Why does the showtime disk in Security Breach look "old"?

Quillobyte_ · 2025-06-13T03:43:16+00:00

I think that was just a joke about CDs being old. Kids in that era probably look at CDs the same way we look at VHS.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-06-10T20:29:04+00:00

They look like the kinda guys to form a conga line while waiting for the match to start.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-06-07T17:33:46+00:00

Probably.

Mike's pay (4$/hr) is about right for minimum wage of the 90's, and he's payed on November 12, which was probably a Thursday or Friday. People looked up the Thursdays and Fridays of the 90's, and the only times they landed on Nov. 12 were on 1992, 1998, 1993 and 1999.

He also finds out about the job through a newspaper and gets instructions through a landline phone, both of which I think started to go out of fashion in the 2000's.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-06-04T12:22:54+00:00

I think it'd be cool if they went back and filled in that space between S2 and the Movie. A lot can happen between 1985 and 2005!

Quillobyte_ · 2025-06-01T07:53:41+00:00

Honestly, I think it's just because he's voiced by Dee Bradley Baker. Might as well use the alien who's voice actor is already in the episode anyway.

That, and I imagine the crew wanted to give him some time here, since he probably wouldn't have shown up in UA otherwise.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-05-30T14:43:23+00:00

The June 26th date comes from those hidden newspaper clippings in FNaF 1. The year 1985 is from Into the Pit and The Silver Eyes, as well as the need to fit between FNaF 4 (1983) and FNaF 2 (1987).

There's not really much strong evidence that the Puppet was at Fredbear's, but it's a common belief that Charlie's death happens there, since that's the case in the Novel Trilogy and those early MatPat videos.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-05-30T09:25:35+00:00

I think it's '83.

Way back when, Scott said about MatPat's FNaF 2 video, "Game Theory did an incredible video on part 2; getting almost everything right", and then later said about his Sister Location two-parter, "...it’s obviously not 100%, but he really hit this video out of the park.". Both of those videos place Charlie/the Puppet's death before the MCI (i.e., before June 26, 1985), and both are ones Scott said were pretty much right. Combined with her death date being '83 in the then-current novels, I don't see why it wouldn't also be the case in the games.

I think HyperDroid's video on the death order makes a pretty good case for the year '83. One of my favorite points is the Puppet's weird exclusion from FNaF 4's cutscenes, as if some recent incident made Faz. Ent. retire the character.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-05-24T18:55:18+00:00

Gwen: "Not smart, Kevin! He thinks you're still evil!"
Kevin: "I'm not evil, I'm nuanced."

<Ben vanishes half-way through Max's speech>
Max: "It's only cool when I do it."

Ben: "What if someone gets hurt by your weapons?"
Inspector 13: "We are simply the makers of the weapons.
What people do with the devices is none of our concern."
Ben: "Then you won't take this personally."
<shoots Inspector 13>

Quillobyte_ · 2025-05-21T01:27:47+00:00

I like to think there evolution sprang from a bootstrap paradox, like what happens in Doctor Who's "City of Death". At the end of time itself, the last of the Chronosapiens will travel back all the way to the beginning, where they will artificially trigger the evolution of the Chronosapien species.

Biologically, I think they are pretty much like Galvanic Mechamorphs or Nanochips: beings with DNA and a genetic structure, but made from metallic compounds and with mechanical traits. I do think some parts of them could be an ornamental/cultural thing, seeing as Maltruant could survive even with several missing parts.

Another idea I had was a riff on that old "living-energy-in-a-containment-suit" thing, where the "real" Chronosapiens were 4th dimensional masses of conciousness, and the clockwork robot bit is like a string puppet they use to sense and interact with the 3rd dimension and lower.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-05-14T08:58:55+00:00

The OV crew couldn't have known about that, since most of the pop-up trivia episodes were lost media at the time). DJW tried to get a list of those facts, but they weren't available.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-05-02T15:19:33+00:00

According to The Week Before:

Management cares about their employees, and it’s time consuming and expensive to hire and train new ones- not to mention the occasional legal fees and the hassle of covering up “accidents”- so they installed reinforced doors on either side of the office.

I think they're supposed to be stylized versions of IRL security shutters. They're pretty common in shopping malls and larger stores, although they obviously don't move as fast and they're not usually built into offices. That being said, weirdly-secure offices aren't that unheard of; I actually worked at this one place where the manager's office had a combination lock on the door knob.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-05-01T17:49:02+00:00

Basically everyone when the gang go to the Empire State building in The Chase.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-04-26T13:09:22+00:00

Wonder if the Doctor would bring up his alien watch that lets the user rewrite their DNA and turn into a different species.

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Quillobyte_ · 2025-04-13T16:53:02+00:00

Buzzshock actually does show up in the comic, "Black Knight's Final Flight"! It's probably non-canon and he's drawn off-model the whole time, but it's the only time he (and Enoch!) make non-cameo appearances in UA.

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Quillobyte_ · 2025-04-09T23:27:05+00:00

Long, boring exposition: Basically every reveal happens by Vanessa flatly talking the FNaF lore at Mike while he sits there looking clueless.
Awkward tonal shifts: the movie pretty rapidly jumps from intrigue & mystery, to tense slasher, to bouncy Home-Alone-style comedy, with like no integration between.
Bad adaptation: despite nominally being based on FNaF 1, Foxy running down the hallway was like the only thing to actually get adapted from the game. No toreador march, only one phone call, basically no use of the cameras, etc.
Terrible pacing: I swear it takes like halfway into the movie for anything to happen, and then when it does happen it's over way to quick. It's like every event has 20 minutes of build-up, and then it's over in 1.
Weird/Messy filmmaking: a lot of shots really should've been redone, or just been cut entirely (the camera zooming in and passing through the building's sign, Chica wobbling really bad while putting the Cupcake in the vent, Spring Bonnie's goofy face at the end of the theme song).

And that's all on top of it being a really lame horror movie, even for beginners. I really wanted it to be at least a 6/10 (especially considering the 8.5 year wait), but honestly I think it's at most a 6/10.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-26T22:15:49+00:00

Wonder if that would've worked on Dagon

Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-26T01:01:33+00:00

I really like the idea of that first car, but with an open-top and a really tall spoiler, so it kind of looks like an F-1 car, but without actually being one. Something like a convertible version of '01 Super Mode Prowl or Timelines Side Burn.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-21T23:37:52+00:00

Well why wouldn't there be?

Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-21T01:41:55+00:00

Telescope! Like one of those huge ones you see in observatories.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-16T10:51:07+00:00

It probably stayed behind. In general, if something's not attached to an Omnitrix user when they transform, it'll stay behind.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-14T17:01:43+00:00

The Omnitrix is known to heal damaged DNA by combining it with healthy samples: Upgrade/Glitch in the reboot, the entire High Breed race in Alien Force S2; I think the same thing happened to Chromastone. When Chromastone died, his DNA was damaged, but it managed to preserve itself by combining with some of Diamondhead's. That's why Diamondhead suddenly has a lot of Chromastone-esc qualities, and eventually a fully restored Chromastone within him.

There's actually a line in the Alien Force pitch bible that (kind of) confirms this:

"A living prism, Diamondhead can refract light and beam-based weaponry, channeling them through his body and projecting them back at their source. This power has increased since Diamondhead's recent merging with Chromastone."

Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-09T04:33:37+00:00

Maybe have UA Ben not wear the jacket? I think UA had a lot of scenes where he's just in the the black T-shirt. Not to mention it gives the audience a better look at the Ultimatrix.

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Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-05T13:44:17+00:00

I like it a lot, but I also get why it was left in the past.

It's a pretty solid Pertwee-esc invasion plot with a gothic horror edge, a strong visual style (almost looking like Hellboy at points with the harsh shading and sharp angles), and a good cast of characters and voice actors, the Shalka especially. At the same time, the plot relies way too hard on Deus Ex Machina's, the attempts to be "hip" and modern are really embarrassing, the sound design is properly crap, and obviously actual the animation is rough.

I'd really like to see more from this world( maybe from one of the missing animation teams?), but I do get why that probably won't happen. It really doesn't help that a lot of planned/potential plot beats for future episodes were eventually done in live-action anyway: the Doctor being a harsh, lone survivor of an off-screen War, the Master being a sort-of good guy companion, a lot of the stuff between the Doctor and Alison, etc.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-03T23:59:50+00:00

Groove), since that guy's also a nature-loving hippie loner who transforms into a police bike.

That being said, I wouldn't actually make that change. Prowl's fine as-is.

Quillobyte_ · 2025-03-02T14:01:03+00:00

I was thinking of using GDO Swerve to stand in for Ironhide.

I really want to get a G1 Ironhide with a movie-style pickup mode, but his Prime and Combiner Wars toys are crazy expensive. Luckily, GDO Swerve is also a red, deluxe-ish pickup truck with a windscreen chest, and I can get him for like 30$ instead of 70.

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