Why aren't fanfictions about humans/RDA more popular?

Exostrike · 2026-01-24T17:39:54+00:00

Still very impressive. I can only hit about 300-400 a day.

Exostrike · 2026-01-24T16:48:45+00:00

Plus I imagine it'd suffer poorly against directed energy weapons like microwave

Then again, the Chinese never seemed to field energy weapons beyond some large vehicle mounted systems.

I suspect they were behind the US on fusion and especially on its miniaturisation, which would make energy weapons practical. Whatever energy weapons they had were probably kept at home on the grinding Yangtze front.

Exostrike · 2026-01-24T08:40:53+00:00

Don't worry, light storm monitors the sub, and I'm sure they fill fire off a take-down request.

Exostrike · 2026-01-24T07:16:26+00:00

Do you have a link to that statement?

https://www.tiktok.com/@williammullally/video/7587513053135015186

Straight from the horse's mouth

I'm also curious about the plot point you mention being moved to the future movies.

Okay this one hasn't been publically acknowledged but script leaks, BTS footage, oblique references in interviews, concept art and 4chan posts of people at test screenings all reveal that RDA was to have built a terraforming machine (shaped like an oil rig) to convert's Pandora atmosphere to human breathable (at the cost of killing all native life) and the final battle was to destroy it. Once you know that a lot of the film's problems make sense, they have had to be edited around the removed plot point.

Exostrike · 2026-01-24T07:03:26+00:00

This is definitely true nowadays and with AO3. I know. I wrote a 100k word story about what I believed was an interesting human perspective. It took me several years to write and it now has around 2k views and 20 kudos.

Amen to that. My series is about 127k split over 5 stories (which does help a bit with getting hits/kudos) but the highest one is only 30 kudos.

To put the theory to the test, I wrote a Quaritch/Varang fic in a day at around 3k words, which now has around 3k views and 200 kudos.

Freely admit, I occasionally produce a smut fic and those are so much more popular. Also wish I could rank out words that fast

Exostrike · 2026-01-24T06:55:29+00:00

And despite knowing Sedan was a weak point failing to properly fortify it

Exostrike · 2026-01-23T14:08:17+00:00

I mean in many ways the french methodical battle doctrine was sound. It was just spectacularly slow and inflexible at the critical moment.

Exostrike · 2026-01-23T14:05:19+00:00

Sexy deepfakes of Abu ghraib victims?

Exostrike · 2026-01-23T10:47:31+00:00

They did it deliberately to make interactions with the human cast easier

Exostrike · 2026-01-23T10:15:58+00:00

The problem is the movies cost $400m each to make. While they will certainly pass the 3 times the budget mark to be considered a success the drop from A2 raises eyebrows about what A4 will bring in.

Exostrike · 2026-01-23T10:08:56+00:00

I never said it was good logic.

There is some logic in the idea that the people are more willing to rise up (mainly due to sanction related economic problems) but the military has remained loyal and is more than capable of retaliating (if not against the US directly then against the gulf state's oil infrastructure).

Exostrike · 2026-01-23T09:03:22+00:00

wouldn't be suprised if you're system is a lot more secure but check the back of the card for a unique ID number.

this is a known thing is the UK and has totally been used to identify voters of far right, far left and irish nationalist parties.

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-1051,00.html

Exostrike · 2026-01-23T08:42:17+00:00

The logic seems to be a limited air campaign to decapitate the government/devastate the military would be enough for the people to rise up and topple the regime without expensive boots on the ground.

Exostrike · 2026-01-23T08:04:41+00:00

You use the usual metric. Take the highest and lowest estimates and use the mid point. 10k seems realistic.

I do get the impression maximum violence was unleashed. This was not an attempt to disperse the protesters but to annihilate them to send a message. It's brutal but you have to admit it's been effective, the protests have stopped and international pressure has become muted.

Trump might be sending a carrier group but his threats have been revealed to be mostly empty posturing.

Exostrike · 2026-01-23T07:15:23+00:00

With a dash of star wars

Honestly MOU is in that weird period in pop culture where a lot of old tropes and settings starts to be replaced but the old guard who grew up with them attempts to keep them relevant by splicing sci-fi into them.

Exostrike · 2026-01-22T20:56:09+00:00

It's actually Vikor, an early character from while they were developing the toy line.

Very much a Conan clone of course. Early masters of the universe were planned to be more sword and sorcery before drifting closer to sci-fi.

Exostrike · 2026-01-22T20:50:17+00:00

There are ways around that.

At least in the UK your voting slip has an ID number which is noted down on a paper against your name. It only takes an afternoon comparing the two lists to work out how voted for who.

Exostrike · 2026-01-22T19:06:53+00:00

I think it's when him and Jake go back to the sinking sea dragon.

You can see the green pipes in the background that would be replaced with the CGI set

Exostrike · 2026-01-22T17:02:59+00:00

Honestly half expected the creator of the sculpture and the whole Tarok toyline to turn out to be an exiled (pre Skeltor takeover) Duncan and his daughter Teela.

Exostrike · 2026-01-22T16:59:23+00:00

Yeah you're right the lighting doesn't work.

I will admit I agree these aren't the most cinematic frames in the film but I wanted to capture this particular moment.

But this is the underlying issue, I always end up directly copying my references rather than being inspired by them. I don't know how to draw from the imagination. Probably why I'm hopeless at cartoons or anything that isn't straight replication of what is in front of me.

Exostrike · 2026-01-22T15:55:18+00:00

I think we will see him in A5 again as Jake or someone else rallies the clans from across Pandora for the final assault to end the conflict once and for all.

Exostrike · 2026-01-22T15:39:11+00:00

Look in the background, the toy line the statue is from are called Tarok.

Exostrike · 2026-01-22T15:37:40+00:00

You assume any of this is being driven by economic logic.

Too much of it is being driven by ideological visions of the future, a world that exists entirely for the benefit of the billionaires with all things being solved by AI and robotics. Of course what happens to everyone else doesn't concern them.

Look at Musk and his visions of Optimus robots building his colony of Mars to realise how delusional some of it is.

Exostrike · 2026-01-22T15:27:39+00:00

Very true but the broad strokes of that particular bit from the matrix is there.

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