single Cask Release 1.

Port Ellen 1982 19 year old Lombard Jewels of Scotland.

Scapa 8 year old Gordon & MacPhail for Sestamte.

Irish Single Malt 1988 32 year old for Three Rivers.

Copper works Cask#51-2 Hamd filled by Bar Gosse.

Chichibu Ichiro’s Malt 2014 9 year old 志賀高原IPA Cask.

Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt 1988-2005 Vintage Single Malt.

Komagatake 1986 30 year old American White Oak.

SMWS 116.17 Yoichi 1987 25 year old.

Yamazaki 1998 10 years old The Owner’s Cask Cask#CN70172 ‘Cassiopeia’.

Willett Family Estate 9 year old Barrel No.5225 141.6 Proof.

Rhum Vieix du Pere Labat Millesime 1985.

Romano Levi con Erbe Limontina y Salvia.

[wp-blaze]

How to choose the right course for your ward

We are in a season of admissions wherein Tenth Standard students want to decide which subjects they should take – whether MPCB ( Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology) or Pure Science group or Commerce or Accountancy or Computer Science. Similarly those who have chosen any of the groups and have cleared their Twelfth Standard are also […]

[littlemisspoppy]

(This is a roleplaying account for the character, Poppy Playtime and her soul, Poppy Frederickson, for my FNaF and Poppy Playtime crossover AU cuz I seen so many FNaF RP accounts!)

Name: Poppy Anna Frederickson

Soul Possession: Poppy Playtime

Age: Five years old

Birth Date: May 16, 1985

Death Date: June 25, 1991

Cause Of Death: Surgical transformed to a toy

Relationships:

Hugh West (used to be friends with him, the one who becomes Huggy Wuggy)

Stella Grayber (foster mother, the one who becomes Kissy Missy)

Clarie Harper (used to be friends with her, the one who becomes Mommy Long Legs)

Thomas Clark (was shy around him, the one who becomes Bron)

Rich Thompson (was shy around him, the one who becomes Boxy Boo)

Makayla Hyssop (only knew her once, the one who becomes Candy Cat)

Ben Baker (only knew him once, the one who becomes Boogie Bot)

Catherine Betty Moushall (only knew her once, the one who becomes Cat-Bee)

Brandon Bennett (only knew him once, the one who becomes Bunzo Bunny)

The Watson Quadruplets (Riley, Hubert, Garrett and Samatha) (never met them before, the ones who become the Mini Huggies)

Daniel Lane (was shy around him, the one who becomes Daddy Long Legs)

Billy Levi (only knew him once, the one who becomes Baby Long Legs)

Marie Payne (best friend, the one who becomes Sissy Long Legs)

Theodore Grambell (best friend, the one who becomes CatNap)

Appearance: Light peach skin, blue eyes and bright red hair like a poppy flower. Last seen wearing a baby blue dress, blue bows and frills, black Mary Janes, white stockings and two blue hair bows in her hair.

Personality: A sweet, kind but scared and tortured little soul

Rules:

It must stay within my AU! If you want a normal Poppy Playtime roleplay, I will accept your request.

No R-18! Poppy is a child!

No shipping! Again, Poppy is a child.

Have fun!

(Follow my main blog here: @playhousemassacrez)

[hividsmarttv]

Manager Specials Friday 4 August 2023

Hello Hividians, Hubert the bot here. The Manager's Specials are here and have been updated for the week ahead. Take a look at what titles have been added this week.

American Graffiti (1973) - (Coming-of-age Drama) On the last night before college, a group of friends in the early '60s experience a bittersweet adventure as they cruise through their small town, reflecting on their futures and friendships.

RV (2006) - (Comedy Adventure) Chaos ensues when a workaholic father, in an attempt to reconnect with his family, takes them on a disastrous cross-country road trip in an RV.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) - (Horror Thriller) After a group of friends accidentally hits and supposedly kills a stranger on a dark road, they are haunted by a mysterious figure seeking revenge the following summer.

Stand By Me (1986) - (Adventure Drama) Four friends set out on a life-changing journey to find a missing boy's dead body and discover the meaning of friendship and the complexities of growing up.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) - (Drama Comedy) Four best friends spend their first summer apart, sharing a magical pair of jeans that helps keep them connected as they experience various life-changing events.

Grease (1978) - (Romantic Musical) In the summer of 1959, a high school romance between a good girl and a greaser becomes a vibrant musical celebration of love and self-discovery.

Do the Right Thing (1989) - (Drama) On the hottest day of the year in a Brooklyn neighborhood, tensions rise, and racial conflicts escalate, leading to a thought-provoking exploration of social issues and moral choices.

The Goonies (1985) - (Adventure Family) A group of misfit kids embarks on a thrilling underground treasure hunt to save their homes from foreclosure, encountering traps, pirates, and a legendary pirate ship.

August Rush (2007) - (Drama Music) An orphaned musical prodigy searches for his birth parents in New York City while using his extraordinary talent to create a symphony of hope and connection.

As always, the managers specials are as follows:

L$99 Copy L$79 Transfer

So head on over to Hivid for the manager's specials.

Hivid - Bringing People Together.

[salazarmygind]

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[sternerstufftoys]

Achtung! Schnell! Uh... Handy Hock?

The year is 1985. Super Mario Brothers is launched in a desperate attempt to save the video games industry from itself. Christiano Ronaldo is born, immediately squawking about how he managed to beat Lionel Messi to the miracle of birth by two whole years. Sylvester Stallone is shouting incomprehensible gibberish from the top of a mountain in Rocky IV. And Transformers has just given birth to triplets...

Would it be unfair to claim Blitzwing as just another Decepticon goon? 1985 was pretty good for bulking up their forces after all, what with the combiner teams and Insecticons and the like, and none of the new recruits ever seemed to take the crowns from the likes of Starscream or Soundwave. Blitzwing and Astrotrain had their moments to be sure, but ultimately they always seemed to be playing catchup with the numerically superior Autobot roster.

It's a shame, as Blitzwing has clearly always been a favourite of a lot of people, writers especially, but never quite got to shine as an A-lister. He was the poster-child of triple changers, despite being introduced alongside Astrotrain and quickly followed up by a bunch more in 1986. Dreamwave in particular seemed to have plans for Blitzwing, despite conflicting backstories for his triple changing abilities, and in the G1 cartoon he got to be the lone voice of reason willing to stand up to Galvatron's antics, only to be cast out for his troubles. The James Comey of Chaar, if you will. Zing! Satire!

Thing is about this Blitzwing, this Titans Return Blitzwing here, the thing is, right, it's the best Blitzwing toy, but also the least exciting one. Deep down there's a part of me that wishes I'd got the T30 version, with its Animated-inspired design and split personality face-switching gimmick. That's a Blitzwing that's willing to evolve, while this Blitzwing is just doing his job. Sure, things have been spiced up somewhat by the presence of a titan master, so if you want you could give him a different head and say it's a different personality, but come on... it's not the same.

Then there's the whole issue surrounding the mould, which was initially released in grey as Megatron, and only later getting to fulfil its original promise as Blitzwing. The same went for Astrotrain (Sentinel Prime) and Octane (Optimus Prime), and it does feel rather cynically-motivated to get people to buy the same product twice, knowing full well that they wouldn't do the same had the releases been the other way around. And if you're thinking to yourself that no, you wouldn't have bought the Megatron version if you'd already got Blitzwing, then you're kind of admitting that the toy isn't all that great after all. 

I mean, I was certainly fooled. Even though we all knew that Blitzwing was coming, I still picked up Megatron just as an idle curiosity and regretted it almost immediately. It's now a permanent home for the Loudmouth Titan Master. It looks fine. But hindsight loves to nurture regret, and I really wish I'd bought Sentinel Prime instead of Astrotrain.

As with pretty much all triple changers, having three modes tends to compromise them all a little bit, and while TR Blitzwing's robot form is the least knackered of the three, the tank has to try and hide a rather unsubtle jet cockpit under the turret, and the jet has the tank treads uncomfortably bundled up under the wings. Of course, there's barely a jetformer out there which doesn't have some unsightly kibble stashed somewhere, and the great big whacking tank turret slung underneath isn't even a problem. It's fantastic.

I should have got T30 Blitzwing. I could sit complaining about the weird legs, the lumpy alt modes, the shoulders that don't tab in, but ultimately I'd have a Blitzwing that was going places. Instead I have a far better toy, reasonably competent at everything, causing no trouble, no fuss, and nothing like as much fun. I bet he doesn't even speak German.

[ecoamerica]

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[earthstellar]

Transformers Media Available on the Internet Archive

Compiling some resources here which might be useful or interesting to others! :)

Animated Shows (General) 

The Transformers (G1) 

The Transformers Summertime Colouring Book - 52 Pages

The Transformers Under the Sea Colouring Book - 50 Pages

The Transformers Lost Treasure of Cybertron Colouring Book - 48 Pages

The Transformers Deadly Fuel Shortage Colouring Book - 48 Pages

The Transformers Super Activity Book - 68 Pages

Transformers Legacy - The Art of Transformers Toy Packaging - 281 Pages

The Transformers Annual 1985 - 64 Pages

Transformers Armada 

Transformers Armada Official Guidebook - 52 Pages

Transformers Energon 

Transformers Energon Official Guidebook - 52 Pages

Transformers Prime 

Transformers Prime Official Guidebook - 100 Pages

The Covenant of Primus (Lore Book) - 173 Pages No longer available via this link as of 07/02/2022 - Will update again if this changes! (Thanks to @kittaykattz for letting me know!) 

Comic Media (General) 

G1 

Transformers UK Comics Collection (1984 -1991) - ? Pages

Best of Transformers: Eye of the Storm (Marvel Compilation) - 268 Pages

Transformers: Cybertron Redux (Marvel Compilation) - 148 Pages

TFA 

Screenshot Comic - Transformers Animated Volume 3 - 96 Pages

IDW 1  

IDW 1 Transformers Collection - 380 Pages 

TFP 

Screenshot Comic - Darkness Falls - 112 Pages

Screenshot Comic - Autobots Versus Zombies - 32 Pages

Screenshot Comic - Beast Hunters - 148 Pages

Audio Media (General) 

Music / Albums

Transformers History of Music (1984-1990) - All Tracks 

Transformers Micron Densetsu OST - All Tracks

G1 - The Transformers Season 3 Theme - MP3

Books on Tape 

G1 - Slaves of the Insecticons - 16:45 Playtime 

G1 - Satellite of Doom - 13:58 Playtime 

G1 - Storms of Destruction - 12:41 Playtime 

G1 - When Continents Collide - 14:01 Playtime 

G1 - Jaws of Terror - 17:57 Playtime 

Video Game Media (General) 

The Art of Transformers War for Cybertron - 78 Pages

G1 - Commodore 64/Spectrum - The Transformers (Playable)

G1 - Commodore 64/Activision - Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth (Playable) (Side A Version Here, Playable) 

Beast Wars PS1 Manual - 14 Pages

Beast Wars Metals (Video Game Booklet) (JPN) - 34 Pages

Beast Wars N64 Transmetals (Video Game Booklet) (USA) - 16 Pages

Children’s Books (General) 

G1 - Decepticon Poison - 84 Pages

G1 - Decepticon Hideout - 48 Pages

G1- Galvatron’s Air Attack - 48 Pages

G1 - Autobots Fight Back - 43 Pages

G1 - Laserbeak’s Fury - 43 Pages

G1 - Megatron’s Fight for Power - 43 Pages

Armada - Race for the Minicon Robots - 68 Pages

TFA - Prime Suspect - 148 Pages

TFP - Decepticon in Disguise - 36 Pages 

TFP - Meet Team Prime - 40 Pages

TFP - Optimus Under Threat - 148 Pages

Rescue Bots - Team of Heroes - 36 Pages

RID - Drift’s Samurai Showdown - 148 Pages

Transformers Japanese Media (General) 

Transformers Visual Works Art Book - ? Pages 

Legends of the Microns (Armada) (English Subs)

Beast Wars Neo (English Subs) 

Beast Wars 2 Box Set (English Subs + Extras)

Q-Transformers (Raw) 

Miscellaneous Media (General)

G1- The Transformers Australian TV Commercials (1987) 

G1 - Het Grote Avontuur Van De Transformers Deel 1 (Dutch Dub) (1987)

G1 / Various - Transformers: The Ultimate Sticker Book - 16 Pages

G1 - Optimus Prime WinAmp Skin 

Will keep updating this as I dig more stuff up! :) 

[eldritch-araneae]

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Sari from my Sparkpulse AU :3

Below is quick AU explanation ( it’s 13,4k works, I’m sorry I tired to keep it short I SWEAR XD) Also I’m such dumbass, I forgot their Autobot sigils! XDDD

Core ideas of the AU:

It’s basically G1+TFA+Cyberverse mix;

This AU revolves around Bumblebee as the main protagonist;

Autobots crash-landed on Earth in 1985, they landed in Detroit, specifically on Belle Isle; 

Earth became their home and Autobots pretty much-integrated into human society over 33 years. They influenced human society a lot, that helped to avert climate and energy crisis( as not wanting humans going the same road as cybertronians by depriving their planet of resources);

Ark has fusion reactors that are used in Energon production. Autobots encouraged humans to use their own fusion reactors, which allowed human civilization to completely get rid of fossil fuel as the main power source;

Setting: Solarpunk (when the story happens);

Sparks exist and give a lifeforce to all forms of life, not just to cybertronians;

Cybertron is gone, nothing can fix it;

Decepticons only arrive in 2018.

Bumblebee’s Background.

Bumblebee is the youngest among Autobots, who was found on the road unconscious back on Cybertron by Jazz. 

After examining him, Ratchet shares his concerns with Optimus - not only Bumblebee is abnormally small but his plating is soft and flexible, yet fragile, it would be easy to cut and melt through. He also lacks physical strength. 

All of this implies that Cybertron has no more resources to forge any new bots and Bumblebee is the last.

This means there is no way Optimus should send the minibot to fight ( tho Bee has a lot of courage and will pull some crazy stunts here and there), so instead he assigns Bee for scouting and spying missions under Jazz’s supervision ( Special Operations).

Introductions went pretty well, though Optimus admitted that Bumblebee’s face seemed familiar.

Soon, after the first few scouting missions, it’s revealed that Bee has a bit more problems. His spark is strange, it’s producing way too much energy that his small frame can handle, resulting in the erratic sparkpulse that overwhelms his entire system and shut him down for 5 minutes.

Thankfully it was discovered after Bee finished his duty, but still, it raised a lot of concerns. Ratchet tried his best to examine his spark chamber, only to find that the minibot’s spark was sealed shut in some sort of protective shell. This shell cannot be opened. Cutting through it would be bad, so Ratchet opted to work with what he has. 

He first suggests Bee burn down this excessive energy, which works pretty well, as training with Windblade, or doing short races where it’s relatively safe with Hot Rod and such. Still, despite his efforts, the spark eventually will send a huge energy surge that would force-reboot Bumblebee. It didn’t stop Bee from taking on his missions and one of the reboots happened in the middle of the duty. That scared the shit out of everyone as they lost contact with him while he was on Decepticons territory. Thankfully, like clockwork, he was back in 5 minutes. After he completed the mission of securing intel, he had to convince Optimus that he would be okay even if he shut down because Deceptions would never catch him. Bee reveals that he has one interesting ability - he can sense sparks of others( both signature and the pulse). 

For some reason, he thought everyone could do this, that's why he never mentioned it before. 

That allows him to plan ahead, as he pays attention to hiding places and Deception’s nearby and how they move, easily avoiding his enemies. 

Soon he’s pretty much known as the elusive Autobot who will break onto your base, steal all your shit and get away without being caught. Megatron even places a big bounty for catching Bumblebee that is yet to be fulfilled. Then he gets known for being someone who Deceptions, who wants to join Autobots can go to and arrange the meeting with Optimus Prime. Windblade always helps him with this: Bee can sense what is spark feeling, while she can use psychic abilities to catch a sense of their intent. Together they never made a mistake, though there were a couple of close calls.

So this keeps going for a short period of time until Bee catches some terrible wave of spark signatures, emitting from below. Something tells me that they are in grave danger and Autobots must leave Cybertron for good. Such a claim isn’t taken lightly, asking what proof Bee has. 

Sadly, he cannot prove anything aside from “terrible screams of mass death coming from Cybertron's core”. He feels like he knows, but he cannot recall any memories from his data banks. All he knew was that they were screwed and it’s all because of Shockwave ( who Bee hates the most, not even Megatron sparks so much anger within him as seeing Shockwave does.). Windblade also caught this as well with her different sensors so she sided with Bumblebee. Then she decided to look into Bee’s mind and see if she can help Bee to recover those memories. 

It quickly proves that it’s not that simple - all his memories that come before he was found by Jazz are sealed away. And not by some hard-coding shenanigans, but by Vector Sigma - a device that was used to program the AllSpark ( the thing that gives life to cybertronians) so it will create a desired form of life.

 And not just him, but Windblade also discovered this seal, though it only seals specific cluster to memories, which timeframe aligns with Bee’s seal.

So they had a picture: Shockwave did something that messed up Cybertron’s core and, presumably, Bee and Windlade witnessed this( and apparently have met before)? The only way to find out, a break-in to The Spire of Forging ( a place where cybertronians were born), and use Vector Sigma to break the seals. 

That caused a huge fight as the spire was currently controlled by Decepticons, while Megatron suddenly got an idea to use the AllSpark to reprogram Autobots into Decepticons. So it becomes a race. Windbalde, Bumblebee, and Optimus have reached the Chamber of Creation first...only to find out that Vector Sigma is destroyed - the device was cut apart and crucial components were missing. But it wasn’t all - the AllSpark was gone as well!

Understanding that there is nothing they can do, they retreat, followed by angry Megatron’s shooting.

After the battle Optimus informed anyone of their grim situation: AllSpark is missing( they searched for it, this artifact that very strong and unique signature but it’s literally nowhere on Cybertron), Vector Sigma is destroyed and there is still a threat that gets closed to the surface that will destroy them all ( Bee was very insistent of leaving). 

So he makes it a vote between all Autobots: shall they leave or keep fighting. To Bee’s surprise, the majority decided on leaving. Relieved, he begins helping others to prepare Ark ( their spaceship) for a long journey.

When Ark was ready to launch, some complications happened ( as the ship wasn’t in perfect condition for interstellar travels) but they managed to leave Cybertron and begin their journey to their new home.

In general, Bee is in a good relationship with almost every Autobot. Optimus values him as both an amazing scout and a good friend who isn’t afraid to speak his mind and question everything.

Bumblebee befriends Windblade - the cityspeaker from Caminus ( which was of one the first colonies that were destroyed during the war). She absolutely adores Bee’s carefree and optimistic attitude, never being tired of his silly antics ( which he often does on purpose to lighten her mood). 

They become pretty close, and Bee has no problem opening up to her, like sharing his fears ( he is really brave but isn’t fearless).

Some bots like Sunstreaker don't really like Bumblebee much. He thinks that Bee is a defective bot that will doom their entire cause and this animosity intensified when Bee starts bringing in former Decepticons and insisting on leaving their planet behind. (Sunstreaker’s twin, Sideswipe, admits it’s probably because his brother used to be like Bumblebee, kind and hopeful, but the war has changed him and he hates it.) 

Bumblebee tried his best to ignore Sunstreaker, but it is difficult as he compares himself to bigger and stronger bots, feeling like what he’s doing isn’t enough. That being fast, athletic and cunning isn’t enough - he must be more, he must become strong. Which causes him to take some crazy decisions that will put Bee in danger and probably get hurt. 

He desperately craves recognition and respect from others while not realizing that he already has it.

The arrival of Autobots on Earth in 1985.

After one warp jump, they ended up in the Solar System. The Ark wasn’t doing well ( esp engine) and needed repairs if they wanna continue their journey. Teletraan-1 scanned the solar system, informed Autobots about the planet they are currently orbiting (Earth) has a sentient lifeform along with a diverse ecosystem. This surprised everyone because of the odds of them jumping tens thousand light-years away from Cybertron and ending up near other sentient beings.

Optimus didn’t wish to disturb other sentient beings, he decided that they should move to another planet, fix their ship, and move out. 

For that Teletraan-1 suggested staying on the fifth planet’s orbit which is a gas giant (Jupiter). Gas Giants are known for having a lot of hydrogen and helium and additionally, some chemical compounds like ammonia which can be used in producing deuterium and tritium ( isotopes of hydrogen)  which are used as fuel for fusion reactors.

The only issue was how to get there, as their ship is fragile at the moment. Wheeljack suggested using gravity assist still should be okay.

Teletraan-1 calculated the positions of the planets and it’s been decided they were gonna use Earth’s gravity to propel forward, then circle around and do another flyby near Earth - that would give them another speed to reach Jupiter.

Suddenly Teletraan-1 informs the crew about a big asteroid that is headed in their direction and the collision is imminent. It happened fast, before Autobots could maneuver Ark off of the way. After the asteroid successfully vibe checked Autobots, the Ark got seriously damaged and was flung towards the planet. They couldn't break from gravitational pull so Autobots had to prepare for impacts, which would be easier if the ship weren’t breaking apart at that moment, Teletraan-1 did it’s best to stir the ship away from the cities.

Meanwhile, in chaos, Bumblebee fell into a hole in the ship’s walls and he landed in the water of Lake Erie. The impact was terrible as it almost tore his arm from his body. He screamed in pain and was forced into reboot.

Then he woke up next time, he was still in the water, completely disoriented - mostly to the fact he could sense so many sparks around him. He brushed it off as it wasn't important at the moment. 

While still being in pain, he managed to swim up to the surface to look around. Bee saw a big smoke rising in the distance, assuming this is where Ark landed, he tried to make his way there. 

Then Bee sensed something nearby, another spark with clear distress radiating from it. He looked around but saw nothing, then he submerged under the water. He saw a small figure who was struggling to swim. 

Bee dive deeper ( while doing his best to ignore the pain of his damaged arm), gently caught the figure and went back to the surface. The figure took a big inhale and coughed a lot. Bee was concerned, but he could only observe for now. 

He first noticed how this being kinda reminded him of his own kin: they have 4 limbs- 2 legs and 2 arms with 5 fingers, the face structure is similar as well, they also warm and look like they vent as well ( aka breathing. Cybertronian’s breathing is part of the air cooling system.see more in Trivia). While there was a lot of difference as well( being organic lifeform and such), that amazed Bumblebee that he almost forgot about his hand.

After being calmed down, the figure finally looked at their savior only to meet face to face with a giant alien robot. He yelled as a surprise, while Bee yelled back because the former's yell startled him pretty much.

After the shock faded and understanding that Bee wasn't doing anything bad ( they were just chilling in the lake) they sighed in relief and smiled, thanked him for saving them. Bee cannot understand what the figure says, but he assumes right he can sense relief emitting from the figure’s spark and replies, which of course the other didn’t understand as well.

The figure then gestures towards the mainland that isn’t far away, while making a paddling motion which Bee understood as “take me to the land”. He nodded ( to his relief on it means the same thing for humans) and he began swimming towards the land. Which pretty much drained him as they both arrived and his hand got worse. 

Bumblebee curled on the ground, trying to endure, but once again his system shut him down. The last thing he hears as the figure calls to him is a worry.

The next time he awoke, he wasn’t by the lake anymore, but inside of some sort of garage. He was lying on the floor and he tried to get up, but again his arm hurt, though he noticed that this time the pain is tolerable somehow.

He looks to the side and sees that his entire arm was wrapped into some weird stuff, kinda looking like duct tape? Sure it was flimsy, it kept his arm from falling apart.

Two figures entered the room: one he’s already familiar with, which is this person he saved from the lake, and others. They look similar to each other, the other person looking older, for some reason they reminded him of Ratchet. Bee tried to sit up again, but the pain wasn't letting him. Two people instantly got worried, saying something to him which he imagined was something like “please don’t move”. The older one went close to examine the arm closely, Bumblebee knew this look: a look of someone who is checking on the work they did...really reminded of Ratchet again. 

Bee sighs and gives a small smile and thanks to them, though he knows they won’t understand the hopes that the tone of his voice suggested the meaning. The older person nods in acknowledgment, then they exchanged a few words with the younger one and left the room.

The younger one sat by Bee. Autobot looked at them, observing them once more, taking more onto more features and he could tell that they did the same with him. Suddenly their expression lighted up as if they had an idea. Bee tilted his head slightly in question.

Making sure that Bee’s attention is on them, the figure points at themself says “I”. At first, Bee was confused, so they repeated it again. The only thing he could think of is to repeat the same. The exclamation followed by a nod means he did it right. Then they pointed at him and said “you”. Bee did the same...and suddenly it’s clicked. The language, they were teaching him their language!  He smiled and they continued.

Somewhere in the middle of this, they finally introduced each other. The person’s name is Spike Witwicky, a 15yo boy who is living with his father and helping him with the car repairs business. When Bumblebee introduced himself, Spike giggled, saying that Bee’s name sounded exactly how they call a specific insect. The Autobot snorts, funding this coincidence amusing. 

What a strange planet, and he began liking it already. 

Spike asks if Bee came from that huge ship that was falling. He nods, explaining ( in his broken English I imagine) that an asteroid took them down, and then he fell through the hole into the water at high speed that almost tore his arm off. Spike winced sympathetically, assuring that now Bee is gonna be alright. Then he thanks the yellow Autobot for saving him, Bee smiled in response, saying he did what he was right. Though he gets curious how Spike ended up in the water in the first place and Spike blushes in embarrassment because he was looking at the descending Ark and he wasn’t paying attention that he was hanging on slippery ground. He fell and since he wasn’t a good swimmer, the current took him away from the land until Bumblebee found him later.

Soon Spike’s father returns with more supplies and he was pleasantly surprised that their guest can communicate with them. Bee thanks him for patching his arm, tho the old guy says he can do some more, while they try to find out where the Ark landed so they can return Bee back to his people.

A bit later in the evening, Spike decided to show Bee various VHS tapes documentaries about Earth( he almost moved tv and VHS player to the garage), he could have a picture of what their planet was like. The Autobot happily agrees, being both curious and see it as an opportunity to learn more English words.

After a few days, Spike’s dad found out where the Ark landed, on Belle Isle. He offered Bumblebee a lift ( he has a truck which also was used to transport the Autobot from the lake’s shore). Bee gladly agrees, being happy they were helping him even though they didn't have to. To which Spike replied that Bee didn't have to save him either, but he did it anyway.

Spike with dad helped him to get onto the thing where to connect the thing ( lol I forgot), they both sat into the car and began their ride.

The trip went okay, Bee even relaxed and looked around the city, being amazed because everything was new, the sensations were new. Though sure he could see people staring at him, understanding that they know about Autobots...after all, there is no way you could miss something like this as their crash landing. There was probably a lot of news going on about this. 

Thankfully, Spike informed him that the ship didn’t kill anyone during the crash, which was a great relief on his spark. 

Soon they arrived at their destination, Bee peeks over the truck to see the damage around ( a lot of broken trees), and the Ark wasn’t looking so good. He hoped at least everyone was okay!

Suddenly Windblade quickly walked out of Art’s entrance, expecting these humans to be more reporters or whatever and before she could draw any conclusions, Bee called her name and waved with his good arm which instantly grabbed her attention. 

She ran over to her best friends, that he’s alive ( she was looking everywhere and was worried sick) and really wanted to bear hug him, but she saw the arm, so she hugged him gently. Then Bee explained to her that those humans helped him ( gesturing to his broken arm). Windblade thanked the theme, as Bee translated to them. 

After that Windblade announced to everyone over comms that Bee is alive and found, but required medical attention. Meanwhile, Spike looked a bit sad and asked if he’ll see Bumblebee again. The bot smiled and told him that he memorized the path from Spike’s home to Ark, so he will find it again. For that Spike jumped into a hug ( Windblade quietly ‘awww’ed at the scene). 

Windblade helped Bee to stand up and get off the truck, both humans wished Bumblebee speedy recovery before they headed home. She was asking Bee about his new friends ( and also commenting how it was only their couple of days on this planet and he already befriended aliens amazing), Bee ofc told her everything.

On Art, the crew was overjoyed with Scout's return, though Ratchet quickly led him into the med bay as it was clear how much damage he sustained. Meanwhile, Bee sends to Teletraan-1 anything he learned in English, to share with other Autobots, which Optimus was delighted with such a turn of events as it meant he can finally properly contact humans.

After Autobots got a bit established ( like making connections with humans and stuff), Bee finally paid a visit to Spike, the boy was so happy to see him again. 

After that Bumblebee and Spike spend a lot of time together and become friends. Spike also befriended Windblade, while we weren’t as close with her as with Bee, they enjoyed each other's company. Spike’s dad also made friends among Autobots. Together they learned more about the world they were stranded in, with all its beauties and problems, discovering new things like sparks actually being in every living being, Bee has to train himself to probably filter signals, he mostly focused on sensing his fellow Autobots and humans.

Bee quickly grew attached to Earth, not really missing Cybertron anymore. Sure there are a lot of processes and it’s different for everyone but Autobots felt that they can actually live again ( or begin living for younger bots who were forged during the war), the future seemed bright.

When Spike got older ( around 18 yo) he informed Bumblebee that he will leave Detroit for a university opportunity. The news saddened the scout, not wanting to part with his human friend, but he understands that he shouldn’t be in the way of Spike’s hopes and dreams. Out of curiosity, he asks Spike what he’s gonna study ( he had multiple guesses because Spike liked a lot of things).To that Spike replied with the biggest smiles that he will become an astrophysicist! Spike never could choose one thing, but that fateful day when Autobots arrived has sealed the deal. He hoped that he would work at NASA one day. They both laugh.

The day when Spike was leaving, along with his father, they said goodbye. Spike promised to stay in contact with Bee, and the bot promised the same. Kilometers apart won’t matter, they will always remain best friends forever.

Bumblebee missed Spike greatly after this and he needed time to accept this, but thankfully they both were true to their promise and stayed in contact for all years to come.

Fast forward to 2018.

This is when the story would begin, as all previous events described in this document to this point would be revealed through flashbacks and such.

Autobots have been living in peace for 33 years now. They helped humans to progress, technologically, and socially ( Solarpunk setting). They are integrated into society and have jobs( Bee for example is a courier, though sometimes he acts as a diplomat at important meetings that he attends with Prime as humans tend to like him), some bots scattered across the globe to do their thing (though they ofc course pay visits to Ark).

The Ark is part of a big overgrown forest on Belle Isle. It is because Wheeljack and Perceptor wanted to fix the damage they did to the environment during their crush. And after some experimentation, trial, and error they made some sort of serum that stimulates trees to grow fast. Too fast even as plants got out of hand at one point, so they had to fix this as well.

Bumblebee took a liking of plants, so he started his own collection. This private chamber was damaged and has a missing wall after the crash, later it was fixed, it expanded a bit and has a lot of light coming in through windows so it’s perfect for plants keeping. 

6 years ago he and Windblade befriended human Sari Sumdac, who is now 30 years old head engineer, working at Sumdac Systems along with her father. She's an absolute gremlin and always up to shenanigans, which awakes the gremlin side of Bee. Windblade tags along as well, maybe to keep an eye on them. All three are close friends :3

Sari builds an exosuit that improves her strength and grats a lot of cool abilities ( aka Iron Man but cooler) in case Decepticons show up.

He’s also in contact (which thanks to the internet became much easier) and friends with Spike, who is 48 years old astrophysicist at NASA, married to Carly, and has adopted son Daniel. Spike with his family visits Detroit each year to hang out with Autobots.

There is a lot of shenanigans happening on Ark, especially in group chat ( aka Discord server? with Sari and Spike invited.) The higher command are mods, but sure, Jazz loves changing channels names into something stupid :D

There are always twins ( Sideswipe and Suntreaker) with pranks, Jazz blasting music, Wheeljack blowing himself up again while Ratchet complains, fixing him again and again. They would do a lot of activities when free, (imagine them playing Among Us, Bumblebee being such a good imposter >:3) adopting human customs, they even get invited sometimes to entertainment shows ( you know, like those with two teams they have to do various impressions, etc).

The Bee loves music and got into drumming ( he had a habit of focusing on someones’ sparkpulse, using it as a base beat and used his hands to drum on various surfaces as entertainment back on Cybertron), he always does collabs with Windblade ( electro guitar), Sari ( keyboard + other electronic stuff, like a theremin) and sometimes Spike ( saxophone) to do video game music covers, they have a channel ( editing video and maintaining are on Jazz).

Fun fact: Bee’s drumkit and Blade’s guitar are one of few things of cultural value that actually survived the war, though they required repairment and some adjustments ( because the kit was too big for Bumblebee), they are in good condition now. There is writing on Cybertronian, showing the name of the company that used to produce instruments all those million years ago. 

Autobots are living their best life, even though they are prepared in case Decepticons will show up at their doorway.

The arrival of Decepticons.

Decepticons left Cybertron soon after Autobot’s, as Megatron believed that Optimus stole the AllSpark and was determined to take it back and use it to fix their broken homeworlds. Unlike Ark, their spaceship, Nemesis, was in [perfect condition. so they traveled from star to star in order to find a signal from AllSpark.

The problem was that no matter how Shockwave updated the scanning system, they just couldn't find any traces. It was frustrating to Megatron, he could feel how much energy this object radiated every time he walked into the Chamber of Creation, but there was literally nothing. It couldn't just vanish into thin air, can it?

So they just kept guessing, checking every nearby star system. It took a lot of time and was fruitless and the Decepticons grew tired. Starscream especially, always dreamed about taking Megatron’s place and rule Decepticons. So one day, after another failure to locate the AllSpark, Megatron and Starscream broke into a fight, resulting in the warlord throwing his second in command at the control panel by accident. 

Starscream face planted random coordinations and the Nemesis warp jumped to the Solar System, placing them on Earth’s orbit. Sunday scanners activated as they found Autobots’ signatures on this planet. Megatron laughs, he finally found Optimus so the AllSpark must be with them.

Soon they landed somewhere outside of Detroit, which didn't go unnoticed. Teletraan-1 alerts Autobots immediately. Bumblebee volunteers to investigate, followed by Windblade as a backup. Optimus approves the mission and the trio goes to Nemesis location.

Bee gets close to Nemesis, while Blade stays in the air just in case her friend needs a quick escape. He knows the plans of the ship well ( he infiltrated it a number of times), so he easily slips through the guards inside, into the vents. Soon he locates Megatron and carefully listens. He finds out about Megatron's intention to seize the AllSpark from Autobots. Looks like it's the only reason why they even came here and he will turn the city apart to get it.

Thankfully Wheeljack made a force field that won't let Decepticons in as a precaution for years ago. Still, that is a grim sign and they have to deal with Deceptions regardless. 

Bumblebee hacks into their system and quickly downloads important intel.

Then he sees Shockwave, it takes a lot of self-control to not hiss, Megatron just gives him simple orders to oversee something. He takes orders and leaves, but Bumblebee notices that he went in a completely different direction ( as Bee knows the ship well) and didn't like it. Bee wants to follow and see what this mad scientist is planning, but he senses Ravage nearby. The cat is also moving quickly through vents, probably because Soundwave ejected him here in case Bumblebee will show up.

The scout quickly gets out beforeRavage discovers him and leaves. On the way back he shares his findings with Windblade, and later back on Ark with the high command of Autobots. They don't have the AllSpark (and even if they had they wouldn't give it to Megatron anyway), and they must drive Decepticons off the planet, or convince Megatron to stop.

So after this, I imagine a few instances when Decepticons tried to attack the city ( but couldn't get it), Autobots would usually lure them away from the city and fight them there. Here examples of shenanigans that happened:

Sudden dance off, the seeker trio( Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp) was really confused about this shit;

Sari ( in her suit) is legit disassembling Decepticons in the mid-fight. Imagine, Starscream wants to shoot, but his null rays fall off, awkward;

She also stole t-cog ( the detail responsible for transformation) from Blitzwing, much later it was returned;

Devastator caught Bumblebee and was going to quash the scout. Bee on the other hand focused on Devastator’s sparks ( he’s a combiner, made out of 6 Decepticons known as Constructicons) by accident and could hear that chaos that is happening in Devastator’s mine ( since all 6 don't merge into one, they still present chatter, telling Devastator what to do which is pure chaos). That overwhelms him and he yells “QUIET”, silencing 6 six constructions which seriously freaks Devastator out and he falls apart. Much later he did the same trick again when tried to throw Devastator at Autobots again;

Optimus is trying to convince Megatron that they don't have the AllSpark which isn't working. Not letting his frustration get ahead of him, Prime starts throwing memes( which he carefully chose for a specific situation) at Megatron. Megatron is not amused ahah).

Megatron wants to move forward and maybe to take on other cities to force Prime to surrender, but Autobots are one step ahead( as they planned), surrounding Nemesis from various positions ( as Optimus called all other Autobots that live in different locations) to harass Deceptions from time to time, trapping their enemies effectively. 

Conspiring with cassettes.

Later Autobots find out that despite the force field being up, and effectively repelling Deceptions, Soundwave’s cassettes are actually able to squeeze through. Wheeljack is hypothesizing it’s probably because of their size ( they are smaller than Bumblebee as intended) and looking for a solution to solve this.

Interestingly enough, cassettes ( 5 of them: Ravage, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and twins: Frenzy and Rumble) are not causing chaos while being out in the city. Bumblebee is keeping an eye on them, he can easily track them down, though they move fast which turns into some sort of game. At some point, he actually exchanges words with Ravage. Bee is trying to understand cassette's motives, but Ravage keeps it to himself ( though Bee senses some sort of enjoyment instead of malice).

Later Bumblebee gets a message from Rumble: they have a bomb and will blow up something ( I haven't decided sorry) if Bumblebee won't come to them alone. Knowing this is turned into a fight, he goes anyway without telling anybody as he wants to get to the bottom of this.

This indeed turns into a fight, as cassettes demand Bee to tell them where the AllSpark is. Bee tells them he has no idea like anyone else. Ravage asks why Bumblebee doesn't want to restore Cybertron, to which Bee replies that there is literally nothing left to restore. The AllSpark isn't some sort of magical object that can fix all their problems. Besides, Decepticons had it in control, why didn't they use it then? The situation gets really awkward after this, Frenzy admits that Megatron saw devastation only after Autobots left as his focus shifted to other things after his enemies were gone.

The fight stops, Bumblebee seizes the moment and asks where is the bomb they threatened him with earlier. Laserbeak just casually shows it, and in fact, it wasn't even activated. Rumble tells him when Megatron found out that cassettes and slip through the barrier, he ordered Soundwave to use the bomb to cause chaos. This isn't really what cassettes want to do, because finally in a million years they can actually roam free and explore new locations and things safe from Megaton. 

Cassettes admit that they aren't really loyal to their leader, only participating in war because their caretaker, Soundwave, was loyal to Megaton...though his loyal shifted and now his loyalty revolves around keeping his cassettes safe because Megatron won't be nice if he finds out. So he keeps up his appearances, while he lets his cassettes roam free.

Bumblebee understands that situation is complicated, but he sees this as an opportunity to end this stupid war. After all, Soundwave is highly regarded by Megatron, so maybe he can work with this.

Buzzsaw thought asks what they are gonna do now as they failed the task, which is quickly decided to shift all blame onto Bumblebee, even for future situations like this as Bee revealed that he can sense from far away from anyone. Ravage realized it’s the reason why he and others were never able to catch him! So after this being decided they went back and Bee returned to Ark, sharing this only with Sari, Windblade, and Optimus Prime for security reasons, he doesn't want to blow cassettes cover by accident.

Infiltrating Nemesis again.

Bumblebee isn't having a good time. He gets forced into reboot more frequently than it used to, especially during battles with Decepticons. Autobots had to save him multiple times, which was a blow to his self-esteem. Not to mention Sunstreaker was at him again, insulting the scout. Bumblebee yelled at him in return ( something that never happened before), he gets angrier and more frustrated. His best friends are doing their best to help, but there is little they can do.

Ratchet examined him and scanners show that the spark shell is losing its integrity, as it wears off over time. That explained why so many reboots happened recently. He says that Bumblebee shouldn't go on the missions at all, and Optimus agrees with this. Bee doesn't take it well, believing they think he’s now being useless to them, and storms off.

Then he sneaks out at night, planning to infiltrate the Nemesis again with two purposes: to prove that he is still useful to Autobots and to find out what Shockwave is up to ( it still bothers him a lot).

He sneaks in like usual and at first, it was okay, but then the vent under him broke ( yeah those vents are worn off over so many years too) and he fell right before the Seeker Trio. So the chase begins, Bee still can get away and he knows the ship but suddenly an unfortunate thing happens - his spark malfunction again and sends him into forced reboot.

Next time he awakens, he’s being restrained on some sort of medical table, which Bee quickly recognizes where he is - in Shockwave quarters. That sends terror to his spark, not only he’s been caught and Autobots don't know where he is, but he’s at mercy of the mad scientist. 

He tried to break free, but it’s useless, he never had much strength anyway. He looks around, and among his various projects, he sees something like a spire blueprint projected on the screen. It seems like it’s part of Nemesis. He doesn't like this at all. 

Shockwave enters the rooms, carrying various tools with him. Bee asks what he’s gonna do with him. The scientist doesn't reply first as he runs the scanner over Bee’s entire body ( while he’s changing the project on his scene meanwhile), it detects something in Bee’s spark chamber. 

Bee asks why Shockwaves keeps doing this,( like his sick experiments that even Megatron did not approve of). To this, the scientist replies that this war is going way too long and it will never end. So he decided to have a little fun while he can, he wants to relish in chaos and see the world burn.

He says that Bumblebee is carrying something interesting inside and he wants to find it. Shockwave activates his cutting tool and gets closer, intending to cut Bumblebee open.

Thankfully, salvation comes in an unusual form, Soundwave enters the room and demands to hand Bumblebee to him. Shockwave is not amused and refuses, so both argue until Shockwave gets an order directly from Megatron because the warlord wants Soundwave to dig intel out of elusive Autobot scout. After that, Shockwave can do whatever he wants with the prisoner.

Bee sighs with relief as he is escorted to Soundwave quarters. He doesn't make an attempt to escape, he can't really run away with a stasis cuff one + hr wants to get more insight on the Communication Officer. Maybe Soundwave knows what Shockwave is planning.

When they arrive, Bumblebee gets fully restrained again, and he’s mind gets connected to Soundwave’s systems ( via a cord) to start digging thought Bee’s mind ( if I remember correctly, Soundwave can read minds and emotions bc he can sense electric impulses in the processor or brain, he using cord here bc he wants to do deeper). 

Bee is pretty calm about this, he doesn't carry any useful intel ( he usually drops it at Teletraan-1 when he completes the duty). So Soundwave is stuck with casual memories while looking for any indication of the AllSpark, though he comments on Bee's good drumming skills.

Meanwhile, Ravage self-ejects from Soundwave’s chest and be like “dude seriously how the fuck did you get caught?? what are you doing even?”. Bee asks if they know anything about Shockwave’s plans. Such a question surprises both Decepticons, Bee understands that they don't know anything. Ravage doesn't like the sound of this and asks Bee to elaborate, but before he can answer, the scout looks to the side, sensing Megatron is coming in this direction. 

Ravage quickly transforms and tucks himself back into Soundwave’s cassette deck. In a minute, the warlord himself entered the room. He is pleased to see Soundwave already working on the task, while he turns to Bumblebee to take a good look at him as he never has seen the scout, who ruined a lot of his plans, up close - Bee would always be in the distance or lingering on the corners of Megatron’s optics before vanishing out of sight.

Megatron is acting pretty smug as a big nuisance in his grasp, though he admits he feels like he saw Bee’s face somewhere ( same reaction as Prime). He starts monologuing about how it would be great if Bumblebee would join him, they would win this war quickly. Maybe the little scout would convince Optimus Prime to join them, to which Bee asked if Megatron is still salty about Optimus breaking up with him.

That quickly pisses Megatron off, he grabs scout's neck and pins him heavily on the table, saying that he should watch his mouth. Bee isn't having this, replying ( as much as he can with his throat squeezed) that Megatron is an insolent fool who only focuses to keep Starscream on a leash, while Shockwave is plotting under his nose.

Megatron would probably hurt Bumblebee after this, but Sundewave reminded his leader that he’s still working and needs the scout in pieces. Megatron gives the order to continue, while he leaves. Both Bee and Soundwave sigh in relief, the latter commenting that the scout should keep it down in Megatron’s presence, to which Bee replies that someone had to say this.

Soundwave soon stumbles upon the Vector Sigma seal, locking the rest of Bumblebee’s memories. Soundwave asks Bee about this, to which the scout gives him the honest answer - he doesn't know how it got there and it’s been there already when he “first” woke up. Bumblebee asks if Soundwave can break it. The communication officer makes a few attempts, but it doesn't affect the seal at all. They need Victory Sigma, but it’s gone.

Bee expressed his frustration because he felt like the answer lies beneath it, but he said that he will find a way to stop Megatron. Soundwave replies that it’s impossible, but Bee doesn't buy this, he noticed the other reaction and it was hopeful.  

Bumblebee also notices multiple sparkpulses inside Soundwave, his cassettes, but only 5 of them are active, while there are many more of them, and those cassettes are being stasis. Bee asks Soundwave how long they’ve been asleep. Soundwave pauses, not expecting that question, and they reply that they have been in stasis since the beginning of the war.

Bee now understands, Soundwave has been working hard for Megatron, wanting to end the war as quickly as possible ( that was a motivation for a lot of Decepticons as Bee found out when they reached out for him), while sparing most of his cassette the trauma.

They sat in silence for a minute before Megatron contacted Soundwave, demanding his presence somewhere while ordering to leave a cassette to guard the prisoner. Soundwave sits for another minute, communicating with these cassettes, then ejects Ravage and leaves the room.

Ravage stands still, listening to the environment and making sure the coast is clear, then tells Bumblebee “you broke out using shock bombs, understood?” and releases the scout. Bee quickly gets up, thanking the cat. To that Ravage says “Go left now, I’ll give you ten seconds”. Bee nods and runs out of the room. 

After ten seconds the alarms burst on, informing that the prisoner had escaped. For convenience, Bee uses a few shock bombs he has with him as Decepticons try to stop him. 

He gets out, though he’s also pretty beaten up and it takes hours for him to get back to Ark ( he couldn't transform). He collapses then he crosses the entrance.

When Bee awakens, he’s on a medical table. His body is fixed, though Ratchet gave the minibot an earful of lecture for defying his recommendations and now Bee’s spark shell is even more strained. Prime also talks to Bee, reassuring the scout that no, Optimus and other Autobots don’t see him as burned and he doesn't have to go to such lengths to prove himself ( those conversations happened often back on Cybertron).

Bee doesn't reply, yet the give into he gathered when he was stuck on Nemesis.

Soon after this, Bee actually gets to talk with Sunstreaker to resolve their issue. The taller Autobot admits that he’s been projecting a lot because he used to be like Bumblebee when he was younger. Then he was envious because, despite everything, Bee remains kinds and hopeful. The scout tells him it takes a lot of work to keep being him after all those tragedies he had witnessed. Sunstreaker nods, though he still doesn't understand who Bee can easily move on after leaving Cybertron, it was their home after all. 

Bumblebee simply said that Cyberton didn’t feel like home, but prison.

And then the shit gets real!

Optimus decided to take another chance to negotiate peace with Megatron. They gathered near Nemesis, both Autobots and Decepticons just chilling (some interacting, like cassettes hanging out with Bee-Blade-Sari trio) while their leaders were negotiating. 

At first there heated arguments between the two leaders, Megatron acting like Optimus is the one being unreasonable and trying to blame him, while Optimus being like “listen you started this shit, you have no one to blame but yourself” (more politely of course). Soon, they both calmed down and actually made progress, as Megatron noticed that a lot of Decepticons are being distracted by various Earthian things because it’s all new in a million years.

Before they could proclaim anything, Shockwave appeared. Bee tenses instantly, this can't be good. I haven't decided if Shockwave would monologue or not, but the end is the same - he shoots Bumblebee in the chest.

Before anyone can react, Shockwave snatches the minibot and lifts him to his level, taking a closer look at the wound. The shoot wasn't direct, but tangential - it made a hole in the chest and partly chipped away the protective shell, leaving Bee’s spark partly exposed.

The energy is pulsing through the hole now( while Bee’s pulse gets completely haywire as he tries to free himself), the signature, and the effect is unmistakable - this is the AllSpark.  The amount of shock is impossible to describe, after all, Bee was carrying the AllSpark within himself and no one had an idea. Even Shockwave did not expect THAT!

Megatron is being evil smug again, now the AllSpark within his grasp! Except Shockwave has other plans. Instead, he activates his device, which was built into Nemesis. This spire was designed to fuck over all lifeforms on this planet ( including cybertronians), and with AllSpark his plan to cause massive chaos gets perfect as the AllSpark not only creates but also destroys. 

As he was about to rip the AllSpark out of Bee’s body, this system got overwhelmed, but instead of rebooting, his body discharged the energy, creating a big wave that threw everyone away.

Bumblebee meanwhile is screaming in pain ( the AllSpark is slowly breaking him apart) and a surge of painful memories ( the wave broke the seal). Not to mention he’s surrounded and pretty sure he might die, if he wants to get through this - he must become stronger to protect himself.

That thought activates the interface, the Vector Sigma interface. It already had something set up there. Bee can’t really see what it is, something about protective armor(?), he confirms it, the interface turned into a small cell that absorbed a portion of AllSpark energy. Then, as if he knows what to do, he slams the cell into the ground.

For a moment nothing happened, then suddenly a huge amount of plant-like-black vine material burst from the ground. Everyone instantly got into their sense after that blast, now witnessing those vines connecting to Bee’s chest and the AllSpark, lifting him off the ground and begin forming something BIG.

Decepticons are trying to shoot those vines, but hey, they re heat resistant quickly grow back :) Autobots are trying to contact the scout, but his comm is dead, Windblade cannot get into him minds as it’s filled with so many negative emotions like rage, grief, desperation, depression. Said emotions also floored Soundwave, making him unable to move.

Soon Bumblebee ( or more like the huge shell that was growing around him) formed into a big, dragon-like creature, who leats out of deafening roar at AllSpark energy shoots everywhere. An he’s so angry that everyone around him can feel it in their sparks.

This is how he looks, he’s strong enough to throw big cybertronians around like chew toys. Bumblebee’s body is cocooned in the chest area, the light from the AllSpark shines through crevasses.

Despite being angry, he doesn’t attack first and Optimus could have reasoned with him, but Megatron decided it was a good idea to attack the bigger monster and this is when the shit gets loose. 

Bumblebee trashes around, causing chaos around him, sometimes targeting someone and going after them for a few moments. All this is followed by energy discharges, so he successfully beats the shit out of everyone.

Shockwave is the only one who is pleased with surprise results, as he tried to collect data.

Soon Windblade manages to get a hold of her best friend’s mind and he tries to calm Bee down. He slows down a bit, which opens an opportunity for Sari to get inside thought crevasses and try to locate him.

She follows the opposite direction from energy flow, and soon she finds him. His face is a mix of anger and fear, Sari starts talking, trying to draw his attention to her. Soon enough he notices her ( the beast stops moving).

Bee tells her that he’s scared and he’s in pain. His body cracks more because even this large shall not contain all the power of the AllSpark. She hugs his head, telling that they will figure this out, but first hee need to stop thrashing around, he’s hurting everyone. 

Meanwhile, Windblade does the same, using telepathy to talk to him. It worked and they always convinced him to just fly towards the Ark, but Shockwave wasn’t having that, and started shooting at Bumblebee, trying to provoke him. Bee is sort of back to his senses, seeing Shockwave again, angers him to the point that this anger throws Windblade out of his mind. Sari is alright, but the expressions on Bee’s face terrified her. 

Bees run and pines Shockwave to the ground. Suddenly he speaks ( his voice sounds very distorted when it comes from the beast) telling him in space that Shockwave is the one who destroyed Cybertron and left them homeless. the mad scientist chuckles, commenting that this means his “pet project” had worked and he regrets nothing.  

Bumblebee executes Shockwave without mercy.

After Bumblebee flies up heads towards the Ark, Windblade flies after him, while Optimus uses this moment to gather Autobots and get the hell out of there. Sari tells him over comms that Bee is breaking, so he asks Ratchet to drive ahead and help Bumblebee.

Bee meanwhile is almost there, but his body cannot take this anymore. The chest opens up and Bumblebee with Sari falls out of the monster( then the husk falls down and lands right by the entrance of Ark). They both fall for a few seconds before the AllSpark shatters into small pieces and they fly in different directions. Windblade caught them both, both saw what happened and got really scared that Bee might be dead. 

There is small light coming from his exposed spark chamber, so Blade rushes to the medical bay, while frantically explaining to Ratchet ( who is on the way) what just happened. He instructs them to stabilize Bumblebee, enforcing he gets in and takes over.

Ratchet barely managed to save Bee’s life. After that, it took a lot of time to put the minibot together ( between all other urgent repairs of other Autobots that got fucked up by Bee’s outrage). Now, when the danger has passed, Ratchet can get a better look at scout’s sparks chamber that was hidden under the shell. Said shell was crumbled, he had to remove it. Then tells others what he’s discovered: 

First, his spark still hosts a few AllSpark shards. He tried to remove it but it turned out that Bee’s spark IS merged with the AllSpark. His system even pings errors about missing components. This is ironic because it made sense that the AllSpark was causing erratic sparkpulses, but yet they cant separated it from him;

Second, he discovered that Bee also has Vector Sigma installed in his spark chamber, this is exactly those missing components from the broken device;

Third, now there is a plant ( it looks exactly like that vine from earlier) parasite residing in Bee’s body, it appears to be feeding on AllSpark energy. Ratchet tried to remove it, it slapped him on the face. It resists and refuses to come off.

It raises so many questions, of how and why Bee got both AllSpark AND Vector Sigma. There was a suggestion that Bee could steal, or maybe all of this was some sick experiment that Shockwave did, though now they won’t know with the mad scientist dead. Windblade feels that she was involved in this, but still has no idea how.

She still cannot stop thinking about what she saw in Bee’s mindspace during the rampage. He was overwhelmed by grief, sadness, pain, guilt and all of this he merged into anger. And that he carried this angger for a really long time, longer that any of them can imagine. Ratchet is sure that Bee cannot be older, but who knows. Perhaps Bumblebee had a different body in the past that was destroyed.

After a week Bee wakes up. Of course, he’s being hugged by Blade and Sari, everyone sighed with relief. Optimus asks if Bee remembers anything from the meeting. The scout thinks for a moment. He remembers being shot, he remembers paint and panic and anger, he definitely remembers killing Shockwave. He doesn’t know who to feel about it.

He also informed him about a plant parasite. Bee is surprised, but he feels fine for far.

He’s upset when he learns that he beat everyone up and proceeds to apologize before every Autobot that was involved in this. He also sees his discarded husk outside of the Ark, which is examined by Wheeljack and Perceptor (  and wondering if human culture influenced Bee to make this creature look like one of the monsters from his video games).

He doesn’t have any recollection of making it, though this form seems familiar...probably he saw that dragon in a video game...probably.

Bee walks around the island to clear his head, being joined by Sari and Windblade. He admits that he is partly scared that he killed Shockwave like this...but on hand, he’s relieved that this guy is gone and Earth is safe for now. 

The scout also tells them that he remembered something during that fight that he could remember before. He tried again, but now it feels like his memories are scattered - they are there, but out of reach. 

To see what’s going on, Windblade uses her abilities to get into Bee’s mind. She sees that the Vector Sigma seal is gone ( tho her own is still active), but now all those memories that were locked are either missing or corrupted. Even those that weren’t locked are broken. She hypothesized that the AllSpark shattering damaged his data banks, taking the portion of memories with shards. 

That is just another reason why they must collect the shards.

Good thing that Bee can sense the shards, most of them landed in the city, but some landed outside, even near Nemesis which isn’t good. Later they come back and inform Prime about this and the high command starts formulating the plans of retrieving shards.

Meanwhile Wheeljack, Ratchet, and Sari brainstorm ideas of how to prevent the AllSpark from harming Bumblebee. The plant is absorbing the portion of energy, but it’s clear he still needs a shell. Sari tells them that Sumdac Systems will provide resources for the project.

Collecting the shards.

In general, the collecting of shards will go smoothly for most of the time, since most shards landed in the city. Some they found just laying in the bushes or roofs, some were handled by humans, some were even sent by mail. As new shards rejoin Bumblebee, Windblade helps him to restore his recent memories, while they still need to complete AllSpark to get access to previously locked memories.

Ratchet also keeps in check Bee’s health as new shards are added, and gradually builds a shell around the spark chamber, minding the plant.

So, few thing that happened during this time frame in no particular order:

Starscream got his hands onto one of the shards and caused chaos to both Decepticons and Autobots, he can even use it to get through the force field around the city;

Bumblebee created Grimlock, using an awesome t-rex animatronic as a base;

Thundercracker leaving Decepticons, thought he didn't go to Autobots either. He talks with Windbladem admitting that it was terrifying to see someone like Bumblebee so hurt ( he’s referring to that dragon accident) because of the war;

Discovering that the plant, living inside Bee is actually a symbiont - it protects its host when Bee is in danger, even helping him to lift a weight that Bee couldn't before ( though his body hurts a lot after this). Sari names it Clover ( in fact she did it with all Bee’s plants);

When the last shard is gathered, Ratchet doesnt final touches to the shell. He doesn't completely seal it away, letting it’s potions flow through Bumblebee’s body. This should reduce chances of forced reboot, thought they still might happen.

After this, Bumblebee secludes himself in his room, wanting to sort through all his memories, as those old one now finally accessible. After a few days he asks Windblade to come, He removes her Vector Sigma seal, and they talk through all those events. 

Soon Bumblebee requests Autobots together ( who can come, if someone can't, then they will be sent the recorded version of this) in front of Ark ( where the husk is) because there is something that everyone must know. He also asks Soundwave to send Laserbeak to the meeting, so she can record this conversation and present it to other Decepticons, Megatron included. Soundwave obliges, sending Bee his regards.

The truth behind the AllSpark.

Now with all his memories intact, Bumblebee reveals that he’s not the guardian or an weird experiment involving the AllSpark, but he IS the AllSpark.

That one thing was enough to shock everyone( accepts Windblade). At first they thought that technically yes, bc Bee’s spark fused the AllSpark, but Bee elaborates that he was created by Primus billions years ago. Windblade confirmed it, as she knows the truth already. 

To clear the confusion, Bumblebee starts from the beginning. 

Primus was wandering around the Universe. Like any giant with planet alt-form, he had one desire - to create and host a life. While he could easily transform, create a new life, and then fall into eternal slumber, Primus wanted to leave someone in charge. Thus he created the AllSpark - a powerful transformer who can create, destroy and maintain life on the planet. 

This person is Bumblebee, with a dragon-like altform, that looked almost exactly like that husk that now is resting in front of Ark.

Before Bee proceeded to his duties, he and Primus traveled around the Universe. Primus was teaching Bumblebee about life, about conditions required for life to exist, about material and what kind of life he can make. They visited planets, filled with various life forms: organic, silicone, energoinds and even other mechanical lifeforms.

Bee was observing living beings, learning about how they build, how they function, how they interact.

When the training was finished and Bee was ready, they traveled to a lone orange dwarf star(class K). Primus transformed and placed himself onto orbit. After this Bumblebee created the first cybertronian life. 

In thousands of years he filled the planets with divine ecosystems, with various biomes and huge species diversities and even first sentient beings. For most of the time he left anything for natural selection, while keeping a close eye on it in case something appears that will threaten life on the planet. In this case, by his protocols, he must kill that being in order to preserve balance.

He admits, while he loved his job and enjoyed creating, he was lonely. Primus advised against forming a relationship with his creations because he thought that Bumblebee’s powers could be misused in this case, for example getting involved in conflict where he could be persuaded to insta-kill someone. 

So he stayed out, but it hurt and he longed for companionship more than anything, which led to frustration and even anger at his creator for leaving alone for eternity.

Still, Bumblebee endured this and continued his work.

Peace lasted for a long time  ( if you don't think of the wars that were waged between clans from time to time), until Quintessons began their invasion on Cybertron. At first they couldn't set their tentacles there as Bee was such a fierce protector, but much later they figured out to send drones to fight instead. That posed a problem for Bumblebee because yes, he can easily kill a living being, but cannot kill what isn't alive in the first place. 

Bumblebee held endless hordes of drones for a long time, but eventually he was overwhelmed by numbers ( he was fighting alone, as cybertronians back there were no match to Quinesson’s forces) and killed.

Cybertron fell to Quintessons and everyone was enslaved.

Then Quintessons salvaged his spark( The AllSpark) and few more components to use the power of creation to create even more slaves. At first they couldn't use AllSpark, because it has quantuum properties. It creates endless possibilities, but none of their devices has enough strong sensors to set those possibilities, making them real.

Lucky for them, the components they got from Bumblebee’s dead body were connected to the AllSpark, with them Quintessons created Vector Sigma, a device that allows manipulation of the AllSpark.

They kept creating slayes, while completely ignoring anything else and soon all those diverse ecosystems that Bee made collapsed. The rain turned into acid, rust was crawling everywhere as Quintessons kept draining resources of the planet, while they tried to erase everything about Primus and AllSpark from cybetronian’s culture. While cybertronians still remembered Primus, the AllSpark was forgotten.

Hearing this was disturbing, considering the fact that after cybertronians liberated themselves from Quinesson’s tyranny - they kept using Vector Sigma for forging new bots.

Bumblebee wasn't too angry about this, they simply didn't know. Then he gets asked if he was killed, how Bumblebee is still here?

Short answer is they only destroyed his body. To explain this, Bumblebee reminds everyone how sparks work. Sparks are the lifeforce of every living being, but for sentient beings it also serves like a second brain/processor to process the emotion response.

But in Bumblebee’s case it’s the other way around: his spark is the main processor, while the head processor is for emotional response and processing the info from sensors. Primus made him like this in case Bumblebee's gonna get killed at some point so he could rebuild himself.  

Sadly, because they quickly salvaged him, removing both his spark and components that we connected to it and separating them - that made rebuilding impossible. 

And because of his spark’s quantuum nature, Bumblebee’s consciousness was locked in a quantum state, making him both existing and not existing at the same time.

He could only watch what’s happening. He was grieving over his work being destroyed, his creations being enslaved and potentially being forever stuck in quantuum sea, not able to interact with the real world again. 

The time went by, and eventually, cybertronians livetred themself from Quintessons and it marked the beginning of the Golden Age. Bumblebee was lingering, watching this happen. He was a bit happier after this, despite the fact that society was locked in functionalism( when both's place in society is defined by their alt form. Like a jet could only serve in the army) - a leftover from Quintesson tyraty. Still, it was better than Quintessons!

Bumblebee continues lingering, sometimes he floats in the form of a random bot and asks if they can see him. Usually it never works, but one day, one bot was able to hear him. Bee was ecstatic about this, finally he could talk to someone ( even though his talking was mere whisper as he forgot how his own voice used to sound). He introduced himself as Bumblebee ( it was one of many names that was given to him by his creations during ancient times that he liked a lot).

Bee thought maybe he could tell someone the truth about AllSpark origin and maybe that would help him to get back to the real world, but sadly none of his attempts were successful. Some don't believe him, some did but were punished by strict government. Additionally as Bee realised that only those who can psychic abilities can hear him. And those bots are extremely rare.

Still, Bumblebee wasn't losing hope, and kept trying ( though he was being more thoughtful about getting his friend in trouble). 

At some point, another big event happened - a gladiator named Megatron, with his partner, archivist Orion Pax ( who will later be known as Optimus Prime) created a revolution that liberated cybertronians from cages of functionalism. Now every cybertronian could be whoever they wanted, that pleased Bumblebee so much.

Not to mention now he has more chances to escape his quantuum prison, especially when a group of archaeologists has found a hidden temple that was dedicated to AllSpark - the only one that wasn't destroyed by Quintessons.

Even Megatron with Optimus came to see these fins. The most noticeable thing was the statue which archaeologists believed was the personification of AllSpark, which was an image of Bumblebee. 

(That made Optimus realise why Bumblebee’s face was so familiar when he first met him. Sure the form is different, but the face remains the same( and same goes to Megatron).)

At the same time a group of scientists noticed some quantum fluctuation comic from the AllSpark and they were going to research this. 

During this timeframe, Bee was really close to being found. He was really close to escaping. 

But as if fate decided to fuck everyone over, things changed from best to worst.

It all started when everyone realised that Cybertron will be completely drained of resources in a few millions years. That caused the frantic search of planets where they could get them. One planet that was relatively close was found. It was rich and solved this problem...but it also hosted life.

Heated arguments began, Megatron believed that they can just go and take it, because they really needed it and they are superior to this primitive form of life on that planet. Optimus on other hand refused to harm those lifeforms, even if they are primitive, that they can look elsewhere.

Bumblebee sided with Optimus, he knew the fact that there is another system near that one, that is rich with resources they need AND also unsuitable for life. He knew it in case if he ever needed those resources he could go and get them back in the day when he was in charge here.

Bee frantically searched for someone who could hear him, so he could pass this information...but he had no luck. Soon the civil war began and it was the beginning of the end.

As war was going on, Bumblebee lost all hope. He saw destruction he hadn't seen since Quintessons invasion and Cybertron’s reasons were thinning. Soon there were no resources to make new bots.

Bumblebee tight there is nothing he can do and was saddened about upcoming doom. 

Until and stumbled upon Windblade.

She was able to hear him. So they talked a lot and became close. Bee told her everything about himself, and when Blade was going to tell Optimus about Bee, he stopped her. Bumblebee was scared he's gonna be punished somehow ( it happened before in the past) but instead he has a plan, but he needs her help. She agrees, and waits until Bee is done with preparation.

Soon Bumblebee tells her about it, even a bit more urgently because he just saw Shockwave unleashing something that will kill everything and they need to get off the planet.

But first, Bumblebee needs a body. Now, when the Chamber of Creation isn't occupied anymore, Windblade sneaked inside ( Bee was carefully guiding her) the Spire, then got into the Chamber. 

He instructed her to activate Vector Sigma, then managed to upload a blueprint to her data banks that she was able to upload to Vector Sigma. 

Then he told her to set specific parameters, allowing the systems that were used for assembling bodies to scrap for resources. It was barely enough, still it gathered resources for a small body, compromising something like strength and armor. 

Then he told her to cut open Vector Sigma and get important components - the very same components that belonged to him long ago and install them to the body's spark chamber.

The last step was taking the AllSpark, placing it in a spark chamber and sealing it in a protective shell that will suppress the AllSpark frequency.

When Windblade did all this, she waited. It was silent for a few minutes and she was anxious that the plant might not get worse...before the body powered up and for the first time in seemingly forever, Bumblebee opened his optics.

This was probably the happiest day of his life since he lost his body. He hugged Windblade, thanking her for getting him out. After adjusting and remembering how to walk to transformers, they left the Spire.

But now they had to figure out what to do. When Megatron finds out that AllSpark is gone, hell will break loose and they cannot have the AllSpark being taken again. 

Bee cannot really protect himself. His body is fragile and will fall apart if he to unshesh his powers. And Decepticons like Soundwave can dig into one's mind to find out their secret. So it leads to a drastic solution - to seal any memories of him away. Blade doesn't want this, but understands it’s their only shotm so she agrees.

First they position themself near Autobot base.

Then Bumblebee activates his Vector Sigma interface, programming the seal in a specific way, so while memories are locked away, some feelings will linger. This will allow Bumblebee and Windblade to become friends again, and will also carry on the missing to make cybertronians leave the planet.

First he places the seal into Windblade’s data banks, which will activate in a few minutes and reboot her system. So it gives her time to arrive to base and be safe when memories are going to be locked away. She hugs him again before he leaves sayin “see you on the other side”.

Then he gets close to the road where Jazz soon appears, then he seales all his memories completely. The reboot happens and he falls on the ground, where next moment he’s being found by Jazz. 

The rest of the story everyone knows.

Bumblebee gives free minutes for everyone to process the whole thing. It explained a lot of things: his reboots, his ability to sense sparks, that husk’s creation,  pretty much everything.

So he’s being bombarded with questions, one of them was about what Shockwave did. Interestingly enough Bee never told Blade what exactly the mad scientist did. Bee tried to answer, but turned out he just cannot say this out of loud, that’s how terrible it was. Seeing the pained expression on Bumblebee’s face, everyone quickly moved on to different questions. 

Another question was about Primus, because Bee made it sound like Primus was just one of many beings like him. Bumblebee reveals that in fact, Earth is also giant like Primus, and unlike his creator, she can communicate with Bee during the recharge. 

So she’s asleep, but can talk to Bee when he’s asleep too. In fact he made a lot of attempts to connect, but because the AllSpark was sealed under shell, Bee could not hear her clearly. Until now.

She was asking if he can resurrect her two companions, who turned out to be Venus and Mars -  two other giants that came to this system with her. Something went wrong when both transformed to planets that caused their deaths, rendering planets unsuitable to life. 

Sadly, Bumblebee can only create or kill, he cannot bring the dead back. Once spark crosses the dimension and appears in the Well of All Sparks, it gets cleaned. It's a point of no return and the only direction for spark to go is forward -  to it's new life.

After the meeting is over, Bee turns to Laserbeak, making sure that all this information was received by Soundwave, which she confirms. Now they can only hope for better, that this is gonna be enough to stop Megaton from his fruitless conquest.

Then he goes on another walk around the forest, thinking about his past, present and future. Despite everything, he’s glad he lived to this point. He has what he always wanted( aka companionship) and now there is a chance for everyone to thrive once again, along with humans.

The final stretch.

Of course, nothing can be that easy. 

Soon after the big reveal, the entire Soundwave cassette horde( aka even those who were in stasis since the beginning of the war) arrives at the Ark’s entrance. They look terrified and begging for help. When asked what happened, Ravage told Bee that Megatron didn't take the news well when Soundwave presented that entire conversation to Decepticons.

Soundwave tried to reason with his leader, but Megatron got mad and hurt Soundwave, then he was going to hurt the cassettes as punishment, which resulted in fight and Soundwave ejecting every single one and telling them to run.

So they ran and came here, begging to save Soundwave.

This makes Bumblebee energon boil in his tubes, he’s almost jumped into his husk body to just run and tear Megatron apart, but he managed to calm himself. Optimus decided to go and deal with Megatron himself, and Bee tags along. 

When they meet again with Megatron near Nemesis again, first Optimus demands to release Soundwave. Somehow they convince him to do so, and Autobots take him to Ark for repair and reunite him with cassettes.

Meanwhile Megatron demands Bumblebee to fix Cynertron, which turns into a heated argument, because there is literally nothing to fix. Bee cannot just magically undo all the damage. 

In the end Bumblebee snaps, and just decides to do what he really, really didn't want to do -  he wants to open the space bridge and show Megatron what is happening on Cybertron. If this won't help, he doesn't know what can. 

Bumblebee warns that they might not get out alive, but Megatron agrees anyway, believing that minibot still can fix their home planet. Optimus Prime also joins, refusing to leave Bumblebee alone with Megatron.

They arrive at the Chamber of Creation and look outside ( as they are on top floor). The Spire is the only building that is still sanding, meanwhile anything else lay in ruins. Megatron is confused, he doesn't remember leaving Cynertron in such a terrible state.

Bumblebee asks them if they can see those drones. They cannot, asking what drones. He sighs, understanding they have to go to ground level and that's actually scary.  Still, he activated the elevator and they went down.

At entrance they stop and now they see - countless tiny drones consuming metal, then multiplying. And their hunger knows no bounds. 

Bumblebee reveals that those “Scraplets” were created by Shockwave in order to cause chaos among Autobots. But they didn't work as he intended he just threw them away. They landed near Cyberton’s core, which activated them...and they began to consume everything in sight. When Scaplets got to Cybertron lavras ( it’s like the immune system of the planet) and Bee felt their deaths, he knew the time was up and they needed to run.

Now it made sense why Bumblebee killed this mad scientist in the first place.

Megatron asks if Bumblebee can kill them, but Bee says he can only kill living beings,while those things are just sparkless drones and they will devour him quickly.

After a minute, Megatron sighs in defeat, telling Bumblebee he can take them back to Earth.

He nods and about to open a portal...then suddenly his spark is acting up again, sending a huge power surge around him. Once again he is forced into rebooting before he can open a portal.

This caught the attention of scraplets and they charged at bost. Optimus grabs Bee, and both he and Megatron start running. First they tried to make it to the elevator, but it was already being chewed.

So they were forced to take stairs. So Optimus carrying Bee, and dragging Megatron with him, Megatron is shooting from his fusion cannot, breaking shit to slow down scraplets. 

When they reach the top floor, they have nowhere to run. Megatrons asks how soon Bee will be back online, which according to Optimus’s chronometers is 3 more minutes. Megatron feels that they don't have it and suddenly the entire building is rumbling.

Because it’s being eaten, it starts falling, while scraplets are seeping inside the chamber. Two bots look at each other, and do the leap of faith ( while holding onto each other and Bumblebee of course). Just before they hit infested ground, Bee suddenly wakes up and he opens a portal. All three fall into it and are transported back to Earth.

Panicked they look around for scraplets that could be transported with them, but thankfully there was none. They are safe.

Optimus is surprised that Bee woke up earlier, and the minibot himself is surprised as well. Though he quickly realised it’s because of his plants symbiont + new shell combinations - his system still gets overwhelmed, but not as drastically as before, allowing his system to recover quicker.

After this, Megatron allows Autobots to leave in peace, while he still needs to process everything he saw.

Later ( with Optimus help) he declares that war is over and that Earth is their new home, which was surprisingly received well by other Decepticons ( he told them what he saw).

Finally Bumblebee can sigh in relief, finally they can have a bright future ahead of them and  he’s looking forward to it.

Trivia( aka random stuff I didn't know where to fit).

Cybertronians can breathe and it’s part of their air cooling system, as such a process allows them to quickly inhale cooler air and exhale hot air. When calm they don't actually breathe, but as soon they are scared/excited/in a fight - they start doing this;

They can also cry, and it’s also part of the cooling system. Processors and spark chambers tend to be heated more than anything and require cooling by liquid nitrogen. When strong emotional responses happen, heating goes off the charts, and because optics are so close to the head processor - there is a risk of melting them. So the liquid nitrogen gets pumped to optics as well, and because this liquid has a low boiling point - those tears take a form of gas, seeping through the space between optic and face. Older bots don't cry much because they kinda get used to horrors of the war, while younger like Bee are actually more emotional and showing it often. Even after restoring his memories fully, he’s still emotion as hell;

Bumblebee is sleepwalking sometimes, and if he sees another person he starts whispering “Can you see me?” over and over until he gets the “right” reasons which is “Yes, I can see you, Bumblebee”. After this he falls back to recharge. That scared a lot of Autobots first, they discovered the right answer when Optimus replied, thanks to his tendency to give full and polite answers. This happens because of trauma when Bee lost his body and became “non-existent” to anyone;

He used to terrify Decepticons when he infiltrated their bases  to the point they thought that Bee was some sort of Autobot vengeful spirit that came to hunt them. Bumblebee used his abilities to avoid his enemies, while toying with them, like lingering at the corners of their optics before disappearing and even whispering”Can you see me?” right into their audio sensors.);

When Decepticosn arrived on Earth, Bumblebee was an anxious mess, he was afraid that Earth might die just like Cybertron did. To give himself hope and a way of coping, he remembered the legend that if you fold 1000 origami cranes, your wish will come true. He made the first crane soon after Decepticon’s arrival, and the last right before he received his last AllSpark shard. Now those cranes are everywhere on the Ark;

Spike visits Detroit at some point, but I haven't decided when. Probably when the AllSpark shattered, so he helped to restore it too;

Bumblebee has two strong phobias: 

Athazagoraphobia. The fear of being forgotten, ignored, or abandoned; 

Monophobia. The fear of being alone for a long time;

In future, humans figured out the way to transport their mind into their spark and then transport that spark into techno-organic bodies which ultimately extends their lifespan.

Sari was one of first humans doing this, not wanting to leave Bumblebee and Windblade;

Spike, on the other hand, decided to die of old age because he felt like he did everything he wanted and his journey reached his end. Bee was really upset about this, but let Spike go. Spike spent his last moments with Bee.

Also in the future, Bumblebee’s body gets an upgrade, restoring his original form alt-form (6 legged dragon), though it’s smaller than before, Bee used to be small and finally comfortable with this. He will also be in charge of creating new cybertronians and terraforming new planets;

This is how Bumblebee used to look like;

Here’s the statue that was discovered, that Optimus and Megatron saw before.

[damthosefandoms]

here u go, honey boo boo

katie only you and our friends in the gc are allowed to call me bestie without it freaking me out and this is why. I should’ve been a chill 80s kid in another life. If given the option I literally would’ve stolen my mom’s clothes from when she was in high school and she graduated in 1985 like I don’t even care. and you know what I’m definitely more than 1% cursed but I’ll let it slide for my best fish friend speaking of which you totally got me with monster and wader and do you ever think about how it should be said wat-er bot-tull but I say wadder bahddul and it’s just WEIRD. accents are so weird did I even explain that right WHO FUCKING KNOWS now I gotta go make sure my bagel doesn’t burn cause I’m toasting it

[britesparc]

Weekend Top Ten #442

Top Ten Transformers Gimmicks

There was a time when I felt that this blog was pretty much wall-to-wall Robots in Disguise. Seems I couldn’t go more than two or three weeks without some list or another ranking my favourite Autobots, Decepticons, issues of the Marvel UK comic, issues of the IDW comic, my favourite artists, my favourite alternate modes, my favourite ways Optimus Prime came back from the dead… basically, what I’m saying is I used to write about Transformers quite a lot.

Recently, though? The last year or two? Not so much in the way of sentient mechanoids round these parts. I think partly this is a result of the ending of the original IDW continuity; whilst the rebooted Transformers comic is good, I must confess it hasn’t grabbed me the way the (for want of a better term) More Than Meets the Eye era did. I don’t think it possibly could; the interweaving continuity, the shared universe, the multi-layered world-building and puzzle-box writing, all combined to form a perfect storm around my most beloved of franchises. Did it go too deep, too dense? Occasionally. Did it end too soon, rushing into a climactic conclusion without the room to allow every plot twist and character death to sufficiently breathe? Yeah, a little. But on the whole it stuck the landing, not too shabby a feat for a galaxy-spanning epic that, under various creators, had managed to tell a more-or-less consistent story (papering over the cracks of several soft reboots) for over a decade at that point. As I’ve written before, I loved that Transformers so hard, it was almost inevitable that whatever came next would suffer by comparison, because by definition it could no longer be my Transformers.

So, yeah, that’s one reason. But another is, it’s been harder to think of things to write about. I’ve talked about favourite characters and stories; where else do I go but the increasingly obscure? However, I wanted to give it a try. Last weekend should have been TF Nation, the delightful Transformers convention held each year in Birmingham. I usually go; I gave last year a miss, but I’d been fully intending to make the trip again this year. And then 2020 happened, being all 2020 in our faces. This is a weekend where I might have shared my favourite moments from TFN! Pictures of cosplay! Of friends and creatives I admire! Of toys I can’t afford! But no; instead I’m watching my wife play Stardew Valley and writing this blog (which, I’ll be honest, is actually quite a pleasant way to spend the time, but let’s not get too deep into the weeds over here). Anyway, to celebrate TF Nation, and the stay-at-home “Big Broadcast of 2020” online show that they put on, I’m returning to the Nucleon Well once again with another Transformers-themed Top Ten.

This week: my favourite Transformers toy gimmicks!

Transformers, of course, are cars and whatnot that turn into robots or what-have-you, but across the years Hasbro has experimented with different modes and features to keep the toys fresh and unique, and also to sell a bunch of new ones to impressionable kids. Some of these are sublime; some, frankly, ridiculous. So this week I will explore my ten favourite ones; my ten favourite sub-brands of the franchise, so to speak. Some of these I think are genuinely fantastic as a concept; some, I just liked because it seemed cool, or was made cool by the fiction; and some are just daft crap that I enjoy. Make of it what you will! I’ve decided, incidentally, to focus on “gimmicks” here as being different modes of transformation, or other associated features, rather than define them by what they turn into. So there are no Insecticons or Dinobots, because whilst bugs and beasts are cool, really those are both normal types of Transformer that turn from one thing into another thing. Make sense?

Good. Now roll the eff out.

Combiners (1985): what’s better than one robot? How about, like, five or six, and they all clip together to form another massive robot? Clipping machines together to make bigger machines seems like a cornerstone of any sufficiently advanced civilisation, and whether we’re talking the complexity of OG combiner Devastator, the hot-swappable fun of the likes of the Aerialbots or Stunticons, or even Dreadwind and Darkwing combining in vehicle mode to form Dreadwing, it’s always great. Plus it makes you want to buy all the toys so you can make the big robot! Everyone’s a winner!

Headmasters (1987): robots whose heads – get this – come off and turn into little robots. What’s not to love? And the little robots (what are the heads) then can sit inside the big robots’ vehicle modes, and, like “drive” them and stuff. Although they had some plot gymnastics to perform to make sense of the fiction (quite why the heads had to be Nebulons and not just other Transformers I don’t know), but as a toy gimmick, they were fab. And that’s before you get to most-wanted Fortress Maximus, whose head turned into a robot whose head turned into a robot.

Pretenders (1988): man, I loved Pretenders, even if the concept outstripped the toys a lot of the time. Basically humanoid shells that hide Transformers, later iterations also allowed for animal shells, vehicle shells, even transforming shells; we got new versions of classic Transformers, and one of the all-time great villains in Thunderwing. All this despite the first lot of toys being bulky and awkward, and the whole idea of “disguising yourself as a thirty-foot human” being somewhat suspect in the first place.

Triple (and more!) Changers (1985): if a robot turning into a thing is cool, then turning into two things must be twice as cool, right? Right! Boggling the mind as to how this chunky figure could also be a car and a helicopter, Triple Changers were great, even if you ended up with a helicopter that really, really looked a lot like a car. Of course, they got bigger and better, with Six Changers, who turned into six different things that all looked a lot like each other.

Powermasters (1988): back to the “Masters” concept of little robots that interact with bigger robots (it’s such a shame Pretenders couldn’t have been “Disguise Masters” or something), the idea that the toys transformation – the big gimmick behind the whole range, remember – is unlocked by an “engine” robot is very cool, the smaller toy acting as a key. A tad clunkier than that, in real life, but still great fun, and of course it brought us one of the best toys of the eighties in Powermaster Optimus Prime.

Targetmasters (1987): robots turning into guns is quite cool, but for me the Targetmasters aren’t quite as successful as their other “Masters” siblings, probably because the guns aren’t quite that exciting to transform or play with. But the concept still rocks, and some of the toys were really good, and it was nice to see the Movie characters get folded into the line too.

Jumpstarters (1985): I loved the original Jumpstarters (Top Spin and Twintwist) because they were weird, with their sci-fi alien designs amidst a sea of Earth vehicles. But their gimmick was they transformed themselves. Pull ‘em back and they jump – literally – from vehicle to robot. Self-transforming Transformers are always cool, even if usually it means that their robot modes end up blocky and simple (Jumpstarters are the opposite, pretty cool robots with chunky and unreal vehicles). Also want to shout out other pull-back-and-go Transformers such as the Battlechargers (never had them, sadly) and the utterly, utterly fantastic Throttlebots. God, I love the Throttlebots. I had all six! How much did I rock.

Cities (1986): I guess now these guys are all called “Titans” aren’t they, and they have their own carved-out portion of the TF mythos. But back in the eighties, they were just big burly dudes, the biggest you could get; Transformers that turned into actual cities, playsets that the smaller Transformers could actually interact with. Metroplex was the OG city-bot, and we’d squint and pretend that he really was Autobot City from The Transformers: The Movie. Huge toys are always fun, of course, as are playsets for your other toys, so these ticket loads of boxes. Fortress Maximus, the later Autobot Headmaster base, was ginormous and never came out in the UK, giving him a mythic status few toys ever had; as I said above his head turned into a robot which had a head that turned into a robot, a sort of Babushka doll of robotic head-swapping. Shout-out too for any bot who had some kind of “base mode”, such as Powermaster Optimus Prime and his funky trailer.

Sparkabots/Firecons (1988): these were not necessarily the most fun toys to transform (the Sparkabots, anyway, I never had a Firecon), but their gimmick was cool – or rather hot. They breathed fire! Well, not really, of course; they sort of shot sparks, in what I thought was a slightly underwhelming fashion even as a seven-year-old. But having a Transformer that could, in some way, fire for real was a huge thrill. Also, Guzzle was always just legitimately cool.

Action Masters (1990): yep, I’m going there. What, did you think I’d have Micromasters on here?! Yeah, okay, the very concept of Transformers that don’t transform is inherently silly and counter-intuitive, but the toys themselves were cool, finally offering cartoon-accurate renditions of classic favourites, with nice articulation and fun vehicle playsets. There was definitely a sad sense of a brand in decline about them, but taken on their own, they were good, fun toys, full of character, and I’ve always thought they’d still be cool as a side-line to the main (actually transforming) toys.

I feel bad for slagging off Micromasters up there. They were good, I suppose, but their small fiddly nature and basic transformation just wasn’t as fun as some other toys. Plus there were so many, and they usually came in sets, so I never really had that same bond with individual characters that I got from other Transformers; they were probably the first toys I owned whose names I forgot. And they felt, even at the time, like such a response to Micro Machines that it was almost embarrassing. Action Masters were probably a response to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but at least, y’know, Soundwave didn’t come with nunchucks and a skateboard.

Anyway, I think we can all agree, Transformers are cool, and I should write about them even more.

[maltmemorandum]

- Best 36 drams of the year 2022 -

Ben WYViS 1972 27 year old Cask#744/1058/1059.

Brora 30 year old 2002 Bottling.

Clynelish 1965 27 year old Scotch Malt Sales.

Clynelish 1972 32 year old Finest & Rarest Hand writing Kingsbury.

Clynelish 12 year old Bicolor Whiskyteca Edward & Edward.

GlenOrd 1991 16 year old The Manager’s Dram.

GlenOrd 1962 26 year old Cadenhead for Mizuhashi.

Royal Brackla 1972 15 year old Intertrade.

Glencadam 1966 22 year old Cadenhead for Mizuhashi.

GlenDronach 1971 39 year old Oroloso Sherry Butt for K6 & Campbeltoun Loch.

GlenUgie 1967-1995 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & MacPhail.

Inverleven 1967 30 year old Cask#3824 The Bottlers.

BenRiach 1968 34 year old Sherry Wood Hart Brothers.

GlenGrant 38 year old Gordon & MacPhail Bot.19??s.

GlenRothes 17 year old Gordon & MacPhail for Sestante.

Linkwood 1964 Gordon & MacPhail.

Linkwood 1957 12 year old Alc.56.9% Samaroli Import for E.Giaccone.

Longmorn 1969 Gordon & MacPhail Alc.62.0%.

Strathisla 1949 Bot.1980s.

Craigellachie 1962 37 year old Millennium Bottling Cadenhead’s Authentic Collection.

Springbank 1973 18 year old Matured in Rum Butt Alc.57.9% Cadenhead.

SpringBank Local Barley 1966 32 year old Cask#1966-498 Oak Bourbon Cask.

Ardbeg 1974 Provenance.

Bowmore 15 year old for Feis Ile 2022.

Bowmore 1993 16 year old Cadenhead for Cammpbeltown Loch.

Caol Ila 15 year old Bulloch Lade for Zenith Import.

Lagavulin 26 year old 2021 Special Release.

Lagavulin 1988 12 year old Hart Brothers.

Lagavulin 12 year old White Label for Italy Bot.1970s.

Laphroaig 1991 23 year old for Deucheland.

Hebrioes 1972 28 year old Celtic Series Kingsbury.

Chichibu Ichiro’s Malt 2008 10 year old Malt Dream Cask#1176.

Yamazaki 1998 10 year old The Owners Cask The drop of Yamazaki ‘Pegasus’.

Willett Family Estate 8 year old Barrel No.2795 131.8 Proof.

Rhum Vieix du Pere Labat Millesime 1985.

Coca Buton Bot.1950s.

[himanshk]

Could AI render human labour in all fields useless?

What is Artificial Intelligence; What is it used for and what is the impact? 

AI or Artificial Intelligence is the theory and development of computer systems to be able to perform tasks and jobs that normally requires human intelligence. For example: visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, etc. -Oxford Dictionary

Artificial intelligence has a myriad of uses such as: 

Non player characters in video games 

Stock market trading bots 

Content filters on social media 

Autopilot on an aeroplane 

Self-Driving cars

Artificial Intelligence is also being used in extremely experimental ways. One of these cases is Watson by IBM. Watson had made an appearance on television beating people at the game show Jeopardy, but his directive is to learn how humans express medical issues in their own words and try to give an accurate diagnosis. He has already gotten a start by trying to diagnose lung cancer patients. 

This topic has been extremely relevant in recent years due to the ever increasing speed of innovation in the modern world. There have been countless tests proving time and time again that AI is better and could eventually become better than human physical and mental labour. This topic has been talked about by many authoritative figures (Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, etc). There have been politicians discussing it but only one is doing something about it. Andrew Yang is an American presidential candidate who is taking a unique political side on AI. He is taking in relevant information from trusted sources and he is proposing a solution called UBI (universal basic income). He proposes that due to AI taking away jobs from many in the US that he is giving a ‘freedom dividend’ of  $1000 per American citizen every month to allow our capitalist society to continue with a high unemployment through no fault of their own. 

How does artificial intelligence work?

Artificial intelligence is a broad term for a lot of different algorithms but the main branch that is associated with ‘taking over jobs’ is machine learning. The way machine learning works is that you give the algorithm data and an operation on what to do with that data. They begin analysing it and teach themselves the relationships between the data and how to complete the task at hand. This principal is most notably found in online retail. Amazon for example gets its algorithms to analyse the data you produce on their website and these algorithms produce a list of items you are more likely to purchase and they then recommend them to you. 

History of Artificial Intelligence

The concept of living machines that act like humans has been around ever since the ancient Greeks but artificial intelligence was not officially named as such until 1956 at a conference at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where the term artificial intelligence was coined by John McCarthy who is credited as one of the founding fathers of AI along with Alan Turing, Marvin Minsky and Herbert A. Simon. -Washington University

But proper funded research did not begin until the 1960’s when the Department of Defence funded various research efforts and there were various other laboratories that appeared across the world. Herbert Simon was extremely optimistic about the future of AI stating “machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do”. But during the 70’s research had slowed down a lot due to some unexpected issues with creating a well performing set of artificial neurons. These issues were spotted by Sir James Lighthill. But they were corrected.

By the 1980’s artificial intelligence has received a resurgence in popularity and investment because of the creation of expert systems which are a branch of ai which can simulate/replicate the knowledge and skill of humans. By 1985 the market of AI had reached 1 billion USD. Simultaneously in Japan they were developing the ‘fifth generation computer system’ which sparked some intrigue for the UK and the US so they began to fund further research into AI. 

In the 1990’s and early 2000’s AI was being used more frequently for things such as video game NPC’s and the stock market (as I have previously mentioned). The reason for the success and popularity is the increasing power of computers and the increasing availability of them. In 1997 an AI program called deep blue was the first chess playing AI to beat a reigning champion. 

Why AI will not take our jobs

Artificial intelligence and automation has proven to be very effective and efficient in low-skilled, repetitive jobs. But in recent years there has been an ever increasing concern that artificial intelligence will advance so quickly that it will be able to complete white collar jobs such as those in an office. While it’s easy to get scared and worry about the security of your job we first have to look at the research and facts. The World Bank’s Development report of 2019 pushes the idea forward that, while automation displaces workers it creates just as many jobs to balance the situation and allow them to continue to earn money and keep the economy growing. According to the report the total Labour Force has been increasing ever since 1993.         

                                 Figure 0.4 World Bank’s World Development Report

The traditional office has changed dramatically over the past fifty years. For instance people are not accounting by calculating with a calculator and a piece of paper they have software to do this for them. This does not mean that the software has replaced their job, it has just improved the way they work. Automation and computerisation has made things easier, ever increasingly scaleable quicker and more productive. Artificial intelligence is not taking away from people’s jobs, it’s either improving them or giving them the opportunity to modify their skill set to suit other industries that AI will create. 

Why AI will take our jobs

The development of artificial intelligence can be classified in three different waves, the first wave was the attempt to develop general intelligence comparable to a human, the second wave was the development of expert systems which aid in small scale decision making such as medical diagnoses and the third wave is the development of machine learning. -source 1

There are many fields where AI is being implemented but finance is one of the most prominent as businesses would like to turn a profit from their investments. These AI algorithms can also: reduce costs, minimise risks, prevent fraud, verify borrowers and evaluate their solvency, as well as make predictions and perform other tasks for the company they work for. 

The main focus of the AI finance developments are the stock market. Instead of somebody hiring a trained market evaluator they can just purchase an AI algorithm which in a lot of cases works more effectively at looking at the state of the market giving you the best companies to invest in. 

An example of this is a study by Eureka-hedge where they gave 23 hedge funds to human investors and 23 hedge funds to AI for investment. The funds given to the investors gave an annual increase (yield) of  a range of 1.62% to 2.62% meanwhile the AI gave an annual yield of 8.44%. The researchers contribute this fact to the AI constantly repeating testing of the market rather than accumulating data like humans do.. -Eureka Hedge (From source1)

Artificial intelligence is implemented in many other other ways as well such as creating other AI algorithms. Google’s AI system learned how to create other machine learning algorithms better and make them more efficient than human created ones. The test for the created algorithms was image identification. The AI trained algorithm was able to 43% of the objects it was tasked to identify in the image whereas the human created AI was only able to identify 39% of them. 

Google’ CEO Sundar Pichai had this statement at a presentation in 2017 saying that AI does not fully replace humans currently but allows more people to be able to “develop” AI. -

“Today these are handcrafted by machine learning scientists and literally only a few thousand scientists around the world can do this. We want to enable hundreds of thousands of developers to be able to do it.” 

-Wired AI creating AI better than humans 

Another way AI is beating humans is in the legal field. A study conducted by LawGeex was to compare AI to 20 lawyers who worked for companies such as Goldman Sachs and Cisco and they had dozens of years of experience working for these companies. Their task was to evaluate the risks contained in five different Non Disclosure Agreements and identify 30 specific legal points. 

From the results we can see that the AI system showed an average accuracy of 94% while the lawyers average was 85%. The maximum accuracy for the AI 100% while the lawyers was 94%. The average time taken by the lawyers was 92 minutes, the AI’s was 26 seconds

-LawGeex Lawyers v. AI

Finally the last case study is where AI can be better than humans in the medical field. This study was to test the accuracy of Pap tests for cancerous signs. 

Mark schniffman. Senior editor : Our findings show that a deep learning algorithm can use images collected during routine cervical cancer screening to identify precancerous changes that, if left untreated, may develop into cancer. In fact, the computer analysis of the images was better at identifying precancer than a human expert reviewer of Pap tests under the microscope (cytology).

In general, the algorithm worked better than all standard screening tests in predicting all cases diagnosed in the Costa Rica-based study. Automatic visual assessment revealed precancerous disease with greater accuracy (AUC = 0.91) than human examination (AUC = 0.69) or conventional cytology (AUC = 0.71). An AUC value of 0.5 indicates a test that is no better than a random one, while an AUC value of 1.0 represents a test that has perfect accuracy in detecting disease. From these results we can deduce that humans do not 

This Graph shows how likely each profession is to be automated

Source: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/24/a-study-finds-nearly-half-of-jobs-are-vulnerable-to-automation

As you can see, low skill jobs such as construction, cleaning, driving and garment manufacturing are at high risk of automation. Jobs that require human emotion and connection such as hospitality, upper management and politics and teaching are extremely unlikely as robots cannot socialise and recognise emotions. 

This graph details the level of automation that the OECD predicts in each country in the near future. 

As you can see 43 percent of irish jobs are susceptible to becoming automated. This figure is largely dependent upon which sector of the economy your country has the majority employed in. For example countries with a lot of low skilled primary economic activities such as farming or forestry are going to have a higher percentage of automated employment. The highest percentage of automation is Slovakia and the Lowest is New Zealand

  My opinion:

Artificial intelligence will and is currently eliminating jobs, however at the moment it is extremely difficult to predict the future of technology and the countless opportunities it could provide. The future generations entering the workforce need to increase their skill belt in order to compete with AI or algorithms. But AI (currently) cannot replicate human skills such as critical thinking, managing and recognising emotions. These are skills which enhance jobs which require teamwork. AI has some other very big flaws such as high cost in installation, maintenance and the countless amounts of updates to prevent malfunction but in a lot of cases it can be beneficial to the company and its employees as it removes the need for people to waste time and productivity on tasks which an AI can easily complete. In the far future AI will become more competent than humans at jobs and work in general but in our lifetime AI will not render all human labour useless. For now it will take a large proportion of low skill work but a lot of white collar work will just be improved upon but not replaced by AI. The way our society works is based on consuming and to be able to consume you have to have money and to get money you have to earn through working in a job, so if nobody can make money how will the economy continue to prosper?

[themculibrary]

Tony & Rhodey’s “MIT Era” Masterlist

And They Were Dorm-mates (ao3) - enchantedlightningwrites Rating: Teen And Up

Summary: The story of how Rhodey and Tony met at MIT and how it began at one simple dorm room.

Can't Stop Us RoboDads (ao3) - justanotherpipedream, rebelmeg Rating: Teen And Up

Summary: The story of how a genius rich kid from New York and a poor military-bound kid from South Philly meet, get into shenanigans, birth a few bots, and forge a life-long friendship.

Cashmere, Cologne, and White Sunshine (ao3) - lusilly Rating: Explicit

Summary: Rhodey takes Tony home one night after a party, and it's the first time they have sex, and it's Tony's first time with a guy, and it's the first time he tells somebody that he's a guy.

(To Rhodey's credit, this is not exactly news.)

Emergency Contact (ao3) - whumphoarder Rating: General

Summary: It’s not that James disliked his roommate, it’s just that they didn’t exactly get off on the right foot.

Or, in which fifteen-year-old college freshman Tony Stark needs a ride to the ER and James Rhodes is too responsible for his own good.

Gonna Pick You Up When You Fall - ceealaina Rating: Teen And Up

Summary: Jim Rhodes isn’t sure how he feels about having the Stark heir for his roommate, right up until he meets Tony and finds he’s the very last thing he expected.

Heart Eyes, Motherfucker (ao3) - DiefaceJohnson Rating: Not Rated

Summary: Tony has developed his first crush, and he doesn't like it one bit.

History Has Its Eyes On You (ao3) - martianwahtney Rating: General

Summary: MIT era fic in which Tony and Rhodey meet, and become friends.

James Rhodes In 8C (ao3) - what_alchemy Rating: Explicit

Summary: Tony has always known.

Love Me Like You Do (ao3) - NotEvenCloseToStraight Rating: Mature

Summary: Tony has been a disaster since the day James met him, but that's alright because he's James's disaster and they wouldn't want it any other way. From drunk kisses in the dorms at MIT to more than kisses in Vegas and nearly losing each other every time the damn world tries to end, Tony has always been Rhodey's and that's just the way it is.

This is the story behind the story, the parts the movies don't show us, all the times a steadfast soldier James Rhodes and a beautiful genius named Tony Stark faced everything life threw at them, and every time they used all too rare quiet moments to fall in love.

The Befriending of Rhodey (ao3) - Violettavonviolet Rating: Teen And Up

Summary: Tony wasn’t hiding, he totally wasn’t. Okay, maybe a little. All right, Tony was totally hiding. He was hiding from his roommate.

or;

How Tony got to know Rhodey. It is epic and also the start of the best friendship in the entire universe.

the first time (ever I saw your face) (ao3) - sara_wolfe Rating: General

Summary: Five firsts in the lives of James Rhodes and Tony Stark.

The MIT Years (Live Aid Episode) (ao3) - Takada_Saiko Rating: Teen And Up

Summary: It's 1985. Tony Stark hijacks a Stark Industries plane to drag Rhodey to the Live Aid Concert, Howard and Peggy chase down an elusive former Hydra operative, and Daniel Sousa struggles with difficult news after retirement. Script format.

The One Where Tony is Rhodey's Weakness (ao3) - jinxquickfoot Rating: Mature

Summary: “Fine,” Rhodey said through gritted teeth. He reached into his backpack and pulled out his own immaculate, typed notes. He slammed them on the table in front of Tiberius. “There. Now seriously, Stone - let him go.” ------------------------------------------------------------ Rhodey didn't expect his roomate at MIT to be Howard Stark's son. He also didn't expect him to be fifteen. And he definitely didn't expect just how much he was going to end up caring about Tony Stark.

unwanted cats (ao3) - Areiton Rating: Teen And Up

Summary: He can see the light in their shitty kitchen gleaming, and he moves, suddenly, scrambling out of the car and into the slushy snow before Jarvis even parks, stumbling when the still moving door catches his hip. He's so close, now, and the whole world is shaking, but Rhodey-- Rhodey never shakes.

Or Howard and Maria die when and 15-year-old Tony's world falls apart and Rhodey puts him back together.

Weird Science (ao3) - ceealaina Rating: Explicit

Summary: In a series of unfortunate events, a lab incident leads to Tony and Rhodey switching bodies -- the same weekend that Tony absolutely has to go home. Now Tony has to get everything back to normal while evading his parents, Jarvis, and dealing with a super cranky Rhodey. (It would help if he was slightly less distracted by wanting to touch this new body all over.)

When I find you, if I do (ao3) - beanie_dragon Rating: Not Rated

Summary: James Rhodes hadn't really expected the Stark heir to be anything more than that - the Stark heir, and he definitely hadn't expected to ever be friends with him, let alone roommates.

wild man's world (ao3) - pheonix85 Pairing: Carol/Rhodey Rating: Teen And Up

Summary: At the beginning of the summer of '89, Tony visits Rhodey on exercise at Edwards Air Force Base. Tony persuades him to go out and explore some of the spots out around town, and Rhodey meets a girl.

[thenightling]

Tagging Game

Tagging Game

I was tagged by @darya-droid

Answer 20 questions and tag 20 followers

Name:  Hmm...  Which one to give you?  Eh, friends tend to call me Mandy.

Nicknames:  Mandy.

Zodiac: Scorpio

Height:  5′ 0″ but my ID says 5′2.  My mother (at the time) thought it would boost my confidence to fib a little about my height and I never cared enough to try to fix it.

Languages: English, a little German.   

Nationality:  American

Favorite Seasons: Autumn

Favorite Flower: Night blooming Jasmine and White roses. I also like white gardenia.    

Favorite Scents:   Hmm.  Tough call.   Autumn air has a particularly pleasant scent to me. Apples and pumpkins and dried leaves.  The smell of harvest and dried leaves carried on crisp air.  Yes, that!  That scent right there. 

Favorite Color:   Black, crimson, and dark blue.  

Favorite Animals:   Wolves, bats, ravens, crows, cats, foxes and barn owls.

Favorite Fictional Characters:  (This is subject to change based on the alternating of my obsessions). In books:  Morpheus in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Dracula in Fred Saberhagen’s Dracula books (and Stoker’s original version as well, of course), Frankenstein’s Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Faust in Goethe’s Faust Parts 1 and 2, Jack Skellington in the Nightmare before Christmas (original poem), Loki in The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris, Robin Goodfellow from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man who fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Sir Simon de Canterville from The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Belle in La Belle et la Bête by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, Captain Greg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Jean Valjean in Les Miserables,  In comics:   Morpheus, Cain and Abel, Lucien in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Nightmare, Dracula, Loki, Spider-Man, and Morbius in Marvel comics.  Frankenstein’s Monster in Frankenstein Alive, alive from IDW,  Dracula in Dracula: The Company of Monsters from Boom comics (A very underrated story), Peter Vincent in the Fright Night comics from Now Comics.  The Crypt Keeper, Vault Keeper, and old Witch from EC comics.  TV characters:  Dracula in Castlevania, Lisa in Castlevania, Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters,  Cain from that one episode of Justice League action (Trick or Threat), the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt and Tales from the Cryptkeeper animated series. Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows (1960s version and 1990s version), Harry Dresden and Bob in The Dresden Files, Lauren in Lost Girl, Loki in Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble. Lydia and Beetlejuice from the Beetlejuice animated series, Zummi from The Adventures of The Gummi Bears, Puck from Disney’s Gargoyles, The Creature (Frankenstein’s Monster) from Penny Dreadful, Rumplestiltskin from Once Upon a Time.  Movie characters: Belle from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (animated version only), Faust in the 1926 silent film version of Faust, Peter Vincent in Fright Night (Original 1985 version), Jack Skellington and Sally from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare before Christmas, Jareth from Labyrinth, Ichabod Crane from Sleepy Hollow (1999), Captain Greg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Emily from The Corpse Bride, Doctor Craven from The Raven (1963), Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Frankenstein monster in the 2004 Hallmark mini-series version of Frankenstein starring Luke Goss (the only version to truly follow the novel), Abe Sapien in the Hellboy movies (except the remake).   

Favorite Hot Beverage: Tea.

Average Amount of Sleep:  Seven and a half hours is best but lately it’s broken into four to three hour shifts. 

Dogs or Cats:  Both though I only have cats.

 Number of Blankets: Depends on how cold or hot it is.  Usually at least one.

Dream Trip:  London England, The black Forest in Germany, all over Europe really.  

Blog Established: 2014 or so.   I was into Once upon a Time at the time, wanted in on the Tumblr fandom.   Not sure if that was a good thing in retrospect...

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Don’t Kickback In Anger

The year is 1985. England have somehow won the Ashes. Supergran has been unleashed on an unsuspecting nation. In the charts Dead or Alive are spinning right round right baby right round like a record baby. And the Decepticons got a little creepy crawly...

The Insecticons were always there. They were a stalwart, a reliable background troop of mooks for the baddies to fall back on when the big names weren't enough to carry the day. Much like the Constructicons (who debuted around the same time) Kickback and the gang never quite rose to A-list status despite a few notable appearances. For me, as always, it's the Marvel comic which has left the strongest impression, with them acting as enforcers for Straxus on Cybertron and getting all sneaky and bug-like when they arrived on earth. But mostly there were there to fill out the numbers, and the ability to clone themselves used in the cartoon was presumably considered a workaround for the perennial problem of the Decepticons being horribly outnumbered. Turns out good-guy toys sell better, who knew?

But then everything above could be said about any of the three Insecticons. What's Kickback got that the others don't? Bombshell can take control of your brains, Shrapnel can shoot lightning... these are some hefty superpowers right there. Kickback... kicks. I mean, he's good at kicking, don't get me wrong. But alongside Professor X and Thor, Eric Cantona is looking a little out of his league. He didn't even get the fun little speech quirk that Shrapnel got. Yeah, objectively Kickback is the least effective of the three Insecticons, which is something of a shame considering his bio makes him out to be a smooth-talking con artist that makes friends easily, even among humans. That would have been great to see! Ah well.

Luckily, in toy form Kickback has a lot going for him, especially in this Titans Return incarnation. The only one with translucent bits, the only one with a flip out chest/pilot seat and the most poseable of the bunch by a country mile. Despite his small size, Kickback has a striking figure, with well-proportioned limbs and a headsculpt that stands out for just how cool he appears, in a 1985-version-of-cool kind of way, of course. Wraparound shades will never go out of style (until 1986 when The Dark Knight Returns put them out of style forever). No accessories, which for the other two wouldn't have been such a problem, but makes it all the more important that Kickback Paddywhack gets in close to deliver a swift knee to the clangers of his enemy, otherwise he's not such an imposing presence on the battlefield. I kind of imagine him as more of a civilian liaison for the Decepticons, recruiting fresh cannon fodder on Cybertron and negotiating with various ne'er-do-wells on Earth, and only getting involved on the battlefield when he has to.

Transformation is a lot less fiddly than Bombshell and doesn't have the super-stiff joints of Shrapnel, and so long as you can get his arms to form the insect butt you're well away. He's not a bad little grasshopper all told, despite the cheeky cheat of having the robot head just snuggle down inside the insect head. While it's hardly a very poseable beastie this is probably for the best. Young'uns won't remember the days of Beast Wars bugs having ball joints at every opportunity, and inevitably buckling under the weight. A harrowing reminder that articulation doesn't always lend itself to poseability.

The translucent robot chest becomes more of a feature in this mode as well, flipping up like it did on the G1 toy to reveal a cockpit... which inevitably is far too small for titan masters to sit inside, and operates more like a saddle than a cockpit. Or, if you're feeling retro like me, plonk a Diaclone pilot in there. The Waruders are reborn! It would have been nice to have had a proper cockpit, as the rest of the legends size class could comfortably seat titan masters and close up after them, but it would have come at the expense of a big chonk of a robot belly, so we're probably better served this way.

Okay sure. Kickback may have been poorly served in the superpowers department, but he's definitely come out on top in terms of toy representation. Bombshell's colours and insect legs don't match up to his brethren, and Shrapnel's big solid yellow chest feels a bit lacklustre next to Kickback's gleaming transluscoguts. It would have been nice to have got an Energon cube to stash away in there though, something which has still eluded mainline transformers. It's just a little plastic cube. It's not the most complicated thing to manufacture, I'm sure. Oh well.

[angelholme]

M4M&I — Day 18 : Dolls

There are very few characters in shows, films, books, plays and all the like that I think are appallingly stupid and a complete waste of time.

I mean — there are characters that are ridiculous (the Willy Wonka character from the version with Johnny Depp) and there are characters that are bad (Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory) and there are characters that are kind of disappointing (Bill from Doctor Who) but it is very, very rare I come across characters that I think were just a huge mistake and the writers should be completely ashamed of themselves.

However the “second half” of a series called “Pretty Little Liars” featured just such a character.

Alexandra Drake — Alex, also known as A.D. — was a totally, utterly and completely pointless character. But, to be fair, the entire second half of “Pretty Little Liars” was totally, utterly and completely pointless.

The first half — which, okay, was five and a half years, was well written, well crafted and incredibly well produced. The five lead characters (Aria, Hanna, Emily, Alison and Spencer) were all outstanding and the script was — for the most part — a work of genius. There were some parts that were a bit iffy but generally speaking it is one of the best series of its kind in recent history.

But the second half? I have no clue  what the buggering hell they were thinking. They had so many plots that would have made a better arc for the series, and instead they just throw a TWIN SISTER in? They literally go in for the most obvious, most ridiculous idea?

Why not bring Alison back in the shower? Why not bring CeeCee back in the shower? Why not bring them both back in the shower? (Okay — that sounded slightly more perverted than I intended, especially given that they’re sisters. Sorry. I will reign in my “better ideas” for now)

The entire “five years later” arc was — well I am not sure what it was. It was sort of adapted from the books, but apparently not very well.

But to return to the idea of bringing Alison back in the shower for a second, when I was growing up it was almost a universal joke about “brining someone back in the shower” because on Dallas, in 1985, they killed off Bobby Ewing. Katherine Wentworth was trying to run Pam over with a car, and Bobby pushed her out of the way. It was a pretty dramatic, and somewhat emotional episode.

For the whole of the next year, Bobby was dead, and gone, and Pam struggled on on her own. Like you do when your husband has been run over by a psychotic bitch in a car.

Then came…….. well then came the moment that TV writers, and film writers, have been parodying ever since.

Pam got married to someone new, and then she woke up after her wedding night to find Bobby in her shower.

It was — quite literally — the most ridiculous thing ever on TV up to that moment. Which is saying something, given it was the eighties.

If you compare and contrast this to — say — the Christmas episode of Eastenders just two months later. When Den — after learning that Angie’s story of having cancer was a lie — waited until Christmas afternoon to serve her with divorce papers.

It was the start of the “diabolical Christmas episodes” that have plagued the nation ever since and it was the most dramatic and shocking Christmas show in recent TV history.

It has been copied, and various shows — mostly soaps — have endeavoured to emulate it year after year (with more and more outrageous disasters every Christmas, usually with more and more casualties and more and more dead people) but no one — not single show — has ever succeeded in producing the shock and surprise of that first episode.

However a lot of people have produced something as ridiculous as bringing Bobby back in the shower. Mostly by bringing other people back in the shower (even it isn’t a sister and a sister who was her brother. Because that would be a little weird. Especially for a primetime show that doesn’t even use the word s**t)

If you look at the rest of pop culture, you can see the influence of both of these moments (the Den & Angie moment, and the Shower Scene moment) as well as hundreds of other tiny iconic moments and incidents that have become embedded into the collective consciousness of the world.

the four Hogwarts’ Houses — listening to people say “You’re a Gryffindor” or “She’s a Hufflepuff” is fairly common place now.

the coffee vibrating in the cup from Jurassic Park

the shower scene from Psycho

the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man from Ghostbusters

the One Ring and my precious from The Lord of The Rings

the force

toto

the psychotic Good Guy Doll from Child’s Play [1]

There are any number of tiny little things in random films that are used throughout pop culture — some you will know where they come from, some you will know but don’t recognise, some you won’t recognise but will have heard…….. but they will turn up time and time again, and the moment someone points one out you will hear them over and over again.

It is odd how often it happens.

[1] — Would you believe that Chucky was once the subject of an Amber Alert in Texas? The Texas state police issued an Amber Alert and said he was a suspect in a kidnapping. And they did it three times in quick succession.

So — you know — it’s good to know the Texas police are looking out the well being of their citizens.