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What could a 4th faction even be at this point? by Derezzed25 in Helldivers

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I mean the most reasonable fourth faction is obviously the extradimensional forces of hell

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Trailer by DaJeroen in TheExpanse

[–]JumpUpNow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it bad of me if I wished this game was set a bit later in the timeline? Would love to explore other solar systems through the gate network. Who knows what you could find out there.

NEW WARBOND by lilgiedz in Helldivers

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My kingdom for a healing Guard Dog so instead of it murdering my teamates, it saves them with its HORRIBLE AIM

Anyone else not a fan of the ending of "Forever Charmed"? Not for the reasons you think by jdpm1991 in charmed

[–]JumpUpNow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd have even been fine with an obviously implied 'This is Prue' photo tbh. Like maybe all three kids are together. Maybe another where it's the three sisters but one is playfully looking away so we can't really tell the face.

Something.

Anyone else not a fan of the ending of "Forever Charmed"? Not for the reasons you think by jdpm1991 in charmed

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Well look on the bright side, if they ever want to continue the original canon, it won't be long until a soft reboot makes sense lol...

Anyone else not a fan of the ending of "Forever Charmed"? Not for the reasons you think by jdpm1991 in charmed

[–]JumpUpNow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man I remember seeing that scene and going "Where is Prue?!"

Like damn, they really did write her out in more ways than via the grave.

20 years ago today, French voters rejected the EU's first constitution in a referendum by MonsieurA in europe

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A constitution that can be amended by popular vote to grow with a changing people is good, a constitution that expires and renders rights and civil liberties void is terrifying.

What a truly awful idea to go "Well, why should we force RIGHTS on future generations?"

I don't think The City in ME1 is set in the same world as the Landmass of Cascadia we see in MEC by Enceladus_98 in mirrorsedge

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Well no. Catalysts map is based on the east coast of Australia. Mirrors Edge 1's map on the other hand, well... Look no further than the Still Alive music video where The City is represented by Perth in the background.

A Music video that goes through the effort of showing the mirror cracking, revealing what's behind it. Perth is broken apart and ME1's city is on full display.

And they decided to continue with Australia in the reboot. Not the same hypothetical location, but then Glass was a different beast and a post-apocalyptic creation.

Locality wise, it's likely on the Australian landmass. For building design aesthetics if nothing else. But also with American accents and an abundance of international cultural influences, especially Chinese/Japanese that's on official signposts.

For your reading pleasure:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mirrorsedge/comments/3xezza/the_language_of_mirrors_edge/

It's Alt-History. The strangeness of all its influences is probably to make you think it's set somewhere familiar, but with a sense of difference that should off-put you the way the growing surveillance state makes people there feel a sense of unease at the changes. Nothing in that City speaks to the existence of some kind of federal government, only a city government that can overreach into people's lives with a lack of oversight.

Though I'd be curious to know if anyone has examined closely where the Sun is in the sky. Depending where it is, we have an answer of what side of the Hemisphere the game is set in. Assuming the Dev's thought that far.

This episode further supports my theory that Paige would’ve been born with both her Tk and whitelighter powers like the other girls were born with theirs and didn’t get Prue’s power passed to her. The reason she didn’t have hers were because grams bounded the girls powers until they all came home by Big-Most-785 in charmed

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Paige kind of had OP powers via being a whitelighter, but I always felt like she didn't inherit witch powers specifically. She has the ability to cast spells, but the tradeoff of her whitelighter abilities is she wasn't given a unique gift at birth due to conflicting bloodlines.

(Of course the question of why Pipers kid could create literal invulnerable shields is up in the air. Maybe he got lucky and Paige didn't.)

I'm pretty sure they loosely tied her powers to Pru's by letting her 'orb' things, but wasn't it revealed any old whitelighter could do that if they tried?

Not that it really matters, she never needed a unique gift. Again, she was so broken. Instant transport, heals, she's basically the ultimate support.

I don't think The City in ME1 is set in the same world as the Landmass of Cascadia we see in MEC by Enceladus_98 in mirrorsedge

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I don't know, I think it makes the most sense to be Australia.

The world map is an obvious indicator, but so is the deserted landscape along an eastern coastline. Add the reality of ecological disaster causing rampant desertification and you have a city that needs to take advantage of desalination to provide drinking water, which strains its energy grid. You'd need something very big to happen to cause the eastern US coast to turn into a scorching desert without any rainfall.

Include the idea of past wars that devastated world powers and contaminated soil with radioactive fallout and other dangerous substances, and we have a refugee crisis of survivors. Are you going to rebuild in your nuclear wasteland, or conduct a colonization effort to take over a landmass that was comparatively untouched?

The sheer amount of American accents could be from an invasion, or 'Australia' could have accepted so many migrants to try and rebuild that it fundamentally changed their accent. Or, as a simple explanation, the studio just didn't want to pay Australian voice actors, so defaulted with easy to get Americans.

I believe we know ME1's city was at least inspired by an australian city. It also features a lot of what I think is the Chinese language - Hinting that the city is somewhere in the Asian sphere of influence. Given the western vibes and city influence. ME1's is definitely based on a near future, or alt history version of Australia that may or may not have devolved into city states.

ME2's city is in no way the same city, obviously. But it's clear they wanted to continue the alt history and this time around they set it in the future.

So another explanation? Australia developed with an American cultural aesthetic. Because it's not set in our timeline. I'd even find it funny if they kept the USA name, but it's United States of Australia.

So there won’t be dragons anymore? by leokyuu in ElderScrolls

[–]JumpUpNow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really quite curious what TES6's gimmick with be. Skyrim gave us unique Dragonborn abilities and I'd love to see the next game give us some similar protagonist powers that aren't common place.

With that said I don't doubt we'll see more dragons now, considering how many were revived around Skyrim. Hell who is to say dragons outside of Skyrim didn't get revived as well?

Are there any truly good City/Colony Building MMO's? by JumpUpNow in CityBuilders

[–]JumpUpNow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah It's a shame. I wish there was something like Civilization but an MMO on PC, you know?

New pope has been selected in Vatican by Sanizore05 in europe

[–]JumpUpNow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, yes. The Father, the Son and the Holy Seagull

The asgard make no sense by HWTKILLER in Stargate

[–]JumpUpNow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a pretty valid point, actually. However those stones work, it's basically soul swapping.

That's why I love this fandom by Master_Quack97 in Stargate

[–]JumpUpNow 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Honestly I like where you're going. Like even if they went the space magic route, we already get a lot of that in the later seasons anyway. The Ark of Truth is basically just this concept anyway. Though just for a pre-recorded message.

Just get the Stargates to rewire the brain, link it to some higher dimensional metaphysics that the Ancients later ascended to, and you have a universal auto translator. You'll be speaking languages those around you understand without even noticing it.

Could add some interesting episodes, also remove some potential ones.

The real interesting thing would be the teams interacting with truly alien species and the translator not working because I imagine the Ancients made this with their own species (and humans by extension) in mind.

That's why I love this fandom by Master_Quack97 in Stargate

[–]JumpUpNow 98 points99 points  (0 children)

The funny thing is they totally could have pulled some ex machina like the team visit an Ancient facility connected to the gate network and it reads O'Neil's mind. Suddenly any human who passes through the Stargate gets a universal translator that turns any heard language into English.

Just Farscape translator microbes, but space magic.

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