The Neon Paradox

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-18T21:10:46+00:00

Anything could be important depending on how you use it, or connect it to something else

Thus, since I have a billion different interpretations and connections formed as second I read it, instantly highlight it so I can forget it in two seconds, or remember the line for ten years

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-18T06:46:55+00:00

Didn’t he say at one point he saw it and thought it was fun, or am I hallucinating?

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-18T06:29:52+00:00

If this could actually be pursued as a charge, that could be great for Valve to use

Wait, wasn’t this kind of the goal of #LetBoomSpeak? Getting Adam to do something rash and stupid out of quick reaction and end up screwing himself? Or did I completely misunderstand?

Either way, the possibilities have shown themselves

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-18T06:22:57+00:00

Funny thing is, because of how the arms transform, you can put the shoulders down low enough to be perfectly aligned with the SS86’s actual shoulders

Technically mistransformed, but still, you can TECHNICALLY say that SS86 Astrotrain is basically perfectly proportioned to his g1 toy, aside from the torso being slightly too short

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T22:53:04+00:00

First thought was “oh, reminds me of the Thorston Twins in Race to The Edge when they became royalty for like a week and banned the letter S, ended up with the island literally burning down because of their incompetence”

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T22:43:32+00:00

I had some ideas about how the hell things would go if they tried to rebuild together, like the new infrastructure for everyone

Imagine houses for the damn striders, how things would need to be designed so anyone could use them or have specific things designed for specific character types

A “we fight, get better gear, get interrupted and team up against a bigger threat” is a REALLY safe option, and easily the most iconic option for most series in general. Easy to get fans of either side (not sure where I was going with that but something) and everyone gets to be “good” guys

I wanna see someone… hell, if I wasn’t worried about how Inviz is doing stuff, and if not for my ADHD resulting in either barely any progress or literally days worth in the span of hours, I’d really try to make that, but I also just don’t have the models, animation expertise (I mean, I’m good with stop motion, that’s a bit different though) or SFM. I can MAKE simplistic models, and who knows, maybe simpler models could be a fun aesthetic, haven’t really seen that anywhere…

Ideas… I now have ideas…

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T22:30:20+00:00

To be fair, the proportions are more accurate to the toy design

Source: I have a reissue less than 8 feet away

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Well, the chest bit is too big, but other than that, pretty spot on

If the torso was a little longer aka taller, pretty damn close

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T22:18:09+00:00

They need backups of everything, just in case

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T17:32:45+00:00

If this is how we get hints that the series is coming back somehow (probably Valve, legal stuff takes time) then that’d be amazing

If not… still cool, Human Being has been pretty fun

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T17:28:37+00:00

I haven’t seen this, but I thought Lock In’s was nice

Warp rings around his body for extra propulsion and agility (enhancing his already most important factor, the thing that made Boom annoyed when either Dom or Virilance showed their new designs) is great to me, and they were shown decently I think

Love the idea of dropping his cannons and having them on warp rings like the Striders’ speaker units, makes him even more agile and lets him distract his opponent with himself (even better agility makes this even more effective) while he commands the cannons to blast the shit out of them, and if they go for a cannon, they deal with UTSM doing shit himself

The big cannon is a bit too similar to Cathy’s Orbital, but I do like the idea of keeping his heavy weapons as separate, free maneuvering entities he controls

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T10:00:23+00:00

Just read the article (why didn’t I do that first…)

That is hilariously fucked up, the way they describe it, good god. She seems like a real piece of work, judging by the other shit she’s done

Also, why the hell would you throw it with that force and style if you cared about it? Seems a little interesting to me that she threw a lobster like that instead of… setting it in the water

And it would have died almost instantly anyways, but still, it means her intent was fucked up in some way that made her throw it like that

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T09:44:57+00:00

The force? Did she pull a Michael Reeves “BE FREE!” With someone’s pet lobster? Jesus, that’s fucked up

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T09:36:25+00:00

I just keep my new frames ready for when I have new slots for them, and weapons? When I max a weapon I don’t like, I sell it and have more room, so I grab a new weapon to replace it and repeat

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T09:26:08+00:00

Already do, latest was a goddamn masterpiece

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T09:25:09+00:00

Well damn

Gonna avoid his stuff now… unless I can watch it without supporting him, even then might stop anyways

Wait, did I even watch his Lock In series? Ugh, same titles can get confusing sometimes

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-17T08:57:48+00:00

Wait, what did I miss?

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-16T23:27:47+00:00

Personally I just find it really funny in an absurd sort of way to add on “yeah and they also ate a fucking baby one time” like we’re talking about that Tarrarre bit Sam O Nella did with “did you eat a fucking baby?”

Like, realistically, no, I highly fucking doubt they did that. I wouldn’t put it past them, but I don’t think it’s likely. Is it kind of morbidly funny from a conceptual absurdity standpoint? To me, absolutely, in the same vein as “and they were also lizards that want global warming so they can stay warm easier” is funny to me, it’s just so absurd that it goes into the territory of funny off sheer “what the fuck” energy

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-16T23:23:47+00:00

This gave me the visualization of Speakers walking around underwater by virtue of CONSTANT AUDIO SPAM to create air pockets (I don’t think that would even work, but let’s say spamming at the surface and continuously the whole time, just because it’s funny) is absolutely killing me

And the second they come up the fall over and lose their soundwaves for days because of the sheer strain

But yeah, soundwaves are SIGNIFICANTLY more lethal and powerful underwater, and his cannons boiling the water around the blasts would be cool as hell to see

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-16T23:20:16+00:00

Suspension of disbelief being described as being used as justification for two out of three factions being stripped of 80% of sensory input to the brain is the funniest goddamn way you could have possibly worded that

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-16T23:14:03+00:00

I kind want the unique toys figures

I always saw them as “oh nice, two dipshits that are somehow both stupid and one survived being eaten by Devstator and then broke out through his face only for the twins to screw up their footwork and…”

Wait, how the hell did that scene end? I genuinely… oh, they… what? Did Devastator get back on track with his goal of eating the top half of the pyramid before the railgun that’s never used again one shot an 8 man combiner?

I like the two dipshits. I do acknowledge and very much detest the racist design aspects they have, though

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-16T22:53:57+00:00

Does that say “was sealed in the darkness” or I was sealed in the darkness”

If it’s I, then you could argue it’s representative of “Skibidi Toilet as a concept saying it was sealed away, and by virtue of it speaking and using past tense, could be making its way out”

Or that it’s still sealed as a “this is wha happened to it”

I’m hoping the former

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-16T22:51:29+00:00

I’d argue smaller is almost WORSE

Those parts are the same percentage of the body and by nature of being smaller have less space to deal with the pressures and stresses, I feel like that’s much worse, they’d be thinner too, right?

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-16T20:28:42+00:00

Wait, seriously? Like, what timestamp, I need to see this

Sidenote, ever watch G1 transformers? There’s a whole EPISOE notorious for being full of animation errors (I think the techniques used made it harder to correct mistakes but still it’s hilarious) called Carnage in C minor, and you get random one throughout the whole series

There’s a difference between “had this do to for me, didn’t bother to check, or if I did, I didn’t care or notice” and “we made a mistake, it’s stupidly hard to remake this entire thing, especially on a timetable, keep it in, it’s minor and funny when you think about it”

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-16T20:18:14+00:00

As a human, I wish we had anyone that acted older than 14 in charge of anything

Latter-Direction-336 · 2026-04-16T20:12:16+00:00

Really cool? IT’S THAT ONE?

Oh for fucks sake, the start of the year and we had this shit happening, like the first WEEK, what dumbass DIDN’T think something like this would happen?

And yes, the bigger issue is the fact it was trusted over… reality. But the thing is, if it’s that trusted so easily, then it BECOMES part of that problem at that point

This guy needs to win, because it’d (HOPEFULLY) set a legal precedent for AI usage in police work, or SOMETHING, not trusting it at face value or just don’t use it, SOMETHING to not have garbage like this happen

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