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Could definitely be wrong here but have we considered it looks beaten down because of the distance between McLean and the New Vegas settlement, there’s no real way to see the interior at this distance so the damage could just be the external damage rather than implying new vegas has fallen

NEW VEGAS

Fallout (2024) - 1x08 "The Beginning"

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I don’t actually think Powder thinking VI was abandoning her in the first instance was such a stretch of logic, she’d initially viewed her actions at the fishery as positive only to discover she’d inadvertently killed most of her family, in that panicky instant where she desperately tries to explain away what she did Vi winds up confirming the worst views about herself (repeatedly stated by Mylo which is why is I think he takes on the most critical and harmful mental personification in her mind later on) by calling her a Jinx, after hitting Powder Vi’s next action (rightly or wrongly) is to put distance between herself and Powder - now regardless of intent behind this for Powder in her grief stricken state it seems rather reasonable that she could view that as being abandoned, especially given that Vi doesn’t respond to her repeated pleas for her to come back

Let's talk about that Bridge fight

I have talked a bit of moments where characters made some pretty pivotal and probably undesirable (as in “probably goes against their long term goals”) decisions and what they might have been done differently (Silco’s reaction when Vi comes back, Vi going with Caitlyn at/after the bridge scene).

I think it’s worth doing this with Jinx here as well.

First, let me start off by saying that of course with the circumstances I do not expect Jinx to be rational. This is not about blaming Jinx for acting badly or trying to argue that what she did was out of character.

This is more about exploring how a more well-adjusted Jinx would have acted and what the effects of what might have been.

Also this is got really long, because the bridge has a lot of different “phases” to it. 

The setup:

Jinx has just found out that Vi is back, has contacted her with the flare, during the reunion with Vi met Cait, realized that Cait wants the crystal, lost the crystal to them and had the crystal, Cait and Vi taken from her by Firelights.

After nursing her injuries she confronted Silco who argued to her that Vi doesn’t care about her and implored her to finish the weapon.

Note: my personal read has always been that Silco at this point doesn’t know that Cait and Ekko have the crystal. And my personal read for a variety of reasons is that Silco doesn’t actually care that much about the weapon, he was just trying to distract Jinx from being angry with him about Vi.

The scene

We start by Caitlyn, Ekko and Vi approaching the bridge through a tunnel of some sort

It’s worth wondering whether this comment is meant to imply that Jinx has been shadowing them for a while. 

I have seen some debate on whether the flying butterfly things Jinx uses are Firelights or not.  It’s worth nothing that the Council Archives do refer to them as mechanical Firelights.

Maybe these is supposed to be a dimorphism between male and female firelights?

Anyway, when we meet Jinx again she is sitting on top of a bridge pillar and watching the situation through a spyglass.

Jinx in my mind at this point is torn between two missions:

1.) Retrieve the crystal and make Silco happy 2.) Reunite with Vi because she doubts Silco’s characterization of Vi

In short, Silco temporarily made her doubt Vi’s motivation, but Jinx is not completely sold.

If Jinx fully believed what Silco said (Vi sucks, the crystal is important), then it is worth questioning if Jinx really is watching over them as the Firelight swarm implies, why Jinx didn’t attack Vi, Cait and Ekko sooner, before they reached the bridge rather than spying on them. She has bombs, she has the element of surprise, she has a reasonable chance that Vi is going to be hesitant to attack her, it is reasonable for her to know or assume that Caitlyn doesn’t have a weapon. If she is hesitant to use explosives around the crystal that doesn’t seem to be the case later and of course we know that this type of crystal doesn’t blow up as easily despite being manhandled a lot.

My read: despite being nominally on a mission to retrieve the crystal we see that Jinx is quite invested in how Vi will choose, whether she will go with Caitlyn or not as we can tell by her mutterings and reactions as she spies on them.

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With the rich and powerful gone some believed the planet would end and humanity would die, others that the planet would revive and humanity would thrive, both fell the same foolish line of thought that the planets fate was completely intertwined with the fate of humanity, it was not, as humanity succumbed to the inevitable end of its actions on earth the planet could at last have a moment of quiet as nature did what it always did and adapt, plants adapted to breakdown the pollution and slowly breath new air into the atmosphere, new forms of fauna began to grow perfectly matched to the new flora, but evolution left its mark and when the colonists eventually returned seeing earth as a new Eden they found the planet unwelcoming, the air had become too pure for their lungs, the animals too brutal for their command and so earth was sworn off as uninhabitable for humans and the world was better for it

When space colonies became a practical reality, the rich and powerful left Earth in droves, leaving the rest of humanity behind on a broken world. A few centuries later, Earth has, through much effort, been restored to its former glory. Now the colonists want to return.

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I’d say even a big part of Harlan’s decision was to try and remove the sense of entitlement his family had developed to allow his family to grow and provide for themselves - he even mentions to his son that making him the publisher to his (Harlan’s) own works (rather than him writing stories himself) was a mistake and held him back

The moral of knives out was entitled rich people are the same. There were various types of political leanings in the Thrombey family: leftist, liberal, conservative, alt-right. However, none of that mattered when their money was threatened, whatever political opinions they held went out the window if it meant saving their lifestyle. 

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Sorcerer

hi hi hi take my uquiz

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If you listen, her tapping very much adds to the music.

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Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

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Personally this is what the amalgam universe should have been, all the characters pushed into the same universe but still themselves (though likely not remembering what their original realities were) the composite mixes wasn’t a huge favourite of mine

DC/Marvel crossovers by Vasco Georgiev

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good job everyone

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mass effect + reductress (3)

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Why do Protestants and Catholics hate each other and try to kill each other in Ireland?

It’s a common misconception that The Troubles (the conflict/war in Northern Ireland from the 1960s-1998) was about religious hatred between Catholics and Protestants.

It was actually not about religion. It was about colonialism.

To understand, you need to know a little about Irish history.

Starting from the 1500s, the British began a program of systematic, intense colonisation of Ireland. Native Irish people were driven off their land, which was then settled by British people. The northern part of the island was particularly heavily settled, to the point that about half the population was made up of British settlers.

At the time, the vast majority of British people (and therefore the British settlers) were Protestant, while the vast majority of Irish people were Catholic.

As the centuries passed, the native Irish population and the descendants of the British settlers did not integrate. They lived largely separately.... attending separate schools, living in separate communities... and worshiping separate religions.

Religion became one of a handful of “markers” (along with language, cultural practices, etc) to identify whether someone was a native Irish person, or a descendent of the British settlers.

Laws were established that systematically discriminated against Catholics (who were mostly Irish) in favour of Protestants (who were mostly descendants of British settlers). These were in effect in Northern Ireland until the latter part of the 1900s. They meant that Irish Catholic people were denied equal access to education, housing/land ownership, and political representation. This was known as the Protestant Ascendency.

In the 1960s, a Civil Rights Movement began in Northern Ireland. It was inspired by the African American movement in the US. Irish people marched and held protests for their rights. This Civil Rights Movement came to an end when British soldiers fired live ammunition into a peaceful protest in Derry, an event known as Bloody Sunday.

Following Bloody Sunday, tensions between the two main groups in Northern Ireland (Irish people/“Catholics”, and the descendants of British settlers/“Protestants”) escalated dramatically and the region descended into violence. The Troubles had begun.

Of course, when the British press was reporting on the sudden civil war that had erupted in one of their territories (Northern Ireland) they glossed over the fact that... you know... they caused it, by colonising Ireland, displacing it’s population and then systematically oppressing the Irish for centuries.

Colonial powers don’t really like to acknowledge the effects of their colonialism.

So instead, the British media simplified the situation by calling it a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants. And other countries, who don’t know any better, caught on and also portrayed it as a conflict between Catholics and Protestants.

But in reality, religion was not the root cause of the conflict- it was colonialism.

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bjorng

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Reminder riddler actually helped the police solve crimes while in their custody and when holding hostages so the police didn’t interrupt his meeting with Bruce Wayne and Joker - batman trying to get the two to stop their war which was destroying the city - Riddler released all his hostages after confirming it wasn’t a trick to arrest him

dc fandom has been redeemed by 99% of the fandom siding with riddler over joker

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Funny enough I agree this was my favourite from the new triology apart from the hyperdrive issue the film had a lot of positives and more than that actually took some risks and subverted expectations in a good way Rey wasn’t a legacy, the hero’s running off and disobeying the resistance leader actually made things worse and Kylo after cutting down his master plunges more into the dark side rather than less, the other two meanwhile focused far too much on prior nostalgia by trying to recreate the original triology with TROS also spending a lot of time trying to undo TLJ (which sort of highlightes they should have had directors that were able to synergise their work more)

Heeded my words not, did you? Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery… but weakness, folly, failure also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. 

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) dir. Rian Johnson

#stat wars #the last jedi #pro tlj #necro talk #star wars the last jedi

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Marvel Talk

So another one of these because honestly I’m a fan of it so why shouldn’t I talk about a topic I enjoy

So with the move to marvel tv potentially decanonising most of the marvel tv shows we already have and we’re still awaiting the arrival of the mutants what if the next big event was Secret War however the beyonder decided to take things in a slightly different direction where he draws hero’s and villains across the multiverse, so we could see the runaways, agents of sheild maybe even the Netflix hero’s alongside some of the main movie characters, villain wise this could give us all sorts of mixes and honestly have some villains interact and team up (something that has been lacking a bit from the MCU so far), it could even link into the what if series in a way

#marvel #marvel comics #marvel phase four #marvel what if #runaways #marvel runaways #agents of s.h.i.e.l.d. #agent carter #cloak and dagger #avengers #guardians of the galaxy #secret wars #mcu #mcu ideas #comics #necro