Confused and upset Cybertronian like: HELP WHY IS MY ALTMODE SHOUTING? HOW DO I MAKE THIS STOP??
… Everyone is laughing too hard to offer coherent advice. It keeps going when they transform. Poor bab
Mech scanning a cement mixer and then freaking out when the barrel starts to turn.
Jet scanning a new alt and nearly taking someone’s optic out with the ejector seat when he accidentally triggers it.
Soundwave scanning a new high-tech drone to blend in a bit better, not realizing that it has some very sensitive listening equipment, and then nearly crashing when he flies over a radio tower and gets death metal slammed through his brain.
Soundwvae… VS… death metal…
omfg send help i can’t sotp laughing omfg poor sounders random DEATH METAL OUTTA NOWHERE WHEN HE WAS MINDING HIS OWN BUSINESS FOR ONCE sounders bby omg
Poor bby spends the rest of the day shifting an ice pack between his forehelm and audio fins because he’s not sure which is sorer. When Megatron tries to ask if he’s OK, he kinda just groans and puts a pillow over his helm to make the noise go away.
That would actually be an effective anti-espionage tactic. Soundwave might be listening in? CYBERTRONIAN DEATH METAL OVER THE COMM-LINK.
– Velocitron is so obsessed with speed that even while they had a civil war going on, they would pause and gather around to watch races. They also had their own version of Gladiator arenas that were intense 100 lap death races where crashed bots would just become another obstacle on the course. Blurr won these more than any other bot.
– a special version of the death races were held instead of elections, where the fastest would be the leader of the entire planet
– Megatron considered Orion a close friend and advisor, and during the council scene in the flashback in TFP, Orion accidentally alienated and insulted Megatron while trying to defend Megatron’s position. Megatron saw this as proof that Orion had just used him to gain power (he has serious trust issues), and that basically started the Decepticon vs Autobot war
– Orion was head over heels for Megatron, going as far as ignoring all his friends advice and breaking the law to message Megatron and eventually meet him irl. He often daydreamed of leading a political revolution with him, leading side by side as equals, with lots of… very flowery language.
– Shockwave created the original dinobots after seeing earth dinosaurs while exploring shit through a high tech telescope, and deciding to use a recently captured Autobot special ops team as test subjects to craft into dinosaurs. Shockwave thought dinosaurs were the coolest shit, and probably still does, seeing his fascination with reviving predacons.
– Jazz is the most level headed best bro ever and if Orion listened to him more there probably wouldn’t have been a war
– Cliffjumper and Bumblebee originally did share a frame type, even though they were different in TFP
– Solus Prime really did love Megatronus, but it was implied that she was in a poly relationship of sorts with Onyx Prime as well, and an on/off hatefuck type relationship with another Prime
– Makeshift (the shape-shifting bot in TFP for one episode) is actually one of many shapeshifters. There’s not a lot of them, but Pseudo in RID2015 is one. Makeshift said that they have to change their shape often or they’ll die, but he said this while being frozen in a partial stasis. However, he seemed genuinely scared and panicked about not shifting, so I doubt he was lying.
– Bumblebee had to create the beeping language heard in TFP over MANY thousands of years as a result of damage done to his vocalizer during different parts of the war. The way it was described made it seem painful, and sometimes his voice would pop back in for a word or phrase or two.
– Bumblebee straight up hates Megatron. Like, once he went on a mini rampage and just tore apart dark energon crystals that were surrounding the core of Cybertron with his bare hands. The others yelled at him to stop but did nothing as Bumblebee continued to brutally attack what’s basically poison out of anger towards the situation and Megatron.
– Junkion is a pile of rubble from crashed ships that are just kinda floating in space. The Junkions are lead by Wreck-Gar, who is very hard to understand but is also very proud and protective of his people. He will NOT hesitate give the order to attack someone and rip their body apart to use for parts
If I’m going to Robot Hell I’m going into it headfirst, on fire, probably riding on a meteor like I’m Hot-fuckin’-Rod. That being said, hey everybody, sorry about this. Based off this from earlier, taken to my trash extreme.
Warnings for Forced body alteration, implication of dysphoria, autobots having a gender binary roughly determined by sparktype, forced feminization, look we’re just
we’re all going to scream into the void sooner or later.
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…
3322 square feet
Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.
Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.
It goes beyond this. Every computer out there has memory. The kind of memory you might call RAM. The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. It looked like this:
Wires going through magnets. This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Each magnetic core could store a single bit – a 0 or a 1. Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:
You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is. But these are also extreme close-ups. Here’s the scale of the individual cores:
The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.
And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.
Don’t underestimate the impact craft has had on our culture
But imagine how much pressure medics must be under though
Like Cybertronians have the potential to be effectively immortal if they keep their parts maintained (unlike Tailgate stuck under the surface for so long v_v) Of course this doesn’t happen if they die from disease or wounds.
So if a medic can’t save a patient imagine how devastating that is. They could have had a countless number of more days to live their lives, but that all got cut short just like that
Fun story: One of the first things I was taught as an astronomy student is that, if you want to be a dick to someone giving a presentation, ask them “and how do the magnetic fields play into this?” and they will invariably say “fuck you I don’t know” because no one understands magnetic fields they are black magic.
Pure utter bullshit. Electromagnetic forces somehow outstrip gravitic forces in strength by an obscene factor, for no reason I can comprehend and it bothers me.
I love magnets
One, that gif showing the Curie temperature is really cool.
Two, you don’t understand, magnetic fields are the bane of my existance and I have a masters dissertation about them. I studied how magnetic fields develop in low mass stars and every single meeting with my supervisor ended in some conversation about how stupid magnetism is.
“Oh yeah and this is effected by the magnetic field strength…”
“But why?”
“God knows, I don’t have a clue.”
Was literally said to me by a professor who has spent 20 years of his life looking at magnetism in stars.
ALSO:
“Don’t ask why, we don’t know. Maybe magnetism? Who knows anything about magnetism.” – My Stellar Physics professor when asked about certain processes in stellar formation, something he has been studying for 10 years.
Like we know so little about that it’s actually funny.
I’m having a Jack O’Neill moment here… “Why?” “Magnets.”
Arms dealing in TFA is often held up as a special kind of evil. Isaac Sumdac flat-out refuses to have his firm manufacture weapons; the fact that Porter C. Powell wants to do so helps cement his status as the villain. The Autobots themselves also seem to…
It’s more than ‘almost’ a point of pride, if I’m interpreting Ratchet’s opinion in the Almanac correctly. And now I’m wondering if their reason for the rejection is related to the formation of the Decepticons’ predecessors – TFA uses the ‘Cons were warbuilds’ backstory, so the use of traditional weapons would probably be a bitter reminder of their betrayal. Ratchet seemed really averse to the idea of Autobots using weapons, and I reckon it’s a long-standing thing from right back when the Malignus (military, so weapons!) caste tried to overthrow the Guardians.
Interesting! I haven’t read the Allspark Almanac, but I did know about the ‘Cons being warbuilds, and that makes a lot of sense. Almost a racial divide; we’ll wage war if we have to, but traditional weapons are symbolic of Them.
Arms dealing in TFA is often held up as a special kind of evil. Isaac Sumdac flat-out refuses to have his firm manufacture weapons; the fact that Porter C. Powell wants to do so helps cement his status as the villain. The Autobots themselves also seem to take this view. In “S.U.V. – Society of Ultimate Villainy”, they go for Swindle with a vengeance, despite the fact that they’ve never even met him before, just on the grounds that he’s an arms dealer who’s willing to do business with Megatron. And it clearly isn’t just a case of, “We have to prevent Megatron from getting his hands on this weapon” – it comes across as personal, bordering on vicious. Hell, at the end of the episode, it’s heavily implied that the ‘Bots are going to let the police rip Swindle apart while he’s alive and conscious. Most of the Autobots themselves seem to prefer modified construction or other civilian equipment to straight-up weaponry, almost as if it’s a point of pride.
And this was my thought: how much of this prejudice against weapons is actually an expression of their attitudes towards the Decepticons, who are living weapons?
Some Decepticon disability headcannons, because as a disabled who like’s cons, I wanted to think how that could work in decepticon society in terms of aids and philosophy if we go down the ‘war frame’ route of g1/tfa
Because ‘warrior society who kills the weak *cough*disabled*cough*’…well yeah, maybe lets do something different sometimes-
-Replacing a limb lost in battle or for an individual protoformed without one is normal, it might have an array of installed lasers, swords because decepticons
-chronic pain? the pain from your own body is a worthy opponent to fight
-processor illness’s are regarded the same
-hover chairs are small, light weight and practical. but still have space for needed weapon storage
-highly sensitive to light? poor vision? you get a visor to better see your enemies!
-non or partly verbal? hand is more practical for stealth attacks anyway
-can’t fight? someone has to do healing/record battles/cook/devise new things ect
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